HAVACHAT Menzies, South Australia, Australia
By Sandalwood Cottage on 12-Jul-15. Waypoint GC5Z5MA

A nicely hidden cache here that blends in well, cache and contents are all goodCourtneyrose_ and I headed fora weekend away to Kangaroo Island, we came to check out the sights plus to compete in the Marathon. A great weekend away with a few caches found along the way.Thanks for the cache

TFTC!

Great day for some caching and exploring new places before taking the ferry home tonight. Loved our time on KI! TFTC!

Thanks for the cache

Whrend unseres Aufenthalts in Sdaustralien kamen wir auch hier vorbei. Danke frs Herfhren und Zeigen dieses speziellen Ortes.

I'm clearly missing something, because the hint meant nothing to me either!

We have arrived on Kangaroo Island for a 5 day break. We first had this trip planned several years back but that year KI had an extreme fire situation happen and we were offered a refund on our trip which we took. We have waited this long so that the island could regrow and show herself at her best. We have been using geocaching to guide us around and two days into our break we can certainly attest to her beauty. The caching has been interesting and we have many earth caches to write up and send to COs. All the caches we have found so far are in good condition. We did replace one log sheet. SL TFTC

Suite de notre priple en Australie: 2 Jours sur Kangaroo island. On logue en team Mado. Merci pour la cache et la dcouverte de cette belle le. Lieu rigolo ! Et bote bien en place.

Notre aventure australienne nous emmne Kangaroo Island. Nous jaunirons bien sr quelques points sur la carte. Log en team Mado.TFTC bien en place.

Day #5 Leaping Forward AdventuresIts the final day on Kangaroo Island so posums and I are slowly making our way back to the afternoon ferry before traveling in to Adelaide.The cache was indeed still in place. A sneaky hide, but not so sneaky that I hadnt seen this type before. After a short search we discovered the hide and the log was signed.Thanks DunWorking for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy. ----------------------------------------------------------The Ballarat GeoTour ends on 4 March 2024! Be sure to find all the caches and earn the souvenir before the tour is archived. The [Farewell Ballarat GeoTour Event - GCAFQ8B](https://coord.info/GCAFQ8B) is on 18 February 2024.Looking for caches to find when visiting Victoria? Why not check out the geocaching lists available on the [Geocaching Victoria Website](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists/). There are plenty to choose from including all of the previous nominees and winners of the Victorian Cache of the Year Awards.

Well after a whirl wind tour of Tasmania to help with 3 challenges that Im working on, I got back in late Tuesday night then packed the Geowagon and headed off to SA early Wednesday morning to attend the Leap Year Mega and to also tick off some LGAs along the way as well.Well after crossing the border the other day and staying in Millicent, Wellington, Cape Jervis and the Kingscote last night its now time to slowly head back towards Penneshaw to catch the ferry back to the mainland.Kangaroo Island has been on my bucket list for years and Roaming Howie had to squeeze back into the Geowagon put up with my driving and poor navigation for another day.Continuing along with our Geocaching expedition and visiting the Flinders Chase NP in the South West corner of the islandyesterday was one of the highlights of the Island.We will see what we can find on the slow trip back today and I didnt realise that the island so so big and I also didnt realise that Kangaroo Island was the first permanent settlement of South Australia even if it lasted only 4 years.Well an interesting spot and we did check out the yard and garden first before looking for this one.This was a sneaky one that I have seen before.The cache was eventually located and we added our names to the log and on to the next one.Thanks Sand,ewood Cottage and Dunworking TFTC.

Couldnt find. Spoke to the owner of the property and said he couldnt find it either. He also said there has been a few that have looked and had no luck!

Trying to head to the ferry but couldn't resist stopping for a quick look - thanks

No chats but found a cache. Day 7 of my trip to SA with barb2e. Originally, we were only going to Adelaide, but barb2e had the brilliant idea of adding KI to the trip, so here we are. This is one of the caches we found today. Thanks to all COs for placing and maintaining these caches, which add to our enjoyment of the game and your island. SL

Day 7 of my escape to Adelaide with Smittengranny and collecting a few targeted caches and LGAs. Enjoying a morning in Kingscote, KI. Tftc

Glad the road works stopped up a bit. Who doesnt like frogs and roses xThanks DunWorking and clear skies from TeamAstro. Cache the planet! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *SAs Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. Keep looking up!

Lot of roadworks and was concerned we wouldnt be able to access cache, but it proved to be no problemThanks DunWorking for bringing me here and contributing to this great game for others to enjoy. Happy trails, Deanside

Some unusual artwork to look at on the way to this cache. I was greeted by a friendly chicken as I made my search. The hint definitely helped narrow down what I was looking for - and after a brief sweep of the area the cache was soon in hand. I felt a bit conspicuous wandering around the area, so was happy for a relatively quick find. TFTC.

It took a little bit of wandering back and forth to find this one but eventually got there

Road not to busy.
TNLNSL TFTC Jeffjulie

A sneaky little find on our way back to our hotel. Signed the log. Thanks

Parked on the side of the road, as I didn't want to enter a driveway.

Cars and trucks screaming by at 100km/hr.

I didn't want the kids getting out of the car, nor did have any enthusiasm for finding this cache.

I appreciate there have been many finders for this cache, but this is really poorly thought through. No safety for kids.

A roadside cache with maximum speed limit & without car parking is not good cache placement.

Very happy to move on.

Hint was great!

Took longer to cross the road than it did to find the cache. SL TFTC

Quick Find. SL. TFTC

Wow that is as way harder than you think - the clue was everything

What a wonderful cache! So much to see and I loved the mums ride. The chickens have decided to roost on the side of the road, which is very fun!

What an interesting place to see. Thanks for bringing us here

Quick little park and grab. TFTC

Easy find but boring, c'mon people shake it up

So much going on here. Thanks.

Tftc luv it

We were on our way to Seal Bay today, taking in the sights and delights of KI. Stopped at this one along the way. I walked right past it as the GPS was settling, then a few loops later I spied the easy hide. Thanks Sandalwood Cottage for this hide. Log sheet needs replacing soon.

TFTC. Wonderful novelty items. Think sprinkle not tinkle or you could upend everything looking . Left

Clever hide. TFTC

TFTC

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 - Sandalwood Cottage [^]

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce. Another great day for caching. TFTC Sandalwood Cottage
Find #5722 at 10:22.

Thanks for arranging and hiding. Good to be having a look around the area.  Caching with Wollaston and SeasonedBird. Fav point alloc

Found a creative spot while caching with Wollaston and Liz&Bruce.

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

Log signed with group stamp

TFTC Sandalwood Cottage

Find # 3367

I am visiting KI to maintain a cache that ended up being replaced by Liz and Bruce yesterday. But as the travel and accommodation was already was booked here we are with some spare time to catch up on unfound caches on the island and to show my international nephew some of the attractions and sights. He's not into geocaching but is loving the island.

I had stopped on the side of the road and was signing the log when the owners pulled out of their driveway, so I was caught fair and square in the act. Anyway they are fully aware of the cache hidden there, but didn't have time to havachat.

Great collection and decoration of the garden.

Thanks Sandalwood Cottage for placing and maintaining the cache

Certainly some interesting items here. The islanders do seem to be into their follies! TFTC sandalwoodcottage

Quick find. Good clue. Left a pathtag. TFTC

Day 2 of a 6 night visit to the Island. Today the weather was perfect. What a great place and so much effort put in by the property owner. The places we go to with this hobby. A fav for bringing us here. Thank you for the placement of the HAVACHAT cache Sandalwood Cottage find number 8451 on 10 September 2021 at 5:55 pm

Found it

Nice area, amazing sculptures, great cache

Mr and Mrs Parrot took a trip overseas to Kangaroo island for the week.
We had a lovely time finding caches and interacting with the people selling produce and food to the public.
It fabulous to see the green starting to come back into the fire ravaged areas. We had hired a house in Kingscote and ventured out each day in a different direction to see the sights and what the island had t off.
We also picked up 60 odd caches along the way.
My thanks for the quick responses to the Geocaches and the virtual cache which we sorted out before logging.
It was good to be able to complete Wonders of the world and become an Ultimate Explorer during my stay.

What a wonderful collection of stuff
Loved the "You bought a Jeep glad I have a tow rope " sign.
Mrs Parrot took lots of picture and being friends of the Frog we went across the road to the nursery call "Frogs and Roses"
Mrs Parrot got some wind chimes and I got a plant.

Found in record time! Great spot and great hide TFTC

Nice hint and great spot I probably would have missed, thank

Wow, truly unique property.....

Haha what an iconic location. Filled her up with goodies for the kidlets. Tftc!

Found quickly on our way to our Emu Bay holiday accommodation. Cool homemade art very cute. Thanks for the cache.

We were on the Island with TubbyBooBoo and ZoBo01. Well this is a lovely cache to stop at, so much to see and read, loved the cache container. Peter and Heather are delightful, we were invited into their garden to see their other creations. Love the sayings especially "Open your mind, your brain wonts fall out"!!! TFTC

Found on a very blustery cool day. Loved it!! TFTC.

Very clever not what you think it is Haha TFTC

Found It!
Spotted this one after a bit of wandering around. I wonder if I was been watched?
TFTC

TFTC! Very creative hint! Right next to a cafe as well which was so great to grab a some brekkie from

fourth catch on the island TFTC once you find it the hint makes a lot more sense

This was found as we wander this great country
With a change of senery we headed across to an Island for a treat
with a bit of wandering and photos taken
thank you Sandalwood Cottage for placing the cache

TFTC!

TFTC, found by the Massive Dork

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Out and about caching today on KI. After visiting the cafe nearby (highly recommend) , ventured to do this cache. It did not take long before it was found. TFTC

On Kangaroo Island for several days and finding caches as we head to various interesting places on the island. Thanks to the COs for placing these caches and enhancing our visit to the area.
Great spot - FP given.

Found, TFTC

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Clever! Tftc

Clever, TFTC, Found with a Bunny

Found on a five day break on and around the wonderful Kangaroo Island.
Thanks for the cache!

Found with cows with guns

Cruising the high seas with iluvtrekking. Today we stopped off to visit KI. All aboard a hire car and off to find some caches.

TFTC

Found with FelixII, great place a fave point from us.

This cache was found on our road trip from Perth to Millicent for the GeoVenture2020 Event.

Found nice and easily while exploring the area and caching! Tftc

A nice easy find jn a wuirky place! Tftc

Having some R&R on Kangaroo Island, staying with Dunmowin during the Christmas New Year week. Yesterday we had to leave the property we were staying on and relocate to the Kingscote Oval Recovery centre as the fires were getting close, so we played it safe. We spent the day just sightseeing around Kingscote and cleaning up a couple of caches around town. Wow, what a great spot! Love the little eccentric displays! TFTC..Fav point added

Was a windy day so decided to have a easy day geocaching and enjoying some Kangaroo Island site. TFTC

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.

We are here visiting, house and farm sitting for three months. There are only 89 caches on the island. Hope we get smilie faces on all of them.

Now we are on the farm for the next four weeks, and have to chase caches for the 321GO Souvenir

After finding the cache, Heather drove in, so we HADACHAT! She said we could go in and wander around the garden, but we were on a lunch date deadline.

Thanks Sandalwood Cottage for the hide in an interesting location. Fave point awarded

Found while having a lovely weekend in KI. An easy find in an interesting place. TFTC

A very fun find, By Savannah Lee

Jo flound

Thanks heaps great place to stop and admire the handy work

First Day in Kangaroo Island. Nice Herr. Greatings from Switzerland

TFTC what an amazing collection of treasures

It took Mrs Blingg's eagle eye to spy this one

TFTC

What a great location!!!!! Found as we headed towards Kingscote!!!! Thanks Sandalwood Cottage for the hide!! …………………………….. a favourite!!

gatta nera and Hai Happen married! and what comes after a marriage? ok, her name is still gatta nera and not yet gatta Happen, but would be quit interesting

so, next is honeymoon

so, the decision was made, it should go to Australia, with a 12 hour stop over in Singapore to check out the bay area.

this was our second day on KI, after the first night in Emu-Bay and a lot of recommendation’s from the AirBnB owner, we headed as first to Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park where gatta nera found her highlight with holding a Koala
next stop was Stokes Bay from where we continued over gravel roads to Snellings Beach, after some stops with great view, we continued to KI Western Caravan Park where we've booked a Bungalow for 2 nights.

All Caches on the day were found easy and safe - still no snake was seen.


T. F. T. C.

Hai Happen

On our way to the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park, Hai Happen and I decided to search for some geocaches, as we were good in time. This was one of them. We could find it easily, using the hint.

Thanks for this cache, which is camouflaged perfectly!

We were heading out to Kelly Hill Cave this morning... and being a little early for the 11:00am tour, I stopped off to check out this cache and some of the handy work. Didn't see anyone to *havachat* with but did find the cache... eventually!

Thanks **Sandalwood Cottage** for putting a cache at this fascinating location.

Found by The Marathon Man and pnutbeagle on our 3-month Australia holiday after travelling from snowy and cold Northern Ontario Canada.

Finally found some time to get caught up in my logs - we are back in Canada now so time is available to log.

Please see The Marathon Man's Log for our experience finding the cache

Sorry for the late log - trying to get caught up on our cache logs

Found by The Marathon Man and pnutbeagle on our 3-month Australia holiday after travelling from snowy and cold Northern Ontario Canada. Now trying to log a week worth of geocaching finds

The cache was found as we travelled around Kangaroo Island KI, SA. Today we travelled from Stokes Bay, KI then ending the day near Emu Bay, KI, SA. This was one of 1 DNF's and 20 finds today - Most of the finds were quickly found.

Great area - quite the signs - no problems here - found after a short search - I had a good idea of what it would be.

This was day three of a two week trip to Adelaide, starting with Kangaroo Island. We headed towards the west end of the island today.

After going to Flinders Chase, we looped back along the north side of the island and stopped at this cache on our way back to the B&B. I was hoping someone would come out to give me some help, but I eventually looked at enough places and finally found the cache. TFTC.

Great little spot. Had a chat to the owner too

Nice quick find as there was no-one to have a chat to! Thanks Sandlewood cottage

Found

My brother and his two kids joined me for a big day out on Kargaroo Island. They are not officially geocachers but do enjoy the hunt and the great places geocaching takes you.
Thanks to Sandalwood Cottage from mogni

We really had to have a chat with the landowner until we found it. My idea if the hint was right but we haven’t looked proberly. Just trust the coordinates (plus diameter 2 m). It has nothing to do with the funny decorations around it. Thank you for the cache and best regards to the owners from a swiss visitor.

#2157

Surprise Trackable Code:
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We met the owners at our event in Victor Habor. So we visited this place this evening, when we got back from our tour on the island.

We searched, and searched, and ... The hint didn’t help, but the property owner did finaly. And we had our chat as well

TFTC from Swiss visitors

During our great roadtrip through Australia we spent our last two full days on Kangaroo Island and found a lot of amazing caches along our route. This was one of them.

Greetings from Switzerland,
The Navikatzen

Some people have way to much time on their hands.