STUMPED Booie, Queensland, Australia
By youngoldfella on 25-Jan-15. Waypoint GC5KQXN

This morning Mrs Woodyrothwell had made herself a shake for breakfast. Its some sort of protein powder/weight loss shakes and she made me taste it. It was the most horrendous thing I have put my lips to.I can see why they advertise it as weight loss shake because once you taste it you never want to drink or eat ever again. tftc

Container nearly buried but contents all good. TFTC

Out 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.Green irrigated crops are a start difference to the earlier part of the ride.

Quick find on a big day of caching.

Find number 66 with my target of 70 seeming achievable

Found safe and sound

Quick find while camped up at the Broadwater Reserve. A lovely afternoon to be out finding some caches. TFTC

Stopping in Nanango for a couple of days, no need to rush to QOGM 22. Got into the caravan park early and set off for some caches. Some caches were damp, but understandably after the amount of rain the area has had. Great containers John and easily with standing the natural elements. Only one DNF on todays adventure.

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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 #11032

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

Glad of my long giraffe like arms

Thanks to CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot with stamp

TFTC youngoldfella

Find # 8663

Heading to QOGM 2022 Charleville

Nice drive to get to this one, lucky BHK86 has long arms.

TFTC

pretty easy lots of space in cache

With Aussiemates. Nice quick find. TFTC

Nanango Blitz Weekend with Stealth Seeker.
All good - right where it should be.

A lovely caching run this morning around the country roads in this beautiful area. This was a big one of those hints with a big container. All good with the cache log signed and replaced as found. Thanks Youngoldfella for placing these caches for us to find.

2nd find of the morning
Caching around the area.
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This cache certainly fulfilled the COs intentions as it distracted me from my intended path…

I did wonder where all the traffic suddenly appeared from as I tried to cross the road…

Once at GZ a nice quick find… tftc…

Day 2 of our trip around Nanango and district geocaching. I would have loved to have seen this tree in it's glory when it was alive and not just a stump. Quick find. TFTC. 44 smiles.

Found,lucky got long arms haha

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.

Tftc Youngoldfella, we are here in Nanango for a few days, will head down this road a bit and see what we find.
Quick find at this impressive specimen.

Added some swag

Found it clean cacheTFTC

Easy find in a typical YOF container. Many thanks

Found on a day trip from Kingaroy to Nanango via the long way, quick find here

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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.

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Found it. Cheers from Germany tftc

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!

Friday @ 1454
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. Wow, isn't this just a big unmissable stump. Hope nobody ever gets distracted and drives their car into it, I know who would win that fight!

Thanks for the experience, discover our trackable
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A pair of tongs may be helpful with retrieving this one.
TFTC

The cache was found easily enough but extraction was a bit more difficult. The cache had been replaced upside down with no lid in sight and contents spread further into the depth. After much fiddling with tongs, sticks and gaffer tape we recovered a log and a couple of trinkets but no lid. It now has a lid of gaffer tape but needs a new one. TFTC

Replaced with a length of 100mm PVC storm water pipe. Log only. Bring your own writing stick. All good to go.

See found log for details.

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

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

What a big one. Found with bennyboppers mnance01 and jemillalucy this morning. Tftc

Out for the weekend with lisylou and jemilucy and mnance101 tftc

I hitched a ride with caro from Jess & Caro today and we went north to find a bunch of caches. They were great and I had fun. Thanks!

Out for the day with Kale of ranibaskale so we can find some hidden creatures and have a bit of an adventure. This was one of the caches we found today! Thanks for the cache, youngoldfella!

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.

Bovine audience whilst we completed logging duties. Large cache in great condition with 100's of flying insect guardians. 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 ..

Off on our caching tour after brekkie. Nice green country side. Tftc

Found it with bikesu. Tftc

Hubby fun run i won but to short to retreive lol took easter egg travelbug for a ride

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

Leaving Nanango today but what's the rush. Packed up but then headed out to find just a few more caches before leaving after lunch.

Swapped over TB's here.

TFTC youngoldfella

Visiting a TB we collected here for it's mileage. (not logged here)

Day 2 of discovering caches around Nanango Saw travel bug Captn Jack and Oztrees TFTC YoungOldFella

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On a cache run from Toowoomba to Nanango with Eskies5 as I head towards a targeted milestone. Skipping over Nanango we decided to head down this road and do a bit of a loop to grab a stack! All caches along here were found after a quick search, GPS coords were excellent. Containers in great condition. Heading back to town we decided to stop off here and grab this one. Sorry about the cut and paste logs, so many found today! TFTC and day youngoldfella

I have found this one before but decided to drop the last of the TBs in my possession here...WWII Heros.

We are heading toward a milestone event, so we decided to set ourselves a challenge to achieve a few milestones all at once. To manage this however, we have found ourselves on a roadtrip which would provide us with an abundance of caches ... perfect for our requirements.

Fortunately, all the caches we found today seemed to be pretty straight forward and we managed to add our name to the log book without any difficulty.

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

TFTC

Long arms indeed! Tftc

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quick find now how do I get that, oh yes the great new retrieval tool I just got, no it won't fit, hmm Rusty 85 went in face first, great sight wish I had taken a picture. TFTC

Diamonjs and I have been staying in Nanango for a couple of days sight seeing and also grabbing the caches along the way today we decided a trip to Kingaroy was in order, we decide to go up one way and come back another way. TFTC

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Another smiley face. TFTC youngoldfella

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.

TFTC

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.

Captain Terror and I had been looking forward to this weekend for quite some time. We had driven up last night and after failing to sleep in this morning we decided to grab a bunch of geocaches before the event.

This was the ninth cache for the day and the easiest find for me. I woke up alone in the Subaru and spotted Captain Terror holding the container. By the time I had taken off my seatbelt and started getting out of the car the container was rehidden and he was coming back. Now, I feel that since it was my car that got us there with fuel I paid for and my pen he signed our names with that I deserve the smiley too Thanks for the cache Youngoldfella.

Last night Net88 and I drove up to Nanango to begin our long weekend for Nanango's First Event. Arriving later than anticipated, then putting up the tent meant an exceedingly early night by our standards. Then, when the sun came up and it was bright in the tent at around 04:30 we had no choice but to get up and begin the day. With a few hours between breakfast and the event starting, we chose to go geocaching, of course. So many to find so we targeted by size, prioritising Large containers, then any regulars in between - which made for a most enjoyable and productive morning.

It was a full 8 minute drive from the last geocache to this one. Possibly the longest leg of our early morning geocaching trip, but not a long one by any means. However, in that time, Net managed to fall asleep. Wide awake at the last geocache to completely passed out 2 minutes later. This left me grooving along to Carly Rae Jepsen on my own and when we pulled up at this spot, after not the smoothest nor the slowest drive ever, she was still asleep, so I hopped out to find the geocache on my own.

Then she woke up alone in a car on a dirt road somewhere and presumably got scared. Meanwhile in geocache sity I had found the container in one of the biggest stumps I've seen in a while. As per every other youngoldfella geocache ever, it was a handsome container in great condition. Replaced as found. Now back to the car to see how confused little Nettles is Thanks for this geocache and the laugh, youngoldfella

What a fantastic tree this stump must have belonged to, we wonder what happen? Was it cut down due to the road being built, or was it possibility storm damage. While in Nanango we don't go pass stump without wondering if it will become a potential cache site. SL TFTC

This is a great spot for a geocache and a great indication to me that my arms must be shorter than most. I nearly had to give up as I had so much trouble reaching this one. In the end, after I finally managed to reach it by making quite the fool of myself, yes, you can laugh, we used some CITO to prop it underneath as we couldn't find anything produced by mother nature to do the job. Thanks for the challenge at this one youngoldfella. I might hang from some beams for a while and try to stretch my arms, lol. Cheers! [^][^]

Stumped - well one couldn't really miss it !
Signed logbook 4/12/2015 6:50 pm and replaced all as found.
1 x TB Visit. Batman Returns.
youngoldfella - TFTC.

Out and about this morning with triciac2 for a few caches.
A quick find here while we have time before heading south.
Thanks for the cache.

Caching day with Brother Colin. Tftc

Found the stump quickly enough, but the cache was such a long way down inside. We needed to find our long wire hook to pull the fabulous cache. Found at 4.15pm on 30th August 2015. TFTC.

Happy International Geocaching Day!

This was a nice quick find whilst we were out on our assault of Nanango!

About today:
It was decided by Fairy Mother and I that we wanted to get out and do some Geocaching for this celebratory day and also do it in a place that we really enjoy hunting. That place was out west in Nanango. An area that we have both enjoyed hunting from the moment we started Geocaching.

The day was just perfect for it. There was a crispness to the air, the sky was a stunning blue and the company was, as always, perfect. All of this added to what was a pleasant day of laid back hunting.

This time we decided that we would both meet up in Nanango to save on time (allowing for more caching time!). The two and a bit hour drive out just flew by for me today. Being taken on a ride by the GPS, I went via a few fun dirt roads to get here and grab a sneaky cache or two along the way.

Thanks for the Geocache youngoldfella.

Holy moly, I thought I was going to lose my 5yo son in this stump. He insisted that it was his turn 'to find it'. So up he climbed onto the stumped, then stuck his head in, then his arms, then the rest of him nearly fell all the way in before I grabbed him by the leg. He thought it was great fun. Coming out laughing but with no cache in hand.
It was then his big sister's turn. She saw what had just happened to her brother so she was more cautious. Nope, she could not reach it either.
So in I go for a try. Thank goodness no one drove past because there wouldn't have been a pretty sight.
Fantastic cache and lots of fun.
Thank you

we go again but on way home for Brisbane TFTC

Way back home from Eidsvold and finish off that area and nice country peace drive and was quick and find TFTC

Found this one as we head back, almost time to call it quits! TFTC

Well you know how tall I am.
Headed to this one and saw how far it was down.
Stepped up on stump and leaned down into stump to grab cache. Head disappearing into stump and out I came with the cache.
I am sure geopartner thought I was going to disappear into the stump with my legs sticking out the top.
He would have to retrieve me then as I would be stuck.
Signed the log and gently placed the cache back in hide.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks youngoldfella All good with this cache

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

Having attended the Nanango Markets today, it was time to turn a few green boxes into
The target today was Lock Lane, some of the Wide Bay Hwy, Mondure Crossing Rd, the ones out at Elgin Vale, and continue on to the Wide Bay Hwy, then home.
All told 21 's, not too bad for a Saturday afternoon.
All with the cache. The next time you are going past, it could do with a rock as an anchor. I seem to remember that the flood waters would cover this hide.
Thanks youngoldfella, it's been awhile.

Spending a few days up in the Kingaroy and Nanango districts and places closeby from my place in Brisbane. Due to the number of caches found, I have decided to do a generic log. To all the CO's, a big thank you for bringing us to your area and the many varied caches we found. Thank you for bringing us along the country road. TFTC

Having another annual caching trip to Nanango and Kingaroy with Richmond Lad. Last year we thought we had found most of them but some wonderful COs keep putting out more to entice us back to this lovely region of Queensland. We have driven along quiet , gum tree lined country roads, spotted some peaceful waterways and are becoming experts at stumps!!! Thank you to all the COs who have caches in this area - you are all doing a wonderful job creating, placing and maintaining your hides.

Heading back to Nanango. TFTC

Wow...this would have been an impressive specimen. Bit of a stretch required...glad I am not short. TFTC.

Ahhh a nice easy one at the end of another caching day TFTC

That would have been quite a specimen in its day. Cache was found safe and dry. TFTC, youngoldfella.

I'm glad DisSister was with me for this one as I'm a bit scared of what can take up residence in spots like this. Quite an impressive tree this was in its day, though! There was a pair of surveyors further down the road- glad they hadn't set up closer to the cache. TFTC, youngoldfella. =^.^=

Luckily the surveyor was surveying the other direction so we went undetected on our search. Cache safe and well. Thanks youngoldfella.

[font=Comic Sans MS]Hi there youngoldfella. We found your cache "STUMPED" at 3:58:07 PM today. This cache makes our find count 10926.
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Passing through with the "Walk for Life" team. (Team Robins, Rainforest Cookie & Rat Dog 12).
They are spending 14 months and plan to walk around Australia raising money for prostate and breast cancer awareness & research.

Follow them on [url=https://www.facebook.com/robinsnestwalkforlife?fref=ts]Facebook[/Url], walk with them when they pass through your area or maybe you could donate something to their cause.
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We signed the log "Walk for Life"
Thanks for the hunt today,
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12091 caches found

While on The Walk for Life with Ian and Penny, Rainforest Cookie and Ratdog12 this one was found

took : nothing
left : nothing

Thanks for the cache youngoldfella

Out with the Walk for Life team. Ian and Penny, Ratdog12 and Team Robins this is one of the caches we had time to find.
but now we have to walk on Australia is such a big country and we haven't gone far.
TFTC

[Blue]# 12072[/Blue] Found on our 2015 Winter escape trip to Qld.
Another perfect day for caching around the Nanango area.
Cheers from Wagga Wagga in the Riverina, NSW.
Thanks for the cache youngoldfella,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

A sunny day for a bike ride around the area

That is a mighty fine stump [^]
A good indication of how the land looked long ago

The cache was an easy find with rubber arms
TFTC !!

#6514Found and Logged 11:48:00 AM
One of 61 caches for the day out and about the beautful countryside around Nanango on a perfect caching day
Thanks for the cache youngoldfella

Todays trip was around the rural country side. All the caches we found had great co-ords & hints. The regular & large containers were packed full of swaps. We loved our Sunday drive.
Thanks for placing this cache youngoldfella

Another nice find today while in the area with Just-Lookin.

SL TFTC

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

TFTC