YONGALA SILOS Yongala, South Australia, Australia
By chrispy89 on 09-Aug-12. Waypoint GC3TBW8

A lazy day touring around Peterborough and the backstreets admiring a few kangaroos Lizards and Goats on our travles searching for these hidden boxes and the nasty (Blow up the factory) Nano's.All caches were in good condition unless stated otherwise.Thanks for the cache chrispy89Find Number 10815

Tftc, it is a bit damp due to broken lid but log still ok, cheers

Away for the June Long Weekend with TheWhiteDogGang.We based ourselves at Orroroo and travelled far and wide over 4 days. We managed 1,500 kms during our travels.We managed to find some really old caches, one from 2001, and even managed to get all 9 terrain ratings. Not bad for 2 old farts with no coordination.The weather was dry if not cold on occasions.A good way to spend 4 days.No silos here anymore.TFTC

Easy

Last night fitzy_1965 and I stayed at my cousin's place. We, like the rest of the household, were up and on the road early.Our plan was to attend the Mega site, target a D5/T5 cache type that we missed last Feb 29, and then head as far North as we could collecting counties along the way.We ended up in Wilmington at a great pub/hotel and were very thankful for the new air con!__________________________We managed to jag a park right outside the Mega site carpark....couldn't have planned that if we tried! Now we are off to collect oldies & counties as whatever inbetween. This was one of them.All caches found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned.

34,282. Found with minniek during our trip to The Great Leap Forward Mega Event in Adelaide on 29th February 2024.Day 3 : After staying overnight at minniek's cousin's place, we headed into town this morning for the main event - literally. After lots of planning and driving we were finally here ! After the fun of the Mega was over, we cherrypicked a few caches in town, then headed north County hunting. Lots of great caches to chose from. This was the next cache - and it was a nice quick find once at GZ. Stamped the log, replaced the cache as found, then we continued on to the next one.Thanks chrispy89 !!

Quant town. TFTC

TUFC

Quick grab on our way to Orroroo. TFTC

Camped up at the nearby over night park
A lovely spot. Thanks for bringing us here.

Pasty from shop in Peterborough for lunch so all set for another days exploring.
From WA doing a geo SA venture. First one for the day. What a great town. Tyftc

All good.

Travelling with iluvtrekking up the WA coast to Darwin, down the Centre and in the Flinders. Basing ourselves in Peterborough for a few days to grab finds in the surrounds. Thanks crispy89

Travelling with richlink from Perth to Darwin up along the west coast and home again through the centre and the Nullarbor, picking up caches as we go. We made the find here. TFTC.

Day 3 of my short Geocaching weekend. Today I left White Cliffs Reserve zigzagging along the way finding what caches I had not found and ended up stopping in Yongala for the night.

Just finished grabbing the photos for all the churches so I could work out all the "Church Caches" tonight and had just enough light left for one more cache.

TFTC chrispy89

While staying in Jamestown we enjoyed today caching in Peterborough and Yongala. Peterborough seems to be ‘Nano Central’ and as these types of hides are definitely our nemesis, and not our favourites we weren’t surprised to end up with a few DNF’s

Nice easy find then to the lovely recreation park fir an overnight camp. Nice clean facilities. Thanks Yongala

TFTC - nice and easy

Tftc nice easy one

While staying at Peterborough, went for a drive after lunch, had a quick find. Thanks chrispy89 for this silo cache tftc

It helps to read the info. I was looking for a church – wrong geocache. A quick find once I figured out where I was supposed to be. TFTC.

We were surprised by their massive size and wonder if they are still operational. It must have been extremely busy in their heyday.
Thanks
Little Squirell

Team one-eyed Mrs one -eyed and I had a look along the fence but I received another scratch to my arm those dead branches that’s two for the trip found the cache now for pics if the old buildings cheers from one-eyed and Mrs one-eyed

Bit of a search but eventually located. Nice silo view. Tftc

East find…beware of low hanging branches

Tricky

Ocw the Bebes as we stay a couple of nights at the RV park here. A quick park and grab for this one. Tftc

OCW PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa

Staying nearby in the caravan.

Great view of the silos from here.

Took a bit longer than it should have as the T rating had me thinking “wheelchair accessible” which this hide isn’t but got there in the end.

Tftc

A super spot to view the silos. We wonder if one day they will become art like many others. TFTC

Middle of nowhere so peaceful and beautiful

Peterborough to Jamestown
While towing the caravan we stopped along the highway where it is safe to pull over.
Once we had dropped our caravan at the camping ground we did a tour of town following the geocache trail. This was a good way to visit town for our 1st time.
Thanks for placing the cache.

found on our yorke to york trip. (top of Yorke Peninsula, South Australia to tip of Cape Yorke, Queensland )
so many great experiences and beautiful locations. how fortunate we are to live in this wonderful, free and varied country!
thank you to all cache owners and those who helped out with maintenance and especially to chrispy89 for this particular smilie on our way home - probably last for this trip

Easy find but coordinates were at least 8 metres out.

Found during a caching trip to SA's mid north staying at Orroroo for two nights and Jamestown for one night. Spent the day caching around Peterborough and Yongala, then down to Jamestown. Really enjoying the silo theme of this far-ranging series. Thanks for the cache chrispy89!

Day 3 week 1 of 5 weeks off on holiday.
A beautiful little town. What a shame it’s nearly deserted.
The little green shrubs/weeds (what ever you call em) are near lethal and perfect guardians for this cache.
Watch out, the dead looking ones are even worse
I pointed out to Buttons where I thought the cache was, but of cause proceeded to poke everywhere else but (did I mention the sharp pointy stuff?)
Of course, I being the taller of the two of us got selected to hunch down and go chasing after it and there it was. /sigh I hate being right.
Log signed and returned to it’s natural habitat, where some other poor joker can come along and find out the hard way what to avoid.

TFTC

Quick easy find

Found on historical walk around town tftc

Very quick easy find tftc

Some lovely big silos crying out for some murals. That’d give them another life.

Thank you for the cache. All good and dry here

Found 3/10/21 and left our signature hand painted rock

Easy find. Thanks

We have been travelling around this great country, calling into see many different places,
now is a quick chance on the computer to catch up with logs and to put some smileys on the map for where we have been.
Thanks to all the COs for some great finds.
TFTC

Ok

Wow - the history out here is amazing.
If it wasn’t for Geocaching and the journey it takes us, we would never have seen these beautiful old buildings and silos
Oh to be a fly on the wall when the stories were told.
Thanks for sharing this amazing part of the local history.
TFTC

Trip to the Mid North with the geo-pup. Day 6, Orroroo to Peterborough and return.

Found original cache and someone's throwdown mint tin, now in one container.

TFTC

Easy find

A quick drive by while at Yongala

Nice easy one

Quick easy find

TFTC

A nice quick grab in a very hot day. TFTC

We’re travelling through these pretty little country towns, visiting family in SA. Enjoyed a find here as the thunderstorm approached. Thanks for the hide crispy.

In Peterborough for the weekend with Bron, a occasional muggle cacher...
Today was the last day of our trip but before heading for home we had a few more caches to get...just one more
Glad to make a detour here to find this cache and change the blue face from a few years ago to a smiley...which I did today...
TFTC chrispy89

We had planned to visit Peterborough for the weekend to attend an event and do some caching. and as we had to deliver a heap of Crystal Decanters that we had engraved for the Clare wine show, to them, we figured we are halfway there..might as well carry on, so we organised a day off and are having a "long Weekend' up North! LOL, its easy to see what a Chrispy cache is, you only have to look for the Uppercase letters! TFTC

TFTC. On our trip out around Peterborough.

A detour out off town down to this cache. A quick find was had here. Cache is all good

Today I headed from Adelaide up north caching my way along from cache to cache and found myself in Peterborough for the evening. Stopped at Clare and Burra along the way as well as doing a few lab caches. Roughly 80 finds for the day.

Thanks for the cache

Bloody cold this morning.
A slight detour to pick up my daily cache. Day 399 of current streak.

TFTC Chrispy89

Found with Jac-Jam While driving to James Town. A quick find by Jac-Jam. TFTC.

Found by geo kids. TFTC

Quick find and we were on our way again. TFTC.

A quick find that we almost skipped due to it being 2pm & we haven’t made it back to camp for lunch yet. Another collected in the silos series. TFTC!

Today we are on our way from Peterborough to the Barossa Valley and are trying to pick up some caches on the way.

Here was our first stop for the day. Read the interesting story about the silos and had a quick found at the obvious spot.

Regards from Switzerland.

Great find thanks

Thanks

Found Thank you

As we wander the great land seeing the sights, this is one of the caches we have done.

Thanks to chrispy89 for placing the cache for us to find.

TFTC ️

TFTC chrispy89
A quick drive by on our way to Peterborough. Met this local as he was watching over the cache site

TFTC nice one chrispy 89 nice find quick drive by the first cache for the day

Interesting little town. It would be a real shame if they demoished the silos, lets hope that they get to stand the test of time. Thanks for sharing this story and the area with us! Had a great day caching. to the area.

We had a quick look here but couldn’t find anything. Needed to get back into Peterborough so didn’t spend too much time.

Replaced good to go.

Replaced good to go.

havent been able to check due to injury

Had to give up. Disappointed not to find this one to remember this quaint little town

Couldn't find it

Unable to find
Coordinates took us to a pile of rail road rocks, couldn't find any thing in them

Spent ages looking here nothing caught our eye so we decided to move on TFTH

We are nomads. Having left Perth WA in February 2014 we now live in our caravan and go wherever the will or caches take us.

Arriving in Petersborough late yesterday for 2 nights. We booked in for the 'bundle' tour at the tourist bureau and thoroughly enjoyed the night tour and now the day tour! What a highlight and not to be missed on any visit to Petersborough

Now out caching in the freezing winds, we set off with a list of nearby caches when the phone went 'bing' with a message from a friend to advise of a nearby FTF. hmmm not in the original target area, lets see how we go! Well we zigged and zagged adding double the number of caches to our original list on back gravel damp roads and finally back at camp 5pm.

We found your cache in good order, once we eventually found it. oh how embarassing how long this took.

TFTC chrispy89

While Eagle looked at the train line, Owl searched for the cache, then played with a variety of caches to find just the right one to replace it (with the CO's permission). Hopefully as sneaky as the original, but Owl was pleased to have a smilie in Yongala (and a backup cache in case she'd mucked up the Peterborough LGA find!)

Can the CO please check if this cache is still in place. Thanks

Had a bit of a look around but no luck today.

Did not find tonight. Will go back tomorrow for another look

No luck

Hi there chrispy89.

This is the 2nd of 3 caches we didn't find today. [:(!]

We spent quite some time here at around 12:34:00 PM, but we just couldn't locate your cache. It's either not there, a very clever hide or we are just suffering from "cache blindness", so here's a DNF from us.

Regards
Ian and Penny

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This cache was found whilst participating in the Bike SA 2016 Annual Tour.

After a lot of circling and going to the middle - sounds like square dancing - I came upon this sneaky hide.

Thanks for the cache chrispy.

Another wonderful day cycling with Bike SA Annual Tour. TFTC

Found by The Noodler. TFTC

Found the cache Thanks

I stopped in Yongala today and headed for the silos.
A distant view of the silos here
The job of the "top dog" doesn't sound very nice though [:o]
A good spot to be the "under dog"

Anyhoo !!
I soon tracked down this cache find in its hidey hole

TFTC

Not today ..............

DNF has been muggled

Thanks for the history lessons Chrispy89.

Found while in the area. TFTC.

Great spot

A nice quick find. Ground and grass very wet. TFTC

Took us a few minutes to spot! Thanks chrispy89 for the hide!!

Sneaky!! But found quite easily - TFTC

Nice quick one. Out for the day with Mum and Dad. TFTC

Cache was found in the last place we looked, which as usual was not the first place we looked. Thanks for a fun cache guys. Love your work. We signed the logbook. Warning this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise.
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This cache was found using a Garmin GPSr, Montana 650t, Oregon 550 or Dakota 20. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK 8.
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