Remembering Merv Ingham, Queensland, Australia
By corikra on 26-Jun-10. Waypoint GC2AW2F

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I had arrived in Ingham this yesterday for a couple of days work...and after an early breakfast, I went hunting a few caches...mostly unsuccessfully...before starting work.

The previous logs indicate that there is no container, just the log sheet...and I suspect that has now gone too.

Found it. To soggy to sign. Easy to find. Needs container.

Found it! This cache desperately needs a container. The log is sitting by itself full of water
Ash, Sam and Trace

Poor cache has no house

On our way to Whitsunday Islands we´re also find a few caches
Greetings from Germany.

A nice Cache on the Great Barrier Reef.

Greetings from Erfurt Germany

TFTC #2,297
Mertimum

A quick visit to Ingham and we grabbed this cache while here. an easy drive by and a lovely memorial. tftc

Found it with mike9268 and regina32

Today we drove from Mission Beach to Townsville. On the way we did some sightseeing and geocaching. This was one of them we found.
Thanks for the cache and many greetings from Germany!

Bineundyves, Regina32 and me Fund several caches on our way to Townsville. TFTC

Found it!!

Hmmm found where it should have been well were it is but there is a tobacco pouch with a log to :/

Tftc

I catched him on my road trip from Darwin toward Cairns. Nice place for a cache!!!

TFTC

Cool hiding spot. Cheers

Nice hide We placed a new logbook there, the old one was full. TFTC!

Nice hide, thanks for the cache!

we're on holiday and traveling from Brisbane to Cairns (Cape Tribulation) and all places between. we try to find a cache every day. some are easy to find and some are more difficult. but with every cache we find we get a smile on our face and a smile on our map.
thanx and hot huggies from Hilvarenbeek - Holland!

Found it. Such a tiny cache. Thank you

Tftc and the toad sleeping with it LOL

Nice spot easy find. TFTC!

Nice place for a cashe TFTC

It's always nice when active, respected citzens are remembered like this.

Thanks for showing us this area corikra[^]

On the trip from cairns back to Melbourne and along the way lets get some caches while we stretch our legs. Tftc

Quick find on the the FNQ road trip with Lukie1987.
T4TC.

Tftc. Easy enough but was a clever hide.

That was very cool. I like that one! TFTC

Merv was a real good guy. Mr Cacher found this quickly. TFTC

Found nice and easy. Added new log sheet.

Nifty!

Found at 12:12:00 PM in the company of thepope..

Thanks corikra.

Nice easy find thanks for the cache

Stopped for coffee and a break, nothing much open, but I had a quick walk to this speccy hide. Merv's plaque needs a bit of a rethink and a restoration though. Tftc

TFTC Coricka

Quick find in a good hide. TFTC.

Nice quick find, new log book required & TFTC

[Blue]# 12506[/Blue] Found on our 2015 Winter escape trip to Qld.
Another perfect winter day for a drive around the area while in Ingham.
Cheers from Wagga Wagga in the Riverina, NSW.
Thanks for the cache corikra,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

found, but no logbook there. replaced it provisionally.

found the cache but not only is there no logbook, there hole was completely empty. So we filled it up with a piece of paper and something to put it in ... The hole has been filled, but real maintenance is necesairy.

Nice little park ... Thank you !

No log sheet

20.04.2015

Found with welena on our Australia & Fiji Holidays.

Thanks

#1201 20.04.2015 13:15

Reissdorf and I spend almost a month in Australia. Our long awaited holiday.
After visiting Sydney, Ayers Rock & Kings Canyon, Melbourne and the Great Southern Touring Route, we arrived in Queensland and did a road trip from Cairns to Brisbane.

We found the cache, but without log sheet.

Tftc
welena

Great hide..found but no log sheets..

Needs new log sheet.

Easy find

2nd catche of the new year. Great find. Good hiding spot. Had to wait out the muggles.

Good hide... Well made

A nice quick find while on the way to Mission Beach. Thanks to karicka for the great improvement on the log. This is a nice part of town. TFTC and greetings from Canberra!

Sunday trip North to log a few caches.
Very difficult to get the log out but finally I made it. Did a bit of improvent to help the next cacher.
Thanks for the cache
R

Founded on the way to Townsville.

We found this cache during the first of our 5 week trip thru Eastern Australia and Tasmania. We startet in Cairns, now first direction Sydney. On the way we will search more nice locations on the way, geocaching helps us a lot.

Many thanks also for this cache and greetings from GPSnini (from Switzerland)

Great Cache! Took us a while to figure it out! TFTC

last time we dropped in
Merv wasn't home
and I was going to ask his mate corika,
if she wanted us to drop anything in on our next planned trip to Cairns in December
but then I saw she managed to drop in and check up on him anyway
so we thought we would drop in and and check up on him today
after this unscheduled trip north.
happy to find him at home this time, all safe and well
TFTC

New container and log in place again now

Planning a maintenance trip next weekend.

Will attempt to replace the log as soon as I can. If someone on their way through could leave a temporary log, that would be great!

I think someone took it

Awesome spot. Looking at other logs makes me think the cache is missing. We too found the man made hiding hole. Needs maintenance!

Reading previous logs leads me to believe that people have found the Merv memorial but not found the cache. We also found the memorial but not the cache. I think this one needs to be checked.

No log to sign - cool spot for a cache though

Found spot, no log though took pic if owner needs

TNLN

Found the spot but no cache. Is it still there?

Second GEO CACHE that I have found but has been replaced with a munzze sticker how do I sign

stopped in on our way north last weekend
but there was a van parked close by ... so left it for our return
no one around today
mmm ... but apparently neither is the cache [?]
had a look, but couldn't find the cache container.
... maybe, another for our next trip north

Found hidy hole but micro missing

tftc found but log is missing

This was cache number 37 for our weekend away to Townsville. Had to get more on the way home and this one was our last. Wish I had more time to get the last couple here. TFTC

Outstanding member of the community.

TFTC

Clever and good find. 4 geocaches found today

TFTG nice one:)

Great cache. Enjoyed the experience and information at park. Travelling through and nice to pick up another find and a challenge as well. TFTC.

Quick find as previous logs sorta gave the game away.

It's nice on Australia Day to remember a local hero.

Very clever hide. I like ones that have a bit of thought put into it. Nice park too.

Very clever hide - first time we have seen one like this! I actually had my hands on this one and replaced it and Geoteen snuck up behind me and spotted it. Too clever for Geomum. Love this cache.

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Loved it!! Ha...nice one

What a tricky way to stash your cache, loved it, so natural!

Clever lil cache! TFTC

Clever hide good clue. Thanks for cache

What an excellent hide. Mini-micro

Always happy to be brought to places like this that commemorate or celebrate a local. geoD had moved the cache on numerous occasiond=s before geoP had a girls search and spotted the little sucker.

TNLN SL TFTC

Very clever hide. #2 today

This is a very nice little park – found before the cane train came - TFTC / TFTH / SL

Well done hide. Quickly found.
TFTC-----------Hartwig

Tftc nice spot merv

Sounds like a real good bloke & a very clever hide! Tftc

Another excellent cache and hiding spot in a lovely park. Waited till no muggles nearby to get cache and sign log.
TFTC corikra, bringing us to this park and for your notes on the interesting story of the "likeable cop" - Merv Wacker.

Found with my German Friend Moritz

T4TC from Kiel, Germany

Heading south to Townsville before heading west to continue our 2nd lap of Aust.
We left the caravan parked up while we attempted the caches around Ingham.
A nice memorial for the "likable cop", an easy find.
Thanks for the cache, corikra.

North Qld 2013. Day 12 Townsville to Tully. An interesting memorial with a pretty well hidden cache for such an open area. Thanks.

11707.235 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2006 Compass Rose A#3

Albida

We searched for a pic nic table to have lunch. Then we saw the icon on the GPS less then 50m away. Of course we went for it. It was a easy grip, we have seen an other cacher putting back the cache just when we parked the car

Mr Beetle went and grabbed this clever cache container while I made lunch. Thanks.

Great clever container, well done! Lest we forget. TFTC

another great place to relax on my way north.
thank you corikra for the clever cache, a fav point from me.
sl

TFTC corikra. Found with Bob on our return trip after visiting Mission Beach for the weekend. Loved this cache but not the green ants that have made a nest in the surrounding area. For some reason they loved me though! SL TN LN and RTC.

Our first one yay! We'll be looking for more for sure.

Very interesting one this one ...Rocked my world..TFTC

3rd find today. TFTC