Gone Fishn' 525 Curramulka, South Australia, Australia
By Fishy Tales on 21-Mar-17. Waypoint GC72F0P

TFTCOut with geo hubby Animal62 travelling around many roads, locating caches, signing & dating logs before claiming our smiley face for our maps.

TFTC nice find quick drive by out and about with geo wife LynSteNet on a Friday morning collecting smileys

Found with JeffEddy after attending an event nearby, we decided to see how many caches we could put a smile on before the sun goes down. TFTC

Found during a day of caching in the area. After completing the crab and seahorse geo art decided to find a few more caches to before heading back to Adelaide. Thanks for the caches Fishy Tales.

Day 2 of trip to do some on the Gone Fishing series and a few others on the way. All were found in good condition unless mention in log. TFTC

Out Yorkes today with WayneAPN snaffling a few caches
A quick find, stamp and return here today
TFTC

Call from Cheezel1961 for a YP cache day, opportunity grasped.

Found this one easily.

TFTC SL

JAMS headed over to Yorkes to try and finish the Fishing Line after many trips over the years. A tiring couple of days where blood was spilt, bees were spotted, bottles and cans were collected, a tyre went flat and many containers were replaced. The original containers with the green lids were particularly brittle and it didn't take much to shatter them so in the end we tested them all to see which ones would make it (not many). We had plenty of spares which were all needed and we replaced all the mint tins we found.

A productive couple of days for me as I can now say I have all of the Fishing Line and all of the Geoart on Yorkes completed...woo hoo.

Thanks for the cache Fishy Tales.

The JAMS hit the Yorkes to complete more of the Fishing line. Blood was spilt, mogni's head, a tyre went flat. JJ52 showed her strength by crushing contianers with green lids, the original hides But we have a huge line of smilies now. All caches were fixed, replaced or just left better than found.
Thanks to Fishy Tales from mogni

I have come over from NZ to visit family and do a lot of caching. I am now on the Yorke Peninsula doing the trails and other caches close by. Have been out here before but there are lots of new caches now. Windy today and not so hot. Not many muggles around today

A cool last day of summer to try a bit of fishing along the back roads of YP. Most of the caches we looked for were quickly found , some had us scratching our heads as the given hints were redundant, trees , bushes and posts no longer there, others covered by dense vegetation, many were finally located up to 10m from our GZ

TFTC

Ji

Day 5 of doing this great series. The challenge was to break the back before anticipated rain arrives tomorrow. Then we have 6 days accommodation left to do the remaining 460. We can do it!
Today was good - 151 visited with 8 dnf and a lot of them were just too dense for us with undergrowth. Hit our 3000. Yey!

Another Gone Fishn cache found on our 2022 South Australian Adventure. TFTC Fishy Tails.

Day 2 of my adventure on the trail of this mammoth series. I am usually a solo cacher, but met up with Brisal5, Blackadders and S.A. Sewer Rats for a great day of caching in some lovely January weather. It was a great day of banter and laughter as together we clocked up another 100 or so in this series. Many were simply ‘fish in a barrel’ finds, some were a bit trickier especially when the throw downs are some distance away from GZ. All caches were personally visited and signed with our own stamps. Some other caches in the area were also picked up along the way.

Thanks for the cache and the series Fishy Tales.

The usual Wednesday Wander for the Befuddled Puzzle Solvers didn't go ahead due to soul melting heat so we got together for a Friday Frolic around Curramulka getting a few Gone Fishn' and of course some previously solved puzzles and a few others. Today's crew of myself, Blackadders and S.A. Sewer Rats were joined by OzGrumpy.

We found them all today, removed four throw downs that were next to original containers that were fine? and only had to replace one cracked container and one that we couldn't find after a thorough search! This section is all good.


Only one of the three goals from last year achieved. So once again I will trying to get the other two this year. [^] Should be easy as I only have to get two multi caches in July from the lockdown and couldn't get out. [:o)] The other was DNF's that came down from over 50 to the low teens before blowing out again but I really want to see only single a single digit this year.

***Thanks Fishy Tales for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

*** GENERIC LOG ***

The usual Wednesday wandering of the befuddled was postponed due to the heat to this much cooler Friday. With a couple of members already staying on the Yorke Peninsula the Adder picked up the Rat to meet the Starfish and a new member Oz Grumpy at one of the fishy tails series to attempt to find more of the hides to gain yet more smilies to work closer to finishing this monstrous task.

Much to our dismay there were so many throw downs found close to the original hide. They all contained the names of Liz and Bruce, Ozmillo, Wollaston and Seasoned Bird. Many original hides were found exactly where the hint described and the throw downs found a few meters away.

All the throw downs were removed.

A few containers were replaced due to damage and deterioration.

Thank you for the cache Fishy Tales, found 14/01/2022, 10:43:09 AM

Time for a Friday frolic.The Adder picked up the Rat and headed over to the Yorkes.
We met up with the Starfish and Oz Grumpy for a day of insanity and caches.

There was lots of laughter and shenanigans throughout the day.
We attacked some more of the series and other caches in journey. Tftc

Another weekend on the Yorke Peninsula to continue my progress on the Fishy Trail. All caches today were found without problems. It helps that there has been recent finds so the trail has effectively undergone a maintenance run.

Windy today so there was a bit of dust flying around in the air but no rain and more importantly, no snakes sighted today.

Thanks for the cache Fishy Tales.
# # #9936 # #

Starting our tour of SA peninsulas on the Yorke doing the gone fishing trail. Have the advantage of following Team Liz and Bruce, Wollaston and Seasoned Bird who found them all and repaired, thanks guys. Then WA then back to Cairns June 2022. 27 October 2021 2:16 pm Tyfc Fishy Tales total caches now 3043

Day 3 of caching Gone Fishn’ trail on Yorke Peninsula and a few off trail trads today for a bit of variety with Wollaston and Liz&Bruce.

Wearing gloves and gators today as it’s getting warmer and the less tourist friendly wildlife are on the move. Adding to the thrill of finding each cache was the view of perfectly grown cereal crops almost harvest ready forming a tapestry across the hills, some starting to crop with mega harvesters. Along the way are the odd blue tongue lizards, huge centipedes, flighty spiders, horses and alpacas, birds nesting and singing away, the obligatory late afternoon flies, and the biggest beetles, and of course what would a cache day be without upsetting a few ants!

So much effort has gone into setting up these trails, a few caches were tricky to find, some were under bushes that are now trees, some were found in undergrowth that has overwhelmed the hide, some were under rocks when they were hinting a bush post or tree. For the rest, most were easy, some were duplicated and some were missing. We may have added to rock piles making a couple of cairns.

Maintenance was done by replacing full or wet logs and missing or broken containers all completed with CO permission.

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

Log signed with group stamp

TFTC Fishy Tales

Find # 2239

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce. Another great day for caching. TFTC Fishy Tales
Find #4596 at 16:35.

Thanks for hiding. Caching with Wollaston and SeasonedBird and enjoying exploring the area.

Thanks

Found while on a sunny cycling trip of a little portion of this epic powertrail.

Out with Purrfect Di , Sebastbat , and Jack , hunting tupperware and mint tins with billion dollar satellites

Did quite a few more of the long fishy series, slowly getting there...
And so pleased to find some others along the way too!!!

Most caches were found in good condition, we helped out with a little maintenance here and there, where things were cracked or missing logs or just plain wet !

The roads were pretty good, a little 4wd drifting along one stretch but nothing a Corolla couldn't handle (if we had one)

Thanks for adding to the caching map out here Fishy Tales


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Stay safe, wash your hands, sanitize, exercise, cache all the regions at a kangaroo length apart ! ! !

Come visit the Barossa sometime and leave some new cache hides around [:o)]



Apologies for the almost generic logs. It's hard to think up something exciting to say after 50 or so roadside drive bys

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

Day 208 (Tuesday 23rd) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Maitland today. A total of 67 for the day and 5037 for the trip. TFTC

Hello come back and doing only 100 caches per day as i am not young anymore tomorrow will more
Some replace and most of worn but will survive... signed the log as EV as my stamp is lost at port pirie and thanks to the CO group.

We had a 4am start to the day and finished in the evening, got to see a far bit of the wildlife and even had time to grab some photos. Big thank you for the placement and putting this series together this was the whole reason we cam here. Sorry about the copy and paste logs but i wouldnt be able to recall all the caches - All logs were signed under the name KAA - Kiwis and Aussies - made a great combo.

Log on Gone Fishin' 001 and Gone fishn' 868 - found this and many others during a great day with KaA (Kiwis and Aussies) Everyone with different caching styles, energy levels and countries came together and gave this series a good tickle. TYFTC and the series

Whew. What a day. It all started about 2 years ago when I asked for some assistance to do this route, to attempt it in one 24 hour day. But it would need at least three people, and was not going to be easy. A few months ago I got some interest and suddenly we had the numbers and it was on! Built some strategies for shaving seconds, like having someone else ready with the stamp, and I even came prepped with replacement containers for maintenance but was told the CO had given us some and we would not need mine. Turns out we did which was a bit of a bugger as i did not bring them - there is a lot of maintenance needed on this line, ever after the COs new containers went in.
We started with a early night's sleep and were at the first cache way way way too early for any sensible person. Thankfully the vast majority are really easy finds. The number of times I got out of the car only to have someone else get out the other side and say "Found it" ever before I rounded the car was amazing. Take two steps, turn around, get back in. Ended up walking around the car just to make getting out feel useful. Of course, I did it to them just as often! Lots of amazing stuff. Strange temperatures: got to 42 degrees!, strange animals: emu, brown snakes, stumpys, frill neck lizards, and so many ants that I think Australia must be made of them. Man, you grow your ants large!
At the end of it we were shattered. Big sleep in.

All part of a bigger holiday with way too many kilometres and probably too much geocaching. But just the right amount of awesome friends .

All caches signed as KAA or stamped with the KAA pirate stamp while the ink lasted. KAA are the Kiwis and Aussies - Mar1sa and the Seagnoid for the Kiwis, skuzzybear, Munja and DavidWazza for the Aussies.

A long weekend with a massive amount of geocache finds in the Yorke Peninsula! The weekend was filled with a loong day of the fishing line power trail, followed by a subsequent day of the geoart at the peninsula bottom. I managed to squeeze in a night scuba dive, and then it was a slow return home finding a few geocaches on the way. An unexpected enjoyable weekend than what I thought it would be, with great company from locals Munja and skuzzybear, and visiting Kiwis mar1sa and the Seagnoid.

Today's efforts were a long one, to say the least. The plan was the completion of the Gone Fishn' trail, and we ended up making it within the day. We stayed at Wallaroo to lessen the driving to the start of the trail, waking up just after 04:00 hr. It was a little later than anticipated departure, and officially commencing the trail from Kulpara at 05:20 hr. It was a tiring start, but thankfully we only needed to contend with a small amount of darkness before the head lights and torches were stowed away. The first 100 went by quickly. From there, we settled into a routine, just as any marathon runner did. We then celebrated #200 and #300 milestones, with some banter in between on the radios. The zig-zag between #429 to #550 did feel a little slow even though we really didn't have time to focus on the big picture. We were going so well, that we ended up making the small detour into Minlaton after #585 for a fuel top-up and lunch to recharge our own batteries. Once everyone was back in high spirits, we got back into the rhythm. The last few hundred felt really slow as the long day became evident, of which then I stepped up the social banter to bump up everyone's spirits. We ended up finding Gone Fishn' #868 and finishing in Warooka around 19:00 hr, just as the sun was setting. Cold beers were had to celebrate our success, with half the team had enough for the day and heading to their accommodation in Stanbury. Skuzzybear and I still had energy and determination to beat the previous finds in a day record, so we continued on to some of the geoart. In the dark, those were more of a nuisance, with some being found quickly, and others requiring a good 10-15 min search. We geocached until 22:00 hr, until we had enough, and I returned to Coobowie to retire after dropping off skuzzybear.

We had arranged to bring along some replacement containers to swap out any damaged or missing caches. We ended up using all 50 on the fishing line trail, with some sections in poor shape. However, the majority were reasonably good. Most caches were found quickly, but the ones around the stone piles caused a brief pit stop and search (but all were eventually found). Caches were stamped as a pirate (our team mascot), or signed as KAA (Kiwis and Aussies). Thanks Fishy Tales team with the massive effort involved in hiding, publishing, and maintaining this massive group of caches!

So today was the day, what me and the Kiwi tourists had been planning and waiting for, for about a month, the chance to take on the Fishing Line. We woke at 4 am, grabbed our gear and made our way to the start of the trail. Once we got our rhythm going, we settled into a good grove and the finds piled up quick and fast, it was looking like we would be able to complete this series in good time. After a while however, the monotony of our task set in and we had to focus ourselves to continue. We pushed on, through the finds, grabbing a few on the non-series caches that were on the trail as well. As the day wore on, we got closer and closer to our goal, though the sun sunk lower and lower into the sky. Finally, just as the sun was setting, we arrived at the last cache, number 868, and signed the final log with great relief. With that done we opened up the fridge in the back of the car to crack open a cold beer to celebrate. We toasted our successful run before finally heading back to our accommodation for some well-deserved sleep. All logs were signed under the name KaA (Kiwis and Aussies).

TFTC

And so a few more are slowly erroded off this series!

Although the weather forecast was not favourable for caching, we headed out to resume where we left of yesterday. We encountered a few squally showers along the way but saw an awesome lightning display in the distance and heard the rolling thunder. We hit a horrible patch between #461A and #448 when things did just not go smoothly. A grader had been through gz at #461A so we replaced that contaner. Then the next 3-4 containers were either found up to 15 mts away, probably moved by critters , one squashed on the road, and one gnawed through. Further along Redding Road, the local authorities had attacked tree limbs overhanging the road and then mulched and spread it over the verges thereby burying the containers. This all had the effect of slowingour mojo and we didn't get to complete our planned quoto for the day. However it's great series and just our cup of tea caching back rural roads. Thanks Fishy Tales

Day 3 didn't quite start out as we had hoped. We planned early start which would see us well placed for a counter lunch at the curry hotel. Two things wrong with that plan first we woke to find a flat tyre and lost valuable time getting it repaired and second the curry pub doesn't do lunches! Oh well on the caching side of things it was pretty successful we had two dnf at #500 and #456, and then at #583 we both shouted "got it at the same time". We removed the throw down and left the obvious original in place. Other than that it was a smooth day caching and generally caches in good order with good coordinates. We noted a handful of caches which appear to have just been thrown back lying out exposed. Getting a good work out with this trail. Tftc and the series.

Today was planned as a numbers day, and although we got a late start, we are pleased with how many smileys we found. We mostly went Fishn' with one or two others to break it up.
We replaced one or two broken containers and didn't have many DNFs
TFTC

For a long time we had been wanting to achieve the top badge in Project GC for number of finds in a day. We also liked the look of the Fishy artwork on the Yorke Peninsula, and so having booked our air tickets for a second geocaching holiday in Australia it wasn’t long before a plan was hatched with wazza9 and Nana Nel to meet up to achieve this goal. A date was set but on our geocaching route towards the meeting point we regularly upped the goal - first to 600, then to over 700, and then to why not find the lot? The big day arrived and between us we settled on a 04:00 wake up. The first cache was found at 05:08 and by 08:27 we had beaten our previous most finds in a day. By this stage a really good system was in place between the 4 of us, with wazza9 doing a sterling job with most of the driving, getting us all speedily from one cache to the next. Mr Team GBS sprinted to and from the majority of the caches closely followed by Mrs Team GBS, who then took off the lids and passed the log books to Nana Nel who spent the entire day doing a great job of busily unfurling the log books, stamping us all in and then rolling them back up again to return to the caches. Mrs Team GBS then put the lids back on, passing the cache forward to whoever was running, while keeping a spare in her hand at all times for those she found first, which was still a good number considering that the majority of the time she was running without a GPS. We took a short tea and coffee break at around 400 finds, and a late lunch/sandwich break at just over 600 finds. With plenty of daylight hours left our goal of completing the entire trail was definitely feasible, so now it was a case of finding as many more as possible before dark to ensure keeping everyone on board, so we somehow managed to up our speed to get back to the average of 1 cache per minute that we had temporarily lost as a result of our two breaks. Darkness fell with just 60 odd caches left to find - a now easily achievable goal - and so it wasn’t then long before we were all celebrating at the last cache of the series with a total of 870 finds. Mr Team GBS had to put his hand over Mrs (aka Just One More) Team GBS’s mouth when she said to him “Why don’t we make it 1,000 as we still have almost 5 hours left before midnight”! Thanks so much to the COs for having laid the trail so we could achieve our initial goal plus some, and for having made us realise that we really can run a marathon, having covered the equivalent distance running back and forth to the caches, especially as it seemed that the majority were on the other side of the road! Greetings from Zimbabwe, where today we found in one day 3.4 times the number of caches in our entire home country!

Found today with Wazza9 & Team GBS, all 868 in 14hrs 15mins, visiting all caches. Thanks Fishy Tales

TFTC,Fishy Tales, today we found 870 caches with Nana nel and Team GBS.

Day 2 of our 4 day geoadventure with Rapidlywild on the Yorke Peninsula. After a good nights rest in Port Vincent we headed out, grabbed a bite to eat and collected a few smileys around town before heading further south on the peninsula.

We attacked the Gone Fishn' trail in reverse, jumping from each side of the car. We also grabbed others near the trail, leaving a line of smileys in our wake. We contacted the CO before we started and with their permission, replaced any missing containers.

Thanks for an enjoyable trail, we saw alot of the peninsula.

Well, what a weekend! The FFLL ladies and myself decided to head over to SA to tackle the newest installment of the Fishy Tales caches, the Gone Fishin' series. Having a long weekend presented to us, and a day extra, we had a big task at hand to get them all done, but we did! There were many tears of laughter, exhausted bodies each night, and plenty of caches found. We even managed to score ourselves a few Earthcaches, Virtuals and even Webcams along the way as well as me passing my 10,000 find

Thanks for the cache hide Fishy Tales and a very special thanks to the FFLL ladies for an awesome fun filled adventure away Looking forward to the next adventure.

This was our last day in this area with ilook4geo and we wanted to finish off the as yet unfound caches in the Gone Fishn' series. We were able to locate all that we looked for and two more names were added to the log sheet for each one. Our thanks go to Fishy Tales for all the caches in this whole long series. It has been a lot of fun to do.

It was time to go fishing again today and through a line in with goingplaces2. Some fish had already been caught so we left them alone and went for new ones. A good haul today. TFTC.

Found this with CherryRose TFTC TNLNSL

Found out with Beary Organised on lovely cool day. TFTC TNLNSL

Easy find with earthlight today as we head to Adelaide
Tftc

Enjoying a couple of days over on the Yorke.
Locating over 300 Gone Fishn along the way.
Weather was perfect except the odd morning shower.
We replaced several caches that were damaged along the way and log books that needed to be renewed.
TFTC found with Gwen from The X-Trailers.

Day three of the fishing line caches, a bit more challenging today, sooo many rock piles to glance over and find the cache made the going a little slower than desired. We have decided that today will be the last and we will leave the remainder until we return next year and combine it with the geo art further down. TFTC Fishy Tales

Caching day with Gone Fishn series today
Found it
Thanks for the cache

A big day with Sir Spectre and gridge98. We completed the whole series today in just over 15 hours. We had a system going with me being the driver mostly and doing a bit of GPS button pushing while Sir Spectre was mostly the runner with gridge being the log stamper and right hand side cache finder. We had heat and sun in the middle of the day and finished with dark and raining. It was a great day with good humour along the way. There were a few caches along the way that we grabbed if we were close. The worst part for me of this experience is the nights at home logging all the finds but I'll do it again for the day we had. I think it's going to take me longer to log all the finds than it did for us to find them all. This is my session ninth of logging, I much prefer finding them. TFTC

This is a story about 3 blokes ( sir_spectre, allister w and gridge98 ) and 1 car, who decided to see if they could get the whole gone fishn' series in one day, and they did. It just took over 15 hours to complete, with a detour off trail to the petrol station at number 588 so we could complete the mission. Some other caches where stamped along the way for a total of 881 finds for the day. All logs where stamped " mystery randoms ". Allister was behind the wheel driving us around the trail and giving us advice out the window if he could see the cache and we couldn't and jumping out if we really having problems. 3 caches where found in paddocks, 1 on the wrong side of the road, some with several caches at gz, 1 that the last finder was in march and many with co ords up to 20 meters away ( assuming cache creep ). For the last 200 or so caches it was raining as well. Myself and gridge98 came across a snake at different gz's along the trail. Some caches where replaced as they had been crushed under rocks or chewed on and 1/2 the cache missing and some logs replaced as they where soaked since the last finder didn't screw the lid back on properly.

A long and arduous caching day trip was discussed between Sir Spector and myself with Alistair W jumping on board, to attempt to be the first caching group to complete the fishing line in one day.
ALL CACHES WERE STAMPED UNDER: MYSTERY RANDOMS
A little over 15 hours, 881 caches and the job was complete.
With Alistair W driving and a total of 10 finds his gps skills and from the car spotting cams in handy.
Sir Spector found majorly of the caches as the were on his side of the car. Myself finding still a few hundred but the hands became that black from using a stamp all day in the back seat.
Some caches were well away from GZ reading up to 20m. A few were replaced and some had more than one cache at GZ
TFTS The crew that make up Fishy tales.

Whilst our fishing trips are not as big as other cachers we find that 100 or so is enough stop sign continue for a day. Today the plan was to attempt 100 on foot but a later start than anticipated turned that to 75 on foot plus 2 dnf followed by a further 23 in the car.
The hound was exhausted at the end of it he probably walked 10kms with me. Geohusband did a sterling job of catering including picnic lunch and smoko stops as well as walking some of the way. He enjoyed the argri podcasts I’d downloaded for him.
Didn’t see any scary wildlife just sleepy lizards and lots of birds. Farmers were very busy today after the windy day yesterday. A variety of different containers were found many seemed to be thrown down at GZ rather than under the rocks where they obvs came from also many lids hadn’t been replaced properly I guess cachers finding 600+ in a day lose the care factor...
Somewhere on the road whilst I walked 20kms we hit our 7000 cache. Epic!!
Enjoyed a couple of celebratory beers at the Curry Pub afterwards.
TFTC and series I am sure we will be back next year to complete another section.

Day four of my geocaching trip with tmann421.
We started this series yesterday finding as many as we could.
Today the plan was to make a monumental effort starting at 7am and finishing around 10pm with small rest breaks in between, finding as many caches as possible. I'm not sure what the exact total was but it was over 400 finds. The bonus for me was we saw no snakes and only very non threatening spiders.
Enjoying the caches and appreciate the work put in by the cache owners

On the "Gone Fishn" Trail with woolwood9 for another full day finding caches.
Most were relatively easy finds, although some took a bit of searching and a few were tough finds. Lots of throw-down caches, many caches with poor containers or logs, but we certainly had a fun day and appreciate the big number of finds.
Thank you for putting this trail out.

We have a small team travelling to The Yorke Peninsula from Canberra. It was decided by the group before we left that our team name would be DTY, although I act like the boss, I rarely am and so the initials actually stand for dty73, Tankengine and Youban.

After staying the night at Port Wakefield, we started this trail at 5:55am and finished at 4:45pm at number 644. We started the trail with a beautiful sunrise that gave way to a perfect weather day for caching. We stopped at 644 as it seemed like a good number to stop at as it was the closest road that lead to Stansbury where we had booked a motel. It was also about the time that doing constant park and grabs became tedious and boring. When the fun went out of it it felt more like a chore, so we were all happy that we had over-accomplished our goal of 400 and called it quits for the day.

We were very successful in finding all but 4 caches. 2 DNFs and 2 DNA (did not attempt). The first one was due to a brown snake near GZ that kept looking at us so we just didn't feel comfortable attempting to disrupt it and the second was a scary moment with a black snake. As Tankengine got out of the car it thrashed about in the grass at GZ then went quiet so we didn't know where it went and so left that one too.

All in all the series was in mostly satisfactory condition with straightforward finds on the coordinates. The containers varied from mint tins, plastic tubes and a few other replaced containers. There were a few damp - wet logs and some containers have seen better days. We had a good rhythm at times and finding and signing caches quicker than we thought possible. There were a number of areas in long grass, but we weren't that worried about that until after we saw the snakes and luckily they were nearer to the end of the trail. Perhaps this also added to the reason we finished when we did too.

Tftc Fishy Tales and the series that enable us to get so many in a day.

On a caching trip with Dty73 & Tankengine to Yorke Peninsula. Team signed as DTY. This is the day we are planning an attack on the Gone Fishn’ trail to see if we can get 400 in the day. We left Port Wakefield and hit #001 at 5:55. We did #644 at 4:45pm and headed for Stansford for a well-earned cup of coffee and a beer. After a short period of recovery discussion turned to how we could finish the rest of the trail tomorrow. This is a generic log so we added any information relevant to this cache at the end. Thanks to Fishy Tales for the big effort in placing & maintaining this run. Kutgw

Found with dty73 and youban on a massive days caching! All logs signed DTY (dty73/Tankengine/youban) - Caches were in all sorts of conditions from great to chewed in half! Logs were also OK mostly, but some were very waterlogged! We had a couple of DNFs and 2 DNFs due to Snake at the cache!!! Lucky they were late in the day, as that slowed us down a lot, making us much more wary and on the lookout for them! It was a long day, but the weather couldn't have been better, and the roads were dry! We spotted 2 foxes running across the road in front of us, and nearly hit a kangaroo - but we were going very slowly at the time! Very tired now, but need to quickly log these finds before we attack this trail some more tomorrow! Thanks for the company dty73 and youban, I couldn't have done it without you - not to mention it made this whole day fun! We are now all totally tired, and will sleep well tonight! Thanks for the cache Fishy Tales!

After a review of the geocaching map in South Australia it was determined a trip to the Yorke Peninsula would yield some significant numbers. So, The Rats, Hoojar and I teamed up once agan to tackle the many caches on the peninsula.

We started in the darkness after flying into Adelaide and the next day set some personal records (550+ caches in a day) and milestones before bunking down. The next day was another massive numbers haul which resulted in a bit over 1,000 caches in two days !

Then it was a little more sedate down to the bottom of the peninsula and then back up the easterly side, ticking off a few EarthCaches in the process .

After that, back to Adelaide for some night caching, virtuals and more EarthCaches!

The power trails on the peninsula were great- quiet roads, some great green wheat and yellow canola scenery, coupled with some great company and usual ribbing of each other [^]!

Thanks for your cache- sorry about the generic log. For the EarthCaches and virtuals look out for an email or two shortly.

TFTC!

This was a trip that had been some time in the making. A journey from Wollongong in New South Wales to the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, in search of large numbers. Five days were set aside, and The Rats, Steeba, and myself planned the details out. Lofty numbers were floated; we could find one thousand geocahces... Maybe more! The world was our oyster, all we had to do was make it happen.

We flew into Adelaide and quickly rented our car, then headed off for a series of thirty letterbox caches late that night. We then set up camp, ready for the next few days.

Two days journeying down the Yorke Peninsular saw us collect 550 caches the first day, and 450 the next. One thousand caches in two days! The numbers were phenomenal, unheard of, and excellent! At one stage we found fifty caches in a one hour period! We worked ourselves into a solid routine, and managed to push these numbers without caching after dark. Incredible! We camped out beside the trail, ready to commence again the following morning.

Having reached our goal of one thousand, we rented a cabin and enjoyed a solid relax and beet, and we were then able to dedicate the remaining time to specific caches, mostly Earthcaches to keep Steeba (The Professor) happy, and a good number of Vrtuals as well, as we made our way back from the end of the Yorke Peninsular to Adelaide. It really became a Tour De Earthcache! If your geocache is such a hide, stand-by, as Steeba will soon contact you with our answers.

As is always the case with these trips, the company was the highlight, with banter non stop, the time went by in an instant.

We saw some amazing things, found some excellent caches, and had an absolute blast.

Ticking just over 1300 finds for the trip, you will have to excuse the boilerplate logs!

Thanks to all of the cache hiders for their efforts in placing and maintaining their hides. It was fantastic exploring this part of the world that I had never visited before. Thanks also to my geocaching partners, without whom such a trip would not be possible, nor fun!

Cheers

The Rats, steeba and Hoojar have teamed up for a York Peninsula adventure of massive proportion. With much planning and logistical coordinating, we had a great five days meandering the country roads collecting a plethora of caches. Our journey started with a handful letterbox caches before heading down the peninsula following the “Gone Fishn” series. We followed this up with an array of geo-art images that litter the lower peninsula. Returning to Adelaide we collected a gaggle of old and rare finds which included some interesting earthcaches and virtuals.

My apologises for the generic log, but thanks to all the cache owners and caching buddies who made the road-trip such a memorable and fun experience.

Yesterday we started on the Gone Fishn’ power trail with one goal in mind. Reach 200 by the way end of the day. Our previous all time high was 176, which we reached 4 years ago doing the Oz Mega power trails linked to the Murray Bridge event, and we thought we’d never get anyway near that total. Well, we were wrong! (Not that that happens very often). With an early morning start we found 305 yesterday and managed to get back to the van in daylight. Now the challenge is to match or beat that, and the question to be answered is “Do we have the stamina”? We’ll let you know tomorrow.
What a mammoth job it must have been developing, placing and maintaining all these caches. Congratulations to the team. It’s blokes like you that keep us coming back for more.
Day two begins!
TFTC and the huge effort you have all put in for this power trail

Found as part of My Annual leave SA adventure, I had a great time touring the Yorke Peninsula and other areas of the state. After Spending the Night camped at Maitland, I was rested up for a big day of 320 cache finds as I concentrated on the Gone Fisin trail. Thanks Fishy Tales (F=0 H=1735) for the cache.

Found during a visit to Yorke Peninsula, staying at Wool Bay for a few days. Thanks for the cache Fishy Tales!

Out for another day of fishing line with Felix II TFTC

Day 6 of our 2018 Yorke Peninsula excursion.

Mr Felix headed out on a massive 2nd day caching on the fishing line and surrounding caches with firesafe 300 finds today our biggest ever day

TFTC Fishy Tales

So the Mexicans crossed the border into SA to mount an assault on the Gone Fishn' Power Trail. Basing ourselves in Port Victoria, appropriate for our home state, we spent two and a half days on the trail. Following recent rains, some of the roads were very interesting to drive on. Most selected 4WD mode at some point. A lot of containers were replaced due to animals having chewed holes in them. Wet and full logs were also replaced. We signed the logs as 'sneecks' which was made up by the last letter in our geocaching names. All in all we had a fabulous and fun time .

Thanks Fishy Tales for placing this cache in the Gone Fishn' Series.

Attempting the 'Gone Fishn' series, and we are in the good company of Team Crackers, micaparamedic, Alansee & Phetlern - definitely a great bunch of people to go caching with.

We had 3 days in the area, and after the recent rain, some of the roads were muddy and slippery. The geo-cruiser was in its element.

We happily did some maintenance along the run, and Team Crackers took note of the ones that needed replacing or just a new log page.

On day two, we completed Numbers 301 to 808, leaving a neat 60 for day 3. To save time and space, we logged as a group under the name of SNEECKS.

Many thanks for placing this series caches, Fishy Tales, for us and others to find.

Found with Phetlern, The Drovers, Team Cackers, and Micaparamedic. We logged as SNEECKS to save time and space. Today was the secomd day and easily the biggest. The most exciting bit was some of the roads after the rain the previous days! Again we ended up replacing more caches than we expected.

We joined forces with alansee, micaparamedic, Phetlern and The Drovers for an assault in this series and as we had a reasonably early start we thought that we may come close to finishing this series today. but unfortunately the regrowth along some of the sections slowed us down quite considerably but we still managed to have quite a good day. We found many caches that were just plastic bags with a log book inside so we replaced those with new containers and logs as well as quite a few that were missing. Judging by the chew marks on a lot of the containers that we did find we suspect that there are some animals that aren't being kind to this trail.
All up we replaced 30 containers supplied by the CO that were either damaged, just plastic bags ,missing or had very soggy logs.

Many thanks for the caches, to save room in the log we signed as Sneecks,
The DroverS,PhetlerN,alansEE,micaparamediC,goodlooK,team crackersS
Unfortunately goodlook was a non starter due to injury but the stickers were already made.

With the aquatic geo-art smiling on our Yorke Peninsula map, the new green line to "reel them in" looked rather daunting!
A plan, similar in detail, to those made by pyro technicians was drawn up and together with Alansee, Micaparamedic, Team Crackers and The Drovers, we took up the challenge.
Day two brought challenges all of its own - a number of the roads tried to control our direction of travel - sideways in the mud that is!
Like others before us we found a number of damaged or broken containers, some we were able to replace. Likewise we were able to replace many sodden logs. Most finds were quick, a few needing some extra consideration!
For economy of space, we logged as "SNEECKS."

Thanks 'Fishy Tales' for creating another intriguing trail.
22435

Team SWAGJJ are spending most of the week on Yorke Peninsular to collect a bit of geo art!! As well as any traditionals or multis or puzzles that we might be passing by. Having a great time. Thanks to all the COs.

Yorke Peninsula Day 4: Last day on the peninsula, so we decided to make a big dint into the fishing line today - up before dawn and collecting caches at a very rapid rate. Got as far as we could do while staying sane, then went on to collect a bunch of other cache in the area. All logs signed as the group "SWAG-JJ". TFTC!

Day 4 visiting Yorke Peninsula with geo friends Waz and Vic, Ardom, Gcoven, JACS Team and joojoo57.
Today we set ourselves a target on the Gone Fish'n trail and of picking up a few others along the way.
All logs were stamped with our team name SWAG-JJ
A big thank you to all CO's for the time and effort in placing these caches for our enjoyment.

TFTC Fishy Tales
Found July 12, 2018

Travelling down from Queensland with my fellow cachers Snickersallan, Waz and Vik, Ardom, Gcoven and JooJoo57. We have planned a week long adventure to collect all the geoart, the fishing line and anything else we can get. Thanks for the cache!

Day 4: Time to hit the Fishing Line. Collected a few others as we avoided the drizzle and visited small towns to drop some tourist dollars in.

The SWAGJJ team has embarked on day 4 and are enjoying the caching pleasures of the Yorke Peninsula! So much on offer and such a wondrous part of our great land! So many caches makes for a busy and fun filled day! Lots of hard yakka today! TFTC

Found as part of SWAG-JJ team. Thanks.

Found with FUF009. Logs were signed SFF9 or F9SF depending on who was the finder. Usually dependent on what side of the road the cache was on.
Today is day 4 of our 8 day caching trip to SA. Today's goal is to finish the Gone Fishn' series and then take a look around some of the towns. This was one of 318 caches found today.
This was a much more enjoyable day as the end of the trail was in sight.
It's a lovely area and we were happy to get to see more of it.
Apologies for the generic log, if there were any issues with the cache, it'll be mentioned at the start of my log.
Tftc

Find # 5928
Day 4
Last full day on the York. With the end in sight of the big trail we pushed on and managed to clear it off the map. This gave us some spare time to cache some more around other towns in this area

Found with sharkiefan

A Big week was planned to travel around South Australia, staying in Minlaton, Tarlee and Adelaide. We cache along a number of Trails, managed to grab a few off the beaten track, some well known caches and the odd one that
came up on the map as we were travelling around.

It ended up being a massive week of 2960 odd kilometers travelled, with day find counts of 25, 256, 361, 318, 66, 205, 104 and 76 (yep thats 1411 for the 8 days)
1062 micro, 238 small, 60 Regular, 45 large, 3 Virtual and 3 Other.


TFTC Fishy Tales

Crossed the ravine like a champ!
Mother’s Day caching TFTC

Found at 8:30 AM in the company of maccamob and Temingi.

Thanks Fishy Tales.

Found by Mary & David, in company with pprass and Temingi, (logged as MPT) at 0800. Our thanks to Fishy Tales.

Gotcha !!! A few days caching with Pprass and maccamob. Logs written MPT. TFTC

Day 7 of the Perth to Adelaide trip where we started in Adelaide and ended in Warooka.

Today was the day, the main reason for the trip over, the start of the power trails on the peninsula. We had over 1400 caches saved off line and a variety of others to now find in the next 3 days prior to starting the drive.

We had planned this for quite some time and until we broke it down for caches to be found v hours in a day the thought of how long the days would be didn’t cross the minds until the night before.

Once we realised that it was going to be some full on 12 hour days we were up at the crack of dawn, energised with a good nights sleep, phones fully charged and looking forward to the day.

We had only one time pressure today and that was our second event at 8pm in Warooka, possibly a welcome break and stop after waking at 5am to start caching!

Fishy Tales We found your cache Gone Fishn' 525 thanks for placing this power trail for myself and others to find. It’s large scale trails like this that we have travelled for.

Day 7 of Barnzy and Cravo’s trip from Perth to Adelaide.

We left Adelaide bright and early en route to the main goal of our 12 day caching trip across the Nullarbor - the powertrails on the Yorke Peninsula.

We started off leaving our accomodation in central Adelaide a touch after 5am, and driving to Port Wakefield to start on the trails.

We had been given numerous tips and hints by another local Perth caching team who had completed the geoart powertrails just before the gone fishing series was released last year.

We started off with some gusto and checked every hint, which worked well for a while, but as time went by it was taking longer to find caches with inaccurate hints, which is bound to happen as animals move containers which seemed to be a huge problem here as we found a number of the containers chewed into pieces.

We changed tack and slowed down, with Cravo driving and navigating to the location whilst I was on watch from a small distance away to see potential hiding spots and got out a bit slower to take in the area with a “where would I hide it”. This worked really well and kept the pace above 60 caches an hour in the early part of the day.

As time went on we naturally slowed down as the body got a bit more tired from constant in and out of the car and the mind sometimes not seeing the obvious.

We decided on a stop into Ardrossen for lunch at the bakery which was quite nice and grabbed a couple of other caches which was a welcome break from powertrailing all morning.

After lunch we continued on the powertrails as they meandered around the roads of the Yorke Peninsula towards Warooka.

We kept caching into the fading light before calling it quits, and checking into our accomodation for the night in Warooka and attended our event “Sandgropers on the Peninsula” just across the road from where we were staying.

A huge day out and a lot of thanks must be given to the geocaching teams behind the Fishy Tales team, this must have been a massive undertaking, with a lot of planning, checking and re-checking.

I hope that as time goes on teams completing the trail will continue to help with maintenance.

Without a doubt this is our biggest caching day ever, but may still be eclipsed in the coming days as we complete the power trails. Thanks for a brilliant day out which I’ll never forget.

Going past, so stopped for a few of this trail.
Gonna take awhile to finish...
TNLNSL
Thanks

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort. [:(!]

I like it.

Another one off the list.

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH Fishy Tales [^]

While staying at the Port Vincent Foreshore C/Park Was picked up by Demon41 in his Pagero to do some of the Gone Fishin series , nice cool day TNLN Thanks Fishy Tales

Good day for hunting with desertfox41, doing some of the Fishing tales series. TNLNSL Thanks.

Yesterday we completed our second day of looking for caches in the Gone Fishen' series. So far we have visited 402 caches and found 393, logging DNFs for the other 9 caches. We have allocated another three days to try to complete the series. With 467 remaining, we will need to look for about 156 per day and that seems manageable.

From yesterday and the day before we learnt that the roads, although unsealed, were good and that there was little traffic. We also discovered that most of the hints are not accurate - when we arrived at a location we looked for something interesting to direct our search and that was more effective. On some occasions it coincided with the hint.

Unless stated otherwise, the coordinates for the caches we found today were accurate and the caches and their contents were in good condition. Thanks Fishy Tales for the cache and the series.

Stopped to log this find while caching in and around Minlaton. Thanks.

Thanks for this cache, the series and giving us a long line of smileys on our map.

1:56 pm #4718
Loving the emerging string of smilies.
Visiting from Vic to knock over this challenging series.

Day 3 of christmas on the yorke, Merry Christmas!!! TFTC

Claiming a find as a beta tester.

Our thanks to the fishy tales for all these caches. Claiming a find as a beta tester on this one - mate there is a lot of work in all of these. A great drive down and around the leg - you certainly get to know the place at this pace!

Thanks to Fishy Tales and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

It was Day four on the Yorke and it was the Gone Fishn series, again.
Helen and I had done the top 110 three weeks earlier but plenty more caches lay in our path.

Nice easy roads to cache on, hardly even saw a local.
A few caches were replaced along the way by most of these containers are very resilient and easy to find. Weather still mild luckily.
Ususal wariness for local wildlife as it is snake season and we did see a few.
Worked our way north for 303 Gone Fishn caches (308 total for the day), and went to Ardrossan for the night.
I was so lucky to have a lovely caching partner for these and Goodlook and I complemented each other perfectly, makes such a difference to a power trail experience!

328 caches today and we signed them under our Fabulous Randoms stamp
Thanks so much for your efforts in placing these caches out here

Wow, day 4 and we are still going at a good pace....

Found whilst on the Fabulously Random caching trip with my awesome buddy feathertop - from St Arnaud, Victoria to the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia with many, many random caching stops in between. [^] Today we focussed on trying to do as many of the Gone Fishn' series as we could and we also picked up a number of others in the area - another huge day, but most enjoyable with a friend!

Our combined team name whilst on this trip was "Fabulous Randoms" and that is how the 'millions' of log books have been stamped (bar a few with our actual caching names in them).

We did replace a few caches on the various powertrails with the COs permission - due to caches that were broken, missing/lost in the copious amounts of undergrowth.

What a fantastic trip despite me having some GPSr dramas [:(!]....thank goodness for GSAK and being able to manually log finds. We encountered friendly flies, a brown snake up close and personal, hilarious moments, extremely sore muscles, some crazy driving decisions and loads of caches found on this adventure.

Thanks so much for the cache Fishy Tales!