Look, there's a fire in the distance Queensland, Australia
By Newcacher#2 on 19-Jul-19. Waypoint GC8AZJ3

Tftc

Found it during our trip to Airliebeach. TFTC m-u-t

Thanks for the cache at this nice location!

Deze in samenwerking met Laurens93 gelogd.

Found this one while out exploring the Burdekin region. Although the GPS was out (7 metres) was a pretty quick find. TFTC

Well taken care of, beautiful spot!

Finished another long trip around Australia. The 6th. Next up to Townsville to grab the Palm Island LGA. Only 2 LGAs to complete Australia.Firstly heading back south for some Canberra time.TFTC. After a rather strange and eerie night in Ravenswood we again tried to get lots of kms done. Well... only made it 150km to Bowen.Lots of great stops and scenery.Great to finally get to the top of this mountain. Awesome views.

Found it. ops is a bit off, and mozzie were insane!

10091 - 14:05Together with team IkZie.A park and grab stop.Thanks for the cache

Together with team Saturnus on tour through Australia. Cache was quickly found. TFTC

Thanks very much for putting a cache here. Great view.I balked a bit at the T rating but otherwise found it quickly.It's in good condition.

frmen1 and I were driving south when we saw the sign re the lookout. Pulled over and checked...there's a cache up there. We made our way up slowly and were surprised how busy it was up there. The views are breath taking. GPS was spinning around near gz, sending us this way and that, then frmen1 spotted the container peeking out of it's hidey hole. FYI...mozzies don't normally bother with me- I must have bad tasting blood. At gz though I was nearly carried away by them! They were all over me! Told frmen1 to stay near the fence as he's very sensitive to their bite. Signed the log between slaps (got three in one go on my leg lol) and returned with a bit more cover. Got out into the open and scraped them off my body and clothes. Even had one stuck in my hair, struggling to get out. All in all, the views were worth the bites. Fav pt given TFTC

GPS was off by a couple meters. Not sure if that was just a personal issue or an issue with the coordinates. Tftc!

TFTC, beautiful view, thanks for my 100th find!

TFTC!

A very nice and well maintained lookout!Thaks for showing me! Georode

Very cool Kanye

TFTC

Great one for the kids

Thanks for the cache very nice view

Thank you! Awesome hide

Found but log wet

Cute stop to stretch our legs between Mackay and Townsville! Great quick find for my little man! TFTC

Found while on our adventures across 3 states, WA, NT & Qld for several months. Thanks for bringing us here We're on out way to Airlie Beach

Great find Clue helps

Found it on my Road trip cairns to central Queensland
Plenty of hungry mozzies didn’t have anything so took nothing, signed the cache.
Lid is cracked returned it upside down
Tftf

Me and my mum were climbing up in Mt Inkerman hill until I thought that there may be a Chache here so then we looked and we found it

Thanks to all my boys

Found 11:08 17/8/2023. Great views. Can see for miles. Thank you Newcacher#2 for the cache and bringing me to this location.

Apologies for the late log here (07.01.24) but I've had a busy time since getting back to the UK.I remember this for the angry man who parked in the middle of the road coming up, forcing me to almost put my Yaris in a ditch to pass him. He yelled at me to slow down (I could've stopped my car in front of his, but decided that wouldn't help us pass each other) while I inched past his 4x4 and I did wonder if he wasn't over-reacting to something that (apart from his position in the middle of the road) was a long way from disaster. People eh?Anyway, the cache: Nice views, good info, quick find when I followed my caching nose. Appreciated the loos up here too TNLN-TFTC!SP (UK) on an epic trek right around the world.

Top spot. Cache is slightly damp. But the mozzies are very friendly
G1

We did see a bit of smoke in the distance, and the information on site explained why. Great outlook from up here. First we were a bit worried about the drive, but this is really no problem for a regular 2WD (at least not when you are used to driving in Austria ).
Tftc!

Day 13 of our NQ holiday & today we snuck out for a few more caches in-between family catchups... After checking out the lookout which has been updated since our last visit, we wandered over to make the find here

Thanks for bringing us back here Newcacher#2, & TFTC

Great little find

found will log later

Easy to find. Directions spot on

Thanks for the find. Exactly where it was supposed to be

Found this cache on a Mackay caching trip. TFTC SL

This cache fascinated me for quite some time as I always figured the views must be great. But for some reason I always figured the drive up to the top would not only be steep, but also via a washed out dirt road of some sorts. Turns out this couldn’t be further from the truth. The road is well maintained bitumen and although the sign says it’s a 30 degree increase, my Troopy handled it easily in very low gear with steady slow pace. Finding the cache was no problem either despite the heat of the day. So it was great viewing the fields from above and feeling the nice breeze. Thanks for placing it up here, gorgeous area. Additionally, this is a great cache size with this matrix combination. Now I only have to make it down again without rolling into the next field.

It has been quite some time since I explored the general Burdekin region. Numerous years ago we stayed in town overnight, did a dive at the SS Yongala and enjoyed the little town a little more before continuing further. Since that time we usually only rushed through to leave as much bitumen behind us as possible with the aim of exploring locations down south. Also a few more wet visits at the Yongala followed, but all of those were made via liveaboars.
But not this time. This time I specifically took the time to enjoy the area. Well, and what better to do than searching for all these great new caches that have fairly recently been added to the map. Thank you very much Newcacher#2 that you have created this cache and showed me the area! Much appreciated.

Back in April could not find it driving past it and remembered to log it

Found this one a little difficult but did it. All the way from the US

Wonderful view nice easy find

Great find

Great view

TfTC

A nice place to stop on an otherwise long and somewhat boring drive to our next holiday destination. Thanks, Edwin

Beautiful lookout! Thanks for bringing us up here! TFTC

Easy find after a very steep drive to the lookout. Well worth the visit even though it is cloudy and hazy today. Thanks for the Cache.

Tyftc

Stopped for a stretch of the legs and thought we’d check any nearby caches. Quick find. TFTC

Well he had decided to ride our bikes up, but my bike had other ideas with a flat tyre. Well that just left walking up. So we got a few more refreshments as was going to take longer and off we set. There are quite a few steps but was a nice walk. Arrived at the top and thought there was another geocacher going to look for it but after looking at the view and having some fruit. I was off to find it. A nice quick find. I didn't see a date for today on the page I signed (i obviously think most people walking round with there phone and looking at it must be geocaching, what else do you do with phones )
TFTC

Great Northern escape 2022 Day 98. Ayr Day 2. I went a bit South today, Home Hill and the Burdekin bridge and two coastal villages. There is some very interesting country and WWII features in the area to visit.

I know I have been up this hill before, I am not sure if it was for the lookout or a cache. It is an amazing place to visit, well worth stopping. The cache was found without any issues today.

Thanks for the cache Newcacher#2

36860.3 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2009 Australia Wombat Gold 3 A#165

**Albida**

Found on today. Thanks for the cache.

Nice easy cache at a beautiful spot. Love all the work Rotary has put in

This cache wasn't on my list of caches to find, but when I saw the road to the top, I thought why not, and up I drove. Very steep! I quickly found the cache and signed the log. Cache and log are good. Favourite point. TFTC Newcacher#2.

Thanks for the cache

Nice spot for Paragliding

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird. I’ll leave the more interesting & detailed log to Mrs Geo (aka: SeasonedBird, Salty Chook, the Old Boiler, Old Chook, Dirty Bird, Angry Bird & occasionally even Love Bird) because she writes so much more eloquently than I and usually has much more time to do so while I’m driving. It’s a great day for caching. TFTC Newcacher#2
Find #10130

Spending some time as caching tourists today, lives the hill climb (in the car ) and can imagine how impressive the cane field fires would be from this amazing vantage point.

Thanks to CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot with stamp

TFTC Newcacher#2

Find # 7777

The Mega has been and gone and we had a ball. We've decided to hang around for a while and find as many caches as we can before we turn south for home.
Cheryl found this one while I watched Buddy the geodog. A poor chap who was following me up the hill had radiator issues when he arrived at the car park he lost all of his coolant due to his cap not being screwed on correctly. Luckily there was ample water available nearby.

A great geocache with outstanding views from up here so I'll give it a favorite point.

Thanks Newcacher#2 for placing this cache.
Cache number 7463 on 28 April 2022

We have started our return journey after the Mega event in Townsville.
Our 1st stop is at Home Hill just an overnighter here.
The trip today took us to 2 mountain tops, which had stunning views of the area.
This was the cache of the day, 360degrees views, the Rotary Club has done an amazing job here.
FP given
Thankyou Newcacher#2 for placing this cache.

**This Cache:**

This was an epic cache, I really enjoyed the steep drive up here and the facilities at the top. Looks like it has had a fresh upgrade from the council recently!

Even better, I was the only person up here! Maybe the bad weather was a reason for that!
The cache itself was a quick find, I then did some exploring. I was pretty stoked to find my hometown on the directional plaque, I have seen many of these but this one might just be the furthest distance I have seen written for my home...... unless I saw one overseas.... but let's be real those ones probably said Sydney....

Thanks Newcacher#2

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**Today:**

Day 17 of my road trip, now heading back to Canberra from the Townsville Mega Event!

I left Townsville this morning, didn't have a plan of how far I was going to go but I only made it to Mackay. This was mostly due to the rain, which meant camping was off the cards so I had to pull up shorter than expected. I also didn't get moving until about 8:30am, and wanted to pick up just a couple caches in the "Saint" series before I left, as I never had time to do it! I got soaked, but luckily the rain only started when I was halfway through the ones I had hand-picked from the bunch.

Despite the wet weather I managed to find all the caches along the route that I wanted, including some extra ones in Mackay that weren't even on my list but the rain slowed down and they looked like they could be fun, which they were!

Thanks to all the CO's! Ended my day with my final cache find a little after 8pm!

After two bans.....its TFTC for me from now on

Very pleased there was the road up to the top, we did of course consider the walk up but sadly we had a plane to catch and not enough time to trek up! Still, the road was good and although narrow and steep was quite good. Great views, especially on the way back down and then of to the shop near the bottom for a nice cold drink!

Up to Townsville with GreyHams, timed well with a Mega and Maze and a lot of quality caching in the area to keep anyone busy for longer than the time we had! Counties were our primary focus, up to Cardwell and south of Mackay... a side trip out towards charters, we covered some distance in the 5 days away but saw so much.

Day 1 saw us arrive late in the day after a stop off in cairns, out towards Charters was a lovely drive with its drier scenery before back into the mega to catch up with friends and a Trivia night.

Day 2 was our Mega and Maze day. Lots of great quality and fun ALs on site, friendly people and a visit from the Mega's Easter Bunny for my chocolate egg! Even managed a refreshing squirt from a hose on one AL much to the amusement of those watching!!! Loved the escape room experience and then off north towards Cardwell for a little caching through more iconic north Queensland scenery.

Day 3 saw us walking the length of the strand, lovely historic area, lots of caching and great scenery to enjoy. A good solid morning in the area before boarding the ferry to Palm island, after the warm walk of the morning it was great to sit in the cold aircon with lunch, a cold drink and relax out on the water.

The visit to Palm Island was a beautiful location and very pleased to have had the opportunity to experience it. A calm relaxed trip across was a far contrast to the busy and rough trip back. Into the waves led to a wild and stomach churning bounce of the ferry as it made its journey back to Townsville, yet up top in the open wind and spray it was a wild and fun time!

Day 4 saw us driving south of Mackay for a letterbox trail. More iconic Queensland scenery as we drove, love all the cane fields, lush green and huge mountain ranges. The letter box trail was worth the drive, a lovely area and well put together and we even passed other Canberra teams along the road! Mackay offered lovely beach scenery, a step back into my childhood and a little adventure... plan 'F' payed off as it often does. The little town of Calen came to our rescue were the people were friendly and and the facilities and hotel worthy of stopping.

Day 5 and our last, the journey back towards Townsville with a few stops as we cached along, the heat kicked up a notch but the cars aircon matched it well! Up to Castle Hill and then our time was done and back to the airport and the trip home... Many thanks to the CO's for your caches that led us on another very enjoyable trip.

How the area has changed since my last trip up here.
Checked out the views
Left a TB that needs to move on
Heading home from Mega today.

TFTC

Found with rainforest cookie

This was a bit of an easy 4 star terrain find as we drove to the top.
We stopped and another cacher that had been waiting for people to leave approached and we found the cache together

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This cache was found as part of a trip with GoosenEgg and Stainless Steel Rat to Far North Queensland for the Townsville Mega. The trip started in Cairns and ended in Mackay, and allowed us to find some ripper caches inbetween.
We managed to complete some of the Breaking Bad cache series until we driven back to the car due to the heat, and the Saint and most of the book series. There were some good variety in both these series which kept them interesting.
One of the highlights (although a low light when removing the mud) was the walk on the salt flats outside Townsville to get the challenge caches
Another highlight was Magnetic island, where other than some great views, we managed to spot two koala's in the wild.
Thank you for placing and maintaining this cache that was part of our trip

A quick find here with a local cacher who was waiting out muggles when we arrived. Then of to check out the view, Wow!
Thanks Newcacher#2

A ten day mega trip was arranged with Stainless steel rat and Budgietas. We flew into Cairns and out of Mackay, with the majority of the time in and around Townsville. We found a huge variety of caches and although our find count was a little lower than we would have liked, some of the high D/T caches more than made up for that. I really appreciate the effort of the local COs and all the people involved in hosting the mega and associated activities. I enjoyed catching up with many of our caching buddies, and make some new ones too!
Thanks for a great mega trip!

The last full day of caching for us today as we collect some last caches in Townsville and then head South to Mackay for our flight home to Tassie in the early morning. we grabbed what we could but there is never enough time.

This was my first Mega trip in a while now, I had planned to go to the last one in Wangaratta but concerns about COVID made me pull out at the last minute. For this one it was a trip with BudgieTas and GooseandEgg landing in Cairns on the Sunday where we collected a few caches in the dark before driving down to Townsville on the Monday collecting a select few caches along our very indirect route.
While in the Townsville we made the best of our time collecting a few series of caches and searching for some of the older caches on offer, some with lots of favourite points or something we thought maybe a bit different, along with all that we got to go to all the Mega events and meet up with cachers old and new, spending Thursday with Greg going round Magnetic Island and a bit of time with the Davinells who went out of their way to welcome the Tasmanians to Queensland.
All to soon it came to an end and we drove down to Mackay on the Monday again collecting caches along the way before flying home on the Tuesday Morning.
Thanks for the warm (sometimes too hot) welcome Queensland until next time!

Thanks for the cache.

Found on 18/04/2022 at 10:45:00 thanks to Newcacher#2 for placing this cache for me to find.

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We are staying in Bowen for a few days, and although this area was a bit of a hike north, we decided to do a day trip in the car and explore a number of places before heading back late this afternoon.
We had this on our list because we knew there would be spectacular views from the top and we were certainly not disappointed.
We found this one safe and sound and have added our name to the log.
Thanks Newcacher#2
Domsky

We are heading up to the Townsville mega with micaparamedic, Geoturtle37 and Papi4506 chasing as many Adventure Labs that we can along the way.
After grabbing the Mackay one yesterday we headed to Proserpine to camp for the night.

After completing the Proserpine ad lab wpt this morning we were picking up caches on our way to Charters Towers.

We were all looking forward to doing this one and were hoping that we would get some decent views as well as a smiley. We pulled up to find one car here but the lady has just finished using the amenities and she left shortly after enabling us to start the search almost immediately. A quick search in the wrong spot saw one of the teams covered in green ants and it took a little while to get them all off with quite a lot of laughing and joking going on.
We then headed off to another location where micaparamedic located the cache in the first place he looked and then our names were added to the log and everything returned as it was..

We then went to check out the views which were great from the look out but even better when you start driving down the hill on the right hand side


To save room in the log we signed as "The Vics"
Thanks newcacher#2 for the nice sized cache hide/

Heading north on a pilgrimage to the Townsville Mega, stopping along the way to stretch the legs and find any interesting caches.

Wound my way up the tight track and was rewarded with a cracking view. Nice place to stop for lunch before continuing on.

Find #12287 @ 13:10
Thanks Newcacher#2 for giving us a reason to visit.

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An easy find while travelling north to the MEGA event. The view from this cache was tremendous!

Having a great time making our way to the Townsville Mega with Team Crackers, Micaparamedic and Geoturtle37.
The views up here are spectacular but the views on the way down were even better in my opinion. We were all looking forward to coming up here and to top off the views, we now have a smiley.
Thanks for placing the cache for us to find.

Team Crackers, Micaparamedic, Papi4596 and I are making slow progress towards the Mega in Townsvlle. We are having a fantastic time finding caches with a little bit of touristing in between. This was a fantastic place for a cache. The cache was found and the views admired.
Thanks for bringing us here with this cache.

Today’s plan was to make my way from Mackay and arrive in Townsville but nightfall. Caching along the way and grabbing a few important to me caches, lol. It is just a 3.5 hr drive normally however this drive will take me all day and some. I had to be ready for work in the morning so it was a day of find what I could. Some were stops to stretch the legs. I am sorry if I did not write a note below as some caches stood out and others I just do not remember. I signed the log and replaced the cache as I found it. Thanks for placing it here.

Awesome views all round here. While people were off enjoying the views, I took a trail to find the cache. Then I had some guy behind me following, I made out I was on a trail and he still followed, my decoy didn’t work. Turns out it was MeandDe, nice to chat some.

We're making our way north to the Townville Mega and paused here to check out the view. We may have to come back in cane season. It would be awesome to view the fires from here.

Thanks for find #3378
TNLN

9 m out. Shady. Worth the walk up, nice break from cycling north. Even a BBQ, PICNIC TABLE AND TOILET ON TOP.

Took TB

Found on a quick trip up to the lookout. We've passed Mount Inkerman so many times over the last six years and have often said, "One day..." Now we've been up there and seen how beautiful the view is, and how well kept the infrastructure is, we would like to come back for a BBQ or picnic some time.

Our middle daughter was heartbroken over a tiny snake that was lying dead on the path, so be aware that they are around while looking for the cache. It is an easy find, and we tried our best to replace the camouflage as we found it, but bits of the cache peeked through the gaps even at our best. We had to give up eventually because we were being eaten alive by mosquitoes (bring your mozzie spray!)

Thanks for the cache at this beautiful spot!

#237

On the way home from visiting our son in Townsville and had a travel bug that needed dropping off so chose this cache plus it is a place we said we should visit, great view's of the coast and surrounding areas, I would suggest some mossies spray as they tried to carry me off, you need to look around abuit as its not quite at the co-ords........oh nearly forgot you have to look out for all the crazy exercising muggles, you would be surprised how many want to climb the steps or walk the road...we drove up not that energetic.

Dropped of a travel bug to further his journey travel safe, Flip Flop (GS2TRM).

TFTC

22/12/21 Heading to Townsville for a cache holiday TFTC SL

what a lovely lookout and also a quick cache easy find tftc

I couldnt help but notice this hill as I drove along the highway. Then I spotted the turnoff to the lookout. I figured there would be a great view from the top, so I took the turn. Once at the top, I checked out the wonderful views. Then I thought to check the caching app. I was happy t see there was a cache nearby, so I headed to GZ. The cache was quickly located and the log signed. TFTC

Beautiful view quick grab

Found it good find no trackerbles good view

What a great road to drive up loved it….When we got to the top I thought I bet you they will be a Geo up here and guess what yes there is thank you for hiding it…Awesome views of the area

Found taking a diversion driving from Charters Towers to Mackay. Lookout has developed alot since we were here years ago, thanks for the cache.

Tftc - had a great view of a paraglider while grabbing this one. Took the trackable on an adventure.

Awesome fun find, great location and not too difficult

Saw fires, great view, road a lot better than last time in about 1992.

Found it with pippahicup

On the third leg of a GC trip with Drennostar, on our way to a wedding. Today we are heading to Townsville.
Amazing views from up here! I do not like heights and the drive up here was pretty terrifying - not looking forward to the drive down, to be honest.
Thanks for bringing us up here!

Back up here, have been at night watching the fires.
A very generous T rating
Thank you for hiding this geocache Newcacher#2

R

Found it with TBU1BIKESU on our caravan trip.

Tftc Newcachers#2

What a great nature trail. The views even on the way up just awesome.

We had been here before (on top like 16 years ago), but it was all upgraded!

Of course, we took the time to look for the cache.

Tftc Newcomer#2

As I was hitchhiking to Townsville today, I stopped briefly at Mt. In Inkerman for a cache and some splendid views. TFTC

Finally driving around here without the caravan and drove up to the lookout. Amazing views. Quick find. Tftc

Found today on the final leg of a much delayed, much desired journey up to visit our daughter in Townsville. There's been a few false starts and the car spent a couple of weeks sitting fully packed in the driveway waiting for word. It came and I went.

We've driven past here so many times on way up and down to visit the daughter, but always been on a timeline. Not today !

I enjoyed the steep drive up to the top, but was not prepared for the number of people I'd find there ! I wasn't expecting to be alone, as I followed another car up, but there were lots of people enjoying the view on this magnificent day.

After a quick hunt, there was the cache, in good order. Signed, returned and back to those views. Thanks for the cache !