Cooroibah Creek - Pacific Black Duck Tewantin, Queensland, Australia
By WallabyTim on 09-Jun-18. Waypoint GC7QZ19

First cache for the day, out to get the Cooroibah creek series. Took a few minutes to work out what to expect from the hides. TFTC

Yay finally found one. Out and about with hubby.

Cooroibah Creek - Pacific Black Duck was transferred from WallabyWanderers to user AtTheLakeHouse

Started my day with a paddle.
Muddy and wet, as expected.
Plenty of fish in the creek, highlight of my paddle was an eagle chasing a flock of galahs.

This was easy!

Thank you for the adventure
R

Decided to head over here whilst camping at Ccoroy. We had an enjoyable paddle along the creek today. Some lovely bird life was seen during our time on the water as well as a water dragon guarding the cache. We had to wait until it decided to jump into the creek before we could access the logbook! Thanks WallabyWanderers

Silverlizard spotted this one. Finally one that doesn’t involve climbing!!!!

Found with Hereswally

So often we will see one or two Pacific black ducks along our paddles. They are usually in pairs, and tend to stay ahead of us for awhile, swimming rather than flying. On those days I always imagine having Peking Duck Pancakes for dinner !
As I mentioned in a previous log, aside from using our compass to sort out where we were heading, we also had our eye on the BOM.
It was too late to change plans, and suddenly there was a deluge which look like it was going to continue for some time. We pulled into shore, and sheltered under some mangrove trees. That protected us from this fine smaller rain, however we could feel the heavy drops from the leaves hitting us and certainly adding water to our boat. At times like this, I am always grateful for my broad brimmed hat which helps to protect my glasses from the rain. Nothing worse than not being able to see!
We waited until the rain had subsided, and then went searching for this one.
It wa quick find and a slippery climb .
Thanks wallabywanderers
Domsky

We needed one more box to fill to complete the first loop of our D/T grid, (3/5) the series of 8 here looked to be a good fit for us as no mountain climbing involved.
Drove to the Cooroibah Creek park hoping to launch the kayak from there and have a shorter paddle. Not to be as vehicle access there is closed.
Drove to the the suggested launch point, after a dnf there and black clouds looming spirits weren't that high.
Paddled 1.2km to the first cache and made a reasonably fast find, clouds veered off to the south and blue sky appeared.
After that all proceeded smoothly, most caches were found with no trouble. All caches were in good condition with plenty of room on the log sheet.

Part of the 16Jan Paddle Crew. I was looking forward to kayaking this creek, not having been on it before. We had found a direct launch point but some of the others were keen to cross the lake to get there, so we went with that. Turned out to be bloody hard work and I was very thankful for a friend in the group who helped me back at the end. All makes for a memorable experience though and we had a good time. I love discovering new places and this was one of those adventures for me. Pretty sure the only bird I saw was a striated heron, but that could
have been because I was chatting . Soren did most of the log signing for the group today, along with Mick, and E was on photo duties. At least I did the finding for a couple and the signing of another to contribute. Thanks for placing this trail and highlighting another of the sunny coasts waterways

Day 2 of our weekend geocaching adventure with RoddyC, hatzofff, Snickersallan and GrannySmith 1947 (and millie dog) and we are joining others for our kayak leg of our journey on the creeks in the area. (Logs signed 16/1/21 Paddlers)

After our paddle on Cooloothin Creek, we moved on to paddle to this series of caches along Cooroibah Creek. A bit of a way from the putting in ramp but quite pleasant. Once on the creek, the caches were located easily and thanks to georode who did most of the climbing, we found all the caches. The wind had picked up by the time we had finished which made our paddle back to the starting point a hard slog but got there in the end.

A most enjoyable morning with good friends and clear skies.

TFTC WallabyWanderers

The plan today was to grab some paddle caches with georode and esmiley. I arrived at the parking coordinates to find no one here, ok so I’m a little early but it is 6.45. then as one car arrives a whole more turned up, eleven people turned up to what I thought was just a small and quick paddle. Turned out to be a fun and eventful morning, we got 16 paddle caches and a couple of extras along the way. There was no problem with any of these caches and all were in good order.

Thanks to the CO’s who put these out there, it was a great day on the water, a lot of chats and a good group of people, thank you.

After finishing kayaking a creek nearby, we decided to continue on in this creek. The wind was picking up a bit but still a very enjoyable and successful paddle with other cachers. I think I climbed all except one tree in this series today.

TFTC

Georode

Another fabulous day of water caching. Our group of five from yesterday's Maroochy River epic is now a good dozen. Target caches today are along two creeks: Cooloothin Creek to Lake Cootharaba, and Cooroibah Creek to Lake Cooroibah.

Curious hide.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on January 16, 2021. TFTC, WallabyTim

Well, the mini event at Coolothin was not enough for this bunch of eager paddlers, we moved to Cooroibah and selected the much longer route for more action! We (Georode, Chamad, Snickerallan, Dahumbug, Grannysmith1947, RoddyC, Hatzofff, Patrol14, atthelakehouse
and me - signed as 16 Jan 2021 Paddlers) had a great time doing this exercise. Fantastic company at a serene location.

Thanks for the cache and taking us here WallabyTim. Enjoyed the hunt.

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Just because an event was cancelled, doesn't mean we cancel our weekend. Now what can we do. Today was a kayaking day. Set off early to do 2 creeks.

Beautiful morning but sun is getter hotter.

Another beautiful Australian bird.

TFTC WallabyTim

TFTC smile 8373 out and about with miss Millie geo dog having a great time on our way home after having Christmas and New Year with 84 year old sister, detour to Middlemount and Emerald a day at Kilkiven and 2 days on the sunshine coast with great friends and a buet day on the water
Thank you, WallabyTim, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Second day on the lovely Sunshine Coast and met up with the 16/1/21 Paddlers, dahumbug, georode, chamad, E_Smiley, AtTheLakeHouse, RoddyC, hatzofff, grannysmith1947 and patrol14.
Had a most enjoyable time on the water, nice and relaxing in the first quaint little Cooloothin Creek then packed up and moved to the bigger Cooroibah Creek.
All hides were great and found reasonably quickly in a big team effort today.

TFTC WallabyWanderers
Found January 16, 2021

Mr CNQ was out on a solo afternoon paddle and found this one ok. Interedtingbseries and a pleasant creek, thanks again WallabyTim.

Another easy find whilst out on the kayak
TFTF

Time for some fun on the water with Brislions. We headed to Coolothin Creek first. Caches there found, we headed to Cooroibah Creek. This cache was quickly located and the log signed. TFTC

During the week I was thinking which challenge I should on. I was thinking of two challenges. Chatting with Selva Girls, I came up with Cooroibah Creek for D3/5T and said what about this Cooloothin Creek to. So 14 caches were targeted, we had a wonderful day out caching today.
We started Cooloothin Creek. Then move on to Lake Cooroibah and Cooroibah Creek it was fun paddling across the lake, but we had to walk 50 or so meters out before we could start paddling to the creek. Very shallow and hot. The water was very hot.
We found 8 caches on the creek all caches were good.

Sorry for the generic post

WallabyWanderers TFTC, 4413 *Finds*

Thanks to my unobservant companion today, had to paddle way further than needed for this one. You just can't get good help these days. TFTC

Was so carried away looking at the lovely scenery that I over shot the cache & got a grumble Fromm TGG who had to double back further than me opps.

After some search and tree climbing i found it.
TFTC

Nyssaflutterby, 1minniemoo, Fangsoki, teamnanabombana, Alphagalaxywolf and dreamerskye and I were staying at a house along the creek, which rather fantastically came with a variety of kayaks!
I spotted this one from the right angle and 1MM did the hard yards.

10/10/20 Find #4215
A group of us - NyssaFlutterby with DreamerSkye, wombles and co, Fangsoki, teamnanabombana and Alphagalaxywolf, and I - were heading to Noosa for Earthcache weekend, and staying at Lake Cooroibah. The plan was to grab these kayak caches today, and head for the planned earthcaches tomorrow.
This one was much quicker and more successful than the previous one. Wombles and co spied the cache, and I made grab from a better access angle.
We got this little black duck!
Thanks for the cache WallabyWanderers.

Very sneeky but overall pretty easy.

Nyssaflutterby, wombles&co, teamnanabombana, Alphagalaxywolf, 1MinnieMoo, DreamerSkye, and I were in various watercraft grabbing caches.

The eagle-eyed wombles spotted this one for us. TFTC WallabyWanderers

After the last find, I must have still been in a daze as my memory as this cache find was marred. But I am assured we found it!

Back in play... Yay?

In the words of Cardi B.... Corona Virus... $h!t is Real!

Disabling Caches till we get the all clear.. live long and prosper folks!

Cooroibah Creek - Pacific Black Duck was transferred from dahumbug to user WallabyWanderers

I (MrsWallaby) was formally known as KaleidoscopeCass but merged with geo-hubby and original CO WallabyTim to become WallabyWanderers as we do our geocaching together anyway. We no longer live at Noosa and miss the beautiful waterways. Thanks to dahumbug for adopting this cache and so many other water caches!

Cooroibah Creek - Pacific Black Duck was transferred from WallabyWanderers to user dahumbug

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DEET proof mosquitoes here!! Quick sign and paddle off. TFTC

Day 2 of a kayaking and camping weekend.
Out with Caro to find the caches along this creek.
Another enjoyable paddle, though the wind picked up the closer to the lake we got.
Thanks for the cache.

This weekend of camping and kayaking was organised by Slow Puncture for a group from the PRCYS. We stayed at the Scout Campsite, 'Camp Cooroora' on the banks of Lake MacDonald. A fantastic place to stay with hot showers, grassy campgrounds, fire pits and kitchen facilities ... and cheap. [^]
Day 1 involved finding the caches on Lake MacDonald and Cooloothin Creek. [^]
Day 2 started with Eenie Creek with Ruzzelz and finished with Cooroibah Creek with Caro.
We launched the kayaks close to the road and paddled to the lake. Sneaky. [^]
Thanks for the cache.

Made our way to this one next and it was Brother Colin's turn to get this slightly awkward one. A nice variety of hides here in this lovely little creek. I always thought of a creek as a tiny thing and would have called this a stream. I wonder what the difference is, if there is one...
Either way, this is a beautiful spot and I'm so glad you placed these caches and brought us here. Cheers for that, WallabyTim!

Pine Rivers Cruising Yakht Squadron organi9sed event for the weekend and a couple of us ( Slow Puncture , JAT and myself decided to get in early before the crowds and Cooroibah Creek. Great afternoon collecting these caches.

After an early meet up with Slow Puncture and ruzzelz in Cooroy for a coffee, we headed off to the Scout Campsite 'Camp Cooroora' on the banks of Lake MacDonald for a weekend of camping and kayaking fun with a small group from the PRCYS. After setting up our campsite and having a bite to eat, we decided there was still plenty of time to launch the kayaks and find a few caches With the wind picking up, the caches along Cooroibah Creek were the pick of those available (and the late arrivals may not have forgiven us if we had made an early start on Lake MacDonald without them ).

We located an appropriate point from which to launch the kayaks and then found ourselves in a magnificent creek with nice, clear water and fish jumping about every now and then as we paddled by Once we arrived at ground zero, we located the cache easily enough and with our names added to the log book, we continued on our way

Thank you WallabyWanderers for placing the cache and for maintaining it for everyone to enjoy

4206

Friday. Loving the theme of these caches and seem well suited to this lovely creek. I have a feeling this one was where we came across the mozzies. We’d been mozzie free up to about this point. Ruzzelz must have been feeling like he needed to pitch in here because before I knew it, he had volunteered to grab this one, standing up on his yak and managing to stay upright the whole time he was there. Not that this water would be terrible to fall into, but I wouldn’t want to try it anyway, as the water was changing from the lovely clear water to more muddy type water.

This was the 5th of 8 caches found on today's trip.

Thanks ***WallabyWanderers***, for showing us this place.

I spotted what looked like a bird of prey sitting right above GZ on approach. Not sure what it was but it had a reddish brown body and white head and it watched me with the blackest eyes. Before I got to GZ, it moved downstream. I saw another one out on the lake on the way back. Quick easy find.

Thanks for the cache WallabyWanderers. This was find #3901. Please discover my trackable: MMGJ6B.

Out with CSNMASN today for a paddle along a few creeks in the area and this was the fourth. We managed to locate all the caches along this creek with a bit of climbing and a bit of balancing in the yaks along the way. Logs were signed with Col & C, C&Konie or just C&K to save a bit of room and it also depended in what sort of a position we were in too.

Once the log was signed all was returned as found.

TFTC WallabyTim

5th with brother col .tftc

#4 of 8 found today on our Cooroibah Creek paddle
We didn't see any ducks today but we certainly saw the cache. We spotted the now familiar container hanging over the water and managed to reach up while standing on the kayak. Not too hard to balance with the kayak wedged in amongst the mangroves.
Nice and calm paddling in the creek compared to the hard slog on the windy lake. Soon after here we saw our first other paddlers, a few fishing.
#1862 @ 1505h
TFTC WallabyTim

Lots of duckies about today. One even stayed on the water as I paddled by.

Once again the GPSr took me nice and close to GZ. A very short hunt then to locate the container.

So with dahumbug having leant us a kayak ( well it may not be his but thanks to both of you) we set about tackling so of the creek caches. We were not sure we would get all 3 creeks done but after going well on the first creek headed over and launched as suggested. A lovely day on the sunny coast and beautiful on the water. After some paddling we pulled into the month of the creek to make the first find and yes these were harder and higher than the first series but no complaining. Past the bird tree with pelicans and cormorants enjoying the sun. Along with went discovering the tide was running strong and our rope did not hold at one cache resulting in about a 50m swim for the retrieval after we spotted the kayak drifting away as we were up the tree. The other misadventure was near the end when a mangrove root gave way suddenly causing us to crash into the bank and loose our pen. A great paddle. TFTC.

FTF with geowife Dora the Explorer. Nice sunny day,good spot to paddle a kayak, quiet, lots of birds and calm water.

I was aware that this series of caches was due to be released and noticed their publication however I was unable to go to find them due to work commitments.

After a couple more days Dora the Explorer! and I had noticed that no one had as yet found these caches and the FTF's were still available.

Dora the Explorer! and Phil Serenity had decided to find these caches today but I initially thought that I would be unable to join them due to further work commitments.

It turned out due to varying circumstances that Dora the Explorer! and Phil Serenity was on the water a lot later then expected and I had finished work a little bit earlier than expected, so I decided to join them on the water.

The CO spotted me when I was about to set off on my paddle and just as I was about to get into my kayak he said hello to me. I was not aware that there was anyone around. He frightened the life out of me and I just about fell out of the kayak before I had even started.

As Dora the Explorer! and Phil Serenity had started before me, I decided that I would keep on paddling until I caught them and grab the caches that I paddled past on my return trip.

After completing the end caches with Dora the Explorer! and Phil Serenity we head back up stream and I found the caches that Dora the Explorer! and Phil Serenity had found.

I did the climbs and the searching whilst Dora the Explorer! and Phil Serenity sat around at watched.

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

All is good with this cache.

Find #1520

TFTC ***Wallaby Tim***

{FTF} - This was our 5th cache of the day. I don't really remember that much about it, except I found it before Phil Serenity.

Not really being a FTF hound, I had planned during the week to do these caches with Phil Serenity on the weekend as I enjoy kayaking down quiet estuaries, and creeks and rivers. We didn't even leave home till 10.00am and I had to go via Caboolture to collect my phone from work. CDAH55 had wanted to do these caches straight after work but starting at 2.00pm didn't exactly excite Phil Serenity so we started earlier.

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