Alpha 13 Alpha, Queensland, Australia
By Nedandmrskelly and maintained by sandshoo3 on 10-Apr-16. Waypoint GC6G2RT

After using Longreach as a base for a few days, we headed east this morning to get to Emerald by the end of the day. Of, course we cached along the way. This is one of the caches we looked for.Despite accurate coordinates, it took us quite some time to locate this boldly hidden cache. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Nedandmrskelly for the cache - it earns a favourite from us.

Nifty cache. TFTC

Found

Suprisingly quick find GPS was on spotTFTC

With FiveTays-TT TFTC Nice hide

Took a while but eventually found with Slack1962 TFTC

Took too long. First thing we tried, and last thing too. First and last were not the same.Gets another fav.Camping here overnight. Tftc

Travel bug visit. Full found log to follow. Exploring Central Queensland.

trick cache but we found it quickly tftc

Very clever cache hide. Had to read a few logs before finding a useful hint. TFTC

Thanks for placing Nedandmrskelly, wasnt a quick one here, I touched it once, twice for the find.RVCL.

Took us longer than it shouldve but our phones were a bit off. Founded with a bit of cacher sense. TFTC

After camping by the river last night, we are exploring Alpha this morning. Armed with a great coffee from the post office of all places... made a quick find here

33,493. 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 26. After a fun night camping at Jericho with some fellow Cachers, we hit the road to finish another section of the Jericho Power Trail Road with Happy Feet 1. Once that was complete we parted company and we headed further east to the Alpha/Gemfields/Sapphire/Rubyvale region for another night stopover. We had a great night at the pub there. 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 !!

Many thanks for this one. TFTC

Tweezers were not helpful today so a pic to show we definitely were here Tftc

Tftf aroha and happy caching from new zealand found with echocage1 signed meec1

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.
Clever...an extra long nut. A favourite point.
Cache in good condition.
TNSL TFTC

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird (aka Mrs Geo). Grabbed the available caches around town. Loved this hide, a favourite point from me. It’s a great day for caching.
TFTC Nedandmrskelly

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.

Stayed in town long enough to clean up the available caches the ‘bolt’ for Jericho for the night, ready for the next area assault!

Thanks Nedandmrskelly for taking time to set out and maintain this hide and for showing us this part of the world

Log signed in first open spot

Find # 9587

#LockitupintheOutback

Found the sneaky thing. Thanks for the cache.

That is a good hide fav point here.TFTC

Difficult

We had camped here overnight so decided to fond this one in the morning. Had to wait a bit as there was someone parked in a ute right by gz. Came back after they left. Did a couple of circles before I located it. Thanks for placing this cache. Unfortunately nit here long enough to grab the rest.

After spending some time exploring the town, we headed out here for a nice hot shower and while we were here, wandered over to make the find. Thanks Nedandmrskelly

Great Northern escape 2022 Day 134. The Gemfields to Alpha. It was quite chilly night in Sapphire at The Gemfields, so I was happy to be up and away. There were a few caches along the highway, but I was still in Alpha by Mid morning and set up along the Cemetery road near the truck parking area. A spent the rest of the middle of the day trying to find the remaining Alpha caches. I failed on two that seem to be missing and had to leave one till after closing time. I finished the day with a late dinner at the pub as they did not open till 18.30, and no locals came in at all while I was there.

I have had this cache on my list of DNFs for some time, so I was keen to find it today. I must say I made every effort not to see it, it fits in so well with the surrounds, but I did see it and check it eventually.

Thanks for the cache Nedandmrskelly

37419.5 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2016 Silver for the Boatman A#351

**Albida**

TFTC nice quick find. Love the container

Tftc found with 2beez nice container

Another good cache found with woolwood9.
*Enjoyed the drive / walk around.*

*Thanks for the fun find!
Really appreciate the effort put into this cache.*

Very good hide.

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

Very clever. TFTC

Clever hide
TFTC

GT37 loves caches hidden in plain sight so this was one that we are often aware of. Nice quick find. Thanks for the cache.

This is my last one in Alpha until I get the chance to come back. Thanks for the caches.

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 were in Jericho for the 2018 QOGM event but took too long caching our way out here and didn't get time to clean up all the caches in town. Today we were hoping to rectify that and this was the first of the six we were looking for.

We pulled up here a little bit before the others and thought that we would have it in hand quickly. Just coming from the show grounds we went to an obvious location but that wasn't it and we were in the process of hunting in the second location when the others arrived. With this many eyes the cache was found very quickly in a place we had searched but unfortunately we had overlooked the obvious.

Many thanks for a nice little hide, the log book now contains our names.

Found by Mary and David at 10:50 on a drive from Barcaldine to Emerald. Took a while before D spotted it. Nicely done, and a FP. Our thanks to Nedandmrskelly

Quick and easy find here but clever container.

Couldn’t locate it.

I don’t know how many times I bumped my head! Quite annoyed but as good as I got the fantastic cache! The pain doesn’t bother me no more! Wow what a cache logging with DeafCat, Deafphantom and DutchAus

Found it with Deaf Geo friends
Thank you
On way to Emerald.

Awesome with DeafPhantom DutchAus DeafVW

Enjoy travelling with DeafVW, DeafCat and DeafPhantom TFTC

Its obvious when you find it. Thanks for the hide

Found with orth71 on a trip from Townsville to the outback caching
Nice quick find as i couldnt hold my breath any longer.
Very different.
TFTC

We parked on the bitumen and walked in for this one. Mr Ski spent hours cleaning the car yesterday and with the large puddles and red mud after the rain, would rather clean his shoes than the car again! A clever hide that had us scratching our heads for a while
After five nights staying at the Showgrounds in Jericho overnight, and caching madly most days, we have hooked up the van again and are continuing our travels. A few days in Emerald where the car will be getting a service, and then who knows. That’s as far as our plans go.
Of course, we can’t just drive down a highway-not if there’s caches to be found. Great work by all the local CO’s for nicely breaking our journey with lots of lovely yellow smilies. Your efforts are appreciated, thank you all very much.
TFTC

Staying in Alpha for a couple of days and spent a morning getting most of the caches in town, Quick easy find here

TFTC

Logging old caches originally found with alphag_25. Now have my own account and logging them separately so that i can claim the finds or not as the case may be. TFTC.

02/01/21 Roadtrip Mackay to Emerald to Barcaldine to Aramac to Blackall to Jericho over the next 3 weeks. Lots of puzzle solving before and during trip. Searched area and found GZ . Replaced and signed log. TFTC SL Dropped off Caravan to Zip around area quicker.

Day 10 of my road trip, travelling from Longreach to Emerald. There are a lot of caches to collect along the way, this afternoon I am collecting the Alpha caches.
I had to outwait a truck so I had the place to myself. A bit of a wander around, I settled on one focus area and soon found something different - turns out it was the cache! Log signed and cache replaced as found.
Thanks Nedandmrskelly for the cache and thank you to sandshoo3 for maintaining it.

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.

Found with Dozenmater TFTC

TFTC - found with rainygirl74

Day 14 of my trip north from Adelaide in search of some warmer weather and a few caches.

After camping last night at Jericho, today I traveled to Emerald, with a side trip up to Sapphire and Rubyvale.

I spent a bit of time in and around Alpha hunting out some of the caches in this Alpha series with mixed results.

A nice hide. Well done.

Thanks Nedandmrskelly for the cache.

Tftc Nedandmrskelly, cool hide, one of these things is not like the other.

Only a quick look but eluded is.

I decided to do a little caching/shopping trip today. I thought today was the 17th most of the day. Anyways, this was a great find, signed Grobby G. TFTC

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TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH Ned and Mrs Kelly (Sandshoo3) [^]

Tricky one TFTC took awhile but found by geowife

Day 8 on our road trip to QOGM 2019 at Blackall and today we make our way from Alpha to Blackall. We had a great day making our way around the area and enjoying the fairly quiet roads along the way. Thanks so much to the COs for placing the caches here for our enjoyment.

After staying at Emerald for a couple of days we were on the way towards Blackall via Alpha. Due to the number found the logs will be generic. Thank you to all CO's who placed the caches. Cache found and signed log. TFTC

On our way to QOGM (Blackall) day 25 of our trip. 16 caches for the day and 746 for the trip.TFTC

Caching in and around Alpha and surrounds we picked up a few caches and this was one of them.

Enjoyed the variety of hides, this one was tricky, cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Took a while to nut this one out
FROM NZ
We are on an out back tour from rocky heading to Emerald and on to Longreach then back through Blackall and on down to Dalby

It sure stood out if facing right side
Tftc

Would never have found it, but for previous logs. TFTC

We arrived in Alpha for an overnight stop on our annual trip around Qld. We had no idea if there were any geocaches here, and were pleasantly surprised to find this wonderful series placed by Nedandmrskelly. Thanks so much for your efforts in placing these caches for our enjoyment. This one had us SCREWED for a while, until we finally spied the odd one out on the structure. Definitely worth a favourite from us. Cheers from Bindair Dundat and Princess Madelyn.

Submitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

Grey Nomads travelling in their caravan around Australia. We have been on the road since July 2011 and discovered caching in August 2013. We travel with a bunch of travel bugs belonging to our sons and grand children. Where ever possible, we will maintain your cache as we travel.

Now travelling west towards Barcaldine for TheLongestLine (of RVs) World Guinness Record attempt. BRC is very proactive in gaining greynomads to visit. This is one of their attempts. Geocaching is another. This is one of many in the BRC for us to attempt.

As temengi would say "GOTCHA". We searched for this in the obvious, then the not so obvious. We have seen your caches in Yeppoon. We know you are sneaky. Ah! Gotcha!
Thanks Ned and Mrs Kelly.

Out and about with The Drovers picking up some caches and this was one of them.

Once the log was signed all was returned as found.

TFTC Nedandmrskelly

Travelling with Konie for a couple of days, picking up a few caches along the way.

Cache found, log signed, and replaced as found.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Nedandmrskelly, for us and others to find.

Hi there Nedandmrskelly.

We found your cache **"Alpha 13"** at 10:45:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 20301).

We started the day off by nominating a cache near Alpha, and then took a route that was mostly determined by the next closest cache according to our GPS. We thoroughly enjoyed our trip around the area & ended up finding quite a variety of container types, and sizes hidden along our route.

We found 21 caches today & DNF'd 0. Without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels. We awarded this cache a favourite point for the ingenious camo.

**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:** Nothing.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

TFTC Nedandmrskelly and sandshoo3

Touched it thought it was real!

Decided to go home via Emerald after attending the Queensland Outback Geocaching Muster. We picked up some caches and this was one of them.

A very tricky hide

Day 9 of my geocaching adventure with Team DIEL heading towards Emerald on route to the Gold Coast.
Very ticky hide here, well done CO.
TFTC Nedandmrskelly and maintained by sandshoo3
Found October 2, 2018

Heading east today for Rockhampton we enjoyed some various hides to help break up the journey.
The clever hide was finally spotted after we tried the obvious.
Thanks Nedandmrskelly for the clever placement .

Found on the final day of QOGM 2018 while clearing the map around Jericho and Alpha to complete the Barcy Challenges. TFTC

Today grannysmith1947 and ourselves have come to Alpha to explore the area prior to heading to Jericho for more fun and adventure connected with the QOGM event. All caches are in good condition. SL TFTC

I have been traveling a zigzag path to QOGM, in Barcaldine. I have now met up with my regular caching buddy, so the SGx2 girls are back together again. Today, we are making our way from Emerald to Barcaldine, caching along the way. We enjoyed our tour around Alpha and the variety of caches and hides to be found here. This cache was quickly located and the log signed. TFTC

I am on a road trip to the Queensland Outback Geocaching Muster in Barcaldine with Selva Girls. Today we are travelling from Emerald to Barcaldine. We journeyed around Alpha collecting the variety of caches and enjoying the local hospitality. Tftc Nedandmrskelly with sandshoo3

Travelling with Bikesu to QOGM in Barcaldine. Stopped to grab this cache. Tftc

Travelling with Uwe001 to QOGM in Barcaldine. Choosed some back roads for smilies. Found this cache, signed logsheets TBU1+2.

Tftc

On our way home from from our son's wedding near Bundy and picked up a few caches on the way. Overnighting at Alpha. TFTC

TFTC,
Travelled from Sapphire to Alpha, dropped the van and started to cache the town.
Had a great time, visited trackables.

Staying in town overnight, with pprass and Wazza9, quick find, signed log and replaced. Thanks to Nedandmrskelly.

Found at 2:55 PM GAFF1in the company of nana nel and wazza9..

Thanks Nedandmrskelly.

On my way to The QOGM in the Barcaldine district Stopped here in Alpha to pick up some smileys before entering the cauldron of the Muster. All Caches found today were in good cindition and it appears that somebody has place sparel log sheets in the most of the caches I found in preparation of the event. TFTC for the caches and the series.

Following a very early morning walk and then another before morning tea, we later set out in the car to try and clean up all the caches in town. So far we have them all except one and the Earth cache, but the day isn't over yet. Still the trickiest to go, but I'm not giving up! Thanks to NedandMrsKelly for the wonderful variety of hides and caches. All logs were signed though some as SG as I often do in small caches to save space.

All good

After overnighting in Alpha I made an early start, collecting a few more Alpha series caches around town then more as I headed west A most inventive way to hide a cache. Luckily I spotted it very quickly. A favourite point for ingenuity TFTC Nedandmrskelly

On a mission to do the power trail at Jericho.
Of course I had to get some finds on the way through to my hotel in Barcaldine.
Thank you to all the CO's for placing and maintaining all the caches.

SL TNLN TFTC

I apologise to all the CO's for the cut and paste logs.

Took some time to spot this one but found in the end .A favorite point from us.TFTC

Found on our 2018 mega adventure with Roostaman.
Thanks for the cache Nedandmrskelly,
***MrsRoosta***

**# 21553** Found on our 2018 mega adventure to ACT, NSW, QLD and beyond.
Another perfect Winter day for a trip around while on a stopover at Alpha.
Today's mission was to do as many of the Alpha trail as possible.
Not many muggles around today and a few more good safe hides.
An excellent cache and a favourite point from me.
Thanks for the cache Nedandmrskelly,
***Roostaman***

TFTC. We are camped at Jericho Showgrounds for a week. Today was a lovely day to go for a drive and attempt the many caches in Alpha. We dnf’d 3 aches and did not attempt another one due to muggles. All in all a great day.
We had to think outside the square for this. Linda came up trumps.

This day started out with picking up a few more of the Alpha series that either we did not pick up yesterday because of the muggle factor or we simply had not looked for it.
None was difficult to locate today and after doing the signing we soon headed off again. Thanks go to Nedandmrskelly for this series and to sandshoo3 for maintaining the caches.

Found and signed log while traveling around the country in our van...TFTC

#136 We almost skipped this one due to muggles the first time we were there. Checked again after finishing all the others and found it. Nice hide.
A successful day out caching Alpha and a few others between there and home. We skipped one due to logs indicating it’s no longer there and muggles kept us away from a few others. Just the one DNF on the way home.
TFTC

Oh wow this had me stumped for quite some time and without the luxury of having my phone handy to look back through logs I was flying blind looking for this cache. I hunted everywhere and expanded the search area just in case the coordinates weren't right. (Desperation)
I went back to GZ sure it just had to be here for another fruitless look and what's this? Something that totally looked like it belonged but actually didn't. Bingo!

6:07PM #688

And then I spied it! A clever hide! The cache and contents were in good condition.

TFTC, Nedandmrskelly and maintained by sandshoo3.
Jay of GemJay.

What a little beauty. Thanks