Model Bear Samford Valley, Queensland, Australia
By wingaap on 14-Aug-11. Waypoint GC3284X

Tftc. Cute indeed.

So cute!Found with ChasingShadows43

How cute! Found today with SCAHPA - TFTC

Bien simpatico el cache

Down in Brisbane for the day and had a whole day of caching planned but the unseasonable amount of wet stuff falling from the sky might hinder that plan. Ive got my gumboots, raincoat and umbrella so well see how far we get! Very cute design. All good hereThanks for the cache ruzzelzFind #6226

TFTC! Cute

Very creative! Thanks for the hide!

Some quick caching this morning before school. Loved this one!

So cute Nanna found this one.Good little trek. Watch out for prickles.TFTC!

Tftc. What a great find. About 8m from gz but easy to spot when you look up.

Very cute, coordinates about 10m out

Out with Krcamber today, we are enjoying the caches in this area immensely and this was another cutie.My phone was about 7 metres out with the coords, but its a drizzly day so that wouldnt help. I spied the cache after a few minutes and popped out names on the log.Thanks for the fun cache, ruzzelz

This was the last one for todays adventures with Swearah, its time to head home for some beers and Bad Girls Club While we were giggling about apps where you have to keep birds in the air, Swearah spotted this cute guy. Very creative! Thanks for the cache!

Morning of fishing with ILTW. they showed me a quick find. TFTC. Good bye trackable.

Found with goldielover today. Great cache. A fp from meTFTC

Fantastic cache very well designed. A quick find. Logbook was a bit damp. TFTC

Nearly didnt go for this cache after some frustration around roads that dont really exist or connect in the area, but well worth the detour. TFTC

Cute fine, thanks!

TFTC!!! Found with gorjess516

This is find number 4 for the morning with Sarah. It’s my 1091# cache in total! Two or three minutes of searching for this one.
TFTC.

Took a few minutes to find. But very cool…..

Thanks

Such a cute little cache the gps was a little off so took a bit longer to find but definitely worth the drive

Out and about this afternoon to pick up a few north side caches on a beautiful sunny winters day in south east Queensland.

Found a safe place to park the car and made my way to ground zero to locate the cache. Didn’t take long before the cache was in hand and pen applied to the log. Returned the cache to its hiding place and trudged back to the car

A big thanks to the cache owner for making this cache available to be found.

Cheers

Great cache. Certainly ideal for the location. No pen though, so could only photo the log

After a pleasant morning climbing House Mountain, on my trip home , I diverted to finally find a trio for classic Wingaap caches, some of which have now been adopted. Not certain why I never found these earlier as I cleaned up most local Wingaap caches when I first started caching 13 years ago.

A nice quick find here where I was rewarded with yet another Wingaap masterpiece. I do love these containers. Everything in good order and a fitting tribute.

Many thanks, Wingaap and thanks for keeping the dream alive here Ruzzelz.

Pete

#7,264

That was a neat fine, very creative. Thanks for the cache. Found 2:25pm 01/07/23.

This is my kind of cache I spotted it from afar. Log is in great condition swapables are a little melted. First find if the day. Off the the park at Samford valley. Zoie and Bryce3515 love an art cache favourite point from me.

Favourite find, such a cute thing

ruzzelz I found your cache Model Bear on 30/5/2023, 4:25 pm. This is my find 5472 and find # 16 today. Very creative. Found it after a brief search. Thanks for the cache, mate! TNSLLN

My second find with Cathy6370, Very creative.

A great cache, as so often with winggaap hides

Great the the fire damage is very limited


Thank you for this one
R

Found it via Cacher for Garmin

Very creative. Only a little fire damaged after recent controlled burn.

I had a DNF recently, so was back in the area for another look. The area has been burnt so no high grass to contend with. This time I spread my search from where gz had me last time- it still took a little while to find. Container has slightly melted from the fire and was tricky to remove but logbook is in perfect condition but some of the swag has melted into the container. Tftc

Happy to report Model Bear is still in great condition

After the hiking event at Brian Burke Reserve, I made my way slowly home finding the old Wingaap caches along this road. Unfortunately this one seems to have gone. I checked previous photos for what I was looking for and there is nothing like that now at gz. I spread my search a bit but nothing. Hopefully it can be replaced.

One of our favourite Wingaap caches so far. A short stroll into the trees before we had the cache in hand. A family of roaches had set up camp on the top of the container but they soon moves on when we removed the container. Kids swapped some swag and we took the good luck TB to move around for a bit. Log was full as per previous logs so added a few strips of weather proof log paper. TFTC and another favourite point to the collection. Very cool.

4th find for the day after Zacgyver community celebration event. Love this cache. Dropped off a TB too.

Lovely afternoon on the mtb. Thanks for bringing me here. TFTC

Oh wow, super cool. Easy find, but definitely a favourite

Gave me a smile when I found it. Thanks for the effort put in! Log book is full and I didn’t have one on me to replace with. TFTC

Model Bear was transferred from wingaap to user ruzzelz

Today, with geocaching partner busy with a medical appointment over lunch, I decided to take a few hours in picking up a few geocaches around Camp Mountain and then returning via Samford Conservation Park. I was anticipating heavy rain all day, thus planning on a few home garage projects, however the rain held off, thus allowing geocaching outside rather pleasant. Several nice parks and creative wingaap geocaches were found, making it an enjoyable outing.

It was weird that some P-plater was parked nearby, but perhaps was just having a rest over lunch. Undeterred, I parked and made the walk in amongst the trees, and this geocache took some walking around before eventually, I spotted the elusive marsupial. Another awesome metalwork sculpture! The cache container was in good shape, but the logbook looks like it is full, as I needed to stamp the back cover. Thanks wingaap for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Oh wow! Hard not to add another on this creation.

Thanks for the cache and taking us here wingaap. We're going to miss you.

At GZ, the adventurous team who were having a great day out in this area all had a good chuckle at the beautiful find at GZ.
Model Bear…. what a great dedication geocache for you.!
Wingaap… your creativity and metalwork is beautiful, and we have been enjoying many of these over the last few weeks.
Thanks,
Domsky 

This was a thoughtful hide created with love and dedication in mind, so i'm going to give you another favourite for the effort gone into making something not just a bison in a tree or a mint tin in a guardrail.
Cute and cleverly concealed container too.
Thank you wingaap for giving us another of your wonderful creations.
Found yesterday with three other dedicee's.

Great cache! Log is full. Have messaged CO. Favourite point from me. The climb here was a walk on my bike but what a great spot to listen to the birds singing once I got up here. TFTC.

I think this going to my only koala I’ll get to see
Tftc

Today I ventured out towards Samford and surrounds to grab myself a bunch of old caches and a wide variety of other caches to. It was an action packed day with plenty of highs and lows, literally. I climbed mountains, walked along creeks and did a tonne of bush bashing. It was an epic adventurous day and I had a blast!

In total I managed 28 finds and 1 DNF.

This one took me an awfully long time to find for some reason, I had a good idea what I was looking for and where, but my eyes must be painted on because I couldn't see anything. I was about to give up when I decided to have another quick look a bit further away from GZ and that's when I saw the cutie.

#2019 - TFTC

Found it with DeafNSQ
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Cute cache ??????

Got it TFTC with Deaf NSQ ????

Found with DeafNSQ TFTC

Hooray thanks for share DeafNSQ

Found cute cache with Deaf NSQ

Found it with Deaf NSQ GROUP

Day 4: Mega Dayboro Event. With DeafNSQ

What a cutie! A fav point from me!!

During the MEGA event in Dayboro Easter 2021, we went out for geocaching - of course!

Tftc wingaap

Found it with Tbu1bikesu during the event in Dayboro.

Tftc wingaap

Love it! Wasn’t sure what to look for. Great find. TFTC

TFTC smile 8776 out and about with SnickersAllan having a great time ️
Thank you, wingaap, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

A day trip up from the Gold Coast caching in this beautiful part of the Moreton Bay Shire with grannysmith1947.
Another beaut container and a quick find, another fav point.

TFTC wingaap
Found March 16, 2021

Had to do a bit of bottom wiggling to get to this, but got there pretty easily

So cute wingaap you have done such a good job on these. Thanks and fav point

I can see why this has 50 favourites- such a cleverly designed cache. Thanks Wingaap!

Found it!

Great cache!!

Found this one today and who would be there? Why it was Smokey Bear who we picked up again today for some more adventures. To wingaap once again TFTC from the inspectorrexteam.

After planning my exercise this morning, armed with Geopup and hand sanitiser, I made my way out to find this cache.

Arriving at gz, it took me a minute or two, I then found a wonderful cache. Another fantastic piece of craftmanship!

With the log signed and all replaced as found, I made my way to the next one on my journey.

Thanks wingaap for the cutest cache - a fav from me.

Cool. Coordinates a bit off but still an easy find

There’s a bear in there !!
Who will be the lucky cacher ??
Love ya work Wingaap

Awesome cache how much can a koala bear.

One of the best cached we have seen.

Very impressed on the amount of work and craftsmanship that went into this cache. I wish there were more like this - amazing work!

A beautiful way to finish the day. Will have to save up our favourite points before visiting any more of your caches, they seem to disappear quite quickly when we do. Worth it, TFTC!

A nicely made container. Thank you wingaap

Thanks, clever hide

Forgot to drop it

Lucky it wasn’t a drop bear. TFTC

Found with dad

Love the container wingaap

Out on a birthday geocaching adventure with my daughter, A (she thinks she's been kidnapped, but is going along with it since it's my birthday). Have recently become a big fan of your work after finding quite a few examples of your handiwork a month or so ago.
I picked this area for this day as there were lots of nice lunch options, interesting shops and lots of cool caches unfound by us.

This was another fitting tribute - cute one!
Took wheel, left unicorn. Also took the travel bug, RUVI which seems to have been lost and just started travelling again. We will help it get moving....
#2133 @ 1450h
TFTC wingaap

Easy. Needs a new ziplock bag if you one please bring.

Quick find, dropped off a trackable

Out for a days caching whilst Sandra was having a chilled one at home with the geomonsters.

The cache was soon found and the paperwork completed. A nicely crafted container.

Thanks!!

#2287

Out caching with KerriMG. A quick find of the very cute cache.

Out for the day with nikid1 collecting some caches to get some souvenirs. Nic spotted this one. What a great tribute cache, love the container.
TFTC wingaap

Awesome hide! My GPS was abit off, but found in the end! TFTC!

Cache 8 for the day.
Out and trying to get a few in a series (Catweazle) to clean it up.
Yet a s I am as close as I am, must pick this one up too.
Okay, to GZ, and had To look about for a bit. Had to watch a few muggles go by, which was quite a surprise here. Okay, found it at last. Signed the log, and returned cache to hiding.
Thanks for the cache.

I am on Wingaap Cache hunt because do love them TFTC

# 3 of 5 Wingaaps today - definitely a model bear

Another amazing Wingaap cache. They keep surprising me with the quality. ! TFTC

What a lovely birthday gift! TFTC

Another fantastic cache. GPS was a bit wonky.

Came with some duct tape today. Container is now covered with that sticky stuff.

After heading down Mailman's Track collecting a few caches, I doubled back and headed down here. As I pulled up near GZ, a guy and his young daughter were riding along the road. I can only assume that they are locals otherwise that little girl is superhuman to be riding around in these hills. They pulled over for a break and a drink but I headed out of sight to find the cache.

The cache was spotted quickly but unfortunately, the bottom is falling out of the container and the contents with it.

Thanks for the cache.

First day of the “You might be a caching connoisseur if...” challenge, and where else to head but the hills of the Samford Valley for the king of creative creations, Wingaap for some high favourite Point caches. Next up I alighted the geo vehicle for a short stroll into the bush . A case of elimination revealed a very cute cache. Have another FP . Tftc.

Found 9m away from where GPS wanted me. As previous cachers have noted, the bottom of this container is on its last legs. Note to self, add duct tape to gc kit. TFTC.

Couldn’t bear not to find it. TFTC

So creative! TFTC

Whenever I go caching, it's generally in a piece of Brissie bushland, and I always keep an eye out for sleepy grey furry friends in trees. Still yet to see one – even in Daisy Hill – so this little dude was a nice find, and the next best thing. Thanks for the cache, wingaap.