RRPT - Caterpillar Crack Condon, Queensland, Australia
By GeocachingTownsville on 30-Mar-19. Waypoint GC85FKF

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Bad place for a cache, extremely long grass and far from roads and couldnt find it

Grass way to long to get to

Nice walk and quick find. TFTC

Great hide, TFTC

Second Queensland find

Found it, didn't have a pen lots of fun

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Off the track a little for an easy find here

A final hit out in July after deliberately breaking my teen-length streak, no way was I going to manage what was needed for the difficult level anyway. Headed out for my own PT in the car to the Rasmussen area for a few along the riverside walkway. Seven finds this evening as the day would down, but the temperature remained nice and warm. Thanks to the COs.

Would not think it is where it was

TFC

TFTC

Also braved the long grass in thongs tftc

This one was still in good nick and only required walking through about 20 metres of knee high grass from the path. I managed it in thongs without injury.

Please do not log a Needs Archiving for long grass.

Bushes and grass too high for kids to reach the target point.

Black tube In twee

Good spot realizable easy

Good spot reasonably easy

Gotta go off track but great spot.

Wanting to grab a couple caches this morning i got a few along this river.
This was a quick find like the others along the river to help me get closer to 500 by the end of 2022.
TFTC

Yep

You have to walk through tall as grass

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We pulled up to check where we where going. Then realised that there is a cache right here. Quick smile for us tftc

Bush bashed to GZ through the long grass. It didn't look like anyone had been to this cache in yonks. Until you get there, then you see the trail. TFTC GeocachingTownsville.

With a goal of collecting 150 caches in a day, our plan was to tackle both geoarts, hit the RRPT and collect some other caches in between. An early start was in order to achieve this goal before getting ready for the Trivia night at the MEGA.
A huge thank you to all the COs for preparing and placing the caches we collected today, the variety of hide locations, types and containers was fantastic.

The day had come; the plan to get 150 caches (excluding labs) in a day for another challenge was here. The planning and prep started two months ago when I was at the Wangaratta mega. With the recent zoom events for puzzle solving a big help and the Geoarts of the saint and the book catering for two thirds of the task, it was just a matter of finding 50 more caches so as I was able to complete. Today I had Willis007 with me; we picked on a few quick easy finds as we were passing and motoring between arts. We then grabbed the bikes and went for a ride around along the Ross river parkway or is that power trail.

The Geoarts were found easy and thank you. The book art did slow us down a little with some hides a little tuff to find. the power trail was fun some good caches and some that also slowed us down. However, by the end of the day we were done and the challenge completed.

Thanks to my caching buddies, the CO’s for the caches and the great areas I got to see today.

Great Northern escape 2022 Day 6. Townsville Mega section Day 6. For today I started caching with TikvaNZ for a section of the RRPT. I was on my e-scooter and we had a great time out in the sun visiting interesting locations along the river, some were a bit to much for us today. After lunch I caught up with Kittly Katch, Joolay, Isopeda and Barb2e for some pole caching. Sometimes this was quite a challenge. The day ended with a trip back to Ross River for a pre Mega dinner with heaps of people I have not seen for ages. A great way to get the Easter weekend started.

Thanks for the cache GeocachingTownsville

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Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & GCC Anniversary Edition A#34

**Albida**

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Day 6 of a 3 week holiday driving from Canberra to Townsville and back to attend the Mega. Today was mostly Ross River Power Trail caches by bike. This morning Albida33 and I joined forces to tackle the section from the Riverway lagoons heading upstream. Cache easily found in good condition. TFTC.

After leaving it real late last night i thought i’d get to an early start today. Coords a little off but found regardless

Logging old caches originally found with alphag_25. Now have my own account and logging them separately so that I can claim the finds.

26/12/21 Continue RRPT caches out with missus on scooters. TFTC SL Up visiting from Mackay and staying near Lakes. On approaching GZ one of the local wallaby's took off out of the grass, who got the bigger fright.

An easy cache in a crack off the track.

Tftc

We had a very mixed day out caching today. We decided to head back to the trails on the Ross River and work our way further south as well as take some side diversions to collect additional caches and pre-solved puzzles. We found a variety of hides and encountered some differing types of caches as well and had a few DNFs.
The tails are on well defined and surfaced track so are great for bike riding. And no real hills! A real bonus.
The day started coolish and humid, good for riding, but once we reached the dam wall trail it began to appear a bit bleak. We pressed on regardless, but only got half way through before the heavens opened and it began to rain quite heavily. Very unusual for this time of year the locals tell us!
We decided to abandon the trail at this time and returned to the car getting thoroughly soaked by the time we got there. At least we weren't cold though.
Hopefully weather permitting we will be able to return and complete the series before we move on.
Our thanks to the local COs for their work on developing the caches. It is most appreciated.

Very easy find

Dnf
Too overgrown to walk there.

TFTC. Nothing like a good old bush bash.

Bit of a Bush bash in very long wet grass, but had cache in hand soon enough. TFTC. Photo of log.

Nice hide

After fighting through the jungle it was an easy find.

I don't know how Rothy missed this one. It was on the ground in the open, 1m away from where it was supposed to be. It has been returned to it's spot.
Happy hunting.

A quick find with this one.
Thanks for the cache!

Couldn’t find it

Found it!

We followed the geo trail but did need to go a little further than gz. Tftc

Tftc Geocaching Townsville,

Found while having a walk beside the river , watching the water ski boats going past

Quick one thanks for hiding and giving us a reason to explore this area.

Nice one.

Nice hidden spot but was a little worried about nope ropes. TFTC

On our bikes this morning second day on the trail, doing the bottom end.


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TFTC GeocachingTownsville

Day 5 Townsville.
Another day on the bikes doing the RRPT with the Snakepitters.
A mixed bag of hides, some very difficult ones. A nice ride along the river side.
Thanks for placing this amazing series GeocachingTownsville

Not to hard

Not to hard. GPS a bit off

GPS bit of

Grass to high. But did find it

ttfc

TFTC

TFTC

Wtf

DNF, will try again another morning

Tftc

Found with M0llydog

Tftc with Willow78929

Very overgrown. Finally found on the ground nearby. Replaced in the crack where we assume it should have been. Good adventure.

Ice tea from the coffee shop across the road and quick duck across the intersection. TFTC Burgo.

I actually didn’t find it but I’m just saying I did

Good find by the Geomom!

A nice find again with some geofriends

Found but didn't have a pen on me.

The geo-kid strikes again what an amazing geo cacher she will be, great help.

2/11/19

Found it! Jam-packed container full of stuff! T4TC

Thanks

Cool find! Needs a new log book

Very nice spot!

Found with jo_marnes 11/6/19

Riverwalk with the dog and some stops along the way

Off the beaten crack! Thanks for the hide and the finds with Hello Lucy 26!

Thanks

Found itTFTC

TFTC. The weather had turned a little and put paid to plans to be out on the river. Instead I took the geo-mobile to walk along the path from the Arts Precinct. Luckily it did not rain but it did drizzle on and off. Got muggles out of a couple but still ended with 7 trad and a puzzle cache. On my own a good walk of around 4K. Thanks to the cache owners for a good couple of hours entertainment. For the most part the caches were relatively quick finds.

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Yep thats what my knees do. Quick find, signed and replaced as found with some camo. Found a few of the muggle free caches along the rejuvenated Ross River power trail, thanks to those whomreplaced them. This section of the trail back to Riverways is in very good condition, and it was a lot cooler than the last walk, midday in November.

R quickly found cache. Thank you Townsville Geocaching for resurrecting this cache trail after the February floods.

TFTC ~ signed & replaced. Put log book in a plastic seal baggie with one of our little trinkets >>> George’s pet dinosaur a fun thing for the geo-munchkins to find!!

Tftc

Found with geokid LJB54 and thankful they were with us.

After arriving at GZ and searching where we were sure it was, almost gave up until LJB54 persevered and the cache came free.

Nice hide and a bit trickier than we first anticipated. Thanks for the effort in placing this one. TFTH TNLN

One of the trickier ones to find but worth it when we spot it

Preform tube was on the ground on arrival. Put back where it probably should be and camouflaged.

Found

Nice easy find

Found. Looks nothing like the photo.

Good hide, coordinates kept going silly..seen a snake slide off in front of us so be on look out..

Easiest one so far along this trail. Tftc

Found it

I enjoyed placing these with for the benefit of the Townsville Caching Community.
Happy to see the RRPT growing.
Claiming the find now that the FTF is gone.

Yes!!! FTF!!!
A nice bike ride this morning to grab the newly published caches. Thanks Townsville