Rain Gauge The Rural City of Murray Bridge, South Australia, Australia
By Redrover 09 on 18-Jul-21. Waypoint GC9E201

Looks likely it has been damaged again

All good to go

I have taken this one out of action,too much damage to it in the last year

Ive come prepared this time, but as it turns out, the cache has been vandalised (it appears) to circumvent the need for TOTTs. A terrible shame after the CO has gone to this much trouble, and even forewarns what is needed in the cache description. Log signed and Ill send a message to the CO about the damage.I wonder if those Korean villagers figured out how to siphon water out of the gauges for a tax break.Thanks for the history and the cache Redrover 09.

Found

TFTC

No rain recorded

Find # 13982I'm in the Adelaide area for the Great Leap Forward event. Not just for the days event, but making it a week long trip of caching n catching up with mates.Flying solo......Day 8. Homeward-bound.Day started off with a tree climb and a big stretch off the ground. Then a bit of a look around Mt Barker. Then it was the trails. It's been a while since I've hit a long trail and being alone it was just me and the caches to fill the rest of the day in. Some power trails are tougher than others, ie parking locations and barriers can be annoying and chew up time. But happily I managed all hurdles. Even the odd orb spider that made some tracks mazes. Happily that what I'd pland out fell into place with only a couple of DNFs.End of day was a surprise with my biggest solo grab of over 300 in a day. But I have plenty more trails in SA to utilise if I want to better that score TFTC Redrover 09

TFTC. Setting up camp for a week in Murray Bridge before the MEGA for 29th Feb!Moving to Ballarat for another week afterwards. Last hurrah travelling before wooding season at home starts!Happy caching and safe travels!

Something special or unusual goes here:A nice quick find. Worked once the cobwebs were removed! The Generic Bit:Met up with Muff1 at Tailem Bend for a day's caching. We targeted the Straya series before a bakery lunch back in Town. Then it was off to find a few more caches and labs around the area. Some laughs are another little pocket of caches cleared....almost. A DNF during the day means will have to be back sometime. **SAs Leap Year Event GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. - BOING*****Thanks Redrover 09 for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. *** Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

went and checked all ok

Hahaha, a little bit of a fun cache. Tctc!

I really like that one. Thanks

Quick find with CherryRose and luckily we had enough water to deliver the goods. TFTC TNLNSL A favourite point from me because I haven’t done one of these for quite a long time and they’re fun to do.

Found with Beary Organised, haven't found one of these for a long & luckily we had enough water with us. TFTC TNLNSL

16:19
A few days based in Murray Bridge and what a variety of caches to track down. Caches about mountains, caches about rivers smooth roads, rough roads. Another fun day out and about with Suscoe. Luckily no need for a gauge while we have been in M. B.

Thanks to Redrover 09 for adding this cache to the gameboard.
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Suscoe was out and about enjoying a day of caching with our very good friends Phetlern.
It was a delightful day, blue skies and sunshine. Hard to imagine it is still Winter.
We found lots of caches today, The AMP Series, The SAR Series, The “Straya” Challenge caches and a few other nearby traditional and multis as we wandered to the North East of Murray Bridge. We had fun using a range of TOTT at a few caches as well.
We were heading back to Murray Bridge now and the day was slipping by.
Thanks to Redrover 09 for this hide.
The thermos is a handy thing some times.

went and checked the cache still in position and working

Did find think it was on a property

A quick find, sign and return
TFTC

Whoop whoop

Buzzz go the bees

Found it tricky without the hint

All up and running

Tftf. The pole had fallen over in the very soft soil. Stood back up but won't last long

will go out soon and fix

Out with sir_spectre and AllisterW making a small dent in the huge number of caches around Murray Bridge. I am trying to hit a major milestone in April and today was ay target chance to get closer to my goal.
Thanks to Redrover 09 from mogni

Found with mogni and Sir Spectre on a drive around east of Murray Bridge finding lots of caches to help mogni reach a milestone before the upcoming Mega. Sir Spectre had the field puzzle solved in no time. TFTC Redrover 09

Out with Mogni and Allister w for the day. All logs stamped as JAMS. Today's target was to get Mogni closer to 20,000 finds with the aim to get her to 20,000 by the Rutherglen Mega in Victoria. We got 131 finds and 1 DNF for the day. We did the AMP ( Australia Mountain Peaks ) and SAR ( south Australian Rivers ) plus some of the Bindi's GeoMobiles series.

What a great cache. Naughtybunny and I enjoyed this one. It's quite dry out here so water was at a premium. Luckily we brought plenty with us. I've come across this type of contraption before so knew what to do. TNLN. Cheers.

Out in the area for the day with Chookster, I really wanted to do this one and wasn't disappointed! Good fun, a first for me and something a bit different!
TFTC, I really liked this one.

Found by Mary and David at 14:55. Cached around Murray Bridge today, finishing the AMP series and others close by. More smiles here. Wonderful gum blossoms along the road. Our thanks to Redrover 09.

A weekend away in Murray Bridge for some R & R and of course caching! Out today to tackle a couple of trails and a few new ones that have popped up since we were here last. Armed with the required Tott we made a quick wet find here! TFTC

Another geocaching trip to Australia with tmann421.
This time to SA and surrounding areas.
Enjoyed the caches and the sites
Signed logs tm/ww NZ
Thanks to all the cache owners for their efforts in placing the hides.

*Another geocaching adventure with woolwood9.*
We visited many good caches and trails on our trip and had a lot of fun!

*Really appreciate your effort putting this cache out.*
We soon located the container.

All logs stamped: **tm/ww NZ**
Good water cache!

Gross ass water used for this

Didn't check about needing water found a random container with water, loved this one

Fun

Another cache hunt on our 2022 South Australian Adventure.

A bonus find while completing the AMP Series. This cache was not set up as it should and we found the cache on the ground. It has been cable tied it back in position. All good to go again.

Our thanks to all the COs for taking on this Geo-guided tour. We have enjoyed ourselves, but it is time to slowly, very slowly, head West again.

Travelling from Perth to Canberra with lots of side tracks.TFTC.
You sure had to be quick to grab this one.

CTFC

Clever cache with a great description behind it. Being ex farmers we still use and a gauge and record the rainfall. Tyftc

No rain today. We walked from the caravan park. Nice walk up the hill. TFTC

Cool find thanks

Tfts log needs replacing maby one spot left

Replaced log book,will have to come back with cable ties,but all good to find

Went out for the day with M-dolphin and her dog and thought we would go for an Adventure today

Found it in the rain lol had fun with geodog and Yatesy222 tftc

This log book will need maintenance only have a few pages left

Found it iron dropper

A quick find while staying at the showground in Murray Bridge.TFTC

15.05.22 tftc found with my grandsons

Found on 25/4/22

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We are on our way to join up with a small group of cachers to do the On Your Bike Series, today is a stopover in Murray Bridge to visit with family and, of course, doing a small amount of caching.
Our appologies for the boiler plate logs but I have got so far behind with my logging this is the only way I can catch up.
We have had a great day and found all of the caches that we targeted, we did any running repairs that were needed and all caches were left in a good condition for the next visitor. SL TFTC

Found with LíB as we travelled the vack roads today. Looks like we could do with some summer rain as gauge emptybexcept fir a ligbk.TFTC

Out for a Saturday drive with earthlight, caching of course
Quick find here today. No rain though, so gauge is dry.

TFTC Redrover 09

Hard to twist the thing to get the mini container out of but did find it

Heading to Naracoorte today to spend the start of the year with the husband. Had a later start than planned which always seems to be the way so the planned 40 caches became about 20.
It was too hot for caching in my opinion so 18 was more than enough. My cappuccino pav just about survived the journey.
Thankfully no snakes and all caches attempted were found.
Quick find here TFTC

We've found some alternative ways to retrieve these sorts of caches without using a drop of water - well drought proofed [8]!
TNLNSL.
Thanks Redrover 09.

all cable ties replaced and back in action

will go out and fix the cache in next couple of days so will take out of action until then

May need repairs, cable ties are broken. Easy find

TFTC. Staying at avoca dell c park. Pulled up looked out window and there was the hint. Left baby

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce. Blue sky day, so it’s a great day for caching. TFTC Redrover 09
Find #3563 at 09:52.

Caching the trails and picking off randoms 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 Redrover 09

Find # 1214

Thanks for arranging this hide. Travelling with Wollaston and SeasonedBird. Fun hide fav point

Full time nomads since 2014. Still tootling around the country trying to avoid Covid hotspots.

Back in SA for harvest work. Spending a few days in Murray Bridge today we headed out to tackle a few more caches.

TFTC Redrover 09

Doing a numbers run in the Murray Bridge area. TFTC

Plenty of rain today

A late log.
We enjoy this type of cache although we are a bit wary of disturbing some creatures!!
TFTC Redrover 09.

Found after completing several series... only 1 dnf for the day ... great day of caching with hevwalker, froghoppin and Mattycat. Really enjoyed the day- lots of fun, laughter, exercise and stories to tell later to all our caching friends. I was not far from reaching a 150 cache day I needed for a challenge .... after hearing this, my amazing caching friends helped me achieve my goal. YAY I ...we did it. Thankyou!!!! TFTC Redrover 09

After completing the 3 new series near Murray Bridge & Tailem Bend with scramping, froghoppin & Mattycat we decided to continue our journey back to Murray Bridge & find some around town...
The sun was beginning to go down but still enough daylight to find this cache...
TFTC Redrover09

A big day out with Mattycat, hevwalker and Scramping as we headed back towards Murray Bridge we could not resist a few more, being on this side of town we made the detour towads Avoca Dell cache was soon found
TFTC Redrover 09

A great day to find a cache (every day is a nice day for that!)
An even better day to team up with froghoppin, then Hevwalker and Scramping, for a few more caches.
Quite a few it turned out. This was one of them!

With Mr froghoppin present we declared it a Wayne gauge.
The dropper was quite loose and may benefit from a mallet or ties to the tree.
Some rain may be coming tomorrow...

Grateful thanks to Redrover 09 for hiding this cache on our SA geo map game board



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Nice quick find, clever hide. TFTC Redrover 09

Sometimes it just won't rain when you want it to. Lucky for us today we had water enough to keep our fluids up.

Thanks to Redrover 09 and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^]

Found during a caching tour of the Murraylands with TeamAstro to complete the Australian Mountain Peaks and South Australian Rivers series, and any other caches along the route. Thanks for the cache Redrover 09!

Found a different way to get to this - TFTC

TFTC very smart

Out caching around Murry Bridge, Karoonda, Tailem Bend with Team Waldron today
Clever containers, lotta work gone into them, good coords
Had fun & enjoyed some sunshine
TFTC Redrover 09

A day out with TheWhiteDogGang..

We had a day to clear a couple of new series around Murray Bridge.

All caches that we found were in good condition.

We quickly hada cache in hand.

TFTC

Quick stop before hitting the trail...
TNLNSL
Thanks

After completing the nearby Mountain Peaks trail we stopped by to grab this one.
We had the required TOTT in the geomobile and soon had the log book signed.

Many thanks for the hide Redrover 09…..a favourite point on it’s way.

A cool little hide

No rain today.

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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A quick stop here cache was easily found and is all good

Today I headed to Murray bridge with Freddo to complete the two new series: south Australian river and the Australia peaks. Plus a few others in the area before going for a walk near Monarto to find a few of the new series.
All up 128 finds for the day.

Thanks for the cache

Took a few extra fingers, but Owl had the requisite TOTT in the Owlmobile. Teamwork!

A caching day had been organised with Doctor Owl heading to Murray Bridge and Tailem Bend to find a couple of new series along with other newish caches we came across on our travels. [^] A fun day was had and we ended up finding more than we had anticipated.

We hadn't read the cache description before getting here but luckily Owl had the required TOTT in the car and we managed to grab the cache on the second attempt.

Thanks for the cache Redrover 09.

Out with Redrover09 doing maintenance check Cache in good working order as described to retrieve log

Thanks Redrover 09 for this cache. I always like these, they are great fun. I carry lots of water in the car for caching trips, so retrieved a bottle. I drained almost 2 litres into this one and the little fella didnt move. He was stuck to the bottom. I used a magic device kept on hand for just this occasion, and the container was eventually prised loose. Book signed and back in play, its rattling around a bit now so hopefully the next finder will have an easier time.

Only an occasional shower today. Thanks Redrover 09.

Found and quickly sorted with RydeR222. Had left a larger water bottle home but scrounged enough to do the deed!! Thanks Redrover09 for the adventure ...................... a favourite!!

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*FTF* AT 0625 getting ready for work when alerts were chiming on my phone, after checking this new cache came out well who could resist on such a nice morning , threw the geo pup Douglas into the car and headed off with tott, easily found and cache retrieved. Thank you for another well designed cache Redrover09. Fave on the way .