Roonka Swaps Murbko, South Australia, Australia
By 'scargoes on 05-Jul-04. Waypoint GCJX2Q

Out and about caching with Cheezel and WayneAPN while on a trip to the Riverland.Cache found and log stamped

The 3 Stooges are at it again. Out on the long weekend hunting caches. We wanted to head north for some high T caches that required a 4WD, but it didn't quite work out, so an alternative plan was hatched. The Riverland.Aimed for some High Terrain caches and caches that have been unloved for some time, years in fact, and with very few finders. Some were quite tricky to solve and took a bit of head scratching and a few other body parts.Plus, some others of interest along the way.Always great trips away with heaps of banter, dad jokes, tons of crap talk, but best of all, the camaraderie, and home made cake.All caches found and stamped. If some caches required maintenance, this was done.Thanks to all the COs for hiding and publishing these caches. Made for an adventurous weekendTFTC SL

The original plan was to head to the Argadells north of Port Augusta but the logistics simply didnt work out for us.So its Plan B, the Riverland So here we are, The 3 Stooges, WayneAPN (or as we call him That Numbers Guy), weredunn4 ( Mr Adventure) and myself are hitting the Riverland for some targeted high T caches, plus many many others along the way.Suffice to say, these are always great trips away with heaps of banter, dad jokes, tons of crap talk, but best of all, the camaraderieAll caches found and stamped. Any caches needing maintenance, we did our best to restore them to good health whether that be an additional log or new container.Thanks to all the COs for the caches we found this weekend, without you we dont have this game TFTC

Staying with family in Swan Reach for the weekend. I ducked out early in the morning to grab a few caches in Blanchtown. Being an oldie, this cache was the main target of the morning. Found without problems. All good here. Thank you 'scargoes, for placing Roonka Swaps for the geocaching community.# # #15321 # #

I checked this cache today whole on a scout camp,Logbook seems dry as well as swaps, but cache did have some water in it, I tipped it out, and swapped a badge for another badge,James0116

Caravan trip to the Riverland. Day 1, to Roonka.TFTC

I obviously hadn't done my homework properly as I didn't expect to arrive in Morgan as early as I did. However, this enabled me to do a lot more caching, and this was one of the ones that I found but hadn't expected to get to until tomorrow. These were all found quickly thanks to great coordinates. TFTC SL

Stamped as PUZZLDTeam consists of Ronice88, Weirdobiker, Contesta, DeJavu, Search 4, Kbucky & myself Bounty Trackers. On a 5day (maybe more) caching expedition with On Ya Bike series as the main objective then on to the Paddle steamer series we are all staying in Nildotte for 3 nights then moving up to Loxton for another 2 nights. With events at either end. And hopefully a few caches placed before 2010 will also be on our hit list. Lots of fun & laughs had along the way and lots of car doors opened & closed. Thanks for placing and maintaining the series.

An epic and memorable trip with new friends - Ronice88, Weirdobiker, de ja vu, Bounty Trackers, Contesta and Search4 - signed as PUZZLD. Thankfully a cooler day as we explore another area here while completing the main aim of our trip - OYB Series. Thanks to scargoes for your many cachesRegardskbucky

Hip hip hooray for SCOUTS! How fabulous and mind boggling is the monumental scale of geoart in SA. On a multi project in the true sense of the word far from home base which is at higher altitude. The project idea to embark on the OYB series with a group of likeminded geobuddies AKA PUZZLD had its mad genesis a few months ago and of course theres plenty more along with this. Travelling with contesta, kbucky, dj vu, search4, bounty trackers and weirdo biker over a few days mixing and matching skills with good humour and camaraderie. Thanks a zillion to the COs for the variety of caches and challenges. Im imagining a recovery session after this epic exhausting marathon to say nothing of Collingwood winning the 2023 AFL Premiership GO PIES!

Another enjoyable day exploring around the Murray and grabbing great caches and geoart caches before the heat of the day.We had a great day searching and signing logbooks with our Pzzld group friends.Thanks for the cache.

We are in SA with a group of like minded people to do the On Your Bike series as team Puzzld which consists of myself, Ronice88, contesta, de ja vu, search4, kbucky and Bounty Trackers. Lots of caching fun over the next few days. We are picking up a lot of other caches along the way, this being one of them

Find # 10347Day 4 caching friends to complete our epic On Your Bike series adventure. Picking up some counties, oldies, and other specials along the route to add to my tally and to stretch the legs. This was a quick and easy find and here as PUZZLD! at Roonka Swaps today with Ronice88, kbucky, De Ja Vu, Bounty Trackers, Search4, and weirdobiker. Thanks so much for the many caches 'scargoes and of course for giving me a reason and incentive to get out here, and to experience this part of the world in a different light

Quick find tftc

This was as far as I got on my Roonka trip as the scout area itself required you to check in. A quick find here, and there appears to be quite a selection of badges here for swapping, but I didn’t open the bag. Nice log book too. It’s a bonus to find such an old cache here. I wonder how close the recent flooding reached. Thanks scargoes for keeping it going.

TFTC

The logs need to be caught up. Sorry for the delay in posting.
The area was beautiful, with beautiful trees and countries. I signed the log 6ACDDE (6roos All7 Crank1 DeafPhantom DutchAus Everlasting Pwala) 'scargoes. Thanks for placing it.

19 April 2023
Sorry for delay to log.
With group, More good fun and enjoyed myself.
Thank you for the cache and hunt.

Southern Autumn adventure Day 21. Blackwood SA trip Day 2. Now that I am caching by myself, I can work to the goals I have. This means that for the rest of April and most of May there are not too many days I need lots of caches. With that in mind, I went out onto the Murraylands road to visit some of the Riddlers Roonka Rampage caches and th Ode trads in between. It was a relaxing morning that ended up with morning tea and a quiet afternoon.

This cache was a short distance from the main road, but a nice detour. I even passed someone running along this dry back road.

Thanks for the cache 'scargoes

42095.3 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2018 Oct Halloween Spooktacular A#387

**Albida**

We all get up early until night. Weather is awesome sunrise and sunset. Great country and road. Perfect coordinates every caches. We all have awesome time and lot of laughs. .Beautiful drive and great teamwork
Thank you
6ACDEP = 63Roos All7 Crank1 DeafPhantom Everlasting Pwala

Accompanied with all7 crank1 pwala Deafphathom everlasting, great enjoyed day for around of caches for series, challenging, multi… TFTC

Accompany with 63Roos, ALL7, Crank1, DeafPhantom, Pwala and Everlasting.. tks

Found on Sunday afternoon drive to grab a couple caches while the weather is nice. Was able to pick up the rest of the caches in the JLWE/Riddle trail. This cache is one found today.

Find #5610 on 16 Apr 2023.
TFTC 'scargoes!

SA’s Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - Feb 29th, 2024. Keep the date free!

Camping at Roonka Scout Camp for the Easter weekend, oldest Geoson and I went for a morning walk to make this quick find.
Geoson retrieved the cache and having recently become a Joey loved checking out the scout badges!

TFTC

RoamingHowie and OzHockeyChick’s Epic Road Trip - Day Thirteen: Heading south.
Looking for some cooler weather, we’ve decided to head towards the coast, choosing specific caches to help with challenges along the way.

Finally, after 3 days staying at this lovely campsite (apart from the early morning cocky screeches), we finally stopped to find this nice-sized cache.

Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, 'scargoes
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The Epic Road Trip with OzHockeyChick has now entered a new phase “No More On Your Bike”. After a huge and tiring day yesterday finishing off the western section, it’s a far more relaxed day today exploring and doing a little more sight seeing.

On our way out for the last time we finally grabbed this cache after staying here for a few nights.

Thanks 'scargoes for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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Back online and all good.
No River Murray flooding likely in this spot!

We're offline until we can return the cache, it got a little wet being lower than the roadway...

We had some surprisingly big rains and the cache got a little damp in its location, so it's with us at the camp right now,.

If your passing by and want to sign the log just drop into the Camp Hosts Cottage (aka Wardens Cottage or "Leicester Lodge") until tomorrow.

We'll also try to rescue other local Geocaches before the River rises too much more

We had a good search around but no luck at all here today.
We were dissapointed not to have found it.
Thanks

Found at Hawthorn Family Scout Camp

#19786. Day 6 of our holiday and today Robmc, the geo-doggies and I are leaving Renmark and making our way to Tanunda for a week. Started with some caches in Berri and picked up a few more along the way.

Came out here today specifically to collect this cache. The log book is in amazingly good condition for such an old cache.

Thanks 'scargoes

Traveling between the Riverland and the Barossa with BettyBoo3747 and the geodoggies.
A little bit of a convoluted route picking up a few unfinished caches and ones needed for challenges.
This cache had the right collection of attributes for a challenge for BB, so we detoured to it today.
It is in very good condition for its age.
Thanks, Robmc.

Checked on this cache,

Still in good condition

Added some Roonka brochures and some badges

James0116

TFTC.

While we were in Blanchetown this afternoon, we decided to go a short distance north and look for this old cache. Accurate coordinates led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks 'scargoes for the cache.

Grest spot. Loved the scouts idea.

Another cache found with richlink on our 2022 South Australian Adventure.

After settling into the local caravan park at Swan Reach, we headed off to complete another leg of the 'On Your Bike' series and other caches we passed along our route. Thanks for the cache.

Staying in Swan Reach with iluvtrekking to grab some of the ‘bike’ series caches and other we come across along the way. Thanks ‘scargoes

Heading here for tonight’s accommodation with the added bonus of a cache at the gate. Cannot go wrong with that
Thanks 'scargoes for the placement.

Suscoe found this cache in the very good company of Phetlern this afternoon.
Bright sunshine and a warm to hot day.
Thanks to 'scargoes for this hide.

After setting up camp in Blanchetown and a bite to eat for lunch, we ventured out in the company of the suscoe duo as a practice for the next few days.
We found the info here very interesting as we both have a background in Scouting.

Thanks 'scargoes for placing interesting caches on the gameboard.
30748

TB Visited

James0116

Great hide

Thanks 'scargoes for the cache

James0116

Found during Supersplash 2021!

Out on caching adventures on the ‘On Your Bike’ trail with Wollaston and HRH Liz&Bruce.

Added a cloth badge.

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

Log signed in first open spot in logbook with group stamp

TFTC 'scargoes

Find # 4136

Dropped off fire service badg. On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce. Another great day for caching. TFTC 'scargoes
Find #6509 at 16:19.

Found but didn't bring any swaps, sorry. Thanks "scargoes

Today I headed out for a day of caching around Blanchetown. I didn’t believe Mrs Google when she said it was going to be 26 degrees. I am not sure it was that wallet but it was quite a contrast to previous days.
Was happy to come away with around 50 finds and only a few dnf.
I mainly focused on the Ronka JLWE series the puzzles were all found in great condition but unfortunately the trads were a little worse for wear, alas I didn’t have any ‘large’ containers to replace with. Was good to finally get this series ticked off.
There were a lot of sleepy lizards out and dragon flies obviously as confused as me with the change in temperature.
Enjoyed a nice picnic down by the river and even managed to fit in some cache maintenance on the way home.
My thanks to all the CO for their awesome efforts.
This one took some searching but eventually found the lidless container, got down on my hands and knees and located the lid reassembled and put back where I found it. Used to love guide camp when I was a kid TFTC!

TFTC

Cache replaced, trialling this location...
Cheers
Paul & Fabienne

Sadly our old cache needs some work to replace it, new cattle grid & road works broke our recent PVC pipework replacement ️.
Good news is in the meantime, you're welcome to come in and sign the logbook for a , while we're here as Caretakers this week.

Cheers
Paul & Fabienne
12 July 2021 21:54

TFTC easy find!

Nice find Greenwith group camp

Tftc

A quick park and grab. Thought we could get all the Roonka caches, but didn't feel right going in with other people camping in the area. Perhaps we need to book a camp too? TFTC 'scargoes.

Was in the area for work and had parked next to this cache so had to grab it really. Nice easy cache to find but it was also nice to find an older one such as this. Thanks for setting and maintaining this cache! Greetings from New Zealand!

Tftc

TFTC Awesome cache would come here again with the lovely oth joeys

We are the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Easy to find

Travelling around Australia, after spending the best part of a week solving the Roonka puzzles today we planned to head out and find them and some nearby caches. Beautiful weather to be by the river.

surprised to locate this inside the fenceline, but the attributes tell the story.

TFTC

After a bike ride on the other side of the river this afternoon I decided to clean up the last two trads I had left in the area. Both caches were quick finds and are in good condition. TFTC

A nice easy park and grab.

Thanks for the cache 'scargoes.
Found on 20 Jul 2019 at 5:17 pm.
Find #9113

Another great day out with Anymules in search of the gems we needed to complete the current challenge. And of course having done that we needed to grab a few more caches to return them to the museum. But why stop there when there was still daylight.

Okay, so daylight is beginning to fade, time to turn for home. [^] May as well stop for a couple more.
It wasn't under the first place we looked but we found it in the logical place for it.

**Thanks 'scargoes for this cache. **

The spare seat in Davidwazza’s kayak to get to the event near here today was too good an opportunity to pass up, especially as it provided an opportunity to get some of the more difficult D/T combinations added to the fizzy grid.
This one was found after we had finished paddling before heading for home.
TNLNSL.
Found with Davidwazza.
TFTC ‘scargoes
Find #555

A big day out kayaking around Blanchetown with the paddling crew, and later from Roonka with GeckoJ. Although kayaking geocaches are normally high D/T anyway, we were targeting a few caches that GeckoJ needed for his D/T grid, of which he managed to fill in two for the day. A great winter day out actually, and the inflatable kayak did us well.

Initially had some trouble here trying to locate this regular sized cache. However eventually we searched around long enough to find it. Nicely made indeed, thanks 'scargoes!

**Come into Roonka today (only) to log**, COs remaking cache container at Warden's Cottage.
Cheers
'scargoes

Quick find with Wazza9 and Team GBS, stamped log book and replaced. Thanks to CO. Great series.

We soon found this cache once at Ground Zero while out caching with wazza9 and Nana Nel. We stamped the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and great to have been able to resuscitate it! Greetings from Zimbabwe

TFTC,
After stopping and visiting one of the CO's for all the caches in this series we then completed all.
I will add a favourite for the puzzles and one for the Traditionals and visit trackables to each series as well.

Found on our winter camp adventure visiting Roonka

Found after a gr8 jlwe

Picked up on JLWE!

Also found during JLWE action weekend with Lukas Skywalker. Could not resist to sign atleast one log book.

Quick find on the way out of Roonka Water Activity Centre for a day of caching on the June Long Weekend Event. Swapped pathtags. Beautiful Area, TFTC!

Mini Tardis and Mr Tardis found this one after a short search. We had a great weekend at Roonka and was great to meet the cache owners too!

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache 'scargoes.

Found with Ma77hew during the JLWE. TFTC.

While attending JLWE, we were returning to camp after placing some game caches and sprung a couple of cachers in the process of finding this one. Handed them our stamp from the car window and they duly stamped the log for us! TFTC

First find whilst at Roonka Riddler Rampage JLW event on our way to plant our game caches. TFTC

Found June Long Weekend with Martini 989 TFtC

Found during the JLWE with M-SEZ. This was our last find of the day as we returned to camp

Back with Sebastbat.

Arrived early at for june long weekend geocaching event so decided to have a look around and do a couple of caches. This stocked nicely. Tftc.

Found where arriving for June long weekend. Tftc

Out this way for JLWE. Thanks for the cache!

Just finished a short evening walk from the campsite in the drizzling rain to find this cache. An easy find, TFTC.

Went for a wander to this cache after arriving and unpacking and settling jamballdonut feline in
Found prior to your pathtag drop but would love to trade if we see you about the grounds

TFTC 'scargoes

Quick check & all's well with our very first cache

Just added some bonus Pathtag swaps for JLWEers if your quick!! (@20:00) and we'd love to do a few Pathtag swaps too.

You'll see us about this weekend, in our Roonka Camp "Wander & Wonder Warden" disguises

We stopped back in today to have another look and the understatement 'how did we miss that', was uttered. The cache is in good condition. SL TFTC

Well can we claim anything for the first blue face. We have no idea where the cache can be. The obivious spot at GZ proved empty, we drove away then returned feeling we must have missed something. No, still nothing. Time to PAF this is supposed to be easy. Yep, that is where it should be, well there certainly is not a cache hiding here.

In the area today scouting for the JLWE. Easy find. TFTC.

A quick pick up while checking out the JLWE area with mogni.
TFTC 'scargoes

Paired up with Aussie M & M for a day of fun and exploring the area. We had been targetting a few puzzles and multies but of course got some trad too. So now I know where I will be going in a few weeks.....
Thanks to 'scargoes from mogni

At Roonka this weekend for SA Rovers Roonka Raft Challenge. A fun weekend of pioneering, rafting and bonding. Went for a short walk in the evening to find a few caches before dinner.
Cache located easily, L:TB TFTC

We were camping in the area and decided to check this place out as we've all been here with scouts or school trips in the last 40 years or so. Good hide. TFTC 'scargoes!

Visiting Roonka for a bit of R&R before the new scout term begins.

The weather was wonderful so went for a bit of a walk to grab this cache.

Me and Ahomburg have now hit the road on the journey back home. After attending the red centre experience event in Alice springs.
What an amazing trip this has been.
The first stop on the way home was kings Canyon.
Second stop will be Coober Pedy.
Third stop is Woomera.
Forth stop ? Heading for a FTF and staying in a cabin to get out of the bad weather.
Fifth stop. Swan Reach.
Sixth stop. Gawler.
Thanks for the cache.

Date: 21 April 2017 Time: 13:50
Find #8514

After a good nights sleep, lukie1987 and I decided on a bit of a numbers run as we gradually headed towards Adelaide after our road trip from Melbourne to Alice Springs and back was coming to an end. After finishing up the TdF series, we decided to make our way towards Swan Reach where we would camp for the night.

Actually after another nearby cache, but not quite sure how to get there. Anyway, another time. T rating not quite right, but anyway, love to get the older caches.

Many thanks to 'scargoes for the cache. TNLN.


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Found this one on a recent camp at Roonka
Great campsite
Great hiding spot
TFTC