Nose to the ...... (Grindstone) Glan Devon, Queensland, Australia
By youngoldfella on 25-Jan-15. Waypoint GC5KQYK

A bit of long grass was going to scare my wife. She had become desensitized to anything that could be lurking underneath. We will probably stay that way until something bad happens, knock on wood.Something bad almost did happen and it wasnt the animal kind. It was a log that was obscured in the long grass that she almost tripped over and went arse up. tftc

Today while attending the event at Nanango we decided to target large size caches. This was a quick find at GZ. The container lid has been split but the cache did not appear to have any water damage. 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.Now that is big.

Another nice big cache. Contents were nice and dry inside the big plastic bag. Lots of colourful swaps here.
Thank you.

BIG cache haha, saw it from the road but tried to cover better

A very last minute decision sees me driving a couple of hours north to spend the day in Nanango…

A great day driving the country roads collecting a variety of caches…

Hard to miss this one…. Making it a nice quick find… tftc…

Quick find on a big day of caching.

Find number 62 with my target of 70 seeming achievable

Found safe and sound

Quick find while camped up at the Broadwater Reserve. Gotta love a big bucket cache with lots of SWAG. A lovely afternoon to be out finding some caches. TFTC

LARGE container, LARGE plastic bag, nice and dry log. TFTC

This was day one of heading out to QOGM at Charleville from Hervey Bay. I needed to drop one little turmoil to a horse riding camp outside Gympie. Then had to drive direct to Toowoomba where Chamad was waiting for me for the next leg of our trip.

I need large caches for a challenge cache so I squeezed in this stop. Shhh Don't tell Chamad.

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 #11046

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

All in good condition here.

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 # 8679

Heading to QOGM 2022 Charleville

I was still sorting my cache-finding device when I heard the call Found it. Let BHK86 do signing honours, lots of swag in the container. Love the School road name.

TNLN TFTC

Muggle65 and I are after select caches today to help with a challenge. We are covering many miles and have bitten off more than we can chew. The scenery was beautiful and this is the first time I have been out here and everything is green. We really enjoyed our day out here. Thank you for the fun

Up early this morning & off to find the FTF unleashed by Team JLBL & like all those preceding us ?????? no luck finding this one!!! But we aren’t claiming an DNF, just accepting partial frustration.

?????? & I looked for what seemed forever unmolested by muggles at 8:30am in the morning.

So leaving that location we had more success down the road at the challenge caches ?????? and then off to Tiaro & onward to our main hunting ground in the Kilkivan area.

Starting our day before the sun came up, we finished it a couple of hours prior to the sun coming up the next day, Simply because a FTF opportunity came up just after we arrived home & had started to relax. So at Midnight we set off for a bicycle ride along the gateway to finally claim a FTF for the day?? or was that for tomorrow???
Don’t care!!! Going home to sleep ?? sleep ?? ?? ??.

This one was a bit of a surprise. Heading homeward this was found in the dark on a busy dirt road & a LARGE???????? that alone scores a fav point

A lovely caching run this morning around the country roads in this beautiful area. It was very quiet along this road today. We spotted the VERY big container on approach. All good with the cache log signed and replaced as found. Thanks Youngoldfella for placing these caches for us to find.

Awesome cache! Thanks for the hide!

Travelling country roads caching as we go
Tftc

Driving home from Rainbow Beach and picking up a few caches along the way. Always great to grab some large ones so put this one on the list. Easily spotted on approach and was great to find a well stocked container. Log in good condition, added our name and replaced as found. Tftc youngoldfella

Wow that was a little unexpected.
I don't generally take much notice of the sizes of caches, noting sometimes when it's an 'other', although it is nice to come across a large size one on occasion.
Lotta swag too.
And an unusual d/t combination that i have only found eighteen of.
And considering this makes for find number 3246, that's a small percentage.
Thanks yof for hiding this big cache out on this country dirt road.

Well I am glad that everyone has found this cache, as if someone misses this one, they need to head on off to Specsavers. Certainly the largest of the large cache. It is fun coming across caches this size as there aren't often places to put them. Thanks for the fun. No. 32 ticked off the list. TFTC.

Completing a multitude of backlogs from a Bromance trip in August 21. Apologies for the late log. This was a bromance run in between COVID lockdowns, and somehow I didn't get to logging these finds. I was with Seffnjarah and a full team of JeznDez in the new jalopy they had recently purchased. Thanks ot the CO's for the great caches we picked up. Caching roadtrips with friends are the BEST!

Road trips for The Bromance have been few and far between since Covid-19 raised its ugly head so, with the recent travel restrictions now eased, Seffnjarah, Swellerfungus and a full complement of JezNDez headed off to subject JezNDez's new acquisition Max to the rigours of its first The Bromance geocaching weekend.

Our trip covered the Nanango, Goomeri and Kilkivan areas, and although we had visited this area back in May, we still had plenty of caches left to find up this way, including this one.

We had enjoyed our drive along the back roads in this area last time so we made sure to head back here on this visit. Another successful find here with The Bromance team stamp added to the logbook . Also dropped off some trinkets we had picked up on our last trip to the area. TFTC

Found thanks. Not the biggest cache iv seen but it's close.thnaks

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.
Quick easy find , not much cover around to hide it better.

Tftc Youngoldfella, nice to get a "large".
All good at GZ, thanks for bringing us here.

Day 8 - Homeward Bound

Aquilus1, Tankengine and I drove from Bundaberg to Toowoomba today.

More counties were on the agenda to pick up with a couple of tourist spots as well. We met some more awesome people, ate some amazing foods and found a few good caches.

One highlight was that we discovered that the tree felling along some of the highway is being done for safety reasons. Statistically drivers die within the first 9m of coming off the road. So they remove the trees and you should slow down when you hit the dirt and hopefully wake up when you get to bumpy ground. You won’t stop in time to hit a tree, but the impact should lessen.

This cache: Nice big cache and straightforward to get. Followed the Cacher trail in. Tftc youngoldfella!!!

Another large so another stop! Always good with a T3 I can get to easily so a huge bonus there too!

Trip log: Day 8 of the 10 day Easter Queensland Trip with dty73 and Tankengine. As has been the way, covid threw things into doubt but we packed the car and headed off waiting to find the fate of the Dayboro Mega and if QLD would be the destination. On route to the north of NSW to stand by and wait... we got the news it was all go!

Having spent a few nights in Bundaberg under a welcomed sunny blue sky, a sure contrast to the wet days of the Mega, it was time to make our way southish. A selection of counties along the way with some sideways detours to find the ones we could get. Lots of bottle trees, prickly pear and a range of terrain but a lush green and scenic drive to Toowoomba.

Chooo ooo [found] - with Dty73 and aquilus1 on our Dayboro Mega caching holiday! Thanks youngoldfella!

My husband and I are staying at nanango for a couple of days and this afternoon i dropped him off at the races and I'm off finding some caches. Love this country rd
Wow that's a nice big cache with awesome swaps the kiddies would love it. Giving it a FP FOR all the fun

Heading out on a LONG drive today.
From north Brisbane, to Esk, to Lake Cressbrook, Crows Nest, Haden, Cooyah, Yarramann, Nanango, Murgon and Boat Mountain, And return!!! No rest for the wicked. 500 kms+ in a day, with good weather, good company and good caches. Bliss!

I was looking for a couple of caches - larges ones, popular ones, old ones, high ones.
This was one of those caches! Thanks for contributing to an awesome day out caching. Home now, exhausted but happy.

Accio 15:37:06
After a morning spent collecting puzzles and views further south, OBC and I headed north with a specific old mountain in mind, and a few other caches along the way there and back, mostly large ones like here. This was almost our last find for the day with the Dayboro Mega planned for tomorrow.

Thanks youngoldfella for entertaining me at this location.
*{Overall find #8898}*

Huge cache..

Road trip with Stealth Seeker "Quest for 2020 in 2020"
Easy to spot when it's that big
TFTC

With Aussiemates. Looking for 2020 in 2020. Love a large cache! TFTC

Shore is a large cache.

Quick find here today

I found your cache with my Dad, Oddiewan and most of the time, Semik. I am way behind on logging so learned how to use templates so I can catch up. Sorry this is not a detailed log, but I will do better with my logging now that I have the ability to log caches on a mobile phone. Thanks for the cache youngoldfella

A nice way to kick off the new year

Caching with Oddiewan, Moneydork, Flash_Cat, BitternA4 and others at the New Year event in Kilkivan. Exploring the area caching style and as always lots of laughs when enjoying time with friends.

Day after the 2019-2020 New Years catch up.
Caching our way home to Brisbane
Caching buddies for this trip are Semik, Money Dork, Flashcat and BitternA4.
What an awesome way to bring up my 500th find

TFTC.

Great idea a bit different. TFTC

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.

Tftc! Must nearly be beer time I think, 4pm and making our way back to town

Tftc

Wow that is a size we havnt seen before. Can swap one of our larger items 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!

Found by Mary and David at 1315. Wonder if there was once a school at the end of Grindstone School Road. Love getting off the bitumen. Wish we knew all the names of the local vegetation. Our thanks to youngoldfella.

We have come out to chase some caches we have noticed when up this way when doing the rail trail series.All good with cache. Thanks youngoldfella.

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!

Out for the weekend with lisylou and jemilucy and mnance101 tftc

Wow that's a huge cache. Tftc

Nice size paint(?) container.

Nice container

Found on our way south.
Justjessie

Start drive other gravel road looking forward

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.

After a bike ride over Mt Stanley, I decided to take a detour on the drive home to find some caches to help get me to an upcoming milestone. I continued north and found some caches on the road over to Nanango then began the long drive home. Thanks for placing these

Couldn't miss a cache of this size just a quick stop to swap a TB. Cache was a little damp inside but still in good condition. Thanks for the cache

Woah Nelly, when you say large, you mean large. Felt this cache needed a tb so dropped one! Friendly farmer stopped to check if we were ok, of course we said we were just sorting out the geokids... they are used to being our best diversionary tactic. 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 ..

Up North today today finding some caches I've purposely left for a day like this. With my thermos filled and tunes pumping, I set off.
What a great big cache! Signed the log and covered it up a little better than it was. Thanks for the cache, youngoldfella!

TFTC

Found it with bikesu. Tftc

Off on our caching tour after brekkie. Tftc

After the car GPSr sent us on a wild goose chase, we were back on track with a whole new lot of caaches to find along our way. This cache was quickly located and the log signed. TFTC

We will be leaving very soon to attend the Red Centre Experience Event being held in Alice Springs and have decided we would try to make that event a milestone ... the only problem is we are a few hundred caches short This was the perfect excuse for a quick road trip through Nanango/Murgon/Kingaroy The weather was a little rainy, but surprisingly we remained relatively dry during the day with the worst of the rain occurring while we camped overnight [^]

We managed to locate this cache easily and with our name added to the log book, we continued on our journey.

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

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

Spoilt for choice it was difficult to decide on where to cache today. We decided on a small loop before lunch then a longer list for the afternoon.

We were impressed with the quality of the cache locations and containers here in Nanango. Very happy with our total of 42 finds with only 2 DNF's add to that 1 cache that muggles were hanging around even though we tried twice today. Think we will retry that on Monday when schools in.

TFTC youngoldfella

That's some container!!! TFTC YOF

Mmmm this cache smells nice, like good fresh laundry powder. No worries about this one getting wet. TFTC

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. Woohoo to another huge cache! Sorry about the cut and paste logs, so many found today! TFTC and day youngoldfella

Quick easy find all good with the cache TFTC

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another day of our touring through QLD. Thanks to all the CO's for the caches that break the monotony of travelling, and adding to our list of smileys. A nice BIG cache

Out for a days caching with diamonjs. Beautiful day. TFTC

Enjoying the drive around the countryside. TFTC

SL TnlnTftc

Wow what a big one!! TFTC youngoldfella

26/3/16 camping for the Easter break in the area and hoping to grab a few caches whilst in the area. I ducked out with the geoboy (hoping he would have a rest whilst I found a few caches) and I was mighty impressed with the various caches and hides today.

Sixth find for the day and what a big find it was. TFTC

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

Today was a combination of both domestic duties and geocaching. After moving into the caravan park and saying gidday to the Gullivers it was time to wash clothes, the floor, do some cooking etc. Then out we headed to do some geocaching. We love these rural areas for geocaching and we enjoyed the location and finding the cache. Thanks to youngoldfella for its placement and adding to our enjoyment of this location.

Found with Tassiegirl while out here for this weekend's event.
TFTC

#1253 @ 9:33 am. Road trip weekend with spinna76 and Stacevel out to Nanango for Nanango's First Event. TFTC youngoldfella!

# 949 @ 9:33 am
We stayed in Nanango last night after attending the awesome Nanango event. As we head home *SuzySquirrel*, spinna76 and I are collecting some smilies along the way.
This was not covered adequately so we remedied that so it stays safely hidden.
Took nothing, left swappable wrist band.
Thanks for adding to a fantastic weekend.

TFTC youngoldfella

#1256 @ 9:36 am ~ Logged in the company of Stacevel and *SuzySquirrel*. Here for Nanango's 1st Event. Big thanks to youngoldfella for a great weekend. ~ TFTC youngoldfella

We were out today to clean up some caches that we had missed while in town for the event TFTC

Yesterday when I finished work Captain Terror and I jumped in the Subaru and headed north so we could set up the tent at night and wake up this morning in Nanango. This way we could relax a bit more, get a sleep in and then head down to the event.

We woke up at about 4:30am and after an hour of trying to go back to sleep we decided to get up, find some breakfast and grab a few geocaches. We had an amazing breakfast at the bakery that donated bread to the event, then headed out for this cache.

We pulled up and Captain Terror found the impressive container. I wondered if I could fit into the swaps bag... nope. With our names in the logbook it was time to replace the container and head off for the next find. 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 at night, 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.

This was first up, being the closest Large container to the campgrounds and a very decent Difficulty/Terrain combination. Even if the co-ordinates would make an OCD sufferer cringe. As we rolled in, I recognised the area from another hunt the two of us were on with Xusia back in October last year. Not much time for that though as the Subaru begins to munch up the dirt road. One of these days Net might let me rally it (inevitably into a tree).

I parked us good and close to make the find, which was done pretty quickly. And yeah, it is definitely a large! I set about signing the logbook, but Net who maybe wasn't fully awake yet was interested in trying to get into the baggie and make friends with the toys therein. It's like having a small child sometimes Thanks for this excellent geocache, youngoldfella

Today was my first ever visit to the historic Burnett region, heading to lovely Nanango for the first event held there. Of course, there were plenty of caches to be found along the way .

Last dind fir the morning befire heading to the event. We enjiyed fibdubg this big boy.

This cache adds to our total of 1990 smilies. Thanks youngoldfella for showing us this spot.
Feel free to discover our trackable code TGQNRV

1593

Saturday. Slow Puncture took off early to fuel up Blue Thunder for our excellent day out at Youngoldfella's "Nanango's First Event" event. We had a hassle-free drive from Burpengary to Nanango, particularly enjoying the part of the trip from Blackbutt onwards, as we had not been past there in a long time.

Please pardon our generic log, but this is the only way we will ever get them recorded This cache, like all of the ones one our trip, was found in good order, and with lots of recent logs from cachers well known to us!

This was the 26th of 36 caches found on this trip.

Thanks [Blue]youngoldfella[/Blue], for showing us this place.

What a super cache! Loved it! And that wasn't the only thing I loved about this one. What a great name for the cache and what an unusual street name. Did the school come first or the name of the street? An interesting question. However, very appropriate! Thanks for the enjoyment of this one youngoldfella. You are providing so much entertainment and enjoyment in this area for us geocachers. Cheers! [^][^]

Located very quickly love these back roads
TFTC
4 December 2015 15:49

Quick stop off and a large cache, couldn't miss it ! .
Signed logbook 4/12/2015 6:05 pm and replaced all as found.
1 x TB Visit. Batman Returns.
youngoldfella - TFTC.