Secret Santa - 2012 Crystal Brook Crystal Brook, South Australia, Australia
By nic.hil.kel on 25-Nov-12. Waypoint GC41WQX

Thank you - beautiful day!

With Mrs one-eyed we stopped in CB for a cuppa and town photos of the old buildings etc then did some caching and located this one ok tftc for a lovely spot from one of-eyed

An unusual spot to be exchanging Christmas gifts but an interesting creek and golf course nearby.

Near the Heysen

Good kids s one. Cheers and tftc

All ok. One slow driving muggle.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.nic.hil.kel, I found Secret Santa - 2012 Crystal Brook today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Nice little 200th find!

Very peaceful

Found while out and about. Thank you nic.hil.kel for the cache.

Found while driving around with DennisC52. Tftc.

found!

Nearly missed it even though we had uncovered it TFTC

We did it

Pretty cool

Nice one like the travel bugs!!!

Very cool idea

Decided to grab some caches on the way to Port Broughton this morning for veterans golf. Nice quick find TFTC

Today I went with Michells&Hound and Gridge98 on a roadtrip up to Port Pirie. A great way to spend a Sunday. A stop off at the bakery as I was getting hangry! TFTC.

Today I headed out with CourtneyRose and Gridge98 for a mystery tour to Port Pirie and back. We travelled many kms and found lots of super caches. The gnomes at Clements Gap were particularly good.
Quick bakery lunch in Port Pirie and then back via random country towns and back roads to Adelaide.
An enjoyable day with around 45 finds for the day and the World out to rights.
Nice quick find here TFTC

A nice spot down by the river here today, cache is all good

Today Michell&Hound and Courtneyrose_ and I heard north to do a days caching around port Broughton/port Pirie area. Despite the extensive amount of rain of recent and the wet roads no trouble was had and a lovely day out. Total of 46 finds plus a few labs for the day.

Thanks for the cache

TFTC. Day 19 of honeymoon caching trip. Staying at Crystal Brook with glorious weather on our last “big” caching day before heading home !

Happy caching and safe travels!

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.

Looks like the brief warm weather had gone and rain ️ is in the way so we are out with iluvtrekking grabbing finds while we can remain dry. Thanks for the hide.

TB collected! Willie wagtail watched do it tftc

Found after a catch up with a dear friend back from Canada!
Dropped in a TB

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 - Nic Hil Kel [^]

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 quick 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 nic.hil.kel!

Staying at Crystal Brook cp. magnificent gums. Tftc

Found it

Found

Lovely view

GPS correct. Thanks.

TFTC

Quick find, after a DNF across the toad.

Hollie is a legend

????

Found it by accident

hello

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 I rounded the bay and started heading back down the Yorke Peninsula to check this part out.
So after relocating to Crystal Brook I am able to spend the whole day exploring so after having 4 new boots fitted to the Geocruiser in Port Pirie this morning then finding a few more in town and then headed back to finish off the ones around Crystal Brook.
The weather has definitely warmed up a lot as it is now in the very high 30’s so definitely need to keep hydrated.
I came along this way looking for the old railway bridge, found it and realised it is not in use anymore as a freight train was going overhead on a different bridge.
A great idea for Secret Santa Caching and it is good to see you paying back by placing a cache for all of us to find.
So after finally locating the cache I added my name to the log and on to the next one.
Thanks nic.hil.kel TFTC.

Found 7/2/21

Headed north for a day of random caches and great views.

A nice quick drive by. No chimneys to climb down. Here's to Secret Santa

thanks for the smiley nic.hil.kel


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Happy 9th distanced day of Christmas!
Avoid bugs (except travel bugs) - avoid people - cache the regions !

Out team caching with Jack for a great start to #2020won !

Found it TFTC. Cache found out in the open so re-hide it. Cache in good condition

Found

Found 21-8-20

Summerbub
8/7/20

Took a few minutes but my sister and I got it, not a bad first find

A bit harder this time of year!

Found while caching in the Crystal Brook area for a day. an easy find made by Jack Jam. TFTC.

Up here nice and early with a Muggle mate railfan, i was gonna be grabbing hides between the trains [that can be long lengths of time] so i made the best use of that time as a Cacher does [^]

This hide was first up. I was looking in all the wrong spots at first but then the cache was located and the log was signed at 09:23 on Sat 16 May 2020.

All is good and dry within the cache

TFTC nic.hil.kel

Easy find just off the track

TFTC nice find quick drive by out and about

TFTC Another quick drive by for the day. The log was signed & dated then returned to its hiding spot.
We took nothing but left a pretty red sparkly as a xmas token.

WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM

Our GPS units were a little slow to settle at this location. However once they started to behave consistently, the cache was located quite quickly. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks nic.hil.kel for the cache.

A nice walk and took a little while
To find but finally found it!!!

8587 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1345. Took a few minutes to find this one. SL Tnx nic.hil.kel

Quite an easy find and fun tftc

After some poking around we came up empty handed

Had the two littlies with me, so worried about snakes. Not too much exploring off the beaten track

On the way to Adelaide, detour and signed the log as EV and thanks for the cache and hide

Found it

Took the kids for a ride and treasure hunt to find a few caches

An easy find. TFTC

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Here to watch the classic Motocross and get a cache or two. This was easy enough to find in this beautiful shady spot under the trees.

Found while travelling from the motocross back to home. Thanks for placing this cache.

Tftc

On our way home from the Oz mega in Alice. another quick find to help break up the drive. tftc

So close to home!!

Hi there nic.hil.kel.

We found your cache **"Secret Santa - 2012 Crystal Brook"** at 11:27:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 16027).

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.

**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.

Good one Santa

Port Pirie Day 2
Todays trip was down towards Crystal Brook, mostly on farming backroads.
We took a detour & went up into the foothills of the Southern Flinders Rangers.
A great day out, many scenic locations & learning more of the history in the area.
Thanks for placing this cache nic.hil.kel

Couldn't find. Looked hard may have been taken or washed away in storm

Look much longer than it should have done! But finally got it

Had a quick look 20 minutes after and found it straight away! Silly me! TFTC.

TFTC Nic.hil.kel

Yes secret Santa was generous to me more than once as well.
There are some very nice people around and thank you for placing this cache in honour of him/them.
Found with 3LG .

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

Yay! Found with three little helpers

Ok

Found it

After visiting Mr J's grandmother in Crystal Brook, we decided to head on to Port Pirie via this cache. The container was found quickly, and we were soon on our way again.

Secret Santa left gifts for us on three occasions, but we've only ever found two of them. There is an unclaimed Secret Santa gift on the outskirts of Clare if anyone's interested.

Thanks nic.hil.kel.

Good quick find while out caching with 2babaz. TFTC

Quick Find With KIWI friends TFTC

A quick find on a quick Sunday drive with Stavros08 to Crystal Brook for a couple of caches. It's a pity that SS no longer rewards South Australian geocache hiders but can certainly understand. TFTC

Gg

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! TFTC

Lots of soursobs coming up adding to the camo!

Nice little trip out to the creak, thanks for the cache and for bringing us out here. Off road bikes going this way and that while we were here.

Rustic Relic
(Budgie)

What a great idea for a Secret Santa.
Ideal for Geocachers. The cache was
found ok but no 'gift' for us.
Signed log and off to find another...

Thanks nic.hil.kel.

Little Squirell

Quick find,thsnks

Found on a lovely day for caching in good company. TFTCSL

TNLN, TFTC!

Great day out on the Dirt Bike with Demon41 quick find Thanks nic.hil.Kel TNLN

Big tree

A quick find in a delightful spot along the brook
TFTC Secret Santa, whomever you are

found it

another good hide thanks

TFTC
Ratusd/Deon, Corey

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.