Cairns TB Motel - High and Dry Manunda, Queensland, Australia
By Yarrum on 12-Apr-08. Waypoint GC1B4R5

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Checked the site and saw the litter and signs that the 'inhabitants'of this place may come back. The cache was in open view, that's when I decided to take it to have it in safe hands.
Trapiche

[This entry was edited by Trapiche on Monday, October 19, 2009 at 3:53:09 AM.]

I may need to move this cache. So disabling for the moment until I review its circumstances.

This is definitely a cache in trash out site. I managed a large bag full but it needs a few more to clear the area.
Left Luck of the Irish Geocoin took, travelling west TB.
Left Travel Bug Dog Tag it is heading for Chrictchurch New Zealand. Unfortunately I did not get the tracking number correctly and it is still tracking in Stargate- Darwin.
TFTC

[This entry was edited by guerrero1 on Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 2:17:25 AM.]

maybe needs some tlc geokids found what was the cache
ended up being a cask of alcohol some indigenous muggles have moved in
tents and all around gz maybe needs to be checked and the muggles moved or
the tb motel

geocaching in Australia while vacationing from Oregon. Picked up the school bus TB and will take him to the states with us. TFTF

Jus back to swap some bugs , locals have been camping here and there are swamp hens everywhere.

I was out caching by myself on a very hot day in Cairns. I found the nearby cemetery cache, but when I started to go into the swamp to find this one, I saw that there were quite a few tents and such for homeless folks and didn't feel safe walking in by myself. Too bad, I had a TB that needs to find his way to the Phillipines and I was hoping to drop him off here. He was too big for the other cache. If any one knows of a large cache in Sydney I could drop him off in, please let me know. Thanks!

1st cache for this trip to cairns
took 2 TB
left 2 TB

1st cache for this trip to cairns
took 2 TB
left 2 TB

Pt. Douglas Trip 09.7. Apart from the mozzies, this was deserted with no sign of the lodging that seemed to came after. I liked the area. Thanks.

2608.81 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 12 Days of Caching 2007 Gold A#87

Albida

Our first (and only) find in Cairns! We've been too busy doing the tourist thing to do much caching...not that I'm complaining! It's been great here, and the weather has really cooperated. I probably should have worn real shoes for this one, but it wasn't too bad in sandals. We left one of our travel bugs here to roam his way around this half of the planet. We didn't take any, because it looked like the others wanted to stay in Australia, and we're heading back to the US in a few days. TFTC!

We already found the cache, but we need to dip a TB in here so we can log it and post pictures of it for our friends. Thanks!

We hiked over here from our hotel room, 1 and 1/2 miles, not a bad hike. We needed a cache to put our Australian Challenge TB. Thanks from Florida USA cachers!

Forgot we dropped 2 TB's here so needed to create a log for this one. Thanks!

An easy but well hidden cache - I always love finding these containers! We snatched the Lady pirate TB and I think this may have been where we found Duke Nukem as well but there are no recent logs. Thanks for the cache, Yarrum !

Great Cache thanks for bringing us here
Left shells and took a couple of TB's
TFTC

Found during our family trip to Australia.
Thanks to all australian cachers for making us discover all those nice places!
Greetings from France!!!!
Attention!!!: I dropped a TB in the container, but I forgot to log that I retrivied it from I don't remember where...so if the next finder cold give me the code....it was a figurine of an old man...Thanks!!!

Visiting here from Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Needed a place to drop off a couple of bugs from the US.
This was the place! Both Lady Pirate and Abby the Cat TB's are looking to travel far and wide and what better place than Cairns, Australia. Took 2006 Endian Geo Coin will take this one back home. TFTC

[This entry was edited by Crypt Seekers on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 at 11:08:34 AM.]

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easy to find, once you get to it. we took a wrong turn and spent a decent amount of time wandering through the tropical bush.

Found after going the extremely long way through the bush. Found with cousin who took the frienship stone TB.
Left GC.

TFTC

Ok got it - unfortunately very empty for a TB hotel - had lots to exchange but there were no TB or GC swaps
Please Note: No TB to be found - It is missing
Took nothing
Left Friendship TB anyway so that the hotel is not totally empty
TFTC & mozzies

Nothing like a Cache in the OZ bushland to brighten your day! Found with GeoKDex. TFTC. Great container! One of my largest finds yet!!

Found with GeoDyer. Not great with flip flops.X

Had to do this one before heading back to NZ. We have some of these caches so we thought it would be good to get one in Cairns and take some TB's home. So off we set, arrived at GZ parked up and thought lets do it. One with the torch the other with GPS. And yip torch was given to Indiana Jill while I stayed in behind. Hmm night caching over here is different to back home that's for sure.
The sad thing is we had left this to late, no TB's to take back to NZ. Thanks heaps for the adventure. Great container!!! TFTC!

We've been in and out of Cairns a few times over the past week or so, but left this one too late. We found the cache and signed the log, but we missed collecting the TBs to take them to NZ with us tomorrow! Yes, we were out there in the "swamp" walking through spider webs picked up belatedly in the glare of the torch . . . hoping no one was sleeping in the park or worse! Good hide. Scary in the dark!

Dropped in for a trackable swap. L: 2 X TB T: TB & Geocoin. Thanks

Visited the Cairns TB Motel today and dropped some visitors off.
Greetings from Germany and TFTC,
cameron96

cache is in good condition. Took 2 bugs and will pass then on.

Found it, dropped off T/b. TFTC.

Called by to collect CRUX TB

Ooooops, forgot to drop these off, thanks Bower Bird,

It was good to see that the local council as set aside some of the original vegatation of the Cairns area for the use of all. It is a good location for a TB Motel, quite area and not a lot of traffic. Dropped off Yellow Buggy TB and picked up German coin, will call back tomorrow to collect CRUX TB to move them both on to Sydney.

Dropped by to swap some trackables, L: TB & Geocoin, T: 2 X TB, TFTC SL.

I had the same problem with the mozzies while writing in the log book, and the same problem with the TB. The one I picked up is not the one listed. I will logs the TB found separately. But finally have found it! Left a bunch of TBs we picked up in Townsville, bringing them further north.

Amazing little jungle in Cairns! Sorry that my offline-log is such short, but there were so many mosquitos around me that I had to hurry. Seems not to be dry enough that mosquitos have no chance to reproduce themselves! Was a quick and easy find, dropped TB, took GC. TFTC! (Couldn't find TB "Syd the Platypus")

Found that one rather easy, although in the dark;
Left GC as I had it for some time and was not able to replace it due to my GPS not working any more; Hope someone picks it up soon and places it at a better place which meets it's task better;

T4TC
Trapiche

Thanks to a picture from Spinmeout, I managed to find this one without too much trouble, despite my dead reckoning of east being about 20 degrees off-course. Ma nature seems pretty determined to guard the motel.

T: Eagle ring from d&s2. L: Silver(esque) beaded hairpin that spent months on the end of a dream catcher.

Out for an earaly morning run before a day at the ANZCA anaesthetists conference. TFTC

easy find just dodging the mosquitos was a mish some great treasure here thanks dropped off gecko i think he likes it there

Easy find

T: brisbane Lions card

L: welcome material

T:Aussie Frank

L:Syd the paltypus TB

TFTC

Needed a TB ASAP for a trip to New Zealand. Cache is in good condition protected by a 1000 mosquitos. Probably why there is a dengue fever mosquito trap in close proximity.

Found out in open left Auzzie Frank TB which wanted to go from UK to Queensland and also my TB Scotland the Brave. Took GC to travel onwards. TFTC.

Waited for local Snake life to vacate area then moved in for log.
Found next to tree replaced as found. Good hide.
Left Gold Span Coin

In itially walked past but returned to find ok - tooktb % coin left 2 x tbs TFTC - on hols from UK

it was a lovely day today and this was also on the mosquitos minds. found the cache quickly and logging it even faster, because of the mosquitos.

zeith (ophiolith)

in: TB
out: GC

Quick search and find. Had to move fast mozzies were gathering in large numbers. Took a few TBs and a coin to move on. Had none to leave, sorry.


Thanks for the Cache.

[This entry was edited by Goodbeard on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 6:04:22 PM.]

Had too many TBs in our collection and no suitable cache hunts planned so we headed over to drop them here so that they can continue their respective journies.

wicked spot, mozzies galore... make sure you spray before going... dropped off tb
took magnetic photo frame
left TB and eagle ring

thanks for the adventure 1st find for the day

Relative easy find. The main battle was fighting off the flying and very hungry biters and lots of them - TNLN - TFTC

hey yarrum
quick visit - but managed to grab a few new caches
quick stop ... the denguie monitoring station nearby deterred us from loitering too long ...
dropped a coin, discovered a bug, and lifted a coin
cheers
Dan

FOUND IT great find TNLN TFTC.

cool first for the x mas holidays

cheers

Found on a trip down to Cairns while staying at Port Douglas for the week. Great hide.

A little diversion on our way out of Cairns to the Atherton Tablelands. CruiseKat didn't like the spiders, so I did most of the work finding the cache Got it eventually. TFTC.

Found when looking for the way out of town rather than a cache. It was still programmed in the GPS so we gave it a try and found it. No trade (sorry!!), signed log. TFTC.

Found it easily. Funny palce, thanks. TGCLN TFTC

Last cache of the day to drop off a coin. Quick and easy find.

Took Coin, TB
Left Coin

TFTC JM-Project

Dropped of some trackables as the cupboard looked bare.

My GPS was a bit out under the trees . It had me scatching my head for a while (not from biting insects). Finally found it. I didn't have any TB's to restock it so left a butterfly. TN TFTC

Found with bubblensqueak whilst on our way to Cairns to connect with our flight to Guam. TNLN, TFTC.

Found with gazza572003 whilst on our way to Guam ( flying out of Cairns) Took Virtual Wedding TB. TFTC.

A nice easy find today before flying home to Bris Vegas.
Moving a couple of TBs on.
TFTC.

Having a couple of TB's with us we decided that this would be the ideal place to leave them. Parking was easy on a Sunday and the GPSr led us directly to the cache. We took a TB and and left two more behind
Thanks Yarrum for the cache

A nice quick easy find on our short trip to cairns
Out geocoin
TNLN SL TFTC
Cheers
LIVERPOOLRED
(Y.N.W.A)

Look out, the cache is trip wired (naturally)! We got a few scratches and the cache.
Left TB virtual Wedding-Trip Ulla&Heiko, took TB Memories of the Past.
TFTC.

Dropped in to swap over some of the TB's and GC's that I have picked up.
T 5 GC's and 1 TB
L: 5 TB's and 1 GC

Nice Location. Fast found.

THX David from Germany

in: Coin

out: TB&Coins

Dropped off Keyholder collection TB as I only did micros today.

Accidentally clicked the wrong menu item, I only discovered this coin, I didn't pick it up.

Our 4th cache for the day. We were expecting to be able to follow a track but this wasn't the case but then we spotted a bit of a Geo trail so we headed in. Warning to others there is a lot of broken glass hiding under the leaf mulch so wear shoes. Cache was quickly found. TNLNSL Thanks for the cache.

Headed down to retrieve our Caching Hazards Geocoin, but missed it by about 12hrs. L: Geocoin T:Geocoin. TFTTBH

Found 28/09/08 at 16:00
GPS had me walking in all direction. Checked clue and soon had well camouflage cache in hand. Was attacked by mozzies whilst signing log, result of previous nights rain .
Took - Jeep TB - Yellow Jeep racer coin, caching hazard coin, gone fishing coin.
Left - Endian 2007 coin #001 (heading for W.A),Log Book coin, Proximity coin.
SL. TFTC.
DON55
#155

Quick find, thanks.
Took- Geo coin, left- toy spy glass

Found this at 10:46am while on holidays in Cairns for a friend's wedding.
Took: Howie TB & Here Lizard Lizard Lizard TB
Left: Hope's Yellow Jeep Racer TB & Norman Geocoin
TFTC!

Found this on a beautiful day caching the local area. Our last day in Australia. It's been great. Took: TB, left: magnet.
Sierra Tomb Raiders

Just a quick visit to do some swaps
TFTC
T 7 x TB + 1 UNDB TB
L 5 x TB + 2 x GC
Here Lizard lizard lizard
Howie (noisey duck)
Porsche 924
Green Jeep x 2
Caching hazards GC
Cache of the day rainbow trout GC

Dropped off Patty O TB

Cache is only 1km from home so wasn't a huge effort. Dropped yellow buggy. Took pink bits.

Just came back to drop off some travel bugs before we become unable to cache for the next month due to work.
Two of the bugs need to complete their missions by getting to Japan, so please, if you are able, help them on their way
We also dropped our very first geocoin in the cache. 'Pink Bits' the geocaching pig needs to make it to 6 destinations all over the globe. So please help him to visit all the places in the world that we have lived!

Swapped a few travel bugs and coins. We left 2 TBs here than need to fly to the Usa. If you can help them get there, please take them. If not please leave them here to wait for a geo-flight.

Called by to drop off some TB's and a Geocoin and had a bit of a look around, thanks Dave & Jen.

Parked on the main road and hubby made the 50 mt dash into the bush for an easy find.
TNLN

tb in

Veni-Vidi-Vici
Quick found together with Ben.
Greetings from Luxembourg.

Jeah found it with wenzer very quickly.
IN: TB
OUT: TB, GC
TFTC!
Greetings from Luxembourg!

Nice morning walk. Left a CITO geocoin in trade for a travel bug. TFTC!

Grabbed it just to change Travel Bugs.
My bear SIR HENRY I imported from Germany doesn't fit in any other cache, because it is too big.
Took Geocoin "Alice The Camel Has One Hump"
Walter
walterhellmut

[This entry was edited by walterhellmut on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 1:47:54 PM.]

Quick grab after an afternoon at a Japaneses tea ceremony. Came to claim the cache and look at the TB's. A great spot with a lot of bush hens about today.

That was a very easy find! The environment is really beautiful!
T Geo Jerry TB
L Notarzt Red Cross 808
TFTC
Walter
walterhellmut

Under the eye of security I entered the bushland. They are working on the road in front of the sign and have 24 hour security at the moment. He asked me what i was doing. I told him I wanted to check out the local bush. Took Geocoin Aussie Nomad

Dropped by with the Geokids to drop off a GC and TB.
Swapped for a few GCs to move along.
T: 3x UK GCs
L: 1x Alice the Camel GC and West Coast Wolf TB

A busy little cache to find.
Cheers

Easy find . Thanks!!
left geocoin Aussie Nomad
Took TB Wedding pair

Last for the day and a good prickly find. As others have said heaps of travel bugs so grabbed the ghost net and am sending it West as requested. L- nothing

An interesting area I'd driven right past on many occasions but never knew existed. Took the family out to hunt for 'bush treasure' and found it quite easily. A few mozzies once we stopped! There are heaps of unregistered TBs in here including the rather large Geo Jerry (statuette of Jerry Garcia - if you are a fan of the Grateful Dead then you should definitely go and collect Geo Jerry!). will remember this location in future if I need to drop off any TBs.

T: Ro-Mer TB, alien car toy, stretchy frog
L: Belo the Frog TB, gorilla toy, Nepalese musician figurine

TFTC

[This entry was edited by pauljoseph71 on Monday, June 23, 2008 at 8:24:00 PM.]

Found around 0727 and left a handful of travel bugs. Thanks for the nice one in "Cans".

- NCad

Had a little trouble with this one (#3 for the day), and had to resort to the clue. Turned out our GPS had us about ten meters away from the GZ. Surprised at how many travel bugs are in this cache, and will return prior to going overseas in Sept to move a few to Africa. Took blue lipstick, left a penny.

Went straight to this one with an easy find.
Heaps of TB's in this one.
TNLN