Resting in Allora Allora, Queensland, Australia
By Team Robins on 21-Jan-10. Waypoint GC236Q5

We spent the morning paddling on the Condamine river, and after the paddle since the weather was no longer clear, we decided to do a few drive fives. We made our way through the Adventure labs in Allora, and along the way, we came to find this one. Found it we did, but the condition of the log is not good. The paper is very wet, although the bison is okay. Thanks Team RobinsDomsky

I looked and looked for about minutes and had no hope, I enlisted the help of my wife and she found it in about 10 seconds

Good hide. Tftc.Was on the Gold Coast for the Pan Pacific Masters Games , and now touring for a bit before returning to the cold and snow of a North American winter. Like this town!

Didn't take me long once I cleaned my glasses. Camped here last night, great spot. Tftc

Once I saw it I wondered why it took us so long, but it's good to be challenged. There is some room left on the log. TFTC

Found It!I'm not a fan of bison tubes hanging in trees. Luckily this one didn't take me too long to spot!TFTC

Took some time. I really built up a thirst here.

Pulled up to this camp again to escape the predicted rain Thought we should try to get our final outstanding caches.

This was quite fast to see, good stuff

An early morning search while all the Campers were sleeping had it in our hands in seconds. A quick Sign and Replace and no one was the wiser. TFTC

We are staying at this Campground Overnight so we went to find this Cache, however, people in Caravans and Motorhomes kept coming in so we have abandoned our search for tonight and will go take another look early in the Morning while everyone is sleeping.

We noted the nearby water trough. It is enormous! Still holds water!Found it and signed the log in between passing muggles.We have had a good time in Warwick and seen and done more than we anticipated but it is time to move on, so we traveled to Toowoomba, not too far!We had stopovers in Allora, Clifton and Nobby where there were Labs and a few caches, as well as to simply look around. It was by chance we thus discovered that Nobby was the home of Steele Rudd of Dad & Dave fame. The things you find out via Geocaching!A short trip broken up with some great discoveries.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Team Robins.**SKI Pair****

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Found with PapaGrouch. We stopped for a break and took the opportunity to find this cache as well. The cache was a bit stiff to open as the log had mashed into the threads a bit, hopefully replaced a bit better. TFTC

Found this one with SciFiRulz TFTC:)

Was lucky to be looking at the right spot

bunadoorian and I were out for an adventure today. We stopped here to find this cache. It was a little bit of a search but in the end bunadoorian found this cache. TFTC and for bringing us here Team Robins.

I don't think I would have found this cache without the hint. Once seen never unseen. TFTC.

Went for a drive yesterday with my father in law. He had never been to Allora so we enjoyed looking over the town. A lot of history attached to this place. This cache took awhile. It was only once I changed my direction of approach that I made the find. TFTC

Nice hide. Took me a bit

Logs very wet. Quick find while camping overnight TFTH

Good find well guarded by spiders webs!!

Found just didnt have a pen logs abit wet

We are heading from Nobby to Warwick this morning. Called in and added our stamp to the log .. We had the van on and still found safe parking here. Tftc

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With my minime aka RooRoo. Quickest one ever!! TFTC

Another quick find TFTC

Performed maintenance on behalf of team robins. Replaced log sheet.

Good cache

Tftc

Good cache

Travelling back from Baradine, stopped for a quick rest stop and low and behold theres a cache at the stop.Quick sneaky find. Needs a new log sheet, signed and replaced as found.TFTC!

Having a "drive in the country" with surefoot24 and evil muggle visiting from Victoria. We came via Toowoomba to do a few challenges, solved puzzles and LGAs for surefoot. It was dark by the time we got here and it was an easy find for us. Next stop was the hotel for dinner before starting the drive home with only a few cache stops on the way. TFTC

Towards the end of our trip to Toowoomba with EchoCage to collect caches to help my records, we arrived in Allora to find a cache in Southern Downs LGA to complete my map in southern Queensland. I convinced her that one in this town would be sufficient and we didnt need to go to Warwick. Unfortunately we arrived in the dark and couldnt see much. We will return as this town, Im sure is very pretty!

Found cache signed log and replaced as found TFTC - GnS

cute tiny find

Found TFTC. Needs a new log.

After setting off from Brisbane yesterday to enjoy a few days away and to explore Warwick and its surrounds we spent last night in the beautiful abbey of the roses in the most amazing room, and managed catch the fabulous World Cup match a the criterion.Go Matilda’s.

Had this one in the radar for this morning and headed out at sparrows this morning for a spot of caching.

Found a safe place to park the car and trundled off to a likely spot where the cache was found quickly, log signed and stuffed back into its hiding place for the next lucky finder to retrieve.

A big thanks to the cache owner for making this cache available for fellow cachers to find.

Cheers

**Found Saturday 22-July-2023 at 15:49 Smiley #2268**Wow, I have slowly just been finding caches, signing logs, logging drafts and simply forgetting about these and never actually logging them. My sincerest apologies to the relevant CO's, especially if I found issues with them and didn't do anything about them.Unfortunately my drafts were also designed to jog my memory about the cache to assist with the logging process. Doesn't work when some of them are over 2 years old. Here comes some generic comments. Once again, I apologise Out and about doing a big loop from home to Toowoomba, south through towards Warwick and then back home through Boonah. Nice easy find. Log full and no spares sorry. What use this log is now, sorry Team RobinsCache logs are either stamped, signed with Rogersclan13 or just RC13 for space. Thanks for the cache **Team Robins** Rogersclan13

We came to this sign as part of the AL and then found ourselves back tracking back again. Tftc

Found with mum and friend Marina.

Good find

Yep still here. Good hint.

No luck for us

Container must have been changed somewhere along the way. No longer as described but found cache after almost giving up. We did log this one as a DNF back in March last year. Happily turned it in a today. Needs a new log sheet, just managed to put our mark on it. TFTC

Searched high and low with no success

Signed it with TBU1Bikesu in Oct 2022 Tftc Team Robins

Sneaky! Nearly missed this one.

TFTC

Needs a new log book

Needs new log book

Found but log book is full... With Princess keena

No more room to log

Nice rest stop in Allora for the pooch to have a run! And an easy find.

Tftc! ??

Nice spot!

Tftf omi 35

Found it
With great team ️️

Out this way for a group CITO on the Condamine River. Afterwards Que Sera, DeafPhantom and myself decided to stop in and check out Allora.
Ended up here while doing the town’s adventure lab. Nice quick find by me while the girls found the answer to the lab question.
Sat at one of the nearby shady tables for a rest and some lab calculations. Lovely area for a break.

TFTC Team Robins

After a paddle event at the condamine river Nikid1, DeafPhantom and i decided to find some caches around Allora and this is a lovely rest stop where we soon found the cache and then took a rest on the nearby table and chairs to figure out the final to a lab cache. Thanks for taking us here and for placing this cache here for us to enjoy

Looks like everyone was resting here but without the headstones. With multiple muggles not caring what I was up to while fully clothed, made my way to GZ where the cache was quickly spotted. Thought about some mischief but really wanted to put many miles toward today's destination and preferably have lunch at Nobby. Thanks for the rest stop Team Robins.

With Karicka. The bushes have been trimmed here and we made a quick find. Thanks for the fun Team Robins

Post hike caching, avoiding the heat by doing some carcaching.
Quick find this time, believe the trees have been trimmed since I was here last
Find number 29004 for me.
Thank you Team Robins for hiding this geocache.

Tftc Team Robins, took a bit of a search here but previous finder mentioned " look up " so we did that and, bingo, it was right there.

Found and signed tftc

Nice park. TFTC

TFTC

Beautiful spot!

Found

Found.

Last one for the day! Quick find. Tftc

We travelled 8,500km through 5 states for a 60th birthday party over approx. 6 weeks. We endured many days over 35C and then saw a lot of water in the eastern states. We enjoyed travelling east with family and then they travelled back to Alice and we made our way home to SA, trying to dodge the rain and wet weather.
Caching is a great way to see the many wonderful sights and learn about the places we are travelling through.
Thank you to those who take the time to hide caches
TFTC

Yes, we had our lunch here. A lovely area.

We found this cache on our way back home from a trip which started for the QOGM 2022 Murweh in Charleville. Then we continued down to NSW and Canberra.

Tftc Team Robins

A quick pit stop on my way to Nindigully pub. This is a sneaky one

The branch on which it was hanging broke as I retrieved it. I have put it back close by, but also a pretty thin branch. Fingers crossed.

oMG. Just found a few drafts I seem to have forgotten to log. We pass through here regularly to go visit family in Warwick. Passing through this week again. Tftc

Looked up $ found it - easy peasy!
Hardest thing was getting the log out to sign!

Took a bit but we did it

Found

Quick easy find but not for someone with duck's disease

TFTC

Found pretty easy

TFTC. A nice quick find while eating my lunch. A nice park to stop for a while

Quick find TFTC

I needed to step up to reach it. Cache and log are good. TFTC Team Robins.

On our way from Toogoolawah to Tenterfield.

With PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa, we stopped her to let Peppa stretch her little legs.

Took a while to find, but find it we did.

Tftc

Thank you for the great find

I couldn’t find it with my family. 16/4/22

TFTC

Took us a liitle while. We wondered if it had been lost in the floods, but its all safe and sound. tftc

After a little searching, we found it well hidden. TFTC.

A nice quick find
TFTC

We searched but couldn’t spot this elusive cache. Perhaps another day when we have more time.

TFTC

Half way through our very memorable road trip we are now heading southbound for home. We enjoyed a walk around town to stretch our legs and found this sneaky cache too.

We enjoyed finding your cache today as part of our memorable road trip beyond Victoria. Thanks for the cache.

Today (11th) I'm starting a four-week trip to Queensland. My Mum of ancient days (she's 97) lives with my brother in Brisbane. He and his wife are heading for Sydney to see their grandkids.So I'm heading up to care for Mum while they're away. I used to drive to Brisbane in one hit when I was young and foolish, but these days I take my time, and take even more time to cache on the way.

I had intended to leave early in the morning to get a full day of caching in, but Mrs Mister JD has a chipped funny bone and can't move her arm very well, so I ended up doing as many chores for her as I could, and ended up leaving at about noon. I had planned to complete a whole string of challenges up this road then across and back to Yass. The late start crueled this, and I decided to spend no more than a couple of minutes looking for each cache, which worked pretty well for me today.

I did manage to complete about half of what I had intended for this area, but then I decided to book the night's accommodation, only to discover there wasn't much available between Cowra and Dubbo. As Cowra wasn't far enough, and Dubbo was too far, I ended up taking the last room in Wellington, then I had to get there.

Day 1 score - 22 finds, four write notes for challenges I didn't qualify for, and 2 DNFs

So, day two. I got to Wellington after dark yesterday with no finds after the string I was doing at Yass. I spent too much time on it, so had to skip the rest of my plans for the day. Poor Sophie GeoSchnauzer only had a couple of walks until after we arrived in Wellington. So today I want her to have more walks, and a better day. I am heading for Tamworth by back roads, and my goal for myself is to finish off most of the Dubbo to Dunedoo trail. Otherwise, I am picking cachs that Sophie can walk in. Sophie GeoSchnauzer has been present for nearly 5000 of my more than 5,400 finds. She's fifteen now, and is not quite so keen on long walks, but she enjoys shorter walks, and is sometimes curious about the caches we find.

Day 2 score - 32 finds, a couple of DNFs.

Now it's day 3. I want to get to Tenterfield today, and to pick up about 30 finds. I want to finish the Moonbi Gap Road trail I started on my last trip, and look at a few other trails around Tamworth before heading north. In the end, I had a successful day.


Day 3 score - 31 finds.

We're into day 4. I've looked at road conditions and have decided to get there via Allora and Toowoomba. I note there are lab caches around, so I will collect them as well. I had a good day, 31 finds including 15 lab caches.


I broke my two minute rule for this one - it took me about five minurtes, but I got it, and the dog got a walk. TFTC.

The Mrs and I are camping nearby at Gordon’s country and popped into town for some essentials like coffee and thought we’d grab a couple of caches while local.

We were a little worried about the last DNFs but thought we’d give it a crack anyway and the Mrs found it within seconds - appears like a brand new replaced cache with new log, so filled it in and placed it back where it belongs.

I'm not saying it's not there but if it is, it's certainly well hidden . I looked for a good 45 mins with no luck . Hope to come back and change it to a smiley.

I searched high and low, behind, under, council has recently done some work, please could the owner confirm that it still exists

I was expecting to have more trouble here considering my DNF six months ago… what a difference light makes… a nice quick find… I replaced the snap lock bag with one that closes… tftc…

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A hard spot to be subtle but loved the find!