Not off the Grid South Nanango, Queensland, Australia
By youngoldfella on 09-Sep-13. Waypoint GC4MQ1C

When you get close to the end of this road, there anre all sorts of scary signs that tell you to turn around or the zombies are gonna get you. We took it seriously. Im down for rules. I love scaring people in fact theres nothing better than scaring kids with the truth. Clean your teeth or they gonna fall out. The Easter bunny doesnt come to those that misbehave. Vaping makes your pee smell funny.Whatever these forestry trucks are hiding it must be good. Clearly theres a swingers convention out in the bush that these people dont want you to come to. tftc

I don't think the cattle grid is doing its job any more. Thanks for the cache youngoldfella

After a lovely dinner at the blackbutt pub last night and a peaceful nights sleep it was an early morning start today to score a few caches before work begins.My target to day is to get to 100 caches in the south Burnett LGA to get one step closer to a challenge cache Im focusing on in Brisbane.Upon arriving at ground zero I found a safe place to park the geowagon and made my way to ground zero. It didnt take long until I had located ground zero and I soon had the log out and was making my mark for prosperity. Safely returning the cache to its hiding place I was soon back in the van and off to the next adventure.A big thanks to the cache owner for making this cache available to be found.Cheers

Another quick find. I was thinking it was in the tree. Saw it then. Signed and returned as found. TFTC.

Clue is very good.
Cache was a little bit away from location so placed back where it's meant to sit
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Thanks so much that was fun ️

Managed to have an assisted day of caching with MrGravel and KacheAU and geokids today. Had such fun. This cache was an easy find so our grandson/son was impressed with finding it.
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Doing a small loop this afternoon after moving from Nanango

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Found whilst on a very non direct route to QOGM - Charleville 2022.
On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird (aka Mrs Geo, Salty Chook, the Old Boiler, Old Chook, Dirty Bird, Angry Bird & occasionally even Love Bird). It’s a great day for caching.
TFTC youngoldfella
Find #10992

Spending a day caching around Nanango on all the roads less travelled

Thanks to CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot with stamp

TFTC youngoldfella

Find # 8624

Heading to QOGM 2022 Charleville

Catching up on some previous finds. TFTC

A bit of a search and the cache was ours.

Our final full day in Nanango. We wont have completed half the caching to be done, but it will be time to move on tomorrow as we need to be home in Victoria.
The day began with fog and showers so we were not optimistic, bit it gradually cleared into a lovely warm, if humid, day.
More great caching with good-sizes and some really cool containers and field puzzles. We really enjoyed it. Lunch in Yarraman before caching our way back to camp.

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache youngoldfella.
**SKI Pair****

Needed good eyes for this tiny one! Great spot

Day 4 of our stay in Nanango. Departure time. Unfortunately.

But after a rainy night a dry morning, so we took off without caravan to find an old and a new cache.

This was a DNF from us in January 2016 - now we found it.

Removed the old wet wet logsheet and put in a replacement log with plastic bag.

Tftc Youngoldfella

Back in 2016, almost 6 years ago, we had a DNF. Now we found it and replaced the very wet log.

Tftc Youngoldfella

We are having a lovely drive out here this morning finding some caches along the way and this is one we found. The log is very wet we did sign it and replaced as found. Thanks youngoldfella for placing these caches.

After searching hing,mick hopped and widen sear h. Of course was the other end
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Up for the weekend to do a bit of cycling. Decided to knock over a few caches along the not so Cycle friendly highway area.

Found after reading the very precise hint! TFTC

Had this cache in hand quickly but it had a rather soggy log that we couldn't really write on too well. Sorry I didn't have a log to replace it with. Beautiful area to cache in the later afternoon. Tick for no. 57. TFTC.

Utilised the turnaround and collected the cache while I was at it. TFTC

Logs a little damp, but container seems good

Found it just starting to ️ my have to call it a day

On the way back from Nanango I just couldn’t pass up another couple of youngoldfella caches... this was a quick find thanks to the hint...

Found when I believed the hint. Thanks for the cache, youngoldfella.

Nice quick find. TFTC

Heading to Kingaroy to collect supplies. Turned down this side road for a couple of caches and found a nice-sized container here Way too long trying to match the hint to the environment but found it well tucked away.

All good here

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Log a little damp, but just managed to get our name added. TFTC

I'm glad I had to go further along this road to get another cache as I wasn't sure how I was going to turn around after my last find. It was s quick find as I pushed the thorny branch out of the way. Log signed and replaced. TFTC

Found TFTC

A few caches on my way up to the QOGM 2019 event at Blackall....
A quick find. Cache container in good condition.
TNLNSL TFTC

Just down the road where I needed to turn around anyway.

Quick find off the grid! Tftc

Another quick find
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Out caching with the Tough Mother’s for the weekend (Jemillalucy, Bennyboppers and Lisylou). TFTC!

Weekend away with Benny boppers, Lisylou and Mnance101. Lovely day for a drive. Tftc

Out for the weekend with lisylou and jemilucy and mnance101 tftc

Quick find with bennyboppers mnance01 and jemillalucy today on our way home. Tftc

Careful of those rails. Had my foot stuck

Crew 153 and I had big plans to try and get 100 caches in a day today.

However, Crew 153's Ford Falcon had other ideas and brought us to a screeching halt at cache number 50 by blowing its fuel pump.

We were both calm and collected about it. We still got 50 caches. Car got safely towed to Kilcoy. Mr Slow Puncture came and rescued us.. and there are still more than enough caches out there for us to try again. There ends my "cut and paste" part of the log

We rolled up to this one. It's been a while since I found a cache near a cattle grid. Thankfully, this one came to hand and is standing up to the elements well. We signed the log and rehid as found. TFTC youngoldfella

Fangsoki and I had picked this area for a day of caching to find caches for the Hidden Creatures Souvenirs and after an early start I finally finished the day with a total of 53 finds when we struck engine trouble and had to abort the mission.

This cache was find number 12 for the day.

We followed the road from Forest View and Fangsoki hopped out while I turned the car around. I pulled up next to him just in time for him to replace the cache. Can't get much faster than that

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It was time to head south today along the D'Aguilar Highway and pick up a few of the available caches here and there. There was no system, just picked a random but definitely not a comprehensive selection. Note was made of our name on each cache log found and we were happy to add a reasonable total to the tally for the day. This one was a nice easy find.
Thanks go to youngoldfella for giving us another smiley on our caching map.

Another great find

We couldn’t turn around and head back to the highway when there was another cache sitting on its lonesome further on. So we jumped back in the car, spun some rocks and dirt up and headed further on to make another find. We have plenty of time before getting to Nanango!

These caches can be quite tricky, there is so many little crevices and holes where one could stick a cache and of course it is always in the last place you look. We began systematically from each end until the prize was discovered.

Clearly this chick was off the grid when she was searching…

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Decided to spend a few days camping in Nanango with my geodog Scruffy, so we just had to go out and find some of the caches hidden in this beautiful part of QLD.

All Good .. TFTC ..

All quiet here as we made another quick p&g whilst in the area hunting smiles. Tftc youngoldfella xo

Quick finding it got signed and returned same place TFTC

Muggle friend couldnt see.. but right on track

At least this cache was off the highway
So I could enjoy a relaxed ride to the forest
MMMM !! Piney freshness

A short grid search didn't reveal the cache.
Then I remembered the cache name
Cache found not far off the grid

GC4MQ1C
191512KAUG17 (Google DTG for details)
99Km from home.
Our first outing in our (New to us) caravan, a sudden change of plan when Mrs R-F found out her Victorian based brother was on the coast for the weekend so instead of night one at the base of the Bunya Mountains we found ourselves spending it in Mooloolaba.
We’ve now headed West to Yarraman and have unhitched “The Mystery Machine” (The Van) from ScoobieDo (Our Subaru Outback) at the Yarraman Caravan Park and are doing a bit of a run around some of the local caches.
Heading up this side road after a bit of a hiccough with the Garmin and the in car nav system both trying to send us of road but found a turn off and eventually both devices agreed we were heading the right way. My turn to look for this one and thanks to the clue it came down to a choice of two locations (Would have been one if I’d read the entire description). A quick find to me. We then decided to head to Nanango instead of the next cache on the list as towing the Mystery Machine had cut our normal 800+Km range from a tank of fuel down to a little over 500 and we had already done 480KM.
The hide is excellent, the container is in good nick and the log is ready for the next finder.
We took nothing but memories, we left nothing but footprints and our tag.
Thanks for the cache youngoldfella.
Cheers
Roaring Ford
Discovering Australia and the World, one hidden treasure at a time.

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Not the grid that I was expecting. I was thinking electric . Oh well wrong as usual.

After finding a nearby cache, we made our way to this one. I managed to park very close to GZ, where we made a quick find. Pity we dont have the time for a drive through the forest. TFTC

Mrs RoddyC out with Selva Girls for a great weekend.

Found at 5.46pm on 25th March 2017. TFTC youngoldfellow.

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

Staying longer than initially planned in Nanago as the GeoCruiser has been at the Toyota Doctors.

With the Cruiser back on the road we decided to make today about testing it out to the extremes before we tow our house further North. Pleased to report all seems good.

Had a great day touring and mostly visiting Yarraman and surrounds, using Geocaching as a guide. Only 2 DNF's and 1 was definitely muggled so is that only 1 dnf [?] [:o)] lol.


TFTC youngoldfella and an awesome day.

Found with Mum as 'Jess & Caro'. She is now Carø and I now have my own geocaching profile so we are sorting my logs for caches we found together. TFTC!

A cool sneaky hide, signed log, TFTC

Loved it. Memories. Tftc

Nice place. TFTC

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The title of the cache said it all. TFTC youngoldfella

Back home after a couple of weeks caching, camping, and 4wding. Catching up on all the logs.

Cheers

Bundy

#7769 Cache Found

After being idle and tied up with household chores over the last few weeks, It didn't take to much prodding to decide a mini road trip was in order.
After consulting the trusty map decided that a little adventure North through Yarraman, Narango and Kingaroy. And because youngoldfella places his caches along some great country roads the marjority of attempts would be on his caches, With a few others thrown in for good measure Nice cache thanks for bringing me here and for the adventure.

Thanks for the great cache and adventure youngoldfella

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Thanks for the hint

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Easy find tftc

Nice littlw hiding spot!

Council has been grading this road and the hide has been covered in dirt and was buried. Same
co ordinates but shifted slightly to the south. New hide is not on or under the Grid. Still on the edge of the Grid. Read amended description. Log only. Please bring your own writing stick. No signature in log no claim as found will be allowed.

Omg. Second time still cant find.

Went for a drive and you guessed it. It is still where it is supposed to be. Do not cross the grid and start your search at the edge and work your way along. Is hidden well. Good luck.

Having a mother/daughter holiday. On our way to Nanango. After PAF and getting down and very dirty I retrieved the cache. TFTC

Thinking this might originally have been a 1.5/1.5 but think it has changed due to circumstances, never mind we did a PAF then a lot of .. and yep there the little blighter was. TFTC

Had a real good look. Maybe next time

Got dirty hands and knees as all the others, but were not successful. Have to come back another day. Tftc

We gave up on this one ... for the moment. Coming back.

Might have got red earth on my fingers and there could be red earth marks on the log paper, but nothing serious. No need to be alarmed. Cache is fine and we were happy to add our signature to the logbook. The sun was just setting as I drove TO this cache and the sky was lovely and red. I thought to stop and take a photo, unfortunately I thought I would get it when I stopped for the cache. But then there were bushes and shrubs obscuring the view. After returning the cache to its home I stopped half way along the road but unfortunately by then the sunset had lost its colour. Nevermind. It's in my memory. Thanks youngoldfella. [^][^]

Found with Tassiegirl.
After doing Forest View we ventured down to this one.
We got a bit dirty finding it but that's the way it is sometimes
TFTC Youngoldfella.

Today was my first ever visit to the historic Burnett region, heading to lovely Nanango for the first event held there. Of course, there were plenty of caches to be found along the way .

Needed to turn around, so travelled on from Forest View. This one had me searching hard for a few mind before reading the hint and locating the container. The log is a bit hard to write on with normal pen so a sharpie was used.

This cache adds to our total of 1955 smilies. Thanks youngoldfella for showing us this spot.
Feel free to discover our trackable code TGQNRV

Dutchie1950 and I are on a 3-day getaway and our main objective is to attend youngoldfella's Event tomorrow morning in Nanango [^] Today we are taking it very leisurely, and turning a 2 hour trip into a 6 hour adventure. And after a scrumptious lunch at the bakery in Blackbutt [^] we decided to pass through Yarraman (think we shall spend a few hours there tomorrow ) and collect the caches northwards to Nanango.

Bumbles did some more straddling of ditches, but we were just about at her limit Had to search a bit for this one. TFTC, youngoldfella.

# 1157 - Not just Friday, but a whole weekend caching with IolantheK! We're on our way to youngoldfella's event in Nanango and taking our time. What's to hurry with so many smileys to pick up on our way.

A nice little drive to the end of the dirt track and across the.... Oh, hang on, there's a cache here! A bit of a search, checking the hint, and.... yes. IolantheK got it!

TFTC youngoldfella

Drove on further out stopped off and located this one after washing it and my hands 4 times - the red mud was ??? .
Signed logsheet 4/12/2015 6:48 am and replaced all as found. - well minus a lot of mud .
youngoldfella - TFTC.

4 x TB Visit.

What a lovely town Nanango is and it did not take long for us to head out and get some of the many caches around the area done. Great to catch up with a few familiar faces as well. Nice hide. Thanks to youngoldfella for its placement and adding to our enjoyment of this location.

Nice one thanks

Top hide!

Came down the road from the other cache to turn around and grabbed this one too. TFTC

Geo-hubby headed out to Nanango / Kingaroy area for a two day caching run,
with our good friend Konie.
A great time was had, finding a good variety of hides and caches.
Many thanks to all the CO's for the effort you have put into your caches,
for us and others to find.

Out and about with The Drovers for a few days caching in the Nanago and Kingaroy areas. We managed to find a variety of caches with lots of different containers and this was one of them.

Once the log was signed all was returned as found.

Thanks to all the CO's for the effort put into your caches and maintaining them..

TFTC youngoldfella

Cool hide! Have been so distracted on our way to nanango. Need to keep on caching! Tftc

cool hide

Awesome! Thank u

Another quick easy find, another beautiful morning in Nanango TFTC

left it took long to log my caches so I hope I remember them all. so little time so much to do.
Walking around Australia with the "Walk for Life" team as a team member. I'm the one who has to do the school work.
caching with Team Robins, Rainforest Cookie and Ian & Penny

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[font=Comic Sans MS]Hi there youngoldfella. We found your cache "Not off the Grid" at 9:40:00 AM today. This cache makes our find count 10899.
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Passing through with the "Walk for Life" team. (Team Robins, Rainforest Cookie & Rat Dog 12).
They are spending 14 months and plan to walk around Australia raising money for prostate and breast cancer awareness & research.

Follow them on [url=https://www.facebook.com/robinsnestwalkforlife?fref=ts]Facebook[/Url], walk with them when they pass through your area or maybe you could donate something to their cause.
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We signed the log "Walk for Life" (Plastic log paper sucks!!)
Thanks for the hunt today,
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Out with the Walk for Life team. Ian and Penny, Ratdog12 and Team Robins this is one of the caches we had time to find.
but now we have to walk on Australia is such a big country and we haven't gone far.
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[Blue]# 12025[/Blue] Found on our 2015 Winter escape trip to Qld.
Another perfect day for caching around the Nanango area.
Cheers from Wagga Wagga in the Riverina, NSW.
Thanks for the cache youngoldfella,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

Heading to Bunya Mountains and we were stopping off grabbing some caches along the way

Not quite what we ere expecting, but if we read the hint properly, might have found quicker

Thanks for the hunt youngoldfella

Todays trip was around the rural country side of Nanango. All the caches we found had great co-ords & hints. The regular & large containers were packed full of swaps.
Thanks for placing this cache youngoldfella