She's 40 and Barking "Mad" Raby Bay, Queensland, Australia
By THENANKS on 15-Feb-08. Waypoint GC19CRZ

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It's gone [:-(] BUT She's still barking mad!!!

Hasn't been found since last year and has four DNF's.

I think this one is gone, couldn't find it.

Thought this one would have been reletively easy,maybe the constant muggle traffic distracted us or simple cache blindness . Try again another day.

Friend and I spent a little while looking for this one and could not find it. It was at night, but we searched everywhere the clue suggested it would be to no avail.

Couldn't for the life of me find this one.

Was out Cleveland way today with a couple of minutes up my sleeve, grabbed this quick find. TNLNSL, TFTC

Found this nice little one together with mecky75 on our way back to the motel. A lovely quiet place to rest a while in the evening. This was the second cache on our holidays in Australia.
TFTC and for showing this place to us, othi.

A nive easy hunt with Radnoski yielded this one on a relatively muggleless afternoon. TFTC!

Good cache to do on a quiet Sunday arvo. TFTC

I grabbed the Star Wars Tazo. While we were signing the log one of those pesky cache dwelling frogs hopped on in.

Quick find while trying to find somewhere for a late lunch. TFTC THENANKS

My eagle-eyed sister-in-law spotted the cache with the aid of her caching stick! TFTC

Found easily. First find for me. TNLN

Svn07 managed to find a nice shady park within 8m of the this cache but, when we arrived there was a muggle sitting on the banch near GZ... As we jumped out of the Secret Agents car though, a fellow muggle wanderred by and grabbed his attention... They both promptly dissappeared and left GZ free for us to hunt... [^] Once in location, I hit the jackpot by unveiling the cache in the first place I looked and secured my 1200th find... Business done, Svn07 and I were back on the road...

Cheers Nanks.

Tried to find this one in the dark many moons ago, and with a misbehaving GPS. The search with Gunnie69, in contrast, was a breeze....nice shady park, muggles leaving as required, nice seat to sit on in the shade, easily grabbed cache. We love that!!

And congrats to Gunnie69 on his 1200th find. Amazing how fast those numbers have added up since this time last year .

Thanks for the cache THENANKS. Cheers, svn07

Easy find nice shady place for a quick stop before
the next cache.

TNLN
Thanks
The Woodies

Found after a quick rummage. possible to get even though the area is busy. took a butterfly and left a dinosaur.

At Primary Schools National Softball Championships at Redlands with SA state team, so took opportunity to do cachng -may have introduced others to this great pastime. This was a great opportunity to revisit the Sands Hotel. Had some helpful muggles with me (the possible new cachers). They were so involved, that Searching Stella found it before I did. Took geocoin and another set of lucky coins -for "san", now we both have a set- and left snowman eraser. TFTC

An easy one to start the day's caching. We were inspired by the story and decided to hit the Sands Hotel for dinner at the end of the day as well. Yum!

All the muggles were across the road for a free breakfast. The aromas were very hard to pass up but we had caching to do. Found OK. TFTC

TFTC T:TB LN SL

Nice hide and cool day.......take coin and drop tb

Easy find while driving around Raby Bay with family. Left GC

found with anddad

Found with bluegonz. Fairly easy one to find, but plenty of muggles around so lots of care was needed.
Thanks THENANKS

Very comfortable cache you can almost do it all sitting down.
I was there at night so were not many people about.
Thanks THENANKS

Found it No. 1885 ... empty beer bottles on top of GZ .. cleaned area ... TN and left Chinese Coins

Not too many muggles around as it was dark - but hard to notice them if they are around loitering. So I was able to time my retrieval and replacement after very carefully surveying the area, to avoid detection. Stealthily signed log. The Pub's not bad eh! Great for a birthday bash. TFTC THENANKS

Found at 1056 with Marg. A surprising spot for a cache but very pleasent. We both enjoyed a nice seat to write in the log and take a breather. Cache OK and dry. TFTC.

Ahh a brrthday cache, was appropriate for us as it was A's birthday today. So happy birthday Mrs MadMyer. Took the Uturn Coin to continue its journey. Thanks for the cache, Andrew and Maryan.

Brought back some memories of when I use to work here and got to park the geomobile in one of those special carports.

anyhow belated happy 40th birthday.

Cache was quickly found. Was in good order.

TFTC

Found the location easily however the passing foot traffic made retrieval and the return very difficult. I had to sit for 15 minutes waiting for skater boys to move off. Finally the deed was done. Left a Geocoin for someone else to enjoy. TFTH.

An easy find IF the shopping muggles give you a chance to get it!!!! TFTC TNLN Regards Sarian

Found & logged at 08:45.
IN: butterfly, fly, dice
OUT: bionicle

TFTC

It was very quiet this morning but had to wait for a vehicle right behind the seat to move away before grabbing the cache at 1020hrs. I then had to wait for the occupant of a car who took the vacant parking spot before replacing the cache.

TNLN

TFTC

Enjoying a cup of coffee, at the nearby marina we switched on the GPS to find this cache was only meters away. A short stroll took us to the location and the cache was quickly retrived and our visit logged. Beautiful area we enjoyed this last day in Australia, hoping to return soon.
TFTC

Had to return at a later time as there were muggles sitting close to GZ when I first approached. Returned after lunch with a couple of new cachers - two of the 4Wongs. Quick find as we could spot the cache from a certain angle. TFTC

Found it OK. Plenty of muggles about. TFTC TNLN. Tavurvur

At first i was searching in the wrong area so took another look in a similar spot and it was an easy find. TFTC

Found after a short search. Took Thomas the tank travel bug. Thanks.

looked a bit bare inside so we left a ball, some play money and Duncan TB
TFTC

Oops seems I forgot to log this one

After brekkie, before kiting, it was geocaching time. The Geo Knights were out to find some caches. This was the first one today, easy find.
TFTC, TNLNSL.

Found with Strong Arm during a Cache frenzy. TFTC

Find 50 of 51 on a big day of caching with Kholometers. I found this one hiding behind some beer cans and bottles unfortunately. TNLN, TFTC.

Found by Sunshine Toledo and Her Majesty at 3:00pm. Not too difficult to track down. Long time since we were just 40. TFTC

Found quickly in amongst the empty beer bottles.

Quiet down here although I imagine the markets were humming. TFTC

Nice area for break time Found in the company of Alchemy2, Ozcymru and driver Everlasting, Thanks for organised the hunt.

Found it. Accompanied with Sevabo, Ozcymru and driver Everlasting, Thanks for organised the hunt

Found Ok

Spotted from far away due to the excellent hint supplied.

Found after searching in the wrong spot due to using the coordinates for a nearby event which has not yet been archived. Once I realised my mistake the cache was easily located. TNLN.

I remember I was once 40 and at the time was quite mad about a certain situation. Possibly still barking at those times. But that's not a caching story Removed a coin.

Our thanx once again to THENANKS from TeamAstro.

Accompanied with OzCymru for the day. She found it before me... No swap. SL. Thanks Thenanks for organising the cache and hunt.

The place is very familiar to me so I was happy to bring my companion there! Beautiful spot indeed. No prob of finding the cache. Thanks, The Nanks.

Dropped my own Movers Geocoin hoping it will move a lot!

0749 re-logging due to name change

749 Used to be all mud flats huh? Looks good now, but. TFTC THENANKS

Out on a huge day with the Gecko's and Trunksnstuff...

TFTC SL

aaarrgh!
'barkin' mad , mad as ye' wheel!
it looks like someone had a big party ye' nite before at gz.
knew me batteries were low on gps before i set off to booty and switched it on nothin'!!!
so what bench would and that 'mad old chick' be able to reach down to pick up her booty?

no,not that one ,or that one,thats ye' one and there it was!
thankin' ye'.
and happy belated birthday ye' olde chick !

Found at 1:45pm by Mr GraKez with Mrs GraKez & Straddie Heaven in tow (8th for the day). As per usual, just beaten that day by the pirate63 [xx(] . However it looks like he left his bottle of Tawny Port only inches away! Heaps of rubbish, almost needed protective gloves.

This one was a bit scary! Lots of broken glass etc. I am going to pack disinfecant wipes from now on. Found with Mr & Mrs GraKez. Mrs GraKez and myself where quite happy to let Mr GraKez have this one. May need to put bandaids in the cache!

Geo-uncle Lat&long Junkie and I had been caching up the road and we knew the nearby pub did a good feed. Had dinner and picked this one up afterwards. TFTC

Found while in Brisbane for the National Square dance convention signed log no swaps made thank you for the hide unfortunatly I didn’t have a chance to try one of the steaks they sound great

found with geo kid Steff ,Jacquie and Smeeagain on a day of caching nice hide tftc
in -saddle club note book
out - peace stone

First on an afternoon caching with Claeton and his Geodaughter. TNLN SL TFTC

Really quick in and out. Coords are really spot on. No swaps today

Had a few deliveries to make on Straddie today so decided to grab a couple of caches on the way. Such a strain for the 47 yr old knees getting this one. Nice spot to be at sunrise. TFTH

found it. easy find tnln tftc the nanks

Nice area. T-keyring L-tarzo

Out with Ceabs & hothead today, hothead came up with the booty.

TFTC

Happy Birthday! Steve clocked up his 40th a couple of months ago, but Mrs Steve still has a couple of years to go!

After a hot day full of caching, the seat in the shade was a welcome stop. The cache was completely exposed when we arrived, so we took care to hide it better when we left. Looks like it has been plundered of its swaps. We would have topped it up, but we left the swap bag at home today.

Thanks for the cache!

Out on a bayside caching experience with Nasty Steve and Family. The shade was most welcome this afternoon. The easiest of finds as the cache was quite exposed.

No swaps as the cache would appear to have been recently plundered.

Thanks to The Nanks for the cache and the introduction to the area

I decided to park the Mystery Machine in the bottleshop car park to access this cache. After a brief sit down on the bench I checked to see if all was clear before I grabbed the cache.

TFTC

Yeah!! That's what I thought too

Happy Birthday Sue, and i thought you were only 30 years old


Thanks to Thenanks for putting this lovely cache out

We were on the darkside today to meet Skippy and SA_parrothead so decided to find a few caches while we were there. If she's barking mad now, what can we expect when she's 50? TFTC

I slipped out with Rogainer to do this one during the dinner event

....and she has a great Brom collection.

[This entry was edited by SA_ParrotHead on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 4:26:46 AM.]

Found this one while waiting for the "Skippy and Parrothead" event. Quick find (I had Mrs Lat&Long to find it for me) TN/LN/SL. Nice of you to immortalise Mrs Mad. I'm sure she's pleased with the attention.

Needed a stroll after devouring 1kg of steak during nearby caching event. Cache found without difficulty.
Actually I visited twice as the first time I didn't have a pen with me.

Thanks Nanks for the cache

Found easily with Mr L&L - I am so glad I bring him along to read the GPS
TN/LN/SL TFTC

A quick cache on my way to the Hotel for the Come and Meet Skippy and Parrothead event cache. Thanx for being part of your great milestone celebration.

TFTC

Mr G slipped quietly away from the geocaching event nearby tonight to find this one and on the way was met by Rogainer and Parrothead. Cache was quickly in hand.
TNLN TFTC

Happy Birthday to the Mad one
I celebrated the milestone today by finding the commemorative cache
A great excuse for a visit to Cleveland this morning before the rains set in. The first shower started as I strolled back to the car from the shops

Found this cache my first was in my local area, needed the encrypted hint given.

Nice quick find today, aided by a nice illegal park in a Council Loading Zone a few metres from the cache. TNLN Happy Birthday Mrs Mad, and TFTC the Nanks.

A lot of muggles makes this one quite tricky-it was basically uncovered when I saw it, so I'm not sure how long this one will actually remain.
TNLNSL
TFTC

Well after dropping the Angermanagement bikes back after our Sunday adventure.Mrs AM and Mrs HH set of in persuite of Mrs Mad's birthday cache.Mrs AM had changed the GPS back from UTM"s on the way( I think she must have had it on the wrong setting).The GPS kept on wanting us to swim out into the harbour which I knew couldn't be right.After checking and rechecking the co-ords it was insistent on making me swim for it.So with a little assistance from Mrs Nanks we located the cache.I must never forget my GPS again.
Happy birthday Mrs Mad I hope it was a good one welcome to the club.TFTC.

Well after a long busy day at work I was having a relaxing shower (my ME time) when geodaughter was yelling, "quick, quick a ftf up for grabs, Mrs HH is here and you've got to go." Grabbed the GPS which geohubby had been using for work, hence the UTM setting and off we went. The GPS kept telling us to go into the water but after a hunt with no luck, Mrs HH called a friend. Thanks for the clue and the cache.

Oh dear I hate to burst Ksix's bubble but I actually claimed the FTF - well it was my birthday present after all. Our great mates TheNanks handed me the GPS near the end of my birthday dinner and basically told me to find my present!!! So after dinner I did!!! The log was signed and all. With everyone with me of course!! What a terrific birthday present - AND I got a book voucher too!!! Gosh 40 - barking Mad - and SPOILT rotten! This was such a special thing for our friends to do for me for my birthday - I was so honoured and felt very special - barking mad apparently - but very special. Thank you to the great TheNanks for being such great mates and geocaching buddies - what a great sport this is. No swaps today - hmmm could have left some birthday cake....or deflated a balloon and squished it in...there's a thought!

Published

Just got home from work and saw this new cache. As it was only 3.5km from home the temptation was too great so I ducked out for the find.

WOOHOOO!! FTF - This is the very first FTF for team Ksix.

The cache is a nice easy find. Just watch out for all the muggles. TNLNSL

Thanks to THENANKS for the hunt.

Cheers,
Ksix