Used 2B a Church Micro #0027 - Hamley Bridge Hamley Bridge, South Australia, Australia
By Freddo the Non Believer on 19-Feb-19. Waypoint GC83H3Z

Caching out again for the dayTFTH

Quick find very good coordinates , went straight to it. TFTC

DNF

Travelling with iluvtrekking from our home state WA. Spending a few days in Nuriootpa to cache the surrounds. Loving the scenery that we pass as we move through the caches - this is our preferred caching - not suburbs. Drizzly day but the farmers definitely need it. Sticking to the black and the white roads. Thanks Freddy

The knees got a good workout today and this one provided no exception. Tftc

Took a while to find it, but thanks Detofinbars she feel it out of its hiding spot. Stamped log and replaced, TFTC

Nice find with woolwood9 today. Thanks for putting this multi-cache out for us to visit. SL *tm/ww NZ*Good final area but lots of searching required.

Over to attend the Great Leap Forward Mega Event with tmann421.Have done a few km collecting caches and have enjoyed the tour aroundThanks to all the cache owners for their efforts in placing and maintaining these for us to findSigned log tm/ww NZ

Spending a little time caching around Hamley Bridge early in the morning.Many thanks for this multi Freddo

After a full day at and around the Mega another day was planned with allister w and Michells&hound while she was back from Tasmania for a few days. The plan was that we would head up to Kapunda via an Adventure Lab in Gawler then picking up caches that we all hadn't found. We had a great day driving some cool tracks and finding caches in out of the way places. We even had time for a nice bakery lunch in Kapunda.This one took quite a while to find even though we were with a previous finder. Allister ended up making the find.Thanks for the cache Freddo.

Found with Michells&hound and JJ52 on a nice drive around the area. TFTC

No luck.

Up in Hamley Bridge for 2 days for work, so I popped out at 8pm for a few caches. It's raining, very dark, chilly and windy and I don't know my way around...what could possibly go wrong?!
But I found this one!
On my fourth pass, after applying some logic I finally had the win. Pretty sure I already groped around in that spot!
TFTC Freddo.

Spent the day doing a family history tour with Mum around Hamley Bridge, as my grandfather was born there, plus finding caches along the way
Took 10mins to find this one, and found after looking a 3rd time in the same location , so many hiding places!

Spending a few days exploring and caching around the Clare Valley. Visiting some towns that I haven’t been before so lots of unfound geocaches up for grabs.

Day one was Hamley Bridge, Stockport, Tarlee and Riverton. Very warm today so didn’t break any records and needed frequent stops to rehydrate.

Thanks for the cache Freddo the Non Believer.
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On my knees and the cache was placed in my hand Thanks Freddo

Woohoo we found with troyyugal

A little bit of scrambling around and we came up with the goods.

Dnf, but think it was our searching that was the problem. Gave it a good go but in the end ran out of time.

Another cache hunt on our 2022 South Australian Adventure and another Used 2B ticked off. Thanks to all the COs for taking us on this geo-tour. We have enjoyed our time in SA, but it is time to slowly make our way back West again.

A bit of scrabble and had our hands on it. TFTC

Nice little multi that had us scrambling around a little.
TFTC

TFTC. Along with miff1 we though today would be a good chance to explore some of the Barrossa. We. Had earmarked a virtual cache at Hamley Bridge as our primary objective. We would stop and find other caches as we came close. We lunched at Nurioopta before completing a tour of their Historic wineries. A great relaxing day,

A change of pace today, our team was hugely decreased in numbers with only HansandLinda and ourselves goingand to Nurioopta to visit the lovely Snappy Tomcats followed by lunch and a tour of the wineries to complete an AL. Plus we picked upa few other caches that were needed to help fill DT grids or challenges. SL TFTC

Took us a while, but Geo Dad’s experience got us over the line in the end. On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce. Blue sky day, so it’s a great day for caching. TFTC Freddo
Find #3948 at 12:59.

Thanks for hiding, got it just where you said it would be sort of. Took some searching for. Good to be having a look around the area. Caching with Wollaston and SeasonedBird.

Armed with final coords we approached and realised it wouldn’t be a quick reach and grab, this one needed four on the floor searching. We were noses down in amongst the sleepers trying to be the one to ‘win’ when we heard Bruce gleefully say ‘found it’. Of course we all jumped with glee, welcoming this proud announcement, said ‘phew’ and dutifully signed the log.

On our way to a new destination after enjoying several days in the Barossa with Wollaston and Liz&Bruce.

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 Freddo

Find # 1596

The weekly Wednesday wandering of the befuddled, thwarted by the weather was postponed until today, a much more pleasant day to head north and attempt a few previous DNF's targeted with many others on our list. A return visit by the adder after a previous DNF. The log book is soaked but should dry out over the warmer months. Thank you for the placement of the Used 2B a Church Micro #0027 cache Freddo find number 8183 on 13 August 2021 at 10:49 am

We came and hunted for this one but we lacked the time to really give this one a thorough look. We will need to come back another day.

Dnf in the time we had today

Well we found it.
Not missing after all
Don’t believe the DNFs.
And if a PAF tells you “exactly where it is”, don’t forget that someone else may have decided a different spot “would be better”
TNLNSL
TFTC Freddo the non-believer.

We came, we searched, but came away empty handed.

No luck for us. Will have to return for another look.

No luck for us after a long look at GZ!

Today Bob from Elsewhere, FeatherWaite and I headed north from Adelaide to find some caches. We were mainly targeting multis, but also found a few puzzle caches and some Traditionals. We covered a fairly large area from Hamley Bridge, up to Clare, then back to Kapunda via Marrabel.

Most of the multis were short and quite straightforward and the puzzles had been solved in preparation beforehand.

The weather was nice and mild, which made for a great day for caching. Despite it being a public holiday, the roads weren’t too busy, there weren’t a lot of people about around most GZs, which made things a bit easier.

Thanks to all the cache owners for the caches.

Found with Bob from Elsewhere and e.gregory1 on a caching trip up to the Clare and Barossa Valleys, mostly taking the backroads in search of multis and puzzle caches, with an occasional traditional cache thrown into the mix. Thanks for the cache Freddo!

Find 3204

Today I was invited by FeatherWaite and e.gregory to join them on a trip to the Barossa Valley.

Little did I know that the intended route would be via Stockport, Hamely Bridge up to Clare by the back roads, joining the highway at Watervale. Then back to Kapunda via Mintaro, Saddleworth and Marrabel.
The closest we got to the Barossa Valley was the Sturt Highway north of Nurioopta on the way home.

From the back seat I was able to collect the required information, calculate and navigate to the GZ.

Thanks toFreddo for the cache.

It's Fine Elsewhere

This weekend, jesswrigley and I headed to the Clare Valley for a bit of wine tasting and cycling the Riesling Trail. We were treated to great sunny weather, and nice to have been visiting the wine region.

Today, jesswrigley and I started the day by heading north around Clare to visit a few miscellaneous locations and old churches. We then made our way to Polish Hill River, and then on to Mintaro where we participated in the famous maze. After visiting *Taylors Wines* for a wine and chocolate tasting, we had a final session cycling along the Riesling Trail north from Watervale. We then made the return home, briefly stopping at Tarlee, Stockport, and Hamley Bridge.

Another nice converted church, of which we quickly obtained the required numbers, and then made the short drive to GZ. I was a little apprehensive at the previous DNF, and so we both began to search, but we ended up finding the cache in this cool little location within a few minutes. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks Freddo the Non-Believer for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.
Note that this geocache was logged with the *Team Warren* Davidwazza/jesswrigley stamp.

With 2 previous finders we failed. Has it been moved?. Who knows. Another dnf on the watchlist.

Took awhile to locate this cache even with previous finder .
Tftc

TFTC, Freddo TNB, and thanks for the maintenance LíB and Earthlight.

Rex and I headed to Vilis' for a breakfast club meeting and had every intention of going home afterwards[^]
That was until LiB and earthlight said they were going caching up North
So I offered the Corolla and the company of Rex and I and they kindly accepted[:X]
We headed up to where I had been caching only 2 days before however the beauty of extra eyes was that we confirmed that a cache I'd DNFd on Friday was definitely missing: after LiB found half of the container on the ground some distance away from the hiding spot
My total for the day was 5 with 1 event attended and 4 caches found[^]

This cache was my DNF from 2 days ago and it still eluded 3 of us today, despite a PAF to some of the last finders (nice to chat with IRAC, even if it was briefly)
Finally I rang the CO again and while grilling him about the hide and container, we realised that LiB had picked up something on our way to the hiding area that 1/2 matched the CO's description of the cache container[?][?]
With 1/2 a cache and no log book, the CO gave us permission to replace the cache[:X] in the exact spot that IRAC had confirmed as GZ[^]
I'm sure pleased to have a smiley here after about 2 hours of searching!

TNLN. SL. TFTC Freddo

After searching and searching and couple paf. We res o rted to ringing Co. New cache in place as only found the lid of original cache. Love this series and this little town.

We came, we searched and searched and searched. Made many PAF's. I did pick up a handful of cache making bits & bobs and half the missing cache.
Cache replaced with permission of the CO.

TFTC Freddo

I needed a multi today and hadn't yet decided where to go to get one[?]
Then my phone pinged with new caches and there was an even harder decision to make: North, South, East or West[?]
Knowing that I also needed to find 8 geocaches today, because in almost 9 years of geocaching I have only found 2 geocaches on this date, I wanted somewhere that would be fun for the afternoon[^]
Eventually the choice was made to head North[^], away from the city and avoiding the hills and the sea for a change

Rex had a good run before we got to the 1st cache at 2.30pm ish and he had several more long runs before the day's end at about 11.40pm[|)][:X][|)]
I had 1 DNF but found the 8 caches that I needed, including the needed multi[^] and also 3 FTFs

Once I actually looked at where the 1st cache was, it felt like a blast from the past driving up to Stockport
After meeting up with a new geocacher, so I could help her learn a bit more about this game we love![^], Rex and I headed to Hamley Bridge to cache[^]
Thanks to a DNF on a Freddo Used 2B, we were still in Hamley when another cache was published in Stockport later in the day
Back to Stockport and then off to Neales Flat for the last 2 FTFs[^] and then cache our way home
We had rain, we had drizzle, we had mild wind and we had a great day out

DNF! Rain, rain go away I want to find this cache today
Despite a PAF to the CO[:X] after about 30mins of searching, which included lying down on wet concrete, wet sleepers and having rain fall onto me the whole time, I then spent another 20mins searching with the hand held sun and still could not find this cache
Being wet and cold did not make it fun so I gave up Hopefully another day!

TFTC Freddo

Nice little walk in the afternoon sun from part one to cache. Thanks.

A nice little walk to the final thanks for the cache

Beautiful day for a wander around town, and a bit of a climb to finish. Great fun. TFTC

It Used2B a church and there Used2B a railway line through the town. How things change. An enjoyable cache retrieval. TFTC

TFTC nice find quick drive by out and about with geo wife LynSteNet

TFTC
A quick multi which was solved & led us straight to the cache.
The log was signed & dated before being returned back to its hiding spot & earning us another smiley face on our map.

Owl decided that another Girls' Caching Day Out was in order, so collected SA Sewer Rats to continue their Saturday run north. The numbers for this cache were soon crunched, the friendly dog avoided... and then the fun began. An almost complete circuit of the town was made, trying to find a way to GZ, then the prior finder led Owl completely astray. Eventually the cache was located, but it was not a pretty look. It's still a find though!

I visited this series with Anymules, as part of a dangerous duo of a disaster of Waynes.
What a great series. We had no issues and found them all.
Loved Loved Loved the final cache!!! TFTC.

Great little challenge!

We were just about to give up. Decided to read the hint and then we put faces in odd places to get a smilie. Tftc.

Moving towards Balaklava but opted to stay overnight in Hamley Bridge.Dropped off the house then headed out to find a few nearby caches.

Straightforward multi and find.

TFTC Freddo

This place looks like renovation central .
Took a photo of the foundation stone before returning to our vehicle to work out GZ . A short drive had us at an interesting location .
TNLNSL.
Thanks Freddo the Non Believer.

Nomads travelling in their caravan around Australia. We have been on the road since July 2011 and discovered caching in August 2013. We travel with a bunch of travel bugs belonging to our sons and grand children. Where ever possible, we will maintain your cache as we travel. Today we arrived in Hamley Bridge.

Using geocaching as our tour guide, we set out to look for a few caches around town.

Nice old church just waiting for the end of renovation. Final coordinates worked out quickly. Used 2B a railway line AND Used 2B a road. Interesting lane. Thanks for bringing us here Freddo the Non Believer

Found with team prawnstars was a bit chilly today but found easily

Found with Minnes while ArwenBoo was snoring away. Logged as Team Prawnstars. TFTC

The usual Wednesday Wander for members of the Puzzled Puzzlers saw only myself and Mrs. S.A. Sewer Rat available for the day. Time to take the circuitous route between the main arterial roads cleaning out all those caches just a little off the beaten track. Of course we also needed to pick up a few that had popped up in the main towns since the last time we had been through.

I quickly had the numbers I needed. Even the math didn't prove to be too difficult - even for me. [B)] Finding the cache not so. Despite the clue it still took some time so feel out the hide.

**Thanks Freddo for this cache. **

Apologies for the late log, we visited this one when we visited a seat for Janet, using the same date, from memory this took a while to find but brought back memories from a previous work life, nice to clear another off the series
TFTC Freddo

A nice quick multi. TFTC

Found while out this way doing some cache maintenance.
Data gathered, co-ords calculated so off the GZ. Hint seemed to indicate any of four locations. After checking each one numerous times, cache was found right where hint indicated.
Thanks for the cache Freddo

The 3 of us had been to Broken Hill over the Easter Weekend. With only a few caches in town we had decided to head back to Adelaide on Easter Sunday to avoid any crazy Easter Monday traffic. We did all the caches in Broken Hill and found it a great place to visit, lots of history and the caches we did find were really good.
It seemed like a very long drive to Broken Hill on Good Friday we punctuated the drive with a few geocaches. We kept several on the other side of the highway for the drive home.
There were a kazillion dead roos by the side of the road, they are desperate for some rain and good. The stench of dead kangas was pretty pungent.
So the long drive commenced and interestingly it didn't seem so far on the way home and we were back home by 5pm.
After a bakery lunch in Burra we continued on to Hamley Bridge to collect the various caches here. This one naturally was on the list. Was a bit of a tip outside the church today hopefully they will turn the tip into something nice! Collected the info and then headed to GZ. Made a right meal of finding the cache, checked and checked, got the geohusband and hound up to check and then eventually found the cache in a spot I was sure I had checked 5 minutes earlier!
TFTC Freddo the Non Believer.

Data collection was straightforward and, with the coordinates calculated, we headed off to GZ. Our GPS was quite erratic at this location and that led to us having to search two locations that were consistent with the hint. After a short hunt the cache was located. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Freddo for this cache and for the series.

Been past here many a time on the way to stargazing up in the next town. I'd never ventured to the GZ area and certainly never poked around "up there". I'm glad they have fixed the level crossing by laying a new smooth road over it - do you remember the double dip [?] - first time I went over it I hit my head on the roof of the car and nearly knocked myself out. Perhaps the Hamley Bridge crossing explains a lot....

Clear skies from TeamAstro.

Created a culinary delight for the Rats and we ate a sumptuous meal... Oh OK OK so we had a homemade yum chicken something with pastry ..i can dream of what I used to do! After Mr Rat went home Mrs SASewerRats and I took a drive to check on a cache I had adopted and grab a multi that had turned up... After first turning down a wrong road we found WP1 was So easily ... Then we went back to WP1 get the right info.. GOOD GRIEF Night time not recommended for looking around here! Then off we go to the ORIGINAL road and then the fun began. Mrs Rat was in her moccasins and Il in uniform... Heads down and assume the GC 101 pose....
Finally found it where I should have started to begin with and duly signed. TYFTC SLTNLN

After a lovely dinner with Skuzzybear.
It was decided to go and do a check on a cache and find a multi.
Went to the wrong place first.
Saw the error of our ways and found where we were supposed to be.
Gathered the required numbers, did the equation.
Then took our time at GZ a few laughs.
Skuzzybear finally put her paws on the cache. log signed and replaced. Tftc

On the way up north the three of us stopped here to admire the Ex-church. A short time later a likely place for a cache hide was calculated. I found the cache in the first place I put my hand - don't you just love it when that happens?

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache Freddo.

A nice reno being done here.

TFTC

Found It!
Jesus has left the building. Maybe he went next door. Looks like he's left that building now to though. After looking at the correct church, we got some numbers that made sense and headed off to GZ. I looked in one end and gridge98 looked in the other end. He picked the right end...
TFTC

Another easy church micro, these are great multis that shine light on a bit of history, thanks to the hint for a quick hide.

An afternoon drive up to Clare today with laighside legends to attend an event at the local pub, along the way we sopped at a few traditionals that he was yet to find as well as some new ones no long out of publishing. Only 10 finds for me on the trip.

Thanks for the cache.

Another church that was.
A quick calc and find.
TNLNSL
Thanks

As a child, I occasionally attended this Church, and loved travelling close to GZ.
TFTC

Thomas Kelly was the Great Granfather of Nigel Kelly. ( TheKellyGang) and a Trowel was also presented to Thomas Kelly in recognition of laying the Foundation Stone of the Hamley Bridge Methodist Church. That year ??? so solved the Multi with out even leaving my lounge Chair but we still visited the Church on the day we found the cache and silver it was on the find TFTC

Yay. {FTF} @1400.

A nice reno taking place. Bless 'em.

Also closest possible cache of the day!

Nice hide in a great little town.

Tftc Freddo the cache prophet, godfather to the young cachers, son of the son of a non preacher man. :p


I believe i can find


(Oddly we came through here yesterday... We needed a sign from God then !!! )

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