Shaded Kilkivan, Queensland, Australia
By youngoldfella on 10-Dec-18. Waypoint GC814YP

The container had fallen from its hide and has suffered some water damage to the log inside.Also, there is a wasp nest in a nearby tree as a warning to future seekers. Should be okay if you stay away, as they're away enough from the cache to be avoided. Just be careful when looking around.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Not able to get here in a timely manner so bye bye. Will retrieve container in about 6 months time

After spending the night in town and dining out at the local pub it was time to get out and do colorectal the local area. I am working on a local challenge at home that requires cache numbers in Local government areas and so I need another 80 or so in the Gympie area.This area is rich with caches so off I go. Arriving at ground zero I found a safe place to park the geowagon and off I go. I quickly found ground zero and located the cache. After extracting the log and making my mark I quickly returned to the geo wagon in search of my next adventure.A big thanks to the cache owner for making this cache available to be found.Cheers

Out for a sneaky few around kilkivan. Tftc..

We're on our way back home to Brisbane, but there's always time to stop off for a cache.This was a nice quick find and our last stop before getting home. A most excellent trip.---Over a week ago we made a trip up to Yeppoon to visit family and some of the big things dotted around the state. On the way we stopped off at Noosa Heads (big pelican) and Maryborough before staying in Hervey Bay (big whales) for a couple of days to break up the journey. Whilst in Hervey Bay we went out on a glass bottomed boat and explored Big Woody Island and Round Island. Onwards again and we visited Childers, Gin Gin and got stuck in a crazy tailback a few kilometers from Miriam Vale (big crab, big donut and big Magpie). It would have been rude not to pick up a cache or two on our journey North.We visited Great Keppel and did some snorkeling (and Jack spotted a large sting ray), Emu Park to view the Singing Ship, Rockhampton (big bulls) to visit the zoo (which I wasn't too keen on) and just about every restaurant and coffee shop in Yeppoon. It's a lovely part of the world.On the way back home (boo) we visited the caves at Cania Gorge and stayed overnight at the retreat and then on to the Three Moons Silo Mural, Gayndah (big orange) and then onto the Bruce and straight back home.Thanks!!#3554

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Great cache! Tftc! Happy new year!

Today we moved the caravan to Kilkivan, this being the start of our journey to our daughters place. It was after lunch time when we arived so the van was set up, coffee was had and then it was time to go exploring. All the caches that were attempted today were found and all were in good condition. We did replace one log book. SL TFTC

Found and log signed TFTC

Found it tftc

Our journey south begins, somewhat reluctantly as we have been enjoying the warm weather and we know it is still cold and wet in Victoria.
It was only a short journey from Maryborough to Kilkivan but some well placed caches with good parking enabled us to collect caches on the way. There was only one we had to pass as we could not find a place to pull up. Lots of traditionals, but good sizes and in great condition.
On arrival at Kilkivan we set up camp and had some lunch before heading off to complete the Adventure Lab in town. Then is was off up one of the trails on Mudlo Road through the National Park and beyond. Some great countryside and worth the trip. Again good sized caches in the main in good condition. We got to use our TOTT we are becoming more proficient with but missed one that seemed to be gone.
A big day again, so we both should sleep well tonight!

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache youngoldfella.
**SKI Pair****

Two from TASSIE out for a 10 week jolly including another stint at the Gympie Muster. Taking our time around the countryside. This looks like a hotspot around Kilkivan, and now the weekend is over the camp is very quiet. We’ll stay and log a few caches ! This is the first, although we did do the AdLab in town whilst getting coffee and visiting the butcher this morning. Surprised to find a forked rock here Haah ! So TFTC youngoldfella.

On my way from Canberra to North Queensland with a few detours for shires. TFTC.
I was wondering if this could be a cruel hide when the leaves grow. I don't think so.

A wade through the grass took me to a place of shade
Nicely shaded from the rain,
I soon tracked down this cache

One more for the road !!

TFTC

Shaded
D 2.0 T 2.5 Small Traditional Cache

Quick easy find. Wet logbook, coords were spot on.

Thanks for the cache and taking us here youngoldfella.

Quick park and grab as rain starts to get heavier. Last find for the year. TFTC.

TFTC log very wet, grass high but not too bad.

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Found on the weekend of Dad's 10th Anniversary Event.
The cache is all good
TFTC

Great find, watch out for wriggled. TFTC

Teaching a few newbies today (though I'm not overly experienced!) So this was a great first find for the day TFTC

TFTC 1st for us....yay

This was the last find before arriving in kilkivan not long later.
Thanks youngoldfella for the cache.
Found before half ten in the am.
Saw quite the variety of fresh roadkill on the ride today.

I was looking for a TREE-mendously funny joke to put here but I couldn't find one... TFTC

After camping in nearby Kilkivan I headed out along Mudlo Rd to the national park. Another great country drive with good sized containers and good coords. Tftc youngoldfellow

Quick find while we were out and about from our nearby camp. Tftc

That was an adventure going to a friends property that required us to put the car into 4 wheel drive. Very scary tracks for two women to be going on. However Muddtracks menuvered her sons car with great sheer confidence. Found this one quickly. Signed the log and on our way to Hervey Bay for the night. TFTC

On a day trip from Brisbane, and after visiting the chimney, this is where I stopped to catch up on some logs... while here I was asked if I was a local and knew anything of the cyclist who was killed at this intersection yesterday...

That certainly puts things into perspective... tftc...

Thanks for all the caches you’ve placed around Youngoldfella. You have certainly been generous in giving back to the game. We are catching up on logging some caches in this area that we found when we were camping up here. We found this one, signed the log and then replaced as found.
Many thanks and happy caching!

In Gympie for the weekend and spending the day out in the Kilkivan area - such wonderful landscapes and country roads to travel through and on.
Thanks

A nice quick find on our way to mingo crossing Signed log kingfisherau 2:15 pm 29/4/21 and replaced all as found,
youngoldfella - TFTC.
1x TB Visited (koko the koala)

Tftc, on the road to Gympie area today, easy parking so stopped to make the find here.

Time to get back down to business, hit the road & rack up some more smilies to spread warmth & happiness throughout the land.
Knocking up the numbers doesn't hurt either!
Kilkivan & surrounds were our target areas this run.
#37 of 45 smilies today.

Fully rocked this one!
Quick find.
Made our mark & replaced as found.

TFTC youngoldfella

Gotcha !!! TFTC

Hi there youngoldfella.

We found your cache **"Shaded"** today. (This makes our find count 25687).

Another hot day wading through chest high grass and getting covered in burrs, cobblers pegs and spider webs. [xx(][:(!]
Our tally today was 23 caches & 1 DNF's.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache within a few metres of where our GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Either a smiley badge or a gold coin

Thank you for adding to our adventure.

Regards

Ian & Penny

Travelling to Kilkivan for an overnight trip to attend the New Year event, this cache was collected on the way to the camp grounds.
A quick find, log signed and cache replaced as found
Thanks youngoldfella for the cache.

After an early morning sunrise event it was a drive up to Kilkivan for a weekend event.
This will be my first event of this type so I am not sure what to expect but I’ve been told they are fun and educational, OK.
Today’s kick off was 10am so this gave me a few hours to drive up and get a little caching in before the event started for me.

Driving along Wide bay highway I saw there was about 6 or so I could get to fill in some time before the event, this was one of those.

Thanks for the hide and with the log signed and cache replaced as found, I was onto the next one.

Spending the day at Kilkivan for a day of caching, love the quiet country roads as they are perfect for doing a cycling hunt . Good to get out of the sun to sign the log, TFHC youngoldfella.

My husband and I are on the way to carnorvan gorge and today our first stop was gayndah and on the way we were collecting some smileys. At gz it was a quick find in nice shady spot. Thanks for taking me here and for placing this cache here for us to enjoy

Found it. TFTC

I suspect some of the caches here could be tricky on a week day at the moment. No works on a Sunday.

Beadling around Kilkivan as had to make a call and no signal out at camp

Cache located easily TFTC

Easy peasy. TFC

TFTC on way to see the whales Hervey Bay few stops for caches on the way.

Out 'n about with with Grey Parrots, Snickersallan, DiamonJS & Echocage1 and RoddyC. A whirlwind trip to Kilkivan and back to Brisbane in a day. Definitely deserves a return visit and stay for a few days.

Thanks Youngoldfella for the event and these good-sized caches. We will be back.

Yep it was, found on the way back froma trail. TFTC

Early start from the Gold Coast to meet up with RoddyC, DiamonJs, patrol14, echocage1 and then Grey Parrots who stayed locally in town.

Found cache quickly and in good condition.


TFTC youngoldfella, we are planning another trip in the future and will definately stay locally for a few days.

Found July 11, 2020

A quick and easy find whilst in town today.

Park and grab. TFTC

Nice cool spot to start the day off caching.TFTC

Great fun for the kids
Great clue

While staying in Gympie with my geodog Scruffy, we just had to find a few caches in the area ...

All Good .. TFTC ..

On the way back to work, I spend a few hours around Kilkivan doing geocaching.

Thanks for the fun!

Georode

Cool find

Some nice butterflies hanging around, easy find #86

Thanks for sharing DeafapVC

1/1/20 731pm Found It TFTC SL

Nice cool

Hooray thanks for share Deafphantom

I found your cache with my Dad, Oddiewan and most of the time, Semik. I am way behind on logging so learned how to use templates so I can catch up. Sorry this is not a detailed log, but I will do better with my logging now that I have the ability to log caches on a mobile phone. Thanks for the cache youngoldfella

A nice easy find

For the end of the year, a plan was set afoot to go camping for a night in Auburn River National Park. Today I'm rolling out that way with Fangsoki and 1MinnieMoo as we head a bit north and a lot west from Brisbane. I was happy to just bother with the two priority geocaches hundreds of kilometres from home, but alas, there are plenty of geocaches along the way that make happy for statistics and challenge qualification all around, so a few stops were had - fine by me. Oh boy it is a long time since I've found any of these 'scattered along the roadside' style hides!

Quite nicely, I got to sit in the back, indifferent to where we stopped and MinnieMoo had planned which to stop at and run the pocket queries. Overall we found eleven in this Kilkivan-ish stretch of the Wide Bay Highway (even if circumstances dictated we wouldn't be at the event). This was to be our third such find this morning as we rolled into Kilkivan proper.

The Pajero was parked up across the road and all three of us scooted across and into the promised shade to hunt for this one. Minnie spotted it first and while I checked out the map and what was upcoming, Fang insisted on poking me with the biggest stick he could find. We had signed and replaced the geocache at 11:07 as a small crowd of other geocachers appeared. The decision was to get out of the way quickly. Thanks for this geocache, youngoldfella

Caching with Oddiewan, Moneydork, Flash_Cat, BitternA4 and others at the New Year event in Kilkivan. Exploring the area caching style and as always lots of laughs when enjoying time with friends.

Captain Terror, 1MinnieMoo and I were heading west to Auburn and its "environs". We deemed it would be plain rude not to grab a few caches as we headed west.

We found this one with no issues at all. TFTC youngoldfella

30/12/19 11:09 am Find #3081
An overnight journey with Fangsoki and Captain Terror to West Eidsvold picking up a few caches along the way to our final destination to camp the night in Auburn.
Cache found nice and easily, and replaced just as Hatzofff and RoddyC arrived.
Thanks for the cache youngoldfella.

Attending the 2019 - 2020 New Year Cacheup at Kilkivan, organised by Sweet-Sour, YoungOldFella and PB1973. Thank you!!!

A quick find.
TNLNSL TFTC

Caching with RoddyC while attending the Kilkivan Newbies/New year events and cleaning up areas as we go.

Arrived as cachers were coming out of the area. Something must have been funny either in there or going in.

TFTC youngoldfella

Hatzofff has joined with me for some caching around the Kilkivan New Year Event.

Found after some fellow Geocachers walked out chuckling. What was that all about? Never mind, cache found OK.

Log signed and replaced on December 30, 2019 at 11:11 AM. TFTC, youngoldfella.

2019-2020 New Years catch up.
My first New Years event. Spending this time with new friends and old. What a way to see the year out and the new one in.
Caching buddies for this trip are Semik, Money Dork, Flashcat and BitternA4.

TFTC.

Replaced log book and clip seal bag. .All good to go.

On our way to the 2020 New Year Cacheup and found this one. TFTC

Thx
Logbook wet.

Towards Gympie and then home.
Stopped here for another of all the caches in the area.

Thank you for placing this geocache youngoldfella

Replaced the container and placed in fork of tree with rock on top. All we found was a previously wet and now hard log book on the ground. Should be good to go for a while now

Found on ground. Rehung.

Found, log is wet but usable TFTC
Added extra ziplock bag

A big day out around the Kilkivan area has been on the cards for a while to tidy up many of the smilies left behind after the last catch-up.

Co-ords were excellent and containers generally in great shape, making for a good day of searching. Just needed to look out for the occasional stubborn bovine . Looking forward to the next catch-up event.

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Log signed at 11:13 and cache returned as found. Thanks for the smilie and bringing us here **youngoldfella**. This log is trackable, mention where you saw it.

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We are on our way to Blackall QOGM, Nanango - Kilkivan
After a morning of caching in Kingaroy we have now moved camp to Kilkivan for a few days to look for the many caches in the area. Chose a small circuit this afternoon.
No shade at this location at the moment.
Thankyou for placing this cache youngoldfella

On our way to QOGM (Blackall) day 18 of our trip. 24 caches for the day and 540 for the trip.TFTC

This was a nice easy one to spot and a good one too. TFTC

Day 2 of Kilkivan caching. We decided to head out to Wratten NP. We found 21 caches and only had one DNF. All caches were in good condition and accurate coordinates made the finds easy.
TFTC

TFTC. Day 3 of our caching trip away from our Bundaberg housesit. We shifted camp from Goomeri to Kilkivan where we are camped at Weir Oval. The route today was to go out on Muldo Road and then stop and relax, but that never happened we kept going . Had a great day 43 attempted and found. Thanks to the COs for helping us to enjoy the area. All caches were relatively quick finds.

We are on an eight day trip to Hervey Bay. We saw the most amazing wild creatures close up at Hervey Bay. Whales are ugly but still so wonderful. We also saw some beautiful countryside, although everywhere is in dire need of rain. Thanks for your cache which helped us take a break from driving and have fun at the same time.

We had time for a little caching as we travelled from Bathurst to Hervey Bay and back to see the whales. We thoroughly enjoyed both and are grateful for the caches which helped make the trip more enjoyable.

Found while staying in the kilkivan area for about a week before heading for the big smoke down south. Having noticed that there was a lot of new caches placed in the area I set about converting some of them to smileys. This is of of the many I have found so far. All were easy find with no maintenance issues. TFTC

Day two of our geocaching trip around Kilkivan. Loving the country drives. All caches were mostly quick find thanks.

Found Ok

A nice stop on our caching trip in this area. Many thanks to youngoldfella for placing a cache here for our enjoyment.

Greynomads - Bill and Diana TFTC TNLN SL

Sure was thanks

No mistaking this one. Nice container. TFTC youngoldfella

12:35:00 PM. The showers had eased and it was dry looking for this one. The better half made the find. She loves these types of hides. Log signed. Thanks for the cache youngoldfella

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Found while travelling North-West to attending the New Year in Mid-Year 19 Event in Kirlivan. Thanks for the great cache placed on great country roads

Thanks for the great Caches and adventure youngoldfella

On our way home after spending a great weekend in Kilkivan finding some caches. Wow I cant believe the amount of caravans on this road all leaving the Kilkivan Bush Camp. This was an easy park and grab. TFTC youngoldfella

Moving on today after some overnight rain, it was a case of sometimes having to wade through very long, very wet grass this morning, along with ilook4geo. It was a bit of a hit and miss day. Some caches we found OK, but some on the list we had to miss, as they were along a section of road where road works were happening and muggle workers were operating machinery at various points.
There was no problem with this one and all was in good condition. Thank you youngoldfella for placing this cache.

The day started off wet and showery this morning, but cleared as the day went on. The caching still happened with goingplaces2 and we had to leave some due to road works. All caches were replaced as found. TFTC.

A lovely shaded spot in our way to Woolooga TFTC

With a blackout @1400 today and nothing happening, decided to go and find the 7 unfound caches around Kilkivan that I'd left in January for a rainy day - today was that rainy day

I wasn't prepared to go geocaching today, nothing loaded into the GPS, had to do it on the run with a flat phone, left home with 13% charge. Had to go to Kilkivan for the phone to have enough charge to be able to find the caches. Worked out OK, turned all 7 into
I think Murgon is the first unfound green box again

Another easy find

All with the cache
TFTC youngoldfella

Travelling with Konie for a couple of days, picking up a few caches along the way.

Cache found, log signed, and replaced as found.
Many thanks for placing this cache, youngoldfella, for us and others to find.

Out and about with The Drovers picking up some caches and this was one of them.

Once the log was signed all was returned as found.

TFTC youngoldfella