The Meat Trail - 27 Mile Crossing Gawler Belt, South Australia, Australia
By
BritishMeat on 09-Jun-19. Waypoint GC898QN
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Logs
Continuing our journey east from WA and home to Vic. Had a great weekend at WAGB and now seeing the sights and ticking off LGA's.We have now collected our van and heading NE with 3 goals today, complete another 2 SA LGA's, reach 8000 finds and complete our D/T grid. This cache has us closer to our finds goal. Cache in good condition.TFTC TB's visited
Wasn't exactly sure what to look for, but rechecked coords and found it immediately. Seen this type several times before, good hide. TFTC.
The weather was okay for a bike ride so the plan was to drive to Gawler, collect a few caches on the way, then ride the Meat Trail and look for a few of the caches along there. Its a good thing I took my gravel bike because I underestimated the degree of ruts and sandy sections along the Meat Trail - and that only made the ride even more fun...at times collecting caches broke the flow and rhythm of the ride so I didn't stop to look for all caches. Great ride, although the plan to grab a bite to eat at the Wasleys Hotel didn't work out as they dont open the kitchen for lunch - but the person behind the bar was extremely friendly and a beer and pack of barbecue chips sufficed. By the end of the ride I had looked for 21 caches and found 20. Oddest location was pet cemetery. TFTC
Day 6 of the SA trip and after many great caches, bike rides and sights my car is turned for home.Some sad tales here at this lonely crossing.Easy find too.Cheers
Today out and about on 194 of 274 days to get my daily cacher Emerald Using my Garmin Etrex 22X and MacBook Air!Thanks for the cacheTFTC
A beautiful early morning walk along part of this trail grabbing any caches as we passed by.So much tragedy at this site Many thanks for the history. Many thanks for the hide BritishMeat
Tackling the Meat trail with Wayne APN this afternoon. Cache found and log signed.
Ive headed to SA to attend the Great Leap Forward mega in Adelaide. So far our journey has found us in Bendigo, St Arnaud, Halls Gap and Mount Gambier, Millicent and Victor Harbor and lots of places in between. Ive targeted some geo art on the way over including the GV2020 and crayfish series, wine glass and wine bottle and challenge series. We are targeting another geo art series today, signing as QANVT which represents Queensland and ACT northern territory, Victoria and Tasmania
A Quick find Signed today as part of team QANVT.,Who we are a party of today, (QLD, ACT, NT, VIC, TAS cachers)TFTC
Signed as part of QANVTAnd as myself tooIt was a big drive from Corryong, in the North East of Victoria.I collected a couple of geo caches along the way to fill in some new LGAs. I have collected the south Australia souviner plus the leap year souviner too YAY!! It has been a big few days enjoying Adelaide and the surrounding areas. .So glad to be here
Found with Jamesta18 today on Australia Day, what a better way than to spend today exploring our beautiful countryside Quick grab and sign on the way homeCool placement, I do like these type of caches TFTC
A nice concealment that was found quickly this afternoon.Thanks for the cache BritishMeat.
In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location. (HaHa). In your dreams, these cachers do. [:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort. 
Devilish 
Brilliant and Clever 
I like it 
Another one off the list 
TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - British Meat [^]
Devilish Brilliant and Clever I like it Another one off the list TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - British Meat [^]Something special or unusual goes here:Seen plenty of these before so made for a quick find. 
The Generic Bit:It has been a couple of months since I was in South Australia and available for a Tuesday trek with some others of our Puzzle Solving Group. [^] Today however was all about clearing some new caches that had popped up around the S.A. Sewer Rat's Nest whilst I was interstate. So I met her and Ttrogg at the Rat's nest and set of in search of some newer caches, to complete the nearby meat trail and anything else we were close too. **SAs Leap Year Event GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. - BOING*****Thanks BritishMeat for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. *** Logs prepared and published through GSAK.
The Generic Bit:It has been a couple of months since I was in South Australia and available for a Tuesday trek with some others of our Puzzle Solving Group. [^] Today however was all about clearing some new caches that had popped up around the S.A. Sewer Rat's Nest whilst I was interstate. So I met her and Ttrogg at the Rat's nest and set of in search of some newer caches, to complete the nearby meat trail and anything else we were close too. **SAs Leap Year Event GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. - BOING*****Thanks BritishMeat for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. *** Logs prepared and published through GSAK.BritishMeat and AussieGal88 have given the Meat trail a huge overhaul, including 27 MILE CROSSING. Everything is in working order.
A GeoDay out with the CO himself, Britishmeats! Two birds one stone, I find the cache and they do a maintenance check! Love these cache types! TFTC AussieGal88 South Australia is the place be for GCA1DNA - February 29th, 2024 in Adelaide! Let's show the rest of the Geocaching world what Australia is made of at The Great Leap Forward!
Like this type of cache, road a bit muddy and the doggo across the road, not happy with me. TFTC BritishMeat.
Having started the meat trail some time ago it was time to do a few more while in the area, managed another five of the trail today for dark clouds loomed on the horizon, quick find on this one today
TFTC BritishMeat
TFTC BritishMeat
TFTC
Another quick stop as we slowly make our way home.
Geo hubby Animal62 & I signed & dated the log before returning all back to where we found it.
Another quick stop as we slowly make our way home.
Geo hubby Animal62 & I signed & dated the log before returning all back to where we found it.
Up from Adelaide again, hoping to finish off the Anna Tommy series and pick up one or two other caches around the place too.
It’s going to be a bloody hot one so in for an early start to get in before the heat of the day hits.
A quick find, sign and return.
TFTC
It’s going to be a bloody hot one so in for an early start to get in before the heat of the day hits.
A quick find, sign and return.
TFTC
Love this one. So simple to find. Love the little history lesson too. As a Gawler local this was a piece of history I didn't know about.
Found it in no time franson69 was looking around everywhere l found it. Very good hide Britishmeat tftc found with franson69
Great hide. Easy find. Don't come from the wrong side through the grass! Lesson learnt! TFTC
I'm loving this series. Slowly finding them. Thanks British Meats for putting this series out.
Is that a first to find?? No just a new log book. A stop off after a day out geo gaching and after finding this one we are intrigued to do the others now. Tftc
NEW CACHE!! I know how much you guys LOVE Nano's 
But the Nano is now gone. New log book! Enjoy everyone
But the Nano is now gone. New log book! Enjoy everyone I hit the trail, but the log was totally full and disintegrating. I had to write my name over others. Thanks BritishMeat for the hide.
Yet another reason why I love geocaching, the stories, happy or like this one, so tragic, and history of places that you would just pass-by never knowing.
Out and about with my walking buddies on a nice autumn day, enjoying the sights, sounds and smells of the countryside while chasing a few caches. What can I say.... just living the dream
TFTC BritishMeat
Keep smiling
Out and about with my walking buddies on a nice autumn day, enjoying the sights, sounds and smells of the countryside while chasing a few caches. What can I say.... just living the dream
TFTC BritishMeat
Keep smiling
Found it but could not sign the log as all the paper is full so just logged it on the app
Came out today with Csaba! and SupaOrange. Hit the trail with bikes. Great series. Turtle Out
Hitting the trails with SupaTurtle and Csaba!. Great fun zooming up and down parts of the jumps. Great caching. Tra La Laaa
This was an enjoyable series and our main target for today. On Mt. Bikes we headed north collecting a fantastic range of caches. All hides were in great condition. Found with the Supa's. Thanks
Found during a caching foray around Gawler for the afternoon before attending the Sandy Creek Sandybration event. Thanks for the cache BritishMeat!
Today was Gawler Day. After doing all my chores I headed off to Gawler on the new road which makes the drive much shorter.
Had a long list of caches to tick off but a later than anticipated start coupled with some hideous hay fever meant I didn’t get as many finds as I’d hoped for. Just wasn’t having caching feels today.
I didn’t have any dnf though which was good and converted one prior frownie into a smile which was also good.
At the end of the day had some fab food at the very well patronized Geocaching day event. Not quite Seattle where I should have been today but still a fabulous event and was great to see so many fellow cachers. After tea found a final 3 caches with JJ52 and then took my pollen infested head home, still suffering the Wattle side effects the next day.
It was pouring with rain when I arrived here to start this walk so sat in the car for a bit before donning the raincoat and walking the entire trail and back. Enjoyed the walk out but then the hay fever took hold thought I was going to have to call it a day but struggled on with the thought of a nice dinner at the end of the day.
TFTC and the walk.
Had a long list of caches to tick off but a later than anticipated start coupled with some hideous hay fever meant I didn’t get as many finds as I’d hoped for. Just wasn’t having caching feels today.
I didn’t have any dnf though which was good and converted one prior frownie into a smile which was also good.
At the end of the day had some fab food at the very well patronized Geocaching day event. Not quite Seattle where I should have been today but still a fabulous event and was great to see so many fellow cachers. After tea found a final 3 caches with JJ52 and then took my pollen infested head home, still suffering the Wattle side effects the next day.
It was pouring with rain when I arrived here to start this walk so sat in the car for a bit before donning the raincoat and walking the entire trail and back. Enjoyed the walk out but then the hay fever took hold thought I was going to have to call it a day but struggled on with the thought of a nice dinner at the end of the day.
TFTC and the walk.
First find along the track tonight. Found with LíB . TFTC which was in good condition.
After attending the International Geocaching event, earthlight and I walked the line. Found this cache.
TFTC BritishMeat
TFTC BritishMeat
Out on a beautiful day to cache and try our hand at Magnet fishing! After a successful "fishing" expedition with the magnet at the Kapunda lake, Had a quick find here .TFTC
Some terrible history here, worthy of a cache, thanks for placing. Cache and log in great shape.
A poignant read for sure re: the accidents at 27 Mile crossing.
This crossing and line a kilometre north of it were the scene of many a trains seen from my uncle's property west of it on Krieg Rd. [The Nottles, relatives lived there in the 70's].
All ANR diesel locomotive freight trains with the odd Bluebird from Peterborough / Adelaide aswell were seen much to me and my brother's interest [^]
The cache was an immediate find and sign at 10:45 on Tue 26 May 2020.
TFTC BritishMeat
This crossing and line a kilometre north of it were the scene of many a trains seen from my uncle's property west of it on Krieg Rd. [The Nottles, relatives lived there in the 70's].
All ANR diesel locomotive freight trains with the odd Bluebird from Peterborough / Adelaide aswell were seen much to me and my brother's interest [^]
The cache was an immediate find and sign at 10:45 on Tue 26 May 2020.
TFTC BritishMeat
