Tailem's Picnic Tailem Bend, South Australia, Australia
By Moneydork on 11-Jan-13. Waypoint GC446YM

Found the described hide location but no cache to be find.

Cache archived.

Seems to be missing. I will work on a replacement.

Heading home after a week away working at Mount Gambier Hospital. Arrived at Tailem Bend and time for another break. Driven past here a number of times and have never know about this spot, down by the river, what a great place for a Picnic or BBQ. Will be back with the grandkids. Found the spot easy but cache is now missing, stuck my hand in and had a good feel around even took some pictures. Usually have a spare container and log book or two with me but not this time Please check to see if this cache is still there

Had a good look for this one but either the cache is missing or I overlooked it. May need a Maintenance Check.

Followed instructions came up with nada TFTH but made for disappointing start to day

Such a lovely spot to stop for a break and a dip.
Cheers and thanks for the cache

What a lovely spot for a swim and rest. TFTC

Found it!
First on a day across the mallee,
easy find with a new cacher and tickledpink2,
TFTC and the hunt

Found with The_Bogans on a tour to Swan Hill.

Soo easy to find just sitting on the grass so I decided to hide it a little better. My sister was so happy to find a one direction sticker in it.

Excellent spot to put it good hide

Found while riding down the Murray, catching all the ferries. tftc.
Crusty.

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

Container missing only has the logbook in a plastic bag and is wrapped in a fly net, sorry I had no containers with me as I was on my bike today.

Today I was dropped off at Talem Bend with my pushy I was intending to do the Wandering Heroes Trail up to Wynarka (as I already have done between Wynarka and Karoonda on another visit to my Brother In Law and his family). But before I started the trail I cleaned up a couple of the local caches. I found this one after a jaunt across the river on the ferry. This one needs a new container, as I was on my bike I had no spare ones with me. TFTC.

This cache needs attention. We found the contents scattered on the ground, couldn't find a container so signed log and returned log etc in plastic bag to hiding place. TFTC

Nice and easy find on a beautiful day

[:(!] Over from Perth visiting our geoson (RevolutioSolutio) and his family for a couple of weeks over the festive season, today we left for Griffith to visit another one of our sons and his family, on the way we picked up some caches along the way and this was one of them, parked the geoGrand Vitara as close as possible to GZ and we walked in from there, on arrival at GZ the cache was in hand in a matter of minutes.

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH Moneydork [^]

Great camaflague bag! TFTC:)

Christmas Adelaide 2013. A few people were running their dogs in the park and one kept coming to see what I was up to, but when he left I extracted the cache and walked back to the car without any more dog problems. Thanks.

12849.22 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2006 July Signal A#37

Albida

Found it beautiful spot

Quick find with the geofamily after visiting Old Tailem Town. Tftc.

this was a great cache TFTF

Spent most of the day doing a few Oz Mega Signal caches with BettyBoo3747, and we grabbed a few extras on the way and our return to Tailem Bend.
It is so green down here compared to where we are staying on the top of the cliff.
Lots of cars in the carpark, but no one around - very strange, but very helpful for caching.
We walked across the lovely lawn for a quick find.
Thanks, Robmc.

# 5022. Robmc and I are in SA to tackle a few of the many Series and today it was Signal's turn. We made an early start from Tailem Bend and found the first of the 89 caches at 7.22am. After successfully finishing the Series we went on to collect a few more for a total of 111 for the day.

Rich green grass! That is a novelty around here. This was a lovely spot to find today. We stopped to admire the old timbers on the banks (looked like it was related to the old car ferry). We did watch the ferry cruising back and forth, and the fishermen enjoying the afternoon. We then took a long walk to the next cache along here. A good hide here.

Thanks Moneydork

Located it on way to work. Actually met the cache owner the night before.

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Having spent much of the day in ‘Jump out – Sign – Jump in’ mode of the nearby Wandering Heroes series, it was a pleasant change to seek out some of the local individual hides. This would be the perfect place for a picnic, the river was magnificent.

SL . . Thanks for the hunt Moneydork.
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I love the camo, that's quite cool and very effective : ) a quick find even though the GPS wanted me to keep going further down. TFTC

21.11.13 tftc lovely spot

No time for a picnic
way too many caches to find on way to Millicent
Took TBs for a visit
tftc

Grerat views of the river and can't believ how high the river is at present.
Caching with the x-trailers.
Took trackables to visit.
TFTC

Well done Pixie...

TeamInc~~~~~> the pixie
Well done !!!!

Found on a quick break during a big drive, nice spot!

Quick find while having a picnic lunch tftc

Found on a drive with a muggle and Rebecca-grace26

Found caching with Ben7726

Great srea for a picnic. TFTC.

Found on a huge caching run with Dunko over to the SA power runs, as always we enjoyed where the caching took us along with the hunt. Our tanks to Moneydork for the effort and placement TNLN SL

Found while out and about at large with my caching mate Slink1 on a huge caching run. We had a crack at the new SA power runs and as always we enjoyed where the caching took us. Our thanks to Moneydork for the effort and placement TNLN SL

Found It!
Nice little spot and an easy find. Saw a speedboat almost crash into the Ferry to...
TFTC

Heading out of the area we decided to stop at Tailem's bend. Short walk down the stairs and we soon had the cache in hand. Took both TB and will drop them off in Canberra. Nice spot on the river, thank you for bringing us here.

Wow. What a great view. TFTC.

On our way to Melbourne and we thought we'd stop and see the ferry. TFTC

Nice spot good hide used to fish here a lot dropped 2 tb

Easy found on our way through Wellington

After stopping for a comfort stop a visit to the bakery seemed logical which then stretched to a walk around the block to visit a couple of caches and stretch the legs. TFTC and the exercise.

This entry was edited by 2rascals on Tuesday, 01 October 2013 at 13:04:00 UTC.

A beautiful spot to take a break from our drive from Adelaide to Keith. Geomum fed geobub on a picnic bench overlooking the river while geodad and geokid made the find. Took blue bell. Left bee magnet. TFTC

Good spot. Easy find. Great spot for morning tea. TFTC

This was a lovely picnic spot that was empty just as the sun was starting to set. After finding the log we headed off to enjoy some dinner at the nearby pub. Thanks for the cache.

Lovely spot by the river. Was a beautiful sunny day. Easy to find.

An early start, but Brisal5 and I managed to find a few more before I started work for the day (and night) at Pedal Prix in Murray Bridge.
Thanks

Had a Goth visiting for the Murray Bridge Pedal Prix. Able to get a few in before the race. Quick easy find. Just at the bottom now. Thanks moneydork

Returned today with geopal How Do They Know?, had some lunch at this lovely spot and continued on our way to Bushies for a 4WD weekend. Thanks Moneydork.

Easy find at our lunch stop on the way to a 4WD and camping weekend near Coonalpyn. Thanks for bringing Are We There Yet! & me to this lovely picnic area Moneydork.

I had purchased a sandwich and a sausage roll from the bakery. What a perfect spot to eat it. Gotta love lunch time caching.

Thanks to Moneydork and clear skies from TeamAstro.

My lunch stop for the day (a bit late at 3:00pm) .
Being such a nice day, was surprised the place was nearly empty , with no-one anywhere near GZ.
Interesting to see the old ferry ramp - the only one I've ever seen (they're usually removed). You can just imagine the old horse and wagon getting on and off here [:o)].
TNLNSL.
Thanks Moneydork.

no picnic basket today but a lovely place to cache tftcsl

*Spy Gecko Is a team made up of spyjordy and Purple Gecko for the scouts geocaching competition. Thank you for placing caches that assist us during this competition. Tftc sl.
Sorry if our photos dont quite match up, they are needed for the competition but im not sure the caches are still in the same order as we found them after going in to GSAK.*

Today I went out with McKee Clan and Purple Gecko, We also had LocusCache, the Burtons, Clare007 and Gizmos Gang join us, we did the wanering heroes up to Karoonda. A fun day was had by all and we found some very creative caches out there and some that weren't part of the series. I will let McKee Clan write a more detailed log for all the caches. TFTC SL

Today I went out with McKee Clan and spyjordy, We also had LocusCache, the Burtons, Clare007 and Gizmos Gang join us, we did the wanering heroes up to Karoonda. A fun day was had by all and we found some very creative caches out there and some that weren't part of the series. I will let McKee Clan write a more detailed log for all the caches. TFTC SL

Quickly found on a cool day
TFTC

Wasn't hidden as described. Still at the spot. Tried to put it back as is should be. Think muggles must have found it and left it outside.
TFTC. Beautiful spot.

Another great spot to stretch the legs. Could be all right fo fishing. TFTC.

A quick find on the way home. TFTC.

A beautiful spot by the river, one of the advantages of places that are often forgotten like this is that they're pretty quiet. We think the signage should have been given some more thought though, "Toilets reserve" doesn't really sound great!
Signed the log and watched the pelicans circling overhead. Then hopped on the ferry to head across the river, thankyou for the cache.

Quick stop on our way to Radelaide for Table Tennis. Getting closer TFTC

No muggles here today!
Weather was not kind - I got hailed on multiple times doing this one.
TNLN, TFTC.

A quick find before heading off to the wandering heroes series. What a nice spot this is! I then caught the ferry across to 'Duck Season' Across the river!

A very pretty spot. Not sure why I didn't look for it on my last visit. Interesting camo.
TFTC Moneydork

Quick find on drive back to Melbourne took the stairs to stretch my legs. TFTC

thank you for show me nice view and ferry there too

Found with geokids after football.

Previously logged under a team account. Re-logging with my individual account.

Relogging this under individual account, previously a member of Gaz'n'Kab account.

We made our way from Queensland today, and after getting the earliest flight into Adelaide, we were a little tired, alhough decided today would be the perfect day to tackle the Signal Series . After grabbing that series, we headed back into town to grab a few more caches, including this one We were about to head across the ferry, and decided to grab this one while we waited. A quick find, and the cache was returned to its safe hole.

TFTC Moneydork

Gaz'n'Kab

found it,
had to wait until some locals and their pooch finished playing ball
great spot
this cache may get muggled in the summertime

Found on our road trip north to Uluru. Beautiful spot, aforementioned pelicans drifted past! tftf

The rain was starting to fall much more heavily as we arrived near GZ. After parking the car we were able to get some shelter under the trees as we looked for this cache. It took a few minutes before we could locate the cache, despite the detailed hint. The cache and its contents were in good condition. TFTC Moneydork

Heading. Back from hockey tournament in Adelaide. Watches the ferry cross.

Were some muggles enjoying the lovely spot - having a picnic, perhaps? So couldn't get this one. Very nice to discover this spot though, having driven past it (up on the highway) so many times.
Perhaps another time, TFTC.

This was our 2nd cache find in the caching run & we found it at 10:50
So this now makes our total find count 6737.
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Yep, we did the wandering heroes series. We didn't even plan for a personal best and it took us quite a few days to complete. Now we are concentrating on quality rather than quantity.

We had a lot of difficulty replacing the cache in the same manner as we found it. Epic fail on our part. It's idden but not in the same way.
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Coordinate Accuracy: Excellent (Around 2 metres)
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Nothing.
Thanks Moneydork for the hunt today.

Nice to see a cache in this spot again, after the demise of "Punt Crossing".
TN Left frog and boomerang

Our first cache on our 'Mia's 21st Series' (aka Adelaide to Melbourne)
Was kinda hard to be stealthy whilst sticking your arm in various holes in trees but we did it haha!


We also visited with our polar bear geofriend, but somebody has already grabbed him from us before I got the chance to log it

Stopped by after doing a section of the Wandering heroes. Nice area and a couple with fishing lines in the water ever hopeful I guess - no bites while I was there. Took TB. TFTC Moneydork.

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TFTC

what a nice picnic ground. it didn't take long to find this cache.
regards Crisp image

Re-enabling with temporary replacement. Hope to replace permanently later in the week.

TB "Scrat" visited your cache whilst on his Great Aussie Adventure.

Found it with Geo-rge & Miss Jane on our road trip to WA.

Called in and watched the ferry cross the river.

I then went and found the cache.

Dipped TB's

TFTC Moneydork

This cache was found during The Demolition Crew with Ponty95 24 hour and 1000 caches in 48 hours record breaking challenge caching run in South Australia.

I've been on quite a few caching road trips during my time as a cacher and this one was one of the best. The idea was to see how many caches we could find in 24 hours, with the goals being to break the Australian 24 hour caching record, and then continue on the next day to see if we could eventually find a total of 1000 caches or more in the 48 hours. Needless to say we did manage to fulfill both goals.

Not only does SA have some lovely contryside and Adelaide itself is famous for its churches, SA is also known for its numerous, extensive and well laid out cache 'powertrails'. The OZ Mega, OZ Signal and the Wandering Heros series of caches in particular are the largest and just a few of the many that can be tackled. With this is mind, TDC started planning the 24 hour challenge caching run back in late 2012, and over a period of many, many months we laid out careful plans on how we were going to break the Australian 24 hour caching record, as well as find as many caches as possible while on the road.

The intricate attention to detail proved to be esssential to us completing our goals. With routes planned, essential supplies loaded (especially museli bars, water and energy drinks) and every cache detail documented, we headed off on the 6th to begin our journey. By the end we had accomplished what we had set out to do, smashing the 24 hour record and finding over 1000 caches in the 48 hours. We had an absolute ball and needless to say were knackered by the end but the final result was worth every hours lack of sleep.

Apart from finding many 'stand alone' caches we did manage to complete the OZ Mega, Oz Signal, Wandering Heros, TDF, APM and PSA series, the 40, 50 and 60 series of caches as well as a number of Adelaide puzzle caches and a few Melbourne - Adelaide multi caches.

Due to the number of cache finds and the resulting number of logs to write, I am reluctantly using a generic log to log each cache. The same goes for my fellow TDC cachers and Ponty95, full appreciation goes out to each of the CO's who placed caches that we found, and without your caches our fantastic caching experience would not have come to fruition.

Thanks, Quasar3671.

Found as part of the record run to SA by The Demolition Crew (TDC). While, I am not a member of the TDC, I was fortunate enough to be caching with Blacklegend, Quasar3671, Trailrunning and Rebel Acts on what was for me, a huge adventure.

As I live with Blacklegend, it was fantastic when he said "Do you want to come to South Australia on a huge caching trip". I jumped at the chance, as I'd never been to S.A. or Adelaide, and it was a fantastic feeling to know I was going to be part of something big, and I was.

To be part of the Australian 24 hour record, at such an early stage in my caching career, so to speak, and part of so many other finds, was experience building beyond anything I could have hoped for.

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Tuesday was the day of our record run from midnight to midnight. We rested before the start and got a few hours sleep. Once we started, it was a blur of caching, we did the Oz Mega, Oz Mega Signal, Wandering Heroes and TDF series along the way. Caches were being found so quickly, it was amazing. The time went very fast,and at the end, even the several cans of energy drink did nothing to hold off some tiredness. I got through, and was proud to have been part of this incredible day.

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Due to the extremely high number of finds for the trip, and on Blacklegend's advice and with his assistance, I have also gone with the generic logs. As the others have stated, it in no way takes away from the fantastic and enjoyable hides we found on the trip. As Blacklegend and the other have said, my sincere thanks to all cache owners who placed and maintain their caches, and made this trip possible for our group. TFTC, memories and the experience.

When the Wandering Series was first published it had been on the agenda of The Demolition Crew, however we were not able to arrange a time when all of us could go over. Fortuitously as time went by, more trails were published. Upon looking more closely at South Australia recently, there were many more power trails than we realised, and a plan was hatched to go over and grab as many caches as we could. We were all finally able to arrange a mutual time during the Easter school holidays, so the planning stages began.

Given the limited amount of time available to us, and so many caches to grab, we realised that a huge effort was going to be needed to grab them all. Rebel Acts being known for his record breaking 24 hour runs suggested that we try a 24 hour run of our own. Now there was a thought, a challenge in fact we readily accepted. A bit more planning (a lot more actually) and a route was chosen and run sheets drawn up.

With all the puzzles solved, and most of the multi's these caches were reduced to traditionals for the run day. With cars packed, stamps made, and spirits high we made our way to South Australia to find some plastic.

Tuesday was our attempt at a 24 cache run which naturally started at midnight and finished at midnight. It was a great run with Oz Mega, Oz Mega Signal, Wandering Heroes and TdF cache series being picked up. At one stage caches were being logged so fast it was all a blur. Naturally a few cans of toughen up were consumed many laughs had.

While I am using a generic log, it does not detract my appreciation of all the CO's who have put the time into placing and maintaining these caches. To each and every one of you, I thank you for being part of what has been the best cache road trip yet. Thank you!

Go TDC.

The cache was found as part of A massive cache run to South Australia with TDC Members Trailrunning, Quasar3671 and Blacklegend and a ring in Ponty95. It had taken us time to get this all together, finally a date was set and planning was started, I learnt one thing from my late mate dak's Emu Mob AKA Dave Kruger "Proper Planning prevents piss Poor Performance" he always said. Trailrunning was our master planner on this trip. I did this as part of a team but I also did it as a tribute to dak. having set the Australian Record twice before the question was, does the Rebel still have what it takes, I think the answer for that was yes. The challenge had been set down on FB "could the TDC find over 500 in a day, well we took up the challenge and headed to the power trail capital of Australia.
Tuesday was our attempt at a 24 cache run which naturally started at midnight and finished at midnight. It was a great run with Oz Mega, Oz Mega Signal, Wandering Heroes and TdF cache series being picked up. At one stage caches were being logged so fast it was all a blur. Naturally a few cans of toughen up were consumed many laughs had.
While I am using a generic log, it does not detract my appreciation of all the CO's who have put the time into placing and maintaining these caches. To each and every one of you, I thank you for being part of what has been the best cache road trip yet. Thank you!

Go TDC. LLTRTA

Found as part of the Demolition Crew record run to South Australia with fellow TDC members Quasar3671, Trailrunning, Rebel Acts and a guest on the trip, Poynts95.

The trip was a fair while in the making, and many aspects had to align to make it happen, including all of us getting the time to go. However, the "stars aligned" so to speak for us, and the trip was on. A date was set and much planning engaged, and when I say much, I mean a very large amount. We had an old saying where I used to work, and that was "Failing to be prepared, is being prepared to fail", so, we prepared, and prepared and prepared.

With a challenge set, being, could The Demolition Crew find over 500 caches in 24 hours, we headed forth to South Australia, the magical land of power trails, and over the duration of the trip, found in excess of 1250 caches, and indeed, easily beat the goal on our record day. Importantly too, we had a great time together.

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Tuesday was the day of our record attempt, a crack at the 24 hour Australian record. Starting at midnight and finishing at midnight, it was an awesome run. Some rest and sleep was had before the run, and many, many cans of energy drinks (harden up) was consumed during the 24 hours. We picked up the Oz Mega, Oz Mega Signal, Wandering Heroes and TDF series along the way. Caches were found and logged at an immense speed, and in hindsight, the greatest single day of caching I have ever had. It was hard, hard work, but a lot of fun. Humor and our goal kept our spirits up during a mammoth 24 hours.

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Due to the extremely high number of finds for the trip, I am opting for a generic log, which I never normally do, but as the others have stated, it in no way detracts from the high quality of hides we found on the trip. My sincere thanks to all cache owners who placed and maintain their caches, and made this trip possible for our group. You have all been part of the best caching road trip we have yet made. TFTC and the memories.

Replaced the cache from the resources of the Pajero.
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This cache was found using a Garmin Montana 650t. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK 8.

Seems to be missing.

No luck this morning. Looks like someone decided it was a good idea to have a little fire in the base of the tree..