Letters of Love/Hate 6 Caloundra, Queensland, Australia
By 4ando on 15-Jan-19. Waypoint GC82GZ2

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, that started from Donnybrook aboard this tinny ship. The mate was a mighty police captain, the skipper brave and sure. Four passengers set sail that day for a three hour tour, a three hour tour.The tide was still coming in, the sandbars they did toss, if not for the courage of the fearless crew the Karicka would be lost, the Karicka would be lost.The ship set course along the shore of this charted mangrove passage with CaptainVimes, the skipper too, Peppa the travel princess and his supplies, and Davinells the navigator, here on Pumicestone Passage.We found the tether but nothing else. Having received permission from the CO beforehand, we replaced the container.Thanks 4ando and happy caching

A trip down Pumicestone passage has been on the cards for a while and with a midday high tide we took our opportunity. With Beardman75 at the helm, first mate and boat minder CaptainVimes, Peppa, with his ever entertaining yoga display on the bow, and myself set sail in Karicka for an adventurous but fabulous day on the water. Found the tether but no cache so left a preform at head height. Thanks for the cache 4andoFind #6397

CaptainVimes had a plan That plan started with a very casual I think Ill sell the boat. Well that got everyones diaries and calendars out So here we are taking Karicka back up the passage it last visited just over three and a half years ago with a very different and far more stylish crewJust like that cruise years ago, Karicka found the sand bars, more than once There was discussion about vintage port and hardwood sideboards, but I was occupied ensuring we didnt maim any mermaidsMy efforts of Re boarding Karicka caused much amusement and concern from Beardman75 that I wasnt quick enough Thanks 4ando for getting us out here today, I can appreciate the attraction, still not sure Id go fishing though

We headed out to Donnybrook boat to put the geo boat to get some water-based caches today, while grabbing the information for the traditional series, multi, adventure lab and the puzzles we covered close to 80 kilometres. So, we set out to find the list of caches we had saved and to FINALLY turn it them into yellow smiley faces. While out for the day we found 16.

Before leaving the new geocar (Track my adventures here D78QWZ) we read the description, hint, confirmed the difficulty and terrain, checked we had all the caches in the offline list and pervious finder logs. We set off to start moving through the water. BrisLions was directing us to where we needed to go. Once we got to GZ, we started to walk towards GZ, we were discussing about where this geocache could possibly located. Has these caches have been on our radar for a long time.

We found we needed to maintenance a few caches throughout the day we had spare containers, tie wire, ziplock bags and log books. Thankfully after a decent search we worked out we were in the incorrect place then we regrouped. Shortly, we the cache in hand, and we added our little ink mark to the logbook. After waiting for the jetski wash to subside after 5 jetskis went past. We decided to continue our adventures.

Thank you for the cache placement and maintenance 4ando
Thank you for the Hunt
Thank you for bring us to this beautiful location
Took Nothing, Left Nothing, Signed Log
Replaced the cache exactly as found

Team Signed as Mumma Bear and the Cubs / M B & C, Muggle 65, The Green Geckos and BrisLions

Found this cache with Tiny 1508, Princess 1005, Captain Monkey 96, DFC_JLK2019, The Green Geckos, Muggle 65, BrisLions

We headed out to Donnybrook boat to put the geo boat to get some water-based caches today, while grabbing the information for the traditional series, multi, adventure lab and the puzzles we covered close to 80 kilometres. So, we set out to find the list of caches we had saved and to FINALLY turn it them into yellow smiley faces. While out for the day we found 16.

Before leaving the new geocar (Track my adventures here D78QWZ) we read the description, hint, confirmed the difficulty and terrain, checked we had all the caches in the offline list and pervious finder logs. We set off to start moving through the water. BrisLions was directing us to where we needed to go. Once we got to GZ, we started to walk towards GZ, we were discussing about where this geocache could possibly located. Has these caches have been on our radar for a long time.

We found we needed to maintenance a few caches throughout the day we had spare containers, tie wire, ziplock bags and log books. Thankfully after a decent search we worked out we were in the incorrect place then we regrouped. Shortly, we the cache in hand, and we added our little ink mark to the logbook. After waiting for the jetski wash to subside after 5 jetskis went past. We decided to continue our adventures.

Thank you for the cache placement and maintenance 4ando
Thank you for the Hunt
Thank you for bring us to this beautiful location
Took Nothing, Left Nothing, Signed Log
Replaced the cache exactly as found

Team Signed as Mumma Bear and the Cubs / M B & C, Muggle 65, The Green Geckos and BrisLions

Found this cache with Tiny 1508, DFC_JLK2019, Captain Monkey 96, DFC-JLK2019, The Green Geckos, Muggle 65, BrisLions

We had a rather full boat today but the more the merrier they say. That might not have been the perfect description but nobody died and we didn't sink the boat. Thank you for the fun

Out today with boat load of cacher. The team of The Green Geckos, Muggle65 and M.B.C. We had the Love/ Hate series as our main target. With adventure labs and multi for side dish.
I had done some caches at the top before on another trip.
My total for today was 12 finds. The breakdown is 8 traditional, multi and 3 waypoints from Adventure Lab.

Lots of fun was had and few tale were told. Couple of showers today but still got back to the vehicle dry.
4Ando *TFTC* 6450 *Finds*

We headed out to Donnybrook boat to put the geo boat to get some water-based caches today, while grabbing the information for the traditional series, multi, adventure lab and the puzzles we covered close to 80 kilometres. So, we set out to find the list of caches we had saved and to FINALLY turn it them into yellow smiley faces. While out for the day we found 16.

Before leaving the new geocar (Track my adventures here D78QWZ) we read the description, hint, confirmed the difficulty and terrain, checked we had all the caches in the offline list and pervious finder logs. We set off to start moving through the water. BrisLions was directing us to where we needed to go. Once we got to GZ, we started to walk towards GZ, we were discussing about where this geocache could possibly located. Has these caches have been on our radar for a long time.

We found we needed to maintenance a few caches throughout the day we had spare containers, tie wire, ziplock bags and log books. Thankfully after a decent search we worked out we were in the incorrect place then we regrouped. Shortly, we the cache in hand, and we added our little ink mark to the logbook.


Thank you for the cache placement and maintenance 4ando
Thank you for the Hunt
Thank you for bring us to this beautiful location
Took Nothing, Left Nothing, Signed Log
Replaced the cache exactly as found

Team Signed as Mumma Bear and the Cubs / M B & C, Muggle 65, The Green Geckos and BrisLions

Found this cache with Tiny 1508, Princess 1005, Captain Monkey 96, Mumma Bear 66, The Green Geckos, Muggle 65, BrisLions

, MB&C, Bris& myself are up the creek with a motorboat today collecting a few letters of love & hate. Putting in at Donnybrook we meandered up the passage. Along the way we found we needed to fix & replace a couple of containers & logs soo

Fun little find, nice one

Found it on my kayak tour.
TFTC

Launched the yak nearby intending to collect several in the series but after this first one the GPS gave up the ghost. Then we struggled with the sandbars to finally get back to our launching point

tftc 4ando. We will be back one day for the rest

Orange Crew had organised with karicka for a boat ride up the pumistone passage to grab a few caches of the adventure lab and the letters series. So we rrrrr pirates of the passage today, rrrrrr. I wasn’t sure as to why I got an invite but it soon became obvious I was the cabin boy, galley bitch and roust about for the day. I didn’t mind it turned out to be a really fun day, a few laughs and with a good number of caches found and/or replaced with the CO’s permission.

We launched at Donnybrook and with an incoming tide it did make for an interesting journey around the passage. Thank you for this series it has been on my to do list for some time so I was glad for the opportunity to grab them today.

This series has been burning a figurative hole in my map for a long long time. Finally I decided to rope in karicka to skipper us in his boat, and chamad as our scoundrel first mate.

We picked today as we needed a weekend day with a big high tide during the day, so we launched early from Donnybrook and headed north to Caloundra.

This part of the passage is a right maze to navigate at mid tide, and since the recent storms the sandbars have built up well outside the markers making navigation challenging. We took it slow but in the way back with a girl king tide it was wide open throttle and go wherever you like!

#10371 @ 09:09
Thanks 4ando for giving us a reason to visit.

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A great day on the water.
OC suggested a trip in Pumistone passage, we found a Saturday with a good high tide and made plans.
Chamad joined as third mate and galley slave
Launched from Donnybrook and made our way here on the slowly rising tide.
The maze here was quite easy to navigate with a marine GPS and laminated charts, still I managed to hit a sandbank or two.
Thank you for hiding this geocache and keeping me entertained 4ando
R

We're back! Attempt number two of my Pumicestone Solo-Canoe Adventure. Arguably not entirely possible, with a high risk of failure, but I'm keen. Late last month I tried and failed due to weather. This time though, the wind forecast is favourable (as are the tides, of course) and upon my arrival at Donnybrook where I planned to launch, the wind is even more calm than forecast. Oh, this makes me smile!

My plan is as such; get into my canoe with some camping gear, throw the 2HP outboard on the side and 12 litres of fuel onboard (double what I expect to use) and drive nearly thirty kilometres to Caloundra and collect the seven of nine remaining traditional in this series along the way. Then, camp the night in Caloundra and return the next day, hopefully via the final/bonus geocache. Not to spoil the story, but the plan worked perfectly this time!

This geocache and location would prove to be a bit of a favourite. Partly because The Narrows and this section felt perfect for the canoe. Tight waterways, all relatively protected. The only real worry was potential for a careless jet-ski zooming through but really, that didn't happen. It also meant I was damn near Roys Road - the rough halfway mark and a potential 'pull out point' if things weren't going well.

Arguably slow, but the drive from number 5 to here was less than 20 minutes and I enjoyed the whole way. I took the opportunity to pull the canoe mostly out of the water here to do a big refuel (it empties the tank every hour or 10 kilometres, and the last refuel was >8 kilometres ago), reapply sunscreen, have a snack and given the area, I gave myself a quick spray of bushmans.

I'm happy about the Bushmans element, because as I walked in towards GZ, mosquitoes did come out to play. The walk was relatively dry but I did find a few spiderwebs with my face. GZ seemed obvious to me, and I made my way to it and a quick find. I signed the logbook at 10:50 or so and a jetski screamed past as I was pushing the canoe back into the water, about to head to number 7. I liked this spot, thanks for this geocache, 4ando

The rescue crew, we met with the others at the end if the line, not too far away was a cache that now has our name in it
Thanks for the adventure

Last one for the day. Just around the corner from our pick-up point. There was a bit of mud on the way to the cache. Mud that wanted to keep my kayaking shoes, but after substantial effort I managed to keep them. TFTC!

With our ride spotted and awaiting on the road in, it was a quick detour to go collect this one. Half the journey was good, wind and tide assisted. The other half of the trip wasn't pleasant with all the elements against us and very tired paddling limbs. Against the odds, we went to where the respective GPSs pointed, some 10m apart. And we searched in the mud while the mozzie numbers exponentially increased.

Putting away the GPSs found a muddy hat that was missing a head. Brushing away the mozzie cloud, spotted a likely large tree using caching sense. With the bites getting mozzie bites on top of each other, headed further into the mangroves. For the record my GPS had me 8m further in than where GZ was showing. Quickly got the info needed and the log signed and got out before anemia set in. Glad the day is over as now totally stuffed. Thanks 4ando.

Awesome day out paddling and glad of the lift to assist our endeavours. Coords weirdly off a little here which gave the mozzies a chance for a decent feed! Eventually located and off we went covered in mud! Thanks for a brilliant series

Onwards we go, to the left of the island. What what is that is that a car? No surely it’s just a mirage! No it’s a car - not the car we want but it means we are near civilisation! Paddle, paddle and a lovely red flash appears and it’s the rescue squad. Suddenly the kayak spurts forth like it had a hidden motor (where was that power hiding before)! Hiya Mum and Dad! Love to say the car swap was quick but that would be lie. Still we saved ourselves over a km, heaps of energy and some further annoyed shoulder injuries. I am sure my arms will give me a little talking to tomorrow about how silly I was - but fresh air, sunshine and people - you just can’t beat it. Thanks for the lovely series (so far). A big FP from me I’ve always wanted to paddle out here and now I have!

The wind was gusting nice and strong now making it an effort to push my paddle back through the air and back in to the water. The tide was still out when I arrived at this one. A short walk through the mud, nut it was pretty firm and I did not sink below the plimsoll line.

Another few letters collected thanks.

TFTF

Had son wait with the kayak this time. Quick find. Tftc

We are enjoying spotting the clues and finding nice dry caches but most of all we are loving the calm waters tftc

Slow puncture and I was hoping this would be our first find for today but due to the weather yesterday we went to letters 9 first and then it was a 11km paddle all up to letters 9 then to this cache. We were paddling pretty fast and by the time we got here we were happy to exit the kayak for a stretch. The mosquitoes were trying to eat us alive even with copious amounts of spray so after finding the cache we quickly got back in the yak . Hated the mosquitoes. Loved the cache

4224

Saturday. I think this was one of those caches were we found the letter before we found the cache. I can’t really remember now! But I just love this Pumicestone Passage. I was with Que Sera today and we had got a really early start. After collecting #9 (we couldn’t grab this one yesterday as the weather gods said “No” (I hate that). Today was beautiful and we were determined to collect all the remaining Letters of Love/Hate. Just like a good love letter full of a good story, success and pain (the physical pain you feel when you know you’re about to do a really long paddle), we set off with Que Sera in the front seat and me in the back. We’d collected the #9 cache and just like Deliverence, we were going to keep going until we were finished today . This cache required us to walk through a wee bit of muddy water (I love that) and mozzies (I hate that) Can’t miss that letter dangling from it’s safe spot. We signed the log and clambered past each other to get back into the yak and start paddlin’ away. Note to self – bathe in DEET before going into mangroves

This was the 2nd of 7 caches found on today's trip.

Thanks ***4ando***, for showing us this place.

A great day to be out on the water. Growife had bought a Seadoo named McSeadoo Face jetski and this was our virgin run with it. So all very nervous. Had CDAH55 along as he was a expert in reversing at boat ramps. We couldn't reverse to save our lives. CDAH did a great job in reversing otherwise we would have never got in the water. As usual I was told I was driving the ski first. We all got on and off we went from Donnybrook. 3 up on a jetski, 2 being seniors. Trip up was very smooth, little wind and reached first cache in the series. We had success at finding each cache as we continued up the passage.

Had trouble seeing beacons in the narrow channels due to my shortsightness and angle of the sun. Dora and myself swapped over as drivers to get more experience on the way. Wife told me to slow down several times which is new as I drive my car to the speed limit.

The narrow passage was the hardest to navigate beacon to beacon but checking maritime maps CDAH55 kindly provided helped alot. We soon got into a routine in landing, anchor and take off again and confidence in driving the ski increased . The location of each cache was not too far from the water. In most cases not too much bushbashing. Mossies around but not too bad on this day. Reached Caloundra and anchored off Bribie Island to do last cache.

While wife and CDAH55 worked on a puzzle I watched were boats going south in passage went so we would pick the right channel going back from Calondra. Trip back we could see beacons better and more aware of shallows even though stiil in high tide. Trip back took 55 minutes. One lady who saw us comjng back thought 3 up (like in Asia) very funny.

Everyone had sore bums and bit stiff from time on ski and bouncing along chop mentioned by all. But sure beats kayaking that distance. I might have to retire thr kayak. Don't tell the kayak though.

Cache No. 6 of 9

Firstly I will apologise for the generic nature of the logs for the Letters of Love/Hate series of caches.

A new water craft (Jet Ski) was obtained and needed some time on the water. What better opportunity then to take it for a run and pick up the new caches recently released along this stretch of water.

Dora the Explorer!, Phil Serenity and I headed off to the Donnybrook boat ramp and not long after had the Personal Water Craft in the water and after testing some features we were off to find the caches.

It was a glorious day with very little wind however the sun was hot and some of us were a little red at the end of the day.

All the caches were relatively easy to find however some of the clues proved to be more elusive.

It took us 3 hours and 40 minutes and covered some 63 klms for the all round trip.

Thanks for this series of caches ***4ando***

Find #1919

Quick and easy find.

This was the maiden voyage of the SS Seadoo GTI 90 containing 3 crazy adventurous souls on board, being CDAH55, Phil Serenity and I. I mean who gets a new jet ski and goes 3 up on their maiden voyage, who does this? Us. CDAH55 bejng the logistics and admin person had downloaded and laminated maps of the beacon to beacon guide. We never really paid any attention to these before when kayaking. We only used them to hang onto to have a rest.

During the week I had annoyed Mrs CO with lots of questions about Jetski workings, such as where do I store flares, what do I use to make an anchor. How will we go travelling 3 up? Which she answered you might tip.

We launched from Donybrook. CDAH55 did an excellent job of reversing the trailer down the boat ramp. Great launching ramp for noobs.

We got out in the water but CDAH55 acted a little bit like a princess and didn't want to take his chances until we could prove to him, that we could control it and do a quick circuit so he could see that it wouldn't sink.

I have taken CDAH55 down mine shafts, up trees for technical tree climbs, overnight kayaking adventures to South Stradbroke Island and Fraser Island. Mountain Climbs, long 20km hikes, rock climbs. He has passed out, thrown up (several occasions) and still comes back for more. So he must have thought this was another crazy idea of mine.

We all took it in turns of riding at the bow, stern and middle. So we all had a go at being the meat in the middle of the sandwich. Nobody fell off and the jetski didn't sink. Nobody threw up or passed out. We may not have been the fastest machine on the water but we had fun.

We had been out kayaking with Captain Terror, fangsoki and Crew 153 about two weeks ago when the topic of the lack of caches placed in the Pumicestone Passage was discussed. We all concurred that it was certainly a worthy stretch of water which cachers should be encouraged to explore [^]

Lo and behold, a great little series of caches suddenly appears in our notification list A quick check of the tide times and weather and a plan was hatched to head out early and keep our fingers crossed that the weather would hold to enable us to find them all

Our mode of transport today was the tinnie and we decided to launch from Donnybrook to make a start at the beginning. While we didn't hit the water as early as we would have liked, the tide was still coming in and the water looked like glass as far as the eye could see something we have rarely seen when we have launched from Toorbul

It took us about 4 hours to find the 9 traditional caches and then another 1.5 hours to return back to Donnybrook. We were lucky that the wind hadn't picked up too much otherwise the return trip would have taken us much longer and would have been quite uncomfortable As it was, when we reached the Coochin Creek area it became rather interesting with the run out tide against wind creating waves about a foot high Other than that, the water on the return trip was still relatively smooth which made for a very pleasant, if not tiring, day out in the boat

All the caches were quite easy to locate, although the clues were sometimes a little harder to spot We loved all the caches we found, but we have a sneaking suspicion we are going to absolutely hate that letterbox in the series

Thank you 4ando for having placed the cache and for maintaining it for everyone to enjoy We have added a favorite point for the effort and adventure of our {FTF} hunt.

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