Lustre - NTA Trail #2 Nuriootpa, South Australia, Australia
By Geopenta on 31-May-21. Waypoint GC99C43

quick and easy find, thanks for this very cool cache!

The weather forecast for today wasn't that great but I thought I'd go for a drive and see what happened. As it turned out it was foggy on the way up but dry all morning. But it was cold.I spent a while wandering around and then I spotted the obvious.TFTC

Clever hide. Starting to get the gist of Geopenta... can't wait for the next ones on the trail!

Found at 11:17 AM in the company of The Morris.Yep - we were very gentle and found the cache - nice work!Thanks to Geopenta

We are travelling with Pprass and have set up in Greenoch where we will camp for a few days.Today we jumped on the bikes to do the NTA trail and really enjoyed the variety of caches and the work that has gone into them.Another very nice hide.Thanks for contributing to a fun day out Geopenta

Easy find Tftc

Finally can take this one off the list. Found with superman_22,giselle_13 and Connor_2011

Nice easy find with Northstar76, Connor_2011 and Giselle_13

Found while passing through the towns of Truro, Nuriootpa, Tanunda and Lyndoch searching for a few caches along the way. Thanks for the cache Geopenta!

Found by The Boofs while out on a walk TFTC . Another great hide.

Our last full day here in the area since our arrival on the 28 Feb. What a blast and thank you South Australia.The caches we found today on the path from Nurioopta to Angaston were a fitting way to end our time here. We certainly saved some of the best for last. Good to leave an area on a high note.Arrived at GZ, found the cache and started the fiddle to find the log. A fav for sure. Well done Geopenta !!!!#9366

I was in the area after caches and this was my second find of the series.

Quick find while in riding the Nuriootpa to Angaston bike path.Great little hide...TNLNSLTFTCTTFNBeaker

Ocw the Bebes to clear this trail today. Some really great caches getting plenty of favourite points. Tftc

OCW PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa Taking a walk along this lovely trail but wed gone far enough so drove up to this one. Another clever creation. Tftc

Spotted it at once.

Travelling Australia in our caravan since February 2014.Back in the Barossa with the sole intention of completing the NTA Trail series Having heard so many good stories and seeing the fave points racking up, it was time to see what all this chatter was about for ourselves.Well needless to say it lived up to all they hype and theres a heap of fave points heading your way!After lunch we still had a few hours up our sleeve so we headed off to Eden Valley and Springton.TFTC Geopenta

Nice hide

Found with friends on a weekend trip

Second one found of a great weekend in the Barossa. TFTC
This was great cache.

Out for a weekend of caching with Mrs Mellison and team Paulf76. We love the Barossa and had a great night last night. This is find number 2 for the weekend. TFTC

out with Allister w finishing the trail.
Mrs bee was drawn to the glow..
What a great little hide along a great trail.
tftc

1 travelliinbee and I decided to finish this trail today. Another great hide. Another favourite. TFTC

Found it clever hiding spot nice and dry

Enjoying the fresh air while stretching my legs, with the company of a fellow cacher and finding another clever hide.

TFTCGeopenta
Keep smiling

After a couple of weekends with terrible weather I was getting cabin fever and needed to get my dose of fresh air. With an event on tonight in Gawler and with no rain forecast for the afternoon I thought it be great to do the highly acclaimed NTA trail.
A Facebook call for company on the walk was answered by the Jolly Jenny and together we completed the trail which has to be on everybody’s must do list!

After the buzz of the first cache we continued on full of expectation on what to find next. Cache 2 was pretty good as well, but this was a type of hide I’d encountered before and had even used myself in one of my caches. The logbook was swiftly signed and onwards we went.

Back in business

Will be back shortly

Southern Autumn adventure Day 37. Mid North section of SA trip Day 8. Port Pirie area Day 3 and travel to Nuriootpa via Lochiel and Balaklava. Before I headed off from Port Pirie, I went for a short loop around to the east of town to get a final few caches. Once On the way, I made a point of stopping at some of the small towns to squeeze in a cache. Once I had arrived at Nuriootpa and set up the van, I took myself on the Barossa Rail Trail with the scooter for ten interesting caches, although it did begin with a DNF.

The first one I tried was the only one I could not find today. I even got a hint later on and had another look to no avail.

Thanks.
Albida

No lustre today

DNF did not find this one, looked pretty easy reading through the ‘comments’ Maybe it has been stollen?

Thanks,
Redpanda800

On way home from my niece’s wedding from the weekend. Last day today travelling from Meningie to Jamestown, which included a some adventure labs on the way. Tftc

This little series of caches has been recommended to us by some local cacher friends so we made a start on it today.
Only managed a few before time constraints called us away but we had a delightful walk along this great trail in beautiful Spring weather. We’ll be back for some more

A favourite point of course…..many thanks Geopenta

#19388. Day 18 of our Vic/SA trip with Robmc the geodogs and our bicycles. Sadly, our last day in the Barossa based at Tanunda, before heading to Tailem Bend tomorrow. With the weather looking very dicy we once again thought that caching by car was the way to go. We headed to Nooriootpa and did some trads and an AdLab or two before calling it quits when the rain arrived.

Another great hide we spotted as we arrived. Favourite point for the execution of it. Really liked the way the trail crossing the road is made to look like railway line. A nice detail.

Thanks Geopenta

Day eighteen of our short South Australian trip with BettyBoo3747 and the geo-doggies.
The weather really could not make its mind up today, but it held off long enough for us to get our caching done. A couple of AdLabs and a pile of short walks made up our caching today. Our last day in the Barossa.

The weather was looking decidedly iffy at this time so we thought we would just try as sampler of the NTA series, and finish them off another time.
I have seen these containers used before but the paint job is a great idea.
Thanks, Robmc.

Out on another chilly morning with iluvtrekking gathering finds before our departure from the Barossa on Sunday. Geo-hubby's did the ride in reverse from Angaston to Nuri. All hides were found - some easier and straight forward, others more challenging but all enjoyed and appreciated. Thanks Geopenta

Another cache found with richlink on our 2022 South Australian Adventure.

Mr richlink and Mr iluvtrekking set off from Anguston just after lunch with dark clouds looming and an icy head wind. They arrived back at the caravan park just after 4pm. They were tested at every turn but enjoyed every minute. Thank you Geopenta for the variety of hides along the trail. Some hard some not so hard but all challinging. Have a fave point for each.

Had this one spotted on approach. Log full. Thanks

Log book replaced, fresh one good to go.

Title makes sense! First day in SA after plans seemed to be always sabotaged by you know what and border closures. Great caches in SA I hear with Fab days to come at this rate. Out on trusty treadles aka my MTB to find a few before the sun goes down. Well constructed too. TFTC AND THE FUN geopenta.

A nice easy find

We enjoyed a great day away from home, enjoying the surroundings. watcing some wildlife and finding some smileys
TFTC

Ah ha. I'm impressed with this clever in plain sight hide. Deserves a fav. Tftc

Not hard after the last one. There's a theme. Thanks Geopenta.

Heading out today to test our new E-Bikes, so of course we made a B-line for this series.. Another sneaky one! thankfully Meggs spotted fairly quickly. A FP TFTC

Country caching day. TFTC!

I like this cache set up! Favourite point!

Geopartner had a light bulbs moment and found it. Thanx

Today is sunny but cool, great day for a drive. I’ve come to Nuriootpa to sample some of the many caches on offer there.

Parked here to access #3, the letterbox, so thought I’d finish off with this one. Always nice to see something a bit different.

TFTC and series Geopenta, Illbe back for more for sure.

TFTC

Had to clean the tin of ants who had begun to nest inside - eggs and all!! Quick find - log clean and dry. TYFTC SLTNLN

Out today with the geo pup and thought I would make a dent in Nuri, spooted this very clever cache as I was about to head home a definite fave for me.

This was a great trail with some very well made and constructed hides, fav point to all of them, throughly enjoyed the 1 hour ride along the trail despite 2 caches needing a PAF.

This morning I decided to head up to the Barossa for a few hours to find the new batch of caches in the area over the last 6 months. With completing the NTA series and a few others 23 caches were found.

Thanks for the cache

Found by Mary and David at 13:25. Very clever. Love your work. Another FP. Our thanks to Geopenta.

Came out to explore a small part of the rail trail this afternoon. Geo-pup enjoyed the walk. Fav point added for the fab cache camo. TFTC!

Came to do a few of the rail trail today. Interesting walk. Thanks Geopenta.

Found with vj187. TFTC

Found with 2011*turtle on a lovely day geocaching in the Barossa. Great container. TFTC

Another neat cache on this surprising trail. I have parked at the bottom and am pedalling uphill with nice tail wind. Great caches. A glorious day out.

I will apologize right now, because everything from here on is here solely for the purpose of padding the word count.

The cache was found in the last place we looked, which as usual was not the first place we looked. Thanks for placing a fun cache guys. We do love your work. We signed the logbook. Of course we did that is way we play this game. Cache in pretty good condition for the cache age.

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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...

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Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke für den Cache. Gracias por el caché. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos kätköstä. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Köszönöm a cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas.

Tricky but clever find

Thanks for hiding. Good to be having a look around the area. Caching with Wollaston and SeasonedBird. What a wonderful trail and selection of creative caches. Love the scenery too. Fav point alloc

Nice hide. On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce. Blue sky day, so it’s a great day for caching. TFTC Geopenta
Find #3829 at 15:16.

Very clever.

Enjoying a day in the Barossa with Wollaston and Liz&Bruce.

Thanks to the many hands and minds taking time to set out hides and showing us your part of the world

Log signed as SB

TFTC Geopenta

Find # 1476

Found it on the way to Rosenvale Winery for a tasting . Very clever, FP from us stamped as The Brown Family

TFTC Geopenta

Cool cache in a lovely setting. Thanks geopenta for the hide.

A very cool cache hide. Found while in the Barossa for the weekend for my daughter's wedding.
TFTC

Laughed at this one. TFTC

Clever hide TFTC

Thanks for the cache Geopenta. I found this one maybe 10m from where GZ wanted me. A quick grab once I read the clue. Cache is in great condition, nicely done. I have a couple of these myself, just waiting the right location.

Nothing like Lustre in Astro's world. This shone some light on the things to come.

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

Found on a windy but sunny day. Nice cache! Thanks!!

Some definite lustre and shine on this trail today. TFTC

TFTC nice find out and about with geo wife LynSteNet came across this cache another very smart cache I also give this a favourite point thank you for making the game a challenge

TFTC
Out with geo hubby Animal62 collecting a few smiley faces for our maps.
Thanks again Geopenta for yet another creative cache container, once again I have awarded you with a favourite point for the effort you’ve put in to make this game interesting.

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. The 7 day lockdown has now made the multi-cache calendar impossible with two missed days in lockdown [^] For my third goal I will try and get my DNF numbers to single digits. That should keep me busy again this year! [:o)]

LOCKDOWN HAS FINISHED. Time to get out and about with Befuddled members Blackadders and S.A. Sewer Rats in search of caches. The Nuriootpa to Angaston Trail was the target today. [^] But will we get soaked. [?]

So far - so good and we are still dry but the wind is icy. [^] A quick find here we were able to quickly guess where to find the log this time. Another clever hide.

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

After the week long lockdown was over the mob of befuddled animals could once more set out on the usual Wednesday wander. Meeting the Starfish at the usual meeting place in Nuriootpa the trio set off in the cold wet weather to claim a few finds of the newer published hides since out last visit to the area. Amongst a couple of others the main aim was to tartet the NTA series which are all deserving of a favourite point for the effort put into the construction.

We were fortunate enough to avoid the heavy showers that prevailed on the day.

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Thank you for the cache Geopenta, found 28/07/2021, 11:47:00 AM

The end of lockdown. Three Geo animals decided to meet and brave the elements and Go caching.

A Rat, an Adder and a Starfish, Devised a plan to attack this series.
A quick search,
Hmm that looks like a cache.
A quick inspection of the object, yes that was the cache.

Log retrieved, stamped individually by each geo animal.
Delicately put the cache back together.
Then return the cache to it's spot.
A fave point from the SA Sewer Rats, for the hide. Tftc

Parked the goemobile and walked the short distance to GZ .
Quickly spotted . TNLNSL.
Thanks for one more Geopenta.

Found with CPwanderer and Aussie M & M.
Another cool hide. I am enjoying this series.
Will have to return to complete the series.
TFTC Geopenta

Easy find with Gizmos Gang and AussieM&M !!! Thanks for the hide!!!

Just grabbing a few of these trail caches today while out and about with CPwanderer and Gizmo's Gang. They were all very well camo'd and placed. I am very impressed with this series and Aussie Mark will be required to do the walking with Mary to collect any not found today.
TFTC geopenta

Back again a week after spending an afternoon at the Angaston end of the trail. Today we were targeting two nearby caches not in the NTA series to complete our Wonders challenge. Just two solar system wonders to go.
Nice camo. TFTC Geopenta.

Quick maintenance ride along the trail to check on the caches after the very wet weather.
All good here today.

A day off from work and a catch up with Mattycat to check out a few caches in the Barossa, with a mixed bag of weather we managed to dodge most of the showers, after a break we ventured back to rail trail adventures starting this time at the begining, following the trail down we arrived at our next challenge and after a short seach the hide was revealled
TFTC Geopenta

Had been wondering where it would be worth taking the bike to for a bit of a ride when I noticed this new series come out but was too busy with other things to come out straight away or even the next day. Finally this morning had the bike loaded up and headed out this way. There were still some unlogged so was hoping for some FTFs and decided to do in reverse. After a DNF at #14 got the bike ready and headed off and soon got the other reward for a FTF hunter, meeting other cachers out on the trail. After a nice chat it was realised that nearly all FTFs were gone but as that wasn't the main aim, merely a possible bonus, that wasn't a problem. Ended up seeing them twice more on the trail and sharing a couple of hunts. Even scored a very satisfying FTF as last for the day so all in all it ended up being a very nice day caching with a bit of exercise, maybe a touch cool but no rain at all.
This was the tenth of twelve found from this excellent fourteen cache series. Another one spotted before getting off the bike.
It is definitely not a power trail but is definitely one of the best small series I've ever done. Many thanks to Geopenta for the time and thought put into these caches that added greatly to my enjoyment. My apologizes for the cut and paste style logs, your caches definitely deserve better but writing logs is not my strong point.

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

Quick stop here.
Nice hide.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Published

Just when I was wondering how to get a {FTF} for June, along comes this nice series!

With the work day ending , and storm clouds approaching, this little trail was tempting indeed.
Had previously been a few caches along here, but now a good reason to walk or ride.

But with the other aim of a cache a day... thought best to leave a few for later days

A nice little cache here, and surprisingly one loosely along a style I have waiting in my shed!!!

Thanks for making my Monday a little brighter and thanks for the cache Geopenta

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This cache was found and logged using some or all of the resources of GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife), 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 sometimes with just plain old dumb luck!

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Do stay safe when caching.
Watch for snakes, random cliffs, wild goats, wombats, bulldust, and lightning,
try not to get tetanus from rusty mint tins... but especially lookout for bugs. [xx(]

Make sure Travel Bugs are the only ones you share and pass on

2020 turned into 2020won, and 2020too is on the way! 2020free should see us through

Still important to observe social distancing when possible, (150 nano caches apart should do it)
Still important to wash your hands (always has been really [:o)]
Still very important to look after each other and take precautions & get checked out for even the tiniest sniffle or cough, or unexpected headache! [8)] [B)]

Still even more important to get some fresh air and exercise while we can, so get out and cache the country!

Thanks so much to all those placing caches out and about away from the city crowds,
keeps our game safe and interesting

[:o)] ] [:o)]

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