Frog Hollow Everton Hills, Queensland, Australia
By K8'n'Co. on 23-Jul-10. Waypoint GC2C5GJ

Frogs really are becoming scarce

Unfortunately some of the frogs have relocated. Will have to go and catch some more.

Been here a couple of times. GPS always takes us back to the same place but we can see nothing that helps us at all, not sure what to look for or maybe we are missing something vital.

Plotted our way in as close as possible to this but high flowing streams meant it remains unfound till another day for Gunnie69, Ghostgims & me..

Finally got round to logging all my finds since starting in August 2011. Done with geospouse IolantheK. For details of the hunt see IolantheK's log for blow by blow description.

This entry was edited by T-Tech on Monday, 23 January 2012 at 09:08:17 UTC.

Had another go this afternoon with T-tech's assistance. The frogs thought he looked much more interesting so 8 of them popped out for a chat . We were able to get sufficient information to determine co-ords for Boss Bullfrog's residence. Upon our arrival he tried to escape, but I was too quick for him and he had no choice but to cough up the goods (so to speak). TFTC, K8'n'Co.

Got to WP1 easily, but no frogs came out for a chat . Looks like I'll have to bring T-Tech back with me.

Yet another very worthy cache by the great K8. Never doing things the straightforward way we fought our way to GZ but it was worth the trip. We spotted one frog after a little search and found some of his friends quite quickly once we knew what we were looking for. Soon we had garnered enough information from the frogs to make our way to GZ which by pure coincidence was just near where we had parked the car. The final cache container did not disappoint. He was very cute. Thanks for sending us out frog hunting, we enjoyed the experience and another to add to our favourite list. TFTC

Right. With family up all week, and only this week off before back to the grind ... What day will be "my" day? Well, none really, but I can have all morning Wednesday. Today. A neat dozen on the menu.

HIGHLIGHT of the day. Nice nice nice. Yes, it's a true K8'n'Co cache, beautifully crafted story and adventure ... but just because it's typical of K8 doesn't mean it was any less enjoyable.

Got to the Hollow to have a chat with informant frogs. I think 14 of them might be MIA. Perhaps too many cachers have been by and Boss Bullfrog has taken some out to sleep with the fishes (can you drown a frog?) Hmmm, apparently you can according to the interweb. But I digress. Of the ten informants, one mumbled and was unintelligible, and one refused to speak at all. But between the other 8 I found enough data to head out.

Now, Boss Bullfrog is a devious old man. He had a new bodyguard today in the Spider Secret Service. The SSS was prowling around, over, on and in the Boss's business, and being a tad larger than any of the informant frogs may have been responsible for eating the missing 14.

As for me, once I came back to earth a few minutes later ... and with heart still pounding like a tom-tom display centre I used a TOOL to extract the cache that Boss Bullfrog was hoarding to himself. Not sure I apologise for the rough handling of said tool on Boss's personage! He deserved it for bullying the little cute froggy informants.

Log signed, and in the true spirit of sharing I gave it back to Boss Bullfrog to care for it, but with strict instructions to allow next cachers easier access to it, and to sack the SSS bodyguard! Until the next one K8'n'Co, my thanks for an enjoyable journey today.

P.S. In Frog's Hollow you don't need to bring bribes for the informants. There are more than enough mozzies in the hollow that they should be rolling along like porky!

I'm having a day of going back to K8 caches...and finally a success.

I came prepared with a pile of flies to entice out the little frogs and managed to talk to 10 of the little fella's (though 1 did not give up any numbers) before I moved on to have a 'chat' to Boss Frog.

Found Boss Frog quickly and soon left my mark.

Out caching with Net88
we got to this one with both GPSr and a phone going, but the GZ for the first WP proved elusive, no frogs anywhere We expanded the search area in multiple directions and still no little frogs
I guess the chest high lantana and/or chest high grass did make it a little tricky to see anything at your feet. [:(!]

Yep, that's where I looked last time . Good to see the boss back in place. The hardest bit this time was getting to GZ by torchlight, unnoticed, at 6:30pm . Signed the log and left, thanking my lucky stars that no one nearby has a dog.

Searched high and low, think boss and his GC have been moved by all that flood water earlier in year! Nice walk along the path beautiful day.

Boss bullfrog and his pals have returned from abroad.

Sorry, I should have checked this sooner. Boss bullfrog has definately taken advantage of higher waters and departed and so too have some of his minions.

Arrived full of confidence and spent a good while sifting through flood debris before calling a previous finder. Yes, I was in the right spot. Yes, it is one of "those". Hmmm, looks like the Boss done hopped away.

This had me searching for a long time I was bleeding from my legs, and using the same expletives, as I stumbled into the debris filled holes. This being my second attempt and not having to swim this time I decided not to give up. Eventually came to Mr Bullfrog sitting pretty thankfully nobody in earshot as I said ' there you are you B.....d.' Had a lot of fun. TFTC

Found, with a lot of help from Rendam!!! Unfortunately geokids slipped and so bullfrog is in for surgery kindly being operated on by Rendam. Expected to be back in one piece and discharged this afternoon!

Found this one with assistance from Rendam...Nice concept! Once I knew what 'type' of frog to look for, I found all the accompanying frogs quite quickly! This is something different, I like it!

Thanks for the Cache!

It must have been froggie festival day when I crept up, the frogs were dancing and swaying in the breeze. It took a while to settle them and get the numbers off them. Finally thought I was off to the big fella after not too long I spotted h there very relaxed and cooperative today. A nice different sort of cache. Thanks. Mosi spray is a must.

Every one is back and dry.

Recent floods have left a lot of debris but most of the frogs have survived as has Boss Bullfrog. Unfortunately the log hasn't survived so this is disabled until I can return with a replacement.

A nice walk along the bike track, which had evidence of having been underwater, arrived hopeful of finding some frogs. Maybe they have swum to Moreton Bay. No luck today. TFTC

While revisiting Frog Hollow, the amphibians were in fine voice. Didn't want to squash 'em so stepped lightly and each one told me a little froggy secret. I payed attention and listened carefully but didn't know what the heck they were talking until I started listening in frog, and it all became clear.

Boss frog was taking it easy and being very quiet while all this was going on and eventually croaked up the log when I visited his cool abode a little later on. The cache name suited ol' Boss well I thought.

SL. Log book dry and cache in good condition. Thanks for the hunt and an extra walk or two along the path here, and a nice taste of 'bush' tucker down the way.

This was the first cache of 17 for the day, on a nice warm day caching around the hills. What can I say another fantastic cache, I was glad they were frogs and no toads, I may have had to get my Cain Toad inspecting license out if they were not. My thanks to K8'n'Co. for the cache.

Found with Bedmaker. Had a lot of fun hunting down all of the required co-ordinates to find Boss Bullfrog's hiding place. Thanks K8'n'Co for another enjoyable cache!

Found with TassieGirl13, we had an excellent time chasing all the little buggers down.
We did a little pond hopping to get there and started our search.
Managed to even find all the required ones we needed to move onto bull frog.
He was happily sitting in his little spot, the hardest thing was trying to get the container out of him.
Eventually he gave it up and our names where added to the list.
TFTC.

596 - All is well in frog hollow as we found enough frogs to point us in the right direction to find the naughty bull frog at 12:26pm. Once we found a couple of the little guys, we got the hang of it and after about a 15 min search came up with a likely hiding spot for the bull frog. The creek was trickling nicely today and as Aussiemates have said, a few of the frogs were making some noise as we searched. A lovely spot and a great idea for a cache K8'N'Co. Thanks [^]

How do you catch a hollow dwelling frog holding a unique cache location number[?]
You Neek up on it...[:o)]
The frogs in the hollow were very helpful. Only had to find 8 of them to get all the required information.
The frogs in the pond kept us entertained with their song.
Moved on to find the dastardly Bullfrog and he allowed us to sign the log - but he wouldn't let us reclaim it for the frogs.
Thanks K8'n'Co. for another entertaining cache. Definitely one the geokids enjoyed.

Seems all is well!

I hadn't realised this one had been disabled when I attempted it today. Made my way to collect the clues - being mindful of the amount of water that must have passed through. Thankfully I was able to collect all the requierd clues (this took me a while - but i got there!). Made my way to the final GZ and located the cache safe and sound. The container was wet - but since the previous finder had the sense of mind to seal the log bag - the log is nice and dry. I could even hear the real frogs croaking happily after the rain. TFTC K8'n'Co - another enjoyable cache

The creek is flowing a little too rapidly to cross at the moment and there is evidence it broke its banks at the height of last nights deluge, so the frogs may have decided to move down stream.

Another great multi!! Took non-geocaching mum with me for this one and we had a great time chasing all the froglets. We were missing one necessary piece of information but as it was getting dark, attempted to proceed without it although mum was most upset about not finding them all! In the end it all worked out ok and we met Boss Bullfrog. Thanks K8'n'Co. Another masterpiece! [^]

This cache is guaranteed to leave you hopping mad [:(!]
I found Frog Hollow easily enough and even managed to avoid getting too wet or muddy making my way there
A full 15minutes or so later I had not seen or heard a single bit of frogginess
I wandered back to the pushbike to grab a fizzy cola and a croissant
Still more searching and finally something leapt out at me !!
Suddenly it seemed I was surrounded by the little hoppers
Eventually I found a baker's dozen of Kermits.
Alas I was still a couple of numbers short, but I could not find any more amphibians, no matter how hard I looked !!
I figured I had enough numbers to make do with and hopped back on the bike and headed for Boss Bullfrog's hideout.
It didn't take long to find him.
He looked pretty smug too !!
The mere mention of cuisses de grenouille made him hand over the cache though

Thanks K8'n'Co for yet another memorable, yet annoyingly difficult cache [^]

at 17:24 by a fluke. We started out badly by parking in the wrong place and then choosing a very long way to walk into GZ. We eventually found a frog and then 6 more and had 4 out of the 6 digits required. We searched for a lot longer without sucess and we were tired after a long day geocaching so we gave up. We decided to see if there was a shorter route to the car. On the way we noticed in the distance what might cover a good place for a cache. Then we noticed that it fitted the partial coordinates we had so we decided to take a quick look just in case[?]. Lo and behold we noticed on the ground just the sort of shortened pencil that might have fallen out of a cache. A more penetrating look revealed the Boss himself. It was sort of cheating and a lot of luck to do it that way but we got it.

TFTC K8'n'Co. The cache is fine and even includes a pencil.

After a dnf on my last visit I set off to test my luck today. However I had three things in my favour today......an idea of the correct gz (thanks K8), a borrowed gps and daylight. Now I dont know which had the greater impact. Needless to say that today's outing was a breeze. Mr K8 you are a devious man!!

Having found the required info it was off to locate the king of frogs. Now it would appear that he has a guardian. Yes, a pesky pooch has a bird's eye view of gz and certainly lets the neighbourhood know that someone is about.

K8 you never cease to amaze....a most enjoyable outing

This entry was edited by wingaap on Saturday, 31 July 2010 at 22:56:02.

I could detect the evidence of searching by those before me at GZ. After about 10 min of aimless wondering about the bush I spied what the first of what I was looking for. After another 30 min although I had some information but not enough.

Unfortunately a careful as I tried to walk about even I had failed in leaving no trace.

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I have been meaning to find the Bull Frog. Today I found a car park next to the bike path. It was a beautiful day today, Brisbane, where it is sometimes hard to know if it is winter or not .

After finding the first frog, it didn't take to long to find the others. After berating myself for mixing up the E and S decimals, I entered them properly (thankfully before I went for a very long walk).

At GZ I had to avoid the local dogs, but after looking in a likely spot I found the Bull Frog. Although reluctant to give up the cache I convinced it to hand it over . Made my mark and allowed him to keep it well hidden.

Thanks for another well thought out cache adventure

After being defeated once again by a K8 cache earlier in the day I was feeling rather hollow

With some spare time this afternoon I decided to take another hunt for the missing frogs. In the afternoon light the little critters seemed to be revealing themselves one by one, the only trouble was I already knew what the new frogs were telling me[:(!]. With a focus on french cooking I soon mastered the frog location technique and gathered the required information as each frog jumped out in fear [^]

As for the cache - I imagine that will be another story for some that is

What a fabulous time we had today finding all the baby frogs today. The first excitement was finding our way to GZ. Littlest geokid (who is my constant caching companion) insisted she knew the best way so we went. It's lucky I've got long legs. We spotted our first frog as we arrived at GZ and then another quickly after. Then we hunted... and hunted... and hunted... and hunted and could not for the life of us find another frog. So we rang La Kedi who told us to look at all the spots we were already looking at (so that didn't help). Determined to find the little blighters we continued to search high and low. Suddenly we spotted another one in a spot we had already checked (obviously he was a chameleon frog). That spurred us on and we eventually (after half and hour of searching) found the final number we needed on frog number 9. If K8nCo thinks he talked to 24 frogs I think he was hallucinating! Luckily the final cache was a whole lot easier to spot. Geokid loved the container. Thanks for the great adventure. *Recommended* *Overall Experience : 4*

The skygods were not playing the game today....well at least not for my gps.
I have no idea if I was in the correct gz or not...one minute 25m this way....then 14m that way and so it went.
Checked out a few of what I thought would be likely looking froggy hidding spots to no avail.

Oh well....maybe next time

Bad luck for me this arvo. Found one frog after too long searching in this area. Hope others have more luck. Cheers.

As soon as this popped up, The Marble and I hopped out to see what we could find. The access point we chose turned out to be the best one (we reckon), and after a bit of head scratching and jumping around, we started asking the local frogs where they thought we might find the cache-kidnapping Mr Boss Bullfrog. One by one, they gave up their secrets, and we barely had to threaten any of them with the pot. I was using a French accent to ask, mind you... EngPhil and his American mate then arrived, and the larger human presence must have convinced the last froggy to cough up the final piece of information. Coords in hand, the five of us headed back toward the suspected hideout of Mr. Boss Bullfrog, and there he was! We did have to coerce the reluctant amphibian to give up his cache treasure, but once he had, we decided that he was actually doing a pretty good job of looking after it, so we let him keep it. An enjoyable hunt, TFTC! ='.'=

We had a lovely time chatting to the frogs today and getting their information. However all the ones carrying one set of co-ords cheekily decided to hide from us so it took a while to finally locate them. We set off down the track to find Boss Bullfrog who was lounging lazily about and seemed quite happy to share his cache with us. Thanks K8'n'Co for another entertaining find.

So, MissGeosie and I were just killing time with the geo-father-in-law (COACH P) when the notification of a new K8'n'Co multi came in. Hmm, just down the road. Let's go!

Found a suitable parking spot and noted three other cars present. How many geocachers, I wonder?

We headed toward Frog Hollow and, sure enough, soon noticed a familiar couple of faces talking strangely to little green frogs. No surprise there! After a quick pointer on the easiest path in (Thanks La Kedi!) we soon joined them for the search. MissGeosie in particular was very keen to find the little froggies, and all but one of the details required to find Boss Frog were quickly in hand. The frogs with the last piece of information were holding out on us for the longest time before COACH P coaxed one to croak up the details. With that info in hand it was quickly off to GZ, where La Kedi was the first to lay eyes on the cache at 12:10. She and The Marble graciously shared *FTF* honours with us, and we all had a great conversation with Boss Bullfrog (though I never understood a single word he said) before parting ways once again.

It was only when we got home that MissGeosie happened to mention the nasty looking geostripes she'd acquired on her leg [B)], but some magic ointment soon had them under control. Such a brave little geotoddler! [^]

Thanks for yet another most entertaining little cache, K8'n'Co.! [^]

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