Drillham History Stop Drillham, Queensland, Australia
By jpgordo on 21-Mar-13. Waypoint GC4849N

It wasn't archived but it is now.

Stopped by for a look today just to see what all the fuss is about. Searched for 10 minutes and then searched a little more.

We looked for the container, partly because we wanted to find it and partly out of curiosity given a previous finders issue.

Spent time looking at the memorial for the four children who drowned at the railway weir, which really should be the point of this location for future cachers to appreciate.

Let’s hope the container drama gets sorted to keep this spot on the map.

CO jpgordo

CACHE HAS BEEN ARCHIVED. This cache has been missing so many time over the past year our only option was to ARCHIVE it.
jpgordo

This cache will not be having maintenance until June 2022. Please be patient until then.
jpgordo

road trip day 14 ... last day of our trip ... roma to home

what a nicely placed to let

we now know we were looking for the correct container in the correct place
not sure why there is an issue with the placement

tb visit

Went to look for this one to see what the issue was. Had a good look without luck. I'm hoping the previous finder has not taken it upon themselves to remove the container.

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 30 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

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This geocacher reported that this geocache should be archived. A community volunteer reviewer has been notified.

Upon reflection overnight, I have decided to request this cache be archived due to the inappropriateness of the current cache container.

As per the geocaching guidelines:
Non-geocachers may be confused if they find your container on accident. To avoid alarm, consider these tips:

Label your container as a geocache.
Choose a transparent container to show that the contents are harmless.
Don't use glass containers that may break and become hazards.
Don’t use containers that could be confused with bombs or other dangerous items.
If the container has military markings, permanently cover or remove them.

The current container does not comply with three of these guidelines, but most importantly, it does not comply with the fourth one and this is the reason for my needs archive request.

I had stopped off to look for this cache a few years ago. Pretty sure it must have been missing then as there was definitely nothing in that spot then, most certainly not that. I was even wary of touching it! I am not usually one to criticise another CO, but what is currently in place as a cache container is certainly not appropriate. I am pretty sure there are laws regarding these and who can possess them. As I am pretty certain that the cache was missing last time I was here, I am unsure if it was the CO or someone else who has placed this container, but the cache most certainly requires the CO's attention and to be replaced with a more appropriate container. TFTC

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

Nice easy one and even get to have a quick bathroom break

Accio 14:18:00
An amazing long weekend of traveling around with Crew153 in the mighty Suzee geomobile. After visiting Blackdown NP we headed into Emerald for the night and today we head to Chinchilla. A quick find passing by. Crew153 used to drive past here regularly back in his younger days (there was a girl, say no more) .. but is sad to see what was a working school when he passed by now classified as 'historical'.

Thanks jpgordo for entertaining me at this location.
*{Overall find #10062}*

Pprime and I escaped Brisbane for the long weekend for the delayed public holiday for the Ekka. We hit the road to Emerald and back home via Roma.

A surprising installation that I have not seen before. Luckily there were no muggles around while we searched and found the cache.

TFTC jpgordo

A quick stop to grab another smiley.

On the way to Roma for the night, the youngest stortigirl were racing the sunset, but stopped to pick up "just one more". A quick find and sign for us here. Tftc!

Second time lucky with this cache! Thanks for setting and maintaining this cache, jpgordo!
Log signed and returned to hiding place.

What a funny dunny.
Found on our way home from an awesome 2 wks in the outback with over 100 caches found this trip. Found with NutCacheBNE

Hey diddle diddle

After a fantastic time attending QOGM21 in Cunnamulla we stayed the night in Roma as we ran into pouring rain. Today we headed off in 2 car group and picked up a few caches between Roma and Chinchilla as we wanted to be back home before dark.
Cache located, log signed and all replaced as found. TFTC

On the way home from QOGM 2021 with patrol14 and teamed up with Imbunda. We did some caching on the way home of course. TFTC.

Last day in town. Time to make the trip home. Thoroughly enjoyed our time out west. Already started planning the next trip!

Guild of Historians
The historians continuously assess and re-evaluate history through the medium of today's mindset. Lord Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, considers it important to let people with a certain type of mind to always be re-evaluating history, otherwise they will get their minds on something more upsetting to the general running of the city. In the current atmosphere of the city, the Guild of Historians can be a powerful political tool to Lord Vetinari, if he wants to control the behavior of, say, a man with a despised ancestor; the Historians can be persuaded to re-evaluate events in favor of the said ancestor.

Interesting information on the plaque on the nearby monument. Thanks for the cache

Quick stop and find by me. Interesting little pit stop. Out with PirateLinda and Peppa and 2manytrailers.

Noice easy find.. with Peppa Pirate Linda and giraffe 18. Unusual facilities

We’re on our way to Roma to overnight before heading to Cunnamulla for QOGM 2021…

Giraffe18 made quick work of this find after I spent way to long faffing about…

Tftc…

Found with Peppa Giraffe 18 and 2manytrailers while on our Roadtrip to Cunnamulla. Made good use of the Windyloo

Yay yay DutchAus and I went in the toilet looking for it
Hahaha
Looking looking
Excellent hide
Thank you with Deafcat

Awesome with DeafPhantom DutchAus

Enjoy with DeafPhantom and DeafCat TFTC

We checked out Drillham History Stop today and lo and behold the cache has disappeared once again!!!!
We are going that way again on Thursday so I will have some appropriate cache to replace there.
It will not be in the same place as that one looks likely to being removed.
I will change the clues when we replace which could be about Monday after. Thank you and happy caching.
jpgordo

The team was driving past so thought we would try but it was not found

Could not find it sorry

Will check it again when we go east. I replaced and changed the hint. If someone has removed it again I will archive it.
I notice it has not been found since I replaced it.

Today was day 8 of 9 long days of travelling and caching for us. Long, but fun. This was the Roma to Chinchilla leg of our trip.

An interesting toilet we have never seen. We even got a step out of the car to feel all around the top on the inside. No luck.

A new cache was put out on Thursday. It is inside the door - top shelf.

Saddle could not find

This cache is definitely not there. Bummer!

Looked all over could not find

Found a beautiful green frog but no cache I'm affraid

Searched around, followed hint, but no luck.

TFTC, all good here

Quick lunch stop. TFTC. SL

Found - TFTC!

Tftc

Nice quick find.

Easy find. Watch out for the snake.
Thanks for the Cache.

Nice to find a cache we have driven past before

TFTC, all good.

Watch out for snakes

Good find, nice spot, took pin left a toy snake

Heading back from Roma to the Gold Coast after a trip out west.
What a relief to find it.
TFTC

A great little find! TFTC!

Heading West to escape some of the COVID craziness going on in Brisbane at the moment. An early start was made to fit in a long day of driving to Emerald via Roma, with plenty of caching along the way.

Nice to be able to wash the dirty hands and find a cache at the same time!

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Found at 07:56, thanks for bringing us here  **jpgordo**. This log is trackable, mention where you saw it.

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NEF here. TFTC jpgordo

Been under our noses for years.

Pulled up here for the night travelling back to Brisbane. Quick find as I had to park right next to GZ to stay off the softer dirt. Lovely to hear the frogs at nighttime.

Left a pin for swaps. Log signed and replaced.

TFTC

After 50kms of bumpy roads MrsWallaby was in desperate need of this cache location but there was no way she was going inside. Ick! Still got the cache though TFTC

Quick and easy find on this interesting place! TFTC

my Muggle husband and I are on our way to Mt Isa and we are making a smiley map of our trip. What a nice little wash station. My muggle husband spotted this cache. Thanks for placing this cache here for us to enjoy

Thanks to the CO for placing & maintaining this cache. An interesting stop. An interesting toilet.
Cheers.
Log Book & cache: all good.
TNLNSL

Cache: Drillham History Stop

Great little find we camped here for the night thanks

On our way south after the QOGM event Blackall, grabbing a few caches on the way. We visited your cache at 10:32 AM Logs signed Coongoola or CG. Thanks for placing this cache jpgordo

More local history drilled into me here today
And this is why I like geocaches so much !!
They make you stop and actually find and read about these unremarkable places,
and make them remarkable

TFTC

After having a fun filled and very hectic time finding caches and catching up with friends at the Queensland Outback Geo Muster 2019 we are now taking a bit more leisurely trip home but also grabbing the occasional cache.

This was the sixteenth for the day.

In this day and age it is impossible for us to even try and understand the hardships these workers must have endured. Today we are complaining about having to get out of an air conditioned car for a few minutes in the heat and wind to locate a cache and the men here were probably doing twelve hour days of very physical labour but it was good to finally see a river that had some water in it after all the dry ones we have seen on this trip.

The cache itself was found after a short search and the log book now contains our name.

Thanks once more jpgordo for the cache.

Wht a cool lil hand washing station. Tftc

A roadside amenities stop and there is another LGA to add to our collection
TFTC

A few caches on my way up to the QOGM 2019 event at Blackall....
A quick find. Cache container in good condition.
Interesting history.
TNLNSL TFTC

Love history ones, especially when i actually know who they are talking about and im not from here. Easy find and is still in good condition.

Tftc

TFTC

FROM NZ
We are on an out back tour from rocky heading to Emerald and on to Longreach then back through Blackall and on down to Dalby

Arrived Toowoomba late yesterday afternoon and leaving this morning on what seems to be a lovely sunny ️ day tho that wind is chilly and unfortunately for us we are heading to chillier areas on our way home to SW of WA

A quick park and grab

TFTC

Very easy find

Second time round

Found with the geokids. Cute little hide. Tftc

TFTC. We left Miles this morning heading toward Yuleba along the Warrego Highway. Our stop being Judds Lagoon. Not having a long distance to travel we stopped off at the caches along the way. This was our first stop . A quick find. Signed log and returned as found.

Great history here. Thanks

Heading back to QLD from Sydney via the western regions and I picked up some caches along the way and this was one of them.

A quick find after reading the history.

Once the log was signed all was returned as found.

TFTC jpgordo

found it

TFTC

We didn’t need the pit stop but we did appreciate the cache stop thanks for placing

Stopped on the way back from Carnarvon Nat. Park, a wonderful time was had there.

Not the best plaque I ever read, at caching site. I can't believe the heartbreak of this family.

Thanks, for this cache, sad as it is, jpgordo.
RVC
2957

Found while on outback trip. TFTC

After a fun weekend away at Carnarvon Gorge with Lady membsec, wombles, 1MinnieMoo and mnance101 it was time to head for home.
Of course we made sure to stop and create a few smileys on our travels.
A quick find here.

Thanks for the cache jpgordo

After a long weekend at Canarvon Gorge, time for Nyssaflutterby, 1Minniemoo, Membsec, Mnance1 and I to head home, though of course we won't take the shortest route!
A few stops to make along the way.....
Some small log sheets/books signed as "QQ" for our group to save space.
1Minniemoo went to look in the windyloo so of course we locked her in
I'd not seen one of these odd toilets before. The things you see while caching

15/10/18 12:25 pm Find #2196
Funny how I had thought about a loo stop soon, but arriving here we definitely decided we could all wait that little bit longer. However the toilet here was so odd I did have to venture in to get a tentative look. Only to get locked in from the outside by my so-called caching friends.
Well I did find some history on the wall in here - it was nice to know what Ryan from South Africa achieved in this spot.
NB: Logbook on most smalls and micros this weekend signed as "QQ" for the group of us to save space.
Thanks for the cache jpgordo.

Our trip to Carnarvon Gorge has come to an end so with sadness and in convoy with Nyssaflutterby, 1MinnieMoo, Wombles&Co and mnance101 we slowly head back to our homes picking up the ones we missed heading out. We signed the log with QQ to save time and space. So glad we didn’t need to use the facilities.

TFTF

**Carnarvon Gorge International Earthcache Trip – Day 1**
Out for a geoadventure trip to Carnarvon Gorge for International Earthcache Day with Slow Puncture doing the navigation duties during the road trip the deal was I do the driving they do the finding. Well most of the time there was the odd occasion where my finding skills were called upon.

Great trip, great company with Mr & Mrs SP and thanks to all the CO’s for hiding caches along our route.

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Thursday. Day one of our trip to Carnarvon Gorge for International Earthcache Day and this cache is on the way. Quick find with this one.

This was the 6th of 22 caches found on today's trip.

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

After attending the event in Barcaldine we are travelling this way to get home but in a convoluted way. We will spend a bit of time around the Gold Coast and hinterland first. Nice one. Thankyou jpgordo for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area

Tftc...tragic story.......

Found at 2:15 PM GAFF1.
Gosh - how tragic that all 4 children died all together in the same dam!
Thanks jpgordo.

Than you for replacing the cache container which has enabled us to turn our frown into a smile. SL TFTC

Good stop for a quick park and grab, neat hide here.
TFTC jpgordo
Found October 5, 2018

Found while on the way home from QOGM TFTC

Found while on the way home from QOGM TFTC

Thought this was a park and grab so I parked so close to the gz.

TFTC jpgordo and thanks for taking us here.