Russo Environmental Park - The Beginning North Isis, Queensland, Australia
By Julie&GGs on 10-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5AKE8

Due to this cache not being found by the last cacher and also due to the fact that it is not fund often, anyway, and also due to us living in Victoria and not going back to Queensland we are going to archive this cache now.

Went here today, the Stockyard Creek one was an easy find but this one we looked everywhere for and could not find it. However a lot of trees appeared to have been felled in the area, maybe this had something to do with it.

Now here's a hidden away park I have visited before
So I knew the way to it.
More development is occuring on the southern boundary,
and dozers and diggers were sitting idly nearby.
A bumpy drive across the paddock took me to the gate,
and I strolled from there

A read of the info board,
and I looked for the cache.
A nice easy find in the obvious place
TFTC and reason to visit Russo again [^]

We were quite impressed with this little area of parkland, and really enjoyed our walk through it. Cache almost had us STUMPED, but after a bit of a search we had it in hand and signed the log. Thanks for bringing us here. Cheers from Bindair Dundat and Princess Madelyn.

Easy find and a good location too. Great sized cache. Lots of beautiful kangaroos near by watching. Picked up a trackable. Will move him along.

thanks. quick find

Very easy find lovely park

Nice area.The walking track looked good. Thanks.

TFTC, beautiful spot and easy to find

Found easy and such a lovely park introduce caching to a young family

First one with the girls

I was in town this weekend to attend my High School 30 year class reunion. Had today to wind down and visit the district and take the geodaughter to the beach at Woodgate. I had caching on my mind today so we stopped by this reserve to find this pair of caches, first find was this one and the other one filled a spot on my AUSmer challenge. Tft caches in this very attractive reserve.

Very quiet here today so found the cache all right. TFTC Julie and GGs

CO called in today and replaced wet log book - all ready to go and dry now - thanks also to Sweet-Sour for replacing the wet container - it was much appreciated.

found with The Mercs1
tftx

Found it with the x trailers
Bit damp

When I found this one, water was running out of the container, evidently it had been submerged under water during recent rains. Not surprised as it is only a couple of feet above the current water level.
There was evidence that the flood water had been several metres deep through here.
Anyhow to cut a long story short, left the logbook to dry out on a fence post while I went to look for the other one.
On my return, the logbook was dry enough to sign, but, there would be a continual problem with the container. Have replaced the container with a screw top plastic jar, I find these are much more water tight than Sistema's and if it is returned to the position I left it at the same cords, should stay out of trouble.
These two caches were released on the day that I found Stockyard Creek, I didn't find out until I was home to write up the logs.
TFTC Julie&GGs

Thanks, found it

Found it the other day while down in Childers. Only logging it in now, loved the environmental park, didn't even know it was there, so many great walking trails. Went and found your other cache as well as the one in the vines. Also took a stroll up to the lookout - love how old the big trees are and the cute little picnic table with the bridge going over the creek.
Such an amazing place to walk and explore, thanks for the great kiddy cache with the swaps inside

Coordinates changed from:
S 25° 11.689 E 152° 18.472

Coordinates changed to:
S 25° 11.686 E 152° 18.467

Distance from original: 33.2 feet or 10.1 meters.
CO check of cache this am and we found that it has suffered from cache creep so have placed it where it was originally hidden and have updated cor-ords - please rehide the cache as you find it and cover it please - thank you.
Co ords changed from S 25 11 689 E 152 18.472 to NEW CO-ORDS S 25 11.686 E 152 18.467

3:45PM #369

Walked straight up to this one, after having kangaroos beside the car! The cache and contents were in good condition.

TFTC, Julie&GGs.
Jay of GemJay.

All good with this one. We enjoyed this new area today. Tftc

Found it with bikesu. Tftc

1/3 thanks

Hammock

Tftc

near ground zero a bit but fig ured it out

little bit away from ground zero but Figured it out

Found Ok

Found it with some common sense! 13 meters of. TFTC

Found at 12. 30 on 3rd October tftc. sl. Tsls. ☺

Up to Bundy for a few days for a not so pleasant reason - and today I get the job of driving back to Brisbane in the car. No other responsibilities today. Have noticed these on the TomTom many trips this year, but never the opportunity before to stop. Till today. Found OK once I'd worked out the way in.
Thanks for placing this cache, Julie&GGs. Found in good condition.
{Overall find #4133}
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We have been visiting the area for a number of years now and we love this natural environment. Thanks for bringing us here again Julie&GGs.

Millie's first find, good fun with the PCYC crew.

First find for a new geokid we introduced to the world of caching! Tftc!

Nice place. If the caches wouldn't be there I wouldn't have have gone to this place.
Thank you!

We had a day out visiting this area with my sister who was holidaying with us. She is a relucant cacher but came along a tried to help with the find. Thanks to Julie&GGs.

We had a great walk here, checking out the 200yr old gum, the Lookout and the Rainforest Vines. Thanks for bringing us here.

Found at 10.07. We have been to this park before and got the other cache. Nice day for a walk.

TFTC. SL

jg

Sorry about the late log Found with geodad and geopups. Beautiful area. TNLN. TFTC Julie&GGs

After a frustrating search for this cache, geofille and I went and found the other ones in the park.
Returned with new heart and slightly altered co-ords and bingo!

Found it cache ok tftc

Gotcha !!! TFTC.

Today we headed south, stopping at a delightful caravan park at Ironridge.
most of the caches we found today were at Woodgate & in the afternoon in the Russso Environment Park. Both places we have never visited before. It was a great day out.
Thanks for placing this cache Julie&GGs

Nice hide. All is well with the cache. Tftc

Found it.

Bit damp, but everything is OK. TFTC!

TFTC
TNLNSL
A nice walk in a beautiful park.

TFTC N&B
After parking car, decided to do this cache before a mornings birding in the park.
Followed co-ords of youngoldfella and found very quickly.
TNLNSL

Jumped around a bit but was within 5m of coordinates

Very unusual place. Enjoyed the stop off between Brisbane and 1770.

TFTC

Quick stop and quick find

Out caching on the edge this morning as we drove thru the area yesterday afternoon on the way to Bargara and did not have the time to stop for the four out this way waiting for me to find. Having had found the other one in this park knew where I was going. Like others before me I found this one west of indicated GZ by about 6 meters. Co ordinates that worked for me S25 11.689 E152 18.469. Left trackables. TFTC Julie&GGs

GPS had us going everywhere so we had quite a wide search for 10 minutes came out from under cover and re started the app had us 14 m North from the cache brought up the compass paced out 14 m North and the cache was soon found nearby TFTC!

the geo king of bundy strikes again hahahaha

not bad for the start. thought it might have been washed away. but no found it.

[font=Comic Sans MS]Hi there Julie&GGs. We found your cache "Russo Environmental Park - The Beginning" at 11:17:00 AM today.
This was our 2nd cache find in a caching run of 6 Finds & 0 DNFs today. (So this now makes our find count 9584.)
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Today's cache run was to add to our current streak of "Most Consecutive Days" cached, which has been going since New Years Day 2013.

We came here two years ago (to find the other cache), and were very pleased to find that a couple more have been placed here.
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Coordinate Accuracy: Fair. (We found the cache around 6m W from where the GPS said we should be looking.)
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Smiley Badge.
Thanks for the hunt today,
Regards
Ian & Penny.[font=Verdana]

Last for the day and we hope to find accommodation in Bundaberg before dark.
Onward down the tracks crossing a cute little bridge.
Soon at GZ and geopartner spotted the cache.
Was hoping to spot a platypus at dusk here in the creek but geopartner urged me to move.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks Julie&GGs All good with this cache

Congratulations to camjess.handley for being the FTF - well done indeed! - Julie&GGs

FTF. We actually didnt find this one straight away, but when we came back to it after the othwr caches we found it straight away. Thanks for the time in placing these caches. Cam, jess and emily

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