Rattler 4 Riverton, South Australia, Australia
By cvc on 25-Jan-15. Waypoint GC5KV67

Just passing byTFTC ClareValleyCachingKeep smiling

Thanks ClareValleyCaching for placing this cache and for the ongoing maintenance. Find #10760 on 2/11/2024 at 4:43PMA plan was hatched to ride along the Riesling Trail and collect a few caches. A delightful day in the company of Cheezel and Jolly riding along and signing logs. This is a special place, very enjoyable. We also collected some others that were nearby or along the way.

Failed on this one. On to the next.

Thanks

TFTC found while on a trip to SA doing a couple of rail trails with Algae. I rode my bicycle and Algae rode his electric unicycle. Thanks for placing and maintaining these caches for us to find.

TFTC. Out with Shumba7 on a rail trail road trip.

As we wander through the land, grabbing caches and seeing the sights even occasionally catching up with friends A good day was had while grabbing these caches with lots of miles covered Thanks for placing them *Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

1st Of the day, looking after 2 beautiful puppies we thought we would chose this lovely walk

Over the last few days we have chosen to walk various parts of the Riesling/Rattler trails grabbing any caches we could find as we passed by. Many thanks for the hide ClareValleyCaching

TFTCLog signed as SW

Stopped off here after a weekend of gravel riding in ClareA quick find, stamp and returnTFTC

Nice quick find by my muggle mate. TFTC #557

Cool little hide. Thanks

Did a trip to Riverton to give the mobility scooter a run to do the southern end of the rattler trail. TFTC

Found today whilst out with my very old rescue red heeler (Little Red).
We are scattering some ashes from her departed rescue brother and sister (Buddy RIP 25/6/23 & Nikki RIP 7/12/20) around some of our favourite places in and around Riverton (or home since 1/1/21).
Thank you for the cool cache!
Happy long weekend June 2023!

Spending a few days exploring and caching around the Clare Valley. Visiting some towns that I haven’t been before so lots of unfound geocaches up for grabs.

Day one was Hamley Bridge, Stockport, Tarlee and Riverton. Very warm today so didn’t break any records and needed frequent stops to rehydrate.

After checking in to the Riverton Caravan Park, I set off on my bike to make a start along the Rattler Trail. Only one DNF on the trail today.

After a couple of hours on my bike, the cool water of the Riverton Pool was beckoning me so I called it a day a headed back to Riverton.

Thanks for the cache cvc.
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A return visit to Clare was planned for the long weekend with the JAMS crew plus tallbikestan to find a lot of the caches that we didn't get to on our last visit along with the Rattler, Riesling and NE trails as well as the Mid North Channel Country trail. [^]

We had three very full days with perfect weather for caching, lots of bike riding, lots of walking and lots of driving along dirt tracks. We were lucky it had not recently been wet as some of the roads we drove on would not have been passable if wet. Loved the scenery at this time of year with everything looking very green as well as the bright yellow of the canola crops.

A fun weekend of caching, lots of caches found and lots of cool places visited.

Thanks for the cache Clare Valley Caching.

A big long weekend with the JAMS Crew (JJ52, allister w(me), mogni, Sir Spectre and tallbikestan). We road from Riverton to Stanley Flat on day 1. Then more riding near Spalding on day 2. Then finished the weekend with finding caches around the area in the car. TFTC

So glad we had electric bikes to do this trail.
The JAMS team ( JJ52,Allister w, Mogni, and sir_spectre minus mitchell&hound ) but Tallbikestan was with us instead and we where out for there usually monthly caching adventure. This time it was over the october long weekend instead of the usual day trip. The taget this time was Drop into the Light a long ladder cache on the way to clare and then to clear the Rattler trail, Riesling Trail, Ne Trail saturday on the bikes and then sunday do the Mid North Channel Country bike trail. Monday on the return home was to get Peter's view a 2001 cache. Of course there was many, many other's found on route to the various target for the weekend, somewhere around 260 found by the team. It could have been more but we were not going at a flat out pace, just steady and getting a blow out on the bike 1.6 km's from the end of the Mid North Channel Country bike trail didn't help. I didn't see any snakes this trip but allister did, he saw 5. The caches this trip where written in as JAMS, i forgot the stamps. Also 1 cache was placed by the JAMS team this trip. Out of all the bike tracks i preferred the Rattler /Riesling trail. I like riding through the very rich ( after all the recent rains ) fields of yellow flowers.

Found out with jams group riding electric bikes logged as jams

The JAMS crew went on an October long weekend adventure back to Clare. We brought Tallbikestan along as we were targetting the bike tracks and he is the best rider amongst us. Allister W and sir_spectre we the other main riders, with JJ52 and I the support crew and walkers. A huge weekend of fun and adventure was had by all, until I made SS sick with my cold....oops.
Thanks to all those who have kept not just the bike tracks but all the other caches alive for us to find.
All caches signed as JAMS.
Thanks to ClareValleyCaching from mogni

Returned to this series from starting end. I earlier did some from Auburn. On both times it was done by walking. Slow but good exercise. Thanks ClareValleyCaching.

Day fourteen of our short South Australian trip with BettyBoo3747 and the geo-doggies.
Our last day on the Rattler series. We drove down to Riverton and unloaded the deadly treadlies and hit the bike trails riding for the last half of the Rattler series. We then traveled to Tanunda collecting a few caches on the way.

A strong northerly on the exposed sections of trail today, which wasn't too bad as that meant a tail wind on the way back.
Another day of empty trails - how nice.
Found all but two today. One we were muggled out by cows (No.2), and one had a tree fallen (No.15).
Thanks for this great series of caches, and a lovely ride.
Thanks, Robmc.

#19231. Day 14 of our Vic/SA trip with Robmc the geodogs and our bicycles. A day of moving on - leaving Clare and heading to Tanunda for a few days. First though we wanted to finish off the Rattler Trail so drove to the oval at Riverton and rode as far as #31. It was a bit of a hard slog into a strong head wind on the open sections but a pretty good ride on the way back in quick time.

The sizing over here causes us a bit of angst - Regulars that are 200ml Sistemas or Eclipse tins and smalls that are a good size. It might be time for a good maintenance run along here as some of the tins were wet and losing their lids and some logs are getting damp.

Thanks ClareValleyCaching

On the way to Clare for a few days. Tftc.

Found it TFTC Found in good condition

LTF

LTF

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 - CVC [^]

Found it

Today i headed north to complete some of the rattler trail, parked up and made my way along the trail, a nice 12km return walk along here and pretty easy done, all the caches were easily found and some need fixing.
TFTC

Tftc Tnln

Left Riverton on foot @ 7.45am this morning chasing the caches, enjoying the company of my friend, with the breeze and sunshine on our faces, chatting all the way, we arrived in Auburn @ 5pm this afternoon with only a couple of DNF's and 60+ finds.
TFTC
Keep smiling

TFTC cvc

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

A nice easy find

Tftc

Thanks cvc for this quick easy cache. A beautiful Anzac day stroll with making pie.

Quick find while riding the trail.

A late stroll by torchlight on the day we were allowed to all go crazy... safe and isolated here
Still quite warm. The trees here are eerie at night.
Soon found and signed.

Thanks cvc for placing and maintaining this cache on our map



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Sanitise and distance when caching. 150 pathtags apart!
Keep smiling , preferably behind those masks!

A couple of days away with The White Dog Gang .

The bikes were bought along and we did the Rattler, the N E series and a few of the Reisling Trail. Plus any that were near the roads we travelled along.

Thanks to evryone who put out a cache that we found.

Found easily, good coords & clues
Out with Team Waldron doing the Rattler Trail today
Thanks to the teams who placed this series, well done.
TFTC

Summerbub
2/10/20
Lots of trinkets in this one

All good!

Doing a big caravan trip around South Australia in these travel restricted times and doing a little bit of caching on the way.
This afternoon caching with some friends from Adelaide - there are plenty to find in and around Riverton on the Rattler Trail.
Left a lucky Chinese Feng Shui coin. TFTC

A much belated TFTC!
Found with Geo-Mum Kayche20 and Geo-dog Bess on the 23-9-18 !
Catching up on logs!

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Mr Felix on his bike today out Geocaching , didnt see another person, so ensuring social distancing, he managed to find your cache.

TFTC

After finding cache Rattler 64 near our camp ground in Auburn, we decided to stay one night longer, and to bike the Rattler trail to Riverton. And so we did the next morning, caching on the way and back, and enjoying a good lunch in Riverton.

All in all it was a good day, some 40 km on the bikes, 5 DNFs, good weather, nice sized boxes and a lot of fun.

Thank you for showing the beautiful surroundings and for preparation this trail. We had a fun day.

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Thanks to all cache owners for their caches!

Rode the rattler trail back to Auburn, collecting caches along the way. All bar 2 were found. Thanks for placing and tftc

Quick find Biking with Juju54 TFTC

Quick find today with HRH54 TFTC

Got my mojo back after being stuck in study ville - still love the feeling of found it!! - TYFTC SLTNLN

Shocking lock - lucky find TFTC

Found at 12:00 PM GAFF1.
A perfect morning to do the rest of this series and going from north to south was also ideal as here was a slight north breeze.
Thanks cvc

All found

TFTC

TFTC please be careful of fallen tree limbs.

Merry Christmas and tftc

Headed off this morning to walk the Rattler Trail, 19.5km containing 75 caches. Happily we got them all. The day was nice for this trip with an overcast sky and lower temperatures. Most finds were nice and quick, some took a little longer and other's we had to repair with the CO's permission. Our walk took us a little longer than we thought it would, but we took care not to run into any snakes today. Saw a group of kangaroo's, which ran ahead of us for half a dozen caches.

This cache was a nice quick find. tftc

Trees played havoc with the gps but found eventually. Tftc.

Checked replaced and all good to go

Rattlin’ along on the Rattler Trail with Molly Squib, Bess and Eric the Bulldog! TFTC beautiful spot for a cache stop.

A quick find for us today.
The container needs replacing.
Contents are soggy.
Stamped the dry logbook.. tftc

Another Rattler smiley, unfortunately the container has gone brittle with a hole in the top. The contents are soaking wet and mouldy. There is a new logbook , that allows marks to be made to show a find but tge container itself needs urgent replacement. Thanks for the cache and placement Rattler 4 ___ Find Number #4550 at 11:42 Hours

Found

Thanks for the series so far.

We have had the Rattler series on our "to do" list since the caches were first published but we have never been in the area for sufficient time to make a start. However we had a couple of days spare after completing the Gone Fishn' series on the Yorke Peninsula. So we decided to stay a couple of nights in Auburn and to make the Rattler our priority. With the likelihood of another hot day, we made an early start.

We broken the trail into a number of sections. Mrs y'stassie walked the first section whilst Mr y'stassie took the car to the start of the second section and started walking from there. When she arrived at the end of the first section (also the start of the second section), she took the car to the start of the third section and began walking from there, leaving the car for Mr y'stassie. In that way we halved the amount of walking.

This was a very quick find as the cache container was out in the open, on the edge of the rail trail. Unfortunately the cache lid has become brittle and is cracked and broken. It will not protect the contents from the elements. Some TLC is required as soon as possible. Thanks cvc for the cache and the series.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Need some repair or new box. Wet.

Found cache, log wet.

Decided watching the GF was a waste of time so headed off on the bikes with Wal & Ol. TFTC!

After watching 3/4 of the Grand Final, decided some caching was a preferable way to spend the arvo! On the bikes with Pony1966. Replaced bag.TFTC

Today Mr T tackled this series on a not so hot day with Roostaman. Enjoying the views and the changing country side, especially the vibrant colours of the canola fields that just went on and on, especially with the green backdrop of other paddocks. This was a highlight of this area making it a picturesque landscape. Most were easy finds at GZ, some a bit of a search, but a great day out.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this series for our enjoyment.

**# 17830** Found on the SA outback leg of our 2017 escape trip.
A fine Spring day for a trek along the Rattler trail with Tassie Trekkers.
Not many muggles around today, and mostly good quick finds.
Lots of great scenery and healthy crops along the way too.
Thanks for the cache cvc,
***Roostaman***

Apologies for generic logs. Back to finish walking the Rattler trail, with Darkmoon31, picking up where we left off in May. A very early (6am) departure from home saw us ready to go from No26 at 7am heading out in a very brisk 3 degrees. Making our way down to Riverton we arrived in plenty of time to visit the local Market on today. If you get a chance to do this then try the hot apple juice - Delicious! Could not have asked for a nicer Winters day for caching with spectacular scenery along the way. Thank you for bringing us here.

Second half of the Rattler with Team Shandyk. Going Backwards again cause thats how we rattle and roll. Very late logging this section apologies to all! Apologies also that the logs will be the same all way through!

TFTC TNLNSL

Decided to hit the rattler trail today on the push bike, so far not to bad only a few that were unsignable, well will keep pushing on.

Log very wet. Needs maintenance. Tftc

We've been driving past this cache trail for the last 18 months and with Mrs DISK away for the weekend , thought I'd finally make a start on this series today [:o)].
Since the road ran parallel, continued to drive on to this one as well .
A bit of a scramble over the track soon had the cache in hand . TNLNSL.
Thanks for one more Cvc.

TFTC

Found

Found it

TFTC

Quick find while cycling through the area. Took snake, Left bear , butterfly Ironman , SL. Thanks!

Mrs iluvtrekking and I dropped our geo-men off in Riverton to undertake the 44 klm cycle ride back to Clare. They spent 9 hours to complete the trail with a couple of dnf's along the way but marvelled at the scenery and had an awesome day. Thanks cvc

After dropping the GeoHubbies off in Richmond they peddled off into the morning mist. 9 hours and 40ks later they emerged in Clare sore but triumphant. Thanks to all concerned in placing this epic series of caches.

Our second day camped at Balaklava, and today we attempted the Rattler series.
Even though it was a hot day, we still managed to complete from 65 to 1, with 2 DNF's.

Most caches were located quickly, signed and replaced as found.
Many thanks for placing this series of caches, cvc, for us and others to find.

Looked for it on the first time past, but could not get a good location due to the tree coverage.
Looked again on the way back, but a horse riding muggler was watching in the paddock across the road.
Will be back another day.

Found

Another great find while in the area on holiday.
Thanks for setting up this cache cvc.
SL

Really enjoyed the Rattler Trail!

BCBB found with thanks !! Sorry for the generic logs due to large numbers of finds!

Found as part of babb thanks

tb visits

Rattler four was in a nice wooded area
A big change from the open expanses of boring fields [^]
No wonder this stretch of the Rattler Trail is sort of the 'poster child' of the tourism people

TFTC

Found with BABB! Tftc! after a few caches on the ratler this day bloody wind! After my gps died after this one!

apologizing in advance for the generic logs. was in clare for the weekend to attend the events (my first events since becoming a geocacher) and I am now back logging. Many thanks for the caches was a really good weekend

The Rattler trail was the day's target. I rode with the checker crew, of firesafe, clare007, snappy tomcats, featherwaite and me. We brought up the rear and checked that the BABB was signed in every log. It was, and we could pick who got there first, plain BABB, BABB in green, BABB group, BABB crew. We were waiting for the BABB posse, collective or babble to turn up in the logs. . As usual it was a great day with plenty of laughs and we found your cache along the way. Thanks cvc.