Smelters Picnic Ground No More Crystal Brook, South Australia, Australia
By nic.hil.kel on 27-Nov-11. Waypoint GC38CZ8

This area is now caravan park land will replace elsewhere further down the track

It appears that this cache is gone the gates have been removed an sent back to port Pirie and the land has been given to the council for the caravan park so the caretaker told us and the general public will no longer be able to access it

Looked for a while and couldn't find anything, then someone from the caravan park came and said the council moved the fence about a month ago so the cache is no longer there, but I've never been before so I might have been in the wrong place. Might need to be replaced or else archived.

We are staying in Crystal Brook for a few
days and this is our first find here..
Great little hide.

Thanks nic.hil.kel

Little Squirell

Quick find tftc

Found on a lovely day for caching in good company. TFTCSL

TFTC!

Found It!
Nice to finally put this cache to bed after 3 visits to GZ. What happen to the brick archway thing that was here last time I visited?
TFTC

Nice find while staying at the caravan park, lovely spot. Road trip from Darwin to Melbourne. TYFTC leightonscott

In the area for a special event, Mr. Flipper was not into the search this weekend,later probably showed why... Mrs. Flipper headed off on a shopping mission via the scenic route.
TFTC
Gayle minus Mark

Up here for The Noodlers birthday bash and had to grab a few caches to help celebrate

TFTC

A pleasant stroll at the back of the caravan park, and a quick cache find to boot

TFTC !!

Fore !!!

Doing a numbers count before a milestone. Log to follow.

On my Round Aussie Trip, travelling with IolantheK, who flew into Perth, from Brisbane, to travel the Nullabor with me, we found your cache. the caravan park was really lovely, tks .TFTC.

found while staying at vanpark thanks

TFTC
Ratusd/Deon Corey

Quick find

First for the day and it's always good to start with a find .
A brisk walk over from where we were staying soon had this one in hand .
TNLNSL.
Thanks nic.hil.kel.

Touring Australia having left Perth in late February we are leisurely touring South Australia.

Today we moved camp from Laura to a 'Free Camp' just out of Crystal Brook. After lunch we headed into town to find as many caches as we could.

Just love the history here and the fact that the local caches seem to highlight so much of it.

We mistakenly parked in the visitor parking bays of the caravan park. Big mistake the caravan park owner/manager was not amused. Suggest you park in the carpark accessible from the main road BUT NOT the caravan park.

Cache found okay.

TFTC nic.hil.kel

Yes. Tricky to remove from hidey hole & even trickier to remove log from cache. Lucky I had a magnet!! Great hide & hint. Tftc

I'll go along with genghicat, I probably used the same stick. Thanks for the cache nic.hil.kel

Rustic Relics
(Budgie)

Quick find with Genghicat on way home to Adelaide after weekend in Pirie. TFTC

Nice quick find on our last day in Port Pirie. Was a little hard to extract the cache from its hiding spot, but managed to get there in the end with the help of a stick.

TFTC.

Out with Aussie M & M and brisal5 caching our way to the Flinders. A quick find.
Thanks

An interesting spot with the history involved here. Aussie Mark grabbed this cache with a bit of help from Mary. TFTC nic.hil.kel

Heading up to meet Aussie M & M in Chrystal Brook with mogni. Of course getting there would always provide a few stops. . Then it was a great meal at the diner with the Ms before heading out to grab some more caches.
I was hardly out the car before Aussie Mark had the cache in hand. His mojo was working overtime. Thanks nic.hil.kel.

tftc

Caching with my Brother-in-Law, who is not a cacher ... yet. While the rest of the family enjoy the Laura Festival that's on today.

I did try this early in my caching career, and could not find. Today almost a year on, quite easy, if tricky to retrieve.

Found it on my way back to Adelaide. What a great spot! TFTC

Really small lovely spot

First to sign new log, had trouble with fat fingers extracting nano. TFTC

Six DNF's should be enough to suggest this one has gone missing, I looked really well and must suggest maintenance is required.

I just went for a drive and this cache is still here. I replaced it in December unsure where my log went about this but it is definatley still there.

Maybe "Smelter's Picnic Ground Cache No More"?

No luck for us today

Didn't find think it has gone missing needs to be checked to see if it is still there we have looked a couple of times

Had good look around but sadly no sign of cache.

We stayed at Crystal Brook last night and then meandered north admiring the wonderful crops.
I went for a walk this morning but couldn't find it so I went back for the phone to check details, but still no find nor sign.
Pretty sure I was in the correct spot.

Found cache on the ground and placed back in original position (we think). Nice area.

Quick find while the cockatoos went crazy TFTC!

Found this while camping , lovely park after a long drive

Quick find on our way home
TFTC

Tftc

A quick drive by, you always feel good when you get a few of those in a busy caching day. Thanks.

Many thanks from Peter for this cache on the 13. Australia Trip (2012/2013).
Cheers Peter

Clever clue...thanks

Stayed at the caravan park and made the easy find, Thanks

Having spent the night in the caravan park and then decamped we were surprised to find that this one was almost next to our previous camp site. TFTC.

Passing through town on our way home from the West & dropped in for a cache or 2
TFTC

More good history to trace

Found while staying in the caravan park here . Nice little spot. Good hide. TFTC

Another quick find while looking around the area.
Thanks.

Great little find.

Following a 4WD Club event at Melrose and driving out via the Bridle Track, it was time to head inland and grab a few caches on the way home.

Quick find and sign. TFTC.

Nice shiny cache with plenty of life left in it ! TFTC

Nice peaceful spot. Tftc.

caching with jaded optimists and i can say i beat him to this find... hehe tftc

After having a great nights bush camp at White cliffs and a few drinks around the fire we got off to a leisurely start still heading north towards Whyalla to attend the Munaryoo 4wd event tomorrow picking up some caches as we went. We pulled up near gz and couldn't help noticing how full the nearby caravan park was but there didn't seem to be any one moving around, perhaps they were at the nearby agricultural show. This one took us a little while and we resorted to the hint and then the well hidden cache was found not long after.
Damn that lush spring growth.
Thanks for the cache.

Found with Minnes. TFTC!

TFTC. Logged with Hubby on our way to Whyalla for the weekend

Last find for the day - now into Pirie for dinner
TFTC

Alas, not a find today. We didn't have the hint, however, so we will be back again to try again.
Thanks NHK.

Quick find while watching out for caravaner packing up the caravan near by.

Found and logged at 10:38, Passing through town on my way north to escape the winter so why not grab a cache
Thanks nic.hil.kel

This was our RunCount0th cache in our caching run today - and we found it at around 11:42.
(So this is our 43840th total find.)

Had a little difficulty locating this one until we went back through the gate.

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Thanks nic.hil.kel for the hunt today.

Found the cache but didnt find a phone.
Passed here earlier in the week.
Oh well time to look around the town some more.

I approached from the wrong side of the fence - but quickly found the cache.

The campers were setting up. Some were in for the night. It was going to be a cold one. You could tell. The cache was already very cool to the touch.

Thanks to nic.hil.kel and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Found it No. 5096 ... quick find while mrs TR made lunch ... TNLN ... TFTC nic.hil.kel

Great spot for a cache. Smell the eucalypts....mmm. Tftc

Sneaky little sucker...TFTC

An easy find on our trip back home

Found while heading to Clare. When arrived a bunch of people were 30m away from cache. We looked as discreetly as possible. When all hope was lost Homer said "Could it be there?" And what do you know there it was. SL TFTC nic.hil.kel

Camping at the Crystal Brook camping grounds, I convinced three others to come for a hunt for this cache. In the end it was not me who found the cache, but Catriana. My first mini cache.

Lovely spot. Thanks for the cache.

Found on the way home from the Laura Folk Fair. I remember many smelters picnics in here as a young boy growing up in Port Pirie. The running track is still there, and the hut where you got free milk! Many good memories. TFTC

The clue made for a quick find. A pleasant area to enjoy. TFTC nic.hil.kel

Found this cache at 3:10pm while staying in Port Pirie for a Vintage car Rally over Easter. They have been taking us out on some beautiful day trips and Crystal Brook was one of them. Have been past this park before (Had Lunch Then) It was getting very full with Caravan people. Lovely park.
Found cache reasonably easy.
Thanks nic.hil.kel for the hide.
Tthe Bushies NSW.

I remember coming to a picnic here in the 60's. The caravan park was busy.

My very first find!!
Found with Suttontwo!!
Thank you, my friend, for introducing me to the sport of Geocaching...

No. 1 find after the horse show for half SuttonTwo plus the novice who is now hooked and converted! TFTC

SONIC&JIM

Finally get this off my list thanks Nicole!

Tftc. was a easy find by torch light.

found on a night run to port pirie for crabbing

Another for the morning with Mr T while the little Miss E's spend their time supporting their team at the SA Country Swimming Championships.

A nice quick find - our first for the day.
TFTC
Cheers & happy caching

FOUND WHILE ON THE WAY HOME AFTER A GREAT TIME STAYING WITH AUZZIE CONVICT AT PT AUGUSTA TFTC

I remember coming here as a kid for the Smelters Picnic, trying to win money in the sprints to spend in side show ally. Easy find. TFTC

Found as part of a two day Northern areas run with Team Waldron.
Easy find, after a short search
TFTC

A 2 day trip from Adelaide to Pt Augusta and back wwith White Dog Gang collecting over 100 caches.

We traveled over 1000km in 2 days.

A nice quick find as we started caching in Crystal Brook.

I've played on the golf course a few times.

TFTC

found while on dirtbike ride with demon41

Found on Geo Ride with desertfox 41 , A few holiday mugglers about, just have to be sneaky. TNLN

After settling down at Crystal Brook caravan park...I decided to go and hunt a few caches around the town...parked near our caravan, Ms Bushies2 came over and she found it easily...last find for the day. Thanks nic.hil.kel. Merry Christmas

A sneaky hide, had us poking our fingers into holes that probably homed spiders and other creatures. HAd to avoid some muggles who were walking up the trail towards the cache, but after that, an easier find than expected. TFTC

After negotiating a large fallen branch it was a simple extraction TFTC

After finding the 3 caches we headed up here to get time to grab a few on the way home. Took the wrong road in and ended up in the Caravan park. Clue helped narrow it down for us. TFTC

Sneaked in here as it was before 7am only to find we were in the caravan park... Ooops.. Road through was blocked due to the flooding but we walked to GZ.. Soon had cache after a bit of coaxing.. Signed and replaced no quite so far in...
Thanks nic.hil.kel for the cache..

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.

Found by geo daughter good hide tftc nic.hil.kel

Ten seconds to find it.... 5 minutes to get it out as it was well in!!! Thanks nic.hil.kel for the hide!!