Monster Lane 8...Alpha Centauri Deagon, Queensland, Australia
By barbbowman on 20-Apr-12. Waypoint GC3G5VB

the bike lane along here has been completely demolished and all greenery destroyed
it could be months ... if ever ... before there is somewhere to replace caches
so I think it is time to let my little monsters rest in peace

every week there is more concrete and less green but at least this time they are keeping access for us on two wheels

maintenance day

new on ramp in taking shape

oh wow ... what a mess

still no bikeway

out with mud for the morning

they are building a new on/off ramp

a huge thank you to the site supervisor for helping me to rescue not just the cache container but a travel bug in it

Found today on my walking tour around the monster lane. Quickly found.

TFTC

Georode

mud and i out on a maintenance ride [:X]

new container in place
weird how old one melted

TFTC

Out trying to get some more smiles down monster lane, with ls1patrol. TFTC
Log signed.
Left some swapables.

Nalezeno v pohodě. Díky za kešku, pozdrav z České republiky.
Found at ease. Thanks for the cache, greetings from the Czech Republic.

Took geo boy out for some local activity. Found this one fairly quickly once we worked out the crossing. He Swapped one our turtles for a crazy blue porcupine dog. Thanks for another great monster lane.

Easy find but heat seems to be getting to the container. A bit melted and lid no longer fits tight. TFTC

Apparently the app doesn't update the coordinates in the waypoint section. But after reading logs we found it quickly a little further on. Tftc

I have just checked three different apps and all three show correct co-ords

Plese make sure you are not using n offline list that hs not been updated

Or try refreshing your pge on the app

The owner needs to update the coords on the home page as it is not fair to other cachers to be hunting at the listed coords instead of the actual coords.

Coordinates changed from:
S 27° 19.634 E 153° 03.029

Coordinates changed to:
S 27° 19.581 E 153° 03.049

Distance from original: 339.8 feet or 103.6 meters.
sorry i did not realise the home page did not update co-ords, i hope it works this time

i have fixed the home page

Fortunately we had noted the new co-ordinances listed by the owner and we made a fairly quick find once we worked out how to get across the ditch. TNLNSL TFTC

Couldn't find anything in the bushes.

Tftc

Cybermats home was destroyed so Alpha Centauri has moved down to share her space

I have been staying on the Gold Coast for a week, and today came to Deagon to visit a mate. Whilst he was at work I borrow his bike and rode the Monster Series. It just so happened that I rode it in reverse order, no problem! A very enjoyable series on a nice flat bike track. Great fun!

Quick find.

Cheers

I set off yesterday to collect a few caches to bring my total to 700. After a magnificent walk from Boondall park to the water and back I realised the app I was using had stored my finds but not uploaded them. This morning, alas, the app was upgraded and all my finds deleted before uploading.

Tftc!!!

Headed out with KerriMG for an hour or so of GCing. Found this one easily enough. TFTC.

Tftc! Quick find!!

Quick find. TFTC

Out for a stroll & to collect some caches with Nikid1 today so we decided to find some more of the Monster Lane series.
This was our sixth find of the series today. Nice quick find by Nikid1. Log signed & cache replaced as found. All good with the cache.
TFTC & the series barbbowman

All together I loved the monster lane. At first I was annoyed of the traffic noise in the beginning but on the bicycle way were less people so perfect conditions to find caches. I looked forward to walk an the ocean and it was so calm. On the other side there were so many people that it was not relaxing to find the caches especially because of the muggles around. The end of the walk was my favorite! Not many people, no cars and only relaxing with nice caches!

I walked around 30.000 steps which means circa 20 kilometers in 7 1/2 hours with 50 caches which I found. For the number of caches, the monster lane is really well maintained, only some caches are not in a good condition.

Thank you so much for the lovely day, the exercise and I also achieved with this round my 500th milestone!

Decided to have a go at this series. Tried to find as many as I could in one go. Awesome series! TFTC

[font=Comic Sans MS]Hi there barbbowman. We found your cache "Monster Lane 8...Alpha Centauri" at 12:35:00 PM today. This cache makes our find count 11620.
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Today was the day for a bike ride. We have been planning this for a while, but other things tended to crop up. Our plan was to attempt every other cache to the end, and then turn around and attempt the rest on our return trip. The cycle path was very busy today with quite a lot of track clearing works going on - so this may account for all our DNF's. (If the cache was within 2 metres of the edge of the path it has probably been mowed or whipper snippered into cache heaven.
We cycled 18.8km, today which was a bit of a stretch for Penny, and ended up logging 29 caches and DNF'd 5.
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Coordinate Accuracy: We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
Cache Condition: The log was full so we slipped in another one.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Smiley Badge.
Thanks for the hunt,
Regards
Ian & Penny.[font=Verdana]

TFTC

Found 'IT'! Thankfully, a quick and easy find as I backtrack to where I left off yesterday thanks to a dead battery TFTC barbbowman, great series

found laying out in he open ... put back

Geo walk with kids- tftc

Mrs NZTravellers had been working in Brisbane and we decided to make a long weekend break out of the opportunity.

We selected our accommodation to enable us too specifically do this Dr Who series as we are avid fans. Miss NZTravellers was gutted at not being able to join us and wanted an INSTANT update when we did here favourite monster the Weeping Angels!!!!!

We hired a couple of bikes from the Shorncliffe township and headed out.

We really enjoyed the whole series with good sized caches and well maintained as we actually were the first to sign several newly replaced logs. All coordinates were spot on and any issues were always sorted with good hints.

A well maintained and fun series of caches a huge thanks to Barbbowman for setting this series up and maintaining it.

riding past and saw her sitting out in the middle of the garden bed

quick stop and put her back in the tentacles

Find #377

Very quick and easy find as it seems the previous cacher/muggle decided to this out in the open for the world to see... after signing the log I used my geo-hiding skills and rehid the cache for the next little cacher to find



What does one do when not rostered on to slave away until late in the evening?? One caches!! Probably would have been beneficial/wise of one such cacher to actually look at the weather forecast prior to leaving on the adventure... oh well?? why break habit/tradition???

Began the infamous Monster Lane today... but didn't get too far due to lack of motivation.. Thanks for the outing Barbbowman.. And a special thanks for introducing me to the Dr Who Villains/Monsters

Cute trackable! Taken & logged TFTC

Make sure you have many pens when you go as ours just broke

Nice quick find. TFTC

Making my way down the Monster Lane on a rare nightime raid. A quick and easy find. Thanks for the cache bb.

After completing more of the monster series we decided to head over to the entertainment centre.
We spent the morning out caching with Roostaman
Thanks for placing this cache barbbowman

[Blue]# 12126[/Blue] Found on our 2015 Winter escape trip to Qld.
Another perfect day for a quick ride on some of the Monster Lane with Di Morgan.
Cheers from Wagga Wagga in the Riverina, NSW.
Thanks for the cache barbbowman,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

Dropped off 2 TB's. One wants to go to Vancouver, Canada!

Great hint! Coords pointed outside the fence, which had me worried for a minute. No tentacles out there though. TFTC TNLN

Doing an odds up, evens back trek through the Monsters today. Last one for today.

Took poker chip, left a coin.

TFTC

We avoided any tentacle issues. Tftc

Gotcha !!! Put Mrs Temingi on the plane to visit her sister in Melbourne as a thankyou for coming to the Mega. Now I've got a few days to run around caching and to visit my sister in Cooroy. So... a few more of the Monster Lane series were done on foot today . TFTC

Some of the earlier Monsters do look a bit silly! CGI had not been invented, and would have blown the budget too. A nice set of caches on the trail, and quick find on a quiet Sunday.

Wish I had a bike with me. My feet wouldn't hurt half as much, and I could have covered a heap more ground!

Found on a trip to OZ for the Stanthorpe MEGA. It is all about the numbers this trip, Ms KR decided to stay in NZ!

Thanks for the hide.

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| For info on the next NZ mega, go to: [url=http://coord.info/gc587bc]nzmega2015[/Url] |
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I set out today to get a bunch of caches to try and get close to the 2000 caches goal at mega. Good to get a few more of the monster lane caches ticked off too. Soooo hot out today but I soldiered on for a while. Quick find. TFTC

Totalube needed to grab a few caches so that he could hit a milestone at the Mega. He put out the call for people to accompany him as he attacked The Lane. I borrowed a bicycle and joined him.
This one was easily found

I still can't see or hear Alpha Centauri without a small smile, as it always reminds me of Douglas Adams and "Small Fury Creature from Alpha Centauri were real Small Fury Creature from Alpha Centauri" from HHGTG

Cache was found easily, all good with it.

Thanks

Easy find. Funnnny hint haha
Signed and replaced as found nice and hidden. And off we head again.

Well we had this great trail saved for quite some time now, after buying a second bike the other day we didnt miss 1 weekend before starting this trial.

Bed at 1.30am (not smart) Up at 5am for carboot sale down south
( Guess what I found 2 items a double bike holder for outside the car! Exactly what we need now, and the bikes were in the car on top of each other as I bought it perfect timing!!

Out on a lovely Saturday picking up some monsters and this was quickly found. Picked up the TB's to keep them moving . LNSL TFTC .

thought this was on my 'needs log' list but it is all good

dropped off ...
Wrebbit La Grenouille TB and
STAU Stammtisch Augsburg Geocoin

edited to fix date

Reaching the end of my monster conquering session today.

I made my way along the track, and using my GPSr with the wrong co-ordinates I merrily walked straight past it. When the GPSr wanted me out on the road, I knew I had a problem and realised what was going on - these were the old co-ordinates from a few years ago when the roadworks were being done!

Anyway, my trusty smart phone took me to the right spot, and I quickly had the cache in hand. Log signed and all returned as found.

Thanks for the cache Barb

#857 @ 9:41 AM Out caching with Stacevel, *SuzySquirrel* and MinkosDes today doing Monster Lane and other caches along the way. Logging as I'm going so I apologise for copy paste logs. All good here. Getting buggered though. ~ TFTC barbbowman

#572 @ 9:41am
Today spinna76, *SuzySquirrel*, MinkosDes and I decided we would bike it in the sweltering, stifling, sticky heat to grab some little Monsters among other things. I too hope you excuse my copy and paste logs.
TFTC barbbowman

After a bit of a rummage for this one geo kid came up with it. Tftc

Arrived at GZ - Geokid 5 quickly identified the caches location.

Signed and returned.

TFTC.

Found[Time to Find: 2 min]

Quickly found this one and my first for 2015. TFTC

Tftc
Trail description at gc3gk50

All good with this cache. A few people out walking this afternoon. Thanks barbbowman.

My three month Brisbane adventure has started. Day 27, Redcliffe.

No 9 of 10 today. Thanks, barbbowman. Here's another easy one. This is good, I'm starting to suffer from the heat.

tftc..

TFTC

Nice quick find. #3 for us today. Need to be careful of my delicate pinkies when scratching around geocaching! LOL ...

Recovered and returned, TFTC. Another short ride from the last cache. Glad to still be knocking out the baddies this quickly but will have to turn around soon due to time.

This was an easy find as there was no camo on it.
Signed log and hid it a bit better.
TFTC

Nice range of containers!

Part of the GC Posse team Kingkeylocksmiths, Marina25, L4MB, ammurphy6 & myself.

another quick find with the posse

A few potential hiding spots but one looks different to the others. Fairly quick find. TFTC

So, we (Marina25, L4MB, ammurphy6, Dihillman and myself) had been planning to tackle this series on bicycle for a while now and today was the day. We started at #2 and you can read there for more details about how the day started.

Another quick ride from #7 to here. We had read the clue so seemed easy enough and yes....right where we expected. A very quick find. We all signed the log and away we went for the next one. TFTC and the series Barbbowman.

Easy one! Tftc

Did some caching on bikes with Genyo today. We decided to take on the monster lane. What a fantastic series!
Arrived at GZ and found cache without much hassle. TFTC!

This one turned out to be an easy one. The hint sounded a bit strange until at the GZ things clicked and then it was only a matter of finding the right one and correct side.
All good here. TFTC, Barbbowman!

This cache was:
- a nice container
- a faily quick find.

Recommendations to other cachers:
- I am sure you will figure it out..


TFTC!!

------A little bit more about the weekend------

I enjoyed a really great weekend of caching with Dawesy321.

A huge thanks for barbbowman for a fantastic series and maintaining the caches.

The highlights of the weekend were:

1. Running into rbcs and caching with them for a while.
2. Having a rainbow lorikeet fly out of a tree directly in front of me.
4. Chatting with the cache owner a few times.
5. Assisting the CO with a little cache maintenance along the way.
6. The strange conversations I overheard while waiting for muggles to leave GZ.

I could not recommend this series enough, it is definitely a stretch and well worth the effort!

[green]Find #3249[/green]...

Out and about on Monster Lane with my caching buddy 'DiamonJs' adding some smilies... I had heard about this series soon after my arrival in QLD, so when the opportunity arose & DiamonJs asked if I wanted some company, I thought 'Bingo'...

A beautiful day to be out & about on the bikes with great company on a great series...

Nice & quiet today... Found this well hidden cache, stamped log & replaced...

Thanks for bringing me here barbbowman, for the cache and for the series...
- P

Took: Nothing Left: Nothing
[blue]Cache Condition ~ All good...[/blue]

Nice quick find and we are off for more. TFTC

Booyah Found it!

Hahaha.. we thought the clue was referencing some scientific reference for a plant not a Dr. Who reference.. but we still figured it out.

- - How awesome is my geo-husband (who usually has a 3 caches per day rule) ..When he said he would take me to Monster Lane I jumped at the chance! And we made it the whole way through starting from #1 (minus a few.)

TFTC Barbbowman

7th find on the monster lane. Tftc

My cachey senses are nicely warmed up now, honed in on this one straight away. Parked the bike, signed log, moving on

Woop, tftc. Lunch time

This one was very quick and easy cache to find.

The cache is in good order.

Fairy Mother and I thought that with all of the bush caching that we have been doing a bit of a city run would do us some good. After looking over the map and hearing a few runs mentioned in the forums/FaceBook we decided that 'Monster Lane' by 'barbbowman' in Brisbane was the perfect trail to grab.

Our goal was to walk and grab all of the city side of the trail and leave the beach side for another time. The reason for this was A) It was school holidays and Muggles would be congregating on the coast and B) We wanted to be able to move the next day! A good decision it was, as we met our goal and could just walk once at cache #35... We then cabbed it back to the Geo:Ute as our cached-out bodies were unable to get us there!

Thanks for the cache 'barbbowman'.

Nice easy find.
TFTC

This entry was edited by Fairy Mother on Monday, 07 July 2014 at 08:50:08 UTC.

Tftc. Quick find

Find #1215 at 12:59 while on a leisurely ride with MissGeosie taking in a stretch of Monster Lane.

As we turned onto the Lane, MissGeosie requested that we stop for a few caches along the way. Well, if you insist, dear [:X]

We looked and saw that the next one was only 100m ahead so we set our target on it.

MissGeosie found this nicely sized cache (though I may have already sighted it ) and then signed it herself. With her own pen.

Thanks for the cache, barbbowman.

Spent too much time at the cybermats without success. Good to find this one quickly. Head ARF at 08:45

There was a big spiky plant. And we found the cache. Daddy looked where it was and we looked all around where it was, but it wasn't there. Thank you for the cache. I like it.

This is our last day in Brisbane and we decided to revisit this series after our attempt 2 days ago. We finished with a total of 30, plus some other caches in between, mostly achieved on shanks pony. Bikes would have been much better but hey we did get the exercise and fresh air. Thanks again barbbowman.

Geogirls had this one found, signed and returned by the time we caught up to them! Another monster down. Tftc

Another one in the series found in the company of ManicWombat and bulldozer72. TFTC

Out and about on the pushbikes grabbing some more of the monster lane series. A quick look in the hinted location and we soon found the cache. Log signed and on down the path. TFTC

Ever southwards counting down the monsters. Great day for a ride and another smilie on the map! TFTC

We had the bikes from the Brunz Connections. The 3 of us decided to go for it today as it was the best day in the last week of continuous rain. 3GPS locked and loaded and secured from dropping and off we went. Some cool hides, nice containers and a stack of fun made for the best day together.
Thanks to barbbowman and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Tftc. Quick find took a treasure and left a treasure.

A quick ride by .