Ron Smith Woondum, Queensland, Australia
By powellbruce on 21-May-17. Waypoint GC75YXC

Has some decent magnets holding it. Log is very close to needing a replacement. TFTC

Found with latemnivek

Found it with latemnivek x

RIP Ron

Was in the first place we looked but found it the second time we went back. Wasp nest is still there

PB1973 I found your cache Ron Smith on 31/7/2023, 11:10 am. This is my find 5918 and find # 6 today. A quick and easy drive by. Thanks for the cache, mate! TNSLLN

Quick little cache finding session while my son has a flying lesson at Kybong. Nice cache with some beautiful views.

Easy find but watch out for the wasp nest. Found with snookers1190

Found on holidays

Glad it wasn't under a rock. TFTC

Nice easy one. Virtually on my door step

Driving around Gympie for the next few weeks for work on some nearby construction sites. Came to find this one on a day off. Quick and easy find, Thanks for the hide all looks to be in good working condition.

Needed something in the LGA where I wasn’t going to have a car accident. Had something planned but changed that. The roads are so busy in Gympie! Oh my. So off to a bush cache. Enjoyed the dirt road in my little car! Interesting soil around here. Arrived at GZ and thought that this was going to take forever to find but it wasn’t an issue at all.. thankfully!


Thank you PB1973 for placing this cache for me to enjoy!

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.

Poked around a bit but it was again Mrs VC who quickly came up with the cache.
Made our mark & replaced as found.

TFTC PB1973

The gz (or nearby rather) for this cache was quite the adventure, and will be remembered for a long time to come.
Riding the bicycles from pomona to gympie via all the backroads/firetrails we could find as an alternative to well, .. illegally riding on the bruce highway. (We really need a dedicated bike lane alongside highways in australia)
After an epic ride that couldn't easily be backtracked on and quickly hauling our bikes over the rail line itself, we arrived at a locked gate (thanks QR) right near this bridge.
Unhooking the saddlebags and shimmying the bikes under the gate, i looked up to see the bridge in question.
Impressive in the middle of nowhere. A sad story of ron, although i'm heartened you created a cache here as a kind of tribute to the fellow.
Thanks powellbruce for hiding a geocache out here for us to find.
Sorry for the late log.

Found at 10:45 AM GAFF5 in the company of Liz and Bruce, Snakepitters and Team JLBL.
Pleasant driving around these roads and exploring new areas.
We learnt how this bridge got its name - which is a huge tragedy!
Thanks PB1973

Day 3 and our final at Kandanga, and again we were out with Liz & Bruce, PPRass and JLBL, Started off nice and civilized driving around the area, stopping at Kenilworth for luch and then off to finish the day on some 4WDing for Predater. A great day and a few fav points given

TFTC PB1973
Total Cache Finds 11061

Completed with the group. Staying in the area for a few days. Thanks for showing us this area.

Tftc powellbruce, all good here. Caching today with Snakepitters, PPrass & Liz and Bruce.

Had an enjoyable time with the SPREGTH (for Snickersallan, Patrol14, RoddyC, E_Smiley, GrannySmith1947, TMZ59 and Hatzofff) Team. So happy to meet them again just like the good old days.
Thanks for the cache powellbruce. Sorry to hear about Ron Smith!

Catching up on some logging today, so a bit of a generic log, I'm afraid.

I was caching with Snickersallan, Patrol14, hatzofff, E Smiley, grannysmith1947, and TMZ 59, giving rise to the team name of SPREGTH. Although not fully operative yet, I was able to tag along to most of the caches we found. Some Events brought us into this area.

Nice quick find. I knew another Ron Smith, but his life was not as tragic as this one's

Log signed and cache replaced as found on May 2nd 2021. TFTC, PB1973.

TFTC smile 9068 ?? out and about with 7 geo caching friends signed as SPREGTH and miss millie geo dog ?? and a lovely day we had ?? great cache
Thank you, powellbruce, for placing this cache for our enjoyment. ????

A long weekend away at Platypuscove Homestay caching in the local district with geo friends, patrol14, RoddyC, E_Smiley, grannysmith1947, TMZ59, hatzofff and to save space on the logs, we signed as Team SPREGTH.

Nice neat hide and a quick find by our group here today.

TFTC powellbruce
Found 2 May 2021

Another adventure for the weekend to attend events on the sunshine coast with Snickersallan, Patrol14, RoddyC, E Smiley, grannysmith1947 , team TMZ 59, hatzofff (team of SPREGTH) to chase down some more smiles.

Helps to read the cache page. RIP Ron Smith.

TFTCache powellbruce

Weekend adventure with RoddyC hatzofff Snickersallan grannysmith 1947 TMZ59 and ESmiley caching in the surrounding area.

A quick find SL as SPREGTH to save space. Interesting bridge.

Found on 2 May 2021. TFTC, powellbruce.

Out with Team SPREGTH, Snickersallan, patrol14, RoddyC, E Smilie, grannysmith1947, TMZ59,and Hatzoff. Great day of caching with these crazies. TFTC.

Poor Ron. It's sad to lose so much just going to work. This is a good way of him continuing to be acknowledged. Tftc powellbruce

Gotcha !!! TFTC

what the heck!!!! sneaky

I continued on from the rusty relic cache and it wasn't long and I found myself parked up and heading for GZ. Once at GZ it was a quick find.

Once the log was signed all was returned as found.

Sad way toi get something names after yourself.

TFTC PB1973

Away for a Veterans Retreat, what better way to finish my weekend than finding some geocaches on the way home. Tftc nice little find to get me back into it.

Away for a Veterans Retreat, what a great way to finish my weekend. Tftc a nice little find to get me back into geocaching again.

easy peasy

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Quick easy find. Last log was December. Thanks for the cache

Good hide jet cats and jet dogs we a making t shirts and other stuff get our stuff

Chicken wing dings

I had driven past this cache back in May, but had not stopped as there were road works going on. Today, there were no road works, so I found a safe place to stop and took a short walk to GZ. There, I located the cache very quickly and was pleasantly surprised to see that it had been unloved for some time. That will help towards a challenge that I am working towards! With my name added tot he log and the cache returned to its spot, I continued on my way. TFTC

So sad that someone had to die when the bridge was built.
Pretty impressive bridge and love the colour of the rocks up the wall.
A nice quick find.
Signed the log and returned to where I found it.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks powellbruce All good with this cache

Nice and quiet on the back roads today. I did not see much traffic at all.

Another quick find to keep me moving towards home.

What a shame this bridge was name because of his death. A short search soon revealed the cache. TFTC powellbruce

Out on the back roads finding a few caches today.

This was our second cache today.

The cache was found easy enough.

The log was signed and returned to the cache and the cache replaced exactly as found.

All is good with this cache.

Find #1270

TFTC ***powellbruce***

A quick find thank you.

Out and about doing some geocaching before I head home from my short trip home. Was good to see new geocaches around the area.

No issues signing the log on this one!

Tftc

Found Ok

Interesting story about the naming of this bridge - cache. Found easily after a short search .
Signed logsheet K. F. A. U. my username shortened for small logsheets 1/09/2017, 10:00 AM and replaced all as found.
1 x TB Visited.
powellbruce - TFTC. And the history lesson !!

Last cache find of the day
I was getting close to where I would stay
And under the bridge,
Ridgey didge,
A cache find came me way [^]

TFTC

TFTC found on way home from work. Thanks

Nice view. Tftc

Quick find with geohubby . All well here. TFTC. TNLNSL.

I'm thinking of having my spectacle prescription checked. Again managed not to see what turned out to be right in front of my face. TFTC!

Easy find. Never new this existed. Thanks

Had a couple of TB's that needed dropping off, thought I'd drop them here.
Too small a container
TFTC powellbruce

(FTF)
On our way from Nanango to Bundaberg for 5 days. Worth the detour to Gympie to grab 4. Then to Maryborough for one then to Hervey Bay for 5 then to Bargara.

This was no 3 on our list for today. Arrived very close to this one. Parked safe. Good hide. Did not take long to find. No traffic around whilst we were here but two trains past over us. Good Hide. Signed log YOF as that is what I use on micro and small log sheets to conserve space on the paper. TFTC powellbruce

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