Mining Forsayth Forsayth, Queensland, Australia
By georode on 09-May-16. Waypoint GC6HC7M

Nice little spot exploring the township and its history

We continued today our tour of several AUS states in the NorthWest and thereby searched, found and logged this interesting Traditional-Cache.The weather was - said in one word simply best. The good hidden caches and the being on holidays kept us the whole day in a good mood. The cache had good coordinates, and thus was easy to find. The logbook was okay, and allowed easy logging.Thanks to georode for the generation of this nice cache Mining Forsayth (with the proper agenda), for leading us here and for showing us this funny location as well as the ongoing maintenance of this cache.PS: Please forgive us the uniform log which is needed due to timing problems - if necessary special actions and happenings are there described where they happened.Greetings from Germany together with the hope to meet somewhere like event or wood. TFTC says H_M_A @ 22. Oktober 2024 @ 10:28 o'clock @ [#22703](https://coord.info/GC6HC7M)

After making it to the Northernmost point of Australia from Melbourne we are now on the return journey south. After a couple of days at Cobbold Gorge we stopped at Forsyth on the way back to stretch the legs and find the cache. A very quite town when we were passing through. Finding the cache took us way longer than it should have as the GPS had us all over the place but it was Mr Pooky who eventually made the find. TF placing this cache for us to find on our travels.

Used the hint in a previous message, gotta used your head. Tftc

TFTC

Get you head IN the game and youll find it! Found with Chookney on our travels through North Queensland

TFTC! Found with Jellybeeean23!

No luck finding it today

Quirky but nice town. Quick find tftc

Found it with help from a friend TFTH

Rusty boxes!

Tftc. Great way to learn about beautiful Forsayth

Quick find on way home from Cobbold Gorge with Pinkih.TFTC

Found on our trip across 3 states, & after doing to Cobbold Gorge tour. Thanks

OCW PelDroedGwin towing the caravan with geodog Peppa and geocat Levin in the car.We stopped at Forsayth for a leg stretch and some brunch. A lovely little township. A quick find as we explored the artefacts.Tftc

A late afternoon find on a trip with Outback Spirit. A nice walk to GZ and a reasonably quick find. Nice setting. Thanks to gerode for the cache.

Good excuse to walk to the end of the line.
Had no pen, so couldn't sign. TFTC

6750

Thursday. Took way longer to find than it should have, but I was under pressure to locate this before the railmotor left to continue our journey on the SavannahLander.

This was the 5th of 14 caches found on this outing.

Thanks ***georode*** for showing us this place

Travelling through to Cobbold we decided to stop for the night in Forsayth, interesting history here. Thanks georode for taking time to set out and maintain this hide and for showing us this very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot

Find # 9481

#LockitupintheOutback

On the hunting trail with SeasonedBird & Dawickedwaiz on an outback camping adventure. Grabbed this one prior to heading out to the local dam for sunset drinks. This trip is part of a slow roundabout route to QOGM 2023 at Longreach. Another great day for caching.
TFTC georode

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TFTC. Found with Wollaston and Seasonedbird

Found it. Great spot for a cache. Staying for a couple of days and doing the Gorge tomorrow thanks for placing this cache here.

Had a great day checking out the Cobbold gorge . Couldn't leave here without signing the log .

Easy one thanks

Great spot tftc

We visited Forsayth and called in to admire the display of early mining equipment. Located this cache during our visit. Thanks georode for this hide.

Found with Shumba7 on our way north chasing barramundi and warm weather. TFTC.

TFTC found with algae after grabbing the cache

10.07.23 tftc found while out n about

Found

Nice hide )

Easy enough to find. Quick look on our trip.

Easy

Found on our North 4 Winter trip.
TNKN, T4TC.

Cheers,
Ric

Took longer than it should have as overthought things Geohubbie came up with the goods TFTC

TFTC. A rustic “locacheion”.

Stinking hot out here today. But TFTC

Thanks for the hide! Awesome place and the description really helped!

Found this one. Took us more than 1 go looking where it was hidden before we eventually saw it. It blended in quite well.
TFTC

Logbook in OK conditions. If not, next person please replace.

Nice quick find today. Enjoying a nice stroll around. Hopefully it’s going to rain. TFTC

Quick search and found

Found it TFTC Found in good condition

Fun to find

Gps took me on a guided trip around. Spotted where it could be, and bingo.

Could the next person please replace the logbook with a small piece of paper.

A surprisingly quick find. Nice display.
Tftc

We have an hour to fill in waiting for the Cobbold Gorge road to open. How better to fill in some time than to find a cache.
Thanks

Nice find while spending a couple of days in Forsayth.

Searched and searched. Finally found it but had to reach further than expected.

Having a break from gold detecting around the area to do some geocacheing with family.

Cache found the second time I looked there! avoiding the heat as the metal was really hot but not a problem, in fact it was so warm it had dried the log nicely and all good!

With GreyHams we set out on an epic 5 day caching trip from Cairns, to the Northern Territory and back again. 3400km via Burketown with the occasional detour off into different directions as was needed! Looong straight roads, many on dirt or rock and rough but luckily only the 1 flat tyre. Camels, a crocodile, wildlife in abundance of numbers and types and a crazy number of kangaroos after dark it was a little scary! Such a great trip through all the LGA's and we saw so much!

Day 1: We arrived in Cairns after midday to pick up the car with several hours of driving ahead of us to get to Hughenden. With road reports having just changed to open after recent rains it was a little unknown what was ahead of us. 'Drive to conditions and 4WD'... down the Lind in the dark and not a car to be seen for hours... we found out why! Some old caches, virtuals and earth caches to stop at, it was a good start into a few areas otherwise easy to drive by and miss their little discoveries.

Day 2: With reports of snow falling back home in Canberra we woke to a pleasant sunny day of blue sky and warmth. Hughendens windmills and dinosaur visited and then off into the unknown of more dirt roads of 'drive to conditions and 4WD' and a fascinating day of Earthcaches through the region. Cloncurry was our stop overnight and despite its many accommodation options it was a long search before the 'have you tried the road runner?' It proved better than expectations and as usual things just worked out. The Leichharde for dinner was a good snitty hotel, an event at the central was great to meet some local cachers and proved to be the steak place as we saw!

Day 3: The most epic of all days of the trip in the distance and events. Leaving The Curry it was up to The Isa, some local caching, local cachers and then south for a bit before returning through The Isa and off to the Northern Territory. Camooweal to Burke 'up the dirt' rough, rocky, lots of creek crossing, AKA 'dips' and a bit of water in places. A flat trye slowed things dramatically, after the crazy number of little kangaroos and 3 hours to travel 160km we limped into a thriving Burketown relieved to have made it with only 1 roo casualty. The hotel was a busy and friendly place, dinner at the closing TA and then the hotel closed and silence...

Day 4: Started off at the great guys at Nowlands who had the tyre repaired quickly. Checked in for our flight to Mornington and then off to the Burketown bore and wetlands while we wait, cool spot! Doomadgee missed the day before, we squeezed it in today which was worth the drive, the roos of the night made way for so many wedgies on the road and stopped overnight in Croydon at a great Queenslander hotel with the best meals and the best sauces to go with them. Yummy, caching fuel!

Day 5: Croydon to Mareeba, with a FTF opportunity at Einasleigh Gorge, great geology and a lovely discovery, lunch at the hotel and then off down some more dirt roads, creeks, water and corrugations, the road crews keep busy out these ways and we were pleased to meet some along the way! A little scramble for accommodation but Mareeba pushed us a little further and was well placed.

Day 6: A casual morning collecting a few local LGA's around the Cairns area before returning the tough and mighty little hire car and the flights down south to winter... aargh! Sunny Queensland, you will be missed!

Such a great trip, long days, long roads, landscapes and wildlife of such variety and abundance. Great caches, people and memories. Thanks for your cache that guided us through this area!

Nothing wrong with log, bone dry

Aquilus1 & I are on a mission to visit every LGA in Australia and on this short & sweet 5 day mission we went from Cairns to the Northern Territory and back again. 3400km's, 1 flat tyre, 600-700 kangaroo's seen, 1 hit, and all the other fauna & flora.

What a nuts adventure!

Day 1: Arrive in Cairns at before noon, grab the car and immediately off to Guyala for the first LGA of the day. During the day we saw massive trees, and old virtual and some earthcaches.....and at least 200km of dirt road without seeing anything at all except for one car. Limped into Hughenden from The Lynd about 9:15pm. Had to spend 15 minutes killing mozzies in the room before I was willing to go to bed.

Day 2: Leave Hughenden after admiring the windmill & the dinosaur for a day of largely earthcaches.....and long dirt roads that were marked '4WD only'. Our mightly little pretend SUV ate them for breakfast. Had a mad scramble for accommodation at the end of the day in Cloncurry.....eventually getting a cabin at the 'Road Runner'..... which clearly has a poor reputation based on the looks we got when mentioning it. Local event was great and met TeamPops for the first time.

Day 3: Left The Curry on the way to The Isa.....detoured south a bit before returning and doing some cool gadget caches by drrnrchr...some real talent there! Then off to the NT of course, as you do! From there it was a slog to Burketown...."up the dirt" which was a very poor road. Got the flat right near the end of the worst stretch so then limped in at 50-60km/h for the next 3 hours. I have never seen so many roo's in all my life and I live in Canberra which has a serious roo problem.....it was crazy. We arrived just near closing of the pub & takeaway and the town was in party mode....then 15 minutes later was completely silent.

Day 4: At sparrows got the car to the awesome guys at Nowland to fix the puncture. This was the day for visiting the aboriginal LGA's, we checked in for our 30 minute Mornington Island flights at the Shire Council, first time I have ever done that! Doomadgee was visited as well, the road there being excellent with an exciting river crossing for fun......and we discovered it was actually Mabo Day so we were very lucky to visit on that day, the towns were fascinating, the Rosie's chicken at the Doomadgee roadhouse delicious. Heading east along the Savannah way, we saw a croc & a canberra cacher....of all the things!

Day 5: Another long day from Croydon to Mareeba, with my first Queensland FTF as well on an amazing earthcache at Einasleigh....more swful roads but thankfully these were the very last! As always an interesting hunt for accommodation, but it all worked out.

Day 6: This was a relaxed day just cleaning up the few surrounding Cairns LGA's and cruising into the airport...where they tried to charge me $500 for having a puncture that was now repaired...jeez guys, c'mon! Sorted out quickly but I was set to 'ramming speed' for a few moments.

TFTC. Log needs replacing as it is wet.

Found it! Passing through on our way to Cobbold Gorge with WayneO. TFTC

TFTC. Nice quick find on our way to Cobbold Gorge

After getting into Forsayth later than expected last night as we had chosen the wrong road and a very swollen flooded river blocked our patch so we had to come in via Georgetown so there was no caching done on our way in.
Today with a nice fresh start we headed out to Enslaigh to grab the two out there before heading our way towards Croydon.

We had just been reading about the mining around here while having a meal at the pub so coming here was the ideal next cache. We had the entire area to ourselves and enjoyed looking over the relics here. WE weren't looking forward to a search on so many pieces of equipment but when we went to where the GPSr was pointing we were very happy when we put our hand on the container in the first place we looked and have added our name to the log and returned everything as it was


Many thanks georode for bringing us to this location and for the cache,

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 georode (F=9298 H=320) for placing this cache and adding to our game.

Found easy. We are staying at Forsayth Caravan Park. And had a quick look here for a cache or two before the sunset viewing at the dam. Tomorrow visiting Cobbold Gorge. Tftc

Nice easy find. TFTC.

TFTC,
Day 15 of our northern adventure for 2022 and now Nana nel and wazza9 are heading towards Cairns.
This should have been so easy. I must have looked there 6 times. Got in the end, visited trackables.

Day 15 of our adventure to Townsville Mega. 2nd cache before leaving town, we searched and searched, I was looking in the wrong place, wazza9 made the find at long last, stamped log and returned. Thanks to georode.

Previously logged under team account BoogieRogue. Re-logging with my individual account. #Find#: 3870#

Found on: 25 October 2021 14:14

Distance from GZ: 2m

Buddies: none

Muggles: none

Weather: sunny

Cache condition: good



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First find on Forsayth. Nice location.

**TFTC for the Micro Traditional Cache georode TNLNSL**

Discover my trackables: 654EMY, GSVG86, TAKM0W, GM5KY0

#Find#: 3870#
Found on: 25 October 2021 14:14
Distance from GZ: 2m
Buddies: none
Muggles: none
Weather: sunny
Cache condition: good

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First find on Forsayth. Nice location.
**TFTC for the Micro Traditional Cache georode TNLNSL**
Discover my trackables: 654EMY, GSVG86, TAKM0W, GM5KY0

Great spot. Tftc

Tftc

Minor problem.

Easy catch

I must’ve been standing right beside it and couldn’t see it for ages…. Then all of a sudden I’ll look at that there it is….We love we love this beautiful little town might come back and stay tonight

Thanks so much.

Yew

After spending 3 weeks travelling from Cairns to Cape York and back with FeatherWaite and another friend from Hobart, we headed off on our separate ways home.

With the current dynamic covid situation and the restrictions in place in terms of entry back into SA, I haven’t really decided on my final route, but I was in no hurry!

I am making my way west towards Karumba.

I spent much of yesterday visiting the Undara Volcanic National Park to check out the Kalkani Crater and the lava tubes, then camped at the Einasleigh River last night.

This morning I noticed that there were some caches further south near the towns of Einasleigh and Forsayth, so decided to do a loop down there, then back up to Georgetown.

It was a bit of a deviation, but I’m glad I did it as it was quite a pleasant drive and the scenery was great. It was good to check out the two old mining towns and the Copperfield Gorge was worth seeing.

This cache was a quick find as I headed out of town.

Thanks georode for the cache.

A great place to visit. Thank you for bringing us here

TFTC

Continuing my trip through North West Qld I made it up to the Gulf and now I’m slowly making my way back south.
My next destination was Cobbold Gorge and as I came into Forsayth I realised that there were a couple of caches to be found.
A great little town to stop in at and have a look around.
Looked in a few spots and soon added my name to the log.

Thanks georode TFTC.

Arrived to spend a couple of days in the area. Glad to see a cache awaiting us. Nice quick find and cache in good order. Tftc

Travelling west to do some caching and this was one we targeted and found.  Thanks for hiding and giving us the opportunity to explore.

TFTC We found this one on our way to Cobbold Gorge. Quick easy find.

Stopped here on the way out from Cobbold Gorge and quickly spotted the cache , log signed and returned as found, thanks for placing and

TFTC

Looked last time I was here. Found it today.

Easy dry cache, tftc

Well after a fantastic trip to the magnificent Cobbold Gorge or little rolling solo convoy are heading to the Table lands for some lush green. Stopped at Forsayth for brekky and my cat played in the park. My first gluten free bread out the whole trip...yaaarm. newbies liked straight past this easy find. TFTC

Stopped for a refreshment on the way into Cobbold Gorge TFTC

Quick find
TFTC

Found it with goat girl44 and Geo kids while on our trip around Australia TFTC

Thank you for this Geocaching. We enjoyed finding it on our way out of Forsayth.

Fists of Five.

Doing a curcit around queensland this school holidays. Looking forward to the Savannah lander tomorrow. Dont overthink this cache. Tftc

Great spot i love these things

Found with LouLouRu14! Showing me the ropes TFTC

Found with a newbie TYTC

Found TFTC with Barrod..on our way to Cobbold.

took a little while but we got it in the end tftc

Cheers. Have put in some new log paper. Tftc

Nice easy find. Great location.

Great spot and a quick find. Thanks for bringing us here.

Just about to give up and I thought about the clue one last time and Voila!
What a beautiful little town
Tftc it contributed to me coming this way

Found . Happy Maddy ️

Enjoyed a coffee (delicious) and went over to the park, what an oasis, then down to find the cache before going to explore Cobold Gorge

Nice display of old wares TFTC

The gardens were lovely in this little town. After stopping at the lockup and other park we picked this one up on the way out of town. TFTC.