Australian Church Micro #0002 Salem Baptist Church Gumeracha, South Australia, Australia
By earthlight on 06-Sep-19. Waypoint GC8D7QM

Submitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

TFTC

Worked out and found by The Boofs while out on a drive TFTC . Finally found this one. Usually there's about 15cm of leaf litter on the ground when I'm here!!

Im not sure how to voice my concern (which isnt an alarm), but I would be a bit worried about a cemetery right next to a church. Ive seen it plenty of times and in ye olde days it must have been common place to prey and be buried on the same patch of ground.These days if Im off to church for a free glass of wine at communion I dont want to think about being buried next door. Im also not religious so I dont know what communion is other than its sounds like communism. I just like the sound of free wine and a party.Somewhere on a wine tour in the Clare Valley we saw the vineyard where they grow the grapes for all communion wine in Australia. I thought they just offered cleanskin rubbish in church but it is almost worth going just to see if they are good grapes (assuming there is no cemetery next door). tftc

TFTC. No witch trials here but found the cache at GZ after doing the math Log signed

Found it! Nice multi at a peaceful location. Gathered the info with a couple of cows watching on before heading to GZ and making a quick find once I used the hint! TFTC

Great Hide

Thanks earthlight for the cache

James0116
Saturday,2 Sep 2023
3:58:42 pm ACST
3763

Alot of sad moments in the history of this state as a colony. Managed to sort the numbers and after a bit of a wander, found the tricky cache as per the hint. TFTC earthlight.

Naughtybunny and I enjoyed exploring Lobethal and Gumeracha finding some amazing caches around the area and this one didn't disappoint! A great little church and graveyard, which we spent quite a bit of time reading the headstones. We found the one we needed quickly and gathered the numbers needed for the final. A short walk and we were both looking around. Gee where is it? After quite some time, we finally had it in our hands. TNLN. Cheers.

This took us ages, the heavy layer of Autumn leaves probably helped with concealment! We finally spotted it, stamped and returned it, and I added a little natural camo. Wouldn't want it to be too easy for the next finders, after all!
TFTC earthlight. Interesting old cemetery, I enjoyed wandering around.

Saturday caching day today, despite the weather with the odd shower or two to avoid also kept the muggles at bay making for a easier search at several locations throughout the day, enjoying some country back roads one of the pleasures of caching, this was tool a little longer with a thick layer of autumn leaves adding to the challenge but soon found after a methodical search
TFTC earthlight

An interesting spot. Found with vj187. TFTC

Found with 2011*turtle. TFTC

Numbers gathered and then a quick find.

TFTC

Another drizzly day in the hills, perfect for keeping the muggles away [^]
Cheers and TFTC earthlight

Out in the hills this morning trying to claim a couple of previous DNF’s and some other caches along the way
This proved to be a rocky find, looked all over the place, made more difficult by the layers of soggy leaves everywhere.
I didn’t want a DNF here, so persisted, and eventually rewarded with the find
TFTC

Interesting info here, and a lively location. Fav point for this cache

Tftc

Passing by on the way to the river with SupaOrange and SupaTurtle. Thanks

Found while in the area. Tra La Laaa

Found with Poppadon.tftc

Found at 12:10 PM with Rostann. All good. TFTC

Driving by so put a new log in cache

This was the second of three multi caches for us today.
Care was taken while out the back gathering numbers.
Again, a quick find by Z.
TFTC earthlight.

Quick find with Beary Organised on way to Barossa. TFTC TNLNSL

Found this with CherryRose on our way to Nuriootpa to visit the caching shop for a couple of Christmas presents. TFTC TNLNSL

Tftc!

TFTC. So much fun. Loved the search and the find

Passing on through today finally have a chance to stop at this one as I have been watching it for awhile, such a lovely area I would have liked to stay longer but rain got in the way, very nice hide. in a very different setting, the history is fascinating TYFTC

All was quiet when we arrived at this location. The required information was located quite quickly and from there it was a short walk to GZ. It took a minute or two of hunting before this cache was located. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks earthlight for the cache.

Mr Tardis was out grabbing a few caches in the hills. I stopped here and after some calculations I walked over to GZ and started searching. It was very quiet around GZ, being a Monday and a cold winter's day. It took me a fair while to finally locate the well disguised cache in a place that I had searched earlier but missed it on the first pass.

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache earthlight.

It was time to be on the road again with ilook4geo, so we only put a couple of nice little multi caches on the program. The new co-ords for this one were easily worked out and the cache itself was not too hard to find, but we had to outwait the muggles who were coming in and out of the church and loading up their vehicles. They seemed to take an awfully long time. After they had gone the log soon had two more names noted on it to mark our visit. Then everything was replaced as found to await the next cacher. Thanks for placing this cache go to earthlight.

While travelling around South Australia with goingplaces2 it is fun to go on the hunt for multi caches. This cache was nice and easy, both to solve and to find. All is good with the log and the container. TFTC.

We’re staying at Randells Mill nearby so it was nice to stop by this grave. We also saw two kangaroos in the cemetery! TFTC

Found it

TFTC earthlight

It was pleasant taking a short stroll through the cemetery. Gravestone located and coordinates calculated without problems.

At GZ the car park was pretty full but I managed to engage stealth mode and made a quick find.

Thanks for the cache earthlight .
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Another little gem of a place we would never have visited and a fav for the obvious yet clever hide. Thank you for the placement of this cache earthlight find number 7401 at 24 February 2021 2:07 pm

We came to this gem of a place.
Gathered our info.
Found the cache in an obvious spot.
A fav point. Tftc

Found while travelling through some great country
TFTC

Find 3187

Today I was navigating for e.gregory1 for a day of caching in the hills taking the alternative route to the Community Celebration Event at Sandy Creek. [Sandy Creek Sandybration](https://coord.info/GC8HJC4)

The required information was collected, the coordinates for GZ calculated and the cache was found in good order.

By age I have qualified to use a green dinosaur stamp for my logbook entries.

Thanks to earthlight for the multi cache.

It's Fine Elsewhere

Today Bob From Elsewhere and I headed out for a day of caching in the hills before ending up at the Community Celebration Event at Sandy Creek. We mostly focussed on the more simple and straightforward multicaches, but also found a Wherigo and a few pre-solved Unknown caches that were close by on our route.

This was a nice quick multi and an easy find.

Bob added a green dinosaur stamp to most of his log entries. I’m not sure if there was any intended symbolism there.

Thanks earthlight for the cache.

An early start today setting my alarms for ridiculous time so I could attend the breakfast event and arrived after gridge but before anyone else, so that was a good start to the day. [^]
I had a big day planned with this event followed by the CITO then caching with locus cache and earthlight.
After a nice strong coffee I was awake and ready for the day which didn't look too good weatherwise, but the rain stopped long enough for us to collect a few bags of rubbish at the CITO. It was very cold and windy but the rain held off for most of the day and we had a fun day caching our way to the hills after picking eathlight up. We managed to get quite a few multis, a couple of puzzles and various trads that we happened to be driving past that one or other of us hadn't found.
After picking earthlight up we found a few caches close by before deciding that we would head towards Houghton. [^]

Had the CO with us which helped with the find.

Thanks for the cache earthlight.

Cache all ok

Thanks for the cache earthlight. Nice little multi. Added new bag

Found during a caching circuit around the hills to clear up the local area. Great cemetery to wander around, did the calculations and found the cache. Thanks for the cache earthlight!

Super day in and around Forreston, very productive day and a lovely lunch too.
Couldn’t resist this one on the way home. Not sure I will ever be up to date with all the Church multis!
Lovely church and interesting amalgamated cemetery.
found the cache at GZ once a persistent muggle left and I could commence the search.
TFTC Earthlight

Today, Rex and I drove to Springton to catch up with the lovely Chrisval7[:X] and Mrs Aussie M & M[:X]
We had a great time chatting and eating lovely homemade scones[:X][^]
Then Aussie M & M and I headed off for lunch at a bakery at Birdwood before we took our separate ways home and Rex and I made 4 cache finds for the day

Another Used 2B Australian CM off of the unfound list[^] and another cool old church enjoyed[^]
Rex had fun sniffing arund the cemetery[^]

TNLN. SL. TFTC earthlight

A visit this morning in better daylight and looking a bit further than I had tried last time and the cache was spotted one gap further along. Doh!

Thanks for the cache earthlight.
Find #11206.

Just one more MultiCache before calling it a day
Did the caculations at the very impressive headstone behind a nice looking church

Off to the final and the cache was found in the 2nd place i looked. A neat hide indeed [^]

SL at 12:38 on Monday 25 May 2020.

All is good and dry within the cache
TFTC earthlight

Welfare check by myself as a previous finder at request of the CO, who is presently interstate. Cache is in place and good to go.

Came to look for this one in the rain. Got the required info and went back to where I’d parked. I searched for the cache and searched some more. Still couldn’t find it so I did a PAF. He was very helpful and specific about what and where the cache should be. But it wasn’t. Perhaps this one needs a check up.

As Co of this cache am requesting all cachers take precautions and use hand sanitizer and gloves when locating caches due to the corona virus and it's related health issues. Please stay safe everyone

No church on saturdays and all the dead people are asleep. After having a look around the. Co ords were soon had and off to Gz I went, quick find here

This morning I needed to go up to gumeracha for a bike ride, so on my way there and back decided to stop for the odd cache here and there.

Thanks for the cache

I’ve managed to catch Leap Year fever, and having determined the coordinates from a visit yesterday, decided today was the day to do my first Multi.

I had the good fortune to run into the CO at an event this morning, and scored a bonus clue.

Thanks Earthlight/Elizabeth.

Heading home after a weekend in the Barossa...
The sun was still shining and a lovely evening for grabbing a couple of extra caches...
A nice quiet cemetery...
Looked at a few head stones as I passed by...
Found the required one and worked out coordinates to GZ...
Quickly located the cache...
Thanks earthlight for placing this cache for me to enjoy

Another visit to the area involved with the recent fires. Thanks earthlight.

All quiet here this morning for our walk around the cemetery - just the way we like it [8)].
Quite interesting looking around these places where the elevation varies .
TNLNSL.
Thanks Earthlight.

Found on an interesting day out with Dr Owl starting with a difficult and high terrain puzzle, passing through the area effected by the Cuddle Creek fire and ending with dinner with friends and a couple of multi caches.

A church micro with a difference and an easy find once the simple calcs were complete.

Thanks for the cache earthlight.

What a lovely church and little cemetery
Plenty of room to park in the shade on a very hot day
Fav.point
Tftc

Quick Check driving by. Cache ok

The gardener was not there today. Quick find. Right he was parked last time.

Easter 2020 sees South Australia hosting the next Easter big MEGA event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Check it out. We would love to see you there.

Quick find with clare007.
An interesting and historic churchyard cemetery.
Mrs Gizmo's stepdaughter attends church here and we all found a previous cache across the road.
A favourite from me for the historic location.
TFTC earthlight

A quick stop & find at the final waypoint with Gizmo's Gang.
Used to come here in my teenage years to do craft n chat with my Mum.
Thanks for the re-visit earthlight, a good day to complete this cache

A nice little multi easily solved and I got to wander around a graveyard that has some of the pioneers of families that are almost locals to us Forrestites.
The local minister was here today but he didn't even question why we were there considering the permission he gave for it to be placed. He appeared to be helping a parishioner with car problems.
TFTC earthlight.

Completed with AussieM&M and Bindi the geo pooch! Quickly sorted and found after a short search. What an interesting graveyard! Thanks Earthlight for the adventure!

Epic fail you pwned us n00bs... You are only as good as your next find. So on Friday there is a gardener. And he is gardening. And his van/trailed is parked 3m from the final location. And he wants to chat. And I give up.

A fine church and an even finer grand memorial. We noted that the acidity in the rain had weathered some of the sandstone headstones and the lead lettering had fallen out. The modern etched basalt is the way to go. if burning is not your style.

Thanks to earthlight and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

After a very nice lunch we enjoyed our walk around this site. A lot of history here. TFRC

Found It!
A nice little multi and a quick find here. Jesus was not seen.
TFTC

An impressive monument in size.
Some quick calcs and soon back at GZ, looking for the cache. Found and signed.
TNLNSL
Thanks

An interesting church and graveyard with much history.
Great place to visit early after a night shift!
A nice simple multi with no mint tins. Much appreciated
Bless you for caching, and tftc earthlight

Not Owl's finest hour. She was on a scenic drive through the Adelaide Hills with Ostrich and Galah, but they had to put up with the occasional stop for a cache. The previous one was a good opportunity to explain caching to Galah, who'd never heard of it before. At this cache Owl consistently misread one of the clues and could not make the checksum work. It was close, but not close enough to find the cache. A PaF got her vague instructions nowhere near where she'd been looking, but when she turned around Galah was waving the cache at her from the first location she'd been searching. Very annoying!

I set myself two caching goals at the start of this year.
1) Reduce the number of days in my calendar that I hadn't found a mystery cache. This was in preparation for a challenge cache that is apparently in the pipeline.
2) Complete my calendar so that I had a minimum of 5 cache finds per day.

Then half way through the year I heard a whisper about another challenge cache in the pipeline that required a Multi cache on every calendar day. At that time still needed 129 days so 3) reduce those days became yet another goal.
I managed to complete goal #2 yesterday. But today I needed a multicache

I don't have any left close to home and so I was please to see this one published earlier in the month. [^] I was shocked when I saw that nobody other than the FTF had been to get it since. So into the graveyard i went and managed to find the way through the wildflowers covered in bees without getting stung. I found the most impressive headstone easily and just had to find the correct side to get the information. That done it was math time. Hoot the checksum is right and so off to GZ I went. I spent a long time looking at the tree before reading the hint. So disregarding that I soon saw the cache.

hope there is more multi's in the pipeline or I will be driving and walking long distances VERY, VERY soon. [B)]

**Thanks earthlight for this cache. **

{FTF} at 1411 [^][^][^][^]
With this one still unlogged at the end of my workweek it was time to change that.
Went past home and up into the hills for the short drive to the Salem Baptist Church. Parked in the carpark and even before getting out had a feeling I knew which grave I needed to head to, and I was right. Collected some numbers, built some co-ords which the checksum liked and soon after was stamping a blank log.
No witches were sighted in the finding of this cache.
Thanks earthlight for this cache

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