Hardings Paddock Picnic Area Goolman, Queensland, Australia
By Aussie Liahona on 09-Feb-13. Waypoint GC45PKZ

Were sorry that at this time we feel the best course of action for this cache is to archive it and open the area to someone else who may even want to add some on the hiking trails.

Oh golly gosh Mr. Reviewer:I'm so sorry. I had forgotten this one was waiting for attention.I have made an appointment with a friend to head out there soon with company. With that appointment made it will be attended to before your next check on this one. Again, I apologise!

Searched on our way in and out but no luck. Adding our name to the string of DNFs

Dear me. A number of DNFs so we will disable until we can check on it.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Cheers and happy caching!

Couldn't find this one today.

Landscape works have been performed in the area and I suspect the cache has gone due to that.

Look hard could not find it

Looked for 30 minutes, couldn’t find it even with the hint and all the comments. . someone came and locked the gate. 4:30. Had to leave. Will try again in the future.

I got here at 6:30am and found the gate locked even though the sign said 6am to 6pm. So I made a quick find and then began my hike with a 1.5km warmup. Thanks for the cache

15/1/22 Find #5261
Today was a day for girls to get out and have some fun!! Coz they just wanna, they just wanna, oh girls just wanna have fun! And that’s exactly what SaintsMadHouse, KBreeAHH, Cosmonaut95 and I were going to do. That and some maintenance for SaintsMadHouse and friends along the way.
I may have embarrassingly missed this one, leaning at the spot where the cache was and trying a slightly different spot there, while I watch others look in what they expected to be the location. Don’t ask me how. Perhaps I just need another coffee.
Thanks for the cache Aussie Liahona.

Found as part of SMH+3. First caching trip up here since I've moved back to Brisbane. TFTC.

Found during a Day out with Cosmonaut97, 1MinnieMoo and KbreeAhh. Lots of laughs and antics throughout the day. Some of the finds were geocachews I have adopted and needed to find and maintain. Others were new to me and some maintenance was also done on any we found to be in need of some TLC.

Lovely spot out here, quick easy find

Oh neat! Never knew that this was here and am now keen to return. Thanks for showing us!

Found. Daughter on the ball here and again never knew this was here. TFTC

Quick Easy Find.

We were heading to the Dugandan Hotel for a gathering for dinner and picking up a few caches along the way.

I parked in the shade and walked over and put my hand in the correct spot on the first attempt.

TFTC Aussie Liahona

Took awhile to find with the GPS jumping all over the place. Found and signed log. TFTC

After hatching a plan with chamad, Nikid1 and NayFee to visit Mt Blaine, we targeted a few caches to collect along the way, this was among our early morning haul.
With 4 pairs of eyes on the job, the cache was quickly spotted. Our names added to the log we were off on our adventures.
Thanks Aussie Liahona for the cache.

Out for a day of caching with Willis007 Chamad and Nayfee
Never been to this part of the world but looks like a lovely place to visit. We only explored as far as the front fence. I finally spied the cache after concentrating on the wrong end. I’ll have to come back one day for a better look at the area.
TFTC Aussie Liahona

Out and about with Nikid1, Willis007 and Chamad for a spot of caching around Ipswich and surrounds for the day.

We took notice of the hint when we arrived and wandered on over to inspect everything a cache of this type could be placed, their wasn't many places it could be hidden, but after a decent search we had the cache in hand a short time later.

#2237 - TFTC

Out for a day of caching with Willis007, Nayfee and Nikid1. I had a list of caches that where required for certain reasons of D/T, 360, age and just because we were passing. However, the main aim of the day was to walk Mt. Blain, grab the caches and the views at the top.

Oh an Aussie Liahona cache and not at the usual spot, surprise, lol. We parked close to GZ and watched the numerous numbers of cars with horse floats go past. A read of the hint and we had an idea but no success until Nikid1 found the sneaky hide, nice one. Oh right! I get the full hint now.
With log signed and cache replaced as found, we were off to continue our list for the day. Thanks for placing this one here and another to add to my list of finds by this CO.

Tftc

Pulled in here for a walk to mt goolman this warm afternoon.
This one was a quick finf
Thank you for hiding this geocache Aussie Liahona
Find number 21881
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Found this today on a nice Sunday afternoon out. Nice spot!

Quick easy find

Nice easy find while we explore out here. Thanks

After doing a ten kilometre return walk to find a Challenge cache, Tenkae and myself decided to grab a few local caches before leaving the district.
Beaut hide, thanks CO.

TFTC Aussie Liahona
Found February 27, 2021

Spending some time in different areas to break the monotony of 'same places' - all good with this cache. Thanks for placing it here as we never would have known about this area.

Didn’t even know this place existed. TFTC

Nice quick find - TFTC!

lots of cars heading in today.

Find 3 of the day. Geovengers on a roll

TFTC

Tftf

Could not find it

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Out for a couple caches and a walk at Harding's paddock, nice fine winters day. Dropped off aTB. TFTC

Signed and replaced. TFTC

Nice area TFTF

On a day outing for some fresh air after being at home during the covid 19 isolation restrictions. Mrs GT54 was quick to find the cache. TFTC

We visited Harding's Paddock for a Mother's Day picnic and hike. It was a very nice location to visit. Went to try to find the cache on the way out while the wife waited in the car. Well, my son and I looked around for five minutes, and didn't find anything obvious. I wondered if my interpretation of the hint was correct. I had another thought, and decided to look more closely - and there it was. What great camouflage! I had looked right at it and didn't recognise what it was. TFTC!

Found 7-5-20
Out on an evening of Geocaching with Geowife Orcas & Geobuddies Nala_1988 & AndrewT1.
Clever hide.
TFTC.
Cheers Yankees02 ️

Having a night out with the wife and friends trying to kill the boredom and being stir crazy

TFTC

Good hide. Good looking for night time

TFTC quick find

Came here on a maintenance run and were pleased to find the cache in the correct location as it had been picked up off the ground by the previous geocacher.
Please be sure it has 'gripped' before leaving and all should be good.
New log and sharpened pencil.
Cheers and happy caching!

Found on the ground so put but in a better space right near GZ. Thanks for bringing us here. All is good with the cache

Found by the Geokid after Geodad looked for 15 minutes and found nothing?
TFTC

Standing here watching them search. Geo mum wins again. Tftc

Checking out the picnic area since we’re here. TFTC

Third time lucky. Out with friends for a BBQ. Quick pick up on the way home. Tftc

Nice and easy find and great view all around. Tftc

This was a short caching trip today. Have overlooked that the park is closed.

TFTC

Found after 13th Bithday campover at Hardings. TFTC.

Logging a find with the CO's permission. We looked previously for the missing cache. Alerted CO of its disappearance and she kindly
allowed us the find.
Lovely area you brought us to.
Thanks Aussie Liahona.

Loved the hidey spot. It was good to find a new blank log sheet. Thanks for the cache and maintaining it.

Well, what do you know. The whole double sided map with marked trails and it's sheltering roof has all gone and the cache has gone with them.

A new cache has been placed quite close to the previous location but not the same spot. There's nothing there anymore to hide a cache.

So close by is hiding a magnetic geocache waiting for it's first signature, but unfortunately it's the same cache listing so not an FTF.

Please rehide it as you found it so that where it's hiding can still be 'used'.

Cheers and happy caching!

Disabling this one for now as it sounds like it has gone missing.
Will attend to it as soon as I can.
Sorry for any inconvenience.

A quick find thought it was a little out in the open but replaced. Nice drive out here had a couple of hrs to kill while kids were at dance and monday is normally tough mothers cache day. Tftc

Thanks for this one all is good

It was driving rain on my arrival so I thought I’d take some shelter whilst I checked my app. Lucky it was a quick find here. Not sure if it’s in the right spot as it was super obvious but I returned it as found. Signed the log and we were on our way! Tftc

Felt like looking for a few caches, so put my geodog Scruffy in the car and headed to Ipswich for the day.
Wow, well that's really hidden .. lol

All Good .. TFTC ..

**# 17496** Found on the Qld leg of our 2017 winter escape trip.
Another perfect warm winter day for a drive to Purga.
Not any muggles around and a good quick find here.
Thanks for the cache Aussie Liahona,
***Roostaman***

TFTC... a little too easy.

Found on a quick trip out of the house for a short walk on a long weekend. FB03 and I got out of the car and quickly spotted the hide. Signed our names and we continued on our way. TFTC Aussie Liahona

A short walk from my campsite at Hardings Paddock - a hidden gem!

Fab park, quick find but geokid took a while to retrieve. TFTF

Signed log, placed back where found TFTC found with pobblebonk

Out with the family for an afternoon of geocaching on Australia Day 2017. Found with Cloud Dreamers. SL TFTC.

Loved this picnic area. Always wanted to come here! Thanks for the hide!

Find number 220.

We regularly do the drive from Beaudesert to Ipswich to see the parents, usually only caching on the main road. Actually run a route pocket enquiry along the way and have the best intentions of getting them (don't we all).

Had a bit of spare time on the way up today so thought we detour a little bit. Wow I'm glad we did. This little hidden gem is incredible! We're defniately coming back here to camp, 15 minutes from the city but dead set in the middle of no where.

Explored for a bit with the kids sleeping in the car, liked what we saw from the car so we'll be back.


Thanks for the cache Aussie Liahona, thanks for showing this place is here.

Find # 6 of 7 for the day

After a long day geocaching on the Gold Coast yesterday, I decided to be more reasonable and only do a few P&G out in the country side. I finished the day with 21 finds and 3 DNF. I saw plenty of Kangaroo and Koala sign but did not spot either – I think those signs are like the Deer Sign that are all over our highways, you are unlucky if you finally see one.

After doing the Mount Walker Power Trail I decided to grab a few P&G that were in the vicinity to add a few smile on my map of Australia. The caches were found fairly easily around GZ and in good shape (I did add a few log pages, but I did not take note on the ones that I did).

Thanks for the cache and the time sent outdoor

First, we really want to say thankyou to the CO for placing the cache in such a lovely area. We have seen the nearby caches on the page many times but never seem to have the time to come out to the area. Now that we see that you are able to camp here we will return when the weather is a little cooler and replace the green boxes with a bright yellow smile. SL TFTC

Second find for the day.. closer and closer... tftc You've been Bear'd

TFTC... Geokids M and T just completed the Spartan course nearby, found this on the way home.

Nice area. Will have to come back when its not raining

We had done the two Goolman caches, left the picnic grounds, driven to the cemetry, found a cache there and then looked at the map to the road and found 2 caches that we had driven passed. We doubled back to get them. This being one of them. Mr EMC had to come out of the car to help me with this one. TFTC. Hi Aussie Liahona from the chikins big and little

Our destination today was Goolman Lookout but we allowed plenty of time to stop for a few caches along the way... and this was one of them.
The GPSr wanted us 'over there' and when we didn't find anything 'over there' we used our common sense and checked the obvious and quickly found the cache.
Thanks Aussie Liahona for this cache and adding to our fun today. All good here.

This is a lovely area, we will have to come back some day. Found the cache ok.

Found it at last. Hope it stays put.
TFTC Aussie Liahona

Sweet little find and showed us more of the area

Straight away

Beautiful spot

got tricked me as coordinated was out bit but found TFTC

cool nice info TFTC

We had a good look around and around, poking here and poking there but alas, no luck for us today. TFTH Aussie Leahona.

Well, there's a bit of a story to tell of our find. When we drove in to this lovely area we hunted high and low, poking here and there to no avail. So we continued on in and walked up to Goolman Lookout where we phoned the CO who told us where the cache should have been. It definitely wasn't there! On the way out we stopped for another look and as Mrs. Herbz stepped out of the car her eyes looked down and low and behold, there was the cache!!! Umm, unfortunately it was a little flat!!! We probably ran it over on our way in

Couldn't see it today. Will have to come back.

Headed in to look around this area with geopartner.
Showed geopartner the indigenous cemetery on the way past.
Arrived at GZ and headed over.
Geopartner made the quick find.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks Aussie Liahona All good with this cache

I saw this blip the other day when we drove past to race in the Spartan Beast course at Peak Crossing. Today we came back to find the cache.
Thanks

This entry was edited by PrincessDiala on Monday, 18 May 2015 at 23:55:12 UTC.

Son spotted it.

Today we explored Hardings Paddock area and surrounds using geocaching as a guide.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

I may have gone round more times than I care admit... but got it in the end.... tftc... left some American coin...

[Blue]This cache was found at around 11:41 and brings our overall cache find tally to 9081. Our team are known as "The Gangsters" and consist of steeba, The Rats, FarmerFrentzen and I. We found this as part of our pre Mega trip to Stanthorpe.

Our group have been planning this trip for a while, solving puzzles and planning routes so here we were at day three. This means we can enjoy our time at the upcoming Mega event without having to run around and get caches. I have posted much the same log to all caches, sorry for this but many of them blurred into each other by the end of the trip. Much of today was spent focusing on the few puzzle and other caches around town. A great day.

Thanks Aussie Liahona for the cache. This was number 40 of 46 caches for the day. [/Blue]

Found with The Rats, steeba and Big Matt (also loosely known as The Gangsters).

We made the trip up to Stanthorpe pre Mega so that we could take the opportunity to relax with our families at the event.

Another enjoyable trip with many highlights including the caches and the general companionship of our group.

Thanks Aussie Liahona for the cache.

On a caching long weekend with my fellow Gangsters (Big Matt & Shell, steeba, Farmerfrentzen and myself) we partook in a pre QLD Mega blitz on the area from Stanthorpe through to Ipswich where we found hundreds of caches over the few days, many as part of series, trails or as individual finds. Thanks to you as the cache owner for placing this cache.

I'm sorry my logs are very generic, where possible I have tried to add a bit more detail. It certainly doesn't detract from the find.

We look forward to coing back and enjoying the Mega.
Thanks

Found with Big Matt and Shell, Farmer Frentzen and The Rats on a pre Queensland Mega 2015 Stanthorpe trip.

We detoured off the highway for some quick country drive bys- and this was one! The fence and ways through were interesting.

TFTC!

Out on a cache maintenance drive in the country today we stopped to check on this cache. It's still happy in its hidey hole and we added a new log. Happy caching.............