A Town Called William William Creek, South Australia, Australia
By Gordon Patrick Samuel on 13-Aug-15. Waypoint GC61HJW

Sage found it

TFTC.

Thanks for my first find! And for making it an easyish one

Thanks, couple of days in William creek due to rain

Found in while flying around the Outback VH-TAO was here Left some Russian coins Thanks!

Cool fltf

Didnt have to worry about any muggles while I looked for the cache. There odd nobody around. Flew in for this one.

A group of 6 of us had lots of fun finding this cache - thanks!

Nice location. Missing a pencil so will try to fix tomorrow.

Found during our stay in William Creek. We had a wonderful flight over the lake which had plenty of water in it. After I signed the log we walked back along the old train track where we found plenty of old railway spikes. Tftc.

Found while having a look around the area today on the way to William Creek for lunch. Cool little town and even better pub. Quick find and all is good here, cheers.Find #7017 on 16 Jul 2024.TFTC Gordon Patrick Samuel!

Quick stop watch a plane take off and land than onto our next destination Coward Springs

Here we are, stranded by rain in William Creek! Rain has stopped sun is out so time to find a cache. Now we just need to wait for the road to reopen so we can leave. Shame about the cowboys who drove it yesterday in the rain and have absolutely wrecked the road

On a 2 week family trip going through the simpson desert from south eastern victoria and grabbing some caches on the way . Out plans changed due to the rains so we needed to flip our route and start our desert crossing from dalhousie Springs and finish at birdsville. Now at birdsville we are stuck here due to all roads being closed for now. Anyway back to the cache.Quick stop here on our way to rush to halligan point for the night.TFTC

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Im out here for a first in the morning, walk out to the Geocaching

Quick find with SJG66 on the way into town. TFTC.

Found with O319 on our way north

Cache in good order. Quick find. TFTC

A quick find while driving by this delightfully quirky place. Thank you for the hide!

OCW PelDroedGwin Camping at the pub we took a stroll down to GZ. No chance of being disturbed by muggles out here ! Tftc

Ocw the Bebes. Staying for the night at William Creek and made the walk up the road for this one. It was hot but a quick find. Tftc

Great to find a cache out here in the back of beyond. A couple of weeks out of Melbourne on an 8 mth trip around the western half of Oz. Our second trip to William Creek...have been here a few days waiting out the 40 heat before heading on to Coober Pedy. Love the hospitality of Trevor and team and have again enjoyed our stay...exciting that water is once again flowing into the Lake. It is early in the season but I expect things will soon be very busy for the pilots flying visitors out to see the Lake and magnificent Painted Hills. Thanks for maintaining the cache (all looking good) and for getting me up and about before the heat of the day

Ice overnight stop in William creek. Onwards to oodnadata. Few bits left.

3:45:00 PM[hh:mmJust a short time in William Creek for a late lunch, after a visit to the Painted Hills and a flight over Lake Eyre and Anna Creek Station. Thanks to our guide who gave us a very comprensive tour and a brilliant commentary - fascinating! As well as facilitating us finding this cache.Thanks to Gordon Patrick Samuel for hiding caches in such interesting locations. 35975

Once upon a time, in the vast and rugged outback of Australia, there existed a tiny township called William Creek. It was a place where the sun kissed the earth with its warm embrace, where the wind whispered secrets among the gum trees, and where the locals spun tales as wild as the kangaroos that roamed the land.Now, in this quirky little town, there lived a geocaching enthusiast named Jack. Jack was known far and wide for his love of adventure and his knack for uncovering hidden treasures. But there was one cache that had eluded him for years the legendary "William's Whimsical Cache."Rumored to be the most whimsical and wacky cache in all the land, it was said to be hidden in the most unexpected of places, waiting for the bravest of souls to discover its secrets. Determined to be the one to find it, Jack set out on his quest.Armed with his trusty GPS device and a sense of curiosity as vast as the Australian desert, Jack ventured into the unknown. He followed clues left by fellow geocachers, solving riddles and decoding puzzles along the way.As he journeyed through the rugged terrain, Jack encountered all sorts of obstacles from mischievous emus blocking his path to sudden sandstorms that threatened to swallow him whole. But nothing could deter him from his mission.Finally, after days of searching, Jack stumbled upon a curious rock formation shaped like a giant kangaroo. With a grin of excitement, he approached the rock and began to inspect it closely. And there, nestled among the rocks, he spotted it a small, weathered container adorned with colorful stickers and strange symbols.With trembling hands, Jack opened the container and peered inside. What he found left him speechless a collection of trinkets and treasures from around the world, each one more whimsical than the last. But the true prize was a tiny kangaroo figurine, carved from the finest opal and twinkling in the sunlight.Overwhelmed with joy, Jack added his own treasure to the cache and carefully resealed it for the next adventurer to find. And as he made his way back to William Creek, he couldn't help but marvel at the magic of geocaching how it had led him on a wild and whimsical journey through the heart of Australia, all in search of a hidden treasure waiting to be discovered.Come visit SA's longest running annual event -GCAK1D5- keep the weekend free - 7th - 10th June 2024 Can't wait!!2395

Quick stop to grab this one after a great feed for lunch at the pub.TFTC Gordon Patrick SamuelFind 7553 logged from cgeo:

TFTF easy stop on the trip

TFTC! Found while awaiting a last minute flight over Lake Eyre... which was spectacular, by the way.

Found it!!

E are driving the Oodnadatta Track and have stopped while wait for the track status to change. While we waited we walked from town to this one to nake a quick find.
Thanks for placing this cache here

We were a bit scared to poke around in the bushes here in Australia. You never know what lies waiting in-between. My father grabbed a stick and went searching. We eventually found it safely and wrote our names in.
What a beautiful unique little place is Williams creek. Can't believe I had the privilege to see it.
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Arrived yesterday afternoon in 37 degrees and feeling alll hot and sweaty No energy to find a cache. This morning it is cloudy and a nice temperature so before we take off we took some time for a stroll and found the cache. For us dutchies quite an experience to go off track and watching out for snakes. Luckily daddy found a wooden stick and was brave enough to get the cache out. Thanks for this on such an isolated place. To always remember we will leave a favo behind!

A little stop over on our way through. What a great place. It's funny how a cache can be unfound for months then found multiple times in a day by people going in opposite directions. Dropped a PT for the next finder. TFTC.

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On our travels we have made it to William creek only to be stranded here for a couple of days until the roads reopen so what better way to pass the time, we’ll of course a nice walk from the caravan park to a cache, found in great condition, log signed and a nice stroll back along the old Ghan rail line, thanks for placing this cache

Time, gps and prickles were all against me this time DNF

Nice location.

Found it. TFTC

Thanks for the GC!

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Found while visiting from Canberra on the way to Perth.

We had stopped for a few days in Hawker and took a day flight to see the Flinders, Lake Eyre and William Creek.

We had a bit of time here so I trotted up the road to grab this cache.

It was safe and sound.

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TFTC well disguised by the tumble weeds.

The EvilQueen’s Team of people and geodogs had a rest and a feed at the pub and filled up with very expensive fuel that wasn’t as expensive as we thought it would be. Pub meal was terrific too. Yum. Called home to check on geo daughter then grabbed this geocache on the way out. Great swaps here that upped my faith cachers. Now back onto the Oonadatta track to find a place to sleep. TFTC

Wow wow William! Spent a fun night with dinner in the pub on Friday night before a scenic flight over Lake Eyre (with water) this morning. wow again!! After lunch we might have had a little “rest” and did some reading in our warm “ cell block”room. We walked here via the old Ghan embankment and came back along the road to see a plethora of cars/vans lining up for the $3.25 diesel. Cache in great condition !

Found with Sea eagle on our “mini” adventure through the middle of the state. What could go wrong? SpidermonkeysGrandMums health suddenly declined, 3 out of 4 of us had been sick (not covid luckily but many tests have been required and results transcribed between towns and phone coverage) left the monkey home not well, farina bakery was closed due to covid and was the highlight of the beginning of our trip, the backup battery decided to die. So, we don’t know really how far we can go and taking each day, one at a time.

Overnighted at Port Augusta (just to get out of the house early) , two nights camping at Farina, (frosty!) two camping at coward Springs and then two at William creek (hotel room and a scenic flight)

The skies have been amazing at night and the sunsets fantastic. We haven’t been able to find all the caches en route due to the drivers demands but we selected some old and 360 degree from home special ones. Nothing wrong with leaving a few for “next time” either.

Thank you for placing it for us to find. Thank you for contributing to the geo map and maintaining when required. TFTC

Pub was in full swing. Campground pretty full. Busy busy. Thanks for the hunt

Found with SpidermonkeysMum on our trip along the Old Ghan Railway Heritage Trail from Quorn to Finke, Lamberts Centre then back along the Stuart Highway. Had a great trip, stopping often for caches/coffee/camping. Weather was very sunny during the day, freezing at night but I love a good campfire. Thanks for the reason to stop.

Out with Shumba7 ???? on a road trip through the centre to Birdsville for the Big Red Bash. TFTC

TFTC. Found with Algae ️we are on a road trip from Ballarat to Birdsville, off to the big red bash. Grabbing some smilies along the way in some towns. Saw a squirrel up a tree here…
First stop from Ballarat - Beaufort, Ararat, Great Western, Stawell, Underbool, Murrayville, time travelled and lost all our fruit and veg in the process..…… South Australia - Loxton, Worlds End, Mount Bryan, Orrorro, Parachilna, Coward Springs, William Creek….. purple and yellow flowers in the dessert….and now onto the next.

Found on a trip to Parachilna Gorge, Marree, Muloorina Station, William Creek, Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, Coober Pedy and back home down the Stuart Highway. Very satisfying to have made the find after passing by this cache a number of times over the years. Thanks for the cache Gordon Patrick Samuel!

Ms Atalanta and I are travelling around outback South Australia with an Intrepid group. Today I took a flight over Lake Eyre, followed by lunch at William Creek, and I took a bit of time away to find this cache. I disturbed a lizard when I retrieved it. In good condition.
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We decided to load up the camper and run away from home for a week or two. The rain and a domestic water repair made us change our plans a few times but it didn't detract from the fun. We met quite a few people and learnt a lot from them - we were privileged to be shown a dugout at Coober Pedy and station life at Edeowie. We also found time to find a few caches, but we still have many unfound in the areas visited. Looking forward to returning to the upper north of South Australia one day soon.
Thank you to all those who helped make our trip very enjoyable.

Found while on our NT expedition, no CD easy find and we did see cows on our lake Ayer flight this morning ! SLTFTC

Quickly found. Cache in good condition. Tftc

I read about Oodnadatta Track and it should be nice one so after Coober Pedy decided to come here instead of the highway. Quick stop after getting petrol, tftc!

An easy find on our way south.

Found this one before stopping at the Hotel for some lunch & a beverage!!

Tftc nice town on our way back to dunolly

We stopped here for 2 nights. We did a flight to the Painted Hills on Anna Creek Station which was awesome, and also visited ABC Bay and Halligans Bay. Lots of salt but the tide was out. We wandered out to grab this one on one of tge trips past it - not the time our Cessna 172 taxied across the road. TFTC GPS

Found on yet another trip without crossing borders. Like many others overseas trips are on hold. Even interstate is hard to lan. So we are taking the time to explore and re-explore u home state of South Australia.
This one is take 2 as our first attempt was clobbered 2 days in by a sudden lockdown meaning we had to turn back home again. Two weeks later and the geohounds are back at puppy holiday camp. Our plan is Hummocks Station, Willow Waters Gorge (brilliant!), Farina, and then the Oodnadatta Track to Algebuckina Bridge, then through to Eringa Waterhole and on to Mt Dare. After that the likely path (assuming the NT border is open) is via Finke to Lambert’s Centre of Australia and then we will turn back south. We may drop into the Painted Desert on the way back and perhaps also a side trip to see Lake Caddibarrawirracanna. We hope to find a few caches along the way and maybe hide a few as well. We are certainly having fun so far.

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Nice little walk just out of town.

Nice driveby. I have visited Bill many times. A quick stop today. No planes in the main street. And the pub has beer.

I will apologize right now, because everything from here on is here solely for the purpose of padding the word count.

The cache was found in the last place we looked, which as usual was not the first place we looked. Thanks for placing a fun cache guys. We do love your work. We signed the logbook. Of course we did that is way we play this game. Cache in pretty good condition for the cache age.

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Easter 2020 was supposed to see South Australia Geocaching hosting the next Easter big MEGA event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Due to COVID restrictions the event is now postponed to early October 2021. Check out the event page and our website for new details. We would love to see you at this four day event. Mega event sponsored by Wattle Range Council, Geocaching.com and many other supporters. Lots of caches to find with two classic geo art trails including the famous animated bottle and glass.

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This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and a Samsung S8. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs...

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Visit to the pub and a quick find
TFTC

Previously logged under team account BoogieRogue. Re-logging with my individual account. #Find#: 3380#

Found on: 16 May 2021 21:09

Buddies: none

Muggles: none

Weather: sunny

Cache condition: good



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Found it quickly after having a feed at the Pub.

**TFTC for the Regular Traditional Cache Gordon Patrick Samuel TNLNSL**

Discover my trackables: 654EMY, GSVG86, TAKM0W, GM5KY0

#Find#: 3380#
Found on: 16 May 2021 21:09
Buddies: none
Muggles: none
Weather: sunny
Cache condition: good

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Found it quickly after having a feed at the Pub.
**TFTC for the Regular Traditional Cache Gordon Patrick Samuel TNLNSL**
Discover my trackables: 654EMY, GSVG86, TAKM0W, GM5KY0

Exploring Oz

I highly reccomend the burgers at the pub and young Blake at the pub is lovely. We saw Glen McGrath doing one of his fly in tours here too, he had dinner at hte pub, he's a lot taller than i expected! Having just done the Flinders Ranges leg of our Big Lap we are now making our way along the Oodnadatta track with the aim of visiting Australia lowest point and then across into the NT to the geographical centre of Australia before heading up the Stuart and into Alice for some more fun. Thanks for being one of the caches we found along the way. TFTC

Returned from an overnight trip to Birdsville so dipping my TB to record my travels.

Thanks Mr Samuel for another great outback find. I was waiting here before flying to Birdsville and it was a bit of a walk back to the creek but worth it of course.

The cache is in good order.

04/04/2021 12:00:00 PM
One of many stops on the Oodnadatta Track as we journeyed from Arkaroola to Coober Pedy via Oodnadatta.
This one was a quick drive-by on our way into town, where we wandered around the park before heading over to the pub for lunch and a game of pool.
Found with scouter 101.
Thanks for the stop and the hunt

TFTC. Lots of goodies:)
Did not have a pen so did not write anything:(

Great pub. Great people. Mosquitos were really bad.
TFTC

Got it! Left a goodie

Quick and easy find with PSGV1. TFTC!

Found with Nukky13, quick find but definitely a cool spot!
What a town... Had to slow down to let an aircraft cross the road...
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Found while staying nearby at William Creek. TNLN. Thanks GPS.

Found it, great trip up here, love William Creek, great people at the pub.

Maccas found it

Gateway to all activities along the Oodna Track

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Lunch at the Pub to get away from the flies, They finally found us . What a lovely break in the dusty track. Thank you for the cache, we are travelling with TubbyBooBoo

Found it, thank you!

Christmas-Holidays 2019 / 2020

From Munich to Innsbruck/Austria to Bali/Indonesia to the Australian Outback and Sydney and at least a 9-hour stop-over in Guangzhou/China.

The trip took us approx. 3 weeks but we had a lot of fun. We have seen so many beautiful things - amazing!

Along the way - sometimes we also stopped by and had a look for a Geocache

TFTCs and best regards from Munich
blazek

Ein schneller Neujahrsfund mit blazek.
Nice hide. Quick found.
TFTC
Kitti Kati from Germany!
#66++

Auf unserer Australientour gesucht und gefunden

Danke sagen HunttheHunters and Missy

A nice and easy find and a chance to get out of the vehicle to stretch the legs and shake the arms.

Thanks for the cache Gordon Patrick Samuel.
Found on 6/12/19 at 11:30 am.
Find #10300.

Really nice place to visit! Cache was a nice evening walk from the hotel. A quick find! Tftc

On a road trip with CBC2 from Adelaide to Coober pedy via Oodnadatta track returning to Adelaide via the black top. Found many caches along the way some oh so easy and some more challenging. Thanks to all the CO s for their hides. Some took us to some wonderful places. SL TFTC

Found this on a hot evening at William Creek. Easy walk from the pub! We left some stuff in the container. TFTC

Thankyou for the cache

I was very exited to find that there was a cache within walking distance of the pub! Nice easy find. tftc

Had a lovely lunch at the pub to sit out the dust storm with a few others doing the same, we managed to pick up the cache before it hit so bonus.

TFTC TNLN

Lunch stop, woo hoo! Well not quite as we needed to pluck this cache form it's hidey-hole before proceeding into town for lunch at the pub. The wind was really picking up as we arrived on the outskirts of town and by the time we had returned to the car after locating the cache the wind had turned into a massive dust storm which engulfed the area. It even brought some rain which caused the kitchen staff from the pub to run out into the middle of the road and perform some kind of celebratory rain dance - no rain for the past 4 months apparently. Well they got the bloody dance wrong because the dust storm intensified so much that you couldn't even see across the road let alone drive along it *safely* although we noticed a couple of dills do so!

Fortunately by the time we had eaten our lunch the wind and dust had abated (because the cooks had stopped dancing and returned to the pub kitchen!) allowing us to we continue northwards again.

TFTC

[@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I travelled to the Northern Territory from Adelaide for a 2.5 weeks road trip holiday. We took my jeep through Port Augusta, Woomera, Roxby Downs, Andamooka, and then drove the Oodnadatta Track via Coward Springs, William Creek (including a Lake Eyre scenic flight), Oodnadatta, and Marla. It was then onwards to visit Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kata Tju?a (Olgas), Kings Canyon, and then drove the Red Centre Way aka. Mereenie Loop Road to see the Tjoritja (West MacDonell Ranges), calling in to see the various highlights. We then stayed a few nights in Alice Springs, and included a day trip to see the East MacDonell Ranges. It was then time to turn around to head to South Australia, and in doing so, we visited the Palm Valley, and made the 4WD detour through Owen Springs Reserve (an excellent shortcut that wasn’t too technically difficult), calling into the Henbury Craters, and the Lambert Centre of Australia. Our final stop was Coober Pedy, and we really enjoyed checking out the various dugouts and mines.

Today, we continued our outback trip travelling from Coward Springs along the Oodnadatta Track to Oodnadatta. It was an early morning start as we visited the nearby hidden gravestones, and arrived at William Creek to take a scenic flight across Lake Eyre. Once we participated in that adventure, we also decided to drive the long route to Lake Eyre to feel it with our hands itself, but the army of flies forced us back in the Jeep, and on our way. After all those corrugations, the main Oodnadatta Track felt like a nice freeway as it was a slow journey to our evening stay.

A quick stop off here before catching our scenic flight across Lake Eyre. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks [@Gordon Patrick Samuel](http://coord.info/PRB5CD) for placing this cache, and its ongoing maintenance.

@Davidwazza and I travelled to the Northern Territory from Adelaide for a 2.5 weeks road trip holiday in the infamous black jeep. We took a route through Port Augusta, Woomera, Roxby Downs, Andamooka, and then drove the Oodnadatta Track via Coward Springs, William Creek (including a Lake Eyre scenic flight), Oodnadatta, and Marla. It was then onwards to visit Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kata Tju?a (Olgas), Kings Canyon, and then drove the Red Centre Way aka. Mereenie Loop Road to see the Tjoritja (West MacDonell Ranges), calling in to see the various highlights. We then stayed a few nights in Alice Springs, and included a day trip to see the East MacDonell Ranges, before heading home in a more direct route through Palm Valley, Owen Springs Reserve, Henbury Craters, and the Lambert Centre of Australia, and finally Coober Pedy.

Today, we continued our trip, from Coward springs, along the Oodandatta track. We started early, getting to William Creek for a scenic flight across Lake Eyre. We continued along to our next stop, the Pink Road House in Oodnadatta!

Welcome to wheel-I am creek! TFTC!

A quick easy find as we arrived in William Creek.

It was nice to be back in civilisation again after driving down from Oodnadatta. Out of the wind off the rough road and in the dark of the Pub with a cool drink. When revived we soon located the cache at 4.10pm and continued on to Coward Springs. SL TFTC

Thanks for a great walk while waiting for the tow truck as we are from WA