Mudlo View Kilkivan, Queensland, Australia
By powellbruce on 30-Jan-05. Waypoint GCMMMR

TFTC Found with my sweetheart ChasingShadows43. Signed as CS+SC

Day 4 of our 4 day anniversary road trip to Maryborough and out West. Lots of adventure to be had with my love SCAHPA. Log signed as CS & SC to save time and room - Trademark skeleton animals sticker left in cache - TFTC, effort time and maintenance

A bit of jungle bashing, then found. Thanks.

Always frustrating when you know youve been here before. But no quite here.Interesting we still find cachers names that dont match the caches log.

We have on occasion been so close to this one. Today was the day to finally turn it into a smiley

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

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 - PB 1973 [^]

What better way to spend a weekend in the middle of the week, out caching with with Gem_54, who was stocked up with spare containers, zip lock bags and log sheets for replacements if needed.

Thanks for the Cache
Found this cache with the rest of the MummaBear and the Cubs Gang and signed log in the next available space as M B & C.

Found with GEM _ 54, DFC_JLK2019, MummaBear66, T1NY96 and Captain Monkey 96

What better way to spend a weekend in the middle of the week, out caching with with Gem_54, who was stocked up with spare containers, zip lock bags and log sheets for replacements if needed.

Thanks for the Cache
Found this cache with the rest of the MummaBear and the Cubs Gang and signed log in the next available space as M B & C.

Found with GEM _ 54, DFC-JLK2019, Princess1005 T1NY96 and Captain Monkey 96

What better way to spend a weekend in the middle of the week, out caching with with Gem_54, who was stocked up with spare containers, zip lock bags and log sheets for replacements if needed.

Thanks for the Cache
Found this cache with the rest of the MummaBear and the Cubs Gang and signed log in the next available space as M B & C.

Found with GEM _ 54, MummaBear66, Princess1005 T1NY96 and Captain Monkey 96

This is our second time here,as last time time was raining . Yep, it's starting to rain again... Nice picnic area here, very clean toilets and well maintained park area..The lantana has taken over and I got badly scratch ,heading into find this cache..we are saying it's done and dusted.

Happy new year! 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 PB1973.
**SKI Pair****

Nice view! Thanks for the hide!

2.12pm
No tennis today so the next best thing to do is to go geocaching with friends Peppa and TMZ59. Decided to chase down caches for a few challenges we have been working on on this road trip.

What a great place for a picnic and a cache. Made our way to GZ and after a short search found the cache. Container rusty so replaced with a plastic pill bottle hopefully to be better to be seen and protect the contents.

Found on 2 June 2022. TFTC, PB1973.

Found cache and signed log. Returned cache as found. Out with patrol14 and Peppa. Beautiful day for finding a cache or two. We have a list and we will follow it. . TFTC.

Called in here today with Patrol14 and TMZ59…

I replaced the mint tin with a non camo’d small vitamin container to make it a little easier to find and give it a little more longevity…

A nice drive and we arrived here. Bit of searching needed - I suspect this is not the original cache, but it has been used for years! TFTC.

Find the cache with a log book that went back a significant amount of time, but it was not at all what I was expecting! Signed and returned to its hiding spot. TFTC! A beautiful peaceful spot and nice drive in

I’ve come up here to try and qualify for a crazy Challenge Cache in Cunnamulla… Forward planning, I’m driving L’DeVine, so hopefully no busted tyres today…

I made this detour to do some and didn’t even realise this oldie was here… so I’ve made it my last find before heading back to my list… I don’t think I took the easiest route into GZ but I got there in the end… I will admit, for its age I was expecting a little more… tftc… having never been here before I found the area lovely…

Checking in on old cache. Log is wet...

Driving around this area today so decided to visit this oldie. Thanks for the cache.
Cheers

Took a detour on the drive home to grab this oldie. Haven’t ever been down this way or to this National park so it was great to find a new place. Cache was found in good condition. Tftc powellbruce

4/9/21 Find #4988

There was originally a completely different plan in place for today. But the weather forecast made us rethink that - mountains in wet weather are not generally a wise move. So with those plans aborted, it was a case of calling up different locations around and checking their weather forecast. As Gympie’s weather appeared to be suitable, our new plan was for Fangsoki, Pprime and I to head to Brooyar forest and grab some nice old caches, well for Pprime and I to grab them at least.
I am trying not to get too many caches at the moment, so slowing down the finds with a trip like this seemed like a good plan… maybe. I mean there were only 4 caches on the list for me to get, so that shouldn’t upset things too much, right?!
So we piled into Harvey the CRV, who I was assured would cope with today’s roads just fine.
Having completed the caches we were wanting in the Brooyar State Forest, we headed next to Kilkivan for a spot of lunch, before making our way to this one - doh!! So the boys had added two extra caches just for me. And being such nice old caches, I couldn’t refuse!
We made our way from Mt Clara back into Kilkivan and around for this one. The road was actually better than I had expected, and even paved towards the end.
Of course I parked the car so my exit would be made directly over a giant ants nest, so had to quickly manoeuvre it and park it further over to avoid any nasty situations, before heading in to make my find.
Thanks for the cache PB1973.

I decided this was one of my target caches for the day yesterday, and once i'd ridden the tredley up to here, it was an easy decision to call it one of the last two for the day.
It's incredible to think this cache has been here so long, all alone in this national park for so many years..
Now there is a whole slew of them leading up to and continuing past here, so this cache simply becomes another park and grab on a numbers run of the area.
Except for some dedicated cachers that single out old or unique caches like this one to find.
Hats off to even discovering this hidden oasis perched up high in this national park.
After a while scrambling around the undergrowth poorly avoiding spikey vines, i caught a glint of blue.
How has nobody mentioned the 'throwdown' cache yet. Surely this isn't the intended cache container. Such nice big sizes up until here on newer caches and now an eclipse tin for this oldie that started this here trek to here?? Definitely needs a bigger more appropriate container. A dodgy guardrail eclipse tin felt almost painful on this old beauty.
And nobody's given a favourite point in over fifteen years? What the?
Please allow me to be the first then in happily endorsing this cache as being most worthy of the showering of favourites.
Thank you powellbruce for taking me up here yesterday.
Something i would easily do again even just for the epic downhill bike ride afterwards. Oh my that was fun.

Road trips for The Bromance have been few and far between since Covid-19 raised its ugly head so, with the recent travel restrictions now eased, Seffnjarah, Swellerfungus and a full complement of JezNDez headed off to subject JezNDez's new acquisition Max to the rigours of its first The Bromance geocaching weekend.

After staying the night in Goomeri we headed out next day to continue exploring the Goomeri and Kilkivan areas. Although we had visited this area back in May, we still had plenty of caches left to find up this way, including this one.

Having tired of finding park and grabs at the side of the road we looked for something a little more interesting. This old cache fit the bill nicely. Logbook stamped with The Bromance team stamp. TFTC

Completing a multitude of backlogs from a Bromance trip in August 21. Apologies for the late log. This was a bromance run in between COVID lockdowns, and somehow I didn't get to logging these finds. I was with Seffnjarah and a full team of JeznDez in the new jalopy they had recently purchased. Thanks ot the CO's for the great caches we picked up. Caching roadtrips with friends are the BEST!

2nd attempt here
Thanks

This one is a bush bash. TFTC

Found after a hard slog through a lit of brambles and overgrown bushes. It was a hard fought find and probably a level 2 or 3 terrain. But eventually in hand. Tftc

The undergrowth is starting to make it difficult to reach the cache. The vines are very clingy. Thanks for bringing us to this loverly area.

After camping overnight in Kilkivan I headed out this morning along Mudlo Rd. Another great country drive with good containers and good coords, which always makes the experience nicer.

No problems finding the caches and once the logs were signed all were returned as found.

If a cache needed attention that was done too.

Thanks to the CO's for placing a great series in this area.

TFTC PB1973

Went over from the top and up from the road.No joy here. Fantastic view. Thanks anyway

too bushy and prickly

After our walk in the national park at Mudlo Gap we continued a bit further up the road to here, probably didn't need to walk up that last hill since we now drove up it... J used the facilities while I dove into the bush in search of the cache. Before long he came in to help as I was wandering in circles getting tangled up with low hanging vines and prickly weedy creepers. Kept moving between a few different rock piles but it was very overgrown and difficult to see in the thick bush. I started to lose hope for a while when I saw that the last few people had failed to find it, but persevered just a bit further and was rewarded with a glint of blue.
The sometimes hated "micro in the bush" was dragged out of its hiding place edged in between several rocks. Would never have spotted it but for the tiny bit of colour revealing it's location if you happened to look close enough to the right spot.
This really needs patience and perseverance for sure.
#2875 @ 1540h
TFTC powellbruce ️ ️ ️

D/T rating is way out and it's late in the day ,so gave up after a short search . I'll be back.

Hi there PB1973.

We found your cache **"Mudlo View"** today. (This makes our find count 25573).

Another day caching the Kilkivan area. It was a really nice drive today, made even better by not having to wade through long grass to find the caches. Our tally today was 27 caches & 0 DNF's.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache within a few metres of where our GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** Definitely not a D/T of 1.5/1.5
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Nothing

Thank you for adding to our adventure.

Regards

Ian & Penny

Day 2 of the New Year event at Kilkivan. Having a wonderful time meeting new cachers as well as catching up with some old faces.
Today Ms Maddy, TripleTurmoil, CHAMAD and myself piled into the car and headed out for some new caches, and to collect some oldies. There were a couple of things which happened today, these will remain firmly implanted for quite a while to come. These events added to a super fun day with great caches and fantastic company.
This was a quick find, log signed, cache replaced as found.
Thanks powellbruce for the cache.

After a big day of caching yesterday and a good night sleep it was time to do it all over again. The plan today was to grab some caches along Mudlo road and get a couple of ftf’s. Same team as yesterday and Willis007 offered to drive, we also had a new inclusion, 4Hawkers joined us today. A fun morning and a lot of chatter along the way as these three girls can talk alot, lol.

The trip was entertaining, the variety of caches was nice and they were all found in good condition, the scenery was varied and spectacular along this road; what an awesome area, thank you.

Thank you to all the CO’s for placing caches along this road, I really enjoyed the drive along here and finding your caches.

Out completing the gaps along Mudlo Rd with Willis007, Chamad and MissMaddy. Such a fun trip, making new friends.

A lovely drive out along this country road collecting caches and we have started at the end working our way back to Kilkivian. Cache found, log signed and replaced as found. Thanks to the CO’s for placing all these caches.

At the newbies event to do some caching and catchup with geocaching friends.

CITO completed so off now to get some tree fyshing and new caches.

TFTC powellbruce

At this picnic spot there was a convergence of caching teams. The cache stood little chance of remaining hidden and if we were all focused on global domination, the planet had little chance neither.

It also seemed to be the spot that everyone got a bit of phone reception again and we all realised we were back in touch with nothing again. We should have accessed the cache from the road but took the bash route instead. tftc

Second day of visiting this lovely small township of Kilkivan and surrounding areas with hatzofff and RoddyC. Still collecting the newly released caches and picking up some of the older ones.
All hides were great, nice and quick to find & my apologies for the generic logs but I do appreciate all the time & effort that has gone into placing the caches for everyones enjoyment.


TFTC powellbruce
Found January 2, 2021

Struggling through the undergrowth, Karicka found the smaller than expected container. Thanks for the cache

Travelling to Kilkivan with BM75 for a long day of geocaching.
This was one of the old caches on the target list.
Smaller than expected.

Thank you for hiding this geocache and keeping me entertained powellbruce
R

Was surprised to see muggles here when we first drove past but glad they were gone on our way back. Tricky little T1.5 with wet overgrowth and slippery slope after recent rain. Kept venturing until something matched the description. TFTC ??

Found it ????

Tftc powellbruce, in Kilkivan for a few days to collect as many caches as we can. Thanks for placing. Mudlo Rd today

First full day of exploring Kilkivan and caching after MTB ride deferred

Ventured into town for coffee then out and around Mudlo N.P. Some signal probs so apols for the generic logs

Quick find here, steep clamber up TFTC

Out caching for the day cycling from Kilkivan out on the quiet Mudlo Road, a great ride through the national park and rural properties with a couple of steep climbs to make a good day. . Thanks powellbruce for the cache.

While staying in Gympie for a few days with my Geodog Scruffy, we had to get out and find some caches in the area.

All Good .. TFTC ..

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 PB1973

We received an invite to attend the unofficial official newbies caching event in Kilkivan. So we thought why not.

What a great set of caches. Thanks for the effort in placing them. Fantastic

Caching with my gal Semik and the geo child BitternA4

TFTC PB1973

11/7/20
10:25 am

Caching with my main squeeze, Oddiewan and our youngest cacher, BitternA4. Came up to catch up with caching friends at the unofficial-official Newbies Caching Event in Kilkivan.

Thought we were taking the easy way in and ended up backtracking back up the hill. But found it in the end.

Thanks for the fun, PB1973

Another oldie found on the way to Kingaroy today with my youngest behind the wheel. We admired the view when we pulled up, and then she stayed at the car (no way she was going into the scrub ) while I went off to hunt for the cache. Great reception up here as I received a message and a PAF while I was hunting! The container was found fairly quickly, and with my name in the log there was time to collect a few more smilies on our way back down the road. Tftc powellbruce

A lot easier than the one across the road. TFTC

Lot easy then the national view

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

Thanks for the fun!

Georode

Resuming our caching around Kilkivan following the New Year event. Quickly found this one in a logical place and not too challenging for us. Thanks powellbruce for placing and maintaining this series for our, and others pleasure. We thought it was worth a higher D/T rating.

Greynomads - Bill and Diana TFTC TNLN SL

Logging old caches originally found with alphag_25. Now have my own account and logging them separately so that I can claim the finds.

Nice find,beautiful spot #75

A struggle find

1/1/20 645pm Found It TFTC SL Bit tricky to find, just look at satellite map location. Good toilet stop

A lot of bush bashing and found with the help of RoddyC who was here 41/2 years ago!! Thanks for the cache Powellbruce

Hooray thanks for share Deafphantom ????????

Through ????????Jungle

Catching up on some logging for the last day of the year while hunting for caches out of the Kilkivan area with ilook4geo. This was one of the caches we found on a day that started out with fine misty rain. That soon cleared up and the hunt went on. All logs were found to be in good condition, as were the containers. Thanks go to powellbruce for this cache placement.

Today started out a bit cooler, so it was cache hunting time again with goingplaces2. Found a good selection around Kilkivan to add lots more smileys to the map. Log was signed, job done! TFTC.

Found. Thanks for the cache.

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

A quick find. Log soaked, and replaced with a new one. CO informed.
TNLNSL TFTC

This was a fun find. We love these ones

Found on our way up to the National park. Stopping to collect some caches along the way The GPS was a bit jumpy but we found it in the end and got tangled up in some slow-me-down vine!
TFTC

We are on our way to Blackall QOGM, Kilkivan Day 2
This afternoon we headed in the direction of the Mudlo National Park.

Thankyou for placing this cache PB1973

On our way to QOGM (Blackall) day 18 of our trip. 17 caches for the day and 533 for the trip.TFTC

This was the only find today where the log was a little damp. We left this one for our way back out as there was a camper van parked closeby when we arrived.

Today we headed to Mudlo National Park collecting caches on the way. Had a great day and found all 21 caches that we looked for.
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.

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

This was day one of our geocaching trip around Kilkivan. We love these country drives. All caches were in good condition and fairly easy finds. Thanks For the hide.

We approached GZ from the wrong angle and soon discovered an easier route. Took a little while to find but Mr. Herbz discovered it in the end. TFTC.

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

Our second day caching around Kilkivan and what some amazing scenery. Drove to the end of Mudlo Road before turning round and starting to cache our way back. As a previous finder said, it was easier to go down the road before going into the bush for a quick find but unfortunately the log is soaking wet but I was just about able to sign my name. Walked back to Tuna and geowife was watching a couple of Rose Robins in a bush. TFTC PB1973

Crew153, Fangsoki and I were out and about this weekend checking out some of our state's older hides and the drive up here beckoned. So here we are. A nice spot, and only a little hunt required for the well hidden container.
Thanks powellbruce for entertaining me at this location.
*{Overall find #6450}*

The mission of the road trip for Pprime, Fangsoki and I was to find the old caches in the Central Queensland area and this one was on the list.

Fangsoki had been here before so he chilled out at the picnic table and let Pprime and I head to the cache. We decided to take the road instead of the direct approach and that appeared to be the best option.

A bit of searching before we spotted the hiding spot.


TFTC PB1973

2nd day after thundery and rainy night.

Staying in the bush camp . Missed the Event, getting around now.

Found it with bikesu. Tftc

Rembered this area from previous visits.

2nd day of our stay. Up the Mudlo Road in the morning!

Spending a hopefully not too hot or too wet weekend in Kilkivan. Trying to get a couple of smilies, as we could not attend the recent event.

Thanks to all COs for your efforts to place these caches.

Great place for morning tea (little lunch) TFTC

Out to find some caches placed for the Cacheup for Newbies event with jonesgang.

This cache has been here awhile, great to see it has some friends now around the area!

TFTC

4055

Tuesday. Goodie An old cache! Our arrows were bouncing all over the place here, but after I said I think we need to head down there, we left Mr SP sitting at the ‘cool’ park table and Selva Girls and myself took off to grab this one hiding in the bush. Nice – container in good nick!

This was the 11th of 21 caches found on today's trip.

Thanks ***powellbruce***, for showing us this place.

My back was still playing up, but not too bad when I woke up this morning. So I headed off to meet up with Slow Puncture to do the caches along Mudlo Road. This was the next cache along the road. Another old cache! How could we resist??!! After a false start, we found a way to access GZ. Once there, the cache was quickly located and the log signed. TFTC

I attended an event with Dora the Explorer! and this cache was on our to do list as it is one of the older ones.

The cache was soon found when we arrived at GZ.

All is good with this cache.

Find #1860

TFTC ***PB1973***

Quick and easy find

Out geocaching with Geoson TFTC Brucepowell

Kilkivan Cache-up stay Day 2:

After an early start thanks to some squawking magpies, it was a drive up Mudlo followed by a meander through Woolooga, Miva, and Gunalda before heading south and visiting Lower Wonga, Glastonbury and Brooyar Forests and then Widgee before returning to home base.

A variety of great caches were found along the way, plenty of wildlife spotted and some amazing rural views enjoyed along the way.

This cache was found amid a bunch of new caches placed along this road for the event. After a short search among the wet foliage from last night's rain it was soon located.

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Found on Sunday 30 Dec. 2018 at05:50 making #5,979.

Thanks for the experience **PB1973**

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TFTC smile 3834 attending kilkiven event out and about with miss millie geo dog and Aykayem all ok with this cache Thank you for placing this cache for my enjoyment

Drove up from Canberra to Caloundra, to stay with my parents for the Christmas school holidays.
While I was up here I also went to Kilkivan for the New Year Cache Up event/weekend.
This was the first day of caching for the event - today I headed out with Grannysmith1947 (and her Geodog - Millie), to find this bunch of caches that were listed for today (Sat 29th).
TFTC - came back and grabbed this one after we found the ones placed for the event, then realised we had missed this one that was already here before. Found a big flat snail shell that actually wasn't broken too

Was in the area far a nearby event so decided to check on this one new log book installed as the old one was absolutely drowned not sure on how but all good with th cache now.

Decided to have a day of going, in lieu of riding. Bit of a battle to find it. The log was very wet and I could only write the date and part of my name. Unfortunately I didn't have a replacement log. Great spot. Thanks

Very rough lots of scratches. Gf.