Rockaby Platypi Lake Tinaroo, Queensland, Australia
By Danielc on 28-Jan-07. Waypoint GC10KVK

Stumbled across this one with mimrach. Log was wet but was able to sign. Replaced as found. TFTC

Too old to maintain

Found it! Logbook completely soaked - plastic bag chewed through. TFTC

Tftc great hiding spot!

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18/10/21 Find #5072
Fangsoki and I checked out of our Cairns accommodation this morning, and began our journey to Atherton, where we will be staying for the next couple of days. We headed off the main road and around for these older caches along here on our way.
The name of this one had me quite interested, as I currently have Burt the Platypus travelling with me for my kindy kids at work, and they are loving receiving updates on his adventures. We drove up to this one, and I will admit I was hoping for a sign to state we were at Platypus Rock, but unfortunately no luck. We headed around to find the cache - a quick find, however the cache was missing its lid and hidden under a black pot plant pot, and the logsheet in its resealable bag was just tucked behind this rather than inside. With log signed, it was time of course to climb up the rock before heading back to the turn of sign for Burt to get his photo taken.
Thanks for the cache Danielc.

1MinnieMoo and I were in the area and decided to grab this old cache on the way to Atherton.

We parked up and made our way toward GZ. Thankfully, we found the cache safe. However, we found the cache (without a lid) in a plant pot.. and the log in a bag was actually behind said pot. Not sure what's happened there. 1MinnieMoo put the log into the container and hid it as found as otherwise.

A nice excuse for a stop. This cache is currently the 539th oldest active cache in Queensland (three other caches were hidden on the same date). TFTC Danielc

Renewed container. Please replace with cover to make it harder for white tailed rats.

Great place for a cache but the container needs replacing its full of holes if I had one with me I would have replaced it. Found with justafan1107 T.F.T.C

What a beautiful place for a geocache. The trees are soo tall.
In the area for a quick visit.

Decided to find some caches after hiking Kauri road. Have camped here before and found cache quickly. Has huge holes in it and needs replacing. Tftc

Found it !!

Looked for a while but found it

I don’t know who got the biggest fright me or the spider anyway signed the log replace it in its original position which is a very sneaky place and hard to see…..

A bit disappointed we didn’t bring the abseiling gear with us when we walked to the top of the rock! Following the GPS took us directly to this one. Although the container is intact, the contents are mostly dirty, wet and slimy. Thanks to whoever put the new, clean log sheet in, well protected by 2 intact plastic bags which meant we were able to sign the log.
We left Cairns yesterday and although we were hoping to stay at Lake Tinaroo, we ended up at Tolga because all the caravan parks we contacted were booked out. It’s a shame, because although Tolga is nice, it’s not the same as camping here on the water. We enjoyed doing the “geo tour” of the lake, finding caches and checking out the views as we went. A nice variety of hides in some lovely spots kept us interested and busy for the day.
TFTC and thanks to all the CO’S for developing and maintaining the caches in this beautiful spot. Your efforts are appreciated.

Hard to find

Looked for a good 20min and found it !! TFTC

Thanks . Beautiful area.

Took a while but probably bc I was a lil drunk TFTC.

Log extremely wet and container damaged. Tftc

11.6.21 Caz53 thanks for the bush walk! The log was totally saturated so we have replaced it in dry freezer bags inside box!

Cool rock, beautiful drive in past the damn TFTC

Found after long search. MASSIVE spider in container!

On a day of caching and 4wheel driving around tinaroo. Checked out this cool little spot and climbed the rock (well not “The Rock”) where they do some basic abseiling. Lovely camping areas in the vacinity as well. TFTC

Nice find, left a travel bug

Came back for a second time and found it super quickly. It’s “off the beaten path”

Came back again and found fairly quickly.

There is no picnic at the top of this rock and not a platypus in sight

Found with orth71 on a trip from Townsville to Tablelands for a week of caching.
Photo from the top of the rock , but not this rock.
TFTC and e hourney here.t

Found! Took a bit.wasnt in the spot we thought it was going to be

Tftc

Co-find with work colleague.

TFTC found after 5 min search

Easy to find. J & J world tour 2020

Tried to take this rock with me, but it was too heavy.

Tried both sets of coordinates came up empty

Found TFTC with Barrod

found cache tftc

Nice little spot. Tftc

Found it thanks

Good cache at a good place

Kids found. Was a good cache

The book is very wet.

Lftc

Tftc

What a funny name for the cache. On the way in, there is a nice little sandy hill for 4WD fans. We made it halfway up and then decided to take the apparently less dangerous way back down, but still good fun. The cache was a bit hard to find with all the trees blocking good GPS signals. After several rounding of the lesser rocks we made it out eventually. Best thing is to catch the signal on top of the rock.
TFTC

Found with MonkeyMann007 on our day of reliving our youth and run amok times around Tinaroo

Well hidden when the phone position is playing up but we found it! TFTC. Taped up some holes in the container and popped in a texta for log as pen was playing up

spikey

Good find

Visited with the GeoKids on a quick overnight camping trip. Took TB, TFTV!0

Nice day for geocaching and nice place and quick finding it and fav point from me TFTC

Found trackable ,added ruby and lanyard

Added dry logsheet TFTC

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Super wet log book.. Nothing to replace it with soz

Super wet log book.. Nothing to replace it with soz

I turned up here today,
where Platypi rock
Only to find a couple of skool teachers throwing their students off the rock [:o]
Well at least the students had rope attached [^]
These teachers must have a far higher tolerance for their students than most

Lucky for me the tossing kids off a cliff session was ending,
so I had the place to meself for a quick cache find


TFTC ,,, no playpi seen [:o]

There was a spider in the box

First time with my family! They loved it!

Found

A fun find on our holiday. A bit off trail but interesting. Unfortunately, the log book is totally water logged so couldn’t sign.
Took a toy harmonica and left a badge. Thanks

Found with mama and Jan,tftc

Pretty easy fine. Nice spot indeed. However plastic container broken and all inside is very wet. Could not sign log. Needs new water proof container. TFTC

Found today easy spot left my mark as a toy solider tftc !!!wet log!!!!

Found with dad bretto77

Easy find

Find

Easy find once GPS was working

Easy find with my crew

TFTC. Cache log is damp, pen wouldn’t work on it.

Found Ok

Grey nomdaing and caching our way around to keep away from Cold Adelaide weather That is a bit of a joke at the moment as it is cold here . Easy find TFTC

Nice quick find.. Cache becoming food for local wildlife nbn Log a little damp. TN left Gold Poker Chip

Was a fun cache

Out early for a caching run around Lake Tinneroo. No muggles so easy find. TFTC

Easy find as there were no mugglers. TFTC

What a beautiful place! Looking forward to a chilly night camping.
TFTC

we are from germany and been in australia for holidays. it was such a nice stay in this national park at the lake in the atherton table lands.

thanks to the owner for the cache!

Quick find with the geo-girl minniemousejojo. Tftc. Pen in cache not working well. No spare on me to leave.

We swapped a small plastic dinosaur for a slightly different small plastic dinosaur LOL

Quick and easy, but the pen is not writing anymore.

Beautiful spot.

Found it

Easy find in this terrific place. thanks

Pen didn’t work! We didn’t get to log on paper but still a good find

How funny to be the second people to log this cache today. Great day to be out and about. TFTC

Wouldn't of made it out to this lovely spot without your geo. TFTC.

Next cache on the way around the Lake Tinaroo. Nice "a small stone" Thanks for this cache, greeting from the Czech Rep.

Lovely spotu

TFTC. We are housesitting in Mareeba for the next 2 months and intend to explore the are using caching as a guide. School Holidays have finished and it seemed a good time to explore the area around Lake Tinaroo.
That certainly is one large rock near GZ. A great lookout point. Found the cache without too much effort.

Found whilst on the 2017 #gnomehome adventure around the Australian continent. thanks for the cache and thanks for bringing us here.

Came prepared for this one & replaced damaged cache. Quick find, another great spot, TFTC 0

a lovely place, we loved exploring all these super campsites. I guess this rock is used for abseiling practice - lots of fun. ( if I remember correctly this cache is the one we found today which has been chewed by a little native animal - prhaps its time for a new container.)Tftc.

Still biding our time before heading down to Cairns for a 7 week house sit, so checked out a few nearby caches. Climbed the rock, checked out the paths and found @10.48 after breakfast beside the beautiful lake.Thanks

Tftc with Westysclan

Impressive rock. Find number 15 for our camping trip with Chrissylat. TFTC

What a cool name this place has, just had to here on our trip around the lake. Unfortunately the road was closed to repair and we couldn't complete the drive. Anyway jr and I went of to get this one. I grabbed the TB.

TFTC

Awesome abseiling rock. And great little treasure. Thanks for the detour and we found a great place for lunch. Left girl guiding trackable