Lost Heritage #35 - Brownlow Brownlow, South Australia, Australia
By Hurtle on 29-Apr-15. Waypoint GC5TJHM

Stopped by for maintenance check.Replaced container, and added a baggie.Nearly 10 years old, with original logbook still.Wow, the building is fast decaying...Even the pepper tree is looking ragged!

TFTC, SL, TN,LN.

An interesting ruin here. Unusual in that the walls are crumbling but the roof is still often - usually the walls remain sturdy until the roof is lost and then they lose their integrity. TFTC!

Container is disintegrating

Out with geo-partner doin this series TFTC

Funny cache while I was on the TdF trail! Thank you

Found it! Made an early start today, with the aim of making a dent in the TdF trail and maybe branching off to do the TdU trail. This one was along the way, took a few photos of the ruin. TFTC!

Something special or unusual goes here:Quickly found the cache. The lost heritage has lost a little more heritage since the cache was placed and not looking so good now. The Generic Bit:Another Tuesday Trek with just me and Mrs. Sewer Rats. I had itch to retrace last Tuesday's Trek up through Morgan to Waikerie for lunch, cruise back via the Sturt Highway and clear out a few more caches. That itch just needed to be scratched. We made it to Morgan for a late lunch and made it to Waikerie around dinner time and back to the Rat's nest as the sun set. A few more laughs, a lot more caches and yet there are still that require yet another trek!**SAs Leap Year Event GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. - BOING*****Thanks Hurtle for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. *** Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Its been a while since weve teamed up, but the 3 Stooges (weredunn4, WayneAPN, Cheezel1961) are back at it again Today we are targeting the Tour de France (TdF) series plus any other interesting caches we might cross paths with.Cache quickly found and stampedTFTC

Tackling the TDF series with Cheezel and Wayne APN. A great day out. Cache found and log stamped.

It's been a while since our last get together to spend a day caching with Weredunn4 and Cheezel1961. With all the stuff occurring in each of our daily lives and work etc, the stars seem to align today for an outing out together, targeting the TDF series. Plus a few in easy range, hey were are out this way, may as well do them. Plus the usual target of interesting, unique D/T grids as well as high T caches.Thanks for this one, an easy find.TFTC SL

Left early in the rain, with the intention to do TdF series on the stock route road. It drizzle all the way and most of the morning periodically, until the sunshine came in the afternoon. Caches were generally in good condition with a percentage having a broken lid, which I didn’t have any replacement ones. TFTC

Found today while working towards the Solstice souvenir.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker
DGS

Found during a caching circuit from Truro, Bower, Australia Plains and Eudunda with Team Waldron for the day. Toured the backroads to find many out-of-the-way caches and completed the TdU 1999-2022 series along the way. Another fine old residence of yesteryear that needs some TLC. Thanks for the cache Hurtle!

Another cache found with richlink on our 2022 South Australian Adventure.
It was a freezing morning in the Barossa but the sun is shining and the day is warming up nicely, perfect for caching. TFTC.

Found it

We enjoyed a day caching from Eudunda towards Sutherland, Bowen and some more of the TDU trail we hadn’t done.
Then followed a circuit back via Australia Plains to Eudunda.

Many thanks for the hide Hurtle

Eudunda trip with the geo-pup, day 3, East of Eudunda - numbers Sunday!

TFTC

On the way to Burra for the Rally of the Heartland grabbing caches and labs along the way. TFTC

Replaced the broken container

as we have a look around the area this was one of the caches we found

A good day was had while grabbing these caches
Thanks Hurtle for placeing them

Found it !!!! With Northstar76 and superman_22

Out and about our beautiful country side. Found with superman_22 and Giselle _12 Containers is broken.

Nice easy find with Northstar76 and Giselle_12

Missed logging this one for yesterday.

Out doing the TdF series, and this one was found along the way.
Love these old buildings, they would hold many stories.

We stamped the log as 'The Mob' to save space and time.
'The Mob' this time included:- GoodLook, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, feathertop & ourselves.
Many thanks for placing this series, Hurtle, for us and others to find.

Now back in SA to tackle the On Your Bike series while away on a week long geo holiday. Travelling with GoodLook to Victoria from SA and back again. We Joined forces with other teams to do the Paddle Steamer Series, Turtle Series and any other caches we had time for.
Many logs were stamped "The Mob" while we cached as a group and at times we stamped individually.
Thanks for placing this cache for us to find while touring around.


TFTC Hurtle

A plan was hatched with Rapidlywild to attack some of the caching trails down in VIC/SA.
With the boarders slowly staying open we thought Easter might be a safe time to try since the QLD boarder was still too fragile to attempt going to the MEGA and it also looked like it could be rather wet there.

The group grew from two to six quickly after having a chat to GoodLook about our plans.
Our team “The Mob” now consisted of GoodLook, LíB, Rapidlywild, The Drovers and ourselves and feathertop joined us on day 4. This team ended up being very productive and some new friendships were made. Always a bonus in my book.
All logs were stamped with “The Mob” to save space and time.

Day 6 After finishing the On Your Bike and Around the World in 81, Ode to JLWE and Riddlers Roonka Rampage and TdU we decided to see if we could tick TdF as well.
While doing the TdF trail this one popped up. Just had to find it as well. No issues here.

Thanks for the hide Hurtle and thanks for the fun "The Mob"

For the first time in a long time, it was road trip time. With COVID-19 keeping everyone at home for so long, the borders were finally opening and the feet were itchy for a decent caching trip. Plans were made with FurfacesLL to do a 10 day road trip across to Mildura and Loxton to do a heap of caching and we were excited. Across the 10 days we racked up over 4,300km in driving, multiple hotels/motels, brought home enough red dust to create our own sand pit in the back yard and collected over 1800 finds between us. It was a massive trip and lots of fun was had.

We teamed up with GoodLook, FeatherTop, The Drovers and LiB and signed most logs as "The Mob". There were a few caches which were signed as individual team names as some teams had already completed said caches, those will be noted individually.

Our target caches were the Turtle Series, the Paddle Steamer Series and the On Ya Bike wherigo Series, heaps of other caches were also collected along the way but our primary target caches were completed which made us all very happy and very tired geocachers.

Onto day 6 and back out onto the On Your Bike series we go to finish it off. Once we had finished that, we made our way to some Around the World multis, Riddlers Roonka/Ode to JLWE Series, the TdU series and even managed to do the TdF series! It was a big day. We picked up a few caches along the way, travelling along the way was GoodLook, The Drovers, LiB, FurfacesLL, FeatherTop and myself.

Picked this one up whilst doing the TdF series, no issues with the hide, stamped and replaced as found.

Thanks for the hides Hurtle And thanks to "The Mob" for a trip to remember [^].

Day 3 of the trip and we were targeting a number of moderate sized power trails.
This old ruin was slotted in along the TDF series
We stamped the log as 'The Mob'
'The Mob' included:- GoodLook, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, the Drovers and myself
Thanks to Hurtle

Most of the caches are stamped as The Mob (consisting of The Drovers, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, feathertop and myself), however a handful contain our own caching names or initials.

The series that we tackled during this trip included The Paddle Steamer, The Turtle, On Your Bike, The TdU, The TdF and some Roonka puzzles put out for a June Long Weekend some time ago. Plus many random caches that we passed.

2020 was not a great year, and the beginnings of 2021 have also been tricky - so when it looked like the various borders would be open again (without quarantine restrictions), a trip was spontaneously planned and I was able to pull together a number of my caching friends who hadn't cached together before to form "The Mob".

LíB and I started in SA, drove to Victoria and ended our trip in SA; FurfacesLL and Rapidlywild came from Canberra and The Drovers began their journey from NSW; and then a few days later, feathertop from Victoria, joined us to complete the On Your Bike Series and other caches in SA.

We filled our days with piling in cars, hard core caching, Adventure Labs, crazy funny CB radio chatter, some laughter, some tense moments (OMG some of the ladder and tree climbs on this trip were crazy!), lots of lovely meals and even live music from a band called "Kung Fu Jesus" - nope, that is no joke.

We had hot weather each day (well into 30s), so I am thrilled that I now own a car fridge to keep the drinks icy cold (loving them at about 1 degree celcius).

A sincere thanks to Hurtle for placing this cache.

With a packed lunch we set off for some of the out of the way mid north caches, into the afternoon now and we were enjoying the mild conditions and dusty back roads and soon arrived at another great example of our historic links to our pioneering days, cache is a little fragile left so the moisture cannot get in.
TFTC Hurtle

Today it was found for a brief bit of time. TFTC

No so lost today. With a bit of TLC this could be home again.

Thanks to Hurtle and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^]

Found

Out for an afternoon drive picking up a few caches as well as a FTF and joint FTF with locus. Cache in good condition, TFTC.

TFTC Hurtle
Another wonderful old building left to decay
Thanks for sharing this location with us & showing us a piece of past history.
The logbook was signed & dated before being returned back to its hiding spot

TFTC nice find quick drive by out and about with geo wife LynSteNet another piece of history going to ground

A quick find while caching around Barmera and Morgan.TFTC

Thanks

A belated TFTC!
Found with geo-Mum, Kayche20 on 10-1-20!

Day 316 ( Friday 10th ) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Eudunda today. A total of 21 for the day and 6082 for the trip. TFTC

Found it

TFTC staying at Morgan and wanted to finish the stock route caches. Great day.

This is a interesting building!
Thanks for the cache Hurtle!
Found and everything is still good
Fav point!

Country caching with Molly Squib. TFTC

Here was another old home which is now only ruins. We don't know anything about it either. Cache was easy to find. TFTC.

While doing the TdF series with ilook4geo this one was slotted in as well. The cache was easy enough to find, inside was a bit messy due to a leaking pen, but both initials were still added to the log. Thanks to Hurtle for placing tis cache.

Out for a cache with gridge98. My first power trail on my 3rd day living in the area. Stopped at this one along the way Thanks for the interesting history

Out completing the Tour de France series with nettieknows. Made the short stop for this cache. Pen has leaked but ink stayed in the bag.
TFTC

A break in the cycle caches!
Amazing this thing is still upright.
Spooky by torchlight

Found while midnight caching, tftc Hurtle

With the rain abating we decided to head out from Eudunda to do the TdF power trail. This was a nice interlude in amongst the series. Thanks Hurtle

Hi there Hurtle.

We found your cache **"Lost Heritage #35 - Brownlow"** at 10:21:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 22248).

Our primary aim for the day was to finish off the "TDF" series. Exactly 7 years ago we were celebrating Skippy's birthday at Roonka, and started our first "power trail" from the other end. We abandoned our quest about half way as we thought it was a boring thing to do, but we have since attempted many other "power trails". - We also had to find this one. As it's not part of the series it deserves a finely crafted log, not one of the crappy cut-n-paste ones that usually are associated with power trails.

We found 43 caches today & DNF'd 1. Without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** A Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

PS: Following on from recent comments received; our log or stamp is not necessarily placed in the last spot in the book or sheet. If we find a blank spot when we open the log - that is where it goes.

On the way to Canberra, detours
Signed the log by stamp. Thanks for the cache and hide

Thanks heaps for replacing container tk2.
Love ya work.
Good to see you out and about....

I've replaced the container as the other one is stuffed and I've put it on the roadside of the shrub as the dirt bike riders can easily see it otherwise. Tftc

Not sure if this has been fixed/replaced. Will check or get it checked soon.
In meantime if still needs fixing, can the next finder help please, even if only to tape up the holes as a temp fix.
Thanks

Day two of our Morgan visit and the conquer the TDF Series. Started earlier this morning to get it done before it heted up. Well we managed to get them done but it heated up earlier than we would of liked. Not helped by stoppingon the road and still having 40mtrs to walk into the cache.
Find No.5557
most caches in good condition, however had to replace containers until I ran out: TFTC Hurtle

Found whilst on the TDF trail. Nice old house. The container is damaged and could do with some maintenance. TFTC

Out doing the Tour de France series with Michells&hound and of course we stopped here to get this one as well. [^]
I love these old ruins, they are always worth stopping at.
Thanks for the cache Hurtle.

Up that way soon to fix/replace...

Broken container

As last night was the firzt night of the tour de France. I thought it was only right to do this power trail. Started early and after about 4.5 hrs i crossed the line. But no yellow jersey for me.
Thanks for the caches, alot of work has gome into making and maintaining these. Great trail

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Found this cache while doing the nearby Tour de France series. Found container is broken and will need a replacement at some stage.

A nice easy find as we head west from here. Thanks Hurtle for this placement.

A quick stop while completing the TDF. Thanks.

Found but container broken and couldn't replace today, added a plastic bag until replacement made

Staying at Kapunda for the weekend. Thought we would drive some country roads even though the weather is HOT. TFTC.

found it with troyyugal on our weekend away

I'm out here getting the Tour de France set and couldn't go past this 'cache while I was here. Thanks

I like these types of geocaches. SL TFTC

Yey !!!

Like

Good spot

Found it

Found with Hearse068 while in the area. We are heading to Alice Springs and doing as many caches along the way, this is one we stopped at. Thank you for placing this cache for us to find.

5 April 2017 11:55 PM Found with Gonefishen07 on our little adventure . We are making our way to Alice Springs for the Mega event. We are doing some caches along the way this is one of them . Thank you for taking the time to place the cache

10th day, found with sevabo & skyejam TFTC

Quick easy find. Tftc

Beautiful day outing for geocaching. found it and thanks for leading us here

Found this cache as we were driving the TdeF Trail grabbing as many caches as possible in the hope that I might reach my next milestone in time to achieve the great looking souvenir at the Event over Easter in Alice Springs. Pity the building doesn't look anything like the photo now. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for us to find. Stamped log.

Family drive today to get a local series.
We had a wonderful time, with a picnic lunch on the side of the road, finishing with a picnic dinner by the river.
We saw a fox, kangaroos, kookaburras, a wombat, sheep, lizards, rabbits and a bull which was right near a cache eeekkkk.
Ran into a wee issue with a tree that had fallen across the road blocking it completely, so please be cautious anyone driving this road, especially at night.
Something fantastic about watching a 10 year old, a 16 year old and a 40 year old jump from the car and race for the cache, putting child lock on, pushing, shoving and being total idiots, but only 2 sore ankles by the younger ones.
It was a great day out Thankyou

Nice hide to break up another series. Thanks

Find number twelve on our big northern loop today .
Our third and last Lost Heritage cache today - another renovators delight (of sorts) [:o)].
Unusual for the short end to fall down first .
TNLNSL.
Thanks for another one Hurtle.

Found It!
I would have been a hard life out here. Just getting a crop to grow would've been a challenge. A quick find on the lost heritage that is almost lost amongst the Tour de France...
TFTC

Set off this morning to do this TDF trail and get a few others along the way on a mission to find 100 caches in one day ended up finding 122 for the day was a brilliant but long day really enjoyed driving along this dirt track we had a ball Found cache no worries TFTC much appreciated for making the effort to put this out and my apologies for the generic logs

So what else do you do on a 40 degree day but go geocaching [?]
Of course, Brodie whined and got all excited at going for a drive so we had to let him come too [^]
After going halfway across town to get muggle partner some computer parts we then headed up to a spot very close to where Lukas96zig had recently been staying. Poor Lukas would be extremely disappointed to know that he missed out on 2 very close FTFs by less than a week!
By the time we returned home about 11.30pm, we'd seen some amazing views, some great mallee scenery and some Barossa Valley scenery as well as having a good feed at Clare prior to the homeward trip We'd also seen a Shingleback lizard draped over a cache, seen kangaroos, masses of tiny birds, rabbits and even a stray sheep in the middle of the road in the darkness.
The day's total was 9 finds (which included 2 FTFs) and 2 DNFs

A quick find while clearing up a few out of the way caches today.
Seeing Lukas96zig in the log book made me smile
He'd have loved our trip today.

TNLN. SL. TFTC Hurtle

Had a nice and long sleep this morning and got up in time for lunch, thought I might have a calm day but decided after lunch to go Geocaching. Not far from my place in Dutton is the old Stock Route, So I gave it a try and it resulted in 64 caches. Thanks for placing this series and I'll be back for the rest.

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T4T$, [Blue]Lukas[/Blue][Red]96[/Red][Blue]zig[/Blue]

While doing the TdF series we decided to pick up a few while in the area and this was one of them.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Day two of my road trip for work, Shhh dont tell the boss I took a few back roads..

What a little gem.. I have marked the spot on my trust Monterra as a photography spot and shall be back to do a bit of shooting on this place.

Thanks for the cache Hurtle, thanks for reminding me about this place, I remember seeing it when I did the power trail..

Love all the old stone buildings in SA. Dreams built and lost maybe-if only they could talk. TFTC

I was driving home to Adelaide from Morgan today
And I had not got half way, before the trail of geocaches had lured me off the highway and down a dusty backroad

Well worth the detour to view this ruin [^]
Funny how a roof can be held up by a pillar of air

TFTC

Out on a day trip from Adelaide to check out Morgan. Saw this power trail and decided to detour for a few hours to get a mass amount of smileys! TFTC TNLN SL

Hmm contemplated another dooer upperrer maybe? Maybe not but an interesting place. TFTC

This was our 3,000th find.
Out and about on a sunny day.
We discussed if this one would be a doér upper.
Looks like it would take a lot of work and cash.tftc

Mr Frog was part of a concert in Eudunda, so after helping him get organised, I enjoyed an afternoon's caching
TFTC

Date: 15 August 2015
Time: 2:03 pm
Find #6079

Today was day eight of the ahomburg and sharkiefan 2015 road trip to South Australia. This was a massive driving day and we would be on the road for around 12 hours and a bonus at the ens is we did NOT want to kill each other. We were headed towards Mildura, the final night of our holiday. Our aim was to pick up whatever caches we came across along the way as well as trying to complete the Tour De France Series. It turns out stopping for so many caches really eats up your day.

A bit of a diversion off the TDF trail for this one. A nice quick find thanks to spot on co-ords. [:o)]

Thanks to Hurtle for the cache. TNLN

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14th / 15th November 2015 - GC5HCJ8 - Casey Fields - Melbourne Victoria

Found with Ahomburg. We have just spent 5 days on the Yorke Peninsula and are now heading to Mildura then back to Melbourne. Tftc

TFTC SL

Quick find whilst in the area on an errand
Love these caches, great history.
TFTC

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