Weird & Cool Facts #6. Flat Batteries. Two Wells, South Australia, Australia
By 3LG on 14-Jun-14. Waypoint GC56BQQ

Checked... it's gone!
Not replacing this one

Heading to Kimba at the end of this month and will check/maintain this one on the way past.

dnf for me. if its where i think it should be and the co ords are good, its gone

Spent 15 minutes looking.

Found what we thought was a good hide but no container

I thought I would recharge my battery with another attempt at this one. All good today and fully charged. TFTC

Found it with TICE [Hiltsu, J&T, kapeka & laalaa]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in Australia ( South Australia and Northern Territory ). Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and huge country!

Greetings from Finland!

Tice (Team Ice: laalaa, J&T., Hiltsu and kapeka) in Australia. Sun was shining and we had fun. Today we drove from Adelaide to Port Augusta.
Thanks for the cache.
Greetings from Finland.

Team ICE on a two week geocaching trip in Australia. Our main target was the Red Centre Experience at Alice Springs but of course we did some caching in other places too. We drove from Adelaide to Alice Springs and then back. We saw lots of interesting and beutiful places like opal mines at Coober Pedy, Ayers Rock and Kata Tjuta. Our rental travelled almost 6500km on gravel and tarmac roads. The weather was great, only on last day we got some rain.

All the caches logged as Team Ice, T-ice or Tice with kapeka, laalaa and Hiltsu. We had a great trip!

Today our journey continued from Adelaide to Port Augusta. Some trail caches and others logged on the way.

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Finland!

Our Spring Geocaching trip go this year to Australia...yes you read right, in Finland is spring now.
We visit in Australia (Adelaide, Murray Bridge, Port Augusta, Whyalla, Coober Pedy, Uluru, Alice Springs, Port Vincent and other place which are on the way those places) on April 05.-20.

We see many beautiful place where we visit and enjoy every cache what we found, so humble thanks every cache owner that you hiding this cache!

We (kapeka, laalaa, J&T. and Hiltsu) use common nickname Team ICE, T-ICE or TICE that we saves space in the logbook.

Thanks For To Cache 3LG!
Greetings from Finland

We are heading to Alice Springs for the Red Centre event stopping and finding a few caches along the way.
We pulled up here to grab a coffee and noticed that there was a cache on the screen and we both immediately thought that we had found this one. Once at gz it turned out that we were correct because we knew exactly where it was hidden, but we had some how missed logging it back in March 2016 when travelling with micaparamedic so we again added our name to the log and this time we remembered to log it.
Thanks 3LG for the cache and a lesson on lithium ion batteries.

Before attending the Red Centre Experience event in Alice Springs we're spending 5 days in SA mainly around the Yorke Peninsular. Appreciated the variety of containers and places they were hidden - it certainly brought us to places we certainly wouldn't have stopped at. many thanks to all the COs for your time and effort in the placement of your caches.

A week out before the Alice Springs Event, we decided to travel from Adelaide to Yorke Peninsula for our stay.
Due to the large volume of caches found and limited internet services I am doing a generic logs. The caches found were in different shape and sized and certainly took us to spots we normally would not have visited.

Thank you to all CO's.Hi

Found whilst out & about doing the Letterbox series. Thanks CO and TFTC

Found on a day out around the area with Brisal5. Good to knock off some of these out in this part of the world

This one was missing, so with the CO on the other end of the phone, we concocted up a suitable replacement.

Thanks for the cache 3LG. Found on 22 Mar 2017 at 3:39 pm. Find #4311.

I tried. I tried hard and I tried twice but no luck for me today.

Day Ten of our holiday, BettyBoo3747 and I are on the move again. Leaving Victor Harbor for Moonta.
We left early and got to Two Wells for morning tea and our first caches. Then doing the odd cache on the road as we rounded the Gulf of St. Vincent.
We have been to this park before for a cache, but always been stifled by muggles in the nearby picnic area. Not today.
Stumbled around before spotting the little blighter.
Luckily our batteries had not gone flat!
Thanks, Robmc.

#11727. Day 10 of our SA holiday. After an early start from Victor Harbor we headed for Two Wells with our final stop Moonta. We picked up caches along the way as they popped up on the radar. A nice day of 20 finds and one DNF.

The second of the "Weird" ones we collected today. We had visited this one before but gave up because of muggles and frustration. Finally zeroed in on GZ this morning for what in hindsight was an obvious sort of find. Now off to search for just one more before heading to the bakery for some well-earned breakfast. It is neary 10.30am after all.

Thanks 3LG

Another Friday, another caching day with Mrs. S.A. Sewer Rat. After having started Little Leprechauns Gold at a recent Freddo event I sussed out where I would have to go to get the remaining information required. Quite a journey but I am sure we could pick up a few others whilst passing by.
My batteries were on FULL charge today. [:^]
A short search and I had the cache despite the great camo which blends in very well.
Thanks 3LG.

Tftc. Nice easy find on a hot day.

Two Norwegian travellers on vacation/geocaching in Australia. Travelling by car from Brisbane to Adelaide with stops in interesting and not so interesting places. Started with the Sunshine Coast to warm us up and since then when travelling to the south and west the weather have not been so good as we hoped. Lots of wind and rain with only a few sunny days in between. We have now travelled through the east and south of OZ for nearly 5 weeks. The weather have been better last few days in Clare.
Today is the final stage of our roadtrip. Left Clare and will return the car in Adelaide this afternoon.
And we will log some caches down the road. So far, 378 caches are logged in OZ.
We are approaching Adelaide and this will be the last one today.
TFTC

2nd Favourite find for the day! It rocks!

TFTC
Terrific cache!

A good nights 'Shut Eye' always recharges my batteries Out north a bit today whilst on LSL holidays, I was passing thru Two Wells and thought, yeah why not Looking for the cache I was turning this, moving that, looking here, looking there [:o] Whilst i was turning / moving something to look in somewhere i actually had the cache in hand for about 5 seconds before saying to myself... "Ya Doofus! you're holding the damn cache!" [:o)] I really think i have 'Crystals' on the brain slowing my thought patterns from passing to my actions quick enough [:o)] 49 years of age will do that sometimes lol , that's my excuse [:p] SL at 11:11 whilst i could hear a train roar through the town, on Tue 25 Oct 2016. TFTC 3LG

Found with loopy1972 after a long search, 5 metres from gz. TFTC.

found with Dennisc52.

Found with vj187 while holidaying in the region. A quick find TFTC

Found with 2011*turtle on the way home from holiday weekend. TFTC

The first reasonable day in weeks so we headed out today to collect some caches and fly the drone to capture some footage along the coast. What a nice little park, and a quick find, lots of Pokemuggles wandering around not taking a blind bit of notice of us!! TFTC

Flat batteries [:(!] .....Geez, when batteries go flat at the wrong moment it can be such an anti-climax!

A quick find. I like the cache container....the colour blends in perfectly [^] Ohhhhh, and lots of Pokemon were here today....and I even got to catch a few, woo hoo!

Went for a quiet Saturday drive with CPwanderer to get out the house, find some caches, get some fresh air...and despite a few showers we were lucky enough to enjoy plenty of sunshine. We travelled to the Yorke Peninsula (Paskeville) briefly and then cached our way back to Adelaide where Nuvi (car GPSr) took us on a crazy route which left us scratching our heads [:o)] [?] .

Gosh, even with mostly drive-bys, low terrain level caches and short walks I was exhausted by the end of the day, but we had a fun time!

Thanks for the cache

An impromptu dash to South Australia was needed so I could say my goodbyes to my poppy, and I stayed a couple nights with my best friend KBKL. After poppy's service was sorted, we decided a few caches were in order.

Time to drive home and I had decided to get a number of caches en route. Turned a normally 12 hour trip to clost to 20 hours but it was worth it. Managed to get 4 states/territories in 24 hours also

Cache located, signed and replaced.

Thanks for the cache 3LG [^]

Found after the muggles chasing pokemon characters moved on. A great hide. I wish they would replace the broken statues. Thanks. Gave it a favourite.

Very good one. Thankyou.

Great hide and Cammo, one of the best we've done, TFTC

Suscoe was heading to Marion Bay today.
A beaut day, light cloud and sunshine.
A great day to be out and about.
Thanks to 3LG for placing this cache here.
A lovely spot than may have seen better days in the gardening aspect.

A nice day out with the kids. Thankyou for the cache.

10:28
Travelling from Tailem Bend to Port Vincent, the trip was punctuated by the "Ping" of the GPS'r an obvious signal to stop and stretch our legs. We discovered a variety of hides, along with a number of weird and cool facts, learnt a little more about Yorke Peninsula history and close to our destination were made aware of the opposition to mining development. Images added.

**FEEDBACK TO CO:** Not sure why this cache is carrying a 'Night Cache' attribute, as it is perfectly doable in the day time.

Our thanks to 3LG for placing this cache.
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Doing a travel bug visit at the closest geocache to the Two Wells Scouts.

Found at 1131hrs after a drive into town. Took a few minutes of looking after waiting for various muggles to com & go. Thanks 3LG.

Very clever

Batteries S*#t me to tears, but where would we be without them? These days we use Eneloops for the GPSr, and can recharge them in the car via an inverter if necessary. We seem to have accumulated so many rechargeable batteries that we can go a good six months between recharging the mountain of Eneloops.

We weren't intending to visit this cache today, but after spending the day at the Australasian Superbike Championship at Mallala, we both needed a pit stop of our own on the way home. I spent a few minutes looking around the area before widening the search. I returned to where the GPSr was indicating, and started scratching around again. Mrs J emerged from the amenity, and pointed directly to the cache. Doh!

Thanks 3LG.

The coordinates had Owl in the middle of the flower bed, but sense struck and the cache was eventually located 5 metres away.

Was having trouble with this one until 4 youngsters came along and swiped it from under our noses! Took off with it but came back and placed it back in position and all went down the hill to find other one. Not sure if they were cache owners checking but thank you for the hint!!! TFTC

TFTC

Managed to do a few of the Weird & Cool Facts caches while heading to Yorke Peninsula. Thanks 3LG

Another Weird & Cool fact, thanks 3LG.

Nice day out withwith DarknStormy, Nice cache. TFTC TNLN.

Out and about with my Uncle "Scrappy Trucker" , He's been down for a week exploring our beautiful state so I decided to take him for a drive in the back roads to do a few caches here and there

Awesome camo, this one took us ages to find... We were thinking to much about it!

Thanks for the cache 3LG

Catching up on a few late logs (something not that unusual for me). As always, I enjoyed the journey to find the cache, mostly I have been in the company of Team Crackers, maccamob, alansee and the Coffee's, but occasionally I have gone out solo to soak in the solitude of being out in the fresh air.

Thanks 3LG for placing this cache.

Grabbed this one on our walk ... found this one .... Walking around Australia for Prostate and Breast Cancers

TFTC SL

Another interesting fact is that when placed in a torch, batteries actually suck darkness rather than produce actual light, that's why a flat torch battery is always filled with black stuff when you open it up

TFTC 3LG

Quick find on the way home
TFTC

#2466 - Found by Marg on our ride from Mallala to Adelaide today.
Bruce had basically given up but Marg spotted the corky object.
All part of the fun and challenges on our AroundOz bicycle tour via the highest peak in each State and mainland Territory.
http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/15119
Many thanks to the cache owner 3LG for establishing and maintaining another regional cache.

Nice cameo. . Tftc

I found this cache whilst travelling from Adelaide to Whyalla, after work.
It's a long drive, so I had to be selective about the caches that I visited. TFTC.

Found while passing through on our way home. Cache had water in it poured it out, log to wet to sign sorry didn't have anything to replace with. TFTC.

no flat batteries for me today otherwise it would have been a bit hard to find the cache.

Lovely part of the world in a lovely park

TFTC

Missed it the first time as it was getting dark. Very happy to find it on our next try. Nice camo!

Another great find in the series today.

SL TFTC

The three of us were on our way home from the recent events in the mid north. We stopped by here for a quick drive-by on our way home.

Mr Tardis managed to spot the well camoed cache much to the disappointment of Mini Tardis.

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache 3LG.

Called in at Two Wells on our return from a trip to Yorke Peninsula. Thanks for the cache 3LG!

Found by The Empire
A day solo cruising around the area, finding a few challenge caches and earthcaches, seeing a bit more of this lovely state. Thanks for the cache.
- M

Off to the copper triangle but had to take a rest from driving...
Located with geoson Timotatus.
Stared and stared and found
tftc 3LG

Found by Mary & David, at 1020. Most enjoyable. Something for everyone here. Think murals, roses of many different colours, seats and tables, a very ancient wheelbarrow, and even (headless) statues, and of course a cache. Great hide, too. Haven't seen one that colour before. Our thanks to 3LG.

Found on a caching day with Snap Happy.... Given that he was a previous finder.... His memory is RUBBISH. Thanks 3LG for a nice sneaky little hide.

quick find just on dusk
Love ya work, nice cammo & hide
TFTC

My crystals were degrading so decided to have a rest and recharge my batteries.
Good camouflage. TFTC. Cheers

A quick find on our way home from Two Wells,tftc

Parked the Bus in a side street and went
for a nice walk to find this one.
I followed the thoughts of a previous
finder and sat back and thought.
Good cammo 3LG.

Thanks heaps

Little Squirell

Found with SnapHappy. We managed to do a few in this series over the week. My thanks to 3LG for all the weird and wonderful facts and information along the way. Thanks also for the hide. Cheers, sully, Ballarat.

[green]Find 5115[/green]...

Found this while House Sitting in Virginia... Teamed up with Sully1 to seek and find some caches around the local area... A beautiful day to be out and about... Managed quiet a few finds and shared many laughs...

A bit of a stroll, a short search, found cache, stamped and returned...
My sincerest thanks to all the cache owners for their hides and all the effort gone into them and I'm sorry for the generic log... I have seen many beautiful area's that I would not of seen or experience if not for your hides..
- P
Greetings from Victoria...

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log...
[green]Apologies for the generic logs[/green]...

Sat down to have a think then had a find.
No flat battery to day
TFTC

Nice park SL TFTC

We all wish we could find that eternal 'forever' battery!!
A nice park for a cache, found the previous cache here many moons ago.
Blends in well!
TNLNSL
Thanks

Neat work,tftc

An easy find and lovely roses!

TFTC

This entry was edited by coongie on Thursday, 12 February 2015 at 10:54:13 UTC.

I was heading to Moonta for the day but got distracted when I saw some white plumes from the highway so detoured via Two Wells.

I looked for this cache while I was visiting the park but no luck today . Unusual for me but the 5 minute rule applied today as I had a long way to travel and didn't want my batteries going flat in the process .

Will be back another time

A quick find while waitin for a ride home..TFTC

Somehow a archived cache has reappeared here and it is the archived cache that has the wet log book, we have removed the archived cache and our cache is safe and sound, we have dropped a new log sheet in ours so it will be god for a long time now.

Logbook completely soaked. Needs replacing.

Quick find as it was in plain sight. Put it further out of view. TFTC

Found by The Boofs TFTC ☺. Log book very wet.

Quick find,container and contents soaked so needs attention. Tftc

Had been doing with It's small world runs with whitepaws9, laker63 and rosejj
Last one for today
Found it.
Thanks 3LG

Found it after PSA Runs.
TFTC

Second find of the day on our way to the Christmas event in Adelaide.

Sorry for the late log I have fallen a bit behind in logging.

TFTC 3LG

Woohoo.. Found it.. This is so good.. TFTC

Found It!
Bloody PM only caches! Spawn of Satan! Burn down the PM only caches and exterminate anyone who conceives them!
TFTC anyway

Luckily no flat batteries today-cool fact ! Found at a garden dedicated to an old family friend. Thanks for bringing me here. 3LG

Found it nice and easy on the way to Edithburgh. I have been there before.

Thanks 3LG for the cache

Away for a few days before getting to SYP to place a few caches.

Easy find despite a few people being around.

Thanks to all who placed caches.

TFTC

After a day on the fire crew at Mallala there was time to grab a cache on the way home. TFTC.

Tftc found with polkys quest

Found with auzzie convict tftc

The batteries were charged up!

Thanks to 3LG and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Nice little place for a rest stop and cuppa, SL TFTC

This one took way longer than it should have. Nice hide and a slight variation from the norm for these. Thanks.

Quick look in the evening dark.
Nothing stood out and muggles got a bit too curious why I was there.
Will return!

First for the day and it's always good to start with a find .
Looked and looked and looked and looked and looked and looked and looked [:o)].
We then went back and looked near where we started - doh !
Nice hide. TNLNSL.
Don't know where we'd be without the rechargables!
Thanks 3LG.

Well if you play Ingress as well as Geocache you will know all about flat batteries!