Federation Gundiah, Queensland, Australia
By The Goons on 11-Aug-07. Waypoint GC1526W

We found this one while we were camping in the area.

Couldnt find it, might have been taken off?

1:06:00 PM. Out for a drive from our camp at Gootchie Creek Escape. Took way longer than it should have. I felt the cache in a spot we had both looked. Glad to sign the log. Thanks for the cache The Goons

Counting down now to the return to work day on Wednesday, it will be tough after 3 1/2 weeks of travel and caching. On our way back north with alphag_25. Stopped here nice and early for an easy find. Super clean facilities in the park! Finding some of the older caches to fill in some spaces. TFTC

Travelling back in home direction and collecting a few caches along the way. Thanks for placing at this location and we've stopped as we considered an interesting area to visit. Cache in good condition signed log sheet. On a caching holiday from Mackay. In the search of old caches and ones to fill DT grid spaces. Thanks for placing this cache for our enjoyment with mackay_geocaching. Have mostly had clear sunny days on our trip.*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Travelling through good find

Found with Mum and Dad.(Nathan and Alyce)#69 - TFTC

Were on our way to Rocky for the weekend to celebrate the birthday of our eldest, which also means we can grab some caches, take in the scenery and escape city life.We couldnt pass up an old cache even though its out the way just a tad, but hey, thats how you find interesting locations, right?We parked right beside the big wheel and as we arrived we could see some sections submerged with water, surely the cache isnt in any of those right? Turns out its not as we found it in the first place we searched.Thanks for bringing us here.#4295 - TFTC

Dropped into Bauple for morning tea and found a cache. TFTC

Quick easy find. Thanks.

That was fun

After writing a log on this cache only to find it was for the last one we visited I had to cut and paste and then think for a second time on what happened.We had never been to Bauple before so when we turned off the highway all I saw were some old cars and sheds I didnt think a lot of the place. Then we drove the 5 kilometres into the real town and that all changed.We stopped for the cache and then toilets and just before driving away, decided we would also stop here for lunch. We grabbed the picnic basket and bubbles and went and sat at probably the best picnic table we have probably ever seen. It was clean, solid and made of polished wood and it looked like some little elf comes out and shines it up every night. So our first visit to Bauple ended with a great result. tftc

Making our way home from QOGM 23 along the coast grabbing some caches along the way TFTC

Found It!That is a big cog. Luckily it didn't take me too long to find the cache on it!TFTC

On a quick stop passing through.
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A bit of a detour on the way back from Hervey Bay TFTC

Nice detour on our way back home!
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Found with Crafty Dusty and the geopooches on our road trip from Sydney. Thanks goons!!

Found as we had a break in Bauple as we head to Maryborough. Lovely town and an interesting park. TFTC

Easy find

Another big day out in the Habanero Sport with Patrol14 & TMZ59…The plan/idea/couple of thoughts strung together, is to try and clear the map between Tiaro & Maryborough…

Seems like Maryborough was the place to be over Easter, couple more cachers and it might have been a Mega…

It’s a bit of running joke… all roads to lead to Bauple… that’s what it seems as you drive up the Bruce… so with some daylight left we took one of the roads to Bauple…

I’m not sure what the bear did to offend the residents, but I was sure to keep my smart mouth closed lest I be hoisted up a piece of antique machinery too…

Thanks The Goons very happy to find this oldie today…

4.07pm
Out for the day with Peppa and TMZ59 and are caching again around Maryborough and surrounds to find a few more caches.
On our way home now and the usual conversation when we drove past the turnoff to Bauple is our seems that all road lead to Bauple.
Today we decided to take one of these roads and see Bauple for ourselves.
Had to grab at least one cache here. Lovely historical location and was able to make a quick find. The bear approved of our visit.
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Very nice little town. On the way home from the Maryborough area to grab some more caches. Out with my Geo friends, patrol14 and Peppa. What a lot of fun today has been. TFTC

Out caching with CaptainVimes. It was good to get a break from the traffic. Thanks for the fun The Goons

Many wizards and witches come from the Ramtops, because life is relatively difficult in the rural mountains and so people tend to be very practical before they think of doing anything fantastic, and a practical turn of mind is very necessary for the successful practice of magic.

1/4/2023 Find #5987
The Easter Holidays are here! And a group of us have a plan. Meaning today is the day we all leave our respective locations and all bar one of us make our way up to Maryborough for the night.
Fangsoki and I collected Just a Trifle on the way through, and then had a couple of select caches along the way I very much wanted. This was the first of those.
We pulled up and wandered over, and saw lots of dirty water pooled in a number of spots of the wheel. There was a moment or two of dread. But I can say I was definitely glad to discover the cache was high and dry, and wasn’t in the water.
Then we continued down the road to head back out to the highway, and I was pleasantly surprised when we rounded the corner and saw the old Nut Mobile sitting there. Fond memories of that back in the day at the Big Pineapple.
Thanks for the cache The Goons.

Federation
1.5/1.5
Micro
Traditional Cache

Thank you for the cache The Goons. Had a great time collecting caches with georode. Enjoyed this one as it was a quick find, then we had time to have a look at the neat place. Thanks for the hint. A Favourite Point here!

Out for a caching adventure with E_Smiley

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Georode

I don't know

Our first find and not too difficult for us novices. We're excited!

Looked a few years ago no luck but today our sad face became a smilie tftc

Nice stroll down from campsite. Tftc

Easy find. Great little village, glad we deviated from the highway for an overnight stopover.

Found while staying in the camp in town thank you Bauple great spot

Found it

TFTC was a fun find in a lovely little community. Shame the museum was close on our visit.

Nice hide. Thanks

Tftc!!

I have found myself with great pleasure to have found your cache. I congratulate u on a fine hinding spot

Heading to Hervey Bay for the night with Eskies5 to grab a list of caches to help a few challenges along. This oldie was the first stop for us after leaving Toowoomba. Great to tick another oldie off. TFTC The Goons

On a trip with Kestal from Toowoomba to Hervey Bay to tick off a few boxes. This was our first stop for the day. Nice to tick off another oldie. TFTC The Goons.

I found this cache with CJDenno today after grabbing a coffee at the town museum. We originally were looking around the structure but then looked at the structure and found it. Thanks to the container type, it was difficult to get the log out of it.

I visited 2 TB

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Visited here with mum and PrezDough. We grabbed a coffee and I sent mum in to look at the family history records as she grew up in the area.
Made the grab quite easily and added our names to the log.
The cache, container and log are in excellent condition.
I visited 5 TB.
TFTC here.

A quick find today. How did we miss this one that other time. Log signed TFTC

Collecting old caches to and from our little group's trip to Maryborough. Was told this park contained the cleanest public toilets in Qld so was looking forward to testing this statement out. After leaving the car to fend for itself, went in search of this clean loo only t find it was locked up. No wonder its the cleanest public toilets, no one can use them. At least the old cache was quickly located. Thanks to the Goons for giving me a reason to visit this spot.

The others had this one so just TeamARF and I disembarked to search. Easy find! Awesome park! TFTC

Another old cache ticked off and added to the growing collection.

Mega Travel - Day 1: Brisbane to Rockhampton

Up early and travelling, grabing a few caches of interest on the way though. A bit if zig-zagging up the A1 never hurt anyone!

Cleanest public toilets ever! TFTC.

First stop on the trip up North. Spent some time exploring the museum and chatting to the locals. Met a super cute puppy that loved pats
A beautiful spot, TFTC

After our overnight stay nearby, we made this our first stop this morning. It was too early for the museum to be open and no one was around but a gorgeous little puppy to watch as we hunted. It didn’t take too long thanks for the excellent description. TFTC The Goons

Starting the day off with a quick find.

Yay - road trip to Townsville for the MEGA and stopping along the way to pick up a few to help other Challenge caches that I am doing,
This was planned stop number 1 for the day.
Geo-daughter drives the first stretch, so we picked Bauple as our stop, as it was 2 hours from home. Longest drive she has done so far as an L Plater. Did a great job too, what with the road works, overtaking the really slow drivers and the like.
Parked by the Federation park, used the facilities before then wandering around to grab the cache.
Thanks for bringing us to a place we'd never have stopped at without having a cache here.

Museum was open. Lots happening here to day ️.. signed log and replaced. Tftc.

Took a moment but success No such luck with museum though

Quick and easy find on mybway to Gladstone.

A detour off the highway this morning and what a lovely place this is with clean restrooms and a great coffee shop. A nice place to visit and a cache to find. All good with this one, log signed snd replaced as found. Thanks The Goons for placing it here.

Thanks heaps.

We came in our motorhome for the Bauple Nut Bash and to stay the night at the RV camp. A nice easy stroll down to the museum and once a friendly muggle had departed the cache was in hand. TFTC

TFTC. We had not been out in a little while and with a new souviner in the offing we decided to head out along the Netherby Road and then circle back to Maryborough via Bauple. We had not been along these road previously so it was a leisurely trip. We attempted and found 22 caches in the Tiaro-Gundiah-Bauple area. Thnaks to the CO’s for putting these out so we could explore the area.

Nice easy find with the geokids. TFTC

I found this cache on a trip with Snickersallan, I thank all CO's for the time and effort putting out and maintaining the caches, all were enjoyed. TFTC

On our way home from a great week caching in and around beautiful Maryborough.
We did a quick detour in to find this relatively old cache, beaut hide here, thanks CO.

TFTC The Goons

Tftc Goons, we are staying in Maryborough for a few more days.
Headed out this way today to collect a few smilies.
All good with the cache , nice park.

TFTF

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What a lovely spot to stop and admire the history of bauple!

on a work/ play trip from Brisbane to Bundy I decided to stop off and collect this smiley. This was a great place to stop for a coffee and interesting history. Thankyou for taking me here and for placing this cache here for us to enjoy

**Found 09/02/2021 at 4:42:39 PM Smiley #1103 **


Kids had a paret-teacher information session so I made the quick drive from Beaudesert to Hervey Bay and back in a day. Never been to Bauple. And if it wasn't for these caches I probably wouldn't have detoured off the highway. There were three out this way, I found one. A big fat DNF on the Rest area cache, and the next one down in the BBQ area people were there so I turned around and went home. One would consider to not be the most successful of detours but means I'll be back.

Pulling up to this one I was hoping it would give me a hint for the Rest area cache, however, it did not. Nice easy find, and the cache was in good condition and it wasn't long before I was back in the car. Long drive back to Beaudesert, I was done for the day

Thanks for the cache **The Goons**

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Found!

The geodaughter and I were on our way north, exploring lots of sidestreets and small towns as we went. We took the turn off for Bauple and pulled in here, sure there must be a cache; and indeed there was. A quick find and sign here before we moved on again. Tftc The Goons

Great quick find

A quick find here on our way back to Maryborough . Our last on for the day.

After a long weekend of caching as a group it was now time to depart and start grabbing a few of my own to fill in some blank areas of interest. Most of these were park and grabs or very short walk types. This was one of those, not an oldie yet but one day it will be and seeing as though I had a little time left in the day I thought a short drive over to grab this one was in order. A quick park and grab and all good with this cache. With log signed and cache returned it was off to complete the others in this area. Thank you it for placing here.

Logging from a while ago

Fun, thanks foe the hi d e

Hooray thanks for share DeafVW

Quick find and hide

Nice stop and piece of local history Cache located quickly here. This scenic drive thru Bauple is definitely worth a look

TFTC The Goons

Nice easy find. Quaint museum. TFTC

Nice

Quick find. Helped by some locals. Tftc

Found by Aussie Train Driver 02/09/2019.
After having lunch at the nearby rest area we made the short walk to this cache. Plenty of history here and I was fortunate to make a quick find - plenty of available hiding spots! TFTC.

Nothing like a back small one on a big one.
Soon had cache in hand.
TFTC

We were being watch by someone that turned out to be a scarecrow!!! Nice new log book.
Thanks The Goons.
Greynomads - Bill and Diana TFTC TNLN SL

This cache has been replaced and has a new log book. You need to take your own writing stick.

Dnf

Found it with TBU1BIKESU.Tftc

On our School Holiday trip with grandkid Emily. Visiting different playgrounds and combining it with caching .

New Container with Magnet needed - our repair will last only temporarily.


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Easy find. Geocoin has been taken. Nothing there but container and a piece of paper. Shame some people do that. Thanks anyhow for the thrill of the chase.

Lovely little detour to Bauple on our way south

We were heading to Bundaberg and to find on the way and I had targeted this cache. A detour off the highway.and a stop off at the museum for a coffee and a cache.

I searched around and found the empty container sitting on the ground with no lid. I found a zip bag in the car and put in a page of paper and replaced it back in a hiding spot. The magnet is not very strong so I would recommend that the CO have a check on it in the near future.

TFTC The Goons

Quick, easy find. TFTC

Great find

TFTC

An overnight stop in Bauple. Market tomorrow tftf

TFTC. Found it on a run through visiting friends who live in the area.

My first Australian cache. with Bagginsboyz

Our first Australian cache! TFTC. (UK visitors)

Found the cache playing submarines. Brought it to the surface, dries as best we could and replaced in a reciprocal spot to keep dry. Lovely little park...spotless...tftc...