RIP Nanna Port Rickaby, South Australia, Australia
By Alex-thesquirrel on 19-May-15. Waypoint GC5VTYW

Day 3 of a quick visit to southern YP. Today was a free day. The weather was hot and windy - no wonder the locals call it Windy November.A quick stop here, great family memories for you!Thanks for the cache Alex-the squirrel.

Cache and logbook replaced. Should be good for a long time

Found whilst touring the Yorke Peninsula, during our lap round OZ. The Yorke Pen has surprised us with some beautiful views, and the water tank art trail surprised us with some beautiful views, and the water tank art trail

TFTC. ____________________________________ Containers/logs all in good repair unless otherwise stated. Happy caching and safe travels!____________________________________Yorke Peninsula 2023 trip (10 days)Day 1 : Travel to YP, set up camp at Point Turton Day 2 : Marion Bay, Innes NP & surroundsDay 3 : Point Turton, Corny Point & Geoart seriesDay 4 : Warooka, EdithburghDay 5 : Yorketown Day 6 : up the coast to MoontaDay 7 : up the coast again Day 8 : Day 9 : Day 10 : pack up camp, travel home

Found fairly easily. I had a Nonna. Miss her.

Quick find but need replacing

Tftc

Big bucket

Was harder to find considering the colour

Found after a bit of searching TFTC

Found by Olga and with Luna at 6:36 pm

Good find but cache needs maintenance

Whew lots of weeds lucky a cool wet day! No snakes tftc interesting history! Waterlogged log needs replacing

Another cache found with richlink on our 2022 South Australian Adventure. We are enjoying the small towns, beaches, cliffs, history and ruins we encounter along the way. Thanks for the cache.

Found on my York Peninsula caching Odyssey. I enjoyed the scenery and the caches. Thanks Alex-thesquirrel.

RIP Nanna. TFTC SL

Quick find whilst we were staying locally. Plaque was a little hard to read, but nice remnants of days gone by.

Found with gridge98 on a weekend away to the yorke peninsula.

Thanks for the cache

Stopped here for a quick find today, one prickly cache but managed to get there hand in there

A big trip away to the yorke peninsula planned for the weekend travelling around touristing and have a look at sights I’ve seen before, plus camping over the 4 days wherever we needed up at the end of the day. Plus why not find 116 caches along the way for the trip. Despite the wind on the first evening the rest of the trip we were delighted by the beautiful weather.

Thanks for the cache

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Veni. Vidi. Vici. Scripsi.
After returning from a short trip to Port Vic and having a coffee, checked the map and noted this one was not too far away. Hopped in the car and headed off. Arrived at GZ, or so I thought, but the GPS still wanted me another 7M further. So I obliged, and then the cache was spotted. Log extracted, signed and then replaced as found. RIP Nanna.
Gratias pro cache Alex-thesquirrel

Trip up to minlaton to have a look around and grab a few caches. Widened the search, cache is in good condition. Moving TB along. TFTC!

Found with Kaayia21. Nice find in the dark.

Found with Wackothedidlio!
RIP Nana!
Sunset find!

Found on a visit to Barkers Rocks camp site getting a few geo's on the way , with The Fox. TNLNSL Thanks

Found on a visit to Barkers Rocks camp site getting a few geo's on the way , with Demon41 TNLN Thanks

Quick drive by grab

Thanks

TFTC Found

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Touring around the mid Yorke with Purrfect Di today.
The Team Mattycat stamp today means the two of us passed by


We saw three brown snakes today, which changed our plans a little to avoid roadside long grass and find a variety of quality rather than quantity caches!

This one is all the more interesting as I know your dad. Imagining the trench digging days - impressed

RIP Nanna. A nice tribute.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache on our map Alex-thesquirrel


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Stay safe,
wash your hands,
sanitize, exercise, even wear a mask if hayfever season affects you and
cache all the regions safely distanced at least an adult brown snake's length apart ! ! !

Come wine and dine in the Barossa sometime soon and feel free to leave a few new cache hides out this way


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Wandering around The Peninsula picking up some caches as we explore the region.

TFTC

This was found as we wander this great country
While having a great day out
thank you Alex-thesquirrel for placing the cache

Cute find and our first trade but needs new log very delicate paper. Tftc

TFTC

Found it

Day 286 (Wednesday 10th) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Maitland today. A total of 7 for the day and 5641 for the trip. TFTC

Great history

Thank you for this story and the cache!️

Enjoyed wandering this area and lovely countryside,  proud to be aussie
Thanks for the cache and hide

Change the container due to damage

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.

We left our camp in Curramulka to move on the Maitland, caching as we went.

Just as I got out if the geo-mobile to help, the I got " I got it" call came out of the prickles

Thanks Alex-thesquirrel for the hide

A bit prickly, but we got there!

Probably our fault for not being able to find it. There were 5 of us but we didnt go into the prickly bush??

Love the backstory. Tftc

RIP Nanna was transferred from bektheraccoon to user Alex-thesquirrel

After doing a second day on the Gone fishin series, we grabbed a few caches on the way back to Minlaton. This was one of them. Thanks Alex

Found this with CherryRose. Beware the prickles. TFTC TNLNSL

Found out with Beary Organised on lovely Autumn afternoon. TFTC TNLNSL Bit of a prickly retrieval. R.I.P. NANNA

Time to move out of camp and head furhter north again, picking up some caches along the way. Couldn't take the caravan along some tracks, so felt a bit restricted today. Plenty of other caches were available to keep us happy. Found a couple of multi caches as well as a selection of traditionals, while travelling along mostly back roads rather than highways.
This cache was a nice easy find as the co-ords are good. Thanks go to the CO for this cache placement.

Having a lot of fun caching around the Yorke Peninsula with goingplaces2. All the caches that we found today had two more names added to the log. They were then put back in their place. This was a nice easy find. TFTC.

RIP Nanna was transferred from Alex-thesquirrel to user TeamCritter

Spent the day clearing some more of the map around Central Yorke Peninsula. Still a few more to go though. TFTC.

Hard to find but finally we did!

Squirtle says thanks

No problem finding this one.

I enjoyed the story. Tftc.

Gaff 5 Found in the company of maccamob an interesting plaque and nice ruin Thanks for the cache.

We have just returned from four days at Port Rickaby.
As the days were in the low forties there was not much opportunity for safe caching, however this was one of a few found and signed.

Time to head back to Yorke Peninsular for another visit. Around this time thirty years ago Bri and Sal were preparing for the big day when we became brisal. Geocaching wasn't around back then but people joining together to become as one was, so a visit back was a good way of celebrating.
Heading over to see where Sal learnt to swim many years ago and where she would love to finally retire to, I was able to stop and pick up few caches in passing. [^]
Interesting little spot. Thanks squirrel for sharing. [8)]

**Thanks Alex-thesquirrel for this cache. **

Thanks for the story. Found during a 10 day stay on the Yorke Peninsula. Lovely area. TFTC Alex-thesquirrel. Found 10/10/17 2:32 pm. Cache 1356 for us.
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Found and logged using the brilliant Cachly app for iPhone. Easy to use and with many great features for cachers of all levels.

Out for the day with LLL51 and Madham02 with the aim of finding LLL51's 1000th cache. [^] A plan was hatched and we started off with 14 caches targeted, hoping we didn't have any DNF's. The weather was not looking too promising, but we managed to get them all before the rain really set in.

This one was targeted as the 1000th find for LLL51 as we loved the reason for the cache. Would have loved to have been able to have a look at the ruins especially knowing some of their history.

Thanks for the cache Alex-thesquirrel.

My 1000th find - loved the name and the story behind it. Interesting looking ruins too. Thanks for the cache, a special one

An interesting spot

Out for a fishing expedition with Moneydork and TK2, not sure how far we would get with the weather warnings but with very strong winds and no rain we perservered, interesting to hear the personel history with stops like these, special memories thanks for sharing sorry to hear of your loss TFTC Alex-thesquirrel

Out geocaching with Moneydork and the Frog Hoppin Clan on Moneydorks 47th Birthday, tftc

As we were on the correct side of the road, I grabbed this one in the way on the way out of Port Rickaby.
Thanks for the cache Alex-thesquirrel.

Thx for cache.

Hi there Alex-thesquirrel.

We found your cache **"RIP Nanna"** at 12:18:00 PM today. (This makes our find count 17251).

We started the day off by nominating a cache some distance away from our camp site and then took a route that was mostly determined by the next closest cache according to our GPS. We thoroughly enjoyed our trip around the area & ended up finding quite a variety of container types, and sizes hidden along our route.

We found 17 caches today & DNF'd 4. 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.

Another quick find.
R.I.P. Nanna
TNLNSL
Thanks for the cache Alex-thesquirrel

Found at 0958. Always nice to catch up on a bit of local history while caching. TFTC.

Obviously some great memories here. TFTC.

Loved the old farm house and surrounding dared
From reading about the cache ,childhood would have been amazing here
Cache found easily
Tftc

Loved the old ruin and the info on memorial.
I wonder if your nan ever visited this place?
A fav point for me.
Found with The X-Trailers.
TFTC

Spending the day caching around Port Rickaby and surrounds while staying in Wallaroo.

Many thanks for the hide and history Alex-thesquirrel[^]

Found it

Over from the Barossa for our annual Australia Day geocaching weekend. After a nice trip around Innes today with jalinrenos, we grabbed this on the way back after a slight nudge by the CO on FB. Could just imagine the covert shenanigans that went on in all those tree houses! looks like it would have been an awesome place in its heyday! Thanks for the nudge Alex.

1st one for 2017 Happy New Year TFTC

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The memorial plaque roadside was the first hint I was in the right spot.
The ruins of the homestead visible in the fields were the second sign !!
Sure 'nuff, a short stroll along the fenceline later and the cache was found
Logbook signed after brushing off the snails !!

TFTC

Found during a trip to Wool Bay for the weekend after traveling the scenic back roads of the peninsula. Thanks for the cache Alex-thesquirrel!

You are very lucky to have a loving family and it's great to remember those who have gone before us.
TFTC

Camped at Minlaton, and on our own today, as Konie had to make a start on returning home.

We decided to do a caching trip along the coast from Port Minlacowie to Port Rickaby,
picking up other caches along the way.
All caches were found after a short search, signed and replaced.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Alex-thesquirrel, for us and others to find.

I was with the squirrel when he placed this cache, but figured I wouldn't log until we returned. Today was that day - thanks for the cache

Day 2 of our trip and today's plan is to head along the west side of the peninsula, once again the weather was perfect, its great to be back on the Yorke peninsula again and what was suppose to be a overnight stay ended up being a 2 nights and 3 days stay on the Yorke peninsula, we managed to find quite a few while here and on our third day we had to head back earlier than planned after car issues, the weather was very pleasant while here and we look forward to returning back here to keep finding more caches, we thank all the COs for placing these caches for us to find and making our visit very enjoyable. TFTC
Loved the story, loved the ruins and well deserving of a fave point

Found it with my daughter.

Found myself in SA for other reasons this month, and McPhan agreed to join me for the trip back. The main purpose was the Yorke P geoart, but we finished these faster than planned, so had another day just cruising around the Yorke back roads, doing caches like this one.

Thanks Alex-thesquirrel for the series.

9834 and 19th of 33 found today.

Nice to get some local history as well as some personal recollections.

A quick find made on an overcast and windy day.

Thanks for the cache Alex-thesquirrel and the tribute.

Respect.
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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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A weekend of caching on Yorkes to replace 1 cache of mine down the bottom end.

Freddo came for the ride. As always a great weekend of plastic box searching.was had.

Found where Freddo had looked but somehow missed it.


TFTC

A few moments of silence was observed. Respect.

Found on the Footloose Event Weekend Thanks to Alex-thesquirrel and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

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On my way to the Footloose event at Warooka with Astro.
This was one of our many stops along the way [^]
Cheers & TFTC Alex-thesquirrel

Traveling from Yorketown to Kadina today, only 130km by the shortest route, but that's not how geocachers travel it took me all day! Lots of detours and dirt tracks explored, great scenery, and a lot of fun finding caches along the way.

Another good find here, many thanks for placing a cache for others to find [^]

Easy find
TFTC TNLN

13F 9D Total 94

Found It!
Didn't take too long to spot this one - extracting it took a bit longer though! An interesting bit of history nearby that never knew about to!
I sometimes go caching with my grandpa and he sees it as a good chance to get away from grandma for a few hours!
TFTC

Hello nana

TFTC!

Very quickly located in this interesting spot!! Thanks Alex for the hide!!

Today we travelled from Point Turton to Kadina stopping for caches along the way.
We were 20min late on claiming this FTF.
This is a nice way to remember your Nanna.
Thanks Alex-thesquirrel for placing this cache.

Found by Mary & David at 1105. Who would have thought that these old Victorians would get a *FTF* all the way over here? A wonderful story, and we thank you for sharing family memories. Thanks for the FTF coin, too. A nice quick find. Our thanks to Alex-thesquirrel.

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