China Gold Salt Creek, South Australia, Australia
By Barry and Beryl (adopted by Hurtle) on 16-Mar-03. Waypoint GCE6DF

Quick find while travelling from WA

Love this area and the interesting history

Thought that was rubbish, ahhaha fav point

Stopped here on our road trip up north. Nice walk and a nice easy find. TFTC

Quick find. Lots of pretty birds here

*Going Home: Murray Bridge to Mount Gambier #6*We're speeding through the Coorong, but I had to stop for a walk to stretch the legs. This seemed a likely place for a cache... and an impromptu CITO.Thanks heaps for the cache!

Lovely spot for a lunch break and a walk - TFTC

Travelling with iluvtrekking from our home state of WA on a SA caching foray. Staying in Kingston for a few days to grab some finds. A chilly day but at least the sun is out. Thanks for the hide. LNCU

Travelling with richlink on our Annual Caravan Geocaching road trip, using geocaching as our guide. We are staying in Kingston SE for a couple of days, checking out the sights and the caches, of course. A magic spot. TFTC. LNCU

776 down, 3,389,819 to go.

Tftc

Road trip to SA with the Geobro - signing as YAWT - TFTC

Yep another great historic placeOn trip around SA EASTERN SIDE TO SNARE A CACHE OR THREE HAHATFTC

Quick find. Tftc!

Enjoying exploring the Coorong.

Quick find on our road trip to Adelaide. Enjoying the caches

Bullertrout, Nanzie and i are caching our way to Adelaide for the mega. Picking up what we can in the time available. All logs are being signed as BT, N, PC or some variation of that. Thanks #15288

PCNBT TEAM on our trip to join our other caching friends in Adelaide for the Mega thanks for this cache we enjoyed doing this cache nice easy easy find Barry and Beryl (adopted by Hurtle)

TFTC. Quick driveby. Log signed

Owner please do maintenance. Lid is broken.

Need a new container. Adorned with Wombat Poo. TFTC

Found and signed dsd or darksidedan or AB or Adventure Boys to save space in the logbook. Thanks for the cache and the Adventure.

TFTC!

Manda and her eagle eyes were straight on this one despite how well cammed and concealed it was - took her less than a minute to find something that didn’t belong

Tassie expat and I spent a bit finding this one and it was well cammo'd. Thanks for placing it.

What an interesting area. Glad that frmen1 decided to do a u-turn 100m up the road to explore the place. Such an interesting part of history that we were not taught at school. We did go round and round a few times. TFTC

TFTC nice quick find whilst exploring the area

Tftc!

Wonder what the Chinese immigrants thought after leaving Hong Kong and landing here, countryside is a bit tough here. TFTC Hurtle.

A quick stop with BraydsSA who had already found this cache. Container may require a little maintenance. TFTC TNLN SL

TFTC.

We drove by on our way from Cape Jervis to Robe. I searched for at least 15 minutes but unfortunately couldn’t find the cache. Nice park anyway!

After a weekend of saying our fairwells to a family member we decided to take the scenic route back to Victoria , nice little pitstop
Thanx for the Adventure Stay Dirty ️

1976

Will need to come back to further investigate this area but the cache itself was a nice stop and quick find and enjoyed a nice feed from the oven after.

Thanks Hurtle for the cache.
Found at 12:52 pm on 23/9/2022.
Find # 2556

Nice camo. Riding further to check out the well.

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 - Barry and Beryl Hurtle [^]

Find #2904 at 17:11. On the trails again with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce on after Geo Venture 2020 Mega. Slightly better weather today, so we’re still smiling. TFTC Hurtle

Mozzies galore.

Caching with Wollaston and Liz&Bruce today it’s so windy we nearly got blown to our destination.

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

TFTC Hurtle

Find # 604

Found on the way home from GeoVentre mega weekend. Great to find such an old cache.

TFTC
Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

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Nice one
TFTC

Found it plus a wombat hole and a few emus

Wombat hole

Tftc

late log. Just got GSAK " talking " to my lap top again. My GPS tells me i forgot to log this cache and another from my last trip down to the SE of the state, about 4 weeks ago.

Found during a camping trip to the Coorong and the Southeast areas with brisal5 and I in one vehicle, and e.gregory and friend in the other. We travelled around the Narrung Peninsula and down the Coorong where we spent the first night camped out at Tea Tree Crossing. Enjoyed some challenging driving and eventful cache finds, wandering bush tracks and strenuous sand dune climbs in very scenic areas. The second night saw us camp out in Little Dip before meandering the country roads in search of an assortment of Traditional, Earth, Multi and Puzzle caches further down the coast before heading back home via Lucindale, Padthaway and Keith. Great to see these old caches being adopted and maintained to keep their history going. Thanks for the cache Barry, Beryl and Hurtle!

We've escaped Victoria for a few weeks holiday in SA.

Having a wonderful time in the more Covid Safe SA and enjoying the increased freedoms you have here.

Today's mission was to drive from Adelaide to Mt Gambier where we will be staying for five nights.

We decided to take the scenic route down past the Coorong National Park.

To break up the drive we are following as many Brown Tourist signs as we have time for.

Amazing historical area. Thanks for the cache Barry and Beryl and for keeping it going Hurtle.

Quick find by Lea here. Tftc

Quickly seen but took a while to find a way into it, all clips on box are broken and the container is naked -- no camo!

TFTC

Went for a drive with Jack and Purrfect Di. Found some caches!

thanks for the smiley Barry and Beryl and Hurtle , yours was one of them!

Finding a cache this old is always Gold. Even if it's chinese gold !



Happy 6th day of Christmas! Avoid germs - avoid people - cache the countryside!!!

All logs stamped by team Mattycat this week include JacktheMonkey and Purrfect Di.

read many books about the gold rush in Victoria and new that the Chinese would come across the country from South Australia to avoid I think it was a 10 pound fee to enter what a long way to walk thanks for bringing me here

A nice crispy morning on day 5 with a big day ahead. Today we finished a long long trail and then made our way from Meningie to Millicent. Thanks to all CO's for places these great caches.
TFTC Wilbert67

Day 5 of our SA trip with Wilbert67.
Beautiful start to the day grabbing caches as we are headed to Millicent.
We were picking up variety of different types of caches along the way.
This series we have logged these as J&J W7
Thanks to all the COs
This took a while to locate . Happy to have our names added.

Tea Tree Crossing was still too high to cross today so we decided to do a bit more exploring. This was an interesting spot to stop. The original log book was fun to look through and it still has the original camo.

Tftc

Great spot. Thank you!
Greetings to all catchers!
Amsterdam6

I came out of the find here with a few scratches and I had one very scared mouse escape from the cache cover. I filled another spot in my D /T matrix too. I’ve been following the Chinese miners from Ballarat to Robe and enjoyed visiting here. TFTC

Mr Tardis stopped here on the way home from the Southeast.

I found the cache after a short search. A nice area, but it was a little hot this afternoon.

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache Barry and Beryl and Hurtle.

Today was my final day around Mount Gambier and then on to driving back home to Adelaide. Following a couple of cave dives at the Pines, I still had half a day to head back, and so stopped off at quite a few geocaches that I had on my target list along the Coorong road. I managed to stop off to complete the other half of the Millicent SFE series, some more caches around Millicent, and then a few oldie geocaches at various stops within the Coorong and Policeman's Point.

Another oldie along this Coorong road that I had driven past multiple times, but had put off this little side route. I managed to visit the actual well along the road, and was a nice walk in. On the return, I stopped off near GZ, and after doing a loop around GZ, the geocache was found. Some interesting camouflage, that also looks like rubbish, but could have only been the geocache. It was nice to have found this nice 03/2003 oldie. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks Barry and Beryl for the cache placement, and to Hurtle for its ongoing maintenance.

Found it nice and easy on the way home from Millicent. Interesting history. Good sized container.

Thanks Barry and Beryl for the cache

Found without too much drama.

Found it - great cammo. Geokid 7 sustained a thorn injury so wear shoes!! Heaps of awesome swaps - thanks for the cache.

Auf dem Weg nach Kangaroo Island einen kurzen Halt eingelegt um die Beine zu vertreten und diesen Cache zu loggen. Danke Gruss Fasabrir

Found today on a day trip out from our house sit in Murray Bridge.

This one took longer than I expected.. Round and round I went until from the right angle.ah ha. There it was.

Thanks for the cache.

Found with fluffymaxi and GeckoJ. TFTC

Found with GeckoJ

I’ve driven past here so many times without ever visiting. Geocaching has now given me a reason to get off the main roads and visit some interesting places. This is certainly one of those. Really interesting to see how resourceful settlers were in meeting their needs out of locally available resources. I learned stuff.
The cache was easily found with a nice themed touch. Made a minor swap and signed the log.
Found with JayG10 and fluffymaxi.
Find #500 for me and filled a gap on both the Fizzy and Jasmer grids. (D/T 1/3.5 isn’t that common in the metro area).
TFTC and especially for maintaining this old cache Hurtle.

On a caching road trip from Brisbane to the Mega in Queanbeyan at Easter, with a slight detour via South Australia and Victoria to snaffle some of the southern caches along the way.

Have been along the Coorong about 8 years ago (before caching) and it was a cold and miserable day back then so didn't go down any of the side roads. Today was sunny and pleasant so zigzagged in and out of a few side trails picking up a few caches. Came in here and made a quick find of the cache before wandering along the boardwalk to have a look at the wells.

I think the wells would have been very important to the Chinese as a lot of them overlanded from South Australia to the Victorian goldfields to avoid paying a hefty landing tax imposed upon them in Victoria.

TFTC Barry and Beryl

Hi there Hurtle. Another driving day - this time from Lake Albert to Robe. A mixed bag of finds today with 1 dnf, 1 log replacement and 14 finds. In many of the caches found today I have have left and extra log book or two. This container and log are in good condition - SL. Thanks to Hurtle for this cache - our find #6366.

Found by The Marathon Man and pnutbeagle on our 3-month Australia holiday after travelling from snowy and cold Northern Ontario Canada.

Finally found some time to get caught up in my logs

Please see The Marathon Man's Log for our experience finding the cache

Found by The Marathon Man and pnutbeagle on our 3-month Australia holiday after travelling from snowy and cold Northern Ontario Canada.

Now in South Australia after visiting South Australia

Now getting caught up in our fines over the past 3 days

Great cache - favourite

Great area - glad we stopped look around

On road trip back to home from Adelaide
Found it
Thanks Barry and Beryl for the cache.

Quick find stepping carefully though the grass. But found cs he quick signed and hidden again TFTC

As the log says, A wombat lives close by.
The burrow is the opposite side of the road to the cache. TFTC.

09:10 nice sized cache. Logbook dry, pens working. Some squarish droppings around the area - perhaps there's a wombat cache guardian nearby. Took nothing, left key.

Stopped by on way past...
All good, except one clip has come off. Container is fine, still has contents in good nick with the #2 logbook dating back to 2007!

Found while having holidays all across Australia.

TFTC,

JuStMeMi

I headed down to the south-east with gridge98 on a quick, two-day trip to find a few caches.

We had some rather mixed weather, with sunshine, rain, hail and wind at different stages, but most of the time it was good weather for caching.

We also had rather mixed results in terms of caches. There were some interesting hides in some terrific places; some along the beaches, some in the pine forests and others at various scenic or interesting locations. We managed a few lucky FTFs, but also a few disappointing DNFs. But all in all, it was a great trip.

After a bit of a hunt around, we soon found the cache. Interesting cammo!

Thanks Hurtle for the cache.

On a trip to the South east region with e.gregory1 to collect a few caches.

A bit of an interesting cache hide this one, took a bit too find. TFTC

Wow its great to see a cache thats over 15 years old and still ticking along!!
Well done to originally Barry and Beryl and now Hurtle for the longevity of this one.
Nice interesting spot and we even met some travellers from Maryborough QLD and had a chat, great history through here that if people just stick to the main drag they would miss out on.
Plenty of lil hidey holes for the cache but after a short hunt we had the cache in hand. Found, signed and replaced safe and sound, thanks for the cache.

Second find for the day TFTC

It is interesting to revisit places of the past but this time as a geocacher. A familiar area and a never seen before cache. TFTC

TFTC

Day 5 of our honeymoon trip in the caravan as newlyweds. What else do you do on a honeymoon but go geocaching as husband & wife of course, and camping too.

After digging for gold with the Chinese, off we went to find some other gold. We had to get past the cache guardian, Mr Stumpy Tail lizard (see photo) who we nearly stepped on for a fairly simple find. It was great to get us out here to the Coorong. TFTC.

Tftc

Traveling from Victor Harbor to Mt Gambier. Along the way we are stopping for a few caches, some to break up the drive, others that caught our eye. Always nice to find one of the older caches. Thanks for the caches.

Nice fast find as I made my way to Mount Gambier for the night. Thanks for the cache!

Tftc

Ttc. Dropped off a TB

Heading home from my Mum's near Beachport today...I was not in too much of a hurry so decided to grab some caches away from my usual route...
I good dirt road in & a quick stroll up the hill...GZ & the cache located quickly...
Interesting...no TB mentioned in the listing but I managed to retrieve one...will soon find out where it came from...
TFTC in this lovely secluded spot

Found while staying at the 42 mile camp. Great area for wildlife walking trails and history. Thanks for bring us here with your cache.

Found while out and about from our nearby camp at 42 Mile Crossing. Tftc

Probably wouldn't have come here if not for caching . . . .
Went over to the boardwalk and had a look at the 'well stone' quarry area, then it was off to our camp site for the night .
Thanks for another one Barry and Beryl (and to Hurtle for adopting all these old caches and preserving some of SA's caching history) [^].

Great cache with some goodies for the kids.

Find #714 on trip around Australia with Willow the little black adventure cat. See vancatmeow.com for updates on where we are. 28 months on the road.

Thanks for the cache!

Quick easy find. Found with VanCatMeow. Container and log book in good condition. Signed log TTM. TFTC

Found it. Great spot.

TFTC

Great spot tftc