Ron Short Park Main Beach, Queensland, Australia
By E(: on 25-Sep-16. Waypoint GC6TGAH

TFTC!!

Found. Snickersallan, thank you so much for placing it for everyone to enjoy and highlighting this area.

I passed it by and Gorjess516 found it following along behind me! Number 6 for today and 470 in total. TFTC

On the coast for an AFL game today. I think it was a bit of luck that this was in the second spot I put my hands. All in good condition. TFTC. #6 for today and #1590 in total.

A quick stop at my namesake street and then retrieved the cache. SL and RAF. TFTC

Clever little hide we found on our way to getvboat parts by bike.

After a good search the cache was found. Thanks.

Down the Gold Coast for the weekend with the geowife to see Simple minds. Managed to find a couple of hours to pop out and pick up a few caches before dinner.Found a safe place to park and quickly made my way to ground zero and found the cache. Removed the log and made my mark before safely returning and off to the next cache.A big thanks to the cache owner for making this cache available to be found.Cheers

I left my car running thinking that I'd be having a quick cache find, but the geocaching gods knew better. This was a good hide that had me searching for 5-10 minutes, and after making a few loops and returning to the initial area that I had been searching in, I eventually found the allusive cache. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks [E_Smiley](https://coord.info/PREYGEN) for the cache placement, and [Snickersallan](https://coord.info/PR9Y97F) for the ongoing maintenance.----------Today, with a CITO event scheduled in the Broadwater Parklands in Southport, it was a trip south to the Gold Coast.After finding lots of rubbish around the water's edge, I ventured around to the Spit and after a short walk, it was a trip in the kayak to South Stradbroke Island across the channel. In the afternoon, I potted around Southport visiting reserves and parks, which included my highlight visiting the Brickworks Centre.At the beginning and end of the trip's travels, I visited several Locations from the [Theme Parks of South East Queensland](https://labs.geocaching.com/goto/103147d5-9a5e-494c-b263-91e99988d7b8) Adventure Lab: Dreamworld, Sea World, Movie World, and WetnWild.

Fast grab in the night Tftc

We found this cache and signed the log.Thank you for the cache says Team sissifalke

Nice

This one hasn’t been found in a while! Simple enough, and it’s all good and dry! There is a storm right now though, hope it survives! Tftc

Replaced missing container with a new magnetic one, all good to go, happy caching!

It would appear from the three recent DNF's that this cache may be missing. Will disable until I can get a suitable container for replacement, sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

No luck for me here today

20 min looking and did not find.

There's been a lot of water through here. Not sure if it's still here. Thanks anyway

No log, just the magnetic whatever it is and a tattered Geocache label. Grabbed a quick photo and put it back

Down this way playing taxi driver for my daughter and her friends.
Signed ND1 to save space on the log.
Watch out for the plovers as they weren’t too sure about me.
Tftc Snickersallan

Starting to make my way home I’ve got time for a couple more caches… the only other people here today were on the other side of the park which enabled me to search freely… it didn’t take long to extract this cache… tftc…

On my way home, I added a few different ones to find as we headed towards Toowoomba. A quick find once at GZ. TFTC Snickersallan and E(:

Found it with no log sheet. TFTC

Great find. Overlooked it but came back in a hunch. TFTF

Found this one easily great spot

Maintenance carried out, new container and log sheet in place ready for the next finder.

Found it nice and easy
TFTC

Ron Short Park was transferred from E_Smiley to user Snickersallan

Logged with the kind permission of CO
A bit of activity in the park but quiet at the cache
Thanks for this one
R

This was my first find since upgrading to premium! Wandered around for a while and then the location became obvious!
TFTC!

Frankhem helped us with this one.
Pretty easy find

Nice easy find. Be ready for a handful of ants - but they won’t bite.
I needed this one after a month of lots of commitments and moving house. Hope this gets me back into the grove of caching.
TFTC

Great find for myself and my daughter

TFTC - great hide and cammo

Got it quick TFTC

DNF Today

I was early for a Blood Bank deposit appointment today soI swung be here to make a quick find. This was indeed fast and I took it from its hide, write my name then replaced into hide and it Fell out. I put it in again for it to fall again. Oh dear. Further investigation led me to the Cache Ambulance for a bit of a +\- and then it
Was all systems go for rehiding. This time it stayed and I got to enjoy the breeze and stunning blue sky before heading off to give some golden goodness (Plasma).

Found

Coordinates changed from:
S 27° 58.684 E 153° 24.241

Coordinates changed to:
S 27° 58.738 E 153° 24.260

Distance from original: 344.0 feet or 104.9 meters.

Better hide

Looked for awhile with the family but wasn’t able to locate

easy find here, thanks

Thanks for this one. Easy find. All is good here

All good with this cache.

Found on a nice afternoon outing to the area. I spotted the cache lid and log on the ground and returned it to a high spot out of sight. Needs a check but still operational. Thanks E(:

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

When we saw the playground in the park, we had to wonder if it was built on the footy field. At least that explains why it has a fence around it. We don’t want any rugby players coming to grief by being tackled into a swing. It’s much safer if they get impaled on a fence.

At GZ we had a run in with the dreaded “lurker”. A lurker is some one that is standing near a cache but is more concerned about why you are looking at them and they won’t move on. A lurker generally has a guilty conscious, may possibly be hocking stolen goods, loves being watched or maybe a really poor geocacher.

The best way to overcome a lurker is to offer them religious or political propaganda. I keep a bunch of pamphlets as a caching TOTT which I highly recommend. You also need a screwdriver because you generally have a few screws loose. tftc

Tftc

Got it! Thx

Caching in the area with whitewebbs and this was one we found.

An easy find at GZ, cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Day 65 Mainland trip
Out and about caching in the area and we needed to find some amenities. This park came up and of course we had to find the cache nearby. A quick find. TFTC

TFTC, nice area.

At last....after a dissapointing run of DNF in the area, I get a smiley. . . & a way quick findTFTC

Quite a sneaker

Attended an Event at Helensvale Library and a group of catchers set out to convert some boxes etc to Smilies. Quick and easy find, left signature and replaced cache. TFTC

Nice find. Out with Friends.
TFTC

Few muggles around but reezielou managed to grab it pretty quickly. TFTC!

Yep quick park and grab with Krcamber

Tftc. I spent some time searching the the obvious but found nothing. So I sat down to read the older logs and spotted one sentence that lead me to relocate my search operations. And yes, after a while I was signing the logbook.

While staying in Surfers Paradise with our caravan in order to visit with our niece and her family while they are holidaying on the Gold Coast from Adelaide we still found time to do this caches. A nice hide in a very scenic area. Thankyou TeamDIEL for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area

2 Oct. 2018 11:24.
With an event to attend at Broadbeach in the afternoon, I spent the day caching my way down there from Brisvegas, nabbing some solved puzzles and anything interesting along the way.

What a blast from the past, I used to bring my boxer here for obedience lessons in the early 2000s. I see it's still exactly as I remember.

The playground was packed given that it's school holidays, but a quick hint and the cache was located.

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This traditional cache makes find number 5,560. Thanks for placing and maintaining it **TeamDIEL**.

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In town with the whole geo family for work so we swung by for a few caches as the boys dropped me off for work (and they went to SeaWorld). Nice quick find here after reading some previous logs! Many thanks for the cache.

Tftc...a nice easy one

The park was quiet except for two lads sitting on the picnic table past the playground so all good to search. The obvious didn’t seem to fit the T rating, so another look revealed a great spot for a cache. Signed my name and replaced as found

Lost my pen. Luckily the convenience store sells 2 for $2. Also lucky I was carrying a little cash. Easy find. Thank you

Tftc

No pen

Today with an empty park and a vacant bus stop this turned out to be a quick hide. The coordinates were good for me even with the cloudy conditions so that I was able to put my hand on it straight away.
Thanks to E(: for placing this cache.

Spent a while in the decoy place to hide a micro cache, was looking in every nook and cranny and couldn't spy the damm thing. I then took a seat on a nearby chair and read through some logs. One of the logs proved that I was in the wrong spot the entire time so once that was ruled out I found the cache in a few seconds and slapped my head, oops!

TFTC E(:

Went to the Queensland for 10 day's, landing on the Goldcoast, picking up a car rental. We spent the first 4 days staying in a nice hotel in Surfers paradise, doing all the Theme parks and some caching... While at the theme parks we got to pat Dolphins, feed Tigers etc. Then we headed up to Australia Zoo, where we booked a Tiger wall, Which was amazing, after the day at the zoo, we headed to Harvey bay, for 4 day's before heading back to the Goldcoast to return car, and catch flight home. Really loved the new Lego store at Dreamworld, went back 3 times.Tftc

Nice quick find today while caching with Earthlight
Cache and contents all good
Tftc

Whilst niece having MRI a few streets over The X-Trailers and I decided to take a walk. Co-Ords and cache all good. Quick easy find. Loved walk along the parks yo reach this cache. TFTC

Good hide!! TFTC

Glad to have found a hint in previous logs otherwise we could have been searching for awhile. All quiet here today. Log signed b&p.
Thanks for the cache E(:.

Spotted what we thought was the most obviously spot but had to mirror it on the other side as the obstacle in place had since been removed. Props to Squirellette for spotting this one whilst I was trying to remove the mirrored location.

Thank you CO for the cache

Found spot fairly quickly although had 3 rug rats running around us and 2 mothers smoking at the bus stop watching so had to walk over to shops until the bus came and thankfully took them away. TFTC

TFTC

A nice quiet park this morning. No woofers about. A few muggles walking by, but they were soon gone.

So many places a micro could hide here.

Tftc

Not in the bus stop but close enough. Tftc

Great day for a bit of seaside, salt air & sunshine in keeping with the current pirate theme! LOL ...
Yo ho ho & a bottle of rum ...
Having been muggles out out on 4 coastal caches in a row we decided to head inland & try our luck.
Took a few minutes to find, sneaky!
TFTC

Gold Coast Day 3
Took a drive today at the back of Surfers. A variety of hides found & locations visited.
We returned via the very busy beach side.
Thanks for placing this cache E(:

Late Sunday afternoon footy players and a bus passenger made it difficult to hide what I was doing. Made the find however in a less obtrusive and unexpected place.

TFTC E(:

Found this cache with my son who is visiting from Ireland and who is an avid geocacher.

Out on a lovely sunny day here on Gold Coast. Not hard to find this once I thought like a cache owner. Indeed the log was slightly visible which helped with the finding. Thanks for this cache. I moved on over to the shopping centre and got myself some chinese takeaway.

It was very quiet here this morning so we were able to grab this one, sign and return it to its hide without interruption.
Coordinates were spot on and the container and contents in excellent condition.
Thanks E (: for a nice little cache.

Thursday 28 April 2017 - a glorious cool sunny Autumn morning in the high teens with a superb deep blue clear sky. After walking MuggleDaughter to work at 7am (1.3km down the road) I cycled close to 8km to find 2 trads and 1 multi in approx 1.5 hours in the area. This afternoon we took the car to see the coastline from Southport to Burleigh picking up another 3 trads and the Burleigh Bolders EarthCache along the way. Glad this cache was not in the bus shelter although I needed my torch to retrieve. TFTC E(:

Thank you (: for the next Australien cache.

Cheers
Marco

Almost home from a morning caching at Hinze dam, we had to knock off this one as its a short stroll and across from our Saturday morning cafe. TFTC

Out with RoddyC to find some caches on the Gold Coast.
While we were waiting for our fish and chips to cook, we wandered around to this cache.
RoddyC had already done this one.
A nice quick find and soon had the cache in hand.
Signed the log and returned the cache to where we found it.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks E(: All good with this cache

Out and about in Southport to collect a few of these new caches.
Very pleased to put my hands on this straight away.
TFTC

Nice park- at this time very quiet and a nice and easy park and grab! Thanks for the cache!

There was a guy waiting for a bus near GZ so I waited...and waited. Turns out the bus was running pretty late. After it turned up and he disappeared I gave GZ a thorough search. I then spied it in its hiding spot. TFTC! It took me longer than it probably should have but I got there in the end!

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I was on a mission today to get my number of *caches-found in 2016* to over 366, so was looking for a few simple park-n-grabs --- especially given the oppressive heat.
2016 has been a very targeted year of specific DT hunting - but with low overall volumes. A very different year indeed [^]

At GZ, I let out a small groan when I saw all the trees in the park -- and with no hint

But as I was strolling along the pathway debating my next move, my Garmin swung straight ahead and I noticed a rather obvious place *outside* the park --- GOT HIM!

TFTC - and with that - 2016 is done! Happy New Year all.

Out and about in the area today finding a few new caches that have appeared since I was last here or caches that I have missed on previous visits.
Again I am down the coast after 2 full days of geocaching on my way to Tweed Heads.
I parked the car close by and walked to a few nearby caches.
A short search before finding this cache tucked away.
Thanks for the cache.

Once at GZ it was a fairly quick find and sign. TFTC.

Just what we like when time is limited: a nice quick find in a good location. Thanks E(: for hiding this one here and bringing us to a nice hide. We were tempted to get some lunch with all the nice places along the road here where one should be able to find something they'd enjoy, but before we knew it we were in the car and on our way to another cache. Oh well! No lunch today .

On my way back from Southport with a quick detour and any easy find was made. Thanks E:) for the good hide.

Easy - fun

I actually thought I had a chance at two ftf this morning, this being the second but it appeared my phone app hadn't refreshed the cache page. Oh well not to worry. It was great to be back in Keebra if only for a short time. I managed to pick the spot rather quickly but of course I didn't look hard enough then proceeded to look elsewhere until I realised my mistake. A big head slap then in went my name on the log sheet.
My now wife, did dog training in this park quite a few years ago with both our dogs. Both puppy's have long past on so it must be a long time ago actually. I spent many hours wandering the perimeter of this park while watching them back in the day.
Thanx for the memorys and of course the cache E(: