Minlaton Scenic Trail - Thorn & a Hard Place Minlaton, South Australia, Australia
By clan greenwood on 15-Aug-13. Waypoint GC4JXFZ

Managed to get this one without any blood letting Nice area Tftc

EZ

True to its name ,hands and knees for me,tftc.

TF

Wow that was a surprise. We really were stuck between rocks and a hard place.Cache in great condition. Thanks clan Greenwood for providing our fun.

Tftc discovering how nice Minlaton is

Willows (2) first cache

Found, all dry. Be careful of the thorns!TFTC

Found it! A nice find after lunch and a beer paddle at the local brewery. TFTC!

Day 1 on the Yorke before attending the Great Leap Forward.Amazingly ten of us have travelled from the Nelson area (top of the South Island) and as luck would have it, Andy & Gail just happened to be staying in Port Vincent at the same time as me.Much more fun finding geoart in a group so I greatfully accepted an offer to be driven around by Andy for the day while Gail did the expert navigating.We signed the Crab logs as MAG and most of the other finds with our full caching names.This was a bit different. A short path in the middle of nowhere. Andy did the honours.TFTC

Out and about with Marchwood today. We have found all the crab geoart and had some lunch so now we are just wandering to grab what we can before heading back to Port Vincent for the event.Spotted then had to find a way to retrieve from between the thorns & hard place and large ant hill. tftc#7433

Quick find while heading to Maitland for an Adv Lab. TFTC

Many thorns be careful. TFTC. Nice scenery.

Pretty cool find! Had to jump the barb wire fence. Was suprised about how big it was! We left a maccas sticker thing. TFTC

Many spider webs around ! TFTC, Greetings from the Yukon and France

TFTC nice quick find. Replaced snap lock plastic bag ????

Quickly spotted but not so quick to retrieve

TFTC

Our first find for today and for 2023. Cache in good condition. Logbook dry. SL TFTC

TFTC

Another beautiful day out and about - lots of caching and lunch at Watsacowie Brewery - TFTC

We had a bit of spare time in Minlaton before restocking at the supermarket so we attempted a few of the nearby caches.

Many thanks for the cache clan greenwood

After a long day caching south of here we arrived back in Minlaton and completed five more caches.
A good start here. Thanks clan greenwood

feathertop and I completed the first of the trail last night on our arrival, and today, after doing 157 of the Gone Fishn’ Series, did this one on the way back to the motel. It sure is between a thorn and a hard place.

Just arrived here on the Yorke peninsula yesterday and am looking forward to doing some caches and seeing some great sights. Only did 4 caches in Adelaide which is bad, intend doing a few more than that here. Thanks for placing these Cache's out here. Cheers.
#4 for today

Great little hiding spot 2nd time lucky to find it

18 4 22 Fos

18 4 22

18/4/22

Ouch!! Nice to see e
Revegetation happening as well. Tyftc!

Thanks for the cache clan greenwood. This one was a tricky hide, had to get down and right in there, after avoiding the thorn bush. Container showing its age but the contents are in good condition. Thanks for bringing me here. Find #6722 at 11.54am

Found on my one week's lovely and interesting YP caching odyssey. Thanks clan greenwood.

Didn’t get snagged here, unlike on the fence getting the last one. Great to see efforts to revegetate the area.

Found at 10.20am. Enjoying the scenic walk. The she-oaks break the wind well. The cache lives upto its name but didn't get snagged.
TNLN
Thanks
K&M

Found on our geocaching long weekend on YP. Tftc

I was staying at the Minlaton caravan park for a couple of days. Using it as a base to explore the local area.
Having spent the morning on the nearby Fishy trail, it was time to slow down, get out of the car and explore on foot. I drove to the centroid of this little trail and continued on foot.

All caches found without problems.

Thanks for the cache clan greenwood.
# # #10120 # #

The three of us were spending some time on Yorke Peninsula, and today Mr Tardis went out for a caching run between Port Vincent and Minlaton

I'm happy to report that found this cache in the first place I looked - don't you just love it when that happens?

It looks like the locals have been our planting some native plants along the trail here.

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache clan greenwood.

All part of a nice walk, a good find.

Found it. TFTC

found

It was thorny bled for the cause

TFTC Found by cache in the hat!

Found by Cache in the Hat TFTC

️

Trip up to minlaton to have a look around and grab a few caches. TFTC!

A quick find while staying at Point Turton caravan park and out caching with Little Blue Wren.TFTC

TFTC. A easy find while out caching with moroldies

Was very exposed so I put some more rocks on it. Tftc

️ the bush
Merry Christmas fellow geocaches
TFTC Keep smiling

Thanks

TFTC Found

Tftc

Thank for a great cache

Found, TFTC.

Found by Olga at 17:48:00

*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

??

Today after a night shift of being "essential" again, I met up with Mr Froghoppin for a drive and a few caches to find. Turned out to be a huge day with a small length of fishin' line and several nearby caches located and logged. Thanks to Mr Frog for doing the driving and making it all happen.
Most caches today were in pretty good condition, with a few needing some TLC and some showing evidence of the recent much appreciated rainfall

A nice clean virus free cache in a scenic location. Nice to see the walking trails here.

thanks clan greenwood for placing and maintaining this cache


---- ---- ----


2020 - the caching curve has been flat long enough ! ! !
But do keep washing your hands. Exercise. Cache. Eat. Cache. Repeat.
And stay home if you're sick!

Support the regions by placing lots more caches! ( especially around the Barossa please [:o)] )

Out on the YP with Mattycat for the day, after completing enough of the Gone fishin series for the day and the sun was getting low we decided on a few in and around Minlaton before it was time to head home, A short stroll to GZ and soon had cache in hand, pity we do not have more daylight would be a nice stroll along the path
TFTC clan greenwood

Quick and easy grab

Metres a little way out but spotted ok

Due to Covid19 we decided not to touch any caches for now. Hope all owners are okay with this. tftc

Day 204(Friday 20th) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Warooka today. A total of 3 for the day and 4763 for the trip. TFTC

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

Found

A good description for this cache. Thanks

Nice find at the start (or end) of the trail

easy find )

Found again

Good find

Yay

Found

After doing a second day on the Gone fishin series, we grabbed a few caches on the way back to Minlaton. This was one of them. Thanks clan greenwood

Right where I thought it would be.

A last minute trip that was purely made due to there being a CITO at Minlaton, off I went caching at a few stops along the way from Adelaide, collecting a few of the T.O.Y caches.
Arrived at the event for the evening to meet some lovely people from different parts of the world. We chatted and shouted so many stories around culture and the differences between countries, lots of random caching experiences and as well just some random conversations. After the event I had planned to do some of the geo art further south. I was soon joined by team GBS and what legends they are, some amazing people and they went guns blazing along the trails.
From 7-12 we found just over 210 caches. The trail is in very poor condition and probably needs a maintenance run in the near future. Some of the caches are broken or just a log book.
Day 2 I woke up and did some local caching before the CITO. The CITO was fantastic with 4 large bags being collected. I soon said my good byes and targeted the rest of the T.O.Y series along the eastern coast line. All the caches in the series are all in good condition.
Then I farted for the event back in Adelaide by mid day. Overall a total of 255 caches for an overnight trip and some long time caching friends made.
Thanks to all the Cache owners for their placements
Sorry for the generic log.

Out caching this evening with Nana Nel and wazza9 we soon homed in on and found this cache once at Ground Zero. We stamped the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

TFTC,
Just testing our new team stamp ready for our big trail day.

Quick find, with Wazza9 and Team GBS. Signed log and replaced. TFTC

Cooler today, cloud cover, so we thought we'd gather some caches instead of moss. Out and about with messy61. Brown Christmas Beetles and white snails galore, some slithery snakes and sleeping lizards; bull ants and sheep and alpacas...but we never did see a unicorn.... Cache found with no critters, no wonder with all those thorns.Tftc.

A quick stop on the way back to Stansbury! TFTC. Room for swaps!

I think this is the last one of the trial. Enjoyed it a lot, nice views. I even took the time to bring the carrot to the rabbit and in the cache again for the Next one. Thanks

Found with dty73 and youban on our Yorke Peninsula invasion! All logs signed DTY (dty73/Tankengine/youban). - Had a great day today, in that we didn't do any of the power trails! That was a very nice change! So a nice variety and some very nice locations! Thanks!

We have a small team travelling to The Yorke Peninsula from Canberra. It was decided by the group before we left that our team name would be DTY, although I act like the boss, I rarely am and so the initials actually stand for - dty73, Tankengine & Youban.

Today the team decided that it was a “tourist day” and we would go have a look around a small part of the peninsula to see what there is. But of course like true geocachers we couldn’t help taking a caching route as we went. We ended up getting a lot more than we expected, but we did have a good time.

We parked at the end of the path and walked back to this one to find a big container. The walking track looks nice too. If we had more time I wouldn’t have minded giving it a go. Tftc clan greenwood!!!

On a caching trip with Dty73 & Tankengine to Yorke Peninsula. Team signed as DTY. No problem. The flowering tree made for some good photos for my desktop. Kutgw

Was down in Minlaton with LLL51 to watch the football grand final and we decided to get a few caches before heading back to Moonta. [^]
Stopped here as we made our way around Minlaton picking up caches we didn't get on our last visit. Were pleased for easy finds as it was very cold.
Thanks for the cache clan greenwood.

Another quick find - very cold, so pleased to do it quickly tftc

After a rough night at Port Rickaby we headed off very early for breakfast at Minlaton to begin day 2 of our rest, relaxation and rejuvenation week, with caches chucked in, just a few here as we are hoping to get the fishies series finished today. TFTC

We’ve left Maitland after three nights. A lovely town with some beautiful old houses built from what we assume is the local stone. On our way to Minlaton for a few more nights to continue our assault on the Gone Fishn’ power trail.
It’s great to find a few different sized and different types of hides after so many more micros in the bush! But we do appreciate the enormous effort made by all the CO’s on the Yorke Peninsula.
Another find on this lovely walking track
TFTC TNLN

Find # 5177

Day 1
Found with sharkiefan

A Big week was planned to travel around South Australia, staying in Minlaton, Tarlee and Adelaide. We cache along a number of Trails, managed to grab a few off the beaten track, some well known caches and the odd one that came up on the map as we were travelling around.

It ended up being a massive week of 2960 odd kilometers travelled, with day find counts of 25, 256, 361, 318, 66, 205, 104 and 76 (yep thats 1411 for the 8 days)
1062 micro, 238 small, 60 Regular, 45 large, 3 Virtual and 3 Other.


TFTC clan greenwood

Found with FUF009.
We headed out of St Arnaud, VIC early this morning and drove practically non stop to Minlaton with either totally random stops for caches or specifically selected caches.
It felt like a very quick drive despite it actually being about 8 hours all up.
Such a nice change of scenery and nice for both of us to have free range caching rather than the limited range St Arnaud has left for FUF009 and difficult Melbourne caching for me.
All caches found were in good form unless mentioned at the start of my log.
Apologies for the generic log but I just can't do individual logs after the mass of caches that were found. I'm so tired they all have merged into one big cluster.
Thanks to all the COs for their hides. Tftc

Heaps of fun. Loved the find. Kids love the fun toys. Replaced....

We spent the week at Port Victoria fishing in the mornings and then to a local bakery for lunch.
On this day it was Minlaton's turn.
Found and signed with muggle mate whilst the girls went to Kings.

Staying at the caravan park. Wandered around town on the walking trail; this was one of the stops. Thanks for the hide. Another once blue bucket here.

A past DNF resolved

Found on a fun caching weekend in beautiful Yorkes TFTC

Found during a 10 day stay on the Yorke Peninsula. Lovely area. TFTC clan greenwood. Found 11/10/17 3:48 pm. Cache 1370 for us.
~~~~~
Found and logged using the brilliant Cachly app for iPhone. Easy to use and with many great features for cachers of all levels.

Today we travelled from Maitland to Minlaton using Geocaching as a guide and picking up a few caches on the way and this was one of them. An easy find at GZ.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

**# 18469** Found on the SA leg of our 2017 escape trip.
A fine windy Spring day for a drive while at Minlaton with Tassie Trekkers.
Hardly any muggles around on these roads, and a few quick finds.
Thanks for the cache clan greenwood,
***Roostaman***

Thx for cache.

Cool feature in the tree
TFTC

A quick find here amongst the trees...
TNLNSL
Thanks for the cache clan greenwood

The cache name says it all.Thanks clan Greenwood