THE BIG CRYSTAL DRIVE-BY Mutarnee, Queensland, Australia
By insane.cache.posse on 10-Oct-10. Waypoint GC2GFD8

With no active caches in TSV to find, looking for archived ones.
This ones long gone.

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No luck for me today. I even phoned a friend to check that I had my caching eyes on. I think this one might be missing.

Took a slight detour from the Bruce to locate this cache. Quick find at the GZ. Cool turning circle for the local bus. TFTC ICP. SL. [#512]

Easy drive by. TFTC

The original logbook is full as well as the sundry scraps of paper that have been added. A tidy up wouldn't go astray.

Was just about to log this as a DNF when my muggle friend being taught GeoCaching, had a 'found it'.

Visited with some TB's.

Happy Australia Day 2014!!

TFTC TSLS SL (#126)

Another quick one on a very hot dsy. Quick find but would you believe a muggle pulled in beside us just as I grabbed the prize. Luckily he was just answering the phone. TNLN TFTC

Had a fair idea where this was going to be located as we got closer to GZ. It wasn't long before geoteen had it in hand!

Just as the title suggests, a drive-by on the way to the big crystal pool.
Thanks,
The Hancock Clan

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

Nice quick drive by - TFTC

TFTC

We found this nice little one on our way to Townsville - tftc legrixies

This entry was edited by legrixies on Thursday, 07 November 2013 at 10:53:13 UTC.

Quick find on the way to the Big Crystal Pools. TFTC

Found on a day of geocaching in the Paluma area with msroaminfree. Cache is in good condition. Signed the log. TFTC

Tftc. Tnln

[blue][size=5]Found on the NQ leg of our Round Aust trip[/size][/blue]
[green] Today we are staying at the Big 4 in Rollingstone beach, nice place but full of maniac kids, lol. We headed off today on a day trip up the very windy road to Paluma and stopped here for a look on the way and a couple of nice walks through the rainforest, the first lookout had me snookered for a little while until I discovered the side track down to the next lookout which was much better, grabbed the cache and continued back to the carpark for a quick lunch. Then it was back down the hill to see the big pool and after a lovely refreshing dip it was time to head back to the caravan park. We stopped here for a quick find for Charlie and then carried on.[/green]
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[size=6][blue]Found with SeabreezeOZ[/blue][/size]
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[size=6][blue]Found with SeabreezeOZ[/blue][/size]
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M.A.L.B.B

On our way from Little Crystal to Big Crystal, stopped for a cache. Found by Lyni9 and Gas409 while enjoying a trip to Australia. Thanks for hiding this cache..

# 32951

On our way from Little Crystal to Big Crystal, we stopped at the stopping place for this cache. Found by Lyni9 and Gas409 while enjoying a trip to Australia. Thanks for hiding this cache..

# 32968

On my way back from Little Crystal Creek I just had to stop for a Big Crystal Drive-by! Pulled up alongside and made a pretty quick find. I was so close to the Frosty Mango now but just had to head back to Townsville! Signed and replaced.

Thanks!

Logging the find.

Mr TiedyeSmileys sat and fiddled with his malfunctioning GPSr while Mrs TiedyeSmileys searched with no joy. Turned our Mr TiedyeSmileys was obscuring the cache which as soon found.

TFTC

H found before T had the seatbelt off. A few equine Muggles observed our activities. TFTC

Found it on the ground, put it back where I thought it belonged. Needs a writing stick.

2639 Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1420 another for the day on our way north. We came here, we sat, we thought, we found, we left. SL Tnx insane.cache.posse

North Qld 2013. Day 12 Townsville to Tully. Another little detour and a nice remote corner where it was not too much trouble to locate the cache. Thanks.

11703.231 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Wright Brothers Memorial Benchmark A#255

Albida

Tftc

Deze cache werd snel gevonden.

Found during a long trip around Australia. Thanks for showing us such an interesting place.
Greetings from the Czech Republic.

Log book too ratty to use. Started new one. TFTC!

TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 18° 57.983 E 146° 17.567

Coordinates changed to:
S 18° 58.004 E 146° 17.584

Distance from original: 160.3 feet or 48.9 meters.
although there could never be any confusion as to the gz these co-ords will remove any future anxiety!!!

TFTC

TFTC

returning home after quick trip to Cairns
little detour off the highway to grab this drive by
yep - put the gps away for this one.
TFTC

Yep !! The coords were way off !! [:o]
But it doesn't matter here !!
The power of the crystals will guide any wayward cache to the really obvious GZ [^]
I found the cache after a quick kneel to pray
TFTC

After an early start from Ingham, we stopped in for this cache. It was good to stretch the legs and take the cache owners advice and use the provided seating.
Thanks heaps ICP for this cache. A quiet spot off from the busy highway.

This was found together with Wazza & Kara although it was some 43 m off the coordinates.
TFTC
Walter and Ingrid
walterhellmut

After visiting the lookouts we stoped at this cache.

Goo hide

Nice easy find! Great fun!

Easy find on the way to Innisfail.

One of the younger searchers beat the older in this nice easy find. TFTC.

found on the way home from Townsville

TFTC

Out for a Boxing Day swim with muggle cousins. Introduced them to the game. Tftc!

Merry Christmas from Cat and Bear who are out on a day trip to grab some caches.
TNLN TFTC

We found this cache while driving a motorhome to Cairns to spend Christmas with the rellies. TNLNSL TFTC

Great find very small log GPS coords are out a bit, but description is good

Great find.

Found

Found it together with Team Autoværn
DK

It was a long journey for me today, So imagine my excitement at this drive-by! I love a quick find. I pulled up where I thought it might be and got out of the car to find the GPS telling me to go across the road. I looked at the structure and decided to ignore the GPS and look on the obvious spot, I found the cache in the second place I looked. I took the keychain and left a toy, a ring and a butterfly charm. I also left a new logsheet as the old one was full. Thanks for the cache, I only wish I had time for a swim in the creek.

Found it together with Moselund United
DK

TFTC

#4730 - 17:20

Another cache on route to the park. Quick stop, grab and log. Coords seem quite off but cache found quickly anyway because of the hint. Thanks for the cache.

Found on the 2012 Tour de Eclipse. Cache found in the last place we looked. I left my swaps in the Pahero and I did not have anything of equal value in my pockets. Thanks for the cache guys, we love your work.

Found on the great Eclipse Trip of 2012 with Freddo.

A solid day driving/caching between Townsville and Cairns A bit of rain, buckets of sweat saw us find this cache!.. Thanks for the fun and drive by.

Thanks to insane.cache.posse and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Found on the way north to see the Cairns solar eclipse, thanks

Easy find, just missed previous finder.

By the log, I just missed another cacher. Great view. TFTC

Easy find on our way back from Paluma. Bumblebee located the cache and signed the logbook.
TNLN.
TFTC.
B&B

A nice quick DIDO this one was on our way to another, GPS was a bit out but the hint gave us the GZ, SL, TNLN, TFTC

Quick find on our way to Cape Tribulation. Will be back on Monday to checkout the Crystal Creek falls.

TFTC

Great little drive out that way. TFTC.

Easy find. Lovely view.

The co-ord appear to be way out and need to be checked but with the help of the hint a find was made

TFTC

Out for the day caching with Avreno and whlest the coordinates where out easily found from the hint.

We stopped and logged the cache on the way to the south.

Crystal creek was my favourite swimming hole as a kid, it's a shame I've got no time this holiday to reacquaint myself with it.

I was glad for the clue, as my GPSr insisted the co-ords were 50m away!

TFTC!

A nice quick find for us today on our way to Paluma.
Cheers & happy caching.

Another short detour on our way North from Townsville.
TFTC and Greetings from Austria

On our holiday trip through Australia we could not resist hunting (successfully) for this cache.

TFTC and many Greetings from Germany.

Couldn't have found this one with out the clue. TFTC

TFTC insane.cache.posse. Found on a day out with my muggle friend for her birthday. SL TN LN and RTC.

This is a very nice part of the country!

Co-ords were 100ft off but found it anyway. Had picnic lunch at big crystal creek, then kept on driving driving to airlie beach. TFTC

Tftc

#200 Woo hoo... 200 caches

We stopped for a quick feed and ice cream at the Frosty Mangoe, then headed back to th Paluma turn-off.

I knew what the location would loo like, and was almost sucked into the firstone I found. A couple of kilometers down the road, we found the right one and had the cache in hand within seconds. Big Monkey has made the claim on all of them today.

Signed the log and replaced

TFTC

This entry was edited by Champs+2Monkeys on Sunday, 06 May 2012 at 08:49:38 UTC.

Was not an easy find as my GPS lead me the wrong way so I went back to basics and had the cache in hand. TFTC

We were looking forward to do these caches whilst preparing our trip along the east coast. Paluma wasn’t mentioned in a single trip advisor…thanks to GC we got to know this stunning place.
We had a fantastic stay here…lonely morning swimming in paradise pool magic glitter all over the grass in the night (as we found out eventually it were the eyes of the spiders starring at us…) heaps of frogs… kangaroos at the camping site…of course kangaroo steak together with bush turkeys at the BBQ…stars all over the night sky…and more made our stay around Paluma to a special one.
Thanks to GC and the owner for showing us this beautiful place…definitely a recommended stop over to everyone on a trip along the east coast.
We will never forget our first night in a campervan…


We found this cache pretty easy and in good condition.
thanks for that.

#1.263

The navigator and driver was sure he knew where this one was and after visiting little crystal we stopped for a 'drive by'.
It was soon realised that we were at the wrong bus stop and actually 2ks from the cache.
After relocating ourselves the boss jumped out and pounced like a tirgress on a nicely hidden cache.
Now on to Paradise for another hid...oops I mean find...........

Cheers SK and happy caching.

Found on our way to Townsville. The cache has become a nest of ants with eggs and all. Cleaned out the cache container and sprayed with aeroguard. Hopefully that helps. TFTC. TNLN. SL.

Fast found. Logbook is full. Haven't had a new one. T4TC Mr&Miss

Found it!... but didn't bring a pen to write a log, so we're being honest and only writing a note here! Ah well. Without knowing the co-ords, when driving past to the Frosty Mango the first time, Denbe pointed it out and said, bet that's where it is. And it was.

Tricky!

TFTC

Went for a hike up paluma a fun stop on the way back!

nice little cache
hot at the moment here but no problems
merci

10:00 - This felt like a drive-by/DIDO - when following the corrected coords. kwik find on our way back to Cairns. +/-0. T4TC.

Pulled up and thought "this doesn't look like a good hiding spot...". Then read the hints and previous logs and it was a quick find. Would agree that coords are about 40m out. I have posted coords that worked for me today. TFTC summer'skoby

Easy find.

Co-ords were about 40m out. Nice quiet find. SL TFTC

Found it No. 3903 ... quick find ... TNLN ... TFTC summerskoby

Took the Geocoin, we are going towards Sydney, will drop it there. TFTC

Was checking on one of my own caches in the area and decided to go those extra few kms to look for this one.
Quick find. Left a Geocoin that I had for a little while.
TFTC