house mouse Port Willunga, South Australia, Australia
By
gabjess on 16-Jun-19. Waypoint GC89JC4
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I cannot see any information that indicates the CO has taken steps to resolve the issue/s associated with this placement. Therefore the cache is being Archived to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.**Caches that have been archived for lack of maintenance will not be unarchived.** This is explained in the Help Center article [here](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=56).Tchingal
26.4.2023 first noted in a online log that there is only logsheet and no cache container12.11.2023 Owner attention requestedover 9 months with out cache container, only a logsheetover 2 months with no maintenance after Owner attention requested logJoined 25.4.2019Last Visited 15.7.2019co isn't active any more and hasn't been for years so mintenance isnt going to get done, so it's time for this listing to go
found with mogni. Or more to the point found a log sheet with out a container. Quick find.
Needs attention indeed, just a piece of log book remaining, beautiful cottage though, worth keeping the the cache there! Tftc!
Log found but no container. It's not going to last long without some maintenance. Owner messaged.
This cache needs attention. No container found ... just a log sheet, tucked into the wall at head height in the doorway.
Oh dear! Found the log on way out the gate. Have tucked into a hole in the wall around head height.
CO needs to replace the cache.
CO needs to replace the cache.
I headed out for a walk today and as my route took me past this cache, I stopped for a look. I had a bit of a wander around the ruins before looking for this cache. Straightforward enough to find but wow those ants cluster quickly! TFTC gabjess
Searched in all the obvious places, but could not find it, too many ants to search down low
Looked everywhere, was 70% found the spot but with no container. Was absolutely designated by ants. Got bitten about 15 times, not fun. DNF
Luca's dork expedition was a success. First time with some family friends, good find. TFTC
Three befuddled geo animals, went on a Wednesday wander.
The Rat and the Adder met the Starfish in Aldinga.
Our plan was to gather as many caches as we could.
Hmm it was time for the Rat to visit her smaller cousins.
We searched here and there.
The Adder widened the search and located the cache. TFTC
The Rat and the Adder met the Starfish in Aldinga.
Our plan was to gather as many caches as we could.
Hmm it was time for the Rat to visit her smaller cousins.
We searched here and there.
The Adder widened the search and located the cache. TFTC
The usual Wednesday Wander for members of Befuddled Puzzle Solving Group had us heading back South to Aldinga Beach search of solved puzzles and anything else we came across. 
Today it was myself, Blackadders and S.A. Sewer Rats. [^] By the end of the day we had scratched the surface and will have to return again soon. I also added to my ever expanding DNF list - Doh 
Still found quite a few and had a few laughs. 
I enjoyed the old ruins nand the snake soon found the cache.
Unfortunately for me SAND is a four letter word!
***Thanks gabjess for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.
Today it was myself, Blackadders and S.A. Sewer Rats. [^] By the end of the day we had scratched the surface and will have to return again soon. I also added to my ever expanding DNF list - Doh Still found quite a few and had a few laughs. I enjoyed the old ruins nand the snake soon found the cache.
Unfortunately for me SAND is a four letter word! ***Thanks gabjess for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.
Another of the weekly Wednesday wander with the befuddled animals. The Rad and the Adder met the starfish at Aldinga which was the target area in the hope of finding all that the town had to offer. Many were quite easily found but others took much more time which resulted in our plan falling down. With so many in Aldinga we failed to clear them all and will need to return.
All caches were in good condition unless noted otherwise.
And as always, each member visited and individually stamped each of the log books.
This one had us searching in numerous possible locaions where the given GZ had us standing. In there or amongst those? Nothing. The Adder widened the search to find it at that old doorway.
Thank you for the cache gabjess Find Number 9825 on 6/07/2022
All caches were in good condition unless noted otherwise.
And as always, each member visited and individually stamped each of the log books.
This one had us searching in numerous possible locaions where the given GZ had us standing. In there or amongst those? Nothing. The Adder widened the search to find it at that old doorway.
Thank you for the cache gabjess Find Number 9825 on 6/07/2022
Easy find!
True to its name. Very much in a mouse’s house.
A little damp and not much room to log on it but otherwise thanks!
True to its name. Very much in a mouse’s house.
A little damp and not much room to log on it but otherwise thanks!
A nice walk out to this one today, cache easily found and is all good
Today we headed south to use our great state voucher in mclaren vale, so after decided to do a few caches.
Thanks for the cache
Today we headed south to use our great state voucher in mclaren vale, so after decided to do a few caches.
Thanks for the cache
Went in the house and found the mouse.
Thanks for the cache gabjess.
Found on 26/3/2022 at 15:12.
Find #15022.
Thanks for the cache gabjess.
Found on 26/3/2022 at 15:12.
Find #15022.
Took another trip south today, this time with Mr Froghoppin, for some Twosday caching fun.
We walked, we climbed, we calculated, we cached... many logs were logged and this is one!
A nice old house. Could do with a little reno rescue. And a mousetrap, or a cat!
Our appreciation to gabjess for placing and maintaining this cache on our southern geo game map
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Seeking each and every day finding and signing cache logs 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 actually!!!
*Logs are composed and published using GSAK of course.*
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Please do stay as safe as possible when caching.
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!!!
Heaps of appreciation 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
Thank you for reading all this addition to the log word count!
And Happy Twosday to all
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We walked, we climbed, we calculated, we cached... many logs were logged and this is one!
A nice old house. Could do with a little reno rescue. And a mousetrap, or a cat!
Our appreciation to gabjess for placing and maintaining this cache on our southern geo game map
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Seeking each and every day finding and signing cache logs 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 actually!!! *Logs are composed and published using GSAK of course.*
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Please do stay as safe as possible when caching.
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!!!
Heaps of appreciation 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
Thank you for reading all this addition to the log word count!
And Happy Twosday to all
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Headed down south with Mattycat for some twosday adventures, our main destination for the day was the Aldinga area, have seen this site from the carpark on the otherside before, first time visiting whats left, lots of ants at GZ and a cache in great condition
TFTC gabjess
TFTC gabjess
Nice hiding spot. Found with the crew. Perfect day for GeoCaching!
TFTC gabjess
-TriCache
TFTC gabjess
-TriCache
A REALLY REALLY fun find by the best geocachers in the world the BARLIE CHAIRS the hardest one we have ever done.
After a lovely lunch at the SOG nearby, Team Tiddlypop needs to walk off their food! Never knew this was here. TFTC.
Bit of a tricky one this.
You have to think like a mouse and keep looking.
Remember mice are not very tall.
You have to think like a mouse and keep looking.
Remember mice are not very tall.
We didnt see any house mice and we also almost didnt see any caches here. Well concealed cache had us widening our search before we notices something and bingo we had the cache. Great views and a nice stroll. Here are some house moose facts ......
Feeding
House mice usually run, walk, or stand on all fours, but when eating, fighting, or orienting themselves, they rear up on their hind legs with additional support from the tail – a behavior known as "tripoding". Mice are good jumpers, climbers, and swimmers, and are generally considered to be thigmotactic, i.e. usually attempt to maintain contact with vertical surfaces.[citation needed]
Mice are mostly crepuscular or nocturnal; they are averse to bright lights. The average sleep time of a captive house mouse is reported to be 12.5 hours per day.[citation needed] They live in a wide variety of hidden places near food sources, and construct nests from various soft materials. Mice are territorial, and one dominant male usually lives together with several females and young. Dominant males respect each other's territories and normally enter another's territory only if it is vacant. If two or more males are housed together in a cage, they often become aggressive unless they have been raised together from birth.[citation needed]
House mice primarily feed on plant matter, but are omnivorous.[citation needed] They eat their own faeces to acquire nutrients produced by bacteria in their intestines.[ House mice, like most other rodents, do not vomit.
Mice are generally afraid of rats which often kill and eat them, a behavior known as muricide. Despite this, free-living populations of rats and mice do exist together in forest areas in New Zealand, North America, and elsewhere. House mice are generally poor competitors and in most areas cannot survive away from human settlements in areas where other small mammals, such as wood mice, are present. However, in some areas (such as Australia), mice are able to coexist with other small rodent species.
Social behavior
The social behavior of the house mouse is not rigidly fixed into species-specific patterns but is instead adaptable to the environmental conditions, such as the availability of food and space. This adaptability allows house mice to inhabit diverse areas ranging from sandy dunes to apartment buildings.
Commensal mice populations often have an excessive food source resulting in high population densities and small home ranges. This causes a switch from territorial behaviour to a hierarchy of individuals. When populations have an excess of food, there is less female-female aggression, which usually occurs to gain access to food or to prevent infanticide.
In open areas such as shrubs and fields, the house mouse population is known as noncommensal. These populations are often limited by water or food supply and have large territories. Female-female aggression in the noncommensal house mouse populations is much higher, reaching a level generally attributed to free-ranging species.
Senses and communication
Vision
The visual apparatus of mice is basically similar to that of humans but differs in that they are dichromats and have only two types of cone cells whereas humans are trichromats and have three. This means that mice do not perceive some of the colors in the human visual spectrum. However, the ventral area of the mouse retina has a much greater density of ultraviolet-sensitive cones than other areas of the retina, although the biological significance of this structure is unknown. In 2007, mice genetically engineered to produce the third type of cone were shown to be able to distinguish a range of colors similar to that perceived by tetrachromats.
Thanks gabjess for placing and maintaining this cache. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.
Feeding
House mice usually run, walk, or stand on all fours, but when eating, fighting, or orienting themselves, they rear up on their hind legs with additional support from the tail – a behavior known as "tripoding". Mice are good jumpers, climbers, and swimmers, and are generally considered to be thigmotactic, i.e. usually attempt to maintain contact with vertical surfaces.[citation needed]
Mice are mostly crepuscular or nocturnal; they are averse to bright lights. The average sleep time of a captive house mouse is reported to be 12.5 hours per day.[citation needed] They live in a wide variety of hidden places near food sources, and construct nests from various soft materials. Mice are territorial, and one dominant male usually lives together with several females and young. Dominant males respect each other's territories and normally enter another's territory only if it is vacant. If two or more males are housed together in a cage, they often become aggressive unless they have been raised together from birth.[citation needed]
House mice primarily feed on plant matter, but are omnivorous.[citation needed] They eat their own faeces to acquire nutrients produced by bacteria in their intestines.[ House mice, like most other rodents, do not vomit.
Mice are generally afraid of rats which often kill and eat them, a behavior known as muricide. Despite this, free-living populations of rats and mice do exist together in forest areas in New Zealand, North America, and elsewhere. House mice are generally poor competitors and in most areas cannot survive away from human settlements in areas where other small mammals, such as wood mice, are present. However, in some areas (such as Australia), mice are able to coexist with other small rodent species.
Social behavior
The social behavior of the house mouse is not rigidly fixed into species-specific patterns but is instead adaptable to the environmental conditions, such as the availability of food and space. This adaptability allows house mice to inhabit diverse areas ranging from sandy dunes to apartment buildings.
Commensal mice populations often have an excessive food source resulting in high population densities and small home ranges. This causes a switch from territorial behaviour to a hierarchy of individuals. When populations have an excess of food, there is less female-female aggression, which usually occurs to gain access to food or to prevent infanticide.
In open areas such as shrubs and fields, the house mouse population is known as noncommensal. These populations are often limited by water or food supply and have large territories. Female-female aggression in the noncommensal house mouse populations is much higher, reaching a level generally attributed to free-ranging species.
Senses and communication
Vision
The visual apparatus of mice is basically similar to that of humans but differs in that they are dichromats and have only two types of cone cells whereas humans are trichromats and have three. This means that mice do not perceive some of the colors in the human visual spectrum. However, the ventral area of the mouse retina has a much greater density of ultraviolet-sensitive cones than other areas of the retina, although the biological significance of this structure is unknown. In 2007, mice genetically engineered to produce the third type of cone were shown to be able to distinguish a range of colors similar to that perceived by tetrachromats.
Thanks gabjess for placing and maintaining this cache. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.
Traveled down to the southern beaches for the afternoon with the main aim to find caches from Moana to Aldinga. The quest was successful, with a large blank area of that particular area now on my geocaching map. I enjoyed some nice beach walks, tracking along the clifftops and meandering through the scrub, with some nice easy finds, and some clever and challenging hides. Thanks for the cache gabjess!
Found it 2:26pm 23/12/2020.
Container is much smaller than the description but the hint is spot on.
Container is much smaller than the description but the hint is spot on.
#273 Nice walk with Yabby, such a nice place, needs just a bit of TLC 
Yabby found it with the help of our dog... TFTC!
It does need a new logbook though...
Yabby found it with the help of our dog... TFTC!It does need a new logbook though...
Finding it hard to believe this cache was still there as I looked in every crevice, and one that looked perfect but was empty
Bought daughter this way for a learners drive. She went of to do stair fitness training so I came this way and found this. Lovely spot. Haven't seen this part of the area before. TFTC.
Nice walk along to Gull Cliff and then back for the kids to find this one. General area was easy to find and the cache took a few minutes. Perfect little mouse house!!
