Australian Church Micro # 18 Orroroo Uniting Orroroo, South Australia, Australia
By earthlight on 21-Sep-20. Waypoint GC90C10

It wasnt easy at first but when we looked around properly it was easy

Good one for the kids

Instant find saw cache from afar , many thanks for sharing

Found with Nukky13 while waiting for parts for our unexpectedly broken vehicleTFTC

Found with PSGV1, killing time while we wait for a delivery to get our vehicle running again! TFTC

Found thanks

A LWE away caching w Team WaldronToured the mid north and surroundsSome great caches foundFixed a few as wellTFTC

Such a beautiful place. TFTC

Quick find as we checked out Orroroo. TFTC

Found with O319 on our way north

Found with half the cache on the ground and no log to sign - have placed a new log sheet in - TFTC

The cache was on the ground with a broken cable tie. Replaced tie and signed log. TFTC

13251. Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1105. We decided to find a couple of multi's and traditionals as we left Hawker this morning to make our way to Broken Hill. We got to SL Tnx earthlight

This was a very fun cache! Thank you

Second day of the dynamic duos venture north. Left Orroroo and headed up to Hawker for a nice and relaxing day as time was not going to be a problem. Didn't have a lot of caches on the must do list so ended up looking for, and finding, any cache close enough to the road we were traveling north on. Still got to Hawker in time for a couple of shortish walks which enabled us to clear the immediate area of any unfound caches. And of course, the main aim of the trip, the A Taste of Hawker's Heritage AdLab. All up, completed an Earthcache as well, and found twenty physical caches and this was one of them.
The log here was rather full so left a fresh one.
Thanks to earthlight for placing this cache on our playing field.
Cache #13894 for me.

This log composed and published using GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife).

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Day two of our four day trip.
The dynamic duo, SA Sewer Rats and ttrogg.
This was one of many stops.
A quick find for us today. TFTC

A short stop here, cache found and is all good.

With a few days off work I decided to head north for a night to the Flinders Ranges, and attempt to find SAs longest unfound traditional cache and Mount Abrupt plus what ever I had time for in the area. A beautiful part of the world up here.

Thanks for the cache

Travelling with iluvtrekking up the WA coast to Darwin, down the Centre and in the Flinders Ranges. Now travelling through to Peterborough picking up finds along the route. Thanks earthlight

Travelling with richlink from Perth to Darwin up along the west coast and home again through the centre and the Nullarbor, picking up caches as we go. Today, we are caching along the road from Hawker to Peterborough. Thanks, earthlight.

Full time Nomads since March 2014.

Having been in Perth to visit family our stay has come to an end and we are on our way to Broken Hill for the Mundi Mundi Bash.

Staying in Orroroo for a few days. After lunch we ducked out in light drizzle to try and add to our smilies in Orroroo.

TFTC earthlight

A delightful, warm, sunny winters day caching towards Orroroo and surrounds.

Many thanks for the hide earthlight

Nice and easy great spot just across from where we are staying tftc

Mr Tardis was out for a quick jaunt around Orroroo and stopped here to find this one.

I found the cache in the first place I looked - don't you just love it when that happens?

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache earthlight.

Church is in today. A good hide. Thanks.

TFTC SL A place to get down on one's knees. Found your cache today while exploring the Orroroo area. Thanks for bringing us here.

Nice easy one. Thank you

No problems finding this one
TFTC

With the packed roads heading north for the long weekend, it was nice to turn onto a less congested road and take a break [^].Quickly found . TNLNSL.Another great looking building we'd love to look inside .Thanks Earthlight.

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found while working in town, been saving this one for a calender spot.

I managed to get away for a couple of days to try abd build up the numbers for the year. I stayed at Orroroo overnight and made my way around the mid north.

All caches found were in good order unless otherwise noted.

TFTC

All good 1564 thanks

NEF TFTC earthlight

On our travels a nice quick find at a wonderful location thank you for bringing us here

A quick find even though we thought we were being caught by a muggle. Turned out to be a fellow cacher and we had a lovely chat. TFTC

Quick find and talk to a fellow geocacher. TFTC

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We are on the road travelling up through central Australian and down the coast of WA. Geocaching has taken us to so many great places in this beautiful country. I was happy to grab a few caches along the way and this was one of them.

An easy enough find while exploring these old buildings.

Thanks earthlight for placing this cache and doing the maintenance, so we can enjoy finding it.

I spotted the hide as I approached. Log is a tad damp. TFTC earthlight.

Found during a caching trip to SA's mid north staying at Orroroo for two nights and Jamestown for the last night. Thanks for the cache earthlight!

Found

That was unexpectedly easy. The rocks where out of place

Found it

TFTC out with bev and veejayh

An easy find and our last for the day. TFTC with Kelmar & Bev

Mmmm Thanks for thé caché

A quick park and grab after gassing up. TFTH

Nice find on the walk through town.

We decided to load up the camper and run away from home for a week or two. The rain and a domestic water repair made us change our plans a few times but it didn't detract from the fun. We met quite a few people and learnt a lot from them - we were privileged to be shown a dugout at Coober Pedy and station life at Edeowie. We also found time to find a few caches, but we still have many unfound in the areas visited. Looking forward to returning to the upper north of South Australia one day soon.
Thank you to all those who helped make our trip very enjoyable.

Found

Quick find after a dear friends funeral today shed a tear but our friend is a peace now a church cache TFTC

TFTC. Quick find.

Thanls for the cache. A quick find while staying tge night in Orroroo.

On the road again, catching up with a few logs as we travel.
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Headed north with Jack and the lovely Purrfect Di.
Saw some sights. Checked some shops. And found some caches of course, like this one...

A strong movement in the force in Orroroo. God moves in mysterious ways.

Thanks to earthlight for placing and maintaining this cache on our northern geo game map


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Looking 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!





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Alice Springs to Adelaide Roadtrip
Day Five: Woomera to Morgan

The weather remains way cooler than around the red centre, much more conducive to travelling and geocaching. Morgan might seem like a strange choice for the last night, but I have my reasons!

I quite like Orroroo as a stop between Port Augusta and Adelaide and prefer this route to Highway 1 unless I’m pressed for time. This was one of four caches here.

Thanks earthlight.

The Non Wangaratta Event Tour 2021!
Covid has postponed the Mega in Victoria until January but leave had been granted for AnyMules to attend with me and Bushfire. So Anymules and I went on a tour to Eyre Peninsular and mid north South Australia instead whilst Bushfire joined us in spirit only as covid meant he couldn't come here either. Not needing anything for my yearly goals I hoped I didn't add too many to the DNFs [B)]

DAY 5: Exploring some mid north towns.
Another quick find for us.,

Only one of the three goals from last year achieved. So once again trying and fill my calendar with multi-caches and complete loop 11 again this year. [^] For my third goal I will try and get my DNF numbers from over fifty to single digits. That should keep me busy again this year! [:o)]

***Thanks earthlight for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

A quick park and grab.

Thanks for the cache earthlight.
Found on 19/11/21 at 17:44.
Find #14836.

Big drive home from Rawnsley Park to Adelaide before the next leg of our holibobs to KI.
Did a bit of a detour as the Moho driver was going a bit more slowly than me. Collected 12 caches and 5 labs before getting back into Moho planning.
Nice quick find at a lovely old church. TFTC Earthlight

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11.09.21 tftc still standing tall

Another Orroroo speedy find. This place is very geo-friendly. The tourist info includes a map of the geocaches in town and there are signs around the streets directing you around the geo-trail. I love Orroroo.

Nice and quiet here today. TFTC

Caught out in the rain but found it. TFTC

Found It!
Another quick find here on a quiet Sunday afternoon. There's a sign across the street with the geocaching logo on it but I'm not really sure what it has to do with geocaching.
TFTC

Found this one while out early this morning.

Trip to the Mid North with the geo-pup. Day 5, around Orroroo.


TFTC

Day 7
A church cache that isn't a multi, how strange. Found with jacknor and mogni. quick find.

found with Mogni and Jacknor. We where heading up Carrieton for a couple of days and then on to the Flinders Rangers for 5 days. The plan was to find as many of the church multi's as we could going up and then bright and early the next day head off to the " Bendleby Ranges " 4 x 4 tracks. Then clear the next section of multi's between Carrieton and Rawnsley Station and of course a few stray trads that would help Jacknor's jasper grid. A straight week of over 30 degrees meant less hiking than planned but we still got to the top of Rawnsley Bluff as well as some other smaller hikes. The Rawnsley station 4 x 4 track was completed and by then it was time to decamp and start the drive home. Stopped at orroroo and cleared the town out before going back to the church multi grind. All caches that where found that were brittle or damaged were replaced and extra logs added to those caches that the scroll was full or almost full, except for nano's. Nano's are evil spawn and you can do your own maintenance on them.

Holiday time, a week in the Flinders Rangers with sir_spectre and Jacknor. We had lots of fun, walk and of course found some caches. Today we packed up the camper and started to head for home early, strangely it took 13 hours to get home... Today we did lots of cache maintenance replacing cache containers and adding logbooks.
Thanks to earthlight from mogni

Found on a Geo hunt ride with the Fox, first on a long day/ Ride 260ks 8 hours. . heading to Orroroo, TNLN SL.
Thanks .

Found on a Geo hunt ride with the Demon41 on Dirt Bikes first on a long day/ Ride 260ks 8 hours. . heading to Orroroo, TNLN SL Thanks

Out exploring the countryside with Liz when she decided to place this cache
Love visiting old churches
Beta tested

A nice quick church grab to finish off a fun weekend. TFTC

Found nice and quickly by my geosister H423L
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A quick stop here, very quick, on my way further north for the weekend. A quick spot and sign.

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

Quick find on the bicycle,heading northwards. Tftc

Found it Babyboys4

Found while staying in Peterborough with my muggle friend, Bron, who caches with me and caught up with caching friends too...
Joined forces with SnappyTomCats today as we ventured from Peterborough to Orroroo...
A nice looking building it matches the old heritage buildings of it's time...
A quickly located cache...
Thanks earthlight for placing the cache here for our enjoyment

Heading off for a days geocaching adventures with honeysucker we headed off onto some back roads, after lunch we tackled a few in town this one had us with cacher blindness for a few moments when the obvious spot yielded not what we expected then we saw the actual cache hide, added our mark in the book
TFTC earthlight

We had planned to visit Peterborough for the weekend to attend an event and do some caching. and as we had to deliver a heap of Crystal Decanters that we had engraved for the Clare wine show, to them, we figured we are halfway there..might as well carry on, so we organised a day off and are having a "long Weekend' up North! Today we teamed up with hevwalker and Bron. A quick find here todayTFTC

This was found as we wander this great country
While having a great day out
thank you earthlight for placing the cache

Tftc

After an awesome Chicken Schnitty and beer at a local pub, i decided to walk off the food and just see where this one is for tomorrow morning, seeing i left my pen back at the cabin [:o)]
It was found so i kept that in mind for the find tomorrow morning the 8th of October.

Fast 4wd to now.... Thursday the 8th of October.
The cache was immediately found and the log was signed at 08:48 on the much drier day of Thursday the 8th of October 2020

TFTC earthlight

(Gotta love reconnaissance )

Day 30 of my trip north from Adelaide in search of warmer weather and a few caches.

I travelled up the Strzelecki Track then weaved my way around central and western Queensland as far north as Mount Isa. It was getting too warm for me to go any further north, so I crossed into the Northern Territory to Tennant Creek and began to head south. Eventually I ended up at Lamberts Centre and, after having to adjust my plans due to track closures as a result of deep bulldust, I headed to Mount Dare and down the Oodnadatta Track. I was hoping to go home via the northern Flinders Ranges.

However the Track was closed south of William Creek due to flood damage, so I had to detour to Coober Pedy and down the Stuart Highway. The Borefield Track from Roxby Downs to Marree was also closed, but scheduled to be reassessed in the afternoon, so I camped just north of Pimba last night in the hope that it would be re-opened and I could resume my travels as planned.

Unfortunately that was not to be, so I had to continue down the Highway all the way to Port Augusta, before heading north again.

On my way I noticed a cluster of five new unfound caches at Orroroo. It was not much more of a deviation in the scheme of things, so I decided to take the detour.

This cache was quickly found at a nice old church building. On opening it I noted a previous log from earlier today that hadn’t been logged. So silver for me.

Thanks earthlight for the cache.

Wow what a coincidence! Our first FTF and we found it as we were going to the Flinders ranges. Just looking for some nearby caches and saw that this wasn't found. TFTC!

PS: for other cachers, roll the log book tightly and place it in the lid so it is easy to get out for future cachers. We didn't do this and it was a little bit of a struggle to get out.

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