aMAZEing Strangle Hold Kurrowah, Queensland, Australia
By griz066 on 14-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3WTDD

This geocache goes against the guidelines and the cache owner has indicated that they have no interest in changing it. It will be archived and locked to prevent future finders.

Longevity and favourite points are not an indication of whether a cache meets the guidelines unfortunately. Screws into trees are not OK.

Fun day out with Hippy Donna, found cache, may need a bit of maintenance.

Out and about cleaning up a few caches on our ‘to do’ list and this was one of them. Have had my list compiled for this area for a long time and it’s good to now be able to log them.
This cache has suffered some damage and will need some maintenance for the ‘field puzzle’ element to stay in play.
Thanks for placing the caches in this area!

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

Cache was placed in 2012 and there hasn't been an issue till now. 87 finds almost 1/2 of them favorites. If you need to shut it down on the say so of the fun police then so be it. It will be 100% on her head that the rest of the community doesn't get to experience it. I will not be changing anything as it is ok the way it is.

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 28 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

If you require more time please be sure to **post a note** (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require. For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the listing and post a new note every 28 days to keep everyone up to date, if you do not then you cache may be archived without further note from a reviewer. Caches archived due to lack of maintenance are no longer unarchived and you will need to submit a replacement as a new cache.


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CO has attached these geocaches to living trees. They should be relocated to posts or metal stakes.

TFTC.

Cache placement is against the Geocaching Guidelines.

Vandalism, geocache does not meet the Geocaching guidelines, wrong geocache type (these are field puzzles), abusive and threatening email, and Log deletion.

Hehe, one of those aMAZing caches... Once we found some natural TOTTs we got started. It was slow but going in the right direction... we made sure of that. Grabbed the cache and the next challenge began. The log was stuck tight. Some natural TOTT snapping and fiddling later, the log finally came free. TFTC griz066

Yep ta.

Got it out eventually. Tftc

Hunter and Court have hunted and caught this cache. Had to work hard for that one!

That was fun!
Got a sweat up.
Stay on TOP, fellow travellers.

HOLY Dooley, that took some persistence & teamwork. Well done to cachers who did it on their own. A good break from cycling Bundaberg to Sydney

Good one! Had to have patience watching the kids with this one but they got so well done!

Dear griz066
I hate you.
Love Alwyn255

Fiendish! I could not get to the cache and had to listen to Alwyn's OH NOs as she dropped it yet again. But persistence paid off and the log was signed. We have never seen one of these before but maybe one might appear somewhere near home.....

On a geocaching road trip from Brisbane to the Mega in Queanbeyan via a little detour through South Australia and Victoria.

This was a tricky one as I'm travelling solo and not too well coordinated either. Slow and steady won the cache for me here.
TFTC griz066

TFTC! Not sure how I did that on my own, but wow a lot of thought had gone into this cache! Back in it’s challenging hideyhole now for the next find!

**Day 6 - International Earth Cache weekend Carnarvon Gorge Return Journey**
Accompanied by Slow Puncture we are now on the return journey after a fabulous weekend at Carnarvon Gorge. Today from Chinchilla back East to Dalby then via Cecil Plains, Millmerian and then back home..

Thanks to all the CO’s who made our trip interesting along the way

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Tuesday. This is the last day of our return journey after staying at Carnarvon Gorge for the International Earthcache Day. Wow! Another fun cache! Loving the fun caches on the way home as it breaks up the ride fantastically. With all 3 of us working on this one, we soon had the cache up the top and in hand. Really loved this idea! Another FP coming your way!

This was the 14th of 25 caches found on today's trip.

Thanks ***griz066***, for showing us this place.

Hi there griz066.

We found your cache **"aMAZEing Strangle Hold"** today. (This makes our find count 19520).

Today we cached around Cecil Plains. The secondary aim of the day was to cache along roads we haven't traveled since we became full time grey nomads. Once we've done that we can draw another line on our wall map).

We found 11 caches today (DNF'd 2) .We thoroughly enjoyed our cache raid. Thanks for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels. We awarded this cache a favourite point for the novelty value.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Nothing.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

By now we have collected an army of flies, following us from one hide to the next. Such a quick find! Such a frustrating time trying to get the log signed! Probably caused by all the laughing. Great series of entertaining caches. This one gets a Fav point from us. Kutgw

Signed this with Mum as 'Jess & Caro'. She is now Carø and I now have my own geocaching profile so we are sorting my logs for caches we found together. TFTC!

Oh my, that was so clever. Great for some geoteamwork. Sorry for the late log. Thank you sooo much for this cache.

Off for a drive and a picnic for my birthday with Ranibaskale today. We went through Dalby, to Lake Broadwater for lunch, and then continued onwards along some other roads with geocaches yet unfound by us.

We made our way to GZ and there was no trouble spotting this cache! A bit of teamwork and a few minutes later, we had the logbook and our names were added. A favourite point from us for sure!

Thanks for the crafty clevery cache, griz066!

Love the creativity!! Great cache

TFTC. We left Kingaroy this morning taking advantage of a nice sunny day to drive to our overnight stopover in Millmerran.we stopped in Cecil Plains to stretch our legs and maybe find a cache or two. On our way out of town we noticed this series. The side of the road was solid enough to hold the weight of the motor home . We did however miss the first two of the series. Never mind , an excuse to come back.

Up early this morning as were are moving on to Texas, and I want to cache but Pa wants to be off the road by midday to avoid the worst of the heat.
Pulled up on the side of the highway and walked across to the GZ. Ah ha, that's what the hint is about. I just can't believe what's happening this morning. Another cache where I have had to call on Pa to help me out.
He again knew immediately what to do and the cache was soon in my hands. My name was added to the log and all returned to rightful place. This was a whacky doozer Griz066. Thank you.

Wow oh wow certainky a lot of thought and effort gone into this one. Just live it TFTC

Well, this one took some effort but we made it. Good thing we have a bank of FAV points because we just had to award one for this. TFTC

Thanks for this one good concept giving a heart for the effort in setting this up

TFTC 3034# Out and about with miss millie geo dog hoping to clean up a few caches enjoyed this one

Well that was certainly something different. We had fun getting the cache out of this one. A favourite point from us. Thanks griz066

That was cool & an unexpected surprise. We've not found one quite like that before, Fav added for effort & extra fun factor. Tftc xo

Another favourite point for a well made cache. Thanks.

Hi there griz066 - while in Dalby we decided a day outing to Cecil Plains was in order so off we went. This cache was a quick find and sign before continuing our day. SL. This is our find #4699 - thanks to griz066 for this cache.

**Smilie #5026**

At this rate we'll quickly run out of favourite points! LOL ...
We did consider putting out a similar cache ourselves some time back but life got in the way.
Succeeded in a quick retrieval.
Great job, well done.
Made our mark & replaced as found.

**TFTC griz066 **

A favourite point !
TFTC

We are camping in the area checking out the cotton quick stop and good team work- tftc

TFTC. Another favourite point.

Do love these puzzle ones. Thanks for all the effort, much appreciated! Would add favourite point if I could!

Truly amazing, we have encountered this style before and have enjoyed them and certainly enjoyed this one as well. A rest is always good on the road. SL TFTC

Today Youngoldfella, triciac2 and myself teamed up for a one day road trip to find a few of the new geocaches that have appeared since we have been to the various places we travelled to today.
Of course some of us have found some of the geocaches along the way and at other locations others of us had not found the geocaches there.
We travelled about 400km in total. I found about 14 geocaches, youngoldfella a few more and triciac2 a few more again.
This cache was good fun. We had all three of us assisting we eventually reached the cache. An easy fav point issued. [^]
Thanks for the cache.

On a cache day run with Youngoldfellow and Brother Colin. After some cooler weather we have a beautiful warm day for our drive. Clever hide and challenge. After all the dry weather it was wonderful to see all the green grass and surface water beside the roads. Tftc

Staying at Millmerran for the Camp Oven Festival we took the opportunity to find some caches and this was one of them. Took some time, but soon mastered the technique and adding to our favourites.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Group effort needed to retrieve but great fun. A favourite coming your way for the fabulous container. TFTC

While in town for the Festival we noticed this series of caches on the way to Cecil Plains ,we love finding caches in a series and had a great afternoon with our fellow cachers ,thanks for placing them and apologise now for the generic logs TFTC and a Favourite point

Found Ok

Camping in Cecil Plains for a couple of days while we wait for the Camp Oven Festival. Spending the day today chasing all the caches in the area.

Easy find, but not so easy to extract. Definitely a two person job, luckily we are two persons. Extracted, signed and returned
Thanks Griz066

Found it but had to give up signing the log after the 2nd "almost got it" as it was getting dark. Very clever!

Ingenious cache container. Tftc. Another favourite.

Easy to find but difficult to master! Great ideas for caches along this trail! All we could do this time round. Hope to come back to hunt for others next time! Thanks!

Spent a few minutes here extracting this one . Had the help of Mrs.K but we could not co ordinate our movements so found just one person worked faster. Got to admit I liked the design !!
Signed logsheet 15/10/2015 12:20 pm and replaced all as found.
1 x TB Visit. Batman Returns.
griz066 - TFTC.
And A fav point Too !

That was the coolest one by far. Loved doing it. Was just off from where I thought though

A favorite of Puppa geo cacher. Many thanks.

I love that cool !! TFTC

Ran out of signal so saved logging till we got back. This one was clever and a fav point has been given for it. TFTC

Travelling around Australia in our Caravan with our cat.

After a great night with friends in Dalby it was time to move south today. We headed towards Milmerran but stopped for several hours in Cecil Plains. So glad we did. [^]

Enjoyed our visit to this town, exploring and finding the swimming pool, train station, golf course, cricket oval, Apex park. The cotton farms and bales, bush track driving. All caches bar 1 had good co-ords.

Haha seen this sort previously, but still love them. Fave point from us.

TFTC griz066

everybody loved this one because it was a challenge found it with ...Valkyrja... and Bubgelf79

Love this container. First I've seen like this.
TFTC. Found with TeamBellingham and Bubgelf79

Was a fun one. Once you work out how to do it, it was easy

Tftc

Tftc...

Unique and enjoy TFTC

We are on a road trip heading to the ACT. We are towing our caravan and are enjoying traversing the back road where quite often there is an opportunity to stop and do a cache without being annoying to any other traffic. We have also based ourselves in Cecil Plains and Warialda and done some of the most enjoyable and creative caches we have ever done. We are so impressed with the standard of these caches. Fav point alloc. [^][^] Thanks to griz066.

We had an overnight stop here at Millmerrin. Up nice & early to find the caches in the Cecil Plains area.
What a great day we had, wonderfull caches found 14 in all & gave 5 favourite points. This is amazing for such a small town.
Started on the trees & then around the town, allwas so quiet at 8am in the morning.
This was one of the amazing caches we gave a favourite point to.
Thanks for placing this cache griz066

Must say We are loving these... TFTC

Was out and about today so did a Maintenance run on all my caches. I can confirm that this cache is in the original location and is in good condition. Happy hunting. I even had fun with this one.

Hmmmm...... A little bit of old fashioned "lets fathom this one out" was needed here. Loved it. SL TNLN TFTC

#337 - spotted it as soon as we walked into the bushes. Now..... the co-ordination required to get it out. very very clever. Thank you griz066 for an amazing group of extremely interesting, challenging and fun caches. We've never given out so many Favourite points before today. Thanks for making our day so much fun.

This entry was edited by close-by on Monday, 13 January 2014 at 21:28:18 UTC.

Our aim today was to drive from Cecil Plains to the next place Millemeran and do a few caches on the way. Well, glad we did. Amazing trail and a nice variety of caches. This type of cache we had before but we had to fill up with water, well that would have not worked here I am afraid. Well done again and another favorite. TFTC griz066.

We are loving these caches! Another favourite from us!

With some awesome team work from everyone we had this one. Great hide. TFTC

This entry was edited by kestal on Wednesday, 02 October 2013 at 04:50:21 UTC.

The best one for the day TFTC

Found the cache container but to retrieve it was so so so so hard. Glad I had long nails. This is a favourite for me. TFTC. Wonderful.

Found at 1131 with Marg. Stumbled on this as I entered the GZ. Had fun get to the cache I liked this 1 a favourite point from me. TFTC.

By the side of the road, at least I was out of sight of the amazing amount of traffic here
Where was everyone going or coming from ?
I think we can blame CSG for the amount of traffic !!

Meanwhile in the shrubberies, I had found the cache container.. sort of !!
I still had to retrieve it [:o]
But a steady paw and a bit of muckin' about got me the prize
Yeah !!! I nailed it [^]

TFTC

It truly is an amazing creeper, and new small ones just beginning their journey. The cache was also an amazing one. Congratulations on such an original cache. A fav from me Thanks griz066

Fantastic. Keep them coming!

9416 kms travelled in 21 days, one awesome eclipse observed near Mt Carbine in Northern Queensland and 712 cache finds, including a small handle of FTF's.

This was a trip I'd been planning for over 12 months with the main reason being to observe the solar eclipse on the morning of the 14th of November. I had decided to drive to Palm Cove and back, where my penthouse accommodation was located, while the rest of the family flew up and back. I love the drive and the unknown adventures that lay ahead; and I even think the last time I did one this big may have been for the previous eclipse in Australia which occurred over SA.

Apart from the great experiences, awesome scenery, and the characters met, the other reason to drive was to also do some serious caching, with the plan to stop at some power trails along the way including the Fruit Run and A.S. series near Stanthorpe on the way up and the Mid North Coast Wander series, just out of Port Macquarie, on the way back.

I had five days to travel each way with ten days in between spent in Palm Cove holidaying with my family. My route up took me from Melbourne to Tocumwal and up to Glenn Innes, through Toowoomba, Rockhampton and the coast road to Cairns while my route back was a bit more erratic. Heading from Cairns to Townsville then via Charters Towers to Rockhampton. From here it was through the amazing mining region to Roma then across to Dalby down through Stanthorpe (again) to Armidale, Port Macquarie, Wagga Wagga, Tocumwal and then home - phew.

Today I made my way from Roma, through Dalby and Millmerran and onto do some more of the A.S. series out of Stanthorpe that had been added; before crashing in the car in a great little spot I found just off the New England Hwy somewhere south of Tenterfield.

This cache was also now one of my all time favourite caches and I really enjoyed retrieving the cache so I could sign the log. Extremely well constructed. Well done griz066, a favourite for me.

Just dipping a TB I forgot to add to the swag bag and it missed being logged as visited.

051228KNOV12 (Google DTG for details)
69km from home.
We are now trying to work together to get some sort of ‘schedule’ together for making quick consecutive finds. We are planning the A.S. series down near Stanthorpe and if we can get a ‘rhythm’ going it should cut down the time to find log, and get to the next cache. So Mrs RF heads into the scrub while I start to reset the car nav for the next cache, we have also decided Mrs RF will wave or yell when she finds the cache and I can have the ‘find’ notes done by the time she gets back to the car.
Only problem is I can’t see her from the road and can’t hear her over the car (and Aircon) noise. Drop the window to hear, Help I can’t get this one out.
Stroll over to find one of the best hides I have ever come across. Soon sort out what needs to be done to get the log signed. Do the sign up and I drop the log back in place to a “NOT THAT WAY”. Thinking it wouldn’t make any difference we discuss leaving. Mummy says that the owner has asked that the cache be returned ‘exactly’ as found so we again retrieve the cache, however this time takes about 4 times longer than out first effort. We replace the cache as found and head off.
Too easy to give this very inventive hide a Favourite point.
Took nothing but memories and left nothing but our tag and footprints.

Hide, log and container are all in good nick because giggles and laughter woen’t damage them.
Thanks for the cache griz066.
Roaring Ford
Discovering Australia and the World, one hidden treasure at a time.

Didn't plan to find these caches but went off route to give it ago and was pleasantly surprised how many were out here.
Very innovative cache, first one we have come across. TFTC

Found it No. 7206 ... love your thought pattern ... TNLN ... TFTC griz066

This was fun! Totally unexpected. Figured out what to do and liberated the cache. A favourite point from me too.

No. 3 on the list for the native tree series this arvo, hope to get em all! TFTC grizz. What a beauty!!! Well done

Take a deep breath while filling in the log. Ahh fresh country air! Ask a local if you want to know what the smell is.

Had a caching plan today to do 11 caches. Left home at 0500 and arrived home at 1700 after driving 645Klms with appropriate rest stops. Total of 7 FTF's on this run. Nanango to Hampton to Brymaroo to Cecil Plains to Inglewood to Warwick to Toowoomba and then home. Mission completed.

FTF.
Quick find at 0840. Arrived at this one and was soon at GZ. When I saw what was there straight away I knew how to tackle this one and I did not use your "everything Supplied" Why. because I did one of these in Northern NSW in March and still had my own supplied items as the CO for that one tells you what to bring but I have a caching friend who had done that one and suggested something else and I still had the something else in my caching bag. Still a very clever idea and will keep cachers amused for a few minutes. TFTC

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