Don't MELT ON this PARK Valentine Plains, Queensland, Australia
By megatryte on 30-Jan-07. Waypoint GC10NGH

Recent upgrades in the park have caused this cache to vanish.

I no longer live in the area so I will have to archive it.

I think the cache has gone. The while park is under redevelopment with completely new facilities. Will need checking.

Whole park being redeveloped, new sitting benches/tables being installed also MAZE? will make nice stop in future, stopped for tea.

Log book full. Replaced log book with a new one and put it in a plastic bag. Great park. SL TNLN TFTC

No TB's in this cache

11:21:00 AM. A lot of electrical work happening but no one paid us any attention as we made a quick grab before heading to the local info centre. Thanks megatryte.

Found this one with a new hunter!!! Is well hide. Never nice!!

Sat on so many seats here. I commented to H about what we must look like to neighbours. His response - we're building a park and want to see which ones are best. Mmm not very plausible . TFTC

Found the cache while having a lunch stop on trip from Brisbane to Emerald. Unfortunately all three listed trackables had moved on! TFTC.

Quick easy find, no muggles so plenty of time to search. TFTC Scott and Ildi

Nice quick find on the way thru town on the way home to bluff. Muggle free. Only one page left in log. Now off for some fuel and KFC. Tftc.

Nice park to stop for a coffee and find a cache.

Lots if muggles. Lovely little park.

Lots of muggles about. Lovely little park

TFTC megatryte Took TB lets go fishing Left TB Zelda the Zebra Travel Tag as it was the only one that would fit lovely park on way to Sapphire Merry Christmas to all

Pity there aren't more caches in Biloela. It is a lovely place to explore. Took TB Left TB. SL TFTC.

Found easily. TFTC.

Easy find, introducing my wider family to caching. Dropped off tb

17:21 | #522 | Biloela #1

First GC find in Biloela during Pharmacy Placement. This park was only a minute's walk from my Motel, and guided me around the sights of Biloela. An easy find; the cache and contents were in good condition.

TFTC, megatryte.
Jay Of GemJay.

Driving through Biloela again today and I could see that this cache was getting found
So off I trotted to a familiar looking park.
Again I took note of the clue and searched carefully.
Nothing found [:o]
But this time around I widened me search just in cache another corner was closer to what the clue said.
Voila !! There it is
Nicely camoed too thanks to the council workers painting right over the tin when they repainted the shelter a shade of brown [^]

Good fun

Had a nice cup of coffee, filled up with diesel, bought bread for lunch, found this cache in place. Tftc

Easy find thanks; SL, TNLN, TFTC

Has anyone seen our Dog Tag trackable that should be in this cache as it ahsn't moved for 9 months now???

Yes this cache is still where it should be. Great hide TFTC megatryte

Oh dear !! Another DNF for me
I did as the clue suggested and poked around for all I was worth.
This must me a 'SUPERNANO' cache
Surely I would have found it if it was bigger than a grain of rice ? [:o]

The 9th find on our 3 day trip to Roma and back. Well, we THINK we found it. There was an empty eclipse tin at the co-ordinates. Owner needs to check.

There is an empty eclipse tin at location. Owner needs to check if this is what used to be the original cache. If it is, a bit of black paint would help reduce muggles. Just a suggestion.

While I am sure I was looking in the right place, I couldn't find this cache. Unfortunately, a few muggles in the location at lunchtime as well.

Here from Canada, doing a bit of caching as we explore Australia....
GPS was way off but finally figured out where we had to be through trial and error. Only one muggle in the park but she was too busy reading her Kindle to notice our search.
Thanks for the hide megatryte!

I was staying less than 200m from GZ so I just had to grab this one. This morning with time to burn I went for a short stroll after breakfast.

This was a quick find in a logical place thanks to the hint. Dunno what the recent DNFs were about: everything was as expected. Log is dry and all good. TFTC!!!

BTW no signs of the dog tag that is listed as being in this cache

Came back twice even after hints and logs. Could not find, too hard for us

It must be so tiny, we could not find it.

Quick find enroute from Mackay to toowoomba. TFTC

Checked it out today it is still there.

Finally found the right park...I'm to blame for the initial confusion however once I learnt to drive my GPS and interpret the display correctly on the second try we found the park.

Judging by the GPS behaviour I am positive we found the correct spot however even following the clue given nary a sign of the cache...I suspect in such a well frequented place even if the kids didnt find it the Council guys have probably cleaned it out...or up!!!

thanks all the same- good experience...have we in fact missed the obvious and it is still there???

Hello from Japan! I came here for my work, and I noticed there were some cache in this town. In the early morning I searched this cache and found it by a kind hint. Next day I'll try multi cache. TFTC!

9416 kms travelled in 21 days, one awesome eclipse observed near Mt Carbine in Northern Queensland and 712 cache finds, including a small handle of FTF's.

This was a trip I'd been planning for over 12 months with the main reason being to observe the solar eclipse on the morning of the 14th of November. I had decided to drive to Palm Cove and back, where my penthouse accommodation was located, while the rest of the family flew up and back. I love the drive and the unknown adventures that lay ahead; and I even think the last time I did one this big may have been for the previous eclipse in Australia which occurred over SA.

Apart from the great experiences, awesome scenery, and the characters met, the other reason to drive was to also do some serious caching, with the plan to stop at some power trails along the way including the Fruit Run and A.S. series near Stanthorpe on the way up and the Mid North Coast Wander series, just out of Port Macquarie, on the way back.

I had five days to travel each way with ten days in between spent in Palm Cove holidaying with my family. My route up took me from Melbourne to Tocumwal and up to Glenn Innes, through Toowoomba, Rockhampton and the coast road to Cairns while my route back was a bit more erratic. Heading from Cairns to Townsville then via Charters Towers to Rockhampton. From here it was through the amazing mining region to Roma then across to Dalby down through Stanthorpe (again) to Armidale, Port Macquarie, Wagga Wagga, Tocumwal and then home - phew.

After staying the night in Goomeri I cached my way along the Leichhardt Hwy to the Capricorn Hwy and in to Rockhampton where I arrived around 7:30 pm and stayed the night in some proper accommodation (as opposed to the back on the Prado). I parked the Prado and made my way to the structure and began to search. Found the cache just as a couple of local chicks arrived and settled in, plugging their iphone chargers into the nearby powerpoints. I ended up chatting to then for about half an hour, explaining geocaching as well. Needless to say they just didn't get it - ahh - Queensland country girls .

Stopped in to this park for a lunch pit stop on our way from Moranbah to Brissie. Then we were reminded by one of our geokids that we hadn't done any geocaching today. Pulled out the phone and luckily we were already in the right place. A quick look located the cache and then it was back in the car for the rest of the day. TFTC

No muggle saw us,, be carefull TFTC

Nice easy find on my travel back to toowoomba. Lovely park to stop at

Nice easy find in a park that was really nice to stop at

Was in town for the night and grabbed this one after a short walk from the motel. Easy grab even with a few muggles about.

TFTC megatryte

Found while travelling with GEOTRECAZ. TNLN. Thanks.

Stopped here for our lunch after fuelling up nearby, but as we arrived, muggles settled right on top of the GZ. We were about to give up and leave, when the muggles finally finished their long lunch break, and we moved in for a quick find. TNLN, but Trecaz Trakkie TB visited. Thanks megatryte.

An easy find, with no muggles around.
TFTC

Easy grab for geokid TFTC

third cache for today. nice park if had time to stay. TCTF TNLN

A nice quick find, logged & on our way again.
Did not see TB in this cache.
TFTC megatryte

This one eluded us a little while back so we dropped by on our way home today and came up smiling.
Thanks megatryte

I tried for this cache two days ago on my way to Emerald, but muggles were there. On my way back to Bundaberg I tried again - no muggles! So I made a swift search and find, signed log and left a TB. TFTC megatryte

I hitched a ride with Gem83 while she had to come to town.
Then got bad ph service when I tried to log.
TFTC

Gem83 asked if I wanted to accompany her on a quick trip up here, as she had work to do - so I thought why not.

so while Gem83 attended to her business, I attended to getting a cache

TFTC ...[^]... thanks megatryte

Yes! Found it this time. Last try we had a muggle sitting virtually smack on top of the cache. This time we were able to perform a surreptitious search around GZ and found it without raising suspicion. Thanks megatryte. TFTC.

Tricky little find found with my boss (muggle). TFTC

Muggles! They're everywhere! One was sitting at what we presumed was GZ. Couldn't get past him.

Back up again, same co-ords, only a couple of metres away from previous and the hint should get you there.

Yes it has gone again. Will try and get it up and running again soon.

sorry, dnf.

We tried to search for this one but no luck. Found a box, but it was pried open, and there didn't seem to be anything on, in or around it. There were many muggles here too, so not sure if it is still there.

Unable to find cache, didn't look to long as there were a few kids walking to school through the park, however the box was open which was where cache was meant to be, but couldn't find it.

Quick find. Stayed the night at a motel and had takeaway Chinese from the Golden Dragon. Enjoyed watching the Whitebreasted Woodswallows darting around the power lines. Thanks for showing me more of this nice town.

Found with Pure Sri

this one almost had us beaten. Found it just as we started to head back to the car. TFTC

Found by Sunshine Toledo and Her Majesty at 5:05pm. The cache was found easily with the hint. It was a short walk from the car and the cache is in good condition. TFTC

Stopped at Bilo for lunch on the way home from Cania. Great idea for a cache. Kept the kids busy while we got lunch ready. Gave them the clue and master 8 found it straight away. Cheers Fergus

Clever hide, thanks

This is a great cache for the traveller, quick and easy and great clue, one of my best, Thanks for keeping it simple.

Quick easy find since I was early for my plane. A few muggles around so I used the cover of high vis gear to pretend I was fixing something while I searched. TFTC!
~ The Adventure Crew ~
[Brisbane Battalion]

A quick, easy find while brewing up for morning tea. Thanks for the cache.

Had a great time searching without the use of the gps.

A lovely little park and an easy place to park our caravan whilst we had morning tea and found the cache. Our two Jack Russells enjoyed being able to stretch their legs too.

thanks

This was a quick find at 1400. The clue made it that much easier. The area was pretty messy and he crows were making a racket. TFTC

Back up and running.
The cache is a couple of meters from the last location, but the hint takes care of that.

Called in to check it out and found that it has gone.

Got here just before dark and had time to look for cache which we found after looking at previous logs. TFTC

Found it on the way back to Rocky. TFTC

Interesting, very interesting, not what I was expecting. SL TFTC

quick find as we travelled through

We were doing some night geocaching as Biloela was our first night stop on our road trip. We spent a good bit of time seaching around for this one by torch light and next minute we know a car drives up to us, headlights beaming on us and it was the local cops on night patrol. We had been sprung big time. We had to explain what we were doing. One seemed okay with it but the other guy was really hard to read and I don't think he believed us even though we showed him the GPS and geocaching printout of the cache....Damn. They really put us off. We spent a little more time looking but then gave up and we now have to log a DNF

nice and easy


TFTC TNLN

nice hide



TFTC

We did look for this one for a while, well, up until the high winds and rain that had been chasing us from the west caught up, so we gave up.

very clever, loved it
thanks for the cache.
qypsy jj

I poked around for 10 minutes in this peaceful park until suddnely the muggles started appearing from all sides [:o]
It was like an invasion..
Nothing for it but to run away

Had to take a photo next to the amazing Boab (I think) tree. Thanks for the cache. It was a nice one to show mum and dad how the game works. Mum found the cache which was great.

Couldn't find this one today, I looked for about 20 minutes, than kids turned up to play on swing, so I had to leave.

Found nice one at 6.30 am and no muggles there lucky.Thank you for organising the hunt and cache!!

T.F.T.C

After having a pretty thorough but fruitless hunt, I got the message that this wasn't going to be a good caching day for me (having just DNFed Scoria), so I headed home! TFTC megatryte.

Nice Hide,

A few strange looks from the locals,

Good hide.

TFTC

Real sneaky hide - took us a bit to locate , but it was there.
S/log 3pm TFTC-megatryte

Some muggles there early in the morning. Did another cache then came back.
Easy Find. TFTC.

Just a check and to give T/B a visit

Found while working in the area
TFTC
TNLNSL
Visited travelling companions

Nice one, found it after second look

Found easily by dad in company of other family members. local read the name of the cache and knew exactly where to go.

TFTC

First for the day on my trip from Bluff to Bribie Island for christmas.

Easy find this time around, unlike my last attempt a year or so ago.

Found at 0850 hrs.

Cheers
Bundy

Replaced log book. Thanks camstal.