Queens Land - 10 Years On Berrinba, Queensland, Australia
By Crew 153 on 17-Oct-10. Waypoint GC2DHWA

It is time to put this event to rest.

Currently there are still 5 travellers still logged into the event.

Thanks you to all who participated. I had a great time organising it and putting out the new caches in the area.

My thanks must go to all the people who turned up and celebrated a milestone in Queensland geocaching history.

Looking forward to the next 10 years.

YOU MAY WANT TO CHECK WITH JUST A TRIFLE REGUARDING THE TBS AND COINS IN QUESTION.
IT SEEMS THEY HAVE BEEN TAKING SOME TRAVELERS, NOT "RETRIEVING" THEM AND NOT "PLACING" THEM ANYWHERE.
I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET AHOLD OF THEM BECAUSE THEY HAVE MY MISSION THAT WAS SENT TO THEM AND HAVEN'T MARKED IT "RETRIEVED" OR "SENT OUT" SEVERAL OF US HAVE TRIED TO GET AHOLD OF THEM. THEY ARE GETTING EMAILS FROM GC.COM BECAUSE THEY STATED THAT THEY RECIEVED THE NEW CACHES EMAIL, SO WE KNOW THEY GOT OUR EMAILS AND ARE IGNORING US.
IF YOU SHOULD SEE HER, PLEASE TELL HER TO CONTACT US, THANX,
OPALSNS

There are still 14 travel bugs and Geocoins logged into the event. Please check your caching bags and see if they are in there and log them out as soon as possible.

If you do have them and you are having trouble logging them please contact me..
cheers

Max

Doh. I was looking forward to attending however other matters family had overtaken the event. Great to see that everyone had a good time and the day was a perfect QLD day for the event, considering the past week or so.

I have scanned the lists of trackables that were on the table at the event and also the lists from Gunnie69 and MightyMouse09..

I do not want to publish them openly as I respect the security of the tracking numbers for the owners.

If you wish a copy of the lists please email me through the GC site and I will forward them to you .

Also If you have taken trackables from the event, please log them out as there is still quite a few in there.

Happy Hunting

Max

Very sad Alkzura and I couldn't be there, sound like everyone had a wonderful time. Our geobub started teething with a vengance so between no sleep for anyone and him still being a mess we couldn't leave the house.

Dropped

someone asked me to digitise the list of tbs that attended.

Brilliant event today. Was many people to chat to, and a few new caches to have a hunt for. Well done Max, TFTE.

Unsure if this can be logged as attended as for some reason we had never posted our attendance and now it has been achieved.
Anyway if not it was still a great day - many thanks to Max for organising.

This was my first caching event and I thoroughly enjoyed attending it. I will hopefully attend more in the future. It was very nice to finally put some names to faces. The event was amazing and it was great to see so many people attend the event. The trek to this cache was quite unique as I have never had to stand in line to write a log at a cache before. A huge thanks to Max (Crew 153) for all the effort you put into organizing this event.

First Event Cache
Enjoyed it very much, thanks to crew 153.
T4TC
troobloo

Thanks Crew 153 for a fabulous event and for the delicious cake! I had a wonderful time caching and catching up with everybody.

Really enjoyed this great event, such a fantastic attendance. It was great to catch up with friends and meet new cachers that I had only read their logs. There were so many in attendance it was impossible to meet everyone & even catch up with all that I knew were there
Thanks Crew153, what can I say that hasn't already been said...

Thanks Crew153 well bought together.

Dropping in some Trackables coming from Canada or USA.

Dropping in travel bug

I see that this will be bigger than "Ben Hur". I hope all enjoy themselves, I am just sorry I can not make it-have bugs and all to drop off!

Enjoy the day.

Hi Crew
I am sorry I got out dates confused and we are away at the moment and unable to make it . - Wells Inc

Another TB to join the party

This is my 1000th cache!! Thanks for the great event for my milestone

Had a great time putting faces to names Thanks Crew 153 for all the work you put in.....

Have the bug back.....

Thanks Crew153 was good putting faces to names, and a chance to grag a few caches and travel bugs.

Attended this with my brother Darrel and about 100 other it seemed. Nice bit of caching with company of all the other attendees managed to catch up with some of the cacher I have met before and enjoyed chating to new cacheing friends. Nice event even though I couldn't stay long.

Great to see the new and old breed of cachers. What a fitting way to celebrate. Thanks to all who organised, and those who shared the day!!

Bring on the next 10 years!!!

Thnaks a heap for all the fun we had today & the big win on the raffle ,you made our day memorable ..will let you know where we plant the cache ,may need your help doing it .Well done crew 153

This was a great event, not only did I get to catch with friends, I also got to have some great cake .
It is great to see that geocaching is so popular, with a great turn out.

Thanks to Max for organising a great day out, he even got the weather right

Thanks for a great afternoon and specially to Crew153 for organizing the 10th Anniversary. I am just starting but learning fast with the help of Iwanagara.

Hugo07

Miss Rogainer #2 & I attended today on what was a good event blessed with some nice weather.
It was good to catch up with many familiar faces and meet a few new faces.
We enjoyed the stroll through to the cache which started it all and the anniversary cache as well - and the cake afterwards
Hard to believe caching has been around 10 years already - in another month, I'll be entering my 10th year of caching too!

Thanks Max for all your efforts - much appreciated.

Photos attached

Attended this event today ...
Unfortunately family activities dictated I arrived just after group photoshoot was completed...

Promptly set out on a pilgramige to Queensland's oldest cache quickly followed by a couple released especially for today....

Thanks to Crew 153 for their efforts for this event & the new caches....

These efforts suitably rewarded by the masssive turnout today many old & new faces for me today

What a fantastic event! The turnout was amazing and the organisation was just superb. Thanks Mr and Mrs Crew153 for doing such a great job and great to see some of the "caching elders". The weather stayed clear and the mud was all part of the fun right[?]. Anyway, great job and certainly a very memorable day.

What a fantastic day this turned out to be with the weather even coming to the party. The kids were excited to meet all the other junior geocachers there. It was great to see so many people make the effort to attend. Thanks for organising everything Crew153!

Great area, great friends, great picnic. I saw a snake. It was cool playing with the dogs and the kids. Thanks for the event.

It was great. I had fun. I liked it.

What a terrific day we had at the event - there were so many people to talk to, a historic cache to find, and even some new caches placed especially for the event Thanks Max and Carolyn for the terrific organisation - the cake tasted great

Brilliant event today. Even the whether was kind. So many people but so little time. Well done Max, TFTE.

What a fantastic day - the weather was perfect, the event was superb, and the friends and food were abundant! AND there was a beautiful snake! So glad we were able to make it, thanks to Crew153 for setting it al up, I had a wonderful time. ='.'=,

forgot to drop these coins

Sorry to not see alot of the old school cachers out for this event, we're still around. It was fun & well planned, thanks Max

Great event, great effort, great attendance, very worthwhile occasion

so much so that I decided to celebrate my 1500th find, and Ms Wig her 500th at Queens land



Thanks Crew153, what can I say that hasn't already been said...

... so, so long, and thanks for all the ammo boxes

Great event, great community and great to meet people. Thanks for your great efforts Max.

Lucky for us as we were able to attend this event as we were travelling home (Yackandandah - Vic) from Bundaberg. It was a great event and enjoyed meeting new cachers. A great day organised by Crew 153 we thoroughly enjoyed the day!

A lovely day out for our little family, we had a wonderful time catching up with folks and eating cake and oh yeah, a little caching as well Thanks to the Crew for organising, it was a great day.

Dropping in trackables.

See you all soon. Looks like great weather.

Another TB.

Good to put faces to the names and see that geocaching covers all ages and even our four legged friends. Thanks for the effort in putting on this event.

Thanks Max for a fantastic event and for all the effort you went to with the organisation.
It was great to catch up with everyone and also to find a few caches, old ones and a couple of newies too....even a FTF.

Great to meet some other Queensland cachers, visit a historic cache & grab some caches in a new area. Thanks to Crew 153 for putting this together.

Fantastic event and for all the effort and Great time with Everlasting and meet new peoples and Lovely walk to all the track and few Mud and water everywhere good fun!!! Thank Crew 153.... cheers

It was so beauty day for the event. - Pity I didnt have a chance to meet you all but it was good to see many attend the event. Excellent organisied by Crew 153 - also thanks for FTF as well... Again Thanks Crew 153 for wonderful organising the event etc...

Good to see where Qld caching started a decade ago even though it did involve growing webbed feet. Thanks for putting on the event.

A big thanks to Crew153 for a great 10th birthday bash
Good to see a few familiar faces and many new ones too at this well attended event
Even the weather put on a sunny face after all the rains [:o]

Behind the scenes of this well organised and very well attended event, were a few milestones that managed to coincidentally align... [^]

Baroki Scout who introduced me to this game achieved her 500th find with her Partner VWNuts reaching the big 1K... PigWig2 snuck in her 500th and although not the typical milestone, Svn07 (Pronounced Seven O seven) made this Cache find number 707... [^]

After a morning doing the rounds of Karawatha, I arrived at the event to be astounded by the number of attendees... Hats off Crew153, you drew the crowds like never before... The pilgrimage to GC8E was akin watching lemmings, although each hunter shared the same mission...

Back at GZ the stories were plentiful and as always, the gathering presented a great opportunity to catch up with familiar faces and put names to new ones. Something unique to this event though was the splendour of an anniversary event "Cake"... That was a work of art and quite tasty I must say...

If there was a down side, it would be the fact the my morning spent turning the forest icons into smilies, was swiftly undone with the release of your new caches... Grrr...

A job well done Max, thanks for a fantastic effort. I am proud to have achieved my 2000th find with this event...

There are currently more than half a milllion geocaches hidden around the world, and more than 31,000 active cache locations listed across Australia.

In 2000 there were 2 listed Geocache sites in Queensland with total active location listings today numbering over 5000. It took 2 months before anyone logged a find on the web for the nearby Queens Land cache, today some caches are found and a log posted within 30 mins of being published on the geocaching website.

In 2002 there were 70 active caching identities who found and logged a find on caches in Queensland and there were 63 new geocaches hidden that year.

At the end of 2006 there were 700 different active caching identities from Queensland, Interstate and across the world who logged finds in the Stae of Queensland, 954 new caces were hidden that year

To date in 2010, there are over 1900 active identities (individuals/teams/families) known to be participating in the activity in Queensland. This includes International and interstate visitors coming to Queensland. As an example earlier this year two German geocachers visited in Australia was to attend a geocaching organised event at Stradbroke Island within 12 hours of arriving in Brisbane.

In 2009 there were 1,773 new caches listed in Queensland.

Maureen and Brian you should be proud of being part of something special. We also need to thank tonyjago who had the original Queens Land cache re-activated in 2003 after it was destroyed in a fire and Crew 153 who also kept this site alive in 2009.

TB/GC list

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TPGRKC
442248
TPKWHX
TPV667
TPQF46
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TSTGHJ
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CCYFHA
HGA2TD
CBKJ2E
EVXVFW
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JP48FY
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SC9B48
14KD06
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KD180P
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14EW9X
9BFGJZ
CA5BA3
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TD74P8
CR1P4E
CP7J0A
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4KTH7R
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SCYZ2D
4MTB0E
OC0HZA
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CCCY9D
OCHN7E
OCHCCD
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CLYN65
OCM8A0
CCK50N
OC0AJB
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CCT9EQ
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636 - What a well organised and well attended event. We got there later than we had hoped due to Brissy Guy Junior's work commitments but arrived at about 1:30pm just in time to see If and Rastas jointly cutting the birthday cake. As I log this event, I am looking at the picture taken earlier in the day, and am surprised to see how many more people were there earlier in the day. A great event, shame we couldn't get there any earlier. Thanks for your hard work Crew 13 and happy birthday to geocaching in Queensland.

Other logs give all the details. A great day and a great event. Glad to make it to the first Qld cache at last. Good to see so many faces I know and to meet new ones. Particularly glad to see Miss Geosie, possibly our youngest cacher at these events. Even got birthday presents from cacher friends! The only blot on bristracker's day was the bristracker boot blowout but she still managed to get through the day with dry feet - no mean feat given the state of some tracks. Thanks especially Crew-man and the rest of the Crew. ******Love Your Sport******

Very happily logging our attendance at this great birthday bash today. It was very well organized and we really appreciated all the effort that went in to organizing such a large event. Great work Crew153. We thoroughly enjoyed it. The cake was delicious too! We'd not done any caches in this area before and hadn't done this original cache. We were pleased to hear people talk about it's start and it's history. Thanks to the log, 2 previous to mine, Gunnie69 (?) for his interesting stats. What a growth. Makes us proud to be QUEENSLANDER(S)! It was also fun to meet up with lots of new geocachers, and also to catch up with some met previously. Great attendance. Thanks heaps!

What a wonderful we all had. Plus the sun shone for the WHOLE day. Many thanks to Max for organising the day. Thank you also to Carolyn (Mrs Max) for your assistance.
At least Mr L&L and I have a few caches near to home now that we can find without having to drive for 20+km!!! Thanks Max.

Great event and big thanks to Crew 153 for excellent organisation and all those new caches.

Many thanks for a great day and to catch up with many old and new friends. Will now have a face to put to the log-in names. TFTE

What a day! An excellent way to commemorate 10 years, while enjoying the company of faces familiar and new. A great time was had by all. MissGeosie loved the puppydogs (not to mention Deco's storytelling!) and the trek to GC8E was definitely a special experience (even if our feet did get a bit wet!) We would have liked to find all the new caches but alas we didn't get a chance today. Next time...

Thanks very much to Crew153 for organising the day and for planting all those new caches out there. A most excellent event it was! [^]

Travel bug drop

Some more tb's.

Majority of these are on their way to Adelaide.

last tb

Very interesting Event where we can meet and discuss with many geocachers.
Thanks for the excellent organization.
iwanagara

Thanks to Crew 153 for organising a great event, especially to Max who made me very welcome... and somehow managed to pull my name out of the hat for a head start on one of the new caches hidden for the event.

Thanks MAX for putting on another great day, good to catch up with old faces. Even though a bit wet under foot in some places it did not dampen anyones spirits. Once again thanks Crew 53

Thanks Max for an extremely well organised event. You must have put a lot of work in placing all those caches and all the other bits and pieces. Of course I'm particularly pleased for the opportunity to beat Totalube to a FTF. Thanks again for a great day.

Thanks for organising this great day. I've never seen so geocache tb on cars and tshirts, good to meet a few of u.

Happy birthday cache Queens land. You've hit the big one oh at last . Lots of folks milling around today, finding caches, swapping war stories and enjoying the huge array of homemade goodies. Good job Max on organising the event and the weather - you must have friends in high places . I grabbed a couple of lonely trackables at the event and even heard a clue for a nasty puzzle I'm having trouble with.

Great company, great food, great weather. Thanks Crew 153 for all your work in making today's 10th Anniversary such an outstanding success. Great Job.

This was my first caching event and it sure won't be the last! I met some great people and got to put faces to names I've seen online and in many logbooks in caches all over the place. The event itself was amazing, so many people attended, and everyone was friendly and keen to meet people and share stories. This is yet another amazing side of geocaching. The pilgrimage to the Queens Land cache was quite an experience. I'm used to the steath mode of caching, so to have a huge group lining up to sign the log book was a very different experience. A huge thanks to Max (Crew 153) for all the effort you put into organising this. And thanks for the ammo boxes, you can never have to many of them

Thanks very much Max (Crew 153). You had put a lot of good work in to make such a successful day.

Cyndi and I enjoyed meeting old and new friends.

Great event....a fitting celebration of the Anniversary. Well done to Max for the organisation of the event and the efforts put in to hiding new caches for the enjoyment of all.

Thanks for the event Crew153. Cheers, svn07

Thanks Max for a great event. This was my 500th find, and VWNuts and I celebrated our 10th Wedding Anniversary as well as both of our birthdays... yep, 17th Oct is a very busy day for us. What better way than to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Queenslands first geocache. Also made the pilgrimage to "Queens Land" with the group.
Ta Much

What a great turn out for the 10th Anniversary of the 1st cache placed in Qld. Bit wet underfoot but the enthusiasm and conversation of the attendees more than made up for the mud. Thanks Crew 153 for all the hard work in organizing the event. You did well !!! TFTC

This was a fantastic event - even if I did arrived unusually late. It was great to meet some new folks and see the regulars. A very big thank you to Crew 153 for a) the ammo tins b) the fantastic event c) for waiting patiently for me to get back from looking for a cache Thank God the weather held out!

Thanks to Max for a well organised event and the perfect host.What a turn out! Nice to speak to fellow cachers and excahange a few yarns.An exceptional day.Some one is looking after you Max! (AND ALL OF US) Not a drop of rain in sight or any cyclonic winds .Elliott and myself enjoyed the day very much,and appreciate the effort you have gone to. GOLD, GOLD, GOLD

First Geo-event for little Miss Deco:- Amber @ 13 months. Thanks Dad (Crew) for putting on the event.

Thanks Crew for the event, sorry i had to leave early, the Geodogs had a great time and i got to meet many people in person now. and the infamous If.

now im gonna have to go get the 10th anniversary cache. i'll move these TBs on soon.
I'll also digitise the list of TB numbers and post them up.

Thanks Crew153 for the great day out in celebration of QLD oldest cache.

It was great to catch up with cachers that I had run into at other events and also in search of other Gold Coast caches...... and meet others who's names I had seen when caching.

I will see if I got any decent photos of the event and add them.

We did a bit of treking and tracked down a few of the new caches but will have to return someday to find the rest of the caches.

Thanks Crew153 for a great event. A great venue, weather, atmosphere and some new caches.

And a big thanks for ammo cans, which I am sure will a spat of new caches with a regular size.

And thanks all for those attended, we might even break the qld record.

TFTE

It was fun today. We saw a snake and ate alot of food, and found some caches.

Thanks MrMeccano

It was very fun. I patted some dogs, Bailey and Ella. I ate lots of food.

Thanks, Rosegums.

Count us in (Geodad, Geowife & two Geokids) - looking forward to it!

Time to commence the obligatory trackables drop. Here are some I have gatherred from around the country.

I will bring my personal coins along too but, they will only be visiting with me... [^]

Releasing a new TB: K8'n'Co's Mixed Tape

Nothing like a last minute decision. We'll be there!

Will see you all there

Dropping in trackables for the event.

Just dropping in some trackables for movement to other locations..

Please treat these as you would your own trackables and place them in secure caches that don't have a history of being muggled. Thanks.

They have their name, their number and their goal all on an enclosed ziplock.

BUGGER!, Gib96 and I were looking forward to this one but the alternator on my car died so that's us out Have a great time and I hope to get to another gathering soon.

Trackables Ahoy. See everyone soon

Dropping in my travel bug.

Now unable to attend due to a family illness. I hope everyone has an enjoyabe event.

Dropping in some TBs and coins!

And a few more...

The best laid plans of mice and madmyers!! The two Mads who have spent a week in Canberra at a school camp were not very awake or good at organising things this morning. Before we knew it - 11 had arrived and whilst lunch was packed - no pocket query loaded - PDA battery flat - GPS batteries needed charging - need I go on??? Hope you all have a great time and wish the energy levels and organisational skills were higher so we were there with you!!