Googong Glimpse IV Googong, New South Wales, Australia
By Tankengine on 08-Jul-13. Waypoint GC4E9JP

TFTC - feeling tanked after getting up the hill

I came across this cache and thought, "Hmmm, that looks like a Tankengine cache!" And so it was I liked the fact that, from the GZ, I had a glimpse of both Googong suburb and Googong Dam.* * * * *I had a lovely day walking this trail near Googong Dam and completing the Queen series. It was a lovely four-hour walk gathering these and all of the others in the area. I only had one DNF for the day; all other geocaches in the series were in good condition. Then I headed back towards Jerrabomberra to finished off a multi cache that I ran out of time to collect yesterday. I headed home as the sun set, by the light of the waxing gibbous moon.Thanks for the cache, Tankengine!

Came here with Baristayan and EA41 Camino Contigo for a glorious glimpse of Googong while doing the Queen power trail. Hidden in plain sight is correct!And happy to say, Tankengine, youve made an Argentinian newbie very happy thanks to the pathtag you recently left behind. Thanks!

Oh this was a wonderful cache!Top quality, as TE has us used to.Thanks for the views and the little adventure

Came for a ride out here today with dty73 for a maintenance run.Logsheet replaced, end of old log attached.GOOD TO GO!!!

Found on a sunny Sunday afternoon walk

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Great hide, thank you!

Founr

Well hidden! Dont get bitten!

What a wonderful way to spend a day! Great weather, good friends, a beautiful trail, excellent caches and a delightful Queen soundtrack care of the CO! Thanks for the Geocaching Queens - Toyhunters, Barb2e, Joolay, Seach4, GLISS, Contesta and aykayem for all the fun. Signed as GQ16.

Quick find, this one was fun

Yay another TE one. Did get a glimpse
Signing as GQ16. And lovely to have the CO walk with us.
Thanks for getting me out and about Tankengine

Find # 8515

Making the most of the opportunity to duck out for a few hours of caching fun as the Geocaching Queens for todays group. Barb2e, Joolay, Search4, ToyHunters, GLISS, Nibbletricecrackers, and Aykayem.

This was a quick and easy find and ️ here at GC5FEJY GZ on a beautiful sunny winters day. And a very special touch with Queen music to enjoy on our way around the circuit.

Thanks so much for the cache Tankengine And of course for getting me out and about and enjoying this area too

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Found while exploring around the area with some geocaching friends. TFTH

On the walk around the Queen series. Log signed as Geocaching Queens 16 or GC16. Tftc

Found with Toyhunters, Barb2e, Joolay, Seach4, Nibletricecakes and aykayem. Signed as GQ16. This was a lovely day for a wander. TFTC Toyhunters.

Woo hoo we found this a tricky one and needed to be brave to rummage. A change of perspective really helped with this one.

The grass is really high, gave up after turning over every rock in the area.

Out with a walk to this area on a sunny day.
Decided to get some caches on the way.

Found the Cache. Nice spot. I even glimpsed Googong. TFTC

TFTC lovely walk

Tftc and tnln. HOTA

This one was a bit of a challenge but the kids loved climbing the rocks. Tftc!

Enjoying a day out with the family.
Found with Team Duckymask

TFTC
️Team Begerah

Nice easy find tftc

Here we had a brief intermission to find a non-queen cache! TFTC

#2364 More to come

Thanks Tankengine for the cache. It is such beautiful spot up there! Picked this us whilst we completed the Queen Journey.

Found with Jondub. Nice view! TFTC

Found with Curloo. TFTH

Lost on me! Couldn't find it this time

Found this one from TankEngine while completing the Queen powertrail. It is very inconspicuous amongst the others!

TFTC!

Found this a while ago
Just didn’t have premium

Tftc! With womfox.

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Nice

Great cache

Very well hidden! Fun finding with a baby bump but great exercise for us! Beautiful views up here to. Left a couple of tokens
TFTC!

Thx

TFTC

An unexpected Tankengine in the middle of Queen. Took a while here; should have let the GPS settle before diving in. Nice views from GZ. TFTC.

Tftc

I know I was only in Canberra earlier in the week for caching but this time is for another reason… a geo-event! (GA19402 & GC8T8JZ) This means that for a couple of us, it turned into two events as I hosted a GCA event about lunch time. My event was nice and small with only a few attendees but still great. Afterwards, I went with some others to find some other nearby caches. Next, it was time to check into my motel and have a rest. I then heard that there was a group of Cachers heading out to find a new WIG cache in Woden before the next event starts. A great walk around the parks and a unique hide. I am now sworn to secrecy…! Then it was time for the second event of the day. It was great fun catching up with many people and talking all things Geo! After a great sleep, I decided that before I headed home, I would attempt the ‘Queen’s greatest hits’ cache trail. It was a nice drive to Googong Dam but before I parked I found a solved puzzle cache. After finding a parking spot, I went for the 2-2.5 hour walk find the Queen caches and a few other ones along the way. It was a great walk with many great views of the lake and Googong. Then it was time to head home but I decided on taking a detour via Young to find the new cache there. A FTF on this one. A great couple days away and I hope to get to a couple of the events in ACT during December. TB visit on all caches. I would like to thank all CO’s of the caches I have found and for allowing them to bring me and others enjoyments. TFTE’s & TFTC’s

A mild morning made the perfect opportunity to walk the Queen power trail, and it was very nice to find a couple of TE caches in the mix too.

This cache was a straightforward find at GZ - thanks, Tankengine!

Wonderful hiding spot. Fantastic loop- loving the walk and location. Pencil very sharp.

Fourth on our walk about the dam.

Tftc

Another lovely spot out here today. Cache tucked away safely, TFTC

Tyfc

Very nice view! Found whilst doing the Queen series. TFTC!

Found with Rezmebaby. Tftc

Found with brion33
There are lots of rocks have fun

Nicely hidden. Took us a bit to find!!

Re-positioned very obvious cammo but all good, thanku.

Can see the dam now. It is such a still time the reflections are beautiful. This one an easy find. Thank you Tankengine.

TFTF!

Great hiding spot

found it!

Done

Great hiding location. I can almost see my house!

Nice

TFTC!

Thanks for the cache. Retrieved trackable.

What a glorious day for a winter stroll around Googong Dam with the oldest two geokids (5 and 7) while the wife and youngest have coffee back in town. It may have only been 11 degrees but we still got a sweat up at times and the youngest was looking for a ‘bus’ to come pick her up by the end

No DNFs the whole way was great - thanks for great coords and recent maintenance on a few. Sorry for a somewhat generic log on these.

This was a quick find - two kids swarmed all over the rocks and sure enough had it in hand soon after. We took some photos of the dam from nearby and dropped a TB, which we coincidentally picked up at a dam. TNLN TFTC

Sneaky spot to hide

Glympse indeed! Beautiful spot TFTC

Found during a walk doing the lovely Queen Trail on a bright Winter's day. Beautiful spots, great walking.

Found during my adventures at the Clear Waters mega. Thank you for all the caches!

We started with ziggiau and me in the morning, Milo-Mike and NoTomorrow joined us and we picked up Bulldozer and Kaos at the track. TFTC!

Another beautiful family walk to Tin Hut with the family

Thanks KB logging for lucky9

Arrived for the Clear Waters Mega Event and decided to pick this one up along the way around the Queen power trail. TFTC!

Finally getting around to logging my Queen tour caches from the Clear Waters Mega. Toyhunters was a great tour guide and I think this was my first tankengine cache!

Out enjoying a most wonderful autumn day and taking the walk with the CO of these Queen caches - toy hunters, and our great little group tour. Caches were found with no problem while we enjoyed listening to the various Queen songs on our way to each geocache. Many thanks toy hunters for taking the time out of your own geocaching time while we are all here for the big MEGA event. We had a wonderful time and appreciate your efforts in placing and maintaining these geocaches.
This cache was in the same area as the Queen tour caches and so we made sure we found this one as well. Many thanks for this one Tankengine!
Cheers and happy caching!

Day 2 of our Clear Waters event and Queanbeyan/ACT adventures started off with a delightfully sunny and fresh morning which allowed us to find plenty of well placed caches. We spent the morning in Googong before heading back into Queanbeyan to explore the city centre.

Lovely views from up here, and many spots for the hide, but still found easily.

Thanks Tankengine for placing and maintaining this cache.

#7665 10:45
Walking the Queen Power Trail during the Clear Waters event, hosted by Toy Hunters, we also came across a few caches that do not belong to the power trail. Unless Queen made a secret recording names *Googong Glimpse*.
The cache was quickly found and our combined team name added to the book.

TFTC

The first Tankengine cache of the day! Reasonably certain that I made the find for the group on this one!

Found during the Queen tour. Tftc.

This morning I was fortunate to be invited along on a caching quest by the Ziggsta and Mavman. I wasn't the only stray they picked up with ozmilo joining too. Haha. Deciding to use real first names instead of geocaching ones, we came up with the team name of MEEL.

I had a great time walking around a number of traditional, multi and mystery caches in the dam area and getting to know our new friend MiloMike. Having sent a little lonely (definitely not alone though) the last 5 days, it was great to hang out with old friends and let my hair down a bit, singing along to Queen songs and chatting up a storm with the Ziggsta. Haha

Perfect weather. Best company. Beautiful location. Great caches.

TFTC

Visiting Canberra for the Mega Event and having a wonderful time touring the city with my host and sister Tealby, finding many caches in the process.
This was found whilst doing the Queen series of caches while touring with the CO.
Many thanks for the cache Tankengine.

Headed down to Googong Dam to do the Queen trail and surrounding caches with some new caching friends Ziggiau, NoTomorrow and Mavetju. As we started the trail, we joined forces with Bulldozer72 and Kaos. To save room in the logbooks, we logged as MEEL KB.

The vast majority of caches were found quickly - one or two needed a bit more time. Thoroughly enjoyed caches and the beautiful scenery.

Thanks for the cache.
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#2872
When planning a family activity for a day at the mega, I noted this little trail, and being a big Queen fan for many years, coincidentally starting when I lived in Canberra for two years in the early 90's, this was a great choice. So the four of us watered and booted up for the 6km hike and hit the (well worn!) trail. With our 6 year old we managed to complete the circuit in under 3 hours, with no DNFs. We met HappyUke and Finalf29 along the way and walked together for most of the trek - a great afternoon - thanks!
We grabbed this non-Queen cache along the way, took a little searching and flipping for sure.... TFTC Tankengine

Finalf29 and I spent the day in the Googong and what an enjoyable day it was. We paddled, walked (with a bit of huffing and puffing), met a lovely geocaching family Team737 and cached most of the Queen series with them... by the end of the day we were knackered, but still had a brilliant time doing it. Thanks to all the cache owners and thanks to Finalf29 and Team737 for wonderful company.

Found as part of the Queen series. TFTC

Found today with my Dad, Mum and my brother, awesome little trail to get some caches. TNLN

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A short stop to find this little hide. TFTC

No 4 more log to come

3713 20 April 2019
Attending The Clearwaters Ozemega at Quenbeyan and grabbing a few caches and power trails around the area. Signing the logs 'A44' as requested. Out caching with The Neighbs.

TNLNSL
TFTC Tankengine

Find # 4483
Found with sesblocker, Aries44duo and the other 15 cachers on the Queen PT Tour #2 led by The Toy Hunters.
Great coordinates made for an easy find.
We are staying at Queanbeyan showground for the "Clear Waters" Mega event. This is day six of our mega adventure.
As requested by the organising committee, we have abreviated our caching name to "TN".

TFTC Tankengine
20 April 2019 2:05 pm

Attending the Queanbeyan Clear Waters mega event, this was a day packed with hikes and power trails. Our team "LUCKY9" started off the day walking around Googong Dam targeting the Queen geocache trail, before then heading south through Royalla and visiting Michelago, and then heading north via Burra. A massive day caching indeed in great weather.

This geocache didn't take long to find, and the cache and contents were in good shape. Thanks Tankengine.

Found as part of Queen Tour #1 - a morning full of great fun, friends, music and caches.
Thoroughly enjoying the views along here. TFTC Tankengine.

Caching day with “Lucky9” during Mega event, thank you so much for placing it Tankengine.

Attending the Clear Water 2019 mega this Easter in Queanbeyan. Found with a group catchers and logged as "Lucky9" Thanks for placing it Tankengine

Thank you for share Lucky 9 awesome :):)

19/04/2019

During the Mega.

The weather was perfect for us to travel road included the countryside so beautiful,
Found as team Lucky 9
Mostly good coordinate spot with hunt (it was helpful.)

Thanks Tankengine for organising the cache and hunt [^]

Found. FLTF

found on queen #1 tour log to come

Found with the Queen Tour. Great views from here. TFTC!

Rocking the Googong with the Queen Tour crew. Thanks toy hunter for a great day and TFTC

A 3 hour drive this morning to visit the Queanbeyan mega event this long weekend, to get here. After finally getting some breakfast into my stomach i needed to take a stretch, so planned to walk the cache circuit here. Sometime during the walk i feel too have woken up completely.
Thanks for the cache.

A massive day of caching as a member of LUCKY9. I'll sleep well tonight! Thanks for the hide.