Pioneers Orroroo, South Australia, Australia
By dolphinhwii on 06-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3W9H0

Tftc

Mr Tardis was out for an adventure motorbike ride through the quiet back roads north of Orroroo. I found this one after a short search. Sone interesting history here. Signed the log. Thanks for the cache dolphinhwii.

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.RIPTFTC

Quick find today. TFTC

Full time Nomads since March 2014.

Having been in Perth to visit family our stay has come to an end and we are on our way to Broken Hill for the Mundi Mundi Bash.

Staying in Orroroo for a few days. Today we headed up towards Carrieton and surrounds. On arrival in Carrieton we got a message from our Geobuddies Iluvtrekking and richlink that they were only 15k's away themselves heading down from Hawker. Great to stop and chat to them but boy it was freezing at 9degrees and sadly it was too early for the pub to be open. So we grabbed a couple of caches with them before they continued South and we went off to explore.

Turned out we came across an old cache from 2001 and also did a marvellous 4x4 track for a 1/5 cache. Views were a bit cloudy but still amazing fun.

A great day out and about.

TFTC dolphinhwii

Travelling with iluvtrekking up the WA coast to Darwin, down the Centre and in the Flinders Ranges. Now travelling through to Peterborough picking up finds along the route. Thanks dolphinhwii

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. Today, along the road from Hawker to Peterborough. TFTC.

Staying in the park at Orroroo we did the Johnburg tourist loop and made a quick find and sign as the rain began

Another day grabbing a few caches while staying in Jamestown and caching towards Orroroo and surrounds.

The lid of the container was shattered so we replaced the container and put the log in a new zip lock.

Many thanks for showing us this lonely spot dolphinhwii

Found on a short overnight trip from Adelaide up to Hawker to attend a funeral.

I wasn’t really planning to do too many caches, but I was staying overnight at the pub at Orrorroo and arrived in town a bit early, so took the opportunity to find a few around town.

This was a quick find.

Thanks dolphinhwii for the cache.

Quick search & find. Roads a bit slippery after the rain.

After doing some maintenance on a few of our caches it was time to find a few, heading further north we found this little cemetery one of six visited today, quick find on this one today
TFTC dolphinhwii

Found during a caching trip to SA's mid north staying at Orroroo for two nights and Jamestown for one night. Another circuit of caching completed while out for the afternoon around Orroroo. Thanks for the cache dolphinhwii!

Really easy ngtl

Lonely indeed Thanks for the cache

TFTC out with Bev and veejay

TFTC cold & windy but worth getting out of the car with Kelmar & Bev

A very interesting place for graves. The views of the rolling hills around this area are magnificent. The cache was found no problem.

Tftc and the history

Trip to the Mid North with the geo-pup. Day 5, walking around Orroroo.

Great piece of history, thanks!

TFTC

Holiday time, a week in the Flinders Rangers with sir_spectre and Jacknor. We had lots of fun, walk and of course found some caches. We visited several graves while out and about.
Thanks to dolphinhwii from mogni

So sad of no Grave for the Twin babies
How painful for those parents losing them.
TFTC

Always nice to see local history being kept alive.
A quick find.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Found on a windy plain.

Had to follow a few locals down the road to gz
Found with Earthlight
Tftc

25.08.20 tftc harsh times

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This weekend, I joined Laighside Legends on a trip up north, with the main plan to visit the Bendleby Ranges on Saturday, followed by a hike in the Southern Flinders Ranges at Rawnsley Bluff. We managed to escape the rain and poor weather in Adelaide, and we were only affected by minor drizzles and some cold winds on Sunday morning.

Today we headed from Peterborough to Hawker via the Bendleby Ranges. After driving through Yatina and Orroroo, it was then driving the back roads / "Sunday Scenic Drive" through Johnburgh and Belton. The Bendleby Ranges 4WD were tackled, with LL's Hilux being tested going up some of the difficult terrain. We continued on finding a few oldie geocaches, passing through Holowilena and Warcowie, and arriving at Hawker as it just started getting dark. Awesome ruins, interesting lonely grave sights, and a few exploratory shafts / caves were just a few of the day's highlights.

We were driving past this cache, so I managed to convince Laighside Legends to make a quick stop here, where the cache didn't take long to find. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks dolphinhwii for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Caching is great for showing us little gems like this. Otherwise one would just whizz past on the road without noticing. Thanks

This spot is certainly socially distanced!!! Lonely pioneers they are.
Cache was almost one with the earth it rested in too, but in good condition still.

Only finding caches at an acceptable social distance,

With the help of Sebastbat often driving, and Jack just hangin' around.

And our good friends soap, water, and alcohol...

Stay away from smelly humans

#washyour hands

wear gloves, but please change them between caches!

#washyourhandsagain

Exercise.

#keepwashingyourhands

tftc dolphinhwii

After a lovely night at the camp site (great facilities for tent campers) but a crap game of footy (if you are a Pies fan) it was up and ready for a day of caching in the Orroroo surrounds.
We travelled all over the countryside and had a fantastic day. We did an epic multi, visited lots of abandoned structures with heaps of history, saw lots of Orroroo masters games venues and called in at the pub in Pekina for a beer. Great day of country fun, punctuated with some super finds. Love a good day of SA country caching.
It started off very cold this morning with low lying clouds meaning we were in fog for the first couple of hours. Once this burnt off it was a superb winters day, sunny and warm. We saw lots of sheep, roos, wallabies, goats and an echidna which was cool. Rex had a brilliant day and was absolutely shattered by the time we got back to the campsite.
Once of many grave sites visited this weekend, we do enjoy them. TFTC dolphinhwii

Quite exposed, but replaced as found as no alternative. Thanks!

Found very easy as it is very much in open tried to cover a bit better
Tftc
Tnln

8564 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1320. Off to drive through this part of SA. The container is a little exposed but we left as found. Tnx dolphinhwii

found it TFTC

Lonely at peace.

Thanks dolphinhwii and clear skies from TeamAstro. ️ Cache the planet!

An interesting spot to randomly place a cemetery. TFTC

Found thanks Took nothing and left sticker

Thanks , left a stamp

The Big Western Australia trip in 2018. Day 43. The travel is speeding up as I head home. Today I went from Hawker to Mildura via Burra.

What makes a cemetery ? Oh well, a lonely spot to be left for eternity.

Thanks.

25416.6 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2006 December Signal A#61

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TFTC dolphinhwii

Found as part of a Sunday back roads drive through the region.
Cool spot
TFTC

A very odd place for a 'cemetery'. Seems the idea didn't really take off! TFTC.

on the return home from a trip in the flinders rangers. quick find.

A quick stop on the way south. No grave mistakes made here.

Angorichina Adventure with Freddo.

Final find of the day and the weekend.

Lonely says it all

Thanks for the cache, dolphinhwii

Hi there dolphinhwii.

We found your cache **"Pioneers"** at 12:20:00 PM today. (This makes our find count 17304).

We cached a circle around Orroroo today, & thoroughly enjoyed our tour around the area. We ended up finding a variety of container types and sizes hidden along the way. Today we found 17 caches (& DNF'd 0). Thank you for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** A Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Sad about unknown marked graves but pleased to know someone cared it. Signed the cache. Thanks

Another of the series we are enjoying doing. Tftc

12967 caches found

Grabbed it on the way to Alice Springs


took : nothing
left : nothing

Thanks for the cache dolphinhwii

A quick find on a sunny cold day! GreT history out here! Tftc

Found easily. But the container is disintegrated. So we replCed it. Found with Chrisval7. You may need to put a better replacement here in place of ours!

Another lonely cemetery. Quick find on very wet day. TFTFC

Out with LLL51 and Madham02 for a day of exploring and caching. We had just come from Orroroo and were heading to Johnburgh and Carrieton and stopped here to look at another lonely grave. We have seen quite a few of these over the past few days, great history lessons.
Thanks for the cache dolphinhwii.

We have seen a number of single graves on this trip, always interesting and thought provoking trying to imagine the way of life and circumstances of the death and burials. Thanks guys

Tftc

TFTC... All good. On our way to bendelby...

13.8.2015

Found a very smashed container and a log some distance away. Owl had the same sized systema in her car, so it is now bright, shiny and new.

Ismartis was now heading home from a great adventure in the Flinders joined by Dr Owl who was going to be extracted from the caching vehicle by Eagle at some point during the day. But for now there was business to do, fun to be had and caches to find

The duo took more dodgy backroads to this cache at the direction of Owls GPS!

They then found a broken & smashed container on the road. Ismartis found the logbook a few metres away still in good condition in its snaplock bag.

The moral of this story is - it's worth buying good quality plastic bags as they last the rigours of time.

TFTC dolhinhwii!

Another visit to the foregone pioneer(s). Thanks dolphinhwii.

With work is taking us to Ororoo, Tumby Bay, Streaky Bay and Wudinna over 4 days we take every moment to grab caches along the way, earthlight joined us for the trip and a lot of fun was had during the trip, where would we be without our great pioneers, lovely spot here. TFTC

A. quick find on a lonely outback road. A sad story. Caching with3LG. TFTC

Only one grave in the cemetery? I really wanted a closer look
but didn't jump the fence. Find number 24 on a caching road trip
to the Flinders. TFTC

This cache was well out in the open for all the passing traffic to see. Placed it out of sight. So much for sacred ground, hope the cattle enjoyed the grass! TFTH

Found It!
Nice little grave. It would be nice to know a little more about it but sadly you've made this cache PM only so I can't read the description
TFTC anyway

Found as a part of TheKellyGang, writing this as a genaric log as I was a part of TheKellyGang and am now out on my own.
If you do not agree with this you are more than welcome to delete the log.

A quick stop before hitting the big smoke down the road. The lid of the cache cracked when I was closing it. It might be time for a replacement.

Thanks for the cache dolphinwii.

Found it on our way back from bendleby ranges.

Tftc

There seem to be a lot of these lonely graaves scattered around this area
This grave was surprisingly well constructed and the inscription is legible.
Apparently this bloke was interred here in 1904 [:o]

At least he has a quiet plot and doesn't have to listen to his neighbours turning in their graves

TFTC

Found while on a road trip discovering some wonderful areas of SA
TFTC

Today was our 2nd day in Orroroo & we took a drive around the country side. Some roads were a little damp after recent rain. Great farming land, & interesting locations we visited.
The caches we found were interesting & varied.
Thanks for placing this cache dolphinhwii

A nice quick find on our way to the Flinders Ranges for Xmas. TFTC

Found with hubby.

This is definitely a candidate for the “Alone or Lonely” series, as it’s a very isolated place to spend eternity. There was a sleepy lizard just in the grass past the fence, and he was obviously not fully awake yet at 0900 as he let me pick him up without any fuss [^].
After returning the little fellow to a sunny patch of ground, I went and found the cache. No swaps. Cheers

I've been past here on many occasions, but little did I realize it was a cemetry?

Sorry dolphinhwii for the generic log but I'm trying to catch up on my logging, I currently have over 1000 to log before hitting some powertrails in the US after the block party next week. As always I enjoy the hunt whether I'm solo or with some of my caching or muggle friends. Thanks to those who have accompanied me to make the day more pleasurable and many thanks dolphinhwii for placing this cache.

Stopped off to do this one after a weekend 4WDing at Bendleby Ranges. Quick stop and easy find.

A Quick easy find. It would be interesting to know the history here. TFTC.

slight detour on our way to Wilpena for the weekend
easy find. TFTC

Up early and heading to The Pub lunch in the sticks with SA Sewer Rats. How could we resist grabbing few on the way up.
Bumped into Firesafe, Locus and Mr and Mrs Honeysucker on the way up.
Lots of laughs and fun was had by all.

Cheers and thanks for the caches

Chrispy89 was holding the Pub Lunch In the Sticks, so firesafe, Homeysuckers, Burton's, SA Sewer Rats and I were out for the day
Burton's and SA Sewer Rats left us at Clare at about 10pm on the way home while the rest of our group continued caching until about 3am, just because we could
All up, I locus cache'd 69 caches with a smiley result and 2 with DNF's and attended a great event too

Out past town for a drive and found this cache at the lonely grave site.

TNLN. SL. TFTC dolphinhwii

On a Big day out with Firesafe and Locus meeting up wit the Burtons sewer rats and oothers at an event in the sticks.

A quick find as we headed for the Pub Lunch Event in town!!!! Thanks dolphinhwii for the hide!!!

This was a big day starting at 7:00 am and going through to 4:30 am on Sunday morning. A group of us headed north for the Pub Lunch in the Sticks, caching our way up and back with 65 finds for the day.

Quick find and sign. TFTC.

After being led around the block by TomTom, we finally made it to GZ .
Yes, both lonely and windy here today . We wonder who the occupants of the other grave are [?]
TNLNSL.
Thanks for another one Dolphinwii.

Sure is a lonely spot, still loved by someone. TFTC

A quick find, was not sure if we could step over the fence, for a closer look but stayed on the outside of the fence. Anyway Thanks for the cache, dolphinhwii.

What a lonely final resting spot ..... Tftc

TFTC

After a night visiting friend in the area nearby the night before thought we would pick up a few caches as we had not done any in Orroroo so Easter Long week end an ideal time to do this spending time together. Geodaughter and Geodad found this one easily. Took TB Ribbert as he has been here long enough 4 months latrer we have taken him hopping heading to Darwin in next few week so he will be hopping to Darwin soon but through a few more cahces on the way.. TFTC

Lonely but apparently still loved. Left a TB to keep them company for a while. TFTC.

Coming back from a few days in the Horseshoe Range so this was a surprise find,tftc

Detoured down dirt road while retuning home from Flinders week trip. Been plenty of traffic under fence alongside GZ. ( Possibly Roo's ? ) Left them in peace again . TFTC

Nice drive

Found during an afternoon drive around the Orroroo district. Claiming Silver for this one. It is a quiet and lonely spot with a little breeze today.

TFTC TNLN SL

tb visits

Published

After receiving notification that this was published yesterday I went out for a mad dash this morning to find a virgin log book, enroute to ORROROO to pick up muggle mums car.

Found at 10:32 am in the first likely spot. ( didn't need the gpsr to find) and it still had a blank virgin log book. First time I've gone down this road. And I've lived in the area for 18 yrs. . Visited tb. Tnln. Tftc