Man Heaven Smithfield, Queensland, Australia
By biggles58 on 11-Nov-12. Waypoint GC4139Q

Time to archive this one

Will have to check on this one

Not sure if the cache is still in place. Followed the clues but no joy.

This cache should be 4 star, been searching for an hour couldn't even find it. Had some help from another cacher and still couldn't find it. 3 times in a row! I think someone may have misplaced it or taken it. You should check.

2nd look for this cache.. Searched and moved everything.

4.58pm - while out on our sightseeing trip to the beaches dropped in on this one on our way home. Found the wall but too many holes and rocks to pick and time was ticking by. Had to call this one un-found but will have to get this another time.

Couldn't see this one for looking, and I looked everywhere! I even climbed up before looking at the hint. This one has either been put far back or gone missing, or more likely I missed it

Searched everywhere near the drain. Failed 2 times very good hiding place.

YAY!! I finally found this one, great to have this one under my belt as it was nagging at me. TFTC

TFTC quick find.

Another good for dinner for the day Tftc

Wonder if this one has gone missing?! Searched the whole end of the car park, up to 20 m away from where the cords took me. Nothing. But maybe I wasn't fully awake yet.
TFTH

A very sad start of the day as we were unable to find this one. This is our first day caching back in our home territory for a few years. What we did find was loads of rocks pulled out of the wall in the vicinity of GZ, we would like to think this has not been the work of cachers looking for the cache but it certainly looks like it.

Not too many muggles this end of the car park.
Now off to hunt down a sausage and cold drink.
SL, TFTC.

Found @ 1220 pm. Co ords a bit out but finally found TFTCSL.

Another Good one -- thanks Biggles. ^

Wow the possibilities are endless so many spots to look at. GPS was shoeing 7 meters.
TFTC

This entry was edited by Cat and Bear on Sunday, 31 March 2013 at 13:31:28 UTC.

TFTC!

So many places to search!

On our visit to Cairns decided to do the northerly caches today. A bit of a lottery but three sets of eyes helped us locate the cache.
TFTC

A quick find by geodad after a hot day, during our holiday in Cairns & Port Douglas.
TNLNSL, TFTC & greetings from Tassie

Found with Kirdonnemo, a bit of a struggle for sweating overheating Tassie refugees, but found in short order, by Kirdonnemo's alpha finder, a little bloodied from an earlier cache attempt, fall, TFTC

Found at 2:40pm. A quick drive by and we had the cache in hand. Signed log and replaced with no problems. I think I must have shares in this place by now. Great spot.
TFTC SL.

TFTC TNLN SL

8097 caches found

Out with Searchwise015, quick find at night

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

Quick and easy find after spending the whole day in Kuranda. Thank you.

Great spot, very busy today. Made it easy to blend into the crowd whilst we were seeking the treasure. Lucky the kids were with me otherwise I might have detoured into the shops to have a bit of a spend.

T.N.L.N
S.L

T.F.T.C

Found by the kiddies. Need a lookout for muggles are about. TFTC. Found with my brother and wanderingkk.

working in the area so called in for a quick and easy find

TFTC

Stealth in daylight hours essential. Jerms, Jack and Sally 10/1/2013.

This entry was edited by jerms12 on Thursday, 10 January 2013 at 10:56:14 UTC.

TFTC

Took a while but I got there
Lots of good spots here

good night time one. carpark quiet!

It certainly is a man heaven. Just gotta make sure the missus is left at home when visiting here. TFTC

Found it together with Moselund United
DK

Found it together with Team Autoværn on our journey in Australia.

DK

Quick find, some grovelling required. Heard the plastic box before I saw it. T: rubber. L: whistle. TFTC. Good DIDO on an impossibly hot day!

easy find, TFTC biggles58

Quick find ... seemed to be returned to wrong place by previous cachers as at head height not knee height. Back at knee height now

Found at head height ... Moved back to knee height as per request of owner

Found during our trip from Brisbane to Cairns.
Greetings from Belgium

found by the nettlies

we like the name, very cool

took a while because the cache was not at knee height[xx(]

little above knee height ( unles you are a giant)

TFTC
nettlies

Found it and adopted the beer bug2. Great quick find

My 261st cache.
Thank you for a nice rest while I drove from Cairns to Port Douglas.
Regards from Bavaria
JJ

A quick find once at the GZ. Plenty of Muggles parking to partake in Man Heaven today. Took: Trekker TB. Left: Beer Bug II TB. TFTC SL {#128}.

Had to go and sample some Heaven so found the cache quite easily at the same time

Took nothing
Left Trekker TB

No sign of the other TB!

TFTC

TFTC. TNLN. SL. Bamster

nicely hidden cache. an after hours one for sure...

Excellent hide

Thanks. Nice hide. With loklanhensley

Where else could Man Heaven be ? Easy find but the coordinates could easily but you on the exit road.

Where else could Man Heaven be. One of 5 I found on a visit from the Gold Coast.

11:30 - After an extended coffee break on the shores of TB, we carried on with our journey back. I found this cache in the good company of Walterhellmut and Ingrid. After the previous sneaky camouflaged containers, this was almost a breeze ... Don't get me wrong, still very well executed and placed. +/-0. T4TC.

Walter Avoloz drove us here to this aptly named cache. It was he who discovered the container in a very well chosen hide.
TFTC
Walter and Ingrid
walterhellmut

"Man Heaven" at Smithfield may have some competition now with the opeing of Masters in town?????
Once we arrived at the GZ, numerous possible hides presented themselves.
A little faith in the GPS was most helpful, as was a peruse of the provided hint.
In a short time we had located the cache and signed the log.
Thanks Biggles58 for this cache.

Mr Wazza & Kara was successful in locating and retrieving the cache. It is a very well chosen hide in most suitable place.
TFTC
Walter
walterhellmut

TFTC

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.

After spending the day south at Paronella Park with my family we made our way back to Palm Cove where we were staying. I had checked for new caches and saw that this one had been updated and was still a FTF possibility so as we were driving right past it we made a quick diversion into the car park and my boys and I went hunting while the mrs stayed in the car and watched. We soon had the cache found and were happy to find a blank log book. My second of only two finds for the day and also a second *FTF* for the day. Thanks biggles58.

FTF during a trip and holiday to Palm Cove. Full log to follow. Oh yeah - also grabbed TB. Thanks Biggles58.

2nd to find? 1st to log?
TFTC. No TB found.

Bugger! Couldn't find.

Coordinates changed from:
S 16° 50.434 E 145° 41.622

Coordinates changed to:
S 16° 50.416 E 145° 41.629

Distance from original: 116.8 feet or 35.6 meters.

I checked on the cache today and found that the container had fallen deeply into the rock wall. I used an extraction tool to retrieve the cache. I have move the container slightly North into a different place where it will be protected from further loss. Apologies to those whom have searched for this one but it is now ready for a find.

Dropped off TB

This entry was edited by biggles58 on Monday, 12 November 2012 at 13:23:48 UTC.

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