The FOURTH Day of Christmas Moonta Mines, South Australia, Australia
By Gum-Phyl on 15-Dec-11. Waypoint GC3980M

time change and so do caches, time for this one to go.....

Caches deteriorate over time. Life gets busy. Would prefer that Geocacher's don't have too many
below average experiences.
It's time to disable until we can revamp.
Happy for people to check, find and register a smilie if they are inclined

Found the container only... Possibly the original one?

No luck here today

Tftc

Log is full?

Thank you Gum-Phyl for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.
Found 17 July 2016 1:48PM Find # 387

Found it

Ahhhh the old Sunday School site, I just love all of the wonderful locations and history in Moonta Bay [^]

Found with my muggle friend, on a weekend road trip from Adelaide to Wallaroo, and surrounding areas......escaping Clipsal mayhem was the aim of the game!!

Thanks for the cache Gum-Phyl

A quick find. Only the cache lid and log in the hide so we replaced the container. TFTC

Would have been an intimidating place for young kids.

TFTC

Found it the phone wasn't much help. Found quickly good hide.

Took a while, but an obvious spot

Quick find in an interesting spot.
Tftc

Interesting site, looked like an impressive building in its time.
TFTC TNLN

9F 3D Total 94

Our phone was way out on this one. The photo helped.

Hidden well.

Day fourteen of the short holiday with Bettyboo3747.
A day for breathing in the history of Moonta.
Lots of old mines, stone buildings, and rusting engineering stuff.
It is hard to believe that they have destroyed such a building when they didn't need the land for anything.
Interesting photos and plans of the church.
Thanks, Robmc.

# 9466. Sadly, I only have one entire day in Moonta and there is so much to do and see. I love this historic area and definitely need to and will come back here. Tomorrow we head to Broken Hill for more adventures.

It is sad to see so much history destroyed. Rob got his paws on this one fairly quickly and now off to the next one.

Thanks Gum-Ako

Another great find while in the area today.

Thanks for setting up this cache to help make my visit fun
SL

A good root a round and we finally located it. Sneaky little thing.

Found by Mary & David at 1100. That Sunday School was certainly well-attended. Our thanks to Gum-Ako.

Omg we're hopeless took us ages lol

Came to the lovely YP to see and experience the Kernewek Lowender and of course visit a good friend. Cached today after the Cavalcade of Cars, which I highly recommend watching and the tourist railway around the mines. . This was found during that time. Thanks for the caches we loved them.

Found it with my fave cousins

Had fun

Quick find great spot

Spent the afternoon picking up a few stray caches around Moonta. A quick find here, thanks Gum-Ako.

Staying in the C/Park for a few days we decided to get a few more caches in the area. T.F.T.C.

Great hide TFTC

Nice hide and easy find, been here once before

Looked everywhere but could not find. Also very hot today

wrong shoes to do this

Cruising around the historic Moonta mines today.
Thanks for hiding this cache.

Find #920

On the Fouth day of my bike ride, my truelove sent to me, a brand new bicycle seat
Oh how I wish !!

'Nuff wishing, there was a cache to find here
And find it I did [^]

TFTC on a stroll around the mines this morning

Went for a walk down to the mines with a buddie took us a while we had looked over and over that one spot but didn't actually check finally we checked! TFTC

Out and about for an extended long weekend, guess what a smiley face was found here.
TFTC

Found it!!

So many cool ruins. TFTC!

Nice spot. TFTC

Thanks

Nice sprint day for a hunt

Found in the first place I looked
Not much left of this history, is there
TFTC x

On a caching assault of the Yorke Peninsular with alansee and Team Crackers over the last six days. We have found many caches which have proven enjoyable and sometimes challenging Alansee had worked diligently in planning routes we would take to minimize wasted kilometres driven to find the numbers we have been able to do. Most logs have been signed as MAC (micaparamedic, alansee and crackers)

Many thanks Gum-Ako for placing this cache .

Found with micaparamedic and Team Crackers on our last day on the Peninsula. Glad that you got here before Brad did.

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Found it while checking out the mines area. Initially the iPhone took us to the wrong spot, but we soon had it worked out when we looked at one the photos.
No pen on us today, so couldn't fill out the log. TNLN TFTC.

Today we are heading to the copper triangle to do some caches, we managed around 120 caches over the 2 days we spent here and we saw some fantastic scenery along the way, being the geowifes early childhood stomping grounds i was treated to a lot of history about quite a few of the areas and how much things have changed over time, this was a nice easy find. TFTC

Touring Australia having left Perth in late February we are leisurely touring South Australia after having attended Oz Mega.

Today was set aside for touring Moonta and Wallaroo. Well we had a long list and after a sleep in and problems loading the GPSr had us not even starting till 0900hrs.

We had a great day and saw lots of historic places and learnt lots about the area. The list was only just started and we never left Moonta till after dark so Wallaroo will have to be tomorrow.



TFTC Gum-Ako

On the road with FelixII discovering the Yorke Peninsula.

Today we spent a fantastic day in Moonta exploring the area of the Moonta mine an a bit of the surrounding countryside. We found some fantastic history and some very good hides in the surrounding area.

Thanks for your cache Gum-Ako.[/Black]

We love caching around the YP and with the mild weather we enjoyed the opportunity to find this cache. A variety of hides kept us challenged and we spent time taking in the beautiful scenery and the changes that had taken place since our last visit. Nice one. Thanks to Gum-Ako.

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

Never knew the building was here! tftc

Found it with friends!!! Good fun!!

This was our 12th cache find in a caching run of 22 Finds & 2 DNFs today.
We found it at 12:33 so this now makes our total find count 8395.
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We are visiting friends in Kadina for a few days before heading off to Murray Bridge to attend the "[url=http://coord.info/GC3X0X4]Oz Mega 2014 Murray Bridge[/Url]" over Easter.
Today we decided that our primary goal was to attempt the 12 days of Christmas, and also do an assortment of other caches as we were journeying around the area collecting the clues.
Wow that's a lot of teachers!
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Coordinate Accuracy: Excellent (We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.)
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Nothing.
Thanks Gum-Ako for the hunt today.

Cache found in the last place we looked, which was as usual not the first place we looked. Thanks for the cache guys.
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This cache was found using a Garmin Montana 650t. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK 8.

Nice trip around the tourist route while finding these.

Heading to Marion Bay for a weekend's fishing I thought I'd leeave early a pick up a few caches.

Easy find. Enjoying ths series.

TFTC

Second time lucky, this time the GPS was playing the game and I found this cache in just a few minutes...but I could have sworn I looked there last time.

TFTC

Found while on holiday at Moonta Bay.
TFTC

Found after a lot of searching. TFTC

tb visit

found it after a few minutes as the gps was taking me all over the place but made the find and thanks for the hide ... Gum-Ako.

3rd people to this one. Good cache

Fantastic spot no one would normally visit ) love it

Thanks for previous log,GPS acting up! TFTC

We had a couple of goes at this one and found it on our second visit after we'd had a look at some of the previous logs. Duh - how did we miss it the first time?? Interesting history here. TFTC

Not much of this old church left you have to get down to the roots to find this one

We found these on an overnight Stsy at Kadina with good friends we attended the event ate good food and bounced over some good roads.

as we travel on to a different location and another good cache

out with locus, honeysucker, &geodog max while at the yp event.

another one down in this series. replaced log

621

It seemed like a good idea to attend the YP Cachers Get Together #7 "Welcome Home Dazza" so Honeysuckers and I headed out to make a weekend of it.
On Saturday, we were followed by 3LG so wherever we went, they went too!
I returned home with 66 successful locus caches , 5 DNFs , 1 event attended and even a FTF for the last cache of the weekend on the way home
We went 4WDing, we laughed, we shared cache adventures with other people and just generally had a fantastic time!

Honeysucker, chrispy89 and I spent Sunday in the Copper Triangle area finding caches
A reasonably quick find...seems we aren't always as slow as an extremely drunk person singing the 12 days of Christmas

TNLN. SL. TFTC Gum-Ako

I believe this one was spotted in the dark using enough torchlight to light up the sun! Thanks Gum-Ako

TFTC
Gayle minus Mark

Another nice quick Xmas find.

Quick find while grabbing a few caches in the area. Interesting little spot, not much left of the building though!

Sometimes it seems too obvious, should just look there in the first place, log is slightly wet

Caching with team pedal pushers for our 4 day holiday in port pirie
TFTC
Thanks for brining us here and we enjoyed it very much
Scout comp.
WET LOG NEEDS TO BE REPLACED!!!

Caching with SARS 12 for the Scouting Competition. TFTC

South Australia 2013 with Sol de Lune. We headed off on 12/4 and arrived home on 28/4. The trip was to visit the SA series so more time could be spent at the Mega itself next year. We did a huge variety of caching around Murray Bridge, the Mid North, Yorke Peninsula and Whyalla Region. Apart from one wet night and two wet days we were able to spend heaps of time caching.

Today we were traveling on the Yorke Peninsula, the original destination for this trip. We spent the whole day and went from Kadina to Pt Victoria. We went via as many of the towns as possible along the way. Everyone has done a great job of placing a great variety of caches and we had a great day.

Thanks.

10596.848 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2011 Compass Rose Midnight Sun A#210

Albida

Dont all birds call......I would have thought so, but as my wife would says........what would I know!!!!

Ah, thats true love for you...........

Grabbed with Albida on our 2 week caching run from Canberra to, and around, different parts of South Australia including Loxton, Murray Bridge, Tailem Bend, Yorke Peninsula and around to Whyalla before heading home via Broken Hill, Cobar and Parkes. We completed a few power trails and left a couple to do when in the area again for next years Mega event.

Overall a great many different styles and types of caches found. A great time was had caching for 16 days straight as well as camping along the way.

Thanks for adding to the fun with this cache.

This is our 2nd full day of caching in the Moonta, Wallaroo & Kadina area.
This is one of the caches we found during the day.
Thanks Gum-Ako

We searched but couldnt get the GPS to settle long enough to find the cache

We spent the long weekend touring the area and getting as many of the new and not previously done caches as we could comfortably get. We found a new personal record and lots of great new caches together with new experiences.

This entry was edited by Kev the Rev on Tuesday, 02 April 2013 at 08:28:48 UTC.

Found by little yellow koala
88 teachers...wow! Pretty big school...

That many Sunday school teachers??
Then later we found the reason why.
No church-- no pay.
Thanks for the find and sign.

Pretty easy this one

Thanks guys!

easy find. thanks for the cache.

Took a while... could have been 'anywhere'..???? Girlfriend to the rescue ...again..! (Im teaching her well.!) Loved the old wall ruins...Enjoying caching in this area...Thanks for bringinh us here...TFTC

This entry was edited by cabbos on Tuesday, 26 February 2013 at 09:23:50 UTC.

another cache while on christmas hollidays thanks gum-ako for bringing us to this historic place

We found this cache as part of our family YP camping trip. Over the 12 days we saw some fantastic scenes and did a heap of cool stuff. This really is a beautiful slice of our country. To top off an already wonderful trip, we also found 145 caches, 6 trackables, 1 pathtag and attended 1 event.

Replaced the log sheet also.

Thanks for the cache!!

Nice quick find again thankyou.

A weekend geocaching away with the family, TFTC.