Thirsty Much? Whyalla Barson, South Australia, Australia
By fishingmad on 25-Sep-18. Waypoint GC7Y80P

An action had been taken on this cache because of one of the following -One or more of the following has occurred:No response from the cache owner.No cache to find or log to sign.It has been more than 28 days since the last owner note.As a result I am archiving this cache to keep from continually showing up in search lists and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.Should you like to resurrect the cache please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.From http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=707.15. Archive or unarchive a geocache Archiving a geocache is meant to be a permanent action. Only community volunteer reviewers and Geocaching HQ can unarchive caches. This is done only in rare circumstances and only if the cache meets the current geocaching guidelines.If a cache is archived by a reviewer or staff for lack of maintenance, it will not be unarchived.

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No longer able to access this with a huge new fence around the area

No longer able to access this with a huge new fence around the area

On the way to Adelaide, detour. Find it and sign the log as EV, and thanks for the cache and hunt.

TFTC. Not thirty but hungry! Time for lunch break

Thanks

Found while visiting Whyalla for a few days with Team Waldron and TeamAstro, with the aim of finding as many caches as possible in Whyalla and surrounds. Day 1 saw us travel up from Adelaide and tour the very scenic coastline around Port Bonython and Point Lowly. On Day 2 we headed out to the Fill In The Gaps (FITG) series, then to Iron Knob and back via the First To Find Power Trail (FTF PT) series. On Day 3 we cached in and around the City of Whyalla, and on Day 4 we made our way out to Whyalla Conservation Park before heading for home. Thanks for the cache fishingmad!

Away for a few days with Featherwaite and Team Astro.

The plan was to get all the whyalla caches as well as the FTF series and the FITG caches.

Nearly got them all, just a few left for next time.

Lots of rusty relics around the place.

TFTC

Another cache found during our 2022 South Australia Adventure using Geocaching as our guide.

We had a great time today driving some of the numerous 4WD tracks around Whyalla. Most.
Thanks for the cache fishingmad

What an epic journey we have had, just returned home from the holiday of a life time, we managed to catch up with PP2 for some caching at times, oh the memories and laughter!! Now it's time to catch up with the logging, thank you to every CO who has placed caches for us to find along the way TFTC

Stopping in Whyalla overnight before we head back to WA. TFTC fishingmad

One last day for now around Whyalla, the steel city, home of the rusty mint tin...
and found a few clever caches too

Another day of exploring places we otherwise may not have been!

Came to your cache along the way

An interesting remnant of times gone past.

Much thanks to fishingmad for placing and maintaining this cache on our SA geo game map


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Searching with Purrfect Di and Jack the Monkey, finding and signing cache logs alone or with family and friends using some or all of the resources of GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife), Whereyougo, Garmin Montana 750i, Montana 680t, Etrex 35, Samsung S21u, Samsung S9, with Geocaching App, c:Geo, or Geooh Go, and Android Auto and other maps... or often with just plain old dumb luck Plenty of that luck stuff actually!!!
*Logs are composed and published using GSAK of course.*

A couple of maintenance assist tasks on the trail caches too. Looked like there had been some extreme weather since we were here last... oh yep, the floods the day after we left!!!


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Caching is a hazardous activity!
Keep a lookout for sand traps, snakes, surprise cliffs, boxing roos, wombats, bulldust, and floods,
try not to get tetanus from rusty mint tins and don't fall out of trees...
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- but especially lookout for any old bugs from alpha to omega !!! . [xx(]

Try to keep Travel Bugs as the only bugs you share and pass on
Now everything's opening more - even more important to sanitise and safely distance!!!


Really good of all those placing quality caches out and about around the countryside areas,
in sensible safe places especially! - it keeps our game safe, fun, and interesting

Thanks heaps for reading all this addition to the log word count! There's a challenge somewhere, apparently! You win a virtual smile for the effort and getting to the end of the log





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TFTC

Full time nomads since 2013. Still tootling around the country trying to avoid Covid hotspots.

Back in SA for harvest work. Heading to Port Pirie but 4 days ahead of schedule so a quick detour to Whyalla was in order. Headed out early today with lunch hoping to convert some to Not altogether successful, but still managed 39finds from 41 hunts.

TFTC fishingmad

A quick drive out this way, again giving Sharkbait more time behind the wheel and clearing a date in my calendar. Also, with lockdown coming, it would have been hard to explain doing exercise out here. An interesting structure. Not getting too much of a drink here today. TFTC

Easy Find

TFTC

Found with hevwalker after a much cooler day where we finished the caches we had planned to do at the Conservation Park during the day today due to the high temps and Fire Ban yesterday. We grabbed this one after completing the August powertrail ...we are heading off for home tomorrow and wanted to get as many more caches as we can..... we headed out into the back tracks again to get a few more.....this one was a quick find....this area is a little harder to navigate with satellite maps as the deep creeks look like trails ....so we did a bit more backtracking than in the other areas we had found caches .TFTC

In Whyalla on a 5 day mini break with scramping caching the area while doing some sightseeing...
Our last night so off we went after dinner after dark again...
Wow!!! finding your way around the back roads at night is a bit of a challenge so found this cache and gave up when we came to a halt in front of a rather large creek...back to town we went...
TFTC fishingmad

Found
That good my partner had to find it hehe

Day 303 (Saturday 27th) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Whyalla today. A total of 4 for the day and 5889 for the trip. TFTC

Interesting, easy find. These flat areas at the back of the old Whyalla Dairy were once lush pastures of lucerne and feed for the herds of dairy cows. These "stand pipes" were where the
irrigation pipes that watered the crops were connected. TNLN TFTC

Quick Find.
TFTC!

Actually quite cool today so not thirsty. Quick find.

Haven't been out this way in a long time. Tftc

It was so hot today that we were definitely Thirsty! much. TFTC

Plenty of quench here!!

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

Went for a morning MTB ride over the Mt. Laura hills to the old dairy. Lovely morning for a ride, beautiful sunrise and lots of kangaroos. I even came across a rather deep water course that had 4wd tracks in it. You would not see a vehicle in there, it is that deep. Looks almost man made - maybe something to do with the dairy?? I used to think of looking at the old dairy before it was demolished, but alas - too late. It was still around in 2015 - here is a photo [Old BHP Dairy](https://www.flickr.com/photos/134998033@N08/23275704555)
TFTC

Made this a drive by, with my new 4WD geo vehicle, after a long absence from geocaching, it was nice to be out and about, Thanks fishingmad for the cache. TFTHSL
Regards from diggers09

Found on a day trip to Whyalla. It’s been a while since a new cache has been put out in the Whyalla area. Thanks for the hide fishingmad.

It was a few weeks ago that Laighside Legends suggested a trip over to Port Lincoln for the long weekend in order to gather a few more LGAs’. It was a pleasant drive over, picking up a few caches along the way, however we spent a few hours in Whyalla to specifically target a few caches. This was followed by a slow drive down the costal highway, picking up cache after cache and happened to even bump in to Aussie M&M and Mogni as we neared Lincoln. We arrived in Lincoln at around nine after an enjoyable day of traveling and caching.

TFTC

Found It!
Took the long way into this and then the easy way out. Interesting history!
TFTC

Quick find on the way home from work FTF too woo hoo TFTC

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