Tuppal Primary School Blighty, New South Wales, Australia
By Blacklegend on 06-Oct-11. Waypoint GC364EQ

A few laps around GZ before the container was found. A nicely maintained area. Thanks for bringing us here. So nice to get the rewards for some one elses research. TFTC

Found After a day trip to Deni, we decided to take a few back roads home.Lots of short stops for the geo hound.Cache found, log signed

Taking the road less travelled with catnap777, we saw there was another old Blacklegend cache out this way. We pulled up at the rather freshly revamped memorial and soon found the original cache and log before adding our own names to it. cat' didn't realise till much later why the place seemed familiar. A fresh coat of paint had fooled her into forgetting she had already logged this cache years ago. TFTC Blacklegend. [^]

We were in Blightey for the netball/football today and spotted this cache which was only a slight detour away. The grandkids wanted to know where the school was now and we had to explain about the demise of so many small schools throughout Victoria. I went to one of these small schools and was like a fish out of water when my primary school closed and I had to go to a much bigger school, which was a long bus ride away. Thanks for highlighting this spot and I enjoyed reading the role call of teachers and pupils. I was going to drop a TB but it wouldn't fit in the container. It will have to travel with me a bit further.

Heading toward Adelaide for the Leap Year Mega to celebrate my first 4 years caching with commenced on a Leap Day event.Had to come into town to find a cache in this LGA, our earlier attempt wasn't working for us.

Muggle65 and l are on our way to the Leap Year Mega in Adelaide. Such a long drive but thankfully we have a few cache stops. Thank you for the break and the fun

Thankful when Mr Simber said its in there when doing a lap. Quicker than expected. Phew! Got the LGA after an unsuccessful effort in Deni.

#2604A quick park and find during my road trip back to Sydney after finishing work in Albury broadcasting the BBL.I little blood was drawn during this one..TFTC

I actively avoid this type of hide but we need this LGA so gingerly retrieved the cache. Thanks for the cache

Today we headed south with the geovan in tow we stopped to find your cachee along the way. We had to widen our search to make the find, signed log and returned as found.This fulfills a gap in out LGA map.

Took a long detour to get here, but had never found a cache in this LGA!Cheers

Nice find on the way back to deni from the tocumwal air show TFTC

Found it

A day out to Echuca and return, but going through nsw on the way up and Victoria on the way back.
Collected some good lgas for a challenge cache as well.

Tftc.

Not many for the day but some brilliant caches.

Found with gridge98 on a roadtrip to Sydney!
Thanks for the cache

A short stop here today, the cache appears to be gone after a call to a previous finder so replaced to keep it alive out here

Day 3 of our trip from Adelaide to Sydney with Courtneyrose_ , today we made our way from Echuca to Corowa detouring the back roads out to Deniliquin and back to Victoria to complete a few of the wherigo series near Rutherglen.

Thanks for the cache

#6188
Field log. More to follow
TFTC Blacklegend

Lockdowns, lock outs etc had stopped as from getting to Millicent a few times and also On Ya Bike Series. Finally things fell into place and B@W, Crash, PPE and Tardis 0061 (later to sing as BCPT for our initials or Big Cycling Power Trail amongst other things)were on a week long road trip into SA. Various select caches and locations were targeted on the way over and back for LGA's and other stats.
A quick find here and we completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC

We signed the log as BCPT as a party of cachers B@W crash2079 purplepeopleater and myself Tardis 0061(or as individual ) out on a bike raid. and a LGA blitz .Most caches were found in good order. Apologies for the generic log the sheer volume of caches has necessitate it Cheers

The following trackables came through for mileage and log padding
TB7P7N4 Compass Rose Geocoin 2015 - LE,TB7P915 10th Year Anniversary Compass Rose LE,TB82Q5X 2016 Lackey Geocoin ,TB7MVWE Travel Bug Origins Tag,TB65R7Z First To Find Micro Geo-Award ,TB7AZ5H Geo-Achievement 24 Hours 150 Caches Geocoin, TB8F3Q6 Geo-Achievement Finds 1,000 Geocoin ,TB91M45 Geo-Achievement Finds 2,000 Geocoin
TB91M78 Geo-Achievement Finds 3,000 Geocoin ,TB8WE12 Geo-Achievement Finds 4,000 Geocoin ,TB90RFR Hidden Creatures Geocoin,TB84JVY Nametag Geocoin, TB7MVWE Travel Bug Origins Tag, TB9HPKT 6000 Cache milestone TB9HQ21 7000 Cache Milestone TBA2NJ1 GPS Maze downunder TBA4R58 Holiday Travel Bug Snow Globe TBAARYB GeoWoodstock XVIII Logo TBAAT66 GeoWoodstock XVIII Logo TBAATRX GeoWoodstock XVIII Micro Geocoin TBAAV1X GeoWoodstock XVIII Charter VIP Geocoin TBAAWJ6 Beaver Dude goes to GeoWoodstock XVIII Tag TBAB480 GPS Maze CANADA TBAB4F1 GPS Maze CANADA

A quick find on our way to SA and the bike run.
Full log to follow

SL TFTC

Another little bit of history has now gone thank you for putting his back on the map TFTC️

Found It!
I guess this was a somewhat spread out village back in the day. No much left of it today.
TFTC

Date: April 4, 2022 Time: 2:57 PM
Find #12000

Travelling up to Townsville for the Mega Event and Maze with beckNmonts. Found this one along the way. Looks like we hit blacklegend territory, 2 for 2 and another new LGA

Massive thanks go to Blacklegend for placing this one.

Big things are continuing to happen! *Are you joining the fun again in 2022?*
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An interesting site, worth the detour to. Thanks for placing the cache Blacklegend, without hiders the game wouldn’t exist.

Day 4 of our Wangaratta adventure: going solo now with the group heading separate ways after finishing up the old coach trail yesterday, today was the day to venture home although it was the very long way home of course.

What a journey out this way. We had to destroy the ants home here as all that was visible of the cache was the lid. We have placed it back away from the ants home so they won't get disturbed again. Should stay safe now and the ants can rebuild with no disturbances.

Thanks for the hide Blacklegend

Was hidden in a good spot signed and places back in the same spot

Fiund

Great history location, cache was completely buried., from ants building a nest. Dug it out and signed the log.

On a very hot a pnd windy day this was a quick stop, a few familiar names on the plaque. Tftc

A windy find on a dirt track well worth the drive. TFTC

Great little place

First one found! Thanks to magilla71 for introducing us!

Found with sarkrialblou. A quick find and cache is in a good condition. TFTC

Found during our 2nd day of caching on our trip from Canberra to Broken Hill to Lightning Ridge to Canberra. A fav point for bringing us to this location. TFTC.

West New South Wales trip 2020. Day 9. I was joined by MinnieK and Fitzy_1965 for a trip planned to go from Goulburn to Forbes, Nyngen, Cobar, Broken Hill, Wentworth and Balranald. Distance wise today was short, but we spent the day in South NSW between Deniliquin and Finley via Moama.

Thanks for the cache Blacklegend

30124.21 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2012 Compass Rose Kalahari A#247

**Albida**

Headed out on a 10-day trip to outback NSW with fitzy_1965 and albida33.

Day 9 saw us heading from Deniliquin to Finley via some more back roads. In logs, we signed as MK, F65 & A33.

Quick find here today.

21,595. Found with minniek and albida33 during our September Outback Adventure Tour.

Day 9 - Finished caching around Deniliquin, grabbed some more of the BRT series, then headed to Finley. Next stop for the day. Parked nearby for a quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache, then we headed off to the next one.

Thanks Blacklegend !!

Yay!!! A New County!!! Have had my eye on this one for awhile. Gliss! and I thought we were would make it out here a few days ago but car trouble meant we missed our moment. So satisfying to be out here today. Thanks for bringing us to such a unique piece of history. Thanks for the cache!

An easy park and grab. Yay! Another county for NRC. TFTC Blacklegend.

Learning about our past and meeting my partner, is what I love most about geocaching. Tftc Blacklegend which was found in good condition

As a teacher, I had to make the detour to this one while on the way to Deniliquin. I took photos to show my year 5 class when we start term 3. TFTC

Nice easy find thank you.

TFTC TNLN

Only fourteen years? That was indeed a short-lived primary school. In fact it was so short lived that I can't even find a reference to it on the Internet! I guess the "motoring" age was coming into full swing so local kids would have been sent to either Deni or Toke for their education, and maybe even by bus, so small local schools became redundant. Still, just fourteen years makes you question the education departments planning ability.
TFTC

This cache was found today and brings our overall cache find tally to 10475.

Taking the long way to a funeral today, I left early yesterday to get a head start so I could tick off some extra regions in NSW. it was nice to quickly visit these caches before heading down the road.


Thanks Blacklegend for the cache.

Mr Tardis was in the area finding a few select caches to complete some local government areas. I'm happy to say I found this cache in the first place I looked - don't you just love it when that happens?

Must have been hot out here in this primary school.

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache Blacklegend.

Find 2 for the day, made some swaps and signed the log. TFTC

A long detour along our travels for a cache in this county. Found the cache quite well, school has long gone it seemed.

Trip log... GreyHams log says it best, in all its glorious detail... so it really is, 'What he said!'

With GreyHams we set out for another chapter of our caching challenge... To find all the counties in NSW. We flew into Adelaide early Friday morning with a return plane from Melbourne Monday night. Taking advantage of some super cheap car hire driving one way from Adelaide to Melbourne. Of course, as a four day road trip it leads into collecting as many counties as was possible as we pass through SA and Victoria as well, with a few side trips for those that were close enough.

The counties a high priority but many caches of interest, the oldies are always great, about 16 2001 caches found plus many others just as old. Web Cams, virtuals, great DT which would see us complete our fifth loop of the DT grid, large caches and lots of regular sizes too. The trip list also included a cache type of each we were missing for each state as well.

Simply, if we stopped for a cache that had made it onto the list, it was not just any random cache, it was selected for a quality of some type we were seeking.

One of the harder things about caching after flying somewhere is that all the TOTT are left behind...usually! So it just had to be done and we took an esky with us on the plane for all those fabulous cold drinks along the way.

The thing I love the most is that we also took a ladder with us on the plane too!

We had targeted the 'on your bike' wherigo series, so many puzzles, so many hours of them so the ladder was important if we wanted to find all the high DT, up the tree caches... which we did! Later in Ballarat we went 'above and beyond' with the ladder once again. A truly essential item to have, we may now need to invest in that inflatable Kayak for future adventures too!

Perhaps it must be said that our route was the least direct way we could have traveled via the Hay Plains and Griffith, but covered a lot of road, counties and locations leading to yet another great trip. Although a number of park and grabs, made closer by our reliable and tough SUV, we also managed a lot of walks, hills, bush, and just a great variety as we explored the different areas.

We crossed the Murray river many times, a lovely healthy looking river system. After our recent trip from Adelaide to Sydney, via Broken Hill and Bourke the dry rivers out there are a very sad sight compared with the Murray.

With so much achieved that we had set out for it was a very successful trip but also an enjoyable one with many memories made and a new batch of stories too! Thanks to all the CO's for there caches that lead us in our travels.

I was expecting a school. I targetted this cache as we drove all the way around this county and this was the easiest to get to.

Generic trip log follows
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Aquilus1 and myself are on a mission.... to collect all of the counties in NSW! but how to get to those 'hard to reach' ones from where we are in Canberra? It would be an awfully long round trip. The answer was supplied in the super cheap car rental deals available if you drive one-way from Adelaide to either Sydney or Melbourne... I guess too many cars do it the other way and the cars need to get back somehow. Flying to ADL on points meant fuel was by far the biggest transport cost we paid for.

This trip is actually trip number two.... to drive from ADL to MEL, via Hay & Griffith! Yeah, thats logical! It was fun explaining where we were going to people, we got a lot of strange looks. The first trip was ADL to SYD, via Bourke. The bonus of course is we have also cleaned up a lot of SA & VIC counties as well.

OK, so primary goal is counties but we of course had 5 or 6 goals. Oldies was definitely a priority, I think we picked up 16 hides from 2001 on the trip along with lots of 2002-2006's. D/T of course is never overlooked and we did well there, I think we will almost complete our fifth loop from this trip. Webcams, Virtuals and Wherigo's were all targetted and finally getting all cache types in each state.

Day 1 was us arriving in ADL at sparrows, with a ladder and esky that we checked in and driving as far as Barmera. We cleaned up the 'On Your Bike' series where the ladder really fulfilled its purpose (I never want to see another online jigsaw again!) and even stopped to grab the LBH on the way out.... after 9:30pm, and after I attacked the dirt road with my body and left a lot of skin on it. Note to self: dont lunge at dirt roads! Luckily the hotel in town was open and we obtained fine lodgings. The floor creaked when I looked at it, or breathed, or changed my mind, but the bed was the finest.

Day 2 was driving to Hay, apparently on their biggest day of the year! No motel had rooms but luckily the new hotel that was supposed to open next week was forced into opening on the very day we arrived.... I like fresh sheets but how about a bed that has never been slept in! The crossed the Murray about 5 times and it was always impressive. We saw the country side change hugely from Rivers, Mallee and the Hay plain.

Day 3 was going from Hay, around Griffith and actually turning south towards Melbourne.... it felt like a long way! We cleaned up a bunch of the counties, in fact all of them, west of and including Naranderra. My map on Project-GC is going to look so green! We got as far as the outskirts of Bendigo, stopping at the first Motel we saw.... it was better than it looked!

Day 4 was getting to the airport, which we did with heaps of time to spare. Checkin closed a huge 18 minutes after our arrival. Damn, we could have grabbed another cache in that time. Ladder back in its box and checked in. I love the fact we took our own ladder!

Now safely back at home I am already suffering from caffeine withdrawal, but thats the price you pay for living on Coke for 4 days.

Sorry for the long generic log, but it was a fun trip and I wanted to share.

Travelling home at last after the St Arnaud Mega event and trying to grab a handful of GCA caches along the way. This was one that I found. TFTC SL

On a short break and drive heading for Swan Hill with a view of grabbing a few caches to fill in some missing New South Wales and Victorian LGAs. Nice quick find. Both the cache container and log are in good condition. Thanks for the cache Blacklegend.

The following TBs came through for the mileage : Bob geoMinion, Dave geoMinion, Evil geoMinion, Jerry geoMinion, Larry geoMinion, Mary Hyde's Treasure, Stuart geoMinion, teamMerlin's 7 Deadly Ducks Tag (Lust), Vanlith The Youngling, Hidden Creatures Geocoin TB, teamMerlin's Football

On a short break and drive heading for Swan Hill with a view of grabbing a few caches to fill in some missing New South Wales and Victorian LGAs. Nice quick find. Both the cache container and log are in good condition. Thanks for the cache Blacklegend.

The following TBs came through for the mileage : Bob geoMinion, Dave geoMinion, Evil geoMinion, Jerry geoMinion, Larry geoMinion, Mary Hyde's Treasure, Stuart geoMinion, teamMerlin's 7 Deadly Ducks Tag (Lust), Vanlith The Youngling, Hidden Creatures Geocoin TB, teamMerlin's Football

Quick find with a little detour. Hard to believe a school was here. TFTC

Out and about in Tocumwal and surrounds to find some stolen jewels missing from the Mystery at the Museum. This one was a bit difficult to extract from its hiding place. We used a stick to scrape away the soil or whatever that had built up around the container. SL at 2.10pm Left: PT Recovered another jewel. #6382 TFTC Blacklegend and now we will see if we can find the lost Village of Tuppal!

TFTC,
2 - 10 today. Today was our spare day from a weeks Golf on the Murray and we are trying to cache in Council areas we have not visited yet, we located the cache and visited trackables.

Took a slight detour. Found on our day off from golf, quick find, signed log and replaced. Thanks to Blacklegend.

Cache nr 5 on our way to Sydney. Quick find. TFTC

We took a slight detour to get this county. Thanx for the exciting site of this school. I wouldn’t have found this place without this cache.

Thanks for the drive out

The school didn’t last long. I assume the kids grew up and moved away. Thanks for bringing us here and TFTC

Not a lot of the school left. Normally you see a square of trees or something. Not here.

Thanks Blacklegend and clear skies from TeamAstro. ️ Cache the planet!

Day 1 of my latest road trip. Up into NSW then back down into Alpine VIC region. 5 days on the road. Goal to reach 1000 caches before the end of the year.

20th find of the day.And the last find.
A long drive out from my motel in Tocumwal - after driving from South Gippsland, VIC.
A quick find and another region ticked off for NSW.

Thanks for the cache

#2992
73 left

***NO CLUES OR HINTS IN THE FOLLOWING TEXT***

Since moving from New Zealand in 2016 I have been enjoying the area, exploring and finding caches.
So far I’ve knocked off 4 of the states. VIC, SA, NSW and A.C.T all multiple times.
No two areas are the same here and almost every place I go to is stunning. The beauty of caching is that it takes you to so many places you would never usually find.
Thank you to all the cachers out there for hiding and maintaining their caches. Especially to those who put so much effort into creating unique and fun hides.
I enjoy finding well maintained caches in fun and unique cache containers. No one likes finding a mint tin – but a find is a find after all.
I’m currently working on a Project-GC challenge to get the average word count on my logs over 200 words.
So please ignore the rest of this log as it is just nonsense and song lyrics.
Well she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinkin' that there
Was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, and if she had to die
Tryin' she, had one little promise
She was gonna keep
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Well, It was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
She could hear the cars roll by
Out on 441
Like waves crashin' on the beach
And for one desperate moment there
He crept back in her memory
God it's so painful, when
Something that's so close
And still so far out of reach
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Well I'm a-runnin' down the road try'n to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind
Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me
One says she's a friend of mine
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
Don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy
Well, I'm a standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
Such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flat-bed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
We may lose and we may win, though we will never be here again
So open up I'm climbin' in, so take it easy
Well, I'm a runnin' down the road tryin' to loosen my load
Got a world of trouble on my mind
Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my cover, she's so hard to find
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy
Come on baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
Oh, we got it easy
We oughta take it easy

Very quick find on a surprisingly busy road - unlike other school sites a relative recent one (influx with the initial irrigation district?)
Compared to the previous cache all good here - TFTC

Quick easy find

Nice quick find. Tftc

A quick and easy find thanks.

TFTC. 3rd for the day. Getting used to this.

Great find and history lesson for the kids as their Pa attended school here for 6 months before it closed and the bus run started. He then attended Finley Primary

#4219 11:53 am

Made the bit of a detour to pick this one up as I was travelling past on my way homeward.
Still amazes me how many school sites are marked, for no other reason it was a school in the past. Thought there might have been a bit of an info board or something to look at, but just the sign for the school.
Nice little hide. Cache in good condition and still has original log with plenty room left.

TNLN , TFTC , Cheers.

Tftc easy find

Quick find today after abandoning a previous search due to wiggly sticks. Tftc

As with the village there really isn't much left. A good spot for a cache. Thanks Blacklegend.

Thanks Black Legend for a quick drive by. Interesting that the school
Was only here a short 23 years no school
Number on the sign as they do in Victoria
Log signed.

Found with 4BakerBoyz by 10 year old 4BB. Signed log, took some swaps and left some in return. T4TC

Apologies for the late log. TFTC

Found with gregandjudi on a caching day out.
Signed and replaced as found.

Thanks Blacklegend

Little Squirell

Found it

Found while on holidays tftc

1/09/2015 #3095

On a three day tour in Nth Vic and Riverina for work, I took the opportunity to grab a few caches to stretch my legs or late in the day finds in an area I am familiar with pre caching.

Wow another old school cache, pulled up and quickly found the cache on a glorious afternoon with the sun setting.

Thanks for the cache!!!

With Dallas

Nice drive on a good back road. Leafs the right direction back to barooga so happy days

Interesting about history, Thanks Blacklegend

[:(!] On my way to Barham to visit my geoson and his family for a couple of days, on the way picking up a few caches along the way and this was one of them, parked the geoKa as close as possible to GZ and walked in form there, on arrival at GZ the cache was located and it was in quickly in hand.

I like it

Another one of the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH BlackLegend [^]

Ostara74 and I were heading home after a great long weekend with a bunch of awesome friends at the 2014 Deni Ute Muster. This was Ostara74's first ute muster - and bit of an Australian cultural shock experience for her! However, we all had a lot of fun and came away relatively unscathed. We decided to take the more scenic route home and find some caches along the way. We also discovered some fantastic local produce during the trip which was a wonderful bonus. This was cache find number 1 of 7 for the day. Thanks for the cache, Blacklegend.

Found together with Pathfinder24 on a sunny day.
On our way back home from Deni, after a great time at the Ute Muster, we made a few stops for sightseeing and off course caching. The cache was quickly located and we got the log signed before we were on our way again.
Thanks for the cache Blacklegend!

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Found with Mel. TFTC

Good hide mel and duff09

Found with paddyjak, TFTC

Quick find try to imagine a school being here signed the log and moved on TFTC

Really sad to see these old school sites where once was a really great education given locally. No ned for lengthy bus trips. TFTC Blacklegend

Nice part of the country. Tftc

A quick as there was only a handful of places to hide a cache. An interesting area miles away from anything. TNLN SL TFTC

We on the way to waaia so thought drive to see tuppal school very interesting

Found on way home after big little event @ Nelson. Grabbed this one on a detour from main rd. TFTC

I've been past here plenty of times but never knew that there was a school here in the past.
TFTC

Interesting history. TFTC

Visiting with TBs

Found on 22/May with Smart Sassy Siren. 5th find for the day (109)
TFTC TNLNSL

Fifth find of the day with Chaplain Mike. SL TNLN TFTC!

This entry was edited by Smart Sassy Siren on Tuesday, 22 May 2012 at 11:28:14 UTC.

A very short life for the little school, can't even see any remains of the buildings.
TFTC