Bloodied by Big Bad Bradley Hamley Bridge, South Australia, Australia
By Big Bad Bradley on 28-Apr-14. Waypoint GC53PYV

Tough spotting but got there

Ouch, damn! Oi! Yikes! Owwwww! Oh I got it. Actually I SEE it but how to grab? Ahhhh really long hook like stick should do it. More cursing and I finally had it close enough to grab. Good view from here of the bridge!

Have located old container and replaced. It is now a ammo tin.

No luck here today

No luck for us with this one today

Travelling with iluvtrekking from our home state WA. Spending a few days in Nuriootpa to cache the surrounds. Loving the scenery that we pass as we move through the caches - this is our preferred caching - not suburbs. Drizzly day but the farmers definitely need it. Sticking to the black and the white roads. Thanks - I think

The first of a short run of DNFs. Sent long-panted and work-booted husband down the bank and sent directions from the top but no luck today. TFTC anyway

Ouch

Found it. Do love an agave or two. Tyftc. House of Jones.

After a visit to Hamley Bridge for a special Virtual cache we spent some time caching in the area. We stopped to have a look for this cache. We've had varying success looking for BBB caches over the years so usually stop when we find ourselves close by. This was interesting as the recent road works had knocked over the middle section of this fearsome line of Agave. Our GPS had GZ on the edge of the new gap. We hunted around in the plants but could not discover the container. On our way back up the hill we checked out the dead clumps but again found nothing. Another one that will remain unfound.

DNF

Found during a day out caching in the Roseworthy to Hamley Bridge area. This won't last much longer with the recent roadworks engulfing the spikes. Thanks for the cache Big Bad Bradley!

We wouldn't complain! We had a look, evaluated and decided this was not the temperature/ weather to be tackling this. We will be back

Ezz

Watch out! The plants have thorns!

TFTC. Along with miff1 we though today would be a good chance to explore some of the Barrossa. We. Had earmarked a virtual cache at Hamblyn Bridge as our primary objective. We would stop and find other caches as we came close. We lunched at Nurioopta before completing a tour of their Historic wineries. A great relaxing day,

A change of pace today, our team was hugely decreased in numbers with only HansandLinda and ourselves goingand to Nurioopta to visit the lovely Snappy Tomcats followed by lunch and a tour of the wineries to complete an AL. Plus we picked upa few other caches that were needed to help fill DT grids or challenges. SL TFTC

Out on caching adventures with Wollaston.

Fortunately this wasn’t too bad

Thanks to the many hands and minds taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot in logbook with stamp

TFTC Tk2

Find # 4823

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird. TFTC Tk2
Find #7196 at 14:01.

It was school holidays and I needed a break from school and chores and needed to just have some fun. I talked sir_spectre into joining me for a weekend away caching near Clare and Burra. We avoided the big towns and focused on the caches we normally drive past on the way to somewhere else. Any caches that needed some attention got it.
Thanks to Tk2 from mogni

Well not a quick find but not a slow find either. Found after going down the slope, lucky for me the bush has died back a little and after a little search the cache was found. No blood spilt today.
found with Mogni. Headed out in the general direction of clare and planned to clean out clare before the June Long Weekend End Event in 2022. As usual there was ALOT of caches found before then and only a couple of caches where found in clare before staying in Farrel Flat for the night. The next day was cleaning out Burra and slowly making our way home. Damn doing multi's takes so long, since the final has a habit of not being in the direction you are planning to go next. All caches that where found that were brittle or damaged were replaced and logs found wet where replaced, except for nano's. Nano's are evil spawn and you can do your own maintanence on them.

Today i headed north to complete some of the rattler trail, I have been here before and back again, not a fan of these caches at all.
TFTC

No luck here today

Found

TFTC very good hide I enjoyed it very much they are a challenge

TFTC BBB
Another of these Agaves done & dusted!
With a drop or 6

Too much growth unable to see

Too much broken glass, big prickles and blood (mine) for me to keep going

Found

Nomads travelling in their caravan around Australia. We have been on the road since July 2011 and discovered caching in August 2013. We travel with a bunch of travel bugs belonging to our sons and grand children. Where ever possible, we will maintain your cache as we travel. Today we arrived in Hamley Bridge.

Using geocaching as our tour guide, we set out today on a round trip from Hamley Bridge to Owen and return via Barabba.

Just as we arrived and parked up, the phone rang - SnappyTomCats - who we are visiting tomorrow. Chat Chat Chat, So I sent Mr D the Driver over to GZ - Got to ground zero could not find the cache. Oh, well, I knew we should have stopped today at 20 out of 20. Now it is 20 out of 21.

NO blood was split in the search of this cache. Thanks all the same Big Bad Bradley

DNF

Finally a cooler day to try this one. An easy find. TFTC

Found while out this way doing some cache maintenance.
Some recent dieback helped make the find relatively skin friendly.
Thanks for the cache Tk2

No blood spilt here the fire has done enough damage to make it an easy find.


TFTC

Time 1:22:00 PM
I got to within 8 metres of this cache then turned around and headed back to the car.
I can hurt myself without trying so no point looking for trouble.

Battled through some dangerous growth but couldn't find any sign. Gave up

Another Tuesday caching day with Mrs. SA Sewer Rat and Blackadders. Today we thought we might head north to clear up a few more DNF's and grab any other caches we might be passing. The tragic fires that went through here were terrible for the locals and the State, They did however also help here. Half of the stand was wiped out. I managed to only get pricked twice and no significant blood was spilled! [^] Managed to find the replacement cache and the old melted fire effected cache. I have removed the old cache as CITO (see picture) but will keep if for a while in case the owner wants it.

**Thanks Tk2 for this cache. **

I wasn't really dressed appropriately for attacking this one, but I had to give it a go. The area has suffered from a fire by the looks and some of the plants are lacking life...

I fossicked around a little, but wasn't going in too deep. As a result, I failed ot locate the cache.

So proud of myself for persisting with this nasty cache! Had trouble getting back up the hill. The things cachers do! TFTC!

Passing through the area today so made a couple of quick stops along the way.
This was one of them and a nice quick find
Cheers & TFTC Tk2

Approached from two different directions. Both of them hard. Even after that effort I could not find. It's probably in there somewhere.

This one took us two visits to find! unsuccessful first time around!! Great hide, Great cache!! i am a local to the near by township and all the local geocachers thought that this was my cache as my name is Brad!!

### S.Y.L.B.D. ###

Tftc. Old and new found

Found the new cache and the remains of the old one.
Much easier, thanks to the fire.

Found with my Hero Husband. Still quite a mess here.

Thanks to fellow geocacher for replacement container and thanks for your time.

This cache is a lot easier now, after the Pinery fires of 3 weeks ago. I was heading home after a few days helping out at BlazeAid clearing fencelines after the fires.
The poor agave plants suffered a little in the heat of the fires, but not quite as much as the cache (sorry, I've lost the photo between the phone and PC: edit I've found the files again - amazing what rebooting the computer can do for that sort of problem).
I was thinking of logging a needs maintenance log, but decided I could do it myself. The replacement is a little smaller than the original, but at least it has a pencil and a logsheet.

This cache has been temporarily disabled due to a recent fire in the area. An extensive area of farmland has been burnt out and poses a potential risk to public safety. For safety reasons, visitors should keep clear of all areas that have been affected. See updates at http://www.cfs.sa.gov.au/site/warnings_and_incidents/pinery_fire_information.jsp

No luck today with two pairs of eyes.

Out and about with Mattycat exploring some of the lower mid north back roads and dry weather tracks, nasty nasty nasty were about to give up thinking the grader may have dealt with this one appropiately but some gallery pictures had us changing our location, long grass warm day a careful approach and a surprisingly easy cache, reat views of the old rail bridge from here TFTC Tk2

A good day's caching tour with Mr Froghoppin. [^]

After a frontal assault on the Brad plants (which looked like a road grader had struck them) we checked logs and photos and modified our approach.
Took a little while, but this Big Bad cache is off the to do list
TNLN TFTC Tk2

Sent the geoteens in ,who past it out for the oldies to sign.
No blood was spilt today.Thanks Tk2 for the cache.

Prick of a cache. Me and my friend (see picture attached) found the cache.
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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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After completing a cache a few kms back that I thought I would be diving into a cactus only to discover another one with the same mo, was so pleased that I didn't have to go in, that's such a tease.

Out with **JEM** and heading to his home town picking up a few caches along the way.

Didn't find this one in the time allowed.

No blood spilt.

Epic fail you pwned us n00bs... You are only as good as your next find.

Cant find

With a child free day we thought we would go for a pleasant drive in to some beautiful country and knock off some more caches that we had in the area. This was the 7 of the 13 that we did today.

No blood was drawn buy Bradley today.

Thank you Tk2

Found with auzzie convict tftc

Tftc found with polkys quest

Arriving at gz we realised that the cactus had been cleared from side of the road.
Thinking the worst we looked to no avail.
Decided to wander down and look at pepper tree down the slope.
Luckily for us we did and located the cache on the way back.
Caching with 3LG.
TFTC

Out and about today with earthlight looking for suitable spots to hide caches and of course find caches as we go, got to GZ and couldn't find anything, a scraper has gone through here and made a good ol mess with the ones on the road side, just about to call a DNF and looked at a photo and then resumed the search a bit further down the embankment and made a quick find once down there, TFTC and no blood was drawn today.

Found it left a cat took a key ring got pricked by the tree be careful of traffic in a p. Condiment that's black fun find

Ha Ha we got you but your guardians didn't get us!!
TFTC


This entry was edited by coongie on Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 08:18:32 UTC.

They say you are only as good as your next find. Well I found this one in the dark. I'd honed my skills by hunting down a few NGC objects and finding M104 by star hopping. Nope, I wasn't in Meccico or wearing a Sombrero Hat, but I found this one the second time I looked.

Yes TK2, there was 1 drop of blood. As I was getting up the slope, I made a mistake.

Clear skies!

You're not taking my blood SL TFTC

Too easy. No blood shed here!
TNLNSL
Thanks

They say you are only as good as your next find. How true. I think I'll go to an event next. I should be able to find that. At least there was no blood. Perhaps that's what my problem was! Clear skies.

Woo Hoo! Our first BBB find and we did it without drawing blood and no OUCH'es...
Took it slow and steady, armed with our trusty BBQ Tongs..or should that be BBB Tongs! TFTC

Yes it was down there Grrrrrrr damn you BBB But TFTC and the challenge

Rats and a snake went out for a spot of caching.
This took one rat and snake awhile to find.
Another BBB bites the dust tftc

An easy enough find after you've worked out the best way to reach GZ .
TNLNSL.
Thanks Big Bad Bradley (& Tk2).

Cactus! TFTC.

Heading off on the prickly cactus road tour today with locus cache, JJ52 and laighside legends in Harry and a convoy of others as well

We travelled far and wide and found most of the BBB caches that we looked for Still despite all the people and previous finders with us a couple elluded us
We also found some other caches. [^]

In the end after dodging cute little bunnies on the road we finally made it to Wallaroo before the pub shut for dinner and then I slept most of the way home to Adelaide.

Thanks to locus cache for driving and singing and thanks to BBB and all the other cache hiders! We had a fab day!

Everybody kept saying 'It's not going to be down there.'. Well it is down there. Nasty.

Thanks for the cache Big Bad Bradley.

another of the list


thanks to Tk2 for putting this cache out for us to find

First of the BBB caches I needed for the day. Had us all looking for a while before we finally found it.

Sorry For The Late Log Have Fallen a Bit Behind in logging.

TFTC Tk2

Today was a big day with the Big Bad Brad Tour with no sighting of the Man himself but plenty of evidence of caches in his name.
We found most of those that we attempted but there were a few that we missed.
A great meal was had in Wallaroo then a final find at the Ferry Terminal for my 14000 find.
Thanks to all the cache hiders for the day. TFTC.

Found at 10:03 AM
Look out here comes the convoy. Lots of eyes. Not much luck until we decided to trust the GPS. The coords as good. Had us stumped for a while.

There are a lot of beer bottles and we retrieved a few.

Thanks Tk2 for placing this cache and sharing this area with us!

Group assault on our BBB tour. It certainly helps having lots of eyes to search for these nasty caches.
Thanks for the cache Tk2.

Found It!
Even with over a dozen people searching this one still took us quite a while to find. Eventually someone tried down the bottom...
TFTC

The GPS suggested down below, after a few minutes up top, firesafe, sushilord and a few others went to where the GPS suggested and sushilord made the find.
All in the group were happy with the find and Gordon Patrick Samuel did some CITO with beer bottles from the Agave bush.
TFTC.

Out for the day with Laighside Legends, JJ52 and Ismartis for a fun day out.
Attended the BBB on Tour event, then made our way out to a plethora of prickly, scratchy, frustratingly increasing caches with a similar camo style.
I finished the day with 14 finds , 2 DNFs and 1 event attended ... although that should read 15 finds (1 GCA), 2 DNFs and 2 events attended (1 GCA)

I am NOT going to say 'a quick find' as most of these weren't, however some were quicker than others!
My 1st cache find for the day

TNLN. SL. TFTC Tk2

Found on the BBB tour TFTC

Out doing the big bad brad series of caches for the day with many a cacher. Got my first big scratch at this cache ... from a prickly tree as we were leaving.

Found as part of the BBB on tour group today
Bloodied indeed - it's like the pricks jump out of no where
Log signed and replaced
TFTC x

Logging this one as a beta find as I was there when the cache was placed, tftc

Found my first BBB cache. With help from KBKL and sixpak69.TFTC

Found with geowife KBKL and geo family barbwyre68.. TFTC

Out and about with geo hubby sixpak69 and geo family barbwyre68, nother BBB one bites the dust. Yeah. TFTC

Hmmmmm Tk dressed in a cactus like costume.......now there's a thought for the next Mega!!! I'm thinking that BY the next Mega..there will be enough who have now considered shares in the Bandaid brand that .......they may provide you with the leaves.

Next visit perhaps

Touring Australia having left Perth in late February we are leisurely touring Australia after having attended Oz Mega.

We have been camped at Mallala for a few nights with iluvtrekking and today we headed out in the hope of completing the PSA series and the It's a Small Wold (60) series along with a swag of other caches.

Think for us the PSA series has been our favourite power trail we have done in the last month. Great variety of hides and we had to think about where the caches might be hidden.

The only problem was the rain of a few days ago was likely to have left a few of the roads a bit muddy still. We tackled the all weather roads first then gingerly tested the Dry Weather Only Roads. We only saw one that looked impassable so the boys hopped out to test it and nearly got bogged on foot so that section they walked from one end to the other. Whilst the ladies looped around and picked up a nearby multi before picking them up at the other end.

Fabulous day out and about with friends and lots of smilies. Think there were only 3 DNF's that we remember.

Mr Felix was glad to find this quickly and excited to be 2TF.


TFTC

[Green][font=Comic Sans MS]G'Day from W.A.[font=Verdana][/Green]

[Black] Found your cache with FelixII, thanks for your cache Tk2, we had fun.[/Black][font=Arial][font=Verdana]

Couldn't resist trying to find this because it's close to home. Now to begin work for the day.
No blood was shed this morning.
TFTC

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