Letters of Love/Hate 8 Golden Beach, Queensland, Australia
By 4ando on 15-Jan-19. Waypoint GC82GZ5

I spent just under two hours walking around the detached part of Bribie Island with hubby and sausage3. It was the first time that weve seen it like this so was very interesting. We kept our feet dry by going inland in a couple of places, otherwise we followed the coastline. Amazingly there were no mozzies but saw plenty of birds including corellas, black swans, egrets plus lots of soldier crabs and a kangaroo.Found the cache safe and sound plus some old rubbish nearby which was missed during the CITO. Logbook signed and replaced as found. Tftc

I dont know why I feel like this one should be a puzzles. Thinking there are others like this around. Here for the CITO today and I think I was one of the few without all these caches. Hatzoff and Princess kindly came on the huge walk with me.

Took some hiking thru mangroves! Suggest bring shoes!Loved seeing the roos!

Made our way to the GZ with the help of a couple of kangaroos. Found quickly, signed the log and made our way back to the beach TFTC

Tftc

Out for a weekend getaway with wombles. We made our way over from Happy Valley, removing our shoes for a short splash in the cool waters. It certainly didnt feel like winter today! We weaved and winded our way through the casuarina forest and then found the soggy mangrove. While I chose the Nyssaflutterby special direct route wombles opted for the better, dry feet way. We met back up at GZ as I was signing the log. On our way back to the beach we were lucky to spy a Beach Stone-curlew Thanks for the cache 4ando

Nyssaflutterby and I were on a very short escape and decided to head out here today. I started walking here alone one day in April but I had crocs on and chickened out. Today we walked through some water and then found the best sand to walk on. We saw some cool tracks, a bird I hadnt seen before and lots of rubbish. I picked up a plastic skunk toy to put in the bin back at the carpark but we could have filled a bag each. We squelched through some mangroves and Nysa had located the cache before I arrived. Tftc

Tried for this one years ago and got chased away by mossies. Easy to get to now that North Bribie is joined to the mainland by sand. Found the clue and then geodaughter got the cache! TFTC

22/6/2024 Find #7047Fangsoki knew I had been keen to grab Treasure Island here for a while now,and I was aware he needed to get over here and do a spot of maintenance on it. So with a bit of a window opened up in the weekend, we made a plan to head up here today and grab that one, the other oldie, as well as this cache and the Adventure Labs here. I had not yet done the Caloundra to Bribie walk, and with perfect tide timing and a cooler day, we seemed set for a good adventure. As long as those clouds dont open up on us. Having performed the maintenance, thereby finding that cache and the other old one, we had made our way around gathering the Adventure Labs as we went and dancing with the soldiers crabs, until we arrived here. Then we made our way through as dryly as possible to GZ where we were momentarily confused as we found the Letter but couldnt find the cache. Until Fangsoki noticed something just over at the next (broken) tree. Ahhhh thats it!!Log signed, and note/photo taken of the letter, we were on our way back across to Caloundra and off for a spot of lunch. Thanks for the cache 4ando.

Twas out with 1MinnieMoo working on my nearby cache. We thought it would be plain rude not to grab this one while on "Bribie North"The rain held off for us today as we zigzagged over the island. Due to incorrect maps and a shocking sense of direction, I was pretty unsure if we could this one on foot. Turns out we could.We neared GZ and soon found the required letter. After about a minute of looking, I soon came up with the prize. We signed the log and returned it to its home. It looks like the old log might be a goner - but someone has put some rite in the rain paper in the cache. Due to mother nature having a fail, the cache isn't exactly where it should be - but its still okay and in position. Glad I could get a find while visiting the island. TFTC 4ando

Hard slog through the sand but knew wed found it once we saw the letter. Log too water logged for anything but TFTC

Ta

Out for a day of caching to round off my long weekend of caching every day. Today I hit the new Aura area, then made my way over to North Bribie to coincide with the low tide, then over to Golden beach to grab one desired DT and a few extras.After my pirate adventure to the south, I made my way to grab the last two caches on North Bribie. I found the letter quickly enough, but the container took a while. Only after putting my phone away after reading logs did I spot the cache right in front of me! D'oh! TFTC 4ando!

After grabbing another nearby cache I walked to this cache and it was a nice quick find found the letter first then found the cache very close to where I found the letter.Thanks for the cache

TFTC

T-Tech and I drove up to Caloundra today to see if we could walk across to Bribie Island from Happy Valley at the 2pm low tide. The drive from Brisbane was long and tedious thanks to holiday traffic, but we snagged a terrific parking spot and took a very pleasant wander across the sandbars. We both attempted to keep our hiking boots dry, but eventually the creeks got to wide to jump. My feet did like feeling cool!After grabbing an AL we continued around the edge then through the mangroves to this one. Happily the container was easily spotted. TFTC, 4ando.

Went up to Caloundra with IolantheK on a whim after seeing an aerial picture of a new sand bar which was once the channel between Caloundra and Bribie. We thought we'd trek this new bar and collect a couple of caches on Bribie Probably should have changed shoes as we ended up getting them wet negotiating the mangroves Cache is dry and in good condition TFTC 4ando

Out and about with TBU1Bikesu for more smileys Tftc 4ando

Just reminded I had not logged. Found while previously on the island.TFTCache 4ando

We walked recently over to Bribie for a CITO, and had time to get some more caches.Tftc 4ando

Happy Birthday to me, tide was right. We walked over here early bit rough with no shoes on.

After walking across the sandbar on a nice day we headed to this one and first spotted something and soon after the cache was in sight. Log signed and replaced as found. All good with the cache which is in a safe place from muggles. Thanks 4ando for this one. Fav for the location.

Up this way to attend the CITO on the Northern end of Bribie Island. I have never been here before but since the bit split you can walk across from Caloundra at low tide. Not at all fond of water, intact I'm scared of it but if you really want a geocache you go for it but with friends to keep you upright. Once on the island it was much easier and a few caches found, signed and replaced. TFTC

We hadnt been to Caloundra since the splitting of Bribie Island so were amazed at the changes. We were a little too early for a planned CITO event after making our way across the sand, so decided to start finding all the caches on the new island before returning. As we found our way further south, we realised that we would not make it back in time for the start of the event but we were collecting rubbish along the way anyway. Throughout the day, we ran into a number of cachers, both old and new faces, as they too sought additional caches. Not sure when Ill get the chance to find the rest of this series but hopefully someday soon. Thanks 4ando

Attending the CITO today on the tip of Bribie with RoddyC, Hatzofff, Princess 1005, MummaBear66, imbunda...Picking up trash and the local caches as we made our way around the tip, through mangroves, sand and boggy ground, glad we could sign the log on some oldies, TFTC 4ando, maybe complete the series one day...

A group of us went over to top of Bribie Island this morning. I found the cache and we all signed the log. Noted the clue. Maybe hire boat or kayak to do rest. Thanks 4ando. All good with this cache.

Hatzofff and I are around Caloundra for a few nights. Today with a few others.Wow! Who would have thought that getting here is so much easier than before the breakthrough further south. Clue collected. Maybe one day.Log signed and cache replaced as found at 8:52 am on 24 October 2023. TFTC, 4ando

I've been wanting to walk across to the top end of Bribie since I heard it was now a possibility & today we were heading up to visit my Mum for my birthday so made a detour via Caloundra. We'd brought the puppy with us but turns out you can't have dogs on the beach here so geodaughter had to stay on the mainland & look after him. Really enjoyed our walk over & only had to walk through a small amount of ankle deep water, saw kangaroos & a fox & found the cache with no issues.Thanks for the cache 4ando

Thanks for smiley.

Quick find after anice walk. Thanks for the cache

Tftc

Found it took a solid minute to find it after bushbashing our way through
Tftc

Don't assume that the letter and the cache are together.
I called a paf who couldn't help, but oddly during my lingering around I ended spot the cache...
Tftc

Loved this one, left a nice surprise for the next cacher

TFTC, despite my wet feet lol

After grabbing a long-solved nearby cache (as in, I solved it three years ago...), I made my way to this one, with a little bit of trepidation as I was in bare feet. Thankfully, the pneumatophores (look who just learnt a new word!) were pretty soft and there were no issues. Had to gently waves away a mob of roos at GZ, then did the signing duties. Thanks for the cache, 4ando!

Bring some footwear people! TFTC
log is a bit wet, might need replacing.

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AtTheLakeHouse and I wandered to the Northern end of Bribie today. The weather was a perfect Winter’s day. Actually, better than a perfect Winter’s day, it was warm, blue skies, no wind, about 22 degrees. Gotta love the Sunny Coast in Winter…just think, we could live in Melbourne…lol. Anyway, enough bragging,

I found the clue before I found the cache. Then as I looked further, there was the cache, I added an extra waterproof sheet to the cache. Followed Domsky again at this cache. I reckon that’s about 6 caches this week where they’ve been there the day before me! Thanks for the excuse to come over to Bribie, 4ando.

GC82GZ5 Letters of Love/Hate 8


Headed up north as the weather was beautiful and the tide was low. Had my bathers on and a water proof bag but neither were required. 0.4 on the way over and 0.7tide on the way back and I only got my ankles wet. It’s amazing how this has changed so much.

After a DNF at first stop I was very happy that this was an easy find. Found a ping pong ball in my way there so placed that in the cache for any future ping ping players visiting.

TFTC 4ando

We had a wonderful adventure exploring Bribie Island.
Previous paddling trips were from Golden Beach and that was our intention today.
We were quite in awe of the changes in geology here.
Nonetheless, we found our way to GZ and signed the log.
Thanks 4and0
Domsky

Great and fun walk in to find this with my son.

A beautiful day out today picking up some caches and enjoying chats along the way. TFTC ️

Lots a wildlife around, lovely spot to explore
Tftc

For some years I’ve had the desire to swim directly from Bulcock beach to Bribie but never found exactly the right time to go. However, with the dramatic change of sandbank patterns here, I formed a plan to start walking at low tide and see what happened.
Sure enough, I went early this morning and waded the whole way over without difficulty, the last 20m being chest high. I had my phone and pen in a dry sack so as not to tempt fate.
The walk around on North Bribie was a great experience. After dealing with an AL WP on the North side, I tried to go direct to this GZ but was stopped by the swamp. So I wiggled around in an anti-clockwise direction, only to find a large tent set up between Gz and the beach. Yikes. I gave it a wide berth and came in again from the West only to come face to face with three large kangaroos! I wasn’t expecting that. They immediately turned and fled, but I had to wonder if they have been trapped here since the breakthrough happened. They looked well fed and healthy anyway. I later found some dog footprints which concerned me more as I doubt it was domestic.
The cache was then found safe and sound but pretty soggy inside. The mozzies were hitting me hard so I replaced everything and took off for one more target.
The walk back over the ‘passage’ was much the same as the first, never more than chest deep.
TFTC and great sense of personal achievement I’m taking away from today.

We decided on a relaxing beach day for the first time this year, since work on the boat has slowed down and a sunny day finally lined up with a day off on a weekend. Dusted off the cabana and set up on Golden Beach finding a not so crowded spot close to a free car park (which was a bit difficult). We brought along our new glass bottomed kayak for its maiden voyage. J just had a paddle in the middle of the passage but for my turn, it was more of an expedition. I paddled straight across the passage to the newly separated North Bribie Island and pulled up on the beach. Heading for gz, I skirted around a mangrove swamp in the middle and through a she-oak forest until I found the container hanging around waiting for a visitor. The log was quite damp and mouldy but managed to make my mark and swapped a fighter jet for a cute gecko. Didn't hang around long as the mozzies were hot on my tail, so hot-footed it back to the beach and the breeze where they weren't so bad. Then paddled further around to the north for an adventure lab location then back down the passage, having a closer look at the new bar entrance on the way back (and another more obscure AL location). Very scenic, did get stuck on a sandbank across one spot and had to walk a while but it was a nice peaceful paddle most of the way, just had to go full steam on the way back racing the last of the sunlight.
Not sure when we'll get further down the passage for the others, one catamaran too big to get under the Bribie bridge from the south where it's moored at Newport and the other beach cat would take a long time to sail down there, as would the paddling option. Might need to get a lift on a little powerboat to make it all the way through in a timely fashion....
#3415 @ 1510h
TFTC 4ando ️ ️ ️

Find #6216

Not much caching happening for me these days with injury preventing me for doing many of my favourite things like EMTBing, hiking, paddling, and of course caching. So when, for whatever reason, I get an opportunity to get an easy accessible cache or two I take it

Today was a lovely stroll across the many new sandbanks in the area, with the low tide, after the breakthrough on North Bribie Island. My how this has changed things around here. I paddle board here quite a bit when visiting family, and despite all the shifting sands it was pleasing to see the sting rays are still here in plentiful supply.

This cache was an easy find but lost my pen in the wade across Lots of photos to prove my presence. Log sheet damp and a bit mouldy. Contemplated drawing blood to sign but resisted the temptation out of respect for the next cachers

A favourite from me as it is the only traditional over here and it's a beautiful spot!

Thanks so much 4ando

This was the first physical cache we found yesterday morning on our adventures on the new north bribie.
Not sure how many of those letters i'll ever manage to find, so i'm glad to put my mark into this most northerly one at least.
Thanks for the cache !

Today, the plan was to kayak across from Golden Beach to the top of Bribie Island (newly formed North Bribie Island given the recent breakthrough?). I was a little concerned with the high winds warning, but the passage still offered sufficient protection to paddle across for the scheduled island event. Following a walk around the island peninsula and the completion of two Locations from the *Pumicestone Passage Meander* Adventure Lab, we paddled back across just as the sea started to get rough. I then spent the majority of my subsequent day heading around Pelican Waters and Golden Beach, walking a few trails whilst fighting the armies of mosquitoes. I then ended the day with a drive into Caloundra completing *Rocking Caloundra* Adventure Lab and a walk along the foreshore/boardwalk.

Following our paddle across to the island, we were early enough before the event to take a walk around the vicinity, and thus this was the first geocache find for the day. We walked through some swampy scrub in order to get to GZ, although it didn't seem to be too bad whilst wearing my booties, and the cache was a reasonably quick find. The cache container was in good shape, and the logbook was just slightly damp. Thanks 4ando for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Found this one before the nearby event kicked off.

TFTC

Georode

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 jetski 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

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 at Donnybrook we meandered up the passage caches & replacing obvious missing containers & logs as I was prepped today with my bag of goodies.

Coords were good as all the previous were as well. Great series & now we need to head back as the tide is going out & with a boat full of people we don’t want to find a sandbank.

Found it on my kayak tour.
TFTC

Logged and Found as WallabyTim/KaleidoscopeCass or WallabyWanderers. Backing this up with our old account, Apologies if you receive multiple logs





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Found this cache with Snickersallan, AtTheLakeHouse and E_Smiley while on an adventure to northern bribie island... luckily they are cluey and did all the hard work finding this one, i tagged along because... well. I love kayaking!

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Found this cache with Snickersallan, AtTheLakeHouse and E_Smiley while on an adventure to northern bribie island... luckily they are cluey and did all the hard work finding this one, i tagged along because... well. I love kayaking!

Early morning trip up from the Gold Coast to meet up with E_Smiley, AtTheLakeHouse and WallabyWanderers for a water adventure prior to going to the nearby Wesso Family Event. The weather wasn't in our favour but that certainly didn't deter us in the least, apart from a few kangaroos we had the whole island to ourselves after setting sail from the Golden Beach boat ramp in our trusty kayaks.
We went past this cache whilst doing the Adventure Lab but back tracked and made a relatively quick find.


TFTC 4ando
Found March 20, 2021

Fantastic day with AtTheLakehouse, Snickerallan and Wallaby Wanderers. A short paddle, some wading and some walking. Two hours later we were at gz. Snickerallan did a quick find here. But we missed to get the clue in our haste to dodge the storm!

Thanks for the cache and taking us here 4ando. Enjoyed the adventure. Hope to finish the series... one day.

I arrived 10 minutes early for the planned paddle this morning, and in the time I was waiting the weather went from OK, to raining, to a really strong and cold wind. So we abandoned this paddle. However, after a pub lunch, it was now clear enough that we decided to make a go if it. I regret eating and drinking so much... There was a decent current, but a good cache find. Probably took the wrong approach, but fun none-the-less. TFTC! This is the last of the letters I needed to collect.

It was well past our planned 9am paddle and in fact we just had lunch, but the weather was okay and our kayaks were feeling very left out on the roofs. Three then in the water and it was time to set off for a quick enjoyable paddle. Unloaded on the sandbar and then walked up to the main bit and dumped them, then it was a thigh high cross of the ditch water and then an ankle deep trudge. Found the cache - it was a little damp but writable. Saw a better entry point , but it was time to look for the next. Hang on there’s spots of rain again.

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
Beached the tinny for a walk around the northern tip of Bribie, of rather a wade as the tide was high.
Great to add the last of the letters to my list of finds
Thank you for hiding this geocache and keeping me entertained 4ando
R

We had the opportunity for a lift to the island today and spent a good part of it fishing and swimming. In the afternoon, Greatjustgreat and I headed south to find a couple of caches. Having found a mystery, a traditional and a lab cache, we saw this cache from the series and headed over to track it down. We walked over from the east side and spotted a heap of soldier crabs, which attracted other onlookers as well.
We headed closer to GZ and after a little search, we found the camouflaged cache tethered and soon had the log sheet retrieved. Although a little damp it was soon signed. We searched thoroughly, but we did not find a letter or clue to final.
Thanks very much for the cache 4ando, we had a great afternoon. Cheers

The final geocache of this day! This is attempt number two of my Pumicestone Passage Solo-Canoe Overnight Adventure from Donnybrook to Caloundra and back again. Late last month I tried and failed the very same due to abhorrent weather conditions, making it only to Roys Road before turning around. This time though, the wind forecast is favourable (as are the tides!) and upon my arrival at Donnybrook prepared to launch, the wind is even calmer than forecast. Oh, this makes me a happy boy!

My full 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 back more-or-less the way I came the next day, hopefully via the final/bonus geocache. Not to spoil the story, but the plan worked perfectly!

And so, unlike the vast majority of previous finders, I was nearly thirty kilometres from my launch point. Though, I didn't paddle the entire way, so there is that. It was a *very* long drive up from [Letters of Love/Hate 9](https://coord.info/GL13AKFPD) when I can only do 10km/h. The tide going out meant darting over sandbars was less of an option, so I had to wend along the channel more than cutting corners. And I did encounter the roughest conditions of the whole trip where the channel kicks towards Bribie Island from Military Jetty. Nothing we couldn't handle though - but I did get a bit wet from waves splashing aboard.

Plus, can someone explain to me why this geocache is number 8, rather than swapping it with number 9? All out of order!

Not that it matters at all, of course. As I got near Caloundra, water traffic increased a lot, but still no issues there. I aimed the canoe for a patch of the tip of Bribie that looked good, and pulled it right up high onto the sand. I got Nancy that there's nothing to tie it to, but the tide won't wash it away, now a metre above the water. I could bail it out before setting off for this geocache.

It was a decent walk from my sandbar into the geocache, but the terrain was easy to move through. I found the geocache and clue without drama and while the logbook was a bit wet, I did manage to sign my name. It was now almost 14:00 but I have visited all the traditional in this series. Now, back to the canoe where I'd have a chat with a couple who were swimming nearby and fascinated by my canoe/outboard combination and amazed I'd driven up from Donnybrook, before motoring simply across to Tripcony Jetty.

Once at the jetty, I'd pull the canoe out, flush the outboard, fix the wheels and make for the campgrounds. And a shower. Mostly a shower. What a fantastic journey to embark on. Arguably I made this series more difficult, but I have enjoyed it so much. And I get to do it all again tomorrow! Thanks for this geocache, 4ando

Out for a bit of caching fun with Brislions and Mr CuriousQuest. Mr Curious Quest and I paddled the double kayak and Brislions the single. It was a bit of an effort for me to get across the channel, but we made it into the lee of the island. Going was easier there, out of the wind. This cache was quickly located and the log signed. Unfortunately, we didnt see anything that would help us with what we need for the final. TFTC

Great weather to be out on the water today with Selva Girls and Brislions kayaking around the top end of Bribie for a few caches and two Adventure Lab waypoints. At GZ the cache was quickly located and the log signed. The cache was replaced as found. TFTC

Today Selva Girls and I plan for a kayak trip to pickup a few caches. We had company of CuriousQuest today.
It was nice paddle over to Bribie Island. My main cache for today was code clash to finish loop 3.

So today paddle we found 3 trads, 2 mystery and 3 waypoints from 2 Adventure Labs.

The round trip today took 4 hours. Did have lots of fun watching Selva Girls and CuriousQuest trying to paddle in a straight line.
Sorry for the generic post. TFTC 4296 Finds

Well, I have recently acquired a trusty ole blue 'yak, and I was busting to take it for a whirl. The CITO had me interested (I am yet to log one!) and I settled on a plan with a few mates to hit up caches in the general area. While the CITO was cancelled, we managed to still grab the caches and generally have an awesome time.

This was one of 17 caches for the day for me (excluding the challenges I don't qualify for). After hitting up the northern stretches of the Coolum Creek, we picked up a few random caches as we headed for Caloundra and then paddled over to Bribie. Finished off with a trip to Ewan Maddock Dam. Lovely day, every minute of it was full of sunshine and laughter. Can't wait to do it again.

Am I a lady or a monkey? Stay tuned to find out :p

TFTC and TB visits

After paddling up Coolum Creek with friends, we headed south to pick up a few other caches. We put in at the boat ramp just across the passage and with calm conditions and no boat traffic we crossed in just a few minutes.

No problems locating this one today, we grabbed the info for later.

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#9203. Thanks for giving us a reason to visit, **4ando**.

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I have been working on completing my D/T grid and saw that I had multiples of some, a few of others and a couple of spaces with nothing, so I decided to set a goal for myself of completing three loops in a day. This was in conjunction with a couple other challenges I was doing I was still out each day collecting a cache a day for another challenge. Slowly it was all coming together and today was my day to collect 5 particular caches, and a few others on the way. a paddle and a walk will see me complete, just a DNF will upset my plans.

After a drive to the Southside to grab one that completed my first loop, it was now a drive to Caloundra to grab a couple of paddle caches.

A nice morning for a paddle and an easy paddle over from where I parked, I grabbed the kayak and dragged it up the beach getting prepared for my walks ahead.

I found this cache reasonably quickly, nice camo, the cache was good but the log was damp and a little hard to write on. I left the log sit in the sun for a little bit hoping I would now be able to sign. Now with the log signed and the cache replaced as found it was time to grab my next target in the area. Thank you for placing this one here.

Out with The Bug and having already hit a number of water caches today the plan was for more but it was raining by this stage and we where in a pie shop in Maleny. A check of the radar and we thought it might clear by 4.30 so headed down the hill. Only one problem is that it didn't stop raining so it was going to be a fast lap of the island for four caches I had on the list plus we had to beat sun set. A strong flowing out tide had as going sideways at time and a longer haul up to higher sand.
Saw a couple of roos by the waters edge but the phone screen was too wet for the camera.
Onto Letter and it was soon found and the clue spotted. Signing duties completed as the rain increased. TFTC

9:09:00 AM. After finding a couple of caches with Konie it was time for me to grab a couple we didn't have. While Konie walked the canoe around the waters edge, the tide was running out to fast to paddle, I set off across the sand to GZ. A brief search and found the letter then the cache. Log signed. Thanks for the cache 4ando

Finally an opportunity to clean up the letters despite having solved the final my desire is to have a complete matching set. I wandered over the mangroves to grab this one but won’t give away what letter awaits!!! Loved and hated this series but mostly love with the final being #4000 and third DT loop. I am now complete! Happy birthday to me !! Thanks 4Ando

If my O.C.D. didn't nag the S.H.I.T out of me, this last 'Letters of Love/Hate' cache would still be D.I.W. J.S.Y.K. our solving team had a collective guess at the letter for this cache to unlock the final puzzle. With this last cache collected, it eased my O.C.D as I now have a tidy map, S.H.!!

B.T.W. anyone that is after a clue of what this cache's magical letter is, it's one of the abbreviated letters somewhere in this message. G.L.H.F.!! While compiling this list of letters, came across P.I.S., not sure where I could use it in the log, so thought I'd throw it in just for the hell of it.

Time to relax, crack open a wine and F.A.R.T.S.!! ATB 4ando 4 setting up the series, Y.T.B. X.O.X.O.

Today, I headed north with my kayak with a plan to grab half a dozen or so caches on the passage around Caloundra. Knowing the tides, I planned my route to avoid having to paddle against the tide.

This was the fourth cache of the day and my first of the series. The logbook was a little damp, but i managed to sign it. I

I looked all over for the clue. A previous finder has since told me the clue and where it should have been. I am uncertain if I simply missed it when I was day dreaming - quite likely - or if it was missing.

Had a nice day out today. Look forward to completing the series. Many thanks 4Ando

Pete

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Spending a couple of hours at Golden Beach with our daughter and family as they had put the jet ski in the passage for a play. The son-in-law was keen to get me on the back to give me a ride so collared him in to taking me over to this cache. A great adventure and the cache was soon in hand which was fortunate because there were swarms of mozzies attacking us - I've never seem so many and had dozens of bites. Signed the log and took note of the clue before beating a hasty retreat back across the passage. Unfortunately the log is absolutely soaking wet and could do with some TLC. TFTC 4ando

Picked up my first kayak at golden beach from just around the corner and took it immediately out on the water. The geohub set up on the sand and the geokid played in the shallows on her new craft while I paddled directly over to GZ. The navigator said 500m from shore to shore. Felt like 5km as I had one plan and the current had another. Add the wind, which wouldn't let me keep my hat on, and it was a challenge. But a lovely one. Pulled up on the sand bar and it was a short straight walk to the nicely camo'd container. In my haste and excitement I forgot to put the reef shoes on so I tread carefully over the mangrove shoots and hot sand. Man I was glad to get my feet back in the water! Oweee. I pulled the yak a bit further north and let the tide take me back to the mainland. Can't wait to explore more of pumicestone passage! Another great day out. Thanks for putting a cache there for us all to enjoy.

The PRCYS Rainbow Flotilla was in action again this morning. Setting off from Military Jetty for what we expected was a short paddle across to the Island became a little harder than expected given the intensity of the not so gentle breeze raging up the inside passage. First Fort of call was the new Virtual then for me this was the only cache on the Northern parts of the Island that I have not found.

Much to the displeasure of the group I suggested a northern approach, it was easier to go the other way.

This was the last for me on the Bribie Island odyssey but the most intriguing because it is my first of the Letters of Love/Hate series. We found the container easily enough in amongst the jequirity vines (see photo) which has very beautiful seeds but do not be tempted to take some home, the plant is very poisonous.
I'm looking forward to finding more of the series to have a go at the final some day. Thanks 4ando for highlighting the amazing Pumicestone Passage.

Found with a Beardman , a ruzzel and a NeverLost after a paddle/walk down to Fort Bribie.

A case of dejavu for myself after paddling over to this new part of a Island a few times when I was living across the passage at Golden Beach last year.

Thanks for an intro to the series and the clue was duly noted.

Cheers

The tide was flowing out when we landed on the sand bar and we decided to walk around the point for a better appraoch but ended up walking in a big circle. Once at GZ, the clue was found very quickly but it's amazing how well the container blended in with it's surroundings. Thanks for the cache

TFTF

After calling off the hunt approaching from behind the GZ, I went paddled around the front. Then it was a short, spider web ridden walk to the GZ. Quickly found the cache, and signed log. Took a minute or so to locate the letter but got it as well. View is awesome from here. Water is so clear. There was a jellyfish washed up on the beach near where I landed my kayak, but only the one.. so seems ok. Tftc

Finally got the chance to come out here with a friend of mine for a geography assignment about Bribie Island and decided to grab some caches this evening. This was a relatively quick find here, a bat was hanging out in the trees nearby which was pretty cool TFTC

Found and signed, achieved with SUP

Sunday. SP had found this cache previously, and visited this cache again with a lovely group of cachers whilst in the area today.. We had our yaks with us, having found some river caches earlier in the day. After some lunch, we paddled off and grabbed this cache. Nice to find it again

Slow puncture and I planned to do this series on Saturday by kayak and noticed this one was a long distance from the rest so after work today we met up and after a nice paddle we were at gz and after a little of going around in circles we found the cache and letter. On the way back to the car the wind was starting to pick up. Love this spot and love this cache. Thanks for the fun

4221

Friday. Well it took SP so long to start this series, with so many hopes dreamt and then dashed – much like real letters in the post espousing lustings of love and hate. So by the time it got to this week, I’d planned a trip solo to grab these caches, but then my birthday got in the way and my hubby’s love decided that we would cache in the city. Not that I hate caching in the city, but you know how it is, the compass bounces round and round. But as luck would have it, a chance discussion with Que Sera meant that it was going to be a join venture after all. I love caching So we got this cache first because it was, well, so far out of the way, we wanted to get it out of the way first! I hate that there is one cache all on its own [xx(] Just gotta get that one eh. So Que Sera started and left work very early today, just so that we could get an early start. I love that she did that! So we pushed off and landed our yaks near GZ. Then our arrows took us the long way – we went round in a great big circle – I hate that. Now I know you could walk to this one, but well, the water was a little higher than walking height, so it was either swim or kayak – I love that . We soon found the cache and the letter we needed. I love that too Will stash that away for later! The wind was really starting to pick up now, so it was a bit harder to get back to the launch point.

This was the 1st of 2 caches found on today's trip.

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

Passing through Caloundra today and stopped off to grab this new one that was nearby.

Once at GZ it was a quick find and once the log was signed all was returned as found.

TFTC 4ando

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. 9 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 #1921

Quick and easy find. Our last cache of the day and the cache literally ended up being right in front of my face. A little bit of a busy area here. Some people were also at this island usjng a stand up paddle board. Now for the 18km trip back as the crow flies. I was driving back to the start with my two back seat drivers telling me which side to stay on the beacons. We occasionally stopped to consult the bread crumb trail of the gps. Some small fun waves on the way.

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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