Pioneer's Rest Ravenswood, Queensland, Australia
By HDSpringer on 05-Aug-08. Waypoint GC1EY8M

This being such an old and historic Cemetery, we had this hide on our radar for a long time, particularly because of the most unusual tin headstone.
Although it has been archived just recently, the log and container were still fine, and we wanted this one at least for our own records.
Thanks HDSpringer
Domsky

Unable to maintain.

TFTC

Incredible spot. We always make time for a cemetery cache. Thankyou for bringing us here.

Interesting location

Before the end of the year I wanted to get some more caches done to boost my stats a little more and to finally get out there and grab some boxes after having had a bit of a break the last two months. In fact, I would like to clear most of the caches I have not found so far in Charters Towers today. Thank you very much HDSpringer for placing this cache. All caches around Charters Towers have a nice little rural spin to them and I really enjoyed driving around and seeing a lot of nice things today. Thanks for the cache and showing this area.

I love old cemeteries and it’s good to see a bit of care going into this one. We didn’t even meet to enter the cemetery itself. A nice quick find.
TFTC

Spending a few days in Charters Towers. After breakfast, I decided to head out to Ravenswood. On the way, I detoured to this cache. It was quickly located and the log signed. TFTC

Found on our way to Townsville after 3 days of caching in CT (need to come back as didn’t have time to find all caches in CT)

not orange anynore quick find tftc

First for the day, love cemetry caching, thr older the better. Thanks for placing it here. Tftc

Found

It's not anymore in orange colour.

We have arrived in Charters Towers. Beautiful winter weather, lots of caches as we weren't cacher yet during our visit in 2014.

Sorry for the generic text.

Tftc HDSpringer

Found it with TBU1BIKESU. TFTC

HDspringer

Tftc Tnln

Found it quick at first we thought it was just rubbish but obviously it wasn’t.

Day 13 of a road trip to North Qld and heading for a days caching in Charters Towers with grannysmith1947, hatzofff and RoddyC.

Nice and quick one for the team, thanks CO for placing.

TFTC HDSpringer
Found December 09, 2020

TFTC smile 8070 out and about with Hatzoff RoddyC Snickersallan and miss Millie geo dog having a great time day 13 Hello Townsville good to be here having a week to find as many caches as I can with all the heat, a day trip to Charters Towers with the Kayak
thank you for the great hosptality and lovely lunch and the storm that blew our dinner away (no electicy in town or markets)

Thank you, HDSpringer, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Day thirteen of our northern trip: exploring Charters Towers. Out and about with hatzofff, Snickersallan, and Grannysmith1947.

Love a quick park and grab to break a journey. Essential caching.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on December 9, 2020. TFTC, HDSpringer

Day 13 of our northern adventures with RoddyC, Snickersallan GrannySmith 1947 travelling to Charters Towers and caching on the way.

Nice quick find. An interesting comparison of the current satellite image to the current view. Poor trees.

TFTC HDSpringer

Very historic tyfc

History is amazing thanks for the cache

Nice quick find on the side of the highway. Thanks

great to see these old cemeteries being cared for

TFTH

Staying nearby and this was a straight forward hide. Thanks for hiding and giving us a reason to explore.

A quick stop on the way home from Charters Towers caching. We have drive. Past this and didn’t e en notice the cemetery here. Such a peaceful location with lists of history. TFTC

No longer orange. Log almost full

Nice easy one

Found it- but it’s not orange!

Easy find with Mollydog

Tftc
Nice quick find
Nice location

What a lovely spot. Thanks for bringing me here H D Springer. I was unaware that this place existed

Tftc

Found ok on a trip out to Hughenden for work and few caches

TFTC

Another older cache on the way to CT. I really enjoyed finding this one. I think that this is the prettiest cemetery that I have ever laid my eyes on.

Found exactly a month after Orth21, wasn't planned.

Found - nice old resting place.

Black Film Container. Rock and a hard place.

Enjoy the experience!

On our one year trip through Australia we are now in Ravenswood, Charter Towers and then to Emerald. On the way we found several Caches. Sorry for the same text. Every Cache was great and make us a pleasure.
Greetings from Switzerland.

Caching in and around Charters Towers and surrounds we picked up a few caches and this was one of them.

Cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Hi there HDSpringer. While on holiday in Queensland we found this cache after a short search - and the container and log are in good condition. TN, LN, SL. Thanks to HDSpringer for this cache - our find 7266

Despite driving past here numerous times, have never stopped to learn more about the Pioneer history of the area. Despite some lives ending way too soon, this area sits quietly on the hilltop.

A brief search and had the cache in hand. Returned to its hiding place and then back into the car for the trip back to Townsville. Container too small for a drop so TB visit. TFTC SL TNLN

it was tricky and it was a good idea

Even the traffic noise can’t break their peace.
Roadworks happening at present. Made it trickier but i guess that’s why i parked where i did

With Fangsoki and Crew153 in the mighty Canyonero, we hit the outback in search of the oldest and finest Queensland has to offer. 6000+ kms in 8 days - an epic journey. Day six and we are here. Road works right here made the parking aspect a little trickier than expected, but once off the road all was fine. Took us a few moments to find what is not orange anymore, although in one of the many obvious spots. Always love a good old cemetery, and caching never disappoints if one is available.
Thanks HDSpringer for entertaining me at this location.

When Fangsoki and Pprime (P') mentioned about a road trip to get the old caches in outback Queensland I jumped at the chance to see some of our great country. The 8 day tour covered some 6,000km and a day on a boat in the Whitsundays. I wouldn't have missed the adventure for the world.

There were roadwork close to the area but we managed to find a pull off spot that took us close to the cache and out of sight of the workmen. It took a few minutes to locate the cache. Pity we didn't have time to check out the graveyard.

TFTC HDSpringer

Pprime, Crew 153, and I were heading to the Coast. We had this one on our list because it is an older cache.

We overshot the actual entrance and had to make a bit of an "unholy maneuver" at some nearby roadworks to back tracks ourselves.

This took us a considerable amount of time to spot. I had looked at GZ from one direction but was not able to spot it. However, Pprime spotted the beast. It was in good condition. A nice peaceful graveyard and a good excuse to stop. TFTC HDSpringer

found it TFTC. Yep black is the new orange lol. Good find

Very old little cemetery which is being restored. Times must have been hard last century judging by the many young children who have been laid to rest here. Cache was a nice quick find. TFTC

Tftc snake skin wrapped around cylinder was interesting:)

Stopped off for this cache and discovered history also were discovered by local historian who was very enlightening
Tftc

MummyPenny found this little cache safely tucked away. Apparently black is the new orange. One of the local pioneer descendants, who plans on resting here one day, pulled up and shared several interesting snippets of local history with us. Thanks HDSpringer.

Our travels continued today towards Charters Towers and Townsville. We just picked up a selection of caches along the route. Each one had its log signed and was replaced in position before we moved on.
This cache was well tucked away with local camo, but was still an easy find. Thank you to HDSpringer for putting this cache into play.

BLESS THERE SOULS.

Happy to found this one...The cache is A1 . Favorite point for the location. At last one more smile in Australia ! Thanks for the discovery and greetings from Montréal Québec

The clue said it was orange

I do like visiting cemeteries and learning a little about the people from the area but it us sad to see some have fallen into disrepair over the years.

First cache in Charters. TFTC.

Staying a few nights in Charters Towers this morning we visited the library to learn about the archives section to hopefully trace some family history here from the Pioneer days.

Lunch at the stock exchange cafe then off to explore some more of town.

Loving the history in this town.

TFTC HDSpringer

Found Ok

TFTC. We were camped at Macrossan Park and spent an hour exploring the local caches. This was a quick find in the cemetery. Glad to see that there is some maintenance of the place happening.

TFTC HDSpringer.
Another small but we'll kept resting place. RIP. TNLN

Cleaning up a couple of more caches before leaving town, particularly multi's as they are with more tokens in the Geocaching Pirate hunt this week we then headed towards Ayr caching our way along.

It's a shame when you see palces like this falling into disrepair but the Lion's club did do their bit in 2012 and did a lot of work around the area but again it looks like the funding has ran out for that as the area isn't looking quite as good as it could. It's still a great place to pick up some history of the area and also to hide a cache which fortunately didn't take too long to find and our name is now in the log.

Thanks HDSpringer for the cache and for bringing us here.

Nice old cemetery. We pulled in for a look before we realised there was a cache here! Container is not orange its a grey film canister. TFTC

Walked to this one from the Duck Caravan Park. Not a great walk along the highway but good exercise. Tftc

Thanks.

Quick find while staying in Charters Towers on our way to Cairns.TFTC

Good easy find, with help from all the ants )

Loved visiting this little cemetery, passed it many a time and didn't even know it existed. Found by geokid's eagle eyes. TFTC

George spotted it quickly and then we visited the cemetery. The Cemetery is in excellent shape. The fence appears to have recently been painted white. The grass is mowed throughout. There is a new paved walk to a shelter showing the names and date of death for all the residents on record. - Zeke & George of Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA

Late log
just not enough Mc Donalds around these parts.

log signed.

Taking a group of both local and International TB's and Geocoins on the Grand Tour of Australia.

Thanks for the cache

Immediate find with Team BlackPearl26. TFTC

Blackbeard picked this one up today on a cruise to Charters Towers with burgo78. TFTC.

Good to see the site is getting some TLC now. We checked what we thought were obvious possibilities only to find it was right in front of us. TFTC.

GeoTM checked out the sign and the graves while GeoAJ found the cache. So sad to see how many little ones were lost in the early days. Visiting cemeteries is a great way to learn about history. TFTC

An unusual cemetery. Quite well maintained but a lack of marked graves makes it look all wrong. Thanks, a quick find made here of a film cannister and not the orange container we were expecting.

TFTC

With Solving4X. Fascinating bit of history here. Container is not orange, but is is small. TFTC!

Today we arrived into Charters Towers
A variety of caches found as we geocached around the area.
Thanks for placing this cache

Found at 1112. Found quickly after a lengthy chat wit one of the locals a live one of cause. TFTC.

Found it!

Found it

TFTC

10:30:00 AM. Heading to Charters Towers to clean up a few caches. This was a quick find and don't know how we missed it last year. Signed log and rehid. Thanks for placing this cache.

Found it with geojames4 and sharpeyes and once again no pen

Found with Geojames4 and snockly. Geojames4 posted photo for proof as we did not have a pencil.

Found with snockley and sharp eyes- thanks for the cache

Interesting place. The container is black. TFTC

Quick find with the kiddzinn. TFTC.

Good quick find. TFTC

Found at 12:28:00 PM while exploring Charters Towers..

Thanks HDSpringer.

Cache our way west looking for Dinosaurs Caching with Mum (Rainforest Cookie)

TFTC

love these old places, not much here to see though. a lot of old graves with no headstones but it was good to see that the names were in the rotunda.
found a cache, it wasn't orange, it did have a log book so we signed and moved back to camp.
TFTC

Find #201

So, I decided to go for a drive this weekend.
Headed out from Mackay on Saturday and headed for Clermont.
Not enough so went to Charters Towers and stayed the night.
Done a few caches in Charters and then headed for Townsville.
Stayed the night and headed home on Monday.
Glad it was a long weekend.

SL TNLN TFTC

We have been spending a week in Charters Towers and grabbing some caches while we tour around.

Today we decided to cache around Dotswood so we found this on the way. We had a quick look around the markets at the Burdekin Duck Roadhouse/Caravan Park too

The signage at GZ is very good but the poor cemetery looks like it could do with a bit more TLC

Thanks for bringing us here HDSpringer[^]

A quick find thanks

#5323

On our trip trough Australia with the hole family we looked also for some caches. They often showed us places we would never had discovered. Thanks a lot to all the people who care about this lovely hobby .

A nice stop on our long driving.

Greetings from switzerland .

TFTC