The Rats of Tobruk Trinity Park, Queensland, Australia
By biggles58 on 07-Nov-12. Waypoint GC40XQ2

14:01 , Down Under 2014 .
Abenteuerurlaub mit dem Britz-Camper durch Australien .
In der ersten Woche haben wir uns in der Gegend um Cairns umgeschaut .
Rechts im Brizz-Camper sitzen , links schalten , rechts den Blinker betätigen und links auf der Straße fahren .
Dann auch rechts und links nach Cachen suchen .
Eigentlich haben wir ja Urlaub .
Nun ja , wenn wir schon hier sind , dann mußte auch dieser Cache gefunden werden .
Heute ging es Richtung Cairns und anschließend auf den Campingplatz Ellis Beach .
Leider haben wir den Cache nicht gefunden .
Entweder ist er verschwunden oder wir waren zu blind oder wir haben das Listing und den Hint nicht verstanden .
Vielen Dank für diese Aktion .
Gruß sulu .

Cache has been muggled

TFTC and good to know about this section of world's history.

Great little spot, Thank you.

The 4th of yours that I have visited today biggles58, but only the 3rd find. This one just happened thank goodness as I had wasted a lot of time on the Centaur to no avail. TFTC SL

Great cache

Love it! Great hide TFTC

Woo hoo! Good one! TFTC

I can't believe how many times we've missed this before. It made us reflect on how far we've come in the world of geocaching. This time around we went straight to it and could have kicked ourselves for our previous failed attempts. Really great spot. TFTC , it's a great relief to be logging this one.

Sneaky one, would never have come here, on holidays from NT, nice history lesson

Nice

Mmmmm, another crack at this for the umpteenth time. We drop in on this one everytime we're in Cairns and sometimes it's been thrice in one day. This is sure a cracker.

Found while in Cairns, on our travels around Australia.
Geo-wife found this one quickly. Signed and returned.
A good hide.
Many thanks for the hunt today, biggles58.

Tricky! Someone has placed a tim-tam biscuit atop one of the posts in the shelter. Climb up and, yes, it is not a cleverly disguised cache but real chocolate. Soft too.
TFTC.

Lol, not where we thought it would be! Got it second time, very clever.

This entry was edited by Bluejackal on Saturday, 20 July 2013 at 05:03:57 UTC.

Can see why some cachers have trouble finding it; not where I thought it would be, but the clue makes sense when you find it

Great spot and slightly devious, well done!!

This one has me befuddled. Have been here 3 times and yet to find it so far. Tricky, very tricky.

Hmmm, this ones tricky. Had to make a tactical retreat due to the presence of nosey muggles and a fast oncoming of darkness. Need full light as torches are a muggle attractor. We will be back.

Decided to make the most of having the hire car for the last day so drove down from Port Douglas on a holiday geomission . I initially had to drive by GZ as there was a muggle and mini muggle using the playground. I went and found a few others and when I returned they'd gone [^]. Walked over to GZ, inspected a few spots then I saw something promising. Inspected further and then the treasure was in hand! Another clever hide! I enjoyed this one as I love these hides. Thanks for yet another, biggles58

A quick find and a bit of history. TFTC

We looked and did not find, then we sat and thought and hubby walked over to a 'place' and came back with a cache. SL TFTC

My GPS showed GZ to be a few meters away from where we searched for this one. After searching for a while and hiding from the bin man, we headed back to where we thought it would be. Amanda found this one ,a very clever hide indeed.
TFTF

Sneaky one biggles. Nice park to let the dogs out for a little run and a drink from the tap. SL

Fangsoki and I arrived here during our Cairns caching trip and with a almost empty park, we took command of the area and began the hunt. There was once child muggle playing on the swings, but he was more interested in swinging than us (can't blame him). A bit of a hunt around and the beast was found, nice hide too, I liked it! TFTC biggles58

Captain Terror and I were in the area doing a few caches.

We parked up and commandeered the area. After a bit of an examination, we found the cache in a clever little hide. Well done. And a nice park. TFTC biggles58

All the locals were occupied catching a runaway dog in the distance, nice diversion; TFTC.

Found with geofriend and geohound!

Holidaying in Mossman from the SE of SA.. Nearly gave up on this one..loved it.! TFTC

Quick find while in the area. Nice one.

A clever hide. TFTC

Watch out for angry nesting plovers. Nice quick find before they could swoop.

Great history at GZ. Followed my GPS straight to the cache great and clever hide.
Thanks for bringing us here


This entry was edited by Cat and Bear on Sunday, 31 March 2013 at 13:25:11 UTC.

Found @ 10:58

Initial search of GZ and surrounds had me stumped, so checked logs and google maps as I was without GPS. I then returned to GZ and kicked myself for not looking at it entirely!! A little muscle and it was mine!!

TFTC

Damn, if only that guy & his girlf would leave his boat alone for a minute so I could replace the cache.... Been stuck here 5 mins

I hope the kids playing nearby were not curious!

On our visit to Cairns decided to do the northerly caches today. Another clever hide but we thought this may be the place so didn't take us long.
TFTC

Assuming finding this would be a 'picnic in the park' was a mistake. Easy find once I used the GPS and not my intuition! TFTC. CITOed the left over McDonalds packets out. Grrrr.

Quick find on the drive home from the beaches. Nice little hide in a quiet area. Thank you biggles!

Found at 1:50pm. A nice little park with some history as well. A fascinating and unexpected gem in suburbia. We arrived to find a nice little ginger cat had decided to welcome us to the table and made friends with Tommy very quickly. We found the cache and logged...do ginger cats count as muggles?
I think this puss may have been been able to smell the "Rats" of Tobruk.
Great cache. TFTC SL

Found on an early morning cache dash with Team Robins, TFTC TNLN SL

8100 caches found

Out caching with Searwise015, a good hint

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Thanks biggles58 for the hunt today

TFTC. Always interested in our heroes of ages past. Relatively quick

Nice little hiding hole.

Was an interesting read about the Rats.

T.F.T.C

Found it while staying nearby on a holiday in Cairns. Well hidden. TFTC

Good cache but tricky

Yet another great park in this area that I havent visited before. Nice easy cache too. Cheers.

nice cache biggles58, first one in cairns.

Well done to Mrs twobiggles58 for finding this one

Very good, really enjoyed this find.

This entry was edited by TheBigDragon on Monday, 10 December 2012 at 10:10:07 UTC.

Nice cache. Thanks. Pied imperial pigeons and rainbow bee-eater seen at the site.

TFTC

Got a flat tyre on the way over to find this cache. With tyre changed arrived at the GZ to find a lovely park dedicated to a former Rat of Tobruk. After reading the various plaques, I quickly located the cache and signed the log. TFTC Biggles58. SL {#129}.

The guy across the road was working on his boat again. Once I had seen where the arrow was pointing there really wasn't too many hiding places, so I quickly grabbed it when he turned away.
Tftc

A nice quiet park of Trinity Park on a Saturday morning. we parked close by and were soon at the GZ.
A few possible potential hiding spots but the GPS was keen to take us away from where we first started to search. Bingo!......we should have had a little more faith in the GPS to start with.
Thanks Biggles58.

Ms W&K was the knowledgeable person who straight away went to the sneaky hide - and got it[^].
TFTC
Walter
walterhellmut

16:15 - Found this nifty little treasure in the company of muggle friend John. Maybe he gets hooked as this particular cache touched his strings: one of his uncles served at El Alamein and Tobruk and PNG AND he is still alive! Tanx for bringing us here and for the cache. Well done.

Epic fail! You pwned us n00bs... We failed here.

You pwned us n00bs.

We will return.

Thanks to biggles58 and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Nice quiet spot, the guy directly opposite GZ was fixing his boat but was more interested in what we were doing!!

SL TFTC

Spent some time reading the plaques on this Remembrance Day. Thanks! TFTC SL

FTF

and 6th FTF of the morning

would like to say that it is a quiet park but the dogs just keep on barking

a quick process of elimination had this clever cache in hand

TFTC

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