Chimney Stack Tanawha, Queensland, Australia
By Bushbashr on 15-Dec-13. Waypoint GC4VFAX

Visited with some other geocachers .

The app is finally working! In an 'end of the world' type problem, geocaching was DOWN and for far too long. But Bug was prepared and had a chunk of the sunshine Coast downloaded to an off-line map so I was able to get another one towards my 7/10 today. Or maybe 8. Love these chimneys. A little piece of history.

Nice hehe

Went for a look for this cache wife was in slides so sent me up alone. Looks like the original house would have had an incredible view. Found quite easily. Cache and log was in good condition end of wire was just sitting loosely but otherwise all good.Thanks for the cache.

Thanks tftc

I was up in Nambour at a badminton team competition today (our team came second), so how about a few caches on the way home as it was still light (but only just)?I rushed up towards the chimney's and soon had the cache in hand.Thanks!!#3562

Headed out in the geo-car for a few caches today.

Decided to hit a few around Buderim since there was an event nearby that I was attending.

This is my 2278. Cache was found on 10 Sep 2023 at 1:48 pm.

Quick find.

dahumbug, TFTC, TFTH & TFTSF

Had no idea what was up here and was pleasantly surprised with what I found. After checking out the features, I followed the gps and made the find, took some wiggling to get out.

Tftc dahumbug

Hint was not very helpful but still an easy find in the dark.

Out today with the rest of the MummaBear and the cubs gang + Nathan and Alyce.

We headed to the sunny coast gathering caches for this months challenge and some oldies along the way

Signed the log as MB&C

Thanks for placing this cache for our enjoyment and giving us a reason to stop.

Found with DFC_JLK2019, MummaBear66, Captain Monkey 96, T1NY96 + Nathan_and_Alyce.

Out today with the rest of the MummaBear and the cubs gang + Nathan and Alyce.

We headed to the sunny coast gathering caches for this months challenge and some oldies along the way

Signed the log as MB&C

Thanks for placing this cache for our enjoyment and giving us a reason to stop.

Found with DFC_JLK2019, Princess1005, Captain Monkey 96, T1NY96 + Nathan_and_Alyce.

Out and about with MummaBear & the cubs exploring the wonders of the Sunny Coast and surrounding areas.

The goal for the day was to work towards this months challenge, so the main focus was to find caches with high favourite points and any others we’d come across.

We had a great day out and I’m sure we’ll be back again soon as we’re not even close to completing this months challenge.

Thanks for bringing us here.

#3634 - TFTC

Out today with the rest of the MummaBear and the cubs gang + Nathan and Alyce.

We headed to the sunny coast gathering caches for this months challenge and some oldies along the way

Signed the log as MB&C

Thanks for placing this cache for our enjoyment and giving us a reason to stop.

Found with MummaBear66, Princess1005, Captain Monkey 96, T1NY96 + Nathan_and_Alyce.

10.07am
Today Peppa and I are on our way to the Sunshine Coast to attend the event planned for today but have started early to grab caches before and after.
Have the maintenance guy a surprise when we drove through the open gate so had to turn around and park on the street.
Made our way to Gz and started searching when finally found the cache. Interesting history about these chimneys.
A fav point for bringing us here
Tftc

Patrol14 and I are spending the day on the Sunshine Coast with the main objective to attend the Rescheduled: Canuck in Caloundra - Meet & Greet…

That meant an early start, with plenty of caching before and after…

What a great location for a cache… despite ending up at the water tank… the gate was open…

Chimney Stack
2.0/1.5
Small
Traditional Cache

Thank you for the cache Bushbashr. Quick find by georode.

4 January 2023 8:25 am

Out caching with E this morning.

A nice quick find.

Fav point!

Tftc

Georode

Found. Thanks

Out with TBU1BIKESU for same more smilies on the Sunshine coast. TFTC
a fav point from me

Today we went for another visit to the Sunny Coast, rather more inland. So thank you to all COs who had put out caches for us to find.

We had couple of caches in our mind, and we started in Buderim, working our way now back home.

Interesting chimneys, and a beautiful view to the ocean!

Tftc Bushbashr

Interesting place. Tftc

After turning away from the private road I headed up into the bush and was delighted to see the size of the chimney stacks. As I was admiring the stacks a man headed up the hill towards me- uh oh, he’s going to tell me to go away, I thought, but no, he asked me if I was geocaching and gave me a helpful hint. He’s a local who was unhappy about the recent graffiti in the area.
It’s been a long time since I was in this area- I remember coming here when I was a kid to Tanawa World.
TFTC Bushbashr

Nice quick find interesting places. TFTC

dahumbug I found your cache Chimney Stack on 25/6/2022, 3:55 pm. This is my find 3601 and find # 8 today. A quick and easy find. Thanks for bringing me here. Thanks for the cache, mate! TNSLLN

Wow what an interesting spot thank for bringing me here tftc

Found 6.5 months unloved!

Relogging found caches under the name Bonkersandshush to my other accountGAZKERSH.Thanks.Cool location for a cache Cache was found and log signed thanks for showing us this location and the cache

Cool location for a cache
Cache was found and log signed thanks for showing us this location and the cache

An interesting little story. Found after looking beyond the obvious. TFTC.

Today Mrs Woodyrothwell and I were making our way to Diddillibah for a night away from home to shed those lockdown shackles. On our way we decided to pickup some caches that sounded interesting and also hadn’t been discovered for a while. Every now and then you need to shake out the cobwebs by removing lots of actual cobwebs with your face.

It’s always blows our mind when you see an old piece of history hanging out in the middle of nowhere. How crazy were the first settlers when they thought it would be a great idea to pick some remote piece of bush with virtually no view to build on? Surely even a couple of hundred years ago they would have been smart enough to build a house within a few hundred metres of a Dan Murphy’s.

At least GZ gave us the chance to resharpen our memories as we tried to remember the lyrics to the Chimney Sweeper song in Mary Poppins. We only remembered a couple of words so if any chimney sweepers overheard us singing out of key they would probably want to swallow a whole lot of soot to end the pain. tftc

Visiting this lovely district from the Gold Coast with geo friends hatzofff, RoddyC and grannysmith 1947.
Who would of thought those chimney stacks were up in the bush, such a surprise and a quick find was made by our group.

TFTC Bushbashr
Found November 5, 2020

First Caching day out and around the Sunny Coast with hatzofff, snickersallan and Grannysmith1947.

Interesting place.

Cache located, log signed and all replaced as found. TFTC, Bushbashr, at 7:22 AM on November 5, 2020.

Having an extended weekend away with grannysmith1947, Snickersallan, RoddyC to get some more smiles in the area.

Nice quick find. Love history caches.
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TFTC Bushbashr

TFTC smile 7491 out and about with Hatzoff RoddyC and Snickersallanand miss Millie geo dog had great day lots of laughs and plenty of walks ‍

Out for some caching fun on the Sunshine Coast with Brislions. Next, we made our way to this cache. I parked the geomobile and we made a short bushbash to GZ. The cache was quickly located and the log signed before we explored the area. FP for the location. TFTC

I was up on the Sunshine Coast again grabbing a few caches with Selva Girls. I found 27 caches for the day Selva Girls found a few less. We had lots of fun today. Sorry for the generic post, yes more short log because I am so far behind in logging. TFTC. *3881* Finds

This is what I love about geocaching. Intriguing spot. Thanks for bringing me here.

Well this was a pleasant surprise!! The stacks are in perfect condition and a real hidden gem tucked away here. Sad that the council haven’t done more with this site, but glad that you put a cache here so that we got to discover the place. It was so much better than I was expecting. Oh yeah, found and signed the log too while I was here

First find for the day. What an interesting experience. Had smallwombat, myself and sister intrigued as to the history of the place.
My sister is an historian and being 4th generation local, she left with an interest to research it. Tftc

2:31:00 PM. This has been on our radar for way to long. Coming home and made a detour. Left the better half in the car and up I went. Interesting history and not something I expected to see here. The search for the cache took a while as I didn't look well enough the first time and ended up back at a spot for a better look. The hardest part was getting the jammed in log out. Once signed I rolled it tighter so hopefully it is easier for the next finder. Thanks for the cache dahumbug

Found nice and easy. Very interesting piece of history and is a shame that unthoughful muggles have placed their litter in the chimney. Cache is all good.
TYFTC!

Visited this cache location last year but as the gate was closed we didn't do any searching. Don't be misled as the gate doesn't have to be accessed!!
A little bit of extra research about the chimneys is available in a small booklet at the council library- "The Rendle Family-The Chimneys LS 994.32 ALC" a very informative short read.
A good read with full history of the doctor from England and then Brisbane who build this property (sanitarium?) complete with chimneys over 130 years ago.
Thanks for placing this cache here Bushbashr.

After 5 or 10 minutes of stumbling around in the bush we finally spotted the cache. Overall a pretty easy find. TFTC

We found this tricky one it was not where we thought but the hint helped out. This is an interesting area and parking is close by to GZ. TFTC

We are giving this another favourite point for the interesting location. Geohubby said: this is what geocaching is all about, when it takes you to places with some history and interesting locations. Great hide. Thanks Bushbashr for placing it.
Cheers and happy caching!

A nice hide at a very interesting location TFTC

Goodies & geomutts found it. One of the local muggles spotted us. He gave us a around about location. Found it easy after that.

Found with 1MinnieMoo, wombles, Teamnanabombana and Mrs Slow Puncture on a whirlwind wacky Wednesday caching adventure
Glad the CO didn't make this one a deviously hard terrain rating!

Thanks for the cache dahumbug

5/9/18 1:12 pm Find #2054
An awesome day up the coast with a fantastic bunch of ladies. Nearing the end of our Wacky Wednesday, this cache came up in conversation. Wombles&Co had already done it, but NyssaFlutterby, Team NanaBombana and I hadn't and it certainly was piquing our interests. So as those interests just had to be satisfied, we make a quick side trip over here.
Heading up the slope, I made the mistake of grabbing onto an apparently dead tree, and it began to fall, so I carefully guided it safely to a safe landing. Then we got up to the top, and saw those awesome chimney stacks! So cool!
Shortly after we found ourselves a cache, and did marvel at the fact this particular CO didn't make us all climb the stacks
Nearing the end of our day this was definitely a cool spot, and the most interesting of the day!
Thanks for the cache dahumbug, a Favourite Point from me.

Cool find!

While camping in Landsborough for a few days with my geodog Scruffy, we just had to get out and try finding a few caches ...

All Good .. TFTC ..

Searched for 40 minutes. Beautiful area - unfortunately DNF

Container/log replaced.

Found but could not sign the log as it was wet through due to the lid of eclipse tin being missing.

The lid of eclipse tin is no longer there and hence the log is soaked.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Great spot, walked in and had a look. Came out for a rethink, yep. Where id already looked several times. So glad to have a smilie here so close to home. Now for an awesome downhill bike ride. Tftc!

Thanks for cache, nice place, bring a torch

Quick easy find

After a trip out in a boat, some dwarf research and a visit to a Prize home, this was our next stop.
I love things like this, that people might not know about and that I'd never have seen if not for Geocaching.
We took some photos and then looked for the cache which was of course right where I looked the first time but not well enough!

Out with wombles today and after finishing up nearby we decided to check out this so called impressive structure and oh my they were right. These are impressive and cache was quickly found with the use of a flashlight. After taking a few pics we were soon on our way to the next. TFTC

Found quite quickly second time around. The place is still impressive. Mustn't be such newbies anymore!!! TFTTrickyC

nice spot. tftc

Lovely old slice of history. Tftc

Great place with impressive chimneys. However we looked and looked for over half an hour and had no luck locating the cache. Will definitely be back when we are more
up-skilled and have our eye in!

Got it . Just like lets go fishing.

Good one TFTC

Found in the dark. Was deforest a cool place TFTC!
TMMT

Forgot to log it a year ago

7267 Cache Found

Out and about around Buderim this morning on non-caching business, after completing the transaction. Decided to try to find some caches on the way home and have some fun and a mini adventure. Thanks for bringing me here and thanks for the history lesson.

Thanks for the great cache and adventure dahumbug

This day in History
Tuesday, December 29, 1998. : Six die as fierce storms batter Australia's annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
The Sydney to Hobart yacht race is a major Australian event held annually on Boxing Day. Hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, the race starts in Sydney on Boxing Day and finishes in Hobart, a distance of 1167km. The first race was held on 26 December 1945.
In 1998, the race was marred by tragedy when weather conditions caused five boats to sink, resulting in 6 deaths. Out of 115 boats that started the race, only 44 made it to Hobart. The winning yacht "Sayonara" was five hours outside the race record, finishing in a little over two days and 19 hours. A coronial enquiry criticised race management for taking insufficient safety precautions, given the adverse conditions. Questions were asked as to why race organisers had not delayed the start of the race, knowing the adverse weather conditions. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology was also criticised for not doing more to alert the race organisers of an upgraded forecast on the severe storm offshore near the New South Wales-Victoria border nearly a day before the fleet was due there.

Found while on the way back from Boxing day shopping. We had planned on grabbing this on several times but the opportunity did not arise. Us3scouts and I parked nearby and walked to GZ and found the cache in a likely spot. Us3scouts took a few photos of the stacks and we admired the view then back to the car. TFTC dahumbug.

This one was a spur of the moment diversion after some shopping. I had wanted to check this out for some time now because I like history. I'd be keen to know more about the chimney stacks. Anyway seirra1 and I parked nearby and walked to GZ and found the cache in a likely spot. After a few photos of the stacks and admiring the view we retraced our steps to the car. Thanks for the cache dahumbug. I'm giving it a favourite point for the location and interesting history.

Very very hard cache

Looked in the spot quite a few times but only found it following a clue from one of our friends

I think we would still be looking otherwise !
Tftc

Wow. Very cool. Never knew this place existed. Took some nice photos. Reason number 146 why geocaching is so cool. ☺ Expected to have trouble with this one seeing as a few other people did but got lucky and found it. Coordinates were pretty spot on. TFTC! You'll have to wait for the favourite from us as we don't have any left!

This one had us intrigued, so of course as soon as I got home I started googling...apparently it is the remains of Dr Rendle's residence built in 1894. There's a book in the local library if you're further intrigued apparently. There might be photos of the original house which would be interesting. If I get a chance I'll try and track it down.

This entry was edited by Millbet on Sunday, 18 October 2015 at 04:49:31 UTC.

Hi Found it GREAT hide, Ill put it in my Favorites. TFTC

Another interesting place. TFTC.

Wow! Never knew this place existed. Brought along muggle friends, they really enjoyed finding this. TFTC Bushbashr

Found it. Hard find. Completely covered. Was were we first looked just had to look harder. Thanks

We found this one in July 26 but forgot to log it on here. What an amazing spot!

We found it. Thinking it may have been moved as it wasn't hanging.tftc

We have been meaning to grab this cache, seeing as it is so close to home.

Parked nearby and made the quick walk to GZ.

Mr Parko had his suspicions and found the cache in no time

Thanks for bringing us here bushbashr

A weekend planned for Dunethin Rock I set about collecting an odd cache here and there on the way. Now I must say this was certainly odd, amazing where caching takes you.

Placed a new dry log in the container

1200

Sunday. Slow Puncture ventured up Sunshine Coast way to pick up a few caches.

Wow, we like this place. What a great place to find these out of character objects! Of course, finding the chimney stacks was the easy part. Westumbled from pillar to post and back trying to find the hide.

We resorted to reading previous logs. Ah! There were a few that gave extra infor about the hint, and then we found another which gave two useful snippets of information that led us to the actual hide, although, it still took us a while after that But then the sneaky hide was revealed! Log is a bit damp, but otherwise, all in order.

This was the 6th of 7 caches we found on this trip.

Thanks [Blue]Bushbashr[/Blue], or should that now read [Blue]Dahumbug?[/Blue] for showing us this interesting place. This was our find number 1200.

Chimney Stack was transferred from Bushbashr to user dahumbug

Out to visit Mum (being Mother's Day and all) with IolantheK and dropped on this cache [^]
A very interesting location. Wouldn't have believed that these chimney stacks would still be here, especially up the top of this hill [^] well worth a visit.
Clever hide, although the logs a bit wet.
TFTC Bushbashr

T-Tech and I called by this one today. I was intrigued by the Description, and it was certainly an interesting spot to see We spent a couple of minutes exploring the place. No problems making the find. A favourite point for bringing me here. TFTC, Bushbashr.

Driving south to stanthorpe and the mega with half of jackylegs44. This was one of the few caches we stopped for. Likes the lost place!
Thanks for the cache
R

Found on our roadtrip to stanthorpe for the mega event. Well needed break to stretch legs. Tftc sl tnln .nice idea sneaky! But yes definitely need to look down instead of up.

Found Ok

Running early on the way up to Buderim for today's Pi day event, so I decided to stop by for a few extra smilies in the area. Wandered up the hill and spent some time looking around the amazing structures here. Funny how the fireplaces always remain standing long after the rest has crumbled. Began searching and went straight to the obvious place, but after coming and going and checking here 3 times, I finally found it tucked away. Hides well down I there. The clue had me looking up when I should have been looking down. Logbook soaked thru, barely writable. Time for a new one please. TFTC enjoyed immensely

New log book needed, old one soggy, barely writable

Easy find fsecond catch of the day

Cool hiding spot but misdirectional at first

Ummm will have to try this one again.

Second time lucky!!!! The torch helped!

Out filling my Yearly days of caching calendar, park the geomobile and a short trail to the interesting location.
After a 10 minute explore of the brick structures area, thought I should concentrate on finding the cache as I hadn't seen it on the examination of the area, iphone direction put me spot on the chimney so a wider search and the cache was located, signed logsheet 9:15 AM .
Seems of lot of finders have done research after being here and posted there results in their logs. Thanks Guys !
Another history lesson from caching ! and I get a smiley as well. Excellent!!
Bushbashr-TFTC.
And a fav point Too. !

This is a great spot.. I had no idea that these were here and am amazed that they are still standing!

I looked in this spot a few times before I actually found the cache then retrieving it was a different story. Once I did i had a moment and thought.. that would have been much easier if I used that!!

Thanks for the cache Bushbash!!

This entry was edited by Cassow11ry on Monday, 01 December 2014 at 06:41:00 UTC.

What's that saying? Once bitten, twice shy - hmm maybe doesn't apply for a cacher as evidenced by my leg this evening.
Arrived at GZ and in awe at the chimney stacks when I bump into a stick poking out of the ground. Then I found the cache and upon trying to retrieve it I hit my leg on the same stick (which is actually a dead thin pokey pointy tree) another two times.
Found the cache (eventually) retrieved it, signed and returned.
TFTC and the nice bruise I have on my shin.
Those Chimney stack are amazing, I've never seen anything like it before.