Bismark School Mount Templeton, South Australia, Australia
By Tk2 on 05-Sep-13. Waypoint GC4MNXX

Traveled to the Copper Triangle and the Mid-North for a weekend of caching. Drove up via Roseworthy through to Balaklava on the Saturday, on a very convoluted route to search for caches along the way, before heading across for the dinner event at Moonta. Camped out nearby for the night and attended the early morning CITO in Paskeville, then toured the back-roads around Bute to complete The Big Question series with e.gregory1. Spent the rest of the Sunday solo around Snowtown and Lochiel before heading for home. Thanks for the cache Tk2!

Travelling with iluvtrekking from our home state of WA on a SA caching foray. After being in this beautiful State for nigh on three months it is time for us to head back home. Staying in Port Wakefield for two nights to grab caches in outlying areas. Up bright and early this morning to tackle some caches in the surrounds. Thanks for the cache.

Country caching with Squib Esquire for company. TftCI wonder if the caches hiding spot was part of the original school?

Found it! Stopped by here on the way home for a quick roadside find. We used to use Nantawarra road regularly on the way to and from Adelaide when living in Port Pirie and Port Lincoln. TFTC!

A quick drive by here today TFTC

Out this way with Cheezel to grab a few caches. Found and stamped the log.

Found while travelling throught to adelaide for an event.
suffer from a dose of cache blindness this morning.
after looking for way too long in the obvious place's and taking with a local who passed by cache was soon found.
tftc Tk2

Decided to head out and do some caches with sixpak69, most of which he had already done however I wanted to turn some into smiley faces. We spent a couple hours driving the back roads before we met up with friends in Port Wakefield to do the adventure lab together.

No issues locating this one today, an interesting tale for this one, signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache placement Tk2 and thanks for the company sixpak69

Another cache hunt on our 2022 South Australian Adventure.

Thanks to all the COs for taking us on this geo-tour. We have enjoyed our time in SA, but it is time to slowly make our way back West again.

Found it

A quick find and fun story. Thank you for the placement of the Bismark School cache Tk2 find number 7850 on 17 May 2021 at 1:14 pm

Quick find as I’m touring through the region
Lotsa history in this region
TFTC

With some bad timing on previous visits the cache had disappeared, not so today we called past to change our frownie into a smilie, cache was in the first place we checked, happy days
TFTC Tk2

Was driving past this one and managed to stop here and find the cache. Cache is all good

Today locus cache and I headed north to clean up some caches we missed between Snowtown and Clare and the odd cache here and there. With limited time we managed to get 32 caches whilst dodging the rain.

Thanks for the cache

Now staying at Price, today we headed out tackle caches that we missed last year when working at Bowmans and that were just out of reach for us from Snowtown.

TFTC

A nice drive today with Jack brought me here again !

This time around the schoolkids had left a nice new cache to find.

Enjoyed the short history. Interesting to note this school closing in 1880... we're moving into an old school building that was opened in 1880 !!! Seems quite a while ago

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache on our map Tk2


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Stay safe out there,
wash your hands, wipe down your cache gear,
sanitise, exercise, even wear a mask if hayfever season gets to you and
cache all the regions safely distanced at least an adult brown snake's length apart ! ! !


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Replaced container and logbook once again.

With a recent mtce run by the CO we called past in the hope to change a frownie into a smilie but alas no success on this one but it appears a grader has gone through the site and taken half the shrubbery away, have sent an email to CO as maybe its still safe and we didn't look hard enough till next visit TFTC

I have replaced the container and logbook and will update information when I get home.

Hello

The schoolkids may have lost their lunchbox?
Might need a checkup!

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

DNF had a good look think it's gone

No sign of this one today.
Poked a lot of soursobs.
There was one patch of lunchbox shaped depression in the ground with a couple of rocks, but no cache to be seen
Thanks for the challenge Tk2 ,
will place on the watch list and return asap when it's been found or maintained!

Did not spot this one today maybe some cache blindness or well hidden in the lush sour sobs, will watch and see what happens or wait till the grass dies off for a easier search till then
TFTC

TFTC

TFTC wow just as well we have a 4w/d some of the roads are a tad bumpy lol

Got it. Not true to lable though. Book states previous container damaged.

The Starfish spotted the cache while discussions were being had about the name. The dates should have settled that one!

Out on a lovely winters day, with an Owl and a Starfish,
Travelling on the dirt roads north bound from Gawler.
A lot of laughs and caches found.
Mrs rat was on a quest to get to 6,000 finds.
A quick find by the merry trio. Tftc

Yet another puzzled puzzler's Tuesday caching expedition. Today's crew of brisal5, Mrs. SA Sewer Rats and Doctor Owl set sail north again to where we were caching DNF's recently. Whilst doing that two weeks ago we rectified three DNF'S but added another three to the list. Although we made a lot of finds I managed to add another four to my DNF list! No matter we had a lot of laughs and I added a few unloved caches to my list along the way. [:o)]
Cache quickly located. Nothing to preserve the history except this cache. Onya

**Thanks Tk2 for this cache. **

Day 2 of our girl's adventure and Gral4 and I did a spin around town collecting caches before heading into the wild and retackling yesterdays DNF, some 4WD caches and exploring the backroads for some planetary pursuit caching.

Another interesting day, we encountered mangroves and slippery mud, saw kangaroos, a rabbit, a dead cat [)], a UFO lauchpad [?], an old homestead, a grandprix track, a few trains and big cactus plants amongst other things.

Gral4 did some great 4WDing which meant we could get to some places my Toyota Corolla can only dream about I dropped lots of TB's on the way but we also picked up another 4.

Weary and hungry we ended up at Cookies at Two Wells for dinner and enjoyed a very tasty sweet and sour chicken dish to complete the fun weekend.

Traded TB's here. took 1, left 1.

TFTC Tk2

Found 2 April 2018

Day 2 of our adventures. This was much more adventurous than day 1. We did a lot of 4x4 driving, up tracks that hadn't seen a vehicle for ages, NEARLY conquered mangrove mud without ending up in it, saw two kangaroos and two sleepy lizards, three trains went past just after we went across the crossings, and we had lots of fun. It was good to get the 4x4 out and use it for what it is designed for, although muggle hubby might not be happy with the layer of missing duco. I have never been confident to use the 4x4 like this, there will be no stopping me now.
Quick find. Swapped travel bugs over .

Quick and easy find.
Nice day out exploring some back roads and collecting some smiles.
Left Geocoin.
TFTC!

High winds, snakes and hay fever. Perfect day for caching. TFTC

found it with troyyugal great day out caching think our 35th today

Found in the rain TFTC

Easy, love geocaching

Found easily in the dark, alas as others have said it is trashed.
I replaced the cache with a new Sistems, painted black, and a new logbook too. Hopefully good for awhile longer now...
TNLNSL
Thanks for the cache Tk2

In need of replacing completely destroyed by water and mold

TFTC Left a toy took a key ring. Interesting history

Flood watching and a bit of a cache hunting. TFTC SL

what an interesting area

Firesafe had to do a maintenance run on his northern series and so Honeysucker and I tagged along
It's been a couple of years since we've all managed to cache together and the boys had just as much fun stirring me up as they used to do ....... I still say that's the only reason they ask me along
Around the maintenance, we cached and got as far north as Lochiel and so by day's end I had found 17 caches
Thanks for the fun guys although your laughter when I fell down wasn't quite so funny!

Unless mentioned otherwise, please know that your cache and log book was in good condition.

Another interesting history lesson about the schools in this area in the days of old

TNLN. SL. TFTC Tk2

Spent the day out with honeysucker and locus cache enjoying the sunshine, grabbing some caches and doing maintenance on the APM and PSA series out north. TFTC.

Found with stavros08 on a geo-trip to Balaklava to do a couple of Power Trails. Thanks for the cache Tk2.

Not a great deal left of this little school. Thanks for bringing us out here. Quick find with Ferret52. Tftc

Out caching the Mid North area with CPwanderer & Clare007...
A quick find...I think the school plaque must be missing...there remains what looks like the cement slab it was stuck to laying on the ground...unfortunately...TFTC Tk2

Easy find with clare007 and hevwalker12 ............................. not much left of the place!!!

Out and about with CPWanderer & hevwalker12 caching around the mid North area.
A quick find, lucky there's a cache here or we wouldn't know this place even existed.
Thanks for bringing us here Tk2

Found on way home. Tftc

Found. TFTC

A day fo mid north caching with Freddo.

An early start and a late finish meant we got a "few".

We read the hint. We looked elsewhere. We reread the hint and we still looked elsehere. We gave up and finally looked where the hint said it would be and what do you know we found it.

Who would have thought?

TFTC

Nearly missed this cache. It was hiding under the bush. Not the rocks.
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This cache was found using a Garmin GPSr, Montana 650t, Oregon 550 or Dakota 20. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK 8.
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Quick find with squash 99 & bn97

Quick find with TheKellyGang and bn97

So it was Easter Sunday and I wanted a day doing the sorts of caches I really enjoy.

I wanted to be taken to great locations and learn some stuff along the way.

What better way to fill that criteria then set my filter to TK2 and include a sub search on 4WD.

So started what for me was a fantastic 9 hour journey over 340 kilometres finding 22 caches with not a single DNF for the day.

Thank you Greg you made my day.

Was there a marker for this site because I missed it if there was.
With so many places renamed in the state I was surprised this one survived.

Found on my way to the Snowtown School to do a presentation. Another historical spot of significance for those who attended here. Thanks

Mickwaldo 25/1/15
happy Australia Day

Found It!
Quick find after I started looking on the right side of the road. This cache almost got taken out by the fire nearby a couple months back...
TFTC

Found with3LG on a day's caching. Crops are harvested. TFTC

After finishing work at Balaklava we decided to explore the area collecting a few caches out this way, a quick find as we passed through here. TFTC

A quick find and it was interesting to see the German link in this part of the world.

After leaving the Mega Event we arrived in Balaclava for a couple of nights stay.
Today we headed out into the country side north, up & around the pretty pink lake. We passed some wonderful farming land & had amazing views from different vantage points.
When I see a school cache, I know who will be the CO. Every school in this area is represented with a cache.
Thanks for placing this cache Tk2

Found it added eraser

TK2 country.............A tour of the area found us roll up at this spot! Thanks for the fun

Clear skies to Tk2 from TeamAstro.

Windy and lots of flies lol tftc

Went into Balaklava for the last minute Christmas shopping and ventured out to this cache.

As always, thanks for the history of the area, it's one of the reasons I enjoy caching.
Some of my class mates went to sleep at school, too

Happy Christmas & TFTC

Excellent info. Tftc.

tftc

tb visit

Found with goingtheredoingthat and Karpy Karpyson on an afternoon seeking caches in and around the Lochiel area. Not sure who found it first, think it was GTDT. I think by this stage we resorted to signing the logs as GTDT, KK + L to save a minute or two!

found with goingtheredoingthat and limbage on satday arvo cache run.. thanks again Tk2 for the hunt.

Found with Limbage and Karpy Karpyson on an afternoon seeking caches in and around the Lochiel area. Not sure who found it first, think it was Limbage. I think by this stage we resorted to signing the logs as GTDT, KK + L to save a minute or two! TFTC

Not much left here (well, not anything that we could see) . There is however, this cache, to preserve the memory - even if you can only find it in hyperspace .
TNLNSL.
Thanks Tk2.

A bout of Mondayitis inspired Mr M to go caching with Mrs M and a visiting Mogni. A trip to the Mid North was hastily planned. Snowtown recorded the highest windgust in 8 years... and we were probably retrieving a cache at that time. A great day was had despite the weather.

Surprised to find that we were Silver to this one. Easily spotted, but not easily retrieved. TFTC Tk2.

A big day out with Aussie M & M grabbing a few caches and trying not be blown away.
Thanks

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FTF 7.30 am, Cute log book, Love finding easy new caches close to home, and it was lots of fun on my knees in the wet grass, tftc