Fields of Hay Hay Flat, South Australia, Australia
By Barry and Beryl on 25-Apr-03. Waypoint GCG0AP

Came for another visit, found again. Brilliant spot. Awesome cache. Ty.

The last log had us all a bit worried but we needn't have as this old cache was found without issue, the cache was in good condition, thanks for looking after this one.This was the first trip to the mainland for this group of Tasmanians in a while, we flew over on the 24th and left early on the 3rd. With 4 days in Goolwa followed by 4 in Glenelg we managed to get some caching done in different areas and pull in a select list of caches we all almost all needed, old caches were on the list as normal but also some different D/Ts with some high fav pointed cache making up the remainder. The trip didn't start well with Qantus losing a bag which made us rearrange a couple of days but we got some 4WDing in and a even some driving on the beach to get a couple of different caches, boat trip to Adventure Island was a great start on the day of the Mega too.All caches were stamped "Team Tassie" which consisted of myself, gooseandegg, Budgietas and Tassie TrekkersFound on 28/02/2024 at 11:09:00 thanks to Hurtle for placing this cache for me to find. The best caches I have found so far are:-Sentimental [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)Traditional [Hanging Around in Toorak](http://coord.info/GC62KAP) By [bobthebuilder_123](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=586681)Multi [Gawler Fort Knox](https://coord.info/GC5T0W1) By [**JEM**](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=11449141)Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045) Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)Earthcache [Totem Pole](https://coord.info/GC862H8) By [The Hancock Clan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=263428)Visit the [Geocaching Tasmania Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/318455407771/)

Like many others in todays list, it was a bit off the track we'd planned today, but worth the detour. We found it pretty easily.The usual trio of myself, stainless steel rat and Budgietas was joined by Tassie Trekkers for The Great Leap Forward trip. We decided to cache down south around Goolwa, Victor Harbour and extended reaches for a few days, before basing ourselves in Glenelg for the second half of the trip where we cached around the city, the hills and the Barossa Valley with a highlight being a couple of hours on Adventure Island. Many thanks to the Mega Committee, all the helpers and many local COs who kept up busy and entertained.Most logs were stamped with Team Tassie.

This was the first GC cache of the day. It is always great to get an old cache which was the theme of the day.A long days drive toward from goolwa overnight to Glenelg via quite a few caches down towards kangaroo island. Some brilliant caches for the day including a walk through a cave at the cache surrender the booty and walk around the oldest EarthCache in South Australia at sugarloaf. It was a very pleasant day including a number of beach walks. Luckily it was a perfect day for these walks. Tftc

Today is day 5 of our SA Great Leap Forward Mega adventure. Based at Goolwa, Mr T, Gooseandegg , Stainless-Steel-Rat and Budgietas concentrated on finding caches with appropriate D/T 's to fill their Fizzy Grids and this was one of them. We signed the log Team Tassie.We found a variety of hides with varying degrees of difficulty.Enjoyed caching in this area, cache and contents were in good condition.Many thanks to all CO's for your cache placement.

Can't be found

Then you need to log a DNF NOT a NM, if you can't find it. Given you not got any finds yet, maybe some experience needed also...

Di insisted the kids wanted me to go caching for fathers' day, and beyond... so a full day and late night, early morning it was!

A nice old B&B cache. The container seemed quite new, but the logs dated right back to tht ftf!
Impressive. Fav for the location, history, and resilience!

Sincere appreciation for the cache hide and ongoing care and maintenance Hurtle .

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Country, Coast and City... Caches and crazy company!

On the roads again, with Jack, and Purrfect Di driving and caching along the way wherever we go

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In a hazardous world filled with rusty old mint tins and solid objects falling from trees
- - - a cache a day keeps the boredom away

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Caches are logged using the resources of gsak, garmin, and androids, occasionally AI too! (And a little rubber stamp ) The skill and talent of some Zenior Zombies helps, and maybe a spot of luck too [:o)]

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Ensure Travel Bugs are the Only bugs you share and pass on
(Covid cancels caching! - Flu finished fun!))
Keep a safe distance - clean and cache the countryside


Special thanks to those placing quality caches out and about around our country areas,
in sensible safe places and containers especially! - it keeps our game fun, and interesting

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 !!!

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C'est fini... For now... ... until next time!

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GCA1DNA - Great Leap Forward ... be there or be backward!
29.2.24 It's gone MEGA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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And don't forget to put the June Long Weekend in your diary for 2024 too... it'll be out of this world

Thankyou for a great find

Great hide. Great cache. Thank you.

Found

Tftc.. Great walk.

Nice cache not sure if its in its original location tho gps says 8mtrs away

TFTC - found with rainygirl74

Found with Dozenmater TFTC

Mr Tardis was on a trip down south and stopped by here to find this one. I found the cache in the first place I looked - don't you just love it when that happens?

A great old cache and a nice big size too.

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

PS: Sorry for taking over a year to log my find. I really need to get my logging more organised!

I know it can be a short walk to this cache but that’s not how I found it. I walked approximately 1.5 kilometres to the cache from where I parked my car. I dropped off 3 trackables. TFTC

Got it

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 31.369 E 138° 19.608

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 31.368 E 138° 19.604

Distance from original: 20.8 feet or 6.3 meters.

A lil tweak of the original 16 year old co-ords.

Stopped by today, first time in 13 years since finding then adopting...
To check on Daviswazza's handiwork. Well done on replacing with a likewise sized cache!
Tweaked the 16 year old co-ords whilst here. The original logbook still in situ has plenty of room still too.

found with mogni. out for a drive to cheer us up since we are both recovering from medical procedures. Took the 4 x 4 track up to this one. Not the best idea after having your wisdom teeth drilled out of your jaw but more fun. Drove down the 2wd track on the way out. Always good to get a 2003 cache. quick find. still the original logbook.

Thanks to Davidwazza and Jesswrigley for replacing this old cache to keep it alive. I am sure Barry is very appreciative as well. R.I.P.

See maint log...

Jesswrigley and I were staying for an extended weekend just outside Cape Jervis, and today was a small detour to Victor Harbor and surrounds. We attended the 5 km Parkrun in Encounter Bay, followed by breakfast, and a drive to Port Elliot and then Goolwa, collecting a few sporadic geocaches. We then drove back and stopped off at Ingala Falls and drove to a few oldie caches along the coast before arriving back at Cape Jervis just in time for dinner!

This cache was one of the targets for today, as some months ago, I saw this cache had been disabled, and so was on my watch list. This weekend, we were in the area, and so I messaged the CO to whether he wanted me to replace the container for him. And so following a visit to the Ingalalla waterfalls nearby, we took a loop road around up a high high 4WD track that tested my jeep like no other test before, but thankfully we made it up.

This cache had us looking around the area with bouncing coordinates, and eventually made the find. We thought there was probably much better tree hide options than its current spot, but left it like-for-like, but with more camouflage. We transferred all the contents into a new sistema container, and voila, this cache just had a new facelift to last another 16 years! Even found the current caretaker CO's first log back on 15/06/2006 haha. Thanks guys.

Found with Davidwazza! With coordination with the cache owner, replaced the container to perform the necessary maintenance for him! Davidwazza will elaborate, I’m sure. Fun drive up, although the road certainly needs as much maintenance as this cache did!

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention.

I am temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary.

Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 28 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

If you require more time please be sure to post a note (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require.

For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the listing and post a new note every 28 days to keep everyone up to date or the cache will be treated as an abandoned cache and archived without further notice.

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Great cache and goodies! Nice spot but container is now broken.

Container is falling apart need new container

Great cache lots of goodies

I chose the hard way to get to this one via the 4wd track. Well that was unexpected but fun. The exit route I chose when I left the cache explains the T1 rating. The cache container is telling it's age and may only last another one opening. Took TB. TFTC

Trying to knock out some empty spots on my hidden by month calendar.

Loved the road in to this cache. We were greeted by a young kangaroo who hopped all around the cache - cute!

Nice old cache still in a great place and in good condition

TFTC Hurtle
13/8/17, 4:36 pm, Find #1003

A great day to be out and about doing some caching. After chores at homes earlier we decided to hit the road.
Chelle picked out some that helped her fill in her "Hidden Month" grid and this and Ingallala were on it so here we are!
We were greeted by a small brown scrub roo who took us to find the cache. (Just about)
It's great finding some of these older ones and seeing the finders actually wrote a little story in the log book.
TFTC Barry and Beryl )
4:40 pm - Find #2564

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Found it. Unfortunately the container has some large holes and needs maintenance. The contents is a little wet and some creepy crawlies have taken up residence. Have slightly moved the cache to try and protect it from the elements. TFTC

Fields of Hay was transferred from Barryd_SA to user Hurtle

Found on a day out around the area.

Came to this one via the "Dry Weather 4WD Only" track from the north. A fun little track. One of the reasons I bought the "Voodoo Blue".

Reaching GZ, the co gainer was easily spotted - and also looking a bit 2nd hand (it has quite a few holes).

Thankfully all the co tents were in good condition (apart from the spiders nest in the sunglasses case).

Great to see a log book going back almost 14 years! Had some fun reading through the names and noes.

Thanks for the cache Barryd_SA. Found on 25 Mar 2017 at 2:38 pm. Find #4345.

Found by The Boofs TFTC

By the time I got here, I was pretty exhausted. Followed the perimeter of the forest with some enormous dips in the track. Quite a roller coaster. Anyway, I collapsed next the cache and signed the log. Phew!

Thanks for the cache, Barryd SA

Great spot fun drive. tftc

I like these larger caches, thanks for placing it.

Found all the Ingalalla caches today - started walking from the waterfall carpark and managed to get this one on the 6km round trip - lovely forest to walk through. A well-kept cache and log book.

Very build up but the boys found it. Thanks for setting it up.

Took a while but found it

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Found! Beware if you come via yankalilla serious 4wd track! Loved it!

We found it.

Quick find on a beautiful day, Quite a hairy track coming from the Ingallala cache, but we made it in the end. TFTC

I drove to this cache from the Range Road after wimping out of the drive up from the North in my low-slung Magna. Nice spot here. TFTC Barryd SA

Always like finding caches that have been out for awhile. After brisal5 looked I looked again. How did he miss it?
Thanks

June Long Weekend with brisal5 and mogni. Today was a day of taking the long road home. Something we cachers seem to do more often than not.

Surprisingly we drove all the way to this one as our first of the day. We can only assume that it is only 4WD wheelchairs that can access this cache. It took a little hunting for such a big cache, but eventually we found it. TFTC Barryd.

After a great June Long Weekend with Aussie M&M and Mogni it was time to head home and collect some caches along the way. . I walked to the right tree and had a boy look. Looked at the GPS which was erratic under the tree cover and walked away. Mogni came over and had a girl look and of course found the cache. It had been a long weekend, Thanks Barryd SA

Found It!
Great little drive to a great little place! Never knew this was here...
TFTC

We enjoyed the drive up to this cache, along the quiet, serene track to GZ. We ate lunch in the car before setting off on the short stroll to the cache.

It's good to see such a large cache container, especially one that's been out in the wild for quite a while.

Thanks B & B.

Couldn't miss this one when ya got close. OMG what an amazing area so quiet & peaceful TFTC

Never been this way before in my 32 years here, nice out of the town area TFTC

Big cache! Had a lovely walk into the bush Lots of firewood here. TFTC

Dodgy GPS signal but eventually found it TFTC Barryd SA
Swapped Dolphin for Stretchy Snake

nice cache there was lots of stuf in the box witch was cool i sawped a little wooden dolphin for a strechey toy snake i found it with littlelegz10 TFTC =D

An interesting no-through road. The access road seems familiar. Thanks Barryd SA.

No hay in the fields today !
This cache is nicely stocked, suprising considering its age [^].
Quickly found. Took dinosaur. Left toy. SL.
Thanks Barry & Beryl.

Logged from my phone using the Geocache Navigator by Trimble

Logged from my phone using the Geocache Navigator by Trimble

Ive never been out to this area before very gorgeous many awesome views a lovely spot for a picnic tftc

First find for the day.. Wonderful out of the way spot and fantastic cache.. Took boomerang keyring...

THe Penny Drops clever navigation took us successfully to the cache. Easy find after a short walk from parking. Thanks Barryd SA for the cache.

Out caching with Bregor for the day, took awhile to find the correct road to get to this one.
Once we got on the right track it was a quick easy find.
Thanks Barryd for the cache.

Was spending a couple of days at Links Lady Bay for a work workshop and grabbed some caches on the way home (there was a little bit of a detour ).

Took a little bit of finding as the sat lock is not too good. TFTC.

Enjoyed the drive into GZ. Very windy and light rain falling so appreciated a quick find. TFTC

Found it nice good hidden safely.T.N.L.N.S.L.

T.F.T.C

Accompanied by Everlasting. Found it nice and easy after an enjoyable walk towards the cache.
Thanks Barry and Beryl for the cache.

Accompanied with lava12 for the day, we enjoyed drive the car - worth to come while lovely day. Again Lava12 found the cache before me. No swap. SL. Thanks Barry and Beryl for organising the cache and hunt.

Thank you for your cache. A nice little walk through the forrest and a very pleasant drive to it. Found it with Roma123 after a reasonable search. Co-ords. 10m out on our gps.

Found on a drive around the area with the Gemini's, everywhere looks so green, and at the moment all very damp.
Lovely views, thanks Barry and Beryl for bringing us here.

TNLN SL

A quick find on a day out with young Geo son, some beautiful country side around these parts.
T - GOLF BALL & RUBBER DICE
L - DINOSORE & MONKEY
TFTC

Wow... what a spectacular view thru the trees and a great place for a picnic..... no muggles either, just wonderful.

T - Orange eraser
L - Aussie Pen

We live in this area and this is the first time we have ever been on this road.... just amazing what is in your own neighbourhood! Thank you

Another spot we'd never been to. Found easily. Stil in good nick. Took kangaroo and left cow puppet. TFTC (and there really were fields of hay as we drove in)

Sunday afternoon caching with Irac and Anana after orienteering. Nice easy find. Left a sheep to eat all the hay.

Lots of hay and good friends. TFTC

Had a quick look around, but a friend who was with us had left her sunglasses back at the waterfall, so was anxious to return and find them. Felt we couldn't spend any more time here, hopefully we will get a chance to return another day.

Found this one just on dark, this could be a cool picnic spot! Might also explore the dry weather track one day!

TNLN

GPS reading a little erratic but found the cache with little trouble.
Swapped a red car for a green model!
Thanks B&B

2nd attempt at this one. Cane in from the north which was a mistake as it turned out. Got there in the end thank god for 4x4's. Scares of a few reptiles in the process. Thanks for a nice walk and drive. Getting out was harder than getting in.

TNLN TFTC

Teeam evilcrazyrobot

The gate was closed and the stile fenced off so had to climb through the fence. A sign said danger falling trees but there didn't seem to be any danger today.

Quick find. Thanks Barry and Beryl

Team : A 21/9/07 2.10pm Find 7/8
T:Scrooge McDuck
L:Flipper & a piggie
TFTC SL
Nice big cache, bit of hunting revealed an Echidna playing if I hide my eyes you can't see me, a slinky lizard, and colourfull parrots, real cool nature spot, thanks for bringing us here

Stood back with the teacher while 14 year 11 students and 4 GPS's had a crack at finding the cache (not sure why they were 20 metres from GZ) [?] we could see the hide from 10 metres, eventually Jake found it. Took Sinker (which was used that night) left... darn it I forgot, I'll get back to you I'l also attach a photo!

Found on our way home from trip down south. Took car, left mondo. TFTC

Getting towards the end of a long day.
The littlest SA Mystery Inc will need dinner at the next stop.
Our next cache is only 1.8 Ks from here but it will be a lot longer drive.
Put the 80 cacher racer TB in the cache.
But SA Parrothead isnt finished with it so he will be taking it back out.

That's a long drive to a dead end.
Wandered into the park and soon had the cache in hand.
Swapped a plastic figure for a tennis ball.

Found with Team IJK on our little Fleurieu Trip

21/30

Found with Scouts_Honour on our little Fleurieu Trip

Find 21/30

Found quickly with the help of LFTS,some good nav on a seedy day. Cheers

1st of 13 finds on a Deep South Sortee...

Found easily after a pleasant drive on a crisp morning. Very peaceful here.

Left a patch TNSL

Thanks B&B (1st of 3 of yours today!)

[This entry was edited by TeamHurtle on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 5:48:52 PM.]

Looked for this after visiting the Ingallala falls - went via the Mt Hatfield road from the eastern side. Normally for 'local traffic only' but we closed the gate as instructed and enjoyed a great little 4WD TRACK - great view to the west near the top. Kids went on an Emu bob and found this cache with much excitement.
T: Koala; ball
L: mini tennis balls; pen & cloth glasses case.

The actual find was easy enough, but had a bit of difficulty finding the right roads to get here. Not to worry though. If we hadn’t taken a wrong turn, we would never have seen the great old ruin, complete with shingle roof, along Parawa Road. When I found the cache, I couldn’t believe that it contained the EXACT model of oil filter that I was going to be looking for in the near future. Left a colourful gold clown in its place. Thanks B & B

Found @ 16:30

We saw plenty of large bales of hay on our way here, so I guess the fields are now empty.

We enjoyed seeing such a large, well stocked cache.

T:N
L: Toy car
SL

Found 11:15. Found after a short battle with GPSr to locate GZ, too many possible locale's for GZ. have to learn to trust the GPS more. TNLNSL. Cheers B&B.

Not many fields of hay to be seen from GZ. Tricky find due to the trees, The keeper of the GPSr on Team Ermalesh spotted it's secret location. Took motorbike left angel. Thanks.

Very nice area. Hard to get a sat lock, and many hiding places, but found it in about 10 minutes... Good to find after a couple of DNF's. Have to have a longer walk in the woods there some time. TNLN. Thanks Barry and Beryl.

Great Location if you need fire wood....!