Thanks Mr Walker Tumby Bay, South Australia, Australia
By YeahRight80 on 14-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3WTH6

During our new years break, jesswrigley and I headed to the Eyre Peninsula to travel around the various coastal towns. We started the trip with Jeep trouble, but then continued in our alternative vehicle without 4WD to stick to the main tourist roads where possible. We travelled south-west to Tumby Bay and Port Lincoln via Whyalla, Cowell, Cleve, Arno Bay; west across to Coffin Bay; and then north-west to Streaky Bay and Ceduna via Elliston, and Venus Bay. We then headed back east staying in Kimba via Poochera, Wudinna, Lock, and Darke Peak.

Today, jesswrigley and I travelled from Port Augusta to Tumby Bay. We made stops in Whyalla and then Cowell for a bakery lunch, and then continued our drive through Cleve, Arno Bay, and Port Neill. The weather had changed from the sunny balmy conditions, to strong wind and gust warnings for the afternoon.

After finding all the nearby caches and having some time after dinner, we decided to have a drive around some of the archived caches that may still be hidden away. We had a quick search at this location, and with only limited spots to hide a cache, despite it (likely) being a nano, we concluded that the cache was no longer here. Thanks anyway YeahRight80 / Tempo 0 for the cache placement.

With more caches to put out I need to reduce the caches I currently have. This cache drew the short straw and will be withdrawn. The cache itself will remain in place for six months so those who have this cache in their GPS's can still find and claim the find. Cheers.

YAY!!! You shalt not defeat me geocache! After a few visits over the past couple of months I can happily, no, VERY happily say that I have found this one!!! Almost did a happy dance in the street!! Woo! What a sneaky hide. I wish never again to have a hide like this, thank you very much!

Staying in Tumby Bay for a few days we set off finding the caches around here cleaning up a lot of unfounds from previous trips, at last we have a smiley for this one, we searched everywhere last time we were here. TFTC

A dnf for us. Rain was more of a deterrent than ayny

Found on holiday in Tumby Bay with Nannajoan7, Sirod7 & Lori41. TNLNSL Thanks for the hunt,

Out caching today with PBandJAM, second time trying to find this sneaky one, alas another DNF

Found at 3:26 PM GAFF3.
A bit disappointed finding this cache as we now see that nanos have infiltrated the town Up until this cache we have been so happy finding large and some small - but no nano or even micro!
We had trouble getting this one and actually thought that it had been dislodged and lost. But c-pprass had another look in a very clerfty location and there it was [^]
Thanks Tempo 0.

Beautiful day for a cache but couldn't find

Sad to say but another DNF to add. Owner may need to check

Just could not find this today.

Over on holidays. Out with friends and a newly to caching. Nice walk from the caravan park. Another nano non lover
TFTC

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Nano rant to follow. We signed the logbook.
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Bloody Nanos! Spawn of satan. Burn down the Nano factory, and exterminate anyone who sells Nanos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xeh4-RNZEs
Remember, everytime you hide a nanocache God kills a kitten.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikbpQHLcuaM

We found this cache as part of a 4 day trip which went from Adelaide to Sceale Bay returning to Adelaide. The purpose of the trip was to remove Freddo was his home location too near the Clipsal 500 track and for us and Freddo to achieve a difficulty 4 1/2 and terrain 4 cache to make us well rounded cachers. The cache we needed to find was located near Venus Bay and we successfully completed this goal early on Friday morning which left us plenty of time to find "just one more". Loved the scenery and having the opportunity revisit this great area Thanks to Tempo 0 for placing this cache.

Checked this one today, all good to continue for a while yet.

Bit cold for swimming so thought grab some cache found after a little search

A caching stop on my drive from Port Lincoln to Whyalla. Thanks for hiding this cache.

TFTC.15.00. From Perth to Melbourne is our last vacation journey in Australia, along this route, we look for caches. Greetings from the Netherlands

As we approached we thought this one was going to be a predictable find. It was anything but! Between the busy traffic, that seemed to increase as we were there, and the walking muggles we looked literally high and low. We were almost about to give up when the little devil revealed itself. What a sneaky one! TNLNSL Thanks Tempo 0 for the challenge.

I walked from a nearby cache, through the mangrove and nature reserve to reach this [purple]phantom[/purple] cache
A sneaky little hide it is too !!
Normally caches hidden on these things are easy finds ...
It took me a goodly 10 minutes to actually find this one

TFTC and exercise.

Found on an afternoon caching with family. Thanks

Nice easy find on a trip around tumby bay. Tftc

A nice quick find on an afternoon caching run. Glad the coords were accurate to find the little sucker. BNSOS...Also glad the mozzies amd traffic were light. TFTC

Well done Mr Walker. The bonus was the large ray cruising around upstream.

Tftc quick find.

Mr Beetle was on to this one quickly. Some lovely homes in this area or are they the 'shacks' of the rich and wealthy from Port Lincoln!! Thanks for the smiley.

Found as the tide was going out with a lot of water moving through under the bridge

tftc

No luck. Nothing at GZ

Another found at last after many looks with many different catchers

Found during JLWE 2014. Creepy Cleve caching.

Almost dark but quick found.tftc

On the road again, using caching to guide us to the sites as we explore the state on our way to the Murray bridge mega. This one was a sneaky little one but we found him in the end woohoo ! Tftc

We have returned from Canada to discover a few more Australian caches! What a great way to explore the "land down under."
Almost ready to call this a DNF but one last look and there it was.
Thanks for the fun Tempo 0!

Good hide

Nice hide thank you

This entry was edited by devil55 on Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 06:59:44 UTC.

the kids had a ball watching the fish in the channel. a fantastic location especially when a puffer fish just slowly swims by, kids loved the location cheers for bringing us here. tftcsl

Not to many cars this time so were able to find

I think this cache may have been muffled again! I hope not and I hope our gps was just out but we couldn't find it, we love Mr Walker caches too!

After an email from tempo we came back for another go and lo and behold the cache is still here. Very very small, but still very here. Thanks for the email tempo, much appreciate it!

Was going to be a DNF, but lucky i was with jiddybang and an email from Tempo insisting that it was still there cheers.! Hope they don't get muggled again. Thumbs up to mr walker.

Sadly all the caches in Tumby went missing, some twice in as many weeks. I have no choice but to make these caches PMO and hope they stay put this time. This cache was missing again and has been replaced in the same place with a magnetic Nano.

Disabled until I can check it.

Yeckon this one is missing had a couple of good looks , 6 eye's but no luck, Coords Ok.

Overnight camp at Tumby bay. Liked this area. After a hot windy day with thunderstorms approaching we decided to camp up. Set up camp then went cache hunting. Couldn't find this one to save our lives.looking suspicious we decided to leave this one for another time. Must have been a good hiding spot!!

This one beat us : ( we looked to where we believe it should be and a bit further around GZ, geowife got some really nice photos while i searched.

Gps took us to the water, but clue indicated that wasn't right. Nearby though.

Quick find with an incoming tide ripping through the channel

Nice one to find on a run out tide....

Whilst touring SA we did a day trip to Tumby Bay, Cummings and all points in between. Picked up a few caches on the way.

On the move again, heading towards Port Lincoln. Picking up a few caches by the side road as we went.
Thanks YeahRight80

A nifty hide. Tftc

TFTC

As a kid I used to paddle about up this creek in a little tin canoe or boat of some sort with my cousins which my Grandpa had. It still looks good for adventures even on a windy day like today as the water was sheltered. THanks for bringing me here. Actually, I am gonna give this one a fave point cos it was a fave place many yrs ago

Nice cache found on a pleasant walk around this great little town

Found on the "I'm not Diving with the Great White Sharks trip". A great day weather wise and caching wise. My thanks to Mr Walker too. Bet you are a top teacher.

Thanks to YeahRight80 and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Well what can a fella say? A legend, albeit local, in his own life time. Thanks guys. Again, this was one of several caches explored without using a gps and relying on local knowledge. My great niece, who is staying with us for the weekend, found them all and was absolutely thrilled. She is still young enough to prefer "treasure" in her caches, but old enough just to enjoy the thrill and challenge of the hunt. I supplied "incentives" for each find, from the minor treasure room. She seems to have developed a knack for working out where mini caches are hidden, perhaps by thinking like a hider.

A nice quick find - pleasant hide.

Two FTF's in one day, how cool TFTC

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