HS-14 Karawatha, Queensland, Australia
By dranyer on 03-Dec-14. Waypoint GC5HCCR

#624Nice warm weather for geocaching in Karawatha. TFTC!

Moving spider webs tftc

I am down under for the very first time. Visiting Australia has always been a dream of mine, and I cannot believe it has come true. Australia's nature and wildlife really captivated me. Over three weeks, I saw many wonderful beaches, sunsets, animals such as , and I found great geocaches. My tour guide was mostly geocaching, and through it, I discovered many beautiful places I wouldnt have seen without our great hobby. I mainly stayed in Brisbane but also visited other gorgeous places such as Noosa Heads and Springbrook. I spent a few days on the Gold Coast and Moreton Island, and I went to New South Wales to have visited a second state in Australia. During my stay, the winter and early spring in Queensland were very warm, the sun shone every single day, and I did not see a single drop of rain. My time down under was so beautiful and unforgettable. Australia is such a stunning country! Today I spent another day in Brisbane. I really like this city and I discovered beautiful places. In the morning I spent some time in the city centre and I hosted an event. After that I went to the oldie "Queens land". What a day! I also looked for many geocaches like this one. After GC8E I did this trail. I have seen many kangaroos in this forest. At GZ I found the cache. After signing the log I put the container back as found. Thank you for this geocache says Mr. J. Cacher from the other side of the world

Out exploring Karawatha forest, easy find

Nice find

As another log said, used the stick! Walked past as I was looking at previous logs and had to backtrack slightly! TFTC

Nice day for a bush walk. TFTC and the trail

Thanks

My boyfriends found this one! Thank you for the cache

Nice walk along the tracks in a nice bush setting. Its finally stopped raining !!This is number 4 in the series. Could probably do with a new log. TFTC

Found quickly &T4TC:-)

Out walking with sniggypop

Out this fine day doing the Holden series with ILTW. Found after a bit of a search. TFTC

Nice quick find. No issues here.#847_____Having woke up on my first day off and the sun was trying to break through.. I though I would head out to Karawatha Forest for some caches today.Total ride: 3:05:21. Completed 23 caches.Totaling 16.87km ride distance.Great day out before the sun decided to head back undercover.

Found it

Use the stick

Another quick find TFTC

Thats 50 for us!! TFTC

After a DNF at 13 was good to find this one. With elina_maree. TFTC.

Found all but one so far (#13) and now just one to go!

Today we went for a walk and cache in the Karawatha Forest, lots of well-made tracks and many people either walking or riding along them this afternoon. Collected most of the codes along the way in caches that had them, now to work out the bonus cache. TFTC

I have never been to Australia in my life, but my great hobby gives me the opportunity to get to know this incredibly relaxed, pleasant and beautiful country from all sides. So I was able to come here and find a very nice tin along the way. Thank you very much for planting and looking after it!

Auch heute haben mich Mama und Papa wieder mitgeschleift, um ein bisschen frische Luft zu schnappen und das Tagesdschen zu finden. Inzwischen trauen die mir ja ganz schn weite Wege zu, ich muss schon sagen... Macht mir aber ja genauso viel Spa wie denen, gebe ich ja gerne zu. Und man entdeckt immer wieder etwas Neues, selbst wenn man wie wir oft auf den gleichen Strecken unterwegs ist. In diesen Tagen ist aber alles neu. Australien ber Singapur und Malaysia, da war ich noch nie. Hier mussten wir gar nicht lange suchen, bis wir das Versteck gefunden hatten.Danke frs Austfteln, Verstecken, Herlocken und Pflegen des Caches!

Im Team gesucht und gefunden.Danke fr den schnen Spaziergang und natrlich Danke frs Austfteln, frs Herlocken und Zeigen sagt Mel_on_Tour**TFTC**()()( , , )( , , ).... ..- ** **`*.. .

Heute hatten wir uns viel vorgenommen. Schlielich hatten wir den ganzen Tag Zeit. Und die haben wir auch genutzt und kennen nun (fast) jeden Pfad im Karawatha Forest Park. Koalas haben wir zwar dieses Mal keine gesehen, dafr Wallabies und jede Menge sehr sehr groe Echsen und natrlich noch mehr Vgel. Ich Miss mal ausrechnen, wie viele Kilometer das heute waren, aber es hat sich wirklich gelohnt. Schn ist es hier, teilweise richtiger Urwald (besonders in der Gegend von GC8E) und ein Miniatur-Sandstein-Gebirge gibt es auch.Ganz in der Frh ging es los, da hatten wir noch unsere Jacken an . Diese Serie wollten wir natrlich auch mitnehmen. Leider fehlte in drei Dosen der ntige clue und eine Dose war berhaupt nicht vor Ort. Wir konnten den Bonus also nur erraten und wurden dort leider nicht fndig. Hier aber schon.Unfortunately, three containers of this series didnt contain the necessary clue and one was completely missing (which we replaced). Nevertheless we tried to find the Bonus by educated guessing but unfortunately didnt succeed.Danke fr's Austfteln, Herlocken, Verstecken und Pflegen !Thank you very much for luring us here as well as for hiding and maintaining the cache !....../ ).....' /---' (_____.TFTC . ((__)..... _ ((___)....... -'((__)--.___((_)

Fun find as a couple of wallabies (?) hopped on by a bit further along the track. Tftc!

This wasn't in the first place we expected it to be

The geo kids have come this far from HS 1 and have only just started to get restless. So close to the end of the series. This was a nice quick find. Clue noted and log signed. Off the the final cache of the run! Cheers for the cache!

Tftc

A quick one. Thanks for the cache!

Will check after journeys from VIC come home this weekend

DNF

TFTC. Nice hide

Found this one easy as well.

Great walk around here, and a great excuse to be doing it. Thanks for the series and the effort of putting them out there for us

Thanks for the cache, tried to complete this series but the rain started coming through so i had to cut the trek short. All looks to be in good nick with this one!

Out today to continue with my challenges and I noticed a nice little spot that would suit as a walking area for today. I was just looking at a few today, then coming back to get a few more tomorrow. I had been to this area once before not down this way.
I grabbed just four of my list of six, I had a dnf on a multi around the corner from here, and the first one of my series caches was a dnf. It was nice to be out and about and a nice area. This was a nice find here. I signed the log and replaced the cache as found and moved onto the next one.

Today i decided to take my geo bike out this way and tackle this series. My mountain bike was out of order so i just took my vintage bike and was not sure if it was up for this terrain but it managed just perfectly. I love these types of series and this one took me to a lovely serene place to ride my bike . I ended up with only 1 DNF. I was starting to get a bit wary after going up hill to visit Hank so i stopped here after finding the cache to rehydrate. Thanks for all the fun

Whilst I could see the cache location, Shazzar66 made the find. TFTC

#17, easy find with Duppers. TFTC, TFTH & TFTSF

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Easy

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The perfect day for a walk in Karawatha finding this series. Thanks DutchAus

A lovely quick find here and still enjoying this most pleasant walk through Karawatha. TFTC

TFTC!!! Not the obvious hole that made me check that area haha but right close to it!
Have a mushroom!

Tftc!

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No luck on this one

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Noice

We're getting better at this!

Found with blaze3011

Found with woodier3011

Mood.

Found with Hereswally

Headed out with Team to do some of this series today. Quick find here, tftc!

Decided to tackle a few of this series this morning with BJA3. This one was located quickly, TFTC and bringing us to this area!

Quickest find of the day. Cache and log in good condition. Tftc

Found this morning on my walk. Plan to return and finish the series another day. t
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I have been planning a visit to Karrawatha Forest for a while, today geopup and I finally made it.
A quick find here today.
Thanks DutchAus for the great series.

To easy tftc

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After attending the celebration event yesterday & discovering what a gem Karawatha Forest is, I returned today to seek out more of the plentiful caches hidden here. Again on foot so I am unable to collect as many as those on ’s . In total 10 today before it started to sprinkle & I did not want to chance being caught in a downpour TFTC

Today, the plan was mountain biking around Karawatha Forest in Logan, to celebrate the 21st anniversary of geocache *Queens Land* with a scheduled community celebration event. After attending the morning photograph and cake session, I headed out west following the Ironbark Circuit. I then proceeded in a general anti-clockwise direction visiting lat&long junkie's favourite spot / virtual cache, and then riding south on Casuarina Trail, passing the quarry lake along the way. I then rode along the Maculata Trail, completing the Holden series (HS) trail. It was well past lunchtime by the time I finished riding approximately 30 km in distance, and after making a stop in the Kuraby Bushlands, I then found a few oldie geocaches in Karawatha Forest West. I closed out the day with a late lunch stop and a couple of geocaches in nearby Jack Pyle Park.

This *Holden* series (HS) took a few hours in completing, and perhaps it had taken longer than anticipated. Many of these caches didn't take too long to find, although I thought it was a missed opportunity to not hide caches bigger in size than the majority being simple Eclipse mint containers. Nevertheless, it was nice to have this walking/cycling power trail hidden in Karawatha. I parked my MTB and I started to search around, making this cache find reasonably quickly. The cache container and logbook were in good shape, and I made sure to note down the Holden clue. Thanks DutchAus for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Here for the event and a quick find on my return to the Discovery centre. Tftc

Quick find
Many paper log here which need to be sort out by co
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while attending the "Queens land- 21 years on" event today. We decided to grab ourselves some caches and earn the cake we just ate!
We took a fair walk around Karawatha Forest this was cache number 10/17 for the day. TFTC

Another easy find. TFTC DutchAus.

I decided to tackle this series on the bike today. A beautiful day to be out on the trails for the first day of spring. Had no problems with most of the series but HS-5 seems to be missing. Thanks for the cache

Thanks! The Domjahn's

Quick one again. TFTC

Thank you! One more to go.

Good cache
Found with kymmy7

A quick trek through here on Saturday yielded six finds and introduced me to the Holden Series. We made note of the hints at all the cached we found, so with any luck we should be able to find the rest and log the final cache, GC5HHA6.

TFTC, all is well with this cache.

I was still logging #13 when I saw a likely hide here... and I was right... which surprised me even more... checking the path both ways I made my way to the spot... I still managed to get passed by a MTB while making my mark... As the containers lid was detached, I’ve replaced the container with an identical one... tftc... clue noted...

I took a Mountain Bike ride through this area a couple of months back, first time I’d ridden here. My MTB mates don’t cache so stopping to pick up little boxes and sign logs is not an option as catching up is just not on. Looking back at old logs it seems the last time I cached here was for the Queensland 10 years Event. Wow, now another 10 years has passed.

Today after a FB post on my intended ride I was joined by Triple Turmoil as my victim for the day. I do like making people suffer while they are out on a bike ride. Tripe T showed she was up to the challenge and we had a fun day out exploring the trails in the area. Mind there were some we ventured along that even I will not ride back there again.

Collected these on the way back to the cars. It had been a big day so riding a well formed trail was a blessing

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Met with Ruzzelz for the first time for a ride around this forest, collecting caches. I didn't really think I was in for a ride as hard as it was. So many hills, big hills...up and down!! But I made it and we found plenty of caches along the way. Caching is all about getting out of your comfort zone, with some fun and laughs along the way.

And we’ll keep walking. TFTC

Another cache on a great trail.
TFTC

Down in Brisbane for another drive to the airport. this time with Willpunkey and Scoob. Thanks for the trail

TFTC

Nice!

Eazy find

Moving along fairly quickly now, since our phones were beginning to run out of battery charge we kept ourselves moving on this part of the walk today. At GZ it was a quick find in a logical place. We collected a number and added our name to the log.
Thanks DutchAus
Domsky 

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Liking the hike

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Yep still there and tag too good

An afternoon stroll with RoddyC and Hatzofff. Another quick find and sign here. TFTC

With Selva Girls taking RoddyC for a walk and picking up caches on our walk.

TFTC DutchAus

Another easy one. THANK YOU

I spent the last two afternoons in the Karawatha Forest to visit the geocaches hidden here around. First time beeing here I was fully concentrated to get the 2k geocache only. Now it was time for the remaining stashes. Few of them seem to be muggles (dnf was logged there). All the rest could be located and the logbooks signed.

Many thanks to all the owners for hiding and maintenance on their caches!

Greetings from Germany
st_klein

#4400:
I found this one laying on the ground. It was clearly pushed out of the hollow in the log, so there's probably an animal living in there. Take care when you find it next! TFTC.
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27th cache found in Queensland City Of Brisbane.

There are two huge anthills just a few metres back from this cache. Be sure to have a look on your way past! Another quick find.

Another day out chasing caches to fill both hidden date and hidden month. I decided to chase more old caches today. Queens Land was the main one today. It was one hour drive Southside had a good afternoon walking around Karawatha Forest. Pick up few here. Then cross over the M2 to pickup a 2003 cache. So pick up a 2000 and 2003. How 2000 is now my oldest cache.
Keep my streak going to #235 days. TFTC dranyer #1575