Shady Glen South Townsville, Queensland, Australia
By 2N's (Adopted by RobS72) on 02-Jul-12. Waypoint GC3PP2J

Adoptee is no longer maintaining this cache

#17503 @0725
Day 18 of a 3 week holiday driving from Canberra to Townsville and back to attend the Mega. Today was my final day in Townsville before heading home via Brisbane to tick off a few more counties. I spent a couple of hours topping up my TSV find numbers to just over 400 before leaving. Cache soon found (but log too wet to sign). TFTC.

Driven out by the mozzies

Log book is very soggy but found it all the same

Hard to find as compass needle jumped around. Too wet to sign. Nice pathway though.

**17 Apr 2022 2:49 pm**
**Find#7,530**
Found while visiting Townsville for the 2022 Easter Mega.

Found but the cache is in bad shape and needs mtce. Took a photo.
**Thanks for the fun 2N's**

*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Log is soaked inside this one but plenty of mosquitoes to keep company

After getting through the Saint and Book series in record time caching as part of Team 150, we decided to venture out on our own after lunch to fill in the afternoon and this area looked as good as any to target. A nice quick find was made. TFTC Logbook is totally saturated and I didn't have a replacement with me.

I flew up to Townsville yesterday with SnappyTomCats. I looked forward to chatting up with geo-buddies and finding some caches.
Following the Welcome to Townsville event, we decided to make the most of the lovely evening & grab a few caches not too far from our accommodation.
Covering ourselves with aerogard we entered the wooded area. There were a few cane toads out tonight. I have never seen them before. They are ugly looking critters.
I ducked under the foliage & soon had the cache in hand.
TFTC 2N's & RobS72

Day 2 of our Townsville Mega event weekend. Out and about with hevwalker we spent most of the day at GZ doing gadget Labs, Escape rooms and socialising!..The rest of the day we managed to do a few more AdLabs and traditional caches. Walking along the pathway, there was plenty of rustling in the foliage to the sides...yuck..cane toads...about 6 of them just in a small clearing! Found the cache but the log was saturated, stamped but only left a red and black smudge. Definately needs some CO care. TFTC

Bit of a search around ..lots of mozzie here.. heading back to the car, the day is starting to warm up.

drrnrchr and Driftingdillons teamed up for the Townsville Mega, and logs signed as Pawsome Foursome for this event.

Container full of ants and log very soggy. Managed to get a stamp on the log.

Thanks to 2N's for hiding and maintaining this cache.

12 April 2022

My find #1230

No idea

Definitely needs maintenance! TFTC

Nice quickie in the shade. Full of insects

Needs maintenance. Very rusty and container full of bugs.

Just couldn’t find this one…..next time!

TFTC.

Nice and shady

There was a cane toad guarding the cache, which jumped away as we got near, unfortunately he didn’t take his mossie friends with him.

After biking both sides of the Ross River yesterday and picking up quite a few caches during our ride, we decided to take it a bit easier today. A walk up and down the strand, and a short drive out to near the port area still saw us pick up a few caches to keep our streak going. A big thank you to all the local COs for putting out all of these for us to find. Today we were challenged by some, impressed by others and found a couple of hides we hadn’t found before. We appreciate all your efforts.
TFTC

On a GC trip with Drennostar on our way to a wedding.
Took the grandparents for a drive to show them what geocaching is all about. We were all searching the bushes and suddenly grandma yells "I found it!"
Her first find

My mums find. Took her to show what we were doing and she found it first. Found it with pippahicup too

Log wet but writeable

Nice

TFTC

Good hide out in the open but needs maintenance log book is wet and contain has holes in it..

Easy find nice hide

Lucky quick find mozzie muggles are bad

Found

Warning! High risk of mosquito bites!

Smashed by mozzies but still pretty fun. Found with Sezzycay

Lots of vampire suckers here. Talk about do the slap dance. Located cache but very wet. Needs a clip lock bag but we do not have our supplies on us today. TFTC

Log very wet needs a clip lock bag. Sorry we do not have out supplies o. Us today.

Found it nice spot

Awesome hide great find

Quick easy find.

Tricky. Watch out for green ants, and the wasp.

Nice little hide hole.

Good one

Nice spot to hide it!

Well hidden thanks for hiding and giving us a reason to explore this area.

Thanks for the hints, they were wholly helpful!

Good fined

Light caught the reflection of this one! Nice hide

Found it

Nice sneaky hide in a beautiful park! Didn’t seem to have the mozzie problem others were talking about but I got in and out as fast as I could anyway TFTH

Will have to come back
There where to many mosquitos

Mozzie central!! DI'd not locate the sprinkler, however found the cache. It's true, look down. TFTC

Very Nice hide, beautiful location. TFTC

TFTC! Very well camouflaged. A torch definitely helped, even in the daytime.

Found with jollyyogurt. Bring mozzie spray

Thanks to BenM70 for reminding me to log my daily!

Picked up my caching buddy to grab this one. I previously attempted to grab this one many months ago but got attacked by mozzies. Not today, carried the aeroguard to GZ.

Found it a really sneaky cache TFTC

We were in Townsville Australia for the day on Holland America’s Amsterdam. We saw that there were many caches along the biking/walking trail along the Ross River. So we took a taxi about 7 miles out of the city and started our geocaching walk back to the port from there.
It did not start out well, as the first cache took us through some high grass, muddy and flooded area, and to a totally mosquito-infested area by the river - and it was raining. We did not take our repellent with us, not knowing how many mosquitos there were. On top of that we had to log a DNF, after a long but unsuccessful search for the cache.
We walked the muddy trail to the second cache and the mosquitos all around that area and it was still raining. We did find the cache quickly and moved on.
The next cache finally took us up onto the paved trail, out of the woods, and a few less mosquitos. By that time we were tired of all of the mosquitos. So Marbles walked to the nearest house, knocked on the door, and asked if he could buy any mosquito repellent they might have. The owners were very nice to us. They would not sell it to us, but brought out two cans of spray and let us put as much as we wanted on ourselves. We had a nice chat with them and moved on.
The rest of the day went much better – It stopped raining, the mosquitos stopped bothering us, and all of the other caches were either on or just off the paved trail. By the end of the day we found 26 caches and only added one more DNF.

Thank you to GeocachingTownsville for 15 of the caches in the RRPT trail series, OzGeoker for 3, choppersrule for 2, and the other 6 COs for their efforts and for their caches.
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This cache: Quick Find this time. We had DNFed it 4 years ago when we were here.

Nice

To many holes

Second time here. Last time, it was getting dark so I didn't find it. I spent more time today and found it. The cache was in bad condition. The lid was missing and the log book's pages all stuck together (water damage). I did my best to fix the log book, gave it a new mini ziplock bag and I put a new lid on the cache.

Could not find but it was very dark

DNF Not without gaining a few mosquito bites, I looked but could not find. Geo-munchkins practiced their scooting, but then started having tantrums with the mozzies, so off we left quickly. Perhaps I will be back solo next time.

Found by one of our group. A trainee cacher found it.

Good hide tyfc

Needs replacing wet and no.lid

Did not find

Will come back and try again

26/7

FR- Suite de nos longues vacances en Australie puis Bali et après la region de Darwin, nous voilà dans le Queensland! Depuis Mission Beach nous redescendons vers le sud en route vers Airlie Beach. Une belle matinee en mode footing mais pas mal de DNF . Je trouve celle-ci assez rapidement, meme si le logbook est bien abimé!!! Mplc

EN- we continue our great holidays in Australia then Bali. After Darwin & Northern Territory, Now we are in Queensland. Enjoying geocaching in Townsville this morning! I find this one but logbook in the little box is in bad shape. Tftc

We looked and we searched, we read logs and the cache notes over and over again, nope nothing here for us to find.
We see by the logs that this cache is hit or miss we are certainly the miss.

I failed to find this one previously so tried to find this one again while i was staying in town. It took quite a while because of the GPS. bounce but finally sighted it. lid is missing but log is ok for now

Hard one with the green ants

Wasnt able to find today because there was to many mozzies

One stick an a thousand mozzie bites later I had the cache in hand! TFTC

Should have looked in the obvious spot first. Finally found this one. Hint helped.

Found with LJB54. Recommend mosquito repellent. This was our second go at this one and this visit SUCCESS rewarded us with a TB Goldhunter we retrieved and will help us it along its way.

Mosquitoes were terrible but worth fighting to make this one a TFTC SL

Nice little find. Lid is missing off cache. TFTC

Thanks!

Followed the mozzie’s to their hideout and found the cache quickly

GPSr was bouncing due to the cover.
Took a little time but found in the end.
Tricky hide.

SL TNLN TFTC

Found it, not missing just hidden deep

Found, but was full of ants and spiders have made a sweet web around the hole. Good hide though after some extermination we signed the log and placed it back among the 8 legged guardians.

Missing

Looked everywhere, couldn’t find it. Plus got attacked by every mosquito in Queensland.

T4TC - After previous posters warnings i was a bit apprehensive about this one. But with a quick confirmation call. I was in and out quickly.

Fun little hide!!
Be careful of the little residents! We found a Black and yellow snake living in the nearby tree

Travelling around Australia using Geocaching as our Tour Guide.

Staying in Townsville today in advance of the forecast rain/hail/sleet we headed out. Thankfully we found your cache and NO RAIN. well not enough anyways! lol

TFTC 2N's (Adopted by RobS72)

Great find for kids.

Easy find

Our first find in Townsville. Thanks

A short walk and a bit of a search found the cache. It could only be in one area but there are plenty of hidey holes. Log signed. TFTC

We are the best kept secret in the galaxy. We monitor, licence and police all alien activity on the Earth. We're your first, last, and only line of defense. We live in secret, we exist in shadow we are the men in black. T.F.T.C

Nice find with Justafan1107 & choppersrule. Geopup was excited to come and help find this one too.

T.F.T.C.

Easy find with justafan1107 and therammerjammer T.F.T.C

Nice find. No mozzies today TFTC

I was in Townsville for a family holiday and went out for an afternoon walk by myself enjoying the scenery and the lovely weather. My Mothers family owned several businesses in this area back in the 1930's and 1940's and according to my uncle the family drunk in every pub.
My last night in Townsville and the family thought I had been patient not geocaching the whole time.... so we went on a night caching adventure just to get a few more...
A quick find

Thanks from mogni

Good find. A bit hard to grab from the hiding spot. Had to adjust a little bit, left in the same spot! TFTC

Quick find to conclude our run into Sth Townsville today. No mozzies on a breezy winter afternoon, thanks 2N's

Found at 10:34 AM GAFF1 in the company of RocketBabe.
A bit of a tooing and froing to get to the right location and then the cache was spotted in a little nook. Hard to spot in the darkness of the hole.
Thanks 2N's.

Mothers Day in the 'ville.
Found this one with Sobingtons

Happy Mother's Day - of course I choose to cache today - easy find - TFTC

After reading the last cachers log, I didn't hold out much hope for this cache but its still there in its hiding spot. Insect repellent is a good idea and a torch can come in very handy!! TFTC 2N's

While staying in Townsville for a few days and heading to Palmer St to grab a bite to eat we decided to take a detour and grab a couple of caches on the way

Have to add our name to the growing list of DNF's here but thanks for maintaining the hide anyway RobS72[^]

Took while to find, lots of mozzies about! Didn't write in log because it's covered in ants!