Float Your Boat 2 Paradise Point, Queensland, Australia
By Herbz on 23-Oct-11. Waypoint GC36G4P

Today, it was the planned [Sand, Salt, Sun; Seaway Summer](https://coord.info/GC8K0CV) Community Celebration Event, and it was an opportunity to integrate a couple of other Gold Coast kayak adventures. My first stop was at Oxenford for [Gilligan's Island](https://coord.info/GC6YJ8B), and then it was a drive to Jabiru Island for a subsequent kayak launch. It was then a tiring 10.3 km paddle along Coombabah Creek targeting the *Float Your Boat* series. The last kayak stop was Wave Break Island, and a memory lapse had me arrive only towards the event's end, as I had thought it was an all-day gathering.
With the kayak packed away for the day, it was then time to visit a few strategic geocaches in the vicinity, which included a serious tree climb, a tough hide, and a strategic Southport boatshed geocache, before driving towards Sinnamon Park to meet the family. After a water park frolic, we then joined other Geocachers to close out the day at the [Squinterville Christmas Community Celebration](https://coord.info/GC8HK7K) Event.

I set out on this kayak departing from Jabiru Island just after 09:35 hr. As I mentioned, it was a total paddle distance of 10.3 km, with a moving time of 2:25 hr. I was moving with the tide/current heading upstream towards Coombabah Lake, but it was paddling against the incoming tide and winds that really made it a tiring affair, getting back to the island at around 12:00 hr, as per my [Strava record](https://www.strava.com/activities/8233820094). My last geocache of the series was found at 11:00 hr, so yeah, a solid hour paddle back.

During my solo paddle adventure, this geocache was found reasonably quickly. I didn't even need to exit my kayak in order to access this cache/logbook, and the cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks Herbz for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance. It was another strategic geocache with the *Boat required* attribute that was needed for the December month challenge.

Last one for the day as the sun disappeared over the horizon. Took a tad longer to spot this one compared to the rest of the series. All are still in reasonable condition. Paddled back to the close boat ramp. Thth!

Easily seen

Found on my morning kayak tour.
TFTC

Muggle65 and l continued pushing into the dam wind. At least it will be helping us on the way back. Cache was full of water and log book was very sad. We had one with us so replaced it but it is not made with waterproof paper so is a temporary measure at best. Thank you for placing this one

& I came down the Goldy today cause we brought back a passenger to Coombabah from BrisVegas. While here we attacked this cache series. Hitting the water the wind was against us on the way up the creek & back. This log was wet ... pouring out the water we decided to replace log

It was nice to get some exercise. I had not been on the water in a kayak for some time, so it was a perfect excuse to get some exercise and grab a few caches whilst we were at it. No-one else out today so social distancing was not a problem.

This was out first cache for the day.

Find #2914

TFTC Herbz

Nice to get out on the water and do some exercise. Nice paddle to this one, which was first on the list. Very quick find and we didnt get muddy. This area reminded me of Jacob's Well but on a much smaller scale.

Been wanting to get some of these ones close to home for a long time now but never had a water craft to get there. Finally got some boards to be able to get out and grab this one. Tftc

Out on jet skis all day decided to come for a look up here not the best for jet skis as at high tide still some very low muddy banks but I managed this one tftc Lokky1

Afternoon picnic across the river and we thought we'd paddle over to grab this nearby cache. Not the easiest grab at this tide but managed it after a muddy approach. Tftc

An awesome day on the water and this one was first on my list. My muggle husband headed in first to test the depth and I followed. It got a little shallow so I started on foot, and ended up waist deep in the mud. Oh well, nothing else for it but to continue now....got to GZ and made a quick find - spotted it from the channel. TFTC!

It took ages to find but got it in the end. Very satisfying. Saturday out on the water.

Out for a kayak along Coombabah Creek. Took me a little while to find what was right in front of my eyes. Thanks!

found it really easy and i came on a tiny then had to get out and walk i was not able to sign it because it was to hard to get to from th other side

Found will update soon

Another no find from our inflatable kayak. Every gps we had was reporting such different locations we could not be sure we were ever in the right spot. Getting late so we headed back. H and N

Its been two years since my last trip in this waterway with muggle son and today he decided to bring me back out for an early Mothers Day present. We had a fun filled day with lots of laughs with a beaut picnic lunch on the tinnie and grabbed a few caches in the process. After hiring the boat in Southport, we headed to this cache after finding the previous one and now working our way back out. Another laugh for son today, I had spotted the cache from a distance, he then moved the boat close in and when I hopped out at GZ the water was a lot deeper than I thought so I got completely wet up to my chest. Finally got to sign the log after the laughs had stopped, good strong container.
TFTC Herbz
Found May 12, 2018

TFTC

Last Find of the morning and the best by far
With the river only flowing at mid-tide, the little tinny finally succumb to the shallow water... so Trifecta #1 was dispatched into the water to **push**. This got us over the little sandbank at the east end of the narrow channel approaching GZ, and the motor got us the final 100 metres to the Box

Great adventure! Favourite Point.

TFTC

Geohubby had an RDO today and it was my day off. He likes kayaking, I like geocaching, so what better choice for an adventure...we're off to float our boat!

Cache#2 and we found it in amongst the flying foxes. It took us a little while to find the channel in, but it was so lovely paddling in the mangroves. Geohubby spied the container first and I had a bit of a balancing act to get to it. The log is a little bit damp and because of my precarious hold, I just signed the first blank space I saw - sorry (I didn't want the log or me to fall into the water). TFTC Herbz, another goodie!

Out and about in a hire boat collecting some water caches Lots of laughs, lessons learned, and stories told. I was told the first letter of each of our names was used to make the team name WADERS which is very appropriate because there was lots of that going on today!! I had such a fantastic day, thanks to team work, and great COs, thanks!

The WADERS (Selva Girls, stortigirls, NeverSayDi, E:), Mr RoddyC and EatSleepCacheRepeat) hired a boat for a day on the water. This cache was next. It was soon located and the log signed. TFTC

Out on a hire boat with the WADERS (Wanda, Amanda, Di, Elena, Rod & Sam) today to claim some water caches and some good terrain ratings! Lots of fun and laughs as sandbars, mud baths (damn soft sinking mud), songs and stories were enjoyed by all. Thanks for the opportunity for a great day out on the water Herbz and Tftc!

We had to get a little inventive on this one!! But the WADERS persevered and we saw it.. got to it and signed log! Thanks for thecache!! !!

Was here with the WADERS Team today ( W-selvagirls, A-stortigirls, D-neversaydi, E-E(:, R-roddyc and S-eatsleepcacherepeat). Hired a boat for the day. What a glorious day with wonderful company.

Been longing to put smileys in this area.

6th find of the day.

TFTC Herbz. I would not have dreamt of going to this place otherwise! What a fabulous day even if we hit some sand bars, some accidental swimming and mud baths.

TFTC Herbz quite a reach from the kayak to get this one.

Had to send the geo man in for this one after I spotted it. My arms were to short to reach it from the kayak. Such a lovely spot to paddle at twilight. TFTC Herbz

Well we found an empty mesh bag tied to a mangrove root. The bag has a hole in it. So was that the cache? If sobit needsbattention.

Fun to find though and delightfully muddy wading with our kayaks.

We are back at the Gold Coast for a week, visiting family & time to get away to do some geocaching.
Today was the perfect day to get out onto the water. With my brother as skipper we headed out along the river. Tide was still a little low so we had moments when we finished up on sandbars.
Thanks for placing this cache Herbz

Almost twelve months ago we first mooted the idea of boating up to do the T5 caches on the northern Gold Coast waterways. Over the last few weeks we settled on today to ire the boat, but somehow it grew to three boats - a party of , including DiamonJS, Rusty85, Team Benders, Crew 153, Nadine1989, Temingi (from Yeppoon), Vennfamily and Patrol14. Our first port of call was Float Your Boat 7, ending up with the GCPT - Humpback Whale.

The Ebb Tide was making our boats work so hard - we were running low on fuel - but it didn't take any shine away from not having to get out of a boat to sign this one up.

Found on 20th April 2016. TFTC.

Thank goodness we had three boats because this boat in which I sat was too heavy and got stuck on the way to the cache so that the others could go and grab this one.

The tide was gong out and by the time we arrived at the channel for this one it was too shallow for the outboard so it was time for the oars. Rusty85 and I eventually got some coordination going and we managed to head in the right direction and arrived to meet the others after the cache had been retrieved.

Thanks Herbz I needed the exercise.

While out on the high seas for a spot of plundering (cache finding), our merry band of sailors* motored to yet another mangrove island and being the quicker boat, we were first to the entry point to GZ.
As the tide was going out, it made getting to this place a bit more trickier than the others.
We managed to paddle to GZ and make the find while the others resorted to walking their boats in. Logbook retrieved, signed by all and returned. Now to get out of here somehow.
Saw a stingray in the mud which quickly took off when we approached.

TFTC

(* RoddyC, Crew153, Venn Family, Temingi, DiamonJs, Rusty85, Team Benders, Nadine1989)

Out on a high seas adventure with our 3 boats. I was in a group of 3 teaming up with patrol14, and then there was a boat of 4 with diamonjs, Rusty85 and Crew153 and then a 6 seater with RoddyC, Nadine1989, Termingi and vennfamily as they called the yellow sand bucket but I called it the yellow submarine.
To get to this one was trickier than the others as the tide was going out.
We motored in until it was too shallow and then a half motor then it was the oars around the canal. I was on lookout duties and spotted the cache.
I liked this one as we did not have to get out of the boat for signing duties.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks Herbz All good with this cache

Nice day out on the water for my birthday. TFTC

RoddyC extended an invite to me a couple of days ago for a spot on a hire boat to collect some T5 caches. We rocked up this morning at Southport and we were introduced to the plastic bucket, as coined by Mr Patrol14, - a large, yellow, plastic thing with a 6hp motor which was to be our transportation for the day.

I was given the job of pilot and told to head north. A long way north. I think it took about two hours for our plastic bucket to reach Lake Coombabah at it's top speed which was well below the posted 6 knot speed limit. We had to watch as the other hire boat disappeared into the distance. How they didn't collect all the caches before we got there I don't know.

By the time we got to this one, the tide was well on it's way out. We hit bottom in the middle of the channel and had to push ourselves off while the others did the cache duties.

TFTC Herbz

Our pick of tides saw this one giving us a lot of laughs as Rusty85 and Crew153 trying to row us to the cache, we eventually got there but I think we went more from bouncing of each side of the creek then the actual rowing although get there we did and we found it easier to just continue with the sideways bouncing to the other entrance and out into deeper water. TFTC

Gotcha !!! An invitation from RoddyC to join a crew of pirates on a raid of treasures hidden around the Gold Coast waterways was very welcome. Hopped out of the hammock before 5 bells and set sail for Crew153's anchorage to stow away for the land trip south to pick up " The Yellow Pearl " or should that be Peril ? , our Pirate Ship for the day. Think she needed careening as we were the slowest boat in the fleet of three. Still Captain Blair or should that be Bligh did a sterling job of navigating the Good ?? Ship through the treacherous shoals and sandbars to the hidden treasures we were seeking. Didn't find any treasure but we left our marks " X " in each of the Treasure chests we found.
Thanks to Capt. Herbz, Capt. Terror and the other pirates that hid the treasure chests we searched for.

The day was an eye opener for me .Thanks to all involved.

Found

All good

way down south for the day with fasted59 bubba89 and JAT

bubba and i got out for a walk
then 'found it' by mrs jat

We were out for a day of caching with barbbowman, FastEd59 and bubba89 trying to increase our difficulty / terrain average to 1.9 It is slow going, but we know we will eventually get there Even though it was an overcast day and we had to make our way through a few showers, we still had a very enjoyable day out, mostly on the water.

After finding a few nearby caches, we soon launched our boats for the main event for the day. We admired the scenery as we made our way along this part of the river system, taking care to keep watch for areas of shallow water to avoid running aground (we only did that once or twice ). On arriving at ground zero, we were able to locate the cache easily and with our names added to the log book, we were off to continue our adventure.

Thank you Herbz for having placed the cache and maintaining it for everyone to enjoy

Down the coast today with barbbowman, bubba 89 and Just a Trifle.

Cache number 2 and another quick find.

Log signed and replaced.

TFTC

Found with barbbowman fasted59 and JAT

Another looong stretch to the next one in the series. The kids were getting tired and cold, and shallow waters made paddling a little tricky but we enjoyed the little paddle through to get the cache. It was my muggle cousins turn to retrieve the cache with his long arms. Tftc

Krissy and I were tired by this one but knowing there wasn't too far to go i tried to keep krissy paddling. We got second wind and powered to the last water cache.

Found with the tough mothers and the geokids!

This was such a lovely area to paddle through. Very picturesque. I also thought a lot of the houses along the creek were amazing. Very expensive too I imagine . TFTC!

By this stage, Geokid passenger was getting cold, so was the master of the ship (well kayak actually) and he began to point out the playgrounds we were struggling to pass. Nevertheless, Tough Mothers battled on.

Finding the right channel proved difficult as did the water level. However we persevered and we're rewarded with the cache.

Thanks

I think this was the one we had trouble finding the right channel but we got there in the end.TFTC.Herbz

A boating adventure today with 22 out of 23 found (2 unloved) with Gulliverstravel54, cantcachus2014 and i. Starting our day at the runaway bay boat ramp (630am) we only had a small window it find 16 of them before the sea way was in a lock down at 10am as the 1st Xcats power boat championship was here on the gold coast and we didn't want people watching us while we were finding all the hides. Out of the area and clear of the lock down but 30mins we headed north the find the others, low tide up this way played havoc and killed so much of our time up this way. tftcsl

Find #3539 Today we had aquired a vessel with which to collect some T5 caches and our team Of Gt54, Forbiddenground and Cantcacheous 2014 set of early this was the one of many TFTC

Went out today with Gullivers Travels54 & Forbiddenground to finally clear off these caches and turn them into smiles. Some were easy to get to, others were a bit tougher. We all hade a great day and adventure. Thanks to the CO's for placing these caches. Tftc

Despite being an obvious cache BikeMate and myself didn't spot it at first and went on to Float Your Boat 1.
After finding Float Your Boat 1 this was much easier as we knew what to look for.
Great to have some caches we could visit by Kayak.
TFTC Herbz

Today was a mix of Gilligans Island, Patrol Boat, McHales Navy and the the 1983 Americas' Cup. Lots of had with a group of friends out in the bay with a penchant for geocaching.
We had mechanical mayhem, leaks and lateness, injuries and incidents, wet and windy, sandbars and scratches.
We enjoyed the series that took us from Jabiru and wound through the mangroves south to our final destination.
Thanks for a great day Herz!

TFTC

Despite the tide being on the rise we still had to thread our way carefully through the narrows to reach GZ. Swellerfungus, Mickjor and I arrived in our boat first and had identified the cache as we waited for Crookedpete, Bobble Fett, Shadyman 22 and TCC to arrive. Having sent us a little further into the tree branches than planned we had to carfully extract ourself upon departure to continue our journey. TFTC

It was time for fleet maneuvres and the Float Your Boat series looked like just the spot to put Admiral Seff's fleet through it's paces.

With Admiral SeffnJarah and his brother, Admiral (ret) Mark, in command of the two fleet vessls, the small flotilla ventured along Coombabah Creek, finding caches and battling with the mud, mangroves, shallow water, and even Herbz's over protective guard dog.

Some kayakers and then a half dozen underage dingy drivers (all from the same very shallow gene pool by the look) tried to muggle us out at this cache. We persisted and after a short search the cache was found and our names put in the logbook.

Many thanks to my ship mates today. Thanks for the cache, Herbz.

Pete

#2,668

Thwarted by lack of water, MrG tried another approach through bottomless squelchy mud and appeared to be going only one way.....down. MrsG's brilliant idea of dragging the kayak over the sandbar to the narrow passage of deep enough water worked well. As did MrG's keeping the kayak still and level while MrsG did a balancing act on the front point of the kayak to access the cache. Had it not worked well MrG would have been an unpopular person. TFTC Herbz.

Out on a southern adventure with Orange Crew and Luke from Slow Puncture and boy were we in for a day of surprises, ending in one of the worst storms in 30 years!!

Once again, we were suffering from GPS bounce and we had been searching for quite some time, not wanting to be the one to give up.

The storm clouds were gathering on the horizon, the breeze was picking up and the jellyfish in the water today were HORRENDOUS!! One had even got itself caught up here and was bouncing around like a pinball machine!

Luke was happy to stay in the boat after seeing the big blue jelly beneath the waves and Mr Crew and I wandering around in the water was disturbing the mud and making the water cloudy! You never know WHAT might be looking at you from beneath the depths!!

Mr Crew accidently found a wasps nest that he wasn't looking for, perhaps he thought it was the cache?

But lucky for us he then also found the CORRECT cache!

TFTC

Today, Team Armenia set out for an excursion to the Gold Coast, primarily to attack Wavebreak Island, Terror Island, South Stradbroke Island and Coombabah Creek in Orange Crew's powerboat (tinnie).

Why Team Armenia? ORANGE Crew, Team DNA (of RED Rocket fame) and Slow Puncture (of BLUE Thunder not-so-much-fame). Know your vexillology, people (Yes, I did have to look up Armenia's flag...).

This one was a challenge. The GPS originally had us in a different spot to the actual GZ, so Angela ended up inside the mangroves examining a little notch in (a tree?) which ad three small eggs in it.

Meanwhile, Kieran got stung by a wasp when brushing past the tree that Luke had been faithfully holding. Luke held a different tree after that. I got some great close ups of a bluebottle (a pic is attached).

Eventually, the cache was located near to the channel where the boat was moored.

TFTC, Herbz.

Out and about in Coombabah Creek for a boating adventure with Slow Puncture and Team DNA. Thankful for a high tide, my boat would NOT make it into here any other to time! This was the hardest one, coords had us right up in the mangroves. Started searching when my sandals got sucked into the seemingly bottomless mud. A quick retrieval and we were searching here and there. Bitten by a wasp that was unhappy at my presence before mercifully making the find, again right near the boat. Getting a pattern here. Quick cleanup and off to the next one. TFTC Herbz

I had been bugging Captain Terror to let me borrow him and his canoe to grab these caches. I have been attempting to get my average Terrain higher and this was definitely a great place to grab some higher terrain caches. After a slight fail yesterday we were out on the water this morning and were making our way from cache to cache.

Arriving at this one was slightly stressful for me because as the person in the front it was apparently my job to let the Captain know if a sand bar was coming up so we wouldn't get stuck... now I had no idea if one was coming or not and for the first half an hour, what I thought were sandbars was really just where the clouds had parted... whoops. We managed to get to GZ without getting stuck and the cache was found without any problems. With my name in the logbook and the container replaced it was off to the next one. Thanks for the cache Herbz

I have hired a Kayak for the week-end and was going to make the most of it.
After an outing yesterday I was all set for another outing today.
I teamed with IolantheK again for another adventure.[^]
With the tide coming in (we thought) we decided to head all the way to end, number 7 first.
We soon discovered that the water was still leaving the creek.
On our return leg from number 7 we stopped in here. This was my longest wade across the mud. Most of it was solid ... until I disappeared up to my knees.
Thanks for the cache.

Found well. Very peacefull

Staying with family in Oz, luckily Brad has a boat so wow lets find some caches.

had a great time looking for these, spotted a few mud crabs and dropped some crab pots.

we was nearly up to our waists in mud a few times as the tide was going back out and had to get wet to manouver the boat... but hey thats all in the fun.

Even had a swim in the creek to get cleaned up after taking the boat out of the water nice strong current was swimming and getting no where.

Brad said " Crazy Pomme " i know its you winter and its too cold for you guys hahahaaha.

Tftc

And two !

Quick find. Keen young eyes quickly spotted cache. Our first water find from uncles tinny. Tftc

A day of geocaching with our friends the Couchmen started. The weather was not looking good but finally we just had just some drops.

We started this series with the first one, but since we could not locate it we just went on to the next ones. The 2nd one was quickly found and we moved to the next one.

On our way we saw a bunch of dolphins. This was an exciting experience

Thanks Herbz for this cruise, and Couchman for sailing the boat

These water caches have been sitting at the top of our unfound caches list for so long because we couldn't get hold of any sort of water craft with a motor.

It would have been nice to think we could borrow a canoe or kayak and paddle our way around but when reality bites we are just too old and unfit to even attempt it.

I had never been out on a houseboat and Geo Wife had only been on one once quite a few years ago so we had the idea of combining a houseboat holiday with a caching adventure.

Our next problem came when it wasn't possible to take the boat under the Jabiru Island Bridge, we solved that by hiring a motor for the tender and getting special permission to use it up the lake.

We invited our caching friends the "Dhobitock"s to visit it us on the boat for the day and they jumped at the chance of picking up the "Float Your Boat" series.

A mishap had spoiled the start of our break away yesterday so I was looking forward to a positive day today.

The weather forecast was not looking good with possible showers and thunderstorms but that wasn't going to deter us.

Geo Wife sent us off with her blessings, so all provisioned up we headed off from north of Jabiru Island.

No 1 alluded us so we moved on to here, on our way we had been treated to the sighting of a pod of dolphins but we had caching on our mind so we kept going.

We motored up the passage and unlike No 1 this one was found easily, now we knew what we were looking for.

Thanks Herbz for taking us on this cruising adventure.

Log to follow when we get home

This was the second of 8 caches today out on Coombabah Creek. I didn't realise until now that it was a 12km round trip. With just a kayak and paddle Im going to be sore tomorrow.
I pulled up and was looking from my seat and couldn't see it anywhere, so out I got with gumboots on thankfully. Looked around for quite awhile and thought great, I don't really want a DNF out here. After a bit more mud slingin and a pair of almost bleeding eyes I found the little bugger. Simple but good camo. Signed the new log book washed of the mud and headed of to the next one. TFTC Herbz.

No luck with this one. The tide was running pretty fast this morning. I zoomed past GZ and saw nothing. I eventually managed to turn the ski around and paddle back for a better look, but still nothing ;-(

I had a bit of cache blindness strike at this one - sometimes I wonder how I ever found as many as I have? We'd chugged up a narrow channel to the back of this island, past a jellyfish graveyard, and I'm going to claim I was traumatised by that [:p]. Once he'd pointed it out, though, I was able to grab it easily enough. TFTC, Herbz. =^.^=

After failing to find a nearby cache on the mainland, La Kedi and I piled back in and motored towards this cache in the canoe. Luckily I landed us in a channel coming in from the north and we putted right up to it.

We nosed in and La Kedi grabbed the beast to sign before replacing. There was a boatie fishing just north and we were facing the wrong way, I'm sure he took great pleasure in me backing the canoe out, then stalling the motor and having to paddle as I restarted the motor. Hehe, all in a day's adventure. TFTC Herbz, another favourite point on this marvellous series

IolantheK and I hired a 2 man kayak from Roscoe Brisbane to try out our boating skills on the EKKA P.H. We could have picked a better tide as this cache series are easier to get at during high tide, hey but we still had a fun day.

We launched at Daisy Elms Park Boat Ramp at Coombabah and headed straight for this cache. Being the first one I bumbled, about even venturing several meters into the mangroves/mud and in the process lost my sun-glass [:(!]. IolantheK finally spotted the cache and we signed the log and off we went to get the next one. Good bye sunnies .

The cache is dry and in good condition.

TFTC Herbz

This entry was edited by T-Tech on Thursday, 16 August 2012 at 11:59:00 UTC.

IolantheK and I hired a 2 man kayak from Roscoe Brisbane to try out our boating skills on the EKKA P.H.

On arriving back to Daisy Elms Park Boat Ramp after completing the whole series I was lamenting the loss of my sun-glasses when IolantheK suggested going back for another look. Why not I said and we pushed off for "Float Your Boat 2" again.

This story does have a happy ending as IolantheK spotted the sunnies caught in the roots of the mangroves at the water line

thank my IolantheK [:X].

My geospouse T-Tech and I have a mad kayaking and caching day coming up soon, so we figured we'd better get in some practice This series seemed to meet all our criteria for today's outing: not too far a drive to get there; an easy launch spot; doable within 10 kms of paddling; and a tidal area, but somewhat sheltered as it is a little further back from the coastline. We put in at Daisy Elms Park boat ramp at 10:30am as the tide was going out.

This was our first stop, and as we had no idea what to expect, we made it way too hard. We couldn't spot the cache at first, so T-Tech got out to explore and went into the middle of the island. As I was keeping the kayak still I spotted the cache further down, so he had to get back in and we had to reorganise everything to grab it and sign the log. Then as we were about to head off he realised he had lost his sunglasses Not a good start. A short search was made but we gave them up as lost. On to the next one. TFTC, Herbz.

Found during a days outing on the tinnie with GeoDog. TFTC.

Found. Hard work on a low tide and a bigger boat. TFTC

Geokid found with Cowpatty 3

The second one for the day with Stairman1, geodogs and geodaughter. Stairman1 was good enought to grab this one This one was easier to reach and was nice and dry. Signed the log and then Stairman1 placed it back. Thanks Herbz

Goldielover and I are doing these in order. This one was at a good height and I managed to reach it from the boat. A great day for doing these caches.
Thanks Herbz

Noo82 and I made our way to stop no.2 and found the cache fairly easily. I really enjoyed the way we were able to paddle through the shallow "alleyways" in-between the mangroves. We stopped here a took a few photos but it took a while to get a good one - we kept drifting away from each other! We were concerned that we would come to a dead-end and the mangroves would eventually block our way through, but an opening appeared and we continued on to the next cache in the series.

After finding float your boat 1 KateRX and i knew what to look for and after a bit of paddling against the current we finally found number 2. And yet again the mozzies found us quicker than we could sign the log.
TFTC

This was our next one to grab. We had no problem finding the way into this one and set about the hunt. Again, it took a bit of time - but again.. Locutus_Of_Bris eye-spied the cache. After floating around in 3 kayaks - trying to hold each other steady to sign the log, we made off to the next one. The cache is in good condition. TFTC Team Herbz

Second kayak cache for the day with Fangsoki and the Cow.

Despite the big old sign with the number "6" on it we were passed a few times by a motor boat with a guy wake boarding behind it. The wake made for a bumpy ride for us as well.... but nothing too worrying.

My cache blindness had not completely been cured yet as the Cow found the cache in a spot that I had previously floated past while searching around.

Pretty easy going so far so we decided to continue onwards for at least a few more before returning to the car.

Thanks for the cache Herbz. Nice one.

A nice paddle on a cool day, a FTF.A great series
Thanks

just adding a photo.

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