Playford Plaque Spalding, South Australia, Australia
By Tk2 on 21-Jun-11. Waypoint GC2YNJ8

HELLO

Travelling with richlink from Perth to Darwin up along the west coast and home again through the centre and the Nullarbor, picking up caches as we go. Based in Peterborough, we are exploring some of the surrounding areas. While the boys were peddling along the Mid North Channel, we girls were picking up a few caches of our own TFTC.

Travelling with iluvtrekking up the WA coast to Darwin, down the Centre and in the Flinders. Basing ourselves in Peterborough for a few days to grab finds in the surrounds. The Geo-men decided on a biking day so they were dropped off while Mrs ILT and I cached around the area. Thanks Tk2

Day 3 of my short Geocaching weekend. Today I left White Cliffs Reserve zigzagging along the way finding what caches I had not found and ended up stopping in Yongala for the night.

One thing I never would have seen if not for a Geocache nearby.

TFTC Tk2

Been driving past this pipe in various places along its length (including this very road) my whole life and never knew it was here. Wouldn't've ever guessed it was in this spot.

TFTC and the angry Redback

Away for a couple of days with TheWhiteDogGang.

We stayed at the free camping in Blyth and cached around Blyth, Brinkworth, Yacka, Spalding, Clare, Stanley Flat and surrounds.

Most caches found were in good order.

A quick find.

TFTC

Out for a few day caching around Clare Valley & beyond with Team Waldron - our acronym is TWX2
Lotsa fun had, lotsa trees & ladders climbed & lotsa kms walked
Beaut weekend all round
TFTC Tk2

Found out on geo weekend with jams group all caches signed as jams

A return visit to Clare was planned for the long weekend with the JAMS crew plus tallbikestan to find a lot of the caches that we didn't get to on our last visit along with the Rattler, Riesling and NE trails as well as the Mid North Channel Country trail. [^]

We had three very full days with perfect weather for caching, lots of bike riding, lots of walking and lots of driving along dirt tracks. We were lucky it had not recently been wet as some of the roads we drove on would not have been passable if wet. Loved the scenery at this time of year with everything looking very green as well as the bright yellow of the canola crops.

A fun weekend of caching, lots of caches found and lots of cool places visited.

Thanks for the cache ClareValleyCaching.

A big long weekend with the JAMS Crew (JJ52, allister w(me), mogni, Sir Spectre and tallbikestan). We road from Riverton to Stanley Flat on day 1. Then more riding near Spalding on day 2. Then finished the weekend with finding caches around the area in the car. TFTC

The JAMS crew went on an October long weekend adventure back to Clare. We brought Tallbikestan along as we were targetting the bike tracks and he is the best rider amongst us. Allister W and sir_spectre we the other main riders, with JJ52 and I the support crew and walkers. A huge weekend of fun and adventure was had by all, until I made SS sick with my cold....oops.
Thanks to all those who have kept not just the bike tracks but all the other caches alive for us to find.
All caches signed as JAMS.
Thanks to Tk2 from mogni

The JAMS team ( JJ52,Allister w, Mogni, and sir_spectre minus mitchell&hound ) but Tallbikestan was with us instead and we where out for there usually monthly caching adventure. This time it was over the october long weekend instead of the usual day trip. The taget this time was Drop into the Light a long ladder cache on the way to clare and then to clear the Rattler trail, Riesling Trail, Ne Trail saturday on the bikes and then sunday do the Mid North Channel Country bike trail. Monday on the return home was to get Peter's view a 2001 cache. Of course there was many, many other's found on route to the various target for the weekend, somewhere around 260 found by the team. It could have been more but we were not going at a flat out pace, just steady and getting a blow out on the bike 1.6 km's from the end of the Mid North Channel Country bike trail didn't help. I didn't see any snakes this trip but allister did, he saw 5. The caches this trip where written in as JAMS, i forgot the stamps. Also 1 cache was placed by the JAMS team this trip. Out of all the bike tracks i preferred the Rattler /Riesling trail. I like riding through the very rich ( after all the recent rains ) fields of yellow flowers.

Fantastic view of the rolling hills and the two pipelines rolling in and out between them. Heard a curious story from a local in the Spalding pub later in the evening, and how this plaque was initially welded deliberately on the wrong side of the pipe in response to a dispute! Not sure of the accuracy of the information but thought it was interesting nonetheless.

Good view and easy find. Took photo of a deer after it crossed road in front of us in between caches. TFTC

After hubby had finished his walk and I picked him up we headed off to do a few more of the local caches. We will be leaving Spalding tomorrow so we wanted to find as many of the local caches that we could. We replaced the cache container for Playford Plaque, but other than this one all were OK and the log books were OK. SL TFTC

In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location.
(HaHa). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Tk2 [^]

Trip to the Mid North with the geo-pup. Day 12, Burra to Booborowie, including Spalding detour.

That's a silly place for a plaque , but fave to you for finding it and sharing!

TFTC

Tftc! An amazing view to the right of us and pipelines to the left. This was a quick stop, grab and sign cache with enough time to even read the plaque.

Quick find along a cute side road-nice diversion off the main road TFTC

Driving from Coober Pedy to Clare and we must be crazy to do a gravel road diversion to find a cache.

Well, this cache was found to give me 365 of 366 days hidden, so it was well worth it.

Lots of dead snails at GZ too.

TFTC Tk2

Gridge98 asked if I wanted to go caching[?] and that word 'caching' deserved a yes[^]
There was an event at Clare at 4pm which was the goal for the day[^] anything else was just a bonus
38 cache smilies: 36 caches found , 1 cool event attended and 1 cache beta tested[^]

What a job Concreting the inside of water pipes No thanks[xx(]

TNLN. SL. TFTC Tk2

A quick find here cache and contents are all good

This at locus cache and I headed now towards Clare and beyond to find a few caches and with our main focus later in the day at Clare for a coffee event, such a great day weather wise, came away with 52 finds.

Thanks for the cache

Found on a ride with the Fox and guest rider Mick Feathers, TNLNSL Thanks,

Out on a Dirt Bike ride with Demon41 and newby Mick F picked up a few Geos on the way , great riding after recent rains . TNLN Thanks

I have been to the Hume factory a couple of times. It still looks like something from the 40's. The cache was found in the first place we looked. No need for a GPSr here. Thanks for placing a fun cache guys. We do love your work. We signed the logbook. Of course we did that is way we play this game. Cache in pretty good condition for the cache age.

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Easter 2020 was supposed to see South Australia Geocaching hosting the next Easter big MEGA event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Due to COVID restrictions the event is now postponed to early October 2021. Check out the event page and our website for new details. We would love to see you at this four day event. Mega event sponsored by Wattle Range Council, Geocaching.com and many other supporters. Lots of caches to find including two classic geo art trails including the famous animated bottle and glass.

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This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and a Samsung S8. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs...

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

grate bit of sa history and in war time too

2 years and 3 months without being found, a simple find at an interesting plaque and a piece of SA's history

almost a drive by with such a long time between finds

who would have known that a plaque like this would be here? I do now

Great cache. Hope there is another cache in the pipeline. Thanks

Found WITH DZ.

A nice easy find. TFTC

Hi there Tk2.

We found your cache **"Playford Plaque"** at 12:10:00 PM today. (This makes our find count 16099).

Our trek today took us from Gladstone to Spalding and back via the "next closest" route as determined by our GPS. On our trek we found a variety of container types. We ended up finding 15 caches with 1 DNF's.

Thanks for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** A Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

#6404 - 09:45; Day 6 of the Alice Mega Road Trip with Sol de lune and now albida33 who joined us this morning for the rest of the trip, so most logs were signed S.A.L. as a result. After a second night in Burra, we were now caching our way to Port Augusta via Spalding, Gulnare, Crystal Brook, Port Pirie, Napperby, Weeroona Island and Baroota. After grabbing a couple of caches in Spalding, we headed for s short southern detour then back through the town before we headed down a side road to collect this cache at a point of interest. I've collected caches along a few pipelines like this in South Australia and I'm sure there are more to come, including along another section of this one closer to Whyalla. TFTC Tk2

Alice trip 2017. Day 4. Today was the day I caught up with Sol de Lune and LuckL10n in Burra. We joined forces for the journey to Alice Springs. Today was a short trip to Pt Augusta collecting plenty of caches along the way.

Thanks.

22820.11 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2015 Night Hunters A#328

Albida

On the road to the Alice Springs Mega with LuckyL10n and Albida33. We headed through Burra and Port Pirie before arriving in Port Augusta for the trek up the highway. Collected a good number of caches and all were found with no issues and the logs were soon signed. (Some logs were signed as S.A.L. to save space.)

Thanks for the cache and fun in getting to it and finding it.

Quick easy find with sevabo and Dolphia on sunny day on the way to Port Augusta. TFTC

Great day outing for geocaching. found it and thanks for leading us here

11th day, found with sevabo & skyejam TFTC

Easy find with GrimsTattoo and MIA. Thanks Tk2 for the hide!!

Found on a detour to Jamestown. TFTC.

Found on a geo-run with Peter B rounding up a few caches around Gulnare. Thanks for the hide Tk2.

Quick and easy find.
A great scenic back road!
Brought a rubber ducky TB for a visit.
Tftc!

Very easy I found

I was enjoying a tour of the back roads today when this cache popped up [:o]
Me day started at Morgan, and I drove past the Morgan pumping station !!
And I seem to have been following the hot and cold water pipes all day

What an interesting place here.
A simple plaque, welded to the pipe, with an important bit of SA history upon.
A tribute to one of the most important infrastructure projects the state has undertaken

The scenery along the drive isn't bad either [^]

TFTC !!

Thanks for lots of facts about the pipeline. I have seen some of it today (and at other times). Cache was an easy find with taurus1955 and BentleyTB. Left a green heart. TFTC

Thank you for the information about the pipeline, I had no idea about it except that it travels a long way
Found with misschief18 and Bentley TB
TFTC
TNLN
SL

Great area, but a bit dry right now. Nothing like a cache after a scenic drive. TFTC

Brilliant piece of history on such a little plaque.
Out for the weekend to attend the Jamestown Airshow, this is one of the little gem locations we visited along the way.
We have dealt a few favourites out along the way. Hopefully this is one of those Gems. As you can see this is a generic log and I'm sorry for that but the WiFi service here is not great so I need to be quick.
Thanks for the journey to this cache in our wonderful State.

Dad and myself we off to the Jamestown air show tomorrow so we decided to head up a day earlier and explore the surrounding areas and show him a few spots I had already visited. 400km plus which is a long why when the average speed is only 49km/h and very tired eyes we had a wonderful adventure seeing some great sights, kangaroos that decided to follow next to us for ages, Why follow us when you can bounce in the opposite direction.. But lucky we didn't see one snake

Sorry for generic log, it was hard to remember all the caches, I will write custom messages on the ones that require them

What an interesting place to put a plaque.. why here?

Thanks for the cache Tk2

One of those if not for geocaching monuments that you might miss normally. Nice one on the back roads, SL TFTC Tk2!

Found on the way to watch the football at Spalding, tftc

Had some spare time before the netball prelim started so we went for a little drive on the backroads around Spalding.
This was the first stop, an unusual spot to be placing a plaque that will hardly be seen, save for geocachers now.
TNLNSL
Thanks

TFTC once again the vista is absolutely stunning

. TFTC

Found It!
An interesting little plaque and a quick find. I wonder why they started here?
TFTC

Easy find

Nice quick find

Another on our way he from Clare

Quick find thanks

found it.
TFTC

Easy

Got it!

Found!

Staying at Spalding while walking the Heysen Trail. Nice place for a cache thanks for bringing me here. TFTC

Found with hubby on our weekend away.

An interesting spot and a nice quick find. TFTC

Life's too short apparently, so I embarked on a cache run from Crystal Brook to Spalding. 3 roos, 5 rabbits, 24 finds and quite a few DNF's (though that's expected on an unexpected warm night in the country in December). I could see where this cache was hidden, but something was moving in the long grass. I didn't take my chances but instead ran back to the Lancer.

A quick find could see straight away where the cache was hidden hahah Tftc

found on way home!

Found on our roundabout way home along another road less travelled.TFTC

OOOHHH BANANAAA!

great find!

Found a path tag here

Tftc

not very often you find something like this out in the backblocks. nice drive and an easy find. TSLS TFTC

We are travelling a lot near the Broughton River today and will eventually meet the Hutt River the way we are going. Thanks

Another lesson learned that we wouldn't have known if not for caching
Thanks

Wouldn't it be nice to have my name on my own bit of pipe, ummm...
Nice easy find, spotted by navigators from the car!

With Littlevicky and Timotatus out for the weekend up the Heysen Trail.

Found on our way out for the day

Hey who thinks about all this stuff when you turn on the tap to brush your teeth? Not me.....
TNLNSL TFTC and enlightening information

Found on a VERY windy day!!! Wonder what the SA water workers think when they find this? TFTC

A easy find, like the historical overview, TFTHSL cheers diggers09

Following the Clare Caching Capers II, it was time for my next adventure - off to Darwin. Today's leg was Clare to Coober Pedy with a few stops along the way.

Who would have thought this was here. TFTC

1 of 15 finds today

Found with team Acca Dacca tftf

Found with the st clair clan. Thanks for the cache and info

AstroWes worked for Newton and McClaren who were the engineers and actual builders for this pipe line. Good to know the infrastructure is still standing and pump'n. Tom would be proud. Gee they knew how to do it back then

Thanks to Tk2 and clear skies from TeamAstro.

A quick find while driving around the Gulnare Hills. TFTC TNLN SL

Very interesting. How did they keep track that this was the first pipe and why was it placed here? Geocaching often leads to questions unanswered. Thanks, not been on this road before.

Easy find TFTC!

Nice easy find

Another place we wouldn't have known about, if not for caching . . .
It's great how everyone shares these places [^].
TN. Left bug. SL.
Thanks Tk2.

On the way back home to PTA from the riverland after visiting rellies for Xmas
And was GPS less as it was a quick trip there and back without much time for caching
Decided to take back this back road as i hadnt traveled it for a while and pulled up here thinking "better bring a container next time to put a cache here" and found one already here!!
Nice GPS less find
TFTC

Found as a part of TheKellyGang, writing this as a genaric log as I was a part of TheKellyGang and am now out on my own.
If you do not agree with this you are more than welcome to delete the log.

Quick find by geo daughter tftc Tk2

TFTC dropped off Murray cod tb who's goal is to visit caches somehow connected to the Murray river ..... I thought the pipeline is perfect!!!

A great little bit of history!

Out on a GZ trip with my boys for a few days.
Great time of year to be trekking around the back tracks exploring!

TFTC!