The Old Church Marburg, Queensland, Australia
By krossbo on 06-Sep-11. Waypoint GC33QGF

As there has been either no response from the cache owner, no cache to find or log to sign, or it has been a number of months since the last owner note I am archiving this cache to keep from continually showing up in search lists and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.

If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the near future (next 28 days), just contact a reviewer (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, the reviewer will be happy to unarchive it.

Should you replace the cache after 28 days has passed please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

Too many DNF . Will disble so that i Can investigate

I think it's pretty obvious this one is gone now.

Cache is long gone. Might need the owner to tend to it and maybe replace

I didn't find this one with katieeb. Although reading the logs where others haven't found it, I put very little effort into searching!

Still no luck!!! considering the list of DNFs, CO needs to check this one, please. I think it's gone.

Second visit but still nothing. Maybe the co or someone who knows it, needs to check if it's still there?

We didnt find it today either. My gps had us in the middle of the driveway so what side do we look in. Bushes overgrown so a bit of a hazard for us. Didnt understand the clue till some time later which didnt help either.

Not today

Despite a lot of scratching in the doona, the prize was not revealed. So we had a coffee in the covered area beside the church to recover.

Took us a while to work out the hint (year, I know, a bit thick). So we scratched about like a couple of scrub turkeys, but no luck today. TFTH krossbo

We hunted high and low for this one, read all the past logs checked all the likely spots but no luck with this one

Nay!

After a short hunt, we read old logs, started scratching round & soon had it in our hands! TNLN SL TFTC!

Yay

Found with the Bro inlaw and family on visit to rosewood. His first find ! TFTC

A few more caches under my belt resulting in a bit more experience - found this one quickly while all the locals were distracted by some sort of siren going off up the road... Gotta love small town locals

Found today after a qucik search with 5 Meerkats and aberosentingel.

What a beautiful little town and an amazing old church. We will be back for a longer visit for sure.

Thanks for bring us here krossbo

Found while heading to Toowoomba. We had a bit of a scratch around until I found it. Signed our names then headed on our way. Thanks krossbo

out and about with goldielover today. Stopped off at the church for a while to grab the cache.Goldielover spotted this one.
TFTC

You hear it all the time, but caching does take you to great spots. I have always seen the sign for the Marburg antiques on the highway, but thought it was the place visible from the road. Now that I have seen the real shop, I am for sure going to stop in. It looks amazing!!

Oh and the church is a picture also.

Thanks for bringing us here krossbo

Great little place that I would never have visited unless there was a cache there. Thanks!

CITO TFTC

Nice little church

Found it No. 6803 ... read previous logs and went our own way and had a quick find ... TNLN ... TFTC krossbo

Spent the weekend in Crows Nest and decided to grab some caches on the way up and back. The GPSr had us on the wrong side, so when we finished searching that side we then went to the other side and quickly found the cache.

FTFC

Ingenious hiding spot. Quick grab on the way through to Toowoomba. TFTC

Not the weather to be exploring this sort of area but that did not deter us as we searched extensively for this cleverly hidden cache. Nice spot too, lack of paint kinda ruins it a little though TFTC

What a fun little cache. TFTC

Didnt try here for long, phone reception was playing havoc and lots of muggles about, even the police slowed as i was leaving and i thought they were going to stop but i must have looked harmless enough. I wonder if they were the same police referred to in an earlier log?! Will try again soon now i have the clue and new grid ref...

Beautiful church and great antiques store nearby. TFTC

After a short search we thought about the name a little further and Dannza came up with the idea which turned out spot on. TFTC

I was definitely in the right place today, though I couldn't stay for long as we were in a hurry to be somewhere. Couldn't see anything that stuck out too much, I'll have to come back some time to have a better look.

A quick detour off the highway for me for this one.
Found it no worries, the poor place could do with a lick of paint.
TFTC.

On my way to Toowoomba to visit my Mum.
Having no success here last time I thought I would stop in for another look. This time the GPSr had me in a slightly different spot, which made a difference, and I came up with another interpretation of the hint. I found the cache in about 2 mins.
Thanks for the cache, all dry inside.

Ducked in for a quick find and came up with it first place I looked. Happy with that, TFTC krossbo

Good clues. Found it the second place I looked.
TFTC

No Luck To Find.

No luck with this one today

Easy find after we worked out the additional hint,TFTC

No luck for us today.

Cheers
Bundy

Out and about with IolantheK today collecting a few smilies in the region.

We were on a bit of a time limit so after about 10mins searching we had to move on.

Thanks for the cache.

Out and about with Brother Colin, this time out Lowood and Marburg way.

What a lovely old church I'd like to have a look inside. Needs some work done The clue had us laughing and we thought we'd got the idea, but came up empty-handed. And we were running out of time. Shall be back another day.

Got a replacement GPS, and as I was downloading noticed this one didn't have a smilie but I definitely found it - after my failed attempt at FTF because the co-ords were nearly 1/2 kilometer out, I went back the within the week and found it.
So I am logging the find because I have already found it - at that time it was a silver film type container with a black plastic lid (just so you know that I did find it)

Find #!

Stopped here on my trip back from Lake Nash (NT)! Nice little spot to stop, have a stretch, a coffee & catch up on some local history...

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Signed Log

Thanks to krossbo for bringing me here!

*Cache Condition ~ Fine

Camping at nearby race track, so took Dougthegeodog for a walk and grabbed this one and another nearby. Liked the hint. TFTC

Mrs Esky took this on while the other Eskies chilled in the car. Looked at just about every doona before finding the right one. Had to pause several times to "admire" the old church due to passing traffic - unbeknown to Mrs Esky one of these was a police car that we were to see again at a nearby cache.

Quite a search before Pagan spotted this one. Very easy to miss!! The hint went right over Loki's head but Pagan patiently explained it to her . Thanks krossbo

Managed to find this one even with Muggle gardeners in the vicinity. Nice placement found with Potatofish on the way to Toowoomba.

2/03/12 Find #806
We dropped in on this one on our way to Stanthorpe.
NyletaM and I searched for quite some time before we located this one, looked in quite a few places before we managed to located the correct place, and we were about to give up and move on before NyletaM finally put her hands on the cache.

TFTC.

2/03/12 Find #825

On my way to another event in Stanthorpe with Alkzura and our geobubs and, as is now the tradition, we went a different route from previous years so we could pick up some caches along the way.

Cache #5: A lovely little church. I thought the hide was well done. A ute driving by seemed rather interested in us so we signed the log and high tailed it out of there. TFTC

Have been tagging along with Whint & Baddal's membership but it was decided to get my own... just logging all my previous finds

TFTC

this was a nice easy find the only reason i saw it was because i squashed a snail shell but the snail wasn't in there so its all good.

TFTC:)

Little Miss Gambler2000 geokid grabbed this one pretty quickly by accident... she was checking out a snail and when she picked it up there was the cache So a very quick and easy find

Glad to have come to this one... what an awesome little church and the grounds around are lovely... would be great to do a photoshoot here if allowed... also going to come back one day and have a look in the antiques shop... could be full of hidden treasures of another kind

tftc

Finally found this one. Had the clue sorted out, but had to really dig around to find this well hidden little bugger.
Took home a war-wound, bitten by one of those green ants, and don't they sting!!!
Anyway, still managed to sign the log, even through my pain - feel sorry for me.....

At least we got to knock this one off before leaving the area.
TFTC.

Found quickly at 1430. Arrived to find that there was no one at the old church. The grounds sure can do with some attention. GPSr took me to a spot and the clue was spot on. still a clever hide. no spiders and no other distractions. Second catcher here today according to the log book. TFTC TNLNSL

Could do with a lick of paint, but nice place. Took a little while to work out the hint. GeoMary made the find. TFTC.

This is a great hide. Were puzzled over it for a while but came up trumps.
SL TFTC krossbo

WOOF WOOF!!!

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.

A new one in the area for Gaz'n'Kab today and so I got to log this one too. We pulled up and felt that overwhelming urge of being on private property. Decoded the hint and began our hunt. I was turned off a lot when I found an orgy of snails under a branch in a tree. Luckily Gaz soon turned the right bit and the cache was found. A nice old church here, but not such a huge fan of the hide I'm sorry. TFTC, always good to keep those cleared out areas as only smileys.

Whilst heading out west, we had to pick up this only remaining cache

We quickly decoded the hint, and soon had the cache in hand

TFTC krossbo

Gaz'n'Kab

A nice one. The old church could certainly do with some paint. I assume it is no longer used as a church? TNLN. TFTC.

9.30amish. After visiting the MooCows ...literally. Mosied down to the old church....literally. Fab co-ords and found the little sucker in just a few minutes. It wasn't really a quick find....I think it was luck not my management that got this one.

Thanks for the sneaky hide. Loved his house too.

Muddtrax checked on this cache at 7.39am this morning and found the cache alive and well ! I will change the difficulty up a notch and maybe give a little hint.

Im disabling The Old Church until I can check on it. It has been muggled before .

Had a good poke around but no joy for us either.

No luck here for us today, and the approaching postman curtailed any further exploration. Thanks anyway. =^.^=

Looks as though this one has been spirited away, might have to pray a bit to find it if your so inclined.

No country folk praying to the Lord, No traffic on the road, No cache to be found, No good crying cover lost caches, Better luck to the next one that tries.

Not doing so well. That's 2 in a row.
Found termites, toads, spiders but no cache.

Thinking the trees played havoic with directions. No idea what/where to look and couple of muggles about.

Coordinates changed from:
S 27° 34.033 E 152° 35.813

Coordinates changed to:
S 27° 34.033 E 152° 35.810

Distance from original: 16.2 feet or 4.9 meters.

Update of coordinates to S 27° 34.033 E 152° 35.810

Fangsoki setting were right on the mark ,have looked at this cache before with no luck .Cache was nice and dry .

Thankfully the area was abandoned when I went a-hunting for this one. It certainly is a nice old church. I found the cache in a likely spot and it was in good condition. I have posted up the co-ords that worked for me today. TFTC krossbo

#340 ~ Found on my way home. Yep … the cache is still there [^] Just had to search a little deeper. TFTC Krossbo.

Got some nice photos but no cache! Oh well....

I have replaced the cache and the container is now a bison tube. Take care as there maybe watching muggles

Have disabled temporarily to check as this one may have been muggled

After much searching -no result.

Coordinates changed from:
S 27° 34.300 E 152° 35.813

Coordinates changed to:
S 27° 34.033 E 152° 35.813

Distance from original: 1623.4 feet or 494.8 meters.

I wonder if there is a church over here?

As with The Old Hag we were out the door as soon as this one showed and we also en counted the same situation with the same results, are the co-ords correct? Has the cache name anything to do with what you would expect to see at GZ. Anyway, being here bought back memories of my younger years when everyone would head out here for the dance and a few drinks and stolen kisses behind the toilet block, ah memories.

This entry was edited by muff1 on Saturday, 10 September 2011 at 21:35:21 UTC.

After trying this one last night I had another look this morning and my friend Google Map showed me a place that could be a possibility. Then it was PAF and have a chat about the area and possibilities. Decided that we would give it another go and we were rewarded with a FTF and a pathtag, thanks Krossbo. The co-ords we used to find this one are as follows 227 34 033 152 35 813. TFTC

Well, this one proved interesting for me today... After heading out this morning, I arrived at the listed GZ a little before 6am. Reading back through the logs there was still a chance of FTF which perked me up on an otherwise chilly morning... [^]

Into the hunt, I failed to find anything near the listed coords so widened the search. After 20 minutes or so, still nothing.. Grr. OK, time to give it away and put the cache on watch...

As I headed off, I flicked a text to Krossbo to see if he was awake. I guess he was as je was already at work and unable to answer the call for help... I didn;t know that at the time though but ploughed on through my day with the intention of dropping back for another look later.

As the day progressed, I made a few more calls and availed myself of another contact number. Muddtrax on the other end, I was alerted to an error in the coords... Hmm, that would explain the lack of container then...

Armed with the correct digits, I swung back to GZ on my way home. Well, how about that, this time I am at "The Old Church"... This should make it a whole lot eaiser... With that, I followed the arrow to a likely spot and revealed the container... Just like that...

Muff1 was one step ahead of me though and secured FTF about an hour before. Not fussed about missing FTF. I think the midnight hunters deserve it more than I...

Now, I did wonder why this quaint little church has been left to rot and deteriorate. Normally little towns like this take pride in their historcial buildings and keep them maintained. Such a shame as this one looks like it could present really well... Guess someone thinks otherwise...

Thanks for the "adventure" on this cache. I was glad to be able to tick it off while in the area though. It would have been the only smilie for some kilometres otherwise and you know how much they eat away at you when you look at the map...

Cheers Krossbo.

Published

The listing came up on the computer and I was out the door, I was at the site in 15mins. I quickly found the location with the garmin oregon 450t, where the cache should be - nothing found - I got my second GPS the Nuvi 500 (dedicated geocaching), which showed the same location as the oregon.

There was a dance going on in the hall, so using all the sealth I could muster, I searched further afield - to the usual 7mt allowance, and beyond.
I didn't dare go near the building, however that was way too far for even an inaccurate reading.

I wonder if the cache has been placed yet, or if it has already been muggled.

The terrain rating says that it should be wheelchair friendly, even so I searched higher and lower that this acceptable height and reach limit.

I will be interested to find out where this film container is hidden

Oops . . . look's like the co-ords are out a bit Must have been a typo krossbo [?] Until this can be fixed up, use these co-ords:

S 27 34.033 E 152 35.813

Happy Hunting!!

Will try again