The Treasure of the Saint Goombungee, Queensland, Australia
By FiremanHotdog on 12-Jul-15. Waypoint GC5Z3W6

Moving far from site, cannot continue to maintain

quick find on our way onto Esk, TFTC

Nice easy find. Great little village. We had a nice morning tea at a cafe in the air con- temp showing 38 degrees outside. Impressive war memorials and beautifully kept gardens. Thanks for bringing us here. Undercover Duo.

**# 25628** Found on our 2019 winter escape trip to Qld with Mrs Roosta.
A perfect Spring day for a drive around the countryside while at Toowoomba.
Hardly any muggles around and mostly good safe hides.
Thanks for the cache FiremanHotdog,
***Roostaman***

Maree

Tftc, Geo toddler enjoyed finding this one!

Doing a bit of cacheing at night. Aboard flew out and scared the something out of us

Return visit with a geo-friend. Cache tossed on ground and exposed with pencil nearby. Careless

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Found with Touchstone7 on a trip out west of Brisvegas. We were up visiting my father and decided that a little side trip around an area I haven't really been to could be fun.

And of course, there were caches.

Thanks for the cache and sorry for the late log. Sometimes life gets a little hectic

Enjoying the qld winter taking a short break west of our father's farm, soothing our need to explore.
Drawn by the idea of a Lilly wall Genghicat and I found ourselves checking out the nearby shops and pub. It's a beautiful little town, much moreso I expect when in bloom.
The cache was quickly located and is in good condition. Took a quick sunset photo.
Tftc

I don't entirely know how I've not found this geocache before, having been coming through 'Australias Picnic Town', or as I think of it 'that town with the jacaranda seats and the licorice library' for three years in the annual event out of Crows Nest. Maybe we've just always been in a bit more of a rush.

Maybe this year was a bit different, or a bit slower. I was in the motorcade/convoy/vehicle caterpillar wending it's way from Crows Nest to all-over-the-place during the [Rural Safari 2019](https://coord.info/GC885H9). I wasn't looking for waypoints myself, we had Pprime navigating. I wasn't driving either, we had Fangsoki doing that. I wasn't even looking on any device for geocaches, but La Kedi in our car was. Come to think of it, was I doing anything but holding down the fourth seat?

With a waypoint in Goombungee, Team Canyonero pulled up and did what needed to be done. I wandered to my preferred cafe for a sausage roll, a toasted sandwich and a really hot coffee. Prime and Fangsoki sat down to solve the puzzle at the other cafe (which we later found out they made an error in which may or may not have lost us a few points and first place for the event). And La Kedi wandered up the street to this geocache. Munching my sandwich and trying with limited success to not spill hot coffee onto other arm, I headed up the road too.

There certainly is a bunch of weird stuff going on up this street. Aside from the licorice library, the art gallery opening, and the statue I'd not noticed before, was the pastel technicolour display in a front yard and someone hard-parked PT Cruiser. Onwards we walk. As I arrived at GZ, La Kedi was just putting the geocache back. With nobody around on this weekend sure made it an easy find.

From there we walked back to the cafe to rejoin Fang and Prime and head off on more adventure. My hands were full and I'm annoyed I didn't get a photo of the odd sights of this town. But the signs for the public toilet always make me smile. Thanks for this geocache and bonus smiley for the day, FiremanHotdog

Teaming up with Slow Puncture and Orange Crew for the Rural Safari this was the first time for ruzzelz. We got a reasonable time for the roll off and with Mr Slow Puncture at the wheel and the rest of us trying our best to spot clue and provide advice to our rally drive on appropriate routes we were soon well advanced in the pack and hence rarely found ourselves eating others dust.

Along the way we found a visual clue or 2 but not a lot, stopped for a cache or 2 in the immediate vicinity of our chosen track and managed to sneak off track into Blackbutt (well one must have coffee and cakes.)

Enjoyed the day out and about in the Crows Nest - Cooyar area and sure hope the poor folks up there get some rain this spring as the country is very dry

This cache popped up along the way so we were forced to stop.

La Kedi, Pprime, and I were out and about grabbing caches while attending the Rural Safari.

Miss La Kedi expressed a desire to get a few caches and this was one of the ones we collected. TFTC FiremanHotdog

A quick snack stop in Goombungee while navigating our way around Xixau and Shenzi’s Rural Safari 2019 had me walking up to this very easy to spot cache. TFTC, FiremanHotdog. =^.^=

Quick easy park and grab indeed!

TFTC FiremanHotdog. Thanks for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Cheers, E

Pls consider attending the Queensland Outback Geo Muster, visit
https://coord.info/GC85HBT

Saturday. Out on the Safari 2019 trek and we stopped as Ruzzelz hadn’t found this one. We re-signed the log anyways since we were here.

Thanks ***FiremanHotdog***, for showing us this interesting place.

We had found this one before, so we were visiting with TBs.

Love it when you pull up at a cache and someone is holding it...all I can say is that this was certainly a very quick park & grab just like the description says

TFTC FiremanHotdog
Found August 3, 2019

Attending the Rural Safari 2019 event at Crows Nest, and travelling and caching with Susan and Uve of TBU.
A quick find.
TNLNSL TFTC

Out driving around the area for Rural Safari, we stopped in Goombungee for one of the bonus stages. While the others worked on that I went a found this cache. A quick find once I found where to look. SL then returned as found and added a few swaps.

Found on 3 August 2019 at 10.32am. TFTC, FiremanHotdog.

Whilst traveling the 2019 Rural Safari with La Kedi, Captain Terror and Fangsoki ... Team Canyonero swung by and nabbed a quick find.
Thanks FiremanHotdog for entertaining me at this location.
*{Overall find #6764}*

I had a DNF here on the last safari run, so was pleased that this got turned into a smile today!

Arrived to find another safari competitor on site! A quick find and a lovely quaint church! Tftc

Found it with TBU1BIKESU.TFTC

A quick snack stop in Goombungee while navigating our way around Xixau and Shenzi’s Rural Safari 2019 had me walking up to this very easy to spot cache. TFTC, FiremanHotdog. =^.^=

Trackable dropped by a friend. Thanks La Kedi.

We are staying in the Caravan Park for the Rural Safari 2019.
Thanks to the Event organisiers.

We met Mickeyspikey here, so we went together out for the Safari Rallye today. We had lots of fun and enjoyed the day out in the country!

We took the time for the one or other cache on the way.

Whilst doing a puzzle and having a coffee, we went on a walkabout.

Thanks to all COs!

WallabyTim and his long arms found this one whilst Mrs Wallaby waited in the car with a busted ankle. As I waited, I noticed the presiding pastor of the Lutheran church and from memory, I believe it was Pastor Pukallas who officiated my Grandmother's funeral. TFTC

Nice and easy find for a quick stop

Visiting the Goombungee area and had to stop for the caches here. Quick easy find. TFTC FiremanHotDog

Great hide

Nice day, TFTC.

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If there are 4 things to search round - how come I always start on the wrong one. Signed and returned as found. TFTC FiremanHotdog

Quick find
TFTC

TFTC a great cache for the Little Folks

Thanks for replacing this one. All good here now it is back in play.

Coordinates changed from:
S 27° 18.084 E 151° 51.131

Coordinates changed to:
S 27° 18.097 E 151° 51.130

Distance from original: 79.4 feet or 24.2 meters.

After many people commenting that the co-ordinates were off (by about 25m), I finally was able to change it back to the correct location.

No luck here for us today. We read the past logs and saw that the co-ords are out and then fround one that told us that closer to the sign would help, then we found a log with a better set of co-ords. Still no luck.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Had no luck with this one today.

Checked all 4 bushes could not find. Needs to be checked hasn’t been found since April. How many DNFS since then and now not recorded

Yikes! This must be a new record for dodgy coords. Try about 25M SSE from posted coords in fork of large bush.

Sadly, the last name in the logbook before mine is Guddink whose sudden death in early January was a massive shock to his large family and friends in the Geocaching community. Art logged this cache when attending the Rural Safari with Aussie Liahona.

TFTC FiremanHotdog!

Out with Stortigirls, her muggle fiance and his son, we pulled up and I felt a lil uneasy looking around this place probs cause the neighbour was so close. After a lil while he popped his head out and said the one and only word we wanted to hear. "Geocaching" he said and we both breathed a sigh of relief and said "yes, yes we are". He pointed us in the right direction and we soon made the find. Its funny cause when we first walked in the gate I had a feeling it might be where the guy directed us too, however we chose to follow the gps. Should have followed my geo-senses as usually they are on point. This one is about 30m out so coords do need adjusting TFTC

Stopped to make a find here as we had used the amenities down the road and it seemed a same to leave a green box behind. As per the previous logs we were in all the wrong places, when the neighbour came out "geocaching?" he asked. He pointed us in the right direction, telling us it was his son's cache. The cache was in hand soon after and we added our names to the log. Tftc FiremanHotdog

Again, as per previous logs, coordinates out by about 25m. Just chose the process of elimination and by the 4th spot we had the cache.
Grabbed tb
Thanks

Found during Safarie event. Coords 25 m out. Needs correcting.

Cords 26m out by our GPSr. Took a TB. Left a TB. TFTC

Noting co ords about 18mtrs out we headed off to search in a likely spot & bingo!! Dropped tb & some swaps. Tftc FiremanHotdog xo

Nice drive here as I ha ent been here for 21 yrs! Nothing much change! Quick easy find got signed and returned same place TFTC

TFTC smile 3379 what a great little place out and about with miss millie geodog she loved the little dog next door

Found it with my dad and little brother on Fathers day

Where to go on fathers day? My friends suggested the local pub out here and we were not disappointed. The best way to cap off an afternoon is to find a cache so we looked at the map and spied this one.

We tried to be discrete but the kids were too exited and made a lot of noise. I spotted someone in the nearby house and thought we were sprung. He quite kindly said "you can come in if you are looking for something" I can only guess he has seen many other strangers poking around in the past.

WillPunkey retrieved the cache, we made some swaps and were on our way.

Thanks FiremanHotdog FP given

Good find

Mrs RoddyC and I were out in the Barcaldine Region for a week, in the company of youngoldfella, planning for the ACGM next year. Today we are on the final leg home.

Used YOFs coordinates for better accuracy.

Log signed and replaced. Found at 1.50pm on 30th July 2017. TFTC, FiremanHotdog.

Had a look for this one as we drove into town to no avail here for the trial bike ride. Read thru the logs to see that the cords were out by about 18 metres. Thanks to young old fella for new numbers it then became a reasonably easy find tftc

This was a nice easy find thanks to the clue and the previous logs. Thanks FiremanHotdog. Cheers from Bindair Dundat and Princess Madelyn.

Quick visit and find. Tftc

Nice find while travelling through the area today.
Co-ords a long way out here!
SL TFTC

Found at 0912. Had to search a bit for this one. TFTC.

Trying to fill in our calendar by found date is starting to get a bit tricky with few local caches left so Kestal and I took the opportunity of the weekend to go for a short drive to make a find. Thankfully very quiet today. All good here. Thanks FiremanHotdog.

This one has been sitting in my nearest for quiet some time but with the distance I have not gotten around to signing my name in the log book. After a DNF else where this morning Eskies5 and I decided to head out to this one hoping for a quicker find in this heat. Luckily we did and I have not filled in another calendar day. TFTC FiremanHotdog

Very cheeky. Tftc. First spot we looked wasnt successful. Close to the kindergarten sign was bingo.

Found it!! Have taken info sheet to dry and return. Left a trackable for next finder!! TFTC

Great to see another cache in Goombungee, and after speaking to the Lutheran pastor at an event tonight, I think I understand the background!
I figured the cache might not be at the exact coordinates so it was actually a fast find, though still a little tricky to reach.
I recommend the South coordinates be +0.010 i.e. 094.
All is good inside so TFTC!

A day out was planned with Slow Puncture to find as many of Queensland's oldest caches as possible in a single day trip around the Darling Downs today.

We passed through Ravensbourne, Crows Nest, Carbalah, Meringandan, Kingsthorpe, Goombungee, Haden and Yarraman on our adventure, finding 8 oldies and a total of 26 caches during the 540 km drive .

We weren't sure where the GPS was leading us, but with some searching the container was quickly found.

This cache is in OK condition, and makes smilie #2863 for us. Thanks **FiremanHotdog** for showing us this spot. Discover our code TGQNRV, and mention where you saw it.

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Thursday. It was an early start for both Orange Crew and Slow Puncture as were out today to collect some of the Oldest and Finest as well as other caches that came along our way.

A bushy find with this one and quickly located, signed and replaced. Nice and neat church and I don’t think I’ve seen too many gates like this one for ages.

This was the 17th of 26 caches found on today's trip.

Thanks ***FiremanHotdog***, for showing us this place.

Nice, if somewhat prickly hide! Signed log, TFTC

Found with Mum as 'Jess & Caro' but now I have my own geocaching profile we are sorting my logs for caches we found together. TFTC!

Walked down to this after exploring other parts of the town, not exactly accurate co ords but it was found reasonably quickly.

Tftc good hide!

I saw you Stormgherkin.

Tftc

Found it. Tftc

Found with Alloycam. Lovely little town, tftc.

Day two of the trip and the weather was not cop-operating. No way I was going on a hike in this rain.

Not too many caches about, but with our super chauffeur T-Tech, IolantheK and I were kept entertained for the day.

After a long wet hunt at the last one we were happy with a fairly quick find here.

Day 2 of my camping weekend at Crows Nest T-Tech, teamdfl and I had planned to walk out to Koonin Lookout today, but the drizzle yesterday has turned into rain today and we had to change our plans Time to head out to Haden and Goombungee [^]

GPS had us way off here, so we had a look at previous logs. Seems it's about 18 metres south... A quick find once we were in the right spot. TFTC, FiremanHotdog.

Nice and easy find, thank you.

Nice

Deceptive but still a nice find

I agree that the coordinates are out by about 18m
Nice quiet town not far from us
The Wards

Out to do some late afternoon geocaching with a few of us who've arrived early for the 2016 Rural Challenge. We just had time for a few before it got dark. Thanks for this cache FiremanHotdog. A fairly quick find, which is always nice. Cheers! [^][^]

Agree with the previous log about GZ being out by about 18m. The cache has a great hiding spot. TFTC.

Went out for a cache with diamonjs, joojoo57 and aussie liahona to grab a couple. TFTC

Nice quick find. TFTC

Found while visiting friends. This cache is 18 metres out with my GPS. My suggestion is to go to GZ and then 18 metres south If I had thought, I would have taken the cords!
Took TB and visited others Tftc

Good cache. TFTC

There's a Path Tag in here that's not noted.

Quite a difficult one given the locals were partying right out front. We managed to use distractions to avoid suspicion! Thanks for the hide.

After some recent international geocaching jaunts it was good to be back on Australian soil. I took the opportunity to visit Base Camp Fungus and meet up with Swellerfungus, who was camping out at Crows Nest National Park, to grab a few local caches not yet on the found list. Rather an uncomfortable search at GZ with the neighbours sitting on the verandah and the kids playing in the yard. While Swellerfungus did his best to draw attention away from the hunt, I eventually found the container and made the grab thankfully out of view on the hidden side of the hide. TFTC

Not logging a DNF on this one - searched for a while then used previous logs to no avail.
I certainly wouldn't be too impressed if I was the pastor of that church with random people wandering about the church yard. The cache coords are obviously way out, and quite possibly the cache is not there.
This one needs a bit of a rethink.

Out on caching day with Brother Colin. Tftc

I am staying in the region visiting my Mum.
But I still have to find my daily cache.
So a trip out this way today for a couple of finds.
This one was 17m out for me today but still an easy find. [^]
Thanks for the cache.

Find #1698 at 16:46 with MissGeosie and artemidorus1 during [url=http://cycleqld.bq.org.au]Cycle Queensland 2015[/url].

Wanting a cache for the day for me, and seeing this one only 500m from camp, MissGeosie and I invited artemidorus1 (who accepted) and midmy7 (who declined) to accompany us.

The coords are quite a long way off for this one. As we widened our search, a curious passing muggle approached to see what we were doing. My explanation of "we're playing a game, someone has hidden something around here for us to find" was met with "oh, you're using a GPS?" "yes, we are!"

The muggle seemed satisfied with that and happily wandered off down the street, and we resumed our search. It wasn't long before MissGeosie called out "I've found it!"

Sure enough, she had, but I had to reach in to grab it. While we signed the log I took some coords from as close as possible to GZ; I've attached the result.

Thanks for the cache, FiremanHotdog.

Only found with youngoldfellow's hints thanks. TFTG

Found during the Big Queensland Ride with Eng Phil and MissGeosie. Thanks!

Found Ok

Went to the event in Toowoomba today as well as finding a cache and decided to come home this way and have another look. Parked in the marked space opposite the small gate and followed GPSr towards GZ and I still have it in the middle of grass. The dog net door was watching intently but not making any noise. Walked back two trees and there it was just looking like a piece of rubbish off the ground close to the trunk of the tree resting on a few branches. Left a path tag. Co Ordinates that worked for me S27 18.093 E151 51.130. These were taken from inside the branches and probably not real accurate either.
TFTC firemanHotdog

Found it!! Watch out for the geopastor with a confused look on his face

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