Brighton - NTA Trail #9 Angaston, South Australia, Australia
By Geopenta on 30-May-21. Waypoint GC99C4M

We are on a caravanning trip around Australia seeing the sights and finding a few caches along the way. We are staying at friends place and decided to stay an extra night, so we had an extra day to fill in. So we decided to get the bikes out and ride a bit of this trail. Such a great trail. And some great caches along it aswell. Handed out quite a few favourites today. Thanks everyone for placing these caches.Have found one like this before but didn't originally think of it. It was on my second search of the area that I found the cache. Fav point given.TFTC

Very clever hide took a few moments as I turned around and turned over and around all sorts of things then I spun myself and there it was

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 great hide that had us baffled for moment until Pprass had a second look.Thanks for contributing to a fun day out Geopenta

Found at 12:00 PM in the company of The Morris.Interesting cache hides along this bike trail - all quite different.Thanks to Geopenta

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 !!!!#9380

Great hide along the Nuriootpa to Angaston section of the Barossa Bike Trail.TNLNSLTFTCTTFNBeaker DGS

Replaced camo for a more durable option

OCW PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa Taking a walk along this lovely trail. Ooh this ones a bit sneaky ! Tftc

Ocw the Bebes. Another great hide. Well crafted and although damaged still works. Tftc

Smart. It still works although the camo' is damaged.

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

Out and about locating caches for this months souvenir challenge.
After breakfast & CITO events, I met up with locus cache and geo pooch Rex at the parking spot near the railway statiion. We walked from #14 to #9 before time ran out.
Another great cache here but found it with part of the camo broken in half
Enjoying the caches so far and look forward to completing this series one day.

Thanks for placing and maintaining geocaches for the enjoyment of cachers!

TFTC Geopenta

5.30am and the knock on my front door, plus Rex' wagging tail, alert me to the fact that Aireen is here and ready to take Rex and I to 3 geocaching events this morning[:X][^][^] 6am at Villi's Enfield, 7am CITO at Mawson Lakes and then 8am at Bakery on O'Connell[^]

During the CITO I found a new cache that hadn't been here when I went back to Vic[?]
Very close to where an old, favourite multi by C4 used to be[xx(]

After the last event, Aireen and I made a dash back into Mawson Lakes[?] where I looked at, and tried, a pushbike but it wasn't right for me
Then off to Angaston, where we met Lib, and Lib, Rex and I walked some of the NTA trail [^]
On a day where rain was predicted, we walked in lovely sunshine[:X][:X] and had a slight breeze to cool us down[^][:X]
Aireen needed to leave before we were finished so after our 'rescue us' call, Aireen drove to us, picked us up and drove Lib back to her car[^][:X][:X] Then we all headed home[^][|)]

Later in the early evening, I was picked up by my sister and driven to Windsor Gardens, where I tried another push bike and bought it[:X][^] Maybe now I can get that darned PATOG finished

After the clever cache hide was solved[^], while talking about the ground around this area[?][?][?], it dawned on me where the name for this cache came from I've driven down Victoria Rd many times in my life

All up for the day, I found 8 caches and attended 3 events[^]

TNLN. SL. TFTC Geopenta

Found with the jams crew and a travellinbee while caching around the area. Great hide, favourite from me. The sign is broken but still a good hide. TFTC

out for a day with the Jams crew collecting and retrieving caches
Thanks for placing this cache

Very clever hiding spot. The sign was damaged though.

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!

Getting closer to Angaston now and daylight was starting to fade. Another great hidden in plane sight cache. Ironically exactly the type of hide I am planning for my next cache. Great work once again!

TFTC.
Loving this trail

This hobby is so addictive and when there are caches like this to find it feeds that addiction
I love the creativity and effort that has been put into these hides on this trail.

TFTC Geopenta
Keep smiling

I lost my reading glasses, and they may be near this cache. TIA

Found it

The call came in yesterday from OZGrumpy if I wanted to join on a day caching in the Barossa.

I suggested as part of the trip we should do the NTA trail, we had both found one, and I’d DNF’d the one at the end.

What can I say except, awesome, not just this one, but all of them. If you haven’t done this trail you should put it to the top of your list, you’ll have to think outside of the box to get them. No mint tins in sight!!

Stamped as The Brown Family aka “the coloured mint tin by the sea people”

TFTC Geopenta

Thanks Geopenta for placing this cache and for the ongoing maintenance. Find #8711 on 11/6/2023 at 4:30 pm

A day trip with friends in the Barossa area. Nice to be out and about enjoying a spot of caching, and time with friends. All caches in good condition unless stated otherwise.

Yet another champion effort

Southern Autumn adventure Day 39. Mid North section of SA trip Day 10. Barossa Valley Day 2. The direction for today was Angaston. I was distracted by the markets first and then made it to Angaston. I started with a few caches around town and then hit the bike trail on my scooter to finish the caches back to where I left off the other day. The rest of the day was spent caching between Angaston, Tanunda and Nuriootpa, picking up what I was able to until I hit my daily count for this trip.

I set out along the trail to finish the caches back to where I got up to the other day. I am impressed by the variety and challenge that has been provided in this series of caches along the old tracks.

Thanks for the cache Geopenta

42391.9 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2007 Satellite V5 A#84

**Albida**

We felt sure we knew where it was, but we looked and couldn't see. We looked at other options. Finally found it. Very clever

Submitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

Found during a walk along the rail trail from Angaston. Last cache in this series attempted today before retracing my steps back to the car. Thanks for the cache Geopenta!

Log full, replaced

Neat build here. Fav point awarded

The first day in the Barossa with BettyBoo3747 and the geodoggies.
Dragged out the deadly treadlies and rode the rail trail Nuriootpa to Angaston, and then after lunch looked at a few puzzles around Nuriootpa.
Overcast but no rain, so a nice day for caching.

Very nicely constructed. Saw it from the track and had to laugh.
Thanks, Robmc.

#19800. Day 7 of our holiday in SA and today Robmc, the geo-doggies and I rode the Bike Trail between Nuriootpa and Angaston and return and then rode around town collecting a few solved puzzles in the afternoon. A long and rather frustrating day seeking elusive caches that did not want to be fouind. Managed to only find 17 with 2 DNF's.

Great hide here. Loved this. Favourite poiint.

Thanks Geopenta

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.

Haha I see what you did there

Clever. Thanks

Last one for today, need to make some miles. Thanks for my short but sweet adventure!

On a birthday jaunt around the Barossa. Cool cache.

Notable Terrific Architecture and so will constructed. Very nice! Second 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 heading to wineries with the crew. TFTC AND THE FUN

Country Caching day
TFTC!

LOVE this. So clever if dangerous!

Very creative hide, loved it

Quick find on my walk. TFTC!

Out today for a nice ride on our E-Bikes to attempt to finish this awesome trail... OOhh nice! Is there no end to the sneaky mind of the CO! TFTC

Finally got back to this great trail of hides after having got FTFs on the other half last year.
I love the variety of them all.
Nice work!
TNLNSL
Thanks

TFTC Geopenta Avery good find out and about with geo wife LynSteNet loved the find so afavorite point is rewarded

TFTC Geopenta

Out & about with geo hubby Animal62 walking these trails & collecting a few smiley faces for our efforts.
This cache has been awarded a favourite point for the wonderful creativity that has given us a thrill in finding.

My wife and I moved the car up to Kent St and then walked down for another slab of caches. Our original plan was to go back to our hotel, have a swim and a cocktail, have a short nap and then follow that up with another swim and cocktail. However, these caches were just so good that we decided to stay on and do a few more.

In fact we were only going to do a couple of caches but then decided it would only be us losing out if we didn’t do them all. We walked out to the furtherest one away and was rewarded for another cracking hide. Favourite point awarded. tftc

TFTC

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

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

The popping of the pressure safety valves on the pneumatics nearby just never stops. Glad I am not trying to sleep here on night shift. Love this sort of in your face hide.

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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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.

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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.

What a spin out - clever clever clever!

A lazy walking trail caching day 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 # 1462

Running out of descriptors and fav points for such an awesome range of cache hides. Nevertheless, another fav point awarded. On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce. Blue sky day, so it’s a great day for caching. TFTC Geopenta
Find #3808 at 17:46.

Thanks for hiding. Good to be having a look around the area. Caching with Wollaston and SeasonedBird. Cleverly hidden and constructed we are so entertained and fav point

Omg! How good was that. TFTC

TFTC last one of the day. Very well thought out set of caches

This was one that I proberly didn't enjoy as much as the other hides. Used to live near a Brighton Cement works in my childhood and not a place I like to revisit, despite this being a different one.

The cache was found and we headed back towards some we had left for the return trip.
TFTC Geopenta.

A clever bit of "cammo" ................ a favourite!!! Found with AussieM&M!!

I had to look and look for this one! SO good. You know you are on the trail around here.

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

Another ‘well hidden’ cache. TFTC

Another brilliant cache with a twist. Thanks a lot geopenta for a walk in the sun.
National Transport Authority is always a danger

A short caching morning for us with other commitments taking most of our day .
So what does NTA stand for [?]. Maybe No Train Access [:o)].
TNLNSL.
Thanks for another one Geopenta.

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. [?]

We looked here, we looked there and came back to the same spot. It HAS to be that. Wait a minute. You got us. We had to smack ourselves in the forehead when we finally twigged as to how to get at the cache. You are used to them now so another one isn't going to matter. [:X][:X]

AND we made it without getting wet. 10 out of 14 caches got favourite points from me and that doesn't happen. Well done Geopenta for the series which should feature in the Awards next year.

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

The end of lock down. 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.
We arrived at GZ, You have to like spotting the cache from the track.
We soon had the cache in hand.
This was our last cache for the day.
Log retrieved, stamped individually by each geo animal.
Replaced the the cache back together.
Then return the cache to it's spot.
A fave point from the SA Sewer Rats, for the hide. Tftc

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.

Thank you for the cache Geopenta, found 28/07/2021, 4:02:00 PM

Another nice quick find along this trail with Sebastbat today.

A popular trail no matter the weather always see someone cycling or walking by.
Love a cache in plain sight!

Thank you Geopenta for putting this cache on our SA geo map



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Caches are 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.
Lookout for mud, snakes, random cliffs, wild goats, wombats, bulldust, and lightning,
try not to get tetanus from rusty mint tins... but especially lookout for bugs. [xx(]

Ensure just Travel Bugs are the only ones you share and pass on


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

[:o)] ] [:o)]

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Quick maintenance ride along the trail to check on the caches after the very wet weather.
Cache in perfect condition here, no problems

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, continuing our journey backwards we arrived at another well crafted hide and adding another fav point
TFTC Geopenta

Another simple but brilliant cache.
Signed log TFTC

A very good hide indeed.
Our third find this afternoon along a very well planned and executed series. A FP from us.
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 fourth of twelve found from this excellent fourteen cache series. Thos one was nice and easy to spot.
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).*

Enjoyed the walk along the rail trail between Angaston and Nuriootpa with goingplaces2. There was some sun, some rain and always a cold wind today.
We found all but one of the caches along this part of the trail.
Cache found here with a blank log for a joint (FTF) cache, log signed, job done. Added a fav for this one. TFTC.

WooHoo!! This was a joint (FTF) cache here, found along with ilook4geo. This was an interesting find with a twist but that does not deter a cacher on a (FTF) hunt.
Came along with ilook4geo to do some caching along some of the many trails around this area. We did different types today including traditional, multi, letter box and puzzle. It was a good day and we found almost all the caches we looked for, with some interesting hides included. We were happy to add both our names to each log and replace each container as it had been found. Thank you to Geopenta for placing this cache. Another favourite for the construction involved.

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