Thunderbolt's Rock Port Curtis, Queensland, Australia
By CowboyMacca [Maintenance by JimW83] on 21-Apr-07. Waypoint GC12AR8

Needs a check by owner or to be archived

Looks like one of the recent wet patches may have been too wet...

Looked but couldnt see it anywhere!

Also did not find the cache.

The GZ took me just into some very long grass and I am scared to death of snakes. so a very quick look around. Saw nothing but a few small rocks. Looked under the rocks and a quick look around the base of a couple of trees. Saw a tail (probably a lizard) and high tailed it out of there.

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May have been washed away in the summer floods. Time to have Captain!

Found the rocks... but not the cache like the other. Time for a check me thinks!

No Luck

Still too wet and considering the last logs......................

Found a rock and thats all.The water has been high over this area.

I searched for this and it showed signs of being flooded recently. I did not spend too much time here because the amount of traffic going past was huge. I cannot believe all the easy drive by comments?

I am unsure if it is here or not, but until the water goes away I won't be back for a while

Just dipping my TB I brought through this cache

Found: First of the day as we were leaving Rocky. We did not see any trackables in the cache.

Our 1st find in Rocky. We have come from Brissy via Biloela, Emerald and Blackdown Tablelands. Took dinosaur TB. TFTC...eatmorchikin & Stigglepot, Brisbane

On a drive from Rocky to Emerald stopped by to do a spot of caching. Thanks L TB

very busy here. also becareful if u dont have a high clearance vehicle the drop off will cause damage if u dont go off at the right angle. TNLNSL TFTC also there was ony 2 trackables instead of 3 as logged in this cache

We visited this cache 2 years ago. Now we have dropped a coin for a friend who wanted his coin go around the world.
Good luck and have a good trip Ambassador of Flevoland.
Team Blitar, Holland

Found this morning...Man its busy here
Took a coin and left a TB.

Found this one on our way back south from the Cape, Definitely a busy spot. TFTC

I have actually visited THE Thunderbolt's Rock near Uralla in NSW, TWICE this year [:o]
So I knew I was in with a chance of finding this Thunderbolt Cache [^]
But strolling along the roadside toward GZ had me wondering if this rock had sunk into the swamp [:o]
I poked around behind some trees for a while and finally spotted it
This must be like Ayer's Rock...95 percent of it underground

In a bizzarre twist, I robbed the cache of a Cache Critter's geocoin

TFTC.

Found it on our big trip around Australia. Thanks for all your aussie caches guys. MaJa

Found on our trip back from cape York. Passed the cache on the way up and decided to do it at night on the way back because of the traffic!!! Took 2 TBs and left 4TBs. TFTH

The first time I went after this find I had to turn back because of a large traffic jam on the highway...
Went back today and was rewarded with a quick find.

T AuGC and Canada GC RoyalFlush GC

TFTC

Called in to exchange TB's Didn't see the "Tortoise "TB in the cache.

[This entry was edited by Temingi on Monday, August 03, 2009 at 4:54:46 AM.]

Dropped in TB's. Took 1 TB.

Nice and easy one took some friends along for the first time they had a blast thank you
took the red nose and left jeep TB

After dealing with traffic this was a very easy find. T N L Red Nose. SL TFTC

Quick find and off again. TNLN. TFTC. 14/06/09.

Placed new container out. Only contains Logbook and Pen. Location hasn't changed.

there is no cache at the co-ords.
looked for a while until i felt a little silly poking around a few trees with the amount of traffic going by.

Second stop for today.
Found two trees, a few rocks and the biggest ants youve ever seen.-
but no cache.

Went and looked today. Thought I would add some TB's. IT HAS GONE.

Had a pretty good look twice.

Easy Find! The challenge is doing it without being muggled! Tortoise TB isn't there.

T- Sternstunde TB
L- Maggie the Mother-in-law TB

Found in a few seconds. Very easy but good for beginners,(like us!!)

Just stopping by tolog my entry as promised. Swapped TB's

This must be one of the easiest finds. Still it has taken me 2 years to finally get to it. Always in a rush. Now, with kids sleeping in the back and some time to spare, took the moment to get to the cache. TFTC

damn hard to get the car of the road, the edge was so steep... got away with a stud, nothing serius... but damn..
T_FTC

I didn't think it was too bad of a location to park up.

Dropped in The Tortise TB to go to Cairns

Real Hard to be discreet on this busy road, wasn't much to take photos of around here hope all those drivers were watching where they were driving.
Left TB to go West TFTCJimW83

I will return next week and write in the log.

I had to come to Rocky Today so I decided if I had time I would have a look for a couple of Caches. This one was nice and easy which gave me time to go looking for another one, Great.

TFTC TNLN

Dryed out the container, replaced the logbook and pen, removed the undryable swaps and put a set of kids binoculars in.

All good to go.

Found it with dbrown64. Could not log my find due to the cache being wet. TFTC

Found this one with ease.
Cache is WET WET WET.
Could not write in log. Sorry did not have anything with me to help you out with a new log.
TFTC

Many thanks for this one.

Found a safe parking place and took a walk to the cache. Thanks!

Yes this cache is an easy find, unfortunately it wasn't quiet as easy getting off the road, as well as back onto the road after logging cache. TFTC.TNLN.

WELL THIS WAS AN EASY FIND BUT FOUND THE VEHICULAR APPROACH & DEPARTURE TO THIS ONE NOT VERY PLESANT LET ME TELL YOU. TFTC.

Called in today to grab a U4DTB that I thought was in the cache.

Lucky I did, the council workers were mowing today, and the cache had been crushed by a tractor, or something similar. The cache was still there, but the top had been popped off. I bashed the container back into shape, and replaced the lid. I have moved the cache approx 1 metre to somewhere inaccessable to mowers or tractors.

Cheers
Bundy

easy find

Found quickly at 0930. TNLNSL TFTC.

Found it easy.Put golf ball in cache !!

T.F.T.C

A late logging of this cache... only 2 months late

A quick stop on the way up to Mackay, thanks for the cache.

mm

Found the cache at 1.10pm. Nice easy. No swap. SL. Thanks Cowboy Macca and JimW83 for organising the cache and hunt.

Easy find, good spot drovw almost to it.

Took Nothing
Left OKI Strap

TFTC
Dorik

No problems finding, getting to it or returning it but didn't know if I was ever going to get the chace to leave the back considering the amount of traffic.

TFTC

Nice easy cache had my niece with me and she found it with no trouble .s/l/ thanks for the cache.Regards Angel Dust

Must have just missed the Fourbees. Let the cousin from Rocky have a go at this one she found it soon enough. Thanks.

A quick find as I returned from Gracemere. TFTC

Had to negotiate a couple of semi's to find a park spot to find this one.
Took nothing
Left Double Dragon GC
TFTC

A quick find - but alas not a trackable in sight (maybe the unite for diabetes bug looks like a keyring?). TNLNSL Holding all my Qldfound bugs to take back to South Aussie. Anyway thanks for the cache.

Held up here last time as the cache was having a holiday during the floods earlier this year but found at home today. TNLN TFTC

Easy one really did not need the GPS
It was worth doing though

Tried this without a GPS as had a far idea where it may be....NOT RECOMMENDED PROCEDURE....went and got new batteries for GPS and found it in a heart beat. Took keyring, left nothing. 202

Nice easy find on my way out of town.
T. Pirates Pott coin.
TFTC.

Jeah found it with wenzer very quickly. TFTC!
Greetings from Luxembourg!

Veni-Vidi-Vici
This was a quick found.
out : TB
in coin
Greetings from Luxembourg

Sorry mate - did receive notification of this one being restored to its home, but hadn't had a chance to re-enable it. Glad it's back.
Happy Caching
CowboyMacca

This cache is all ok, not sure why it is not active.

Found Pretty easy.

Dropped: Tactical Man TB
Picked up: Diabeties TB


daBuzzard

Good point Steve. Good to see you blokes are getting some rain up there, but perhaps not good for caching areas such as this one.

Thanks for looking after it Dooghan - now agree it needs a new home, but considering the original intent of the cache, I'm short on for ideas. Will try to catch you soon.

Cheers
CowboyMacca.

We saw this one pop up on our way past. We didn't have any notes with us, so we stopped off for a look. There were only so many places at GZ to hide a cache, but we couldn'd find anything.

Now we read the notes, and it seems the cache may not be there. Maybe the listing should be disabled if the cache is not actually there?

Thanks for the fun!

It's going to be a long while before this cache gets put back out. The cache hiding spot is a swamp at the moment and will be a while before it dries out. We also have another flood on the way which should add some more water to the area. Really needs to be relocated but I can't think of a good enough place.

Dooghan

Just removed the cache due to the coming flood water. Will replace it once it gone.

Dooghan

I'll be temporarily removing this cache on Wednesday the 23rd (tomorrow evening) as this area is predicted to go under water over the weekend. depending on the condition of the cache site, it should be back within a fortnight, but I'll try to relocate any remaining bugs to a nearby cache in the mean time.

Dooghan beat me to it.
Thanks.

Found in the rain. Took nothing dropped off a Diabetes TB. TFTC.

TFTC Took nothing, Left lucky coins.

Found easily- so many muggles hanging around, we thought they must be geocachers, but it appeared not- they were just looking at nearby attractions, it seemed. Stopped in to swap some TBs but alas, there were none there. Particularly disappointed the diabetes TB isn't there, as we were planning to finish its journey to Townsville. What a shame- it nearly made it! Maybe it will turn up there anyway?

Did a swap- an orange recorder (I collect miniature musical instruments), and left a Superball and a butt collector container from Cairns.

Dropped by for a brief visit before heading back to see what the family were up to. I've collected a few TBs around Rocky, but will take them with me for the long drive back to Sydney over the next few days.
TNLNSL, thanks for the cache,
best wishes,
Wal

Found close to dusk on an afternoon caching around Rocky. TNLNSL. Thanks for the cache. Cheers, Rav 4 Raiders

Having been transferred back out scrub to Charleville at the end of the school year, I won't be back this way real often to keep an eye on the cache. As such, JimW83 has kindly agreed to look after it for me. Cheers to all the CQ cachers for their great hides in this neck of the woods, and watch out for some new ones out round Charleville. Have a great Chrissy everyone.
Cheers
CowboyMacca.

nice walk throught the creek for me

Second visit to this bug motel. Took European Wildlife Geocoin, from Thunderbolts Rock to see Captain Starlight.

Found easily 9/12/07. Log full so I left a new one. Picked up the frog TB to take to Townsville. Thanks CowboyMacca for a nice easy cache.

Found it very easily. Took Nothing but dropped off TB Travel Frog and The Merry Piggy.

Had some newcomers along so good first cache for the day.

An old chook visited

Found this one with no trouble at all, having recently been to Thunderbolt's Hideout in Tenterfield. No Geocoin or Travel Bugs in Cache. Dropped in European Wildlife Geocoin and a Finger Fright. TFTC.

On a Cannonball run I took 5 mins to make this point my U turn. Dubbo to Dubbo by Rockhampton via Gladstone. 1500km's in two and a half days. Only hit the one roo.

Said a quick G'day to Dooghan, his family and my Old Cheese. Picked up Fretguys Beads and will drop them into a Red Ochre Cache. http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=3a06833a-3ab8-4e71-8a4d-0ab9840633a2


Thanks guys for a nice stop.

The Bronze.

Found ages ago. Have no internet at the moment and have had problems getting online time to log these. Took something, cant remember what. While edit later.

[This entry was edited by kat+drew on Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 10:48:03 PM.]

Strange place to park but no issues. Drive from Hervey Bay complete with couple of rain showers. Took diabetes TB
LN Thanks Jacqueline and Peter #1548

On our way North we are stopping by those caches that are readily accesible. Dropped off some beads so that their story can continue.

dropped in with the intention of grabbing the german geocoin .... unfortunately it had already left the cache, along with a number of other bugs, so I opted to take nothing and discover the bugs currently in residence

Very busy road, but was able to get in and out without dying. The German GC was not ther but discovered a few TB's. Thanks.

20.TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Clam GC A#30

Albida

Tijdens onze vakantie in Australië hebben we enkele caches gedaan. Deze lag langs een toegangsweg tot de plaats Rockhampton. Een klein stadje met een heleboel prachtige parken.

During our holidays we did several caches. Thith one we found on one of the entering roads to Rockhampton.

Team Blitar

This was a nice quick easy find on our way home, lot of muggle traffic very close to the site, hopefully none of them get too curious of the people finding this cache

Noticed a cowboy had visited here today also.

Left,
The Fly TB
Bob La Ponge TB
Malaysian DB TB

Took, (may need to wait for the cowboy to log his drops)
stubbie holder TB,
Platypus TB,
German St. Redard Bendorf Geocoin.

3:35pm
Quick drop past on the way to visit a couple of mates in town. (A big night ensued, so I'm only getting to do my logging now. Sorry JJ+KT!)
Took - HAM GC and Double Dragon GC
Left - Bill the Platypus TB and German GC
Cheers
CowboyMacca

Swapped TBs

No 6 for the day - A good day to introduce a beginner!

Dropped off a Double Dragon Coin
Took - Jeep