Thunderbirds - Thunderbirds are Go! Tamborine, Queensland, Australia
By jadhoo on 18-Jul-14. Waypoint GC4PRT2

. As we are out, drive around Tamborine for a day out. We made a point of calling back here to have another look. Gotcha. Found quickly this time around. I'm not sure how we mist it the first time. Tftc

Tftc took a while but found it

Took a little bit to find but finally found it after some looking. Left some fairy dust to travel. All is good with cache. Thank you for bringing us here

Visiting South East Queensland for a week from Port Macquarie. Today we ventured out towards Tamborine Mountain before finishing the afternoon around the Southport area. After a chilly morning, the afternoon warmth was very welcome and made for a rather pleasant day of caching. Came down this way for the rainforest skywalk but decided to go a little further along for a couple of caches. Quick find here after some scrounging around.Thanks for the cache

Today RoddyC, Hatzofff and I had an early start to cache our way to Beaudesert for an Event then cache after the Event too. Hatzofff was trying to get enough caches in the Scenic Rim for a certain Challenge.Found this cache, dusted off the ants then signed the log before replacing as found. TFTC

Home from our trip away and getting back into caching. An event in Beaudesert and a challenge to qualify for has brought us to the Scenic Rim.Caching with RoddyC and Imbunda.TFTCache jadhoo

TFTC. White ants an issue so unable to sign log.

Found it, but covered in critters! Unable to sign log.

With a plan to go ziplining at Tamborine this morning, before meeting my muggle mates I stopped to collect a couple of caches on the way.I solved the puzzle before heading out this morning but wasn't sure how successful I'd be with the find given some previous attempts. After a bit of a look around, I checked previous logs and extended my search. I found the cache a little further back from the road, in the remnants of a log. Happy with the find, I signed the log and replaced the cache as found.Thanks jadhoo for the puzzle and cache.

After a beautiful Anzac Day Service, where my 10 yo grandie participated, we headed up the mountain for an icecream and a cache or two. It was her decision. Race you to the cache. So we decided to see how we went at the end of the day.

Solved a while ago when I knew I would be grandie sitting for a couple of weeks.

Pretty busy here today, but too many muggles made it easy to search but not easy to find. The grandie did all the right things, checked the clue, what did others say, search further afield.. but neither of us came up with the goods.

Score: Dunmowin 0, Grandie 0

I solved the puzzle, went there, spent a good 15 minutes looking past the rocks, at the rocks, at the trees, everywhere. No idea where it could be.

This’ll be a DNF for me

Didn't have access to the hint at the time so we were looking around the rocks. Of course we never found it seeing as it now appears he cache isn't at the posted co-ords. Sad as it was our first attempt for the day. Never mind.

Found with Brissy Cat.

Elina_maree and I had organised to find some caches after our church camp and GeoM was keen to tag along. After finding a few caches on the mountain we decided to head home. GeoM and I stopped here to collect this one that elina_maree had already found, while she headed down the mountain driving on her spare tire. I had solved the puzzle the day before, but it was GeoM who quickly found the cache today. TFTC!

Today it was a drive around the area of Mt Tamborine to keep up with a personal challenge I have set myself. I got in just the two caches up here today.
I just love the drive around here it is an awesome place and the views around here are just great. Thanks for the trip out to here for this one.

I started to look for this one and another car pulled up just beside me. At first I thought it may have been another cacher, but it was just someone stopping at that particular spot. I waited until they left and then proceeded with my search. An easy find here, I signed the log and returned all as found. Thanks for the hide, all good with this one.

Heading up to the event in Mt Tamborine and had to stop for a cache or two along the way. Thanks for placing your cache here.

Out and about caching. Arrived at GZ and found cache. Signed log. TFTC

5 Wochen Australien -
Danke an jadhoo fürs Herlocken und Legen.

5 weeks Australia -
Tftc to jadhoo

Found quickly

Together with my favorite geocacher Milonguera we traveled to Australia We went to Melbourne via Singapore and from there we explored the south, the center and the east coast.
We walked around Melbourne and had a nice meet & greet event. Than we visited Philip Island with the pinguins and the Great Ocean Road. We fed and petted kangaroos visited the koalas and continued north via Coober Pedy to Alice Springs. We hiked around the impressive Uluru and through the beautiful Kata Tjuta and breathtaking Kings Canyon. The gorges of the Macdonell-Ranges are nice too. We traveled north and than east to Townsville and Magnetic Island. From Airlie Beach we rafted to the Whitsunday Islands for snorkeling and swimming at Whitehaven Beach and took a seaplane to the Great Barrier Reef.
On the way south we visited the capricorn coast, Great Keppel Island, 1770, Bundaberg, Rainbow Beach and Noosa.

Zusammen mit meiner Lieblingsgeocacherin Milonguera reise ich nach Australien. Über Singapur flogen wir nach Melbourne und von dort wollen wir mit dem Camper den Süden, das rote Zentrum und die Ostküste erkunden. Wir liefen durch Melbourne und trafen nette Menschen bei unserem Event, wir besuchten Philip Island mit den Pinguinen und die Great Ocean Road mit den 12 Aposteln.
Wir fuhren nach Adelaide, besuchten die Koalas und weiter gings Richtung Norden über Coober Pedy bis nach Alice Springs. Wir wanderten um den eindrucksvollen Uluru, durch die wunderschönen Kata Tjuta und den atemberaubenden Kings Canyon. Auch die Schluchten der Macdonell-Ranges sind sehr schön. Weiter gings Richtung Norden und dann nach Osten Richtung Townsville und auf Magnetic Island. Von Airlie Beach fuhren wir mit dem Raft zu den Whitsunday Islands zum Schnorcheln und Baden am Whitehaven Beach und flogen mit dem Wasserflugzeug zum Great Barrier Reef. Auf dem Weg Richtung Süden besuchten wir die Capricorn Coast, Great Keppel Island, 1770, Bundaberg, Rainbow Beach und Noosa.

**Thanks for the cache!
Thanks for showing the location and for hiding the cache. You should come to Berlin in Germany to find a lot of interesting geocaches, visit lost places in the surrounding Brandenburg and meet nice people at many events.
I wish you a lot of fun and great adventures while searching for the next geocache!**

Ich bedanke mich bei jadhoo für den Cache, das Zeigen dieses Ortes, das Legen und Pflegen der Dose und den Spaß beim Finden! Thanks for the cache!
Ich wünsche weiterhin viel Spaß bei der Suche nach den Dosen, nette Menschen beim nächsten Event und tolle Erlebnisse und Abenteuer beim Suchen und Finden!

Ohne tolle Owner wie Euch wäre das Spiel nicht möglich. Ich freue mich, wenn Ihr auch meine Caches in Berlin-Britz besucht. Neben der Hufeisensiedlung, die zum Kulturwelterbe der Unesco gehört, gibt es viele alte Bunker zu entdecken und die Baustelle der Autobahn A100 ist auch immer wieder interessant. Von der neuen Minna-Todenhagen-Brücke zwischen Baumschulenweg und Oberschöneweide hat man einen schönen Blick auf die Spree und kann nebenbei ein paar Dosen finden.
An Neumond lade ich zum Sternegucken auf die Berliner Berggipfel oder an astronomische Orte ein. In der dunkelsten Nacht zwischen den Vollmonden genießen wir den Blick auf die blinkenden Sterne und die funkelnde Stadt Berlin.

»Thunderbirds - Thunderbirds are Go!« (1.5/1.5)
*Dies ist mein Cache Nummer 20149.*

Viele Grüße von XETRO aus Britz im Süden Berlins.

This one was a little too tricky for us today

A nice day out with Davidwazza! TFTC!

Today, it was an early start with an airport drop-off, and then a long drive to Binna Burra for a planned hike. We had decided on Dave's Circuit that detoured past Surprise Rock and Molongolee Cave, and [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I completed the approximate 12 km hike in 4.5 hr. We decided to drive home via Mount Tamborine, subsequently taking a wander along Gallery Walk, before finding a few geocaches on our way home.

Thunderbirds were a little before my time, but nevertheless, this puzzle was simple enough to research and obtain the required answers. We soon realised the themed location, and at least the area around GZ wasn't too busy for us as it was late in the day. We looked around, and within a few minutes, I had spotted the cache that didn't appear to be too concealed. The cache container was in good shape, but the logbook was quite damp/wet, so I've added a new waterproof logbook page. I also dropped a *Mini Signal Geocoin* TB for safekeeping and onwards travels. Thanks jadhoo for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.
Note that this geocache was logged with the *Team Warren* Davidwazza/jesswrigley stamp.

Tftc Jafhoo , we had a great day out today, driving around . After a big day yesterday. The scenery here is pretty special. Thanks for bringing us here.

I worked this one out a couple of days ago. I read the logs and realised there was a parking issue at GZ during busy times.. I then instantly added this to my pre-work week-day adventuring list! I arrived today around lunch time and was the only vehicle there and from this point it was a quick find. Unfortunately the container was full of water and the log saturated. I dried everything out as best I could and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache and puzzle.
Cheers

Finally a day driving up there was parking - but trickier to find. Beyond the rocks! Thanks!

Finally, a day with parking available at GZ.
Searched for a while in the rain before spotting it
Thank you for hiding this geocache jadhoo
Find number 24815
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Another cache sitting on the solved list for over 5 years!
We gotta get our act together.
Nice quick find.

TFTC jadhoo

This one has been in my solved list for nearly 2 years. Now is the time.

I AM GUR

Found!!!
Only had a few minutes to solve this
one, countdown was on...
5-4-3 if it wasn’t figured out by the time we
drove past skywalk, it was a
“wave at the cache because thunders birds won’t be a go”
2-1 solved
Signed, sealed back up and returned
as found, TFTC

**Found Saturday 26-June-2021 at 12:02 Smiley #1276**

Caching has never really been about the numbers. I drive generally over a thousand km's a week (some for work, some to explore, some for the kids, and some just because I have to) so there's always a cache or two to break up the drive. Having said that, I also enjoy numbers, fulfilling challenges, and quirky statistics. It's for this reason, I'm going to aim to fill my dates found and dates hidden this year, and a few other challenges in the local area.

Needed a cache today to fill a calendar gap and we ended up on the mountain for eat local week. Started with wine tasting (at 10:00 AM ) before back to Beaudesert for a food truck festival and then finished in Harrisville for dinner with the camels. Ended up finding six for the day, this one was the third.

Heading back down the mountain, had this puzzle solved for a long, long time and today was the day. Being cold and rainy, plenty of parking spots were available and we were out. Looked here, looked there and it wasn't long before I could shout the magic words to Mrs Rogers Clan, "got it!"

Signed a small space in the log but the log is full and can do with replacing.

Thanks for the cache **jadhoo**

Rogersclan13

Daughter solved, I found. All signed and returned. TFTC

Easy solve and after some searching had the log signed and back in its home.
Tftc!

Had this puzzle solved previously, we were driving past today so stopped in and once I looked past the rocks I saw the cache. Signed log and replaced as found. Tftc jadhoo

Happy new year!! Went to check out the falls and was not disappointed! Back to find this with 3 friends. Thank you!

I was up here for a wedding and saw this puzzle that I had previously solved, so took a quick walk to GZ. An easy find was made here. I signed the log and replaced as found. TFTC

Thunderbird 5 is our favourite. The one up in space that looks like the ISS. Thanks for the cache

Cool find

Located signed and replaced today as we headed up to Tamborine. Though about the nearby multi but it was busier than Central Station this afternoon. Thanks for the cache.

Out with friends from the UK. Visiting the nearby rock pools and picked this one up along the way. Tftc

Today I got to turn this frown upside down! Can't believe I missed this the other day! And I had three sets of eyes looking. Today it was just me. Went down to the falls for a while. Always nice when it's quiet down there. Thought I'd have another look for this one. I had solved the puzzle a while ago, so I wanted to make the find.

Awesome container - everything's nice and dry. Great cache - thanks jadhoo!

Up here to go horse riding but arrived early, what's nearby? Managed to solve the puzzles so headed to GZ. Short search a s cache was in hand. Thanks

Up here with Tenkae when decided to tackle this cache. Sure enough after a bit of searching the cache was in hand and names signed. Tftc!

I'd figured out the puzzle a while ago, and was out this way today. Searched for a while but didn't find the container. Found a few logical spots, but no container. A lot of cars around GZ. Not sure if they were at Thunderbirds or the waterfall near by.

Will try again next time we're out this way. Thanks Jadhoo!

I'm going to claim I'm the first geocacher to find this geocache late at night in a suit. Happy to be challenged for the title, of course!

Since about May I have been doing some coaching/consulting each month up on Tamborine Mountain. Which I enjoy, and even though it's a one hour drive, I make the most of it. Not least of which is a traditional stop at Yarrabilba Maccas on the way home.

With my monthly drive, I figured I should look for any geocaches that I may be driving right by. And pretty quickly noticed this one. A little bit of googling later on a movie and TV franchise I've never seen a second of, I had me a good answer. I looked at the final location on the map.

For a strange reason, it entertained me. One time driving down the mountain, listening to a true crime podcast, I had to stop to water some flowers. I pulled up around here and can safely report, in the middle of winter, it is as dark as anywhere you could think of right here.

This evening though, it's not as cold and not as dark. I parked in a no-parking zone near GZ and hopped out. I did poke around for a while and had to flick off my phone torch when a few cars left the nearby establishment, but even able to see only a couple metres, came across the geocache.

My torch held in my mouth, and a handy pen in a suit pocket enabled me to sign the logbook. Replaced all in good condition and time to finish the descent off the mountain. An appropriate location, and thanks for this geocache, jadhoo It's been a while since I've found one of yours.

This was a quick find, thanks to the very good hint. I loved the Thunderbirds when I was a kid so I was glad to grab this one on my way back to Brisbane after working on the mountain this morning. TFTC and the memories!

Have been meaning to stop off and look for this one but always seemed to be travelling in a different direction. Today after finding a nearby cache which has been eluding me, I did a detour and now have this one as a smilie on the map. Thanks for the puzzle & hide CO, now off to ThunderBird Park to visit the parrots.

TFTC jadhoo
Found May 16, 2019

Found it

A little tricky but good

Found it

Knowing that I would be heading up this way today, I solved this puzzle last night. Earlier in the day, there were too many muggles about to search for this one. Now, many of them have headed home, so searching was much easier. The cache was soon located thanks to the updated hint. With my name added to the log and the cache re-hidden, I continued on my way. TFTC

Out in the area with Net88, Kaibrya, and a Fangsoki who has coords. That's kinda handy! (I've subsequently been able to work my own result out OK. Over).
Picked a really bad time to visit the area as it turns out, but this is not our first rodeo, so we sorted out the where and in due course sorted the how and in short order after that F.A.B.
Thanks jadhoo for entertaining me at this location.
*{Overall find #6281}*

I had done the legwork for this cache at home. I wasn't even aware there was a Thunderbirds movie. Everyday is a schoolday.

With a "good as gold" answer, Pprime, Kaibrya, Net88, and I pulled up at a likely area today. After examining the situation and the hint - we soon came up with the well-hidden prize.

We signed the log and returned the cache as found. It was in good condition. A nicely themed cache and puzzle. TFTC jadhoo

Watawieh from Norfolk Island South Pacific. I was on my way up Tamborine Mountain to attend an event and stopped and found as many caches as possible on my drive. TFTC

Very happy to sign off on this one after going past many times! TFTC where all is fine.

I used to love thundrbirds when I was a little girl. Loved solving this puzzle and so apt where ground zero is. Today I was camping nearby and the hint helped narrow down the search. Giving this a fp for the fun puzzle and for placing this cache here for us to enjoy

Day 3 of our week's holiday on the Gold Coast.

Quite an easy cache to solve. We headed on down the road after visiting the Skywalk, and pulled over near where the cache was hiding. I set out to explore, being wary of those Aussie creatures, but didn't see any sign. After a bit of circling I eventually found the hiding spot and was soon signing the log. TFTC

New Zealand's major Geocaching event for 2018 is on October 20. See [GC78NMQ - WENZ Event 2018](https://coord.info/GC78NMQ) for more information.

Thanks for this one 1 of the easier mystery ones to do and find, however thanks for setting this up

Looked briefly until we found a red bellied black snake, decided a DNF was in order after that!

Grabbed while waiting to do the tree top challenge. Thanks for placing one here

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Tuesday. Both of Slow Puncture were headed up to Tamborine to visit Luke's sister. Having done so, and finding three caches in her company, we were now on the way home.

As the CO would know - if they remembered our previous logs on any of the Thunderbirds caches that we have found - Mr SP is a huge fan and his youth was spent watching the show whenever it was on. Therefore, the answers required no research This was solved quite some time ago, and as we were finally in the area today, it was now or never! We turned the search into a bit of a drama, until Mr SP finally found the hide in a place where Mrs SP had looked (but not thoroughly enough, 'twould seem!) [xx(]

This was the 7th of 7 caches found on today's trip.

Thanks ***jadhoo***, for showing us this place.

Driven past the posted coordinates for this one many many a time.
Thought I was well overdue to turn this into a find and this was the day for it.

Loved the show when I was little fella!

Cheers jadhoo

Quick night time park and grab, cheers.

I solved the mystery but couldn't find the cache, even with taking into account the updated hint. I expanded my search radius considerably but no joy.

Cliff richard brains

Sought answers for the puzzle at home and then when up on the mountain to do maintenance on a cache of ours we visited this location to find the cache and earn our smilie. Thanks jadhoo for placing this cache for us and others to find. Cache was found in good condition. Cheers and Happy New Year!

Woohoo! My first ever trackable! TFTC. Thunderbirds are Go! Had great fun mining for thunder eggs today with geo-boys but gee is my wrist sore from swinging the pick over & over, digging & digging. And geocaching afterwards on the way down the mountain.

26/9/16, 5:00 pm Find #414
A quick grab after spending the day thoroughly enjoying ourselves at the Treetops Climbing Challenge. 1MinnieMooJnr dropped TB in, then we said goodbye to the mountain and began our journey back home, rather tired. Thanks for the cache jadhoo.

Found this cache with 1MinnieMoo and 1GiantPanda after going to Treetops. Dropped off TB. TFTC

The first puzzle cache for this team. We picked a lovely quiet morning. Cache was quickly in hand.

Quick easy find

After a dead lizard scare the cache was found. In good clean condition tftc

31/07/2016, 11:55 AM Find #971

We are up on the mountain today collecting a variety of puzzles, multis and traditionals and making the most of the beautiful winter weather that the south east has been experiencing recently.

I have done some of this series in Logan so I had an idea what the puzzle would be like. After we jumped back in the car from the previous cache, I quickly did some googling while the geowife drove. We soon had the necessary coordinates and made a quick stop and find.

TFTC

Found on way home from Minnie Moo's Birthday event. Saw a few of them coming out from the treetops experience so they joined in the hunt. All signed and replaced again. TFTC jadhoo x

Heading for home after a fun filled adventurous day celebrating 1MiinieMoo's 40th birthday. When we had the chance to stop for just one more After a poke and a prod here and there the cache was found.

Thanks for the cache jadhoo

Just came from Thunder Bird Park looking for Pokemon. When we stopped to make this a smiley for my collection.

thank for the cache jadhoo

Have had this one solved for a couple of years but it waited till today to be found, glad we found on the way up the hill as the area was packed with cars on our way back down. TFTC

We had attended a nearby event and then spent the afternoon in the tree tops when on our way out, we spied a familiar face and thought to ourselves, I bet there is a cache there. Sure enough there was so we took the opportunity to add our name to the log book but worked the puzzle out once we returned home.

Thank you jadhoo for having placed the cache and for maintaining it for everyone to enjoy.

Ooh - an event up the Mountain! Must go and also do some caching for a day out. What better than an event to get the geocaching juices going? So today Mrs RoddyC and DiamonJs are doing the honours.

We hesitated to get out of the car to start this search as it seemed like muggleland. Cars were coming and going. Glad we did this in the morning as the area liked like a parking lot when we returned in the afternoon.

Log signed by all & replaced again. Found at 10.00am on 18th July 2016. TFTC

This was the fourth find for the bromance today. My bromance buddies, Swellerlump and Seffnpigmy, may have well have stayed in Thunderbird 2 for all the good they were finding this one.

Still have great memories of watching Thunderbirds on a Saturday morning as a kid. Many thanks, jadhoo.

Pete

#3,231

The Bromance were out today for a day of caching around Tamborine Mountain. An early morning start saw Swellerfungus and I rendezvous with Crookedpete at the bottom of the mountain just before sun up. After a few cache finds on the way up it was time to stop here for a look. As we were searching I was reminiscing about a visit to the nearby Thunderbird Park as a kid with the family and fossicking for thunder eggs in a bucket full of dirt. Seems I was back today fossicking for something else. In the end Crookedpete made the find and signed us up in the log. TFTC

I have managed to find a few in the Thunderbird series, and I think this was one of my favourites, well after I got to GZ anyway! A quick solve for me, and a quick find for CrookedPete (he can only find the easy ones!). Thanks Jadhoo, for another in the series.

Found it. Very cold here to-day.TFTC

Tftf

TFTC loving this area

Your updated hint helped us land this one quickly. Found this little guy after an adventure on the Canyon Flyer, gosh that's an adrenaline rush. Thanks for the ode to the Thunderbirds of all kinds, the cache, the adventure park and the originals.

Mr TiedyeSmileys is the avid thunderbirds fan since a boy. Mrs TiedyeSmileys was the one who solved the puzzle though.
After a short stroll we picked this one up shortly afterwards.
TFTC

Holiday to the Gold Coast, and being the first of the month I needed a few finds today to continue my progress to completing a first of the month challenge cache. Would have normally done this in my home town of Melbourne but happily doing this on holidays up north this week!

We decided to head up Tamborine mountain to fossick for thunder eggs nearby, so of course I completed the thunderbird cache puzzle and stop to sign my name. Cache found quickly with geoson.

Had a great time hunting for thunder eggs, hubby picked up a handful of blisters though (youch!). Geokids content with their rocky treasures. Thanks for placing this cache jadhoo.

Found it pretty quick. TFTC

Got it

Very hatd

Hard

Today my target was my 6,000th cache and I had been working on a D5 in preperation for the milestone. I needed 2 more finds before the milstone and then once I had done the milestone cache, I headed up to Mount Tamborine for another visit. I still have a few to do up there, so I hope to get back up there before I head home next week.

So the milestone had been achieved, so I headed up towards Mount Tamborine for an afternoon on the hill.

I had this one solve before my last trip to the Gold Coast. Today I decided to venture down for the find. I didnt know about the Thunderbird Park, I must look into it, looks cool Cache was found quickly, no issues with the hint, made sense to me

Thanks jadhoo for the placement of this cache[^]

I solved this puzzle the night before and then realised that true to form... Oh well, it's done!

The hint didn't help so I perused some logs and discovered the hint is clueless. I needed to look beyond and behind and there was the cache

TFTC jadhoo! The Thunderbirds sure do get about.

Caching with friends. Took a bit of finding as not quite where hint suggested. Read
previous logs and then found okay. TFTC

Caching with friends. We searched for this one for some time without any luck. We then had a look at some previous logs and had a second look. This time we found it straight away. TFTC

tftc.

tftc.

Nice easy find,
My 1st one logged

Nice find - a bit behind the hint area!

The hint gets you close... TFTC.