Happy New Year 2012 Rosedale, South Australia, Australia
By Grandeeze (Mrs) on 26-Dec-11. Waypoint GC39N6N

Container had become visible, probably owing to exposed paprika and winds out this way.Stamped and reconcealed more robustly.TFTC

Quick easy find whilst enjoying the wineyards and these interesting white flowers growing on the side of the road. TFTC

09:19On slightly sticky roads, we approached new Year 2012, Ah ha it wont be all that long and we will be heading toward New Year 2025!!!Our thanks to 'SnappyTomCats' for adding this cache to the geo-gameboard.37736*This log composed and published using Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK).*

It was Saturday morning and what better way to spend it but to find a few Barossa caches and others along the way.We headed out with our good friends Phetlern and we were lucky with the weather this morning.The roads were good and very quiet.Thanks to nappyTomCats for this hide.

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Get some caches in the Barossa on the way home after doing a bit of shopping in Elizabeth. Manage to put up with the showery weather and was also very cold. TFTC

Out caching the Barossa and found your cache Tftc

quick and easy find. thanks for the cache!

Quick easy find. TFTC

Now that the bike series was completed we continued onto the Barossa series. LB bid us a fond farewell at Swan Reach so now the convoy consisted of feathertop, GoodLook,Rapidlywild, TheDame and The Drovers.All puzzles were solved awhile before the journey as we were looking at doing them at SA mega time but decided wait until now. All caches were signed as The Mob and all were also found without any issues. The trail was a little all over the place but we got that sorted soon enough.While in the area we thought we couldn't not find this one as well. No issues with the hide. Thanks for the hide SnappyTomCats and thanks for a fun adventure Rapidlywild.

Plans have been in place for a little while now about a convoy from the Canberra Mega to head over to SA and finish off what currently stands of the On Your Bike series. Today being day 4 of the trip away, todays convoy consisted of GoodLook, TheDame, feathertop, The Drovers, FurfacesLL and myself.Today's primary target was the Barossa Grapes series of caches. Having them all solved not long after they were released, I managed to score 2 FTF's on this series with friends as I was in SA at the time. I was keen to return and finish these off, so we made sure it was part of the SA invasion plan. All caches were found and stamped as "The Mob" consisting of the above mentioned teams. We enjoyed the day using a range of TOTT's across multiple kinds of hides.A nice quick find whilst in the area, no issues with the find here.Thanks for the cache placement and maintenance SnappyTomCats and thanks FurfacesLL for another fun trip away

It was Day 3 and our large group of cachers known collectively as The Mob were ready to tackle the Barossa caches. Members included The Drovers, Rapidlywild, Lib, Goodlook, FurfacesLL The Dame and myself.Logs signed as The Mob. A few older trads in amongst the grapes.Cheers

Out caching with Jamesta18 today, our third cache for the day What a beautiful day, 25 sunny , great weather for adventuring around some dirt roads TFTC

New area to explore with Kyliesmiley tftc

Having had lunch we were feed and watered and set for an afternoons caching in the heat of the Barossa region. This was one of many in this stint in this great area. All good here and thanks to the CO who made this possible.TFTC #9063

Getting the odd traditional cache while out on the Barossa Grape mystery cache trail. This was one of them.TFTC

Late last night fitzy_1965 and I were trying to work out our plan F or G or goodness know where we were up to. We eventually decided on the Barossa series as we had solved all the puzzles before heading over for the Mega.We were surprised that we didn't come across any other cachers today. All caches were found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned.The day was ended with a campsite in Nuriootpa so that we could finish the trail in the morning.

34,359. Found with minniek during our trip to The Great Leap Forward Mega Event in Adelaide on 29th February 2024.Day 5 : After staying overnight at minniek's cousin's place again, we chose Plan H to fill in the rest of our time over here. This means attempting to do the Barossa Grapevine GeoArt series which we had pre-solved before this trip, plus a few bonus caches along the way. We had a lot of fun doing this series, many different types of hides, some challenging tree climbs, ladder climbs, fishing pole caches, all while enjoying the drive around the wine region. All caches were found without issue unless stated. This one was one of the bonus caches along the way, and was a quick find once we were at GZ. Stamped the log, replaced the cache as found, then headed off to the next one.Thanks SnappyTomCats !!

Out and about after the One day Mega and an early morning event we are heading up to the Barossa for a day of adventure in the geoarts.Caching with and signing as the group 'QANVT' and having a great day.TFTCache Grandeeze (Mrs)

I was in the state for the Leap Year Mega in Adelaide and a group of us from Queensland, ACT, New South Wales, NT, Victoria and Tasmania decided to travel to the Barossa to do te Geoarts plus any other caches that we came across. This was one of those. to save space in the logs we signed as QANVT being the acronym of the states and territories represented. Thank you for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Found with SPINBNZ Team Nice easy find .Thanks for this Happy New Year cache it was a nice easy find thanks Grandeeze (Mrs) it deserves a favorite

Happy New Year 20121.5/1.5 Small Traditional Cache Flew in from Alice Springs. Back in Adelaide after 14 years. Here specifically for The Great Leap Forward Mega and catching up with awesome Qld caching friends and revisiting Adelaide where we lived for 16 beautiful years! Pity I only started caching in 2015.Had a wonderful time reminiscing and admiring wonderful changes in the State, meeting friendly cachers and helpful COs and finding quality caches, high D/Ts, oldies, geoart etc.Signed Team QANVT - cachers from Qld, ACT, NT, NSW, Vic and Tas - to save writing all 30+ caching names.Thank you for the cache SnappyTomCats.

Adelaide day two: Teamed up with RoamingHowie, Papi4506 & Geoturtle37 to tackle a bunch of grapes and assorted others along the way.Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, SnappyTomCats ??~????????~

RoamingHowie, OzHockeyChick, Geoturtle37 and myself set off today to find some high scoring favourites with the Barossa Trail as our main target for the day.We have finally arrived only to find that there are so many vehicles around and the dust is stifling. We chose to move on and start further into the trail which proved to work well as we only met a few other teams. GT37 can't drive and leave a lonely cache so we picked up a few strays as well. Thanks for placing this cache for us to find.

Day #10 Leaping Forward AdventuresAnd just like that leap day is done and dusted! As the next 4 years begin, its time to head out to the Barossa with OzHockeyChick, GeoTurtle37 and Papi4506.Another side tracked cache in between grape picking.Thanks SnappyTomCats for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy. ----------------------------------------------------------The Ballarat GeoTour ends on 4 March 2024! Be sure to find all the caches and earn the souvenir before the tour is archived. The [Farewell Ballarat GeoTour Event - GCAFQ8B](https://coord.info/GCAFQ8B) is on 18 February 2024.Looking for caches to find when visiting Victoria? Why not check out the geocaching lists available on the [Geocaching Victoria Website](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists/). There are plenty to choose from including all of the previous nominees and winners of the Victorian Cache of the Year Awards.

Caching as team SPBINZ: Sidewaze, Paddlechick, Bullertrout, IsisNZ and Nanzie.This trip has been a "game of three thirds" for us. First we visited the Yorke Peninsula, staying at Wallaroo and then at Port Vincent. Then it was a couple of nights in the city, attending the Mega and looking to get the maximum number of cache types we could, a couple of hidden months for members of the team and lots of caches that crossed our paths. Now we're off to tour the Barossa Valley, visit a few trails, find lots of caches and generally have a good look around. One of our missions will be to put that bunch of grapes back together. No-one is really into wine-tasting, well put it this way, we'd all rather be geocaching, so geocaching it is ??, though I'm very pleased to say geocaching took us to several beautiful wineries.I do get a bit side-tracked when I'm caching and take time to enjoy the local flora and fauna. The plants are so obviously adapted to life in a dry climate, the birds are colourful and screechy, and the ants - - well, I've never seen such large ants or had such a vicious bite from an insect. There are lots of scenic views too, some of which attract action from my camera but of course many that just form part of the overall experience.Oh, but of course I also take my turn driving and sometimes I'm first out of the car and into the hunt, though I'm probably number 5 on the success stakes when it comes to finding the slightly elusive hides ??.Thanks and Happy New Year to you too .

Found as part of the SPBINZ team (Sidewaze, Paddle Chick, Bullertrout, IsisNZ, and Nanzie). Now that we have arrived in the Barossa Valley the plan for the rest of the day is to complete as many of the grape geoart as we can. This one popped up along the way - we've all seen a few New Year's since this was placed. TFTC SnappyTomCats and kia ora from Aotearoa/New Zealand # 21,833**Otepoti/Dunedin is the place to be 26-27 October, 2024 for GCA7ZHD - Geo Toroa Mega! Please come and join in the fun, find heaps of caches and experience some wonderful Southern hospitality.**

Attending the Great Leap Forward Event in Adelaide, we have travelled down from Brisbane Qld and are having a great time caching in and around Adelaide. Today we have ventured out to the Barossa Valley region to tackle the GeoArt caches out here and any caches along the way. Beautiful countryside and enjoying the drive. Log signed QANVT to save space.All caches were found in good condition. Many thanks for placing these caches.TFTC SnappyTomCats

Sidewaze, Paddle Chick, Bullertrout, IsisNZ and Nanzie are caching our way around the Barossa signing our logs as SPBINZ or some variation on that. TFTC Grandeeze (Mrs)#16280

Found with the Nelson crew on our way to the Barossa for a few nights caching. Everything has been going well on this trip

Found while on a day out and about. Thanks for the cache SnappyTomCats.

Out with VIC1 team while in Adelaide at the Great Leap Forward Mega. Collecting smileys along these trails. VIC1 team includes Alansee, McLookers, Team Crackers, Maccamob, Joe, micaparamedic, Muzza.Thanks for the cache SnappyTomCats

Find # 11600Well here it is, time for another MEGA, and an extra special one to. Its a leap year! ?? ??????? ??So before the main event I decided Id head down to Millicent and surrounds to collect some geoart, and some of the all important (to me) SFE challenges?? Day 7 and another not so hot day today. Today is an out and about around Gawler day, mainly for some geoart with puzzles long ago solved in anticipation of the mega time.Quite a group today, a convoy even, so lots of laughs and fun time that these caching events bring. Signing as QANVT as representative of the States and Territories here today.Thanks SnappyTomCats for Happy New Year 2012 ??

Adventuring today with Muzza, maccamob, Alansee, moonb1, Team Crackers, micaparamedic and ThePacman. Adelaide has so much to offer. Great Leap Forward MEGA has been a blast.Thanks for placing the cache SnappyTomCats.

Out today in the Barossa hitting a power trail with McLookers, ThePacman, Team Crackers, Micaparamedic, Moonb1, Alansee and Maccamob. A wonderful day caching with great company.Many thanks to Grandeeze (Mrs) for the cache.

Out and about caching with a group of cachers and to save space on log boos we signed as QANVT. We completed the Barossa and Anna Tommy GeoArt as well as a number of other cachers, which are not part of the GeoArts. Thank you to CO for the placement of the cache. TFTC

Im visiting Adelaide for the first time, here for the Mega which is also my first, with Willis007. Today we did a group find of the Barossa geoart and we found this one along the way, signed under the group name QANVT. Tftc

A Leap Year Mega drew us to Adelaide. Now that it is over, it's time for some good old group caching. After a short break, it is off to find a few more caches.We are using the Acronym QANVT to cover participant from all states.And so happily I say that the logs were signed and caches replaced as found on this day, 1st March 2024. TFTC, SnappyTomCats. I loved being out in the bush.

Signed today as part of team QANVTWe came to SA to attend the "Great leap forward" mega in Adelaide.During the event a plan was hatched to do the Barossa series, then Anna Tommy, then the Unicorn.Had a wonderful time doing the series and enjoyed the camaraderie of our friends from QLD, NSW, ACT, Victoria and Tasmania.This cache was found in the process of doing the Barossa series.TFTC

Caching out this way this morning with the QANVT crew. A quick find here, log signed, cache replaced as found. TFTC

We had solved the puzzles in the Barossa series in preparation for our leaping into SA trip.We headed off straight after this mornings event with McLookers, ThePacman, Muzza, Micaparamedic, Moonb1, Alansee and Maccamob to try our luck with this series. You would not call this a power trail but it was a lot of fun and we had laughs all day.We found all we looked for, some took a while but with this many eyes looking they could not stay hidden for ever.There were a few trads along the way and of course we weren't going to go passed them and this was one of them and a nice easy find to boot.To save room in the logs we signed as VIC 1Thanks Mrs Grandeeze for the cache.

TFTC smile 18203 ?? out and about on a lovely day ?? having a great time finding a few caches in Adelaide after the Event Great Leap Forward signing as team QANVT being QLD ACT NSW VIC and TASMANIA what a great team we made and lots of laughter and fun Thank you Grandeeze (Mrs) for placing this cache for our enjoyment ????

Joined the expedition to the Barossa today with Contesta, Cybergranny and Icybeetas in the car and joined up with others covering all the eastern states plus NT. Signing caches as QANVT standing for Queensland, ACT, NSW and NT, Victoria and Tasmania. Great company and great fun and some great caching for the day. Started with the Barossa geoart and collected a few other local caches on the way. Tftc

The Leap Day MEGA drew me here to this lovely State, and gave many of us the opportunity of completing the GeoArt trails Id solved months ago in preparation.Participating with the QANVT team we had 4 different States in our car. Thanks to Contesta, our wonderful chauffeur from ACT, plus barb2E representing Queensland, icybeetas from Tasmania and Cybergran V from Victoria, we had a wonderful trip today.This cache logged as QANVT.Thanks for the placing and maintaining this traditional cache amongst The GeoArt.Ill bet it is getting lots of hits this week.

Attended the Leap Year event in Adelaide yesterday and today was the day set aside to visit the Barossa region to collect the grape geoart, visit Anna Tommy and also a few other interesting caches along the way. Our caching group for the day was Team QANVT.Thanks to all the COs whose caches we visited today and showing us around this lovely region.

Ive headed to SA to attend the Great Leap Forward mega in Adelaide. So far our journey has found us in Bendigo, St Arnaud, Halls Gap and Mount Gambier, Millicent and Victor Harbor and lots of places in between. Ive targeted some geo art on the way over including the GV2020 and crayfish series, wine glass and wine bottle and challenge series. We are targeting another geo art series today, signing as QANVT which represents Queensland and ACT northern territory, Victoria and Tasmania

Signed as part of QANVTIt was a big drive from Corryong, in the North East of Victoria.I collected a couple of geo caches along the way to fill in some new LGAs. I have collected the south Australia souviner plus the leap year souviner too YAY!! It has been a big few days enjoying Adelaide and the surrounding areas. .So glad to be here

After attending an early morning event in Walkerville I headed out as part of Team QANVT to attack the Barossa Geo Art series.This is the first time Ive completed a piece of art as part of a team, a lot of fun and a great crew of people. Picked up a few additional caches along the wayA big thanks to the cache owner for making this series available to be found.Cheers

After over seven weeks on the road, I'm back home and finally catching up on all my logging.Caching in South Australia was fantastic, so many good hides to find, and we found ourselves zigzagging all over the place doing lots of geoart but of course ran out of time to get everything done on our to-do list.The majority of caches we found were in great condition and well maintained, which is a credit to all the CO's who placed them, so thank you.We signed as the large group called QANVT to save room in the logbooks.Thank you, Grandeeze (Mrs), for this good hide.

Another nice find with woolwood9 today. ????Found while over in Adelaide for the MEGA Event *Thanks for putting this cache out for us to visit. *????SL *tm/ww NZ**Soon located, now onto the next one!* ????Found while completing the Barossa series.

This is a long surviving cache and we were pleased to find it OK. Log was signed and replaced. Thanks for the placement go to SnappyTomCats.

This cache was a quick find along with goingplaces2. Log was signed and replaced as found. TFTC.

13444 Located by baby&Mrs gopher ( Signed also as BMG ) in company with the Errant Coyotes team. With 6 sets of eyes, the going was reasonably easy to spot the containers. We had been for a break and to have dinner and are now back with torches to continue the chase.SL Tnx Grandeeze (Mrs) SnappyTomCats

Headed over from NZ with tmann421 to attend The Great Leap Forward Mega event.Grabbed while on our way towards the GrapesSigned log... on to the next

I am trying to make the Feb29 Mega in Adelaide my 20,000th find, and that means keeping a close eye on my numbers. So this is just a temporary log to help me keep my numbers accurate. I'll expand on this when I get home.Find # 19944

Travelled to SA from Brisbane for the Leap Day Mega event. Whilst we were around the general area, we decided to make a night of it and booked a motel in Angaston. We teamed up with Low1, GayeNT and JOT105 for this event and gave ourselves the team name of Errant Coyotes. All logs were signed as either our full team name or ECoy where the log was smaller. All caches were found reasonably quickly and replaced as found. Some do need some maintenance. Will call this out where noted.

What a great time our team - Errant Coyotes + BMG had out today caching and team work to make the finds. Happy caching.

2 days of caching the Barossa Grapes. Team Errant Coyotes from NT - low1 & JOT205, QLD - Simber15 & NSW - GayeNT as well as the ever funny Barry from baby & Mrs gopher, ran around like our team name to find the majority of the nearby fun puzzles as well as any others that we happened to pass by.

Thank you for the New Years Wishes, we are not far into 2024 and just visited some special replies at Rosedal Cemetery, thanks for the cache!

TFTC

TFTC

Continuing my South Australian adventure, I came to this cache. A quick find was made. With my name added to the log and everything returned as found, I continued on my way. TFTC

Found it during grapes geoartTFTH

Found this one! Doing the Barossa series and came a bit further down the road to get this one too. TFTC

TFTC. Probably not the original container but still a cache to be hadLeft baby lid

Travelling Australia in our caravan since February 2014, staying a few days in Tanunda.

We headed out to tackle more of the Barossa Grapes today, with a few extra caches that came our way. A tumble for Mr Felix at 003, thanks to a fallen fence! Otherwise all good with lots of tree climbing by the 71yo. Good to rest up overnight at dinner with friends.

TFTC Grandeeze (Mrs)

A quick park and grab with the geokids. TNLN TFTC

Found it great location TFTC

A quick find,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 - Grandeeze (Mrs) Snappy Tom Cats [^]

A nice spot to stop & admire the vineyard. Tftc

Accompany with 63Roos, ALL7, Crank1, DeafPhantom, pwala, and Everlasting .
Signed the log as "6ACDPE",
all okay but some of caches were wet, lid missing….

Wow awesome enjoyed the country and grapes series caches… TFTM

So many tree fishing, ladder and climb tree. I really enjoyed and very very tired.
Beautiful town, lot of winery farms. I didn't expect few hills. Beautiful old cottage homes and some clay or rock home falling apart. So beautiful I took so many photos.
Thank you so much for bring us here. We all love it and beautiful sunset.

6ACDEP = 63Roos All7 Crank1 DeafPhantom Everlasting Pwala

Found the cache and logged the log with 63Roos All7 Deaf Phantom Everlasting Pwala as 6ACDE SnappyTomCats, Thank you so much for placing it.

Found with 3ACDEP team. What a adventure! . SnappyTomCats, thank you so much for placing it for everyone to enjoy and highlighting this area.

Accompany with 63Roos, ALL7, Crank1, DeafPhantom, Pwala and Everlasting.. tks

Accompany with 63Roos, ALL7, Crank1, DeafPhantom, pwala, and Everlasting .
Signed the log as "6ACDPE"

Enjoyed myself wandering the country and caches. Thank you for the cache and hunt.
Sorry, copy and paste

FP ️ ️

While caching in the Barossa today, we came across this cache. Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. Th cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Grandeeze (Mrs) for the cache.

Spending the day tackling the grape trail and other caches I passed during my travels.

A good selection of terrain ratings and different hides. TOTT was deployed multiple times along the way.

Two DNFs for the day but all others were found without problems and are in good condition unless stated otherwise.

Thanks for the cache Grandeeze (Mrs).
# # #12474 # #

WayneAPN and I were out here 3 weeks ago collecting all the high T caches in this series.
Today we are back to collect as many as possible of the ground level caches in the series
A quick find, sign and return here today.
TFTC and this series, loving it

Quick park, grab, sign, rehide.....

TFTC SL

Found with shonky and uni on a day out caching.

TFTC
Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

Out and about the Barossa with uni and Medusa and southern cross caching. .. Uni riding the one wheeler, me on an old shonky treadly and SXC navigating by star light.
Trying to stay focused on the caching rather than the wineries and produce but it's difficult.
Thanks for the cache.

Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).

Found at 9:39 am

Just a quiet day hunting with the Waldo’s TFTC

Not in the 1st place we looked
TFTC

Catching up on logs. Apologies for the late log.

Found on a Mystery Randoms (JJ52, allister w, mogni, Michells&hound, sir_spectre, CPwanderer and myself) day out to complete the grape geoart series with a few other finds along the way.

A great day with lots of fun and laughter.

TFTC SnappyTomCats

Today was a rather splendid day. Headed out with JJ52 and Allister w for a day of caching.
We headed to Gawler first for a couple of finds and for Allisterw to find Dustin’s cache and then on to the Barossa.
Here we caught up with sir-spectre, mogni, CP Wanderer and gizmos gang to tackle the huge new grape puzzle series ?? ?? and anything in between. Challenge accepted. Allister was up and down ladders, up and down trees and had his pole out on a few occasions too. We had a fun trip around the grapes with all caches found. Yahoo!!
After that we pottered into Lyndoch for a handful of caches and then to fox Creek for fun on our bike.
It was a glorious day with lots of chuckles blue skies and caches found.
How wonderful.
With many thanks to all that placed caches to be found. It was a super day indeed.
Fun find TFTC

quick find.
Out with Mogni to get a few more multi's to get me closer to 1000 before joiniing other's to do the new " Barossa geo art " the group was CPwanderer, Allister W, JJ52, Michells&hound, Gizmo's gang, Mogni and myself and we stamped all logs as Mystery Randoms. All cache sin the series were found. The 6.2 meter ladder got a work out by Allister w and mogni's 3.8 ladder got used as well. The extension poles got used frequently, even some times while on top of the ladder. While doing the geo art all the traditionals we passed where al so found. Cetainly glad all the roads were dry, since we had been worned that these roads get very, very slippery when wet. Then on the way home we got a few more and the 17th most favourited point cache in South Australia. Over 170 caches found for the day.

The Mystery Randoms strike again, a group of fun geocachers who are a mix of solvers, finders and laughers CPwanderer, Allister W, JJ52, Michells&hound, Gizmo's gang, sir_spectre and myself. A huge effort to complete the series plus a few others, this was a bonus along the way for several members.
Thanks to SnappyTomCats from mogni

TFTC

First for today with newbie TFTC

Found

god easy find

Out on a misty and chilly day with iluvtrekking exploring the Gawler surrounds. Quick find thanks Mrs Grandeeze

Another cache found with richlink on our 2022 South Australian Adventure.

Out and about travelling toward Gwaler zig zagging and caching as we go. It's a little overcast today, jusr perfect for Geocaching. TFTC

TFTC

Out & about with geo hubby Animal62 on this sunny Sunday morning collecting a few smiley faces for our maps.
The log was signed & dated before being returned back to its hiding spot..

TFTC nice find quick drive by out and about with geo wife LynSteNet another lovely day out and about

Thanks