Onkaparinga's Little Dam Onkaparinga Hills, South Australia, Australia
By Lava12 on 12-Jun-12. Waypoint GC3NDEM

Yes, it is missing.

It is time to say good bye as it has been muggled again.

Just couldn't find. Had a good look for 20 mins no luck.

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well hidden and such a beautiful location

A nice day geocaching and hiking south of Adelaide. @jesswrigley and I began the day visiting a targeted D/T 5.0/3.5 cache that I needed for my fourth D/T loop, and then we attended the Morphett Vale CITO cleaning up the rail trail bike path park with a fair amount of litter and rubbish around the place. From there, we then headed south to Onkaparinga River National Park and walked down to the gorge / Punchbowl area. A spectacular area, yet some leg burn with the downhill/uphill treks. We then enjoyed a nice Port Noarlunga bakery lunch stop, before making a few last stops returning home.

An interesting little dam that was all dry during our visit today. A quick-ish find, with the cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks Lava12 for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Awesome find. Great cache. Thankyou

Found on a cool summer day by the Aussie branch of Dobie's Pride/GronwoldFamily. TFTC!

N. U. D.

Found on a cool summer day by the Aussie branch of Dobie's Pride/GronwoldFamily. TFTC!

N. U. D.

Glen+Ben+Jai

Today I headed out after getting my chores done to find a multi. I had one in mind at Onkaparinga NP, so with that in mind I headed out.
I managed to find 11 caches in total on a really random drive and pick up of caches.
Really enjoyed my few hours out, enjoyed there sunshine, walking today was a good day to be alive .
Many of the caches seemed to have been placed in the last month or so and all were found in super condition.
Nice walk to find this one TFTC Lava

Tftc!

Harry Potter and th e deathly hollows tftc

Good spot

It is time for Wednesday wandering, for a small group of geo animals.
The plan was for the Blackadders and SA Sewer Rats to meet Doctor Owl down south.
Found after a nice stroll,.
Loads of wild flowers everywhere. Tftc

The usual wednesday Wanderings with a small menagerie of the puzzled puzzlers animals, We missed the company of the Starfish as he had more pressing arrangements to tend to
We had a number of target caches and a couple of targets to achieve.

With the Owl returning her new toy to the geomobile the Rat and Adder went in search of this hide. Joined shortly by the Owl the find wa made, log signed and returned.

TFTC

Nice walk to a flower-strewn area and a quick find by the Snake.

Found it. Thanks.

Found on a damp drizzly day, couldnt sign as no pencil

Wandered into this with clare007!!! Quick find in the obvious spot!!! Thanks Lava12 for the hide!!

Out with CPwanderer grabbing some caches after the breakfast event.
It needed two people to find this one, as I missed the obvious ...
I did find plenty of O'clock flowers here & some fungi.
Nice spot, pity there's no fishing.

Nice spot. Tftc

Nice quick find. TFTC.

We are finding lots of new paths in the National Park this Easter Sunday. TFTC

Nice and quick - not a drop in the dam TFTC

We soon found this cache once at Ground Zero. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache in this lovely park and greetings from Zimbabwe

Found on one of my many walks around the Adelaide area on my three week visit from the UK. This one was soon found in the obvious location.-----SL-------TFTC

Such a lovely area to explore despite the hot weather.

I decided to head to Adelaide to catch up with GoodLook. She'd kindly put together a list of 'must do' caches for us to find so we set about driving several hundred kilometres seeking them and others of interest. This cache was on the list and I'm pleased it was.

Thank you Lava12 for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Yuck it was such a hot day - I did ask myself why we decided on going for a walk here! Fortunately we had loads of water with us and an airconditioned car to escape into.

Found with the lovely micaparamedic who came to Adelaide to visit me for the weekend..... loads of kms travelled - filled with fun, laughter, caching and yummy meals - what more could one want?!

Thanks for placing the cache

Had been planning to do this cache but abandoned half way there due to LIGHTNING!!!!!!! A little earlier a lightning bolt had come to earth about 100m. from me while doing the nearby "Mine Too" cache. By the time we had got near this cache we thought things were clearing …. they weren't!!!!!! While I have a great love for finding little plastic boxes in the bush, and aren't bothered by spiders or snakes , hearing a clap of thunder and simultaneously seeing the lightning does tend to put one off.

Found by Olga at 14:50, on a walk around the Punchbowl loop with Ian and Fay.

Beautiful walk, awesome cache, tiny dams in random public places. My three favourite things. TFTC!

Cool spot! Found in a second!

Woo hoo it's Friday again. For a third time I met up with Froghopping for another great trek into the Onkaparinga River National Park on the search for those elusive smileys. Continuing our clockwise navigation around the park we finished all the precursor ORNP series which we needed to confirm the locations of the two puzzles we need to find to obtain the coordinates of the final in series. Today we added about 15 kms of hiking and went up 88 floors of elevation. [B)] We got about a half dozen others in the park as well. Still gonna take yet a few more trips. [:o)]
One of the other quick finds whilst searching the park for smileys.

**Thanks Lava12 for this cache. **

An adventure with Brisal5 on our assault of some more caches with in the park, nice little dam not much water in it though, cache was a quick find for us today
TFTC Lava12

A nice easy hide and a great spot

No pen - left charcoal stick to write with

Tftc
My geo buddie found his first cache
Beautiful out here

Very Easy Find!

A beautiful location for a cache.... Got to see the little ducklings

Made the trip south by moonlight with Purrfect Di to target a challenge cache,
and this one was nearby. Even in the dark we could see it was a little dam,
and so many kangaroos were watching us tonight .
TFTC Lava12

Amidst all of Adelaide's terrible weather of late, I made the most of today's sunshine and went for a walk with geowife and geotoddler in Onkaparinga River National Park. The spring flowers were out, with orange and purple everywhere so it was a gorgeous time to explore this section of the National Park. The track was still a bit muddy in parts, but was mostly in good condition. Plenty of birds about enjoying the sunshine with us.

Cache was a quick find in the obvious spot. Couldn't remove it from it's hiding place, so had to remove the lid and extract the log from where it was located. No problem though. Log and contents were clean and dry. TNLNSL TFTC

Thanks, you had me wondering how you got the cache where it is, thought you might be a tree bender, if such a person exists?

What a cute little dam, this was the spot to sit down and make some hot chocolate. Found this cache pretty quickly though retrieval was a pain. I thought I was disturbing a wasps nest. Logs can be deceiving. Despite that there was a beehive around the dam too.Gorgeous spot... check, moon reflecting in gorgeous way... check. Frothy hot chocolate to boost the spirits and to celebrate the cache... check. Thank you Lava12 for bringing me here.

TFTC

Dam was a bit dry but found the cache signed look and left a TB.
Tftc

Where do you people even find those nicknacks?!

Re-found this cache since its move. Found while out on an easy walk with geokids. Made some swaps. Thanks lava.

Nice easy find (the hint helped). TFTC

Tftc lava

Saw some obvious spots for it to be hiding in but no luck for me today

Yes,it is missing.

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 09.218 E 138° 34.291

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 09.211 E 138° 34.300

Distance from original: 61.6 feet or 18.8 meters.
Location has been changed to avoid being muggled again. Happy Hunting.

Back on the run…

I hate it when people say easy find and i can't find it! Oh well another day!

A tiny bit of water in here and lone roo trying it's luck. It watched me walk around the wall before deciding I was a treat to the water supply. I asked where the cache was, roo did not know! Tftc!

We found the little dam, not much water in it today, TFTC Lava12 17/10/2015 1:14 pm Find #796

Well, I'll be damned, there's a damn dam in the middle of nowhere with pretty well next to no damn water being dammed. On the plus side, there's a nice new Lava12 smiley on my map. TFTC. 17/10/2015, 13:15 Find #980

Tftc.

TFTC

In Adelaide visiting friends, we wanted to take a walk to the Gorge.

We were heading for the nearby Earthcache and stopped by here on our way.

Lovely spot for a cache

Thanks for bringing us here Lava12

The sun was shining and inviting us out to explore, so off to the Onka Gorge we went with our favourite caching partners, the Parko's.
We decided to pick up a few of the 'top' caches as well as exploring what was down below. After a quick search we had the cache in hand and log signed.
Thanks Lava12

Slowly caching gorge out. While doing onkaparinga gorge series

Follow the ridge and the clues and you will find it. Found with NiciDanielle and Zoe the GeoDog TFTC

Found with cachehunter2207 and zoe the dog

Nice easy find and a great view. Easy one for the geokid. Could hear the frogs near the dam. TFTC

Lovely walk down this way. Thought we would collect all Three caches in the area.

Took a little while to find the exact gz, but we got there. TFTC!

TFTC. look like the dam does't often have water in it!

This entry was edited by selzzup on Sunday, 01 February 2015 at 04:02:25 UTC.

Came up here after work for a nice little stroll to grab a couple of the close caches. Made my way to this one and was disappointed that I didn't see any wildlife on my walk, it was only when I was nearly back to the gate that I saw 4 kangaroos just standing watching me walk by...and I was happy with that. The dam was bone dry but I'm sure it would be different in winter.
Thanks for the cache lava.

Good but wasn't hard at all

Thanks lava12 for the awesome views, TFTC

Found It!
Quick and easy find on my way back from the caches at the bottom of the hill. No water in the dam today...
TFTC

Good hiding spot.

TFTC log to follow.

Another great walk. Ducks in the dam and lots of kangaroos around. TFTC

Found whilst out for a walk in Onkaparinga NP
tftc

The kids & I really enjoyed this cache. An easy find after a very pleasant atoll through the bush. We love the the Onkaparinga Gorge... A little bit of wilderness on the fringe of suburbia. Thanks heaps Lava 12!

The dam had water in it

Kids loved this one

Kids liked this one

It finally stopped hailing today so I went for a lovely squelchy afternoon walk inthe park [^]
This was one of a couple of stops
Cheers & TFTC

On the way up from the punch bowl gorge we found it! Nice sunny day too.

Keep seeing this 1 unfound but I knew I had found it so stopped back in today to find out the date I signed the book, also I was the last to sign it which isn't right apparently.

Lovely rainy day with rain falling in the dam and kangaroos in the bushes

Back dated log*

Found this quite some time ago and somehow didn't log the find so returned to check my found date so I could log it properly.

A very delayed thanks Lava.

Nice easy find on a lovely day to be out and about.

Found at 1:56:00 PM

Simple find as we move towards the harder terrain.

Another day of attacking the caches ib the Onka National park with intrepid leaders Sef, Randall and Mal. Thanks for the walk. (I think.)

Thanks lava12 for placing this cache and sharing this area with us!

Mr Tardis went for a lovely day of hiking, bush bashing and moaning up and down steep terrain with some lovely views of Onkaparinga River and Gorge. Accompanied by a keen mob of intrepid explorers; *Cache_or_Check*, e.gregory1, Gordon Patrick Samuel, Malco, MtnLioness, Mr Scoobster and Tiger_Muffin. I managed 16 caches for the day, mostly in or around the Onkaparinga National Park.

On the way back home I went for a nice walk to grab this one. A nice little area that I didn't know existed before.

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache Lava12.

The aptly named 'Onka Octet' that consisted of e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo, Malco!, MtnLioness, Mr Scoobster, TigerMuffin and *Cache_or_Check* were out for the day caching in the beautiful Onkaparinga Gorge area.
It was wet, chilly and very slippery due to the abundance of stupid Soursobs that resist most every effort expensive shoes try to grip their surroundings and stop you from falling amidst their bright sunny faces. I never fell, not once, but I heard the frog fall a number of times much to the amusement of all.

Little Dam, there were little white flowers nearby, how pretty!!

Found on another great day out around Onkaparinga Gorge with FeatherWaite, Freddo, Malco!, MtnLioness, Mr Scoobster, TigerMuffin and *Cache_or_Check*. Thanks Lava12 for the cache.

WOW.. WHAT A DAY!!..
I was invited out to join the group on a 'casual stroll around the tracks'... so I was happy to say yes.. then the notificaitons came through "bring wet weather gear, good hiking boots, arrive at 7am and bring about 4 days worth of food and water' :O WHAT THE??
But Mr Scoobster being the intrepid adventurer complied.

Spent a wonderful day doing some great caches in the Onk Hills.. Great multis'.. with some great views and some very interesting cache stories.
Have never cached in this area and it was nice to tick some of these more difficult ones off the list.

Thanks for brigning us to this wonderful location.

TFTC.

Found on a very eventful and entertaining day of hiking in Onkaparinga River NP with *Cache_or_Check*, e.gregory1, Freddo, Malco!, MtnLioness, a Scoobster and Tiger Muffin. Cool and showery meant the ground was slippery and the grass continually wet; there were steep descents, river crossings, slippery rocks, and strenuous ascents; an awesome day out with plenty of banter, fantastic views of the Onkaparinga Gorge and great caches. Thanks for the cache lava12!

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.

We didn't see the sea from where we were standing, but there was still plenty of water about...

Dam! Little dam! Not much to see on a dreary day. Sights of the river in full flow are much more spectacular. TFTC lava12.

Another Onka Octet triumph!

Followed the track around a cute little dam and well concealed hide.

Thanks for the cache, lava12

Another quick find with geo-daughter. Thanks lava12.

Quick find with geodad. TFTC lava12

A nice walk among the kangaroos and a quick find. TFTC lava12.

A quick find after doing a loop of the caches below on the riverbed . Exhausted [xx(].
TNLNSL.
Thanks Lava12.

A nice walk around the area. SL TFTC