Past and Present Mareeba, Queensland, Australia
By weroamin on 02-Mar-08. Waypoint GC19VCD

Made a trip up to Mareeba to buy some turf.After getting the numbers, it was on dark. But I towed the trailer away from home (Cairns) assuming the numbers were right. It was dark when I pulled up, and I'm not sure the trailer did well with my parking spot on a slope, literally with a tonne of turf onboad. Anyway, I got out the torch and after going to the obvious spot, read the hint and found the cache. I do have to say that "snakes" went through my mind. And then I saw three small browns on the road on the way home..I really enjoyed finding this one, great adventure and interesting finds on the way, fp

TFTC. Was a bit challenging but we got there in the end.

Accio 12:59:22Found with T4mmmy on a sneaky weekend away up north. A work trip to Cairns and then they sent me up to Mareeba with the new EV vehicle needing a bit of a run. OK then, I am perfectly fine with that. After attending to work business, a more pleasurable visit to - well this place (always interesitng to me). Collected some numbers, and they pointed us to a likely spot so off we zipped and made a quick find there. All good. thankyou.Thanks weroamin for entertaining me at this location. *{Overall find #12639}*

Thanks for placingFound with my buddies from Brisvagas, on an adventure to the Tableland and surrounds

Today was a very early start with a drive to the airport for a 6 am flight to Cairns and day one of our North Queensland geocaching trip.Snickersallan and I were met at the airport by Grannysmith and Bluewattle. The bags were thrown into the car and we were off for a day of adventure. First off it was up to Kuranda, then across to Mareeba, down to Atherton and Millaa Millaa. It was then over to Innisfail before working our way back to Cairns, to arrive just in time for the night time event. It was nice to see a couple of locals turn up to the event, thank you.Spending a little time in Mareeba and checking out a couple multi caches to help with a challenge. We found our correcteds and headed off to collect. The log was signed with all four names before it was replaced as found and we continued on. Thanks for the hide and the placement.

TFTC smile20327 Out and about on a Sunny day grabing a cache to try and keep a challenge going signed as GS1947 on small logs Thank you weroamin for placing this cache for our enjoyment

Travelling around the local districts with geo friends for a few days and enjoying the beautiful scenery along the way whilst visiting some places for the very first time.Thank you, weroamin, for placing this good multi for our benefit and enjoyment.

Took a little in the long grass but after a merry excursion through town found the GZ. Tftc

Great hide awesome puzzle lots of fun catch is in great condition

Puh, this took longer than expected. The information were gathered the other day. Today we came past GZ and stopped a bit from it where it is safe to do so. The search was longer than expected as well although I did take note of the hint. Though, currently everything is very overgrown and hence the host was hard to see compared to its siblings. Ho ho ho! Once more we are visiting the Tablelands and are enjoying our time up here a lot. Escaping the heat further south is certainly appreciated and celebrating Christmas out in the National Park is simply stunning. Along our ways we are grabbing here and there a few caches which we were not able to get during our previous visits. Thank you very much weroamin for creating the 2.5/1.5 Small sized geocache Past and Present and a Merry Christmas!

Thanks

Found it!

OCW PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa

We collected the info for this multi a couple of days ago when we were running errands in town.

The find had to wait until today.

Tftc

Found it... in the end. We were camped in our motorhomes— Sea Reason, and I— and we choose to walk the 'town' locations, and drive to the last one. No problem there, but after our initial calculation, we saw that GZ was off the planet so to speak, we'd obviously made an error. So we went back over a few waypoints, and we were still unsure whether some of the ABCDs had two digits or one. So we had what the local constabulary would term a domestic. That helped, because instead of one of us working on the puzzle, while the other pointed out that that was all wrong, we did it individually and got the right answer. Then the battery in my phone went flat and I was entirely at Sea Reason's mercy. The following day, we drove to GZ and did the deed.
A pretty good puzzle. Along the way, I was surprised at how many early settlers were called Minnie. I thought Ms. Mouse was the only one, but after she was called that, it probably fell from favour.
All is well in the cache. LNTN TFTC.

A great cache thanks, with Capricorn Dancer, we had a lovely walk from Davies’s Park to find 1st location then enjoyed the walk to pick up all other information. Drove out today to find GZ TFTC

Apologies for the late log here (01.01.24) but I've had a busy time since getting back to the UK.Quite a slog for a 2.5/1.5, and a good hunt at GZ too, but I got there in the end. Glad I wasn't in a big hurry today! Thanks for a bit of a challenge TNLN-TFTC!SP (UK) on an epic trek right around the world.

Nice multi to do while exploring Mareeba. Tftc

Solved it and found it! We had a lovely morning at the heritage centre and noticed the posted coordinates were nearby. We soon realised that this was our last geocache to find in the Mareeba town area. We’re glad we did this multi as we really enjoyed the hunt and hide. The container was in great condition and we signed and replaced as found. TFTC

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I can’t find

Decided to do the Atherton Tablelands today during our week in Cairns. Despite having what we thought were the right numbers, I couldn't figure out any way to get even close to GZ. Maybe I had the wrong info but the checksum agreed. Never mind, can't find 'em all.

We started our day in Mareeba, finding the information that would be needed for this one.
We then spent the day in various areas, being tourists and finding a few geocaches.
On the road back to Atherton in the late afternoon, we stopped to collect this one and found it in a very likely place. We have added our name to the log.
Thanks weroamin
Domsky

Loved this one! Did it on a night out in the town with Ash and @stockiracer_09 ,TFTC

Found tonight with @Lycanthrope10
Great hide loved all the waypoints especially in the dark

Really sorry but we didn't realise that we hadn't logged this cache a couple of years back when GT37 and I were up here with Team Crackers and Micaparamedic. Lucky we have some notes and have logged it for when we were in this area back in 2022. Having been a little cocky at previous caches and guessing we knew better than the GPS, this time we used the GPS (mainly) and soon had the cache in hand.

It has been brought to my attention that we hadn't logged this when we were up here in 2022. We have placed the log on a day that we were still in the area. We had done a little of what was needed earlier but hadn't completed it. Due to a car issue, we find ourselves back here with a day or two until we can get going so chose to complete the cache . Pleased we did as it was enjoyable. Thanks for placing this cache and maintaining it for so long.

After having a great time relaxing with muggle friends in Cairns it was time to get out before the predicted storms struck and were not sure which roads are going to be closed so we filled up with supplies and let geocaching (especially adventure labs) guide us.

We started this multi on our trip to Chilligo with micaparamedic, Geoturtle37 & Papi4506 but when we saw that it was a six pointer we didn't think that we would have time to complete it so left it for another day and for us that was today. We are glad that we took the time to do it as it turned out to be quite an enjoyable little journey and even at gz we trusted the GPS instead of our instincts for a change and came up with the container right where the GPSr said that it should be and the log book now contains our name.

Many thanks weroamin for a fun multi.

Past

First multi, loved the first half. First pass at GZ was unsuccessful, needed to stop and reassess and then grabbed a weed-whackin stick. Very well camouflaged

TFTC

1MinnieMoo and I were in Mareeba grabbing some caches and we decided to grab this one.

We had a bit of a hiccup at the start but were soon off and racing. Some of our answers were not forthcoming - but Mr Google sorted that out. We were soon our way to the final.

And thankfully, the cache was right where we expected it to be. We signed the log and re-hid the cache as found. This cache happens to be currently the 908th oldest active cache in Queensland. It's been a few years since I found a weroamin cache - my stats tell me this is my tenth! TFTC weroamin

17/10/21 Find #5066
Day 9 of our Far North Queensland Adventure. Fangsoki and I decided to head towards Mareeba for some of the older caches out this way today.
We had just completed a couple of rather glorious hikes, and were heading here for this multi next, before a bite to eat and one more cache.
We pulled up and after a bit of this and that, managed to get the checksum to work. Then we were off to our next location.
We collected all info fairly easily, tho one we did resort to a spoiler pic for, and one I wasn’t quite sure what to do with the answer, but deduction worked and the final checksum agreed, so we were off to the final location where we made a nice quick find.
Thanks for the cache weroamin.

Found it thanks

Thanks for being us to Mareeba favourite for us

Cairns Queensland Dive trip 2021. I joined our Dive club for a trip to Cairns to go Diving on the Northern Great Barrier reef. We had a great time and I also went on a more local trip as well. In between there was time for caching around Cairns, and with a Hire care, two day trips to the surrounding areas.

Day 11. This was the second day out in a car after returning from the second reef dive trip. It started at the Northern beaches and then I headed up to Kuranda, Mareeba, Mount Malloy and Pt Douglas. After calculating GZ last year, I failed miserably to find it. Today I tried again and then again to locate it. Although I had been looking at a spot only 10cm from the cache, I had missed it so many times. This time, I saw another item and whoo hoo, there it was. I some how made this much harder than it should have been, given the co-ordinates were well within 1-3m.

Thanks for the cache weroamin

32567.19 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 24 Hours 72 Finds A#293

**Albida**

This was a long one but after spending some time getting all the numbers I checked it and we went to gc. Looked at clue and some photos and found it quickly. Tftc

I was out and about on a free dat during my current trip to Cairns. I had set about locating the information I needed for this one and everything was going smoothly. I had all the numbers and the last checksum matched, so off I go. Unfortunately that is where things fell apart. I found plenty of clue items in a 20m radius, but no cache. I hope it is hiding there somewhere.

Thanks
Albida

So... I thought this was going to be a nice quick multi. I should have paid more attention! Collected the info I needed quickly enough, but the final was quite elusive. After a good search of the area my GPS had me, I extended my search slightly and finally had the container in hand. TFTC!

Wahoo.. found after hours solving, back tracking and second time looking. Found TFTC with Barrod.

Wahoo took us quite sometime doing this one overgrown grass but finally found with suto52 tftc

An interesting cache, I quite enjoy these multi-cache / solve-the-clues finds.

But actually I could not find it the first time. I found all the waypoints and obtained all the secret values, but initially the final calculation check did not equal my value.
I re-did the waypoints looking for errors, but (on the day) could not find the error.

That evening I was going to message the CO to report a possible errors, only to discover the calculation checks did actually come out correct with my values. (Obviously, on the day, the many letter sums kept tripping me up, which did not happen that evening).

The iphone gps module failed while doing this so i had to enter in the gps waypoints into my trusty etrex. Got through all the clues then went for the drive. Luckily in my direction of travel anyway. I felt like what my index finger is pointing to in the photo after walking by that same rock about 9 times. Looks like the gps module had to cool down, but i still don’t trust it. It has been too variable lately.

Loved the hide. Tftc

I solved the coordinates and went for the cache. I made an assumption about where it would be but no! I looked further afield and found the prize exactly wherenthe coordinates said it would be. Good hide.

Austpark was in the area in Oct 18 to help with the fires to the west of Herberton, and stayed in Mareeba. I started this one then. Last night I was working on the clues and fortunately realised that some minutes were not making sense. Back to square one, and X=Y and Y=X????? Final co-ordinates were found, and the hide was well camouflaged.
TFTC

The puzzles were solved during our holidays, Greetings from Austria.

After collect the Informations we was a little bit confused.
So far away? O.k. we try the coordinates.
And after a while searching we are able to find.
Thank you and greetings from Germany send Moorhelmi

300 days of and we found this cache on one of these days. Was a bit of a walk about in an area we would not otherwise travel to. The geokids had a bit of an impromptu history lesson and thanks for the adventure.

SL TNLN TFTH

Found while on a family geo adventure. TFTC

Nice find.

Although we had to recheck a few times we enjoyed the find at GZ TFTH

We are grey nomading and caching around to escape the cold of Adelaide. Don't often do multi's but as all the others done we took up the challenge. Don't like long grass but took a chance. T.F.T.C.

Yay! Learnt a lot with this one thanks!!

Worth all the waypoints. Tftc. co-ordinates super accurate.

Finally....a few trips in to Mareeba and a few false starts.....PAF, and now it’s in hand. TFTC.

In Mareeba for 48 hours, using some of that time to add a few more smilies on the board. Boy did we work for this one! Arrived at the first waypoint, and walked to the second and subsequent ones. The second last had us second guessing, but eventually decided that it must be right, so walked back to the car (thankfully the day was not too hot) and went for a drive down the highway..... Found it, thnks weroamin for the hide and the walk down memory lane.

This was our second cache today. At first we had a look in the information center and the beautiful heritage museum. What a nice exhibition.
Waypoint 1 was quickly done and a short ride in the car later we found all other waypoints without problems. We were wondering about the final coords but previous logs confirmed it.
We searched a while and had a look everywhere and couldn't find the container. We started from the beginning and had a more detailed look. Yippee. Finally it was too easy...
Thanks for showing. Tftc

This took longer than expected as we read a lot of headstones. Amazing to see some old headstones, ancestors passed away before a white man had even landed in NZ....our place. And so many quite elaborate headstones for babies and very young children...an excellent multi thanks...from a couple of kiwis on tour.

Brilliant thanks loved this one
Felt a bit guilty when the local groundsman came up to ask me if I was Ok and had I found my Elders. He proceeded to tell me how to do this via the council .Very nice man I just said thankyou ! Luckily the rest were mainly out of his view.
I did question the co-ordinates for GZ and rechecked before setting out but Yes all good.
The Hint is really Good as you do obviously spend time at the obvious but after spending this amount of time and petrol , you want to get it. Stand up and think about it and maybe you will see .
A favourite point from me

TFTC. We are housesitting in Mareeba and located about halfway between the posted co-ordinates and the virtual waypoints. We had solved for GZ about four weeks ago, although I did have a problem with one of the waypoints. After contacting the CO I returned to see where I had gone wrong . I had found the wrong Richard. I blame my glasses but really should be careful with the co-ores entered into the GPS. Solved the problem and came up with the correct checksum. As we needed to fill in certain dates on our 366 day calendar we thought to save the local caches for those dates just in case we had not found caches on our travels. Today we went to lunch in Cairs and did not have an opportunity to cache. On returning to Mareeba we travelled the distance to the final GZ and put our names in the log.
Thanks for the local history weroamin.

Travelling around Australia using Geocaching as our Tour Guide.

Staying in Walkamin, today we visited Mareeba to do some shopping before we head towards Cape York.

Took a little while to collect the info but well worth it in such historic locations.

TFTC weroamin

After looking way too long, found it in a place I thought I'd already checked. Cool spot & thanks for the trip down pioneer lane. RIP Myrtle. Thanks for the multi & TFTC 0

Tftc good find and rewarding

Thank you very much for this multi

Was a bit worried about doing a 6 step multi. Really enjoyed this cache. Tftc

Tftc

Found it tftc

Checked on this cache today. GZ safe and secure and cache was right where it should be. Log book still has plenty of room. A great cache if you don't make it harder than it actually is!

Usually a bit wary of 6 stage multis, didn't find Laura but worked out the last number & a quick grab at gz. TFTC cheers

With Solving4X. Out to Mareeba for the day and we decided to track this one down. Great locations to get there, and the cache was soon in hand!

Solved the puzzle yesterday, and found it today, thanks for the adventure.

Finally on our third try (and with a little help from the CO) we can turn this into a smiley face. Solved the puzzle back in January and just couldn't find it - turns out we way overthought it.
Took Bart Simpson Travelbug, left Magpyre 1 Travelbug.
TFTC

Dropped off TB.
Cache in good condition

Did not find
Found GZ and were absolutely positive to have found the right rock to look under. Found lots of other overturned rocks and recent "diggings" - not sure if it's still there?
We'll be back

Found today after solving yesterday. Home for Christmas and spending time following up family history - my great grandmother is buried at the Pioneer cemetery. Enjoying learning about Alfred and Oceanna. As a keen cyclist I was interested to learn they opened the first bike shop in Cairns.
Took nothing. Left June Canavan Foundation key ring. TFTC

We loved Richard's the best. TFTC.

The puzzles were solved during our holidays, Greetings from Switzerland

Found the plaque

Watch the attitudes with spirit of Geocahcing...

This is the first one I requested find, get rid of the snob attitude CO...

Simply delete post dont talk rubbish

This cache was checked today and found to be in position as it should be, and in good condition. All good to go with this now!

The following LOG 'Found it', BY Rummaging Remins, has been DELETED , as I DO NOT accept it as a legitimate find.

Logging this one as a find if the CO doesnt mind.. Had fun doing the various stages of this one with the kids.
Upon arrival to the GZ, was expecting to find the prize pretty quick. Unfortunately after 30min of searching and then trying the phone the friend option we came up short. Confirmed correct location and had to leave, unfortunately I did not have my Geo Box with me so I could not replace the cache.
Thanks for the multi though.

The CO (cache owner) does indeed mind, and I DO NOT accept this log as a cache find. I see that this geocacher logged a nearby cache as 'Needs Maintenance', it's gone missing, only to log a find the very next day. All geocachers should stick to the spirit of geocaching. [:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!]

Only because of the last log, I will Temporarily Disable this one until it can be checked, unless someone else can tell me that it IS ACTUALLY there!

Logging this one as a find if the CO doesnt mind.. Had fun doing the various stages of this one with the kids.
Upon arrival to the GZ, was expecting to find the prize pretty quick. Unfortunately after 30min of searching and then trying the phone the friend option we came up short. Confirmed correct location and had to leave, unfortunately I did not have my Geo Box with me so I could not replace the cache.
Thanks for the multi though.

Last one was hard to find

We enjoyed visiting the various waypoints and learning some of the local history on a beautiful bright sunny day in Mareeba.

Many thanks for taking us on this little journey and showing us some of the area weroamin[^]

Found @ 17:01

After startinh this one, then getting distracted by coffee, chocolate, photo taking and a couple caches, we finally made it to GZ. I had initial doubts when I plotted it over coffee but upon arrival I was feeling confident. Cache was found in second place we looked. Thanks for the adventure, been awhile since I did a lengthy (but not too long) multi.

TFTC

TFTC found on 15/4/15 with geo dad geohoppe

TFTC with the help of geo daughter Ktqueenofdrama we found it:)

Tftc . This was a bit of a tricky find. Pay close attention to the hint.

Finally. Very well hidden. Took nothing left nothing. Signed log.

very good

Very frustrating. Turned over every rock in the area. Nothing to be found spent 3 hours in the area. The smile is wheelie annoying.

Love this Game! Awesome Puzzle! Favourite point from us! Would give you two if We could! Love it! TFTC

Scorched ground and surrounds, but the cache is safe and sound.

#1308 - We did the multi jumps yesterday after cycling from Cairns. Slept a near sleepless night in the Riverside Caravan Park full of potato workers. Then up early this morning to grab the final location on our way to our next destination.

Fabulous multicache, loved the opportunities to learn about the beautiful history of this area. TFTC

Thanks for the tour around town, we arrived at the final to find scorched earth but an intact cache.

TNLN SL TFTC

22/09/2014 11:58 Find #3059

#6198 We had decided upon a tour via car to Kuranda, Mareeba and perhaps Atherton if time allowed. This multi was spotted on our way into town and we thought that it was something that we just couldn't pass up. We enjoyed collecting the information and the little tour around town as a result. We were distracted by the Chocolate Shop a little way into this cache but soon got back on track. For some reason we had the Y answer wrong but subsequent calculations set us straight. At the end we thought we might find a cooked cache but it was nestled in its rocky niche, well hidden and in good condition. Our thanks to weroamin for the enjoyable multi. Cheers [^]

Found on our "Making Memories" tour of Mainland Australia.

Today we explored Mareeba using geocaching as our guide.

To our supprise GZ had been recently burnt in a controlled burn off, but cache was still intact.

Many thanks to all cache owners for placing and maintaining caches for our enjoyment.

After a frustrating malfunction of my normally helpful navigator (aka Little Red Riding Hood) I eventually found all the required information and made my way to the GZ. For once I had taken note of the hint and so the cache was soon in hand. TFTC TNLN SL