Hole lot of fun series #1 Paruna, South Australia, Australia
By Scholz3290 on 01-Nov-19. Waypoint GC8FGP4

Found 12.9.24 Thanks

Find # 15804Been a while since I've been out solo for a long trip. But things change over time. And I'm living the past.So with some time off work, I've jumped the border wall to chase down some long trails in South Aussie... don't know how many I'll get. But I've got quite a few downloaded. I do have a short hit list ( of 2) caches to help with a challenge. All others are just for the Adventure and countryside views. Armed with all the necessary TOTT from tweezers and magnet grab to 6m ladder and 8m fishing pole. I believe I'm prepared for all that I'll come across. (Just had to leave the Kayak at home )Day 5. After a cold night at the Maggea Oval.. I was off on another days hunting.But decided to turn things around as I started in Loxton (after getting supplies) and tackle the trail backwards from original plan. TFTC Scholz3290

Motorhoming around in winter and finding a cache here and there. A cold wind blowing today. TFTC

Hole in one at hole lot of fun

Time for another Tuesday Trekking, for a trio of Confused Puzzlers.The trio consisted of SA Sewer Rats, ttrogg and Brisal5.Plan A, ttrogg to pick up the Rat from her nest, then head out to Brisal5's place.Change geomobiles, and to Loxton, to have lunch and cache.Change of plans, plan B.Head to Alawoona, for lunch and caches, maintenance.Hmm an other change of plans. Plan C.Let's start at Paruna, have lunch and start caching and maintenance.This was quickly located.Logbook stamped and replaced where it was found. Tftc

Today it was time for another Terrific Tuesday Mystery Trek. This time after picking up the Rat from her nest we headed for the Starfish's pool from where we set out for the day in the Starfish's vehicle. The main aim was some maintenance on the Wandering Heroes Trail around Alawoona but the plan was quite flexible, it's good to be flexible, and we headed straight for Paruna. Managed to clear the small settlement, had lunch at a suitable GZ, then started the much slower journey back to where we'd come from. A suitable number of caches were found and this was one that we all wanted.After wondering what to expect it was another quick find.Thanks to Scholz3290 for adding to the playing field with this cache.Cache #14969 for me.*This log composed and published using GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife).*

Something special or unusual goes here:Nice spot to visit and made a quick find on the cache. The Generic Bit:The usual trio of puzzle solvers were available for Tuesday Trekking today. Ttrogg and Mrs. S.A. Sewer Rats Starfishes pond today so we could set out eastwards to do some maintenance on the Wandering Heroes trail and of course collect a few caches on the way.. A lot of driving and quite a few caches visited and checked or maintained, yet we were still able to have a full day of laughs, adventures and a picnic lunch. ***Thanks Scholz3290 for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. *** Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Was so glad to find this one as a consolation prize for failing both town multis haha

Found it

Thanks for the cache, found on our way back to WA from the Canberra Mega

Day one of a Mega couple of weeks.The day has come for LB and I to go on yet another road trip. Look out Canberra, here we come After leaving Adelaide we headed out towards the Barossa Valley, stopped in a parking bay where we had lunch and then continued down the road until we got here. A quick find away from the random, very sad looking ute.TFTC Scholz3290Keep smiling

Cache and dash.Thanking you for the Traditional Cache that you placed Scholz3290

Found it

Team frik

Termites R us

A lil off the coords but found it anyway! Tftc

Found it

Awesome little town

Nice find not too close to the trough

We are enjoying a brief holiday in SA from Victoria after meeting up with caching friends. This was a nice spot to pull over for a stretch and sign a cache.Thank you for your cache.

Easy find on whilst having a stretch of the legs. On our way to waikerie.

Overnite stop at Paruna Caravan Park. Grabbed on a walk around town. Easily found and cache in good condition.

Scholz3290 TFTC

12565 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1315. Headed towards home and grabbing some roadside hides. SL Tnx Scholz3290

Tricky little hide. Glad to make the find, these are the types that I have a lot of difficulty with. Still need to return to Victoria for one i easily overlooked. TFTC SCholz3290.

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Lid is cracking on this one, needs to be replaced.
Thanks for this cache and the opportunity to break the long journey from Barmera to Melbourne with LaidlayM&M

I have been to this historical looking village before but today while passing by I decided to look for this cache. A quick find was made. Thank you for bringing me to this interesting area.

Found while apparently following icybeetas!

Located this cache quickly due to perfect co ords. An interesting little town with some history. Thanks Scholz3290.

Found it

If we'd been asked a few hours previously where Paruna was we wouldn't have known but after travelling all day and the caravan park sign looms up, it's the place we couldn't wait to pull in to to stay the night.
Found the cache in between showers. TFTC Scholz3290.

Tftf

Peaceful spot

Well there was an event I saw published in Bordertown hosted by Roaming Howie and since I was able to have 4 days off I decided to head over to attend the event and then to also do a few of the On Ya Bike series to finish off my D/T loop.
Throw a few oldies into the mix for my Ausmer grid and it was going to be a busy weekend with lots of Km’s.
After a good nights sleep and a walk around the park I made it to the event.
So after catching up with a couple of Vic’s and a couple of SA’s it was time to head North towards Loxton and to start chasing the caches that I’m after.
It is starting to warm up now and they did say it was going to reach 42 up around here.
A tad hot to be out caching but a find is a find and I think that the heat was getting to me as this one took longer than it should have.
If the trough had water in it I would have gone for a dip.

Big things are continuing to happen! Are you joining the fun again in 2023?
THE
RUTHERGLEN
EVENT 2022
6th / 10th April 2023 – GC9MH9M – Rutherglen – Victoria

Thanks Scholz3290 TFTC.

On our travels we stopped to grab this cache, a nice quick find at an interesting spot, thanks for placing this cache

There was no problem in locating this cache, log was signed and all was replaced as found. TFTC.

Quick find was made here. Good cache in good condition. TFTC.

Found this cache while out on a run with ilook4geo and Geologic2. The container was nicely secured and dry. All 3 names were added to the log before all was returned to its proper place. Thanks for placing this cache go to Scholz3290.

Love these hidden away little towns one would just whizz past if not for geocaching. Thanks

Another cache find on our 2022 South Australian Adventure. It is a wonderful day, just perfect for geocaching.

We are enjoying our time travelling SA. Fantastic towns, ruins, beaches, cliffs & wine. Thanks to all the COs for taking us on this geo-guided tour.

Another interesting stop on the way to Barmera from Border Town. Love these sirt of tributes to history. Tyftc

Another bit of beautiful history On our way to Berri in South Australia TFTC What a very nice piece of history out in the middle of nowhere thank you for bringing us here

Found it thanks

Had a friendly sleepy lizard standing guard. TFTC

Day four of our short South Australian trip with BettyBoo3747 and the geo-doggies.
Starting at Patchewollock, we cached the roads to Loxton.

We had a look at the pioneers plaque first, and then walked over to the trough.
Finally to GZ to make our mark.
Thanks, Robmc.

#18872. Day 4 of our Vic/SA trip with Robmc the geodogs and our bicycles. High cloud, cold winds and a day spent on the road gathering a few caches along the way to Loxton.

We parked near the memorial park to fallen soldiers and walked across the road to find the old troughs. Interesting display here. Wandered back to find the cache. Added our names and continued on our way.

Thanks Scholz3290

Hint not very helpful use the coordinates as they are more accurate. TFTC.

Overnighting in town in our caravan. Great little spot for $10/ night.
No events at the oval today so easily nabbed the cache. Interesting fungus growing nearby. TFTC

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Always good to get off the usual roads and try some others. A nice easy find at GZ.

Thanks for the cache Scholz3290.
Found on 13/5/2022 at 11:27.
Find #15212.

Travelling from Walpeup to Robertstown in South Australia, we stopped at Paruna as we had stayed here in the past, but could not quite remember where. The camping ground was easily located, as was the cache.

Found out caching with Beaker.
TFTC

Found with Kellmik during our Easter Riverland Rampage!
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Clogwogs 5-2-22

Out for a whole lot of fun caching around the back roads with Mattycat today, a quick find on this rather hot day
TFTC Scholz3290

Sir_spectre and I had a quick getaway to the Riverland. We were targetting the less found caches. We found an assortment of caches, and as regular for us manged to replace containers for several and put some fresh logbooks in others. It was a rather hot weather for a weekend of caching but the air conditioned car gave us some relief.
Thanks to Scholz3290 from mogni

quick find and the first of this series.
Out with the Mogni for a short trip out to the riverland, only 3 days. It was hot first 2 days where 40 degrees and the last day was 33 degrees. Since the rules just changed about covid 19 testing before and after entering vic to no testing, we changed our plans on the way up and decided to go via Murray Sunset National Park. The idea was to find as many caches as we could that haven't been found recently most hadn't been found in 3 months. On day 1 we replaced 10 out of the first 12 caches, all broken container and 1 log book replaced, and by the end of the day had a heaped medium bin liner bag full of broken containers, the hot mallee sun doesn't do the plastic containers any good. Day 2 saw us caching around Loch Luna and lake Bonney which is way easier driving around here in the dry then in the rain like my last visit here. Onlt 1/2 a medium bin liners back of replaced containers today, people must fix the closer to the highway caches more often. On day 3 it was back in to the mallee country and home via Pinnaroo. Getting those " out of the way caches ". Plenty of dirt roads where driven down and many, many back sandy tracks taken. It was good to explore all the country areas and stay off the highway.

Day 2 of our weekend away to explore the Murray Mallee region (keeping away from the Victorian border due to COVID-19 restrictions) [8].
Probably wouldn't have noticed this feature if there wasn't this cache nearby .
TNLNSL.
Thanks Scholz3290.

Nice rest spot
TFTC

as we have a look around the area this was one of the caches we found

A good day was had while grabbing these caches
Thanks Scholz3290 for placeing them

Mallee trip with the geo-pup. Day 7, Pinnaroo to Paruna.

Did a couple of laps before we spotted this one.

TFTC

We love learning about new places we visit TFTC

Easy drive by on the way back from another Riverland trip.
TFTC

My first cache of the day as I made my way up to Loxton to do some of the bike series with a group of cachers.
All good here and a quick find.
Cheers

Found with hevwalker on the start of our geo holiday weekend in Berri and Mildura. Thanks for the interesting info and cache. hevwalker is chasing her big milestone of 13000 and I only have 2 left til I hit my 3000, so exciting.

Heading to the Riverland & Mildura for the long weekend...
Paruna was the chosen meeting point to join with scramping...from here we cached our way to Berri for the night...
A quick find...
TFTC Scholz3290

Found

We found this cache today on our Loxton - Pinnaroo - Ouyen Caching Expedition. Looking forward to coming back to see the rest of the holes. Thanks from D, HA, H & A B-A.

Barking up the wrong tree. Lovely quiet road to cycle south. Crosswind but OK so far.

Well this was some fun. A neat horse trough that has seen better times. We did see some horses but not around here today.

Thanks to Scholz3290 and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^]

Out for a couple of days of caching with Astro to clear up Wandering Heroes and the Around the World in 81 Caches series.

We met up with EGregory1 and Featherwaite to do he Around the World series.

Cache was quickly spotted.

TFTC

No horses tied up at the trough today but I did manage to find the nearby cache. TFTC

Day 376 ( Tuesday 8th ) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Paruna today. A total of 1 for the day and 6652 the trip. A grand total of 16,620 caches. TFTC

Found It!
This one took me a little longer to find than it should've but after a couple laps of the tree I spotted it!
TFTC

Now in Loxton sitting tight to ride out Covid-19 today we headed out to get some exercise. Self Isolation was fine as we didnt see a soul all day!

TFTC

Heading back home to Queensland and we stopped to do this cache. Sure is quiet out here. Our thanks to Scholz3290 for placing this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

As I am getting older and running out of time, I have decided I will take off on my own to cache in different areas of our vast country as my NGW (Non Geocaching Wife) has no interest in caching.
I have been up to Loxton for five days of full on caching with suscoe, au.fait and Phetlern and still have so many caches to log.
Heading east of Loxton with the crew we found this guy. Ross tells me that we travelled at least 250 km today.
I am afraid that for the next few days my logs are going to be a lot of cutting and pasting but that does not take away the effort that the owners have put in to provide these caches for us to find so please accept my thanks. With close to 200 caches placed I know how much work is involved with not only placing them but the ongoing maintenance.

I called into this guy on the way to Loxton and again with the group today.

Thanks, Scholz3290 for placing this cache.

13:13
Another great day of caching, with Bushfire, au.fait & Suscoe, in the Riverland - between Loxton and that infamous border! The expanse of the farmland is amazing the ruins dotted along the roadsides adding interesting snap shots of local history.

Our thanks to 'Scholz3290' for placing this cache for our enjoyment.
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*This log composed and published using Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK).*

Suscoe headed out this morning in the terrific company of au.fait, Phetlern and Bushfire for a caching adventure to the east of Loxton.
It was a warm morning which turned into a farily hot afternoon.
We travelled around 250 kms and found a lovely range of caches in some interesting locations.
The roads were fairly quiet but we did pass quite a few shingle back lizards, who were making their way across the roads that we travelled along.

Thanks to Scholz3290 for this hide, good to find this one as well.

Last leg of my journey, Walpeup to Loxton where I will have a few days caching with some like minded friends. Of course I was collecting caches as I travelled and stopped here in Paruna. Ended to,expand my search here TFTC Scholz3290

Quick find while heading to Berri for the night TFTC

Cleaning the cache map, one day at a time...
Out and about with Sebastbat and Jack.
Always a fun day caching ! Quick find.

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Nearly gave up on hands and knees. But as I was crawling out wolah. TFTC

A quick find on our way to Loxton.TFTC

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A quick find, I didn't see the trough in the dark though...
That's this hole series of fun completed in reverse order.
Now back on the bitumen to head home...
TNLNSL
Thanks

*Found on the 3 Jan 2020 @ 7:53 am.*
*Cache find # 10545.*

Day 4 of my road trip with biggles1024 and today was time to head for home with only one task remaining for the return trip but also we were stopping at random caches along the way to break up the trip and to get different LGA’s along the way.
We stopped at this one and were soon signing the log book at GZ.
As there were only 3 in this area, we decided to find them all.

**Thanks to Scholz3290 for placing this cache.**

**03/01/2020 07:53:00
Traditional Find #2690**

The fourth day of our caching adventure to NW Victoria and South Australia. Today was forecast to be hotter than previous days, so we got off to an early start. A few caches were found on our way home.


**Thank-you to Scholz3290 for placing this geocache**

Another nice quick drive by on a rather hot day. Thanks for placing the cache.

1:36 pm #8912
Another quick driveby in the heat.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache, Scholz3290

Found with CPwanderer and clare007 while caching the backroads.
Good coords meant we quickly located a nicely decorated cache.

TFTC Scholz3290 Apologies for the late log.

Very quick find with clare007 and Gizmos Gang as we headed into the backblocks for a wander!!! We really enjoyed this series!!! Cute containers and good co ordinates!!!! Thanks Scholz3290 for the adventure!!

Out with CPwanderer & Gimzo's Gang caching the back roads while the sky was still overcast.
A nice quick find, like the pretty purple cache.
Thanks for the hide Scholz3290

A nice quick find TFTC

Trying to keep cool in the car we made a quick dash to GZ trying to avoid the 42° heat. Luckily it was an easy find before hopping back in the car to drive past the unusual water trough to read the plaque.
Thanks Scholz3290 for the placement here showing us this historic Paruna Bore.

A quick find and FTF on this windy afternoon after work. Always nice to come out to Paruna for a visit. I also checked out the nearby plaque. Cache #3117.

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