RRPT - Rainbow Bee-eater Annandale, Queensland, Australia
By CacheQLD on 23-Oct-21. Waypoint GC9HMHF

Missing

DNF However we found what we think is the hide, empty though. Definitely a GC gone MIA perhaps muggled.
Love the kangaroos in the not too far distance

RRPT - Rainbow Bee-eater was transferred from CacheQLD to user GeocachingTownsville

The cache is missing. Was riding around and stopped to check on this one because I saw what was hiding it laying everywhere. Checked and nothing is there. If needed I can go down this afternoon and replace is wanted.

Was nearby after a job so I came down to sign off on this one. No bee eaters but a nice vista to be seen of the river grasses and river in the distance.

Log is damp . After allowing a large family out for a sunny Sunday bike ride to pass it was a quick find and sign

Found with orth71 on a walk along the river on Sunday.
TFTC

Tftc Very fun

My first find

Thanks for the hide!

We had a quick look around . Bingo another smile for us.

Great Hide and enjoyed it

Today we said goodbye to our Townsville geocaching Uber support Bill and Di Morgan, who have been kind enough to drive us around Townsville during the MEga and beyond. They are heading slowly south, while we wait to get the car fixed at Toyota. Today was out on the bike as our now only mode of transport and we decided that Annadale series of caches and those sprinkled around that area would be a good start, as long as the weather held out. A few passing showers but nothing to get us too wet.

Thanks CacheQLD for the caches.
Total Cache Finds 12788,

Coongoola & Geodog are on an adventure after attending the Townsville Mega event in Qld. We found your cache today 23 April 2022 11:49 am , while enjoying another day out adding to our tally. TFTC CacheQLD

Great Northern escape 2022 Day 14. Townsville post Mega section Day 2. For my last day in Townsville, I joined TikvaNZ for another section of the Ross River power trail, with a bit of on and off again rain and a closed section we did pretty well. After that I set myself a list of puzzles and other non -trad caches to find for the day, which all took a lot longer than I expected, not to mention the ongoing rain all day. It has been a wonderful time in Townsville, and I have many more caches to get, so hopefully I will get to pass through again later in the year.

Thanks for the cache CacheQLD

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Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Geocaching HQ Lackey 2021 Amo Can A#447

**Albida**

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Day 14 of a 3 week holiday driving from Canberra to Townsville and back to attend the Mega. This morning Albida33 and I did some more of the Ross River Power Trail by bike/scooter. Apart from having to skip 4 due to being fenced off, all caches we attempted were soon found. TFTC.

Out for the morning on the bike trails with Wollaston and Liz & Bruce.

Thanks to CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your very special part of the world ??

Log signed in first open spot with stamp ??

TFTC CacheQLD

Find # 7743

On the hunting trail with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce. Another great day for caching. TFTC CacheQLD
Find #9874

Out caching with Wollaston and SeasonedBird. Fun trail and a diverse styles of hides along here. Thanks

TheTownsville Mega Event finished but having another week in town to do more caching & sight seeing.
Today hubby teamed up with the geono riding their bikes not far from wherewe are camped.
Thankyou CacheQLD for placing this cache.

Date: 18 April 2022
Find #12631

In Townsville, hit the trails with beckNmonts and Earthbound Chief. Found this one along the way.

Day 15, no pattern to today, started heading towards the book series and then random caches along our travels. A fun day.

Massive thanks go to CacheQLD for placing this one.

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A fantastic scooter ride around the river resulted in some caches today! Thanks for the caches CacheQLD.

We found RRPT - Rainbow Bee-eater while on our saintly pursuits in FNQ. ...we are glad we have finally made it here.



Thanks CacheQLD for hiding this cache so that we could come and enjoy ourselves

Found at 3:06:00 PM(t) GAFF1.
The houses along this suburb are fantastic - lots of money it seems around here!
Thanks CacheQLD.

Found with BecknMonts while out using our electric scooters. A thoroughly enjoyable afternoon when we found most of the cachers that we went for.

A lovely cool and overcast Easter Sunday, perfect for doing some more of this fantastic walking trail along the river.

out with Camo75
killing a bit of time before the Mega farewell event
so we decided to go for a stroll along this part of the river
no worries here
thanks for the cache

Found by Mary and David at 15:50. Mary was visiting a long-time nursing friend nearby, so David set off for a walk to find a few RRPTs. This was the first one and pretty easy. Our thanks to CacheQLD.

Making good time on the trail, very quite on the path making it easy

With a goal of collecting 150 caches in a day, our plan was to tackle both geoarts, hit the RRPT and collect some other caches in between. An early start was in order to achieve this goal before getting ready for the Trivia night at the MEGA.
A huge thank you to all the COs for preparing and placing the caches we collected today, the variety of hide locations, types and containers was fantastic.

The day had come; the plan to get 150 caches (excluding labs) in a day for another challenge was here. The planning and prep started two months ago when I was at the Wangaratta mega. With the recent zoom events for puzzle solving a big help and the Geoarts of the saint and the book catering for two thirds of the task, it was just a matter of finding 50 more caches so as I was able to complete. Today I had Willis007 with me; we picked on a few quick easy finds as we were passing and motoring between arts. We then grabbed the bikes and went for a ride around along the Ross river parkway or is that power trail.

The Geoarts were found easy and thank you. The book art did slow us down a little with some hides a little tuff to find. the power trail was fun some good caches and some that also slowed us down. However, by the end of the day we were done and the challenge completed.

Thanks to my caching buddies, the CO’s for the caches and the great areas I got to see today.

LTF

Out with Susan for some more caches in Townsville.

Tftc Cache QLD

We are in Townsville for the Mega and caching.

Tftc CacheQLD

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Townsville Mega Event 2022. Friday. Our group of 3 ladies, signing our names as SSQ for this trip to Townsville for the mega, were collecting as many caches as we could before heading off to the official commencement ceremony. Beautiful area and well deserving of a power trail along here. Thankyou for placing caches here for us to find and enjoy.

This was the 8th of 21 caches found on this outing.

Thanks ***CacheQLD*** for showing us this place

Arrived in Townsville today from Brisbane to attend the Mega with sharpem and slow puncture. We decided to do some of this power trail and had great fun. Signed all the caches SSQ. Thanks for placing this trail here for us to enjoy

drrnrchr and Driftingdillons teamed up for the Townsville Mega, and logs signed as Pawsome Foursome for this event.

Thanks to CacheQLD for hiding and maintaining this cache.

15 April 2022

My find #1271

Signing as Pawsome Foursome which is Drrnrchr and Driftindillons team name for  Townsville for the mega.  Did your RRPT - Rainbow Bee-eater today.  15 April 2022 9:24 am Tyfc  CacheQLD  total caches now  4595  .

TFTC smile 13826 out and about with miss millie geo dog on our way to Townsville Mega great caches, great day ,good weather, out and about with Cliff5009 had a great day

Thank you, CacheQLD, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Easy find. Tftc and greetings from Cairns. Looking forward to the Mega

Moving along the RRPT series. What a lovely spot to visit. Hoping we Victorians can beat the humidity a bit today.

TFTC SL

These birds would appear at a small area north of Swan Hill, Victoria, about end of September, burrow into the side of sandy cutting along railway lines and catch thousands of bees, while laying eggs and hatching their young, I have always loved the coloured plummage and the way they nested, it is good to know they are here too, but did not see any today, did see a well hidden cache, so put my sign on log, Thanks CacheQLD

Thanks for the Geocaches

On a previous visit to TNV this was where we came to see fireflies... a truely magical experience. The cool shadiness of the RRPT is a wonderful place to be on a hot Qld day. TFTC CacheQLD.

Quick find with this one today. Junior wanted to climb...but wasn't able to - oh well. Onto the next cache. TFTC.

This cache marked number 500 for me. After are few years break from caching I am back into it and loving it. As we neared the cache we spotted a rainbow eater snacking on a butterfly which was very fitting for the name of this cache. Found with PandaGirlAsh

Found with my friend
First cache of Annandale since I just moved here

Nice spot quick grab..love the wallabies watching

Nice afternoon along the river
TFTC

And another quick find. TFTC

Found with the 6yo. Cheers.

24/12/2021 Up in Townsville staying near the Lakes. Attacking the RRPt today to increase my numbers. Thanks to all the cachers in the area who have placed caches fir my enjoyment. TFTC SL

Another quick find, good containers these, thanks again CacheQLD

Easy find after annoying the dogs. Thanks CacheQLD

I enjoyed placing these in preparation for the Easter 2022 Mega. Claiming the find now.

Got this one during a sunset walk. So many fireflies around here, very cool.

Published

On the way home from dinner at 9:00pm we were surprised to see that there wasn't a log for this cache. Thanks to the hint we found the cache very easily. Thanks for another great cache on easy terrain that many of us oldies appreciate.