20 Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody Googong, New South Wales, Australia
By Toy Hunters on 01-Sep-13. Waypoint GC4MB95

Fun to find took about 20 min to get too

All good here.One of the highlights of my day came once I got back to my car and got on the road. I'd not even gotten to the dam yet when three young guys with their fishing rods were walking in the opposite direction. As I drove past with my windows down, the youngest one, in his high-pitched young-boys' voice, shouted, "GIVE US A LIFT?!" I stopped my car, reversed back up the road to them, and asked them where they were going. They wanted to go back to the foreshore, where I'd just been, so I cleared out the back seat (I had arrived today via Spotlight where yarn was on sale ). The put their fishing rods in the front, leaning through to the back, and jumped into the car. They commented to each other that they would never have wanted to walk so far! I dropped them back at the carpark where I had just been parked for the day, and they headed of to enjoy an afternoon of fishing.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.

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 trail CO! Thanks for the Geocaching Queens - Toyhunters, Barb2e, Joolay, Seach4, GLISS, Contesta and aykayem for all the fun. Signed as GQ16.

Find # 8539

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

Found during an enjoyable afternoon of chatting, walking and music listening with a group of geocaching friends. TFTH

And finally the show is over. Great day, great company and a great series. ️
Signing as GQ16. And lovely to have the CO walk with us.
Thanks for getting me out and about Toy Hunters

Super quick find

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

A great series thank you so much! TFTC

A quick find thanks

Got to get them all!!! Thanks for the series along this lovely walk.

Hey Toy Hunters, I completed the series. I’m starting to think that all these caches are named after Queen songs.

Tftc and tnln. HOTA

Fun arvo out searching with the fam. Tftc

Enjoying a day out with the family.
Found with Team Duckymask
Just completed this circuit.
Great walk.
TFTC
️Team Begerah

TFTC

Sorry about all these generic logs, I left it almost a full week to log these caches, and now they have mostly blended in with each other, and it's become hard to mention anything distinguishable that is of significance. We had a great time finding all these caches, and we were able to complete the walk relatively quickly too (all things considered). Thanks for bringing us out here!

#2383 More to come

The last one of the morning (after 12pm by now) and it was a great series.

I have made a few points on a couple of the caches where they were made more difficult by overgrown shrubbery.

I will say I enjoyed the first half more, even though the larger hills were a tougher walk, there wasn't nearly as much scrambling up the sides as there was in the second half along the waterfront, which I found hard on my knees and ankles. Although I do recognise it was trickier to place them anywhere but a little up the sides.

Overall a really enjoyable walk around, took us 4 hours instead of 2, I do know that I am a little bit slower, and we did stop for a morning tea of cheese and wine half way through.

I loved the theme, Queen being my absolute favourite band since about 1979 when I got 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' on single. I saw Quuen + Adam Lambert just before the Pandemic struck, and I am not ashamed to say I sobbed. I am devastated that I never got a chance to see Freddie live, but boy Adam was brilliant.

All in all a very enjoyable morning, a little challenging at times, which actually was great if not tiring.

Thankyou so much Toy Hunters for a wonderfully maintained series, I can't believe it is almost 10 years old and still complete like that! Thanks again for a wonderful morning.

Found with Curloo

Found with Jondub. Thanks for the trail! We found everything in good condition, a real bonus. TFTC

One of only a few during a walk where my phone battery had died

Out today in the Googong area to get some caches before we leave Canberra. I am also a big Queen fan. I got to see them in Sydney in 1985 (The Works Your) . Best concert I have seen. So I had to do some of these caches while here. TFTC toy hunters

TFTC.

43 faves for a barely hidden sistema container?!?

TFTC!

Favourite point from me. Thanks for setting up and maintaining this great trail.

Found this a while ago
Just didn’t have premium

Thanks! Nice hide.

fdidxiu

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Thx

TFTC GPS was about 5m off the actual cache though.

Tftc

Beautiful neat and tidy cache. Good find, easy directions tftc

To prevent the cache from being flooded again in future and to distance this cache from the long, overgrown grass, I've moved GZ slightly. The hint will be updated.

I've also replaced the container and transferred the contents from the old cache. This will hopefully further protect the cache against flooding.

In saying this, the whole area all around the Queen PT in general seems to be overgrown due to recent rain; so be wary of snakes in summer months. Nonetheless, cache on!

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 25.882 E 149° 15.363

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 25.887 E 149° 15.363

Distance from original: 30.3 feet or 9.2 meters.

To prevent the cache from being flooded again in future and to distance this cache from the long, overgrown grass, I've moved GZ slightly. The hint will be updated.

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. Although the container was full of water, the log itself was dry and snug in its bag.

TFTC!

Went cross country from last find for this one as am running out of time, have to be in Queanbeyan by 3pm. Will be a bit late but couldnt resist getting just one more. TFTC

Found during a family walk around the dam. TFTC.

TFTC!

Well hidden for the last one!
So glad to compete the trail!

Nice find

After eating my lunch in my car, I set off and decided to travel this track in a clock wise direction, which meant that I did the caches largest number to smallest. I was so glad I did as it meant that I walked the ridge in sunlight late in the afternoon and ended the walk with a downhill to #1.

Thanks for all the initial hard word work and congratulations on the maintenance - it was lovely to sign some new logs. I was bitterly disappointed that I couldn't do the tour at ClearWaters but my volunteering duties prohibited it. It would have been a lot more fun I am sure.

I will repeat this note at number 1 and only very, very brief notes at each of the others if I can remember anything to say.

TFTC TNLN SL

The contents inside the cache were soaked, so I've replaced the container and contents and have also altered the size of the rocks covering the hide. Many thanks to Silvereyes for the makeship log - very much appreciated and apologies for finding such a soaked cache. Happy caching!

Log absolutely unusable, sopping wet and mouldy. Thought it would fall to pieces if I tried to unfold it so I put a fresh slip of paper into a tiny plastic bag and we signed that. First cache of the day!

Silvereyes and I did the series starting at no 20 today. This one a nice little climb up the hill. Log was far too wet to sign so Silvereyes used a new log she had. Thank you Toy Hunters for taking us on this journey. Lovely winters day.

found it!

Found. TFTC

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. FP awarded to this one to say thanks for the effort on the series and for taking us on a lovely walk in a pretty spot with my girls. Genuinely appreciated by all of us. TNLN TFTC

Easy find!

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

TFTC - fun little walk, thank you for creating this!

THanks. Nice walk in a lovely location.

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

12448 Found and Logged 12:34:00 PM
Picking up a few cachers while in Quernbeyan for the Clear Waters Event
Great weather to be outdoors after yesterdays rain
Thanks for the cache toy hunters (F=5536 H=56)
Lgoody

What an enjoyable power trail. Thanks for the effort in putting this together toy hunters and all the bits of Queen trivia along the way

My all time favourite Queen song - yes, I know - it's *everyone's* favourite Queen song.

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!

Both Happy Uke and myself were down this way for a MEGGGA and on the recommendation of a friend. We linked up with some other cachers and had a 'plesant' walk.

Thanks!

#7684 13:15
*Bohemian Rhapsody*, one of the greatest songs of all time. In the Netherlands around Christmas people vote for the Top 2000 of songs. Ever since this Top 2000 started about 20 years this song has been the unchallenged #1 song.
For the occasion, four of our team members posed in true Queen style.

Many thanks to toy hunters for this Power Trail and to Scott for being our host for today.
Definitely a favourite point!

I am really enjoying reading the paragraph of the history of each song on this Queen Tour. Thanks for taking the time to write individually about each song and adding it to the story of Queen.
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. I finally got a bit more singing participation from my fellow cachers with some classic call and response “gallelio” action. In just over 2 hours we completed the series and it was both fun to sing along to the caches name sakes, and to have the pleasant surprise of the gorgeous landscapes. So nice when you have no expectations and then you’re rewarded with these views. I’m sure I had a much better work out then I would have at parkrun.

Thanks toy hunters for placing and maintaining this cache. A fave point for the series.

Found as part of the Queens power trail take 2. A little too much head banging was done during this cache and I felt dizzy by the end of the series! We had a great time, thank you so much for the series and the lovely commentary as we did the series!

Found today with my Dad, Mum and my brother, awesome little trail to get some caches. TNLN
Another FP for the series!

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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.

Thanks for placing this series of caches. I enjoyed the walk, the songs and the fun facts. Fave point added here for the series.

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 and am giving this one a FP but it is really for the whole series as I don't have enough points to give one to each.

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.
# # #5198 # #

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.

#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!
And the classic..... what a great note to finish on! Another FP here....

Found while doing the Queen series. TFTC

What a great day. The CO was a champion! The cachers were Good Company and we kept ourselves alive. Great day! Just perfect. Well deserved of 20+ Fave points. I knew I was saving them for something.

Our last cache on our Queen Tour. A fantastic walk around the area and a favourite point from us for a great series. TFTC

3733 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. Great power trail.

TNLNSL
TFTC toy hunters

Find # 4481
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 enjoyed the CO's tour immensely!

TFTC toy hunters
20 April 2019 2:00 pm

Queen tour 2

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.
Oh no - its the end already! This tour has been so much fun.
However we finished with a fitting grand finale, accompanied by this classic Queen masterpiece rocking the valley. Four of the group re-created the classic Rhapsody pose (attached pic as taken by our Tour Guide / CO). Then the whole group released their inner Bohemian (or should that be Bogan) as we all headbanged to the heavy rock section "Waynes World style".
Thank you so much to toy hunters for the tour, the caches and the fun. It was one of the highlights of the Mega. A favourite point from us.

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 on a queen #1 tour log to come

Found. FLTF

Last one of this series and a fitting conclusion to this excellent tour. Thanks to ToyHunters for organising a brilliant adventure for us all. 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.

Ironically, I watched the movie on my flight over. Don't come much more iconic than this song. Thanks for the cache and the series. Logged as Lucky9 to save log space.

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 1841, found at 13:02. This was the 25th 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.

The last cache in the series. I'm adding a favourite point for this one, really to summarie he whole experience. Thanks to Toy Hunters for organising this really enjoyable occasion. Only my legs are complaining and they don't count!

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.

Thank you for setting up this trail. I had a very good day with great company among the excellent scenery. We didn't see any wombat, but we saw lots of square poop!

Thanks for the caches!!

What an awesome morning spent in nature with like-minded people! This tour is well worth a favourite! Alas, it is

Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, oh oh ...

TFTC smile 4373 Thank you Scott for the Queens tour 1 had a great time Out and about with a great team of cachers had a lovely day thank you to the team that drove me out there and back thank you to all the lovely people that I spent time talking to great to hear all your story's THANK YOU one and all for making my day special

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
# 1880 at 1:03:00 PM 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!*

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