FTF PT #6 - Woodsy5 Whyalla, South Australia, Australia
By askjgraz on 14-Aug-12. Waypoint GC3TAFZ

A nice quick find while staying in Whyalla. TFTC

Ive be looked for this one before, but it was only a half hearted effort, so didnt bother with a DNF. Today it was located within 10 seconds of arriving at GZgo figure.

Easy find in the rain with Tweety2 tftc

*Quick Morning Bike Ride #7*Out for a bit of exercise before the day gets going. Thanks heaps for the cache!

Good spot for some Saturday arvo motorbike ridingIn Whyalla for parkrun and the running festival and of course, a few caches.DeltaDucks, I found FTF PT #6 - Woodsy5 today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

We are travelling with Pprass and have set up in the beautiful Fitzgerald Bay for a couple of days.The weather has been sunny but cold so we have been able to get out and about. Today we sent Mr Morris off to swim with the cuttlefish again while we headed around town and country collecting some caches and AdLabs.It was a battle between us and the ants - we won although Cprass may have come a poor second.Thanks for the tour around the

Found at 12:39 PM in the company of The Morris.We were here in 2015 and couldn't find this cache and so today we were in the area and so had another go. Once again there was no real logical spot to search in, but thankfully Robyn was in the right spot - and I bet looked at the hint and found the cache [:o)]Thanks to DeltaDucks

Quick find whilst touring the areaTFTC

Finally back to turn that frown upside down and I was shortly rewarded with a lovely smiley instead. With the impossible target of 2000 caches before capital GeoBash & a somewhat more realistic one of 1500. I ducked out for the afternoon and started with the FITG trail before tea in Whyalla and then onto a few of the FTF series to finish the day. TFTC!

Out caching while staying at the Footy Club. Thanks askjgraz for this cache

Cache has been replaced and is ready to be found again.

Gotcha - Found easy enough. Tftc

Clearly needs some mtce - will take off line until we can take a look

Way too overgrown so needs checking TFTC

Too overgrown to find it

Second day to complete this great series. Loaded before we left WA
Too much undergrowth for us. Tyftc anyway.

Found with the kids on our SA adventure. Thanks for the fun!

Was in bush don't see

A satisfying way to fill in some free time while my other half visits Elvis. TFTC.

Thanks

03/06/2022

Found while visiting Whyalla for a few days with Team Waldron and TeamAstro, with the aim of finding as many caches as possible in Whyalla and surrounds. Day 1 saw us travel up from Adelaide and tour the very scenic coastline around Port Bonython and Point Lowly. On Day 2 we headed out to the Fill In The Gaps (FITG) series, then to Iron Knob and back via the First To Find Power Trail (FTF PT) series. On Day 3 we cached in and around the City of Whyalla, and on Day 4 we made our way out to Whyalla Conservation Park before heading for home. Thanks for the cache DeltaDucks!

Another cache found during our 2022 South Australia Adventure using Geocaching as our guide.

We had a great time today driving some of the numerous 4WD tracks around Whyalla. Most.
Thanks for the cache DeltaDucks

Evidence of the flooding in this area and we couldn’t spot the cache so on we move

Another day of our celebrations of birthday week for the cats, Purrfect Di and Mattycat kept on birthday caching to see what we could unwrap in the way of iron triangle log books. Yours was one we found along the way, with the help of Jack. Good fun time for all and an insight into the impact of mint tins on the aussie steel industry [:o)] Most finds were straightforwad, some were a little obscure, and some were just rusting away!!! A good way to keep fit on a warm day.

So we hit some more of the f t f p t and that took a large chunk of the day! Glad to have that little bit of the map clear now. Some were easily found from the side track and others better from the main road, some were just a little buried, one had two caches with a recent throwdown right by the original! All were a bit of fun to add to our day. Another local CO honoured.

Sincere thanks to DeltaDucks for placing and maintaining this cache on our geo game map


[:o)]

We must note that we certainly do appreciate the way those mint tins age to blend in with the rusty outback earth!!! Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, plastic cracks and mint tins rust!
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Searching around every day finding and signing using some or all of the resources of GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife), Whereyougo, Garmin Montana 750i, Montana 680t, Etrex 35, Samsung S20+, Samsung S9, with Geocaching App, c:Geo, or Geooh Go, and Android Auto and other maps... or often with just plain old dumb luck Quite a lot of that actually!!!
*Logs are composed and published using GSAK of course.*


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Please do stay as safe as possible when caching.
Keep a lookout for bogs, snakes, surprise cliffs, boxing roos, wombats, bulldust, and floods,
try not to get tetanus from rusty mint tins and don't fall out of trees...
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- but especially lookout for bugs from alpha to omega !!! . [xx(]

Try to keep Travel Bugs as the only bugs you share and pass on
Now our borders are open - even more important to sanitise and safely distance!!!


Much appreciation of all those placing quality caches out and about around the countryside,
in sensible safe places especially! - it keeps our game safe, fun, and interesting

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A great caching start to Twenty Twenty Too

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Quick Find TFTC

TFTC. Day 2 of our Whyalla geocaching trip and we decided to tackle the FTF - PT series from Whyalla to Iron Knob.

Having previously completed the Iron Knob end of the trail, it was time to do the rest!

Unless already logged with a “note”, caches and logs were in good condition.

Happy caching and safe travels!

Goal to pick up approx 40. Quite the marathon with muggle husband. This will be a generic post. A couple I couldn’t get lids off or were too wet or no logs. Unfortunately I wasn’t prepared. Was a last minute decision. Thank you for taking the time & placing them. Tftc

Found

Found it, Requires a new log

Today we were heading down to Crowell but had a few things to do in town first and then I wanted to get the last few in the FTF series close to Whyalla.
We then headed to Cowell collected caches along the way.
We loved Cowell especially the oysters and spit roast at the pub.
TFTC

Found

This weekend, I headed to Whyalla to catch up with a few other Geocachers and attempt some of the trails there. On Saturday, we targeted the FTF power trail from Whyalla to Iron Knob, and then spent the evening and the subsequent morning driving some of Whyalla's back tracks. On Sunday, I visited Cowleds Landing and back north, only to get severely bogged in one of Whyalla's clay pans. I then returned home via the August series.

Today, I joined hevwalker and scramping with our goal to complete the FTF power trail. We got 75% through before taking a break for lunch in Iron Knob, and then completed the remaining geocaches, finishing in the early afternoon. We then visited the new Whyalla circular jetty, and then had dinner at the Eyre Hotel geocaching event. Finally, we headed out for a quick stop at Whyalla Conservation Park, and then headed around the tracks around the levee finding miscellaneous geocaches, all within a nice and balmy evening.

A quickish find at this location. The cache container was in good shape, but the logbook was very very wet. Thanks askjgraz for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

On hevwalker and our Whyalla holiday.....Davidwazza joined us for a fun day of caching..... with clear skies and warm weather we set off with the aim to do some of the FTF power trail. Our plan was to get as many as possible in the day. My aim was to beat my previous record of 106 in a day.....yes...smashed it thanks to my friends and our quick finds. TFTC

In Whyalla with scramping on a mini getaway holiday...
Today Davidwazza joined us as we set about finding all the caches in the FTF PT series and any others that got in our way
Most of the caches we located quickly and easily...I did say most...the rest took a minute or 2 more...
The day was warm and the sky was blue as we made our way to Iron Knob...
TFTC DeltaDucks

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Back at Whyalla for a Caching / Ore Train photography trip, i still have unfinished business re: lots of caches yet to find and grabbing a few Ore trains when they arrive... Caching comes first naturally coz this beats waiting around for the trains [^] It's a Win / Win situation

This one was 1st up for the day.
SL at 08:32 on Thu 16 July 2020. The cache and contents are good and dry

TFTC DeltaDucks

Day 301 (Thursday 25th) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Whyalla today. A total of 23 for the day and 5799 for the trip. TFTC

Our 2nd find this morning. TFTC

Found with HRH54 as we cycle back to our vans! TFTC

Quick find with Juju54....TFTC

Headed out early to do the FTF series of caches. It proved to be slow going up to around #80 with a high proportion of containers in a poor state. We replaced log sheets and some containers that were broken but we soon ran out of supplies. This section, particulary those on the side heading to Iron Knob are in desparate need of maintenance. However we faired ok with only a couple of dnf's. Ran out of daylight so have only a few to finish off tomorrow. Thanks to all the CO's for placing these caches.

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Tftf

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found with DaSaKaMolk

Quick and easy find after a bit of a bush walk, TFTC

Some quick finds on this series whilst heading back into Whyalla...

Spending a few days in Whyalla and found a few cache, or 300!
Had managed to solve all the puzzles before coming over too.
Of the nearly 300 found on the trip over and back from Adelaide, 95% were found within 50km of Whyalla Central, with approx a dozen dnfs also. Amongst all the finds was my 17000th find.
Also managed a lot of 'unloved' finds too.
What is it with Whyalla and mint tins? lol
TNLNSL
Thanks

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Day 5 of the Perth to Adelaide trip where we started in Whyalla and ended in Adelaide.

Today was about finding as many caches as possible and starting / warming up to the larger power trails that bought us over here.
We completed the FTF series and the Letterbox caches.

During the morning we found the majority of the days caches, some highly favourited first up also.

Anyway the day has time limitations to it as we were hosting an event that started at 6pm and as it were we made it there at 5.59pm so early however the crowd of people there before us was rather pleasing.

It was great to see so much energy around Geocaching at the event the Adelaide teams really know how to impress and greet the visitors with a beer, thanks Freddo!

DeltaDucks I found your cache FTF PT #6 - Woodsy5 thanks for placing this hide for myself and others to find.

Day 5 of Barnzy and Cravo’s trip from Perth to Adelaide.

Today we travelled from Whyalla to Adelaide via a number of country towns.

We started bright and early just before sunrise to pickup a couple of caches North of Whyalla that had some high favourite points which had tickled our fancy.

We then moved our attention to the FTF power trail, which started just out of Whyalla and took us all the way to Iron Knob. Found a good variety of difficulty and terrain combinations along the trail, with some interesting hiding spots. There were a couple of DNFs and caches that took a while to find which stretched out the time taken to complete the series.

We eventually made our way to Iron Knob and picked up the couple of caches around town which were quite nice in a very small mining town.

We were pushing the time factor quite hard, so skipped a fair few caches, but had to stop in at Port Germain to grab the aptly names Port Germain cache, which filled in a spot on the Jasmer grid, and its where I rolled my ankle running back to the car which made things a bit difficult for the rest of the day.

The other main target for the day was the Postman Pat Letterbox Hybrid Series, which were great quick finds of nicely sized containers.

We left the LBH trail and made our way to quickly check into the accomodation and made our way to our event in Lights Square “Sandgropers in the City”, which we made it to exactly one minute before it started, but a good sized crowd was already waiting to greet us, which was really nice as it was at last minute we had the event published.

It was great to finally put some faces to names we’ve only seen in logs, in particular the SA legend Freddo and TeamAstro. It was very interesting learning of the large scale model of the solar system, of which we had found one of the caches on the Nullarbor on our way over.

After bidding farewell to the event attendees we grabbed a bite of food and walked around the CBD caching, with mixed results.

found it on a trip to Whyalla over the Adelaide cup long weekend. quick find on the slow return home. I thought to make a dent on this power trail and stopped at number 50.

Today we were on the road from Port Augusta to Whyalla and we had planed to do this trail. But it was to much for one day so we did only half of the trail today and tomorrow we will try to do the other half.
We saw that some of the caches were found already more than half a year ago so we expected to have a lot of not founds. But most of the caches we found! It is a very nice trail to do and we say thank you for hiding the caches to all of the cache owners. We enjoyed it and had fun today.
Greetings from team De Kivits, Netherlands.

Staying in town for a few nights and there's a power trail. Thank you, Whyalla. I only got a few done this time. I'll have to come back next time for the rest. Mostly quick finds. Thanks all involved.

Took a drive out to Iron Knob for a looksee. Picked some of the PT caches on the way back. Last for the trip, TFTC.

Thanks! Found it while in Whyalla for soccer.

Thanks for the cache

Always helpful when rocks band together in these scrubby areas. TFTC.

Found it with TICE [Hiltsu, J&T, kapeka & laalaa]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in Australia ( South Australia and Northern Territory ). Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and huge country!

Greetings from Finland!

Tice (Team Ice: laalaa, J&T., Hiltsu and kapeka) in Australia. Sun was shining and we had fun. Today we drove from Port Augusta to Wyalla, but not the most direct route. Now @ FTF PT.
Thanks for the cache.
Greetings from Finland.

Team ICE on a two week geocaching trip in Australia. Our main target was the Red Centre Experience at Alice Springs but of course we did some caching in other places too. We drove from Adelaide to Alice Springs and then back. We saw lots of interesting and beutiful places like opal mines at Coober Pedy, Ayers Rock and Kata Tjuta. Our rental travelled almost 6500km on gravel and tarmac roads. The weather was great, only on last day we got some rain.

All the caches logged as Team Ice, T-ice or Tice with kapeka, laalaa and Hiltsu. We had a great trip!

Today our journey continued from Port Augusta to Whyalla and back. Some trail caches and others logged on the way.

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Finland!

Our Spring Geocaching trip go this year to Australia...yes you read right, in Finland is spring now.
We visit in Australia (Adelaide, Murray Bridge, Port Augusta, Whyalla, Coober Pedy, Uluru, Alice Springs, Port Vincent and other place which are on the way those places) on April 05.-20.

We see many beautiful place where we visit and enjoy every cache what we found, so humble thanks every cache owner that you hiding this cache!

We (kapeka, laalaa, J&T. and Hiltsu) use common nickname Team ICE, T-ICE or TICE that we saves space in the logbook.

Thanks For To Cache!
Greetings from Finland

Found on an overly warm day for caching but what can you do? Found most of the ones that I looked for and did some maintenance.

Today, we decide to do the FTF PT series, we found 28 and had 4 DNF'S.
Thanks for bringing us here

Quick easy find with sevabo and Dolphia on hot sunny day and going for the series of FTF PT. TFTC

12th day, found with skyejam & sevabo TFTC

TFTC

#991 Sixteenth of thirty finds on Day 3 of my Christmas and New Year's geocaching road trip to SA. Easy find after a short search. Nice way to celebrate Christmas Day on a very hot day in Whyalla. TFTC

Back out caching again today with CAD - grabbing a few more caches on the FTF Power Trail ... T4TC:)

Enjoyed exploring Iron Knob with DBO- and undertaking FTF Power trail TFTC 43rd

On the road to Iron Knob, and finding as many of the FTF PT series as I can, an interesting mix of hides and some I didn't find. A most enjoyable day out ,many thanks to all the hiders for the placements.

Lots of shrubs around the area to hide a cache
Located after a short search
Tftc

This was the second day spent picking up more caches along this power trail between Iron Knob and Whyalla. We found most of them with just a few misses for various reasons. We enjoyed finding these caches and were very happy to pick up some more unloved caches. Thank you toDeltaDucks for placing this cache.

Tftc full section description at ftf pt 1.

Hi there DeltaDucks.

We found your cache **"FTF PT #6 - Woodsy5"** at 1:48:00 PM today. This cache makes our find count 13978.

We thoroughly enjoyed our trip around the local area today. Our main aim today was to complete the FTF Power trail, and of course to log any other caches that were on our route today.

We ended up finding 41 & DNFing 0 caches today.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache around two metres from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Nothing.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Took. Little bit of searching, but once we widened the search area a little, Mrs Stavros had it in hand. Tftc

Found with ferret52.TFTC!

While having a forced stay in Whyalla with the wife in hospital it is a perfect opportunity to do some caching.
TFTC.

Cache replaced in the likely spot.

mtce complete

Missing again. Will replace and enable when time permits

Disabling until I can investigate

Found a pile of rocks in the right spot. I suspect it has been muggled.

After a reasonable search with Tweety2 we admitted defeat

Another great find today. Thanks for setting up this cache. SL

Mr y'stassie spent 20 minutes searching for this cache without luck. Mrs y'stassie visited GZ later and failed to come up with anything after an extended search. Caching fatigue perhaps or is it missing?

Found along with SnapHappy, The Empire and Wozzle on our trip out to see Iron Knob, The Birthplace of Iron Ore in Australia. Lots of laughs, great caches and opportunities for Photo stops today. We signed the logs as Team Vic, My thanks to all the hiders on this trail today.

[Red]I apologise for the late log... Problems with GSAK and crashed computer...[/Red]

[green]Find #6499[/green]...

Found this while House Sitting in Virginia...

Had sully1, The Empire and wozzle68 visiting from Mexico over the school holidays... We had decided that we would try and clean out some of the MANY caches around Sth Oz...

A bit of a stroll, a short search, found cache, stamped and returned... Great company and a fantastic day out... To save space in the logs, we logged as TeamVic...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment DeltaDucks...
- P

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log...

Found with Sully1, Snaphappy and The Empire, it was a very enjoyable road trip with lots of laughs all the way. This series is the main reason for our visit to this area as team Vic thanks for the cache and the contribution to Geocaching.

Found by The Empire with Snaphappy, Sully1 and wozzle68 (TEAM VIC)
A big day, starting in Whyalla, heading to Iron Knob and back again. Over 100 caches found for the day, plenty of laughs too! We started a bit before 9am and were finished a little after 5pm. Plenty of big trucks, trains and scratches on my legs along the way! We'd seen the knob, now it was back home (the motel) to Whyalla! Thanks to all the hiders for their effort.
- M

DNF at 9:56 AM. We spent ages searching. Couldn't find anything.

We all looked around for 20 minutes, but couldn't find it. Our thanks anyway to DeltaDucks.

[font=Verdana]21250 caches found

Doing FTF - PT for the day - enjoyed myself - some caches make me a good smile some make me nut but everything went good... I didn't like bush scrub due to scratched my arms - Thanks god I wear long pant.

Enjoyed drive the car to see lovely our country Aussie. [^] [^]

Thanks for hide the cache for me to found it
Again thanks DeltaDucks[font=Verdana][^]

(Chwiliwr team catch up log)After arriving late in Whyalla last night we made a reasonably early start on doing the FTF PT trail plus any of the other caches nearby to them from Whyalla towards Iron Knob. Most were found without problems with a few DNF's along the way. The last cache was done about 8 pm before heading off to Port Augusta.Thanks DeltaDucks for the cache.

After arriving late in Whyalla last night I made a reasonably early start on doing the FTF PT trail plus any of the other caches nearby to them from Whyalla towards Iron Knob. Mistraluna and I had done the other caches near Iron Knob last year on the way back home from the SA Mega.

Most were found without problems with a few DNF's along the way. The last cache was done about 8 pm before heading off to Port Augusta.

Thanks DeltaDucks for the cache.

Found it

Grabbed. TFTC.

I've travelled to Whyalla from Perth to cache. I stopped to log this find during a few hours of caching on my first full day here. Thanks for hiding this cache DeltaDucks.

[Blue]# 10819 Found on the SA leg of our S.K.I.D.R.O. adventure.[/Blue]
Another perfect spring day for a drive around Whylla after doing 1/2 of the FITG series.
Hardly any muggles around and mostly good quick finds.
Thanks for the cache DeltaDucks,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red] (from NSW).