Spenceys Treasure #1 Thornlands, Queensland, Australia
By jumbucks on 04-Dec-11. Waypoint GC38QBF

Unable to set it up again... too sick and not enough strength. This is a great park. I hope another uses it to stow a treasure to find.

Hmmm I have had no luck at all in this lovely park. I will try extra hard to find a new spot & then activate it again. Jumbucks

CO please check this one as it hasn't been found for a while and I suspect it's not there.

Had a look today on school hokidays but couldnt see anything

What a lovely spot!

Had a look around with Mr Garmin but we didn't locate a cache

Mozzies? Did some say 'mozzies'? What 'mozzies'? Did you mean the zillion-strong army of them?
Yes, DEET 80% would have been OK here at 10 pm today. Those little beasts were hungry, I can tell, since they don't normally bother me too much (more after the missus ), but these ones were after anything that moves.

Narrowed the potential GZ down, tried to take heed of the hint, but after 10 mins in the area hadn't come up with anything. This possibly needs to be done in daylight to fully appreciate the potential hides - and to let the tiny flying devils to draw blood from someone else in the meantime...

Seems to be pretty area. Another good reason to be here at a decent hour, and perhaps take a camera for some nice scenery photos.
TFTH, jumbucks!

Lets hope the 4th time is lucky. The new replacement Cache is back in the same spot as before, but this time I came at night when the park is devoid of muggles and I could stow it without being watched. This is an easy one to find, but a hard one to do so without being watched. Good luck.

Wow, it has been destroyed already. I will make up another soon & replace in another spot. Jumbucks

DNF at those co-ords for us; nothing that we could see.

All fixed and snug in a new location in the park. Much stealth will be required as it is now hidden in a new and very busy part of the park. So the challenge will be stealth.

Coordinates changed from:
S 27° 33.542 E 153° 15.678

Coordinates changed to:
S 27° 33.540 E 153° 15.623

Distance from original: 296.8 feet or 90.5 meters.

Had to move the cache to another location as the previous location had been cleared by workman. The listed coordinates are from my GPS but these are from my phone ap S 27 33.534 E 153 15.625

Restowed it. Changed the coordinates and awaiting approval.

Thanks to those who alerted me that gz was threatened. I have removed it & re stowed it elsewhere in the park. I will put no coordinates up tonight. Jumbucks

Found it No. 8343 ... an easy quick find today ... TNLN ... TFTC jumbucks

Found it..

Swung by to check it out resulting from the last post. All is well at the present, but will , in time, re-stow in another spot. Make sure you camo the hide please. Jumbucks

Easy find weather has left it's mark here. TFTC

Hide location has been badly damaged cache was laying out in the open. May be a confidante for a move somewhere nearby. Cache is covered at the moment but may be easily discovered.

Another find on my 4 hour Cleveland geowalk epic. This is another beautiful location.

TFTC.

Cunning little hide,bit wet container was open,still able to sign log.TFTC

Tftc

Came over from NZ to see family in Brisbane. We took the dog for a walk really liked the quiet area and lakes even has an awesome playground. Will have to come back with the children one day soon Loved finding this geocache (very creative disguise)

Nice creative hiding spot. TFTC

Great to see this back again. Great hide.

Found with Dirty4b, only a couple of muggles but cache quickly found and inserted back in hiding spot TFTC

first to sign new log with deleesh was muggle central tftc

Cache is unavailable

Coordinates changed from:
S 27° 33.543 E 153° 15.566

Coordinates changed to:
S 27° 33.542 E 153° 15.678

Distance from original: 604.8 feet or 184.4 meters.

Updating coordinates.

New GZ, new log & new cache. Last one got muggled out by council doing a refurb of the gardens. Enjoy the stroll around the lake and bring some bread to feed to the ducks.

I saw the last few posts. Checked & confirmed it is missing. So I will create another & post when it is up. Jumbucks

As my fellow cachers state this one certainly appears to be M.I.A. However, this lovely area by the water did provide us with a perfect place to have our picnic lunch. Lovely. Thanks.

We stopped in this loverly park for an extended lunch. At the next table there was a kids birthday party, so the playground equipment was well used.
After lunch we walked over to GZ, couldn't locate it. Checked the clue and found the object in question - still no one home. Doesn't look too good.
Thanks, Robmc.

We had lunch here wandered over, found a spot befitting the clue but alas no cache.

Catching up on my logs. Thanks for the cache, found with flower1

The park was muggle free this afternoon when I called in to make a quick find. What a delightful spot - I'll be keeping it in mind for the next family picnic

Thanks jumbucks for showing me another beautiful place that I would never have found were it not for geocaching. The cache is safe and in good order

Day 3 of my Brisbane weekend away & another great day to go caching with tmann421. A quick find, lots of lovely areas to explore in these parts. thanks for bringing me here.

A good easy find while on holiday around brisbane with TuisReturn. SL TFTC

A nice quick find on the way to work this morning. Kinda cool to scribble my name right next to Spencey's

This is my own cache. But, my grandson after whom it is named, rang me this morning all excited. He said, " grand dad, we gotta go geocaching this afternoon & find my treasure 1. Why was my reply. One of my friends at prep found it & left money for me to get. So, over I came after lunch, GPS primed & with a little help, Spencer & I found it. He signed his name in the log, swapped the money & then we had a huge play in the playground. Loved it. Jumbucks.

Nice easy find. Tftc

Nice quick find. Cool park for kids. Tftc

Gotcha !!! TFTC

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Yay not as hard to find as I thought! Thank you, heaps of fun! Tnln sl

Found it fairly quickly, lots of fun at the nearby playground.

Out and about on the bicycle today to grab a few caches that eluded me last time I was in the area and to grab a few new ones as well.

When I fist entered the park I thought there would be many more people than there was. I was able to park the bicycle very close to this one and be a little steathy though only one or two were actually in any position to see me.

Thanks for the cache. The cache is dry.

Found at 0755. a Quick find. TFTC.

This was a high muggle area today, but with geodaughter in tow today I had the perfect excuse. I started with her on the swings in the area and then I got prompted by her to go look for the cache. I had the it in hand in no time. I had it out and was in the process of signing log when the neighbour came out to take his washing off the the line. No problem I just waited for him to leave, I think with being so close to a park he was used to people been about.

I returned the Cache and again someone else came along, I started to look up at the trees. It is amazing how everyone else starts to follow your eyes and looks in the trees. At least they where not looking at my hands as I returned the cache.

TFTC

3rd find for the day

TFTC

The Balds

Well-this was going to be a DNF-the clue made the location obvious-but there was no cache-, as I walked back to the car-I was about 50m from the GZ when I noticed what should be a cache container, it was the one . went and replaced it where it should be (after signing the log)

TFTC

Nice fort and lake thanks for showing us.

Quick easy find

I never knew this little nook existed out the back of the houses, what a neat little spot. There were a few muggles walking their hounds this morning but no ankle biters in the playground and more importantly, no resident muggles enjoying the comfort of their pool in the adjacent yard... That could make it difficult...

I followed the arrow to the recently updated coords and found them spot on. Aha, I know where this one will be and with that, the cache was in hand... [^] I stayed put for business and placed it back in its lair.

I bet this place gets busy with a playground like that... It's very well set up.

Cheers jumbucks.

I pulled up at this one seeing children in the park - but thankfully they were "departing from the park" children. I motored toward GZ and got a little concerned due to the proximity to the playground (please dont be in there!). Thankfully it wasn't. It was right where the GPSr said it would be. The cache is in good condition. A nice little park. TFTC jumbucks

What a little oasis hidden away in the middle of residential,thanks for showing it to us,the water and bird life was nice.TFTC.jumbucks.

Nh tftc

I love the playground near the cache and so did the dog.

Nice playground TFTC jumbucks

Thanks for the cache

Coordinates changed from:
S 27° 33.536 E 153° 15.562

Coordinates changed to:
S 27° 33.543 E 153° 15.566

Distance from original: 47.9 feet or 14.6 meters.

This is the primary & secondary coordinates from my gps.I did this again after the posts from others.

Found at previous finders coords. Cache located on floor in what I suspect was original location by clue. TFTC

I was in the area so thought I should get this one. It was raining pretty constantly and luckily I had an umbrella in the car.

Arrived at GZ and found a likely spot which "sort of" matched the hint but no dice.

I widened my search area in a number of directions to about 30 m away and after 15 minutes I found another likely spot ( The last direction I searched). Ah Ha this looks like the cache. I adjourned to the shelter of the playground to ensure I didn't get the log wet and was surprised that there were no names in the log book. Where are all the local *FTF* hounds? This has been here for 3 days now.

Thanks jumbucks. I enjoyed the spot, even in the rain.

I have added the coordinates which I took at the cache. It was reading 15m from GZ.

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