Welcome to Charters Towers Queenton, Queensland, Australia
By EatSleepCacheOnline on 04-May-17. Waypoint GC751GG

Almost home after 10 mths

20/8/24 ontheroadagainbogans

Very good fun

Another addition to our road trip geocaching!

*The generic bit for this trip*We are on our way north for warmer weather. From Victoria to Cooktown, weaving inland and to the coast, caching as we go. No real plans, just taking each day as it comes and enjoying the adventure in our converted ambulance. Thanks to all COs for placing and maintaining caches for our enjoyment.

A easy park on a side road. What an awesome hide. Very unique.

Instantly found really easy cool hiding spot TFTC

On the trip to Townsville from Emerald, we stopped in.Here's one to find today.Thank you for placing the cache EatSleepCacheOnline.

Cool hiding spot. Daughter snagged the marble to relocate elsewhere. TFTC

12768 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1055. We are on our way to Charters Towers for a couple of days, Of course you start at the wrong end. In good condition SL Tnx EatSleepcacheOnline

Found with SJG66 as we checked out Charters Towers, TFTC

Quick find this morning

Outnabout for some solo caching while camping in town overnight. We’re taking the roundabout route to QOGM 2023 at Longreach. It’s always a great day for caching.
TFTC EatSleepCacheOnline

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Nice great spot

Nice little hide TFTC

Nice Spot

Noicr

Found it nice tricky stash

TFTC. Found it with Irondale.

Found geocaching with malfromthefarm.. Tftc

A cool hide! Tftc!

Didn’t have time to search properly so didn’t find

Pretty easy but a fun first find

A trip to Perth checking out some of the awesome places along the way in ACT, NSW, Qld and NT. Grabbing some old caches and missing LGAs. TFTC.
An interesting hide spot. Nice.

nice easy find

I picked up this one on the way out of town after inspecting a nearby tree for a friend. Upon approaching I didn’t see too many spots that one could hide a cache but did notice a couple of things out of the ordinary. My first hunch was on the money but it is a busier highway than expected and had to wait twiddling thumbs for a few moments to see a couple of vehicles go by so that took a little longer to expose than I first thought. I signed off on it and replaced it. I turned the “blockwork” upside down as it has a crack from the front to the back and if someone grabbed it from the top it could have spread further. In hindsight I probably should have swapped it out with the other side’s block. I would have entered this earlier but was too busy taking phone calls from previous Townsville Cachers and a brother who notified me that the cheque is in the mail - box. So I headed home a little faster than what I was doing. Dad was also lining up antivirals via a teleconference, so hopefully that works out too.

Was guarded by a green friend

Guarded by a green friend

Found

After dad telling him “you shouldn’t need to do that” the little man found it. TFTC

In the area with Selva Girls today picking up some caches around town and this was one of them. Once at GZ the cache was soon in hand and once the log was signed all was returned as found.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for me and others to enjoy.

TFTC EatSleepCacheOnline

Konie and I were passing by today, we stopped off to make a quick find. Log signed, everything returned as found, then we were on our way again. TFTC

Found it... Clever hide!!
Tftc!

Loved this!

We made it!! And we found it!!
TFTC our first GC in Charters Towers. Found with MissCharlieBear and AmazingGracieGrace. MCB especially loved the hide. SL took SWAG & left SWAG & RAF

Thanks EatSleepCacheOnline for the cache. It’s #1652 for us. We found your cache on 2 September 2022. Quick find as we passed thru Charters Towers on our way to Cairns from Kalgoorlie!

Quick find. Wasn’t sure at first about the placement but 2 possibilities. Tftc

Heading southward with CybergranV, and Pilot the super sleuth hound, we had picked a few caches to find along the way. This was found quickly, and we continued our journey.
Thank you EatSleepCacheOnline.

I walked round one side with no luck, Crustyvarmint the other, he was the lucky one.
Cache logged as CVx2 for Crustyvarmint and Cybergran V
Thanks for the clever hide and the break in our journey.

Still army everywhere so I felt like the enemy sneaking around tftc

Spot on coords led to a clever hide. TFTC

Found 17/7

Wandering through and a lovely find TFTC

Ezaf

Nioce

In the area,
Thanks for the cache

Not many people on the road this morning so I was able to grab and run without being seen.

Thank you ️

Thanks a lot for the easy find. It's in good condition.

I walked down from the other cache in the area. frmen1 drove and had the log book out before I even got there lol Great place to put it. TFTC

Good find!! Came to see TopGun and decided to find a geo... it’s our twin little brothers 8th birthday weekend and it was great for them to try find it

We decided to pick up a few caches as a way of seeing the town. A very easy find. Thanks for the tidy little hide.

Super easy, super fun!

Easy find on a chilly morning.

Nice place to hide a cashe. Thank you

Clever hiding place. Well done.

Arrived from Townsville today and setup the caravan at the Big4. Decided to get the bikes down and have a ride around and see what we could get.

Thanks EatSleepCacheOnline for the caches.
Total Cache Finds 12949,

Our first for Charters towers..We are starting here for a few days to look around and collect some smiles. Cache no. 3270 for us

Was good

Our first one. Thank you

Tft$

Had to get this one!!

After a long hot day of caching as we made our way from Townsville to CT this was our last for the day - a nice welcome indeed!

Out and about caching, having just travelled from Townsville to Charters Towers. Arrived at GZ and a quick find. TFTC

Out and about on the road with Swearah and jodsta83.

Swearah has the eyes today and made another super quick find yay thanks

Making our way to Charters Towers today from Townsville with swearah and stephyy and grabbing a few caches along the way. Man swearah is on fire today, she managed to spot this one. A nice clever hide, and a happy snap and we are on our way. Tftc EatSleepCacheOnline️

Happy to finally be here!

Road-tripping with jodsta83 and Stephyy, this was a fun find. Very nice hidey-hole.

Thanks for the cache, EatSleepCacheOnline

Day 3 of my Townsville Mega adventure with SnappyTomCats.
Following the formalities of the opening ceremony, group photo & trip through the GPS Maze we headed off to Charters Towers for a bit of sightseeing & grab a few caches while there.
We were welcomed to Charters Towers with a cache.
A nicely hidden cache, thanks EatSleepCacheOnline

In town for the mega, using caching as a guide to show us the best of what the region has to offer.

Find #12487 @ 10:15
Thanks EatSleepCacheOnline for giving us a reason to visit.

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Day 3 of our Townsville Mega event weekend. Out early with hevwalker for a walk along the river doing an adlab and a couple of caches before going to GZ to the official opening and a quick run through the Maze. Then we headed of to Charters Towers to do touristy stuff and find a few caches. OOhh..a bit sneaky! nice! TFTC

Found it really fun

Found it awesome ??

27,576. Found with minniek during our Grand Townsville Trek up to CacheQLD's Townsville Mega Event over Easter.

Day 7 of our Townsville Trek, and we cached our way around Charters Towers again during the morning, before doing the short journey to Townsville for the main event (literally !). A couple of neat Adventure Labs were completed, as well as their bonus caches (one a real doozy) plus some other must do caches along the way. This one was a nice easy drive by cache. Quick find once at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache, then continued along to the next cache on our list.

Thanks EatSleepCacheOnline !!

Day 7 of our trek to the Townsville Mega and back with fitzy_1965 and two of my geo-kids Death_killer & my_name_jeff_1.

The long awaited day we drive into Townsville! We did a bit of caching around Charters Towers before leaving. Definitely some great caching there and some good Adventure Labs worth doing. A simple drive to Townsville: we are all happy to finally be here. The kids were very glad to have a quick dip in the pool at the Motel before some rest before all things Mega kicking off tomorrow.

All caches were found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned.

Found after a short time, the air already feels thicker and slightly less fresh after a week in the outback. Or maybe thats my proximity to the highway trucks while at this cache, lol. Good hide, Tftc

We (Team Tour de Ville - TMZ59, Patrol14, Peppa and I ) headed north to Townsville for the MEGA Event and explore the surrounding areas. Today it was the day to visit Charter's Towers and Ravenswood and pick up a few caches along the way. A lot of history in these towns. Cache found on the way into town, this was a very clever hide. Log signed before replacing as found. TFTC

12.53pm
Fifth day of our trip to Townsville for the MEGA and we (Peppa, TMZ59, Imbunda and I - TDV-TIPP) are on our way to Charters Towers for a drive.

Stopped to grab this cache and found it in its hide. What a clever one. SL then returned as found. A fav point from me.

Found on 13 April 2022. TFTC, EatSleepCacheOnline.

Another day in Townsville… another trip in the Habanero Sport… today though I’m at the wheel… watch out Townsville!!!

With TMZ59 as co-pilot and Patrol14 and Imbunda in the back, we’re off to Ravenswood and Charters Towers for a bit of hysterical, sorry historical, learning…

Back in Brisbane, I created a list… everyone does… it wasn’t as long as others, but it would certainly keep us busy… if only we could stick to it…

At the start of the trip I didn’t know it was important to find caches with place names in them… now I know, and so here we are…

A clever piece of camo…

Tftc… log signed as Tour de Ville- TIPP ??????

Very tricky hide. In Charters for a couple of hours to grab some caches and some history. Log signed as Team de Ville (patrol14, Imbunda, Peppa and me) TFTC.

I had decided that today would be a trip to Charters Towers to collect a few types for the day, dragged my mum out and put the invite out to chamad as well which he accepted. With no real plans we found ourselves collecting everything on our way leaving a swathe of smiles behind us.

A unique spot!

All good tfct

#17047 @1235
Day 5 of a 3 week holiday driving from Canberra to Townsville and back to attend the Mega. Today was Torrens Creek to Townsville with a stop in Charters Towers. Approx 300km. Cache easily found in good condition. TFTC.

I was invited on an early morning drive with Sheridan (from Jacs Team) and Vic (from Waz and Vic) for some caches in the Charters Towers area. We had no set plans, just a few on a wish list and a few we both had solved. It was again another fun day with these two ladies. I like caching with these two, the simplicity in our caching day, the stories, the banter and the laughs were just all day; nothing is a problem, thank you.

We collected some nice caches and a very different adventure lab on the way in from Townsville, we even left a fun little multi for our return home. The day saw us collecting a whereigo, some trads, a couple of old caches, some nice D/T caches. There was a virtual and a couple of puzzles, some more adventure labs, a bite to eat and a stop off to collect some Shinny little disc thingies. An absolute great day. All logs were signed with the three names and all caches replaced as found.
Thanks to all the CO’s for the hides.

Sneaky little hide, nice.

TFTC,
Day 22 of our 2022 Northern escape tour via Normanton and Cairns to attend the Townsville MEGA. We used this pre event day to travel out to Charters Towers to complete our LGA areas visited planned for this trip. Still some to do post event heading south along the coast.
Time for us to leave our day in the park behind us. Who should turn up, pprass, chatted for a bit and since we didn't get this on our way in, we are getting it on our way out. Visited trackables.

Day 22 of adventure to Townsville Mega. A trip to Charters Tower today picking up a few caches in the area. Quick find. Stamped log and replaced. To CO. This one was nicely tucked away.

Found at 2:15 PM GAFF1.
Thanks CT - but we were already in the town and went through to Macrossan Park to set up camp and then headed back into town to do a few caches. A tricky little hide that at first we thought we were going to wreck something!
Thanks for the history of the name which p-pprass was asking incessantly hours before in the car to the annoyance of c-pprass
Thanks EatSleepCacheOnline.

Coongoola & Geodog are on an adventure travelling to the Townsville event in Qld. We found your cache today, 5 April 2022 8:51 am , while enjoying another day out adding to our tally. TFTC EatSleepCacheOnline

TFTC

Found sneaky cache with big ole green frogTFTC

Such a sneaky little hide

Before the end of the year I wanted to get some more caches done to boost my stats a little more and to finally get out there and grab some boxes after having had a bit of a break the last two months. In fact, I would like to clear most of the caches I have not found so far in Charters Towers today. Thank you very much EatSleepCacheOnline for placing this cache. All caches around Charters Towers have a nice little rural spin to them and I really enjoyed driving around and seeing a lot of nice things today. Thanks for the cache and showing this area.

A nice quick sneakily hidden park and grab in the way into town.

TFTC

Great little find TFTC

Thank you found with ww22

What a fun little hide thank you very much I enjoyed looking for this one

TFTC- easy find

A quick find this morning on my way to Hughenden, stopping at the lovely Charters Towers to collect some caches.
Thanks EatSleepCacheOnline for placing the cache here for us to enjoy.

gotcha tftc

Blocked in!

Cute hide thanks

Cache in good condition TFTC

Always like to get the welcome ones, this one was certainly different. Good of CT to be so considerate of cachers. Tftc