Butchwalking to a Cannon#10 Callington, South Australia, Australia
By CPwanderer on 14-Dec-13. Waypoint GC4VD20

Out butchwalking in the Monarto Forest today. Cool conditions make for an easier wander Tftc CPwanderer

Travelling with iluvtrekking from our home state WA. Spending a few days in Murray Bridge to cache the surrounds. Loving the scenery that we pass as we move through the caches - this is our preferred caching - not suburbs. Bit chilly but not raining. Thanks CPwanderer

Travelling with richlink as part of our Annual Caravan Geocaching Trip.We are staying in Murray Bridge for a few days and doing a bit of sightseeing around the area using geocaching as our guide. TFTC CPW.A special thank you must go to CPwanderer who has placed so many quality, hides along kilometres if walking tracks in this area.

Quick find
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Thank you for maintaining and placing this cache! We really appreciate your effort!
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TFTC CPwanderer
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Thanks for this Traditional and for letting me have the opportunity to find Butchwalking to a Cannon#10
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Found on 3 Jun 2023 at 12:56 pm
Find 3816

Some caches signed as “Team Azzo”

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 - CPwanderer [^]

A Saturday wander with CP is always a nice way to head into the weekend. TFTC

Out for a quick trip before the heat sets in all looks in good condition thanks cp

Wonderful day for caching. Thank you for this series. Enjoying the items in the caches.

Tftc

Still walking in a park with Purrfect Di. Nice day for it. A few roos and bunnies out and about, some birdlife, but not a wriggly stick in sight It's a long way to this cannon

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Much appreciation CPwanderer for putting this cache out on the SA geomap

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Caches everywhere are located and logged using some or all of the resources of GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife), Garmin Montana 750i, Montana 680t, Etrex 35, Samsung S20+, Samsung S9, with Geocaching App, c:Geo, or Geooh Go, and Android Auto and other maps... or often with just plain old dumb luck!

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Please do stay safe when caching.
Lookout for mud, snakes, surprise cliffs, wild goats, wombats, bulldust, and lightning,
try not to get tetanus from rusty mint tins and don't fall out of trees...
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- but especially lookout for bugs. [xx(]

Make sure Travel Bugs are the only bugs you share and pass on


We really appreciate all those placing quality caches out and about around the countryside,
it keeps our game safe, fun, and interesting

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Apologies in advance for the generic log...

I spent the day tackling the vast sea of caches around the Monarto area. Mostly on foot and a few short drives in between.

Despite spending most of the day geocaching, I barely made a dent. Plenty more here for my next several visits to this location.

A perfect cool sunny day for bush walking. This is my favourite type of caching. Isolated trails, on foot, no muggles and easy finds. A masterclass by CPwanderer on how to design, create, deploy and maintain geocaches. All caches found without problems and were in great condition.

Thanks for the cache CPwanderer.
# # #8309 # #

We were on a mission to get as many smilies for ttrogg and still get Aussie Mary back to Aussie Mark by 2:30 pm. This was our second loop of caches we did of CP's today. Not all the series done today, but as many as we could manage before we headed back towards Gumeracha.
TFTC and the Series CP.

Was out today with Aussie Mary after smilies for an upcoming major milestone. With limited time it was decided to head to CPwanderland. After couple of nice walks and some drive-bys the smilie count was moving up. (or will be when I get them logged)
Thanks to CPwanderer for putting out this cache for me to find

*This log composed and published using GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife).*

TFTC!

Tftc!

I love the retro “$1 of copper” ziplock bags!!

TFTC and series.

Cache found out in the open. Walked pat it and didn’t notice as I was fixated on the rock target. Placed back safe and sound. Thanks for the cache CP

Really needed a day out on the mountain bike to get a bit of exercise. Today was the perfect winter day and this area chosen as the destination. Really enjoyed riding around and collecting smileys. The caches were well maintained with accurate co-ordinates. Fantastic! Thanks CP much appreciated.

Finding caches for the current promotion. Where will we go when we find all the traditionals in Monarto? TFTC CPwanderer.

A nice ride around the forest, all the caches were easy to find without any issues, lucky no snakes were seen.

A great day out with some stunning weather, plan was to go for a nice and easy ride around Monarto forest reserve and collect some caches in Butch walking and under statement series. There were also some new ones that had come out in the last few days so picked them up as well. Most important thing of all was finding my 6000th find, I was trying to hold off and find it once in victoria but could not help myself. Overall a total of 40 finds for the afternoon and no did not finds.

Thanks for the cache.

Tftc

Came back to find this one after seeing CO has replaced. Not impressed to see half a dozen cars parked in the park! And it smells as though they have a fire going too. Both of which I’m pretty sure are not allowed in this park!

DNF had a good look, but this one had me.

Cache certainly missing. Replaced and moved slightly.

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 7.189 E 139° 4.853

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 7.187 E 139° 4.856

Distance from original: 19.4 feet or 5.9 meters.

Special hidey hole rock has vanished. Moved very slightly to better cover.

Easy find with the CO

Few ants around GZ. Nice day to knock off a few caches at Callington/Monaro. SLTNLN TFTC.

Spent a wonderful sunny winter afternoon wandering around the Monato Forest grabbing caches with the geowife and geodog. Saw roos and a large hare, plus plenty of birds (including what looked like scarlet robins). Found all caches in this area between the Princes Hwy and the train line. Thanks for the series CP Wanderer - we thoroughly enjoyed this outing! Signed logs.
This one took about 15 mins as the sat lock was all over the place initially, and the cache was well hidden and covered in sour sobs - eventually go it!

Spent a wonderful sunny winter afternoon wandering around the Monato Forest grabbing caches with the geowife and geodog. Saw roos and a large hare, plus plenty of birds (including what looked like scarlet robins). Found all caches in this area between the Princes Hwy and the train line. Thanks for the series CP Wanderer - we thoroughly enjoyed this outing! Signed logs.

Mr Tardis was on the way to CP's event in Monarto Forest, and stopped by here to find this one on a Butchwalking quest.

I found the cache in the first place I looked, after avoiding the bullants which were protecting the cache from muggles!

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache CPwanderer.

On our way with an owl and a rat to the cp event. TFTC

Found on the way back to the car after the event. Left pathtag. Cheers CP

Getting closer to that event!

Out today for CP's Event, found us in the area.
We parked the car and decided to walk and cache our way to the event.
So then it was off to Butchwalking to a cannon.
A quick find for us today. TFTC

In Murray Bridge for an event hosted by the cache owner After visting the event we wondered off for a stroll around this beautiful area to explore and find some caches. Kids had a ball walking through the bush Thank you CP for bringing us here to your beautiful back yard

Resumiong our walk through the Forest after introducing friend to Earthcache.

Nice easy find. TFTC.

AnyMules, Tomboy, SnapHappy and I decided to go for a wee drive and have a day of caching. We all met near Murray Bridge and decided to tackle some of CPs caches. As we had 4WDs and it was such a lovely day we decided to head into Mexico to find the This is SA series (something we had been talking about for a while) as well as some others. We had a great day with lots of fun and laughter TFTC 10/12/2016 11:44 am

A lovely day for some "Butchwalking" in the area with KiwiOzzie, Tomboy and SnapHappy.

Thanks for the cache CPwanderer. Found on 10 December 2016 at 11:45 am. Find# 3462

**Found whilst House Sitting in Mannum**

*Out with KiwiOzzie, AnyMules and Tomboy for a day' of caching*...

Nice quick find in a pleasant area...
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment CPwanderer...

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped log...

**#9205**

Beautiful day for a stroll. Saw a few kangaroos. Thank-you for the series.

What better use of a public holiday than to go for a walk and pick up a few caches along the way. While we were enjoying our walk in the Monarto Forest we saw several kangaroos, lots of monarch butterflies and large flocks of what we think were pied currawongs. At this time of the year the bark on some of the mallees looked almost polished. Thanks for creating this series.

Quick find whilst passing through this lovely area
Nice spot, must get back & do some more nearby caches
TFTC CPwanderer
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After caching to the north and east of Murray Bridge yesterday, we concentrated on caching closer today. In particular we focussed on the "Walkies" and "Butchwalking" series with some additional caches along the way. We really enjoyed walking through the reserves - so different to reserves and parks at home. Along the way we appreciated the variations in the trunks of the trees, particularly some of the gum trees, and the flowering gums were superb. The area, however, was incredibly dry. Throughout the forest there were furrows in the ground reminiscent of plantations at home - we wondered if the area had been a plantation at some time in the past.

Accurate coordinates led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks CPwanderer for the cache and the "Butchwalking" series.

Found

Enjoying this series with Utechick81 and Geo-dog Murray. Beware of the bull ants, they get a bit cross when you walk near their nest! SL. TFTC

Pretty nice day for this serie nice area and all caches are good to find.
TFTC

#4550

While Mrs C was out shopping with her mum, Mr C decided to go out and grab some caches. I did approximately 10kms of walking during the morning . A good lot of caches found, with no slithery ones about although I encountered 3 sleepy lizards and plenty of kangaroos.

TFTC

Onwards to Naracoorte will collect the others on another outing TFTC and the walk

The sun came out today so we through, why not go Geocaching.
6th for today!
TFTC's. Having a great time.

Out for an afternoon's caching with the Double Helix Clan, we decided to start with the "Butchwalking" series. With two cars, including the DHC's 7-seater, we easily tackled the series in two sections with a lunch break in between. TFTC CPwanderer!

Style of the cache hides and the layout of the land has changed a little, still a top spot. SL TFTC

Found it

Found by Lyn among the ants

Found it on a beautiful crisp Saturday morning. Very peaceful out here and a perfect spot for a cache trail. TFTC

On a beautiful sunny day caching with GeoDad - upsanddowns we discovered many caches today. The weather was very conducive for collecting as many on foot as we could.
TFTC

On the trail with Team MKM. Pleasant day for a walk. TFTC Thank goodness for two cars!

Easy find. Not bad walk

I hate hate hate ANTS!!! Walk gently up to this cache. Do not disturb their nest. The girls ran up to the cache & the ants went nuts coming out of the ground. Have you seen "Indiana Jones - Kingdom of the Crystal Skull". Reminded me of that. Quickly retreating from the nests were me with the_xtrailers & geodogs. SL. TN. Left signature item. TFTC

By this time we were feeling really good. having completed a number in the series and seem to be tracking well for time. We stopped for a snack and drink break for the everyone.

A nice easy find along a lovely trail in beautiful bushland. Lovely day of fine, but overcast weather. Perfect for completing a trail such as this. Had Geo Daughters (1pinkexplorer & 1funnyhoney) and friend Hevwalker12 with geomutts in tow

Once we found the path the cache was easy to find

#10 found. Well done girls for making it this far!

Found with fi&john. Really enjoyed seeing the kangaroos! Great series. TFTC. Needs pencil.

Found it

Found with messy61, crane2 & gnomeo2007. Already found as part of DoubleHelixClan.

Found with messy61, crane2 & StunkyPanda2006. Already found as part of DoubleHelixClan.

Out for the day with DoubleHelixClan and messy61. We juggled vehicles and worked out the best plan of attack, including a lunch break about half way through. The weather was perfect really, not too warm and not too cool and we all enjoyed the outing. Thank you for a great collection of caches. Cache #2,032.

Spent the day out with Crane2, DoubleHelixClan and new members Stunkypanda2006 and Gnomeo2007 as we tackled the Butchwalking series. Weather was fine and not too hot by the time we finished, but there were a few tired bodies. Really enjoyed the walk and the cache series. TFTC

Out and about we visited ward
z and they let me be free. What an interesting place to see. Out with locus earthlight travellinbees and CP. A nice day for a hike.
Now up the hill to do some of CPs caches new territory to make yellow instead of green.
Thanks for placing the caches for us to find.

Headed up to cp territory to do two walking trails. We headed out with locus, harleyjohn, earthlight, claire007, sylken and Cp to cache with friends old and new.... Not old in age either
What a great place to visit. A sandy trail to work our legs. Thanks for the offer of a hike on a Saturday. This is why Mrs B loves caching.
Thanks for the cache
Travellinbees

After arriving at Z Ward with earthlight and Brodie at 7.30am this morning and then spending over 2 hours there absorbing the atmosphere and fantastic building and history with travellinbees, Harleyjohn2569, JM Minion and 3LG the group separated with 3LG going off to work, JM Minion heading off in another direction and the rest of us heading to meet CPwanderer at the Shank's Pony series.
At the start of Shank's Pony, Sylken, CP and Clare007 were waiting for us to enjoy the great walk through the bush there

Next on the list was the Butchwalking to a Cannon series!
I bogged the Corolla while putting it into a flat position so that poor old Brodie could lay comfortably on the back seat to rest while the rest of us walked various parts of this series Many thanks to Mr travellinbees for keeping Brodie company!

Mrs travellinbees, Harleyjohn2569 and I made it to #14 before the pulled muscles from the wayward stick back at Shank's Pony caused me to cease my journey and to gratefully accept CP's offer of a ride back to my car. Thank you, CP.

Thank you also for solving for us the mystery of why there are numerous black roofing tiles laying around in the park!

I really enjoyed the caches in a natural location [^]

TNLN. SL. TFTC CPwanderer

Tftc

lots of ants around this one .tftc

A great day for a butchwalk with cooling southerly winds and sunny skies (mostly). So I put on my butchwalking shoes and set out to walk this series of caches. I saw lots of kangaroos and birds, adding two new birds to my twitchers list - red-capped robin and brown-headed honeyeater. I also came across many groups of white-winged chough and a group of white-browed babblers.

I also saw lots of sleepy lizards but no snakes (thank goodness). This area is great for walking being mainly flat with not much undergrowth.

Thanks for a series that gave me lots of exercise CPWanderer.

With decent weather being forecast a plan was hatched to do some walking caches today in company with Sylken. Mrs Felix was the designated driver (drop n go) and book reader for the walkers. Although she did manage to walk 1 series today.



Fabulous weather and company, caches in good order and with good co-ords made for a really enjoyable day. (except for the enormous mosquitoes that seemed to follow us everywhere [xx(] )


We saw plenty of goannas, lots of birdlife out and about, some butterflies, kangaroos, and even an orchid on the side of the track.


TFTC CPwanderer

Looking forward to meeting other geocachers at the next Australian Geocaching Mega event

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Geohubby and I have just arrived in Murray Bridge to spend a few weeks tackling the many caches in the area. We were originally booked for the Mega event at Easter but family illness meant we had to cancel at the last minute. We are now able to try to add some more smileys to our tally. We have spent some very enjoyable times with FelixII since they arrived in SA after meeting them at a big event they organised in Busselton WA in 2013.

We were lucky enough to catch up with them again before they move further south, eventually heading for Victoria. Today we tackled a few caches that have been published since they were in Murray Bridge last.

We tallied 45 finds and no DNF's. All caches had excellent co-ords and were in good condition. I apologise for the generic log....I suspect with so many caches to be found around here that there will be many more such logs but we really appreciate all the work, time and effort that has been put into each and every cache by the CO's.

Glorious weather, fantastic company and a tidy sum of smileys made for a very enjoyable day.

Many thanks for the hide CPwanderer [^]

Nice easy one, tftc

Found at 15:58 with Olga.

We set off on this series in what looked like a lovely stroll in the park..literally.
Green grass underfoot and lovely trees all around. The grass (well, really a carpet of soursobs) looked well trimmed.

Little did we realise that by the time we did the series to the end (with the couple of extras) and returned to the car that we would have done 11.33kms! We were a little weary by then.

We saw a bit of wildlife: a couple of hares, a number of kangaroos, a gang of monarch birds which seemed to follow us, and numerous currawongs.

Unlike Ferries MacDonald park, there wasn't much in the way of wildflowers, although we did see some gorgeous grevilleas in flower. There were lots of various fungi around. Some having been dug up by creatures unknown. We think that the kangaroos and wallabies eat them, as do bandicoots. But this is at home in Tassie, so not sure if its the same here.

Aren't we lucky that we have access to areas as lovely as this. And aren't we lucky that dedicated cachers like CPwanderer go to so much effort to place caches in these areas to encourage us to come and use them.

Thank you again CPwanderer, a thoroughly enjoyable series and walk.

ps: there is a nest of fierce looking ants at this cache site.

Headed up to CP Territory to grab some of the walking caches. Grabbed some on the way as well. TFTC.

Good find

On track again at this cache Mrs Kooka was too busy signing the log and missed seeing the kangaroos hopping by in the distance, but Mr Kooka was a happy chappy to see them.
Thanks again CPwanderer

Out for a day of walking.

Did the Butchwalking and Tracks On A Track series.

Also did some of the Keep Active caches so I think all up I did about 15 kms.



TFTC

A nice find by jnr A
Onto the next one

Drizzly and wet in the hills so decided to head to a dryer clime. This series fitted the bill perfectly. A great series with spot on coords allowing for a pleasant walk. Only saw a couple of kangaroos. Wildlife a bit scarce today. TFTC CPwanderer.

A late afternoon walk on a cloudy day with the promise of drizzle but fortunately stayed away tackled the caches 1 to 13 until darkness descended, saw lots of birdlife, several types of fungi, a hare and some kangaroos. All caches in good condition TFTC

My pore miss ego twisted her ankle on the way to this one so we will have to come back to finish the rest of the trail great hidey hole though

Out caching for the day in the bush! This series was very good and kept us cache occupied!

A little late logging so my apologies. This is a fantastic series, and an easy to share with the family. We found all sorts of wildlife when we weren’t making too much noise. TFTC.

Beautiful day for a walk in the park [^]
Started at one end and did the whole series, then returned at a nice leisurely pace.
Lots of roos and birds around today, and the occasional hare!
Cheers & TFTExercise CPW

Found with geokids and geomutt. Happy Star Wars Day - May the Fourth be with you! TFTC.

Found on a cool and windy day with a small group on the last day of the MEGA.

We targeted this series to do on our way home from the Mega. We luxuriated in being able to walk in nice crisp fresh air and not be totally soaked in sweat after the first 5 minutes. We also enjoyed just following the arrow on the GPSr with no set paths to walk on (good of you to train all those kangaroos to keep the grass nice and short CP).
Mr TiedyeSmileys was doing a good impression of 'Butch' walking with chest thrust out and taking the lead. The effect was ruined however when a monster hare the size of a small deer leaped out of a bush at his feet and pelted off nearly over his feet leaving him squealing like a school girl.

A great little series that really enjoyed.

TFTC

With the sun getting lower in the sky we decided that this one would be the last of our Butchwalking Caches today. We enjoyed the stoll and the easy finds - thanks CP Wanderer.

Travelled over from New Zealand for the SA Mega, teamed up with Vistra to gather a few more caches as we travelled from Murray Bridge to Adelaide. Decided after many days doing drive bys that a walk was needed.

A small geotrail is starting to develop around each of the caches in this series. Really loved wandering through these woods with no particular paths laid out, made a nice change. Quick find and thanks for the series.

Found at 10:53 AM GAFF1 in the company of Alansee and The Drovers x 0.5.
After a big night last night we headed off to do this series of caches which we thought would clear our heads. It was a bit cool and windy, but we soldiered on Actually it became quite mild by the time we started on the walk.
Thanks CPwanderer.

I am over from New Zealand for Oz Mega 2014 and on my last day in town joined forces with Yorkshirekiwi83 to knock off a few more caches before heading to Adelaide for the night. Decided we still had time for another trail, so had a go at this series. It was an enjoyable wander around the bush and all caches were quick finds. Spotted a few kangaroos in the area and got a hell of a shock when one of them came bounding right past us at one cache, while it was being chased by a dog! TFTC!

A quick find as we head back to Murray Bridge to do some Butchwalking and we have arrived to undertake our mission, it was a bit windy today which kept the flies down, no snakes spotted and only a couple of roos were spotted, one was a mum with a joey in the pouch, a very simple trail to do and one of the really cool things we spotted was on some of the mallie tree (i think its a mallie) that had just shed its bark, it was such a beautiful bronze finish : ) TFTC

Camped at Murray Bridge, while attending the OZ Mega 2014 event.
Out for a morning caching run, with Pprass and Alansee.
Enjoyed a walk through some lovely bushland, and surrounding areas.
Found a variety of cache hides, some a little tricky.
Many thanks for the cache, CPwanderer.