Tunnel of Love Blackwood, South Australia, Australia
By Freddo and Tadpoles on 18-Jul-02. Waypoint GC728F

Don’t you just hate it when a cache goes missing and GSAK doesn’t change its status to archived.
Still it was an interesting place to visit.
Thanks anyway Freddo

With some regret I will archive this experiment in log book maintainence.

After nephew setsujoki was going for this one I had to beat him to it. A little bit of security never beat a Geocacher before but the Muggles certainly did.
Found the cache strewn all over the place. Collected the bits and have taken them home with me.
TNLNSL

Cache has been Muggled. I have the remnants including the Log Book at home. If the owner can contact me we can arrange for return.

As the notes say there are many ways to approach this cache. Ill be back another day with some better footwear for this one.

Never even knew that there was a tunnel there before today, and whatever is in there would be nice and cool, and definatly secure judging by the gates, electronic cardex system, and security camera there.

Came back early this morning hoping there would not be a party going on at the house as there was yesterday, just a few too many people moving around. No so shy this morning and when found realised that I was only 5 meters away from it.

*** The next person to try this one please take a new log book with you, as the current one is full + pages from other peoples note books

Took Owl, left Cable clevis

Found 12:30. Went the totally wrong way, up along the train tracks, etc. Walk past it several times, then after almost giving up it just popped up. Took Kanga, left Owl for Eeaw.

Found a reasonable way in to this one, although once at GZ, I think I could have done a little better. My GPS gave me a run around for a couple of minutes before I was able to find the cache. No swap was made.

This looks like an interesting construction, presumably for some long disused railway line. I’ve done a series of caches in Melbourne on disused railway lines so this one sparked an interest in me. My thanks to Freddo and the Tadpoles for showing me this place, and for the cache.

Ahah! Now I just need the cases of wine as I have a found a place to store it! Left Sticker and golf ball. Took bouncy ball and glow in the dark thing.

Found this one out and about on my lunch break. As previously mentioned, the log book was full and I wasn't prepared with a replacement. The nearby business is most certainly in on it as they've left a business card in the cache. Note to others: When in doubt, trust your equipment first!

Took nothing, Left Nothing, and Didn't sign the already full book.

Found this one while gathering points for “Sleeps Hill Trio†An interesting and innovative use for these tunnels. TNLNSL. Thanks Freddo and Tadpoles

Searched all around the entrance of the tunnel, up the cuttings, around the top, to no avail. Feeling distinctly uncomfortable that it appeared to be private property too - but reading back through the other logs this apparently isn't a problem.
Didn't find it at all, have no idea what dial 2 means and the encrypted clue wasn't much help either! Oh well, it was good practice for climbing steep slopes.

Hiked in from the top to find that this is almost a drive-by. While searching the area we heard "getting warmer" from below - turns out the owner of the neighbouring business knows about it. Wish I had something to put here.

Took me longer to find the street then the cache. Would have helped if I had bought a map of Adelaide. Oh Well .
Happily I parked up high so I didn't have too far to walk. Thought I may have to do some climbing but luckily not.
Log book is full as mentioned but I just signed on the other side of the pages that are blank. Swapped a yellow Bug for a small Cat.
Thanks Freddo and tadpoles my 3rd of 6 for the day.

Went after this one and was balked by the thought that this was private property (the gate, business and security camera sort of gives it away). Also my GPSr indicated it was half way up a very steep slope. So posting a note rather than a not-found.

Tried in vain searching ALL this area. Couldn't find cache.

Looked all around tunnel entrance, including JUST above, all around cuttings, all around hills around cutting, scaled all of cuttings too. - Nuffin.

What on earth does dial # 2 mean????
Also, for someone from Canberra, the encrypted clue is as useful as coloured pencils to a colour blind person.
Two of us spent 1hr+ here scouring the landscape, we were undoubtedly viewed by that ubiquitious security camera too.

Oh weell, found 4 others for the day, but not this one.
Tis a great location though.

We found this one today whilst visiting the tunnel owners(Dave & Kirsteen). We were lucky enough to have a guided tour of the tunnels which have now been turned into wine storage and the rest of the surrounding sites. A great place to visit : ) took green glitter left soft toy. LOG BOOK IS FULL, sorry we did not have any spare on us...

visit www.thetunnels.com.au for more info

After noticing that this one had been found quite recently, we went back for round 2. GZ was in a completely different spot than the last time we were here, and we found it after a few minutes. No swaps. Thanks Freddo.

Log book is full, could next visitor please bring a new note book. Thanks.

We came across this cache on our trail to the Mines of Moria. Mok'n Maccas was joined by Eden(8) & Tori(6). We left super ball and Tori selected Bear pen. Many thanks Freddo.

[This entry was edited by Mok'n Maccas on Sunday, October 26, 2003 at 3:15:20 AM.]

4 of us looked and looked and looked some more, spent an hour with no luck. Met Dave the tunnel owner he doesn't seem to have any objections to cachers looking there even though its private property. But as I said we looked and looked and looked. All 4 of us came up with same GZ several times. Maybe someone who has found the cache before could check wether or not it's still there.

Dave wasn't much help. He thought we were strange spending our day Geocaching. Might need more clues on this one.

Fantastic and interesting place. It is one of those cache spots you can’t forget.

I bet this was once used as a “tunnel of love†as it would have been a great spot to “parkâ€Â.

This tunnel was commissioned in 1880 and decommissioned in 1920. Was that the Choof, choof, choof and clickety clack of the old steam trains we could hear?

Look out for Dave… say “hello†to him and he will probably show you through and tell you of his plans to develop this tunnel for wine storage. Dave has leased this for 15 years from Transport SA.

We were lucky to have a tour of the tunnel which is 180 metres in length. Check out the pics here and for more information see www.thetunnels.com.au.

Thomas and Emily thought it would be a great place for parties!

Took nothing. Left glowing stars and eeyore.

Thanks Freddo.

Clear skies
TeamAstro

Hmmm! Caches on PRIVATE PROPERTY. A no no.

Under the cover of darkness, we ran the gauntlet anyway.

Kevin

See log by karmickev as we went together

Grabbed this one after an assault on another nearby cache. Bit nervous about searching near steep drops, but found the container quickly. Thanks for another good walk!

I think we found the easiest way to the cache (for once). Interesting spot. Now all I want to know is, what’s in the tunnel (love?). Took a $2coin, and left Ghan Shampoo. Thanks Freddo and Tadpoles.

Found by Mary & David at 1930. Not far to walk this time and not too steep either. Fancy seeing a sight like this with all those houses so close by. Cache was easy to find. Took orb keyring and left glitter pen from Valley View. Thanks to Freddo and Tadpoles.

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Wow, came up from the bottom of the hill, what a hike!
Finally found the cache! (there are easier ways to get there than *I* did)
Took can opener left $2 coin
Nice view from cache!

Found by Leigh and Ann. This cache was harder than we thought, as our GPS gave us about 6 ground zeros...Oh well, we found it anyway. Took Marbles left a keyring fortune teller. Thanks Freddo.

Found today after a 1/2hr walk from goodwood rd. Took us a little time to find but found cache almost at ground zero. Took Koola & left multi-colour pens. Beautifull view and sunset.

This was cache number 40 for us.
Thanks, Freddo!

We left some marbles and took the strap.

Glad we didn't exit stage left!!

I must confess I was accompanied by Gordon Patrick Samuel, but it was the first day on the trail! Took the yellow cone and left a glass rover.

[last edit: 8/11/2002 4:50:21 AM PST]

Found at 17:35.
It was funny to see our balloon in there from Dial S. Brought the Think Kids travel bug, but it didn't fit, so left a koala instead and took the Zurg toy, presumably what Liz and Bruce left.

We found the Tunnel of Love this afternoon with the mild winter sun shining on. Took the Freddo - yum, yum [^] left a futuristic toy. Thanks Freddo and Tadpoles.

Jeez this was an interesting cache to find at night. One false move and Aaaaaahhhhhhh... splat..!

Found at 1:35am with the help of a guide... oink!(oo)

Took the GeoCoopers Beer Mug Fridge magnet and left a tie down strap.

Hello little virgin cache..
Hiding in the bushes won't stop you being FOUND by Team Piggy.

Took Spider, left Combo Army Spoon/Atomic powered can opener.

An easy peasey find, though SAT lock is a shocker, 16Mtr error.

(Note * This is mighty close to the huge multi cache that I hear geocoopers is setting up in the area, within metres i think ?, you been hacking his PC for info Freddo?).





[last edit: 7/19/2002 2:46:28 AM PST]

Found by Team GeoCoopers.
Beaten by Piggy. Again. Can't he get a day job ?
It's disturbing when new caches appears someone rings me to find what time I'll be finishing work that day. So he knows exactly how much time he has to spare to get there and still beat me.
Stay tuned for a large multi in this area, once I get a few minutes to finalize it's setup.