Cold and Wet Coonalpyn, South Australia, Australia
By Skippy on 17-May-04. Waypoint GCJFQM

I love these back roads ones break up the journey thank you

Continuing my South Australian adventure, I came to this cache. A quick find was made and the log signed. After returning everything as found, I continued on my way. TFTC

Well there was an event I saw published in Bordertown hosted by Roaming Howie and since I was able to have 4 days off I decided to head over to attend the event and then to also do a few of the On Ya Bike series to finish off my D/T loop.
Throw a few oldies into the mix for my Ausmer grid and it was going to be a busy weekend with lots of Km’s.
So after attending the event, finding the ones required on the OYB series, surviving the heat then wind and having a good nights sleep last night today is a new day.
After checking my map I realised I had missed a challenge series yesterday so I came back up this way to find those ones.
I’m now heading back in the right direction with a few hours delay.
Collecting caches that I come past as I have a bit more time on my hands today.
A nicer day today with the heat turned down a bit.
This is one of the caches that I had targeted on this trip as I needed it for my Ausmer grid.
A very interesting name for the road and I still think that they are waiting for their town 18 years later.

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Thanks Skippy TFTC.

Another cache find on our 2022 South Australian Adventure. This is the second 1/1 we have found today, I seriously doubt that a wheelchair bound cacher could get to either of them.

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.

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 - Skippy [^]

Today was a hideously early start for a Sunday. But after seeing my footie team had won overnight spurred me into action.
I was at Morphett Vale by 6.30 and we were off to Wellington to meet the rest of the JAMS crew. We were a little bit early so we started off with one cache in Wellington.
Then we piled into Sir Spectres 4WD, we were crammed in like sardines and then headed over on the ferry for an action filled day of ‘out of the way’ caches that just never seem to be ticked off.
Then back to Wellington and towards Langhorne Creek for some old roads before splitting up and heading back home.
Just one more in Strath and then in Onkaparinga River Park before finally making it back home.
I was laughing so hard at one 4WD stretch that I couldn’t speak, it was a hell of a ride.
Fun day out.
This one has always been just a little too far to detour to on my hundreds of trips between Naracoorte and Adelaide. Grateful to finally have off the map. TFTC

A day finding caches with the JAMS Crew( Sir Spectre, mogni, JJ52 and Michells&hound). Plenty of 4x4 driving and bouncing around in the back seat. A real fun day. TFTC Skippy

15 years after the cache was placed and still no town here. quick find.
The full quota of JAMS crew ( jj52, allister w, Mongi, Michells&hound, plus myself ) where out for a drive today. The Wellington ferry is the location we meet and then we combined in to my 4 x 4 for the rest of the morning and the start of the afternoon. We headed off to Malinong then took a 4 x 4 short cut to some more caches and followed a geocachers path to Meningie then to Narrung, where i question if the Kartoo Road is really a 4 x4 track or just high clearance for the sandy patches ,and back to the Wellington Ferry and Allisters car. Two cars then headed to get some caches that where missed on the JLWE at Langhorne Creek. Again the crew jumped in my car at times since some of those used to be a road you just need a 4 x4 or it's a walk to the cache. A fun day out was had by all, even though at times it was a bumpy ride. Always good to get those out of the way caches off the map.

Another JAMS day was organised and after a very early start we all met at the Wellington ferry where we all squished into sir_spectres 4X4 to go and find some out of the way caches that you just don't get to. We started off at Malinong then headed to Meningie via a round about route, then to Narrung and back to Wellington where we separated into 2 cars again and ended the day finding a few Roads that never were around Langhorne Creek before heading home. A fun day was had with lots of laughs and plenty of excitement driving a few sandy tracks. [^]

Good to find another oldie on our travels.

Thanks for the cache Skippy.

Out exploring while staying in Meningie. SLTFTH

Over 7 years since I last found Skippy cache.

A nice easy find.

TFTC

alr

Tftc

Found on a visit to the south-east with FeatherWaite to attend the Mega event at Millicent. We teamed up with whitedoggang, Team Waldron and Davo for many of the caches today and marked those logs as WWEFD.

Thanks Skippy. for the cache.

Luckily it wasn't wet or cold. Thanks Skippy.

Headed south today with Jack, Sebastbat, and Purrfect Di. Had a great day.
All under the Team Mattycat stamp today - the others may get around to logging eventually [:o)]
Back in our 4wd had to give it a spin in some sandy tracks too
(Even drove past an event two hours after it had ended without even realising it was on )

Turned out to be pretty hot and dry today. Nice old cache hide.

Thanks for the cache smiley Skippy.




Be safe caching. Cover your cough. Sanitise !!!

This weekend, [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I headed to the Coorong for a night camping. We first stopped off at Nairne via Littlehampton, and then travelled past Salt Creek to cross into the Coorong. We camped at Tea Tree Campground, and on Sunday we travelled back via 42 Mile Crossing and Kingston SE, visiting Jip Jip Conservation Park and Coonalpyn.

Today, [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I continued our adventure along the Coorong with a beach visit, and then departed via 42 Mile Crossing. We did a loop of the vicinity by stopping off at Kingston SE, followed by Jip Jip Conservation Park. We then made our way back to the main highway, making a brief stop in Keith, and then arriving just in time for the Coonalpyn waffles event. We then returned home via Meningie and Swanport Wetlands.

This had a funny street name! This turned out to be a quick find, and the cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks xxx for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.
Note that this geocache was logged with the *Team Warren* Davidwazza/jesswrigley stamp.

A fun weekend away with Davidwazza ! TFTC!

A nice quick find on a day that was neither of the named things.

Thanks for the cache Skippy..
Found on 13/11/20 at 17:16.
Find #12188.

Day 431 ( Monday 2nd ) of our trip. Caching along the. Leaving Palmer today. A total of 1 for the day and 7564 the trip. A grand total of 17,532 caches. TFTC

Our last day before leaving Meningie in the morning after a very pleasant week here. Decided to have a run to Coonalpyn grabbing any caches we could on the way

We found the shattered container with the cache contents scattered roundabouts. We replaced the container, put the least used log book in a ziplock bag, added a couple of bits of swag, CITO’d the trashed container and old log book and rehid under the camo. Should be good to go for a while again.

Many thanks for the hide Skippy.

Needs a new container

I set myself two caching goals at the start of this year.
1) Reduce the number of days in my calendar that I hadn't found a mystery cache to satisfy a challenge cache.
2) Complete my calendar so that I had a minimum of 5 cache finds per day. Tick - done.

Then half way through the year I heard a whisper about another challenge cache in the pipeline that required a Multi cache on every calendar day. At that time still needed 129 days so 3) reduce those days became yet another goal.

Then Groundspeak wanted to start a streak at the end of August to get a souvenir. So I did. And I am still on that streak so I guess I now need to achieve 4) goals.

Today I needed a multi cache to find, and in doing so, continue the streak. I also needed to take the in-laws car down to Naracoorte for a service, so on the way back I detoured a little to find a few caches. - As you do.

The detour took me along this road which today was neither cold not wet. It was a gorgeous 25 degrees and the lizards (five) and snakes (two) were out on the roads getting warm. So I made sure to tread heavily and slowly when I got out of the car to find the cache. Luckily it was a quick find but the container has succumbed to the sun, has UV cancer and is brittle and cracked. Logbook was fine and dry though as I stamped it.


**Thanks Skippy. for this cache. **

Found it. Needs a new container

A nice day to be outside with friends and caching together.

Some logs are stamped "Fabulous Randoms", others our names are handwritten.

Thank you for placing this cache.

What cool names these roads have.

Our group found this cache in good condition. I have driven past this cache for the last couple of years and not turned off the highway to grab it, so I am thrilled to knock that one off my list.

Please note: generally we stamped the log as "Fabulous Randoms", however some logs we have written our caching names.

What a great 'long' weekend travelling to St Arnaud from Adelaide for the wonderful annual festivities. I cached with many awesome cachers including Feathertop, micaparamedic, Locus Cache, Muzza, Sharkie Fan, BushFire and of course TheDame. I also socialised with many others.....gosh I love Victoria!

Thanks so much for the cache Skippy.! [^]

Heading to St Arnaud for the weekend with 3LG for a few days of caching & events...
This was our first stop before the first event at Coonalpyn...
The cache container looked like it had been grabbed by an animal as it had teeth marks in it...
It was placed back securely...
TFTC Skippy

Travelling with hevwalker to St Arnaud for a fun filled weekend of events and caching
This was our first cache for the day, found out in the open with teeth marks in the container so it may not be waterproof now.

TFTC Skippy

Found with FUF009.

Intriguing road name. We had to come look!

Based in Meningie last night we were heading home the long way.
This weekend's mission was to get to 10,000 finds.
Initially the plans were to do the ROTF series, but a combination of not realizing that I was so close to 10,000, plus not wanting it to be a boring power trail cache for my big number AND the trail was on such a bad road with awfully incorrect hints and coords, so we abandoned the original plan at about 3pm and concentrated on just seeing the sights and finding what was along the way. It was much more fun.

The end of the weekend had me at 10,010 finds and quite pleased with the rest of my weekend.
I had found 5 types of geocache (trad, multi, mystery, letterbox and Earthcache) and seen some amazing wildlife and scenery. Basically the ideal caching trip.
Tftc

Find # 6687

Found with sharkiefan

Headed over the border into South Australia for a June Long Weekend caching trip to Meningie. To hit the ROTF trail (but we abandoned that after only 96 finds on it) Oh and to help sharkiefan make it to the big 10,000th smiley.

This cache was one I needed to fill an empty month in my Jasma. we also had a laugh when we noticed that the road was also called "Cold and Wet"

TFTC Skippy.

South Australia bound on business and an early start had us here to do this cache, with a quick easy find and the log was signed and we were on our way again.

Thanks to the CO for this placement.

Took an alternative route to the Coorong today and this one was on our way .
A quick find, but it was hot and dry when we came here .
TNLNSL.
Thanks Skippy.

Found by The Boofs TFTC

Replaced container.
TFTC Skippy

20.10.16 TFTC as stated needs new container sorry we didn't have one

It wasn't cold here today, more like mild to borderline balmy. It wasn't wet either, although there was a slight mist of rain from time to time. Did we come at the wrong time of year?

The cache was found without too much fuss, but the container will need replacing much sooner rather than later. The Sistema is very brittle, and the lid is disintegrating to the point that its nearly totally smashed. I returned the container upside down to protect it from the wet...and cold.

Thanks Skippy.

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Found whilst exploring the area
Cool spot, great cache
TFTC Skippy.

Found It!
Well it certainly wasn't wet here today and with the sun shining, it wasn't that cold either...
TFTC

Attempted this one many years ago when we were newbies and had a less than reliable GPSr.
Back in the area today so made a detour so we could have another go.
Quick find this time.
Took NZ keyring to add to our planned shadowbox of swag. Left pathtag.
TFTC Skippy!

Stopped for a few days at Keith, today we headed out to explore. Some amazing sights around the area and a great town. Last of the caches we tackled today. Cache description had us confused as we found a sistema[?]


TFTC Skippy.

Looking forward to meeting other geocachers at the next Australian Geocaching Mega event

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Where we usually live in North Queensland there are quite a few places that show streets with names where there is nothing. Some are places that no longer exists and some are places planned but they have never gone ahead. SL TNLN TFTC

Our 6th cache, many more to go!

Nice one

Heading to Oz Mega Murray Bridge SA
Nice to stretching my legs to walk around to find it.

Thanks Skippy for bring me here.

It is wet but not cold

Our first, took a while but we got there.

A quick find. TFTC

Headed to Halls Gap with the SABERS motorcycle club, except I was driving Harry so that I could cache on the way.
Stopped at 17 geocaches and found 16 , including 3 FTFs on Freddo caches
All up, I covered 760kms to get to Halls Gap and had a great day out doing the locus cache [^]

Definitely not cold or wet here today
A quick easy find however container was broken so I replaced it with a fresh new Sistema.

TNLN. SL. TFTC Skippy.

TFTC! Cache container is crumbling and needs replacing.

A good cache find while on holiday in the area.

Thanks for making my visit fun!
SL TFTC

TFTC, just out roaming and stopped in for a look.

TFTC. TNLNSL.

Travelling down to Bordertown for the weekend - our friend who is hosting us, her parents live in this general direction and she knew about this cache.
IT was a lovely autumn - winter day, ideal for caching and the find was straightforward.
T New Zealand Keyring
L NZ Keyring
12:02 PM #844

took waikiki key ring
left meningie pin
tftc

Took me alot longer to locate than I expected but found it in the end. TFTC

Quick find... had a few hours so just had to get out and do this one and another nearby to satisfy my caching addiction!!!! TFTC

Found no worries. Wonder how they came up with the name of the the road?Thx Skippy for the hide.

warm and dry to day and a group of bike riders going past saying he is doing Geocaching
Dont know who they were but High if you read this

Lots of cloud cover today - left a keyring but took nothing - enjoyed the drive - thanks Skippy.

Found on the way to Meningie. TFTC

Found easily on way from Meningie. TNLNSL TFTC

had lots of fun finding it
TFTC TNLN

A quick side trip while working in the area, TNLN TFTC

TFTC TNLN

Driving past to find some areas to place some caches one day. TFTC. SL. TNLN.

After spending the weekend doing the Border Track with Barramundi and Little Desert with Honeysucker it was time to head home, but still grab some more caches on the way.

It was more like cool and damp tonight. TFTC.

Found this cache today on my way to Adelaide.
Thank you very much for showing this place!
Greetings, Colonel Dago from Germany

A bit of wet might've been good today, just to settle the powder. However, it might've impacted our 2WD - 4WD adventures later in the day Nice quick find. TFTC.

TFTC. Took pathtag.

Found this cache during the Coonalpyn Event held as part of the Coonalpyn Centenary celebrations.

One of the legs of the Coonalpyn Event multi-cache took us just past here to the Gold Escort Route marker just down the road.

As we drove down the road looking for the Gold Escort monument I saw that this co-ord came up very close so after recording the information required from the monument for the Coonalpyn event multi we came back to this spot. I found the cache quickly and easily.

I used to travel this road a lot during the 1980's when we lived in Coonaplyn and were mallee stump picking on a property down the road and bringing the stumps back into the Coonalpyn railhead.

Signed the log.
Took nothing
Visited my geocoins through
Left a mundoo pathtag.

Thank you Skippy&Lambchops for the cache.

28/11/09 Did this cach as part of the 100 year celibration of Coonalpyn
TFTC

a easy find for us....on the event cache weekend celebrating the 100 yr anniversary
following mundoo after they beat us to the monument to get the next co-ords
we found them down the road parked off the road near this cache we had planned to find and log
as we parked the car mrs mundoo yells out we got the log here
tftc tnlnsl

Found on my way home. A bit of a diversion from the main highway but I like finding these types of caches in my travels.
Thanks to Skippy and lambchops

A nice drive-by and a lovely quiet, peaceful spot off the main drag. Thankyou for organising the cache.
TNLNSL
Cheers & TFTC!

A quick find whilst cacheing the Coorong Country!
TNLN
Thanks for the cache!

It was wet, but not too cold. Took a few minutes to find, but got it in the end. TFTC!

Not everday you find a five year old cache. It has lasted well. Logged only. Thanks

12-5-2009 Mooshell Team
TFTC, TNLN
SL

2009-05-02 14:42
I, too, wanted to see this town. Found the cache after a short search - next time I'll grab the GPSr out of the van... TFTC

Found on The 2009 Swampy's Return Home From Beyond Caching Trip
Find # 359

Out caching with Zak Power & Mooshell 22 Teams.

TNLN TFTC

Never has been a town here just a lot of out buildings on
some of the properties.

The inside of the cahe was wet+++ so decided to sit on
the side of the road in the rain for 20 minutes to dry out
the container and log books with the heater.

Zak Power Team had muggle cousins along for the ride.

TNLN SL TFTC

slight detour from the highway on a trip to the south for a few days... followed the cold and wet road and found a warmish and wet cache! thought it may be a hardish find initially but no problems at all.... the GPS wanted to take a different route but that looked like a gravel road number to gypsy, so gypsy shut the GPS up and utilised the off-road feature to find GZ via almost all black stuff.... ha, technology, always thinks it knows best beepin' at a gypsy all the time!!!! TNLNSL cheers 4 da cache skippy 'n lambchops!

Not so cold and still a little damp....... however the new fruit container seems to be holding up well. Took the really cool bendy frog for geotoddler and left a Hawaiian keyring. TFTC

Easy find, thanks!

A Hot and Dry day, but the cache is still.... Wet. At least it's appropriate. Tipped the water out and dried out the log book a little.

Things were a little wet to day. And when we opened the cache the contents had been wet. Could just write in the log book. The lid of the cache was cracked which is probably how the moisture was getting in.

Did what maintenance we could. Replaced the cache with a fruit container and put in a new log book. Took the old bucket with us.

Thanks Skippy

Actually it was warm and dry when I visited. TFTC

Easy find whilst travelling the backroads to avoid the Long Weekend traffic on the highway. Took kangaroo, left Koala.
Thanks.

Very damp inside. I removed the plastic bags to stop things sweating. Wet but not cold!!

Found the cache at 11.47am. Search for while - found it. No swap. SL. Thanks Skippy&Lambchops for organising the cache and hunt.

Found 11:40. 4th of 12 FFTD. Weekend jaunt down South-east to escape the rat race. Getting very warm/hot, thankfully no Joe Blakes seen around today, it does add an edge of danger to caching. TNLNSL. TFTC.

This was cache # 7 of 17 attempted today. Strange name for a town. Maybe it's name is the reason it no longer exists (if it ever did). Thanks for the cache, Skippy&Lambchops.

Another cache on the road to Melbourne crossed off the list of to dos. Number 5 for the day. It's nice to get two caches in the one side trip. Found to the sounds of a dog being told off, who'd have thought there would be the potential for muggles in this neck of the woods. Cache was living up to its name today.

a cold and wet 32 degree dry day
took polar bear, left frog

Nice break on the way (well, slight deviation) to the Coonalpyn Show. Have NEVER come across such a strange road name! Could well have been named 'Hot and Dusty Road' today. Thanks Skippy&Lambchops.

I made a quick detour to get this one while travelling to Adelaide from the Mount.
Thanks

Found on way home from Murrayville, would you believe? [B)]
An easy find, but warm and wet today though...
TNLNSL
Thanks

A nice easy find!
TFTC
Took: Cactus figurine
Left: Butterfly Figurine