Ebbw Vale War Memorial Ebbw Vale, Queensland, Australia
By ManicWombat on 23-Apr-12. Waypoint GC3HR4D

Time to put this one to rest. Container failure and I am not replacing my urban caches. Thanks to all who stopped here.

Nowhere to be seen, looked between the plaque and the log, nothing. Even looked for a dog plaque as the clue said "woof"

TFTC, couldn't open.

Easter trip away with fitzy_1965 for the cacheQLD Dayboro Mega.

Another rainy morning didn’t deter us from heading out on a southern loop to pick up counties and Queens Land (Qld’s oldest). Again, teaming up with nibletricecakes, GLISS! and Albida33 signing logs as MiNiFiGA’s to also tackle the balance of We <3 Geo, Geosaurus, and Pac-Man, as well as part of the Coat of Arms Geo-art trails and any others in-between. Unfortunately, we were late back and didn’t get to attend the closing ceremony.

All caches were found in good condition unless otherwise stated.....unfortunately, like others, we tried with what we had but were unable to open the cache.

24,310. Found with minniek on our Dayboro QLD MEGA Adventure trip. For today we also cached with albida33, Nibletricecakes, and GLISS! to form and sign as MiNiFiGAS!

With the sudden COVID outbreak in Queensland putting the Mega in doubt we decided to head up to the New South Wales / Queensland border hoping that it would still go ahead, and with the announcement that things were mostly returning to normal we decided Plan A still looked good. Day 6. Not quite such an early but still wet start today with an aim of caching our way through finishing all of the Geo-Art around Dayboro (all being pre solved) plus various bonus caches along the way, then doing a loop around collecting counties and QLD's oldest. This was the next stop for the day. We parked nearby this one for a quick find at GZ.

Thanks CacheQLD and all the other Cache owners !! Please forgive the generic logs.

Dayboro trip. Day 11. The third day of the mega was another wet day, but not quite as bad as predicted. Things were quiet onsite so we headed off fairly quickly. Today Fitzy_1965, MinnieK, Nibblericecakes and Gliss & I finished off the caches closest to Dayboro we had not got to before heading into Brisbane and surrounding counties for the oldest cache in QLD and ticking off counties. The final goal for the day was as much of the Coat of Arms caches as we could get to before it was too dark. The drive home from Esk to Dayboro was another wet nighttime mountain drive, but we had a warm welcome at the ACT Chateaux before finally retiring for the night.

Thanks for the cache ManicWombat

31991.28 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2006 Satellite V4 A#60

**Albida**

Out with minniek, fitzy_1965, nibletricecakes and albida33 collecting oldies, interesting caches and unlocking counties. Signed as MiNiFiGA!

Back out this way so the rest of the team can grab a county. Used a few tools and some brute strength but couldn’t get it open! Photo logging

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Signed today as MINIFIG! as I teamed up with GLISS! Minniek and Fitzy_1965 to tackle some counties oldies and interesting caches. Great to be finally in Queensland with our eyes on the Mega Prize.
This is the first Mega we have had in Australia in over a year. We have navigated lockdowns, mouse plagues, floods and the dreaded Covid to get here. Great to be able to be out caching in Queensland. Such a privilege. Thanks for the cache.

Too hard to open but kids loved finding it

Found but just as the last people said, feels as if it is sealed shut

Nice easy find - was extremely hard to open, couldn’t get it open in the end. Almost as if it’s sealed shut.

Thanks for a super easy cache all is still well here

Thanks for the find with the TheOrmos

TFTC.

TFTC log almost full

Doing the Ipswich lab caches today and picking up a few trad at the same time.
Thank you for placing this geocache ManicWombat

Found with tic toc. This was the last of 8 caches found this afternoon. We have seen a few of these containers before but it's always good to see another well constructed cache. TFTC and the visit to this memorial park.

This was a nice quick find. I’ve never seen a container like that before. All good with the cache. Returned as found. TFTC

TTFC new log book is needed soon

Tftc! Quick find on the way home from basketball. Our pen has gone missing so photo attached

Awesome hint...clever cache tyfc

The clue is makes it very easy loved the container

On and about on my morning walk on a brisk Brisbane morning - nice spot thanks for the information TFTC ManicWombat

Out on a drizzly winters day for a late afternoon cache.

Tftc

I needed a cache for the day to keep my streak going, and I'd just finished work for the day at Redbank Plains. Thinking I might be able to kill two birds with one stone, I programmed the nearest servo into the gps as the next stop, hoping there might be a cache nearby. I fuelled up the car and myself, and then checked my phone. This cache wasn't far away and was on the main road, so off I went. I was soon parking and walking over to gz. The Woof! in the hint made sense when I looked in front of the plaque I added my name to the log, and then returned to the car for the long drive home. Tftc ManicWombat

Thanks ManicWombat for getting me to stop here today...

I don’t think I would have found this cache without the hint... replaced the snap lock bag...

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Too easy to find

TFTC. Quick easy find when out and about.

Easy find

Nifty find this one. Initially thought it was water irrigation as it was visible with minimal cover. TFTF

Boyfriend and I are new to this. He hasn't found any yet. The hint was helpful!

Quick easy find. TFTC!

Clever, cache in great condition, and now with my signature, TFTC

T read the clue but missed a vital part of it so looked in the wrong place. H found it first go. No muggles around. TFTC

A side trip off the Hwy on our way back to Toowoomba at the end of holidays to find a few caches. Easy find with the hint

TFTC

Quick park and find. Good hide TFTC

Had to find one cache before leaving Ipswich. This was on the way. One of the more interesting place names I've seen. Looks like a typo! Thanks for the cache.

TFTC

The cache was lying out in the open. I have placed it in a hiding place but not sure if it is the correct place

Glad hubby had his eyes on tonight! I completely missed it when I searched that spot! Happy 2nd GeoBirthday to us today. 1,958 finds and still love it as much as the first!

Woof woof

Need little find

Quick find here for day 6 of our 7 day steak!

TFTC

Out in Ipswich and surrounds with Geopartner today.
Wandered in to GZ and soon had the cache in hand.
Signed the log and returned to where we found it.
Paid our respects and headed to our next port of call.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks ManicWombat All good with this cache

Great hide.

Out for another day of cycling with a little geocaching to provide rest stops along the way. I caught the train to Ipswich and started my loop back home by bike. After a bad run of DNF’s ( 4 in a row) the day settled down after that. (Appears that 2 of the 4 had gone MIA and the other 2 well maybe I had not woken up or the DNF’s left a bad taste in my eyes)

Able to clean up a DNF from 2014

Big Ride

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Tftc

Tftc

Found it. Just couldn't open it

Last cache hunt of the school holidays. The geovengers loved to memorial. Nice quick find. TFTC

Nice easy find, lest we forget. TFTC

Nice easy find in the little suburb I grew up in. TFTC

Quick easy find
Thanks to a great clue

A happy cacher

Nice easy spot

Have been out and about filling the local map with smiles.
TFTC

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Super quick. All is good with cache. Thank you for being us here

Good quick find

Thanks for this one and thanks to these me who served for us

We came across your cache, ManicWombat, while starting a maintenance run around Ipswich.

Replaced the log sheet. All good now.

Log signed and cache replaced at 3:21 PM on April 8, 2018. TFTC.

Stopped by here on a roundabout route to an event tonight. A quick find by Mrs RoddyC while I was still scratching my head over the clue. All good here. TFTC

Out with LelGhecko and kids. Signed and replaced. Log water logged. Used and old parking stub to imprint our find.

Out with SantosGhecko77 and geokids. Quick park and grab by Santos. Replaced log with temporary movie ticket . Signed log and returned to where we found it TFTC.

We are nomads. Having left Perth WA in February 2014 we now live in our caravan and go wherever the will or caches take us.

Now in Ipswich for medical appointments, today we managed to head out and cache as we completed some tasks on our todo list.

TFTC ManicWombat

Quick easy find. Good history plaques.

Found it

With muggles in the car parking area we needed to wait this one out. We had our lunch at our car a little further up. Eventually they moved on and I was able to go in and make my find. Nice easy find. TFTC ManicWombat

Log is damp and tatty. A new one would be good

We missed it the first time in the dark so came back in the light and it was then an easy find!

Quick n easy grab while out and about in Ipswich. Tftc.

Quickly grabbed a handful of caches while geokid attended a b'day party nearby.

Easy find.

TFTC

Found while visiting grandkids over the road. Good Hide. Love the history. TNLN TFTC

On my way to NDIS workshop
Stop over beautiful fog

Great find

First cache for the day heading into Ipswich.. A lovely spot and a nice ways find. TFTC

I needed a cache for the day so dropped in on my way home from work. A kids soccer training was about to start so there were a few muggles around but an easy find, sign and return. TFTC

Found with juice3000

I was over this way with work this morning, and had a little time up my sleeve so dropped in here for a quick park and grab
This ones been on my radar for a while now, as it's an "e" cache that I've been saving for one of the monthly challenge caches. Since it's now December this one suits nicely for the "Can you spell DECEMBER in December challenge (GC5JF1E). E's are hard to come by and having this one here handy to the main road into Ipswich was a bonus today
I did have to search a bit for this one actually! I was looking in the wrong spot for a while, and the hint didn't seem to be much help? But eventually it was found hidden in a pretty obvious cache hiding spot really
Log sheet signed and cache returned to hiding spot as found [^]
Thanks for the cache ManicWombat

Was a little uncovered, all good again.

Easy find. Tftc.

Quick find knowing muggle on his way with pooch. Stopped by yesterday but said muggle had taken up occupation of park. TFTF Lest we Forget

21st score! Happy lil finders

Coordinates changed from:
S 27° 36.258 E 152° 49.319

Coordinates changed to:
S 27° 36.251 E 152° 49.316

Distance from original: 45.6 feet or 13.9 meters.

Cache replaced and relocated (again). Hopefully this hide will last a while.

Checked today and sure enough the cache was gone. Replaced with new container and in a completely different hide. Please note revised coordinates and clue. Happy caching

Found soggy log but no cache, starting to rain too heavy to continue searching - till another day

#9187 Found and Logged at 7:44:00 AM
Traveling through Queensland to escape the 2016 southern winter
One of 6 finds for the morning before leaving ti head south
Thanks for the cache ManicWombat

Found at this commemorative place, with pokestop all good with the cache and I appreciate the added log roller, nice touch. Tftc

Nice easy find. TFTC

Found with Cloud_Dreamers on World Geocaching Day 2016! SL TFTC!

Signed log, placed back were found TFTC

Tftc! Did not sign as I was just on a bike ride and forgot a pen!

Glad one of us has l o n g arms.
Good one. Thanks ManicWombat.

Great hide. Has been tightened up too tight to undo. Will return to loosen

Yay found it , quick find

Decided to go geocaching after a long break. Found this one pretty quick.

Team J.O.K