09 Queen: One Vision Googong, New South Wales, Australia
By Toy Hunters on 01-Sep-13. Waypoint GC4M93K

It look a little longer to find this than it should have. I stopped here and had a rest and a snack in the shade of the trees.Thanks for the cache, Toy Hunters! * * * * *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.

Girl Guides International Geocaching Day 23

Found

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 # 8521

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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Bit of a walk off track. But nice views.
Signing as GQ16. And lovely to have the CO walk with us.
Thanks for getting me out and about Toy Hunters

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

Found while exploring around the area with some friends. TFTH

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

Tftc

Hey Toy Hunters, found this cache. This spot is very pretty, I could happily rest here!

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

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

TFTC
️Team Begerah

Nice easy find tftc

Today Turtle284 and I came out to find some caches at Googong.
Had a great time locating all the caches, and enjoying the sights as we went.

Thankfully, we are able to say that all the caches we found were in good condition, and we experienced zero DNF's. Thanks for a great walk!

#2370 On tour with injuryman picking up caches around Googong. Logged as Beta Squad. TFTC.
Another quick find, however not in what I assumed to be the most likely spot.

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.

This cache did feel a bit odd being so much further off the track than the others, but it was a beautiful day for the wander so all good.

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

Thanks for the journey.

Missed this one after #8 and had to double back after #10 Glad we did, very cool tree. Found with Jondub. TFTC

Found with Curloo

TFTC

Found this a while ago
Just didn’t have premium

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Nice one

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Beautiful location wow tftc

Thx

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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Found with briony33
Tyvmfc

Found with Rezmebaby. Tftc

TFTC!

Lovely view. A little slippery at times walking up the hill in the rain but worth it.

Tough hike up the hill but amazing views

I really enjoy the bush but boy was I ever happy to get out into the clearing and enjoy the openness, the clear blue sky and yes the easy find. TFTC TNLN SL

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

Couldn't see a problem with this one but didn't turn it upsidedown! TFTC

Nice stroll uphill over open ground. What a view. Cache and log all good. TFTC

Box needs maintenance

found it!

Done

This one was just sitting in the middle of the grass. We rehid it were it probably should have been. The box is looking a little worse for wear.

Box is a bit broken

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 had a small blue over whose turn it was to find the cache and the big one couldn’t help herself and found it just to spite her sister. Competitive streak is strong in this one! TNLN TFTC

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!

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!

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.

Thanks toy hunters for placing and maintaining this cache.

#7671 11:15
Another song I never heard of: *One Vision*.
This was a bit of a climb to the top of the hill as we were being observed by kangaroos.
My muggle Monkey Girl took a seat on a trunk underneath the tree. As she stretched her arm, she then has the cache in her hands!

TFTC

Found as part of the Queens power trail take 2. The vision from this cache was of a group of cachers still coming up the hill. The muggle fo the group made the find on this one!

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

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Hit hungry for KFC here. Hehe

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!
That was a track diversion, thankfully no slitherers seen in the grass....

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

Had fun discussing some of the lewd lyrics from the demo sessions with the CO. As for the cache...gimme gimme gimme Fried chicken!

Another uphill walk for the geocaching enthusiasts. A group search came up with the goods. TFTC

Find # 4469
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 11:17 am

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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

Shows up as logged in c:geo, but not in grounsspeak. So logging again?

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.
We all had one vision and that was to get up the hill to this cache.
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

We sent the forward expeditionary force to reconnoiter this one and report back. All good. TFTC!

found on a queen #1 tour log to come

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 1828, found at 10:57. This was the 12th 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.

Not everyone was up to the steep climb to this one, so the young and fit headed up while the rest of us watched and enjoyed the rest.

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!

Apart from the special Country and the fun in the whole group, we were particularly delighted to see our friend chook enjoying herself so thoroughly!

TFTC smile 4360 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
# 1868 at 10:58:00 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!*

Ran into Rainbow Spirit at last cache so walked together for the rest of the trail.

Found while on a trip away with tmann421, heading to the MEGA in Canberra
Signed as TM/WW NZ
*Thanks for the placement*

A leisurely start today as I decided to wander out to Googong Foreshore as it looked a very interesting and scenic place to find a few caches while enjoying the solitude. As I was feeling tired it was nice to have caches that didn’t strain my powers of observation although I can’t say the same for the terrain which on several caches tested my ability. All over a great 'royal' series and I found all 20. Thanks for a fun walk in a great location toy hunters

I missed this one and did 10 ahead of it and had to back track, but walk back and up the hill was well worth it......... the view is incredible!
TNLNSL TFTC

Found with two Kiwis

Walking the Queen trail while attending the Mega. Great hike. I love Queen!

Our one vision is to complete the series. Nice viewing vision here.

TFTC

Drank plenty of water after almost having double vision walking up the hill to this cache, no wait there's two logs. TFTC

We had started this morning with some good fun canoe caching on the Googong Reservoir - we then continued on with our days geocaching by setting off on this very beautiful scenic geocaching hike. We enjoyed reading the interesting information on the cache pages, and as we walked from cache to cache we tried to sing the song of the cache we were heading to - as neither of us are good singers it was just as well we had the whole area all to ourselves! We enjoyed the theme of the series and wonder what the CO thought of the recently released Bohemian Rhapsody film that we got to watch while flying to Australia from Africa - definitely we need to watch it again on a big screen and with a good sound system! This one was a nice quick find once at Ground Zero. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and for the throughly enjoyable geo-hike. Greetings from Zimbabwe

A bit of a test with a 200m walk off the track. Nice location. TFTC

Found while walking around the Googong loop with Onieferret.
Thank you for the cache

We wasn't going to get this one, but We decided to head off track to try and complete the series.

10th today, 9th in the series. Some Roos hopping along. TFTC

Traveled from Sydney to Canberra for CanCon (tabletop and board games convention) this Aust Day long weekend. Spent a lovely sunday morning caching around Googong dam - completing the Queen Powertrail and a number of other nearby caches. Had better weather (albeit drizzly at times) than the ~40deg day prior! Passed 1500 finds today - and have logged slightly out of order so that cache #20 of the powertrail could be my 1500th ;p Thanks to all the cache owners for placing and maintaining these caches

Short stay in Queanbeyan for a family visit but had time to check out the "Queen" power trail. Enjoyed the walk especially the Shoreline track and completed the task with only passing one muggler. I noted the previous finders as I logged mine and couldn't help but notice that the caches closest to the carpark had many more finders than those more remote. Also picked up a couple of additional caches on the way round. Please excuse the generic log text.