TAA Flight 538 Mackay South, Queensland, Australia
By Team Lemmings on 05-Apr-10. Waypoint GC26967

No response from the owner within the time requested and as per the original note this cache has been archived. If you wish to replace it please submit a new cache via [this link](https://www.geocaching.com/play/hide).

Ministro - Matt

Hi team lemmings,

This cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, only to discourage people from visiting this location until this cache may be addressed.

**Please note that caches disabled during the current COVID19 crisis you will be given some extra time to react as we recognise that CO's can't just pop out and fix the issue,** geocache maintenance can wait. Once the acute threat of pandemic is over, I will remind you about your cache needing attention.

Should you feel it safe for you to maintain and address this cache now, AND your regional Health and Governmental authorities allow it, please feel free to do so. However, I would like to assure you I will not be archiving any caches which the cache owner does not currently feel safe to maintain.

I'll pass by in about another 45 days and hopefully this will all be over.

Ministro - Matt

We came for tree planting day but got our dates wrong, it’s on the 28th July. Must have got my maths wrong too, couldn’t find it.

Visiting TBs just flown in from Europe. Cheers.

Got the numbers but no luck with the hide. Found a few likely hides but nothing there

Maths must be bad

Just dipping TBs recently arrived from Geocaching HQ in Seattle.

20/06/2018 1:04:00 PM
I came, I saw I calculated, I failed to locate

Ttfc

Loved this one!! After a few DNF post cyclone Debbie, I'm happy to say the log and contents are dry . Although the cache was out in the open - we hid it again.

House sitting locally for two weeks, had to pick an area today for the touristy thing and caching. Mackay CBD won today. Planned to visit the Art Deco buildings in town.

First attempt, pretty sure my coordinate are out. Will rejig home

Solved and found while enjoying a nice walk on the beach. TFTC

Today we explored Mackay to find the caches that we had not done since our last visit and this was one of them. At GZ we made a quick find. A straight forward multi.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Thanks for this interesting and sad story. Happy to log this today to earn the digital souvenir!

It's bullshit took us like 3 days to find the first one.. On the other 2 days people were play volley ball right on top of it fml pretty good find by my dog it peed on it lol

Had to do a little looking. Thanks

Quick find vnc and in good condition returned and with no 1 in sight.Thanks

TFTC found it with TribeCharles

With Leanncalot. 2 heads are better than 1. Tftc

With Solving4X. The math was easy, but GPS was acting up a bit. We used Geo-intuition, though, and soon the cache was in hand!

My math skills are as bad as my map reading skills

Day 5 Mackay .
After spending many hours solving puzzles today we set out to find them. Picked up a few others along the way.
A nice simple puzzle, the final was at an unexpected location.
Thank you for all the information.
Thanks for placing this cache team lemmings

TFTC

quick easy find this morning

TFTC

While in Mackay with work I decided to go for a walk and ended up at far beach. On the way back looked at the phone and saw this multi close by. A quick read of the description and crunched the numbers and 5 mins later bingo cache in hand and signed and replaced. Container and contents in good condition. Thanks for the hide.

Well hidden

Good to temember these things rftc

Attacked at dusk, found all the info without to much drama but the mossie guards where on patrol at the cache.

Our second puzzle GC! Thanks! Did not know that these memorials were here, so thanks for letting us learn something new. Despite the strong wind the mozzies were out in force so thank goodness for the bug spray in the bag. Took nothing.

Out caching for little peedle's birthday. We really love these caches where the hider has put in thought, taught us something and taken us to a place we previously didn't know about. TFTC!!!

Mozzie attack!! Found in no time. Took TB

Had a great weekend doing some geocaching travelling from Townsville to Mackay with karicka. TFTC SL TNLN

Caching weekend with Jackylegs44 in Mackay.
Read the names and quite soon we had coordinates and a cache in our hands!
Thanks for hiding
R

OH my wordy lordy yes,. The mozzies are in force.
Left a TB

Good multi found with Lil modss signed log tftc

Had fun working this one out with dad. TFTC

What an unfortunate but fascinating piece of aviation history. Cache in good shape in spite of major construction close by.
TFTC team lemmings

Nice easy multi. TFTC

[font=Comic Sans MS]Hi there team lemmings. We found your cache "TAA Flight 538" at 11:00:00 AM today.
This was our 3rd cache find in a caching run of 9 Finds & 0 DNFs today. (So this now makes our find count 9691.)
[Blue]
Today's cache run was primarily to add to our current streak of "Most Consecutive Days" cached, (which has been going since New Years Day 2014.) Our "next closest" route took us to some wonderful & scenic locations.

The cache was an easy find. Thanksfor the history lesson today.[/Blue]
Coordinate Accuracy: Excellent. (We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.)
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Smiley Badge
Thanks for the hunt today,
Regards
Ian & Penny.[font=Verdana]

With help from Stacey

YAY !! Mine n stace first multi-cache, was heaps of fun ! Thanks very much !!

Yay! First multicache with Dupy

Found it thanyou after attending the event!:)

Easy find if you make the correct calculations. Checksum wherefore art thou. TFTC

Easy find today TFTC!!!

TFTF easy one, but learnt a lot.

Could not find it

Interesting history behind the cache. We did have a big muggle party between the monument and the cache but I think we were discreet enough. Cache was sitting quite exposed but we camo-fixed it. Thanks for the smiley.

Quick find in an almost empty Park. Perfect day to relax a little on the beach too
TFTC

First multi. Loved having to work it out

Arrived into Mackay just before midnight and decided to grab this cache on my way to the Motel. This cache has been on my to do list for sometime, as I remember reading about this air disaster many, many years ago. At the GZ, quickly solved the quiz and walked the short distance to the cache's hiding location. Cache discovered at 0025 hours. TFTC Team Lemmings. TNLN SL {#317}.

Isn't it funny how geocaching brings you to spots that you have heard about, but didn't really know where they were ?

Having worked in the aviation industry for just shy of 30 years, I know the history of the accident, but never thought I would find a memorial to commemorate the lives lost
Nice to see so many flowers placed here.
Somebody obviously still remembers [^]

As a 'Virgin Airlines' B738 glided overhead on approach to Mackay, I set about finding where GZ was.
A short stroll got me to GZ and I soon found the well hidden cache

A nice quick find for this evening in Mackay. We found it with a previous finder which made it a quick park and grab.

An interesting place to visit but such a terrible story to this one. The calculations were quickly done and the cache found. Thanks.

Found at 5:06 PM GAFF1. We are quit sure that in 2009 we did a cache relating to this incident, but we cannot find any reference to it at all.
We have done a few caches relating to air crash disasters and most of them were during the 2nd WW training exercises.
Thanks team lemmings.

Another day caching around Mackay, and a short drive out to Eton.
A nice multi for a sad topic.
Quickly solved and the cache found.
Thanks for the cache, team lemmings.

Found it this afternoon while seeking with 2 JuniorSeekers and one of their friends. A sad reason for the memorial but a good cache. We forgot to bring a pen and had to buy one at the nearby corner store. TFTC TNLN.

TFTC.

Interesting piece of history, with this and Bakers Creek, I'm not so sure I want to fly out of Mackay anymore.

Thanks.

good cache my teenage son had fun trying to work out clues

TFTC

Not as wet today so we headed out to do a few caches - got this one ok. A nice little multi and interesting reading the cache notes. Met a new team Bloomin' Rose
Thanks to team lemmings.

found with geokids ,young and old. took scissors and foreign coin left 5 mighty beans

Great thanks, took butterfly left dinosaur

Found with hayjessmum, good one for their 1st multi. Kids enjoyed this one. Left yoyo took troll. TFTC

Found with sniffme during a visit to Mackay for the River Sessions music festival.
TFTC

Found this a year ago and forgot to log it, here again with river sessions TFTC

Another easy find. Took our time working out the clues as no-one was around due to cold rainy weather. Another great site full of history.

Quick and Easy multi. couple of muggles around but we got it no worries.

TFTC

1st find for geodad

Been associated with TAA all my life, finally made it to this cache, from Melbourne. Thanks for bringing me here! TFTC!!!!!!

17/5 log follows

Found after a little bit of calculating. left soldier. RIP TFTC out

This entry was edited by strikeswiftly on Wednesday, 23 May 2012 at 13:10:43 UTC.

After reading this cache description I had done a little more reading of articles associated with this crash.
A very sad story indeed.
At waypoint one we were able to gather the appropriate information. With the maths completed we had a set of coordinates and were off.
Identified the cache GZ and located the cache easily enough.
Be mindful, as someone has placed a dead 'Joe Blake' beside the cache site and it does give you a startle.
We left nothing but took Beverly the little red car.
Thanks for this more interesting historical cache Team Lemmings.

TFTC found with no trouble be careful around gz as when I returned cache found small brown wiggling stick took wookiee the puppy TB left Beverly TB TFTC

Gotcha !!! TFTC

Nice easy clues led to the cache quite easily. Great hide.
Took the GC and left a pair of dice.
TFTC Cheers, CSCat

#220 Id visited the memorial, but a low battery kept me from finding the cache.

Returned a second time, armed with full battery and soon located the cache.
Dropped off TB Wookie the dog and Volkers GC.

Thanks for the history and the cache.

Great cache good hide good one for the geo kiddies TFTC

another cache close to home - that i had never got around to doing
today was the day
no worries - cache all good
TFTC

The cache has been replaced and is available again. BYO pen.

Again tried to replace this cache but there were just too many muggles about. Will try again later in the week.

29..4.11 at 11am found this one. No log book, so we made a temporary one which will take about 15 names.Left garnet. TFTC The Garnets

Sorry folks, need to disable until I can replace the cache.

Found @3.15pm with max number of muggles around while on hols at Mackay. This cache need maintenance! I didn't have a log book to put in but also wrote on the tiny piece of paper. as this was our last cache for this visit we left a GC. I hope it is safe there. TFTC

Found this one had been muggled. Container had been left opened and contents gone. Found the lid after a search in the neighbouring weeds/grass. Put it back together and left a scrap of paper inside as log (sorry I didn't have anything bigger), and put it back where it belongs. It will needs a new logbook and pen. TYFTC

Found easily enough and a very worthy cache location indeed. TNLNSL Thanks for the cache lemmings.

This one was cryptic but in the end we worked it out with Craigss21, Becka80 and geofamily and found it. Such a nice area.

Found at 17:30 with Sattlepop and becka80. Was amazed at the number of flowers. RIP. Took doll and left winners medal. TFTC.

found cache with Sattlepop and Craigss21 sad part of local history. TFTC

Thanks for providing this cache. I never knew of this disaster so it was sobering to understand what happen. I found the cache and signed the log. Thanks again.

found this one after converting the clues.Took a butterfly, and left a scout badge

This cache stirs many memories. I heard about it while at a northern boarding school and later amongst the drama that developed during the following days discovered that a friend had been on board. Fifty years seems like yesterday.
Thanks Team Lemmings

went here on fathers day and guess what we left too late and lots of people away but as we found out today that wouldn't have mattered but did have 2 camper vans there but weather not the best so they were in doors so all good hubby did let me know muggles but it was a helicopter very funny\
TFTC

QUICK AND EASY FIND WHILE OUT CACHING ON FATHERS DAY

TFTC

Getting to the park where the memorial is situated, was a slight challenge as the park is rather out of the way. But it was well worth the drive. Found the memorial. There are still lots of fresh floral wreaths placed by families and descendants in memory of this tragedy. The clues were easy to work out and the hiding place of the cache was obvious when I arrived at GZ. There was no one around at GZ so signing the log and replacing the cache was a breeze. T.N.L.N. Thank You Team Lemmings for placing this cache enabling me to discover another piece of Australian and Mackay history.

A very sad story at this site although good to recognise it. There was obviously, and not surprisingly, lots of signs of a 50th commemoration at the site. Cache was found easily thanks Team Lemmings.

By coincidence the last finder was Wandering Aus who I did bump into near Alice Springs a year ago!

WanderingAus wandered by on day 76 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip, on a night run after dropping the WanderingMrs (aka SWMBO) at the Glenella Dance Hall for four hours or so of line dancing. A quick bit of math by headlamp light and a short walk and I made a very quick and easy GAFF 1 find.

My find No 2784, LCC, TNLNSL, dropped my WanderingAus Happy New Year 2008 Gold GC in for a visit before grabbing it back again.

*Recommended* *Overall Experience: 3*

T4TH Team Lemmings
Keith

Rated: for Overall Experience

We stopped by this site to see a heap of wreaths lying around the monument. Reading the plaque made us realise this occurred just over 50 years ago. We also read some of the cards, and its good to see those who died are still well and truely in the memories of those who loved them. Easy calculations, and find at 1330hrs.

Cheers
Bundy

Found it with Rominfree and LittleBowerBird (who got the calculations wrong the first time)!!

Interesting site......read some of the cards left there, very sad and tragic loss of life.

TFTC!!!!