ICEM - Toowoomba ICEM ver2 East Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
By
youngoldfella on 16-Dec-18. Waypoint GA13321
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Regular |
| Coordinates: | S27° 33.511' E151° 57.739' (WGS 84) |
| 56J 397556E 6951272N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 616 m |
| Local Government Area: | Toowoomba |
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Description
Just through the gate at the end of Godsall Street.
Hidden to be part of the ICEM series. I did have a previous Toowoomba ICEm but it was muggled so I archived it Time to place another.
I've Cached Everywhere, Man is the largest cache series hidden in Australia. It is made up of the locations made famous by Lucky Star in the song "I've been everywhere" in 1962, lyrics by Geoff Mack. Toowoomba is mentioned in the second verse.
Toowoomba is a picturesque mountain city located in south east Queensland some 127Km west of the states capital, Brisbane.
Clinging to the edge of the Great Dividing Range escarpment at an altitude of seven hundred meters above sea-level, the city affords breathtaking views of Table Top Mountain and the Lockyer Valley region across the east.
The city covers an area of approximately 117 Sq Km and is centred at the intersection of the Warrego and New England highways.
Toowoomba's climate can best be described as pleasant with temperature ranges averaging a cool 5°C to 16°C in winter and a mild 17°C to 27°C in summer.
With a population of over 90,000 people, Toowoomba is Australia's largest inland regional city and is the commercial and economic hub of the Darling Downs, thereby serving a population in excess of 250,000 people.
Toowoomba's origin dates back to 1827 when Allan Cunningham, an English explorer discovered a vast expanse of rich farming land which he named the 'Darling Downs' after then Governor of New South Wales, Sir Ralph Darling.
One of the first settlements on the Downs, 'The Springs', to be renamed Drayton soon thereafter was established in 1842. Over the next decade Drayton would grow to become well established, but a drought in 1850 saw many re-settle a few miles to the north-east to an area that was seldom visited.
Known as 'The Swamp', one of the first to take up residence there was Thomas Alford. Arriving to The Swamp from Drayton in 1852 he established a house and shop which he named Toowoomba, and hence the cities eventual namesake.
The derivation of the name Toowoomba is ambiguous, though the most widely accepted theory is that it's more or less a pronunciation of the Aboriginal word for 'The Swamp'.
You are looking for an regular sistema style container inh Cammo. Enter through the entrance at the end of Godsall Street. tree on your left closest to the fence. thew hide is on the Northern side of the tree close to the fence.
Please be very stealthy when looking for this one as it has been placed near a very well visited spot.
Hints
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Decode |
Logs
Tftc!
A perfect Spring day for a drive around while at Toowoomba.
Hardly any muggles around and mostly good safe hides.
Thanks for the cache youngoldfella,
Roostaman
There were a few muggles about enjoying the park and one walked straight past me so had to be very still and make sure I didn't rustle any of the dead leaves on the ground.
A very neat and well presented cache. Thanks.
Doing a few GA and GC caches as we go, this was one of them and a quick find
TFTC
Absolutely love the gardens, mature trees and features in this magnificent park. This cache gets a recommend from us as it's always such a pleasure to visit. TF a great ICEM youngoldfella.
Caching in the area with whitewebbs we were happy to find another cache in this series.
Many thanks Youngoldfella for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.
Tassie Trekkers are now a locationless geocache we have published a 'Geocacher cache' - Travelling Trekkers GA10932 - so if you spot us in your area sign our log book and receive a code word to earn yourself a
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Green - Phoenix, 
Blue - Cerberus or Orange - Minotaur. Earn trophies and rise through the ranks from Dragon Fodder to Ruler of the Universe. Leaving Tenterfield this morning we have now arrived in Toowoomba and headed out with Tassie Trekkers to find a few caches and this was a quick find in the dark. Thanks for adding to the ICEM series. TFTC
Thanks for this cache and keeping the ICEM series ‘alive’. We remember finding the previous ICEM cache up here in Toowoomba (now archived) way back in 2014 - one of our first ever GCA finds.
Cache and contents are in great order.
Then we continued our walk and enjoyed the Gardens - always nice to visit.
Thanks youngoldfella.
After leaving Nanango we headed for Brisbane via Toowoomba and stopped to grab to the GCA caches that were in the area. This one was certainly on the list to grab and after making our way to GZ, it took a couple of minutes to hone in on the hide, but all was good the cache, and blank log sheet, were soon in hand. Log was signed and cache replaced and we were soon on our way again.
Thanks Youngoldfella...great to see the ICEM series still being supported. *FTF*
