BrisVegas Meet & Greet Toowong, Queensland, Australia
By Just a Trifle on 13-Sep-09. Waypoint GC1WBDJ

We still have fond memories of everyone we met at this event.

I was so sorry that I had to miss this event. I had very little internet access during my trip and forgot to write down the coordinates before I left. Now that I am back and looking at the info, I was really close to you all that day. My friend and I took the city bus tour (hop-on and hop-off) and we went to Mt Cootha and the gardens that day. We had lunch at the Mt Cootha cafe on the top of the mountain (from the photos, it looks like some of you were up there as well!) I really enjoyed my time in Brissie, though. The fireworks the first night I was there were fantastic!!

Thanks Just a Trifle. It was a very pleasant and interesting afternoon.

You asked us to post here a list of our favourite caches suitable for visitors. We have thought about it. There are many but here are some.

In the City Centre:
- For sheer audacity: If's "A Night On The Tiles" (GC1J160).
- For Brisbane history: Thefourbees "Scrabble - A bit of history" (GC1KHWR) and several of HawMorFords' including "Windmill" (GC10ZNX).
- An interesting novelty: Thefourbees "Through the Eye of a Needle" (GC1T06C) but it does require knowledge or keen observation of Brisbane landmarks.

Near the City Centre:
- K8'n'Co's Whodunit series (GC1DKAF), (GC1E9T3), (GC1E9TB), (GC1E9TE) and (GC1E9TJ). They are worth doing individually but if you intend to do them all and solve the murder read (GC1DRNG) first. Be warned however. K8'n'Co's cache disguises are fiendish.

If you have time and are prepared to go out further and hike into the bush some of our all time favourites are:
- K8'n'Co's "Monolith" (GCZRF2) and their "Bushranger" series. For the latter first read (GC13M6Z).
- Wingaap's "Bright Eyes" (GC16AAW), "Fatso" (GC110A8) and "Come in Spinner" (GC12JH8} and more.

There are many more but that is long enough.

Thanks again Just a Trifle. It was a great chance to meet you and others again.

thanks Just A Trifle and everybody else who has helped organizing this great event, and everybody who has visited to make it such a success!

I visited with my wife, to get to know further geocachers in the area and have a chat with the geocachers already met at the plough inn meet & greet.

Nice location with some caches in the area, which we can now search now that we have a car

Needs OS Travel

Ready for a quantum leap.

I need to get to NZ

Dropping in some trackables from recent pickups
see you all soon

dropping another bug

Congratulations to everyone who helped make this a great welcome to Brisbane

[This entry was edited by Aussie Pixie on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 11:24:25 PM.]

Thanks to you all for making our visit memorable.
A good and friendly meet.
A bit late in logging but we have been touring Australia and now back in France after a great visit

[This entry was edited by boulist44 on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 11:49:58 PM.]

[This entry was edited by boulist44 on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 11:16:46 PM.]

Good to meet a few new and old friendly fellow cachers. These meetings are a great help with swapping ideas and tips. Thanks Just a Trifle and Co for organizing a good event, Silky Seekers

What a good time catching up with old friends & making a couple of new ones along the way.....

Cincol was handing out flags, thinks he needs to get an endorsement from Qatar.lol

What a nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon and it's always good to match more names with faces...

Thanks Just A Trifle for the event...

Thank you to everyone who attended the event, provided assistance and contributed information about some of the caches in Brisbane. We had a great time meeting our overseas visitors, together with many local teams we had not met before. You all made the event a success and we look forward to seeing many of you again. We even managed to pick up a few clues on how we might solve some more puzzle caches

Thanks to all who organised and attended. We had a great day and again it's nice to put faces to profile names.

Many thanks to Just a Trifle for a great day out, good to meet up with the Geobuddies and meet those who we have only emailed and O/S fellow geocachers also. Had a great day, even though with a few bumps & scratches.

Thanks a lot Just a Trifle for organising this well-attended event! It was great to meet new cachers and chat with those I already knew. I tagged along with a few others and as a bonus found a few more caches I hadn't found before on Mt Coot-tha. See you at the next event!

After a Burleigh Boulders Dash in Gold coast, we were greeted to a great meet in Brissie. Thanks for the effort from all involved and we will see each other in the caching world in the future

Thanks JAT for another well organised... and well attended!! event. Great to see some new and old faces, get a hint or two
and also tackle a few of the closer caches in teams. Great international cast too!!
The story of the submerged cache set by Jaques had me intrigued... will add it to my watch list.

Dropping off TB.

Lovely day in the fresh air and sunshine. Great to meet up with everyone. Thanks for the event Just A Trifle. Cheers svn07 and JackyLegs.

It was great to meet someone who I have been chatting with for ages. I can now
finally put a face to the name

I also had the opportunity to meet up with some regulars and to meet some 'new to me' cachers.

Many thanks JAT....a great day out

good to meet everyone, will move these geocoins along.

Lovely to see so many familiar faces and to meet the new people, including those from far off countries . Many thanks to Robyn and Darren for organising the day - a fine effort

[This entry was edited by Mrs Lat&Long Junkie on Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 2:45:02 AM.]

Had a great day at this very well-attended geoevent. Always nice to chat to folks from overseas and hear how they do things. Heard a few whispers that hopefully will translate into puzzle solutions and even offered a whisper of my own that had a couple of people hovering over a laptop for some time . Thanks to Just a Trifle for organising the event. Happy caching everyone.

Thanks Just a Trifle and everyone
This was my first event cache and a huge amount of fun!
Thanks so much for organising the day.
I had a ball, learned lots, met many, ate much, dropped lots of trackables, discovered many more, took a few, found a cache, made new friends and exchanged stories.
Looking forward to doing another event next time one comes up on the radar.
TFTC

Had a great day at this very well-attended and organised event. Always nice to catch up with local and cachers from overseas. Another great Spring day in Bribane. Thanks to Just a Trifle for organising the event.

What a great day! Thanks to Robyn and Darren for organizing the day and all the hard work you put in. Met some new friends and caught up with some we have met before. Swapped stories, hints and frustrations. A couple of recommendations of Brisbane cahces would be Kut-ta views and Rooted Moreton (both with great views of the city). Thanks for the day all! Picked up Robjane's sun catcher. What a beautiful coin. Willl move it on soon.

dropping off tb.

What a great turn out for this event. Some of the group had to split and find alternate shade as the marquee had become a standing room only domain...

Good to see familiar faces and meet a few new ones. Thanks to Rhesusfactor for finding me in the crowd and advising me that I had found one of his caches and not yet logged the find...

Robyn's baking never fails to please and I admit to partaking in a little too much sweet stuff... It's OK though cause I walked it all off after the event... Honest...

Thanks JAT for a great afternoon.

Had a great time and met some really nice people thanks to everyone who attended for a great day out.

GawnFishin
Quebec, Canada

A HUGE THANK YOU to Just a Trifle for all the effort put into getting this Event off the ground and for all the organizing on the day. Thanks also for the food that was laid on for us as well. It was a fantastic Event and was great to "meet the locals". The weather was fantastic and we eventually left there well after 16h00. I hope that we will be able to reciprocate one day when any of you visit Qatar one day. Just let me know that you are coming!

Thanks Just a Trifle for organising the event today, and thanks to all the people who turned up, as it was a good showing.

Anyhow had a great day, except for the scrape at SES, and enjoyed the walk up (or tap dance) up the Mt Cootha.

It was good to get a few hints for some of those more difficult caches.

See you all at the next one!

A great day out. Thank you Just a Trifle for organising it - well done. Good to put names to faces and swap experiences, tips and recommendations.

A good afternoon and good company.
Learned heaps as well like taking down numbers of GCs and TBs so we can discover them:)
Next time.
Thank you for the event

Nice event, still here!

Attended ... this very enjoyable event today...

Thanks heaps to Just a Trifle for organising todays procedings the effort is much appreciated

Was great to catch up with some now familiar faces and also meet some new ones who enjoy this mostly solitary activity we all partake of...

With great Brisbane weather & good company how better to spend the day...[^]

Thanks again to Just a Trifle

Great afternoon thank you

Thanks Just A Trifle for going to the trouble of organising such an enjoyable day. Nice to meet up with some of Brisbane cacher's. Marg and I and I had a good time. swapping hints.

TFT event.

Treking Trev & Marg

Team Herbz from the Gold Coast will be there. Looking forward to our first event and meeting up with everyone.

also throwing in some tb's

Dropping in Chile. Needs to go somewhere cooler.

Dropping in my swag of trackables picked up over the last couple of weeks.

Destination US Army Bases

another bug

"I wue hoam" on it's way

Had a great time. Lots of lovely geocoins.

tb drop

All being well...I'm in!!

So trying to get there tomorrow but not sure as I have conflicting engagements with geomunchkin sport activity. If I can I will be there. If I can't so be it, but I planted a cache today for the event tomorrow, just awaiting mod approval. Hopefully it gets checked before tomorrow.

Thanks
~ Mortified
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I'm heavily jet lagged from recent trip to Europe but will be there before 10am to join the tap dance. Haven't found Birthday number 8 either. Any further instructions or are we just meeting there before 10?

Will be there for BBQ as well of course.

Mt Cootha Tap Dance - Just arrive before 10am and go off from there. Looks like we might have a reasonable size group, tapping their way up the mountain.

If it wasn't for the last minute, I'd get nothing done . I'll be there with Mrs Lat&Long.
That Mount Coot-tha Tap Dance has been annoying me for some time. GhostGums, we just might see you at 10am for that wander.

I will be attending along with Ally-Searching (geo-daughter).

Hopefully arriving early to tackle Mount Coot-tha Tap Dance as well..

Hi jppgh - couldn't really say how long people will stay, but would not be surprised if some are still there at 3.30 - 4.00pm.

Just dropping in some geocoins. Looking forward to the event on Sunday.

Great list of people for this event, well done!! I will come early and hopefully get some exercise in before hand.

Thanks JAT!!

Hello everyone!

What time would you expect an event like this to go to? I'm going to be a bit late and want to know what time people will be there till.

After 9317 miles I hope I can make the few miles in time. Thank you!

Looking forward to this, travelling from Melbourne to attend.

WOW, what a response to the event - it will be great to see you all. We intend to arrive early in the morning (9.00am) to set up and perhaps explore the area. Looks like it might be a long day for us

For those interested in a bit of a wander, arrive at the event GZ before 10am, and we will head off and tackle the Mt Cootha Tap Dance.

Remember to bring plenty of water with you

I'll try to make it. May have my ceocaching buddie Marg. Hope to catch up with you there.

Cheers

I will be attending this get-together. I would like to arrive early and go on a pre-lunch wander in this area just to raise an appetite af course..

We plan to attend and will be bringing our mate Mark from Melbourne who is new to caching.

Hi, I go there with my friend ... see you there... cheers ALL7

Sounds good.

Woo Hoo, managed to get the weekend off so I'll be there - Hey Gunnie69 & GIB69 will join you there early!!

Hello everyone, sounds like a great invitation to meet some great people and learn about the area. I hope I can attend.

Boulist 44 & Aussie Pixie leave France today bound for Bris with several TB's picked up from our recent Atlantic Event 2009
So let's see a few Aussie cachers interested in moving these on at the "meet and greet" on the 13th
We both look forward to meeting you
Do we need raincoats???
Happy caching and keep searching
Be there.

Boulist 44 & Aussie Pixie
( La Belle France)

Hi Everyone - we will be leaving in exactly 2 weeks for Brisbane as well. I have at least 10 TB's and Geocoins that will be travelling along and will be at the Event. It is my intention to collect as many as possible to bring back to the Middle East with me. If there are any that need to travel be sure to bring them along. I can also drop off in Hong Kong / China if any need to go in that direction as we will be stopping over on the way home.

Looking forward to seeing you all there. We might be a bit later than 13h00, but will be there nonetheless.

It is our intention to arrive quite early to set up - given our rather warm weather lately, a hat and lots of sunscreen will be a must. As far as the question of needing raincoats goes - probably not required because rain doesn't seem to occur terribly often anymore. For our local teams, it would be a good idea to bring along your folding chairs and tables if you have any.

Seems the poking has had a desirable affect Just a Trifle.... A bit more interest now...

Always up for a gatherring of fellow sportlavers, I fully intend to be at this event. It is likely that Silver Sovereign (Oldest Junior Gunnie) will tag along also.

If anyone is keen, I will probably check in a little earlier and trek through the path at the end of JC Slaughter Falls entrance, to find Birthday No.8 cache. Happy to wander a little further if someone wants to tag along and hasn't got any other other nearby caches. Don't rely on my navigation through this area though...

Contact me direct if you are interested and if it turns out there will be a number of us, I will post further info on this page closer to the time.

Cheers...

Myhrmaid,

From the translink site

http://jp.translink.com.au/TransLinkExactEnquiry.asp?Advanced=false&PageFrom=&Vehicle=&WalkSpeed=67&WalkDistance=&Priority=504%3B-1&UseTranslink=true&IsAfter=B&JourneyTimeHours=12&JourneyTimeMinutes=50&JourneyTimeAmPm=PM&Date=13%2F9%2F2009&FromRailStation=&FromLandmarkType=&ToRailStation=&ToLandmarkType=&FromLoc=Astor+Terrace%2C+Spring+Hill%7E%7EAstor+Terrace%3BSpring+Hill%3B%5B502544%3A6962219%5D%7E%7EPOINT&ToLoc=Jc+Slaughter+Park%2FFalls%7E%7E%3BJc+Slaughter+Park%2FFalls%3B%5B497035%3A6961536%5D%7E%7EPOINT&findjourney.x=41&findjourney.y=8

not the best solution I;m afraid.

The 12:50pm will get you to Jc Slaughter falls a bit after 1pm.

Hey Gunnie, I was thinking the same, getting there early an grabbing some of those caches before the BCC guys find them.

Anyone else interested?

Alchemy2, Ozcymru and ALL7 will be attending this event.
Will bring 'Finding Nemo' and ' Marlin'.. - two TB attached for discovered before moving on to further south.

Hi all... I will be visiting from California along with a friend from London. I know nothing about Brisbane or how to get to the meeting location. I will be staying at the Portal Hotel in Spring Hill on Astor Terrace. If anyone can give me good directions on how to get there using public transportation, I would be very grateful! I will probably have some Travel Bugs or Geocoins to swap. Send me a note if you can help. Thanks!

Cindy - aka myhrmaid

Modelbear (2 of us) will be there and bringing some coins and bugs needing to be moved on.

We've put it on the calender and intend to be there.

Bill and Cyndi

I (Derek) will be there with Geoson (Bryce)

I will be attending this event, as Cincol is my father in-law, I wouldn't miss this one.

Hi mhyrmaid - we hope you can make it. There are buses that go past the location, but may entail a walk of approximately 800m, you can find public transport information at http://www.translink.com.au

With all the interest from visitors being shown, we will have to poke a few of the local cachers to indicate their intention to attend also

Hi all! I will also be visiting Brisbane during this time (I'm from California and my traveling friend is from London). Maybe we will try to stop by as well. Is there easy public transportation to the park?

Thanks... Cindy... aka myhrmaid

It is intended this be a BYO event, however our intention is to take extra food along for our overseas guests

Team GawnFishin from Quebec Canada checking in, we would like to attend and intend to try to be there though due to other commitments we will not be able to stay long as we have to be elsewhere the next day which will mean we would have to leave mid afternoon.

new to Brisbane, I look forward to meet fellow geocachers.

Also, I have a geocoin which desperately wants to go to "Blinklingmoos" - in Strobl, Austria (GC1A775), where France may be a good start.

G'day fellow aussies,
just to let you know that I am also visiting Brisbane from France with boulist44 and am looking forward to meeting you all.
The meet sounds great (but being a woman and men don't think of these things, it is upto me to enquire,) will it be a BYO meet?
See you on the mountain

What a great group you are .
I will try and find and bring a coin or the likes for passing on
I will be there along with Aussie Pixie.

Light the fire!!

WOW - what a surprise to see the interest and enthusism of the Brisbane cachers, especially Just a Trifle. If everything goes according to our plans then we will be arriving the previous day and will look forward to the chinwag and an Aussie "barbie".

yip, will escort cincol to the big oz caching world

Always up for throwing some snags on the barbie.

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