Truckies Rest Stop Queensland, Australia
By youngoldfella on 08-Sep-13. Waypoint GC4MQ25

Unfortunately it wasnt for us today. I think the heat got to us and after circling the same few logs a few times, we had to call it. Thanks anyway

3rd time luckyGrass was short this time making this easier than previously We are camped at Bjelke Peterson Dam near Murgon for a week. Today we did a loop via Nanango, Kingaroy , Murgon and back to base camp.Found all caches to be in great condition.Beautiful day to be out for a drive and cacheTFTC.

COut doing a loop ride north from Nanango to round up a few caches. Bit over 40 km with 21 caches along the way. I did do a few km along the highway along the way. However there is a nice wide edge to the highway and most vehicles gave me a wide berth.Cords fine hint is correct

Found TFTC. Out and about from Mackay Qld. Quite warm..hoping not to come across any snakes.

Quick find on a big day of caching.

Find number 64 with my target of 70 seeming achievable

Found safe and sound

So much long grass, so many burnt logs. Persistence needed for this one. Found while camped up at the Broadwater Reserve. A lovely afternoon to be out finding some caches. TFTC

An eeny, meeny, miny mo of logs. TFTC

We’ll done Mrs Geo who found this one after I had given up. 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 #11044

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

Oooh nearly didn’t get this one, geopartner gave up and while he was playing with the 4x4 I went back through some logs and went back in for another look, a hint was a small black container in a black log, promising when there’s 47 black logs just as we were about to chuck in the towel a second time I spotted a small black container on the black ground at the end of a black log, it was only the green geocaching sticker that caught my eye that made it stand out just enough YAY so happy to find it that I almost did a chicken dance

Another quick stop on my way south. TFTC

Lots of tall grass here but could not find the cache.

Out on a caching run around the country roads and we stopped here for a coffee and snack. It is a lovely day in Nanango and surrounds. Cache spotted just near where we parked, log signed and replaced as found. Thanks youngoldfella for placing it here.

Quick find! Thanks for the hide!

Another cache ticked of our list
Tftc

Having left home this morning at 7am with a plan to collect caches that help fulfil a QOGM Challenge Cache from Cunnamulla and whatever others take my fancy…

This cache was so close to being my first DNF… I was ready to walk… so many places that the hint could apply to… it wasn’t until I went a little further “that” way that I spotted the cache IPS…

Made my mark and returned everything as found… tftc…

Continuing my geoadventure down the highway, i pulled in here to see what i could find.
Around and around i went for ages.
Looking for something much bigger, but got there in the end.
Thanks youngoldfella for the geocache.

We are certainly have a great 2nd day caching around Nanango. Today we have mostly been out on the back country roads. Saw the name of this one and straight away I thought of toilet paper as that is what you see in most truckies rest stops. We actually didn't see any t.p. but goodness me the place was littered with skulls, jawbones and ribs from many different creatures. The kids were quite upset. Took a bit to find this cache but finally we had no. 33 in our hands. TFTC.

Completing a multitude of backlogs from a Bromance trip in August 21. Apologies for the late log. This was a bromance run in between COVID lockdowns, and somehow I didn't get to logging these finds. I was with Seffnjarah and a full team of JeznDez in the new jalopy they had recently purchased. Thanks ot the CO's for the great caches we picked up. Caching roadtrips with friends are the BEST!

Road trips for The Bromance have been few and far between since Covid-19 raised its ugly head so, with the recent travel restrictions now eased, Seffnjarah, Swellerfungus and a full complement of JezNDez headed off to subject JezNDez's new acquisition Max to the rigours of its first The Bromance geocaching weekend.

Our trip covered the Nanango, Goomeri and Kilkivan areas, and although we had visited this area back in May, we still had plenty of caches left to find up this way, including this one.

We had enjoyed our drive along the back roads in this area last time so we made sure to head back here on this visit. Another successful find here with The Bromance team stamp added to the logbook . TFTC

Found thanks

TFTC. We are in Nanago for a few days before heading to Maryborough on Friday. We arrived just after lunch and set up camp at the showgrounds. We then settled on a direction to head to find as many caches as possible in the couple of hours before it got dark. A great couple of hours with 21 finds and only 1 DNF. Despite the rain the dirt roads were in good condition. High grass, so glad we were playing today and not in the height of summer. Thanks YOF for the adventure.
A bit of searching and then Linda called out that the location had been changed and she yelled out some new co-ords. That was better. Found the container on the ground in front of where it should be lodged.

Dnf here too

Collecting a few not so random caches along the road today.
It was BM75 that spotted this one
Thank you for hiding this geocache and keeping me entertained youngoldfella
R

Searched around for a bit looking for something larger. Thanks for the cache

Black micro cache in black hole. Took some looking

Road trip with Stealth Seeker "Quest for 2020 in 2020"
TFTC

With Aussiemates. No worries here today, and no trucks. TFTC

Cache is nice and dry after the ️

Thanks for the great hide

New container in place. Also in a New location.

Coordinates changed from:
S 26° 37.041 E 152° 0.576

Coordinates changed to:
S 26° 37.042 E 152° 0.577

Distance from original: 8.3 feet or 2.5 meters.

The previous hide has been removed by a local farmer. Have a look in the paddock across the highway. Relevant as of 1 March 2020.

Found on a day trip from Kingaroy to Nanango via the long way, What a dog's breakfast here searched every log within 10m but even after reading previous logs claiming the co-ords are out we still came away Smiley-less

TFTC

I found your cache with my Dad, Oddiewan and most of the time, Semik. I am way behind on logging so learned how to use templates so I can catch up. Sorry this is not a detailed log, but I will do better with my logging now that I have the ability to log caches on a mobile phone. Thanks for the cache youngoldfella

Submitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

Day after the 2019-2020 New Years catch up.
Caching our way home to Brisbane
Caching buddies for this trip are Semik, Money Dork, Flashcat and BitternA4.
Coordinates are a bit off but we found it in the end
TFTC.

Caching with Oddiewan, Moneydork, Flash_Cat, BitternA4 and others at the New Year event in Kilkivan. Exploring the area caching style and as always lots of laughs when enjoying time with friends.

Took us a while but coordinates are a bit of. TFTC

On our way home slowly after the QOGM event in Blackall and finding some great geocaches along the way.

If the container is small we may sign as CG.

Lots of thanks to youngoldfella for placing the cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Safe parking area, tftc!

Tftc

Geokid spotted this hide quickly. TFTC

All good here.

Cheers

Bundy

Had a fab adventure with Ms Maddy today and over the last few days in her efforts to reach a special milestone at the mega. Much appreciated was the hospitality of YOF and his lovely wife at the end of the day. Out this way we found some very durable caches, a small fluffy animal, some swans, cows, dogs, awesome views and rolling fields, surprisingly a lot of cars heading out on their own adventures, the best bakeries in the country ofcourse and a whole lot of laughter. I am not sure how many we picked up but it was over 50. I really appreciated the work put into the large number of caches at Nanango. I am sorry about the generic logs. and a huge Tftc

The marathon caching run continues and lucky to have Miss Direction’s company for this adventure. There were new places to explore and took pics of black swans and cattle, startled a small furry critter at a cache, ran to some, stumbled to others, drank coffee, peered under and over and around things, scored a few itchy bites, and replaced a couple of missing hides. A fab day out Apols for the generic logs as a few to log tonight.

TFTC YOF!

Found by Mary and David at 1255. Empty of trucks and every other vehicle imaginable. Love the way you advise about the best way to reach GZ. Our thanks to youngoldfella.

We have come out to chase some caches we have noticed when up this way when doing the rail trail series.All good with cache. Thanks youngoldfella.

Friday @ 1440
Our annual big day out in the Burnett region was planned for today, with a truckload of caches found around Cooyar, Yarraman, Maidenwell, Nanango and points between.

Heading back to town now then it's time to head home. An easy find here, safely tucked away

Thanks for the experience, discover our trackable
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Out for the weekend with lisylou and jemilucy and mnance101 tftc

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

Found with bennyboppers mnance01 and jemillalucy this morning. Small search lot's of spots to look. Tftc

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

Not far from the car parking and a quick find. TFTC

Quick find with Justjessie

Found on our way south.
Justjessie

TFTC

A little chilly start to the morning ready to find some caches enjoyed the hides signed log and returned container. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache. TFTC

Out and about on a day of caching adventures, seeking Hidden Creatures and getting a few smilies . After a very early and foggy start to the day we arrived in Nanango for a quick stop to stretch the legs and acquire some sustenance for the day ahead. We then travelled up hills, down dales and all over the local country lanes bouncing over pot holes and swimming through a few boggy patches.

We scrambled through long grass, poked our hands into all manner of hidey holes and found all the caches in good order, where they were supposed to be. Logs were signed and everything was returned as found. Thanks youngoldfella for a most enjoyable day and for bringing us to a new place to explore. TNLNSL TFTC .

Today's caches have mostly come to us courtesy of youngoldfella. We decided to go as far as Nanango and cache along the way. Each of the found logs had our name added before we moved on and each was replaced as it had been found. Many thanks go to youngoldfella for adding to our caching experience by placing so many caches around the Nanango district.

We made that harder than necessary. Blended well! Tnsl tftc youngoldfella xo

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 ..

Up North today today finding some caches I've purposely left for a day like this. With my thermos filled and tunes pumping, I set off.
It was a nice quick find for me here today. Thanks for the cache, youngoldfella.

Found it with bikesu. Tftc

Off on our caching tour after brekkie. Tftc

After searchin many root ball ends we found it

We will be leaving very soon to attend the Red Centre Experience Event being held in Alice Springs and have decided we would try to make that event a milestone ... the only problem is we are a few hundred caches short This was the perfect excuse for a quick road trip through Nanango/Murgon/Kingaroy The weather was a little rainy, but surprisingly we remained relatively dry during the day with the worst of the rain occurring while we camped overnight [^]

We managed to locate this cache easily and with our name added to the log book, we continued on our journey.

Thank you youngoldfella for having placed the cache and for maintaining it for everyone to enjoy

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

Spoilt for choice it was difficult to decide on where to cache today. We decided on a small loop before lunch then a longer list for the afternoon.

We were impressed with the quality of the cache locations and containers here in Nanango. Very happy with our total of 42 finds with only 2 DNF's add to that 1 cache that muggles were hanging around even though we tried twice today. Think we will retry that on Monday when schools in.

TFTC youngoldfella

Had a phone call from El Peregrinos and went out to assist them to find Just Hanging Around and yes this one is gone. Wil replce soon.

Coordinates changed from:
S 26° 37.039 E 152° 0.591

Coordinates changed to:
S 26° 37.041 E 152° 0.576

Distance from original: 82.5 feet or 25.1 meters.

New spot after controlled burn burnt out the gz.

All good to go once again. Previous GZ was burnt out by a controlled burn.

Had to go back out and get this one before we head off home Thanks for getting it all back in order so promptly Youngoldfella

Found GZ fairly quickly- but no cache to be found

All good to go again in a new spot nopt that far from previous GZ but different side of track.

TFTC

TFTC!

On our way to complete 24 caches in 24 days. This marks the start of it.1/24. Tftc

another day of our touring through QLD. Thanks to all the CO's for the caches that break the monotony of travelling, and adding to our list of smileys.

Out for a days caching with diamonjs. Beautiful day. TFTC

Well our drive around the countryside has come to an end, Thank you for placing the caching and taking us on a trip most tourists would do. It was interesting to see some lovely new houses in some places and when I remarked to a local we came across that they were so far out of town, he replied that it was only 11klm's from his house to town, wow you really felt like you were bush bush in some places. TFTC and for all the others on the drive.

#1319 This was my last cache before turning around and heading back to Caloundra. Great little hide. New log book is great. Thanks again youngoldfella.

Parked up and wandered over to GZ, cache in good condition. TFTC youngoldfella

Had to make a trip up north so I decided to grab some caches on the way and add some smilieys. no swaps. TFTC

I was driving home the other night after my big caching day on the coast and as I approached the outskirts of Nanango I could spell smoke and thought I have two hides in this area. Came out today to check and one is OK and this one has been burnt. Replaced and the description changed. Now all good to go till the next controlled burn. This is the third container I have replaced thanks to fires. Not ready to disable it permanently yet. All good to go. Have fun. This hide is not as tricky as the previous hide.

Coordinates changed from:
S 26° 37.043 E 152° 00.578

Coordinates changed to:
S 26° 37.039 E 152° 00.591

Distance from original: 74.8 feet or 22.8 meters.
Changed due to area being burnt out by a controlled burn

After spending the last few weeks settling in to my new abode and being domestic and stuff like that. Decided that I had to get back to doing what I like best Geo Caching. So I set out on a mini road trip to explore my new surrounds and hopefully pick a few caches along the way. Thanks for bringing me here

Found with Tassiegirl while out here for this weekend's event.
No truckies today so we parked the bedmobile rig nearby.
After a short walk to GZ we had the cache found in no time.
TFTC

Logged in the company of Stacevel and *SuzySquirrel*. Here for Nanango's 1st Event. Big thanks to youngoldfella for a great weekend. ~ TFTC

# 950 @ 9:45 am
We stayed in Nanango last night after attending the awesome Nanango event. As we head home *SuzySquirrel*, spinna76 and I are collecting some smilies along the way.
Thanks for adding to a fantastic weekend.

TFTC youngoldfella

#1254 @ 9:46 am. Road trip weekend with spinna76 and Stacevel out to Nanango for Nanango's First Event. Not where we thought it would be but found quick enough. TFTC youngoldfella!

#1254 @ 9:46 am. Road trip weekend with spinna76 and Stacevel out to Nanango for Nanango's First Event. Not where we thought it would be but found quick enough. TFTC youngoldfella!

We were out today to clean up some caches that we had missed while in town for the event TFTC

A great day of caching with beautiful weather and glorious scenery. Lots of different cache hides and containers. We got to see so many interesting things while we travelled around. We found this cache after a short search - nice one. Thanks to youngoldfella for its placement and adding to our enjoyment of this location.

This one took me a little while as I was concentrating on the items in the clue. (I tend to read the clue if it means walking into long grass to make the sojourn a little quicker and less likely for an unwanted confrontation). I found the cache in a spot I wasn't expecting after I'd given up looking in the locations I was checking. I found it in the last place I looked, hahahaha - isn't that always the way?? But, so glad to find it and add our signature to the logbook. Thanks for the challenge youngoldfella. Cheers! [^][^]

Cache no 30 for today enjoying roaming around Nanango
TFTC
4 December 2015 15:19

Stopped off and played being a truckie in their rest area No trucks But I found the cache
Signed logbook 4/12/2015 6:20 pm and replaced all as found.
1 x TB Visit. Batman Returns.
youngoldfella - TFTC.

Out on caching day with Brother Colin. Tftc

Found this one on our way home from Bundaberg today.
Was a great place to stop for a break from the long drive.
Pulled up not too far from GZ. Kids enjoyed the walk along the long dead tree.
Great spot for a cache with lots of safe off road parking.
All good with this one.
Tftc

Well, we were barking up the wrong tree for a litle while, as there are so many - and someone has taken to some of them with a chain-saw. Must be hard up for firewood this winter Eventually found at 3.50pn on 30th August 2015. TFTC.

No luck here today, somebody has been cutting firewood recently....? GPS took us a few metres away from the object in the description so not sure really.

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