Baby Gorilla Beerburrum, Queensland, Australia
By curtdog/d.d.dudes on 23-Mar-08. Waypoint GC1AGAA

Gone

I am sure the ammo tin is there, the contents could be a little melted. Would be an epic find for the next finder.

Looks like this cache has been burnt out needs maintenance

No luck

No luck

A fire has been through this area burnt logs everywhere could not find the cache container may need replacing.

Beautiful charted surroundings make a beautiful site however no cache in sight after quite a look around. Fire may have gotten to it?... No evidence though can't be sure without knowing exactly.

A boxing day outing had us exploring this area. We're up here visiting from Canberra for the Christmas holidays so wherever we go, we're finding 1 cache. As the kids are young (and new to geocaching), we couldn't attempt most of the caches in this area, but this one was perfect while following the trail around. Thanks for placing this cache. It was the highlight of our walk today. Always fun to find something no matter how old you are!

Nice cache, not too hard to find.

Bring insect repellent! Lots of insect repellent! ALL THE INSECT REPELLENT!!! one member of our group counted over 52 mosquito bites.

Other than that, great spot, easy walk with nice views. Fun TFTC

Found the cache with a few mates after doing the awesome Mt Tibrogargan climb! Saw lots of goannas on the track so BEWARE!

Also, bring a new pen for cache. The one there has run out so we couldn't sign the log. But we did leave a photo TFTC

Found with the group who hit Tibro with a vengeance today.It was good to hit the track around the base after scaling the monster.

Thanks for the cache, curtdog.

After making the climb to the summit and enjoying the views with Dav81, Angela & Dave, dahumbug, Team LJCC and Pappa Smurf 12, it was time to attempt the easier flatter journey around the mountain. Approaching GZ and what timing, a group of muggles! A small greeting was exchanged and then we patiently waited as they toddled off further down the track. Once they were out of sight we headed down the geotrail and it wasn't long until we had the cache in hand.

Thanks for the cache curtdog

We got a small group together and make the climb on Tibrogargan earlier this morning, the climb up wasn't so bad, if a little hairy at times! The views spectacular!!

The journey down wasn't so bad until we hit the vertical decent! I let the team surge ahead and I lagged back while helping a team mate down some of the trickier bits. I managed most of the way with no problems, but there was one specific section that had a section jutting out in the middle of the rock wall, that I came down on the wrong side of. It was only after I got part way down that I realised there were no more hand holds and my foot holds were not the best. I kept looking for a hold and eventually turned to put my back to the wall to see if I could find the answer. Nope. "Um, guys? I'm stuck!" A male voice from above called out and within seconds, the man jumped from rock to rock, in his singlet and shorts, barefoot, without using his hands, found a place near me and held his hand out for me. I put a hand on his shoulder and jumped down to the rock below me, finally happy to get off that spot! I thanked the man and he jumped back up the mountain, put on his thongs (flip flops) and bound back down the mountain.

Where we gripped the mountain and scaled down its side, this man jumped down like a mountain goat, in his thongs, almost jogging down the steep cliff face!! It was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen!

We walked the last of the steep decline and started along the level track towards the cache.

The level walking track was so welcome after the up and downs of the mountain!!

We were approached by some older lady muggles who asked us if we were climbing today. A quick conversation while standing at the Geotrail to the cache, the muggles were satisfied with our answer and moved on. We stood about until we saw them turn a bend in the track and then until we couldn't hear them anymore, then we followed the geotrail down to GZ and located the cache.

It's nice to be on level ground again!!

TFTC

This was our third cache found today (after our trek up Mt Tribrogargan). A walk on a lovely track on a pair of legs that was just starting to get the wobbles from said trek. Geotrack to the cache made for a quick find by Nyssa and log was signed by all who hadn't found it previously. A nice cache find! tftc, Team LJCC

This was the second cache while walking the full Trachyte Circuit. Walk the circuit in a anti-clockwise direction, when we got to the junction we just had a quick 240m walk up the other trail signed log then headed back to the junction again to continue the circuit. TFTC

TFTC and the walk

Great little walk around the base... Tftc

Nice easy find. Did the circular walk round the mountain which was great. Will be back to this area again. Thanks

a nice cache although wasn't an ammo box. Thanks (799 founds - watch this space!)

Found it

I found this geocache using the Geocaching Intro App. TFTC!

Yay! I found it and my travel bug too! Taking it to drop off elsewhere. Thanks!

Signed Ash & Bear. TFTF

Found it and left a friend

Found it and dropped off a buddy

Nice little walk after climbing the big Gorilla.
Had a little puppy tag that I was going to drop at the top but we did not find the cache so I though I would pass it on to Baby Gorilla.

Introduced the Baby Gorilla to the puppy and took a Blue Hippo. TFTC

Nice walk in the park cheers

Found our first cache yippee

After a wet trip around Tib thought we'd give Cooee a go ... too wet after realising it was a bit of a climb. GeoLiz spotted likely spot whilst I followed GPS. Big cheesy grin as she sat on the spot.

Lots of nicknacks. Left blue hippo tb and took whisle tb. Lovely walk even in the wet.

TFTC

=) found this today with Brightskies, we had a great walk around the mountain and was happy to find a cache in the area TFTC =)

Found with ayepeacee on our morning hike around tibro in the gorgeous weather. We live close by and are lucky enough to be around the mountains all the time. The walk today was bright, fresh and meditative. There were a few others around the base and we were sure some were climbing to the summit but we couldnt see anyone up there. We considered changing our plan to climb to the summit but we werent really prepared. We will have to return for that. We didnt have much luck as we forgot the GPSr and were stuck using the iphone, so the coords were only getting us about 18m near the cache, so ayepeacee let his caching instincts take over and it was a short hunt after all.

Thanks for the cache. It is in good condition. ^^

After no success with cookie monster (rock climbers in the way) and gorilla (phone couldn't seem to decide on a location) I at least had some luck with this easy find, a nice stroll after getting down from the top. Left sharky tb. TheoreticalJazz

Easy find on the way back from a disappointing search for Cookie Monster. Took nothing, left a frisbee that I had found in the bush, obviously tossed from the top of Tibrogargan many months or years ago. TFTC

Our mission today, for those that accepted it, was to seek, find and log 6 Gorillas. Yes 6. In a single hunt. Our journey commenced at approximately 08:00 from the carpark with Iolanthek, T-Tech, membsec, bedmaker, TassieGirl13 and teamdfl (collectively we were going to be known as the 'suckers' as we considered ourselves ... oooh, Team "Gorilla" I like the sound of that. Good call T-Tech.)

So, after four Gorillas, including three 'up there', we returned to terra more firma. Heading along the track and we picked up the baby of the bunch. Exactly where we knew it would be as we approached GZ. Captured Gorilla number five [^][^][^][^][^] Now that was a WAY lot easier then the previous ones.

Thanks for placing this cache, curtdog. Found in good condition.
{Overall find #1531}

T-Tech and I headed north today to meet up with P`, teamdfl, both halves of membsec, Tassiegirl13 and Bedmaker for an expedition to seek out some gorillas and their neighbours

After finding 'Gorilla' and 'Plantman' at the summit, and doing the research for the new Earthcache, we crawled our way back down the mountain then took the very leisurely wander along the trail to this cache. At GZ the geosense kicked in and it was a quick find. Those of us who hadn't got it signed the log and we headed off to make our last find here at Tibrogargan.

TFTC, curtdog.

Today Team "Gorilla" consisting of P` (our intrepid organiser), membsec, IolantheK, Tassiegirl13, bedmaker, TeamDFL and myself, met up to bag a bunch of caches on and around Mt Tibrogargan.

After successfully finding Gorilla and Plantman we carefully descended the mount and worked our way around in a southerly direction.
This cache was not far off the track and was found without difficulty. All that hadn't discovered this cache before signed onto the log and we were off to the next cache.

The cache is dry and in good condition.

TFTC curtdog


P.S. Mt Tibrogargan offers some great views bother towards west ascending and at the top looking east all the way to the coast, breathtaking, well worth the walk/climb. Make sure you have heaps of water though, with the temperature above 30 degrees and the trip we did all up and back then around the mount over 5.5 hours I went through 4 litres of water .

Great day out with PPrime, TTech, IolantheK, Tassiegirl13, bedmaker and TeamDFL.
After the strenuous climb for the previous caches of the day this one presented us with a pleasant walk, under the trees and on a relatively even pathway [^]. Despite some slipping and sliding moving from the path to the bush the cache location was quickly spotted (using as much geo-sense as GPS . Log signed by those of us who hadn't previously visited and quickly on our way to the final challenge of the mountain.
TFTC

This entry was edited by membsec on Sunday, 21 October 2012 at 08:45:07 UTC.

Out hunting gorillas with the "gorillas in the bush" team. I had already turned this gorilla into a trophy a few years ago, so I just stopped by to swap TBs

This entry was edited by teamdfl on Sunday, 21 October 2012 at 08:14:06 UTC.

After completing The Glasshouse 50 km run, I stood in the area and visited some caches.
Nice trail, good find.
TFTC
Greetings from Germany
Michael

This one is a sense of relief after tackling the other 3 hard caches nearby. We found this one on our way from Gorilla to Cookie monster.

Left Out of Madeira TB

Thanks

1200hrs. After the climb up the hill and 2 caches out of the way we were on our way to Cookie monster when we came across this cache. So easy after the previous 2 and in good condition. TFTCSL.

I was happy that the box was not in the deep jugle. Fast found. Thanks for the box

This was a easy cache after the adventure in the jungle. Thanks

We had a great day in the park visiting Cookie Monster, Gorilla, Plantman Geocache # 24, Baby Gorilla and then thinking they where not very far away did Cooee and Wild Dog Views.

We parked at the suggested rock climbers car park and soon made it to Cookie Monster. Down with the back pack and up the face we when. It took us two goes as the we thought we where being smart trying for more of a traverse but ran out of options so it was the straight up approach. We got to the little landing (a great place to sign the log) and realised we still had a bit to go so off we went and got to the area with the strap but still no cache so up higher we went. At this point perched on the next ledge we started going through the logs and photos and realised we had over shot it but should have seen it. More and more searching and it was looking like a DNF so we came down a bit and put the GPSr down with in 10cm of it. Relieved and then estatic to make the find. The current location is a little bit lower than the cache page hint. We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC. Umm Cookies, I Like Cookies, Cookies, Cookies, Cookies. Fav pt awarded

We followed the rough track from Cookie Monster to the climb for Gorilla around the base of the rock until it ran out and then bush bashed down to the main track. The track up was steep. The well worn track had its pros and cons as you could clearly see the foot holds but some are a little slippery but manageable. The track reminded us of some of the NZ cache we have done where they take you a kilometre through the vertical. Once at the top we could see where others had searched but we could not turn up the cache. We then heard some one call out who caught us searching. He was a regular rock climber and had done some caching and confirmed it had recently been muggled as the contents had been all over the place where we were searching which was disappointing but at least the climb and views were great. We asked if he had found or knew how to get to Plantman Geocahe # 24 but he had not found it.

After the disappoint at Gorilla our uncertainly about going after Plantman Geocache # 24 changed to must find. The cache description sounded a bit hairy and hence our previous uncertainty. We found that other track (infact we came back on a different one). We carefully headed down and then got to a point where we looked to be within 15m but a bit high so we dropped down. A search did not turn the cache and GPSr reading was effected by the over shadowing of the rock. We got back up on clear ground and let the GPSr settle some more and headed off in a slightly different area and then saw the hide in a place made for a cache. Great views of the valley and the cliff face. With the signing duties done and the cache re hidden going down the mountain felt a lot easier. TFTC. Fav Point awarded.

With the disappointment at Gorilla we thought we should at least grab Baby Gorilla as it was not too far away. We soon got to the likely spot even though the GPSr suggested it was further away and followed a likely cache trail. At about 12m to go we saw a likely hide and soon had the cache in hand and were signing the log. TFTC



This entry was edited by bella at waggy on Friday, 03 August 2012 at 11:00:43 UTC.

On a wet miserable day we opted for the second option. Completed the circuit and picked up the cache along the way. TFTC in a great location.

This entry was edited by Swynymor on Thursday, May 03, 2012 at 8:16:04 AM UTC.

All dry , tnx

Tftc tnln

name change

Today I was out cycling around parts of the Glasshouse Mountains.

After being to the top of 4 different mountains today I was not up for another and it was getting late in the day. So a little walk around the base of Tibro was about all I could handle.

The cache was a quick find and is in good condition and dry.

Found easily while doing the walk.

Thanks very much. A long walk in for geokid d', but he loved bush-bashing it slightly off the track for the find. A good cache, he commented "this is a big box!"

Cheers
D+d'

Found during our holiday in Australia
Excellent view!
TFTC

Wow that was an awesome day at Mt. Tibrogargan. We arrived at about 8am
and where very keen if the climb we wanted to do is wet or dry. It was dry
and so we had a great 5-pitch climb up the mountain.
On the way back to the car I found this geocache as a little bonus.
Thank you for that.

Chipolini

Found on a slightly rainy day.

Found pretty easily. Took an army man with a parachute and left a Nerf dart. Second find ever! Hooray!

We got to the base of Tibrogargan at about 2pm and decided that this was the only cache we could achieve today. Nice bush walk.
TFTC

Found with geokids. Great walk. Tftc.

It was a lovely day and the walk was idyllic. Nice find off the track in the brush, interesting to look through all the items within the cache. What fun!! TFTC

Lovely walk and a fun day out with the little one. TFTC

We were very glad that we did not have to climb to this one after having just come from the summit of Mt Beerburrum. There was a very juicy looking arachnid sitting right on the cache. Ugh! Lucky there were suitable poking sticks about. TFTC

Took a walk around Tibrogargon today. TN Left a party hat for the geokids.TFTC Thanks curtdog and d.d.dudes

Great area love the walks here left plastic dino TNSL TFTC

Embarrassed as all hell!! I set of with my wife and geobrat, we walked the trail and came to a point where we disagreed on the next direction! my wife and geobrat following the Iphone and me with the dodgy GPS.......
Well one hour later, scratched, scraped, frustrated and annoyed we caught up with each other, wife and geobrat beaming from ear to ear...... cache found! so they escorted me back, cache in good condition, a couple of toys and stickers left, log signed and I followed my geoaces back to the car. TFTC and embarrassment.
We have a team mascot, its my wife's first attempt at knitting, We have called it Geof Rog. We will take pics with it at every cache.

Found this one on a daytrip to the Glasshouse Mountains...

Walked the Trachyte circuit at dusk + dark, and the wildlife is impressive:
Birds, Toads, Monitor Lezard, Snake, all in one walk !

TFTC and Greetings from Normandie-France + Brisbane-Australia

Found this one ok thanks to a handy geo-trail, after a challenging haul up the hill with the geotoddler in his pram. [XX(] After grabbing 'Dirty Dog' first we thought the track may be similar, however we were wrong Never mind, he thinks 'the bumpier - the better' so he had a ball. Took Web Bound GC, Left Breizh TB. Thanks for the adventure curtdog

630 - With all the rain around the area of late, there was no way it would be possible to climb to the top of Tibro today. There were a few cars in the car park, and we met a couple of muggles taking photos along the track and heard some more further along. With some light rain falling and a stream of water running along the track, we were glad we had our geothongs on as we made it to the cache at 1:54pm. Left If's Web Wound GC and took the Lost Scouts GC. Cache in good condition. Had a look at the lookout along the way, definitely worth the short detour from the main track. TFTC curtdog and dd dudes.

Nice walk around the base of the mountains, we plan to find "Dirty Dog" next.

Quickly found this one. Very nice area. Thanks for the cache!

Nice quick find with stinky 17. Heaps of muggles wandered by on the path above and did not even notice us. Left Lost Scouts coin. TFTC

Found it with team DFL

Found with the rest of the group today. This was certainly an easier walk after Ngungun and finding Cookie Monster. TFTC

A great way to finish the circumnavigation of my favourite Glass House Mountain. Found with the rest of the MCBC during out day out in the area.

Thanks for the cache curtdog/d.d.dudes. Cheers, svn07

Found today in the company of the rest of our group up here for the day.
We'd almost done the whole circuit by this, a nice walk around indeed.
TFTC.

Found with Brisbane Geocaching Group on our Glasshouse Mountains day trip. It's nice to find a decent sized container out here. TFTC.

This entry was edited by Herbz on Sunday, 01 August 2010 at 15:57:16.

Out and about with the Brisbane Geocaching group - we decided to tackle this one. The hunt ensued and the cache was retrieved easily. A fantastic walk in the area - I had never been here before. TFTC curtdog/d. d. dudes

Dropped in a Homer Simpson Trackable.

Also part of the group raiding the area today. Cache was too easy to grab to go past. TFTC.

That was a lovely walk in the bush. 'Someone' wanted to walk the whole circuit so off we went .
You gotta wonder what some people think when they get dressed to go bushwalking. We arrived back at the cars to find a young woman in her pretty sundress, her sandals and a H-U-G-E red floppy hat - like the ones that were worn in the late 70's/early 80's!! Cache was found easily, log signed and cache returned to it's hidey hole. Great to see a large cache container in the bush . TFTC

What a cute little gorilla . The gang trooped in here after finding and logging "cookie monster". TN/LN/SL and made our way back to the carpark for some well-earned lunch.

Found (12:09) as we completed the circuit of the mountain...

Nice easy find

Cache quickly surfaced & log signed.... Now 2 lunch

TNLNSL

It was suggested that Lookout Cafe at Glass House Views may be the go......

Well we would suggest NOT!!!!!!!
What a poor parody of custome service & staff manners where in display here...
1/2 our group left after being told to wait 30 minutes before ordering - they ventured down the road aways & where back with better food before those who had already ordered & paid where all served....
This establishment definitely on my 'NOT recommended' list

Thanks curtdog/d.d.dudes for this one...

Ok, so I am also known as "Someone" in this case but, we all enjoyed the walk around the circuit not to mention the caches...

It was amusing having a younger caching member in the group today and some of the comments as GZ was getting further away... We made it however and the cache was a nice quick find... [^]

Cheers curtdog & d.d.dudes.

Nice easy found.

After not finding the big one, we found this one.

TFTC
Roland aka tasdevil13

Found this after a trip up to gorilla and plantman. Did the full circuit.
TNLNSL
TFTC

A good easy find in a nice location. Interesting fungus growing beside the cache. Took Cow GC, TFTC.

Took Ben 10, left tuppence.

Found with dmavard

Took the long walk round to this one with SneakyKiwi. Enjoyed the walk, the views and the information boards.
Thanks for the easy find.
Took Catalunya GeoCoin, added Cooper Cow GeoCoin.


[This entry was edited by dmavard on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 4:15:54 AM.]

Hola soy Nerium62 y es para saber si todavia esta la geocoin mia del catalunya team
y si el proximo geocaher la puede mover para que viaje
gracias

Found this cache while hollidaying in Qld. Mabe next time I'll attempt the summit climb.

TFTC

Awesome spot! Thanks for bringing us here. Thought we would be able to do a bunch of caches in this area but pretty sure attempting that summit climb = death!! TFTC

Found with Wonder Wits, people of the world! TFTC.

A quick find here made us feel better about not bagging Cookie Monster. Enjoyed the scenic tour along the base of the mountain to get from there to here. TFTC Curtdog/d.d.dudes.

serious bush walking day today.
enjoyed this walk around the base of this mountain. the summit walk info boards put me off attempting that - it said for serious climbers only. im not that dedicated to steep open climbs.
a nice walk and an easy cache find was what i enjoyed instead.
tn but the TB. ln
tftc

Out for a ride on trusty geocycle but took the wrong track (there are a number to choose from) and ended up having to climb about 200m up the slope. Talk about bush bashing without a 4x4.

Finally got it after losing a bit of skin. Took the Baby Gorilla from the clutches of the Baby Gorilla. TFTC

Did not notice the other TB that is supposed to be there.

Dropping an appropriately named TB.

A Good back up plan. Knew we wouldn't get up to Gorilla, but did try and will next time. Left TB hope someone takes him up top.

TNLTC
TFTC

Great walk, easy find.
TNLN
TFTC

Zipped in for a quick look after climbing Ngungun and Tibberoowuccum. I remember this intersection from a previous attempt at a certain Cookie Monster.

After a few minutes of arrow circling the obvious spot was revealed. TFTC