All aboard for the Frog Express Murray Bridge, South Australia, Australia
By froghoppin on 22-Mar-18. Waypoint GC7KX99

Found this heavy duty cache while taking a walk along the river bank. Lovely spot. Stamped log and replaced.Tftc

Found by Mary and David at 09:35. A FP for this hide. We guessed which box car would be our target. Even so, we approached GZ with some trepidation, as we have had mixed results on mechanical items. We were lucky, though, and D spotted it quite quickly. Despite all the rain last night, the cache remains snug and dry. Our thanks to froghoppin.

Found at last,how did we miss this cache on our first attempt.A great hide.TFTC

Finally have hopped aboard the Frog Express Today there were no muggles and it was found while the paddle steamer went past Thanks for the hide Foghoppin Tftc

Took a few minutes but was soon located,. Busy morning so we stopped at the Cafe, just as a busy load of people arrived. Hoping we could get in before them. We were in luck for that too. Win win

That was hard gps needs update

Ahh a long weekend caching in South Australia with the Gong Gangsters is way too good an opportunity to pass up. With dates set and leave passes granted we managed a 4-day caching spree - targeting the On ya bike series.The variety of finds was wide and diverse, we travelled with our own totts. Our finds are logged with our Gangster stamp or GG on the smaller logs.Thanks to all the COs who provided us with a great weekend, filled with laughter, banter and much more that cant be said. Thanks to my fellow caching buddies - steeba, Hoojar and Wilbert.TFTC

Found with The Rats, Hoojar and Wilbert67. Another big trip some time in the making to get some good numbers. Plenty of solving and working out final coordinates, packing lists and arranging transport from New South Wales to some of the mallee country of South Australia. As always plenty of laughs and great company.As always a variety of types and hides.Unless otherwise flagged cache found all ok. Thanks for placing these series.TFTC!

The temptation of finding nearly 1,000 caches on a road trip in South Australia was proving all too tempting. So a date was set, flights were booked, and a car was hired. The Rats, Steeba, Wilbert67 and I were off to tackle the On Ya Bike series, and surrounding caches. Cache logs were either stamped, or signed GG (Gong Gangsters).We covered a great many kilometres, finding caches and enjoying the scenery. We camped under the stars. We enjoyed cold weather, rain and a winter heat wave. We cached in the dark. We cached in the light. We found some ordinary caches, and some brilliant ones.As is so often the case with our trips, the banter was constant, the jeering persistent, and the company excellent. Mind you, it is a lot easier to listen to Rugby League on the radio in the great State of New South Wales!This boiler-plate log does not take anything away from some of the excellent caches that we found, and I am appreciative of all of the cache hiders for their efforts in placing and maintaining all of these hides.We all ticked over mini Milestones during this trip, but notably I found my 20,000th cache. A Milestone I am very happy to have shared with my mates; mates that I have found thousands of caches with previously. Heres to many more caching adventures!Cheers

Today ttrogg picked up the Rat from her nest.We then headed to the Starfish's pond to pick up the Starfish.Then headed over to Murray Bridge for a days caching.this took longer than it should have.The Rat soon had it her paws.Stamped the logbook and replaced as found. Tftc

After an adventure with LB putting on our maps for the Signal geoart, we headed into The Bridge to do an adventure lab and find a couple more caches before we head back to the big smoke.It was with luck that we checked our map here and seen this green dot which really needed to be a . After a short time of searching we found our treasure TFTC froghoppinKeep smiling

Find # 14594Been a while since I've been out solo for a long trip. But things change over time. And I'm living the past.So with some time off work, I've jumped the border wall to chase down some long trails in South Aussie... don't know how many I'll get. But I've got quite a few downloaded. I do have a short hit list ( of 2) caches to help with a challenge. All others are just for the Adventure and countryside views. Armed with all the necessary TOTT from tweezers and magnet grab to 6m ladder and 8m fishing pole. I believe I'm prepared for all that I'll come across. (Just had to leave the Kayak at home )Day 1 home to Murray Bridge.Found while doing some ad labs in the area. Thankfully a previous log helped with locating this cache. TFTC froghoppin

500th cache!!!!!!This was was a fun on for my 500th, a cool train graveyardFav point from me!At the murray for a couple days picking up the caches with buddy9Tftf

Found after getting down and looking forward ??Thanks for the cache Down in Murray bridge for a couple days and Im pretty sure we got 48 caches in one day!!!! Nipping around Murray bridge to get some good ones they never fail to amaze meTFTC and keeping up the maintenance

Tftc .. the RF went caching whilst I shopped!

Very nice example of this kind of hide, found pretty quickly in the second place I looked, log signed and replaced as found.Happy to report that the cache is in good condition and the logbook nice and dry.Greetings from MelbourneTftc

Finally found it after coming back a couple times! Nice hide! Tftc!

No luck today

Awesome hide TFTC

Found with O319 on our day caching around the area

Quick find with SJG66, that's a big micro! TFTC

Found on way home from june longweeked

Day 2 of my holiday to the JLW event in Lameroo and then off interstate for a few weeks. Today I started the day off in Walker Flat and made my way towards Lameroo stopping in Wynarka for the night. I managed to get 40 caches today and 2 DNF's along the way.I can'[t believe it put my hand straight on it. Nice Cache.TFTC froghoppin

Arriving at GZ, we tried to find this one without any luck. So we boarded our paddle steamer for a three hour trip.Upon returning, we attempted to find the cache again. Luckily, the container's container was positioned the right way to reveal its contents.

Travelling with iluvtrekking from our home state WA. Spending a few days in Murray Bridge to cache the surrounds. Loving the scenery that we pass as we move through the caches - this is our preferred caching - not suburbs. Nicely crafted camo. Thanks for the hide. Froghoppin

Travelling with richlink as part of our Annual Caravan Geocaching Trip. The cache was found when one member of the team took a nap. TFTC

Walking up to this one and I started recalling others on these, this could be anywhere. I immediately started thinking of the last one in the NTA Trail, and whilst ozmilo went under I checked out a certain cachers image. Its got to be in this area, and with a new sense of where the hide might be it was found quickly. ?? Ring ring ?? HelloDid you find the one on the carriage todayYes, try on this one, Ill be there in two minutes, see if you can find it before I get thereClickDid you find it yet?NopeTry hereFound itYoure welcome ??

After attending the nearby event, I went for a wander around the reserve with Doineedthis for a couple of caches. Ive been here before but walked away empty handed. With an extra set of eyes this time, the prize was found after a short search. All good here. Thank you froghoppin, for placing All aboard for the Frog Express for the geocaching community.# # #15069 # #

I have been here before, and not found the cache. About a year then passed. I visited again, and not found the cache. Another year or more passed. The train went. The carriages remained. The cache was reinstated. I visited this morning for a quick find before the event. I dont know who I was kidding, but this was never going to happen, with GZ in the middle of bitumen and me looking in the nearest carriage from there.I attended the event. I then did some work out at the family home and then back to Sturt Reserve for some maintenance. It was not going to beat me.I have been here before, not that long ago, and this time I crawled the length of it, under looking up in all crannies a cache could be hiding. Nothing. I phoned a friend, he said, I will be there in 2 minutes. Try looking on the *** coloured one. Ok, I will. I still had not found it by the time friend arrived. He said, try in this vicinity, and in the end my hands did find said item. Nice construction, cache in good condition, just it was around 22.56m from GZ. Never mind, great to finally turn the frowny into a smiley.Thanks for the cache froghoppin, all good here. Find #9603 at 5.03pm

Today out and about on 123 of 183 days to get my daily cacher Sapphire Using my Garmin Etrex 22X and MacBook Air!Thanks for the cache.TFTC

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Lovely afternoon through we would do some tftc

TFTC great spot tricky hide

A surprisingly quick find at this one. I had feared worse.TFTC

Riverside caching day TftCAdded the perfect swap toy to this cache. Toot! Toot!

Riverside caching. TftCAdded the perfect swap toy to the cache. Toot! Toot!

Great hide- worth scrabbling around under an engine for!Took me about 5-10 minutes so many potential hiding spots! The hint helped. TFTC!

Dnf

Found it, nice Cache

Container is a bit big for micro.Just off a pleasant lunch cruise on Captain Proud paddle boat.

Did a few caches around the Murray Bridge area with naughtybunny. This was to be number 2 for today. We looked according to the clue and then we saw it. A nice container which was well placed. TNLN. Cheers.

Not such a quick find, on a ferally hot day in Murray Bridge. Cool hide, nice work.TFTC

Quickly found with Nibletricecakes on Day 7 of our Adelaide Leap Year Mega trip. Well spotted by NRC. TFTC.

Its day 6 and Team SQUIRM are heading east, weve picked up a QLD hitchhiker to make a team of seven for the day. After an event in Mannum we are touring around the area seeing the sights. We came down for the virtual and noticed this trad close by so wandered over and found the cache after a short search.Tftc froghoppinFind #5648

A very hot visit here today. Wasnt sure we would be able to find this one, but thankfully we spotted it! .Day 7 of our Great Leap Forward leap year Mega trip of 2024. Traveling today with GLISS! Always wonderful to be travelling across the country enjoying the amazing scenery and caching along the way. Main focus for this trip has been to tidy up the last couple of counties needed in Victoria and make a serious dent in the South Australian ones. Plus a few days in Adelaide enjoying the mega fun. A hot dry trip this time around. Thanks to all the COs for placing and maintaining these caches so we can enjoy the game.

The Leap Day Mega was a great excuse to come down from Queensland and weve had a busy time exploring Adelaide and surrounds cache by cache. Meeting up with friends old and new, we sometimes cached with them and sometimes alone but always had a great time. Although I have been to Adelaide before, this trip has shown me so many new and interesting places as Ive chased LGAs, oldies, challenges, interesting D/T combinations, rarer cache types and favourites. Thanks to all COs for placing and maintaining these caches for everyone to enjoy.

Found with the SQUIRM team.We've made the journey down from SE Queensland for the MEGA, so booked ourselves in for a week and a bit, of fun, Festival and caching.After a morning event we are now doing a bit of exploring around the area. Thanks for the cache

Found in our group of seven Queenslanders unsupervised in Radelaide mega'ing. Stacey's mom has not got it going on so Stacey has to step up to the plate again. All logs signed or stamped as SQUIRM. Thanks for the cache froghoppin

Another day in Adelaide and SQUIRM are on the road again this time with a hitchhiker from QueenslandAn early start saw us soon stopping to wait for the little man from the village who got Staceys Mum back on the road again after her second flat tyre in two days Weve been too hard on Staceys MumFirst stop was Mannum to attend The Best Breakfast Event in the world ever then more targeted caching challenges, D/Ts, high faves and anything else we stepped over along the way there might even have been a new LGA in thereThanks froghoppin

TFTC! 27 February 2024 12:03:57pm 7375 thanks to froghoppin for the cache! Off to the Great Leap Tear Mega in Adelaide. A stop off along the way! Enjoyed the quick find and walk along here!

In town for the Mega and the breakfast event tomorrow. While waiting for dinner there is always time for just one more so headed over. A bit of looking before spotting the nice container. We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC

A nice quick and easy find on a pleasant morning stroll around the port. Thanks for the cache.

Blue 65 26/02/2024

A nice easy find today.TFTC

TFTC. Set up camp for a week in MB before the mega, out grabbing a couple before teaHappy caching and safe travels!

After trying to find and interruptions with covid and floods we can finally mark this very clever cache as found. Thank you froghoppin for placing the cache.

After searching for a little while with go grandys I came up with the clever hideSigned and replaced where foundTFTC

Awesome hide, wish I was a hobo would have found it sooner

Looked and looked but couldn't find it. Even crawled under the train cars haha

Could not find

TFTC. I can confirm the caches presence Log signed Good Co ordsNot quite as low as anticipated Fairly quick find Good camo

Missed ya - Looked and looked but could not locate. Tftc

Area blocked off with council barriers

FINALLY. Took me forever. Worthy of a favourite. Tftf

Nice place to sit and think have finaly found this one lovely day out with family s/l tftc

Suscoe and Phetlern headed East this morning to head out as far as Peake before turning around and working our way back to Murray Bridge via Sherlock.
It was a fairly pleasant day, a little drizzle at times but mostly fine.
We enjoyed seeing these old towns and finding the caches along the roads and in the bushland.
Thanks to froghoppin for this hide, we looked for a while then spotted it.

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Along with our travelling and caching companions the Suscoes we made an early start from Bordertown and set out for Murray Bridge. Of course there were many stops to stretch our legs and look for caches!
After booking in to our accommodation, we enjoyed an afternoon of caching not too far from homebase. Fun & frustration, it was Mr S who came up with the goods here.

Thanks to froghoppin for adding this cache to the gameboard.
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Yay! Found today with Woems1 ️ and Squibbler

Dnf

A quick luckless look here while struggling less with AdLabs. Some you win...

Finally got it

Out and about again, a couple of small showers as we went LGA hunting down Murray Bridge way. Stopped by a grabbed some here.

Found a variety of hides and in different areas which made for a nice day. Generally quick finds today

Thanks to all the CO’s for the hides I found.

Thought the day would never come but area renovations, floods and then repairs to Wharf have finally been completed and cache was returned today ready for new adventurers

Well we must be close now, the local council are now using GZ to stack all their safety barriers and bollards, we see this as a positive sign the area will soon be clear to reenable this one

Some areas have opened up but cache area is near a closed off area, still waiting assessment of trees and damage to nearby wharf at this point before area opened to public

With water levels receding we just need to wait for the council clean up and then can finally get this one back on line, will keep an eye out, thanks for your patience

Visited on the weekend, flood peak has gone through only just, river levels are still very high with water inundating cache area with this area cordoned off until safe, cache is not at location but removed why the flood event is happening will return when safe to bring back on line.

Placing cache back today was again put on the back peddle, area roped off and protection work for rising flood waters now in place, will need to now wait till after flooding event has passed

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 7.076 E 139° 16.880

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 7.084 E 139° 16.881

Distance from original: 49.2 feet or 15.0 meters.

Original hide has been relocated moved to a different structure of similar theme

With the redesign of the foreshore we think the train will not be back in the same location however a similar structure is only a few meters away so with some rejigging this one will be back on line shortly

Called past still not back yet just like a train to be running late, will keep monitring

Progress is slow but indeed moving along should not be long now before we can replace, thanks for your patience

Foreshore progress is taking shape, still to early to replace cache still monitoring

progress is being made still unable to replace at this stage will monitor the works

Still in the workshop for its overhaul

Tftc... love the camo!

Train is chugging off for a overhaul, paint touch up and repairs, with GZ undergoing some refurbishment, cache has been removed while these works take place, will monitor and keep you updated, unsure at this stage how long this process will take

Watawieh from Norfolk Island South Pacific.

I have joined forces with TeamAstro to attend the Wangaratta Mega.
Today’s journey took us from Murray Bridge to Adelaide.

I stepped aboard the geo-express for a geocache

Found & logged using Cachly for iOS

Headed down to the Murray Bridge area today for my first full day of caching for far too long. The primary aim was the new geoart Ice-cream series with the secondary target being the recent River Views AdLab. As both were by the same CO decided to concentrate on her other caches in the time that was left. Ended up finding 6 caches by other COs and 42 by Ghosty7.
Was nearby working on the AdLab and realized that there was a nearby cache that I'd previously DNF'd so thought I better have another look. Must have had the right glasses on as this time the good co-ords helped me find a very nice cache.
Thanks to froghoppin for placing this cache for us all to find

*This log composed and published using GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife).*

TFTC!

Thankyou for the cache

Tftc. Great hide

Don’t you love it when you catch the express without running. Just walked right up to it.

Thanks froghoppin and clear skies from TeamAstro. ️ Cache the planet!

We were about to hop aboard when the cache was found. Nice hide. TFTC

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A wander around the park before dinner. Jr N found it. SL TFTC

Found again with Lachlan

Found with Byron after 5 trips, coordinates are spot on

Found. Coordinates right on

Think this has been moved from where co ordinates say it is. On exact opposite side. Great little hide. Second visit to MB