Ghostly T(r)ales No 3. The Squatter's Daughter. Louth Bay, South Australia, Australia
By Mr Walker on 04-Jan-06. Waypoint GCRWKG

As there's been no cache to find or log to sign for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Going to temp disable Floods probably washed this away from new location and it will need replacing.

Looks like this just wasn't to be today. We looked until 2:26 PM and decided to pull the pin.

Thanks anyway Mr Walker, but I suppose you can add us to the list of DNF's

Despite an exhaustive search, this one eludes us. Maybe it's there, maybe it isn't. I'm starting to think that this one is a ghost!

Came back after grabbing #2 on our first pass there was a white Holden ute parked where we wanted to be.
Thought it might be other people in search of the cache.
Searched for some time in the dark with the needle on rex spinning faster than my electric meter at home.
Checked the logs and have seen the cache is quite large in the photo.
Lots of Goetrails under the bridge, maybe a few hunters not logging DNF.
Anyway I could not find it this time around. Really enjoyed the story and the hunt in the dark.
TFC.

Mnn! Now i guess i'll have to go and se eif i can find my own cache. Its quite a way from where i placed it. but it seems to be working ok., so i will leave it there

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 34° 35.218 E 135° 52.622
Distance From Old: 54.7 feet
Taking freddos advice and attempting to change coords. If successful they will read S 34 35. 209 E 135 52. 622

I had the heads up from the frog for this. Coords now look better though I had researched this before I went there Even so I made hard work of it. The area had dried out a bit but there was still plenty of green snaky territory. Quite scary really. Great story Mr Walker.

Clear skies from TeamAstro.

I LIKE THE STORY WITH THIS ONE NOT TO HARD TO FIND
TFTC

yeah got this 1 as well TFTC TNLN

Found after numerous tries and phonecalls.

Found with Wheres Wolly and Kimrose

TNLNSL

I also did this the hard way, up and down the bank a few dozen times. It is helping my weight loss program though
TFTC

I sure made hard work of this cache. Down the bank and through the grass. Went to GZ and looked for the cache. Nothing there. So I looked further a field. Nothing there. Back through the grass and up the bank. Went back to the car and looked at the logs. Ah-ha. Another trip down the bank and through the grass and then back through the grass and up the bank. Thankfully there is no water in the stream otherwise it would be very difficult.

Mr Walker you can adjust the co-ords for this move yourself. Use the Update Coordinate option in Type of Log when you post a note. The move is less than 160m and can be done by the cache owner.

Thanks to the cacher who replaced the cache. That may explain why it is smaller than the original, and in a slightly different place. They probably emailed me, but we have had some problems with my work(school) based emails and i missed it.

Gallery photo can be very misleading. Maybe this should be listed as a small cache. Loved it though. Except the cars going over.

This was loaded in my GPS a long time ago so I missed that the co-ords have changed slightly. Felt very trollish by the time we had finished scouring the underside of the bridge. we will be back.


Read about our other wanderings at: http://thismechanican.wordpress.com/

went last weekend and could not find. Went home and read that the location had slightly changed. Will remember to read other logs in future

The MX racing finished for the day, Mum Grom raced out for a quick couple of caches before presentations - Grom1 was on the podium which was grand. Enjoyed the challenge of negotiating the descent and was rewarded with a good hide - good cache Mr Walker - thanx. The graves nearby were an interesting feature.

Cache back in place S34 35.209 and E135 52.622. We loved the series and especially reading the notes about each one. thanks Mr Walker

Had a brief search for this cache, but given the last owner log for this cache we were unsure if this cache was still in place or not [?] Clarification would be nice.

Was concerned about this when i noticed major workds on the bridge for several weeks with lots of workers around. i will try to replace soon. Thanks to those who noted the problem and did what they could to rectify it.

Found a container with nothing in it and no lid and found toys that may have been in the cache. It will have to be checked and reset.
Thanks.

Found the laminated geocaching notice, a lid, and a pair of cache type sunglasses and a plastic bag - perhaps the squatters daughter has taken a liking to the goodies and gone off with it?

Sorry to report that after a lengthy search we found what appears to be the cache container (checked photo from richlinks log and it looks the same) with no lid and no sign of the contents except for a purple toy bear.

Left the container in the cooch grass away from the creek near the middle bridge support.

I have never seen such a crop of couch grass
Good drive by
No Swaps
Thanks
SL

Found easily after a struggle through the long grass. TNLN. T4TC.

All seems well to me, found without any probs. "Whooo-oo" or is that "Boo" no swaps, TFTC

We found it all over the place, looks like some kids might have got to it. Found some items + log book. Had replacement container.
T - Palm keyring
L - 2x glow stars
TFTC

We found it scattered and with no container. We replaced container and tried to hide it a bit better. Can you check on this one and see if the hidy spot is correct or if you want to change it.
Thanks Lisa-jane

2nd crack at this on way back from Coffin Bay. Ended up on wrong side first time. TNLN Cheers!

Found the cache at 2pm. Phew! My car park was wrong side oops!! No swap. Thanks Mr Walker for organise the cache and hunt.

Cache # 13 of 25 attempted today. Like before, I enjoyed reading the story before beginning my search. As I approached GZ in my car, it looked as though the cache was going to be at one end. After parking there and heading down, the GPS now pointed further across. So over the bridge and down again and there it was, staring me right in the face. Thanks again to Mr Walker for the cache and for the story.

Another very sad story, but a great series of caches. Glad we were able to complete the 3. Found the cache at 1435 after first trying to locate from the wrong end of the structure. Wonder whatever became of those lovely red shoes?
TNLN

Pt Lincoln Trip 4th week of Oct
52 of 83 finds with 7 DNFs

Found the container on the ground and the contents scattered around.
Put it all back together.

Found by Mary & David at 0810. Was that the wind blowing or a voice whispering sweet words? Was that a bird sceetching or a desperate pleading voice? Was that the sound of anxious people searching for a missing girl, or children bike-riding nearby? Incredible atmosphere and we even saw an owl pretending to be a troll - or was it a lost soul waiting for her true love? TNLN. Our thanks again to Mr Walker.

this was the last for a day, my son loved the sounds that he hear from here
T bouncy ball
L red car
SL

What a find had to get off of number 13 for the day so decided to find this one on the way home after getting KFC. Water in the river but had no worries of finding it. TFTC
T - (TB) Harry the wombat
L - Bubbles

FOUND THIS ONE PLACED TB HARRY HAIRY NOSED WOMBAT

placed harry the wombat

Walked around in the reeds for a bit with the GPS leading me astray,found it after a while. I love these local ghost legends, your geocache's are helping to keep local folklaw alive.
T- Teddy
L- Army Man
TFTH

Finally got this one after much talk.
Don't know how we missed it previously
TN
Left Palmhanh Keyring
TFTC

Found during my 12 day Nullabour Plain and Eyre Peninsula cave surveying and geocaching extravaganza. Definitely the saddest in the series. I love these urbex type caches...
TNLNSL
Thanks for the excellent theme.
TTFN
BB

nice little spot. tnlnsl tfth

We did all three of the “Ghostly Tales†caches and found the stories associated with each absolutely fascinating We sat and pondered each one and found the experience almost eerie. It wasn’t hard to imagine the story unfolding. I wrote in the log that I had left a TFTC card. On return to the car I discovered that I had done no such thing . Whoops, sorry.
Great series Mr Walker. Thanks for sharing them with us

Don't know about the tool for fetching it, we didn't need it. Found easily after walking straight past it and looking back.

T Clock
L Glow stick.

Couldn't find it. Found the tools for retreival, but no cache. The place was highly uninviting due to the mud, rubbish and overall unpleasantness. I think we'll give a miss to future highway bridge caches.

Great story Mr Walker! Sure needs the snake attribute! - I reckon we were knee deep in grass walking down to this one! We heard a girl wailing (well, it might have been the wind in the bridge rails but who knows?!) Sorry, didn't have anything along the theme to swap, but noticed there isn't much in there along that line anyway. Took charger, left yellow car. (It might glow in the dark, but don't think so!) TFTC

Very interesting story - thanks for all the work detailing it for us - contents were lacking a little so topped up and took nothing - the brat boys loved embellishing it with a lot of unnecessary gruesome acts, but hey, boys will be boys - TFTC

Another quick stop cache on the way home from a week camping in Coffin Bay. TNLN

Watch out for what's underfoot, shouted Geo-kids to Geo-dad. TNLN

Found this one no problems in a big weekend of "Geobagging".
Took nothing
Left nothing
Signed log book,
Cheers

Found after a short scranble through the weeds. Suthies #1 found this one. Took spider web and left spooky snake..should be right at home down there!
Thanks Mr Walker

Another late log: An easy find and another "Thank you Mr Walker"

Cheers from The Barramundi's

I stayed up the top while the other 3 went looking for the cache, but the 2 boys ended up playing and barra2 found it.
TNLN
Thamks Mr Walker

Always glad to do a Mr Walker cache. Scrambled down with junior Snowone in tow, ably carried by diesel69.

Took heart (whats scarier than love?)
left hopping Xmas tree ( a real one would scare me, hopping along)

Thanks for the cache

Last is first for me in this series, Interesting spooky story, and Nice spot to go with the story. Thanks!
TNLN

An easy find after a short scramble. Left glow hearts for the lovers and took dinosaur.
Thanks Mr Walker.
Jim and Chris

Wasn't sure which side to look as GPS was pointing to the middle and co-ords were some 12m out.
Saw it from afar, I'd picked the wrong side (as usual) but it was laying out in the open. Have placed it back under in hopefully a secure position.

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If it helps, the co-ords above were taken almost above the hiding spot with a reported accuracy of 3.4m.

Saw that this was available late last night but left it until the sun was shining brightly before finding it.

No swaps

TFTC

Had a little trouble finding this one at first as we couldnt get a good sat lock,but knew we were near cache.Didnt have the cache notes with us but just thought about where Mr Walker would hide a cache in this situation and after a short search,bingo there it was!!!We really enjoyed this series Mr Walker thanks very much.regards B*DS,No swaps.

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