Not She Oak Kurrowah, Queensland, Australia
By griz066 on 14-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3WTDP

1MinnieMoo decided to tackle these now-archived caches. Such a shame the cache owner lost the love for geocaching

This one was a mission - because we had lost phone service. All I knew is where it was approximately due to a printed out map I had. We made our way into the area and then suddenly the phone grabbed just enough service. Oh... 21m away. Not a bad guess

We made our way to GZ and soon found the prize safe and sound. TFTC griz066

26/1/21 Find #4545
Fangsoki and I were doing the Australia Day rounds heading “a little country” for a day of adventure between Leyburn and Toowoomba. We knew of these recently archived caches, and decided we needed to go on the hunt.
The second along our journey down this road today, I was running completely blind, as I hadn’t loaded these caches onto the phone at all, and now had zero service to do so.
Thankfully, Fangsoki managed to get just enough service that we weren’t working a Mission Impossible situation, and managed a successful find.
Thanks for the cache griz066.

The cache owner has decided Geocaching is not what it used to be. It used to be fun now there are too many tree huggers running around the country side pretending to be cache police, and vandalising caches. I don't want any part of it any more.

Loving all the kookaburras! Nice quick find here

TFTC

Found it, sad when only the Kookaburras laughed at my dad jokes.

Do NOT delete my Found logs!

TFTC

Yoiks.... phone reception has got up and gone leaving a black screen with a cache dot and me. A bit like the old days of the GPS. But that was all that was needed, the cache was in a likely looking spot. I might add... MrG's GPS was powering along just fine had the need arose. TFTC griz066.

Yrp ta.

No signal. Looked in obvious place. Tftc

Hunter and Court hunted and caught this cache!

Flying blind!
No phone signal.

Walk over recent drainage works & get stumped

**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

3866

Tuesday. This is the last day of our return journey after staying at Carnarvon Gorge for the International Earthcache Day. Lovin’ these old cache hides here Lid was not in a happy condition, but the log was all dry so good with this one.

This was the 17th of 25 caches found on today's trip.

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

Hi there griz066.

We found your cache **"Not She Oak"** today. (This makes our find count 19523).

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.

**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:** A Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Watch out for snakes

Winber

Pretty smelly around the area. Must have been a bit of roadkill nearby. Could explain the flies. Quick search & all is well. 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!

Another one done and dusted, while out with Jess & Caro. Sorry for the very late log. Thanks for the 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.

There are a lot of spots in this area where a cache could be hidden. I was being harassed incessantly by flies and mosquitos so used my geo-sense (or blind optimism?) and went straight to a spot I thought looked promising and reeeeally hoped was the hide... and it was! Thank goodness... I've donated enough blood today!

Thanks for the cache, griz066!

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 towards the GZ.
I was using Sam (sung) to help me find these caches, as I hadn't told Monty, aka my GPSr, about them. He was quite hopeless at this one and again it was Pa who said, Over here!
Stamped the log - might need reinking as it was a pretty faint green, then returned it to its hidey hole.
TFTC Griz600

And another one in a series. Oh the smell of dead kangaroo tftc

Nice and easy. TFTC

Well this one didn't stump me tftc

TFTC 3032# Out and about with miss millie geo dog hoping to clean up a few caches that iv missed before

19.06.2016..tftf

Didn't take long to find this one. Thanks griz066

Quick walk into the forest & geohubby & his mini me soon had cih. Tnsl Tftc xo

Another quick find 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 #4702 - thanks to griz066 for this cache.

**Smilie #5029**

We lost service here & were flying blind.
Luckily caching senses kicked in for another quick find.
Made our mark & replaced as found.

**TFTC griz066 **

When I first started caching I travelled along this way with angloj to pick up these caches but because we weren't ready for the lack of signal we missed a few. Now a few years on and I am back to pick up the rest. This was the second stop and another nice easy find here. TFTC griz066

TFTC. Nice bit of road and ex ellent series

Found on our way home for Christmas. Great way to break the trip! TFTF!

Thanks to the new container the contents are in good condition. 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.
The container for this cache has had better days. We had a spare container of a similar size in the car so moved the log book and swaps into the new container.
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. 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. A quick find here. Dropped off TB.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Out with Gullivers Travels 54 who we met at the Camp Oven Festival. A good team effort and some terrific caches in this series. 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

Found Ok

Container is broken needs replacing

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 container broken, and I did not have another one with us.
Thanks Griz066

Enjoying this trip and finding these caches. This cache was located but needs a new container, sorry I didn't have a spare one.

Reguardless off the weather. Having a blast

Found it. needs new container. Signed log. TFTC

Having a great morning finding this series tftg

Container lid broken. Brittle from the sun. Tftc

Good cache, cheers Griz066

Found this one about 2 meters from the GZ on the ground.
Signed logsheet 15/10/2015 11:40 am and replaced where it should be. The lid has a hole in it so I placed it upside down.
1 x TB Visit. Batman Returns.
griz066 - TFTC.

Nice and quick book was wet from recent rain though

not she ? ha TFTC

Great caches on this run. We ran out of signal so saved the logging til we got back to camp. Finally on the last bit of this run the mozzies thinned out a bit, 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.


TFTC griz066

did twenty so can not remember which one it was Found it with ...Valkyrja... and Bubgelf79

TFTC. Found with TeamBellingham and Bubgelf79

Lots of grass seed in clothes

Quick and easy find TFTC

Tftc...

TFTC!! Mooo...

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. [^][^] 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.
Thanks for placing this cache griz066

Nice quick find! Thanks for the cache!!

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.

Quickly in hand. Bit sneaky if you did not approach from the visual angle. SL TNLN TFTC

#340 - Another bit of traipsing through the bushes and we had another smiley thanks for the cache.

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. Coordinates a bit off for us but with a geocachers eye you can'y miss it. TFTC griz066.

TFTC

Found this cache after leaving Dalby and heading for Millmerran and then Warwick. And then heading home to the Southern Highlands of NSW.
Left: beaded Santa
Nice quick find.
Thanks griz066 for the hide.
The Bushies NSW

Found at 1056. A quick find on the way to Stanthorpe. TFTC.

She Oaks eh ? !!
Well I found a few of them here !!
The noise was deafening as they chatted on the breeze [:o]

So where was the cache ?
By the Male Oak of course
The only tree by the roadside not making a noise

TFTC

Had to head towards the town till I had reception then backtrack to find this one TFTC griz066

Found it. Just slowly filling out the smiley faces around where I'm living.

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. I was luckily not attacked by any 'jumping cacti' as I made a find of the cache. Thanks griz066.

Drop in TB

051203KNOV12 (Google DTG for details)
70km from home.
Another quick find but I couldn’t beat Mrs RF to yet another one.
Grabbed the TB that was in here but left another that I have been carrying all over Oz and I think it might have even had a trip to Indonesia with us.
Took nothing but memories and left nothing but footprints.

Hide, log and container are all in good nick.
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. TFTC

Found it N o. 7209 ... quick find ... TNLN ... TFTC griz066

After problems at the last cache with phone reception this one was found with no issues. TNLNSL. TFTC.

No. 5 on the list for the native tree series this arvo, got em all! TFTC grizz. Coords may be out a little, sat my phone on hide and said I was 9m from cache. Phone jumped in and out of service so that might be my problem.

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 0915. GPSr took me to a spot and there it was. Good to find one in a normal caching type environment as compared to the previous few I had just conquered. Took trackables. Left key ring.
TFTC.

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