Beach Patrol Towers Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By Aushiker on 04-Nov-05. Waypoint GA0247

Obviously living in the Blue Mountains its a day outing to go to the beach! Last weekend I was caching with WaywardWoman in the Wollongong area when I spotted this beach patrol tower. Remembering there was a locationless I took a photo before we headed on. TFTC

We are holidaying on the Gold Coast and there are lots of surf patrol towers. This one was decorated for Christmas.
Kurrawa Beach

Bondi Beach Tower
Sainted at 2110 hours
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint

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High time this cache had a find. Happy to oblige.

We went to Main Beach (Gold Coast) for a swim and this was the life savers tower near the flags.

Thanks Aushiker

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I was on the Gold Coast on the weekend to see my 6 year old grandson take his first surfing lesson at the surf school at the end of the spit up past sea world. I had found all the info needed to do the earth cache up this end and did the walk out to the light to do the cache out there and then had time to do a few of the GCPT caches. As I was writing in one log I noticed this Gold Coast Council Beach Surf Tower nearby. It is just up the beach from the sand pumping jetty.

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Spotted this isolated tower at Red Rock (NSW) whilst chasing a couple of caches in the area. Not manned on this day, but as the area is popular in summer, I imagine it gets a bit of use.

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Finally found a beach patrol tower staffed by surf life savers that has not been claimed for places I visit rarely. This one is on the beach at Bargara Qld and is used by members to watch those in the surf and those little ones in the safe water of the nearby crekk/lagoon. Its water level is tidal. TFTC

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Riding a push-bike from the Santa Monica Pier to Muscle Beach and back again was one of the most enjoyable experiences during my visit to Los Angeles recently. Attached is a pic of one of the (not so small) beach patrol towers located at Muscle Beach.
PS visiting Muscle Beach didn't seem to gain me anything in the muscle department.

Beach Patrol Tower
Main Beach
Lakes Entrance, Victoria

On day thirteen of our excursion out of Tasmania touring from Melbourne to Canberra and return via Gippsland we toured around Lakes Entrance, staying in the seaside town for two nights. We attempted many of the caches we previously had to leave as we travelled north to Canberra. After a wild night of wind and rain, it was a pleasant day – fine and cool. We spent the morning walking between caches and then used our car for the afternoon cache hunts.

After walking across the Lakes Entrance Footbridge we saw a very prominent beach patrol tower on Main Beach. We were very sure that this tower would have been logged already but, just in case it hadn't, we took the obligatory photo and measured the coordinates. Later when we went online to check, we were very surprised that this tower had not been logged. A find for us.

Thanks for an interesting locationless cache - really enjoyable.

GCA 287 - 4509. ACBC 66 and I visited Bali for a Christmas/New Year holiday.

Walking further up Kuta Beach after the "Surfer Crossing" sign we came across this Kuta Beach Tower - perfect !!

TFTC !!

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This tower is located near the man made beach at Darwin's waterfront Precinct..... A nice place to cool off....

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Patrol Tower right at the 'Surfers Paradise' sign on the Gold Coast and not yet claimed...

On the Gold Coast for the weekend to attend a Wedding and managed a few caches at the same time. The beach was a busy place on a Friday afternoon.

Thanks for the fun...

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I'm splitting the middle and logging the 3rd tower here on Noosa Beach.

The others have been logged already.

I'm staying here for a week and a quick walk down Hastings Street had me logging this find.

TFTL

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I headed back in to Surfers with Fangsoki to track down another cache in muggle-ville.

It was a Sunday arvo but we still had to pay for parking near the GZ. I decided to grab a photo of this beach patrol tower after we found the other cache to get some value for money from our parking costs. (OK it was only $1 so that would be 50c per smiley)

Fangsoki begrudgingly took the photo of me in front of the tower while muttering something under his breath about me and my silly camera.

TFTLC. Cheers

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I headed back into Surfers Paradise after work this afternoon in search of GC2PJY7 "Where Two Cliff's Meet".

I wandered down to the beach after finding the cache and spotted this Beach Patrol Tower.

The Gold Coast on a nice evening is certainly a great place to be.

TFTLC. Cheers!

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I headed over to Main Beach in search of a new cache GC2PJYJ "Playing At Main". (success)

I decided to grab a photo of a Beach Patrol Tower before jumping back in my car.

I was hoping to find a helpful tourist to take the photo but they all seemed too busy looking at the surf or getting back to their tour bus.

I used the timer and raced in front of the tower for a shot.

TFTLC. Cheers!

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Spotted at Fairy Meadow Beach, Wollongong. Thanks.

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Windang SLSC
Established 1957
Windang Surf Club is at the southern end of Perkins Beach, the longest in the Wollongong area at 6.6km. This end of the beach has developed since the war and the opening of the bridge across the lake entrance. Windang has a large car park, a caravan park on the northern side and the lake entrance channel on the south side, with park and picnic facilities along the shore. Waves are a little lower at this end of the beach however rips continue to dominate, with the intervening bars usually attached to the shore.

Walking along The Spit looking for GeoGnomes when I saw this patrol tower. It's No 41 on the Gold Coast string of towers. The lifeguards were parked at the base of the sandhills, right on the edge of the surf - they had to, there was practically no beach. Although the surf looked wild to me, there was some space for swimming. Only tourists in the water I think. The rain held off today, but is expected back at New Year. Pity the poor tourists who paid for a week on the sunny Gold Coast.

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Here you go. Two for the price of one at Kurrawa Surf Club, Broadbeach, Gold Coast.

It is a great spot and you may even find a cache hearby.

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Trigg Beach surf lookout tower

At Maroochydore Beach today, late afternoon sun, walkers passing me and a few stayers on the beach. Thanks for one of my favourite locationless caches.

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Beach patrol tower at Snapper Rocks. Tower No 1 for Queensland coast

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At the beach where you'll find GC2AG2T, "Currumbin Rock". Sun was on its way down when I got these photos. It's Tower no 4 on the Queensland coast.

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WanderingAus wandered by on day 131 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip, exploring around Cronulla, and found this Beach Patrol Tower at North Cronulla Beach. The beach was closed due to dangerous surf conditions, with expected three metre waves, but the surfers and quite a few swimmers seemed totally unperturbed.



At the middle of the photo is a long shot from further around the boulevard, with an arrow indicating the tower. To the right is a close-up segment of the same shot.

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T4TC Aushiker
Keith

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This is the tower near the Hyatt Regency Beach club. I think the beach is Yaroomba beach.

Coolum Beach Surf Life Saving Club Patrol Tower.
All eyes are towards the beach....whale watching (I saw one!)

This tower at north Miami is Tower No 22 for Gold Coast City Council.

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Took this one while at Miami to photograph the lovely seal sculpture for locationless cache "Structure". This is Tower No 21 in Gold Coast City Council.

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Was staying at Jupiters nearby for a conference and managed to escape to log five GC caches in the area. Saw this one, quite the modern version at Broadbeach, and remembered the locationless. Would like to find an old traditional style one next time.

You dont see to many of these where I come from, so when we were going out for a bite to eat on the night before our conference started I couldnt believe my luck when we pulled up in the carpark almost right next to this tower, just outside the surf club. I couldnt pass up the chance to log a find, so here we go. The photo was taken with my iphone, so the quality might be a bit dodgy but hopefully its okay.

Thanks for the cache.

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WanderingAus wandered by on day 73 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip, exploring around Mackay, and found this Beach Patrol Tower at Eimeo Beach. The tower had suffered some damage in a cyclone earlier this year but repairs and repainting are almost complete.



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T4TC Aushiker
Keith

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WanderingAus wandered by on day 72 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip, exploring around Mackay, and found this Beach Patrol Tower in Ram Chandra Park at Slade Point.



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T4TC Aushiker
Keith

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A surf patrol tower near Sussex Inlet in southern Shoalhaven. Both the tower & the surf club are impressive structures wholly located within Conjola National Park.

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One of 3 GCA caches on my agenda today. I had been up this way twice before for a nearby Trig & GC cache & had noticed the tower, not realising I could claim a locationless. Took the photo but as usual forgot to include the Garmin. Hope you will forgive me. Thanks.

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Found this tower while cacheing very close by

Found this lifeguard tower whilst finding another cache just metres away! Snapped a few shots so I could log the find.

Located in Mackay Qld. Nearby is a magnificant Surf Club (not sure how good the surf is up here) and fantastic picnic facilities.

FINALLY I get around to logging this, after going for my weekend jog or walk by the Clifton Beach patrol tower for the umptieth time, (finally remembering to take my camera) (and then finally remembering to log it) only to find Tealby (who probably came across it by chance on her interstate holiday) has beaten me to it...by a month...serves me right for being so slack!!!

Clifton Beach Patrol/Surf Tower at Clifton Beach on the peninsular SE of Hobart. The tower was not in operation when we visited mid week, but there were plenty of surfers still around.

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Patrol Tower at Coolangatta Surf Club.

The life guards at Southbank in Brisbane must be on a pretty good wicket,no tides,no rips,no stingers,no sharks,girls in bikinis,it's a tough job but somebody has to do it.Thanks for the cache Aushiker.

This tower is at Umina Beach... and this must be the first time i've seen it in operation. Perhaps the conditions brought in by the ex-tropical cyclone have meant they need t o use it.

This cache has been on my to do list for ages,
so today i went and did it.

Find number 16 of 28 on Stage One (Melbourne to Adelaide) of my Melbourne to Katherine Relocation.

Since i am making the move North and to the outback, thought i had better log this one on the way before its too late! This surf life saving tower is located in Kingstone SE, on the dunes. I cannot say all the much about it but that it is typically australian!

TFTC

Wanda Beach, Sydney NSW. Patrol tower.

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0700 Aren't early morning walks useful! This is Patrol Tower #20 on the northern end of Burleigh Beach. They all appear to have solar cells on the northern side of the roof - maybe to keep the radios charged.

0925 Another morning walk, but not so early, found this tower on the southern end of Burleigh Beach

0530 Out for a walk with Mrs C and thought I might as well get a cache at Burleigh Beach. Had been here before, but not aware of GA0247 then. This is Tower #19 on the Gold Coast.

In Victoria on holiday, I remembered this cache while doing a couple of others at Inverloch. My relatives have been holding a yearly Boxing day reunion for many years nearby and I remembered this feature of the area.

Unfortunately forgot to include GPSr in photos as I only had memory to work from. Thanks to Aushiker for allowing the log.

TFTC and the trip down memory lane

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1755 A nice weekend away from Taree at Port Macquarie with the family; but they had continued their walk while I photoed some Kombis by the beach. When I needed a photo of me with the GPSr in it at the patrol tower they were no where around.

Small patrol tower at Fingal Beach NSW behind the surf club

City Beach, WA

Beach Tower near one mile beach Anna Bay nsw close to Tomaree National park also within walking distance of another cache.

Glenelg, Adelaide.

When I used to live at Glenelg a year ago it didn't have a surf lifesaving tower. Was down there for work today and with the old surf club being demolished and relocated it seems to have gained one. This overlooks the beach volleyball courts, and probably has a great view of the beach scenery during summer!

One of many Patrol Towers along the beach at Surfers Paradise.

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Avoca Beach NSW

Beach closed today.

Found this tower at The Entrance on the Central Coast of NSW. We were looking around the area to place a cache. We saw the tower and remembered this cache so snapped a few pics.

Yanchep Surf Life Saving Club
Beach patrols from Yanchep to Two Rocks, life guarding, life saving and first aid training, social functions and beach volleyball. Established 1981.

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Found this Beach Patrol tower while working in Geraldton. Club was closed so couldn't find out any history of the place.S28.47.696 E114.36.780 Pics in gallery under Beach Towers