Tunnel Vision Golden Grove, South Australia, Australia
By Nibs on 07-Jun-04. Waypoint GCJMXB

Looks like it’s finally been washed away. It lasted 13 years, so I’m pretty happy with that.

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No response to Needs Maintenance requests and more DNFs. This one may need some admin attention.

Had a good look for this one. The hinted location is below a recent high water mark.

As per DNF log, the hunted location seems to be below a recent high water mark. Can the CO please check this one is available to be found.

Area has seen significant flooding since last find ͦ

(Sat 18 Mar 2017) Dang! I was right on GZ according to the GPS but no cache made itself visible [v] However lots of Monster-Sized "Orb Weaver" spiders did and I was kind of nervous looking with them hovering above me [:o] I had to abandon my search. Next time maybe TFT challenge anyways, Nibs

Out with LL. This took a bit longer than expected but we found it. TFTC

Well. My dad and I tried to do this one and Dads GPS was stuffing up. Mine wasn't though and dad kept leading me up the wrong way, so I got stuck several times and my hand is now hurting from scratchy trees. Anyway we found it and my GPS was right the whole time.

Lucky my geo son was standing on it. Thanks

Found it

Good easy fine, bit of a hike tho!

Well hidden so a bit tricky to find but found eventually.

Approached from the north which wasn't too bad. Thanks Nibs.

Slippery approach and lots of looking but it was found! A lovely hide.
TFTC

Approached GZ from the roadway above. Not a lot of life in the vegetation at the moment, so easy access. After circling around what my phone called GZ for 10 mins, I decided to expand my search. The cache was soon in hand. SLTLNL. TFTC Nibs!!

My approach by bicycle must have been a good one
A short scramble down into the gulch had me at GZ without any tunneling
And with only five minutes of poking around, I found a well hidden cache [^]

TFTC and exercise !!

Gotcha!

Took a walk through the tunnel, came out the other side, and found a cache. Eventually.

Took a little longer that it should have, but I found it!

Thanks Nibs

ZZzz..

Well, I slipped and slid down the hill. I walked through a tunnel. I slipped and slid up another hill. I wandered about a bit. I made a find at a very sneaky hide. I walked back through the tunnel and slipped and slid up another hill. And this is fun??!! Thanks Nibs

walked to gz from the opposite end of tunnel which was difficult getting down steep embankment. found the cache and an easier way out after a short search. tftc tnsl

Great terrain! A quick find on a sunny day off work.
With so long since the last find I was hoping it hadn't gone
missing and thankfully it was an easy and painless find.
TFTC

Bit of Bush Bashing to get down. Had to watch my step, it sure is steep in parts
A quick search & I had the cool cache in my hand. Lucky this didn't get washed away in the recent floods. Cheers, Nibs. Find #408

Found with my father, Ducat, and nephews. Youngsters enjoyed the tunnels and I enjoyed exploring new territory. Thanks, Nibs.

Ventured down and up the creek with two Grandsons and thier Aunty who is also a cacher.Found the going a little hard as my vision has recently become mono.
After searching a while Glencoe 7 had the cache in hand.

TNLN thanks Nibs.

Ventured out today with 3LG for a caching adventure.
Lucky it was a dry day today, making the trek a little safer.
A quick find and sign, then on with our adventure .
TFTC Nibbs

Oh my goodness!! What a trek down and back up! Entered from the worst side bit once down was not going back up until i had found this one! After many slides, bites, stabs and laughs cache was inhand signed and we were back up the hill hand by hand. tftc

This one took a little time to find. Good camo, good hide. TFTC

Took me a while and in the end PAF ... of course I was essentially looking right at it as hints were given.

We tried this one a little while ago but after all the rains it was very slippery and approaching from the wrong side we were faced with a big drop ahead of us so we aborted to try another day, well the weather was perfect today so we retried this one (from the right side of the river) and geowife had the container in hand in a couple of minutes of searching, after heading back up to road level i realised i had logged it as 1/7 so back down to change it to 1/8, heading back up the hill i slipped on some sour sobs pulling a muscle in my leg making the return journey quite painful. TFTC TNLN

Attempted this cache with Loki'Nap.
Managed to find our way down easy enough and then proceeded to find the clue.
We must have searched all over this area for a good 30 minutes and just couldn't find it??
Either this is a very tricky hide or it could be that its tricky in winter with all the weed growth?
Will attempt another time if it is found by someone else.

3LG and I though we would give this a try, but when we got close and saw the drop down decided to try this during the day so we can see the area better. I'm sure once you get down it will be fine, but during the early AM discretion was used for the sake of safety getting down.

A very good hide and a good find TFTC Nibs

Found with a little difficulty.
TFTC Nibs

This was the second time, but this time I'd brought the trusty other half to search the area and lucky I did The cache was soon in hand, signed the log and headed away. Of course, we stopped for a minute or too in the tunnel. Fantastic acoustics! TFTC!

Damn, I forgot to log this at the time - and now it's 16 months later! I found this with Bennymacca whilst on a long walk from Slate Creek #1 all the way to the other side of Main North Road. Great that it's been there so long.

Great cache! Locker101 and I searched for quite a while to get this one. Can't believe this cache has been here since 2004!

SO MANY UNFINISHED (or unstarted?) FENCES! I don't know whether I was supposed to be there or not, but after about 30 minutes or so of falling over, getting up, then repeating the process, I read the logs and found that it hadn't been found since last year :/ I think I need a heads up before I embark on this journey again. I thank whoever decided to put that wall of rocks and wire up, because I could never have gotten up and out of that embankment without it!

Did the trek down to GZ .... kept on wondering all the way going down .... now if I slipped and fell, I wonder how long it would take for someone to find me? ... so with that in mind, was extra careful in going down.

Got to GZ ... found little brother ... searched ... but came up with a DNF today ... quite overgrown around GZ ... so I suppose it is here somewhere, just not tuned in to it today

One for another day ...

Tried once before with little success (obviously). Today was much better, although my dog was tempted to try entering the canyon the short way. I suggested he take me the slightly slower way (beside the bridge).
Even though it should have been obvious where the hide was, I still took a while to clue in to where a container of that size should be hiding.
We took a much easier way out.
Thanks for a good walk and scramble.

After scrambling up and down following the wayward pointer,finally found the little brother then the cache was soon in hand...TFTc

Good find. took us a while to actually find it. GPS co-ords are about 3-4m off but we got there in the end with the help of the hint.

What an adventure and expedition!
I was only about 100m from GZ when I parked the car however that small distance was an interesting journey!
I started walking and could smell the smell of rotting flesh.
Soon after, I saw a dead chook in a bag (with a foot protruding, hence how I knew it was a chook)
Then I came across a steep and slippery slope and finally made my way to the bottom.
On the way down, I passed a cave in the cliff and again smelt rotting flesh and saw blowflies going in and out but this time I was NOT going anywhere near that cave entrance just in case I again did not like what I saw.
Here's hoping that the flies were only going in and out to seek the coolness of the cave!
Next came the spider dodge and that meant that while walking up the creek, I used my hiking poles to shift the spiders' webs to a spot on one side so that I coudl get past without wearing the multitude of small and cute spiders' webs that were spanning the creek bed.
Then a quick search near GZ and the great hint made doing the locus cache very easy!
The dog roses at GZ are very pretty with their pale pink flowers [^]
When I left, I left via the SE and this was an easier route than the NE one that I used to come in!
SL. TFTC Nibs

drivven over the big brother a thousand times, never knew. A bit of sliding down action to get there. Roses smelt nice.

while looking for the cache saw a little brown snake and scared us half to death! nice cache though

Fairly easy find, once I'd figured out how to reach GZ! Clue made sense shortly after arrival. Thanks for the cache. TNLN SL

Found on a day of caching with SneakySqueaky.

Parked to the west, entered from the north. A quick find by Mr Squeaky.

Left a calling card. TFTC

"Sneaky Squeaky" Woz ere"
On a caching day with M-Sez. Great location and a great cache

From Me To You From SQ72 T.F.T.C

I was heading for an other cache near by and saw this on appear on the map so I stopped for a look.

Steep and wet, but I look my time and got there without drama.

Big Tunnel.

TFTC Nibs

Knew from past logs to approach from the East. Searching around the little brother and got sprung by Darknstormy. TFTC SL

Took the walk in the creek bed from Lilliputian Grand Canyon Assault 2 to this one..

Who do I hear up ahead, I know that voice... Team IMP666 and Magic 8... Made for easy picking

TFTC

Found with Imp666 and ran into fellow cacher darknstormy......imagine that.

Thanks [8]

Thank you for the cache.
My boys enjoyed the area climbing up and down the steep sides doing pretend rock climbing.
Spent quite a while looking for the cache, we were almost about to give up - the hint was a big help - lots of grass had covered where the cache was.
Thank you Nibs

First find on a fruitful day of caching. Found that my shoes were unsuitable for the terrain, and had a rough scramble down to GZ. Found after a couple of trips up and down the gully.

TFTC Nibs. (My first cache find was a Nibs, so I have fond regard for his finds. Cheers mate!)

After days of hot weather, finally I'm back without a GPS and had this in hand very quickly. Last time it had poured with rain and was very slippery, so we didn't really attempt.

And as luck would have it, as I walked out it started to rain, so that was a end to caching for the day.

Found on the way to the Ho Ho event in town.
Not so easy to get to, but well worth the effort.
This has to be a favorite for the shape of the container matching the theme,
nice work Nibs, thanks

Tried three ways to get to GZ. The fourth was successful. Hooray!
Took a little while to find the little devil who was hiding in his safe location. Water had been high here but all was well inside the cache. Took TB to move on to Vic.
TFTC Nibs

This entry was edited by 6Hinemoa2 on Sunday, 23 October 2011 at 13:14:58 UTC.

After last nights rains, it was really slippery down there and lots of stuff has washed it's way down to a fast flowing creek. I looked around the upper section, and the hint made no sense to me - I'm game, but not that game. Maybe another day. Cheers.

Found as part of TWDG Father's day expedition. Walked down from Lilliput for this one. Nice hide.
Dropped in Roaring Lion TB
TFTC & the nice surroundings Nibs

took a little bit longer than it shoud have
TFTC

Should have taken more notice of clue, would have saved a lot of crossing and climbing
Have taken TB "Key to the Kingdom".
TFTC

Found this one before picking up the kids from school. Left 'Key To The Kingdom' TB. Took nothing...

Great spot, but a bit of an effort getting in and out. TFTC

Co-ords were slightly off but the hint pointed us in the right direction - TNLNSL TFTC

Visited - Travel Bug

Although not the longest walk we have done to find a cache, I understand the terrain rating. While in the bottom of the creek, I was thinking "How the hell am I going to get out of here???" Not being the fittest person around, I ended up dragging/walking up with the assistance of the wire holding the rocks in place. Thanks for the cache Nibs. Took nothing, left nothing.

Last find of the day.
Thanks

Fantastic little spot. TFTC

Headed out north with Honeysucker to start clearing the area above Grand Junction Road.

Went to the wrong side first but got to the right side in the end. TFTC.

had to watch the tunnel vision as we crossed the road but as we made our way to the cache we could focus on that , soon had it found.

Found it with the lad TN left dinosaur SL TFTC

First cache I found on a night hike with the Beefacres Venturers. Interesting getting down the creek - much larger banks than I expected, but found it easily in the end!

thanks

Yes there it was, in plain sight, after one of us slipped and fell on top of it and moved its cover. Apart from the tauma of the fall, which was so close to the running creek. What a beautiful sight through eyes full of tears. The journey back up the slippery hill was very difficult with the injuries, one of us slipped again and twisted the ankle. OOOOOOCH!!!!! more tears of pain and laughter.

Our second attempt at this one. Last time with the iPhone the signal was non existent in this area. Now with Garmin Oregon 550 it was easier. Once we worked out which tunnel it was, figured out the name and how it related to the location and found its baby brother.... there it was almost in plain sight. TNLN. TFTC.

Perth 10.4. I was happy that getting to the area was not too hard, but the GPS was all over the place and it took me ages to understand what I was meant to be doing. Eventually it all came together and there was no further embarrassment. Thanks.

3349.58 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2009 Compass Rose Gold Glossy A#156

Albida

Neat little spot, bit wet and slippery today though, lots of angry ants too!
TFTC.

Thanks for opportunity to explore tunnels we did not know was there. TFTC TSLS

If it wasnt for this cache I would have never known there was a tunnel here - yet I drive over it regularly. TFTC TNLN

Despite the hint, took me a little while to find. (Was looking for something bigger) TNLN. TFTC.

my first cache thanks guys a nice walk the family enjoyed it

just realised i didnt log this find.

[^][^] Found good hidden take me 10 mins to looking everywhere got it Phew!! .Dry creek and big tunnel make me nice cool.T.N.L.N

T.F.T.C [^]

Great hide gps was a bit wonky for me but you get that? Took thong left an eye. TFTC

Got down & back up without encountering any thorns. Quite cool in the tunnel on such a warm day.

This was cache # 49 of 77 for the day, in the company of Alansee on our five day long weekend Adelaide caching Bonanza. certainly was one of the biggest under road drains I have seen, we had no trouble on getting to the cache and finding it. My thanks to Nibs for the cache.

Found on a trip to Adelaide with ActsYouthGroup. I confess I don't specifically recall this one although my notes say that it was BIG! I should remember it for that alone!

I remember it! And yes, it was BIG! lol

Parked across the road and attempted to cross in the tunnel, a no go. Went across the road, wrong side of the creek. By the time we descended to baby brother, it was getting dark. Just managed to grab it in time. A tough one for us. TNLNSL TFTC

now we have the 100 find trackable we are just getting around to logging it through.

Thanks for the cache

Loved the cache and what a peaceful place away from the roads. Thanks

Found it. I ended up walking past it several times before I realized it was there. Was my first find, on my first attempt

Another little nature walk which turned out bad.... Searched big brother and little brother and everywhere in between but no cache... will try again at another time.... TFTC

Spent about 20 minutes searching near the baby brother and and surrounding area but no luck will try again another day.

2nd for the day - found easily under a cloud of mosquitoes tnln thanks

This was a second try and was successful having updated the garmin we were able to get a better fix.
Thanks Nibs
No Swaps

Found with notentirelysure85 and drunken monkey chief.
been past many times and was never aware this tunnel was here.

Had no idea that a hole that size was under the road. wow. TNLN TFTC

Found with Wolvo and DrunkenMonkeyChief.

Found by Mrs Evermore. Nice little adventure for us.
Took GC TB. Left rubber heart & snake.
TFTC

After driving over this twice a day, finally got around to doing it.

Good spot to leave the Back up slowly GC/TB

Find# 382
9th find of the day.
Took: Nothing / Left: Nothing
Glad that I had an experienced cacher with me to provide support getting to GZ. Found under the supervision of muggle booze bus set up about 250 meters down the road.
Thanks for the cache!
Jardry