The Battle of Beersheba Longreach, Queensland, Australia
By JABs maintained by MEMO on 28-Jun-21. Waypoint GC9E1N9

Today we travelled from Barcaldine to Longreach. There were a number of caches that we found along the way, This was one of them.Accurate coordinates and a familiar style of hide led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks to JABs for the cache.

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Easy find. An Emu dad and 7 chick's casually walking past. An angry Maggie made a swoop. CheersBundy

Took a few minutes, but found it.

Tried a few likely spots before we came up with the goods! TFTC

Wazza and the Wench are touring QLD for a couple of weeks. Driving from the coast out to Longreach then, without a definite plan, driving back to the coast.Today we're driving up to Winton for the day. There's only one cache up there and it was missing last time it was visited. We don't hold much hope There are a couple of caches along thy, howeverThank you, JABs, for this cache.#4320. Log signed at 1750Hrs.(I often sign the log book as "W+W" to save paper/time/ink)

Last day in Longreach Been a great few days but I still have time to grab a few caches before we leave Took a little time with this one but I eventually looked in the right place All good here Tftc

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Nice quick find on our drive out of longreach TFTC

27.07.24 tftc found with pest77

Needed to take the car for a spin because I started the day with a flat battery, so why not collect some caches at the same time. In QLD on a bucket list Holliday to,the tip and cape york. Found with grumpi68. TFTC.

Thanks. Found it

Hooray

Spent some time today hunting some of the caches around the Longreach area. Each log found was signed and we were happy to claim the find here. TFTC.

Decided to stay in Longreach for a couple of days with ilook4geo. Today we chose to pick up some of the caches around town and are happy with what we achieved. The log here was signed with both names and was then replaced as found. Thanks for this cache placement go to JABs.

Out and about today exploring Longreach with Digger the Geodog. Have taken Moosemash PT. All good here. Now, onto the next one for the day. TFTC

Battle of Beersheba- thanksLove the mooseCalm as1158438

Cheers mate, good hiding spot, loved having to get my knees dirty

A quick find under a slater infestation. Thanks for the hide and bringing us to this place.

forgot my pen and didnt have one in the cache unfortunately. TFTC

Log is full. I squeezed myself next to a stamp. TFTC

nice quick find today tftc

A quick ride by today. Thanks for the smiley

Found it

Found it

We found your cache today 12 June 2024 1:53pm , while enjoying another day in our beautiful countryside. TFTC JABs

Quick duck and find while waiting for one of the museums to open! Tftc

Our 5000th find. Yey for us. Lovely little bridge.

With FiveTays-TT TFTC

TFTC with Slack1962

An interesting spot. Log is full.

Quite easy to find

Thank you!

Found 7Jan24

Thanks for maintaining MEMO, found early this morning after a storm rolled through town.RVCL.

Staying in blackall for a few weeks visiting family we decided to make a trip to longreach and collect various caches up the highway, through Barcaldine and then on to Longreach. Tftc

Visiting Longreach to celebrate 110 years of scouting here. Took the opportunity to find some caches.

Quick find before leaving town, thanks for the cache.

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33,290. Found during our Queensland Outback GeoMuster (QOGM) 2023 Longreach Adventure - a 33 day epic tour of Northern NSW and Outback Queensland finding many caches, attending great events and catching up with awesome Cachers along the way.Queensland Outback GeoMuster (QOGM) 2023 Longreach Adventure Day 24. Today our group did a clean up of the Longreach and Ilfracombe areas picking up any caches which were still available - surprisingly quite a few for me. This was the next one on the list. Quickly found once at GZ. Signed as CC1 (Contesta, GLISS!, Nibletricecakes, albida33 and myself, for Canberra Cachers plus 1). Replaced the cache as found, then we continued on our journey.Thanks to all the COs who put out these caches !!

After attending the Longreach QOGM for last week, it is nice to have a more relaxing day, grabbing anything around the area before heading towards home.Stopped off here and made an easy enough find at GZ.Thanks for placing the cache and doing the maintenance needed, so we can find this cache.

So excited to be up in Longreach for our first ever QOGM. After a few days of travelling it is great to have finally arrived ready to hit the trails. Caching today with many friends from Canberra; contesta, albida, Fitzy, and GLISS! We signed as CC+1. Thanks to everyone who has placed caches and planned this wonderful event! TFTC

Out and about with Fitzy_1965, Nibletricecakes, Contesta, and Albida33. Signed as CC+1. It's great to be out finding QOGM23 caches on our last day in Longreach.

Good find.

Found with dusty tamzyn Jenny hunter Myra Chris

While attending QOGM 2023 with the MummaBear and the cubs gang and ??54, after the muster trail to Muttaburra and before our event we decided to grab a few in around town that we needed.Thanks for the cache placement and maintenanceThanks for the huntThank for giving us a reason to stopTook nothing, Left nothing, signed logSigned log as MummaBear and the Cubs and for smaller logs MB&CSigned as MGNT or with our team stampMummaBear and the CubsGEM_54Nathan_and_AlyceTeam

While attending QOGM 2023 with the MummaBear and the cubs gang, Nathan_and_Alyce and ??54.Thanks for the cache placement and maintenanceThanks for the huntThank for giving us a reason to stopTook nothing, Left nothing, signed logSigned log as MummaBear and the Cubs and for smaller logs MB&CSigned as MGNT or with our team stampMummaBear and the CubsGEM_54Nathan_and_AlyceTeam

Todays plan was to tidy up the remaining caches in and around Longreach township. Attend the flash mob event, which sounded like it was going to be fun. Then head off to do the Cito event in a very large open area.We managed to clean up everything on our list and I made it in time for the pathtag swap. Some of the team went on an evening train ride, which was from the return comments was fun. It was nice to have the Slow day just to regroup and reenergise before tomorrows huge event.All logs were signed as Misfits and replaced as found.

Another day means another day on the road collecting caches.We teamed up with JACS Team, Gcoven and Chamad and called ourselves The Misfits. Today was a more chill day collecting a variety of caches around Longreach and surrounding areas. A good batch of caches were found in some great locations.Thanks for bringing us here.#4062 - TFTC

Had an amazing time at the last QOGM event in Longreach. I feel honoured to be one of only a handful of cachers who has attended all five, although it does concern me that now I will have to plan my own September school holiday fun. This year I travelled up with Gcoven and we scooted along the bottom LGAs for her to collect and I was able to pick up the odd one here and there untilWe hit brand newies on offer in Longreach. During the course of the formal QOGM days we travelled and cached with chamad and Nathan & Alyce as part of our team signing under the collective name of Misfits. Along the way we had plenty of laughs and enjoyed hanging out with each other through the official social events and our own - generally at The Wellshot or at the Longreach Bakery. With the couple of quieter days on the agenda it allowed us time to get everything we wanted in town and even head further afield to Winton with feeling rushed at any point. It was great catching up with everyone some whom I had not seen since Barcaldine and of course the more regular cachers from home. Quite the turn out indeed. Thanks to the efforts of the QOGM team and Jimmy Project for helping to bring this all together.

Got plenty of these, but love the bridges...

Thank you!

Another nice find for Grub62. Nicely hidden I hope it survives the next heavy downpour. TFTC.

JACS and I had hatched a plan a while back to book leave for a road trip out west and to attend the last QOGM. CITO and kazoo event this morning then off to collect a few more caches before a wee rest. Then into the train your for sunset!

bunadoorian and I had finished at the nearby CITO and were heading back into town and decided we would stop here. I found the cache first. TFTC JABs and MEMO for maintaining.

Quick find during QOGM. Beautiful area for a cache.

Here we are at QOGM. Time for some caching. TFTC ?? ??

Found empty eclipse tin. Placed our gem and replaced where it was found.

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This is our first and last time that we will get to experience a QOGM !!!Sooo glad we made it !!!We will never be able to thank the QOGM committee and others anywhere near enough for all their hard work to make these events with all the associated caches that go along with it ??Its been an absolute HOOT !!!Especially enjoyed the Saturday muster as team PORTONGA with The Morris, trads, multis, wherigos, all found with great teamwork, and a win in the photograph run to boot ??TFTCs and an amazing QOGM !!!

In Longreach for the last QOGM with Team Crackers, Geoturtle37 and Papi4506.Out and about picking up a few caches, signed the log as PDGC.(Papi Drovers Geoturtle Crackers) or The Drovers.Thanks to all the Co's for making this trip, more enjoyable. Signed and replaced as found.

Attending the final QOGM with BenM70 this week and looking to turn solved puzzles and anything else we pass by into smilies. After completing the Flights Muster and the Jigsaws we carried on to grab a few more. Ben took the direct route in to this one. Thanks JABs for organising this and bringing a large group to the region. Well done to all over the past 5 years.

Townsvilles contingent, burgo78 and myself went to locate as many caches as possible while out in Longreach for QOGM 2023. Paper logs have been signed either individually or as TSV#1s or similar Day 2 and the first muster out to Muttaburra. Picking up these on the way. The organisers had set up a forks multi, as well as the first series of the Flights of Fantasy Trads. Then we started picking off what we hadnt yesterday. Someone just ruined the great work but Aussies in this battle for me by putting the logbook in the wrong way in this mint tin. ?? Thanks JABs for placing this Traditional for my find # 4623

Found with troobloo while in Longreach for the final QOGM, thanks for the fun

Attending QOGM2023 with Imbunda, today tackled the loop of Puzzle caches to Starllight EC and return to Longreach. These were solved prior to our arrival.Along the way we met up with the MeanDe, HansandLinda, maccamob and dickbev and formed a convoy of 4 vehicles. Was a fun run even if we were tail-end-charlie and ate a lot of dust. All caches were found in good condition. Everyone got out of their car to sign the logs.After completing this trail we went our separate ways, then went in search of a few more caches closer to home.TFTC JABs

Found on a trip with e.gregory1 traveling through western New South Wales and central Queensland to attend the QOGM at Longreach. After QOGM I made my way to Brisbane for a few days before a return drive back to Adelaide via the north coast of NSW, central NSW and the Riverlands. Signed our names in full, or as FW e.g1 to save time and space in the logbooks. Thanks for the cache!

Day 18. A last minute plan had been hatched to make my by way to QOGM. Very little planning had been done but a very rough outline was in place and it was going to be a day by day trip.Finally in Longreach! Teamed up with posums and The_Tritonz for a day of caching around town!Back in town for this find.Thanks JABs for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.----------------------------------------------------------Are you planning a trip to Victoria? Check out some of these caches on the nominees list for the 2022 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards. The shortlist is available [here](https://coord.info/BMC8QYR)

A big day of caching with Patrol14 and thought we would stop off and get this one on our way back to town. Parked in the wrong place and walked to cache. We could have parked very close to it but too the safest park due to the traffic on the roundabout.Quickly had the cache in hand and log signed by us both before replacing as found. TFTC

Found with Crank1 and Everlasting during QOGM events. JABs, thank you so much for placing it for everyone to enjoy and highlighting this area. ??

Find # 8896In Longreach for QOGM2023! Finally made it ??So much planning and work goes into organising this fabulous event and it is definitely worthwhile coming to the central west for the incredible caching adventure.In the trails with some of the usual suspects ?? and it never ceases to amaze me the generosity of the caching community. A huge thanks for all the fun and shenanigans along the way. Great adventures were had in spite of the challenges, not all geocaching ones either, and we all enjoyed a good tale or two.This was a quick and easy find and ?? here at The Battle of Beersheba GZ today. ?? Thanks so much for the many caches JABs and of course for giving me a reason and incentive to get out here, and to experience this part of the world in a different light ??????

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12982 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1020. Met up with contesta here and had a yarn. SL Tnx JABs

Found by Mary and David at 15:15. So many lines of that incredible poem come flooding back. Quick one. Our thanks to JABs.

We had a great time during our stay at Longreach for QOGM event week. We were fortunate to have found and signed up an amazing group of Deaf PVCCEP members, including DeafPhantom, DeafVW, DeafCat, crank1, Everlasting and pwala. Here's one to find today.Thank you for placing the cache JABs.

DAY 13On our first day of caching in Longreach it was decided to tackle the mystery trails with Posums and RoamingHowie. Once we finished the trail we headed to registration and then a bite of lunch before heading back out to tackle some more local caches.With the good hint we looked in the correct spot and found the cache after a couple of turn overs.Thanks JABs for the placement.

Found with FeatherWaite while attending the QOGM event at Longreach.We headed up to Longreach from Adelaide via Broken Hill, Cunnamulla, Charleville, Blackall and Barcaldine, camping and picking up caches along the way.The weather was a little warmer than we had anticipated, but it made for some pleasant evenings.Most of the caches were found without any issues and were in reasonable condition unless otherwise indicated.Thanks JABs for the cache.

At Longreach QOGM.Accompany with deaf friends.Thank you for organising the cache and hunt.Sorry about copying and pasting

Running around Longreach with Temingi for QOGM 2023After an early registration and the 'Talk like a Pirate' EventWe teamed up with Yella Belly to make a start on some of the local cachesStarting with the then unpublished letterboxes, some solved puzzles and other miscellaneous hides around town. Looks like many others had the same idea.After a run down Silsoe Road, worked our way back into around town All good hereMost logs signed DDYBT for the team, to save room in the log booksSigned and replaced as foundThanks to JABs and MEMO for the cache

Over from Otautahi Christchurch for this the last Outback Muster. Spent ages working out all the puzzles but I really enjoy jigidi ones. Shame I didnt find them as I didnt join in with someone with a spare seat for the day.Thanks to all the organisers for the hard work and effort in putting this and previous events together. Only sad thing is I could only get to Blackall before this one. Sorry this is cut and paste logging but I will add in a comment as required along the way. Ma te wa from me for the time being. Im sure we will meet again

This was an extremely long day with plans to do all the QOGM geoart and letterbox caches along with random ones we hadn't previously found.I joined forces with Bluewattle and Davidwazza, and we worked efficiently and effectively as a team in finding all the caches on our to-do list. Recorded no DNF's, and only one PAF was required, and we started off with writing our full names in logs but quickly changed to initals to speed up the process and save room in log sheets. Also, apologies for these generic logs.Thank you to all the cache owners for placing such a large volume of traditional, puzzle, and letterbox caches for our benefit and enjoyment ??

???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location. ???????????? (HaHa). In your dreams, these cachers do. ??????[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort. ???????? Devilish Brilliant and Clever I like it Another one off the list TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - ?? JABs ?? [^]??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Attending QOGM and collecting a few cachers around the Longreach area and beyond - really seeing a variety of landscapes. Thanks to the COs for the placement of these cachers and showing us around the region.

Out and about caching today around the town of Longreach on a warm and fine day. Arrived at GZ and after searching found the cache and signed the log. TFTC

Found It!Spotted this one after a bit of searching around. I think the carpark has been moved.TFTC

I took the opportunity to find this cache on my way into town to fuel up the geomobile. We've a long day of driving planned for tomorrow and the day after.Thanks for find #4873TNLN

Found with Cosmonaut97 and Firebatman88 on our trip around QOGM 23

We arrived here and soon there was 4 cars. TFTC

Quick find. Thanks for showing me this area.

QOGM 2023. Outback Alcorns.

TFTC JABs your cache The Battle of Beersheba that we found today. At QOGM 2023 in Longreach, camped at Apex Park.A start on the QOGM caches along Silsoe Road. All found quickly. Coming back into town to register. Stopped for a quick find.Find Count: 16924

Cruising around on a much quieter caching day so we final managed to stop off and grab this one. Tftc

TFTC Found with Davidwazza and Snickersallan

Tftc JAB'S, returning from our morning caching run to attend the pirate ?? event, made a brief stop here to collect this one.All good here

Heading out to camp and stopped by to grab this one. Quick find. Day 6 QOGM 2023! Teamed up and signing logs as TADJR (Tenkae Astro Deanside JooJoo Richmond Lad), Tftc

A good dog!!Footnote. That Pahero had new shocks Found on a sojourn all around during QOGM 2023. A fun jaunt with lots of dust, mud and starry skies. Thanks JABs and clear skies from TeamAstro. ?? Cache the planet! ?? Caches signed as TADJR (Tenkae Astro Deanside JooJoo57 Richmond lad). * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *SAs Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. Keep looking up!

Found on our way back into town after doing the letter box caches. Thanks for the cache.

Well my trip up to QOGM has officially started and Im taking the very indirect route up to outback QLD to get there.So after cruising up the Hume to Sydney then the M1 and A1 up to Byron Bay with a few other roads in between as I have been cris crossing a bit so after heading west and making it to Longreach time for a break from the travelling.After a big day out yesterday to Stonehenge, Isisford and Ilfracombe, today was going to be a lad back affair.So after a visit to the Qantas Founders Museum and the Pirate event the letterbox caches coords were given out so off to do them and a few others.I have been muggled out here a couple of times so maybe it was the heat keeping everybody away today.Thanks JABs and MEMO TFTC.

Our first full day in Longreach for the QOGM 2023 and a good assortment of caches and hides was found. Thanks for all the hard work that goes into placing and maintaining them. TFTC JABs

Caching the area during Longreach QOGM 2023 with a great bunch of people teamed up and signing under TADJR which incorporates Deanside , TeamAstro, Tenkae, Joohoo57 and RichmondLad. Just loving these outback trails, red dust, green foliage and blue skies!Thanks JABs for placing this cache,for bringing me here and contributing to this great game for others to enjoy. Happy trails, Deanside ??

The cache itself was a quick find but getting to GZ was another matter. The navigator took me several km out of town only to find the so called road was closed to vehicular traffic and was a cycling / hiking trail. As previously stated the cache was faint so after signing the log it was off to register for QOGM 2023.