Tamrookum Christmas Creek, Queensland, Australia
By GhostGums on 04-Apr-09. Waypoint GC1NYN0

TFTCAnd a bonus surprise of finding a little tree frog guarding the gate

Nice place tftc

Have visited this site before but it is always lovely to come back. Thank you for the cache.

Out and about on a Sunday afternoon with karen rinora. Of course we had to stop for a few caches along the way! We stopped to visit this pretty church where KR was married many moons ago. TFTC!

Log is damp, otherwise good. tftc

With the geo wife booked in at the hairdressers for the better part of the day I headed out to pick up the remaining caches I need to complete an LGA challenge Ive been working on for sometime. Only need another 13 and I have finally got there.Upon arriving at the suggested parking location I quickly made my way to GZ. The cache was quickly found and the log signed and returned safely. Now back through the wet grass to the car and off on the next adventure.A big thanks to the cache owner for making this cache available to be found.Cheers

Our first find! Thank you

I found it and very easy to find

Found it didn't thinkit would still be here

We forgot a pen

Beautiful church. Hoping the pic I took with an angry sky behind it works out.Thanks for the cache.

Nice easy find today. TFTC

Thank you. What a beautiful church l

Like previous cachers I paid a little too close attention to the hint but eventually had the cache in hand. You will need to enter the property to find this one

I love all things old. Beautiful building.TNLNSL.TFTC ... would have driven right past and neve knew this beautiful place was here ...

9/7/2023 Find #6280
A girls’ day out today with SaintsMadHouse, KBreeAHH and Just A Trifle. The plan was to do maintenance on one of SaintsMadHouse ‘s caches in Rathdowney, and grab whatever else we needed en route.
Took a little while to find it, as we paid too much attention to the hint and also didn’t think about crossing the fence line. But finally KBreeAHH leapt out and set us straight.
Right after however we headed through the gate and a tiny frog leapt out at KBreeAHH!
Thanks for the cache GhostGums.

Camping just down the road in a new spot popped in to make the find. Had visited here with my Dad several decades ago with his Queensland History Teachers Association Day trip. TFTC

Found it! The kids had this one, while the hint had us scratching our heads!

Great find, left for surprise next treasure hunters

Beautiful spot. Thanks for bringing us here
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I have always loved this little church

Today, the morning plan was hiking to Upper Portals, utilising the [Picnic at Upper Portals](https://coord.info/GCA4KJT) event as an opportunity to visit this popular destination. An enjoyable group in attendance to make the 4WD drive and walk down, and a fortunate weather window to have completed that too. I then took a drive home via Rathdowney and Beaudesert, although I questioned the sanity of geocaching as I was caught in very heavy rain storms, which made me keep driving and adjust plans in order to not get drenched. Highlights included visiting Kooralbyn and seeing the kangaroos and wallabies around the streets, and completing the [JUBILEE PARK WALKING TOUR](https://labs.geocaching.com/goto/ead2c608-a9f7-40ee-803c-dd6392e5fa40) Adventure Lab in Beaudesert.

This building/property appeared to be all fenced off today despite the sign welcoming visitors, so my initial search was spent looking from outside of the property around the hinted area. When that failed to encounter the cache, I then squeezed inside, and then realised that the cache was nearby to that hint. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks GhostGums for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Found while touring around the Scenic Rim with friends on our visit from NZ. Awell kept Church. Shame it wasn't open. TFTC

A road trip with my best man and his family; heading towards Kempsey with a few stops along the way, then returning via a different route and arriving home just before Christmas. Trying to get to caches while towing a caravan is a little daunting, finding a place to park or a good pull off area means a little extra walking.

My first area to attack was Beaudesert and surrounds. A nice little Adventure Lab in town and a couple of quick finds before setting off again. This was a nice location and an easy find. A little walk on and there is another cache, awesome.

Thanks for the cache and the hide, I signed the log and returned all as found.

Found it

Easy

Found it

A chance to revisit the area to collect a couple of caches I bypassed on the way home last week…

Once I stopped looking at the fence this was a quick find as the cache was exposed…

Made my mark and returned it as best I could…

Tftc…

Good

TFTC - history is everywhere.....

Poor internet but found it easily. Thanks

School is out so a group of us crazy mum's took our kids camping out at Darlington Campgrounds despite the torrential rain and flooding that had occurred all week. The day had been dry enough and I wanted to complete some caches in the area, so I took the 2 oldest girls with me on a hunt.

Today was the day I returned home. Others went straight up to the playground at Beaudesert, whereas I took the long way (and a head start) to get some caches on the way up. This was one along that trail.

We spent way too long inspecting the location in the hint. Then from another angle, it was spotted. Not exactly there, but near enough. We just needed to open our eyes. What a beautiful looking church. Almost between a barn and a church. Thank you for bringing us here. Favourite point for encouraging us to stop here.

Last couple of days of my holiday so caching on a 30 degree day why not. Least it’s stopped raining
With geodog Tonka
What a beautiful place
Favourite point from me thank you for bringing us here
Photo included
TFTC

Geo kids found it from gettin lost campers. Easy find

No clue

Tftf

A couple of caches while heading home from a night on Mt Barney.
BM75 spotted this one
Thank you for hiding this geocache GhostGums

R

Searched around for a while on the fence post before spotting it further afield. Thanks for the cache

Ltf

The hint on this one was clever

Gorgeous church and grounds

Signed and replaced as found. Many thanks for the cache.

Passing thru and geocaching with Magpie Cottage. Another great find. Thanks for hiding this cache for our enjoyment GhostGums

Kudos to BB for the find
Caching with Baby Birt today
TFTC GhostGums, SL
No. 1303 for me

Just got the tour of the beautiful family church here. If you'd like to take a look in just say hello at the caretakers cottage.

Easy find on way he from 4WD park cheers for the cache

Based at Rathdowney and this is one of the caches we targeted and found. Love the scenery and exploring. Thanks for hiding and enhancing our enjoyment of the area.

What an amazing place to see and explore wow

Early morning start with RoddyC, GrannySmith 1947 and Deaf Phantom on a maintenance trip to Collins Creek. On our way home.

Nice quick find. Added a new log sheet ready for next finder.

TFTC GhostGums

TFTC smile 7645 out and about with Hatzoff RoddyC DeafPhantom and miss Millie geo dog having a great time up this cache up on our way home



Thank you, GhostGums, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Found it
With Grannysmith1947 Hatzoff
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Took us way longer than it should have to find this one.

Log is nearly full.

Happy find

Thanks

What a great church, thanks for potting the cache here.

Done!

5300

Thursday. I was driving around the area collecting some caches and this one was next on my list. Stopped and got out of the car. Holy Freezing Icicles Batman! The rain was cold enough, but the wind chill factor was something else altogether. I raced to put a jumper on so that I wouldn’t freeze anything off. Looked at the post, but should have looked behind! Got it quickly though and signed the log. Ran to get the next cache to keep the circulation going. I noted the signs on the fence all said "Visitors welcome" but everything was locked up tight.

This was the 5th of 12 caches found on this outing.

Thanks ***GhostGums*** for showing us this place

Found 7.6.20 was a little tricky but found it in the end. Thanx. Beautiful church!

Love the church and its history. Saw a rainbow as we left.

nice spot

Found

Found

thanks for the cache ghost gums all i s well
regards Angel Dust

Read comments for new hint. But easy enough.

Got it, with a little help from comments. Hint is a little out. All good with the cache.

Beautiful little spot

A nice surprise in a pretty part of this area, Will came back and explore a little later on. Thanks Ghost Gums... All aok with the cache..

After reading previous logs we managed to locate and sign. TFTC

Didn't realise that there was a needs maintenance on this. Have rectified.

The issue was fixed by Aussie Liahona when she maintained her nearby cache some time ago.

Quick find on our way to Darlington Park. All good with thecache
TFTC

Hint is not quite correct anymore. Quick find.TFTC.

Felt like looking for a few caches, so put my geodog Scruffy in the car and headed to the Rathdowney area for the day.

All Good .. TFTC ..

I was on a roadtrip heading south of the border with Selva Girls today and she kindly turned off so I could make a find at this pretty church. Having found it previously Selva Girls stood back and waited for me to find the container and add my name to the log. Thanks for bringing us here GhostGums, what a gorgeous little church. Tftc!

In like of rocks behind last white post

Tftc -skully

Heading back to Brisbane after a fun weekend in Lismore with Mr and Mrs RoddyC, we stopped by this pretty little church. We searched for a while and then read a few logs that told us that we needed to be inside the fence to find this cache. Well, that made all the difference and we soon had the cache in hand. After signing the log, we re-hid the cache, then headed off to the next one. TFTC

On our way home from a weekend in Lismore and in the company of Selva Girls.

Read previous logs and realised it was inside the yard. All OK

Log signed and replaced. Logged at 5:41 p.m. on 5 November 2017. TFTC, GhostGums.

What a marvellous location. Thanks for brining us here! Dropped off one TB to continue on it's journey. And a very special TB in our inventory had a special visit here today. In a race from Ontario, Canada to Tamrookum, Queensland and back. Also left a small Canadian trinket in there from our past homeland. TNSL. TFTC.

We had an excellent church history lesson and tour from Margaret who is very knowledgable about the history here. If you have some extra time, she indicates she is always available to give you the tour while you are there. Please note, there is a previous log indicating you do not need to enter the church grounds to locate the cache, but we did not find this to be the case. Without entering the property we would not have been able to locate and get the cache in hand. If the gates are closed, Margaret indicates not to worry, open the gate and come on in.

Nice hiding spot. Found it with help from Margaret.

Nice cache

Hidden very well

Well, this was a real gem. If not for geocaching we would have driven right past without stopping. We were invited in by the caretakers and had a very informative tour of this lovely church.
Church services are still held here every 3rd Sunday. Weddings and funerals are also held here.
The history of the church is very interesting. The interior with its red cedar beams and imported lead light windows is truly remarkable.
We were so taken with our impromptu visit that we almost forgot about the cache we had come here for...almost
Thanks for bringing us here GhostGums

Nice quick find for fathers day with the geofamily. Found with tigerkid and crockid

quick grab today for fathers day. found with geobro tigerkid and geodad wtno.1(weststigersno.1). TFTC

Tftc not where the description said it was in,but close

Found with Giraffe 18 and non-geofriends on a fantastic day out. Thanks for the cache.

Thanks to the previous people who found this cache.
Out with Pirate Linda. Perfect day for caching.

After attending a Mothers' Day Event, we made a rather large detour to look for this cache as it was needed to meet the requirements for a challenge. Initially we did not have any success because we took the hint to be accurate. Whilst we were looking the owner of Tamrookum came over. She was surprised that there was a cache in the area but quickly located it for us further onto the property than what we had anticipated. She was very pleased to have a cache on her property and called her young children over to see. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks GhostGums for the cache and for bringing us to this historic location.

Stopped in to trade tb's. Dropped two took three

Short road trip from the Gold Coast for a couple of days, finding caches that survived the recent floods and dropping of TB's and Geocoins that we collected while in Europe.
Retrieved some TBs/Geocoins and replaced with the same number.
Thanks GhostGums

Out and about in the Beaudesert area. I was married in Tamrookum Church in Augist 1979, so had to make a trip down there. Having not one, but 2 caches on the property made it even more worthwhile. It's still a beautiful church after all these years. Thanks, GhostGums, for bringing me here. Dropped 3 TB's here.

Dropped 3 TB's

Joint find with cachers 'our family name?' nice to meet you guys. Ref the cache it IS in the church grounds.

Being church day i was hesitant to make a find but i found it quickly. Tftc

Interesting enough for a stop. Tftc

Found with stairman1 after completing Running Creek Falls. Lucky for us we didn't have to walk too far for this one. My legs were had it. All good here. TFTC

Found with goldielover while on our way home from Stinson park.
TFTC

Found by 'A'. First of the day. Such a lovely spot to start. TFTC

TFTC - lovely quiet spot the kids loved exploring. Beautiful old church.

TFTC, came here with kSteps and I left a trackable from Melbourne that I picked up at Wooyung Beach NSW. Its goal is to see some dairy cows! Saw a bloody big spider on one of the posts, too.