THINGS GO BETTER Coonamia, South Australia, Australia
By
desertfox41 on 12-Oct-12. Waypoint GC3YJ8P
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Over at Port Pirie for our Anniversary Australia Day long weekend. Today we stayed around Port Pirie to tackle the caches in and around town A quick find at GZ. TFTC
Couldn't see a giant Coke can but did see a lovely big cache. Interesting spot TFTC
A few days in Port Pirie with the muggle Mrs exploring the town and seeking out whatever hides I can.
All caches were is good condition unless stated otherwise.
The last for the day under torch light so we did not notice the objects mentioned in the description
Thank you for the cache desertfox41 Find Number 10662 on 6/07/2023
All caches were is good condition unless stated otherwise.
The last for the day under torch light so we did not notice the objects mentioned in the description
Thank you for the cache desertfox41 Find Number 10662 on 6/07/2023
Another cache found with richlink on our 2022 South Australian Adventure. We are enjoying our time travelling SA. Fantastic towns, ruins, beaches and cliffs. Thanks to all the COs for taking us on a geo-guided tour.
After setting up our vans in the c/p we headed off with iluvtrekking to explore Port Pirie on a beautiful winters day. Thanks for the hide desertfox41
Found on a trip to Crystal Brook and Port Pirie with Team Waldron for a few days. It rained steadily for the morning but gradually eased by mid afternoon. The aim for the weekend was to find as many caches as possible in the area which we accomplished with damp clothes, soggy shoes and a muddy car! Thanks for the cache desertfox41!
Full time nomads since 2014. Still tootling around the country trying to avoid Covid hotspots.
Back in SA for harvest work. Spending 2 weeks in Port Pirie, today we headed further afield and enjoyed the drive amongst all the green crops. Looks like a good harvest up here. [^]
TFTC desertfox41
Back in SA for harvest work. Spending 2 weeks in Port Pirie, today we headed further afield and enjoyed the drive amongst all the green crops. Looks like a good harvest up here. [^]
TFTC desertfox41
Well it’s 2021 and I have finally said good bye to a not so great 2020 and it was great to finally be able to have a reasonable holiday as I have not had a decent break since 2019.
Made to South Australia and finally crossing the boarder and then being greeted by a couple of very friendly SA police offices for which i had the official paper work to allow me to enter.
After making my way west along the Eyre Hwy I went as far as Penong and the Eyre Hwy which I have not travelled along since the late 70’s when I was on a holiday with my folks and this was the last holiday before I started full time work as a sparkie and finding a few caches as I go.
Geocaching when towing a van is not always easy and I have to be a bit selective on which ones I decide to try and find for safe parking purposes especially along busy highways.
So then it was down to the Eyre Peninsula to see the sites down there Venus Bay, Coffin Bay National Park and Lincoln National Park were some highlights and I will come back again to have a better look around.
So after nearly 2 weeks spent on the Eyre Peninsula it was time to start heading back to Victoria but another lockdown in Vic has just occurred so now to change my plans again.
So Port Germaine was my next target for the night.
Another morning spent driving in the rain as I have not had the best weather on this trip what ever happened to summer.
The rain has stopped and as I have rounded the the bay and heading back down south the weather is beautiful on this side of town.
After reaching my destination yesterday for the next couple of nights which is Port Germein I now had a full day to go exploring around port Pirie.
Headed down the Hwy and I think I have been here before as a kid on holidays.
There are a couple of additives that you need to add to coke and one of them is a mate of mine named Jack.
I noticed the large can near the side of the road as I was coming up and now I know what it is.
After a quick search I soon spotted the cache, added my name to the log and on to the next one.
Thanks desertfox41 TFTC.
Made to South Australia and finally crossing the boarder and then being greeted by a couple of very friendly SA police offices for which i had the official paper work to allow me to enter.
After making my way west along the Eyre Hwy I went as far as Penong and the Eyre Hwy which I have not travelled along since the late 70’s when I was on a holiday with my folks and this was the last holiday before I started full time work as a sparkie and finding a few caches as I go.
Geocaching when towing a van is not always easy and I have to be a bit selective on which ones I decide to try and find for safe parking purposes especially along busy highways.
So then it was down to the Eyre Peninsula to see the sites down there Venus Bay, Coffin Bay National Park and Lincoln National Park were some highlights and I will come back again to have a better look around.
So after nearly 2 weeks spent on the Eyre Peninsula it was time to start heading back to Victoria but another lockdown in Vic has just occurred so now to change my plans again.
So Port Germaine was my next target for the night.
Another morning spent driving in the rain as I have not had the best weather on this trip what ever happened to summer.
The rain has stopped and as I have rounded the the bay and heading back down south the weather is beautiful on this side of town.
After reaching my destination yesterday for the next couple of nights which is Port Germein I now had a full day to go exploring around port Pirie.
Headed down the Hwy and I think I have been here before as a kid on holidays.
There are a couple of additives that you need to add to coke and one of them is a mate of mine named Jack.
I noticed the large can near the side of the road as I was coming up and now I know what it is.
After a quick search I soon spotted the cache, added my name to the log and on to the next one.
Thanks desertfox41 TFTC.
Up at Port Pirie again two weeks running, this was my 1st cache of 6 for the day before grabbing my mate from his job at Grain Flow, Crystal Brook, then heading back to Adelaide.
A quick find and sign was made at 08:11 on Monday Morning, 28 September 2020
The cache and contents are in good condition.
TFTC desertfox41
(Bourbon [^] That's what 'Things Go Better' with...
and Coke is one of them
)
A quick find and sign was made at 08:11 on Monday Morning, 28 September 2020
The cache and contents are in good condition.
TFTC desertfox41
(Bourbon [^] That's what 'Things Go Better' with...
and Coke is one of them
)This weekend, I joined gridge98 on a quick overnight trip to Port Pirie. The plan was to geocache around the town, and then head across through to Jamestown via Gladstone and Caltowie in order to find a unique hidden month oldie cache nearby. We then joined the geocaching community at the Gawler dinner event.
Today, we got up early and spent the first half of the day travelling around Port Pirie. A few highlights were the views of the lead smelters, the historic main street, and wetlands. Once a bakery lunch was had, we headed east, and found a few geocaches in Gladstone, Caltowie, and Jamestown. We then left some time to visit Bundaleer Forest Reserve for the 05/2001 hidden cache, as that was my last remaining available South Australian Jasmer grid caches. We then drove the few hours south to the international geocaching dinner Gawler event, before heading home.
A quick park and grab after a short walk from the car. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks desertfox41 for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.
Today, we got up early and spent the first half of the day travelling around Port Pirie. A few highlights were the views of the lead smelters, the historic main street, and wetlands. Once a bakery lunch was had, we headed east, and found a few geocaches in Gladstone, Caltowie, and Jamestown. We then left some time to visit Bundaleer Forest Reserve for the 05/2001 hidden cache, as that was my last remaining available South Australian Jasmer grid caches. We then drove the few hours south to the international geocaching dinner Gawler event, before heading home.
A quick park and grab after a short walk from the car. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks desertfox41 for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.
Quick find here, cache is all good
After staying in Port Pirie last night, today Davidwazza and I set out to clean up port Pirie before making a long detour via Jamestown to gawler for an evening event. We had a few targets with a 2001 cache near Jamestown to collect and a few others. All up 68 finds for the day.
Thanks for the cache
After staying in Port Pirie last night, today Davidwazza and I set out to clean up port Pirie before making a long detour via Jamestown to gawler for an evening event. We had a few targets with a 2001 cache near Jamestown to collect and a few others. All up 68 finds for the day.
Thanks for the cache
On the way to Millicent Mega and detour and signed the log as EV and thanks for the cache and hide
Drop off 2 x tbs.
Drop off 2 x tbs.
Nomads travelling in their caravan around Australia. We have been on the road since July 2011 and discovered caching in August 2013. We travel with a bunch of travel bugs belonging to our sons and grand children.
In an effort to get to find #5000 at Millicent, we have to speed up and slow down our caching rate.
We are camped in Port Pirie, waiting for new tyres on our geomobile this afternoon, so while we wait, what better to do than..... well, you know, go on a tour of town using my GPS as my tour guide.
With coka cols! Thanks for bringing us here desertfox41
In an effort to get to find #5000 at Millicent, we have to speed up and slow down our caching rate.
We are camped in Port Pirie, waiting for new tyres on our geomobile this afternoon, so while we wait, what better to do than..... well, you know, go on a tour of town using my GPS as my tour guide.
With coka cols! Thanks for bringing us here desertfox41
TFTC
Another quick drive by as we collect as many smiley faces as possible on our weekend spent in Port Pirie.
The cache container & log are in excellent condition. The log was signed & dated then returned to its hiding spot.
Another quick drive by as we collect as many smiley faces as possible on our weekend spent in Port Pirie.
The cache container & log are in excellent condition. The log was signed & dated then returned to its hiding spot.
TFTC nice find quick drive by nice day out with geowife LynSteNet happy geocaching
Got stuck into the new year today with Mr Froghoppin,
a nice drive and cache hunt on a cool rainy day!
An old but familiar saying...
and a quick cache find nearby.
tftc desertfox41
a nice drive and cache hunt on a cool rainy day!
An old but familiar saying...
and a quick cache find nearby.
tftc desertfox41
Last service trip for the year 2019, Starting atPort Pirie Hospital. Quick find after work 
The weeds have certainly been growing strongly at this location and that slowed down our search for the cache. After a minute or two, we located the cache but it was 7m from the published coordinates. The cache and contents weer in good condition. Thanks desertfox41 for the cache.
Caching around town while waiting for van repair. So glad to have plenty caches to do. Thanks for keeping us amused. Tftc
well that's my allotted time to cache port pirie over. I guess i will be coming back. quick find.
Day 1
Adelaide to port Augusta.
This trip saw me travel to Maralinga to do the tour of the nuclear test site then up the Googs track, past lake Gairdner on to Mount Ive station, then in to the Gawler Rangers and finally hiking up Mount Remarkable before heading home.
Day 1
Adelaide to port Augusta.
This trip saw me travel to Maralinga to do the tour of the nuclear test site then up the Googs track, past lake Gairdner on to Mount Ive station, then in to the Gawler Rangers and finally hiking up Mount Remarkable before heading home.
Hi there desertfox41. This cache was found on a day out caching and touring about Port Pirie. The container and log are in good condition - SL. Thanks to desertfox41 for this cache - our find # 6238.
After staying near Port Augusta last night, today we ventured further along the road with ilook4geo and just put a few caches on the list for the day.
There was no problem in finding this one and the cache container was soon put back into place once the signing duties had been done. Thank you to desertfox41 for this cache placement.
There was no problem in finding this one and the cache container was soon put back into place once the signing duties had been done. Thank you to desertfox41 for this cache placement.
Out and about today and doing some caching along the way with goingplaces2. Found all the ones that we wanted to look for and each one was signed as next on the list. Thanks to all the COs who placed these caches.
We left Esperance 3 days ago for the Yorke Peninsular after 4 months spent mainly enjoying the warm weather up north. It’s been a bit of a let down since we reached Perth and the weather cooled right down. The sun is thinking about coming out today, and we’re cheering it on. Tomorrow we aim to start on our adventure trying to pick up as many caches as we can before heading back home to Victoria in the last week of September.
We set off early from our overnight stop just south of Port Germein and started finding caches as we travelled south to Maitland, our destination for a few days as we set out on the power trails.
This cache was a straightforward find after making our way thru the scrub.
TFTC
We found this one on a quick trip in to Port Pirie to buy camping supplies for out at Mambray Creek! The cache container was super brittle and just shattered in my hands as I screwed the lid on! I’m sorry that I don’t have anything to replace the container with! I hope it can be sorted out soon! Tftc
Quite afternoon with nothing to do.... let’s get some geocaches! Nice easy one to start the afternoon!
Veni. Vidi. Vici. Scripsi.
Passing through and decided to stop and make the find. Wandered to GZ but the GPS had me all over the place. Wandered round for a bit but soon spotted the cache. Extracted log signed and replaced. Only saw the giant can as I headed off.
Gratias pro cache desertfox41
Passing through and decided to stop and make the find. Wandered to GZ but the GPS had me all over the place. Wandered round for a bit but soon spotted the cache. Extracted log signed and replaced. Only saw the giant can as I headed off.
Gratias pro cache desertfox41
Quick find on a days exploring in the area. Found a great coffee shop in town in an old church. Great food too. Tftc
Found with FerociousFlea on the way up to the Red Centre for a little holiday.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker
Found with Beaker and Astronaut99 on the way to Alice Springs for a Red Centre Adventure! Thanks
A nice easy find on the way in to town.
Thanks for the cache desertfox41. Found on 16 Aug 2017 at 8:51 am. Find #5008.
Thanks for the cache desertfox41. Found on 16 Aug 2017 at 8:51 am. Find #5008.
TFTC 2545# on our way to Edithburgh Event looking forward to a good event meeting new people
Oh no, now I've got that stupid song in my head!!! I'm working down the road to the sound of miserable doggies so this was a nice little leg stretch over lunch. I never knew this land was for an aerodrome so thanks for the history. Cache and contents are all good. TNLNSN. Thanks for the cache
Staying in Port Pirie for a few days and sightseeing and caching with Mrs Aries.
Straight forward find and TFTC desertfox41.
Straight forward find and TFTC desertfox41.
Hi there desertfox41.
We found your cache **"THINGS GO BETTER"** at 1:58:00 PM today. (This makes our find count 15981).
We cached around Gladstone, Port Pirie and Napperby today. On our trek we found a variety of container types. & ended up finding 32 caches with 0 DNF's.
Thanks for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.
###Thanks for not placing an eclipse tin or a 200ml Sistema here. Once upon a time caches seemed to be "regular" sized,and well stocked with goodies for kids to swap. Nowadays it seems like every other cache is small and devoid anything to induce children to enjoy the hunt. It made us feel really good to find this cache in a "special" place.###
**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
Ian & Penny.
We found your cache **"THINGS GO BETTER"** at 1:58:00 PM today. (This makes our find count 15981).
We cached around Gladstone, Port Pirie and Napperby today. On our trek we found a variety of container types. & ended up finding 32 caches with 0 DNF's.
Thanks for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.
###Thanks for not placing an eclipse tin or a 200ml Sistema here. Once upon a time caches seemed to be "regular" sized,and well stocked with goodies for kids to swap. Nowadays it seems like every other cache is small and devoid anything to induce children to enjoy the hunt. It made us feel really good to find this cache in a "special" place.###
**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
Ian & Penny.
Another quick find as I was leaving town. At this rate I will never get out of here.
Quick easy find with sevabo and Dolphia on sunny day on the way to Port Augusta. TFTC
Find #665 on trip around Australia with Willow the little black adventure cat. See vancatmeow.com for updates on where we are. 22 months on the road.
Thanks for the cache!
Thanks for the cache!
Quick easy find. Found with VCM. Container and log book in good condition. Thanks for bringing us out here desertfox41 TNLNSL #ttmug ??
Sometimes you look and look at the GPS too much - finally when you lift yr eyes from the GPS you find it. Nice one. TFTC
3LG and I are caching our way towards Whyalla where we are catching up with The X-Trailers.
Whilst spending 2 nights in Pt Pirie along the way.
Caching as we travel to explore the area and locate all the caches on our gps.
A quick easy find and thanks for the history of this spot.
TFTC
Whilst spending 2 nights in Pt Pirie along the way.
Caching as we travel to explore the area and locate all the caches on our gps.
A quick easy find and thanks for the history of this spot.
TFTC
It has been a while since we have done some serious caching so we decided to head north with earthlight for a few days and meet up with The X Trailers in Port Augusta as they pass through there on their journey homeward bounds to QLD and cache along the way, we have set up camp in Pirie and plan on grabbing a few of the local caches around the area, a nice quick find for us. TFTC
5492 Found by baby&Mrs gopher on a tour of the district 1445. Stopped at the gate and walked along the fence to SL Tnx desertfox41
#2411 - Easily found by Bruce in the morning on our ride from Port Germain.
All part of the fun and challenges on our AroundOz bicycle tour via the highest peak in each State and mainland Territory.
http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/15119
Many thanks to the cache owner desertfox41 for establishing and maintaining another local cache.
All part of the fun and challenges on our AroundOz bicycle tour via the highest peak in each State and mainland Territory.
http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/15119
Many thanks to the cache owner desertfox41 for establishing and maintaining another local cache.
Found by Mary & David at 1110. That was great advertising, even back then. Our thanks to desertfox41.
We spent most of the day doing a drawing course at your local art gallery, but decided to do a few caches before going back to the caravan park. A quick find , thanks for the hide. We have been past here quite a few times lately, so today we finally had the time to stop and find the cache.
