PHOENIX PARK WETLANDS Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia
By desertfox41 on 17-Oct-12. Waypoint GC3YTZB

Quick find TFTC

Thanks desertfox41 for this out of the way hide.

Very nice spot

Looks like may have been Muggled , has been replaced all good too go !

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. Had a thorough search but didn't find this today, will watchlist and revisit.

found ittt, was very hidden but exactly where map said. should still be there

Found the container out in the open but otherwise all good so we signed and rehid. 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.

Another quick find with the hide just exposed to the elements. A note on the log sheet reads that someone (muggles) had found your stash.


Thank you for the cache desertfox41 Find Number 10637 on 5/07/2023

Found on a short night time caching run. A quick park and grab here. Signed log and left as found. Maybe not ideal to have loose batteries in the cache.

Find #5865 on 25 Jun 2023.
TFTC desertfox41!

SA’s Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - Feb 29th, 2024. Keep the date free!

I love these geocaches! They show us little treasures, even as locals, we didn't know about!
Paper was wet, no pen/pencil and no key ring?

TFTC. Day 17 of honeymoon caching trip. Ride out yesterdays weather, now some nicer weather for caching around Crystal Brook & Pirie

Happy caching and safe travels!

Another quick drive by, once we sorted out our way of getting to it. Tftc

After a day touring around Port Pirie and visiting wetlands this was last on the list and in contrast to the others was quite dry and mosquito free. Yaaay. Hard to believe this hidden outback oasis exists in the middle of town. Lived here years ago and had no idea. 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.

The sun is shining on our last full caching day in Port Pirie. Out with iluvtrekking grabbing the last of the straggler caches. We made a quick find here. Thanks for the hide.

Walked down, as instructed... found the cache open, on the ground, with contents strewn around.
Re-assembled, signed logsheet, and replaced as per hint, with some coverings.
GZ is obviously compromised so may need to shift it?
TNLNSL
Thanks

Logbook is full of muggle writings, also it has been compromised, so may need a new, nearby, GZ.

Found

Found

We found the cache open & lying on the ground & the log some distance away. There was writing on the log "we found your stash" so obviously muggled. We signed & replaced log in container & hid under a rock & loose bark. No doubt it will be muggled again as it is easily found. TFTC

No pencil and we forgot a pen. Big enough for swaps for anyone coming this way

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!

Easy find TFTC

Found it

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 arround town to find a few caches.

TFTC desertfox41

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Different container than listed.

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Easy find!

hello

TFTC

A nice place to visit. Thanks desertfox41.

Had to work out how to get into here but wasn’t too hard, arrived to find the cache wasn’t very well hidden by the last finder

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

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.

We found a way through from the main road into these wetlands, and managed to make a quick park and grab at GZ. We could actually see the geocache upon approach. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks desertfox41 for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

TFTC

On the way to Millicent Mega and detour and signed the log as EV and thanks for the cache and hide

 

TFTC nice find quick drive by

TFTC
A bit of a stroll & soon the cache was in hand where we signed & dated the log before returning it to its hiding spot.
Both log & cache container are in good condition

Got stuck into the new year today with Mr Froghoppin,
a nice drive and cache hunt on a cool rainy day!
Pleased to find the cache practically a drive by today.
Not so wet in the wetlands, but the rain was trying to help
tftc desertfox41

Last service trip for the year 2019, Starting at Port Pirie Hospital. Quick find after a walk from the TAFE car park.

Good find

Easily accessible, got a nice gift

Found easily with JDTJ

Replaced for the co.

Dnf

2nd cache for the week. Spending the week in this lovely town to further study aviation at one of the local schools. Quick easy find, however I managed to find two sperate containers, sadly they only count as one. Signed them both just in case. TFTC

Out n about with geocaching wife. Tftc

Nice easy find. TFTC

Staying at port for a few days after visiting Alice, Uluru and King's Canyon. Keen to do some local caches.
Parked nearby and we headed to GZ. Upon arrival found two containers with logs in each. We signed both logs "to be sure - to be sure" TFTC desertfox41

Hi there desertfox41.

We found your cache **"PHOENIX PARK WETLANDS"** at 11:08:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 16054).

Our trek today took us around Port Pirie following the "next closest" route plotted by the GPS. On our trek we found a variety of container types. We ended up finding 17 caches with 2 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.

We found two containers and log-books at GZ. We signed both. This is the log for the Sistema container. (See photo).

**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.

Hi there desertfox41.

We found your cache **"PHOENIX PARK WETLANDS"** at 11:08:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 16055).

Our trek today took us around Port Pirie following the "next closest" route plotted by the GPS. On our trek we found a variety of container types. We ended up finding 17 caches with 2 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.

We found two containers and log-books at GZ. We signed both. This is the log for the round container. (See photo).

**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.

After overnighting in Port Pirie it is time to continue our journey northward to the Oz Mega Event in Alice Springs. But first we must place some more smiles on the map for this area.

TNLN SL TFTC

TFTC desertfox41

3LG and I are caching our way to Whyalla to catch up with The X-Trailers .
We have several days in Pt Pirie to cache as much as possible.
A quick find and thank you for the history of this area.
It is many years since I have travelled around this area.
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

dnf

Short drive into the wetland area, and fortunately the mud had solidified enough for the 4by. Quick find in an interesting location. Tftc

Found it! TeamKD!!

Finally lol. Found it on my second try. Tftc.

surprised it hadn't washed away

Nice quick drove by through the race track
TFTC

Tftc.

TFTC

A quick find. TFTC

Another great find while on holiday in the area.

Thanks for the fun!
SL

Found with BoobookOwl & RuralPengiun. TFTC.

Found with ferret52. TFTC!

Checked with ferret52 had a good look around seems this one has gone missing?

After steve010 & Ferret52 failed to locate cach , Checked and found it had been muggled ! Has been replaced with a small black Sistema container containing zip bag log sheet & pencil.

with limbage thanks for the hide.

KarpyKarpyson and I embarked on a sweep of the Port Pirie region today. 30 caches in total for me. We watched tennis as we walked to and from GZ. KK found this one. TFTC Now time for lunch!

Another quicky. Cheers

Monday morning today. We are from Mount Gambier, South Australia. Up this way as we surprised Geodad yesterday for our One Year Anniversary together which is on Thursday but I will be back home for work. Geodad had left early this morning for work so it was a day touring the area caching while waiting for him to finish work. Quick & easy find. This was our 10th find for the day. TFTC

Thanks!

Nice easy find. Thanks.

Tftc found with polkys quest

Found with auzzie convict tftc

Nice day for a walk in the wetlands,good find thanks

Noticed the log by The Noodler that the Cach was missing, Have replaced it with new log book & pencil in zip bag its all go again !

The Noodler went looking, but sadly I believe it has been muggled. Found bits of torn up log book from the cache, but nothing else.

The tennis courts were a hive of activity this morning as I strolled past and into the wetlands

Out in the wetlands I soon found me a cache

Fifteen Love "If"

Quite a few playing tennis on this beautiful Sunday afternoon. Got a strange look from one group as we headed down to this one in the campervan.
A quick find here. Thanks.

Found 23/8/14

Crappy weather weather wise so decided to go Caching with a friend to pass the time.
Thanks desertfox41 for the hide.
TNLN

A quick find while taking a stroll after attending the official unveiling of the huey helicopter at the RSL club. Thanks for the hide.

A very easy find with sesblocker while caching in Port Pirie. Found it in the open, so added some natural camo to the hide. TFTC!

Another quick find with The Neighbs. TFTC

tb visits

On a numbers run to pirie, needing to finfd 25, but only managed 14 before running out of time.

most were an easy finds, a few were tricky and almost gave up.

last time i tried this one couldnt stop or i would have been bogged, today was an easy find

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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.

[Blue]# 9483 Found on the SA leg of our S.K.I.D.R.O. adventure.[/Blue]
A last short trip around town while staying at Port Pirie.
Not many muggles around and a quick find on most of them.
Thanks for the cache desertfox41,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

Day 10 of our Oz Mega 2014 Event trip. We have been clocking up lots of kilometres and lots of caches (not able to log them until I get home, and can see it is going to be a mammoth job when I do get around to it - oh well, the price of having so much fun now!!)

Arrived in Port Pirie late yesterday afternoon and pitched our tents before heading out for some tea and a few caches in the dark. Wasn't until this morning that we could check out what the place really looked like. Lots of history around here. Would like to come back some time and check it out a bit more.

Quick find here. Thanks desertfox41

Day 10 of my trip to the Oz Mega in Murray Bridge with Mistraluna.

After spending the night at Port Pirie we were headed off again.

Found cache without problems.

Thanks desertfox41 for the cache.
(506 of 629 for the trip.)

Nice quick find on our last day in Port Pirie.

TFTC.

Quick find with Genghicat whilst in Pirie. TFTC

Probably a nice easy cache to find, in the dry. With todays rain, each step towards GZ saw me grow in height by a few mm. Scraping the accumulated mud off my boots once back at the car was a task in itself.

Cheers

Bundy

A quick find during our visit to Port Pirie. We really enjoyed our visit and the geocaches we found took us to some interesting spots.

thanks

Had to go to Pt Pirie for work so took my time on the way and picked up a few caches.

Thanks to all who put caches out.

Found this one while out looking for somewhere to eat tea.

TFTC