No. 29 Blinman, South Australia, Australia
By Freddo the Chocolate Frog on 16-Oct-18. Waypoint GC7Z3FB

Great hide! Took a newbie today to show what caching is all about. He loved it too.

Read the descriptions that its not near the clue, that it blends in, and is well magnetised. Didnt want to give up but we had things to do.

Thx Wurschtl

Lovely little town tftc

Thanks

Thank you good find not close to the hint though

Thanks for the cache Was a good find. Not close to the hint though

Thanks..well magnetised!

After spending 2 days at Copley and 4 days in Arkaroola we were heading towards Quorn for a couple more days. We stopped in Blinman for the Mine Tour.We stopped here on the way into Blinman and after an extended search we gave up and went onto our tour. While in the tour I noticed another cacher had visited and logged this cache. With the bit of info gained from their log we decided to give it another go. It wasn't long before one of the group found the cache, not so close to the pivot as the hint suggested. It did blend in well.Reading the information sign, it gave us a chuckle reading how the operators had to throw a stone as a way of communicating with each other due to the noise. TFTC Freddo.

From previous logs I thought finding this cache would be like taking a Lolly from a baby. However with caching it aint always that easy and with the cache blending in to the colour of the grader, it was harder than I thought. Slightly further from the pivot. Tftc

Actually found a machinery cache. Usually give up on these ones

TFTC, easy find!

Quick and easy for one like this. Thankfully! TFTC

This a new account but I found this cache with my mum (EmsDan1315) and my brother (maggies123) on 17-7-2024 TFTC.

Tftc

Found with Emsdan and leolion

Thanks for the quick find. Try the quandong pie at the local cafe. Its delicious!

Too easy

Great cache. Loved checking out this attraction

Great find and lovely little town

Found it. Quite easily after I looked away from the front pivot.

Looked for a while but couldnt find it anywhere!

Thanks.

TFTC GCTMan

Found on a visit to this historic town. TFTC

Hidden in plain sight. Surprised by the lady beetle. Thanks for the cache.

Took a minute, or 20, TFTC

Killing time before mine tour TFTC

Freezing cold morning looked in every nook and cranny and did not find today.

Spent 15 mins looking but did not find. Wasnt sure exactly what type of container we were looking for.

I would not call it the front pivot, its in plain viewPS Ive liked all the little lady birds

On our travels we found ourselves in Blinman and after the mine tour and of course a pub lunch stopped to grab this cache, it took longer than it should have as I guess it may crept a little, thanks for placing this cache

TFTC

Bubba & chief found it. TFTC

Found with Oflights, cache is fine and intact. TFTC Freddo

Cheers for another find SLFound by Chief sik and Bubba

No where the hint said.

I think it has been muggled

Sadly after a while searching it is a DNF today.

In Blinman to start the Mawson trail. Enjoying a walk after dinner. Not quite where we thought from the hint. TFTC

TYFC

A pivotal experience!

Found it! Found on our morning walk from our accommodation. Love the peace and quiet out here, blue skies and very windy this morning! #410 TFTC!

In Hawker for a few days holiday, grabbing a few caches on the way . Today was a trip to Blinman copper mine. Quick find on a warm day TFTC

Mauds second cache

We searched we found we bugged TFTC

Very cleaver spot

Found it!

I don't think that many people know what a pivet is good luck

Mrs Unssy and Chantel went walk abouts without the boys. Thank Freddo for the hide

Found it

Travelling with iluvtrekking up the WA coast to Darwin, down the Centre and now in the Flinders Ranges. We haven’t been further than Hawker on previous trips and are in awe of the stunning scenery. Thanks for the hide.

Travelling with richlink from Perth to Darwin up along the west coast and home again through the centre and the Nullarbor, picking up caches along the way. We headed off on a round trip from Hawker to Blinman. The scenery was stunning. We also enjoyed the history of the area. Thanks for the cache.

TFTC 27/723

Sure would have been a great working environment...could even smoke.Thanks for bringing us here



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Found while on hearse068 50 th birthday bash. Hearse068 had done this before so I wandered off on my own to find it. Thank for bringing this spot to our attention . TFTC

TFTC Freddo. A quick find before we head back for our fossil tour

TFTC. Great spot for the engineers amongst.

TFTC fancy being the grader driver

Great spot took 3 people 15 mins to find and a guy had to tell us what a front pivot was good job

The third old grader we’ve had to stop and look at in as many days! At least No 29 had a cache to find! Thanks for the clue, might have been a different story without it:

Found while spending a couple of days in Blinman. Lovely area. Thank you

Nice sunny day

Tftc great story about the drivers

TFTC a quick find along our journey. Good hint. Information board is a laugh

Out and about finding some amazing caches in this wonderful place with Mickyfam4 and Zobo01. TFTC

Good one night stay in Blinman thanks for the cache .Nice easy find.

Interesting story, and easy find, thanks to the hint. TFTC

Found Easter 2023 with Redmond and Tweety2

Initially went past this one, proceeded to u-turn then by the time we got back Mr 8 had located it and Redmond was signing the log. Put my mark in the log next to the others and we were onto the next one. TFTC.

Well the young one found this quickly.

Easy with hint.

Got it!

I am on an adventure from Canberra to Port Augusta with Boston my geohound to stay with my Dad. Today we decided to drive to Hawker then Wilpena and through the gorge and just had to get this cache, such a historic little town and got to gz read hint and Dad helped me find it as he likes these machinery. Great heavy drawn grader tftc Freddo the chocolate frog

Due to unforeseen circumstances Mr Smokey Bear will no longer be a part of Team Smokey Bear and will continue his adventures as "SmokeyBearOG".

So I'm relogging all previous finds under my new account.
Unfortunately this log will not show the original logging date.

**Thanks to Freddo for this adventure, looking forward to many more.**

Adam
SmokeyBearOG

Thank from

TFTC Freddo - legend!!

35 degrees here yesterday
16 degrees today
Found & Thanks

Part of the fun ambling along the main street, thanks

With geodog Tonka on a perfect caching weather day
Out doing my 2 favourite things Driving and caching
In the flinders.
Thank his for the hint I hate these things
Nicely camouflaged
TFTC

Found 25/10/22 thanks or the hint

Just grateful it wasn't a nano. Interesting piece of equipment. Tftc

Found with help from Ozzanemo77. Met donaldje . TFTC.

I didn't find it but I got help from two other geocachers who found out after just 5 minutes. Good camouflage! TFTC

Nice find here

TFTC

Thanks for the hint as there were so many hiding places on that piece of machinery

Got it! Make sure you stop in at the bakery in town!

TFTC! Busy day in Blinman today.

Found on a road trip from wiplena

Quick find on way in to Blinman. TFTC

Day trip from Hawker. Blinman one of our stops Tftc

A walk around Blinman to pick up the couple of caches in/near town. Cache OK

Loving been out this way. such a fabulous part of the country. we’re here to do the mine tour and I think it’s gonna be awesome

All good things come to an end.. And so did our month long road trip through SA and the NT. We found this one while on our long way home from the Flinders to Melbourne. Cache was a quick find, TFTC!

Great cache is an incredible part of the world

Found

Off we head to the north finding stuff with satelites!! On the great Frog'n'cat adventure of '22...

Only took five minutes to find this minty little devil. A nano would have been so much more fun

Much thanks to Freddo for locating and maintaining this cache on our geo-travel map


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Searching, spotting and signing cache logs with Purrfect Di, Jack, and the Froghoppin Duo, 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 !!!

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Watch out for sand traps, snakes, surprise cliffs, boxing roos, wombats, things falling from trees, bulldust, and floods,
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-- -- -- -- -- -- -- but especially lookout for germs and bugs !!! . [xx(]

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Heaps 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 so much for reading all this addition to the log word count! There's a challenge somewhere out there, apparently! You win a virtual smiley for the effort and getting to the end of the log





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Staying in Blinman for a few days with Mattycat and PerfectD we spent the morning in the mines before hitting the road to explore the area, a late afternoon trip through the gorge provided us with many stunning colours where the sun kissed the hilltops, soon we were back in Blinman with this our last and found by torchlight all in good condition
TFTC Freddo

3 July 2022 11:44 am Found with the Hardacres on our School holidays trip to the FlindersRanges. Thanks Freddo the Chocolate Frog for the cache.