Spider on the Hill McDowall, Queensland, Australia
By ruzzelz on 02-Apr-11. Waypoint GC2RBAJ

Tftc. Nice quick find. Good view from top.

Quite a pleasant find. Found the cache on a nice bushwalk through the area, just needed some scaling down the hill to grab the cache. Left and nabbed a TB. TFTC

Out with Legend and ILTW for a few cache finds. TFTC.

Great spot on the hill. TFTC

Its been a while between cache finds. Just moved to the area and thought Id check out the back yard. Great spot to go for a find, and relatively easy. Cheers guys

Thanks. The kids loved it

A good walk this afternoon. Quite a few people using these tracks, but noone around when I deviated to this cache. TFTC!

Had to wait for a muggle to leave, but the mugglepuppy definitely could have stayed TFTC.

A great cache, living up to its name with a pretty big spider in the way of retrieval. TFTC

Replaced container

Unfortunately did not have pen but did locate, looks like lid has cracked so have a bit of water in it. TFTC

A great spot to visit. Well worth the short hike up the hill TFTC

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Nice easy find today. TFTC

Wow, so steep! Lots of muggles around but I managed to find the cache in a break in the foot traffic. The container lid is a bit broken but log was dry. TFTC, I look forward to returning soon to look for the other caches in this nice reserve.

Took the hard path and hiked in over 500m, now to hike back apparently beautiful area and nice cache to find while out with ILTW.

Out and about with Pittstopp74. Quick find.

Saturday morning agreed to meet some friends for Coffee and a walk with the dogs. Turned into a nice little 3km wander through Chermside Hills Reserve, getting two caches along the way. First time to this area and really enjoyed the trails.

This cache was a nice and easy find. The dogs went head first down the hill. Cache is dry.
TFTC, found with muggle Nicole (who had followed me on a number of adventures) and her friend who got to witness her first geocache find.

ruzzelz I found your cache Spider on the Hill on 24/4/2023, 3:05 pm. This is my find 5105 and find # 9 today. A quick and easy find with the help of the hint. Thanks for the cache, mate! TNSLLN

A quick find while hanging flags for Mid Week Orienteering. No pen on me so left a piece of pink flagging tape in the log book.

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i have been here before and did not find this cache. wow i must have had some cache blindness that day because i saw a likely hiding spot on approach and sure enough there was the cache. Thanks for taking me up this hill , i enjoyed the walk and a cache to boot.

On the last day of the year, I managed to get a final couple of hours caching time in. The dog as usual was up for a bushwalk, so a little drive to this bushland reserve and we were ready to tick off another couple of the drum beat series caches, plus start on the nearby multi cache and traditional.
We arrived at the top of the hill and took note of the two pieces of info I needed for another cache, and then had 25m to find this cache.
The container was found quite quickly, as previous finders have noted there is a small hole in the lid, but with the zip lock back in place, the log book is nice and dry.
The log book was signed and rehidden.
Thanks very much for the cache ruzzelz. Cheers

Enjoyed a pleasant walk before it got too hot. Even though the lid is broken, the cache is in great condition and Coordinates spot on. Tftc

Am totally puffed now

Woohoo found my first trackable, now where shall it's next stop be ??!! Loved this one as it was in my old stomping ground, allowed me to see how much the reserve has changed after 5 years.

Worth the effort good trail great view Lukey

Found after a nice ride through the park. No damage from recent fires. Still in good nick.

Checked on cache condition

Found it

Great spot and great find after a hill walk

Having failed the multicache guessing game, found myself back up the hill to log this cache. A quick find and now wondering why I didn’t log it on the first pass But that’s fine as exercise is good for the soul. And as I only ducked out to the local shops for a new shower cap, all of today’s smileys are a bonus

No spiders were harmed during this expedition

TFTC rusty

Great walk in a part of Brisbane I didn’t know about.

Great find, fun walk, tftc

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Headed out for a few caches this afternoon and tried my eye at this one. Nice easy find. #2 for today. Grabbed the TB and with the log signed, I'm off to the next one. TFTC, TFTH & TFTSF

Great easy one for kids

Target cache to leave a trackable. Enjoyed the walk with my muggle mate. Tftc

Early morning jog through Chermside Hills, thanks for bringing me up here. TFTC

Found it! Nice view

Got it. Nice view. Cache in good order. Only problem was the cloud of midges trying to eat us.
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Very nice little walk of an afternoon. Managed it find it despite a pretty peak time!

Unfortunately no pen with us today but out with spiesm and she nailed it first go! Tftc, photo supplied from her

Found, didn’t have a pen so took a photo instead. Nice view! Tftc

And aren't we glad the decision was made to preserve this place. I visited today on a continued mission for ruzzelz hides, and two would greet me here. These remnant bushlands aren't all created equal and it's clear that dedication from the bushcare group combined with natural chance has resulted in a beautiful place to spend some time.

Yeah, I was poking around multicache waypoints from my start on Trouts Road, but this totally stands alone too. I enjoyed that with only the subtle rumble of Hamilton Road to beg otherwise, this felt a long way from civiliation. Also helps I saw no other humans. It should have been hot today, but a cool break and breeze meant powering even up the stairs wasn't so bad.

I enjoyed the variety of flora, and interspersed with many grass trees. It wouldn't take me long to get to the summit and enjoy the view across to the Brisbane skyline. A few geotrails lead the right way, so I picked one and aimed for GZ. Right where expected, there was a SPOR, and a geocache within.

Just before 14:30 I signed the logbook and replaced as found. Hey! My first geocache for the year. And what a winner to start off with. I'd explore as much of the trails here as possible this afternoon, and enjoy it thoroughly. Thank you for bringing me here, ruzzlez

Found while doing a multi.
Plenty of water in every little gulley here
Thank you for hiding this geocache ruzzelz
Find number 24311
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First time in this bush land. Thanks for this! A little off track and slippery but love the cycads around.

Good grab after summiting the hill in the breeze. TFTC!

Thanks for this one. Great with the dog and kids

Not much view from the top but I did spot the city amongst the trees from GZ. Thanks for the cache

Out finding more of the Drum Beat plus a few extras along the way and caching as Team SPRIGH - Snickersallen, Patrol14, RoddyC,Imbunda, GrannySmith1947 and Hatsoff . We left our mark before replacing as found. Thanks for the chase. TFTC

Out with geofriends again today to finish off the Drumbeat series and any other caches along the way. (Snickersallan, RoddyC, hatzofff, GS1947 and Imbunda).

Chose to walk clockwise to pick up the caches and luckily we did, as the walk back to the car was mostly downhill... Lovely seat at the top but trees blocked the view.

A quick find after checking out a likely spot. SL then returned as found.

TFTC ruzzelz

Picking up a few smiles continuing in the area for some Drum Beat caches. Out with RoddyC Patrol14 snickersallan GS1947 imbunda (SPRIGH Team). Lovely walk out and about.


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Final day working at finding the Drumbeat and associated caches.

Glad we made it a clockwise walk around the circuit - the walk up was relatively gentle.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on August 28, 2021. TFTC, ruzzelz

Third trip up to finish the beaut Drum geoart series, find solved puzzles and a few traditionals with geo friends patrol14, Imbunda, hatzofff, grannysmith1947 & RoddyC. Enjoyed venturing into so many different suburbs today, some for the very first time.
Enjoyable walk to get to GZ where a quick find was made due to the top hint, thanks CO.

TFTC ruzzelz

TFTC smile 9681 out and about with miss millie geo dog Hatzofff RoddyC Snickersallan Patrol14 and Imbunda great cache, great friends, great day ,good weekend
Thank you, ruzzelz, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Wow what a climb! TFTC

What a climb up but always worth it for a cache! TFTC.

No spiders, but a lovely cache spot for a sunset. All good on the hill. TFTC

The wife found it! Lovely hill

Nice little wall k to this lovely lookout. Find was quick and easy cache was in good condition. TFTC from the inspectorrexteam.

Found the cache then watched the sun set on my 20s from the lookout... It's my 30th birthday tomorrow!
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We were in the area collecting the drum beat series. Can't leave this green spot unfound.

Thanks for the cache and taking us here ruzzelz.

We got up early this morning and began our geocaching day at 6 am. We met up with E_Smiley to finish off the drumbeat series. It was so beautiful to be on top of this hill by just after 6:30 am. The sun was starting to finally warm us a tiny bit and we signed the log before continuing our walk around this bushy area.
Thanks ruzzelz
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This evening, after picking up an errand, and needing a multi-cache for today's calendar day, I headed to Chermside Hills Reserve. It was such terrific weather that I decided to jog around the various tracks finding the geocaches in the area. A great area that I would love to return to in better light to see these grass trees, but the tracks and boardwalks were actually pretty cool nevertheless.

Whilst jogging up the trails whilst following the *Grass Tree Trail - just another little hill climb* multi-cache, I stopped off here to make this traditional cache find (and as it turned out, it was my first find of the day). I walked just off the path and found this cache reasonably quickly. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks ruzzelz for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

As we were strolling past this collecting some drum beats it would have been rude not to search. Took me ages so had to call on TeamARF's trusty GPS. How did I miss that pile!! TFTC and gorgeous view!

A pretty easy one for the kidlets. Lovely view. Thanks for giving us something else to do here.

It’s quite hot out today... and for some unknown reason I thought I’d come here and cache... I found this one while completing the multi... glad it’s all “down” now...

Quick easy find

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Found it
Puff puff Whoa I’m unfit need to catch up my fitness
Thank you CO beautiful area

Hooray thanks for share Deafphantom

A good hiding place. Found it while doing multi (that was a failure but..) nice to have one smiley up here! Thanks for the lovely view

I was here a month ago but had no pen. Walking on a glourious winter's day so swung by 2 sign & leave a treasure

1st cache for weeks, following COVI-19 restrictions, & then I find Ive no pen/cil So, made small tear in blank part of log & took foto for further proof & TFTC

TFTC!

A short walk up the hill in the drizzle was nice until it started to pee down. I had just found the log and was about to sign and the heavens opened up. Log protected and cache back away it was a mad rush back down the hill in the rain, all in vain as I was drenched. Nice to enjoy the cool rains on the clothes rather than the heat and sweaty clothes

A quick stop in here while out collecting the I go for The near by multi. Great view, Tftc

I thought coming out early to escape the heat would’ve worked, but wooow it’s hot already. Walking up steep hill won’t help either unfortunately

On to the next.

Find #585 - TFTC

What a beautiful view. Well worth the climb to the top! Geokid found this one with a dead spider in it. I’m sure that was unintentional:)

FP and TFTC

TFTC, no pen on me at the time but quick find.

Cache a day to keep the doctor away, or is it to keep me sane. No it’s to keep my streak alive. ruzzelz >276 days. #1764 finds.

Lovely area for a cache Found quickly. TFTC,

Beautiful view from up here.There was a big spider right above the cache too! TFTC!

We really enjoyed our walk in this bushland today. When we paused at the top of the hill we were surprised to see the tall buildings of the Brisbane CBD. Wow!
The cache was soon found - all is in good condition here.
Thanks heaps ruzzelz.

Detour on the way home- tftc

Nice spot tnx

Out with lisylou and jemilucy and mnance101

Quick find after a little walk up the hill. Spotted a goanna up a tree. Tftc

Out caching with the Tough Mothers (Jemillalucy, Bennyboppers and Lisylou). A goanna was trying to hide on a tree nearby. TFTC!

Out with Benny boppers, Lisylou and Mnance101. Lovely day for a walk. Tftc

After finding a few caches in the rain yesterday and feeling miserable, we decided to replicate the madness today which in geo-language is a synonym for fun. We grabbed the umbrellas and set sail up the hill.

The brollies were going up and down more times than a young man in a stripper club as the weather couldn’t work out to do with itself. Even in the unsavoury wet conditions we were amazed at the amount of joggers out in the area. It made us realise that we aren’t the only crazy ones out here today but we were the driest (which I’m not sure is a real word but the spellchecker hasn’t complained, unlike the word fulkadiddle).

Mrs Woodyrothwell stopped for a breather at the top of the hill while I tried not to fall on my ass on the slippery leaves. Thankfully I spied the pile of suspiciousness and we could continue our mud-hopping jaunt on the trail. tftc

Got the heart pumping...TFTC

Enjoyed the walk. Left TB. Tftc.

Quick easy find

Awesome spot. I live 10 mins away and have never been here. Incredible. Thanks!

No swaps in here FYI fellow toddler parents.

We are staying with Mrs KEs brother and his family just below gz. The afternoon had cooled enough to get a walk in just before sun set. I took a slightly indirect route to this one due to my phone GPS taking a while to settle in gz. Nice and easy to find once close though and a nice area for a walk.
Thanks ruzzelz for the cache.

It’s been a long time since I looked for a cache but thought I would see what was around on an afternoon hike. TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 27° 22.629 E 152° 59.933

Coordinates changed to:
S 27° 22.632 E 152° 59.933

Distance from original: 18.3 feet or 5.6 meters.

Replaced container

New container.