SCHOMBURGK Morgan, South Australia, Australia
By Bowz2 on 07-Sep-06. Waypoint GCY67W

I needed to stretch my legs and this looked like a good place to do it. An interesting location and an interesting cache hide. TFTC

Away for some R&R out one of our fav campsites and out today doing some caches. An interesting spot and some great history! TFTC

Nice little spot and history lesson.

Good find

As if getting to the GZ wasn’t hard enough, there was then the mystery of opening the container. Problem solved. TFTC.

Decided to do a day trip to Morgan, Mt Mary and Bower area for a day’s caching which included the Tour Down Under series. Manage to get 55 for the day which is a personal best. Had a fantastic day looking around. All caches were in good condition unless mentioned otherwise. TFTC

Spent a pleasant day's caching up around Morgan, enjoying driving the backtracks, visiting old cemeteries, local points of interest and some scenic locations. Interesting old cemetery that I spent a while to roam around. Thanks for the cache Bowz2!

In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location.
(HaHa). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Bawz 2 [^]

An early morning was planned with gridge98 and LíB heading north to grab caches along the way not knowing where we would end up. We had a fun day and found ourselves in Morgan for some lunch before heading back via some out of the way caches that we all hadn't been to. [^]

Made a little detour out to this one for a quick find. Everything is very dry even in the middle of winter.

Thanks for the cache Bowz2.

A nice detour off the road out to this cache, interesting location and cache is all good

Today I headed north with JJ52 and LíB for a half day of caching, we first completed the new tour down under series before heading towards Morgan then back around via Robertown a total of 41 for the day.

Thanks for the cache

Out and about with gridge98 and JJ52 for a fun day of caching.
A fab winters day, the sun is shining and no rain.
After lunch at Morgan we headed for the back roads and found your cache.

TFTC

Out and about with gridge98 and JJ52 for a fun day of caching.
A fab winters day, the sun is shining and no rain.
After lunch at Morgan we headed for the back roads and found your cache.

TFTC

Out and about with gridge98 and JJ52 for a fun day of caching.
A fab winters day, the sun is shining and no rain.
After lunch at Morgan we headed for the back roads and found your cache.

TFTC

This was found as we wander this great country
As restrictions lift we can start to get out again
thank you Bowz2 for placing the cache

Love it!

We other geodog Tonka driving to Moonta bay and wanted to stop for a quick walk. This was perfect. Love cemetery’s this so old. Awesome rock head stone. Favourite point from me

What a cool little find in a cool little area!
Tftc!!

Love these little side trips and discovering some of our history, quick find for us today
TFTC Bowz2

Good

Good

A rugged place to spend an eternity. Cache container brittle and cracked. I enclosed it in a plastic bag to keep it out of the weather. Not likely to get very wet!

Found on a great day out caching with CPwanderer and hevwalker. The weather was perfect and the company even better.

I really love visiting these out of the way places and learning about the history.
This is another location that I never would have found without geocaching.
Our early settlers suffered hardships we will never know as is evident by the young age of those buried in this little cemetery.

TFTC Bowz2

Found on a great day out in the mid north with Gizmos Gang and hevwalker!! We started in the Brookfield Conservation Park ..... worked our way up to Morgan and across to Burra via the backroads near Worlds End. We then ended up in Hallett as the sun was setting. Absolutely perfect weather and we did some outstanding caches, saw some great scenery and visited some historic spots.
Interesting spot!!!

A caching trip up North with CPwanderer & Gizmos Gang today...great weather for it...

First we grabbed the cache & signed the logbook...I had rested my phone while doing the honours...it fell down between the wire fence & the post...retrieving it was a scratchy affair...

Once the cache was back in position we took some time to look at the couple of graves in the cemetery...oh so young...as many were at that time...I can't imagine how hard life would have been...

Thanks Bowz2 for bringing us to this location to discover a hidden treasure...

Veni. Vidi. Vici. Scripsi.
Was travelling through the area for work and it was time for a break from driving and this cache was in the right spot so stopped and made a quick find of a cache. Signed log and replaced. Refreshed it is now on to the next work stop. Interesting location.
Gratias pro cache Bowz2

Good spot

Found It!
Interesting spot. It looks like they have mains power here. No idea why though...
TFTC

TFTC Thank you for going to the effort of hiding this cache. You have shown us a new place and have helped make geocaching an enjoyable activity.

A few caches today on a road less travelled.
A small detour had me at this historic site.

TFTC Bowz2

Quick and easy find.
It's pretty dry and dusty out here already.
TFTC!

Found it

found it.
TFTC

TFTC
Took path tag while visit this lil old historic cemetery

Interesting

So glad we made the effort to come out to this cemetery, the hardship and lack of water etc is so hard to imagine. Cache was found after the IPad decided to settle . Thanks .

Nice easy find no pencil to write in log book though

Found as a part of TheKellyGang, writing this as a genaric log as I was a part of TheKellyGang and am now out on my own.
If you do not agree with this you are more than welcome to delete the log.

Quick find on way home from Renmark. Interesting info. TFTC

Heading home after staying at Morgan for the weekend.
TFTC

Miss GG and I wanted to make the most of this beautiful weather, so we put some caches on the GPS and set off for a day of caching, sight seeing and photography.

We clocked up some KM's and saw some great sights, took some nice photos and had a good laugh..

Sorry for the generic log, we tried to add little notes for them all, but some times you just forget.

We found the cache with no dramas after finding our self's surrounded but shrubs and no cache in sight..

As we got back to the car, Miss GG yelled something, somthing !@#$ SNAKE!!... as I saw a very black snake slither away from the car....

SO A WARNING TO ALL!! Snakes are in this area... be careful... make plenty of noise.. stomping you feet is always a good way .. They are just as scared of you as you are of them :D

Thanks for the cache Bowz2:D

Darknstormy and i wanted to head out for a big caching, photography and sight seeing day while staying in Morgan for the weekend and this one was found in our travels The finding of this cache was straight forward but walking back to the car minding my own business i walked and at the last minute saw a snake right in front of me :O so as you can imagine there were a lot of expletives that came from my mouth and made Darknstormy pick me up way down the road as there was no way i was hanging around this location Great cache and thanks Bowz2

easy find tftc

Found on our 4 week trip
left dragonfly and leaf, butterfly and motorbike
tftc

Geodad and Geodaughter went for a nice short walk. Found quickly then headed off to an event in the Riverland TFTC

Near another cemetery.

A quick and easy find while on a drive out from our camping spot at Morgan Conservation Park. Thanks for the history lesson and for the cache.

Found on a day trip after visiting family & friends at their campsite.

Found on a long, long weekend trialling our camper
TFTC

These places always tug at the heartstrings, when you think of all the hardships that these pioneers suffered. Their reward was sometimes only a marble headstone.
Still! Where would Geocaching be without people who lived in such remote places like SCHOMBURGK and the unfortunate children that died so young.

Always fascinating to visit the sites of long gone little towns like this and wonder about the people who lived and died here and then faded away with virtually no evidence left that they were ever there. TFTC

Always look forward to being in Bowz2 cache territory, and this one did not disappoint, as per usual

After we found the cache and were considering our next move, a local pastoralist, John Lindner, stopped for a chat. Turns out his family had been in the area since the late 1800s and owned a large pastoral operation - Wonga Pastoral, with around 16,000 sheep and 1,000 ewes per year.

He pointed out the pile of rocks to the north of the cemetery was once the school and church building, with the local priest having to come from near Burra on horseback to conduct services. He said there used to be about 50 families in the area, which is hard to imagine these days, although there are plenty of ruins to support the fact.

After pointing out the differences between saltbush, bluebush and blackbush, he went on his way to check some bores.

A great cache with some local real history thrown in for good measure.

Thanks for the cache Bowz2!

This entry was edited by team tarcowie on Monday, 10 September 2012 at 03:55:42 UTC.

Met a nice farmer Mr Lindner who told us some of the towns history. Very interesting. Tftc

Another lonely spot.

in the area quick check to see alls ok
All good

Hard to believe there once was a settlement here. Thanks for the lure to this interesting site and good hint.

Another dead quiet place. Lonely place to finish up.

Interesting spot.

What a place of significance, Bowz2 this should be renamed to be part of your, The “ALONE OR LONELY” series of Bowz2 caches. very historical TFTHSL. Cheers diggers09

Got to love the abundance of historical cemeteries, Found no worries TFTC

Found neatly packed away . Jumped the fence cause missed the gate. Poor Sidney almost gone 100years next year.

On our way home from Burra. We love being detoured to soak up the atmosphere of such places. Obviously faming on this side of Goyders line was a hard ask. Fascinating country. Took the TB that has been here for some time. SL TFTC

A great reason for a cache, to bring us to this placid location.Cleaned out the cache of some unrequired sweets and LTB,tftc.

Interesting little cemetary down a short dirt track. We took a wander among the grave stones before "thinking outside the square" on this one and finding the cache neatly hidden under some rocks. We TNLN.

Found the cache today at 2.45pm with beanie

Great spot and a great history lesson.

TNLN and Thanks Bowz2 for the cache.

Was up at Blanchetown with the Scouts but had an opportunity to grab some caches in the area this morning.

Another tucked away place but not a lot of residents. TFTC.

Found at 1225. I've been travelling around this area for many years but never new this tiny cemetery was here. Great Hide.

A detour off the highway well worth taking [^]
Nothing out here except a lonely cemetery with two marked and several unmarked graves.
The headstones that do exist are fascinating to see
Meanwhile somewhere down the back I found the cache
Interesting to note the olde sign on the olde west gate has the spelling "Schomburgh".

a very interesting small cementry and loved the art work on the headstone rock! tftc

Another lonely little cemetery out in the middle of nowhere. Not many graves here, either. TFTC.

Good hide. DH took us in the wrong direction until I took over the GPS again.

another find with anyones guess. hated history at school, but i love it now, coz it is all in fun!!! tnln.

good hide tftc

Interesting to see the history in the area.

TNLNSL TFTC

Hard to imagine a lot of people living around here .
Cache lid was broken, so replaced it with another (slightly smaller) container.
Took car. Left car. SL.
Thanks again Bowz2.

What a desperate place to try carve a living from the land - what were they thinking? Nice place to visit though. Almost gave up looking as nightfall descended and the sky began leaking but persistance paid off.

After checking out the area prior to another visit I noticed that I had missed logging this one Actually found on April 13 (last Easter on the way to visit some friends.
TFTC Bowz
Cheers and Happy Hunting Shane4

Very desolate little spot indeed.

Second find on a quick day trip. Here just before sunset, amazing place to be at that time of day.
Cheers Bro

Found on way home fromm Berri Tennis weekend. It is a dry desolute, lonely area. Liked the carving on the "headstone"
TNLN Thanks.

What a lonely place, and not even a find for 4 months and it isn't that far from the open road. No swaps today. Cache is still in good dry order. TFTC

A lonely cache in the middle of nowhere, and I can imagine it didn't feature heavily on teacher's location preferences. Took the Kettle TB. TFTC.

Depressing! Please don't bury us here. Left behind geocoin. TNLNSL. Cheers, Rav 4 Raiders

Found by Bwpbwin 20/9/2008 @ 2.45pm
Must be lizard mating time, Blue tongues everywhere.
What a place to try and make a living.
Took toy beach buggy
Left Car (not mine)

Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1100.After 5 days without looking for caches we were pleased to be here.TNLN.Tnx Bowz2

Accompanied with Skippy for the weekend during Cosy Corner Caching. No swap, SL. Thanks for organising the cache and hunt.

Found just after midnight, so 1st of 21 FFTD. Out and about with Mr C (chizbeki) and Hurtle for a couple or five cache's before bed. The milky way sure is brighter up here, with no light pollution or moon in the sky, SPOOKY!!!. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Found whilst staying at the CCC event with Ermalesh & Hurtle. TNLN TFTC

Found whilst out night caching with Ermies and Chizbekis. While attending the Cosy Caching Corner Long Weekend Event.
Eerie place with no moon at night!
TNLNSL
Thanks

Found @10:48:16 AM (Cachemate time)
A very interesting history lesson. thanks for an enjoyable diversion on our way west.
T: N
L: Screwdriver
SL
TFTC
2/05/08

Didn’t manage this one yesterday, so had to backtrack. Ended up changing my whole plans for the day as I stayed on this road. Took screwdriver and left gift box earrings. Accidentally took logbook with me too. Only noticed it on the car as I was rearranging my backpack. Glad I noticed it then instead of 50 K’s away! Visited my Round Tuit Coin, which is helping me to keep track of my caches. Find # 79 and first today.

Just looking at the desolation of the area, we had to wonder that there were enough children to warrant a school. The pioneers of this land were a hardy folk that you cannot help but admire. Better them than me . Thanks for showing me this little out-of-the-way failed enterprise. Cheers

These people were crazy as well!! But I suppose it was better living here than where they came from back then!TFTC
TNLN

I love cemeteries ! While I was there my mind thought about the clue...Imagine posting a teacher...I'd like to see that!
FCTSLSSL I love NZ too so I retrieved the Kiwi Geocoin TFTC

11.00am
Found by Roma and Max.
While Roma was browsing amongst the artifacts in this venue we still can’t believe we were muggled, out in the middle of nowhere, or so it seemed!
As it turned out the owner of the properties son was waiting for his dad to arrive droving a large mob of sheep and he literally frightened the wits out of Roma while Max was logging our find. He was an amiable chap and not at all interested in what we were doing here but much more interested in telling us some of the history of the area and how, back in the 1800s the government had allocated 400 acre lots to the original settlers and how this proved to be not enough to survive on and all but his ancestors had failed over the years and now they were the only ones left on all this land!
We left one of our signature Mondo Figurines for the cache and took an Octopus as a memento.
Thank you Bowz2, for what turned out to be a very interesting history lesson!
From Romax.

Our second night cache. Geokid really scared now. TNLNSL TFTC

dropped off kiwi travel coin...

What a fascinating area. The only named graves in here were of Schrapels - the last mail contractor in Australia Plains operating out of our Post Office in Eudunda was a Schrapel - will be interesting to follow up on that historical link. Saw 2 lots of wild goats on the way out here. T spy glasses and screwdriver, L toothpicks and glow in the dark frog. Thanks Bowz2 for bringing us to this place.

A remote place with an odd name. These places could almost be a theme for this trip. Thanks.

77/78 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & June Signal GC A#29

Albida

Managed to get the soob sideways on one of the wet clay roads leading to the cache area. The heart got pumping right there and then. Now I know I am doing a Bows2 cache.

Drifting event happened twice. Second loose was even bigger. Reports are that the back wiped out a small tree. Read small bush.

We had fun driving to this one.
It was wet and slippery and we were almost overtaken by a caravan at one stage.
Some guys on motorbikes assured us the road ahead was OK I bet they had a good laugh after we on ahead.
I think we could provide a very interesting track log for our approach to this one.
Took a sword and left doggy figure.