The Old Bruce - This Will Crack You Up Federal, Queensland, Australia
By Jones.gang & SPlKE on 05-Sep-16. Waypoint GC6RGWW

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Jingeri

G'day Jones.gang,

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Jingeri

No luck for us.

Jones.gang I didn’t find your cache The Old Bruce - This Will Crack You Up on 16/2/2023, 2:57 pm. Add me to the DNF list. Could not see it.

No go for me either on this one TFTH anyway

No luck for us

Gave it a crack, no luck

Out caching with the Tough Mothers (Bennyboppers, Misssusan79 and Lisylou). No luck for us

Quick grab. Lucky one of us is tall!!!!

Found it

Found on my sunnycoast hinterland tour today.

Tftc

Georode

Well, finally the weather has decided it will allow us a few days of dry camping (not totally dry, there WILL be a few lagers involved! ).
Our target area is Gympie and a few rural spots northwest.

Neither a ladder or good balance just a giant leap of faith!
Made our mark & replaced as found.

TFTC Jones.gang

Ltf

Handy to be tall for this one

Thanks for the cache

Nice and easy cache

Found with bonkers and shush

TFTC

Coongoola & Geodog found your cache today, 28 May 2021 10:44 am , while enjoying another day out adding to our tally. TFTC Jones.gang & SPlKE

Tftc, having driven up and down here quite a few times while in the area. Today was the day to collect the caches before we head north tomorrow.
Quick find, did crack a smile

We were heading north for a CITO event and also a celebration event at Gympie but with car problems as we neared the CITO the decision was made that after the event we would turn around and head back to Caboolture. Drat drat and double drat.
We decided to use the old Bruce Highway and pickup what caches we passed as we did not wish to put undue pressure on the car.
Fortunately hubby has the height so there was no need for a TOTT at this cache. SL TFTC

Out with Snickersalan, Patrol14, RoddyC, Hatzoff. Great day. TFTC

On our way home from the recent on the Mary picking up caches on the old highway.

TFTCache Jones.gang & SPlKE

Picking up a few caches with geo friends hatzofff, RoddyC, patrol14 and TMZ59 on our way back home after spending a few days in the local district.
A nice quick stop and cache retrieval by our team, good hide.

TFTC Jones.gang & SPlKE
Found February 21, 2021

Final day in Cooroy/Traveston area, making the journey back home.

An athletic Snickersallan soon had this one cracked.

Log signed and cache replaced as found at 10:52 AM on February 21, 2021. TFTC, Jones.gang & SPlKE

10.50am
After our weekend away with RoddyC hatzofff Snickersallan and TMZ59 for the Mary River paddle, we are now caching on our way home.
Luckily no ladder was needed for this retrieval and after signing the logbook returned cache as found.

Found on 21 February 2021. TFTC, Jones.gang & SPlKE.

Find with ease

Found with Indica

I made my taller geodaughter walk with me to gz where she had no trouble at all accessing the cache. All signed and returned and off home for us now. Tftc Jones.gang & SPIKE

The worker mentioned by the previous finder had gone home apparently, so no trouble meandering to GZ, and spotting the cache container. Now how do I get hold of it? No good standing on my dignity - I don't have any. Or getting on my high horse - I don't have a horse, even a low one. No Ladder either - perhaps if I was wearing stockings? No there too. But standing on tip-toes I could just reach, so soon had it in hand, and retrieved the log sheet to sign. Replacement was easy. TFTC jones.gang

While traveling to Gympie with my geodog Scruffy, we just had to stop and find a few caches along the way...
Part 2 of this worker ... well here he was working on the coastal side of the overpass.
Having a workers shirt on myself, Scruff and I 'inspected' the cement slabs of the structure.
The worker soon took no notice of us and went back to his work.
Within seconds, I was up, had the cache in hand, stamped, put back and we were back in the car.
"Come on Scruff, off to the next."

All Good .. TFTC ..

First time out looking for caches in a couple of months with geodaughter. TFTC

Love the name of the cache. Nice easy find. Tftc

Nice quiet spot tftc

Nice little find

A nice hide! Good clue. Thanks for the cache!

3:30:00 PM. Taking the quiet way home. We pulled up and went for a short walk. Spotted the cache and was going to climb up when I realised I could just reach it. Log signed. Thanks for the cache Jones.gang

Heading up to Gympie for a work course, and managed to leave early enough to fit in a few previously unfound caches along the way. This was able to be reached with a good stretch and 2 feet still on the ground.

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Log signed at 10:56 and cache returned as found. Thanks for the smilie **Jones.gang & SPlKE**. This log is trackable, mention where you saw it.

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Came back today more appropriately dressed for climbing. Easy spot and not nearly as hard as thought it might be to reach. Tftc

out and about with GOK. TFTC>

Today I met up with csnmasn and we headed north out of Cooroy to grab a cache or two and this was the next on the list.

Once at GZ it was a short search and the cache was in hand.

Once the log was signed all was returned as found.

TFTC Jones.gang

Gotcha baby. TFTC

I stopped by this cache. A quick look and i headed back to the geomobile for a small ToTT. With the assistance of the small ToTT, access to the cache was much easier. I was soon adding my name to the log. I returned the cache to its spot and the small Tott to the goemobile, then continued my journey south. TFTC

Today we had a lovely tour as we headed on the way south with ilook4geo. We saw water and island views, pine forests and logging of the trees, as well as eucalypt forest and little quiet out of the way hamlets.
We had a really good day, with no DNF caches to record and each log was duly signed, with each cache being returned to its proper place before we moved on. This was an interesting series of caches along the old highway.
Thank you to Jones.gang & SPIKE for placing this cache and adding to the caching game.

Has a good drive today with lots of different scenery to enjoy. Found all the caches looked for with goingplaces2, signed the logs. Enjoyed the day very much. Thanks to each CO for the caches we found.

Found

Got it! Thanks

21/4/19 1220pm Found it TFTC SL

Thanks for the cache. Greetings from Switzerland.

alegna8357

Tftc

Nice hide! Tftc

I have driven past this cache many times but for one reason or another I have not stopped to look for the cache. Today, I had a bit of spare time so I called in to have a look.

The bridge caused the GPS to jump a little but when I determined that I was roughly in the right spot, I was able to step back and spot the cache.

Find #1934

TFTC ***Jones.gang***

I was making my way up to Gympie for a meeting and decided to pick up a few more of this series. It was also a chance to break up the drive that seemed to be throwing every weather event on the planet at me. Brilliant sunshine intermittently spread with showers that were occasionally broken up by more showers

I’m not sure where this road goes but there was a car parked on top of the hill. I didn’t know if it was a prospector waiting to peg their claim, or a serial killer waiting for some dumb cacher to be looking in the wrong direction. Dang, I’m just the right kind of dumb! tftc

Easily found, now to reach. Improvised & then to put it back. Easy. Tftc tnlnsl

TFTC found easily and then had to work out how to get it out and back in. Succeeded with help from some sticks. TNLNSL

Nice find, luckily geokids gymnastic ability manger to retrieve this no worries. Tftc

Found with stairman1. This was a surprisingly easy for me as I am vertically challenged. All good here.TFTC

Found with goldielover today while on our way home. Nice quick stop and off again.
TFTC

Had a good set of tools in the car, so managed to get it out and back again. TFTC

We have set up camp for a couple of days at Kanganda, a good location to head along the Amamoor Muster Trail & the south along the Old Bruce Highway. A great contrast in regions from forestry , highways into small towns.
A good variety of locations & caches found.
Thanks for placing this cache Jones.gang

Working close by so had a look for it also showing a couple people that just learned about it

TFTC

Easy to spot, but problem is "Can we get it back again after signing ?" ...... back to the ute to see what aids are available and resourceful geo hubby wins the day again !!
thanks for the laughs and photo opportunity !!

This one we were almost unable to return as we are not on the tall side. It's not so easy trying to jump upwards on a narrow ledge!

Thirty years ago, New Years Eve was the highlight of the calendar - usually involving the beach, sunburn, a big party, hopefully some midnight smooching with a cute girl before seeing the sunrise on New Years day. How times have changed. Bromance wives were collectively glad to see the back of us (no midnight smooching tonight), so we set upon another road trip collecting caches north west of Brisbane.

When we arrived here, Swellerfungus took a short walk to do his own impersonation of the UK leaving the EU. Being the shortest of the Bromance, collecting this cache clearly was SeffnJarah's responsibility. Clever use of some gadgets had the job done.

Many thanks Jones.gang

Pete

No red carpet parties rubbing shoulders with A listers. No sipping champagne in a ski chalet in the French Alps. Not even a couple of sparklers and a get together with relations you can't stand. Such is the stunted social life of the Bromance on New Years Eve. So instead Swellerfungus, Crookedpete and Seffnjarah decided to pack up the Zoomin' Shroom and head up to Widgee for a day of caching and a night of camping in 5 hollow-star luxury.

Heading off from Brisbane at 6.30am this was the first stop on our journey. Unfortunately my Spiderman pyjamas were at home being washed. Luckily I was packing a useful tool I had intended on using at a CITO tomorrow and it came in vitally handy in retrieving this cache. Getting it back into position was not so easy and a walking pole was enlisted to assist in completing the task. TFTC

Time for another Bromance Road Trip. Somehow we managed to all get the leave pass from family duties to get away for some New Years Eve Caching. We might as well join up with the event at Widgee, and enoy some of that wonderful hospitality from those North of Brisbane.


This one was picked up on the way to the event. It was nice to reminsce about all thetrips we had made up and down this highway. Thanks for the cache. May have been signed as the Bromance for Swellerfungus, Seffnjarah and CrookedPete.

Spotted the cache and with some handy caching tools we managed to retrieve it sign it and put it back as found.

Tftf

I certainly did not have a ladder, and my balance is not the best.

The GPSr could not decide which side to be on, and naturally I opted for the wrong one. With no luck I made the journey to the other side.

Not really that difficult and my balance could just cope with this.

Found Ok

We had just bought a new car and thought we would give it a run up here finding this series. We loved that thought had been given to making sure that we had a proper place to pull of the road to look for these caches. We spotted this hide from across the road. We had come prepared with a ladder in the car but we didn't need it in the end. TNLNSL TFTC

TFTC needed help with a mobile!

New where it was finally managed to nab it today.
8 August 2017 08:40 TFTC

Found it with bikesu on my way back home.Tftc

On our way back home. Last day. Doing a little detour for caching.

Loved it.

Tftc

Good hide. Nice quick find. TFTC

Up here on the Sunshine Coast for a 3 day weekend of caching. Decided to do as many caches as we could but not overdoing it. Found 80 caches in the 3 days and a big thank you to all CO's. It brought us to spots that we would not probably travelled. TFTC

Visiting the Sunshine Coast area for a few days of caching. Visited many interesting places and found a variety of cache containers. Thank to all the COs for the effort of placing and maintaining your caches. Tricky hide - favourite point.

Love this! TFTC

Tftc - love me some monkey work!

Found it! It's the nature of caching I suppose, but having read some previous logs,I found this one very very much easier than I thought it would be. Great spot for it. TFTC

After climbing all over the place, it was Papa-Bear who found it! The young one put it back with a little boost

Almost went beyond the call of duty before spotting it in a much different position to where we were expecting. After reading previous logs we now realise the cache can't be in it's correct position. Great hide for a cache though. TFTC Jones.gang.

Over in Noosa for some fishing and/or caching. Some great hides

TFTC

Cute hide glad we had exactly the correct tot for the job.tftc tnln sl

It was an easy find but a challenge to retrieve. However all's well that ends well. TFTC

Found with my amazing geopartner KaleidoscopeCass. Tftc.

Love this cache! Glad I had my 6'3 geopartner WallabyTim with me though as we didn't look to see it was a terrain 3 until after we signed the log!

It was a little bit of fun getting to this one. Nice spot for it.
TFTC

Gotcha !!! I enjoy this sort of challenge even at 73 y.o. so a Fav Pt from me today. TFTC

Mr Just a Trifle was out for another day of caching with ViKoCZ to pick up a few target caches to help with various challenges The first cache for the day was Serenity on the Mountain, and depending on how it went, that would determine how many other caches would be found for the day We were lucky for the rain to have had held off until after that cache was completed, but in reality, there were only just a few short sprinkles while we were driving down the highway

Thank you Jones.gang for having placed the cache and for maintaining it for everyone to enjoy

#4296 [13:24] while going around with mr. just a trifle, we have stopped for few points near the highway. all were nice to find, nice to park and nice to log thanks for this one!

TFTC Jones.gang and Spike

Spotted the cache hidden up high, then with no ladder handy, a leg up got me within reach. It was a bit of a balancing act though to sign the log without falling off the narrow ledge.
#1364 @ 1630h
TFTC Jones.gang

Tftc

Dranyer got out of car as we parked under the bridge! Dranyer started walk to side of the bridge and I waited in car with geodog under bridge! While I wait in car I spotted straight away and I ran out to stop Dranyer climb to bridge! Got Dranyer to grab it and I got it our names signed! Returned same place TFTC

Found it no need ladder ha TFTC

Have been eyeing off The Old Bruce series since they were published a few months ago. Driving back to Townsville from Brisbane, I decided today was a great day to take a slight detour and try to locate these caches.

Log signed. Took nothing and left nothing. Cache container and log in great condition.

Finding this cache has now given me a total find count of 1557.

Thanks for the cache hide **Jones.gang**.

This one needed teamwork!! A bit of a laugh tooTFTC

Had to go back out into the sunshine to get a reading on the GPS, walked over and spotted it quite easily. Now for the difficult task of retrieving it - fortunately we always use hiking sticks (not that we do any hiking but they keep us upright) so were able to use them to get the cache and return it once we had signed the log. Deserves a favourite point for the fun it gave us. TFTC Jones.gang

Driving past on the new highway I can see this series pop up around me, so chose today to take the old road and pick up a few caches on the way.
Thanks for placing this cache, Jones.gang & SPlKE. Found in good condition.
*{Overall find #5018}*

Nice to get away from Maryborough for a few days and get a few caches in this lovely part of Queensland. Thanks to Jones.gang for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Loved this one, made an interesting photo shot. Thanks Jones.gang