Toowoomba ICEM Mount Lofty, Queensland, Australia
By
youngoldfella on 24-Nov-11. Waypoint GA3766
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Regular |
| Coordinates: | S27° 32.684' E151° 58.275' (WGS 84) |
| 56J 398425E 6952806N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 702 m |
| Local Government Area: | Toowoomba |
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Description
Hidden to be part of the ICEM series.
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 ammo box that has cammo paint on it. Initially set up with a good lot of swag and some of each of my 4 path tags. There is a FTF prize. My latest addition to my collection is included. pathtag addiction no cure necessary.
Congratulations to muff for the FTF.
Hints
Abg uneq gb svaq. Or pnershy ba gur fybcr. Onfr bs gerr haqre ohfu |
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Logs
Nearly a year since this was last found so it had quite a bit of fallen leaf cover (not to mention the pesky asparagus vine also protecting the area). Cache is still in great nick and all dry inside.
Thanks for the fun Youngoldfella.
Our first GCA Cache and what a beaut one!!It was full of swaps so the kids absolutely loved it too! Definitely the best stocked cache we have seen so far. We took numerous goodies - mighty beans, beanie bear, stickers and lanyard, and left lots too: couple of lego kits, stickers and notebook with pacer/pencil. Thanks for an ammo can today - our favourite kind of cache!! Now I'll have to search for the rest of the series - we'd like to say we've been everywhere oneday. Oh well, at least we've started!!
I made it way harder than it should have been by taking a path and then attacking the location from below. A bit of bloodletting on the lantana. Luckily I had brought the hiking pole with me. It came on handy as a machete as well as support while I was negotiating the slope.
Eventually I arrived at a spot where i could see the cache. It was a easy stride out of the bush after i had replaced the cache.
I HAVE been caching everywhere Man.
Cache dry and intact - been a while since Brother Colin's visit.
Left: a Correct Site Marker - surgical marking pen
Took: set of pathtags BEAUT ~
Thanks for the extension to the ICEM Trail.
After work I returned and with no one around this was a quick find.
The cache s in good condition and is full of swaps which are also in good condition.
Thanks for the cache.
15km from home.
Our third cache the way to see a friend on her birthday and our first ICEM cache.
Mrs RF has become a bit ‘shy’ of long grass after picking up numerous tick bites on our last two cache hunts so she stuck to the car and let me do the honours on this cache.
An easy find on a steep grassy slope, thought I must have been near a school as I could hear kids talking and laughing, just as I headed out of the GZ a bunch of kids turned up on a ‘walk’ with a couple of teachers, who looked like they were doing the climb up the road pretty hard. Pretty sure I was far enough away from the GZ not to give the cache hide away.
Will now keep an eye out for the recently 'discoverd' ICEM series of caches.
The cache container and its very well stocked contents are dry and in good knick.
Took nothing but memories, left nothing but footprints and our tag.
