Waraba Turtles? Bellmere, Queensland, Australia
By womblywoo on 02-Oct-07. Waypoint GC16CCQ

As there's been either no response from the cache owner, no cache to find or log to sign, or it's been a number of months since the last owner note. I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the near future (next 30 days), just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it. Should you replace the cache after 30 days has passed please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

Cache is missing and needs urgent attention

Sounds like its gone again! Will have to get a new container and replace it ASAP.

Goneski...not to be seem in any fork.

Looked in all forks. Couldn't find a forking thing!

None of the photos in the gallery are at GZ, they were taken nearby. I'll try to get down there to check on it ASAP. The container and cords were changed a few weeks back, hopefully it's just confusion due to the changes.

Went with brownsnakemob and bsmj to have a look for this one. Turned out to be somewhat confusing - the GPS co-ordinates had us looking at a fork in a specific tree, however, this tree was nowhere near the pictures shown from previous finders or the description. A little confusing, and after an hour decided to declare it unfindable

Don't know what is going with this one . Searched the spot the shown, nothing, searched the photo area nothing . Please confirm which area is correct and is it still there

nice quiet day...no muggles...plenty of time to search, climb trees but still no luck

tftc

A bit of a walk and we were worried about our aptitude for being on wrong side of creek but all well. Well devised cache had us fooled for a moment.

TFTC!!

Great hide! Love it! TFTC, didn't sign as didn't have a pen...

Coordinates changed from:
S 27° 05.243 E 152° 56.121

Coordinates changed to:
S 27° 05.239 E 152° 56.115

Distance from original: 40.4 feet or 12.3 meters.

Moved slightly to hopefully stay above the floodline in future.
27 05.239
152 56.115

Hopefully above the flood line now!

name change

Found majestic tree at gz but no cache in sight - checked the handful of trees within 20 Myra but no joy.

Note this area was under a LOT of water last week - hope it didn't get washed away ...

Thinking the fact that this area was recently all under water is the reason I couldn't find this one...

Disabled until I can get out there and replace the cache, again.

Found[Time to Find: 33 min] once i had found a carpark there was a good walk and an easy grab.TFTC

We parked on the northen side of Jacrel's bridge and rode ot GZ - what a grat park.

TFTC womblywoo

6th of 8 finds for the day at 11:45.

After a decent walk from the spot my TomTom concluded was the closest I found the cache. Logbook was dry despite the bag around it and the cache being a little damp.

TFTC.

Tftc

Out on a day through the North Side

What a great area. All the ducks and other birdlife all over the place. I nearly ended up in the drink watching the birds not where I was riding

Note to self: stop enjoying the scenery...you are here to find caches

I soon found the cache and it is in good condition, no 8 legged friends.

Yes, as a previous logger noted, the hide is home to a few friendly arachnids. They scuttle away OK, but it restarted the heart nicely.

Been to Caboolture many times in my life, but always with a purpose - in and out. Never looked around. Never knew there was anything to look around at. This spot is a hidden treasure, and a highlight of the day. Thanks so much for taking us here.

Nice and easy find.... Could have done without the huntsman guarding his treasures! Took you and left parachute man

Well worth the walk to find this cache. The only disappointed ones were the ducks as we omitted to bring any crumbs to throw to them.
Saw no turtles.
Once again, a spot that would go unnoticed except for Geocaching.
TFTC.

Nice walk in the park. Plenty of ducks looking for a hand out, the Turtles must have been having a day out. TFTC.

i didnt know this park was there. found it easy

Lovely little area, mini-cacher loved it . TFTC.

A pleasant stroll around the lake. Plenty of water lilies flowering at present.

Walked straight to the cache location and then had to keep it between me and a muggle walking a dog on the path. TFTC.

=) very quiet part of town here, loved the lake and the area ...TFTC =)

I'm not sure if we took a long path, but we did enjoy the walk in a very quiet area of town. Being mid morning on a weekday the only other muggle we saw was a council worker.
The GZ was easy enough to locate and the cache was quickly found and signed.
TNLN....but did enjoy the walk in this beautiful parkland area.

Took the long way around but a lovely walk in a beautiful area. TNLNSL TFTC

Relogging this under individual account, previously a member of Gaz'n'Kab account.

Previously logged under a team account. Re-logging with my individual account.

A nice quick find today whilst we were in the area for the CITO event

TFTC womblywoo

Gaz'n'Kab

Gaz'n'kab made the walk with me today to grab this one. Rather amazing to see how high the flood waters came here as there is still evidence high up. Kab was more impressed with the ducks floating about on the ponds. Small things, small minds I think. Found cache without too many issues though. TFTC.

Great walk didn't even know this part of Caboolture

Used to walk my dog here and never guessed... Took trackable ocf7d8 left crystal

Replaced the glass bottle with a black sistema container, hopefully it will stay put for a while. Thanks to the person who left a temporary logsheet.
Left a geocoin and some goodies.

An easy find. Cache is now a bottle? Luckily geokid#3 came with me and his small fingers where a valuable tool. Cache is definatelt in need of repair.

Cache is a glass bottle with a bit of paper rolled up inside.

906 - Found the modified cache container at 3:25pm. The original piece of paper in the container is very wet so we inserted our log onto a new sheet of paper. Not sure if this will last long though, as it appears that the container is letting in alot of moisture considering its placement. We had a quick check of the river at the location. This is a great little park, thanks for showing it off with a cache womblywoo.

What an awesome park! and in keeping with style of the English-themed streets I meandered through on my way here. Started my search somewhat daunted by the flood debris that was waaay above my head, but the cache in its most recent incarnation was still safely in place. Added my name to the soggy slip of paper currently serving as the log sheet. TFTC womblywoo.

Found the msg in the bottle. The log is very wet, I was able to sign a drier piece from the last cacher though. Definitely needs some work. TFTC
Great spot to take geotoddler, he loves the ducks.

Looking for a sistema container came across a message in a bottle, signed a damp log, after waiting for a mowing tractor to move off to lunch. TFTC

great walking around the paths yes needs redoing put a bit more camo on it for now TFTF TNLN DNSL

Found after a long walk from Jacrels Bridge. Needs new container as other has been washed away by recent floods. Emptied water out but paper writable. Signed the piece of paper left by last cacher. TNLN TFTC

Found this one on a daytrip to the Glasshouse Mountains...
TFTC and Greetings from Normandie-France + Brisbane-Australia

Hello,

Visited your cache yesterday, and after looking around for a bit, thought the cache had been washed away by the recent flooding.
I replaced a new log in the cache (as indicated in the hint).
It's only a water resistant freezer bag, but you will need to put a proper new container soon, I only had a small sheet of paper, that should be ok for now.
I'm also logging a Find if you don't mind.

Nice easy find . We thought we could spot gz from 100m and we were right. Enjoyed the stroll around the ponds. TNLN Thanks womblywoo

Found today on a geocaching expedition to the Northside with Turtle2008. A very nice walk to this cache. TFTC T Flag L Thong SL.

Found today with Boffinz. TNLNSL TFTC

What a beautiful walk on a lovely sunny day - great to find these beautiful spots that we didn't know were there. Terrific cache and was thrilled to find our first Geo coin which we took and left the photo of the monkey.

Found it No. 2996 ... good walk ... TN and left Geocoin ... TFTC

Great big park for a nice walk, but stick to path as there are landmines all over the place left by dog owners who do not like to relocate them to a safer enviroment ( wear shoes )' TFTC SL Took coin.

Okay find just had to contend with the dogs in the off leash park.

Dropped off British Phone Box Geocoin

After a bit of a trot to GZ, I found this beast relatively easily. I am surprised at the amount of parkland in Caboolture. I, too spotted said ducks. They were very tame and didn't seem to mind my presence. TFTC Womblywoo

After a muddy search in April (see previous log), I finally had a chance to come back and there it was. Thanks WomblyWoo, it's a great part of the river to visit anytime of the year.

wow, long walk on pathway and feed ducks so cute.hide well

Forgot to log it and only realised after looking at information. TFTC. I looked for this one before but thought it was washed away well it is where I thought it was. TFTC

replaced cache, old one must have washed away in the floods.

Recent rain has made the whole area very muddy. Searched every suitable spot within 50m of GZ. By the looks of rubbish in the trees water has come up a fair way, maybe cache has gone downstream?

After a pleasant walk to this one (although we realised afterwards we could have driven. oh well, nice day, great area), we arrived to find the container on the ground completely exposed. Everything seemed to be intact however no sign of listed trackable. Container has some water in it and we replaced the bag for the log book as that too contained water. Returned to what we thought was the likely GZ but this may need to be moved slightly to avoid future muggling. TFTC womblywoo

I just don't seem to have any luck with my caches! I'll have to check it out in the next few days, might need to look at moving it again.

Previous logs state that the geocoin has been safely moved on so maybe this was not muggled, just blown out of its hidey spot by the recent bad weather??

Found with Zoratz and Ivybrad - nice spot for caching
Took GC to move to cooler weather in Canberra.
TFTC

I came with DisSister and La Kedi on our way to visit relatives for lunch.

Found in the pouring rain with half the clan along. Was amazed by the hordes of tiny frogs everywhere after the rain, and enjoyed the turtles, too. TFTC ='.'=

[This entry was edited by La Kedi on Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 11:07:44 PM.]

The light rain that was falling when we started along the walk turned into a torrential downpour when we were nearing GZ. By the time we found the cache every square centimetre of clothing that wasn't covered by our raincoats was completely saturated. But it was still a lovely walk. We decided we might as well stop to see the turtles on the way back. We couldn't get any wetter by standing there for a while. A few popped their heads up for us. A memorable cache hunt. Thanks for bringing us here.

Staying on the Sunshine Coast for a couple of days. Had the old coordinates in the GPS and had to refer to the iphone to get the correct GZ. SL Left 1 TB and 2 geocoins TFTC

Still trying to get used to the new maps on my GPS. This time it wanted me to walk on water. However, I finally found the way without getting my feet wet and there was a muggle with a tractor slashing the grass.
He saw me coming and stopped the tractor to ask if I was a council bloke to which I replied in the negative (no time to work, only time to cache). He then proceeded to have smoko about 25m from the obvious hiding spot for the well hidden cache.
Had to revert to the old ploy of taking photos, or at least pretending to take photos, while I grabbed the treasure from the other side of the tree so he couldn't see.
Made sure that the container couldn't be seen by passers by.
Plenty of turtles visible in the lake.
TNLNSL TFTC

Parked the car a short walk away. When I approached the tree I could see the container in plain sight. Lucky there is no path close by and the grass is a little long. The log has a few notes from muggles stating they had found it. I covered it up with a fair bit of natures cover from the tree it is hiding in. TNLNSL TFTC

Great park to walk toward the cache.
thanks for bring me here.
cheers

Lovely park. Cache clearly visible from path so added a bit coverage to it.

Had no idea this place even existed. A cupole of muggles nearby musta thought we were up to no good. Hard ot be inconspicuous. Will definantly be going back to this area. I think a muggle found this one at some stage as well and left a note in the log. Nice of them to put it back. TFTC.

took the "geosisinlaw" with me caching today on a quest through caboolture and morayfield.
Moving TB on to the Territory
TFTC

Great place, geodog friendly (on leash) walked past the horses as i entered the park. easy find swapped Family Guy's Brian for a paratrooper army man. TFTC

Lovely area for people and dogs. Had to wait for some to pass then had it all to myself. Left Kohlenpott geocoin who wants to travel but has asked to be placed in reasonably safe caches (my translation), and Bedolla Bear TB to start his journey. Delighted to see turtles put their faces through the water to talk to me. I hear there is a platypus living on the river bank too. Took Canberra Flyer geocoin to speed on its way to Albury. TF bringing me to a great spot (number 90)

Found at 11.10am with LeadNinja and SpongeBobbb. The ducks came zooming in to the observation platform from all directions, but unfortunately for them we didn't have any bread to feed them. I am amazed at the great walking/bike tracks available. Thanks womblywoo for sharing this great area with us. TNLN.

Switched an army man for a kiwi keyring.

Thanks for bringing us to this beautiful area, I really enjoyed the walk through to the cache.

Enjoyed the walk and watching the ducks
TFTC

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 27° 05.230 E 152° 56.207
Distance From Old: 472.1 feet
Moved due to restoration and replacing of pathways.
New coordinates and clue.

New sistema container.

The Princess TB was lost when the previous cache container was taken/washed away.

Can't find it, it might have been washed downhill in one of the recent storms. Will try to get together a replacement cache asap.
Very odd that both my caches have vanished at the same time.

Will check on this cache in the next few days.

Walked round to this from Jacrel's Bridge. Missed the next bridge when we were distracted by people feeding the geese, and walked the long way round. Searched extensively but the cache eluded us. The first of 3 DNFs in row!

Jennifer and Grant from New Zealand

The family and I had a great walk in the rain to find this place.

My wife says she is an addict now (her first find).

found ok thanks to the clue, gp seemed to be about 20 mts out ????, great little area. T TB L TB
TFTC
The Olly's

Found it placed travel bug

Didn't know this place was here. Enjoyed the walk looking at the birds.

James & Patt

Yipes! Nice Waraba corner of the waterway system in here, and the mozzies like it too. Picked up the 'Lighthouse T.B. and the 'Liza' T.B. to help them on their travels. SL. Thanks for the cache, and some really nice scenery along the river.

the best part of geocaching is bringing you to these unknown locations.

great little spot thanks for the showing!
L tb

Found by Sunshine Toledo and Jinga at 2:10pm. This was a longer walk than it should have been but an easy find once at GZ. In: Liza Out: - TFTC and the stroll on a good winter's day.

Nice quick find at 1035hrs after an enjoyable walk. Had a chat to some kids who were enjoying fishing nearby.

TNLNSL

TFTC