WELCOME from Rubyvale The Gemfields, Queensland, Australia
By grannysmith1947 on 17-Mar-15. Waypoint GC5PKJ8

Nice easy find TFTC

Today we headed to Sapphire and Rubyvale to explore parts of gem country. Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks grannysmith1947 for the cache.

TFTC.

TFTC with Slack1962

With FiveTays-TT TFTC

Thanks for the cache! Such a beautiful location.

Found with 2beez

TFTC found with 2As.

This one rocked!

We are behind the Donks finding this cache wonder if they are at the same campsite as us

OCW PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa Heading to Rubyvale today, a quick find on the way. Tftc

Ocw the Bebes as we visit the area. Tftc

Thank you for placing caches, we have had a great few days in the area. Tftc

During our stay at the Emerald Motel, we had the opportunity to explore the area and find hidden caches. We also had the chance to take in the sights and sounds of the local area. Here's one to find today.Thank you for placing the cache grannysmith1947.

33,518. Found during our Queensland Outback GeoMuster (QOGM) 2023 Longreach Adventure - a 33 day epic tour of Northern NSW and Outback Queensland finding many caches, attending great events and catching up with awesome Cachers along the way.Queensland Outback GeoMuster (QOGM) 2023 Longreach Adventure Day 27. After a fun night at the local Pub, we packed up and cleaned out the Gemfields/Sapphire/Rubyvale region. Once that was complete we headed a little bit more East to Emerald where we both had unfinished business to attend to. This was the next one on the list. Quickly found once at GZ. Signed as F65 and A33 as required. Replaced the cache as found, then we continued on our journey.Thanks to all the COs who put out these caches !!

Found by Mary and David at 14:45. Hello, goodbye from Sapphire. Our thanks to grannysmith1947.

Leaving QOGM 23 and heading to the Coast grabbing caches along the way TFTC

Found

Found while on our way to with Nathan_and_Alyce and rest of the MummaBear and the Cubs Gang.Thanks for the cache placement and maintenance GrannySmith1947Thanks for the huntTook nothing, Left nothing, signed logSign Logbook as MB&C and NAB

Found while on our way to with Nathan_and_Alyce and rest of the MummaBear and the Cubs Gang.Thanks for the cache placement and maintenance GrannySmith1947Thanks for the huntTook nothing, Left nothing, signed logSign Logbook as MB&C and NAB

Visiting Emerald at the moment.
Looking forward to some great finds and exploration

Cache found after short search.

Left a painted rock as trinket. If you move the rock, please post on Facebook Mackay 'Rock' where it is moved to.

On a slow, meandering trip out to Longreach for the QOGM 2023 event.
Cache found in the expected area, within a reasonable time, without difficulties. SPOR
Cache in good condition.
TNSL TFTC

You just don't feel.lime you've cached an area until you've done the welcome cache. Quick find tftc.

On the hunting trail with SeasonedBird while on a slow roundabout route to QOGM 2023 at Longreach. A quick find here. A couple of caching days planned in and around Rubyvale, Sapphire and a chance for Mrs Geo to hit the gem fields. It’s a great day for caching.
TFTC grannysmith1947

For anyone making Geo plans, do yourself a favour and visit Australia’s only current Geotour at Ballarat while it lasts: https://www.geocaching.com/play/geotours/ballarat-victoria

And for anyone that can travel to Longreach, Queensland, late September 2023, Google “QOGM” which is the Queensland Outback Geocaching Muster. You’ll have at least 8 or 9 days of pure geocaching fun with around 200 like minded people attending a mix of events and access to over 200 geocaches placed by the QOGM team. It’s not a Mega, it’s better.

A bucket list location! A little bit of fossicking and maybe a touch of retail therapy with a cache or two thrown in

Thanks grannysmith1947 for taking time to set out and maintain this hide and for showing us this very special big bucket list part of the world

Log signed in first open spot

Find # 9508

#LockitupintheOutback

Found with SJG66 on our Emerald Blitz. TFTC

Found with O319.TFTC

Another quick find on our way home

I was worried that I may have to pack a few superman sized meals for this one, however surprisingly we came up with the goods faster than how I fly.

Yep

Woohoo!

Quick and easy find!
Thanks mate

TFTC

Visiting family at Emerald. Went for a drive to the gem fields. A quick find. Tftc

Thanks for the hint

Heading back to our accomodations after a day out fossicking with Lady luck
Time for a bit of a rest.

Tftc

Continuing our much changed plans to drive from Cairns to Brisbane with our English friends, Demimonich. TFTC grannysmith1947

Another quick cache n dash! Tftc

Just happened to stop here to look at the sign and remembered there was a cache here. So decided to grab it at the same time. Thanks for the cache

Had to do a 3/4 loop to find this one, thanks for another cache grannysmith1947.

quick find tftc

FOUND TFTC WITH BARROD.

found cache tftc

Stones indeed. Not too challenging, though. Tftc

Great Northern escape 2022 Day 133. Emerald to The Gemfields. After a great week of caching around Emerald, I headed an hour down the road to do the caches around Sapphire and Rubyvale. I left th can in Sapphire and ventured on to visit several roadside caches and a great hill climb for an Earth cache. I finished with a failure in the cemetery, oh well.

Having done the other welcome sign, I looked for something similar and was happy not to have to spend too long tuning stones to make the find.

Thanks for the cache grannysmith1947

37394.6 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 12000 Finds A#260

**Albida**

Hiding in the rocks...

Found it at feet level. Have fun easy find .

Good find Left treasure!

I’m off on my annual 6 week adventure and it is back to Outback Queensland to finish off what I started last time but got interrupted along the way.
It is nice and quiet on the roads this morning and I’m now in QLD and the weather can only get better to what Melbourne is at the moment.
After a beautiful couple of days at Carnarvon Gorge it was time to head to Anakie for a couple of nights.
Arrived at Anakie then set up the van so now it is off to explore the area as much as I am able to do so.
My trip has turned pear shaped as my knee has gone and so there is now very little walking so if you saw someone hobbling around that was probably me.
Continuing on with my caching tour of Sapphire and Rubyvale and what an interesting place to visit.
Another welcome sign but this is at the other end of town which means I must be now headed to Rubyvale.

Thanks grannysmith1947 TFTC.

TFTC too many rocks

Found with Dozenmater,,TFTC

TFTC - found with rainygirl74

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Found

Tftc

Good find.

Another good cache found with woolwood9.
*Enjoyed the drive / walk around.*
SL **tm/ww NZ**
*Thanks for the fun find!
Really appreciate the effort put into this cache.*

Enjoying a trip around Queensland with tmann421after a two year wait for the Australian New Zealand boarders to open.
Found numerous caches and saw plenty of interesting places.
Log signed tm/ww NZ
TFTC

Making our way back to Brisbane on a geo road trip with sweraah and stephyy. Another nice quick find here. Tftc grannysmith1947 ️

Staying in Rubyvale with Swearah and Jodsta83 for the night we decided to get some local caches.

Nice quick find

A quick find by Stephyy here. Jodsta83 had some stamping issues but she got there!

Thanks for the cache, grannysmith1947

Fun, adventure, travel, history, geology, mental stimulation, social gatherings, support and friendship are just some of the elements of geocaching.

Out and about enjoying the opportunity to grab a few caches, yours being one of those I targeted on my journey today. Thanks ??

Thanks grannysmith1947 (F=14073 H=42) for placing this cache and adding to our game.

Interesting terminology, usually we find welcome to. This was a nice quick find. Thanks for the cache.

We are zig zagging our way north with micaparamedic, Papi4506 & Geoturtle37 and after staying at Blackall we are heading towards the Lab caches in Emerald via Barcaldine to grab a few solved puzzles there.

We had spent the night in Sapphire as the sun had set by the time we had finished the Rockhound trail. Today we were having a more leisurely day

As we have said before we have visited many "Welcome to" signs since we started geocaching but this is the first "Welcome from'-:)
Coming or going it was a nice sign that made a good location to hide a cache. Being tail end Charlie by the time we got to gz the cache had already been located and the log book now contains our names.

Many thanks again for the cache.

On our way out of Ruby Vale, we stopped here as we were heading back through Sapphire again.
Mr Domsky made a super quick find, and then I was back in the car to begin our journey back to Emerald.
Tomorrow we start driving to Rockhampton.
Thanks grannysmith1947 for all the hides in this area.
Domsky

After visiting a nearby cache, I headed to this one. I found two caches here! One on top of the other {:o} I signed both logs then returned them as found. TFTC

Finally catching up with my logging!*

An epic 3 week roadtrip up to Longreach/Winton and back to Brissy. ??????????

We finally made it to Winton and now were on the homerun back to Brisbane! How magnificent is this place!!!?? We spend a good half day here exploring and visiting the Miners Heritage Centre to do an underground tour. I loved the microbats!
This was a quick find for us. Replaced as found and away we went to explore more of the town.
TFTC!????

A quick and easy find. All is good with this cache. TFTC

Quick and easy find

Sapphire is an unique beautiful town. Thank you for having us.

Found it
Deafcat DeafVW DutchAus
Thank you

Awesome with DeafPhantom DutchAus DeafVW

A very quick find. TFTC

Quick easy find on our day trip to the area. Camped at Emerald on our last leg of our outback Queensland caching trip.
Thanks for the hide.

Found with orth71 on a trip from Townsville to the outback caching
We are caching Sapphire and Rubyvale today.
Quick easy find and thanks for the caches in the area.
TFTC

These signs are awesome!

MC4702 found while caching with _hitam TFTC

A nice simple find. Love the town name signs. Very classy

Today we decided to have a look around the gem fields, and grab a few caches as we go of course. We are staying at Emerald and love the names the towns around here. Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire-what more can a girl want!
Were we come from there’s gold in them thair hills, and we have spent many a weekend camping and sitting in freezing streams (snow melt!) panning for the elusive yellow streak. We always manage to find some, but never enuf to pay for the diesel it takes to drive there! Lucky we love it, and the fun times we have with family and friends.
Thanks to the COs for developing and maintaining these caches for us to find. We appreciate your efforts.
TFTC

Out and about around the Gem fields of Sapphire and Rubyvale, if you were not driving in the car the iimpression you get from looking around the humpies, is your are back in a time of less sophistication, piles of dirt and rocks and makeshift abodes of sheet iron, 44gal drums and anything else they could get to built a shelter to give them some cover from the elements.

Day 8 of the Darwin Geoventure 2021

TFTC grannysmith1947
Total Cache Finds 11173

I love a cache at a welcome sign. This one was just waiting for me to sign the log.

Visiting the Gem fields today to do some fossicking and catching up on some caches while here. TFTC

Great cache

A morning out to log the remaining half of the trads and the multi at the Gemmies. Just RoddyC’s Earth Cache to go on another day.

Pretty quick find here. Log was full and damp so left a new one, but it's only small so will have to try to get out there again soon to put something more substantial there.

TFTC

out and about with miss Millie geo dog doing maintance run on all my caches., new logs , a couple had to have new containers all good to go .
Thank you all for coming to the gem fields to look for our caches .Happy Caching Cheers grannysmith1947

Running from Rubyvale to Sapphire collecting caches on the way.
This one needs another log. Wasn’t carrying any paper to add.... next cacher may be able to help...

TFTC!!

Taking a geo tour around QLD, The Gemfields today, this is no 22 tyfc.

Out in our bikes early to beat the heat. Enjoying biking around Sapphire as so many interesting relics TFTC

Well that was interesting. H got out of the car and started circling. T was writing a previous log. Once T got out she went the other way and stopped at a likely spot. Not wanting to take away from H's meticulious hunting she just stood at a likely spot. However he found it before he reached her. Once log was signed he moved on to her spot and low and behold there was a cache there as well. So we signed both logs. TFTC x 2

Heading home now from our western trip through Cunnamulla, Blackall, Longreach and Barcaldine with a night now in the Gemfields to pick up the caches around there.

A nice diversion from the sometimes monotonous driving.

Welcome.

TFTC grannysmith1947

On our geocaching adventure this morning we stopped to look for this cache. As we drove up Wazza once again spotted the hide. TFTC

Quick find
TFTC

Thanks for the cache nice lot of rocks. Log was full.

Apologies for the late log.

TFTC. The young fella beat me to it today.

Day ten of my outback Queensland trip and the plan today is to arrive in Emerald by night time, via the towns of Jericho, Alpha, Sapphire, Rubyvale and Anakie. Continuing with my challenges of a trad a day and a cache a day and collecting a few more for the day. I do have a list of caches that I do want to collect along the way and probably some extras as I see fit.

Caching on my own again and am enjoying the time and adventures that comes with that. Though most of the caches were easy finds, some did give me a smile and I saw some familiar name in the logs, was I following?

This cache was an easy find and in good condition. With the log signed and cache returned as found, it was onto the next one. Thank you for placing it here, I really enjoyed the drive around this area today.

Another easy find today

The log is all but full will need to be replaced. Tftc

Easy find by daughter.

Easy find

Yes it's exactly where the hint Saya

Thanks for the find