X'ing the Rail Trail Benarkin, Queensland, Australia
By Sweet-Sour on 26-Oct-15. Waypoint GC63GXY

After a great day yesterday riding from Linville to find the final of the UP the BVRT multi i had a great night sleep staying in Yarraman. I left my husband this morning to ride from Yarraman to Blackbutt finding 8 caches along the way ,20kms in just over 2 hours. There were lots of cows on the trail today and i had to slow down to not scare them too much. Had a great ride and I ended up meeting my husband at Blackbutt for breakfast.What a great day to be a geocacher.I ended up finding out that the scare tape on the top of my helmet really does work a wonder. A couple of magpies started to swoop but quickly flew back to their tree.This cache was our last for today. We had a great breakfast at Blackbutt and then a walk around town and on the way home (driving) we stopped here for a quickish find. Love the old bridges. Thaks Brother Colin for all the fun. Will be back for a few that i did not have time to get . Good excuse to come back.

Found it on the left side of the road.

Found it. Tftc

A quick easy find. Thanks.

Nice spot, 2nd find today. TFTC!

Great cache, crazy how long ago they used to use this rail track, amazing find with scoobywhite !

Tricky searching. Pah!

Found after working out witch side of the road thanks for another great cache

Easy find here once we figured out which track. TFTC! All good here.

Brother Colin I found your cache X'ing the Rail Trail on 15/6/2024, 4:25PM. This is my find 6730 and find # 9 today. Found it after a brief search. Thanks for the cache, mate! TNSLLN

TFTC found with GeoMazeRunners

TFTC Found with ButterflyVenom

New container in place.

Nothing found here

Seem to be trailing Davinells! DNF for me too

With the string of dnfs we werent hopeful but thought we would try because we had a previous finder in the car. We searched the area and dug around but nothing found today.

A combination of GPS bounce and questionable terrain ratings left us scratching our heads at this one. Will put on watch and try again another day!

I had a dig around with my walking pole but couldn't find anything

Lots of fresh growth, read the notes, didnt feel like diving into the lantana, maybe another day. Thats 2 attempts & 2 DNFs in 2 days.

PS. Watch out for the jumping ants !!!CD got nailed 3x on the ankle where we dropped our bikes. Very painful !!!

Nice hide

X'ing the Rail Trail was transferred from Sweet-Sour to user Brother Colin

Found this on 27/06/23 but didnt sign or log without a pen out riding the Rail Trail. Sooo, revisited today (WITH a pen out riding the Rail Trail) BUT the GZ is not very accessible with overgrown weeds, prickles and jumping ants (!) according to a previous log. Sooo, logging this with photo evidence from our visit last year.

# 8750 Find day 13/20 the current souvenir season.
Today, iPlod65 is running in a 100mile - 160km event along the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail. I'm part of her crew, so grabbing caches as time and place permits. It would be great to ride the BVRT and get the rest some time. All good here.
Thanks Sweet-Sour for the hide.

Bush bashed but found it.

Found with NutcacheBNE.

Gotcha,,,need to get on ya hands and knees
to fetch this one as well as some support

Thanks to a previous log, we used a circuitous route, and the cache was soon to hand. Well hidden.
TFTC

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Woop

Hurt to find it but we thankfully found it

Easy find. All in good order. TFTC

Targeting some of the rail trail caches and series.

Structure is well hidden with undergrowth. Located and signing duties duly undertaken.

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 Sweet-Sour

Find # 8500

Heading to QOGM 2022 Charleville

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 Sweet-Sour
Find #10865

Off road and off trail. Tftc

**Found Sunday 10-July-2022 at 10:19 Smiley #1829**

Quick little weekend away, exploring the country side, with the ultimate goal to complete some of the Map of Australia Geo-Art on the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail.

Making our way from Yarraman down to Toogoolawah, finding the caches that weren't exclusively on the rail trail. Found this one in good condition, made our mark and rehid as found.

All the logs are in good condition unless specified otherwise, and they were all found with ease unless specified otherwise.

Cache logs are either stamped, signed with Rogersclan13 or just RC13 for space. Thanks for the cache and thank you for breaking the drive up **Sweet-Sour**

Rogersclan13

I was up in Blackbutt for a FTF. On the way home I grab 5 caches. I did find nice 4wd tracks to drive on. After that it was quick drive home.
Sweet-Sour *TFTC* 6956 *Finds*

DNF No luck here today, too good for me. I think it maybe missing though, a lot of water through here

Well hidden, great cache

Think we found the little geotrail but I still wasn't brave enough to go in there!

Late one for the day 21 in total for the day

Last one for the day. This makes no.20 for the day.

Thanks for the find awsome day out

While out on one of our geocaching days with Peppa, we discussed how many oldies we have found and mentioned "Noises of Tarong". So a day trip to the area was planned and today we on our way to the targeted cache.

Found this one hidden away in its hide, SL then returned as found. Another part of the railway line still standing.

TFTC Sweet-Sour

After visiting our relatives in Blackbutt we called into this location on our way home. A previous finder gave good advice on how to access the hide without suffering from multiple scratches. We made the grab and signed the log. TFTC

Great spot well worth the effort

Out enjoying a drive with the goal of finding caches with a certain attribute to help achieve a challenge cache from QOGM in Cunnamulla…

This cache was on the to do list… so I braved the wall of Lantana and dove in… I was surprised to find mosquitoes here…

Tftc…

A nice early morning find we parked opposite GZ and found there was no need to go through the prickly bush look for a bit of a trail from the side. Cache found log signed snd replaced as found. Thanks Sweet-Sour for this one.

Almost missed it in the thick bushes. Great find. Thank you

Searched on wrong side first up, then had a rethink. TFTC

searched for a bit but wasn't too keen on the lantenna

Picking up some caches whilst on my way to attend QOGM 2021 Paroo at Cunnamulla.
Cache found without difficulty, in the expected area. Cache in good condition.
TNLNSL TFTC

I was all over the place here.
Shouldn't of second guessed myself, just didn't go in far enough.
Came round from the other side through the lantana geotrail right up to the cache.. and where i was before. oh well,
Got there in the end.
Thanks sweet-sour for breaking up my journey today rather nicely.

Look out for snakes

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We searched for a good long while but no luck. On seeing the snake skin I gave it up!

Good hide. Thanks.

Out this way for the long weekend. Camping at Benarkin. We are loving the history in this area and knowing this was once the rail line. After tackling the lantana we were in and quickly found where this little one was hidden. TFTC.

Tftc, GPS had us wandering around here, eventually circled in on it.

On the road from Kilcoy to Toowoomba via a few counties. This cache had a real live little furry friendly cache guardian. Tftc

Found with a few friends on a big mega caching trip and signed as Capital Crunchers.

Love the Bell Miners. Don't get them in Canberra.
TFTC

Stopped here to pick up a good size container and another countyFound with mates on our Dayboro Mega trip - heading home now. Cache signed as Capital Crunchers.

Thanks for hiding this cache Sweet-Sour

Wow cool spot. Took me awhile to find the right area but eventually used my spidey senses and caxhe soon in hand. Wahoo another county.

So cool to have made it to the Mega now to get the caches we spent months solving and other nearby caches. On our way home now via Toowoomba.

On a trip north to get to Dayboro with Kittykatch, Isopeda and Barb2e. Been lots of fun and laughs.
Signing via stamp as Capital Crunchers.

TFTC Sweet-Sour

Put in a few more plastic snakes for swaps. So much pesky Lantana here..
Tftc

But of Lantana, my arms love it, they start bleeding if I as much as look at it. TFTC

What a nightmare of lantana!!! Sure glad it was a find!
TFTC

Our first find for 2021. Tftc.

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Out today on a mission to grab a few targeted caches while on a trip to a community event, seems not only Santa has a list, love the list. This was not on the list, but a quick stop saw two of us requiring this one. A short walk from the parking area and cache was in hand. My seventh cache and a nice size cache too, thank you.
With the log signed and cache replaced it was off to the next one on the list, or add to the list. All good with this one, thanks for placing it here.

A bonus pick up for the day as we’re driving past and discussing where the region boundary would begin, knowing that Tallowood is not in the Burnett region when the sign indicates it does. A quickish find, not so quick bash in.

Thanks for the find

Found it the prickals are sharp here . Tftc

Blue Bear find. Great hide

On our bikes heading down the hill

I chose the lantana over the cobblers pegs TFTC.

Another quick find. TFTC

Dnf

Last one for the day. TFTC

Whoa, bring your bush bashing skills! Container in good condition. Thanks for the cache.

Adventure weekend has begun... starting with some lantana shenanigans to find this cache. Got it though! TFTC!

Caro and I were headed towards Flaxton our stop off point for the night. Picked up in crows nest and we headed north to Blackbutt. This is was our first stop and I had searched for it on a previous occasion but with no luck. This time Caro went one way and I went the other. It wasn’t long until Caro called out she had it. Happy to have a smiley here TFTC Sweet-Sour

Tried from all angles to attack this one, but never ended up closer than about 5 metres through impenetrable jungle. Being alone, and not having a brush cutter on board, decided to leave it for another time.

Very overgrown with recent rain but we finally found it. TFTC

Woo hoo 1st for 2020

Today we're taking a slightly different route home and picking up a few smileys along the way.
Found this one after a bit of a scramble. Mr Goanna lost his sunglasses. We looked for a while but gave up. Later in the car he took of his hat and they fell out. He's a silly bunny.
TFTC.

Found it TFTC

2:28:00 PM. Plenty of room to park and a short walk to the well hidden cache. Log signed. Thanks for the cache Sweet-Sour

Great hide all in good condition

Gps accuracy sux but experienced cachers know what to look for! Tftc

Another quick find with the youngest geodaughter today. We pulled up close to gz and waited for muggles out for a walk to proceed down the rail trail before retrieving and signing. Tftc Sweet-Sour

Really cool spot, loving all the nicely maintained caches in the area. TFTC!

Found it. thanks Sweet-Sour

We startled a large possum which quickly climbed the tree. Cache was quickly found by Scoob

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

Genghicat and I are satisfying our craving for travel by doing a quick 3 day circuit west. Originally it was to be 2 but due to a fatality on the road our track has been changed.
After following the country back country roads we finally popped out at the railway line for a quick find in good condition. Amazing how nature takes over isn't it.

Tftc

Another find on my 15km run this morning.. TFTC!

Found with super snoop Muriel G

Lovely crisp morning to be caching. Hopefully we'll find all of these caches in Benarkin. On on to the next one. Hidden structure makes life interesting.