Soil Horizon Sequence Wrattonbully, South Australia, Australia
By GeoVenture2020 on 17-Jan-20. Waypoint GC8GZKV

Found by The Empire + HThe morning after the Warrnambool running festival, we set off on a longer journey, driving from Warrnambool to Murray Bridge. Our route takes us through the quiet, scenic roads of western Victoria, offering us a peaceful escape as we begin our journey. Next, the landscape shifts as we enter the renowned Coonawarra wine region. The neat rows of vineyards stretch out on either side of the road, their perfectly ordered lines a stark contrast to the wilder, open countryside we passed earlier. Known for its world-class red wines, especially Cabernet Sauvignon, the region feels alive with rich history and flavors. Although we don't have time to stop for a tasting, the sight of the vineyards and cellar doors along the way adds a touch of luxury to the drive. Answers sent, thanks for the earthcache fredd0.-MEarthcache #440

Travelling with iluvtrekking from our home state of WA. Enjoying the country roads caching. Gathered the information and it was sent to the CO. Thanks Fredd0

Travelling with richlink as part of our Caravan Geocaching Trip. It's moving day today, a big move... Narracoorte to Penola. Touring the area or using geocaching as our guide. The answers have been sent. Thanks for the cache Fredd0. LNCU.

Being in the Coonawarra gave me a chance to get down and dirty with what lues beneath our feet.The cross section here gives an appreciation of the tenuous and thin layer of soil that gives this wine growing area its reputation.Answers submitted and approved. Cheers.A favourite point

Thanks very interetsing

On our way into deepest darkest South Australia to help celebrate a birthday and catch up with long lost friends we came across this magnificent feature. As we travel around finding caches do we really think what is below the surface and how it became the way it is.
Thank you for helping us to look at our earth in a more in-depth way.
Our answers have been sent to the CO. Thank you for the earthcache.

Travelling the long way from work to meet up with the family for some camping adventures and stopped in here. So much wine!!!! Answers sent. Thanks for another great EC!

What an interesting spot. Not at all what I was expecting from the description! Thank you, fredd0; cache #4179.

I have been Geocaching for the last year as part of team Dromaniax. We have enjoyed the Geocaching caching around a lot of Victoria in that time. From our first trip up to the Murray River, the next trip to Lake Eildon and the area around Buxton, an epic trip to the Little Desert to attack the This is SA series, then a great trip with our father to the High Country in Victoria, a trip to the Mornington Peninsula and a trip to the Albury-Hume Reservoir area.

I finally decided to set up my own account and am claiming all the caches I have found as part of Dromaniax.

Thank you for this Earthcache GeoVenture2020

Been to the Naracoorte for the swap meet and now cruising the Coonawarra

Answers sent.

Sandyofthesea and I took off from Perth at the start of April to travel more of Australia using geocaching as a guide to see the sights. How good is this country!!

fredd0, I found Soil Horizon Sequence today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Morgo sent in the answers.

Good use of the quarry too

TFTC

Plans had been made for a weekend away to find the This is SA series of caches in Little Desert. We had planned that AusFox;, Sims_family and my muggle brother. Unfortunately for AusFox;, caught the dreaded Vids and wasn't up to the weekend. So my muggle brother and I headed off for a long weekend of camping and caching.

The muggle brother loves Earthcaches, and so we stop to find as many as we can along the way.

Once we had pulled over, we checked out this old quarry and think that the new use is far more fun. Gotta love SA reds.

Thank you, GeoVenture2020 (fredd0), for this Earthcache and the time and effort put into creating and maintaining it.

Another interesting earthcache completed on a visit to the south east with FeatherWaite. Thanks GeoVenture2020 for the cache.

Called past to make the observations and learn about soil horizons while down in the south-east with e.gregory1. Thanks for the interesting earthcache GeoVenture2020!

Another good spot to visit and tick off during our adventures.

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Logging with permission

So we did it, we took the plunge and early last year made arrangements to sell our little hobby farm in South Gippsland and ‘do a big lap’.
No full lap is complete without a lap of the little island first.
So after tidying up our affairs and putting everything into storage, we celebrated Christmas with our families and hit the road.

We recently spent 7 magnificent weeks in beautiful Tasmania, then we just did a quick trip down the west coast of boring old Victoria, making our way to South Australia, crossing the border before Covid strikes again.
Looking forward to slowing things down as we spend time in SA with no return date planned.
Thanks for being one of the CO’s who supplied us with a cache to do on the way.
This one was most enjoyable.

This is our last day in South Australia as our impropmtu holiday must come to an end and we are heading to Mount Gambier to do the lab adventures there and picking up any that pop up on the screen.

What an interesting location this turned out to be, one we would have only driven passed and possibly would have only had a quick glance if it wasn't for this earth cache. We enjoyed trying to work out the answers here and admit we came up with a few scenarios but hopefully the answers we sent off to the CO will be good enough for this log to remain, if not we will happily delete it.

Many thanks GeoVenture2020 for another lesson in earth science at a unusual location.

Had heard about this place, but didn't know its location - until now .
An interesting idea, but it doesn't look like it's generally open to the public . Info about the business (and a nice little video) can be found here: https://www.cwwines.com/ [^].
Took photos. Left footprints. Submitted answers.
Thanks for another one GeoVenture2020.

A great little earthcache, with a very interesting display of horizon-layering. We learnt some new things today from the earth ache description!
Thanks for this one Freddo!

Found earlier today with ChrisVal7 and joint answers sent. We enjoyed the side trip from the highway between Penola and Naracoorte. Tftc

Nice winery. A winery in a hole in the ground. Thanks for placing a fun cache guys. We do love your work.

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Easter 2020 was supposed to see South Australia Geocaching hosting the next Easter big MEGA event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Due to COVID restrictions the event is now postponed to early October 2021. Check out the event page and our website for new details. We would love to see you at this four day event. Mega event sponsored by Wattle Range Council, Geocaching.com and many other supporters. Lots of caches to find with two classic geo art trails including the famous animated bottle and glass.

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This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and a Samsung S8. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs...

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

This weekend, jesswrigley and I headed to the limestone coast / south-east for some sightseeing, mountain biking, and sinkhole diving. On Friday night, we stayed at Robe, seeing the famous obelisk the following morning. We then drove through Little Dip Conservation Park to Beachport, then Rendelsham, Hatherleigh, and staying in Millicent. On Sunday, we checked out Tantanoola and the Tantanoola Caves, mountain biked through Mount Gambier Forest and Browns Lake area, and finally on Monday, we dived Kilsby Sinkhole before driving back Telford Scrub Conservation Reserve and Penola. A great long weekend of sunny weather.

Today, jesswrigley and I started the day with a Mount Gambier breakfast event, as well as finding a few FTFs. We then experienced scuba diving Kilsby Sinkhole, and then started driving north back home. We stopped off at Telford Scrub Conservation Reserve, mountain biking a few of the replaced caches and those that I didn't find during the last visit. We also stopped off at Penola for that Adventure Lab, as well as a few stops within the Coonawarra area.

A pretty cool area. It was impressive to see the storage and operation of the winery here - I wonder why this old quarry was chosen to setup shop? Could it be due to the quality of the grapes stored more cool in the subterranean, or possibly so the area didn't have an eyesore of all these tanks? We studied the quarry walls, and soon had assembled some answers. It's great that the same old geology can have different lessons to be learned. Thanks GeoVenture2020 committee for the EarthCache placement.

An impressive sight especially with all those shiny wine tanks. It's nice to think that all the richness that is hitting one's eye can be tasted in a year or three... Drove past this on trip back from Millicent LWE.

Thanks to fredd0 and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^]

Have driven past many times but only stopped the once which was for this cache. Hope I got my horizons all lined up as the photo I took for extra assistance was a bit blurred. Answers sent.

Got side tracked by counting layers of wine vats then Linda and Liz pointed out that was not what I was suppose to be counting
Linda LIB has sent answers for the group
Thanks for bringing us here

Found With LíB and The X-Trailers
An interesting place. Would be a messy place if the ??? of wine exploded. Took photos and LíB forwarding answers for us all.TFTC

Stopped here with earthlight and The X-Trailers. Counted layers while Gwen concentrated on other layers... oooohhh so shiny
Answers sent and CO approval granted.

TFTEC fredd0

Did this Earthcache with my family & friends, TT016, hevwalker, scramping, LittleGoose & locus cache, on our way to Naracoorte.

This Earthcache was done with my family & friends on our way to Naracoorte. Answers were sent by them at the time.

Muggle partner left Millicent this morning as he has work tomorrow while I am staying tonight and leaving tomorrow
I attended the lunch meal event in Mt Gambier as my 1st cache for the day and then had tea in Naracoorte
In between I cached[^], and completed an adventure lab in Penola[^], with scramping, TT016, PrincessAria1, LittleG00sE and hevwalker on the trip to Naracoorte and afterwards, I followed crane2 and Labchick back and laughed as they found 'Sign log and replace the cache as exacty as found'
Then I left that pair and found 'If you see Kaye there is a cache!' and another easier cache on my own about 10pm before retiring back to the cabin for sleep[|)][^]
All up 14 were earned, 12 caches were found and 2 cool events were attended[^]

We stopped, we discussed[^], we took pictures, we discussed again[^] and then hevwalker sent the answers in for us[^][:X]

TNLN. SL. TFTC GeoVenture2020

Stopped by just before dark, so was able to glean the info required.
Answers on the way.
TFTEC

Pulled over and checked out the area with hevwalker, TT016 and locus cache on our way to Naracoorte for the last event of the weekend. A great day out with friends. hevwalker is putting in the answers for our group. Love the colours and patterns in this wall. TFTC

Heading towards Naracoorte for the last event of the weekend with scramping, TT016, PrincessAria1, LittleG00sE and locus cache...
Another fantastic day out caching with friends and family...
Took a slight detour and ended here...
A fantastic geological site...
Answers submitted on behalf of the group...
Thanks for the earthcache, fredd0

Out for a caching afternoon with the family on our way to an event with hevwalker, scramping, princessaria, goose, and locus. TFTC!

Soil Horizon Sequence was transferred from Freddo to user fredd0

Wow what an interesting location despite the earth cache info. Answers collected.

Today I started out at cockatoo lake after camping there for the evening before making my way to Mt gambier today cleaning up as many caches as I could along the way. A solid day with the weather in mint condition which is unusual for the south east. 85 finds for the day and 5 labs.

Thanks for the cache

Another enjoyable day caching with Nicko57 around Penola, Coonawarra and Bool Lagoon.

So many unfamiliar terms in geology and so much to learn.
This is my favourite quarry of all time....I’d be happy to live there...just as long as I had a wine glass with me

Thanks for showing us this area and the earthcache Freddo

On the way back from a few days caching around Mount Gambier.
I think this maybe my first Earthcache visual from the geomobile.
I did a bit of google research on local soil, which fitted with what CP was talking about
Logging with the go-ahead from CPwanderer.
An interesting spot Freddo, we could hear their radio music ...

Answers forwarded to the CO. I had expected that we would pull up at just a road cutting so this was a spectacular surprise. An interesting location. Completed with clare007 as we headed home from a few days in the South East!!

Day 338 ( Friday 31st ) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Penola today. A total of 1 for the day and 6385 the trip. TFTC
Answers sent

Out for a couple of days caching with Beaker. Logged with permission from CO

Quick find today with Kellmik while heading north to the Bordertown Community Cache event.
Logged with permission from CO.
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

So the geohusband finally has a day off work today so after a leisurely morning we headed out to collect a few caches in the Coonawarra. I’d brought him and the ladder so we could tackle a high terrain cache. We also collected the info on another multi so I can race back and sign it tomorrow before work. So happy to have all these new multis close to Naracoorte!
Lovely arvo we collected 6 finds and enjoyed our rural drive.
We both found this one super interesting and had quite a debate over the answers (to be sent). Husband found the location for the winery equipment (as a former winery man) to also be of interest.
TFTC!

Finally on the road after Covid-19 lockdown at Loxton. Today we made our way to Penola picking up
a few caches along the way. Once in town we dropped off the caravan and out to explore the Coonawarra area.

Answers sent to CO

TFTC

Trying to keep out of trouble and its certainly quiet out this way. Staying at a camp south of Penola, no one much around anywhere which is good for our social separation. Nice earth cache, wow that was a lot of wine being stored there. Answers to be sent to co shortly. Fav point alloc. Our thanks to Freddo for arranging this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Sir_spectre and I wanted one more trip down to the south east before the Mega arrived and this was a great opportunity to find some geocaching artwork as well as get some of the higher terrain that have been published. An event was a bonus we were not expecting to get to but the caching gods allowed us to get there.
Thanks to Freddo from mogni

I am liking all the new earth caches published for the mega and detouring to them as much as possible when heading down to mount gambier or on the return. answers sent my mogni
Back down to Mount Gambier with Mogni. She wanted to do mainteneance on some of her caches. Day 3 saw us slowly returning back to adelaide. After taking the coastal road down we took the inland road back. I think i finally have a almost ( less than 5 caches ) clear road from mount gambier to adelaide now. Any containers that needed maintenance were fixed and any log books that needed replacing or that where almost full where replaced with the mega coming. Also any small container had extra scroll placed in it for the coming mega in 4 weeks.

Find # 8916

The long weekend planned to cache around Millicent with sharkiefan.
I had left early and got a 1 night stay at Coonawarra. This gave me a few more hours to relax before hitting the main trails.

Things around here were unexpected to see. Normally Earth Caches dont have that many man made objects around them.
Still it was cool to see the cutting and how the earths layers can react with each other.

Catching up with the CO on Saturday night saved on the email and it was good to hear I had them right

TFTEC Freddo
Dropping off a fave too.

Day 286

Found It!
Well I can't say I was expecting a winery in a hole here. I wonder how that came to be? Looked at the layers, collected my answers and gave then to the CO at the lunch event!
TFTC

What a great location for an EC!!!

*FTF *

[FTF].
First to find on the 21st of January 2020 at about 1400
hours.
Got the okey dokey from the CO on our answers earlier today.
Mmmm just standing here makes us thirsty, that's a lot of fat space! What a big hole in the ground, good idea to keep things out of the wind. It must have been a big job cutting in like they have, we have passed this way often but never stopped to examine the ground, we have seen better but the view as seem to love it.
We see many horizons but usually the have sunsets, sunrises, boats or tall buildings on them, a new slant on horizons has been given.
Thanks for the earthcache Freddo, always broadening our minds.

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