Hide at the Dump North Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
By thefourbees (maintenance by MaMa) on 13-May-09. Waypoint GC1R7PM

Relogging this under individual account, previously a member of Gaz'n'Kab account.

Previously logged under a team account. Re-logging with my individual account.

A long weekend in the Rocky area with Fangsoki, Gaz'n'Kab and Captain Terror to find some old and unloved caches.

We also search for archived caches and we all had this one on our list to find while in the area. Captain Terror had found it previously and we found it neatly tucked away.

TFTC.

Along with Fangsoki, Captain Terror and Crew 153 today and this one was a quick find for us late in the day

TFTC thefourbees (maintenance by MaMa)

Gaz'n'Kab

Finding this geocache was possibly the most 'ninja' I have been in a long time - but alas, I did find it!

I had flown myself into Rockhampton this morning and can attest that there are indeed many lagoons around the city, in fact it looks like the buildings and roads have nudged up out of a massive swamp. But now onto geocaching and this one came up in my research and I so I headed for it despite being archived. I had to park a distance away and walk to the driveway as it was now after business hours. The little gates were closed but I assumed one could still walk in to the lookout platform. So I did.

I was about 90% of the way there when a garbage truck rolled towards me. He pulled up and suggested seeing as the gates are closed, I should leave before security sees me. Hmm.. thanks buddy. Then, as if on cue, I spotted a security car - it was much further inside but still within sight. At this point I should have turned and headed back for the car and I almost did.

Instead I waited a few moments for the truck to move on, then I sprinted for the platform lookout and dove over the railing and down into the recessed stairwell. That went well except that I had landed in a pile of green mud. Great. No time to waste I bolted out towards the lookout. About half way I realised why the area is cordoned off - most of the floorboards are rotten. Somehow I managed to miss the really rotten ones.

I spun around, looking for the cache and luckily spied it, tucked away. I made a grab and squatted down for a record-setting signature in the logbook - a date and rushed name was all I dared. I slapped it all back together and rehid where I'd found it. To save risking the floor again I bailed over the railing and ran back up to the road. I didn't bother looking for the security at this point, but rather sprinted for the gate.

Was I seen by security? No idea. Have I done more dumb things for a geocache find? Maybe, but I'm struggling to remember when. This one would be easy to do when the gates are open during business hours. But, this geocache lives on and can be found by those who are thusly inclined. TFTC thefourbees

Time to shut down

Found at 10:37 AM GAFF2. We had a lot of trouble with this cache in Sept 2009 and couldn't find it, Today we were determined to find it as so many have after our attempt. First problem we encountered was that the whole platform was taped off! Looks like it is not safe to go on there any more. So we checked under and found nothing again.
Now we must say that we take great notice of D/T ratings to help us hone in on cache hides, so with a T of 1.5 we were not going to be looking much higher than head height as we did 4 years ago. But then another sign appeared and we thought - nah it couldn't be there could it? Sure enough it was And that was after jumping onto the platform, which is no longer allowed .
Thanks thefourbees.

Feedback: Terrain rating should be at least 2.0 and you better have a look at the site as it has been cordoned off.

Easy find. Thanks for maintaining this one. Nice to see a 4-yr old cache still out with the original log! TFTC!

Ignored the bunting and walked across the grass that had been sprayed with pink stuff. A quick find then thought we better get out of there. A busy place at 8.30am. Thanks.

Gotcha! TFTC

Found location of cashe. While trying to retrieve it, I was spied by bloke from the dump. I was greeted with a hearty earful of abuse and quickly removed from the area. I suppose I deserved this as I did go around the safety fencing to get in there. Have not handled cashe or signed it. I'm going to log this a find. I'm not going back. Thanks

There is one of those High Visibility caution fences blocking the path so we wern't too sure about putting too much effort in to finding this Cache, We probably did the wrong thing by going around the fence but with 72 yellow smillies on this page already I didn't want to add a Blue one. Found easy after changing elevation a bit.

Found it on our return visit - not sure how we missed it last time. A lovely outlook. Thanks thefourbees

DNF as the walkway to this one was blocked off by high-vis. red tape due to maintenance/reconstruction. We will come back at a later date to uncover this one.

DNF.

Thought we won't be able to reach this one, but yah, got it.

Tall people only need apply ....TFTC xx

Took alot longer to find then it needed to due to the area being fenced off at the moment.

TFTC

Might need a boost.

Great hide - lucky hubby has long arms! Having two boys they were so excited to find another lego man inside this container...Yay, now they won't fight over one!!! We left a few novelty erasers and a keyring in exchange. TFTC

Found with Bedmaker while in the area for the weekend.
Very nice hidey hole, TFTC

Found with TassieGirl13 while in the area over the holidays.
The GPS had us in the wrong spot at first but after expanding our search area a bit we eventually found the right spot.
Being the weekend the area was busy but luckily not at GZ.
TFTC

Found during our Great Aussie Adventure Road Trip. Signed log: TNGD. TFTC!

TFTC. nice and easy find. Took nothing. Left dog.

Great fun, keep it up

Nice easy find in a wonderful hide.

TFTC

Nice easy find.

Took sea shell
Left R2D2 & C3P0
Signed Log
TFTC TSYB

Have to thank those who leave clues in their logs, made for a simple find.

Had to get a little help from The Bowra's A team to reach this one. Nice hide. TFTC

A great place for the birds.

TFTC
Skylon96 from Germany

Our first Cache the kids loved it TFTC

This was our first one

3rd times a charm! NOT safe for kids. Happy to have finally found it. Left goodies took nothing. :0)

Thankfully this was not a muggle prone as I thought it would be. Hmmmm - it certainly was not a terrain 1.5 the way I retrieved the cache It is in good condition. A very beautiful area. TFTC thefourbees

Boo.... :0(. 2nd try in a row. We can't find it!!

Left little girls ring.. took nothing TFTC..

1st FIND!Not too easy not to hard! We only Joined the site a few hrs ago and went on the hunt, found the Cache at 9:30pm,SO EXCITING!! TNLNSL

This entry was edited by smashing_pumpkins on Thursday, 21 July 2011 at 22:10:33 UTC.

First find for the day with geokid in tow, didn't take too long to find. Lovin it!! TFTC...TNLN

Not for the faint-hearted. Picturesque spot in one direction anyway. SL. TNLN TFTC

It was raining all day yesterday in Yeppoon, we were stuck in our caravan and couldn't hunt caches but today the weather was much better we went to hunt caches around Rockhampton...took us a while before Mr Bushies2 found it. Thanks thefourbees.

Came in after dark - walked in, but had an easy find. Probably the easier time of day to do it. Cheers Gav [8440]

Visited at night but could see that this is a fantastic location.
Wished I had the time available to be here during the day!

sneaky hide for vertically challenged people, left the mushroom travel coin

All good with this one too.

Awesome spot found this one with Xena

TFTC. Loggad med Mica & Maria

Could not find after a bit of a search.

Found it! Lovely breeze. Took snake balloon and left JNK card from Walking on Trash cache.

Brahms6 found this one on Christmas day with "Moistvonlipwig"

We waited all day for the rain to stop but ended up going out in the rain to find this cache. Moistvonlipwig took his new GPSR and it took us to the same spot as mine, good news. Took a hairclip left a Goose and A Turkey. This seemed appropriate for such a hide. Signed the log

TFTC

Logged with Kasper Magnusson and Maria Lindahl. A pretty easy one but perfect for a sunday evening

Found on the way home from 10/10/10+10 and with the dump being closed, no muggles and a nice sunset. Thanks thefourbees. TNLN.

It was a bit smelly with the breeze blowing our way, but with the use of our littlest fuddley we soon had the goods and were on our way.

TFTC

Took quite a long time to fnd this cache, thanks for showing the pelicans!!!
For a 1/1,5 it was hard finding for us...

Found it eventually but I wasn't going to give up as I did not have a very successful day caching, its all those bulls!!!!

Easy find, with dabuzzard. Tftc 202

Found with 202
Tnln

Dabuzzard

Looks like a top spot for the birds. Thanks

I had a quick, unsuccessful look for the cache when first arriving at GZ, but got sidetracked with the birds. After a bit of that I turned back to go look for the cache when I espied it quite unexpectedly. Thanks for putting a cache in this good spot.

Hehehe that's were I would have put it. Funnier then that was the Tip Worker who found it in April, thought it was drugs, read the note, left a message and put it back Hehe. Cheers from Sydney.

Rated: for Overall Experience

After looking and finding what would be the perfect hiding spot, I still could not find the cache. The Gardens did look fresh though.
Maybe next time

TNLN TFTC

Had to laugh at the last entry in the log book. It was from a dump attendant who had noted someone acting suspiciously in the area and he had come to investigate after they left. He was sure he was onto a drug drop. Don't know whether he was dissappointed or relieved but he conceded that it was great that people came to see the birds in the reclaimed area.
Thanks the fourbees

No luck today. Lots of vehicles passing by so felt exposed.

that was an easy find. very interesting place. saw some ducks. tftc. greetings colonel dago

Arh to think that this spot was a dump, the regeneration of this area is a tribute to the council.

TNLN
TFTC

TFTC

TravellingStrom found this and took TB

There was no room to leave large TB I had with me

I have just checked and there is no record of the above TB being here, I guess someone forgot to log it in?

Now what do I do?

[This entry was edited by TravellingStrom on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 1:52:15 AM.]

While on my travels thought I would drop into the Dump. Not a bad spot. Took the TB & left TB TFTC

nice vieuw if you look at the right direction.
we dumt ther a race car in the cache

in: Tb race car
out: -

tftc team Ywie the Netherlands

Found second time round, just needed to read the instructions more carefully. Made some swaps. Took Cockaroach travel bug, for placement elsewhere.

Found with Jimw83 while I was in town visiting friends and family. Interesting little spot and opposite to the mess that is in the general area. Good thing Jimw83 is tall.

Thanks, Deathtrip

It was certainly hiding at the dump and so well we couldn't find it. Was a novel place to have a cache I have to admit so well done in your thinking. Enjoyed looking at the lakes, shame we couldn't pull up the cache though. Anyway, TFTC...eatmorchikin & Stigglepot, Brisbane

5pm S-log found after 15 minutes of looking we thought everywhere, and the shire council officers wondering what we were doing, TFTC

Got this one today while at work...(Oops hehehe) in Rocky

I dropped in a coin that isn't from this site.

what a clamber!
so many birds there today, seats to sit on and watch them would have been welcome, in more ways than one.
TFTC TNLN
gypsy jj

Had to drop off a couple of old TVs that geoson no longer wanted so made a trip to the dump early last Wednesday 23rd September. $5.00 poorer later, I decided to look for the cache on the way out. I wonder who thought up the idea of placing a dump right next to a river. Maybe the powers that be hoped that a flood would come along and wash all the rubbish away. Putting the wetlands next to a dump is another strange decision. Oh well. I digress. Back to the cache. Looked everywhere, even slid down the hill then eventually found the cache. I just managed to reach it. Dropped off the Cockroach Travel Bug as I felt it had found Nirvana (the dump not the wetlands). Thanks Fourbees for the cache.

I'm willing to bet that the cache is still in place
Not that sign silly !!
Look behind you !!

That probably won't help

DNF at 1.35pm. For a difficulty of 1.0 the cache should have been quite simple, but not for us. We looked all around the sign which was quite bare really.
Thanks anyway thefourbees.

I thought it was us but after coming back and reading the past logs we were #5 in a row that recorded a DNF so I fee a little better. I guess we were there but it was not. Some TLC needed I think !!

Dorik

No luck today. Found the sign, but with the amount of traffic around decided not to get too venturesome. Another day maybe.

The cache name got my attention
"Surely not ?" I thought.
I know some refer to geocaching as a 'scavenger hunt', but was this taking things too literally ?

Arriving by geomobile I followed the GPS arrow off the main road and to the wrong side of the tracks and through the main gate to the dump [:o]
I had to laugh. I've found many caches just outside the fence of the local dump, but never before had to enter the dump
But GZ was pretty obvious and I happily parked the geomobile in the location provided and wandered to the lookout.

Amazing. I counted over a dozen species of water bird in the lagoon.
With such a good food supply next door the sacred ibis were in plentiful supply.
My faves were the spoonbills though

Finally I remembered I was there for a cache.
Do you think I could find it though ?
No way !!
I even looked at the damn thing on several occassions and never saw it lurking !!

When I did see it, I laughed
I managed to grab the prize eventually without attracting undue muggle attention or breaking me neck

Murphy was nearby though.
Rather than risk life and limb to replace the box, I saw an opportunity for a quick and easy rehide
The cache rattled back into its hidey hole briefly before dropping several metres into the long grass below [:o]
So much for not venturing beyond fences

TFTC and fun and bird watching and rubbish trucks [^]

Pt. Douglas Trip 09.3. Many people seemed surprised to see someone at this spot, but after eliminating the obvious spots, I found this one. Thanks.

2552.25 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 12 Days of Caching 2007 Gold A#87

Albida

Another one I didn't need the GPS for. Just had to wait out some muggles sitting in a car and truck near GZ before we could get the cache. With all the cars and trucks going past it was bloody noisy. It's bit of shame really as it would be a nice place to view the birds.

Took the TB to move on.

TFTC
Dooghan and Family

Pencil is broken, but still slightly usable. If you are going to check it out, take a pencil sharpener with you

Good cache, took us a while to find it. Nice hiding spot

Bit tricky to find.. least the dump didn't stink.

Found it No. 1843 ... busy with council workers ... TN and left TB

As previously stated coords out, but reading cache notes gave the info needed.

Tftc

The coordinates took us to the wrong spot probably out by about 10m..with some investigating managed to find it. TFTC

Almost found this morning but council worker was keeping an eagle eye on us. Came back 6 hours later and found easily.
The two seats are no longer there. Thanks for the cache.

Quick dash to drop off the Wotta Rippa Zippa TB.
Luckily it just fits in the cacheTFTC

Found nice one at 8.30 am.Thank you for organising the cache and hunt.

T.F.T.C

A great spot to watch the birds. This one did not take long, compared to others for the day.
TN L marble.
TFTC

it was fun.TFTC

First of only 3 for today, including the event. GZ was about 8 metres out for me, taking me to an appropriate rocky corner. I took a punt and pot luck shone my way.

Found at 0900 hrs.

Cheers
Bundy

# FTF Woo Hoo !! Felt a little uncomfortable with what I thought I had to do with so many muggles around.A phone call to the Bees confirmed my fears. Prepared myself then waited for a short break in muggles and a quick action and it was mine. Grabbed GC to take to GC1NEB1event then move on . As this was my last cache for the day I stayed and watched the birds for a while. Thanks 4bees for another great cache.

[This entry was edited by Temingi on Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 7:18:37 PM.]

Temingi is just TOOOOOOO quick.
TFTC TNLN SL.

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