Inghams First Ingham, Queensland, Australia
By bubblensqueak on 22-Mar-09. Waypoint GC1P0DY

Regrettably we have to let this cache rest in peace or pieces as the case may be as the hide has overgrown the cache.

See my log of todays date

Visiting from the UK with my brother. Found a break in the storms to walk to GZ, the path in parts underwater. The cache which can be identified from the recent logs has no lid...this was nearby on the floor, and cannot be refitted...was full of water. No evidence of a log book, and pointless starting another given the state of the cache. Had planned on leaving a geocoin, instead logged 2 through. Despite the weather, thanks for bringing us here, in better conditions would have loved to birdwatch here.

First trackable found 05/02/2012

Well - Wazza & Kara chose the right parking. Thus we had the shortest distance to walk under the relentlessly burning sun. However the location is definitely worth a visit. We met quite a few wallabies on the way. The cache was soon located and it turned out to be a "real estate cache", meaning we could not move it out of its hide.
TFTC
Walter and Ingrid
walterhellmut

Once parked the cache was still located a walk of 680 metres away.
We followed the path, taking guidance from the GPS when path choices presented and found the GZ with ease.
This cache has been insitu for a while. When you locate it you will understand.
Signed the log, but Took nothing and left nothing.
A nice walk, with plenty of wallabies and water birds to be seen.

Found this one while passing through town. The walk through the wetlands was very enjoyable. We struggled to get the lid off the cache as the surrounding material is starting to encroach over the end of the cache. The log book is a bit mouldy and manky.

This is a great spot for our 250th find!

Dropped Northern Star traveller .

TN SL TFTC

cache quite exposed but going nowhere fast as it is part of the tree. witheffort removed the lid and signed somewhere on one log.tftc.

Colby's first find, had to re read the discription again to make sense

11.00 - Container was sealed 2 tightly for my little hands. have photo 2 proof my claim. T4TC + beautiful walk with a refreshing area to ponder nature @ its best.

Nice walk. TFTC

Found on our Australia tour.
TFTC

Found this one today. Log book is full. TNLN TFTC.

Found safe and well and being fiercely protected by nasty ants. Took TB, left nothing.

TFTC, Dazweeja.

Nice walk to GZ. The cache was quite visible but was unable to dislodge it. Luckily no problem to unscrew the cap. Thanks.

Found no trouble on a wet mothers day an we came to sunny Queensland to get away from wet miserable weather never the less we enjoyed the walk there and around some of the wetlands. Saw quite a few diferent birds and a couple of wallabys TFTC Toook nothing left a garnet. Garnet

The track to the cache is closed because of damage to the trees by cyclone Yasi.
One the trees have been cleared and the track reopened it should be OK.
Maybe should be diasbaled for the monent?

Bit of a trek from the carpark, but a totally lovely walk today. Really great spot, lots to see. TFTC!!

Took the long way to this on after parking over at the Conference center and taking the overhead walk across and then another 800m into the wetlands proper. Note to self. Best not done in the middle of summer on a hot day with rain pending and cyclones hovering off the coast. Easy find as breezes had blown covering leaves away and it was exposed. Did our best to conceal before heading back to the resturant for a scrumptous lunch.
Took GC
Left GC
TFTC
Found at 12:17

We're on a trip around the world, now for 3 months in Australia. Going from Cairns to Perth in a campervan. Today we drove from Mission Beach to Townsville. Stopped here for a very nice walk. We saw our first wild wallibi's here! We had such fun to see them jumping around. Didn't see any crocks only some warningsigns. Thanks for showing us this place!

In: geocoin from Spain, Out: GC cow

Greetings from the Netherlands.

Happy New Year! TFTC
Took: Team Sand Dollar 2007 Arrowhead Geocoin
Left: Cache Critters, Moo Geocoin


Found this after a nice leisurely walk... through the blistering sun on a nice Summer's day -.-'

Happy new year. Tftc.

Found this one on a wet day in Ingham,
after a lovely walk along a good grassy trail.
There are heaps of wallabies in this area.
Took: 20c piece
Left: Team Sand Dollar 2007 Arrowhead Geocoin
TFTC

A nice park here, with lots of wallabies!!!
Thanks for showing that really lovely place!!!

In Ingham for a wedding third of three for the day. Took nothing, Left GeoRendezvous 2008 Geocoin.

Great walk, good for bird watching too. TFTC TNLN

2nd attempt but this time it wasn't raining. What a lovely walk and a very special place. TNLN and TFTC

Visit here often. Nice one guys. TFGH. Let VW TB take a peak too. Heading north with a group of American Environmentalists. They loved the area and some were really keen bird watchers. One Cacher amongst them so they going to take VW for a big trip. Cheers, hope to catch up again one day.

What a great place to visit. Not so good for birds today, but we did see some, and we did manage to find the cache, Great view. Left a Blood Bank key ring, enjoy it. Took nothing and covered it again carefully

Great location to visit if passing through Ingham. Found on a drizzly day out so borrowed a couple of umbrellas from the Wetlands centre.

no swaps

TFTC

What a nice stroll through the wetlands ,saw wallabies galore & even some pretty scarlett finches ,found the cache ,had to be careful it was Show day in Ingham so lots of muggles out & about ..dropped in Claire the bus for her 2nd Cache today & then retreived her for the trip north .. TFTCxx

WanderingAus wandered by on day 40 of our annual 'Climatic Refugee' trip, after enjoying a sumptuous meal at the Ingham RSL, I left the WanderingMrs (aka SWMBO) at the RSL feeding the pokies, and made my way to the wetlands.

There was a fairly bright half moon, so I had little need for my torch as I walked along, and after reaching the vicinity of GZ I made a fairly quick and easy GAFF 1 find once I ignored "the obvious" and trusted my new Magellan Explorist GC.

My find No 2485, LCC, TNLNSL, dropped my WanderingAus Happy New Year 2008 Gold GC in for a visit before grabbing them back again.

*Recommended* *Overall Experience: 3*

T4TH corikra + cragged
Keith

Rated: for Overall Experience

As per previous log I struggled to extract the container from it's hidey hole and the rehide wasn't too easy either, might be time for a slightly smaller container.I've driven past these wetlands many times over the years, but this was the first time I've stopped for a look.Thanks bubblensqueek for bringing me to this fantastic spot, must come back one day and do the full circuit.Took nothing, Left US 1 cent.

Nice pleasent stroll, great way to start the day, nice easy find although container is getting a little crowded in its hideaway, getting a little hard to extract and to relocate.
TFTC
TNLNSL
Day3, Cache for the day 1 caches in total 20
Visited travelling companions

Found with Corikra on a wet rainy day- between showers. We both ended up with wet shoes and socks, but was still a nice walk.
TNLN TFTC

Easy find together with Cragged on our Easter caching trip.
Decided Ingham needs more caches, see what we can do
TFTC

wetlands is the right name for this place.
afther de cyloon was her it was realy wet
tftc team Ywie the Netherlands

Found this great cache whilst returning back from a work trip up North.

TNLN

TFTC

Will return with my kids as they will really enjoy the walk here.

Dropping GC

Last one for the day With Geo Bud and Duckie17. TNLN

... late log apologies ...
enroute back to Mackay from Cairns
only managed to tackle a few selected caches on the way.
this was one of them.

nice stroll - never having look prior to this visit
got to gz and had to wait for some locals to move on before I could nab the prize
SL and strolled back out
cheers

Great place to visit and well worth the time to go for the full trip around the lagoon. On the way out saw a pair of European travellers going in. On small bottle of water between them and one without a shirt. Wouldn't like to be them tomorrow.

Take a hat and PLENTY of water if you are doing the full walk. I took my time and it took 1.5 hrs.

Fantastic place for a cache.

BTW the boardwalk from the Info centre is NOT the way in. Go to the football field at the end of the street and park up there.

19/12/09 8.25am - After talking with a man about a job that is in the making here took the walk to the cache while hubby talked shop. Lovely park and beautiful specimens of Screw Pines or pandanas. While at cache saw many Magpie Geese and possibly a Jabiru in the distance. Didn't get to take the full tour but the 30 min walk was good enough. Geoff is very passionate about Tyto and gave us all the info about it. Fantastic facility for Ingham. Found cache easily and signed logbook. Took lots of photos\ LN. TFTC.

Called by after coming back from Wallaman Falls, There seems to be alot of construction going on. I couldnt find a way to get onto the board walks from the Information center out the front due to wet concrete

The hunter1

I've driven through Ingham so many times thinking this one was almost a drive by. Don't really know why I thought that.
We usually drive by at night time on our way to Mackay. Glad I didn't attempt it at night.
Today I made time for it. I was surprised by how far I needed to walk but it was so worth it.
Thanks very much for taking me here as I'm always just driving north or south and never stopping.

quick stop while passing through

284th cache. 107th in Oz.

Nice walk to the wetlands and plenty too see, including wallabies...
TFTC

What a nice walk. A posn of the carpark would have been nice as my first attempt had me approaching from some soccer fields and a dump to the north. Thanks for such a awesome spot... there were wallaby's everywhere! Took searchwise015s geocoin and left a normal coin.

TNLN

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Found at 3.00pm GAFF1. A 650 metre walk! On a hot humid day with smoke and dust haze! Can we drive there with the van on? The answer of coarse was no, so we headed off and in no time after watching a kangaroo and a few vatieties of birds we were at GZ. Very dry around here which we suppose will change in the next few months.
Thanks bubblensqueak.

Left searchwise015's geocoin #1 TB2CTDG

Nice walk on a Sunday morning. Cache was completely exposed so not very hard to find - tried to cover a bit better. Took police tattoo, left kinder surprise. TFTC.

Great place with birds and kangooroes everywhere !!!

TFTC !

Nice morning walk.
Lots of birds to be seen.
Cache container was exposed upon arrival.
We covered it up again.
Thanks

A nice walk and a wonderful spot to watch the bird activities.
took the good luck coins and left a black bull.
Thanks.

Found it No. 2026 ... too old for these long walks ... TN and left Chinese Coins

Did an early morning walk on this one and got to see heaps of the local wildlife. This really is a wonderful part of the world. SL TNLN TFTC

We were directed by junior cache-kid to this one and he took great pride in making the find. We appreciated the wildlife that we didn't scare away. Took fire engine. Left barrel-of-slime. TFTF

(great fun, found it this time,scenery great. Took shell left toy fire truck will do this again.
TFTC

sincerely,
lachlan from team lachyc)

Found this cache with LachyC.

First time cache hunters. Kids had a great time. Will do this again.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Why should the kids have all the fun?

This was our family's first experience with geocaching. Was introduced courtesy of The Scientriffic Magazine my sons subscribe to.

Our first attempt was not successful but further investigation at the web site revealed the encrypted clue which did help immensely.

Also now we know what we are looking for!

Ideal time to go is just prior to sunset but remember to bring the aeroguard!!

Beautiful spot just to sit - many walking tracks available for those interested.

Great location thanks for bringing us here

At first my GPS had me 8 meters away, but after a few minutes I was in the correct place and had the cache in hand. Replacing it was difficult as there was a constant stream of birdwatchers and photographers coming and going, probably because I was there right on dusk. Took a poker chip, left a penny. TFTC.

Have driven past here many times so it was great to have an excuse to visit. We will return to do more of the walks another time. The kids thought it was great.
T Rings
L Tattoos
TFTC

What a great morning walk with GeoKids. Saw heaps of birds. Great cache spot. TNLN. SL. T4TC. Bamster and GeoKids.

On our way from Townsville to Cooktown we decided to grab Inghams First cache. It was a lovely walk to the GZ. We have never been to the wetland before and its nice to stop and enjoy on of Ingham's attractions in stead of just driving through. Found the cache easily and made sure that it was well covered on its return. Thanks for organising the cache. TNLN SL Cat and Bear : )

TFTC TNLN SL

I really liked the journey to this cache.
would never have known such a beautiful spot existed here otherwise.
tnlnsl
and saw lots.
birds, fish, wallaby's, butterflys and dragonflys.
only thing i didnt see was an owl
and no crocs. its always a worry when there is a sign saying crocs about and your walking along a path quite close to the waters edge.

It was a very pleasant stroll to GZ as we spotted a number of wallabies still enjoying their early morning snack and the trees were a live with bird life. Cache was quickly in hand when we reached GZ as it was not covered at all. There were limited leaves around to recover the cache but we did the best we could but I still think the cache is pretty safe. Luckily we had previously enjoyed wandering around this wonderful park because today the roaring rumble of the souped up cars at the Ingham Car Show we calling us. TNLNSL Thanks for the cache.

Found at 4;30pm on the way to Townsville.
Stopped and stretched our legs. The sun was starting to go down and the wallabies were on the move.
Ran into a Bird watcher after we had signed the log and done the swaps. Talked for a while and we parted in different directions. A nice place to bring the kids on a return visit. Thank you for bringing us here.
T; :sheep, shrek stickers,JD keyring
L: 3 x rings and Token
TFTC

Great wetland with an awesome info centre. Im a casual birdie n took my book along for the walk , so many birds there my highlight being a stork or jabiru and my partner seeing a ulysses.

Easy find after a beautiful walk . This place is a joy to bird watchers (not millions of birds but many different species).

I'm a bit worried that this cache will be found too easily by observant muggles. Thanks for planting a cache on our local patch.

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