Alpha 5 Alpha, Queensland, Australia
By Nedandmrskelly with sandshoo3 on 17-May-16. Waypoint GC6J0FG

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.Accurate coordinates and a familiar style of hide led to a quick find. Apart from a full logbook, the cache and contents were in good condition. We left a replacement log. Thanks Nedandmrskelly for the cache.

TFTC! Log book very full, no space to write. No need to go through the fence like I did (GPS went a bit wild )

Found

TFTC with Slack1962

With FiveTays-TT TFTC

A quick find whilst walking around Alpha. TFTC

Walked straight past it but found it on my way back. Log is full.

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An easy find driving back to Rocky. Log completely full.Thanks.

A quick find here TFTC

Forgot to log, nice easy find. ThanksRVCL

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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

33,498. 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

Easy find on a slow drive to longreach. Log book full.

Easy quick find on trip to Longreach. Needs new log.

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.
Cache in good condition.
TNSL TFTC

On our way to QOGM picking up the caches with safe parking spots for the van. The van provided the perfect screen from nearby houses Tftc

On the hunting trail with SeasonedBird while on a slow roundabout route to QOGM 2023 at Longreach. A quick find here after a couple of caching days in and around Rubyvale, Sapphire and the opportunity for Mrs Geo to hit the gem fields. We’re on the road again to spend a night at Alpha. 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.

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 # 9584

#LockitupintheOutback

Quick one on drive through

Quick find on my way through town. Thanks for the cache

Nice placement for a cache! I was about to go down the bank but spotted it beforehand, always a good thing

Easy

Got it
TFTC

Found but not hanging where expected . Yftc. Greetings from

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 walked around to this one as I came in from the wrong end for the one way road. Once on site, it was a quick find in an ingenuous spot.

Thanks for the cache Nedandmrskelly

37424.10 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Las Vegas Benchmark A#111

**Albida**

Yay! Found it

Tftc on road trip from dunolly

TFTC nice quick find with PeteBev

Ggtcrc

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

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

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

Found by Mary and David at 11:55 on a drive from Barcaldine to Emerald. Beautiful trees. Our thanks to Nedandmrskelly

Found quickly and saw some deer in the creek bed.

Got that one. TFTC

Enjoy travelling with DeafVW, DeafCat and DeafPhantom TFTC

Great find with DeafCat, Deafphantom and DutchAus

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

Awesome with DeafPhantom DutchAus DeafVW

Found it after fossicking some petrified wood. Tftc

Found this one doing a few caches around Alpha as COM084 and I headed west to Jericho.

Please watch the magnets don’t fall out when you open the cache. Had the time of it trying to find them when I did. Lol.

Log signed and replaced as found, once I found the magnets.

TFTC

On our way to Jeriko so just a quick cash hunt through alpha. TFTC

Found / TFTC, heading home to the Gold Coast.

A short walk from where we had parked the car, and a straight forward find after that.
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 find here

TFTC

Thanks

Tftc Tnln

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.

Quick find Enjoying pedalling round Alpha’s streets. Thanks for placing caches here TFTC

Fast find and thanks for the look around Alpha

TFTC

Couldn't find this one today

No luck here today

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.

This was a quick find that I spotted from above, although it was a bit daunting poking my fingers in to grab it after also spotting the nice-sized eight legged cache guardian positioned just above it!

Thanks Nedandmrskelly for the cache.

Another DNF new fence

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

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

Returning home to Echuca after a great QOGM Event in Blackall.
Made a list and this is one that we found.
Signed and replaced as found.

Thanks Nedandmrskelly

Little Squirell

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

Day 7 on our road trip to QOGM 2019 at Blackall and today we make our way from Emerald to Alpha with a detour to The Gemfields. We had a great day making our way around the area and enjoying the cafe at one of the caches. Thanks so much to the COs for placing the caches here for our enjoyment.

8951 Located by baby&Mrs gopher ( also sign as bMg on small log sheets) at 1235. We are in Alpha to finish the caches we missed last time. The variation of hides makes it worth while. SL Tnx Nedandmrskelly

On our way to QOGM (Blackall) day 25 of our trip. 20 caches for the day and 750 for the trip.TFTC

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

Cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

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

Easy find tftc

It is good

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. This was a well-hidden but easy find, without any muggle activity in the vicinity. Thanks so much for your efforts in placing these caches for our enjoyment. Cheers from Bindair Dundat and Princess Madelyn.

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.

After a break at lunch time, we were back in the geomobile to finish off the town caches.

Got it as well.... thanks Ned and his wife

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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 5"** at 11:22:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 20308).

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.

**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.

We had to clear out some Roos to get this one - fun - thank you!

TFTC Nedandmrskelly with sandshoo3.

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

Day 9 of my geocaching adventure with Team DIEL heading towards Emerald on route to the Gold Coast.
Good pickup here, easy find.
TFTC Nedandmrskelly with sandshoo3
Found October 2, 2018

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

Over the years, geocaching has taken me on many adventures, including interesting destinations all over my home continent of Australia and many overseas as well. It has also introduced me to a diverse group of like-minded caching tragics, many of whom I now call close friends.

Today, I was lucky enough to be out and about searching for caches, something I do on almost a daily basis. This was one cache that was targeted and found.

Sorry for the late and generic log, something I am notorious for. Thank you Nedandmrskellyfor adding to the adventure that is geocaching.

Half the team was in Barcaldine for the Queensland Outback Geocaching
Muster having fun catching up and of course finding some caches.
We joined forces with Geoturtle37 Papi4506 and micaparamedic to head to
Jericho for the event there. We left early so we could find a few caches
in Alpha before hand.
Unfortunately I can not remember the order we attacked this series so it
is hard to write a log about each one. I can say each cache was found,
some harder than others and they were all in good condition and each log
book contains our names.
Many thanks nedandmrskelly for showing us around Alpha and a great
series we will have to return to finish

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

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TFTC another on my map whilst at QOGM having a great time.
Regards Les and Wendy

Quick park and grab on day 4 of QOGM 18. thanks for placing these caches around here. Waiting for the event tonight at Jericho Hotel. TFTC.

I have been traveling a zigzag path to QOM, 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 Uwe001 to QOGM in Barcaldine. Choosed some back roads for smilies. Found this cache, signed logsheets TBU1+2.

Tftc

Travelling with Bikesu to QOGM in Barcaldine. Stopped to grab this cache. 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. This one took a while to find, pprass saw it.

Found at 3:04 PM GAFF1in the company of nana nel and wazza9..
When the description said "on the bank of the creek" I thought you meant "on the bank of the creek" and not way before you get to it [B)]
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.

Missed this one earlier today, so back out to grab the last 3 caches in town. Managed to park up close and was an incredibly quick grab and sign. Thanks again NedandMrsKelly for the caches that add so much enjoyment to our travels. SL as SG.

Checkedok today

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.

Quick find while staying at Jericho.TFTC