The Elephant Barn Smithfield, South Australia, Australia
By Mark_oo on 03-Mar-06. Waypoint GCTPFG

Probably time to archive this one.....
cheers, Mark_oo

I think its missing.

Due to the large number of DNF's i am temporarily disabling this cache until i can determine whether its still there and/or whether it has outlived it lifespan.
Regards Mark

No joy today. I see it has since been disabled.

Found it good hide due muggles high there.T.N.L.N

T.F.T.C

No luck with Geofitz88 and friends finding this one. Will try again sometime.

Went armed with sturdy stick and gardening gloves and poked about for a while but aside from the prickles found nothing. Perhaps it's time for the owner to take another look....

Had a good look yesterday during peak hour but couldn't get it.
Tried again this morning with less traffic but with the same result. Found the barn, found the gate, found the leaves but couldn't find the handle just a lot of thorns all of which wanted to leave an impression. I did find an old zip-lock bag which may have held the log.
Methinks this one has gone missing unless someone with welders' gauntlets wants to have a fish around.'
Think the owner needs to have a look after so many DNFs.

Yeah, we had a pretty good look too and couldn't find it...perhaps this one has been muggled?

Even with the trained eye of a previous finder we couldn't find this one. He recalls that the retrieval was easy with the use of the provided handle. The handle was nowhere to be seen. We prodded and poked as best we could, all to no avail. Three DNF's in a row - it would appear the last finder has done a good job of placing the cache to maximise the difficulty!!
Jardry

The prickles won out.... Looked and moved those prickly things every way but all we got was sore fingers.... Not today maybe another day and with gloves...

well, bugger, had a fairly good look....but no cache...oh well, next time!!

Hunting with Lava12, crank1 and Joan for the day.
Lots fun with them.
found it nicely.
dropped tb german mug.
tftc

with lava12, achemy2 and Joan as it's my first time also I am in adelaide for the holiday.They helped me alot and I'm really enjoyed myself. TFTC

Took my sister, and even with her, I couldn't find it!! I even followed the clue, and still couldn't find anything!!! Got prickled a few times!!

Accompanied with Alchemy2 (QLD), Crank1 (VIC) and Joan.
Found it nice and easy. Joan did get prickled. Took TB"German-Beer Bug"
Thanks Mark_oo for the cache.

[This entry was edited by lava12 on Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 7:21:39 PM.]

Huh oh... prickles every where... I didnt like it really but my geofriend found it after a short find without any gloves. OUCH!!!!
Hunting with Deaf Gangs (Lava12, Joan, Crank1 n meself)
dropped TB
tftc
Alchemy2

luckily found this one without too much pain =D TFTC

Found with son, Geocoaster, on the way to Adelaide for 36ers game.

Came to find this one a while ago, and it was gone for maintenance. This time we had more success. Had to dodge the water blown by the local proboscidea (we wish!). We know how to duck now after an experience at the Perth zoo (quite funny really!!!)

TFTC

Prickles hurt!!!!! interesting location looks like it is getting renovated. cheers for the history TNLNSL TFTC

Took a little while to find, but got their in the end. Those prickles really hurt.
Took coloured ball and left little red torch.

Thanks

Luckily I have a pair of gloves in my caching kit. And still didn't want to go near it.
TFTC.

Ouch, too close to a prickly plant meant sharp pain in my thigh. Quickly found. TNLN, TFTC.

Found while lots of unaware muggle traffic passed us by. Mrs O'Cholio got her fingers pricked while accessing the cache, but caching injuries are always worth it TFTC.

2 easy,thanks.night run.

Quick easy find on the wayhome from the Riverland, replaced back exactly where found. Cheers for the cache Mark

I have replaced the cache container, and its now back in the original position....
Cheers Mark_oo

Having been down to check on another cache not too far away, i thoght to check on this one and found the container cracked and the cache waterlogged... I have removed it for the time being to replace and maintain the cache and will replace it as soon as i can....
Cheers, Mark

found it, but the container is broken so you might want to get a new one or fix it. good hide but those leaves are prickly!! Thanks

OW,OW,and OW! Nice one. Took dino Left pen. TFTC

OW,OW,and OW! Nice one. Took dino Left pen. TFTC

Picked up on way to footy with little mate. Lots of traffic but picked the breaks carefully. Took a frog and left a fish. An elephant just did not fit in the container. Thanks

Found the cache at 6.30pm and last cache for the day. SL. Thanks Mark_oo for organising the cache and hunt.

23/5/08 11am Team:A
[red] DAY 205 OF OUR BIG NOVEMBER CHALLENGE[/red]
All he could say was bloody prickles!!!!
[blue] Gayle/Mark[/blue]

2nd find without GPS - TFTC - TNLN - Saucehead - with John -

No matter how careful you are, one of those prickly buggers still gets ya!! Found easily, but replaced no so easily. Lots of traffic!! TFTC

Well getting the right clue helped here but didn't help in putting back. Anyone would think it was rush hour

Prickly quick find in the dark.
TNLN, thanks Mark_oo
Swampy

more interesting history!

tftc - tnlnsl and left wire in accessible position

s-ando (cmb)

Ouch is right! Sharp spikes and lots of muggles going by. Last person didn't leave the wire sticking out at all. Took the key ring and left a dinosaur. TFTC

Great drive by easily found No prickles till we started putting it back.
Plenty of Muggles driving past don't think that they were paying much attention as we used our vehicle as a shield.
TNLN
TFTC

The last of our 12 finds for our trip to Renmark for Australia Day weekend.

Found at 12.45pm

TNLNSL

TFTC

Glad you had a handle on this one.
TNLN
TFTC

Wasn't too hard to retrieve with big leather gloves on.
TNLN
TFTC

Found @ 23:00 by P & very carefully retrieved by B, last on our quick mini tour to see the CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. TNLNSL. B got poked twice when replacing it though, ouch! Logbook is getting very full too! TFTC Mark_oo Cheers PM&B

An easy find but nasty placement! Interesting history.
Thanks Mark_oo

Crap those plants are nasty. Especially at night! Glad that the others had gloves Cheers Gav [1587]

Finally getting around to logging the record breaker Thanks!

Kiwi Cache Raid: #190 @ 22:56. At least with a hide like this you won't have any problems with cachers destroying the local flora. Many thanks Mark_oo .,,,,,,,,,

10:56:00 p.m. A quick find by the NZ cache record team.
Thanks to all Adelaide cachers for placing these caches to allow us to get the record.
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M [:O)](835)

10:56 p.m. This cache was found on our record-breaking attempt to find the most caches in a 24 hours period; we ended up finding 195 all up.

Thanks to all the cachers who placed these interesting caches in Adelaide.

I only wish we could have spent more time appreciating the locations that we visited on our whistle stop tour.

TNLN

Starting to run out of time during our 24 hour record attempt.
Cache number 190 for the day, 10:56pm.

Kiwi Cache Raid: #190 @ 22:56
Thanks to all Adelaide cachers for helping with our quest.
Cheers - M@

Ouch, difficult to search for.

TFTC

Found on way to McLaren Vale for a few days. Interesting building and history. Needs a new log book now.
TNLN

Interesting cache history; nasty plants.
This one required very careful observation before hunting too intensely. Thanks

Easy find on a wet saturday AM
Jero_gals (+1)

An easy pleasant little find, TFTC.

Another find for The Rebel Alliance. Thanks for the cache.
L.L.T.R.A

#59 of 60 finds on the Kapunda/Eudunda day of my Adelaide trip, in company with acts2youthgroup. We found this one at 2115. This was the first of two opportunistic cache finds on the way home from Eudunda. That is to say, we were driving past, and couldn't resist logging another one. What a fascinating story. Surely, this is the only private elephant accommodation in Australia. We parked close, and had an easy find. I made no exchange. Thanks to Mark_oo for the cache. Cheers, dak.

#59 of 60 cache finds for day three of our Adelaide trip, in the company of dak’s Emu Mob. Today we headed to Kapunda and Eudunda to find a few. We were on our way back to our accommodation after a big day out and this one popped up on the radar we stopped and soon had the cache logged. This was a great piece of history. Thanks Mark_00 for the cache.

Quick find on our way to Gawler for an afternoon of caching with Chizbeki. Amazingly Mr E TNLNSL - don't know how he escaped leaving a DNA sample given all of the prickles around the place. Thanks for the cache.

Thank goodness for handles! Managed to retrieve and replace without a scratch. TFTC

Parked on the opposite side of the road [:(!], took a while to cross because of the amount of traffic. Found the cache easily. Took nothing Left Blood sample like those before us! [B)] TFTC

A little less blood, 1 more cache found. TNLNSL TFTC

It's a wonder that cache isn't red with all the blood that must be shed at this location! Cute about the elephant. TNLN TFTC

Quick driveby on our way home. Holing up nicely in the rain.
Took TB

Cheers and thanks for the cache

found the site easily and left ska8 to move on. took small green elephant

Found cache a little further along the fenceline than the hints indicated. Relocated to suitable spot, but noted that the logbook is now full! Thanks for the cache???

OK what is it with you SA cachers ? [:o]
What is the attraction of these particularly nasty and spikey plants that make you want to put caches in there
I've got more cuts and bruises from three days of SA caching than from 2years of Qld caching
Ouch!! Interesting about the elephant though [^]

Finally got this one on the way home from the Pub Lunch!
Easy retrieval but putting it back was painful Ouch!
It was interesting to see that the 'Barn' looks as though it's being converted into a place of worship [?] Theres a new Cross on the front of the building! Perhaps it may become 'An Elephant's Church' TNLNSL TFTC from postiegirl06

Ahh ... thanks for a little bit of information about a place I have often driven past. I'm not sure you can gently caress a cactus!

TFTC Mark_oo.

#21 of 29 FTD.

Looked further along the fence and found it. TFTC

Managed to avoid impaling myself on the foliage, thanks to the patent Container Extraction Device (tm). TFTC

Took: 20 cents
Left: frog

A very prickly one......had a prick of a time finding it...hehe

T: N
L: N

[This entry was edited by land cruizer on Sunday, February 11, 2007 at 1:40:11 PM.]

logging finds under our new name - previously blue frogs

Our 17th and last cache FTD. Tried to do it earlier in the day but people were working in the grounds and looking straight at the gate so came back later. TNLNSL

After a brief search, this one was eventually found. The clue certainly helps. The handle was backwards so a tough time and a few words were used in getting the cache. Took coin, left soldier.

No gps for this one, kudos to emeryco for letting Lankyone find this one, you might want to bring some gloves

Found on tour with Cached. TNLDanish coin SL OUCH

Mabar and geo-daughter found cache[ouch,ouch and more ouch]
Just a wee bit hard to do with muggles driving by continuely
but finally got it
TNLS
Took nothing left silver dog
TFTC
looks like they are fixing place up as workers arrived just as we got back into car

found with Gum Nana, Gum-Ren and Pippa in tow. Brought back lots of stories for Gum Nana. TNLNSL Thanks for the cache

Our last cache for the day on dusk. Just a little scratchy, but a quick easy find.
TNLNSL TFTC
MODU.

Bike Dog TB had a look - but rode on

This was a simple yet prickly hide for my 400th cache!

Ouch OUch! Suggest wearing long pants, long sleeves and gloves! Took movie voucher, origami and left elephants and left sightseeing voucher in case os or interstate finder.
In news this is going to be developed into a function centre in next 24 months.

[This entry was edited by The Silver Snitch on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 6:00:16 AM.]

ouch, ouch ouch ouch
Very clever I liked the cache.
Hard to not let muggles see you on a main road.

When I was a muggle I did wonder what people were doing there.
The roof to the shed has been replaced and finished. Pretty they did it in plain galv because it doesn't sit well with the look of the building.

Took face
Left Reading coin

I tried not to get thorny with this one. TNLN. Thanks Mark_oo

Found while still part of Beaker's Bunch.
Thanks

Another easy find in the north.
TNLNSL
Thanks
BB

I only have one word to say OUCH!!!!.

TNLN TFTC

Discovered this one on the way home from a Barossa visit. Forgot to log it. Great hide and easy access if you get my point. TFTC

Edited this one as I got it confused with an elephant never forgets.

Nice hide the boy got jabbed once or twice, it looks like the poor old barn is coming down there is no roof on it and I seen some workers in there the other day.

So with that said this cache may have a limited life..

TNLNSL TFTC

This was tricky - some scratches
Took Bulldog Clip
Left Tazo
SL

Had to briefly invoke cache owner privledge to grab a hold of my first Aussie Geocoin..
cheers,
Mark_oo

Last for the day which makes 25. 300km later it was good to clean up all the ones around Kapunda since the event. Quickly found this visit with the hint, no swaps but left an Aussie geocoin from earlier in the day. Thanks mark_oo.

Gotta agree with "me2", it's a prick of a spot.
Found cache after a bit of searching, thankfully didn't have to reach in too far!
T; 2 tazo's
L: detachable keyring, small pig.

TFTC

Just relogging due to change of username - the brat boys objected to using my nickname (Makka) when they reckon they are the ones that always find the cache :

Well this one spiked the kids interest - they wouldn't even consider it to be hidden amongst that. Took Grandma along to this one and she nailed it! Cool hide, thanks

quick and easy find whilst the muggles cars wizzed past at 400kph. Wish i had an elephant. Could call it stampey
TNLNSL TFTC!!! A&L