GLO IN THE DARK ? Port Pirie West, South Australia, Australia
By desertfox41 on 13-Nov-12. Waypoint GC417NK

Got it. Thanks.

TYFC Out and in Pirie for a couple of days

Thanks

Up here for work, thanks to crowdstrike. Out and about after the work day was done.Nice easy find.TFTC SL

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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 This was a quick find, but man the mozzies where insane! it took us about 1/2 hour to finally rid them out of the car! TFTC

TFTC desertfox41 your cache GLO IN THE DARK ? that we found today. We are camped at the CMCA camp. After a morning caching run we returned to camp for lunch before heading out in the afternoon do do some more caching and exploring.Had to be quick the mozzies were threatening to carry us away.Find Count: 17545

Darwin to Adelaide Road Trip
Day Nine: Port Augusta to Gumeracha
Weather: perfect, but windy

Nobody else has commented on the unexplained doghouse nearby!

I wasn’t aware of this facility - poor Port Pirie - as if they didn’t have enough to worry about with the lead.

Thanks for the cache desertfox41.

It’s officially a mega - GCA1DNA “The Great Leap Forward”
Adelaide, South Australia. February 29, 2024
We would love to have your company.

Getting toward the end of our run picking up a few around the town. A very quiet spot to me hunting around the bushes. 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.

One we would not like to search for in the dark. With all the road closures, getting to GZ was easy, getting back out through the off road area meant we went around in circles only to escape from where we once were. Took TB to move on.


Thank you for the cache desertfox41 Find Number 10625 on 5/07/2023

12419 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1140. Luckily this was a quick find as the mossies were here in their numbers. Left TB SL Tnx desertfox41

Good, quick find! Thanks guys!

Very cool history lesson. With goblinrider

Tftc

Pete

Loved the history lesson

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!

A very quick in and out as we tried to avoid the giant mosquitoes. They definitely look like they've been irradiated with something!

Quick drive by. Tftc

Mr matmobs grandfather worked at the factory many years ago. Thanks for showing us where it was.

Found!

Found

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 out with iluvtrekking to explore Port Pirie on a beautiful winters day. Thanks for the hide desertfox

Quick find on my way past...
TNLNSL
Thanks

Tftc, I'll see if I'm glowing tonight

Very well hidden

Found

Found

Good little look

Nice walk through the deserted suburbs. Cache good.

I feel all warm & fuzzy after finding this one! tftc

Quick find. Cheers and tftc

Away for a few days with Featherwaite to clear up Kadina to Port Pirie.

We pretty much achieved our target barring a few dnfs.

A quickj find.


TFTC

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

Quite easy

hello

I was heading to Port Pirie to pick up my muggle sister and bring her home to Port Broughton where I was going to stay for a few days so of course I allowed myself plenty of time to pick up some caches along the way. [^]

Interesting history and a drive around the deserted streets to look at a few of the remaining derelict buildings. Then a quick find of the cache.

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 arround town to find a few caches.

TFTC desertfox41

Thank you

Could leave the car running for this one

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Found it

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Didn’t sign the log too hot to walk and didn’t want to meet any Joe Blakes, could see it from the car, but only cause we know what to look for. If a muggle looked they wouldn’t know. Sadly it appears lots of people discard rubbish here as well. TFTC

This one is awesome! Thankyou!

#LSB

Found whilst in town for business. Cache and log book in good condition. No glo today! TFTC.

Found with DennisC52. Tftc

But if a wet and slippery drove to this one via the route we took. Stopped by for a quick find

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.

A uranium treatment plant was here? That was something I wasn't aware of, and I'm surprised to see it hasn't been revegetated and refurbished, after being so many years? It is no surprise that the Port Pirie residents wanted some further action on this place. In terms of the geocache, the cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks desertfox41 for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

TFTC

Crazy that this is still here

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

 

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 set up camp in Port Pirie, and it started raining, so all caches were in and out and between showers...

We headed out to this scary spot and spotted from car. Thanks desertfox41

TFTC nice find quick drive by

TFTC
A quick drive by. We signed & dated the log then returned it back to its location.
So sad to see this back road is used as a dumping ground. There’s bags of rubbish strewn everywhere. It’s a pity people can’t or won’t dispose of their waste at a transfer station.

Out on a cloudy day with Shandyk and was lucky enough to have this as one of my finds for today. TFTC.

Found previously so just visited the travel bugs on a day out caching with Guz's Travellers - set up camp in Port Broughton for the week.
TFTC

Found nice and easily while exploring the area. Thanks for this hide.

Found together with Dismart. Its an interesting place to visit. Tftc

Thanks for the local info and easy find.

Nice and hidden

Found it!!!!

Last day in the region, just passing time until van fixed. Caches helping to fill in time. The places you visit while caching! . Tftc

Unexpected stay in pirie was a good excuse to grab a few local caches. Thanks for the interesting bit of history, TFTC!

The cache was found quickly. Maralinga is the site of the nuclear testing and that is where i am headed, i will say it is worth every cent you pay for the tour.
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 # 6232.

Looked for this as I saw not many have been touched here for quite a while. Picked up a TB We will keep moving on our lap of Oz! TFTC no swaps

Bit of a wander with Purrfect Di, muggle Alex, Sebastbat and Jack today.
Nothing glowing here, but a neatly hidden cache.
Left a trackable, maybe it'll glow for the next person to move on!
Thanks for this cache desertfox41

Very dark in this part of the city, the cache didn't glow for me. Thanks for the hide.

Not glowing yet .... but i sure am not keen to spent long in this area, not the nicest side of town, and we are talking about Port pirie! Good to see a side of the town I haven’t seen before though!! TFTC

Thank you having fun

Out on a nice late arvo cache run with Shantee969, RizzyBee & RizzyTee... TFTC

Found ok
Thanks

Found whilst on a day trip to Port Pirie. TFTC

We found it. took a lill bit took bouncy ball left Simpson character
Mossies scared the kid

Found

Out n about with geocaching wife. Tftc

A weekend away with my hubby. Decided to come up here to Port Pirie and spend the weekend caching and also relaxing in the hotel. Cool area, very interesting. took turtle left bouncy ball. TFTC

Hi there desertfox41.

We found your cache **"GLO IN THE DARK ?"** at 12:32:00 PM today. (This makes our find count 16065).

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.

###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.

An easy find today as I was driving around town until lunchtime.

Up here for work thought i would kill some time in the arvo.

In Port Pirie for a few days on our way to the mega in Alice Springs. TFTC

Port Pirie
Have booked into the caravan park for a couple of nights. We sure need it with the outside temperature of 45degrees.
After arriving we did some caching in the town area before returning to the caravan for lunch.
In the afternoon we headed north to Weeroona & then home by Scenic Drive. A great tikik tour of the area.
Thanks for placing this cache desertfox41

TN left turtle. TFTC.

Thanks

Working at Pt Pirie for a couple of days so after work I had time for a cache or two. Arrived at GZ and was attacked by the Mozzies so much so I had to retreat to the Geovan for the Aeroguard. The cache had been muggled, but not that long ago, as most items were dry but scattered about, I put them all back in the black container had re hid the cache.

Mozzies are bad here! TFTC

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 was a dark night when we found this cache and nothing glowed back at us!!!
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

Visited this location a few years ago with no1 son, before we started playing the game as well. This revisit reminded me that the multitude of mosquitos there last time had multiplied and gotten bigger, even in winter! Easy find however so time spent looking was minimal. Tftc

Spent the afternoon and night in Pirie after 5 weeks touring the West and North. There has been a proliferation of new caches since I last stopped in town. TFTC.

Thanks for the cache!

Our geiger counter didn't go up, just or founds count with this one
TFTC

Quite easy to see

Found with Justjessie, . TFTC