The Hope Valley Series: A Bridge not too far Hope Valley, South Australia, Australia
By bgmat and ablea86 on 01-Dec-17. Waypoint GC7F28G

Nice trolling

Another well hidden cacheTFTC

Found one red herring which just happened to be below the very well camod hideHeres another favourite point, well deservedTFTC

Out today before it got too hot with Magic [8] looking for Easter Eggs, but all we found were Yellow faces.Thank you to all the COs for the placement and the ongoing maintenance.Found one Red Herring, not sure how many Herrings are there but the win was in the last place we looked.Favourite Point AwardedTFTC TNLN SL

Found while out and about with Team Honda for a geocache hunt (well it was Easter)Thanks for the Cache,

Out for a bit of a stroll on this awesome Australia Day, and try to find a few geocaches along the way.Great hide!No Red herrings found.

Tftc.

Quick drive by, tftc!

Found the cache after 1 red herring and are now wondering why we didn't find it earlier.

Great hide! Found with fabricatus, tftc!

Found it. Is it mirrored?

Cache now replaced and clue for the nearby multi, and so is ready to go.

Good to go again.

The site has been destroyed unfortunately. Found log ripped to shreds nearby. I can't find camo, so I will need to work on a replacement.

Found but was unable to log due to ants nest in the cache.

Very clever. Cache full of ants unfortunately

Nice hide. About to give up in the dark after one red herring then found something odd about the initial spot that drew my attention! Glad to get a win on at least one of these bridges. Hopefully it helps me with another dnf!

A great hiding spot! Really enjoyed the challenge of uncovering it, though I didn’t see any red herrings, even in the opposite hiding place where I might have expected it.

Attracted to this one because of the high number of FP. After arriving at GZ, I was pleasantly surprised by an old but quaint bridge. After searching for a while then realising I was searching in the complete wrong place thanks to the hint (I'm telling you, those high D/T caches are getting to me!), it didn't take too long to find the cache. I hadn't found any red herrings at this point, so I checked the other obvious spot and there it was.
How clever!

Find #222
TFTC bgmat and ablea86

I have looked for this one three times before and found nothing, not even a Red Herring. Out with the Geokid for a bit of afternoon caching, the Geokid persuaded me to try this one again. Before I even got out of the car an excited kid came flying over declaring that he had found it! It checked out, the cache had the cache number printed on the side so I knew it was legit I asked him to show me where he had found it, and as he was showing me we came across one of the Red Herrings too. Can't work out how I missed them the last few times, but very happy to make this a smiley at last Plus bragging rights to the Kid TFTC

Nice hide. My 5yr old pointed it out before I found it!!

Down Modbury way for some shopping and that, grabbing a few caches on our way. This is one that was found today. Great hide here, love a well thought out cache. Fav point.

Find #4558 on 9 Oct 2022.
TFTC bgmat!

Awesome camo

Sneaky

Tftc Scroll very wet.

Right where I thought it may be after a short look around of the bridge, be very careful with this one as it is likely to fall into the water if you rip it off too roughly. TFTC.
- besbeh

Walking the geopuppies today.
Impressed with the camo. Fav point for this one

Nice find. 1 red herring

Found after a few red herrings, clever hide. TFTC!

Enjoyable hunt for this clever hide with more than one red herring along the way, found whilst out with harper-22 and the geodog. TFTC

Find after multiple red herrings

Ha ha nice one. Found on the 4th one
TFTC

Could have made a nice dinner with all the fish we found today
TFTC

Yea

After years of inactivity we (meg and the naughty 2, my two sons) decided it was a good time to reconnect with the geocaching world. We loved this beware of red herrings Thanks for the hint

Interesting bridge. The geopup was not to sure about crossing it however!
Cache container found but needs new log book.
TFTC bgmat and ablea86.
Striker and Runningman222.

Nice arvo with some nice finds. Tftc

Log needs replacement as there is none.
TFTC!!

Out for a walk with geo-pup to grab a few smileys. A quick find and sign We found this one ages ago, but did not have a pen on hand to sign to log. Good to finally get the smiley for this one

An easy find for the thinker tftc

Haha really funny

Sneaky spot but love it! Didn't find long at all with PSGV1. TNLNSL TFTC ️

Managed to bypass the red herrings by chance!
Found with Nukky13
TFTC

Amazing. Found with Jack. 5 red herrings

Cache checked, and all good, ready for the next finder.

Nice ones!

The red herrings made this cache very fun! We found 5 red herrings and enjoyed clambering around the bridge. Tftc! Sabo + JJ

Found with HeapsGoodTom, TFTC.

We finally found it! After two DNFs, and a bee sting, we returned today to seek it out again. With the hint from a local resident, we were able to find it quickly and log the cache.

Thanks For The Cache!

Found and left a swappable inside. Fantastic hiding spot by the way

Found 4 red herrings then the actual cache. Awesome

Returned for a second shot, found two more red herrings, but got stung by a bee, so we made a hasty retreat home to treat it. Guess we'll have to come back yet another time.

Bee aware!

Went for a walk to the bridge to have a look for the cache, but no such luck today. We found one red herring. We noticed a few muggles, the local residents, observing us from their front yard, so we moved on.

I've since had a good read through the log, and will be retrying it on another nice day.

Very nice

2 herrings and a find TFTC

Very very clever

That is the coolest find. Magnetic is the clue!!

We found 4 red herrings first!

Arrived at the cache and immediately started looking for red herrings. Well not really, but we started to find red herrings very quickly! We found four tucked away in their containers, but the red herring had escaped from the fifth. Stopped and looked around, Hmmm. Where is it? Loh and behold, a stray dog turned up. The neighbour and I caught the dog and found no identification, but it did have a microchip and the neighbour undertook to take it to the vet for identification. Having dispersed the muggle, it was back to caching. Found the next dummy cache container and then found it's twin holding the cache log book. Thanks for a fun and challenging cache find!

Found a red herring but quickly found the real thing.

TFTC

Today, jesswrigley and I started the day with West Beach parkrun and a breakfast nearby. A few morning errands were had whilst making a few geocaching stops, and then in the afternoon, I headed to Anstey Hill Recreation Park for a loop in the Gun Emplacement / geological hike section and surrounds. It was incredibly hot and not a lot of shade, and there was still kangaroos and other wildlife around.

This cache was on my target/bucket list due to its high Favourite Points (FPs), with 36 FPs accumulated as of the date of my find/log.
I parked nearby, and as I was walking to GZ, I read a few past logs. I'm not sure if they helped or not, and followed that advice to take a step back to fully appreciate the situation. I then checked a hiding spot, and sure enough, it was the cache! The cache container and logbook were in good shape. No red herrings for me, although I was intrigued to wonder what they looked like, and so I checked a few spots on my way out, but no red herrings found. Sigh - the one time that you want to find red herrings! Thanks bgmat and ablea86 for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Reading the listing as I was approaching, I was expecting this to take some time. Thinking I got lucky, I was soon disappointed, then disappointed another 3 times (as were a few cache guardians when I disturbed them ️). Standing back and pondering just where this cache might be my eyes caught a small imperfection, something didn't quite line up. Yes! Cache in hand! Great cache and a well deserved FP. TFTC

second one today with my girlfriend found one red herring then we saw. sneaky!

Tardy mouse[?] Better not be too tardy, Rex is a mouser and a ratter too so any tardy mice may get caught
Up early again[?][|)] to be at the Tardy Mouse event and then it was fill in time until my appointment to show another geocacher how Adv Labs work[^]
Between the event, the North Adelaide dog park[:X][^], 3 caches in Hope Valley[^], a shopping stop and the Lab session, I found 6 caches. A total of 7 smilies with the event attendance

Must admit, I found 2 red herrings and then found the cache hiding spot[?] but played with another red herring before checking the other cache hiding spot and finding the real cache[^]

Even on a hot day, when Rex was just laying supervising from the shadowed shade[^][^], this was fun[^]

TNLN. SL. TFTC bgmat

Found red herrings came here in 2018 but no luck was had back today and knew not to look at it again. Spotted the additive and sure enough the cache was found love your work fav added

This morning after being restricted at home for the past few days I had hoped to get away for an overnighter but due to the weather forecast I decided to cache around the north east suburbs and pick up the few I had left. Found 35 for the morning.
Thanks for the cache

Found with Carter 16:45

This was super clever!
We thought we’d found it but it was only a red herring. Found 5 of them!
A muggle came out from his house and told us where to look
We’d never have found it without his help

Busted by a muggle but he’d seen this behaviour before and gave me a hand haha thanks friend TFTC signed, sealed, returned and on to the next!

Found 1 red and then found the cache

Quick find thanks for the cacheé

Good one! Enjoy not trolling. Cheers cobber.

I am so proud of myself for finding it straight away!! Usually I can spend forever looking for caches and still come up south donuts. A clever hide

Great spot! Found 2 red herrings before the actual thing (with a little help).

Very clever! Only found one red herring before finding the actual cache, really fun.

Really well done I loved this one. TFTC : )

Very clever

Sneaky little buggers. Good thing I'm good at finding things in strange places.

Tftc

Five red herrings before I found the cache. Is this a record? TFTC.

Thanks for the cache a bridge not too far. It is warming up now is nearing the end of today’s caching which started at 6am to avoid the heat. Found one herring but was really ignoring the cache to see what a herring looked like. I saw another likely herring but the house across the street had a lady watching. Signed the log and got yyy

Second attempt at this one after unsuccessfully logging yesterday.
This time I definitely found the right cache... complete with logbook and pencil, behind some very clever camo.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Nice find this morning while up in Adelaide for the festive season.
Found with my two screen time loving nephews... which was a win!
Replaced the jog sheet as there wasn't one in the cache.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Love these types of caches
TFTC great camo ️️

Wow - enjoyed this one! Found a couple of the dummy caches before realising my approach was all wrong. Then I saw it. Only just. What a great cache and great camo. TNLN. Cheers.

Geokid & I attempted this one a few months ago. We found a lot of red herrings & thought we knew where the cache would likely be but was unable to access it at the time. This time we planned ahead and brought with us a useful apparatus and the cache was soon in hand. We noticed, however, that most of the red herrings have disappeared. We could only find one. TFTC

Spent a few hours dodging showers and finding caches in Hope Valley and nearby suburbs. Thanks for the cache bgmat and ablea86!

Found on a return visit to this area today to complete a few more of this series.

A systematic search quickly revealed a couple of red herrings, then the cache soon after.

Thanks bgmat and ablea86 for the cache.

Wouldn’t have found it if not for a very kind local. I did find a red herring during my search though very clever hide

TFTF

Was in the area thought we would pop in and find the cache. Used to come here all the time when we were at school. Nice hide. TFTC

Found straight away but can easily be missed. Very tricky.
TFTC

Found after a bit of searching and a couple discoveries of cheeky red herrings. TFTC bgmat and ablea86

I set straight to work checking all of the obvious places on both sides. No joy so read the hint and adjusted my search area accordingly.

Found a couple of read herrings then found the prize.

Very crafty hide. Definitely worth a fav point.

Bonus numbers recorded.

Thanks for the cache.
# # #4795 # #

Visiting from Melbourne and had the chance to get out tonight and grab some local caches on this very hot night! What a great hide(s) this one was - fantastic construction I had a good stare at this to see how it was made! Fave from me well done

I ended up at this familiar looking thing again this morning.
Memories of me last visit came flooding back as soon as I found the "cache" [:o]
I'm not falling for that again

So where is the damn logbook ??
I couldn't find it last visit,
and I know others have tried for over an hour with the same result !! [:o]

Fizzy cola time
I almost choked on a mouthful when,
mid-slurp I spied the cache [:o)]

Very funny !!
Love yer work [^]
TFTC

Fave dance time !!

Having to head out north for some personal business I decided to do some caching whilst out there as well. It was an enjoyable afternoon finding numerous caches, it helps when you are in an area you haven’t cached before. All caches were found in good order.

TFTC

Our second and final find this afternoon, and a fun one at that Needless to say that we found quite a few red herrings before we managed to put our hands on the real thing. TNLNSL TFTC

Out and about with JJ52 and we decided to head to Hope Valley to attempt the multi. This was a prerequisite made a quick pick up here of a very nicely hidden cache plus a few red herrings. TFTC

Was out this way with Michells&hound finding a few puzzle caches and we had a bit of spare time until an event close by so we stopped off here to find this one and get the required info for the Hope Valley multi. [^]
I had been here before and found all of the red herrings, but didn't quite find the real cache.
Today with added info I knew exactly where to look and the cache was soon found and stamped. Now off to the other cache needed.
Thanks for the cache bgmat & ablea86.