Revived at Balgal Beach Balgal Beach, Queensland, Australia
By burgo78, adopted by Geo TSV on 10-Jul-17. Waypoint GC78Q24

Found it!

We are always on a hunt for some treasure exchanges, so the little ones have fun too. ThanksIt is losen again,so no problem with that one

Found the cache, still there but its stuck under the tree.Heres the picture as a proof of find !Cheers

Unable to find not sure if it's still there ,shop is closed and very run down

We have traveled to Townsville many times but never ventured out here. This truly is a most beautiful spot. Thanks for the information and the cache. TFTC SL

Caching in the area we pick up a few caches along the way and this was one of them.

The market was on, had a good day out finding the required information for GZ, a quick find. Enjoyed exploring the area, cache and contents were in good condition.

Many thanks for placing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience today.

12741 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1145. Found the different information boards to work out the numbers. X was a problem as there is an X in experience on the sign with most of the information. Went for a stroll and SL Tnx Geo TSV

After a lovely lunch at the Rollingstone hotel we came down to balgal to check out the low tide. A few birds and hermit crabs about but Bushland Beach the other day was heaps more interesting . Collected the clues and the final on the way back to the car. TFTC

Found with Shumba7 on our way north chasing barramundi and warm weather while staying at Rollingstone . TFTC.

TFTC found with Algae trying to buy some fish and chips but they stepped cooling at 5:15… tree had squished container was quite hard to get out. But managed and soon had log signed whilst looking for crocodiles.

Tricky one but very rewarding. Missing sign at E and a change of speed at sign A, meant we had some extra exploring but the calculation clues helped to confirm location.
Thank you!

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Thanks to the help of my grandpa again for making this find. After a three day exercise because of different signs and stuff have finally been able to claim the last find for me in Balgal.
I can see why peoples A and B aren’t lining up because of some different signs because of a new ramp. Good thing my grandpa has lived at Balgal for many years and knew where the old load limit sign was.
Good container in good shape. Happy to finally finish Balgal with help from my grandpas new interest in the game he introduced me to.
TFTC

We read the boards and got the numbers but they didn’t match up when doing A plus B equals F etc. we plugged in our coords and that would have taken us into bush 400m away from the car park so we must have done something wrong.

Wasn’t able to find need help on locating it

Heading north after our wonderful holiday in Townsville, we are exploring the beaches as we go. We definitely wanted to visit this one, as we know this area is very beautiful.
What better way to find out a bit more history than a multi like this one.
We visited each of the weight points and collected the numbers.
Our final destination was tranquil and private.
Thanks Burgo78 and Geocaching Townsville
Domsky

On the Road again, it’s a great to be out exploring the bush once more, after being in civilisation for almost two weeks for the CacheQld Mega
We found this one while scooting around Rollingstone, such beautiful rivers and creek crossings, even after the torrential downpours we have had in the last few days
Thanks for sharing this wonderful location
TFTC

Found at 2:57:00 PM(t) GAFF1.
Another cache that we found the original in May 2017 and a lot of memories were brought back of our adventures at that time.
The worst of the experience was that we stayed up late at night drinking and talking to our camping neighbours and the next day found that we were absolutely covered in midgie bites. It took weeks for the wounds (p-pprass reacts badly to little insect bites no matter what they are) to settle down and disappear - but I can show you the scars if you're interested
This was another cache that we found the day after Corikra archived it - wonder what was going on in May 2017?
Thanks GeocachingTownsville.

TFTC. Enjoyed reading the history of the town

Taking a day trip from Townsville to Ingham and collecting a few caches along the way. This will be the furtherest north I have been in Queensland!
Thanks to the CO's who have placed caches in the areas we travel today - it is appreciated.

After gathering all the information it was off to GZ to find the cache. Cache found and log signed. TFTC

Found as I made my way up to the Townsville Mega from Adelaide.

I camped last night near Charters Towers, then finished doing the caches around the town that were of interest to me this morning before heading east.

I was keen to visit Balgal Beach after not getting there when I was up this way in July last year. I was going to camp there, but the sandflies were shocking. So after doing this multi and the nearby Unknown cache, I headed down to Toomulla Beach, which is a much nicer campsite anyway.

It had been another warm and humid day, but fortunately the only caches requiring any sort of a walk were completed this morning before it got too unpleasant.

All of the caches, including this one were found without difficulty and were in good condition.

Thanks GeocachingTownsville for the cache.

On our Birthday adventures we could not leave this seeing we were staying in the vacinity. Nice location for a bit of R&R. T FTC.

Just 4 finds today. SWMBO isn't keen to take the RAM on any more 4WD Tracks, and her crook knee means she's not going to do a lot of walking trail ones either. So today we just drove north for some fish and chips, logging caches on our way.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** Ian found this cache pretty close to where the GPS said he should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny

So many muggles. Intend to return so a quick unsuccessful look

Staying at Balgal for the long weekend. Good excuse to find some Geo’s while here.

Great easy multi! What a lovely area.TFTC

Out and about for a days exploring. Balgal Beach was quiet apart from a handful of campers on this mid-week morning, so it was a simple task collecting the information required as we wandered our way around and a quick and simple find once at GZ. Thanks for the multi here GeocachingTownsville.

Stayed at Rollingstone for a couple of days and wanted to find a few caches. This was an excellent multi with lots of info about the area. Tftc

Found it gave me a bit of knowledge on where I use to live map sent me in the wrong place to start with due to bad service but found it in the end

Lots of boats, campers, picnicers etc at Balgal Beach on a sunny Sunday afternoon, fortunately none were at this level of the park, so it was a quick find, sign and replace. We were one of the 76 previous finders and had kept the solution. Thanks for relisting Geocaching Townsville.

Found with Doscrapbooking. Enjoyed the wonderful 2 day stop here . On a trip north... from Toowoomba. Tftc

This morning I woke up and said, I am going to try a multi. I have been putting off completing a multi for ages I am not sure what about it scared me but I have finally got over it. This is the sad bit, this is my first visit to Bagal Beach - lived in Townsville since 2012. Thanks Burgo78 and geocaching for bringing me here to this gorgeous spot.

Came to this beautiful place during a storm.Did the math, got the hide. A great way to learn the local history. Thanks for bringing us here.

All good with this one.
Great spot.
Claiming the find now.

I am heading south again,
after a couple of months of fun and cache finding
The problem now is that there are not many unfound caches to chase

But I'm in no hurry !!
So have plenty of time to mop up these multi's, puzzles and higher D/T caches that I missed on the way north

Like this one
Which was a rather relaxed affair on a sunny afternoon [^]
The Grey Gomad migration south is well under way,
there were campsites still available here !!

Numbers crunched,
I wandered over to GZ for a quick cache find,
even with the nearby picinic shelter doing a roaring trade

TFTC and visit to Balgal Beach

FR- Suite de nos longues vacances en Australie puis Bali et après la region de Darwin, nous voilà dans le Queensland! Depuis Mission Beach nous redescendons vers le sud en route vers Townsville. Pause dejeuner à Bargal Beach et j’en profite sur cette multi sympa. Reponses ok je galère juste un peu sur l’emplacement final mais en perseverant un peu je trouve!!! Mplc

EN- we continue our great holidays in Australia then Bali. After Darwin & Northern Territory, Now we are in Queensland. Leaving Mission Beach and driving southward to Townsville. Picnic stop at Bargal Beach and enjoying this cache which provides me with more info on this nice place. Quick solving but final location took me some time! Tftc

Found this on a quick stopover on the way back from A job in Ingham. Would be nice to check out this place during the day. Tftc. Signed Log. Pinched Angry Bird Bouncing ball

Quick whizz around the boards on my way home and the cache was soon in hand. TFTC

We stayed one night on the campsite and this morning I woke up earlier and got this fast Geocache.

Pascal3sechzig and I had good fun by surching the parts of the Puzzle. Finaly we had to break all our rules to get to the final coordinates. The cache is in good conditions. Thanks for hiding. Greetings from Germany

That was a fun little adventure:) T4TC

Unfortunately it was trashed. Only the bottom of the container and Geo sign left.

Out on a day trip with the family and we were in the area and made the quick find!!! As I had found the other cache previously it was a quick park and grab. Thanks Burgo78 for reviving this cache.

TFTC

The x was tricky, but in the end we found it.

Fun learning about the history of the area. Found after putting my head together with Bronzedausie. TFTC

Nice wander past all int info signs to collect the coordinate numbers , then a quick find at GZ. Found with Freedom Finder while we are staying at the Rollingstone free camp. TFTC

Have a few enjoyable caching days in Townsville we are now caching our way a little further north to Mission Beach for our next stop.

We really enjoyed this little multi, it was quite compact but it had quite a bit of the local history involved as well. There was quite a bit of muggle activity around here today, even though we had the final co-ords we weren't sure if we would be able to get it. We followed the GPSr to gz where the cache was hidden in a nice secluded area that had no one around at all so we were free to search. The cache didn't take too long to locate and our name was happily added to the log.

thanks once more burgo78 for the cache.

{*FTF*} @ 05:59
This beach is a favourite with us, lots of shells to be found and a great stretch of sand were you always get a lot of space to yourself.
A large number for new caches last night, only one in Town, and that was already found by CO by the time I read the notification. Saved this for an early morning trip today, hoping to secure another first.
A few locals were meeting up close to GZ for a ride share, a bit surprising. The Rest stop was overflowing with nomads of all ages, luckily they all stayed in their caravans/vans/busses/ufos
Knew by hart were to look for some of the info, had to check location of one sign before I sat down at a lit up picknick table to work out the final coords.
A bit surprised that the log book was not empty, then I remembered that this is a recycled cache.
Too early to experience the sunrise I went home to start my day.
Thanks burgo78 for reviving this cache
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