Forty Winks #36 Whites Valley, South Australia, Australia
By
equipe de cinq on 23-Feb-13. Waypoint GC468CJ
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Logs
Travelling with iluvtrekking from our home state of WA on a SA caching foray. Staying in Aldinga for a few days and ranging from there to grab some finds. Scored another beautiful day after a couple of chilly ones. Love these country roads - our type of caching. Heed the hint! Found 10 mts from where gps indicated. Thanks for the hide LNCU
Travelling with richlink on our Annual Caravan Geocaching trip using geocaching as our guide. We are staying in Willunga for a few days searching for local caches. This cache was a DNF for us in 2022, we're happy to turn that frown upside down. LNCU
Oooohhhhh, had to think for this one Slightly ambiguous as the coordinates didnt match
The hint made it for me.One week on from SAs Leap Year MEGA Event and out caching again. This time around Aldinga/Willunga and anywhere else that looks interesting.equipe de cinq, I found Forty Winks #36 today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.
Found it with DeafPVC DeafPhantom DeafVW DeafCat Thank you Beautiful day love it
The plan was to cache some fresh air, scenery, and of course 40 winks
Cache found about 10m away from the coords
TFTC edc
Cache found about 10m away from the coords
TFTC edc
Cache replaced message sent to CO.Yay, we found it. Turned the blue into a yellow. Nearly finished
We are enjoying our time travelling SA. Fantastic towns, ruins, beaches and cliffs & wine. Thanks to all the COs for taking us on this geo-guided tour. Unfortunately, we came up empty handed today.
20 April 2022
4:49 pm
2029
Many thanks equipe de cinq but today was not my day to find Forty Winks #36!
Oh dear, two in a row. Either I’m tired or my GPS is tired maybe it’s time for 40 winks.
I will have to return another day to try again!
4:49 pm
2029
Many thanks equipe de cinq but today was not my day to find Forty Winks #36!
Oh dear, two in a row. Either I’m tired or my GPS is tired maybe it’s time for 40 winks.
I will have to return another day to try again!
What a day we have had today. The first thing that happened right before my eyes all my maps just disappeared from the GPS, nothing we did would bring them back. Finally after several phone calls trying to fix the problem we ended up on the phone to Garmin who declared that the GPS was terminal. We will be without a GPS for a couple of weeks so it is caching with the phone, yuk. Today we needed to say no to a few of the Forty Winks caches that we had targeted.
The phone has an app on it that monitor’s my heart and I am not allowed to be more than 2 meters from the phone, the terrain was beyond me, if hubby had gone for the caches he would have needed to use the phone, the next thing would be a phone call wondering if everything was OK.
All the caches that we found today were in good condition and the majority of co-ords are spot on. Our finds were a mix of trads, multi and puzzles.
SL TFTC
The phone has an app on it that monitor’s my heart and I am not allowed to be more than 2 meters from the phone, the terrain was beyond me, if hubby had gone for the caches he would have needed to use the phone, the next thing would be a phone call wondering if everything was OK.
All the caches that we found today were in good condition and the majority of co-ords are spot on. Our finds were a mix of trads, multi and puzzles.
SL TFTC
gps off a little so we used the hint to turn a DNF into a
out again on my weekly cake and cache day with mum. headed back to complete the series.
enjoyed a nice pub meal at the AH at Aldinga.
cache in good shape and easy to find
out again on my weekly cake and cache day with mum. headed back to complete the series.
enjoyed a nice pub meal at the AH at Aldinga.
cache in good shape and easy to find
Today we went out to start working through the 40 winks series starting with the Zero!. The day started out warm and muggy and ended with us being very very wet. Dropped and Swapped some trackables along the way. All Caches were in great condition and were found with Cachehunter and Zoe the Geodog. TFTC.
Today I went caching with Poisin55 and Chubly09. We set out to complete the '0' of the 40 winks series of caches by bike and completed it successfully with no DNFs. the 40 is almost finished by us now except for the top of the '4' which the others didn't come prepared for as some long pants and gaiters would be needed and one DNF that is yet to be resolved on the '4' so there are a few left for another time. It was a bit of a hot day for it but it many smileys were gained and Chubly09 hit his 50th milestone and I hit my 200th. TFTC equipe de cinq
Out for an afternoon of caching. Really enjoyed working through the forty winks series here! Most were quick finds with the help of the hints. Tftc!
Doing this series with ilook4geo today with a good find rate. The only ones we did not bother with were a few which required walking along a track where the grass was very long and could have been hiding who knows what. All the others were nice quick and easy finds and both names were soon stamped somewhere on each log. Thank you to equipe de cinq for placing this series of caches.
Enjoyed the caching along with goingplaces2 today. We had a mostly successful time, retrieved each container, signed the log and replaced all as found. TFTC.
Great Winter's day to explore the area. A must do when embarking on this incredibly interesting set of drive-bys, is a breakfast, coffee or lunch stop at the Biplanes Cafe at the Aldinga airfield. A real treat. TFTC.
Thanks tp a previous log cache found. I will NEVER NEVER get a tattoo. They are an abomination on the human body although I apprrciate the artistry involved
Chasing numbers for a serious milestone so today set my sights on a series I've long wanted to do but never got around to, the 40 Winks series. Found 37 and replaced 4 which were almost certainly missing.
My co-ords had me about 14 meters west of GZ. After reading the hint it was an easy find as was out in the open, replaced in a better place.
Thanks to equipe de cinq for putting out this cache for me to find
*This log composed and published using GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife).*
My co-ords had me about 14 meters west of GZ. After reading the hint it was an easy find as was out in the open, replaced in a better place.
Thanks to equipe de cinq for putting out this cache for me to find
*This log composed and published using GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife).*
In Port Elliot today, out to tackle the 40 Winks series. All caches found in good order, took nothing and left nothing. Thanks to equipe de cinq for the run. TFTC
TFTC. Found this one on the ground and coordinates a little off. Stuck it in an olive bush
Out and about geocaching today, while staying in Willunga from Brisbane. Decided to cache art, '40'. Due to the number of caches in this series I am doing a generic cache. Thoroughly enjoyed doing these caches, even those ones that had to be walked. TFTC equipe de cinq
Spending a few days in Wallunga as part of our trip to SA after borders were opened up to NSW and QLD. Today was the day to find the 40 Winks and a few extra caches near by. Many thanks to the COs for placing and maintaining these caches and enhancing our enjoyment of caching.
Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 16.775 E 138° 30.595
Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 16.851 E 138° 30.592
Distance from original: 462.9 feet or 141.1 meters.
S35° 16.851 E138° 30.592
New location.
S 35° 16.775 E 138° 30.595
Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 16.851 E 138° 30.592
Distance from original: 462.9 feet or 141.1 meters.
S35° 16.851 E138° 30.592
New location.
Respecting wishes of nearby landowner. Cache replaced and moved to a new location.
Well this one was an experience and a half. After banging my head on a tree a gent came out onto the road to tell me to get off his property. I was on the road side of the fence but being on holiday I wasn’t out to upset the apple cart.
He told me that the lady that lived there has had problems with multiple people coming onto her property (which can only be geocachers). He wasn’t interested in me explaining why we were in the area and told me he was off to call the police. To make matters worse our rental car has Victorian number plates and he wasn’t backwards in letting us know.
He was waiting for us to drive away but my wife wanted to show him why we were here. He seemed to want to listen and was going to research geocaching. He then pointed out that the old boundary fence is fallen down in the storm drain so legitimately this cache may be on their property. Then the lady shouted at us “that we could have just put that on our phone” and “how do I know you’re not leaving drugs here” it was time to move on.
He told me that the lady that lived there has had problems with multiple people coming onto her property (which can only be geocachers). He wasn’t interested in me explaining why we were in the area and told me he was off to call the police. To make matters worse our rental car has Victorian number plates and he wasn’t backwards in letting us know.
He was waiting for us to drive away but my wife wanted to show him why we were here. He seemed to want to listen and was going to research geocaching. He then pointed out that the old boundary fence is fallen down in the storm drain so legitimately this cache may be on their property. Then the lady shouted at us “that we could have just put that on our phone” and “how do I know you’re not leaving drugs here” it was time to move on.
Fun day out with the family trying to beat the rain. Lots of laughs had and all caches found easily and in good condition. Eldest Geodaughter found this one. Well camoed and smaller than we expected. Thanks for the cache and the series equipe de cinq.
Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 16.778 E 138° 30.588
Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 16.775 E 138° 30.595
Distance from original: 39.4 feet or 12.0 meters.
Cache replaced and location moved slightly. Hint updated.
S 35° 16.778 E 138° 30.588
Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 16.775 E 138° 30.595
Distance from original: 39.4 feet or 12.0 meters.
Cache replaced and location moved slightly. Hint updated.
So this was a fairly full-on solo geocaching day for me today, and I wanted to make the most of the terrific weather that had the right temperature, sun out and blue sky. The plan was to head south to tackle some of the power trails / series, and for the most part, that was achieved. My day started at Seaford, and then it was a run along the creek finding the *Real Aliens* series. I then diverted towards the ocean, to find a nemesis oldie and enjoy a run along Moana's cliffs. A selection of the *Cats and Dogs* series were detoured past, before a break at Aldinga's bakery. Next was the *Forty Winks* series, and then back towards the ocean to enjoy a few caches at Sellicks Beach. It was getting to late afternoon by the time I drove through Myponga, and targeted a few hiking geocaches around there, and back towards Sellicks Hill. By this time, it was dark, and so made my way home, having utilised this great weather as best as I could.
Another cache that I didn't have much luck in. I didn't exactly understand the hint, as there was just olive trees and pine trees around? I did have a detailed look around what I classified GZ to be, and a few good places for cache placements in amongst the tree forks, but given how easy the other caches have been, I feel like this one may be MIA. Thanks anyway equipe de cinq.
Another cache that I didn't have much luck in. I didn't exactly understand the hint, as there was just olive trees and pine trees around? I did have a detailed look around what I classified GZ to be, and a few good places for cache placements in amongst the tree forks, but given how easy the other caches have been, I feel like this one may be MIA. Thanks anyway equipe de cinq.
Returned today after completing one half of this series earlier this year. Most were easy hides but a few caught me off guard. TFTC
