Emillio Iron Knob, South Australia, Australia
By Bowz2 on 07-Nov-11. Waypoint GC37BAQ

A Day trip to Iron Knob to do some of the FTF PT series back to Whyalla, as well as a couple others that in the area. Most caches found in good condition unless mention otherwise. TFTC

I didnt expect to find anything here but a geocache. What an extraordinary memorial. This makes it real! Drive safely Dropping off a **FAVE.**TFTC Bowz2

Left Wallaroo early this morning aiming for Whyalla. Still hot today so not getting too many today.

A quick find here today as I made my way past GZ.With a few days off I headed over to the northern Eyre peninsula for a 2 night stay in Whyalla, my main aim for the few days was the FITG and the FTF trail plus finding a few caches here and there along the way. Just under 300 caches found for the trip.Thanks for the cache

We paid our respects to Emilio and then found the cache after a bit of a look around. I was so happy to find the A Jennifer trackable still in it because just like a previous finder Im a Jennifer too.

Tftc

Nice tribute TFTC

Found on our way past today heading from Cleve to Pt Germein. Quick find and all good here.

Find #6246 on 5 Jul 2023.
TFTC Bowz2!

SA’s Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - Feb 29th, 2024. Keep the date free!

Wow. Incredible history just off the side of the road. Thanks for the cache

All good TNLNSL TFTC

Quick find on the way to Kyancutta for the June long weekend. Thanks for bringing us here.

Found out on way to June long weekend

Found with Team Canyonero on the way to the JLW event

Found with Tallbikestan on our way to the Kyancutta JLWE. TFTC

Found with TeamBarritts on our road trip east to Brisbane!! Tftc!!

Nice quick park and grab here today, TFTC and maintaining this hide for us and others to enjoy!

RIP Emilio!

Heading back to WA after 5 weeks touring around SA. Just hit the Eyre Highway and noticed this cache. Sad but a common site on roadsides. Drive safe. Tyftc

I too was surprised to see what looked like a grave, but also presumed it was more likely a memorial. Nice cache, and cache and log are good. TFTC Bowz2.

Sad.
Thanks

After some overnight rain, it turned out to be a quite nice day with a blue sky appearing, less chilly and windy. Well his family and friends certainly made sure Emillio wouldn't be forgotten. Easily found with iluvtrekking. Thanks Bowz2

Quick easy find tftc

A well constructed tribute. TFTC Bowz2

Another parkacruz adventure, happy to say we came up trumps here today and walked away with a smiley TFTC

One last day for now around Whyalla, the steel city, home of the rusty mint tin...
and found a few clever caches too

Another day of exploring places we otherwise may not have been!

Came to your cache along the way

Sad to see a site like this, but a nice tribute by friends and family. Stay safe folks.

Much thanks to Bowz2 for placing and maintaining this cache on our SA geo game map


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Searching with Purrfect Di and Jack the Monkey, finding and signing cache logs alone or with family and friends using some or all of the resources of GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife), Whereyougo, Garmin Montana 750i, Montana 680t, Etrex 35, Samsung S21u, Samsung S9, with Geocaching App, c:Geo, or Geooh Go, and Android Auto and other maps... or often with just plain old dumb luck Plenty of that luck stuff actually!!!
*Logs are composed and published using GSAK of course.*

A couple of maintenance assist tasks on the trail caches too. Looked like there had been some extreme weather since we were here last... oh yep, the floods the day after we left!!!


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Caching is a hazardous activity!
Keep a lookout for sand traps, snakes, surprise cliffs, boxing roos, wombats, bulldust, and floods,
try not to get tetanus from rusty mint tins and don't fall out of trees...
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- but especially lookout for any old bugs from alpha to omega !!! . [xx(]

Try to keep Travel Bugs as the only bugs you share and pass on
Now everything's opening more - even more important to sanitise and safely distance!!!


Really good of all those placing quality caches out and about around the countryside areas,
in sensible safe places especially! - it keeps our game safe, fun, and interesting

Thanks heaps for reading all this addition to the log word count! There's a challenge somewhere, apparently! You win a virtual smile for the effort and getting to the end of the log





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A quiet sad place. TFTC.

TFTC. Rip Emilio
Happy caching and safe travels!

Another sad cache; there’s been a few on this trip around the Eyre Peninsula. TFTC.

Whatever happened, it looks like someone made a grave mistake.

Thanks for the cache Bowz2.
Found on 26/3/21 at 18:21.
Find #13632.

During our new years break, [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I headed to the Eyre Peninsula to travel around the various coastal towns. We started the trip with Jeep trouble, but then continued in our alternative vehicle without 4WD to stick to the main tourist roads where possible. We travelled south-west to Tumby Bay and Port Lincoln via Whyalla, Cowell, Cleve, Arno Bay; west across to Coffin Bay; and then north-west to Streaky Bay and Ceduna via Elliston, and Venus Bay. We then headed back east staying in Kimba via Poochera, Wudinna, Lock, and Darke Peak.

Today, [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I finished our trip by driving from Kimba back to Adelaide via Nurioopta. We made a short stop at Port Augusta, and then travelled back south via Augusta Highway, and then left just after Lochiel through Balaklava, Owen, Hamley Bridge, Freeling, and Daveyston. We made it to Geostuff's 10th birthday celebration event, before finishing out our day completing the Adventure Labs in the area.

A sobering memorial. We were interested to see how Emillio met his end, and wondered if the vehicle remnants around the grave was actually connected. We then made the walk away to find this cache very quickly. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks Bowz2 for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.
Note that this geocache was logged with the *Team Warren* Davidwazza/jesswrigley stamp.

A fun week away with Davidwazza! TFTC!

Enjoying a relaxing long weekend going for a cruise, chilling, camping and caches. Life is good.
TFTC - Keep smiling

Very sobering find. TFTC

Warm day. Watch for snakes. Cache quickly found. TNLN, TFTC.

Found on my round Eyre Peninsula caching expedition. A possibly small mistake can lead to grave results. Thanks Bowz2.

Found it on way across Eyre Peninsula. Ntnl. Tftc

Thanks for the cache #lsb
Minus the b today

A quick stop while travelling west
TFTC

Paid our respects and a timely reminder with the extra traffic on the road to be wary, cache was found in good condition
TFTC Bowz2

Definitely sobering and a reminder to drive safely. TFTC

Good big cache. Thanks.

Thanks

We stopped and paid our respects. Thanks for the cache Dowz2

Crafty!

Wow! Poor Emilio! Tftc

On a road trip around Eyre Peninsular with CBC2. Found many and varied caches along the way. Thanks to all the CO's for the placements. SL TFTC and sorry about the paste for all.

TFtc nice stop to walk the dogs

Found with MoSSau

Tftc

Found with lonely Ra thanks for cache

It’s sad to see life ending like this, he must have been a wonderful character to have family and friends create a beaut memorial for him.
Take care and drive safe, it’s about the journey, not just the destination.
TFTC

A nice quick roadside find of a cache that is suited to this arid environment. All within the cache is in A1 condition [^] Took small white bird for 2 Woolies metal plate thingies and some $.

SL at 08:31 on Friday the 14th of June 2019, whilst on my way to Whyalla via Iron Knob

TFTC Bowz2

A third memorial on the road so far this morning, commemorated by a cache. Two out of three for car crashes. It makes you focus on your driving!

TFTC

Easy find. What a great memorial to Emilio. Tftc.

Hi there Bowz2. This cache was a quick find today after leaving Kimba and while headed towards Port Augusta, our final destination was to be Port Pirie. The container and log are in good condition - SL. Thanks to Bowz2 for this cache - our find #6212.

It’s sad to see life ending like this, he must have been a wonderful character to have family and friends create a beaut memorial for him.
Take care and drive safe, it’s about the journey, not just the destination.
TFTC

Got it.

Found it TFTC

Thanks Bowz2 for this timely reminder to be careful on our
roads.
Found, signed and replaced as found.

Little Squirell

Veni. Vidi. Vici. Scripsi.
Heading west for work and was looking for a place to stop for a driving break and this looked like a good spot. Parked well off the road and wandered over to find a cache past the "grave". Interesting spot. Quickly located the cache and signed the log and replaced it. Back to the car to continue the journey.
Gratias pro cache Bowz2

Once again flop needed the toilet but with no paper bush leaves were the only option. Cool cache though

After a quick dukie stop. Manage to find some leaves. Oh and the cache of course

With team KWML. TYFTC!! RIP EMILIO MADONNA

Logged by Team KWML
TFTC.
RIP Emilio Madonna

Tftc found with team kwml

Our second DAY IN Pt Lincoln and it was time to focus on caching in Lincoln itself and potential surrounds. It was a cold and grey day interspersed with rain, which was a bit of a downer when compared to the sunshine of the last few days. Despite this we were able to still able to make a good day of it, finding over 50 caches, though it was also a day of quality as well with some higher terrain caches as well. It was an enjoyable day as we were able to tick off some earmarked caches before we finally finished up at around seven.

TFTC

Found It!
A quick find here in the dark while on the way home from Port Lincoln.
TFTC

A nice evening walk from Nuttbush TFTC

Found while on tour of the Nullarbor.
The tour we loved was full of surprises as we used Geocaching and your Geocache as a guided tour .
Thankyou for your contribution Bowz2

We share the sentiments of Bowz2. We always worry about the tragic road death of family or friends because we all love roaming this wonderful country.

Found on our way back from a few days along Googs track and the Gawler Ranges. Thanks for the cache Bowz2!

Found 10.05
Easy fi d

Took lucky rock
Left smiley face
TFTC

TFTC

Found with sweet justice
Cach 1056

Roads can be dangerous ... it is nice to see that Emillio was obviously loved. TFTC

A plan was hatched to make the most of my time based in Port Augusta. This weekend the plan was to visit all the LGA areas on Eyre Peninsula to work towards the South Australian LGA Challenge. Dr Owl joined me in Port Augusta on Thursday night and we headed off early Friday morning for a wonderful adventure. Plenty of laughs, great scenery and some interesting stories discovered along the way. Today involved heading across the top of the Peninsula to Ceduna.

I was surprised to see an alone or lonely cache out this way, I've seen plenty of them out Hawker way.

Thanks for the cache Bowz2.

Owl and Sushilord were heading west on an epic adventure with the main goal of covering as many council areas as possible so they can qualify for a challenge cache. Caches on the side of the road crying out to be found were also obliged. This was a quick find in a very large SPOR. Careful driving was the order for the rest of the day.

found it on a trip to Whyalla over the Adelaide cup long weekend. passing through iron knob after making a dent in the ftf trail and then slowly home. quick find.

24/55 for today - my best day so far.
Whyalla to Iron Knob through to Renmark. Stopping whenever I felt like it, wherever I felt like it, if there was a cache nearby anyway.
I drove past a lot but didn't have time to get them all!

I felt so small out here in this massive plateau. I had thoughts of the wild west, dudes on horses and posses. This is Day 6 of an 8 Day road trip through SA and I am loving every minute of it.

Thanks

#2261

Since moving from New Zealand 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
No two areas are the same here and almost every place I go 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.
The caches I’ve found in Australia so far have for the most part all been in great condition. Keep up the good work.

Easy park n grab. TFTC took spinning top left painted robot rock.

A sad reminder of the what can happen on the road. Thanks Bowz2 for the cache.

Sad loss of life. A good sized cache. Took something and left something. TFTC

Thanks for Emilio's story. Never would have stopped otherwise. Excellent sturdy cache too!

RIP Emillio SL TFTC

**Out and about around en route to Perth**...

**Day 3** of my trip - *Nuriootpa to Ceduna*...

After staying in Nuri for a couple of nights, today saw me loaded up and heading to Ceduna before making my way over to W.A. Naturally I stopped to find a few caches along the way.

A pleasant enough day with the rain holding off. A nice quick find too.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment Bowz2.

Stamped log and replaced...

**Took**: *Nothing*
**Left**: *Nothing*

**#10422**

TFTC

Thank you for showing us this lovely memory. TFTC

Found it with TICE [Hiltsu, J&T, kapeka & laalaa]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in Australia ( South Australia and Northern Territory ). Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and huge country!

Greetings from Finland!

Tice (Team Ice: laalaa, J&T., Hiltsu and kapeka) in Australia. Sun was shining and we had fun. Today we drove from Port Augusta to Wyalla, but not the most direct route.
Thanks for the cache.
Greetings from Finland.

Team ICE on a two week geocaching trip in Australia. Our main target was the Red Centre Experience at Alice Springs but of course we did some caching in other places too. We drove from Adelaide to Alice Springs and then back. We saw lots of interesting and beutiful places like opal mines at Coober Pedy, Ayers Rock and Kata Tjuta. Our rental travelled almost 6500km on gravel and tarmac roads. The weather was great, only on last day we got some rain.

All the caches logged as Team Ice, T-ice or Tice with kapeka, laalaa and Hiltsu. We had a great trip!

Today our journey continued from Port Augusta to Whyalla and back. Some trail caches and others logged on the way.

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Finland!

Our Spring Geocaching trip go this year to Australia...yes you read right, in Finland is spring now.
We visit in Australia (Adelaide, Murray Bridge, Port Augusta, Whyalla, Coober Pedy, Uluru, Alice Springs, Port Vincent and other place which are on the way those places) on April 05.-20.

We see many beautiful place where we visit and enjoy every cache what we found, so humble thanks every cache owner that you hiding this cache!

We (kapeka, laalaa, J&T. and Hiltsu) use common nickname Team ICE, T-ICE or TICE that we saves space in the logbook.

Thanks For To Cache!
Greetings from Finland

Hi there Bowz2.

We found your cache **"Emillio"** at 2:47:00 PM today. (This makes our find count 15861).

We cached around the Whyalla area today. On our trek we found a wide variety of container types. & ended up finding 9 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.
**Note:** The listed trackable "Irish Flag Micro Geocoin" is not in the cache,** could Bowz2 (or the Trackable owner) please "Mark the Item as Missing" so it can be removed from the cache inventory. This option is under Actions on the trackable's web page).

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Quick & easy cache. TFTC!

And it will happen again and again. So sad.

Signed logbook 7.11.16 -


Tftc

Found it with bikesu on my way home. Tftc

Some time spent on this memorial. Rip Emilio.

TFTC. RIP Emillio

Thanks for another great find

A quick find on the way to WA. Cheers

I rolled the geomobile to a stop and was wondering why I was here !!
Only after getting close to the memorial did I see it !! [:o]
Almost un-noticable from the highway !!
This memorial has a lot of work put into it !!
And is a sad reminder of what happens every day

Nearby the cache was soon tracked down

Found this cache while on our way to Iron Knob . We stopped to read the information and ponder on the situation. The cache was easy enough to find and we expect many cachers will stop to find this one. After the duties had been completed all was replaced and it was time to move on. Thank you to Bowz2 for putting this cache out to remind people of the fragility of life.

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