FTP Velvet Fig Tree Pocket, Queensland, Australia
By the ox on 22-Jan-16. Waypoint GC6A486

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Jingeri

Hi the ox,

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Ngaambul - Matt

Multiple dnfs. Looked here several times myself and it's not here

Dnf checked everywhere

Looked at every tree. Nothing.

Today we took out 2 new caching teams who were very keen to work with "professionals" and learn the ropes. They had previously attempted some caches in the area with no luck. So we spent the morning as a big group with Scubaserge and Bowser_&_Junior helping them with previous DNFs and showing them a variety of caches they can do when they decide to move to premium.

Even though this one had lots of DNFs, we tried with lots of eyes (3 adults, 4 children) and couldn't come up with the goods.

Went searching today whilst out on a dog walk. I believe that this one may have been flushed away in the floods earlier this year. I will check again tomorrow, however I believe I found the correct spot (based on previous logs) and did not find the cache here.

From checking previous comments and photos I'm pretty sure we found the correct hiding place, but alas found no cache.

First find for the kids! Took a while but found eventually! Clever spot

looked through every single tree and eventually found it! Gift card is still in there as we forgot to swap something

Thank you so much. Found the prize. You guys are the best

Found it on the way to the river walk! Had to look up a few past pictures and comments for clues… find the bushy tree 20-25m away from coordinates! My friend left a HIM gift card with about $15 left on it for the next finder

TFTC! Watch out for magpies

Tricky at first as coordinates are a little off but it’s definitely there

Found with stairman1 and geopuppies. Nice walk here today. Even though it’s winter it’s warm. All good here. Used updated co-ords

Found with goldielover. While not really the exact gz. A few likely looking trees near by looked inviting. Soon had the cache in hand.
All good here
TFTC

As per previous notes, about 20 meters away.

Probably muggled looked around the whole place

We searched everywhere in the area and no luck.

Good find while in the area today. TFTC

This evening, I continued along with *Daybora Mega - Tourist Locations* Adventure Lab, targeting *Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary* Location in Fig Tree Pocket, and visiting *Fourex Man* Location along the way. With a few previous days of rain, walking through reserves wet grass caused my runners to get soaked, but otherwise a nice little area.

I didn't realise that there would be no defined path/track along to GZ here, and so my runners got soaked within the water wet grass. Even around GZ, it was reasonably damp, and not much fund trying to find a random container. It did appear to be a pretty cool area for horses.

I think I must have spent 15-20 minutes searching around, trying all sorts of spots and logical/reasonable hiding spots nearby. After reading a few past logs, and many suggesting inaccurate coordinates, it was a log by 2Wagtails who visited in 08/2020 that provided coordinates that helped. In the end, I found the cache about 20 m away from the posted coordinates at S 27° 32.031' E 152° 57.637'. Definitely quite the mistake, and no wonder many spend a bit of time searching and a few scattered DNFs. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks the ox for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Went there twice to look for it. Not in plain sight. Worth the effort Our very first find!

Got it with Deaf groups TFTC

Went looking at the coordinates. It is not there. Looked through the logs for help. Found it. A very large huntsmen was guarding it.

TFTC

Found with group

Cache was further away than we expected but a nice easy find. With Deaf group ????

Quick find with DeafGroup ????????

Hooray thanks for share Deafgroup ????????

Great place to visit, unfortunately no horses today. Logging with Deafgroup

Found it with deaf group

An afternoon of caching in the fig tree pocket and Kenmore area, I had a few target caches consisting of a multi, a few tree climbs and a puzzle cache or two.
This was the third cache on the list, a short walk from the parking area and I soon reached the posted coordinates however it was in an open area. A scout around the area looking at the closest points first then widened the search. I soon found the cache approximately 15mtrs from posted cords and in good condition. With the log signed and cache replaced as found I was then making my way back to the car and onto the next on my list.
Thanks for placing this one here I enjoyed finding this one.

Had a wander over from the parked car and proceeded to search for this. The area where it was indicating proved to be bare of a cache so we moved further afield and came up with the goods.

Returning from Toowoomba and finding a few caches around the area.

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Thanks the ox for giving us a reason to visit.

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Great one!

Tftc

Caching day out and around Indooroopilly etc.

Our second for the day. Not quite where I was looking good, but found ok.

Cache located, log signed and all replaced as found. TFTC, the ox, at 10:13 AM on October 22, 2020.

TFTC smile out and about with Hatzoff and RoddyC Snickersallan and
miss Millie geo dog



Thank you, the ox, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Appointment today with the eye specialist in the area so could not waste the trip without a cache or two.

Back tracked to find this one.

TFTC the ox

Nice and easy

My first one, took a while but yeah

Easy find with the updated co-ords. Dropped off proxy tb to continue its journey. Tftc.

What an interesting area, it looks like it would be a lovely place to bring your horse, if you had one! And even without a horse, it was lovely just to walk around this open area and see glimpses of the river below us. We meandered around, looking for a likely hiding spot but nothing was revealed. Then, reading over a couple of previous logs, we decided to expand our search a little further and we soon had what we were looking for.
Log signed. Thanks The Ox
Domsky 

Found it - the coordinates need to be corrected as per one of the logs

Wow! This was the easiest find ever! The cache was open and lying on top of one of the horse jumps. Hmmm, this isn’t right. However all is nice and dry and log is intact so no harm done.
We put the cache back where we believe it came from. Our coordinates are S27 32.029 E152 57.638 (We see they are the same coords given by E_Smiley in her log so we are happy with our placement.)

Thanks heaps for placing the cache and adding more fun to our day.

Kids had fun! Time to find the next one!

thanks to the bush comment, this find was a success!

All good

A quick grab once I read that the cache was 20m away from the posted coords. Perhaps the CO could adjust them? TFTC!

About 20m away from location. Beautiful park and nice walk along the river

This Cache provided the ideal opportunity for a daddy daughter date this afternoon. With the sun setting the grass through here did look like velvet. The dog had a lovely time sniffing around and met some of her own kind. TFTC!

Out over this side of town for a while today, taking geopup for a walk somewhere different and of course to collect a few caches.

Made our way to gz and found this one quickly. Log signed and all replaced as found. All is good with the cache.

Thanks the ox for placing the cache and bringing us to this lovely spot.

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

I virtually had this entire park to myself this morning, if we ignore the one jogger... it was very tranquil and the birds were in full song... thanks for bring me here The Ox... found with amended co-ordinates though... left some American coin...

On a day trip up from the Gold Coast with E_Smiley and Tenkae on a very cold autumn day. First time I have seen such large cross country horse jumps and actually looked in a couple thinking the cache was hidden in one of them. Found further away than expected, thanks CO.

TFTC the ox
Found May 23, 2020

Was in the area to collect a solved puzzle.
We found this one at S 27° 32.029' E 152° 57.638' 20+m off.
Thanks for the cache the ox. Enjoyed the hunt.

Checking out the suburb and wandered down to the river for a look. Cache nearby we couldnt bypass. Co-ords were a little out for us today but soon found its hiding place. TFTC

Shakka Lakka

About 20m from the marker! TFTC!

This one took a bit of hunting but a good one

Still in good condition a goood find

bit far from the marker but fun cache!

Yeeeeessssssss! Let’s gooooo babyyyy!!

I’m on a roll
Yes

Nice spot, thanks

Definitely a tricky one to find! Especially with it being 20ish meters away from the marker. Keep searching and you’ll find it, just look between the cracks

Took a guess on the tree and soon had the cache.

After work I decided to pick up some smileys. What a great place for a cache. I did struggle at first looking in the wrong tree but then read some previous logs and used my geo senses and I was happily signing the log. Thanks for placing this cache here for us to enjoy

So easy but very fun

During my three weeks in Australia I got plenty of time to spend for my favorite hobby. There are some geocaches, which could be grabbed easily, but most of them are like all typical city caches - you have to be patient and wait for the muggles to disappear. Somehow I managed to find them.
Many thanks to all the owners for hiding and maintenance of their containers.

Greetings from Germany
st_klein

Afternoon caching drive to some of my lesser-visited suburbs.
Not a horse or man in sight here this warm arvo.
Lots of thorns around

Thank you for this one
R

Yay! Found it thanks to the hints. What a great spot. TFTC!

We found it!

Widened the search as previous cachers did, and soon had it to hand.
TFTC

Found it 28 m from GZ. Noted previous comments but will add that it is back uphill. Added a Coles mini & took nothing TFTC

Walked, jogged and have ridden our bikes right past this for 2+ years. A great find! Look carefully!

Such sweet relief to finally find it! I had attempted this months ago to no prevail and decided to give it one last attempt. With a little help from the comments I was able to locate it much easier.

If you're looking for this.. Please don't go squabbling in the bushes like I was. Don't overthink it. Believe it or not, it is in a simple place.

Good luck to future geocachers!

Found on our 2nd look after trying in September

We searched for almost an hour and couldn’t find it. Despite all the hints previously given. Quite disappointed.

After work today, I headed to this one. I parked the gemobile and made my way to GZ in the fading light. Once there, I couldn't find the cache. A quick read of some previous logs and I realised that I may have walked past it, as there were only a couple of spots that were likely to hide a regular sized cache. I walked back a little and checked the most likely spot. YAY!!! There was the cache! I quickly added my name to the log, returned the cache to its spot, then headed home. TFTC

Nice easy find. A tree off as some have said. TFTC

Cache find no. 61! This took me about 15 mins to find because the coordinates were off by quite a bit but otherwise great cache in a lovely spot.

Hint-
It is not in the wooden huts!

Hooray!!! #2 of 6

Heute unsere ersten Cache in Australien gefunden.
Dfdc sagt mamalesa

We found it in a sneaky spot

Fun geocache took about 15 minutes to find a few meters off

Hint if you are facing the river it is to the right of where the marker for where it should be is

On a day out with my brother and his kids we found ourselves at this interesting little park overlooking the river. The cache was found after exploring some some of the obstacles and the six kids in tow having races around them. Tftc and some lovely memories

We found this on our second attempt and added in a Pink Scrunchie pretty easy find and believe that we just missed it on our first attempt

Quite a warm day today, didn’t find at co-ordinates but another cachers log hint put us in the right place. Pity we missed out on Wombat key ring. TFTC

We wandered down the hill through the equestrian jumps. Coordinates slightly out. Go for the bush and it will be clear to you.

Took the wombat key ring and left an Ooshie.

Coordinates out but help from previous logs had the cache soon in hand. Found with Mrs Krispy Kreme. TFTC

In the wrong spot at first, but seeing the note about the coordinates being off, a wider search quickly provided the cache. TFTC!

Came down after visiting lone pine. Nice cache but it’s at the wrong coordinates. Big bushy tree

Found after short search. Coords off but logical place. Taken 1tb tftc

Good find. Coordinates out! I will send CO new coordinates for them to update.
TB dropped
TFTC

Our first ever attempt to find a cache, we searched for 30 minutes and followed all the clues left in the comments - no luck. Might come back again another day!

I am down from Toowoomba for a few days.
And I have a bit of time to kill before arriving at my destination.
Time to find a few caches.
A short search as my phone had me 20m away, but the cache is in an obvious location. [^]
Thanks for the cache.

Thanks !

TFTC about 5m from gps point think tree.

Thanks for the Cahe, introducing my little boy to geo caching he loves looking for “trainers” now... great spot for a stroll.

Thanks! It was a little bit trickie for the kids but it was sooooo nice to find it (hint: if you are facing the river, it is to the right of GZ).