Turtle Bridge Douglas, Queensland, Australia
By Roaminfree on 07-Oct-09. Waypoint GC1ZJ85

One or more of the following has occurred:

No response from the cache owner.
No cache to find or log to sign.
It has been more than 28 days since the last owner note.

As a result I am archiving this cache to keep from continually showing up in search lists and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.

If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the near future, just contact a reviewer (by email), and assuming it still meets the current

guidelines, the reviewer will be happy to unarchive it.

Should you replace the cache after 28 days has passed please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

I will be replacing this cache in the next week or two. Just need to get to the site to do it.

Cache temporarily disabled.

This cache has been muggled. I am in the process of making a replacement & hopefully will reinstall it this coming weekend.

Too many Muggles. Had to race back to uni. I'll try again later..

Muggled. Rescued damaged log from a nearby rock. Will return it to location soon.

Easy find, nice spot, although a little busy, had to look out for muggles. TFTC.

Done

nice and easy one thanks for the cache!

Nice little cache, wouldn't do this if water level was high.

Good cache.

Log was out un the open. Container open and contents everywhere. Log signed and everything replaced

Nice hint, easy to find! First one found in townsville

TFTC

The cache was out in the open lying on some rocks, hidden again out of sight



This entry was edited by ashandy on Monday, 17 February 2014 at 09:05:12 UTC.

Couldn't find it !

We be trollin

We went for a walk along this streach of the river today, it sure is hot out in the sun. We arrived here around lunch time so it was fairly muggle free as all the smart people were indoors in the aircon and not out walking. The Cache was found safe and dry and replaced after signing the log book. Cheers.

Checked location of the cache & it is there & in good condition.

Had a good look but no luck

Found on a geo-trip weekend to Townsville, TFTC SW015

Found by Miss Natalie, 6 years, first find! Took shell, left rabbit squishy! TFTC

TFTC Lots of muggles.

I say the local ducks and turtles are use to human presence as all of a sudden while I was logging my find the amount of wild life surrounding me waiting to be fed tripled!!

A bit of a consolation prize tonight [B)] as we had an unsuccessful Night By the River('s)side and we needed a cache to continue our caching streak. A lovely evening for a walk to GZ and a feature we have ridden past on many an afternoon but have never been able to stop to search due to the numbers of muggles.

No problems tonight but like others before us we believe the cords are out by 9-10 meters and the hide no longer matches the cache description. Otherwise the cache is in good order and we dutifully signed the log and returned it to it's hiding place.

TNLN SL TFTC

Quick find once the GZ was reached. Plenty of turtles and ducks in residence today. TFTC Roaminfree. TNLN SL {#303}.

This entry was edited by RobS72 on Tuesday, 13 August 2013 at 05:48:38 UTC.

Took a little searching. I think the coords are a little off. TFTC

North Qld 2013. Day 10, the second full day in Townsville. The hose you walk past to get to this one is a bit security paranoid, more than one camera on each corner ! I am glad no one was here to see me crawling around to find this one ... Thanks.

11650.178 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2011 Chinese Dragon 1 A#202

Albida

Coordinates changed from:
S 19° 19.227 E 146° 43.993

Coordinates changed to:
S 19° 19.242 E 146° 44.000

Distance from original: 99.6 feet or 30.3 meters.
I have modified the co-ordinates for the cache as the steel of the bridge may have effected the original readings.

DNF at 5:09 PM. Nice spot, but no cache. Co-ords were taking us 10 metres into the river .

Coordinates changed from:
S 19° 19.235 E 146° 43.997

Coordinates changed to:
S 19° 19.227 E 146° 43.993

Distance from original: 53.6 feet or 16.3 meters.
Cache has been relocated to a more secure, weather proof location.

Easily found GZ, but no cache.

Very Scenic little bridge. Make sure you bring along some bread for the turtles, ducks and fish.

Easy to find, just beware of the trolls.

TNLN

Found lying out on riverbank, replaced where we think it should have been?

Nice and easy. There was a little bit of water in the plastic bag with I shook out.

Easy find, can see from the bridge. High muggle area though, so Mrs Preeds and the big dog were lucky to find a quiet moment to retrieve, sign and return undetected, though almost got busted by muggles who decided to come along to fish under the bridge just after cache was replaced...whew! TFTC TNLN

Easy find! Could see it from the bridge!

Such an easy find. Heaps of muggles about. I wish I brought some bread to feed the ducks

Muggles everywhere. yet more proof that Townsville does not sleep! Put the bike right on the GZ without realizing, kind of made a good excuse. TFTC

Tnln. Heaps of turtles around. Spotted by a stealth muggle, sorry! Hope it's not muggled!

Cache has been replaced. Please place back in protecting plastic bag & conceal in original hiding spot.

Looked and looked. Mind you we gave had large amounts ofveain since the last person found it.

Disabled until I have a chance to check if the cache is in place.

A mugge free GZ for me this time so it was a quick find. TFTC.

found while in Townsville for the weekend

TFTC

Found this one on the second try. First time I was new to this geocaching thing and muggle activity was high. This time around I went straight to it.

Young fisher-muggles were camped out on the bridge. I'll return another day.

TFTC.
Didn't watch turtles for long as had caches to find.

Oh, yes. There were turtles. Lots of turtles looking expectantly up at me on the bridge. These seem to have been hand-reared these turtles! Thanks for bringing me here roaminfree!

Another really nice spot to stop at and enjoy the waterways. This cache bought me to a place I would not have known about, SL, TNLN, TFTC

Logging the find

GZ had us over 10m out. Cache was soon in hand.

TFTC

Nice quick find. TFTC

The Clauss family afternoon walk..

This was our 4th cache in our caching run today - and we found it at around 16:55.
(So this is our 4826th total find.)

A nice quick find, after the muggles became absorbed with the turtles on the other side of the bridge.

Took: Nothing
Left: Ball Puzzle
Grabbed: Trackable
Thanks roaminfree for the hunt today.


This entry was edited by ian-and-penny on Wednesday, 26 September 2012 at 02:03:10 UTC.

Back to an old friend. Here is where our adventure with Donta & Pepper comes to and end, we hope they had fun and also find a new adventure soon. We also picked up Aussie Tag that wasn't logged as being in this cache so we'll take him onto a new one. Left Star. SL. We like this cache its a great place.

Found after some searching great spot

Love this location. Thank you.

Had me searching for quite a while! So much muggle activity! TFTC

TFTC SL TNLN. saw a fellow geocacher that gave me a hint to its whereabouts. Thanks

TFTC SL TNLN

The turtles are amazing, great place to spend some time with a loaf of bread.

Good find

Introduced our new Geocache friends to beautiful Townsville, our fourth visit, on a wonderful winter day. Dried out the container as it was a bit damp following all the rain here.
Left a neat TB from Colorado, USA. Took a toy pig and left a few trinkets too,
SL, TFTC

We had a look for this at Easter when it was under maintenance (we don't always have fresh logs when travelling) so relieved to find it quite quickly between the passing holiday foot traffic this morning. Fed turtles and ducks. Took coin, left Ham (Toy story). TFTC.

nice clue

took alittle while but managed to use my head lol nice place for the family we enjoyed the turtle feeding, signed the book took nothing left nothing tftc.

Cache repaired & returned to it's hide. Please ensure the lid is put on properly so the container doesn't leak.

Cache has been removed for maintenance, will be back in a few days

Found @ 4:05pm. Loads of turtles today, what a great place for a cache. Cache was full of water and log is soaked. Signed as best as we could. TFTC SL

What a great spot for a cache.
There were plenty of turtles today and they all looked hungry.
Pity I didn't have any food for them.
The baby turtles are very cute.

Cheers and happy caching.

A bit soggy, but a great cache. Thanks.

Found it on attempt two (thank god the ants were absent this time) with Psilonette under the guise of being one of those weird people that takes photos of every little thing as there was muggles fishing off the bridge. No trackables in it so no idea where they've gone but took a hat pin and left a Kena.

Took a little while, not bad for our first find.

#3 TFTC LS

Edit 26 Jan: Went back today and placed our new Signature Coin in.

Checked for the TB's again. They're not there.

This entry was edited by Champs+2Monkeys on Thursday, 26 January 2012 at 06:47:02 UTC.

were some fisherman there but did it covertly

1525 quite good exercise walking from 1 side of the Ross to the other... a couple of muggle fisherman nearby but were none the wiser, great place, great area.
SL, TNLN, TFTC

This entry was edited by mrmackie85 on Sunday, 15 January 2012 at 10:31:44 UTC.

Beautiful walk and fantastic spot I have never seen so many turtles. Awesome!

My word was this a tricky one to get to! I found myself a mere 230 metres away but on the wrong side of the river and it was at least 5km to drive around there. Once there I walked straight up and made the find in a good spot. Took the TB and signed the log and replaced.
Thanks!

Found it No. 3937 ... Mrs TR could not reach ... took coin and left TB ... TFTC roaminfree

Easy find, such a beautiful picturesque area.TN, L Geocoin Caching with Kids Coin

Have walked past this on many occasions, but this was the first time as a cacher... hahhaahaha....

Nice cache TFTC, TN left smiley and Foohey, SL ....

Definately no trackables in cache,,

- DU66IE

First one I've done in a couple of years. Thanks!! (Spur of the moment so nothing left nothing taken)

What a beautiful place - we have never seen so many turtles in one place. After watching children feed the ducks and turtles we made the easy find. No trackables were in this cache. TNLN. Great cache.

Swapped a jet for oil tftc

Found cache, definitely alit of muggles around. Theif and fair winds geocoin missing, took the Czech geocoin, dropping at a cache in brisbane.

TFTC. Took Honeymoon travelbug

This entry was edited by Lawneater on Tuesday, 05 July 2011 at 05:19:29 UTC.

Early morning retrieval. Turtles everywhere! T:N L: Honeymoon TB that we retrieved from a cache in New Zealand. TFTC

This entry was edited by buzzalot & bossalot on Thursday, 30 June 2011 at 22:10:47 UTC.

TFTC. Muffles fishing from the bridge, catching lots so kept them distracted! Took TB R. Geojack (other trackables listed not in cache), left earring.

This entry was edited by chrissylat on Sunday, 26 June 2011 at 04:35:01 UTC.

Took a bit of hunting to find this one as there were so many muggles going by. Also got distracted by a few turtles sunning themselves on the logs in the late afternoon sun. Cheers Gav [9049]

A great location - turtles and all! A favourite for the trip!

Great day for this in North Queensland. Cool and clear. Nice little spot with no muggles today. Dropped geocoin. TFTC

Loved the turtles and ducks! Fantastic area for a walk. Took butterfly left flag pin. Tftc

This entry was edited by jmandea on patrol on Sunday, 29 May 2011 at 04:51:39 UTC.

Found at 4:30 while out on what started as a house hunt and turned into a caching afternoon. Thanks

Looked long and hard, but not in the right spot!! Thanks for the nice walk anyway.

Have replaced the geocache which seems to have become dislodged in the cyclone, back in place & ready to go.

Had a good look right in top of where our gps said it should be with no luck. Wondering if thus is a victim of Cyclone Yasi and the floods?

Disabled until I get a chance to check the geocache is OK...

Had to wait while muggles dog (Aristotle) had a swim and muggle traffic slowed to let us retrieve and replace. Part of a good afternoon geocaching with geodaughter Mohini.
Took GC
Left GC
TFTC
Found at 17:15