Smithfield Homestead Harristown, Queensland, Australia
By PJATPAC on 01-Nov-13. Waypoint GC4RBP0

Shame, looks like this one is gone.

As per my previous log , owner needs to check if the container was a brown painted 200 sis...

Well we searched for 20 minutes and all we could find was a chewed up brown painted lid off a 200 Sistema container. We presume this was part of the cache . Where the rest is ?
So a DNF for us today .

Found during a short stay in Toowoomba. Cheers.

LTF

Caching day with Dutchie1950. The homestead was a lovely find. Thanks for directing us there. Tftc

Actually got married in the nearby homestead 37+ years ago....

TFTC

Nice Park

Tftc. Left feather

Had no idea this park existed. TFTC.

Tftc

Visiting family in Toowoomba, and geocaching= wonderful holiday! Tftf

Tftc

Great spot. Well hidden but still really easy to find. Tftc

Grandson's first day of Geocaching 3rd find for the day - TFTC

Good cache easy find!

Found quickly! Will return on a warmer day to play!

Once again geokid has it located before I can exit the car. Tftc

Found on the way home from Brisbane after having lunch at picnic point. The wife needed a toilet pit stop and the map said to come here. Found this cache after using the facilities. A lovely little park and clean toilet. Thanks for the cache the house looks lovely i would have loved to try a steak dinner from it beats maccas anyday

Tftc. Beautiful little park. Wish I lived in a hole like that.

Beautiful little park. Tftc

Woohoo found it!

Bit of a holiday from caching. Quick find. Beautiful location.

I'm in Toowoomba for a few days of camping and caching by myself

Day 2, and I've got a couple of hours to fill in before a friend can join me, so time to grab a few easier ones. This is the closest to where I am camping, and I was keen to get a glimpse of the Homestead. A quick find here. TFTC, PJATPAC.

TFTC You've Been Bear'd

I was surprised to see a PJATPAC cache all the way out here.... and was impressed by the homestead... very nice indeed! Cache was an easy find as it was just laying on the ground in plain sight. Log was signed and replaced where we think it may have been meant to be.... as I don't believe it was meant to be where we found it

Cache number 20 for us today!

tftc

The homestead looks beautiful!
The cache was on the ground, so I put it back where it looked that it should have been.

First find for Jayde M.

Lovely park we used to live on merino ..our doggie used to go there for his walks

Bit tricky but it's not at the water spout lol. Visiting from sydney. Out geocaching with my Sister and her nieces. Tftc Sl dropped a tb

Nice way to start the geocaching year. Tftc!

TFTC Great spot to find a cache and have a rest.

TFTC Great spot to have a cache and to have a rest .

Quick find. I used to live on one of these streets so it's nice to see a cache here

Our first one in Aus all the way from Colorado!

Found with my dad MalDawg and little brother

Found it with my boys. last time there was too many muggles. this time it was quiet

Well camouflaged thanks

Found Ok

Time: 16:18
Time to Find: 2 Min
Cache Condition: Dry and well sealed.
Note: In town from Cleveland Ohio USA visiting relatives. What a cool area, enjoyed the history!
TNLNSL
Happy Hunting!
TFTC Team EskimoZooKeeper

Was out in the open on the ground. Checked it out. Placed it back where we think was its rightful home. All good. Lovely park!

Tftc

Found it! What a beautiful little park. I didn't even know it was there! It will definitely be a new Sunday arvo hang out n picnic spot for us now. Tftc!

Found it lovely park

Thanks for bringing me to this park and homestead - a favorite point from me. TFTC.

Thanks...easy Monday arvo find

TFTC! Solid hint. And another beautiful little park we never knew about!

Wow !! This cache chase was in an area that could not have been further removed from me last cache find down on "Luck Street" !!

Here in the leafy, perfectly manicured gardens outside some mighty nice houses, I poked around for a cache and soon found one
The homestead is impressive [^]

So in the space of two cache finds, I got to see how both halves of Drayton live .... I'm guessing this isn't the 'ordinary suburbia' mentioned in the cache notes

[font=Comic Sans MS]Hi there PJATPAC. We found your cache "Smithfield Homestead" at 2:04:00 PM today. This cache makes our find count 10804.
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We have been visiting relatives in Toogoolawah, and now we have returned to Toowoomba for a while to see if we can turn the map of green boxes into smiley faces.
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Coordinate Accuracy: We found the cache around 11m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
Cache Condition: The container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Smiley Badge.
Thanks for the hunt today,
Regards
Ian & Penny.[font=Verdana]

Found by Mary & David, at 0930. A beautiful old building. A pleasure to see it so lovingly preserved and maintained. Found after a short search. Our thanks to PJATPAC.

#6408Found and Logged 9:51:00 AM
One of 25 caches for the day while in Toowoomba for a few days after attending OZ-MEGA in Stanthorpe
Thanks for the cache PJATPAC

Travelling around Australia in our Caravan with our cat.

Camped at the showgrounds with about 7 other Geocaching teams, discussion last night was around the Well-Travelled Cacher Challenge.

Plans were hatched to head off from camp at 8am to tackle the challenge.

After that Mr & Mrs Felix headed out to attempt a few other caches and do some shopping.

TFTC

[Blue]# 11779[/Blue] Found on our 2015 Winter escape trip to Qld.
A quicktrip around Toowoomba on a perfect caching day with Di Morgan.
Cheers from Wagga Wagga in the Riverina.
Thanks for the cache PJATPAC,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

Another day of caching around the Toowoomba area (part of the mass exodus of geocachers from Stanthorpe after the mega). Great hide and a beautiful countryside. Nice one Thanks to PJATPAC.

TFTC 1300 Cache I'm so happy

Visiting from Newcastle, on the way to Brisbane after the Mega at Stanthorpe, TFTC PJATPAC!!

Had a great time finding caches in the area with Just-Lookin

Quick find for us here today
SL Thanks for the fun!

Enjoying this part of the country and collecting caches along the way with tmann421. Thanks to all the COs for making this such a memorable trip.

TFTC

MEGA was on so decided it might be a good idea to find some caches. "Some" ended up turning into a few hundred... the most exhausting experience.

Started in the city and pooh corner, ended up leaving a little late for Stanthorpe. Fun weekend, managed to get pushed into swimming across water a few times and finishing off some rum.

TFTC!

Found with Hinemoana, sonia26642 and /dev/gc0c during the mega.
TFTC

06/04/2015 3:20:00 PM
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We came and spent a wonderful few days in Stanthorpe for the Aussie mega, and it was time for us to head home.

So on the way back, naturally we stopped for a few caches. Took a detour, and had ground to cover, but still got a few.

Thanks heaps to all the cache hiders, you guys are awesome

We signed almost every log as 'Team Polak' which consists of hinemoana, sonia26642, /dev/gc0c, and tunfisk - to save time, our hands from overuse, and the logsheets

Consec caching day # 893

TFTC!!

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Found on our mega caching adventure at the occasion of the QLD mega! We had a ball finding awesome caches, and are grateful to all the CO's for placing and maintaining them. We were signing logs as 'Team Polak' or just TP for sonia26642, /dev/gc0c, tunfisk and myself. Thank you so much for an unforgettable long weekend!!

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On the way to the Queendland for the Mega and spent the night at Goondiwindi before heading for Toowoomba doing caches along the way.

Found the cache without problems.

Thanks PJATPAC for the cache.

Nice easy find. TFTC!

TFTC.

Easy find

TFTC

TFTC

While driving around Toowoomba, it was decided that we needed a cache for today, so this was selected as our target for the day. Mrs Esky navigated us to the location, and we soon had the log signed and were back on our way in no time. Had many fond memories of playing in this park as a young fella, so was nice to revisit the area. TFTC.

Needed a cache for today and just happened to be passing near here so did a quick detour. A pretty little park which from the opposite side looks like it is the front yard of the homestead. That place needs some wide open spaces! TFTC.

Found in a very nice location. TFTC

Nicely stocked cache. We added a few items and enjoyed the playground. TFTC

I love that homestead. It's absolutely gorgeous. I should mention that another of my hobbies is walking through display houses to see all the beautiful homes. Wish I could see the interior of this place. Thanks for bringing me here.
TFTC.

I have been driving past the area all week with the GPS alert going off. Today I decided that I should check it out.

I found the homestead and admired it before I checked on the cache. A fantastic structure which I see is for sale at present (I checked later and it is on sale for a cool $1.5M. Anyone got some spare change?

The cache was easy to locate but I had to wait for some young muggles to head to the park down the road before I could grab it.

TFTC PJATPAC. thanks for showing me this place.

Easy find

Found on a beautiful day. Quick find. Magnificent old home. TNLN TFTC

Another find for LaKedi with me looking in the wrong spot. I should have kept my attention on the job but I kept admiring the homestead and surrounds. Quite beautiful. Thanks PJATPAC.

I found the clue helped tremendously with this find, and even then it took three locations! I walked away sticky but happy, then realised I hadn't even seen the homestead.... Oops . Peeked as I drove off, at least. TFTC, PJATPAC. =^.^=

Tftc, well hidden, the hint helped so much

Struggled a bit with thid one but found it just as we were giving up tftc

We came for a picnic and a play in the lovely sun today. The kids loved the playground and I loved being able to find a cache while they played. The cache was found safe and dry. TFTC PJATPAC.

Today we did a morning of caching in Toowoomba region. From the town region & out alongsome of the suburban roads.
All the caches we found were in good condition & some wonderfull & scenic locations.
This an amzing looking home, the garden & park accross the road is immaculate.
A favourite point for the locaton.
Thanks for placing this cache PJATPAC

We'll painted nice little hide thanks for this one. Score one to the geokids

All set for a super long week-end in Toowoomba from Friday until Tuesday.
I am in town to find all of the new caches in the area since I left town year ago.
After a morning over at the Dam I am now continuing the day on the south side.
There were a few in the park right up the other end and a drummer practicing across the road ... and a quick find as well.
Thanks for the cache.

What a cute little park, would never have found it if not for the cache. Thanks!

It was an early start to the day and Mr Gap suggested we go find this one. We had to be stealthy as it seems the neighbours are also up early walking their doggies. We snuck in and quickly grabbed it then returned it to its hidey hole TFTC

After an early start I suggested we could start with this one.

Arrived here to find all the neighbours get up early too!! doesn't anyone sleep in around here? So waiting for the right moment went in and found it quickly.

Then wandered over to have a look at the house. I lived here for 10 years and didn't know about this place, thanks PJATPAC.

cache find #1345. A nice easy park and grab, on a day of caching whilst we are still here in Toowoomba for the Easter Holidays. TFTC.

Yewww easy one.. Tyftc

#182

I have very fond memories of Smithfield homestead. As a child my father always took all his workers out for dinner at the end of the year as their christmas bonus - and this is where we always came! As I grew up on a market garden, it truly was a family affair, and so even us kids got the workers bonus - I guess we deserved it, it was a lot of hard work
Today I still have a large vege garden- after all those years on the farm I'm not put off by gardening but actually rather love it. Nothing beats vegies picked fresh from the garden and I've never had an issue with my kids eating greens either!! (helps when they are involved in making it grow!)

Anyway, enough down memory lane - thanks for the cache today. enjoyed coming back here today and the kids rather enjoyed the cool rocket-like play equipment in the nearby park [^]

Quick find after an engagement party in Drayton. My wife stayed in Brisbane with baby boy so I was free to cache - even after 11pm! Hint gave it away, but I wasn't mucking about in the middle of the night TFTC!

In Toowoomba for an event today so decided to gather a few caches while here. A good place to hide the cache. SL TFTC

A little more challenging to find during the evening, but at least there were no muggles to disturb the search !
Thanks for the cache, PJATPAC !

Nice easy find. TFTC!

Out doing a few caches for the day nice easy find apart from all the muggles tftc

Think my Geoson's and geonephews need their eyes checked.

This entry was edited by petmac76 on Friday, 17 January 2014 at 03:18:40 UTC.

Out and about on a goes frenzy first for the day. Nice little park to stop for lunch, easy find once gps settled TFTC

Nice deserted spot... Apart from the muggles packing their car directly across from the cache! Didn't rush and had the cache with no worries. TFTC.

8902 caches found

What a lovely old house. Quick find on our regular trip to Toowoomba Hospital


Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Thanks PJATPAC for the hunt today