TdF - Robbie McEwen Eba, South Australia, Australia
By equipe de cinq on 31-Mar-12. Waypoint GC3FH59

Found on our way past today having a look around the area while headed home from the Riverland. Targeted the rest of the TdF that we havent found on the way through, signed logs as GP or Geopenta. All in decent condition with a few running repairs. Cheers for the series.Found smashed to pieces, had bugger all with us to help fix, is now a mint tin with a piece of cardboard as a logbook.Find #7389 on 21 Nov 2024.TFTC equipe de cinq!

Found the container but its broken and the books gone Found 14/9/24

broken, no book. 14/9/24

Found it! Slight change of plan today, trying to finish the TdF series then grab a few others on the return home! 2 DNFs so far. Quick find here! All thats left of this cache is half the lid and the logbook which was in the middle of the road. Unfortunately I didnt have a suitable replacement. TFTC!

Another 3 Stooges road trip with Cheezel and WayneAPN, tackling the TDF series and a few more close by. A great day out with lots of laughs, carbs consumed and general tomfoolery. Cache found and log stamped.

It's been a while since our last get together to spend a day caching with Weredunn4 and Cheezel1961. With all the stuff occurring in each of our daily lives and work etc, the stars seem to align today for an outing out together, targeting the TDF series. Plus a few in easy range, hey were are out this way, may as well do them. Plus the usual target of interesting, unique D/T grids as well as high T caches.Thanks for this one, an easy find.TFTC SL

Its been a while since weve teamed up, but the 3 Stooges (weredunn4, WayneAPN, Cheezel1961) are back at it again Today we are targeting the Tour de France (TdF) series plus any other interesting caches we might cross paths with.Cache quickly found and stampedTFTC

Thanks for the cache

A sunny day for caching whilst exploring some of the lavender trail with my geobuddy.
THANKS FOR CONTINUING THE WIDE GAME

Quick find while out and about grabbing caches.
TNLNSL
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TTFN
Beaker
DGS

Left early in the rain, with the intention to do TdF series on the stock route road. It drizzle all the way and most of the morning periodically, until the sunshine came in the afternoon. Caches were generally in good condition with a percentage having a broken lid, which I didn’t have any replacement ones. TFTC

Refer TdF - 1990 - Greg LeMond Traditional Geocache
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Found back on 14 June 2021 with Woems1 ️

Brilliant cyclist, now a great commentator. Love hearing his stories.
Was hoping to make a day of these caches but fell short due to summer lake. TFTC equipe de cinq.

TFTC nice find quick drive by

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AND ANOTHER ONE DOWN!
A quick stop, grab, sign & date then back to its hiding spo.

Found with bindikins

Robbie had bitten the dust. Another pit stop to replace this cache.
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For the first time in a long time, it was road trip time. With COVID-19 keeping everyone at home for so long, the borders were finally opening and the feet were itchy for a decent caching trip. Plans were made with FurfacesLL to do a 10 day road trip across to Mildura and Loxton to do a heap of caching and we were excited. Across the 10 days we racked up over 4,300km in driving, multiple hotels/motels, brought home enough red dust to create our own sand pit in the back yard and collected over 1800 finds between us. It was a massive trip and lots of fun was had.

We teamed up with GoodLook, FeatherTop, The Drovers and LiB and signed most logs as "The Mob". There were a few caches which were signed as individual team names as some teams had already completed said caches, those will be noted individually.

Our target caches were the Turtle Series, the Paddle Steamer Series and the On Ya Bike wherigo Series, heaps of other caches were also collected along the way but our primary target caches were completed which made us all very happy and very tired geocachers.

Onto day 6 and back out onto the On Your Bike series we go to finish it off. Once we had finished that, we made our way to some Around the World multis, Riddlers Roonka/Ode to JLWE Series, the TdU series and even managed to do the TdF series! It was a big day. We picked up a few caches along the way, travelling along the way was GoodLook, The Drovers, LiB, FurfacesLL, FeatherTop and myself.

With the TdU completed much quicker than we expected, we discussed as a team that multiple groups had not done the TdF and we were soooo close to it. It was agreed that we would give it a crack and see how we went, if we finished it, brilliant, if we didnt, it didnt matter. We were on a roll today and we managed to get them all done !!! [^]

Thanks for the hides equipe de cinq And thanks to "The Mob" for a trip to remember [^].

Most of the caches are stamped as The Mob (consisting of The Drovers, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, feathertop and myself), however a handful contain our own caching names or initials.

The series that we tackled during this trip included The Paddle Steamer, The Turtle, On Your Bike, The TdU, The TdF and some Roonka puzzles put out for a June Long Weekend some time ago. Plus many random caches that we passed.

2020 was not a great year, and the beginnings of 2021 have also been tricky - so when it looked like the various borders would be open again (without quarantine restrictions), a trip was spontaneously planned and I was able to pull together a number of my caching friends who hadn't cached together before to form "The Mob".

LíB and I started in SA, drove to Victoria and ended our trip in SA; FurfacesLL and Rapidlywild came from Canberra and The Drovers began their journey from NSW; and then a few days later, feathertop from Victoria, joined us to complete the On Your Bike Series and other caches in SA.

We filled our days with piling in cars, hard core caching, Adventure Labs, crazy funny CB radio chatter, some laughter, some tense moments (OMG some of the ladder and tree climbs on this trip were crazy!), lots of lovely meals and even live music from a band called "Kung Fu Jesus" - nope, that is no joke.

We had hot weather each day (well into 30s), so I am thrilled that I now own a car fridge to keep the drinks icy cold (loving them at about 1 degree celcius).

A sincere thanks to equipe de cinq for placing this cache.

A plan was hatched with Rapidlywild to attack some of the caching trails down in VIC/SA.
With the boarders slowly staying open we thought Easter might be a safe time to try since the QLD boarder was still too fragile to attempt going to the MEGA and it also looked like it could be rather wet there.

The group grew from two to six quickly after having a chat to GoodLook about our plans.
Our team “The Mob” now consisted of GoodLook, LíB, Rapidlywild, The Drovers and ourselves and feathertop joined us on day 4. This team ended up being very productive and some new friendships were made. Always a bonus in my book.
All logs were stamped with “The Mob” to save space and time.

Day 6 After finishing the On Your Bike and Around the World in 81, Ode to JLWE and Riddlers Roonka Rampage and TdU we decided to see if we could tick TdF as well.
All caches were found on the trail in fairly good condition.

Thanks for the hide and trail equipe de cinq and thanks for the fun "The Mob"

Caching while staying at Cordola tftc

Spending the weekend at Morgan Caravan Park, TFTC

Staying at Morgan for the weekend thought we'd grab a couple from the trail, tftc

Last full day of caching before we head home tomorrow.

fitzy_1965, the geo-kids & I decided to head over to Blanchetown to do the Riddler series, JLWE series and whatever else we could find in the area. Today was the hottest by far and, with no working air-con in the car, it made for a hard day of caching. I did manage to get to 10,000 finds so that was a nice highlight.

All caches were found quickly and in good condition unless otherwise stated.

23,312. Found with minniek during our Post-Christmas escape to South Australia.

This trip to South Australia was on again off again due to the changing circumstances in the various states we had to travel through. Finally getting a green light from all 3 states we headed off early boxing day. Day 14 of our adventures took us around the Riddlers Roonka Rampage Challenge series, the Ode to June Long Weekend series, the Tour de France series, plus cherry picking some other caches along the way. All caches were found quickly and in good order unless otherwise stated. Next find of the day. A nice quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache as found, and then headed off to the next one.

Thanks equipe de cinq !!

A quick find while caching around Barmera.TFTC

Day 390 ( Tuesday 22nd ) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Bower today to finish off this run. TFTC

Found

Thanks

Out and about geocaching. Found with Northstar76 ,connor_8 and Jess

Out and about geocaching. Found with superman_22, connor_8 and Jess. Never been out here before. Love where geocaching take you.

Thanks for the cache

Another cool TDF tribute cache, a little off the track!
Always fun to find at night. Nice night, calm before the storm...

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Main aim for today was to knock off the rest of this TdF series. Most winners are not well known names but some we do know. Found nearly all the containers but about 6 were damaged. Good series which was fun to find. Logs were signed. TFTC.

Having started this series yesterday with ilook4geo, we were keen to finish it off today, so headed off with a long list to achieve. Not many of the winners' names were familiar to us, as we are not really into cycling. Each cache was located, its log was signed and then was returned to its hiding place. Many thanks go to equip de cinq for placing this series of caches, but some really do need attention as several containers are broken.

Out for a cache with gridge98. My first power trail on my 3rd day living in the area. Thanks for the interesting history and caches

Today I planned with Nettieknows to complete the Tour de France series, we signed all the log books as NG9886 (nettie knows, gridge98, 8/6/19). Majority of the cache are all in good Nic, a few are broken here and there though. Great to think about the winners of the tour, can’t wait till the giro comes out
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Found it TFTC

A fine day was forecast so we decided to head back to finish of this series. Had the track to ourselves and although it was dry, the weather was still bitterly cold. Thanks equipe de cinq

On the way to Canberra, detours - found,
Signed the log by stamp. Thanks for the cache and hide

Arrived in Morgan Just before lunch and after setting up the Caravan, had lunch and then thought we would go out for some caching. Did a couple in town and then went to have a look at this end of the TDF. Not bad effort in the 39deg heat.
Find No.5462
All caches in good condition: TFTC equipe de cinq

Planned a big day out with JJ52 to collect the TDF series. We’d been worrying about hot weather but then cold wet weather came so delighted that Saturday arrived and was perfect caching weather.
A delayed departure due to forgetting the battery pack meant we didn’t start caching until well after 10am.
All caches found in the series (thus far) which was a bonus.
Lots of water on the road in some places, Ute is now filthy!!
Saw lots of wildlife, lizards kangaroos wallaby emu sheep goats but thankfully no slithering snakes .
Arrived back home after 7pm having found 126 caches, it is still beyond my comprehension how or why 860 odd caches can be done in a day.
TFTC and series. A few require new containers as several have perished. Good to find some larger containers on a PT.

A plan was hatched with Michells&hound to come and get the Tour de France series and today was the day. [^]
We were very lucky with the weather which turned out to be perfect for a power trail, warm but not hot, especially after the very unpredictable hot and wet weather we had in the previous week, which was evidenced by quite a lot of water lying around as we drove along.
All caches were found, some with brittle containers, broken lids and wet logs, but we were able to stamp each log and replaced containers to try and prevent more water damage.
We ventured off the trail a few times to get some other caches which gave us a different focus for a while. [^]
We saw lots of wildlife, kangaroos, wallabies, an emu, sheep on the roadside and dodged a number of lizards crossing the roads. Later in the day we spotted lots of rabbits who didn't like us coming to disturb them.
Thanks for the cache and series equipe de cinq.

Easy find

As last night was the firzt night of the tour de France. I thought it was only right to do this power trail. Started early and after about 4.5 hrs i crossed the line. But no yellow jersey for me.
Thanks for the caches, alot of work has gome into making and maintaining these. Great trail

What an amazing sight after leaving the lush green areas around Morgan and drive down this road to the stark desert with no grass in any direction, just the scrub that dominates the area. We spoke with a farmer further down the track who told us they were shooting their sheep as the cost was too great to grain feed them. We stopped at a deserted house on the road and the pit at the front with the carcasses showed hard times along the road.
The cache series along here is quite good, with caches on each side of the road, often a bit further than expected. There were lots of Kangaroos and one Emu spotted before we go to the multi road intersection where we needed to look at the map to see the caches on these roads.

Thanks equipe de cinq for this great series of caches here, they were great.

Found lots of caches in this area on the JLWE adventures and this was one of them. Thanks to the COs who put them out there and keep our hunger for the hunt alive

We have a little spare time before we are able to log into the JLWE event so we have headed back to this easy trail to grab a few more.
All the caches we found today are in good condition. One was in a spiky bush that drew blood but all good
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Found on my first day in Blanchetown. Being a fine but cool morning I set about picking up some local caches. I decided to attempt some of the TdF power trail caches I think I found 24 of the series all up Starting at the Murraylands Rd end and finishing at a 6 way intersection. All caches were in good shape. and easy to find with a few taking a bit of look. to be able to convert it to a smiley. All up I had a pleasant morning tackling this end of the PT. TFTC.

He's born the same year as me! Thanks.

Tftc staying at Morgan

We're camping nearby and I saw this run of geocaches! I just had to see how many I could get. I dug out my trusty bike & after blowing up the tyres, I set off. How many can I find? Thanks.

Bit late logging this one! Found it last holidays. TFTC

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Nice say out for a ride with marksy 2332

Our day 6 started nice and early after some late night planning trying to identify the power trails which would support our cache finding mission [^]. We headed north(ish) of the City and were ripping around the countryside collecting smiley faces .

I had been eyeing off an interstate trip for some time now and made plans to head to SA to power through the geoart trails over here . I roped in my geo buddy Krabiboy to join me and we set about solving [?] caches and highlighting Jasmer caches that aren't available over in WA. Our adventure took us from the CBD over to the Yorke Peninsula and then back across to the Murray Bridge area . We were relentless in chasing down the finds and picked up as many as we could in the week that we had available. Due to the park and grab nature of our visit, the log books which weren't able to accommodate the ink stamp we had made were signed with the initials 'jk'! Fave points will be awarded for those caches which are considered awesome

A massive thanks here to equipe de cinq for placing this cache here and for tempting us to venture over to this area. Cheers!

jinta29 found your cache TdF - Robbie McEwen today. This is my find #7831 and find #91 today. I was able to get my name in the log book here and we replaced the cache as we found it. Thanks once again equipe de cinq for placing this and bringing us to this part of the world!

jinta29 and I are in town this week after many months of planning for a week to remember. We are heading to the Yorke Peninsula, Murray Bridge and as many places in between as we can get to. This was one we found along the way.

TFTC equipe de cinq.

equipe de cinq, I found your cache TdF - Robbie McEwen on 29/4/17.
This is my find #4679 and find #91 today.

Me and Ahomburg have now hit the road on the journey back home. After attending the red centre experience event in Alice springs.
What an amazing trip this has been.
The first stop on the way home was kings Canyon.
Second stop will be Coober Pedy.
Third stop is Woomera.
Forth stop ? Heading for a FTF and staying in a cabin to get out of the bad weather.
Fifth stop ? just heading to wherever.
Thanks for the cache.

Date: 21 April 2017 Time: 09:39
Find #8487

After a good nights sleep, lukie1987 and I decided on a bit of a numbers run as we gradually headed towards Adelaide after our road trip from Melbourne to Alice Springs and back was coming to an end. I had started on this TdF series a couple of years back with sharkiefan but we ran out of time so here I am today with the aim of finishing up.

Apologies for the generic logs here....


Many thanks to equipe de cinq for the cache. TNLN.


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Found with Hearse068 while in the area. We are heading to Alice Springs and doing as many caches along the way, this is one we stopped at. Thank you for placing this cache for us to find.

5 April 2017 7:30 PM Found with Gonefishen07 on our little adventure . We are making our way to Alice Springs for the Mega event. We are doing some caches along the way this is one of them . Thank you for taking the time to place the cache

9th day, found with sevabo & skyejam TFTC

Started caching on the line of TdF series from the corner of Murraylands Rd and Stock Rite Rd. Found it with sevabo and Dolphia. TFTH. I copy and paste for this series.

We realised there's over hundred caches on that road. so we did less than half and will come back tomorrow. Park and grab all the way. few DNF but will come back tmw anyway we enjoyed the fun. TFTH

We arrived in town this morning from Moorook in the hope of grabbing lots more caches here before heading to Alice Springs for the Event over Easter.
By the time we set up camp it was time for lunch so we set ourselves the target of the TdeF trail as far as the 5 way intersection. This was done with attempts of 23 resulting in 2 DNFS but 21 finds.
Heading back into town we drove up to the lookout for another success before arriving back at the caravan for a cuppa and hopefully gather some more energy to attempt 2 more this afternoon.
To all COs, many thanks for placing these caches - an incredible effort - well done.
My apologies for my generic logs.
TFTC Stamped log. Left Pt

A quick find while in the area :c) TFTC!!

Family drive today to get this series.
We had a wonderful time, with a picnic lunch on the side of the road, finishing with a picnic dinner by the river.
We saw a fox, kangaroos, kookaburras, a wombat, sheep, lizards, rabbits and a bull which was right near a cache eeekkkk.
Ran into a wee issue with a tree that had fallen across the road blocking it completely, so please be cautious anyone driving this road, especially at night.
Something fantastic about watching a 10 year old, a 16 year old and a 40 year old jump from the car and race for the cache, putting child lock on, pushing, shoving and being total idiots, but only 2 sore ankles by the younger ones.
It was a great day out Thankyou

Set off this morning to do this TDF trail and get a few others along the way on a mission to find 100 caches in one day ended up finding 122 for the day was a brilliant but long day really enjoyed driving along this dirt track we had a ball Found cache no worries TFTC much appreciated for making the effort to put this out and my apologies for the generic logs

Staying at Pelican Point we decided to tackle this series. We enjoyed travelling the Old Stock Route and caching freely with no one in sight. We managed to find all caches and accurate co-ordinates led to quick finds. We spent nearly 5 hours on the hunt. many thanks equipe de cinq for creating this series, we appreciate the time and effort that has gone into placing and maintaining this series.

Back again today to finish off the TdF series. TFTC

A Sewer Rat and 2 Blackadders went on an adventure on this sunny day.
Back today to finish this series off.
A quick find on a sunny day
We found 68 caches and had 1 dnf plus one that the Rat found previously. tftc

Today was the day to finish off this series. These will be generic logs on all our finds today. A number of wildlife species were spotted along the trail but fortunately most of them were harmless with only one of the nasty ones spotted. He or she was harmless as it was dead in the middle of the road. A few pictures of the Stumpy lizards were taken. Most were an easy enough find although others took a little more time. Thanks for the series.

Swapped and signed tftc

An early start had us driving through light fog and light traffic, towards Eudunda to attempt the Stock Route in one day.

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Decided to park up for the day at Cadell on the riverbank as it was too windy for towing the caravan so we went caching instead.The Tour de France trail was beconning so we decided to give it a shot. Normally we aren't huge fans of powertrails as most of the previous ones we have attempted have been down highways but this one was different. We really enjoyed the stock route and its scenery and despite the strong wind had a great morning making many easy finds and learning all about the Tours previous winners.

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Found with Go Vans in tow. Thanks for the cache (sorry for the very late log)

Out for a drive we have been wanting to do these for awhile, lovely day TFTC

found it.
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09:08
Le Tour de France avec les Suscoes.
Our aim was to complete the tour today. It was nice to be on much quieter roads than those in Europe. Of course the scenery here would not attract quite the same viewing audience, that suited us perfectly and we managed to complete the course, in reverse, in 4hrs 45 mns, being 3hrs 25 mns on the move and 1hr 20mins stationary.

Thanks to equipe de cinq for the hunt.
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Suscoe headed out for a day on this Tdf trail in the company of Phetlern.
It was a warm day, just perfect for caching.
We enjoyed our time searching in a variety of bush locations.
We even found some other caches on the way back to Morgan.
With 4 pairs of eyes we found most of the caches quickly and then kept moving along the trail.
Thanks to equipe de cinq for creating this cache and this trail.

Turned left to go see Robbie, a favourite that unfortunately did not have a win.

Oh no, we forgot our lycra! Oh well we do have our shorts. Hmn, not the best outfits for the seeds, burrs, spikes and prickles we met on the way. AND we spent from 8:30 am until about 4 pm catching lunch and snacks etc. on the run. We did note that the circuit has been recently graded and the peloton should find the surface almost as good as the cobbled sections often encountered in the TDF. It was also noted that a motorcycle track has been installed beside the main track, probably for the press and television cyclists although we had very few spectators etc. on the circuit today.
We have not really tackled any “power” series however decided to complete this one in memory of our brother-in-law, Trevor, who was an avid fan of the TDF. He would sit up every night and watch everything – how he managed to complete his work the next day is amazing. Avid is not the complete description, as he was also a keen cyclist himself. He owned a very expensive Cervelo cycle, signed by none other than Stuart O’Grady. The bike was polished and serviced after every outing and lived on a stand in his bedroom! Sadly he passed away in an accident early in 2014 doing what he loved best.
There were many cache guardians – an assortment of lizards, several huntsman, black “house” spiders, a spider with a black body and red legs, a redback and the nastiest of all was a shingleback that bit the end of any stick that came its way. We were very careful where we put our fingers!
We left an assortment of trademark “ladybugs” to record out trail. Hope they remain safe.
“And the winning team is K.I. bug”. (Probably for the longest time taken to complete all stages!).
This series must have taken a lot of time to set up so a big thankyou goes to equipe de cinq for the effort and thanks also for the enjoyment and exercise we gained.

TNLN

Another great cache in the tdf series. Out on a hot and windy day, we thought we would nab a few. I live the concept of these being along the spoke of a wheel on the map. Tftc

Come out to here to do the series Great idea and thanks Which way to paris

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2 grey nomads from Vic caching around S A. wet weather stopped us from doing this trail last year, we were a bit doubtful of taking the campervan and trailer on such a distance of un made road but were pleasantly surprised at the condition of the road although a couple of spots might have been a bit tricky after rain, thanks for placing this interesting trail.

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Tftc what an amazing day finding all of these thank you

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Completed the marathon in reverse order while in the mallee region for the weekend. Thanks for the cache and series equipe de cinq!

Doing the tour de France series as I'm a big fan of both the race and power trails :p

And on the last of the spokes .... it's none other than Robbie McEwen
Good to see the Aussies who haven't worn yellow, but done so well in other colours getting a mention [^]

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Lucky enough to get a 4 day weekend from work, what better way to spend it than geocaching!

Decided to finish the rest of the TDF series while traveling to Cobdogla for the weekend.

Found the remaining 49 of this series today.

Nice to see a power trail in such good condition, able to sign all log books without any issues.

Thanks equipe de cinq for the fantastic caches!

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Tackled this series while staying in the caravan park in Morgan
Had fun hopping in and out the car to locate these caches
Geo hubby located the obvious choice of hide even before I had got out the car after we had located the first 10 caches
Due to the number of caches involved I apologise for the generic logging of them

Took Tb's along for the hunt

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