Karoonda CFS Karoonda, South Australia, Australia
By pineapplegoldy on 21-Aug-22. Waypoint GC9WX4R

Apologies for the late log, we have just come back from a 10 day holiday in SA and Western Vic and spent as much time with family as possible so no time for logging lolWe are on holidays in SA and have spent the past 4 days catching up with JMelbs family in Adelaide (and only found 2 caches during those 4 days!!) Today (30/9) we checked out of our accommodation with the intention of finding some local caches then some of the Wandering Heroes caches on the way to Karoondah, our destination for the night. We had lunch at the Train Park at Tailem Bend and and then set off to do the Wandering Hero Caches, We found about 15 of the WH series but time was getting on so we decided we should make our way to Karoondah and check in to the Caravan Park. We then set off to find caches around the town of Karoondah and this was next. We easily calculated GZ and set off there and the cache was a nice easy find. TFTC pineapplegoldybluey - GJMMelb

Left the van at the RV Park and out exploring. Thanks pineappleredandbuey for this multi Tftc

In town for the day, goid coordination. TFTC

We were in Karoonda late in the afternoon and we stopped to attempt this multicache. Data collection was straightforward and we soon had the final location. Then it was a short drive to GZ were accurate coordinates led to a quick find - luckily the taller member of the team went to look for this hide. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks pineapplegoldy for the cache.

Something special or unusual goes here:Some quick googling beforehand meant just stopping for the cache. We wandered past this one to turn around and see it staring us in the face.! The Generic Bit:The usual trio of puzzle solvers were available for Tuesday Trekking today. Ttrogg and Mrs. S.A. Sewer Rats Starfishes pond today so we could set out eastwards to do some maintenance on the Wandering Heroes trail and of course collect a few caches on the way.. A lot of driving and quite a few caches visited and checked or maintained, yet we were still able to have a full day of laughs, adventures and a picnic lunch. ***Thanks pineappleredandbluey for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. *** Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

To end a brilliant June Long Weekend event, we did some final few caches on the way home. TFTC!

Another one in this series, today the cache was found here and is all goodThis weekend Courtneyrose_ and I headed to Lameroo for the annual June long weekend event, along the way we stopped to find a few caches as well as finding some in the local, the last day we detoured home by some more unfound caches.Thanks for the cache

Found with Greg and Judy, Ronice88 and Weirdobiker under the banner of Vic Bandits on the SA JLWE event at Lameroo.This is our generic log, anything exceptional will be added.TFTC

We are in Lameroo for the annual JLWE event which is the Lameroos Ludicrous Legwarmer event this year with an 80s theme.Out and about with Ronice88, Riddell and gregandjudy to collect this series of caches which are quite a way from home. We are signing as Vic Bandits todaySorry for the generic logs this group of caches. Nice little multi quickly solved and a quick find

Three cheers for CFS! Having a blast with weirdobiker, Riddells and gregandjudy AKA VIC BANDITS to save space. And exploring our vast country. Really enjoying the far away horizons and this flat country that is so different to home base at higher altitudes. Im on a multi mission having headed west to the JLW event in Lameroo via Curyo so here I am chipping away at the mad 20 caches in each LGA challenge plus lots more. TFTC and the fun.

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 and enjoyable week.

[^] [:o)] Went for a weekend with another Zenior Zombie... Planned a bit of JLWE mischief [:o)] And found your cache! No Legwarmers needed in Lameroo this time of year! 40 +++ Another fine tribute to the local CFS. Did you know the Top of the Torrens Theatre Group is doing a 24 hour fundraising mystery show for the Mt Pleasant CFS on April 14 ? No... - well look them up on facebook. It'll be fun and support these great fire folk! See you all here in June!!! Thank you pineapplegoldy for this cache hide and ongoing care and maintenance ---------------- ----------------------In a dangerous world filled with rusty old mint tins and solid caches falling from trees - - - a cache a day keeps us agile... sort of --------Caches are logged using the resources of gsak, garmin, and androids, occasionally AI too! (And a little rubber stamp ) Work gets in the way - and some may take longer to log than others due to mixed technology and need for sleep! The skill and talent of some Zenior Zombies helps, and maybe a spot of luck too [:o)]----------Cache carefully and make sure Travel Bugs are the Only bugs you share and pass on Clean as you go and cache the countryside Big thanks to those placing quality caches out and about around our country areas, in nice safe places and containers especially! - it keeps our game fun for all Of course we do appreciate if you actually did read all this extra addition to the log word count! There's a challenge somewhere out there, or so we've been told! You win a virtual smiley for the effort and getting to the end of the log Maybe if I worked out where it is I could do it and go back to normal logs again ! If you find the challenge let me know and perhaps we can put an end to these long logs !!! Maybe not though - as someone actually did read to the end and alerted me to just a project GC badge that requires long logs [:o)] Well at least it's not as bad as finding a mint tin! Did you get that... stop putting out rusty mint tins, just stop it, now!!! C'est fini... For now... ... until tomorrow! PS:Don't forget to put the SA June Long Weekend in your diary for 2024 too... leap back into the 80s - GCAK1D5 - Lameroo's Ludicrous Legwarmers

Heading to Lameroo for some JLWE planning by following an unfound cache route with Mattycat, with temps for the weekend over 40 degrees we had the car nice and cool plenty of fluids and hopefully some quick finds, fortunately we could collect and calculate the new GZ from the coolness of the car before heading off to GZ for a straight forward findTFTC pineapplegoldy

Find # 14322I'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 pineappleredandbluey

Quickly found with Nibletricecakes on Day 6 of our Adelaide Leap Year Mega trip. TFTC.

Tailem Bend Day3 Camped at the Waterfront Caravan ParkToday we continues our journey along the Heroes Trail one we had started some years ago.We chose a small section, found many good hides many reflcting the geocaching owner.Thanks pineapplegoldy for hiding this cache.

Found it! I had 1 more multi to find before leaving Karoonda and heading north and this was it. Took longer than it should at GZ as it was the first cache today hidden in this way! TFTC!

Respect. Another neat hide in this great series.I will apologize right now, because everything from here on is here solely for the purpose of padding the word count and winning that one hundred word diamond badge again. Somebody moved the goal posts. So many caches to find. So many caches to log. We find them, sign them and replace them.This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and an Apple iPhone 11 using the marvelous Cachly app. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs macro.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. Apologies for the generic part of the cache log. We do apologise for the generic logs. Thanks to all the cache owner for placing this cache here for our enjoyment.Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke fr den Cache. Gracias por el cach. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos ktkst. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas. Ksznm a rejtst.I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I SAs Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. Cant wait!!South Australia is the place be for GCA1DNA - February 29th, 2024 in Adelaide! Hope to see you at The Great Leap Forward! Count down: less than half a year to go.Have you got the balls to geocache in South Australia...

Out with weredunn4 picking up a few caches in the Tailem Bend / Karoonda area.A quick find stamp and return here todayTFTC

Another solid cache in this excellent series.

Enjoy exploring around KaroondaTFTC

Day 2 of my Geocaching weekend away to do a maintenance Run on all my caches along the Murray River and surrounding areas. Today was from Wynarka to Berri and fixing all my Wandering Hero caches and getting some more finds along the way of course.Another one of the CFS caches down but plenty more to be done.TFTC pineapplegoldy

We worked out this multi whilst we were in the area checking out some of the Wandering Heroes.

Log signed "Fabulous Randoms"

On a caching trip with Feathertop, McLookers and GoodLook. What a fun trip. The weather was warm and so was the company. We can really recommend staying in the 'new' Karoonda Tourist Park - the cabin was fantastic (and solar powered/kind on the environment).

Thanks so much for placing this cache.

Our Second Day up here that yielded about 118 finds. Most of the finds were along the wandering heroes series...

An early 7am start with hot weather predicted.
Caching with Mclookers, GoodLook and The Dame today so we had a lot of banter and fun.
2 nights in Karoonda meant plenty of time to complete a few local caches.
Cheers
Thanks pineappleredandbluey

Thanks pineappleredandbluey for the multi.

I was out and about with "Fabulous Randoms" (how we signed the logs) - consisting of Feathertop, McLookers and TheDame. A girls trip which was full of fun and interesting adventures.

A couple of days in the country was fantastic.

We enjoyed finding your cache. thank you for your contribution to the game.

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Will we see you at the Mega in Adelaide, South Australia on 29 February 2024?

Check out GCA1DNA to log your will attend and to find out more.

Quick find at GZ after gathering the info yesterday.

On a caching adventure today with feathertop, GoodLook and The Dame. Log signed Fabulous Randoms. We are enjoying the warmer weather.

Thanks for placing the cache pineapplegoldy.

Was being taxi for Don't Panic Arthur at The Bend today and made good use of the time between drop off and pick up by adding to my smilie count from the surrounding area. Made sure I got the twelve new Wandering Heroes that had appeared since my last taxi duties and found quite a few others as well. This was one of 36 for the day.
Another one from another nice series found. Replaced the wet log with a fresh one.
Thanks to pineappleredandbluey for putting out this cache.
Cache #13840 for me.

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

****SA’s Leap Year Event GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. Can’t wait!!****

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Out and about in the great company of Suscoe, this was our starting point for the day, with a CFA member on board, this cache was of special interest.

Thanks to pineapplegoldy for adding this cache to the gameboard.
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Suscoe was out for another day of caching with our very good friends Phetlern. It was a cloudy and rainy day at times with lots of cloud and wind. It was so different to yesterday.
We continues to found lots of caches, with finds along the Wandering Heroes trail, The Armpits series and the Ice Cream Series along with a few other nearby caches and Adventure Labs as we wandered the countryside.
We enjoyed finding these caches and we had a fun day out.
Thanks to pineappleredandbluey.

A pleasant visit to a nice town. Thanks pineapplegoldy.

Thanks for the cache! From two Argentinians working near here.

Thanks to Moroldies for replacing the completely sodden log in a new zip lock bag.

Pa and I are on the move from Pinnaroo to Karoonda. Originally I suggested a day trip out from Pinnaroo to the caches at Marama so that I could pick up another LGA. Pa noticed the Silo Art in Karoonda and so we have camped here for the night.

We arrived in time for a cuppa then took an amble up the beautiful walkway into town. After lunch I commandeered the car and set out after as many of the remaining caches around town as I could. This was one of them.

All caches were found in good condition unless a comment is made.
TFTC Pineappleredandbluey SL TNLN

A quick find while spending a few nights in Karoonda on our way to NSW.TFTC

We came we gathered our info.
Did the calculations.
Then off to GZ.
Cache was soon located. Tftc

Southern Autumn adventure Day 51. Mid North section of SA trip Day 22. Mount Barker 2. Today and yesterday and tomorrow are really transitional to me getting to Mildura in time to do the Paddle Steamer with friends from Canberra. I journeyed to a spot about 35km South of Loxton near a location called Veitch via Murray Bridge an Karoonda for lunch. Before I left I spent an hour or so near Mount Barker having a final go at a few multis with difficulties and other local caches. The rain started while I was out and did not let up for the rest of the day. As I traveled, I did manage to stop a few times, getting wetter all the time, but I was keen to find some caches. At the final stop for the day I found a remote patch of roadside rest area and sat quietly till it was time to leave the next day.

In Karoonda, I did two multi's, both GZs the opposite sides of town, but two good finds.

Thanks for the cache pineapplegoldy

42768.17 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & March 2023 Sight of Urania A#514

**Albida**

Had this one worked out a while ago but chose to detour this way while chasing heroes today. TFTC Goldy. Log book is a bit damp!

Stay at Murray Bridge for two nights with Everlasting and Found the cache and logged the log with Everlasting pineapplegoldy, Thank you so much for placing it.

Accompanied with crank1, we enjoyed the trip and detour find it and sign the log. Thanks for the cache and hunt.

On my way down to Murray Bridge getting more of the Wandering heroes trail that have appeared since I was here last. Staying in Karoonda tonight.

After looking at the weather last night, I thought today might be a good one to head out and find a few caches. Looking at the map for somewhere to go, I noticed a small cluster of multis that I hadn’t found, including a new and as yet unfound cache, so decided to head out this way.

This morning I headed off reasonably early after breakfast. The required information was soon collected and final coordinates calculated. Then it was off to GZ just a short distance away for a quick find.

Thanks pineapplegoldy for the cache.

Another in this series solved and found.
Alas the logbook, sans baggie, is saturated.
I was going to leave a fresh logbook, but without baggie, it would've just served as a sponge itself...
If the next finder can bring a logbook and baggie that'd be great.
TNLNSL
Thanks

A very quick little multi TFTC

Out for a days caching with Seatherwaite and Astro.

Our journey took us as far as Alawoona and then back to Murray Bridge via a less than direct route..

Numbers were calculated and then it was off to find a cache..

TFTC

No fires today. The station was all quiet.

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

Found with Team Waldron and TeamAstro during a circuit of the Murraylands from Murray Bridge to Karoonda, via Kulde Road and the Karoonda Highway to Allawoona, and south to the deserted locality of Multapa before heading for home. Thanks for the cache pineappleredandbluey!

Luckily I wasn’t trying to put out a fire here as it took me far too long to find this one. 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.*
Our main focus was on the "On Your Bike" Wherigo series, which we really enjoyed.
Biggest disappointment was solving all the Paddle Steamer puzzles, then driving within 4km of them before finding the roads all completely turned to sticky slush and unusable!
*We visited many other good caches and other trails on our trip and had a lot of fun!*

**Really appreciate the cache owners effort putting this container out.**
We soon located the hide.
All logs stamped: **tm/ww NZ**

Found by Mary and David at 10:10. Always a relief when the numbers agree. The sun is shining. Our thanks to pineapplegoldy.

While on our way east with ilook4geo for a couple of days, we stopped here to pick up this multi cache, which proved to be an easy find. The log had both names added to mark our visit and all was returned to place before we continued on to the next cache. Thanks for this cache placement go to OZGrumpy.

Happy to be out caching with goingplaces2 and adding some more smiley faces to the map. Log was signed and replaced. TFTC.

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

We are enjoying our time travelling SA. Visiting fantastic towns, ruins, beaches, and cliffs, but our favourite is the remote country. Thanks to all the COs for taking us on this geo-guided tour.

Fun easy find

Quick sort out of the coordinates and a quick find on getting to GZ!!! Thanks for the hide!!!

FTF @ 0935, Sitting at the vets this morning with Douglas I spied this one, we were soon finished and on our way to Karoonda, it didn't take long to get there being as there was virtually no traffic, got to GZ and took the hint too much too heart, well I soon spotted the cache and signed the log, happy danced back to the car and started back towards Karoonda when I saw a suspicious car pass me, I later found out it was Gizmo's Gang - TYFTC pineapplegoldy very nice.

Missed it by that much! Passed Ghosty7 only a few hundred metres from GZ.
STF at 9:55
TFTC pineapplegoldy

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