Power and Water Available Whyalla, South Australia, Australia
By Bunya on 09-Sep-04. Waypoint GCKGKC

Time for this one to go, I think.
Actual and possible rezoning of surrounding land makes future access problematical.
Thanks to all who took the trip to find it.

Took frog, left girl jelly fish.
Log Book almost full and container lid has fallen apart.

What a location amongst the Flora, got some nice photos, funny experience, seemed to walk a full circle, to GZ , GPS appeared to be affected by something, maybe transmission lines. TFTHSL, L Toy Pirate coin.

Great spot, found the cache after walking in circles for about 5min.
TFTC
TNLN

Tanks for the cache

Nice view from the tanks good drive through puddles as it was wet the day before. T: Gold car L: Squid
SL TFTC TFTH

Nice little drive up and great views from near GZ. T=Scissors, L= Gold matchbox car SL, TFTC

Windy and raining but we found it. Took turtle, Left Dinosaur
May need a bit of maintenance, container has 2 broken clips.

Drove through from the back way and made it easily enough. Found out you can't drive up from the highway no more. Good hide, easy find for H10.
T - stuffed dog
L - fridge magnet & bank pen

TFTH
TFTC
Read about our other discoveries at: http://thismechanican.wordpress.com/

Took 2 keyrings and left scissors and a lanyard. TFTC.

The country has become easier
Thanks No swaps SL

I almost made it on that caching trip with Swampy but the missus decided to have a baby on that weekend so I had to wait until now to find this excellent cache.

TFTC

Again, just a set of coords in the GPSr and a 4WD at night time. Just love it. Somehow managed to find my way to GZ and had the cache in hand in minutes.
TNLN, thanks Bunya
Swampy

Rocky Glen Grommets again had a moment of madness when they decided to attempt to drive ACROSS from Alternative routes (the back way) to Power and Water. Driving across the motbike tracks was okay (even saw 3 motocross riders) but the track got narrower and narrower and Mum Grom had had enough and insisted that we drive down to the bitumin and across that way after trying to negotiate a road across for 40 odd minutes. Again, the Groms thought it was wicked!! An easy drive up from the main road and a quick find. Also went to the locationless spot (will need to read up on what we have to do about logging this one!) Picked up wire trimmers and left monkey. Thanks Bunya!!!

Well couldn't get any water here tanks to big but we are having fun looking around. TFTC
T - Cow magnet
L - Tennis ball

Third cache of 17 today. I found a track in and was able to drive within a short distance. Found the cache without any worries. My thanks to Bunya.

[This entry was edited by muzza on Saturday, December 01, 2007 at 11:56:33 PM.]

Found by Mary & David at 0855. Amazing views of this wonderful country. Delighted to see some tiny wildflowers here and there. Took 50c, left happy cow magnet. Our thanks again to Bunya.

This one was good walked to it during the day with a friend nice easy find.
Took nothing
Left 50cents
TFTC

Bunya, thanks for this one.

Took Bunya's Aussie PHOTO PLEASE
Left Nothing

TFTC

Nice day for it. Thanks

Great view from there. Flies were a bit friendly though.
T - Whistle
L - Bear magnet
- Geocoin
TFTC

First fro the day.

Picked up the prowler52 coin and left a pair of wire cutters for the power available.

Was able to drive the two wheel drive car to within 100m of GZ. Was a bit worried from the other logs. Fun though, I think the hire cars underside is now brushed clean after a week in the Pellet Plant.

TFTC

I'd never seen one of the Geo-Achievement Geocoins, so I couldn't resist swapping it for a Prowler before I sent it on its way.

This is our 200th find!! In celebration of that, we have placed 'Tweety2 found 100' geocoin in it, to start it on its journey.

T playing cards
L Tweety2 found 100 coin.

Easy one & a good view.

nice stroll, good find! CMB/maux faux scores another direct hit.
took gecko, left tape
TFTC

Our first proper trad. cache find. Drove half way up but the go Kart found the going a bit tough, so the walk was good. Cool spot. Left the Santana tape, took the lizard. No flies, no snakes, no rain...all good.TFTC.
CMB + MAUX FAUX

Better drive this time, was a bit wet last time so it was a no attempt. Easy find. 2 wheel drive can do this.
TN Left green egg
TFTC

Found it late in the day just as it was starting to rain. Easy find. TNLNSL

Found during my 12 day Nullabour Plain and Eyre Peninsula cave surveying and geocaching extravaganza.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
BB

Found while travelling home with Beaker's Bunch.TFTC.

Great cache. Had fun getting to it off road. The girls were a tad scared at some points. Nice sunny day, saw a Bearded Dragon sunning itself. Still lots of flies.

TFTC
Took snake left marlin.

Whistling Kites.

Well we made it, but we certainly didn't take the most direct route - I at least had fun bashing around and getting some major tilt on the car, but I could tell the oldest brat boy was a tad nervous at times - TFTC

Visited Power and Water today. Left Albida 02 Ghost Jeep1, took a small toy car. This place has a good view of Whyalla.

[This entry was edited by rail buffs on Friday, January 05, 2007 at 2:40:17 AM.]

Found on our trip up to/ back from Whyalla.
TNLNSL
TFTH (see logbook for more details).

As Queen Guinevere was NOT AMUSED at being ignored by the last two finders, she demanded to be moved to another cache.
White Jeep Stanton visited (pic) but found the parking spot a bit too small.

No fauna around but looks like a spider has made it's next there. Thank god we didn't actually see it. Took gecko and left deck of cards. TFTC Tuccamore

Day Two of the trip with work completed ..7.00am start so that I could devote time to the important things ...caching!!!

Took 2wd up here no problems. no snakes at this time but the flies were just about carrying me away.
TNLNSL

Dropped off Grail Sword geocoin "Queen Guinevere".

The suspension on my little hire car took a hammering but it was an enjoyable ride never the less. Grabbed the Geocoin. Cheers.

Dropped off Scaw’s Coin Town Geocoin just arrived from the UK.
Took BelKen Geocoin #121.
Replaced blunt pencil.
Would finders please replace/add to the (dead) vegetative camouflage if they can (the cache site is just a bit too obvious otherwise and no-one likes a walk-up-to-it find, do they?).

Found the cache at 2pm. No problem and enjoyed drive on the track to the cache - good fun eh! No swap expects calling card. Drop: Belken Geocoin. Thank you for organise the cache and hunt.

Logging in Satellite geocoin before sending it overseas.

Another one found in the dark (why do I do these things??!!)
And last for the day...
An interesting drive in due to it being dark Hmmmm....
A nice view of Whyalla lights… Too cold and wet for any snakes

TNLN
Thanks Bunya!

After lunch it was time to get on with the caching .

Found this one easily enough no swaps.

TFTC

Found while visiting Whyalla for the weekend.
Found after a little looking.
TNLNSL, Thanks for the cache.

No snake, might have melted in this hot weather....

Nice drive, nice find, thanks.
Agsmky

Found by Mike along with Emma, Zac & Alex @ 1805

No locals here today, driven past here too many times to count!
Figured we better grab it sometime so with the family together it seemed a great time to do so.

Left: Wallet
Took: Blue Star.

Found easy, no snakes today. TFTH TNLNSL Grabbed TB

Checked cache today and dropped off TB F.001.

No snakes today!

Also, no powerpoint and no tap - how is one meant to have a cup of tea?

thanks - TNLN

with CachedScout & Devil Racer Ryan

Drove up with the trailer. Seems all tracks lead to this spot.

**WARNING: Small brown snake seems to have taken residence amoungst the rocks surrounding cache.

TNLN
Thanks for the find

Track was getting a bit rough for our low 2wd.
Flies galore, and lots of wildflowers, good spot.
T - Roo
L - Pin ball game

After travelling over the myriad of tracks between alternate routes and here the 4wd had all the cobwebs disturbed. I like the cache hiding place looks like you are a stonemason by trade.
Took Lizard
Left keyring bottle opener

An easy find on our way back from Pt Lowly and Fitzgerald Bay. Coords spot on. TNLN.
Thanks Bunya.

Drove to within 45 metres to Ground Zero.
Took skateboard and left Rock lobster ruler

Thanks Bunya

Nice easy find on a beautiful day. Flies enjoyed it too. Took nothing, left Travel Bug Big Blushing Beatle.

2nd for the day on the weekend in Whyalla. Drove close by, to have been beaten on the day by Team Spanner. Grabbed the TB they left but have yet to log in, and left a toy scooter. Found by Richary with Fabiana, Brett & Luke in tow. Cheers Bunya - got the car dirtier on the access track here than I did on the 4WDing!

Second attempt saw a more rationale approach. Unfortunately Corolla was overburdened with wife and the results of two weeks buying of books, antiques etc. At the second serious bottoming out, and with most of the hill climb still to come, Mr Walker took one look at Mrs Walker's face and decided discretion was the better part of valour. ( If that isn't an old jungle saying it should be) Seriously, we picked a number of caches where our 4 wheel drive would be a much more logical vehicle. That didn't stop us on all of them, however. The rest will just have to wait for a return visit.

Went to check cache today and found that Shelldrake TB had gone missing. Fortunately I spotted him. After a month in the cache he obviously took snowone’s comment seriously and went for a drink – but got stuck trying to scale the fence around the tank! (pic) I rescued him for some R&R in our fishpond before he resumes his travels. (pic)

After walking around and around I found this one under the rocks. Left a key ring and took a fridge magnet, the day was very windy but sunny.

After "Alternative Routes" this was a good straight forward find, didn't have any dramas. Used to go up the next hill west (bald hill) in the old volzy as a teenager

Thanks for the cache

Took spinning top
left Go West fridge magnet

Also 'Shelldrake TB' stayed on for a drink. He asked if someone could take him to the cuttlefish

Didn't quite get to this one on my recent trip through. Went in off Pt Agusta road and ended up in a maze of dirt tracks being used by dirt bikes. Can see where the G,Z. is likely to be and will try coming at it from the other road.

We were able to take the road within 30m of the cache. A nice easy find.
Took Winnie the Pooh toy, left spinning texter top. Thanks

Had a very interesting drive in with the 2WD. Think I drove about 6km to cover 2 plus still walked about 300m!
Took nothing left a tigger magnet. Cheers.

No real problems finding this one. We did disturb a rather large centipede that had made it's home underneath the container. We thought it would be appropriate then to take the toy centipede from the cache, we left a Winnie The Pooh toy.
Thanks,
PPPLFCC

[This entry was edited by PPPLFCC on Sunday, February 13, 2005 at 5:41:43 PM.]

Another hill top adventure with views of the township of Whyalla and surrounding country. Lots of power and water here but not handy outlets for either.

Took eraser, left native animal toy.

Thanks again Bunya
Clear skies
TeamAstro.

A bumpy little drive and then plugged in to recharge the batteries whislt signing the log.

The last day on a week-long geocaching expedition through country South Australia with Dad (aka 'Late for Dinner'). Terrain like this makes us regret not bringing the Rav 4 on the journey! A short hike through the scrub and hey presto - 'another lunch box!' as 'Late for Dinner' was heard to mutter. [:o)] Took nothing, left a dog shaped paper weight. Thanks Bunya, Cheers Rav 4 Raiders.

Another non windy day but the flies were around. Easy find. Took stubbie holder and left bottle stopper. Thanks Bunya.

Found this one quite easy, had to fight the flies all the way but a nice view. Daughter took the snake not the frog as she told me at the cache and left miniture sewing kit

Third of four caches today (other caches being Why Whyalla, Dig? and Bruce). After celebrating our 100th found cache at Dig? with a thunderstorm it was time to get some mud on our 4wds. So with Langy (TeamLangy) leading the way we took to the tracks in search of Power and Water!

It's amazing to see these "strange" rock formations - just the perfect size to hide a cache in, don't you think?

Found 04/10/04 (4th October) @ 11:30am by Paul & Monique (Team Stargazer)

Took: Black ant
Left: Yellow snake

Thanks Bunya

Spied a relatively suspicious looking location that matched the name of the cache so I headed up the power line track (with Stargazer in tow) just after the thunderstorm that hit as we found the nearby cache "Dig?". When another track presented itself we used it to turn towards the tanks and found the cache quite easily after a smallish walk. TNLN.
Thanks Bunya.

First find on this beauty. Marvelous placement. I remember coming up here several times when I lived in the area. Thanks Bunya.