Yarraman Station Yarraman, Queensland, Australia
By PalsLove on 07-Aug-15. Waypoint GC613AT

On a weekend getaway with wombles and 1MinnieMoo to celebrate my 10th geocaching birthday!Woohoo! A long lost archive find ??Thanks for the cache PalsLove

11/7/21 Find #4909
Road trip day three, our final day.
Today was the day to make tracks for home, of course with a number of stops along the way.
We had arrived in Yarraman with a few nearby caches on our list, this archived one being one of them. Parking the car nearby, we wandered over and made a nice quick find here, adding a little more dry logpaper to the container.
Thanks for the cache PalsLove.

Nyssaflutterby, 1Minniemoo and I were on a road trip from north Brisbane to Munduberra and back via Kingaroy. We had a few planned caches and some extras along the way.
Nice to find this cache still waiting to be found.
TFTC

Interesting spot Thanks for placing a cache here Needs a new Log TFTC

Archived

Crew 153 and I had big plans to try and get 100 caches in a day today.

However, Crew 153's Ford Falcon had other ideas and brought us to a screeching halt at cache number 50 by blowing its fuel pump.

We were both calm and collected about it. We still got 50 caches. Car got safely towed to Kilcoy. Mr Slow Puncture came and rescued us.. and there are still more than enough caches out there for us to try again. There ends my "cut and paste" part of the log

Crew 153 and I made our way to this one and I soon found the cache in the second place I looked. A nice little area to visit. I always appreciate a bit of history. TFTC PalsLove

Fangsoki and I had picked this area for a day of caching to find caches for the Hidden Creatures Souvenirs and after an early start I finally finished the day with a total of 53 finds when we struck engine trouble and had to abort the mission.

This cache was find number 5 for the day.

We were looking forward to exploring the history in this area and were surprised by the extent of the "restoration" of the area.

The cache was quickly located.


TFTC PalsLove

Found after some searching

Found this cache after finding a nearby cache.

Log book needs replacing as it is full.

TFTC ***PalsLove***

Quick and easy find. Log book full.

Thanks for the cache

Gotcha - Found easy enough. Tftc

Thanks for bringing to somewhere new and not so obvious , log is getting full but this time of year ‘‘twas easy access tftc

Quick find by kestal. Tftc

We were a little surprised with the find after reading previous logs. But it was a nice easy find. TFTC PalsLove

Good find

Lots of water around & it was a squelchy walk to GZ. Log was damp but signable & the cache had some sort of guardians. Not sure what they were. Kutgw

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 ..

An overnight camp in the Bunya Mountains with plenty of bushwalking to find all the spectacular scenery and great caches here, seemed an ideal opportunity to test out my new swag and visit a top spot. A few more caches were found on the way back home.

Thanks for the hunt **PalsLove**, this find makes #4499. Discover our TB

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Off for a wander, cache hunt and lunch with Rani of Ranibaskale today. We decided Yarraman was a good place to choose today - not too far and not too close, plus I've purposely left the caches here for a day such as this.

We chatted our way to this location and soon found this cache. Signed the log and returned as found. Thanks for the cache, PalsLove!

Nice area & not a soul in sight. So so quiet. Cache found quickly & in order. Tnsl tftc xo

Quick find and got signed and returned same place TFTC

Rail trip today. Ruzzelz, T-Tech. IolantheK. Brother Colin. If and I had all camped overnight at Yarraman. Today was the north end of the trail. A few were just along for the ride.

We collected another cacher/rider at the Yarraman station - half of stealth seekers.

Ruzzelz was on to this one quickly and the required names were added.

Found as part of a group ride to Yarraman to Blackbutt on the BVRT [^]
TFTC PalsLove

It is wise to start any rail journey at the Station

Yesterday we started riding the rail trail in Toogoolawah on a caching mission but today our backsides were raw with envy and we opted for the safe seats of the car to ride in.

We struggled to find the way into GZ because our map was showing roads that didn't exist. I would get the note to turn left onto a road but all there was were plenty of trees and a gully that would have ended our phat day. I sometimes wonder whether these fake streets are planted by locals so they can have a laugh at all the tourists getting lost. I certainly hope so.

In the end we fluked the way in and I was lucky to park right next to GZ. The first rock I flipped over led to nothing but corruption. There was an explosion of large ants with big-bulb-buttocks that were yellow and white. I had never seen anything like them before. The second rock was hiding something way more enjoyable. tftc

GC613AT
191632KAUG17 (Google DTG for details)
92Km from home.
Our first outing in our (New to us) caravan, a sudden change of plan when Mrs R-F found out her Victorian based brother was on the coast for the weekend so instead of night one at the base of the Bunya Mountains we found ourselves spending it in Mooloolaba.
We’ve now headed West to Yarraman and have unhitched “The Mystery Machine” (The Van) from ScoobyDo (Our Subaru Outback) at the Yarraman Caravan Park and are doing a bit of a run around some of the local caches.
A quick find to Mrs R-F on our alternating find roster.
The hide is excellent, the container is in good nick and the log is ready for the next finder.
We took nothing but memories, we left nothing but footprints and our tag.
Thanks for the cache Pals Love
Cheers
Roaring Ford
Discovering Australia and the World, one hidden treasure at a time.

We arrived in Yarraman last night at the end of the BVRT E2E ride. Too tired then, but back this morning for the cache. Unable to sign the log as it was in a few crumbled pieces. I can describe the hide for the CO if req. TFTC.

I arrived at the station today
What a great bit of hidden history [^]
Seems that it isn't advertised to the passing touristas who pass through the towne every day [:o]
But us geocachers get to visit

There's a new picinic shelter being built,
which is probably part of the rail trail development.
And lots of information about the olde railway line to be absorbed

TFTC.

Great spot for a sunny day
TFTC

Parked up and wandered over for a quick easy find. TFTC PalsLove

Final find in this area for this visit.

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

Staying longer than initially planned in Nanago as the GeoCruiser has been at the Toyota Doctors.

With the Cruiser back on the road we decided to make today about testing it out to the extremes before we tow our house further North. Pleased to report all seems good.

Had a great day touring and mostly visiting Yarraman and surrounds, using Geocaching as a guide. Only 2 DNF's and 1 was definitely muggled so is that only 1 dnf [?] [:o)] lol.


TFTC PalsLove and an awesome day.

Found it with bikesu. Tftc

Happy Australia Day. On Tour with the caravan, doing walks and getting smilies. Tftc

Found cache , wet , full of dirt ... cleaned up and new log .... all good TFTC

Found cache. Open and full of dirt. Log is wrecked so couldn't sign it.

Found it with cajeboys but was left open. Is full of dirt and log is destroyed

Found it but it was open and full of dirt. Couldn't sign and didn't have any new logs to replace it sorry.

Tftc. Needs new log.

In the area for a week of rest & relaxation as well as caching.

Arrived at GZ & found the container.

I remeber coming here many years ago when this was just a disused train station.

So different now that it has been cleaned up.

TFTC

In the area for a week of rest & relaxation as well as caching.

Arrived at GZ & found the container.

I remeber coming here many years ago when this was just a disused train station.

So different now that it has been cleaned up.

TFTC

#7720 Cache Found

Travelling South down through Kilroy and Yarraman on my way to Stanthorpe to visit the legendary Geo Caching couple "Team Robins" for a catch up and a few drinks and too find out how they fared on their 13 month trek around Australia raising much needed money for Cancer Research. They have only been home for a couple of months, But are now back on the job raising money for the Homeless. Speak about cantidates for Australians of the Year material,


Thanks for the great cache and adventure PalsLove

This Day in History
Sunday, July 20, 1969. : Australia's radio telescope at Parkes transmits the first pictures of the Apollo 11 moon walk.
Parkes, in central western New South Wales, was the site of the first radio telescope to be built in Australia. Its completion in 1961 was the result of ten years of of negotiation between CSIRO Radiophysics Laboratory staff, the Australian Government and significant American Scientific institutions, Carnegie Corporation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Affectionately dubbed "The Dish", the telescope comprised a disc some 210 feet (64 m) in diameter, constructed of mesh woven from high-tensile strength steel designed to withstand a range of pressures. The total cost of construction was 800,000 Australian pounds.
NASA first proposed that the Parkes radio telescope be incorporated into its worldwide tracking network in 1966, and in 1968 requested Parkes's involvement in the Apollo 11 mission. On 16 July 1969, Apollo 11 was launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. The Parkes telescope was crucial in transmitting the first pictures of the Moon landing, although it almost didn't happen. At the time the astronauts were to leave the landing module, the moon was only in the view of the southern hemisphere. However, mission commander Neil Armstrong elected to forgo the astronauts' scheduled six-hour rest period, and make the moon walk earlier, meaning the moon would not yet have risen over Parkes to get clear enough pictures. Fortunately, the astronauts took so long to prepare for the Moon walk that the Moon was just rising over Parkes.
The controllers at Parkes then faced another crisis. One of the reasons Parkes was chosen was that it had the weather conditions most conducive to gaining the best signal: ironically, as the Moon rose over Parkes, wind gusts of 110 km per hour gusts hit the radio telescope, threatening the integrity of the telescope structure as the dish was hammered back against its zenith axis gears. Nonetheless, tracking was able to begin just as the Moon rose into the Parkes radio telescope's field of view. Being a larger telescope, it captured more signal and so produced better pictures. The command centre at Houston switched to the Parkes feed, staying with that transmission for the remainder of the 21.5-hour broadcast.
In this way, the Parkes radio telescope, which still sits in the middle of a sheep paddock, became an integral part of the history of space exploration.

TFTC

TFTC!

**# 14107** Found on our 2016 winter escape trek.
A fine warm sunny winters day for a drive to Yarraman.
A good find and not many muggles around today.
Thanks for the cache PalsLove,
***Roostaman***

Having come to Crows Nest for the Rural Challenge Event and staying overnight, we planned on caching today from Crows Nest to Yarraman and then as time allowed a few on the way home to Brisbane. Today was in the company of Nadine1989.

Didn't read this cache's description properly: Nuvi took us to ca closed-off bridge. So we made the decision to walk the trail for the three caches we had selected to do. Turned out to be a good idea: got some exercise and found the caches without any trouble.

Found at 3.00pm on 29th May 2016. TFTC.

RoddyC and me started on this morning very early to find some caches on our way. Most of them there traditional ones and not very complicated. The two special ones, one multi and one mystery were great! I enjoyed the tour, the landscape and the caches.

The navigation system was leading us to a bridge which we couldn't cross by car so we decided to walk to all of the three caches. This one was a nice one.

Tftc

Having a mother/daughter holiday. On our way to Nanango. Needs new log TFTC

quick find. TFTC

Our 2nd day at Nanango. Today we headed to Yarraman as so many new caches since we were here last. We found lots of interesting locations & caches.
Thanks for placing this cache PalsLove

Decided to go for a drive today with the GeoWife and clean up a few green icons along the way. Plenty of fun finds and great caches. Thank you for placing the caches to be found. Tftc

I had reason to drop a child off at Mt Binga two had a day to kill. Geocaching!

Anothvrather find. Thanks for all these caches, PalsLove. And this is a nice little area here too.

Easy find. Cache a bit damp but I still could sign.

TFTC PalsLove. #471

Tftc...

Found at 1030. Found while on a geocaching expedition in my favourite region for a couple of day Easy Find. TFTC.

This is another of those caches that is very close to a cache that bought us to this station years ago, that cache was a lot harder to find than this one. All we needed to contend with was a bit of wetness on the ground near to the cache. SL TFTC

Out and about again today seeing more of this lovely countryside. We enjoyed finding this cache. Thanks to PalsLove for its placement and adding to our enjoyment of this location.

What a great history lesson can be learned about our old railway systems at locations like this. Loved the Station Masters house and so pleased they still have the sign up. Kids living here could have a great time with ball games on this big expanse of mown, flat, green grass. Thanks for bringing me here PalsLove by placing a cache in this location. Cheers! [^][^]

Day 3 of a 3-day getaway with Dutchie1950 and our main objective was to attend youngoldfella's Event yesterday. It's been a fun couple of days, but it's time to return to real life...

On our way to Nanango on Friday we decided to NOT stop at Yarraman, with the intent of collecting all those caches on our way home. A good decision, as there was plenty to keep us amused today

Loved coming to this spot. I've seen a few stops along the rail trail now. A quick find. TFTC, PalsLove.

# 1209 - After Nanango's First Event IolantheK and I make our way back home, slowly. No reason to hurry if there are so many caches waiting...

Today we want to pick up a few smileys around Yarraman. I have said earlier in one of my logs that I love caches at stations. I love the history attached to them. An easy find here.

TFTC PalsLove

Had an enjoyable weekend including attending Nanango's first Ever Event and searching for lots of caches. Saw wonderful scenery as well as wildlife on our travels through the back roads of the South Burnett. Thank you to all the COs who place the caches in these fascinating spots.

Out before the event with grannysmith1947. TFTC.

An early start from Brisbane on our way to Nanango for The Event. Going around Yarraman to locate caches, we soon found this one. TFTC

Stopped off at the site read the board or cache first ? Cache of course !!
Followed the arrow and there it was .
Signed logsheet 3/12/2015 2:45 pm and replaced all as found. Then back to read the info board and on to the next. 3 x TB Visited.
PalsLove - TFTC.

Smilie #3256

Out & about collecting a few smilies around Yarraman with a few extra before & afters.
A quick find, seen from the Geo-beast as we drove up.
Signed & replaced as found.

TFTC PalsLove

Tricky. TYFTC.

Easy find after letting our Venturers loose on the BVRT. But wait, they're back! Lucky the cache was here else we have moved on already. Set them on they're way again and now off to find some more caches as we follow them.

TFTC 1574# out and about with purple-ninja-00

On a trip to Nanango via the Brisbane River Valley, Western Branch to place some caches for the Nanango Event in 6 weeks, just couldn't pass these without a look see.
An easy find @ 1000 after placing a couple of caches along the way.
GPS took a while to settle
All ["P] with the cache
TFTC PalsLove

Out on caching day with Brother Colin. Tftc

Today, triciac2, and I are heading to Nanango.
With plenty of time we included a few caches along the way.
Another quick find here as we parked very close by.
Thanks for the cache.

Gotcha!!! TFTC

TFTF enjoying the trip around yarraman

Nice quick find and then witnessed a couple of bike riders being harassed by a magpie. This was enough to have the kids hightailing it back to the car even though we were far from the action .

Nice quick find after we left the weir after lunch and one of the geokids got up to their thighs wet after slipping into the water with shoes and all on even after geomum said "Don't get wet"

Found Ok

This was the next on the list and geopartner put the coordinates in the Navman and we headed off and soon were close to where we should be. I had neglected to change mine from the last cache and as we drove around the corner geopartner goes I think I have been here before and we laughed as it was the last cache we had been to. I put in the right coordinates and we were soon at GZ for another quick find.
Thanks for bringing us to these 2 places which we had not been to before while visiting Yarraman.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks PalsLove All good with this cache

Another weekend caching adventure with Swellerfungus, Crookedpete and TCC, this time we were headed off to the Bunya Mountains, travelling up via Esk, Blackbutt, Yarraman and Maidenwell. Along the way up we stopped off to visit this cache. An interesting spot of history that we hope to visit again on our bikes in the not too distant future. Names added to the log and we continued our journey. TFTC

Enroute to the Bunyas for a weekend camping and caching expedition with SeffnJarah and SwellerFungus and my son, Tom (TCC), we stopped to find this cache.

I do love caches with some history. No time today to take a decent look though. Never mind, a biking expedition down the hill to Linvill will be planned soon. Thanks for the cache, PalsLove.

Pete

#2,730

On the way to the Bunyas with seffnjarah, Crookedpete and TCC. this one was along the way. Ahhh so this is where we can join the Rail Trail. It looks like we will be back with some bicycles sometime in the future...certainly lots of talk about it amongst the group anyway!
Great spot thanks.

[font=Comic Sans MS]Hi there PalsLove. We found your cache "Yarraman Station" at 2:11:00 PM today. This cache makes our find count 11387.
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After yet another fffreeezing night the day turned out to be fine and warm. Just the sort of day for a sight seeing tour around some of the local back roads. In our travels we found 16 caches ranging in size from micro to large.

Our GPS took some convincing that this was actually the place. It wanted to take us along a couple of non existant roads.
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Coordinate Accuracy: We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
Cache Condition: The container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Smiley Badge.
Thanks for the hunt today,
Regards
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Unlike the old GCA cache down the road that took us 3 goes to find, this one was no trouble at all. Co-ords were spot-on and we had the log signed in no time flat. Thanks PalsLove, Cheers from Bindair Dundat and Princess Madelyn

(FTF)
What do I do on my days off. Guess? Left home at 0730 and back home by 0900 and 5 FTF. Thanks. I knew where to go. Drove past this one on my way to the weir. I saw two cars and two people. Came back and I knew one of the two and they thought I was early for their function. Good co ordinates and a quick find. I signed log YOF as that is what I use on small log sheets to save space on the paper.
TFTC PalsLove.

We drove on from the last cache and soon found out we could have got a lot closer, still a nice walk to the cache. TFTC.

cache find #3496 A pleasant drive to this location. Found the cache very easily. Good coordinates. TFTC

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