In over your Head Ravenswood, Queensland, Australia
By corikra on 17-Apr-10. Waypoint GC26WRD

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TFTC, quick and easy multi find, had to keep an eye on the cows

TFTC, found with alphag_25:)

29/8/22 Heading back Mackay direction and grabbing some caches along the way. TFTC SL

Staying at Burdekin Duck Roadhouse in the van due to the rain, we had time to solve the multi, the bridge looks like it may go under some time soon.. We raced out late today.. Gotcha.. back to the van.

On our way into charters towers a couple of days ago, we stopped at the flood marker and collected the numbers for this multi.
We were running a little late, and the light was fading, so we decided to come back today.
The rain had stopped by the time we arrived at GZ and we made a quick find.
This was a really good multi, and we are so glad that you showed us the flood marker.
A FP added.
Thanks corikra
Domsky

After staying nearby we stopped here to find this cache, which was not a problem. Did the signing duties, together with ilook4geo, with both names being added to the log. Thanks go to corikra for putting this cache into play.

Checking out the available caches along and near the highway and side roads with goingplaces2. Had a good run and enjoyed the finds. TFTC.

Tft$

Road trip home after MEGA.
Found with team B

road trip day 11
off to muttaburra for the night

wow ... how high

had to make a choice at one of the arrows
looks like a couple have been moved/replaced but info all works

this is the only cache we are backtracking for our whole journey ... so worth it

yay got to take a photo of the bridge as we drove over

After our week in Townsville for the mega we are heading out to Charters Towers for a few days before heading south for home!
Joined up with Hans and Linda and cached our way to CT via Ravenswood. Even with the temperature hanging around 36c we had a successful day with only one DNF.
Thanks to the CO's for the hides and showing many different places.

Wow, It's hard to imagine the water getting this high.

Completed our sums then realised we had to back track a little. Certainly not going to forgo this one.

Located and log signed. Back on the road again.

TFTC

After spending a week in Townsville, we are back on the road, to Charters Towers via Ravenswood today. We are doing this with HansandLinda. We found the cache and signed the log. Thoroughly enjoyed visiting the caches. TFTC

Out and about on the road with Swearah and jodsta83.

Love a quick little multi. And always amazed to see how high the water was.

Lucky for us there was a checker or we may have been looking in the wrong place

Thanks for the cache.

Making our way to Charters Towers today from Townsville with swearah and stephyy and grabbing a few caches along the way. Wow that is alot of water that passes through here at times. With the final coordinates loaded we headed to GZ where we made a nice quick find. Tftc corikra ️

Wowww. These levels are devastating.

I messed up on one of the numbers when calculating so we were happy there was a checker. Stephyy, jodsta83 and I were travelling through, so that error could have cost us a bunch of time searching the wrong spot otherwise. Phew!

At GZ, Stephyy picked the spot on approach and made the find.

Thanks for the informative multi, corikra

This cache was found today and brings our overall cache find tally to 11105.

It sure was busy out here today but I soon had the answers I needed and could be on my way. That would be a lot of water!
At GZ the cache was quickly found and signed.

Thanks corikra for the cache.

After an early morning start from the Townsville MEGA
Lured up by the diversity a CITO and virtual on the hill
After a successful run around town, decided it was time to head back to Townsville
Ah ... what's a few more different finds on the way back
Stopped off here to marvel at the river heights [:o]
Got some numbers ... checked those collected numbers ...
Then ventured over to find the cache
All good here
Signed and replaced
Thanks for the cache

Day 7 of our trek to the Townsville Mega and back with fitzy_1965 and two of my geo-kids Death_killer & my_name_jeff_1.

The long awaited day we drive into Townsville! We did a bit of caching around Charters Towers before leaving. Definitely some great caching there and some good Adventure Labs worth doing. A simple drive to Townsville: we are all happy to finally be here. The kids were very glad to have a quick dip in the pool at the Motel before some rest before all things Mega kicking off tomorrow.

All caches were found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned.

27,578. Found with minniek during our Grand Townsville Trek up to CacheQLD's Townsville Mega Event over Easter.

Day 7 of our Townsville Trek, and we cached our way around Charters Towers again during the morning, before doing the short journey to Townsville for the main event (literally !). A couple of neat Adventure Labs were completed, as well as their bonus caches (one a real doozy) plus some other must do caches along the way. This one was a fun Multi to do. Quick find once at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache, then continued along to the next cache on our list.

Thanks corikra !!

Geocaching has taken me on many adventures over the years all over Australia and overseas. It has also introduced me to a brilliant and diverse group of people, many of whom are now close friends.

Today I was lucky enough to be out and about so I targeted this cache.

Multis are usually not my thing, so it wasn't surprising to me to find a lot in my found database that hadn't been logged.

Sorry for the late log, but thanks for adding to the adventure!

Thanks corikra (F=2129 H=127) for placing this cache and adding to our game.

Great view of the railway bridges from GZ. Particularly nice in the early morning light.

Thank you. We really enjoyed this multi.

Day 8 of the road trip to Townsville to with LuckyL10n and today it was a drive from Townsville out to Charters Towers.

A quieter day than others on the trip, but that was due to the different types. Puzzles, WIG's and Multi's were the order of the day. A couple of trads of course as went right past them....and we couldn't leave them could we?

Left CT around 2.30 and head for Cardwell to help fill in a few counties up towards Carins and the Tablelands. All up, another great day.

Thanks to all the CO's for the caches....they all help to make the trip a good time.

#13903 - 9:18:00 AM; Day eight of the Townsville Mega adventure with Sol de lune. Made it through to Townsville last night and headed out to Charters Towers to try our hand at the variety of cache types in the area today. Managed 30 finds for the day on the way to and from and around the town in Charters Towers, with one DNF. Cache types we found included Adventure Labs, Letterbox Hybrids, Trads, Multis, Unknown (Puzzle), Wherigos, a virtual and an earthcache. All caches were found in good order unless noted in the log and where required each has been signed L.L10n & Sdl or vice versa. Apologies for the largely generic logs [:o)] That sure is a lot of water!!!!! TFTC corikra

Date: April 12, 2022
Find #12378

Travelling up to Townsville for the Mega Event and Maze with beckNmonts. Found this one along the way.

Day 9, starting in Charters Towers and headed for Townsville. Now to cache along the way picking up as many puzzles and rarer cache types as we could.

Massive thanks go to corikra for placing this one. ??

Big things are continuing to happen! *Are you joining the fun again in 2022?*
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I was invited on an early morning drive with Sheridan (from Jacs Team) and Vic (from Waz and Vic) for some caches in the Charters Towers area. We had no set plans, just a few on a wish list and a few we both had solved. It was again another fun day with these two ladies. I like caching with these two, the simplicity in our caching day, the stories, the banter and the laughs were just all day; nothing is a problem, thank you.

We collected some nice caches and a very different adventure lab on the way in from Townsville, we even left a fun little multi for our return home. The day saw us collecting a whereigo, some trads, a couple of old caches, some nice D/T caches. There was a virtual and a couple of puzzles, some more adventure labs, a bite to eat and a stop off to collect some Shinny little disc thingies. An absolute great day. All logs were signed with the three names and all caches replaced as found.
Thanks to all the CO’s for the hides.

We did this one on our way back home, a favourite point here for this cache

Like all geocachers, I’m taking the scenic, slow route to Townsville. Along the way we detoured for, amongst many others, this geocache.

Loving multi caches, we made sure we did this one!

Thanks for placing the cache corikra, without hiders the game wouldn’t exist.

**This Cache:**

After getting distracted halfway through solving this multi by pprass who I met nearby, I got back to work. He had found this cache back in 2013 so left me to it!

Enjoyed working out the coordinates, it is quite shocking how high the water gets here. Unbelievable really...!?

I soon had GZ solved, and had to jump back in the car and drive towards it. A quick find upon arrival!

TFTC

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**Today:**

Day 5 of my road trip from Canberra - Townsville Mega Event!

Today was laid back, I had made excellent time and only needed to get from Pentland - Townsville! I spent almost the entire day in Charters Towers! I initially only had a couple of caches planned, but I fell in love with the caching and town itself and ended up spending all the time I could until I had to be in Townsville to meet someone at the airport!

Wow, caching in Charters Towers was just fantastic, super high quality hides and a very cool town with lots to see. It was a highlight of my trip!

TFTC,
Day 22 of our 2022 Northern escape tour via Normanton and Cairns to attend the Townsville MEGA. We used this pre event day to travel out to Charters Towers to complete our LGA areas visited planned for this trip. Still some to do post event heading south along the coast.
Amazing that at present, what is old is new again. The News needs to show people reality. They might accept then that they and not the Government are responsible for the choices they make.
Visited trackables.

Day 22 of adventure to Townsville Mega. A trip to Charters Tower today picking up a few caches in the area. Quick find. Stamped log and replaced. To CO.

Can't imagine water at the bottom of the marker let alone the top. Far out! this must look like Sydney Harbour in a flood. Thanks for a cache that's a real eye opener corikra.

What a great multi! Blown away by the heights the floods can reach. Thankyou for placing this here for us to enjoy.

Spending a few days in Charters Towers. After breakfast, I decided to head out to Ravenswood. On the way, I detoured to this multi cache. It was quickly located and the log signed. TFTC

Great views, amazing floods levels, just cant get our heads around that amount of water. Top multi, fav point. thanks

Calculated the final years ago and now finally stopping to make the find. Nice idea. Thanks

Yesterday we collected the info needed. Today we went to the coords and signed the log.

Tftc corikra

Found it with TBU1BIKESU after collecting the information yesterday.

Tftc

After staying in Charters Towers for a few days it was time to head off and thanks to the rain last night an easterly direction was chosen. I saw this one come up on the GPS and couldn't resist! That's one impressive sign! Information gathered and I was off to GZ and made a quick find as the container was in the open.

Once the log was signed all was returned as found.

TFTC corikra

Thanks for the quick multi. Much appreciated.

Quick find after checking out the old bridge

TFTC

Nice multi near to where we are staying. Much dryer out this way than Townsville
Thanks

Day 18 of my trip north from Adelaide.

Today was spent caching and sightseeing around Charters Towers. I had picked out the multis, puzzles, wherigos and traditional caches that I was keen to do and picked up a few other opportunistic traditional caches along the way. I also completed the new Lab caches in town.

All in all it was as a very pleasant day, with a cool morning and a relatively mild day, which made things much easier and more enjoyable. In all I managed to find 7 puzzles, 9 multis, 3 wherigos, 13 traditionals and an earthcache for a total of 33 caches for the day (plus the Lab caches). I only had one DNF.

Pretty amazing just how high the river can get in relation to the bridge. Cache was found in good order.

Thanks corikra for the cache.

Our 1st multi. Found with orth21 . I enjoyed that thanks.

Found with orth71.
Our first multi find.
TFTC nice maths and nice find.

A great chance to stretch the old legs while heading to CT. Those levels are insane! Our first time in this part of Australia so it is hard to picture it having much water at all. Nice little hide spot as well.

Tnlnsl
Dipped GC

Tftc!

On our one year trip through Australia we are now in Ravenswood, Charter Towers and then to Emerald. On the way we found several Caches. Sorry for the same text. Every Cache was great and make us a pleasure.
Greetings from Switzerland.

Very nice Multi !

Heading towards Charters Towers we picked up a few caches on the way and this was one of them.

Cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Checked the clues from the seriously amazing stats and quickly found the cache. All seems intact. Signed log and continued on

On route to a nearby GIFF Event I decided to drop into this interesting location. Thanks for the cache. It’s difficult to imagine such volumes of water! Very dry and very little water here today.
Cheers

Wow...those water levels are truly mind boggling. Cant imagine water levels across this part of the country being so high. A land of extremes. Thanks for a nice easy multi, which we enjoyed completing. Was not too sure about the final co-ordinates, but there it was. TFTC

After a wide open spaces drive from Rollingstone we pulled over to solve this little multi and proceed to GZ
Amazed at the depths of flooding here - a land of extremes
Tftc

Some astounding numbers here. I must remember to bring my waders next time. Found the cache with MummyPenny, safely high and dry. Thanks corika.

THATS ONE HELL OF A LOT OF WATER. TFTC.

I don't usually bother with Multi's cos of the time involved especially when travelling but these instructions and Geocheck were nice and clear. Would be incredible to see this area in flood though I guess the locals are not so keen.

Wowser!!! This is just phenomenal to me. Such a powerful force is water. TFTC. Fav point for this one.

Staying a few nights in Charters Towers this morning we visited the library to learn about the archives section to hopefully trace some family history here from the Pioneer days.

Lunch at the stock exchange cafe then off to explore some more of town.

Loving the history in this town. Hard to imagine that much water flowing here. Cache was broken so we replaced it but its now a smaller sistema.

TFTC corikra

Found Ok

TFTC. After setting up camp at Macrossan Park, we unhitched the car and took a short drive to the posted Co-ordinates. The river certainly came up high. We did their calculations and then drove to GZ. The cache was an easy find. The lid is cracked and if it does eventually rain the contents could get extremely wet.

Cleaning up a couple of more caches before leaving town, particularly multi's as they are with more tokens in the Geocaching Pirate hunt this week we then headed towards Ayr caching our way along.

This is one you wouldn't want to be looking for after a decent rain or the cache name would be quite correct but today there was no problem as it doesn't look as though it's rained here for quite awhile. Once we had the information we headed off to gz and we were very happy when the cache was located right where the GPSr was pointing and we sat adding our name to the log while taking in the fantastic scenery afforded here.

Many thanks corikra for the cache.

The cache is a little worse for wear but the flood sign is worth a visit: TftC.

Nice find with eldest geokid. Cache container needs maintenance as lid is cracked and it was waterlogged. TFTC

Nice little multi, solved the co ords on the way into town and then the next day took a walk from the camping area to reveal the location. TFTC

Incredible to think of the amount of water that was here as recently as 2009. Thanks for the history lesson and the cache. Immediate find at GZ with Team BlackPearl26. Container is cracked but OK.

Blackbeard picked this one up today on a cruise to Charters Towers with burgo78. TFTC.

Trying to visualise the amount of water required for these numbers really defies the imagination - and we are in a dry country!!! TFTC.

Found together with HDanske on our holiday to Australia, where we were on a roadtrip starting from Brisbane to Port Douglas. This was one of the many places we went to.

It's really hard for us to picture the amount of water there's been here during the different floodings. Seems unrealistic at first glance.

The cache itself was quickly spotted after gathering the required information.

TYFTC and greetings from Denmark.

Me and my family found this cache on our holliday in Australia. We travelled from Denmark to Sydney and then by plane to Brisbane. In Brisbane we rented a motorhome, and the for 4 weeks we drowe trough Australian and ended in Cains. In this 4 weeks we found a lot of caches - Thanks to all COs who made these caches - and thanks to all those wunderful Australians we met - You truly live in a wunderful Country

Many greetings from Denmark

We will be back...............

This cache was our find #6000............................................

What a great cache! 99 % of the travelling public wouldn't even notice the information at WP1 as they whizzed past. Brings home the power of nature!
We thought the final location might have been jeopardized as the road has been recently sealed and the shoulders graded but cache was found just far enough away to be safe.
Thanks, a favourite point from us.

TFTC replaced zip lock bag

Solved on the way to Townsville and picked up the cache on the way back through. TFTMC!

Tftc

Today we arrived into Charters Towers
A variety of caches found as we geocached around the area.
Thanks for placing this cache corikra

Found today, full log later

10:06:00 AM. Pulled up here on Friday in my B-Double for a break and solved it. Turns out it was too far to walk to GZ so came back today to complete. Signed log and rehid. Glad to get it off the screen. Hard to imagine the amount of water that must come through here for those heights. Thanks for placing this cache.

Very interesting information ! TFTC

Found at 11:45:00 AM while exploring Charters Towers..

Thanks corikra.

Cache our way west looking for Dinosaurs Caching with Mum (Rainforest Cookie)

TFTC

In the many times I have crossed this bridge I have never seen it anywhere near in flood. Considering it last major flood was in 2009 , a time we would have been around. I think I saw photos that the teachers were posting of it. Anyway today I sat on the bank of the Burdekin and worked out the coordinates from a photo I took a few weeks back. Ok. Not right. Must have made a calculation error. Might have to do maths with Ratdog as she was doing school while I did puzzle solving for a few of the new Mackay puzzles.
I soon had the right numbers. After lunch we headed out. Today was 33* when we set off hot for winter. Cache was found but the sign nearby threw up a little.
TFTP. Left a Pathtag for the next multi solver

We have been spending a week in Charters Towers and grabbing some caches while we tour around.

Today we were caching around Dotswood so this one couldn't be missed....and it definitely shouldn't be missed. The information at WP1 is almost unbelievable the mind fairly boggles thinking about the consequences of said information!!

After working out the coords and driving to GZ we thought that maybe we weren't going to be able to log a find because there was a trailer parked near GZ containing melons for sale and a truck on site. We continued up the hill to grab another hide and fortunately when we returned the truck had gone though the trailer was still there. the melon sales must be made with an 'honesty box' system.
We were then able to make a quick, discreet find

Many thanks for showing us this amazing area corika[^]

Found on a nice day out to charters towers tftc sl tnln

Found on a nice day out to charters towers tftc sl tnln

Day for a trip to Charters Towers to have a look at the town and to do some caching.
Did not clear CT completely, realized that I would not do all the long multi caches today, on top of that I had some DNF's.
This put the narrow river far below into perspective, today it was flowing a bit but later learned that it was almost dry some weeks back.
Thanks for the cache and for showing the monument
R

[font=Comic Sans MS]Hi there corikra. We found your cache "In over your Head" at 11:39:00 AM today.
This was our 6th cache find in a caching run of 11 Finds & 0 DNFs today. (So this now makes our find count 9781.)
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We are trying to log at least one cache every day, so we can add to our streak of "Most Consecutive Days Cached", which we started on New Years Day 2014. Our route today took us to some really wonderful & scenic locations.

We don't think the cache will get wer here in the near future.
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Coordinate Accuracy: 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: Party Popper.
Thanks for the hunt today,
Regards
Ian & Penny.[font=Verdana]

Found while camping at Macrossan Park. Worked out the puzzle, went for a drive to Bivoic Junction picking up a few other caches on the way.

thanks Corikra for this puzzle. Took Keyring, Left Slinky. NOTE: THERE IS NO TRAVEL BUG IN THIS INVENTORY

Wombat the Anthus laptop Geocoin visited, as did Runciple's Grasshopper, a mammoth who wants to see sheep, a slovak geocoin, a bumble bee and a travelling turtle.

Using a compass is hard work - the app makes it so much easier

TNSL
TFTC corikra

A bit of a trip down memory lane from Bowen to Charters Towers via Collinsville, Mt Coolon and the Burdekin Dam. A very worthwhile multi.
Left GC
Thanks corikra

We met the cache owner last weekend and got a replacement container, then we replaced the old container this afternoon.

Will try and replace the container as soon as possible.

A good hide after all TFTC

Another quickie whilst out camping.
TFTC

Out on a caching field trip to Charters Towers today with MattCNS and Mtn Pygmy Possum. It's amazing how much water can flow down the Burdekin River when in flood. Would be an awesome sight to see. Sadly, the cache container is in need of repair. It is split open on one side of the container and will require replacement before the next wet season.

TFTmultiC corikra TNLN SL [1199]

Cache container found split open on one side and will need replacing before the next wet season. Contents are still in good condition at this stage. Sorry for the bad news.

RobS72 did all the mental acrobatics to get us to the prize, and when there found it quickly. The lid needs repairing though. Collected TBK1N4RB. TFTC Corikra

Having not been on my bike for months this mornings ride made for a quiet afternoon. Across the bridge to gain the required information then back to the GZ which I overshot so walked back to an easily found cache. TFTC SL TN L trackable.

This entry was edited by Smittengranny on Wednesday, 25 June 2014 at 09:47:33 UTC.

This entry was edited by Smittengranny on Wednesday, 25 June 2014 at 09:53:59 UTC.

Nice little walk. Great find

Easy to find thanks

Found with geoferals 1,2 and 4 and geoneph ( gdaygday7)

It's a long drive from the Isa to Townsville, but having made it this far and still having plenty of light left, I could afford to take it easy and look for another cache!

This one had my interest from last time I'd passed by. Lucky there was a gap in the traffic and I was able to pull right into the ideal spot.

The information was forthcoming quick enough, and after using the checksums (a REALLY good idea in my case...) it was time to head off in search of the cache.

I was able to pick the probable gz from the road. Cache was found without troubles.

Thanks for the effort and the cache, conkira