Port Augusta's Mystery Island Emeroo, South Australia, Australia
By diggers09 on 23-Aug-16. Waypoint GC6QQJG

Yorkers Crossing is great place for a cacheTFTC

Op flinders

A quiet drive around the Port Augusta area for us today. We have enjoyed exploring this area over the last few days. Log signed on this lovely quiet road. Great views up to the Flinders Ranges. Mystery Island looks mysterious but definitely not an island today. Thanks diggers09Domsky

Staying in Whyalla tonight before heading to Port Pirie. Getting a few caches along the way

Ocw the Bebes as we stay in PA. Nice drive out today for a few caches. Tftc

OCW PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa Back in Port Augusta for a few days after 3mths exploring the Eyre Peninsula. A cool view from GZ. Tftc

Another great day of caching with our mates!! TFTC

Out caching with my caching buddy, MrsShep77, and our faithful drivers. Thanks for the great hides.

Sandy location on the rise tftc

Was supposed to be headed to Adelaide for a quick trip but plans changed! Decided to head to Port Augusta for the day to cache …. as you do!

Happy caching and safe travels!

Very well hidden cache TFTC

Great pretend rock!

Adelaide to Port Lincoln Road Trip!
Day Two: Quorn to Whyalla.
Weather: sensational.

I don’t know what the weather has been like around here recently - we’ve had a lot of rain around Adelaide. No issues doing the Yorkey loop in a 2WD today.

I got lucky here and spotted the cache very quickly, just as a recreational vehicle barrelled towards me and then headed out onto the flats.

Thanks for the hide diggers09.

It’s officially a Mega!
GCA1DNA - “The Great Leap Forward”
Adelaide, February 29, 2024.
We’d love to have your company.

TFTC SL A bit blind today. Took me a little while. Thanks for bringing us here

Wow I litterally grabbed it and didn’t think anything of it what a differant and wonderful cache
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Not many rocks here. Looks like a graveyard for cars. TFTC SL

Found it TFTC Found in good condition

On our travels we stopped to grab this cache, we surprisingly found it after a short search as we thought it might have been washed away but no it was still there tucked away, thanks for placing this cache

Out caching for Father’s Day with the kids tftc

Staying in Quorn. Visiting PA today. Tftc.

Team one eyed we stopped to get the cache short walk away from sweeping bend no mor of tricks or a train tftc from
One eyed

Cheers for the cache

Another cache found during our 2022 South Australia Adventure using Geocaching as our guide.
Thanks for the cache diggers09

Very peaceful spot.

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Keep smiling

Drove the dirt loop past Yorkey’s Knob and logged caches along the route. Great view of the ranges and salt pans

Container wedged into the bush

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Quick Find TFTC

Continuing my journey to home quarantine. TFTC

A quick drive by find. Was interesting to reminisce about the time I caught kingfish up this way (locked in by the draining tide by the train bridge). TFTC

On a road trip around the Mid North and Eyre Peninsula, geocaching as I go. Predominantly targeting old caches, solved mysteries and grabbing some interesting looking traditionals.

After a bite to eat, I was ready to grab a few more caches.

Thanks for the cache diggers09.
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Doing the usual Pt Augusta morning of caching as we head home from our Eyre Peninsula holiday . Decided to attack the Yorkey's Crossing loop this morning .
It looks like a lot of vehicles drive to the island, but we weren't going to get sucked into that today .
TNLNSL.
Thanks for one more Diggers09.

Bugger muggled here. Maybe another day

Found on a short camping and caching trip north from Adelaide with FeatherWaite.

We slowly made our way up to near Lake Gairdner on the first day, picking up some selected traditional, letterbox and multi caches along the way. We then went across to Hiltaba where we travelled around part of the property, visiting Hiltaba Lookout and Mount St Mungo to find some more caches, including a couple of FTFs, before heading down to near the Gawler Ranges National Park to camp. Then it was off to Whyalla where we targeted a few multis and traditional caches before returning to Adelaide the following day.

Unlike our trip to the south east a fortnight ago, where we were pretty well rained out, we enjoyed reasonable weather with clear skies for most of the time; the only exception being a bit of rain overnight in the Gawler Ranges area.

Most of the caches were found in good condition, although we did have to replace a couple of containers and logbooks.

Thanks diggers09 for the cache.

Found during a caching trip to Hiltaba, the Gawler Ranges and Whyalla with e.gregory1 for a few days. On Day 1 we traveled to Port Augusta and Iron Knob then camped out for the night near Lake Gairdner. On Day 2 we arrived at Hiltaba with the main objective to tackle the caches on Mark Bonin Peak 'The Lookout' and Mt St Mungo before traveling through the Gawler Ranges. On Day 3 we drove to Whyalla then camped out nearby for the night. Day 4 saw us return back to Adelaide, picking out a few selected caches along the way. Targeting a range of cache types (Traditionals, Puzzles, Earthcaches, Multicaches, and Letterboxes), a multiple of cache attributes, and a wide variety of Difficulty/Terrain combinations resulted in an entertaining few days with cool weather and great scenery. Thanks for the cache diggers09!

cache check conducted, all good. New log in cache.

In response to COVID-19 and possible future tighter restrictions by Government on activities, Cache will be disabled until further notice. If you have found this cache before the disable date please log your find. To the Geocaching Community Stay safe and take care.

As we wander the great land seeing the sights, this is one of the caches we have done.

Thanks to diggers09 for placing the cache for us to find.

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.

A few things to get done in Port Augusta today, so I really thought we would only concentrate on the two previous DNS at the Arid Gardens. I had heard they had been replaced. After finding them, we almost went back to the van, but kept finding "next closest" gave us another, and another smily face as we drove around the Yorkies Crossing road. We ended up having a 10 out of 10 day.

Beautiful view, would love to see at high tide. Good hide too. Thanks diggers09

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Found on June long weekend with Mattycat and Sabastbat.

Found on a JLWE outing on the way home from Horseshoe Rim.

Gone caching at the end of the June Long Weekend with JEM, JacktheMonkey, and Sebastbat.
Found after circling the spot a couple of times!
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Quick find as we observed the mud flats across to the 'islaND'. tHANKS DIGGERS09

My first trip through Yorker Crossing. I am loving the views and may not go home. TFTC

Magnificent views. Will this ever be flooded again?

Thanks diggers09. and clear skies from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

TYFTC with Lukeybullfrog.

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Work's done and dusted for the week which means a free afternoon for caching - the target was to travel Yorkeys Crossing and find caches along the way. Great views and playing dodgem with trucks made the day.

I came around the corner and went WOW. This area is a moonscape, most interesting.

Thanks for brining me here diggers09.

What a cool area would love to have a buggy and flog it through the mud. Cool cache

log replaced

28.04.18 tftc no water around this island today

this road today is busy with working muggles driving around in there utes, didn't expect that on a long weekend.

This one stood out

Easy spotted.

Thanks for the cache diggers09. Found on 14 Oct 2017 at 7:50 pm. Find #5267.

Still a mystery island as the sun had set so we did not see it tonight but found the cache by torchlight
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Apologies for the late log ... life interrupted my logging. I hate it when that happens!

Doctor Owl spotted this one straight away so we quickly retrieved it. Enjoying our drive around Yorkey's Crossing and the interesting locations and views.

Mrs Gizmo escaped for a two day caching trip to Port Augusta with Dr Owl and CPwanderer.
After some annoying DNFs we headed off for a hot afternoon drive around Yorkey's Crossing and hopefully no more DNFs.

TFTC diggers09!

Easily located with Dr Owl and Gizmos gang .... a very dry location today!

Owl managed to spot the cache from a distance, which made the retrieve much safer. You've certainly introduced the trio to some interesting locations!

A quick find. TFTC

Travelling with Forest Farmers, enjoying the great outdoors and finding smileys
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Out and about in the Port for the day with time to kill so we did the rounds and collected a few great caches to keep us busy. Perfect weather with no wind and gentle Autumn sunshine. We did notice how clear the air is up here now the power station is closed. Thanks for the effort in putting out these caches.

On a roll

After arriving near GZ we had to wait for a short while as a muggle vehicle headed down to the salt pan. Then it was a quick find in the right place with the right camo. Log signed, cache replaced, job completed. Thanks go to diggers09 for featuring this island.

Woohoo!

Found on easter long weekend

#6481 - 13:17; Day 7 of the Alice Mega Road Trip with Sol de lune and albida33, so most logs were signed S.A.L. as a result. After a night in Port Augusta, today's plan was to cache in and around Port Augusta and Stirling North before heading south towards Whyalla for a couple of nights and produced 88 finds along with only 4 DNFs. After a morning caching around Port Augusta and Stirling North, we headed off for a circuit around Yorkeys Crossing. This was one of our eleven finds from eleven attempts as we went around enjoying the views and the caches. TFTC diggers09

Alice trip 2017. Day 5. With Sol de Lune and LuckL10n we started caching around Pt Augusta and Stirling before heading to Whyalla via a few of the short trails. A loop around Yorkeys crossing yielded several caches.

Thanks.

22892.26 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Nostradamus A#130

Albida

On the road to the Alice Springs Mega with LuckyL10n and Albida33. We headed through Burra and Port Pirie before arriving in Port Augusta for the trek up the highway. Collected a good number of caches and all were found with no issues and the logs were soon signed. (Some logs were signed as S.A.L. to save space.)

Thanks for the cache and fun in getting to it and finding it.

It's an island, on a salt pan - no mystery about that! Cache found easily thanks.

After overnighting in Port Augusta it is time to continue our journey northward to the Oz Mega Event in Alice Springs. But first we must place some more smiles on the map for this area.

We have turned a couple of unfound in town to smilies now it's time to stay away from the black top for as long as we can. (Which won't be long around here)

TNLN SL TFTC

Sorry for the templates log but we have a few to do and not long to do them in.

Found by Mary & David at 0915. An incredible feeling to be here. Should be safe from the rising sea. Our thanks to diggers09.

Port Augusta Day2
A few new caches in the town since we last passed through here. Today we drove around Yorkey's Crossing then found a few others on the way home.
Thanks for placing this cache diggers09

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Hi there diggers09.

We found your cache **" Port Augusta's Mystery Island"** at 10:32:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 15878).

We cached around the Port Augusta area today. On our trek we found a wide variety of container types. & ended up finding 9 caches with 1 DNF's.

Thanks for placing this cache here, 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.

Motorbike Muggles love this area and I loved grabbing me this cool hide at 12:53 on Sun 12 Mar 2017 whilst waiting for a freight train to go west over Yorkies Crossing [^] The cache and contents are doing well in our harsh arid environment TFTC diggers09

#1273 Thirteenth of forty finds on Day 13 of my South Australian geocaching road trip. Nice easy find after a short search. TFTC

Decided to do the Yorkey loop and really enjoying the road.
Found this one quickly and grabbed some pictures.

Another in this series and another excellent cache container. TFTC diggers09

found it. Another great cache and thanks again to diggers09

got it just as muggles arrived. Thought they were going to have a look but they just drove off onto the dried up lake. TFTC diggers09

Found on a trip to Whyalla, had Yorkey's Crossing cleaned up till now. Quick find. TFTC diggers09

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found whilst passing through area
easy find, nice cache, great location
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Studied quite a few ourselves. Tftc

Caching with earthlight and The X Trailers we decided to clean up a few around Port Augusta, we had a great day and the weather was very pleasant for us, managed around 38 finds and 4 DNFs. TFTC

Today am heading into Pt Augusta with 3LG and The X-Trailers.
Whilst Mick from The X-Trailers is setting up camp Gwen is travelling with the rest of us.
Another great dirt road to explore.

Today this cache was my 10,000 find and pleased it was here as loved the views across the lake.
A quick find and then a short walk around the area.
TFTC and a fav point from me today

located this cache while staying in caravan pk with Earthlight and 3LG
revisiting area today and realised I had not logged
sorry for late log

Quick find on another loop of Yorkey's Crossing to find these new caches. TFTC

Enjoyed these new caches – did the loop drive today - TFTC / TFTH / SL

Continuing me travels along Yorkeys Crossing on a sunny day,
I arrived at this mystery
I could see the island.
I could also see that twits had taken their 4WDs across the salt pan too !! [:o]
Not recently though, it is a bit damp at the moment

TFTC, easy find

Found while after spending week end in Whyalla an attending a Dinner event in Whyalla, so doing a few caches on way home quick find . TFTC

Found it good spot

That's a good picture Simjam8185, just great what you see geocaching, Thanks for posting picture to web page. Cheers. diggers09.

Weekend in Whyalla with Freddo and Laighside Legends[?] Don't mind if I do
Headed out Friday morning and got home Sunday night.
All up 2 events attended , 4 DNFs and 95 caches found over the 3 days
Good company and even a row boat ride too [^]
Some fun in Munyaroo Park with some fantastic geocachers and a chance to meet some geocachers who I haven't met before
We even managed 2 FTFs on our trip up

How sad that Mystery Island is not open for closer viewing
Oh well, at least we found the cache

TNLN. SL. TFTC diggers09

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Someone was yearning to have some fun on the lake bed.