Walnuts & Blackberries v2.0 Belair, South Australia, Australia
By The Cachehoppers on 10-Oct-19. Waypoint GC8EN6A

Coordinates were off slightly but hint was very useful. TFTC

Romantic place

It was at this point that I changed teams, peeling away from James0116 and doineedthis to join forces with SpiderMonkeysMum. As a parting gift, James0116 gave us a hint for this one as the coordinates are a bit out. As he pointed out, the published hint will get you there. I used to orienteer too.Blackberries have indeed taken hold in this park, but thankfully not in the vicinity of this cache. Thanks for this hide Cachehoppers.

Found with Otter61 with some guidance from James Gotta love a smiley face on the map. Thankyou for placing and maintaining it.

All good TNLNSL TFTC

TFTC. With Team Canyonero

#734 11:46AMCaching with James around Australia before we head back home to QueenslandThanks for placing this cache The Cachehoppers

I'll have another look next time

First cache!!

Thanks!

This Sunday, I and J plus the little one attended the Walkfest in Belair Nation Park. We found some caches while we were there.We found 3 caches and 4 Adventure Lab locations, but DNF 1 cache.This was the first cache we found there.It did not take long time to find the cache, after expanding the searching area.Once I found the cache, I realised what's the hint referred to.Signed the log, and placed the cache back. Covered it well.Thanks for the cache, The Cachehoppers.

After a number of days when we didn't cache, we decided to head into the nearby Belair National Park to survey the area and, if possible, look for some caches. Given comments in recent logs about having to widen the search area, we went back through previous logs and found some alternative coordinates. Thanks JJ52 for those coordinates as they took as straight to the location mentioned in the hint. We found the remains of the cache. We had sufficient with us to make a temporary cache, although everything had to be placed in a sealable plastic bag. The cache was then hidden at the location indicated by the hint. Thanks for the cache

Too many spots too many places. I don't think the main clue helped much, but it was certainly worth a go. This was my last cache of the day. Went caching with Doomflame. TFTC

A good find

TFTC. Beautiful walk up from the adventure playground. Beautiful weather with the 2 kiddos

Well hidden! But Beware of snakes & spiders

Fun find.need to stretch your search wider than GZ. THTC

Family afternoon walk. Kids had fun at the nearby playground.

Great HideThanks The Cachehoppers for the cacheJames0116Thursday,14 Sep 202312:37:31 pm ACST3768

TFTC

Found it

Well I didn't find any Walnuts or Blackberries this time, but found a cache. TFTC

Found it

After bush bashing to Hurtles 100 days of caching challenge, myself, OZGrumpy and Jolly0 walked through the park back to the cars.

After doing the frog walk, we came past this one, coords are off by about 20m, but luckily a hint was waving his arms at us.

The travel bugs as now travelling.

aka “the coloured mint tin by the sea people”

TFTC The Cachehoppers

After a delicious breakfast with a dancing banana and a few cachers it was off with doineedthis and OZGrumpy to find a few caches and a challenge or two before heading to the second event for the day.
We discovered a couple of TB’s in this hide and they joined the boys on their day’s adventures.

TFTC The Cachehoppers
Keep smiling

Tftc. Out with the littles and uncles.

TFTC!
Excellent location.

Walnut paddock is stunning this time of year, with the change in seasons and colour.

Found the cache 18m away from the posted co-ords, but with the hint, GZ was identified with confidence.

There were plenty of hides otherwise!

Dropped a TB and discovered another.

TFTC

Not sure of exact date of the find as this was a spot we visited while staying at the Belair Caravan Park quite some time ago.We like Walnuts and blackberries, but the thorns of a heap of these berry type bushes are a shocker. Name: blackberry, bramble, Rubus fruticosus aggregate (various species and hybrids).Height: thornless varieties generally 1.5-2m; wild blackberries form dense thickets several metres high.Spread: 2-4mPlant type: sprawling, semi-deciduous shrub.Climate: cold, cool temperate and arid.Soil: moist, well-drained soil enriched with compost.Position: full sun.Foliage: each leaf is composed of three or five oval-shaped leaflets with serrated margins.Flowering and fruiting: clusters of small white or pink flowers appear in late spring, followed by small green berries that change to red then black as they ripen.Feeding: feed regularly throughout the growing season.Watering: water regularly.Appearance and characteristics of blackberriesBlackberries are sprawling, semi-deciduous shrubs with arching, prickly or thornless canes that produce delicious edible berries from late spring to early autumn. They can be highly invasive, growing into a dense thicket of canes with many suckers at the base of the plant. As such, many blackberry species have been classed as weeds in Australia. However, the varieties that are available to buy in nurseries are not considered a weed.Chester, Waldo, and Thornfree are a few popular thornless varieties. They are heavy croppers and need some support to keep them upright.Looks like the world needs to get on board those thornless types haha.Thanks Cachehoppers for the cache. TNLNSL

Vielen Dank für den Cache. Wir haben ihn schnell gefunden.
TB in - wir haben Peter in Australien abgelegt. Ihr findet er sicher viele Artgenossen und kann seine Reise in Australien fortsetzen.

Dropped partner off for 1/2 marathon or walk challenge... wonder how I can fill in time until pick up? tftc

What a fantastic day with Azzo! We found many caches and AL’s in Belair National Park. Mostly all found by Azzo. Thank you for the cache.

Quick find here

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Today me, my dad, AussieSPARKIE went caching in Belair National Park.

Thank you for maintaining and placing this cache! We really appreciate your effort! 

TFTC The Cachehoppers

Thanks for this Traditional Cache and for letting me have the opportunity to find Walnuts & Blackberries v2.0

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Found on January 2, 2023 at 9:28 AM
Find 3503 

Beautiful walk today. TFTC!

Finally found this one
As per the log of a previous finder, I widened my search are by approx 12m then bingo
TFTC

I sent the afternoon in and around Belair National Park, enjoying the sunshine and finding geocaches.
Warm weather so the sunscreen was on nice and thick. This was my first time geocaching inside Belair National Park so there were plenty of caches within walking distance to keep me busy.
I parked outside and took off on foot. Lots of good quality caches found. A couple required an extended search but the vast majority weee found without problems.
As previously reported, about 12m off. The hint helped.

Thanks for the cache The Cachehoppers.
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Another big geocaching trip to Australia with woolwood9.
Our main focus was the "On Your Bike" Wherigo series but of course we couldn't resist many stops on the way plus other good trails! ????
SL tm/ww NZ
Really appreciate the effort put into this cache. ????
Thank you for adding to our enjoyment!

Another geocaching trip to Australia with tmann421.
This time to SA and surrounding areas.
Enjoyed the caches and the sites
Signed logs tm/ww NZ
Thanks to all the cache owners for their efforts in placing the hides.

Coordinates off by about 12m. I 'log'ged this one myself TFTC

I was in the park for a nice walk in the weekend. Luckily there were hardly any mugglea around and so I could go and look for the cache. While I did walk past it at first, I find it after a short while. Thank you for a nice cache.

Another quick find while wandering the park
Cheers

Another Tuesday treking adventure with Mattycat, today saw us around Belair NP for most of the day before picking up a couple south of the city on our way home, feels like we have done one here before and once home checked our records and indeed we had but this a newer hide, quick find today
TFTC The Cachehoppers

Found using coordinates in log lower down. TFTC and the helpful coords

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Beautiful walk through Belair Park. TFTC

Found by Olga at 2:19 pm about 10m from where the GPS thought it was

Isla found

Nice find

MC OED

Found

Found in between a play in in the playground and a mushroom hunting walk!

Found in between a play in in the playground and a mushroom hunting walk!

Find 12 of 13 from two 9km walks, first around the NE of Adelaide with a target of cleaning up all the Ad Lab locations we had missed, then in the afternoon on a lovely hike at Bel Air.

From the trail, we were allowed safe passage by one of the biggest roos we've ever seen, nonchalantly sprawled out looking over their domain. A quick find with the more accurate co-ords.

TFTC The Cachehoppers!

Located cache at the co-ords left by another.

Easy find, in fact partner saw the cache on the way to GZ and said that looked out of place. Was in fact the cache, once the new Co-ords loaded.

TFTC SL

Owl was getting the Owlmobile seen to (again), which was the perfect excuse to team up with JJ52 and find some caches. An excellent time was had in Belair National Park, with perfect weather for a leisurely drive, This one took a bit of guesswork, as the coordinates are out but JJ eventually made the find at S 35° 00.722 E 138° 38.848.

I had picked up Doctor Owl while her car was being attended to and we made a plan to grab a few new caches around the area with the aim of collecting a few in Belair National Park as it was a beautiful day to be out in nature. [^]

Spent quite a bit of time looking before reading logs and realising the coords were out. Once we widened the search I spotted the hide then looking from the right direction saw what the hint referred to.

Thanks for the cache The Cachehoppers.

Sunday walk in Belair with the geo-pup.

Found with the help of Orienteering SA (about 12m from coords for us).

TFTC

Noice

TFTC

Quick find. Nice day for a walk to GZ.
TFTC.

Fun find! We put in a lion ooshie

I was at Belair to start the new Lab cache.

This cache was on the way to one of the Lab caches.

A quick find and sign.

Tftc

Easy find with the hint. TFTC

Quite tricky, but we found it eventually. Hint was very helpful once we caught a glance of it! No pencil so not written inside.

TFTC!

This morning I headed up to Belair National Park to find a few caches with FeatherWaite. The aim was to start early, then head home again as the day got warmer.

This was a quick find.

Thanks The Cachehoppers for the cache.

Spent a coolish windy morning hiking around Belair National Park with e.gregory1 finding caches along the way. Thanks for the cache The Cachehoppers!

Travelled through the city dodging potential hot spots as we went... can't afford time off right now lol. With Jack and Sebastbat.
Came for a bit of peace and tranquility in the Belair park... and it was full of picnickers, hikers, all sorts of random bods Luckily the caches we sought were mostly away from the crowds

Took a couple of minutes to find it and the hint we spotted after then cache lol.

Much thanks to The Cachehoppers for placing this cache on the SA map



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Out every day locating and logging using some or all of the resources of GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife), Whereyougo, Garmin Montana 750i, Montana 680t, Etrex 35, Samsung S20+, Samsung S9, with Geocaching App, c:Geo, or Geooh Go, and Android Auto and other maps... or often with just plain old dumb luck Quite a bit of that!!!
*Logs are composed and published using GSAK of course.*


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Please do stay safe when caching.
Keep a lookout for bogs, 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...
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Ensure that Travel Bugs are the only bugs you share and pass on
Now our borders are open - even more important to sanitise and safely distance!!!


We do really appreciate all those placing quality caches out and about around the countryside,
it keeps our game safe, fun, and interesting

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Easy one after trying to fimd nano by bridge at entrance of park

A nice part of day in the Belair Park. Did lots of walking for the 4 caches I found. Thanks The Cachehoppers,

It took me a few minutes to find it.

Thanks for the lovely walk.

Thanks The Cachehoppers for the cache

Found 1/10/21

Out with muggle husband & muggle friend who was showing us his favourite walking trails after having coffee at the Sheoak Cafe. As much as I really wanted to find more I restrained myself and happy with two. Was beautiful morning. TFTC

Easy find tftc

Found it on a beautiful spring day. Forgot a pencil and there was none in the cache. TFTC

While housesitting in the area we found ourselves with a couple of hours to spare and a pooch itching for a walk.

We wandered into the National Park and grabbed any caches we passed by.
This one took us a couple of minutes but Geohubby found it

Many thanks for the hide The Cachehoppers

Found whilst enjoying a Fathers Day stroll
Great spot
TFTC

After spending over an hour in Belair looking for our first cache, we finally did it!!

Tftc

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Coords were a bit off but found a suggestion for other coordinators which then lead me to the cache
The hint then made sense

This one was fun to find. We looked for about 10 minutes before finding. Thanks for the fun.

Found on escapegoat kids geocache day!

Found it.

I found the coordinates were a bit off for me, but after expanding the search, and trying not to be deterred by the constant stream of muggles, the cache was in hand. TFTC The Cachehoppers!

Really good geochace. I loved the hiding spot

Today was another day that I was wanting a few finds for the day and seeing as it was a nice, sunny, day, I decided to head into Belair National Park in search of a few finds. Parking as close to gz as I possible could, I began my search in some of the obvious spots, however, I came up with nothing. I then began to widen my search and after a while I spotted the cache sitting in its hiding spot, but completely uncovered; along with this I also saw the reason behind the hint. I grabbed the cache and signed the log before returning it to its spot and covering it a little better. Once the cache was returned, I was approached by a park ranger who was inquiring as to what I was doing. After a brief explanation, they were happy with what I was doing and let me go on my way.

TFTC

Logbook replaced.
Cleaned and resealed container.

Found!

Orienteering SA helped

Found the cache almost completely out in the open, must have been muggled! The log book was missing so we were unable to write our names in it, and we didn't have anything we could replace it with unfortunately. The cache was also a little wet inside. Nonetheless was a quick and fun find during a picnic with friends playing capture the flag and cricket. TFTC! Sabo + JJ

Found the clue, found the cache, good times, cheers cobber.

Showing a friend geocaching and this was the first where she wasn't worried about snakes! Found it.

Mr Tardis was in the area this afternoon for a family and friends gathering. Knowing there were a couple of caches nearby, now could I not take a group of young kids on a treasure hunt?

Found after a search in lots of likely places.

Thanks for the cache The Cachehoppers.

Not found in the first place we looked but with plenty of pairs of eyes looking we soon made the find. Thanks Cachehoppers!

Lovely cache. Found in our walk through the park

Just found it. About 6-7m from where the app said. Cheers.

Very nice up in the NP today. TFTC!

Found it! Good one!

Cool spot! I literally said “that’d be a cool spot for a geocache” and here it was haaha

Good spot on a beautiful morning bike riding with the kids. TFTC

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