SAR18 - Gawler River Burdett, South Australia, Australia
By OZGrumpy on 08-Aug-21. Waypoint GC9EW3W

Found by The Empire + HThe warmth of the day still lingered despite the lack of sunshine, creating a peaceful, almost dreamlike atmosphere as we began our drive this morning. The countryside around us was alive with the freshness of spring, and along the roadside, patches of native orchids peeked out from the undergrowth. Their delicate pinks, whites, and purples added bursts of colour to the landscape, standing out against the green hills and eucalyptus trees. Most of the caches were quick and easy finds, though a few took a bit longer than expected. Thanks for the cache, and the trail OZGrumpy.-M

Out from Murray Bridge this today, carrying on where I finished off yesterday. Thanks OZGrumpy for this series. TFTC

Out caching on International Geocaching Day. A bit wet this morning, but this didn't deter us from making the finds. Enjoyed this series. TFTC

Finishing off this Series and hopefully the rest of the caches along this road. TFTC

Travelling with iluvtrekking from our home state WA. Spending a few days in Murray Bridge to cache the surrounds. Last day in the area so making the most of it. Loving the scenery that we pass as we move through the caches. Thank you for this series OZGrumpy

We enjoyed a few days away from home, enjoying the scenery, the people we met and, of course, finding cachesThanks to all who made this an enjoyable week.

Cache checked, all ok

Looked long and hard for this one, then dusk fell upon us. Time to move on we are afraid.Thanks anyway.

Find # 14063I'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 OZGrumpy

Geoturtle37 and I are making our way towards The Great Leap Forward. A mega being held just out of Adelaide on February 29th 2024. She is very keen to get a mega on a leap day. There seems to be a lot of Victorians heading across to attend.We had finished the AMP series and moved onto this one, almost without realising the change of cache name. Again, these were nice quick caches to find so we will complete them all if we have time.Thank you for all the work that has gone into setting up the cache pages, putting out this series and now maintaining them for all to enjoy.Please accept our apologies for the generic logs but we have sooooo many to catch up on. Thank you!

Heading towards Adelaide I came across Papi4506 and Geoturtle37 so I stopped for a chat then jumped in a caching convoy to find some caches. This was a neat little series - easy to find. Nice geology lesson too about each river. Thanks for the fun and adventure.

Well, I was my last Geocacher this trail today. Thanks for the fun!

Caching from Perth to Canberra via the Nullarbor. TFTC.This is a very large series. I will do a bit more of it.

We headed back out of town today to try to wipe out a few more of the many in the area. We started this sequence yesterday and hope to finish it today. Most were fairly quick finds but there three that we just couldn't get. TFTC and the trail

Found with Beary Organised. This is the last one for today as we head into Tailem Bend to book into the Water Front holiday park to book in for a couple of nights all thanks to SA Tourism River Revival voucher.
TFTC TNLNSL

Quick find with CherryRose. TFTC TNLNSL

Quick find today while introducing LittleLeah79 to power trails.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker
DGS

TFTC, great spot. found with Beaker.

Last Sunday it was Yorkes with the 3 Stooges so today I thought I’d head South to the Murray Bridge area to tackle some more of the South Australian River series (plus others along the way)
A straight forward find, stamp and return here
TFTC

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.
Thanks to OZGrumpy

Caching from Tailem Bend to Murray Bridge. Lot's of caches and only got there in dark. Will hit the township tomorrow. Still lot's to get so will leave for another trip

Day 14 of our loop through Vic and SA then home.

Today fitzy_1965, albida33 & I headed out early to get the caches in the area. We signed as MAF or FAM to save room.

Our aim was to collect the nearby Challenges, then the River & Peaks series and anything in between. Once we understood the hints on the River series, it made the finds so much easier….a clever idea. A great day with no DNF’s.

All caches were found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned.

31,245. Found with minniek and albida33 (signing either as FAM or MAF to save room and just for fun) during another great day of caching in South Australia).

Rutherglen Mega and South Australia Trip Day 14. Today we headed out to drive the Straya series of Challenges plus we also managed to complete the Australian Mountain Peaks (AMP) and South Australian Rivers (SAR) series with a few bonus caches thrown in. A great days caching with no Did Not Finds which was also a bonus. This was the next find of the day, and a quick find once at GZ. Signed, replaced, and then we headed off to the next one on the list.

Thanks OZGrumpy !!

Southern Autumn adventure Day 15. Post Mega South East SA trip Day 9. Our second day spent in Tailem bend was to target the Straya Challenge series. This did not take all day so we were able to get to the Australian Peaks series and the South Australian Rivers series. It was interesting to see some of the 2014 Mega sites re-used. With the end of the day closing in we targeted a bit of the newer section of Wandering heroes, as usual a wide variety of caches in this series. Today is was Fitzy_195, MinnieK and Albida33 and we signed as F.A.M. or similar.

The hints on the rivers took bit to work out, so that was a fun challenge, but once we worked it out it was a wonderful way to provide some extra information.

Thanks for the cache OZGrumpy

41614.111 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2007 April Signal A#90

**Albida**

TFTC OZGrumpy for your cache SAR18 - Gawler River that we found today.
Camped in Tailem Bend for a few days before making our way to Rutherglen for the Mega. The plan today was Plan B. We originally planned to find the Straya Challenge series fro Karoonda, but our camping spot was not available. We went out from Tailem Bend to find some caches on the way and then sign the challenges.
This was one of the caches we targeted along the way.

Find count : 15754

Stamped as JAMS (JJ52. Allister W, mogni, sir_spectre). Found with some or all of the JAMS crew.
Thanks

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.

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 OZGrumpy from mogni

Out and about to cache some more rivers before it warmed up, felt hotter than 31 degrees. TFTC OZGrumpy, terrific job and maintenance on your series.

Well there was an event I saw published in Bordertown hosted by Roaming Howie and since I was able to have 4 days off I decided to head over to attend the event and then to also do a few of the On Ya Bike series to finish off my D/T loop.
Throw a few oldies into the mix for my Ausmer grid and it was going to be a busy weekend with lots of Km’s.
So after attending the event, finding the ones required on the OYB series, surviving the heat then wind and having a good nights sleep last night today is a new day.
After checking my map I realised I had missed a challenge series yesterday so I came back up this way to find those ones.
I’m now heading back in the right direction with a few hours delay.
Collecting caches that I come past as I have a bit more time on my hands today.
A nicer day today with the heat turned down a bit.
As I had to drive through this intersection I thought I might as well grab this one.
Another series that I must come back to one day.

Big things are continuing to happen! Are you joining the fun again in 2023?
THE
RUTHERGLEN
EVENT 2022
6th / 10th April 2023 – GC9MH9M – Rutherglen – Victoria

Thanks OZGrumpy TFTC.

Swan Reach to Murray Bridge staying in the showground.
Weather quite overcast but we headed out to do the mountain series & a few others along the way.
Road works along the way so we missed a couple.
Thanks for placing this cache.

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, OZGrumpy putting this series out.**
We soon located this hide along the South Australian Rivers trail.

Some of these caches were surprisingly hard to spot and this trail took quite a bit of time.
We could not find 2 of them after a good look, but likely to still be there.
All logs stamped: **tm/ww NZ**

Found by Mary and David at 14:10. Just love the buildings of Gawler. Our thanks to OZGrumpy.

Our last day in Tailem bend with BettyBoo3747 and the geodoggies.
After a big breakfast we completed the new AdLab in town and headed off for the SAR series.
We completed SAR series and a few other caches on the route.

A nice collection of caches and hides.
It was a good idea to put rings and tape to show where the cache should be returned to, it is just unfortunate many cachers don't follow the plan.
The co-ords were good, and where they weren't we searched out the ring to return the cache to hopefully where it should have been. Several were found on the ground (with higher hints).
We eventually located all the hides, (including the great Murray hide!) and really enjoyed the series.
Thanks, Robmc.

#20240. Day 21 of our holiday in SA . Our last full day here in SA and we awoke to find a new AdLab had been published in town. After a cooked breakfast we headed out in the geo-chariot to tick of the waypoints and see if we could claim FTF. Mission accomplished so off we went to the SAR series whilst it was still a clear day. Managed to pick up a few other caches and finish the series by 1.30pm, just as the first drops of rain were hitting the windscreen. Back at camp and relaxing now before our departure in the morning.

We managed to complete all of these today, thankfully. We discovered quire a few on the ground, managed to return quite a few to their rusty rings, or taped area or cable-tie rings but cache-creep seems to have been happening again. Middle River was 8 metres away so we went to GZ and miraculously found the metal ring and returned it to the correct spot. Harriet River we could not find the ring after finding the container on the ground Siccus River the container had some water in it and the log book was wet (we found it lying on the ground.). Left it at the indicated height. I think the tape on the branch is a great idea as it is a tad easier to spot than the well-camouflaged rusty rings when trying to return the cache to its correct place.

So many rivers, great information and a good series. We noted the different hide and thought it appropriate for a mighty river.

Thanks OZGrumpy

Nice find

Another cache find on our 2022 South Australian Adventure. It us a wonderful day, just perfect for geocaching.

We are enjoying our time travelling SA. Fantastic towns, ruins, beaches and cliffs & wine. Thanks to all the COs for taking us on this geo-guided tour.

Cache #11740
Was being taxi driver for DPA down to The Bend for the Supercars today. Between drop off and pick up it was time for some caching. Main aim was the South Australian Rivers series, a few of the new Wandering Heroes and anything else that needed finding without going too far off the planned route.
Thanks to OZGrumpy for putting out this cache for us to find.

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

This was Day 7 of our trip to SA. I was in the splendid company of Cybergran who assumed chief navigator role again today.
Quite a different series here with novel hides hanging in trees. The height clue helped immensely though about 10 caches were lying on the ground and needed reattachment. These caches did take a lot longer and on a Saturday morning this road was busy. Some hairy parking spots but mostly we managed. Just one DNF where we felt unsafe parking at.
I had no idea SA was flush with this many rivers. Loved your Murray River cache too.

Logged as Ftop and Cgran.
Thanks OZGrumpy

Cruising down these rivers
On a sunny Saturday
Finding lots of caches
With feathertop today
Glad you did the research
And placed the caches near.
Really enjoyed cruising along
And finding them all here

A quick find on our last day at the at Murray Bridge showground before heading to Vic and then to NSW.Thanks OZGrumpy for this trail.

All great adventures must come to an end! After five days of intense caching and socialising in the Murraylands, with geo-friends from Victoria, NSW and SA it is time to head back east, with the compulsory stops, to stretch and find a cache or two of course. Great river info and a cache!

Thanks OZGrumpy for placing caches in such interesting locations.
31836

**Thanks OZGrumpy for the search anyway. **

Today we are starting a new journey with Brisal5, our aim is to have a fun day and make loads of memories. Laughing was a main priority and there was plenty of this. We did the Happy Arm Pit series, some more Wandering heroes, SAR, ice-cream and AMP. All caches that needed any repairs were fixed. The short story is that we had a great day. SL TFTC

A quick morning find

Muff1 had snuck across the border to hit some power trails and were staying in Tailem Bend at present. Hey, I have a few down there I would like to get - so it was off to meet them for a long day caching. [^] We did some newish ones along Wandering heroes and that led us into the Happy Armpit Series. Early visit to the Tailem Bend Bakery for an early lunch and then it was off for Ice-Cream for dessert followed by South Australian Rivers and Australian Mountain Peaks series. Skipped stopping for any tea and continued unstill after dark by torchlight to finally completes the series.

SAR AND AMP SERIES:
Having arrive back at the start of the highway we were now able to proceed getting caches from the correct side of the road again. All were found, some easy - some not and some we left some DNA at.

Only one of the three goals from last year achieved. So once again I will trying to get the other two this year. [^] Should be easy as I only have to get two multi caches in July from the lockdown and couldn't get out. [:o)] The other was DNF's that came down from over 50 to the low teens before blowing out again but I really want to see only single a single digit this year.

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

Was surprised to find 2 caches awaiting LíB and I today. We signed log and left as found.
TFTC

Out for a Saturday drive with earthlight, caching of course
It was overcast and cool when we left the suburbs and drizzly rain on the freeway. Murray Bridge was dry, then the sun appeared after lunch and it became very warm ️
We had plenty of annoying mozzies and pesky flies keeping us company at every cache
All were quick finds today and in good condition.

TFTC OZGrumpy

A nice quick find. Such a lovely day to be out in the bush. Thank you OZGrumpy.

This series of caches were all fine specimens , some taking a bit longer to find than others .
We've heard about most of these rivers, but a few we had to read the description, then look them up to find out where they are on the map (well, the ones that are on a map) .
Found 2 caches here , so stamped both logs and hung them together (couldn't spot the ring they should hang from though) [B)]. TNLNSL.
Thanks again OZGrumpy.

TFTC. Fun facts. Enjoyable trail. Baby lid left

Hmmm what to do while hubby is in a conference in Murray Bridge?? Cache of course and boy did I cache!! Decided to start OZGrumpy's Australian Mountain Peaks series, and managed to finish it an also get 2/3 of their South Australian River series completed too!! A great day caching in some wet weather. 100 cache finds for me today.

TFTC another arvo/evening adding to out total. Girls had completed their homework so lets go and find some sneaky caches.

On the caching hunt today while staying at Tailem Bend with ilook4geo. We found all that we looked for except for one, so that was a good result for the day.
There was no problem in finding this one, the log soon had two more names added to mark our visit and we were on our way again. Thank you to OZGrumpy for this cache placement.

Had a fun caching day today with goingplaces2 and achieved a whole lot more smileys to colour the map. Caches were retrieved, each log was stamped and all was replaced as found. TFTC.

as we have a look around the area after attending the Mega at millicent this was one of the caches we found with good friends

A good day was had while grabbing these caches
Thanks OZGrumpy for placing them

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Honeysucker, Liz & Bruce. Blue sky day, so it’s a great day for caching. TFTC OZGrumpy
Find #3379 at 11:21.

Caching the trail with Wollaston, Liz&Bruce and HoneySucker.

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

TFTC OZGrumpy

Find # 1024

Thanks for arranging this hide. Travelling with Wollaston, Honeysucker and SeasonedBird.

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 OZGrumpy

Doing a numbers run in the Murray Bridge area. TFTC

Found after completing the mountain series...1 dnf ... great day of caching with hevwalker, froghoppin and Mattycat. Really enjoyed your series OZGrumpy, lots of fun, laughter, excerise and stories to tell later to all our caching friends. TFTC

A perfect, full, fun day of caching with scramping, froghoppin & Mattycat...we finished the Mountains now time to cool off in the rivers...
The aeroguard came in very handy for the multitude of Mozzies...
Thanks for the cache and the series, OZGrumpy, your work is greatly appreciated

Arrived with Mattycat for a days caching adventure catching up with Scramping and Hevwalker to tackle a few series down this way, after completing the mountain series we moved onto the river series and enjoyed the variation with only one failure missing or cache blindness CO will be checking tommorrow so time will tell. All up we had fun exploring the series as we navigated the waters
TFTC OZGrumpy

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!

We live near the North Para which ends up in this one!
A great introduction to SA rivers, something I think we had to draw on maps back in primary school in the dark ages
Sooooo many mozzies.... we had the aeroguard, but they certainly were persistent. Adding Ross River Virus to the bugs to avoid this year [:o)]
Good fun series, found all but one which seems to have flooded and washed away

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



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Lookout for mud, snakes, surprise cliffs, wild goats, wombats, bulldust, and lightning,
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FeatherWaite and I arrived early and decided to hit this series. Excellent coords meant most were quick finds. The odd one made us look - but all were where they were meant to be. We didn't use oxygen for these mountain peaks, just diesel and air for our laughs. Caches were signed as F.A.

Thanks to OZGrumpy 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 OZGrumpy!

Decided to head to Naracoorte to see the husband for the weekend. He had to work today so decided to start this series on the way there. Thought I might get them all but the crappy weather and my inability to quickly locate some of them meant I ran out of time to finish the rivers but I shall be back. Great to have some new caches on the very boring drive to Naracoorte to break up the journey. This series has clearly taken a lot of planning my thanks to the CO
TFTC OzGrumpy

Found during an outing with cows with guns.

In the Murray Bridge area to have a crack at some of the multitude of cache that are popping up everywhere and yours is one of them.
Thanks for the cache!

Found during an outing with cows with guns.

Apologies for the generic log

On a fine Saturday I set out with Southern Cross Caching an Uni and Medusa for a day around Murray Bridge. There were a couple of new series published recently and it seemed like a good place for a day out.

We started at the Lonely Lookout Cache, and I think this is the third cache I've found in this location over the years. Then went on to Slow Mail, and a few others around Eastern Murray Bridge.

After an average coffee at OTR we started the Australian Mountain Peak series, with a short side hussle for some bush fishing and then to Sunnyside. Its been years since I found the other cache at Sunnyside, and glad to see its still there. As a kid we used to live nearby and my parents would go skiing and fishing here with friends. I also spent a lot of time hanging around footy ovals on Saturday afternoons while my dad umpired the local games.

Following on from the Mountain Peaks we ventured on to the SAR series. I was thinking South Australian Railways, but it turned out to be rivers. I am surprised that dry South Australia has so many rivers!.

Turning back towards Murray Bridge we caught up on some of the more recent Wandering Heroes, I have met and know a lot of the heroes, but some are still just names and I hope to meet you in future.

Then on to the Hairy Armpit Series, but I misread that and it seems its Happy Armpit Series. The former is funnier

Getting late in the afternoon we still had an hour or so of daylight, so started on the Oz Mega Signal series. This was interesting because I remember riding my bicycle along this stretch of road in the 1970's as a 9 year old participating in a cub camp. We had to ride from Murray Bridge to a farmhouse near where we spent the night in a shed in the farm that fronts number #66, then rode to Jervois Oval the following day. All roads being gravel and having skinny tyres it was a long and grueling ride for a 9 year old. And the night was freezing.

All caches were found except for one DNF, and on the last three caches the rainstorm had finally hit and we were drenched, and it was completely dark. Finding a cache by torch in the bush in the dark in a wind and rain storm, well it stopped being fun and we decided to leave the final cache for another day. Over 200 caches found and this helps with a challenge cache that I've found but not logged in Victoria.

Thanks OZGrumpy for placing and maintaining the cache

Apologies for the generic log [|)]

This one was found on a big day out with shonkylogic and Unicycle. Our plan was to knock of the AMP mountain series along with the South Australian Rivers series, then head for the old 2014 Signal series. We almost achieved our goal of all three (after a few additions to the plan) which included a bush fishing expedition, a submarine hunt, quite a few wandering hero’s (including one up a tree) and several other caches here and there along the route but not far out of the way. We also found two down on the river bank at Sunnyside, which was one of several highlights for the day. We started around seven AM and finished after dark in pouring rain and a howling wind which put an end to our day as it was no longer fun, falling short of finishing the signal series but not before reaching a milestone of over 200 finds for each of us for the day. We only had one DNF for the day which was a great find to DNF ratio.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

Found at 12:14 on what started out as a perfect caching day with Shonkylogic and Southern Cross Caching. Perfect right up to the last three or so, where it was getting dark, cold, windy and rainy. In the end, that defeated us, even though there was just one cache left in the plan.

We had lunch somehwere along the Karoonda Highway at a picnic table, sandwiches supplied by Southern Cross Caching, chilli sauce supplied by Shonkylogic. The mozzies were a bit troublesome, but nothing compared to SXC's encounter with a snake.

It was so good to get out on one of these runs. There were plenty of old caches which have been on the must-do list for years, but also some newies.

Thanks for the hides

Out caching around Murry Bridge, Karoonda, Tailem Bend with Team Waldron today
Great series, excellent containers, good coords, clever clues
I learnt stuff today
Had fun & enjoyed some sunshine
TFTC OZGrumpy

A fday 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.



TFTC

On the trail with Hurtle and crossing paths with Scotty...

In all are travels we would not have even thought to traveled to this location.
(Ha Ha). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - OZ Grumpy [^]

Came out to find a few rivers this arvo...
Needed to use the hint often, and still had trouble spotting some of them..
Managed to complete the series without any DNFs, but finished last few in fading light, which added to the difficulty...
TNLNSL
Thanks

A perfect day to be out caching around the Murray Bridge area with CPwanderer & Gizmo's Gang.

Most were found successfully, and we bumped into a few friendly cachers.
Thanks for creating this series for others to enjoy OZGrumpy

Found it!

Last week I came out here to find the caches in the Australian Mountain Peak series with Doctor Owl which we enjoyed, not for one moment thinking that we were driving right past the first 18 of this new series. As it turned out the following day this new SA Rivers series was published and a plan was made to come out today to find all the rivers, some of which I had not heard of until now. [^]

Again another well thought out and presented series with caches mostly easily spotted with the hints helping in a lot of cases. As others have said we did have trouble with one and after searching for well over half an hour we had to make a PAF as there were lots of geo trails and we just could not spot that cache. After 2 phone calls we had very explicit instructions and soon spotted the well hidden cache.

It was a lovely day for another drive in the country and after we had finished the series we headed in to Tailem Bend for a late lunch stopping for a couple of caches along the way, then a few more before heading home via a coffee with CPwanderer.

Thanks for another great series OZGrumpy and what can we look forward to next.

Out caching today and reached this series after finding 10 on the way here. A nice informative series in which I knew a few and had been to even fewer times. Enjoyed the lot. Thanks OZGrumpy.

Found with CPwanderer and clare007 on a great day out.
Most caches were found quickly with only one initially eluding us. We returned after finding the remaining caches and thankfully Clare spotted the cache not too long after we resumed our search.
The weather was perfect and we even managed to find a picnic table for lunch.
TFTC and the series OZGrumpy

Located on a great day out with Gizmos Gang and clare007!!! Excellent coordinates and a nice wide vegetation verge made for an enjoyable wander!! All apart from #44 were quickly located ... in that case we had to return after finishing the others for a second and more successful look. We ran into Ghosty7, Freddo and Gridge98 also out on the trail. Thanks OZGrumpy for a great series!!

I have traveled from the head waters to the outlet. Try night kayaking in the estuary.

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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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...

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This was a great series, all the cache were found and some took some time to find but a lot of work had gone into this, hopefully the caches last and won’t blow off the hooks, all the cache were either signed with G + F or F + G

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

Poked my head outside and saw a gorgeous blue sky and sun shining, great day for caching I thought, so grabbed the pup and off we headed for a few more in this series, along the way I came across three suspicious characters walking out from behind some trees , I know those smiles I said to pup - it was CPwanderer, Gizmo's gang and Clare007., after a bit of a natter we headed off on our separate ways, I only drove a couple of Km's up the road and there spotted a vehicle pretty quickly sussed out they were more cachers, unable to stop there were horns blasting and smiling waves as we passed each other. a great day was had. TYFTC

A cold start to a beautiful sunny Winter’s day had us heading to the recently published Rivers of South Australia power trail.

All caches had good coords and were in excellent condition. Being South Australian ourselves we were very familiar with many of the rivers but there were still one or two we hadn’t heard of.

Many thanks for the cache OZGrumpy

Joint *FTF* @ 13:37

Out comes another spectacular offering from OZGrumpy. I wasn’t available when the mountains came out, but today is a different story. Let’s go!

I’ve come via Mannum and thought this would be a good starting point. I immediately run into 2y’stassies, still hunting for #18, and we find it together. They’re turning back after the multi, so I’m on my own from here. Super to finally meet them; our paths keep crossing in various locations.

Thanks for the cache and the series and a great afternoon of caching OZGrumpy.

The Gawler River is well known to us as we have visited its banks on several of our previous caching trips.

This was to be our last cache in this series for today as our original hunt list finished with the nearby multi and we needed to be back in Adelaide later this afternoon. For some reason Mrs Y'stassie had difficulty locating the hide. Perhaps it may have helped to read the hint or look at the terrain rating. For a minute or two she was considering an interesting object high on a branch above GZ.

She was just returning from seeking assistance from Mr Y'stassie when a cheerful voice asked if she was looking for what he was looking for. Otter61 appeared from the opposite direction. After a short discussion we turned and moved a metre or two away from GZ where we spotted a now familiar container. Another blank log book gave us a joint {FTF} with Otter61 at 13:35.

It was nice to finally meet Otter61 as we followed him around the Monarto area yesterday and have found some of his caches while caching in the Hills. We often spot his name in log books.

Thanks for this cache and the series so far OZGrumpy. We really appreciate the time and effort you must have put into creating this trail and look forward to completing it soon. The series has a little of everything, some challenges, good coordinates, good pull over areas not far from the hides (most appreciated in wet weather and when the road is busy), nice robust containers (nothing worse than being the first to find and cracking the container) and a variety of good hides.

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