Rest Area ( New England Highway) Emu Creek, Queensland, Australia
By youngoldfella on 02-Sep-13. Waypoint GC4M4GV

Slowly working my way up to Cooyar and grabbed this on the way. I had no reception so that as an added challenge. Eventually found and grabbed the trackable. TFTC

youngoldfella I found your cache Rest Area ( New England Highway) on 20/9/2023, 11:50 am. This is my find 6001 and find # 7 today. Found it after a brief search with the help of the hint. Thanks for the cache, mate! TNSLLN

Easy find tftc

Found and log signed TFTC

Found by Mary and David at 14:10. Did a bit of CITO in the area while we were here. Why do people not use the bin provided? Our thanks to youngoldfella.

I did the wee scramble up to grab this one. Quick stop whilst in the safari! Tftc

I was awake nice and early so I set off with Peppa to find some caches before breakfast.

Another test area I’ve passed numerous times and never stopped at. It was quiet here this early so we had no problems finding the cache. Tftc youngoldfella

The final day of the Rural Safari weekend…

After spending my second night in a tent at the Crows Nest Tourist Park it was an early start (ie I was making too much noise in the tent and was sent out like a noisy toddler)…

The furthest point of our journey north this morning… we had the whole area to ourselves and it didn’t take long to find the container…

Tftc… Left GeoTrain to continue on…

Out on another epic Safari day, this time I did something remotely clever and checked for nearby caches and add them to the list! Unheard of!!!!

Being really quite lucky as a few we so so close and others just a mere 1km down the road - which also gave us a break from the great eyeball stare as we hunted photos clues.

All the bonus caches were found in good order and we signed and replaced as found.

My previous visit here I didn't have my climbing gear with me, and I did have Mrs George who suggested I would be silly to try this one. Today, without Mrs G, I braved the fence line - found it quite easy - and soon had the cache in hand. The container is cracked slightly in the lid and the base, with a little bit of water, but the log sheet seemed dry enough. TFTC, youngoldfella.

ARCTS Contents a bit damp. But ok.

We found the rest area, and we took a rest here, but in typical Geocaching fashion, it was not a long rest. Another find on our weekend away together.
We signed this as Team Grav (E_Smiley, Chamad, Triple Turmoil, Simber15, willis007 and Nayfee).
Thanks youngoldfella
Domsky

Rest Area ( New England Highway)
D 2.0 T 1.5 Regular Traditional Cache

Signed Team Grav (Domsky, Chamad, Triple Turmoil, Simber15, willis007 and Nayfee).

Thanks for the cache and taking us here youngoldfella. Enjoyed the adventure.

A plan was formed recently to camp at Oakey over the October long weekend (due to Ekka being postponed) and tackle the art and a number of fun puzzles in the vicinity. The call went out to a few others we enjoy travelling with and the solving began! Lots of back and forth between members and we finally had a full set a few days out from the trip.

The roads were wet and muddy but that isn't going to stop a group of dedicated geocachers on a mission! The rain held off which we were grateful for however chunks of mud were often shaken off shoes before returning to cars and moving on to the next one.

As is always the case when caching with others there were many laughs and a great time had by all. Always a great sense of achievement when you've been working through a project over a number of weeks.

Thankyou for placing and arranging this series for our enjoyment. The fields and flowers were in bloom. Birds a plenty enjoying the roadside water sources. The scenery was refreshing. Always enjoy a taste of the countryside. Logs signed as Team Grav (as in Gravel assault!)

Day two of our Oakey trip and a later start than usual.

We set off just after 9am and hit the trail, ughh.. Road? I don't know what to call it, but we travelled on it. Our main target for the day was the Gravel series than we slowly made our way north than south while collecting a bunch of caches along the way.

I have never ventured out this way before so it was a real eye opener, the towns, the farms, the flowers, the animals, you name it we saw it, well, maybe not everything because I was disappointed I didn't see an elephant, but you get the picture.

We certainly picked the right time of year as the Jacarandas were in full bloom and you wouldn't go through a town without seeing a bunch of them, absolutely stunning, it truely is an amazing tree and you can literally spot them from a mile away.

The team had an absolute blast and we thoroughly enjoyed travelling the open road breathing in the fresh country air, what more could you ask for? Well, a coffee shop perhaps since I went the WHOLE. ENTIRE. DAY without coffee and that is deadly, If i miss my daily caffeine goodness I become a terrible person and do bad things, other than that it was a very memorable day.

Thank you so much for placing this cache here for us to enjoy.

Log signed as Team Grav to save space.

#2629 - TFTC

A group of us came together to reassemble the SSE, find all of Gravel's Travels and everything in between. This is a beautiful area. Some caches took my Corolla to places it shouldn't have been, especially after the rain. But we had fun, found a variety of hides and saw a variety of landscapes (and muddy roads).

A big thanks to all the CO's who gave us a reason to camp in a little town for the weekend. Those who don't make this a weekend holiday destination are missing out.

Out with patrol14. Great day. Checking out the area while camping. TFTC.

While camped at 700acres farm for the weekend, TMZ59 and I are taking a drive around Cooyar collecting solved puzzles and letterboxes.

Stopped to grab this one while on the way. A quick find once we found the right stump.

Found on 29 October 2021 at 11.33am. TFTC, youngoldfella.

Easy find on our way to Kingaroy. TFTC

A quick find while staying in the area TFTC

Found at 11:45 AM GAFF1.
Certainly looks like part of the old road here and why does it bend like that and the new road doesn't? Must have been some serious road building going on here!
Thanks youngoldfella

Very wet day. Had to send co driver to find it, while I sat in warm car. Might need to put a bullhorn in geo bag, to make yelling instructions in the rain easier. TYFC

This cache cried out to be found as we passed by. With all that parking space it was an easy park and grab. We had to hurry as the rain was starting again, so signed the log and beat a hasty retreat to the car. Next stop, Brisbane.

It does indeed rock ...quick find TFTC

Little damp inside. pretty easy find.

I AM GUR

Found. Noticed a crack in the lid so placed upside down to protect from rain.
TFTC

Thanks youngoldfella got this one as we were travelling with the caravan.

Quick drive by find TFTC

Nice hide!

Tftc brother

This one nearly had us stumped

On our way to the final Bean cache and I pulled in here to make the car GPS do the right thing, she was having a gremlin day today. A goat scramble up and my name was in the book.

Tftc!

Tftc

Attending the Rural Safari 2019 event at Crows Nest, and travelling and caching with Susan and Uve of TBU.
A quick find.
TNLNSL TFTC

Not hard to find when I finally ignored my GPS that kept telling me to walk away from where it actually was!!

Up for the Rural Safari and gathering a few caches on the way to Crows Nest.

10:07:00 AM. Heading down for the Rural Safari and saw the cache come up on the GPS. Plenty of room to stop and a short walk and scramble to GZ. Log signed and back on the road. Thanks for the cache youngoldfella

nice easy find not like the one out of Texas which landed geohuuby in Toowoomba hospital for 3 days and 19 stitches but I guess its all part of geocaching when you are adventurous

Found with bennyboppers and jemillalucy today while staying at jondaryan for the weekend. Tftc

Nice day for a drive. Tftc

Out with jemillalucy and lisylou today out for the weekend at jondardyn woolshed

Spotted the hide from a distance and headed straight for it. Nice of someone to leave a scouting pad as a swap. Thanks for the cache

Oh gods- the Patrician’s called a meeting. Better get up there quick or it’ll be the dungeons. Hopefully it’s not about Nobby again. I’ve told him to take that damn dress off.

Nice easy one.

Cheers

Bundy

#9028 - 08:00; Day 4 of a long planned mission to South East Queensland with Sol de lune and after a couple of days in and around Nanango and the wider South Burnett area, it was time to head back towards Brisbane, then home later on Tuesday. Stopped for this one as we headed from Nanango towards Toowoomba. It seems like only mere moments ago we stopped for a rest, but this cache prompted us to do it all over again. TFTC youngoldfella

On a 5 day trip around the south east of Queensland with LuckyL10n chasing a few caches

Good quick find here saw our names in the log and were back on the road.

Thanks again for the cache Youngoldfella.

Found on way home from Blackbutt to Toowoomba after staying at a friends hobby farm.
My muggle friend knew exactly where the road stop was, even mentioning the mattress that had found a home there for a while.
My co ords was throwing me around a fair bit, and once again my muggle friend found the cache.
We placed a wool steelo and a magnet in for swaps.
Log good condition.
Container good condition.
Tftc

I recently learned what the acronym SPOR (suspicious pile of rocks) means from fellow cacher Caro (from Jess & Caro). So as we headed up towards GZ I thought I knew where I was heading. Turns out I was wrong lol. TFTC

Out and about with my amazing Geo-Wife Kaleidoscope, Nabbing finds here and there in Cooyar, the geocaching gods smiled down upon us as we also nabbed a FTF in the area.. all is good in the world... TFTC!

Friday @ 08:17, #5,868.
Our annual big day out in the Burnett region was planned for today, with a truckload of caches found around Linville, Cooyar, Yarraman, Maidenwell, Nanango and points between.

Nice spot here,easy to pull off the highway too. Love the sandstone rocks everywhere, made the hide easy to spot too.

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Thanks for the experience **youngoldfella**, discover our trackable

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TFTC. This is a lovely spot to take a break on the drive from Wondai to Toowoomba. The clue was very helpful.

A nice easy find

Quick park and grab.
TFTC

Sometimes you feel like you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place! TFTC

Had to give Crows Nest caches a miss due to rain. Now sunny again.

On our way back home after the QOGM events in Barcaldine.

Of course with the one or other cache for a :~)

Thanks to all COs for the caches !

The sun is out again, so are we. Spent quite some time in Highfields, no stop in Crows Nest due to wet weather.

There's always a next time
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Great QOGM events are over, we are on our way home, now towards Benarkin.

Thanks to all COs for the caches.

Paused here for a rest with gallifreyen when returning to Hervey Bay. Nice to find swaps. TFTC

What a prickly pair.

Felt like doing some camping and caching in the Nanango area with my geodog Scruffy, so had to do some on the way there.

All Good .. TFTC ..

A quick park and grab here for Selva Girls and I on our tour of the area after the Rural Safari. Tftc youngoldfella

It is the day after the Rural Safari and stortigirls and I are out collecting caches in the area. I parked the geomobile and we made our way up to GZ. There, stortigirls quickly spotted the cache. With our names added to the log and the cache returned to its spot, we continued on our way. TFTC

A popular spot for prickly pears and a perfect spot for a cache. TFTC youngoldfella

With the grand daughters. TFTC

Geokid joy! TFTC

Yep. A good size cache.

Nice easy find. TFTC.

TFTF

Gotcha - Found easy enough. Tftc

Rolling back towards Toowoomba after a hard day of slashing in the paddocks. Just have time for a few quick caches before it gets too dark to see.

A peculiar but familiar smell in this rest stop. Reminiscent of #2 Dumped some rubbish in the bin and scurried up to GZ. All is good here

TFTC YOF!

Found it

Thank youngoldfella made the trip a bit of fun.

Hint was good & cache is in good order. Kutgw

Found the contents of the cache scattered everywhere and managed to find the container but not the log.
Have placed everything back in the cache and replaced the log with a piece of paper in a zip lock bag. TFTC youngoldfella

This one wasn't where we were expecting it to be, but it was a quick easy find once we followed the compass and not our intuitions!

3/12/17, 11:21 am Find #1266
As Wombles & Co and I pulled in we thought we knew where we would have to go but of course it quickly became apparent it wasn't going to be there. A short stroll and we had cache in hand, feeling rather relieved there was no long grass to traipse through here.
Thanks for the cache youngoldfella.

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Friday. The Slow Punctures were on our way to the Rural Safari 2017 at Crow's Nest, traveling via Kilcoy and Yarraman. On the way we picked up a few caches which had so far eluded us.

A quick find for Mr SP on this one, went straight to it. We find it interesting to see the old road formations when we are going along.

This was the 4th of 12 caches found on today's trip.

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

After a morning up at the bunya mountains we decided to stop here and have some lunch, after lunch had a look to see if there were any caches, after walking along the road for a little bit saw where the cache would be and there it was, nice and easy find tftc

Freshly burnt so no long grass to contend with. Nice quick find and eager beavers to find. Took nothing, left nothing. Tftc

Nice little spot for a rest. Quick easy find.

Out for a days caching, we decided it was time to add smileys to this series along the New England Highway between Crows Nest and Cooyar. This one took a bit of a scramble, but an easy find thanks to the great hint. Cheers from Bindair Dundat and Princess Madelyn.

One last stop before we had better make some serious ground to Toowoomba, if we don’t get a move on we’ll never make it, but on the flip side we would have a lot of caches.

When we pulled over here you could still smell the after burn from a very recent fire right where we needed to be. We held grave fears for this cache! But we were here now so we may as well check to see if it beat the flames. It did, the caching dream lives on here! It was nicely protected where it was.

We quickly signed our names and watched another cattle truck roll on by…

TFTC youngoldfella

Another quick find after a bit of a scramble up a slope, no long grass this time and no snakes.

thanks

Ian & Sue - Team Pathfinder uses T.P. to sign smaller logs.

Quick find while holidaying in Esk.TFTC

First time in awhile that I have driven by this one in daylight. Driving to Toowoomba on Monday saw the visible black spots from the grass fire. On the way home today had a look and no damage to the cache. I replaced the clip seal bag as the existing was damaged. Managed to get the pen unstuck from the bottom of the container and placed it in with the log. Plese reseal the bag and hide well. Have fun.

Last find for the day. It's been a great drive. Time to appease the Geokids with a Maccas offering.

The side of the road is being burnt off right this minute and we thought this little cache might have been fried! But not to be, it is currently still there.
Probably a bit dangerous going through the bush to get to it but we were already there and not about to at least not try!
TFTC
The Wards

Great log book.

Nice little spot to pull over for 5. Cache retrieved and log signed. Felt a bit weird when geohubby & I wandered out of the scrub together, only passing vehicles though, we had the rest area to ourselves. Tnls Tftc youngoldfella xo

Needed to have a break. TFTC

Thanks nice easy pickup

A short search revealed the cache.

Travelling around Australia and now super excited to be finally starting our trek to the Easter Geocaching Event at Alice Springs.

Managed to grab a couple of caches between Clifton and Nanango even though we had our 24ft caravan in tow.

TFTC youngoldfella

Short Stopover here. Found on Tour with Lamm_Bada

Vielen Dank fürs Ausdenken, Legen, Hegen und Pflegen und natürlich ein dickes
DankeFürDieDose

Tftc quick find.

Tftc

Tftc

Floating around the area while we wait for the event in Toowoomba on 15th October. Have had scratchy internet since we arrived on 10th October, so late in logging. Have been around this area previously and found some of the caches. Now, catching up on the missed ones

Easy find, but harder to get the caravan back on the road! Thanks YOF

Found on our drive today. Thanks for the cache. AandM and Lucy

TFTC