Canoe Tree Alexandrina Council, South Australia, Australia
By Freddo on 24-Jul-22. Waypoint GC9XJ67

Thanks! Might need new paper soon

Today I decided to stop for this one instead of driving straight past. TFTC

Found a dead possum near the cache

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An interesting tree with a huge scar from boat making. I wonder how many years ago this tree provided the canoe?After a CITO event in Victor I decided to take a different route home and find a couple more caches.I do enjoy cruising along in the countryside, taking in the various views, colours, smells and discovering new places.TFTC FreddoKeep smiling

With a day of warm, sunny weather, before a week of clouds of and rain, I decided to make the most of it and head out for a day of caching. One of the targets for this afternoon was to head to Scott Conservation Park for a good stretch of the legs and search for a few caches. Having done what I was after in the conservation park, I decided to go after a few caches in the nearby area before heading home. All caches were found in good condition, unless otherwise stated, in what was an enjoyable afternoon making my way around the dirt roads of country South Australia.Find #11222, at 03:24 pmTFTC

Found!!

Found with muggle husband on the way home from Goolwa after a few lovely days at Marine Cove with geo daughter and granddaughters. A touch of deja vu thinking Id found one here years ago. TFTC Freddo. No chocolate frogs to be seen. TNLNSL

Travelling with iluvtrekking from our home state of WA on a SA caching foray. On our way to Port Elliot for a few days and picking up caches along the way. After recording our visit we watched a gymkhana for a few minutes across the road in the paddock. Thanks for the find. LCNU

Whoop whoop

We visit Swan Hill, Mildura, Renmark, Barossa Valley, Victor Harbour, Tailem Bend and the last night at Ballarat. Stopped for few caches on the way. We had a lot of fun travelling these roads and seeing the farms and wildlife along the way. We found a range of caches. Many thanks to the CO's for placing and maintaining these caches.

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Found while out exploring. TFTC

On the way down to the Murray Mouth. Called in on this one. Nice findTFTC SL

Quick find. Thanks

Easy find with earthlightVery busy road Tftc

Found with The X-Trailers as we head to Victor Harbour.Cache is all ok.Quick find.TFTC

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.

Tftc

Tftc. Coordinates off but hint was great.

An impressive tree! Tftc

Mr Tardis was out for a motorbike ride through the back roads, reading down south, and stopped here to find this one.I found the cache in the first place I looked - don't you just love it when that happens?Signed the log. Thanks for the cache Freddo the Hot Chocolate Frog.

ThanksFTC, from Noosaville QLD Up a creek without a ..Canoe.

TFTC - fascinating history. Thank you.

Bullertrout and I are slowly making our way to Strathalbyn picking up a few caches on the way. TFTC Freddo the Hot Chocolate Frog#16683

Paddle Chick and myself are heading to Victor Harbour area as she is going for a paddle today. Getting caches along the way

Nice, easy find with a touch of deja vu. TFTC! x

After some difficulty using my phone, I was able to locate the cache using the hint.

Finally getting round to logging a few caches naughtybunny and I had done on New Year's Day. Today was a beaut day for exploring the Goolwa / Hindmarsh Island area. Ended up getting about 25 for the day. This was the last for the day as it was on the way home. What an amazing tree! The cache was found quickly. TNLN. Cheers.

Last cache of the day as we returned home from a day out caching in Goolwa and Hindmarsh Island.I remember when this tree was vandalised. My father was a keen amateur photographer, and had a special fondness for Canoe Trees, so we knew this one well. TFTC Freddo

Great canoe tree. Cache quickly found on my travels towards the coastThanks Freddo for bringing me here and contributing to this great game for others to enjoy. Happy trails, Deanside

An interesting tree with a lot of history here, cache found in the obvious place and is all goodCourtneyrose_ and I headed to Goolwa for a night away to complete the local parkrun, along the way to and from we stopped to find a few caches. Thanks for the cache

Unlucky today

Having a great day out with everybody tftc

Found it having fun on way to beach thought ill grab a few on way S/L tftc with yatesy222

Looking at some land at Currency Creek and given its a beautiful day, thought wed find a cache or two. Amazing tree! Watch the traffic. TFTC

Found on a day trip to Victor Harbour with clare007 & jafaz62. Stopping at the famous canoe tree where the galahs love to sit to grab the cache.
TFTC

After the rain cleared, it was a pleasant drive from the hills. The coordinates were out, but hevwalker & jafaz62 took the logical caching view and located the cache. Thanks Freddo

Didn’t find

TFTC. Amazing canoe tree.

Tftc, with grandies on a sunny day, cheers

1015 on 23/6 tftc great hide

Coordinates were pointing us 10m away but the hint made sure we found it. Impressive canoe cut from the tree. Signed log at 10:15am with 4maal.
Thanks Freddo the Hot Chocolate Frog

Thanks for sharing! Our first cache!! Family loved it.

Thanks Freddo and the Hot Chocolate Frog for bringing us here and maintaining this cache, passed this tree many times over the years, finally stopped today to grab your cache tftc

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TFTC! Really cool to learn about canoe trees. Picked up the TB.

A quick find after a mini break in Goolwa. Dropped TB. TFTC

A quick drive by find, sign and return here today
TFTC

I followed the compass tracker but couldn’t find it

Quick find on my way home. My favourite canoe tree in the area TFTC

This is the largest scar tree we have ever seen. It is amazing that thick bark could be prised from this large tree to make a substantial canoe. Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Freddo for the cache and for bringing us to this wonderful location.

Snails, I found snails. Oh there it is on closer inspection ??. Busy, busy road and dinosaurs do not blend into the scenery. TFTC Freddo, SL.

Thankyou for a great cache history

Took a BBQ lunch to Clayton Bay on a glorious Autumn day. Grabbed this one after making a quick diversion.
Many thanks for the hide Freddo

Sorry for late log - fabulous scar tree with an interesting back story too

It was time for a driving break and I wanted to check out this amazing canoe tree. TFTC

A nice easy find and a great spot

Found him! I think the coords are off maybe? TFTC

Late log! Found in Feb 2021. Very cool place to stop. Tftc! Sabo + JJ

Tftc, great tree and cache.
Left a collection of kinder surprise toys.

Found while meandering my through the area grabbing a few caches before the new year. This is one found today. A quick find and all good here.

Find #4925 on 1 Jan 2023.
TFTC Freddo!

Lots of canoe trees around here clever fellows TFTC Freddo

Wandered off to see some river views and a little southern countryside with Purrfect Di and Sebastbat.

Found this spot, a tree, a cache, and signed your log of course too! Might need some of these soon on the rivers nearby! Slight sense of deja vu here.

Much appreciation to Freddo for placing and maintaining this cache on our ever expanding SA geo-map


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Exploring allover wherever we can - searching, spotting hidden items and signing cache logs using some or all of the resources of GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife), Whereyougo, Garmin Montana 750i, Montana 680t, Etrex 35, Samsung S21u, Samsung S9, with Geocaching App, c:Geo, or Geooh Go, and Android Auto and other maps... or often with just a guess or plain old dumb luck
Plenty of the luck stuff actually !!!

*Almost all the online logs are composed and published with GSAK of course.*


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Beware ! Caching is a very hazardous activity!
Look out for sand, mud, floodwaters, snakes, surprise cliffs, roos, wombats, things falling from trees, bulldust, and floods, and try not to get tetanus from rusty mint tins and don't fall off your ladder...
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Ensure Travel Bugs are the Only bugs you share and pass on (Covid cancels caching!)
Keep a safe distance - cache the countryside


Great of all those placing quality caches out and about around the country areas,
in sensible safe places especially! - it keeps our game fun, and interesting

We do appreciate if you actually did read all this extra addition to the log word count! There's a challenge somewhere out there, apparently! You win a virtual smiley for the effort and getting to the end of the log Maybe if I worked out where I could do it and go back to normal logs again ! If you find the challenge let me know and we can put an end to these long logs !!!




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Quick find next to a seriously busy road!!! Thanks for the hide!!

Day trip to Goolwa. Oh for a hot chocolate, you sexy thing!

TFTC

On our way home and taking a break from driving to take the opportunity to find this cache. Thanks.

Found with MazzyMay on our way home from our South Australian holiday. An interesting site although it took a little while to find the cache as our coordinates kept jumping around. It was the first place we looked but we obviously didn't look well enough. TFTC

On a road trip with locus cache and the K9’s we stopped at swan hill to grab some lunch on our way to Adelaide for a few days.
We pulled up at the tree and wow another Victorian pulled up in front of us but these lovely people were just caravaners who likes the history of the tree.
Ttfc

Quick find thanks to the hint. Interesting tree!

I only noticed this cache was new version a little while ago....
Found with sir_spectre, blinky nd Chloe the geodoggo.
Thanks

found with mogni. on route to clayton bay to do the lab cache there. Is this the 2nd or 3rd cache i have found at the canoe tree. quick find like the last few times.

Found today on a nice Saturday afternoon out caching with my Shatzy.

Again!

TFTC
Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

Stopped by on way past to elsewhere.
A familiar spot for a cache, although a different hide than previously here.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Another lovely day in Tailem bend with BettyBoo3747 and the geodoggies.
We drove down to Victor Harbor to do some AdLabs and assorted caches (and ride the tram out to the island). Unfortunately, it was drizzling, cold and generally miserable in Victor Harbor so we changed plans.

I hope the creek had a bit more water in it, that would have been one heavy canoe!
Interesting history on how they made their canoes.
Thanks, Robmc.

#20153. Day 19 of our holiday in SA . Plan A was to drive to Victor Harbor to do some AdLabs and take a trip out to Granite Island. It was a sunny morning when we left Tailem Bend. We did some caching on the way and as we neared VH the wet, cold, drizzly rain moved forward to meet us. Also with the start of the school holidays the place was so, so busy. We cut our losses and turned to Plan B - that was to head back to camp and grab a few more on the return trip if we could without getting too wet. Managed to find 28 caches and do a couple of AdLabs.

Amazing tree and very interesting cache page reading. Patience indeed and such ingenuity.

Thanks Freddo

Tftc

In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location.
(HaHa). 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 - Freddo the Hot Chocolate Frog [^]

We like our canoes made of fiberglass, we dont think our canoe building skills would be anywhere near as good as this trees gift to the boat world.
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Thanks Freddo for the cache. Found, signed and replaced. Took nothing, left nothing.

I've been here before for a cache.

Tftc in this spot and excellent description.

Another cache find on our 2022 South Australian Adventure. A very impressive tree. Thanks for the insight and the cache.

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.

I've gone past this tree countless times and I think there was a previous cache here before which I think I found. Thanks Freddo.

FTF. 9.44 am. LTF

2nd to find at 10.22 just missed out
Easy find on a fresh morning
Tftc freddo

Stopped by on the way home from caching with the FTF. Shame I wasn’t with him earlier in the day.

Thanks for the cache Freddo.
Found on 27/7/2022 at 17:09.
Find #15370.

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