08 Queen: Under Pressure Googong, New South Wales, Australia
By Toy Hunters on 01-Sep-13. Waypoint GC4M92Q

Cache is replaced, covered with rocks now in a discrete way. Cache on!

Logging as a find after confirmation from the CO that the cache was missing, and with his permission. Thanks, Toy Hunters!

Photos look concerning, this one will likely need replacing. Stay tuned!

I searched everywhere for this geocache. I was surprised not to find it, as the caches so far have been so reliable. There was quite some damage to the land in the area as a result of what looks like fallen branches due to high wind. I'll send photos to the CO; it may be that I just couldn't find it, though I suspect that it may have gone missing * * * * *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.

Found

Girl Guides International Geocaching Day 23

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

Find # 8520

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 Toy Hunters And of course for getting me out and about and enjoying this area too

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An enjoyable find on an enjoyable day.

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

Just rockin on. Perfect weather
Signing as GQ16. And lovely to have the CO walk with us.
Thanks for getting me out and about Toy Hunters

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

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Hey Toy Hunters, found it. With such a useful hint, I wasn’t under any pressure to find it!

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

Nice spot to ease the pressure...signed David B. Tftc. HOTA

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

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️Team Begerah

Nice easy find tftc

Ice ice baby?

#2369 On tour with injuryman picking up caches around Googong. Logged as Beta Squad. TFTC.
The only pressure I felt was on my calf muscles as I made the ascent from the trail.

A wander around this Anzac Day with Stylish Parasite saw us completing 24 caches! Was pretty impressed as generally when I have put together a plan of caches we always end up with some DNF's. Anyway Queen is my absolutely favourite band, ever since I was 7 years old and got Crazy Little Thing Called Love on single. I'm turning 50 this year, so it's been a while.

We did the whole Queen Collection and picked up the few extras along the way. Took us four hours on the dot, I am a bit slow, and we did stop for a wine and cheese stop at about half way.

A lovely way to finally click over 200 finds on my weekend of getting back into caching!

Thanks for the journey.

Found with Curloo

Found with Jondub. TFTC

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Found this a while ago
Just didn’t have premium

Tftc! With Womfox.

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Nice one

No pressure!

Found on my first walk around googong dam tftc

Thx

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 this power trail. The western foreshores walk is a bit boring for mine, with glimpses of Googong township mixed with low hills. The return track along the dam is much prettier, although quite overgrown in parts after the recent rain. This was a very well curated and maintained sequence of caches to find - all in very good condition with tailored logs for each cache. Thanks, Toy Hunters!

This cache was a straightforward find at GZ.

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Another on our walk

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Nice hide

Found with Rezmebaby. Tftc

Found with briony 33
Tyvmfc

TFTC!

TFTC!

Another great hide on the trail

At last I feel as if I am actually going to make it - yep I am getting there. TFTC TNLN SL

Container was broken and silica bag was open, so I replaced them today. Happy caching!

The container badly needs replacing - big hole on the bottom. However, there is a very healthy dam on the other side of the road, plenty of water birds and the frogs are croaking up a storm! Looking good!

An easy find after another climb. Container is broken underneath. What a beautiful tree and lovely view out over the dam. TFTC Toy Hunters.

Super

Thanks for the cache!

found it!

BSWSQC 17.04.20

This one was quite exposed so we hid it a little better. Didn’t move it, just covered it better. The container is a little broken.

The container is broken, we covered it from the rain

Needs repair. Out in open. Oops no pen so not logged.

Cracked container

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 another quick find. Kids weren’t overly excited when I pointed up the hill but we followed a nice contour and did it pretty easily. Good to see them stretching their legs and getting some sun. Better than being at school (for today anyway). TNLN TFTC

Doing the lovely Queen Trail on a bright Winter's day. Beautiful spots, great walking.

TFTC!

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

Me coming to Queanbyan had one prerequisite: doing the Queen trail. 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. Talk about music bringing people together!

Beautiful

Thanks KB logging for lucky9

Arrived for the Clear Waters Mega Event and decided to conquer the Queen power trail. TFTC!

So very much enjoyed this tour and very glad that Jo from chooknchunk talked me into it! Did the tour with her and TG4theWin (as well as many others!) Toyhunters did an amazing job of leading us through the tour - his love of Queen made the walk! TFTC!

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.
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.

The Queen PT had been one of our goals for this trip and we were rewarded with a most pleasant walk beside the dam. Team MavEtJu and I were joined by a lovely group of cachers who ended up signing as MEEL KB. Hope the date stamp helped all that followed that day. No pressure felt today, this series was a joy. But there was a naughty mention of a certain white guy rapper who did dumb things with this song in his time.

Thanks toy hunters for placing and maintaining this cache.

#7670 11:10
*Under pressure*, one of my least favourite songs as I think David Bowie and Freddie Mercury did not make a proper duo as the voices did not go together well.
No pressure in the Queen Tour Group. By now we know what to expect in terms of cache hides so it was a very relaxed climb up the hill to find the little box.

TFTC.

Found as part of the Queens power trail take 2. Keeping up with the kids walking to this one left me rather under pressure. TFTC

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

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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. We also met up with others on the Queen trail and logged the caches as MEELBK.

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 Queen series was done in the company of a group other caches as one of the tours provided by the Mega, and very kindly led by the cache's CO, playing Queen music as we walked along.
Many thanks for a great day out, the guidance and all the caches, toy hunters.

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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#2868-2891
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!

*"Chipping around, kick my brains around the floor
These are the days it never rains but it pours"*

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

Never one of my fave hits, but an interesting musical experiment. Tfgc

Up the hill for the geocaching enthusiasts and a quick find. TFTC

Number something. Will have to recount.

Find # 4468
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 toy hunters
20 April 2019 11:16 am

3718 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 toy hunters

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 toy hunters.

Found as part of Queen Tour #1 - a morning full of great fun, friends, music and caches.
Love this duet with Bowie. Couldn't help singing along to this one.
TFTC toy hunters.

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

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

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 toy hunters for organising the cache and hunt [^]

Found. FLTF

found on a queen #1 tour log to come

Another quick find in this series with the Queen Tour group as part of the Mega Event. 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.

Came down for the mega event with Anominous Sign and P1ccolo. Decided to do a local trail. It was a nice series and quick finds. TFTC.

Find Number 1827, found at 10:52. This was the 11th find of 35 finds and 0 DNF's today

Day 2 of the Clear Waters Mega trip with GeoSon NationalSteel. This morning we joined Toy Hunter for a tour of his GooGong Queen series, after which we tackled some more of the local caches.

Another quick find with the Queen Tour Group, music blaring out as we walk along.

The cache was in good condition. We took nothing, left nothing, signed the log as Queen Tour 1 and replaced the container as found

Thanks toy hunters for the cache.

Nice hiding place
Found with Queen Tour #1
Thanks for the cache

Came down from Sydney for the Clear Waters mega event with sandysa, p1ccolo and her partner. We decided to do the Queen power trail while we were here. All the caches on the trail were well maintained and nice easy finds. TFTCes!

Our wonderful tour was entirely free from pressure! The walk and the caches were easy enough for us, the views to die for, the music and our guide's passion for it second-to-none. What a blast we had!

TFTC smile 4359 Thank you Scott for the Queens tour 1 had a great time

Found with a nice group doing the Queen Tour and signing as QueenTour1 walking around near the lake while down for the Mega event at Clearwater. finding over 20 caches on the day. Thanks For The Cache toy hunters
# 1867 at 10:53:00 AM on 19Apr2019

Another long great day out with woolwood9 hunting containers.
SL - Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ or printed tm421/ ww9
*Big thank you to the cache owners who made our trip fun!*