"Seadogs Spa" (Travelbug Motel) Mackay East, Queensland, Australia
By happyseadog on 02-Aug-07. Waypoint GC14V8P

Cache has been stolen by muggles and no longer exists

Oh! No! Our first DNF for the day. Gazza572003 and I drove down the seemingly never ending sandy road watching the black storm clouds move in. We hurriedly searched for the cache with thunder rumbling all around us only to come up empty handed. After a good half an hour of looking we decided to abandon this one as we still had to drive onto Rockhampton and we had searched GZ and surrounds fairly extensively, not sure if the cache is still there.

TRIED TO FIND WITH BUBBLENSQUEAK WHILST ENROUTE TO ROCKY, TERRIFIC VIEWS OF THE RIVER MOUTH. HAD GZ FIRMLY PEGGED & WITH RICHLINKS PHOTO IN HAND WE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR BUT ALAS WE COULD NOT FIND IT, AT THE END OF THE DAY OUT OF 16 CACHES THIS WAS THE ONLY DNF. I FEAR IT MAY HAVE MET WITH FOUL PLAY, WILL PUT IT ON OUR WATCH LIST. TFTH.

The GPSr took me straight to what is mentioned in the hint, however after several searches between the arrival of muggles, l was unable to locate the cache.

Went for the long drive down to the end of East Point only to find about 5 vehicles and 12 fishermen.. too many muggles to even attempt. Save it for another day

Found at 1000. GPSr Took me straight to GZ. No one there when I arrived. Had to sit on Rocks and admire view for 20 minutes as 5 cars arrived in close proximity. All left quickly except one. I out lasted him. Quick to find cache then. TNLNSL TFTC

found after a little hunt on holidays log book is full,sorry i didn't have a spare to replace it. no travel bug to be found TNLN SL TFTC


[This entry was edited by Pigwig2008 on Monday, November 10, 2008 at 6:09:02 PM.]

Found while working in the Mackay area. No TB's available to move on. Tftc

"Dropped" Kanga in and retrieved for a visit.

I used to go fishing off this wall as a kid with my Dad and Brother. Thanks for the excuse to come back.
Left nothing but took a Skater bear TB.

Thanks. SM.

WanderingAus wandered by on day sixty-six of a 6 month trip Wandering Australia and made an easy find. I managed to fit my log onto the last page, but the back of every page is also available for future finders if the log isn't replaced.

My find No 670, LCC, TNLNSL, grabbed DarrelW4 & Firefly03's 'Farewell Pepper' GC, dropped my WanderingAus Happy New Year 2008 Gold GC in for a visit before grabbing it back again.

T4TH Map Monkey
Keith

Just purchased a new hand-held GPS unit & used this cache (as I found it before) as a test. All works fine.
Took the TB,SL.
Will drop the TB off in Brisbane next week when I am down there.
The log is in need of replacement as I used the last page.

Cache Trekker.

Found as member of LEDGIN'S.

In the book fo LEDGIN'S. Found at 1010hrs. left 1TB and 1 geocoin and took 2 TB. TFTC.

Found at 1230. Co-ords spot on and cache is dry.
Took: TB & Geocoins
Left: 3 TB's

Dropped off 3 TB's

an old chook visited

Well it has taken me 6 months to return to claim this cache. How easy was that!!! Took 1 x TB and 2 x Geocoins. Left 1 x TB and 2 x Geocoins. TFTC.

Found by 10yo geo son within 5 minutes of pulling up. Rough trip in in a standard BA Falcon and very slow as I didn't want to damage my car. Saw some fool in a commodore have to get towed out of soft sand by a 4wd about 5 metres from the cache but we had parked about 45m away on solid ground. Took the garfield tb and left various other tb's and geocoins. TFTC

We must have just missed Old Panther. We went by memory in first instance and guessed the wrong side of the river, however, all was not lost as our cache kids had a great time on their scooters on the paths in the area. Found it pretty easily when we figured out where we should have been. Took ink stamp and travel bug 490002 and left R2D2 keyring.

Started out on the wrong side of the river.
Finally got on the right track, found with no problems, a few muggles about, but no-one close to arouse suspicion.

Cheers

Dropped of TB

Retrieved in between passing muggles. Esay find with the aid of the hint. TFTC.

Found in the company of WitchPig and MapMonkey. We were in the area for another reason and took the opportunity to grab a couple of caches that were still in place after the flooding!! TFTC

Accessed the cache after the major flooding affecting the city......was a fun trip into GZ.

After some searching, we found the cache, did the cache dance, and replaced the cache without wetting the logbook.

Thanks for the cache location.

mm

ah ha ... manage to access the cache container today ...
mmm ... saw Cache Trekkers log ... damn they must have got up and out here early ... as I managed to get out here just after dawn.
Log explains it all ... and you left those lovely coins in the cache ... I was glad about that.
TB's exchanged with no difficulty today [^] ... thanks

This was my very first cache find. After locating the general area, evading the fisher muggles (although not many around), a 10-12min search located the cache. I logged my record (put the wrong date down - wrote 3rd, should have been 2nd Feb - I was excited), TNLN (took nothing, left nothing). Took photos of the sunken boat in the river & came home feeling great.

Found this today as a conselation prize for spending all day looking for Thumbs up for Mackay. Thanks for the cache, I think I wrote in the log that I replaced the pen, but i am not sure that I did. Threw a couple of tradies in there, as it was looking a bit sad, and a cliploc bag, although I liked the idea of the waterproof paper. Didnt take the coins, as I had none to put in there, Thanks !

... went out today to do a TB swap ... too many fisher muggles this afternoon [?]
will have another go later in the week

Really enjoyed the drive out to this spot, wished I had had more time to walk around and enjoy the beach. Took Billy Bear TB. Left Geocoin Geolicious and Geocoin Tairyoku. TFTC.

Found it this morning!!!
Went fishing but the river was really dirty so we pulled the pin and found the cache. easy find this time, had made one attempt previously.

Needs a new pen, lid missing and pen drying out.

TNLN
TFTC
Lovesit125

[This entry was edited by lovesit125 on Sunday, January 13, 2008 at 8:56:00 PM.]

Muggles all around so I used the kids as a decoy. Got the cache out, signed the log and put it back easy enough. There was a TB in there but I left it for someone else to move on. Been to East Point many times fishing. Never caught anything there.

TNTLSL

TFTC
Dooghan

Had to have another go at this one! Finally get to remove a DNF from our list! At it was so easy!! How did we miss it last time!!! No geopengiun coin in there anymore however. TFTC TNLNSL

Easy find on a lovely day. Left Billy Bear Travel Bug to paint the lovely view across the river to the sea.

Found while on holidays from the Sunshine Coast. Picked up Geocoin and will travel down to the South east with me.TFTC

What a good hide this one is if you time it right.
Had to wait for a group of fish catchers to leave, then had to hurry before the next lot arrived.
T Lummieh's "Never stop geocaching" coin.

Good Hide! Took us a bit of looking, still getting used to the finer points of caching. Very quiet here today only a couple of peope fishing. Our first look at a GeoCoin - They certainly are beatiful thing. Picked up "Signal Geocoin - Dec 06" Moved him up the road a bit. The GeoPenguin coin was very cute. Dropped off "United For Diabetes - TB"

Found @ 8:45am Second attempt, the night before too mugglers around, amazing how popular this place is.
Took: TB's California Micro Geocoin, and Dolly Bo Peep's Sheep for a trip south.
Left: TB Lummieh's Never STOP Geocaching
TFTC

Found nice and easy on a rainy afternoon. I thought with the rain there wouldn't be many people around. Fine for the pick up. Sitting in the car writing out the info and half of Mackay turned up. Anyway 3/4 hr later I got it returned to its spot. Nice little hide. Left a Californian Poppy Geo coin and Dolly the sheep travel bug
TFTF ALLL.

having trouble logging dropping off the califorian poppy geocoin so will se how I go this time
ALLL.

Thought that early morning would be a good time to go for this one, alas it was alive with photo fanatics and fishermen. Sat on the rocks with camera poised on tripod trying to fit in, did quick searches in the rocks when not being observed but to no avail. Will have another go some other time.

was going to do a bug swap ... but couldn't get near it today ... next time

Revisited this geocache to drop off the Canadian "Signal the Frog" Geocoin. TNSL.

Dropped off geocoin

No luck with this one. Spent about 20 mins searching in the rocks, dodging pieces of broken beer bottles. A shame we had no luck. Be careful if you search for this one with children in tow as the glass is everywhere. We followed the clue but stull no luck. Any chance for a better guide Seadog??

Easy find in a great location there wasn't any fishermen there just a couple of gray nomads enjoying the view.
TNLNSL.

Found at 16.06 hrs. Lots of fishing muggles around but after I found a likley spot I sat down and grabbed the cache.

Grabbed Tigershark TB
Dropped GeoPenguin Coin

TFTC. SL

JG

A nice drive out, but had to wait for a truck to be loaded with sand on the way back. Thanks.

29.Tk. UN TB
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 06 May Signal 1 GC A#27

Albida

quick stop to grab an FTF ...
swapped a TB, and discovered the other ...
whilst noted in the discription, I grabbed them and logged them as being at this cache.
Now off to grab a cool drink from the bar at the harbour.
cheers

just logging the bugs through

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