Fill-R-Up Wolseley, South Australia, Australia
By Team Piggy on 30-Oct-02. Waypoint GCA276

As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm temporarily archiving this to keep it from continually showing up in search lists. Just contact us when you have the cache repaired, and assuming it still meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Was with Suitman and Tasty as part of our Melbourne to Perth drive.

Suitman had already found the cache, so stayed in the car while I wandered off to locate it - but I couldn't. Suitman joined me and confirmed that the cache is not where it had been when he'd found it. We looked around for another 10 minutes or so in the area, but to no avail. The 'rocks' in the area had recently been re-done, so we think the cache site may have been compromised. Unable to find cache at final location.

Icalled in on the way back from the Frolic. I can confirm it is MIA. Spectacular fuel dump though.

Cache is missing, will replace on next trip thru.

[This entry was edited by Team Piggy on Monday, June 13, 2005 at 7:27:30 AM.]

[After finding the answers we did the calculations which led us to a suitable cache location. No toot-toots and no cache] but a great shot of the fuel station from here.[ Thanks Piggy for another interesting location.]

what in interesting place. Saw 2 choo choo's but despite doing the maths several times couldnt find this one. great local

Early morning mental challenge, counting the bakers and butchers and such like. What an unusual spot for a depot, it seems so far from anywhere. Sums were sumated and coordinates calculated and cache found. So I guess it is either an innate cache finding ability or some correct maths.
Left a badge and some bubbles and took a whistle.
Thanks for the unusual spot just of the main route, without caching I would never have stoppped to look.

Found by 4 Men and a Lady at 1600 on 22 October 2004

Amazing - We got the maths right very first time!!!

Also no choo choos but did keep eyes open for them.

Also a muggle school bus driver with a bunch of juvenile muggles on board thought we were lost as we were preparing to leave so had to pretend we were lost but were OK now. Good hospitality by the local muggles though

Left Goosebumps collector disc and POG
Took candle and pink elephant

many Thanks again to team piggy

Located with Private Ryan - See below

Found @ 12:17 with Suitman, also with Mrs.Suitman. Suitman and I couldn't work out the calculations, So Mrs.Suitman steped in and gave them to us so we could go hunting.

Took: Retractable card holder.

Left: S.E.S. Whistle key ring.

Thanks Team Piggy!!

We've driven past this turn off hundreds of times without noticing the sign ... strange that the highway is posted as a 100kph zone, but when you turn down the side road to the town it's 110kph??!! Amazing to find such structures in the middle of nowhere - found the cache easily, no swaps today. Cheers Piggy, thanks for bringing us here!

Found by Team George Jetson on Sunday 18 July 2004
With friend Darren.
Well normally I pride myself with accurate calculations...after the third attempt (each time the calc'd coords put me in farmers paddocks) I finally got it.
Took: shifter Left: new retractable ID lanyard
Thanks TP

Found this cache when I was still a member of Beakers Bunch.
Thankyou

Found easily after re-doing the maths a couple of times. An interesting little part of our Nations wartime history.
Thanks Piggy for detouring us past here.
BB

It took us a little while (and a visit to a local farmers side paddock) but we eventually found this one. Didn't have any trouble with Choo-Choos, must've been lucky! TNLN. Thanks Team Piggy!

Tried to do this one unsuccessfully ages ago so was good to revisit and nail it this time. Took cleaning cloth and left back rest support. Thanks Team Piggy.

Did the sums, double checked the calc's and found the cache. This interesting historical site raised more questions than were answered by the sign board like - Where's the landing field? A quick search revealed the other inland fuel depots in SA were located near Crystal Brook and Solomon Town! Hmmm, I can feel a exploratory visit coming on! Thanks Team Piggy, Cheers Rav4 Raiders

Located easily. Would never have known these were here if it wasn't for geacaches like this. We (AUstralians) must have been really paranoid back then to go to all that trouble.

Interesting, but why would they put the tanks here? Did they think the Japanese wouldn't look for them here. TNLN. Thanks Piggy.

Yeah, took me a coupla goes too. As I read in a previous log the zero point is a bit off, but once you're in the area it's easy...

Are you allowed on toot-toot roads? Wasn't sure, and as one was lurking nearby we decided to take the cache back to the georentacar to do the deeds. While we were doing that, he pulled up next to us and stopped. And we were about at the middle of him. And he was big. So we were kinda stuck, as we couldn't put the cache back. For about 20 minutes.

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eventually he made up his mind that he'd forgotten something and went back to get it, and we made our move.
took the $2 cold hard CAAAASH, and left some "Noise Putty" (fart putty). Fart putty didn't fit in the cache, so it's on top, in it's own container.

Thanks for our most challenging and intrigue-frought cache yet!

Returning to Adelaide after spending the weekend at the Little Desert Lodge, just south of Nhill in Victoria, at the very first astronomy camp to be run by both the Victorian & South Australian astronomical societies together called "VicSouth". What a way to spend the weekend - stargazing by night / geocaching by day!

Ok, I'll admit it - I had to go back 3 times to the start because my calculations kept giving me coordinates that put me out in the middle of some farmers paddock I blame it fully on the late nights stargazing over the last couple of nights!

Interesting site.

Found 26/10/03 (26th October) @ 2:50pm by Paul (Team Stargazer)
Took: Blue Space Man
Left: Pink/Orange Plane & Water Ring

Thanks Piggy!

Found by Barry and Beryl at 11.30 am
Thanks for bringing us to this spot Team Piggy, Interesting statistics!
Feels like we are going back to school, brushing up on our maths.
Took Phonecard, left $2 coin, a shifting spanner and a Track Stars car in a metal box.

Thanks Team Piggy

Found by Maya and calculated by Ray (The Nomads) on Monday the 19th of May at 3:50PM. We just had to check this cache out as it fascinated us on our way to Adelaide on Friday, but had no time then to stop. Ray was the busy one doing the calculations, and I found it easily, no toot toots, but lots of broom brooms. We exchanged a sachet of Armourall for a small rubber ball. A very interesting site and well worth the detour to look. Thanks from the Nomads.

[last edit: 5/23/2003 2:16:26 AM PST]

This was my first attempt at doing a cache, and well i'm kinda surprised i found it! The feeling of actually finding it was like finding gold, well not really but still unreal!

Found by Team GeoCoopers.
Racing against the setting Sun with none of my normal night caching equipment I found it just in time.
In the failing daylight I didn't get the chance to read The VetteMans new log.
An interesting relic from Australia's past. Makes you stop to think about effort and resources that are required for war.

Why did the Feral Cat cross the road ?
Because it wanted to go to the otherside [xx(]
[xx(] RIP to pulvarised Mr Feral Cat that crossed in front of us
and didn't quite make it [xx(]

Doing mathematics is always tricky when the brain is in white line mode. I was very careful, especially as I was by myself and no one to point out basic arithmetical errors!!

A very interesting spot to visit. Amazed that this sort of thing was constructed out here. Thanks for the clue. Pic may not help.

I left a spaceman toy, large glue-stick and 4 jumbo party streamers. I could not resist taking the binoculars. These will come in handy for TeamAstro’s night work.

TB21FD did not like the sounds of toot-toot.

Clear skies
John

Arriving in South Australia for a caching holiday - hopefully this will be the first of many! My brain wasn't much use after about 8 hours in the car, so I was amazed to get the right answer first time. Or maybe it was just luck. Nevertheless after a quick drive up the road, I found myself at the right location and soon grabbed the container. Wasn't much to swap, so I just left a squishy ball. Interesting to read the logbook and see that more Victorian teams have visited this site than South Australians! Thanks Piggies.

[last edit: 2/28/2003 6:31:12 AM PST]

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Found by Sam and Jedda without to much trouble, but was expecting that the final cache site to be in the conservation park. Took Photo Frame and left a $5 Phone Card.

Found on the way home from a caching spree (and Family Holiday) in Tasmania.

Excellent Cache, loved the location and the idea.

We tried this one on way to Melbourne as a drive up with no information. No wonder we didnt find it then!!

Took Nothing
Left Nothing.

Found by Mary & David at 1330. Heading for Adelaide for another family and caching visit. Loved this one. We've always stayed on the highway and wondered what the brown sign was all about. Promised to check it out one day, and here we are. Marvellous excuse to have a break from driving. Have seen Piggy maths like this before, and David got it right first time this time. mary thought there were other possibilities. An easy find in the end and no toot-toots to worry about. Took Garmin post-it notes and left an aluminium photo frame. Thanks, Piggy for a crackling good cache.

Found 14:10, after a bit of a search and a life line from Piggy . This is another one of those places at the end of a brown sign, that we’ve driven past plenty of times and thought, “What’s that all about then?â€. Now thanks to Piggy we now know all about this historic place. Thank you Piggy for helping us to visit one more historic site, and for yet another chance to break a long drive.

Took Cable ties and left binoculars.