Merriton Post Office Merriton, South Australia, Australia
By Tk2 on 16-Oct-12. Waypoint GC3YRYD

The horse was very inquisitive Our running mate is back from NZ and about to tackle the next 2800km to Darwin. Caching around Red Hill and Crystal Brook while he restarts his run.Tk2, I found Merriton Post Office today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Finally found it

Found it!

Southern Autumn adventure Day 37. Mid North section of SA trip Day 8. Port Pirie area Day 3 and travel to Nuriootpa via Lochiel and Balaklava. Before I headed off from Port Pirie, I went for a short loop around to the east of town to get a final few caches. Once On the way, I made a point of stopping at some of the small towns to squeeze in a cache. Once I had arrived at Nuriootpa and set up the van, I took myself on the Barossa Rail Trail with the scooter for ten interesting caches, although it did begin with a DNF.

With plenty of space for the van, I stopped nearby and wandered over for a quick find here.

Thanks for the cache Tk2

42338.6 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2013 NZ Mega A#262

**Albida**

Did a run around Crystal Brook area before going to Port Pirie for a Podiatrist appointment. TFTC

Quick easy find once retrieved from a very tight spot, lucky we had tweezers to get it out TFTC

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.

Woke up to a chilly morning - hoping it’s going to warm up though. Another day exploring Port Pirie and surrounds with iluvtrekking. Thanks Tk2

Found on on our way back home after a trip to Marree, William Creek and across to Coober Pedy. Took a while to extract but got it eventually! Thanks for the cache Tk2!

Container was missing so have replaced. Nice new logbook as well.

Looked for this one based on similar local finds & based on clue - thinking it might have been muggled?!

In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location.
(HaHa). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Tk2 [^]

Unfortunately the container appears to be missing, also had a good search in the wider area, checked hints and previous logs for clues.

No luck for us today. Searched for 10 minutes and then searched a little more. Thanks for bringing us here regardless.

Came a looked with a previous finder. This one appears to be missing.

The homeowners drink great northern

Over visiting family for the long weekend and took the opportunity while they were engaged to do a few caches in the area. Planned to hit the Highway passed Crystal Brook, into Georgetown and back to Crystal Brook. Was an awesome day a variety of hides, some easily found, many took longer than should have. Only a couple of misses.
A nice quick find in between rain drops here. Sign has certainly seen better days. Had the attention of the nearby resident, whom I assume must know that this is here, as traffic down here wouldn't occur too often. TFTC

Have replaced container after previous find.

TFTC but we dropped the cache so sorry we couldn’t find it replaced just n lid

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TFTC

we meet the owner of the land and had a nice conversation with him

House owners came to chat as we looked for this one. Had a good chat. TFTC

Post signing of this cache the home owner and his better half nearby drove past, curious of what i was doing... i told him of Geocaching, his missus knew of it and they were satisfied and intrigued aswell.
SL at 13:07 on Sat 16 May 2020.

TFTC Tk2

Nice solo caching day.
Found some great caches, good containers, superb views, workouts, climbs, drivebys, old caches...
and a few mint tins too!
Kept going into the night and early next morning too.
Smaller than expected! A quick find once I groped the sign better!
tftc Tk2

TFTC nice find quick drive by you just need to think about it

TFTC a quick drive by with the log signed & dated then put back. What a pity the signage is so hard to see.

When we arrived at GZ we quickly recognised the hide location despite the face of the sign being very badly weathered. The cache was located very quickly. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Tk2 for the cache.

It was the final day of the Quorn Quondam Quest (QQQ) weekend event, and it was a day of some local geocaching around Quorn, geocaching to the Pichi Richi Railway Woolshed Flat Train Station CITO event, a climb with Laighside Legends to Mount Brown, and then traveling back to Adelaide in the evening.

Took a few minutes to find this one, but knew what I was looking for, and so eventually made the find. Cheers Tk2.

Argh nanos! Their frustration lies in the search, and even then when found, the difficulty in logging and rolling. Best characterised as that annoying friend that hangs with your bestie!

Meriton is a mere shadow of what it was !! [:o]
Nice to see the olce church and institute still standing though

And a cache to immortalise the past history [^]

This one had us going for a while, but eventually found it. Nice little bit of history, but the sign at GZ is bad weathered and almost illegible. Tftc

Quick find. TFTC

Owl thinks the cache might have slipped a little, as it was in an odd place, but was eventually found . There were dead kittens everywhere because it was a nano. You should know better than to place a spawn of Satan in a rural area!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_povMw8DWSI

Could not find it. The magnets from the time where there but nothing else to be found

Quick find. TFTC

Veni. Vidi. Vici. Scripsi.
Passing through travelling for work and decided to make a stop for a break. Pulled in and parked nearby and with the engine running headed to GZ and made a quick find of a very small cache. Took it back to the car to extract and sign log and as usual it takes longer to reroll the log and reassemble than to make the find and sign, but now done. BNSOSBDTNFAEAWSN.
Gratias pro cache Tk2

slowly making my way back to adelaide from a long weekend holiday in whyalla. quick find.

Easy quick find that was good for taking us off the main road for a bit. Tftc

Thanks for the history lesson, if it weren't for caches most of us wouldn't know that these towns had ever existed. Out for the day with Budgie23. TFTC.

**Out and about around en route to Perth**...

**Day 3** of my trip - *Nuriootpa to Ceduna*...

After staying in Nuri for a couple of nights, today saw me loaded up and heading to Ceduna before making my way over to W.A. Naturally I stopped to find a few caches along the way.

A pleasant enough day with the rain holding off. A nice quick find too.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment Tk2.

Stamped log and replaced...

**Took**: *Nothing*
**Left**: *Nothing*

**#10408**

TFTC, SL, TNL:N.

Hi there Tk2.

We found your cache **"Merriton Post Office"** at 12:48:00 PM today. (This makes our find count 16035).

Our trek today took us from Gladstone, through Crystal Brook and on to Merriton following the "next closest" route plotted by the GPS. Then it was through Wandeeran and Lauriston before heading back to Gladstone using the same method.. On our trek we found a variety of container types. & ended up finding 18 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.

Normally we don't attempt nano caches, as we believe that their usage has become far too common these days, and many are placed in spots (such as this) where a really decent container could have been hidden. It's really sad that hardly anyone attempts to place large, kid friendly caches any more. [?]

**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:** Nothing.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

It was far quicker to find this cache than to extract it from its hidey-hole, or to get the log out and sign it. But it was done.

Nice easy drive by cache just a little drive off the highway
Cache found but had to retrieve a tool from car to retrieve the cache
Logged signed and we were on our way down the road to next cache
Tftc

Quick easy find. Found with VCM. Such small log book that I had to sign our names VCM and TTM. Thanks for bringing us here. #ttmug ??

Find #667 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 easy find. There appears no more room on the scroll. Squeezed in our name and date into another area.

what a nice day ! fine weather and a nice cache - Thanks for showing us !

Found with geo son while on work trip

TFTC Tk2

Taking muggle sister and a friend to Laura and caching along the way on a beautiful spring day, great to see the sun again.
This was our first stop and took longer than it should have. It was only when I looked from a different direction that I spotted the little blighter.
Thanks for the cache Tk2.

Today am caching with 3LG zig zagging our way towards Whyalla to catch up with The X-Trailers.
A great spring day and the company good as well as the many caches we are finding along the way.
TFTC

Nice quick find

Slippery little sucker. Tft

Thanks for this one. Found with my dad and my kids on a Saturday drive!

Found by Mary & David at 1215. Hard to believe that this was once a bustling area with lots of people. A nice little piece of social history. Our thanks to Tk2.

A quick stop while on our drive up to Mambray Creek campground on the first day of our 2016 road trip. TFTC

Mini Tweety needed a toilet stop, so we waited for a cache, then stopped, quick find. TFTC.

We have returned from Canada to discover a few more Australian caches! What a great way to explore the Land Down Under" ...


Thanks for the fun Tk2!

On a trip from Warragul to Iron Knob to fill in some gaps to qualify for The Well Travelled Cacher Challenge ! Vic
Thanks for this cache to fill this gap.

Today we are on our way to Wudinna grabbing caches along the way,interesting little spot, cache soon found and signed. TFTC

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Enjoyed wander around the country - loved scene - plenty see the wild animals etc... [8)]

Thanks for hide the cache for me to found it
Again thanks Tk2[font=Verdana][/Teal] [^]

It was very quiet here today. Looks like
no one was home.
Found the sneaky hide and signed the log.

Thanks Tk2

Little Squirell

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 Tk2 for placing this cache.

Wow. Must have been on this road hundreds of times over 40 years and didn't know this town was here. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. TFTC. TNLNSL.

Ma baby she wrote me a letter!

But all I found was this cache

TFTC
Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

Quickly found, had to go back to the car for a tool to retrieve the cache. Replaced cache in the proper, hidden and easily retrievable location. TFTC

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.

This was a slippery little sucker to try and retrieve .
Got it eventually . TNLNSL.
Thanks again Tk2.

Love these places time forgot

Thanks for the cache Tk2.

My favourite type of cache SL TFTC

My Bestie loved stopping here, to add pics to her PO collection.
Although there was no building to see!
TNLNSL
Thanks

Quick stop on our way to Cleve.
Love finding out interesting facts.
Cheers and thanks for the cache

Touring Australia having left Perth in late February we are leisurely touring South Australia.

Staying in a 'Free Camp' we werent sure what the weather was going to hold for today. Turned out quite magical, with grey thunder clouds overhead but sunshine still shining through.

We visited the towns of Merriton, Redhill, Koolunga, Yacka and Gulnare also Threadgold's Crossing. A busy day and lots of fun exploring, but with sadly 4 DNF's.

Thanks for helping us tour this region by visiting your cache Tk2

Quick find with Genghicat on way to Pirie. TFTC

400th for me. Yayyyy

Nice quick find on our trip to Port Pirie. Found with Donnazev.

Think we also found the pen J & J mentioned in their log too

TFTC.

Heading up to meet Aussie M & M in Chrystal Brook with mogni. Of course getting there would always provide a few stops. .
Easy to spot but hard to get out with my fat fingers. Thanks Tk2

Another find on our way to Oz Mega via Darwin.

Cheers

Bundy

I searched well but found nothing, I wonder if the nearby house came looking at what all the strangers were doing?

Clever little nano. Difficult to get the log out

I didn't find the cache initially, but did find a pen attached to a carabiner clip lying on the ground. I wondered if it was a sneaky cache container, so dismantled the pen to confirm that I was wrong. I placed the pen behind the sign and spotted the real cache container. Yay!

Thanks Tk2.

Life's too short apparently, so I embarked on a cache run from Crystal Brook to Spalding. 3 roos, 5 rabbits, 23 finds and quite a few DNF's (though that's expected on an unexpected warm night in the country in December). This was a quick find and relatively quick log. 1875-1979, that's a good stint!

A quick find in the rain.... Aussie M & M sheltered in the car.
Aren't I lucky
Thanks

A bout of Mondayitis inspired Mr M to go caching with Mrs M and a visiting Mogni. A trip to the Mid North was hastily planned. Snowtown recorded the highest windgust in 8 years... and we were probably retrieving a cache at that time. A great day was had despite the weather.

mongi made a quick find. The Aussies still have some chairs that were bought from the Merriton Hall auction many years ago. TFTC Tk2.

Found on the Drive back up to Port Augusta for work - TFTC

sneaky little hide, so many old buildings around its intresting to know
TFTC

Found by The Noodler. Bloody nano's. TFTC.

Found on our way south to Redhill.
A short detour led us to this cache
Thanks Tk2

tb visits

was on my way home from the YP, to pick up a new toy for my geoute,

was driving past, and seen a helicopter hovering over gz, think they were looking to see if they should attack gz with it been a nano and all. they musnt have thought it was worth it so they flew off to check out the rest of the power lines and local caches

472

Another long forgotten area. TFTC

Moneydork, Skippy and I found this one pretty late at night so I didn't get a good look around. It was cold so I wasn't really interested in hanging around. but perhaps I'll go past another time and get the chance to see what you brought us here to see. Thanks TK2

Found on our way to roxby to save the world by getting taken over by the enlightened faction ( ingress )
Thanks for the cache

A quick night time find. TFTC

Easy ... once you get the nano. I put it back as I found it, but slightly easier.

First "nano" for me. TFTC

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.
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This cache was found using a Garmin Montana 650t. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK 8.

Found with TWDG on a run to Pt.Augusta
TFTC!

Sorry for such an old log.

Found while on a short, 2 day, Pt Augusta road trip with Princess Consuela.
Nice spot, good hide.
TFTC Tk2

Found It!
Bloody nanos! Luckily this one was easy...
I'd like to read a bit more about the history of this place but sadly this cache is PM only so I can't see the description
TFTC anyway

Spent an enjoyable day with Moses on the Move, travelling 400km over 14 hours, learning the history of the area and gaining smileys.
Thanks