Redlands 21 Years of Caching! Capalaba, Queensland, Australia
By GhostGums on 27-Nov-21. Waypoint GC8K0BW

Thank you for all those that attended!!

This event wasn't on my radar at all. But a nice morning caching in the vicinity with friends made the stop for a refreshing drink.

Nice to catch up with geocachers I haven't met before and also seeing some rare faces again.

Georode

Nice to catch up with everyone over lunch! TFTC!

Sorry I didn’t realise that this event was over lunch at a venue.

Jesswrigley and I will be along, and we’ll try to eat, but no worries if there isn’t sufficient room.

Looks like we may have a very small window of opportunity for a quick 'Hello' & a cold lager. ??

For those who have not met me before, I am a fairy tall chap, and I will be wearing a black darth vader t shirt.

See you all shortly

I am in sports bar near pool table. Enter from western side not at house of schnitzel as its closed at the moment

Met up with some new & old faces

Good turnout and it was good to get some time to chat to EO about his local puzzles, I have some solving to do.

Thank you for arranging GhostGums
Find number 24178
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We hadn't planned on socialising today but after being contacted (several times, LOL ...) by a frustrated fellow cacher, regarding a few of our puzzle caches, we decided to do a quick maintenance run timed to have us end up at this event ... if only for a quick hello.
The maintenance run went well with the need to replace only one cache that was MIA.
All other caches were in good order & ready for visitors so we headed to the Tavern & a cold lager (or two).
A quick catch-up with Ghostgums, a bit of a ribbing aimed at karicka & introductions to alisnan over a cold Mexican tipple (Corona of course) & it was soon time to relocate to the dining room where us fussy Vegans watched on as the carnivores devoured their roadkill!
Here we encountered georode, JessWrigley, Davidwazza, DeafPhantom & her 'Terp' (sorry ... didn't get your name but lovely chatting ), chamad, grannysmith1947 (we missed Millie), Hatzoff, RoddyC & the ever smiling E_Smiley.
Various stories of misdeeds & successes made for welcome & healthy banter.
A great bunch of cachers who all seemed to have a great time, especially those bent on giving us a thorough brain-sucking over our simple but apparently entertaining puzzle caches located not too far away.
I certainly got an education from DeafPhantom (which I thoroughly enjoyed ) regarding my communications skills & E_Smiley turned on the charm to elicit secrets as yet untold even joining forces with Mrs VC to undermine my efforts at maintaining secrecy!
Mrs VC & I did happen to notice there were several furtive glances & pricked ears around the table as we went through the motions of giving minimal assistance re a few of our 'easy' caches.
All up a great catch-up event with familiar cachers & those not so.
I did notice a few early departures ... I wonder if there will be any unexpected 'Found it' logs coming through in the near future? [?]

Apologies if we missed anyone, please feel free to send a message of chastisement!

Thanks for staging this event GhostGums

Thank you CO
Good to see everyone

Thanks everyone for coming along!

It was great to meet some cachers. i have never met before. Amazing how many people are out there caching!

Just made it. Nice to meet a couple of other cachers. Thanks for the event GhostGums

Today, [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I took a drive to Capalaba to attend the Redlands community celebration lunch event. We managed to grab a few geocaches prior to the pub schnitzel lunch in the area, and then made the drive south to Robina to catch up with family. The afternoon allowed a few local geocaches to be discovered, before returning back to Brisbane after dinner.

I had scheduled this event in to our diaries, but I must have forgotten to RSVP until the morning, so apologies once again to the CO - I had also missed the fact that this event was being held at Capalaba Tavern, and also just assumed that it was being held in a local park. We do enjoy events around meal times, as it gives a chance to socialise with others whilst grabbing some tucker. It was baby Ada's first community celebration meal event, and after having an initial tantrum, she seemed to enjoy the atmosphere. It was nice to have met the CO after seeing their name around the place, and we decided to depart a little early so Ada could have her post-lunch afternoon nap in the car on the way to seeing family down south. Thanks GhostGums for the community celebration event organisation and hosting.

Thanks, GG - had a great time. Food was good, too, as was the chatting and the friendships.

Caching today brought us to the area to attend this event.

Great to be able to chat to fellow geocachers regarding geocaching things.

TFTCache GhostGums

Redlands 21 Years of Caching!
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I really enjoyed today's event that I forgot to take photos!

Thanks for the event and taking us here GhostGums. Must visit again as there are lots of caches that I haven't found here! More events please.

TFTC smile 10588 out and about with miss millie geo dog and Hatzofff RoddyC great caches, great day ,good weather had a good talk to most, great to meet new and not so new cachers
Thank you, GhostGums, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Attended the event today and meet some new to me cachers and saw the familiar faces of the event groupies, myself included in that group.
Some great conversations, along with the usual banter. I enjoy events just as much as the caching.
Thanks for putting this one on.

I plan to attend. Pending rain and jobs getting done. Thanks

Pending weather just x 1 and miss millie geo dog who will be out side

Will be there but not eating

Have made a booking in the House of Schnitzel from 12. Booking under Troy

I will venture into Sports Bar about 11:30 if you want to come in a little early.

Hatzofff and I should be there.

Unfortunately, I am no longer able to attend this event

The event is this Saturday.

We make a booking in the House of Schnitzel at the Capalaba Tavern, so will need some numbers

Confirming 1 only

Redlands is an area I’ve not yet explored in my short time geocaching. I’ll be there 1 only.

Will be able to make this

Oh no I can't come and it 1.5 klms from home. I have a work Christmes party at Narangba at 11am and my other Christmas party at 4 pm at Victoria Point. Can't believe the both happen on the same day then a Celebration Event added to the list. Have fun everyone.

A few stats about caching in the Redlands..

The first cache in the Redlands was GC799 Brown Lake on North Stradbroke Is placed on 19th April 2001 and archived on 9th November 2003 after a bushfire.

The oldest active cache in the Redlands is GC7583 Venmanta Placed on 25th July 2002.

Currently there are 335 active GC caches in the Redlands and there have been 388 caches archived.

A drink or two would go down well. 2 of us...

I plan on attending and look forward to catching up with everyone.

Might be able to make this one.

yeah I should be able to come along

See you there with Terp

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