Wild Dog Cooranga, Queensland, Australia
By The Larrikin Lads on 25-Apr-11. Waypoint GC2TYHB

A nice view up here. Tftc

Out and about on our Easter break. Stay at a Hipcamp not to far away. Grabbing a few along the way while exploring. Caching with my partner Semik, BitterA4 and the geo pups. Thanks for the cacheThe Larrikin LadsWe came to looks at the fence the catch was a bonus. 31 March 2024

Caching with Oddiewan, BitternA4 and the geopups. Came for the dog fence, stayed for the cache on our Easter holiday. Thanks for the fun, The Larrikin Lads

Heazle1 not a bad look out

What a fantastic area. This place gets a fav point had no idea this existed let alone all the flora and fauna in the area. TFTC.

Found with Cosmonaut97 and Firebatman88 on our weekend away TFTC

Making our way home from Townsville, this was an interesting stop along the way.
A nice easy find and interesting info at the sign. Cool drive in.

Thanks for the cache

Scooted up the mud track and checked out the lookout. Cache a quick find

Spotted a squished dingo on a back road this morning

TFTC SM

Recharged with coffee and cake after a nice 7.5 km walk around town and up over the hill it was time to hit the road and see where the back roads would take me.

I pondered about doing this cache, then i read the word lookout. Yes well worth the drive in. There is in fact a lookout and dingo fence information board. I enjoyed this location and decided it was a great spot to stop boil up a cuppa and make up some lunch /

Rain, rain go away! Nope. Oh well, we will move camp then. Packed up and moved from Kingaroy to Bell today, in the constant drizzly rain. Once set up the rain seemed to ease so of course we headed out to see if we could find a cache or 2 before it decided to start again.
All good no more rain, but a few muddy sections of track to navigateg, some water crossings and some boot cleaning on return to camp at the Bell Caravan Park. The GeoCruiser is now in need of a wash desperately. But with more rain on the forecast, no rush for the wash. [B)]

TFTC The Larrikin Lads

This was my last find for the day and with a look out as a bonus. TFTC.

God I hate traipsing through Longgrass with shorts and sandals on but I will do anything for a Geo—— We decided to do the drive along the dingo fence 110 km track when we got to the lookout at boiling Springs we thought wow I wonder whether they would be a Geo here and thankfully you placed one for us to go and find thank you very much

Tftc larrikin lads, made the find here, cache in great condition. Our first sighting of the dingo fence.
I wonder if anyone comes here that is not a geocacher

Another day in this great area to find some more caches. A fantastic drive up from Scalding Water and throughly enjoyed the views from the top. Read all the information regarding the Dingo Fence while geohubby went in search of the cache which he said was well tucked away. Had our morning tea looking at the view here before continuing our quest for smilies. Deserves a favourite point for the adventure. TFTC Larrikin Lads

Found it, can I also please come to that if you are driving up to the lookout please do not be throwing KFC bags into our paddocks and driving into paddocks as we own the majority of the country and see the tyre tracks

What a great spot and interesting history. We enjoyed a break and had morning tea here. TFTC

Great spot for a cache. Thanks for bringing us here.

Drove up road is o.k. tftc

Found Ok

TFTC smile 9541 out and about with miss millie geo dog great cache great friends great day
Thank you, The Larrikin Lads, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Bell weekend.

Both north and south roads are recently graded. Easy for a 2WD.

Log signed and cache replaced as found at 1:19 PM on August 15, 2021. TFTC, The Larrikin Lads

Escaping Brisbane for an overnight trip for another event. Out with RoddyC and Grannysmith1947.

Great view. Road up was good.

TFTCache The Larrikin Lads

A big day planned for today, heading north east to Bell to round up some smilies.
We are targeting about 60 or so over the next two days but we're flexible ... up & down!
A 3 hour drive then into it!
We managed 46 today before running out of daylight.

Not one of our targets but too close to ignore.
Freshly graded track made access easier than a few recent logs implied.
Nice quick find.
Interesting spot & Winter the Geo-Cat checked it out thoroughly.
Made our mark & replaced as found.

TFTC The Larrakin Lads

The kids and I spent the day caching around Bell and were surprised at the quality and variety of the hides out here. Thanks Speedmistress for your caches We entered from the Northen end. After seeing the road closed sign on the ground we thought it was still ok to go. No problem locating the cache but we got stuck when we reached the washout in the creek retrying to head south and back tracked northwards again. After finding this one Scoob kept asking what side of the fence we were on. the dingo side or the no. dingo side.

Found it.

Friday on my way to Welcome to Bell event, just had to find a few before camping up for the night at a free camp out at Fishing at Koehler.
Cache in good nick
TFTC The Larrikin lads

After running into the "Road Closed" signs at the southern end, had a few caches to find first, continued west to George Rd, good dirt Rd. came at it from the northern end, a piece of cake, thankfully there was plenty of room at the lookout to turn around with the caravan in tow.
Worth a Fav point

The road to this cache is currently closed from both ends.

TFTC the approach from the south is impassable but with some advice from a local farmer we were able to drive in from the northern end with a 2 wheel drive

1.6km from cache the road is well washed out and I was on own so turned back.

Travelling South from Monto we saw a sign for the Dingo Fence, well we couldn’t pass up that opportunity so a slight detour to follow the brown sign. Got to the first information booth and read the history of the fence and thought, “bet there is a cache out here.” Caching wasn’t actually on the agenda for the day, but when we spotted the cache just 18km away (as the crow flies) from where we were and from the direction we were heading, checking the clock to see if we could fit it in and we were off following the dirt tracks to the Cache. As we approach the final road the yellow sign said road closed - this did not stop us, we were so close (though if we were in a sedan perhaps that would of been the end point for the day). Up the beaten track to GZ, what spectacular views. Then the hunt was one. The cache was quickly in our hands and we admired the cache container, so nice to see something other than mint tins and sistema containers. We continued on our day and made our session time ‘just’ at the Cobb and Co museum in Toowoomba. Thank you for the adventure.

Tftc..

Love old school containers. In good condition. Ignored the road closed sign. Came up from Gorge Rd side.

A bit of history to go with the find, thanks!

Yay

After the recent storms it was a challenge to get to this one, lucky I carry a chainsaw for the fallen timber on the road. Tftc

Saw this was two years unloved and figured it was high for it to have some visitors. We are on our way to Blackall for the QOGM19. A bit of a detour but worth it for the history lesson and of course the unloved.

Wow what an awesome place and cache as well. Can't understand why it has been unloved for so long. We did it in a 2wd slowly no hassles at all all is good fav pt given left path tag tftc

Decided to sneak up here for this cache on my way back drom jandowae. Found with minimal effort. Track up to here was okay. Done it a small suzuki taking time in the rougher areas. Tftc

Decided to go for a wander north today and make the most of another day off work. I was wondering where the heck i was and where this cache was taking me... then oooh look, nice views. A short walk to find this, sign the log then off before the newly arrive Ergon fellas questioned me too much! Thanks for the cache!

Out and about in the camping van for two days of Geocaching.
I slowly made my way along the dirt road to this cache as the van is not exactly the vehicle of choice for dirt roads.
A quick find once at GZ and enjoyed the view.
Thanks for he cache.

My middle kiddo had fun with this one.

Found it, left a little swap. Great peice of history. TFTC

TFTC. What an interesting bit of history.

Found it with bikesu on my way back home.Tftc

On the way home after our successful trip to Chinchilla ... Finally saw watermelons growing on the fields and being harvested. Tftc

Was s little dubious about where the gps lead me but with a little fair was able to find it.

Out for a cache drive around the Bunyas and heading back home to Kingaroy. Thought we would take this little detour to visit the old dingo fence. Great views of huge storm building towards the south east and coming in our direction. Now to get home before it hits. TFTC

Thanks. Grabbed Resito Tb. Will relate to Coffee Break in the next week or so.

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Now that is what caching is all about – take you to places that you wouldn’t go to in the 1st place – thanks for showing this area to us - TFTC / TFTH / SL left TB

Found with taurus1955 after a drive around the Bunya mountains. I was amazed at coming upon this fence. Did not know it was here. It was great to be able to read the informative sign. Isn't caching wonderful? Cache was an easy find. TFC

Out touring the Bunya Mountains with misschief18 we stumbled across mention of the Wild Dog Fence - I had never heard about such a fence in Queensland so we had to come to investigate. What a wonderful informative sign is located here. The cache was quickly located and we were pleased to learn something new - once again, due to caching.
TFTC
TNLN
SL

Captain Terror and I had just spent a wonderful weekend at Bell and we were slowly driving back to Brisbane via a few towns I hadn't been to in many many years. We decided to grab this cache and soon we were on a dirt road headed towards GZ.

We got to the parking spot and as I got out of the car the flies gathered. I walked over to join the Captain at the information sign but the flies got too much so I decided to head off for the cache. The Captain joined me and soon we were standing at GZ with the cache in my hands. I signed my name in the logbook and replaced it as found before heading back to the car.

When we got there we realised a poor kangaroo has somehow gotten it's body parts strewn all over the area. Maybe that was why the flies were so thick here? Thanks for bringing me here and the little history lesson and thanks for the cache The Larrikin Lads.

TFTC well graded road for our visit. Well worth the trek in.

Boiling Springs brings back many childhood memories. I fell of a push bike not far way..... another story. Have visited here a few time over the past few years showing visitors around... and now I have the cache. Memories flooding around as I drive through this area. Years 1-7 at the local School. In year 3 my handwriting won me first prize at the fete held here at the church. Out caching again today with Muff1 team and having a ball. thank you Larrikin Lads for your thoughtful placement in Cooranga North. SL TNLN TFTC

Found on my 14th AUSTRALIA trip 2013/14. Thx Peter
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We were drawn to this one after recent publicity about the impending wind farms to be erected nearby.
What a beautiful little lookout, with so much history about the wild dog fence, which we didn't even know about. Does anyone out there know the origin of the name of the lookout ie "Boiling Springs Lookout" ??? After locating the cache (beaut container BTW), we set up the little porta-gas barbie for some lamb chops and snags - the perfect Aussie picnic lunch. Thanks to the Larrikin Lads for bringing us here - it really was a great adventure. Cheers, Bindair and The Princess. (Oh, and BTW, the road in was a breeze - no probs even for a low-clearance 2WD)

Heading along the 'road' from the south, I had to stop near the top of the hill to open the gate in the dog fence
So nice to get the hands on experience
A short distance later and the top of the hill and a picinic shelter appeared.
I hopped out of the geomobile to view the views and read the informative sign
For once it was good to not rush in and find the cache
While I was sitting around in the shade sipping a fizzy cola, I could hear strange noises coming from the north.
Was it a dirt bike ?
Nah !! It didn't quite sound right.
The noise got louder and was now accompanied by the odd dog bark !!

STAMPEDE !! [:o]

As I lounged in the picinic shelter a hundred head of beef on the hoof appeared and startled by my presence went from a gentle amble to a run !!
Geez !! Talk about ambiance this cache has it in spades [^]

I had a chat with the drover on horseback and got to meet the dogs

With the passing parade past, I could finally search for the cache.
Ooh !! What a great container [^]
The view aint bad either.
TFTC.

PS: The road is in pretty good nick and the family sedan should make it up the hill if it hasn't been raining

To start we took the Holden Cruze (we may treat it like a 4wd but it is definitely only 2wd) up this track very successfully, only really had to slow down a little for the creek crossings (the first one deeper than the second) and it appears that some "work" has been done on this track.

Got to the lookout and read all the information on the board, interesting that the dingoe fence is significantly shorter than it was when it came into existence.

Before we came close to be carried off by the flies, we found the cache, herded up the domestic dog who had been exploring and headed back down the track.

TFTC.

Good spot for a cache. Track is easy 2wd access from both directions today.

We have gone through the dingo fence a few times further west, so came looking for the end of it. We followed the dingo track this far. TFTC

You wouldn't read about it we detoured yesterday to have a look at the dingo fence and commented on our way home that we couldn't believe that there wasn't a cache there.....then went home and reconnected our GPS and logged our days finds and yes we were pretty much standing right on it!!!! It really does pay to do your homework before you venture out in this region as reception from your mobile devices drops in and out constantly!!!!!!! So off we trekked again this morning and yep it was right there.

Found it with Feltinspired , hot today

No. 238

Before we left Cooranga North for Imbil today, my uncle decided to take us for a drive around his property and up to his lookout, followed by the Boiling Springs lookout. Once we reached the lookout the Geohubby and my uncle chatted in the shelter (which apparently used to have guttering and a rainwater tank to provide drinking water for visitors, but someone stole it all ) and watched the Geodaughters while I went and fetched the cache. Oh yes, very spiky plant guarding it - I scratched my arm up a bit. My uncle and aunt had been asking us about geocaching during our stay with them, so I took the cache back to the shelter to show my uncle. He then came back with me to see where it had been hiding. He was surprised that it hadn't been trampled by cattle.

Lovely views. I absolutely love this part of the world! Cache is safe, dry and well-stocked for swaps. Thanks for the cache here at this great lookout.

Spike visited here

This entry was edited by Ninnesfamily on Friday, 05 October 2012 at 05:42:01 UTC.

Have re-rated the terrain after reading the last few logs

I have always admired the dingo/rabbit fence and how it is the longest in the world, a truly grand idea to put to work. Sometimes I suppose it's efficiency may be questioned as there are certainly rabbits on the north of it, but it must certainly slow both the vermin up. It wasn't until we were at GZ that I noticed the terrain rating. Xuzia, his clan and I had just arrived in the Kia Carnival with not a second thought of difficult driving. Certainly no need for such a high rating today, but evidently has been warranted in the past. We had a good look at the nearby duplication of the power wires from Tarong, some huge pulleys hanging around up there at the moment, waiting for the wires to be threaded. Read all about the fence on the info board before heading to grab the cache. Had a prickly plant guarding it but nothing to slow down a smiley. Cache ok and rehid again. A great spot here today, interesting with great views. Thanks for bringing us here, TFTC.

Had a muggle security guard looking after an electrical tower worksite across the road at this location. Mrs X. kept him busy chatting while I snuck down and made the find. Thanks Mrs X! TFTC TNLN.

We saw the 4 star rating, we read the log notes, we read the logs. Ok, we feel we know the drill. Now for the Dingo Fence Tourist Drive. We crossed the grid and I said, up there!!!, they took a 2WD up THAT, I would feel happier if we put the car into 4WD, done. Then up we go, with a bit of a slip here and a slide there we were at the top and onto a good surface. A nice drive along the dingo fence and we found ourselves at the cache site/lookout. Oh, were we supposed to use that road over there, uhm perhaps we will go back on that one. Thanks for the experience, it has been awhile since the car was used as a 4WD. TNLN TFTC

Found at 0720. Left home at 0630 this morning with a plan and this was the first cache. Worked out which way I was going to drive and soon discovered that even though the road was a little damp it was no problem for my 2WD. The main road in off the bitumen has been recently graded and gravel has been placed in the trouble spots. he side track up to GZ has also been graded and repaired and the information board area is very neat and tidy. There were vehicles across the road at the Electricity tower construction site but I did not see anyone. Quick find. There has been many visitors to this site of the bovine kind so watch where you place your feet. In my opinion after my visit the terrain rating is now only a good 2 star. TNLNSL TFTC.

Relogging this under individual account, previously a member of Gaz'n'Kab account.

Previously logged under a team account. Re-logging with my individual account.

Well this cache has been published for a while and no finds. We were quite excited about the chance of an FTF with a cache which has been published for so long and still so far away from home

The drive in wasn't to rough and was quite easy in a 2WD. The cache itself was an easy find and the area has some great history. We never even knew that this existed so thanks 'The Larrikin Lads' for bringing us here, and hopefully many more people come and enjoy the area

TFTC The Larrikin Lads

Gaz'n'Kab

Gaz'n'Kab had mentioned this one to me. Now my car looks like a 4WD - but it is not a 4WD so I was a bit dubious. I decided to give it a go - and if I got a whiff of it being treacherous - it would be "abandon the attempt" or "leg it in". We went up the road. The road looked okay - but it was soon obvious the road was getting clay-like. The traction control was doing its job trying to keep the car on the straight and narrow. I think we all let out a collective sigh of relief when we arrived at GZ.

We made our way to the cache, which we found after a small hunt. Opened it up to find Gaz'n'Kab and I had got a joint *FTF* at 12.20pm. Hmmm I guess the time does not matter when it has not been found in nearly 3 months!

I took some snaps and had a bit of a read of the information sign. We got out of the area without incident. We jagged a good run in today. But other finders should take heed of the cache owner's warning - I could see this road turning to custard quite quickly. Good job The Larrkin Lads - an interesting area

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