Reference Trees Quilpie, Queensland, Australia
By KerryL62 and the Visitor Information Centre on 20-Jul-19. Waypoint GC8B0NF

Hid in plain sight

Kk

Thans for this tiny cache

What a great piece of history and a superb gnarled old tree. What a great site for a cache, thanks

Continuing on with my well earned 2 week break and after staying in Rochester, Hay, White Cliffs, Cunamulla, then Toompine for the night (after my very big detour due to lots of road closures) its time to head to Charleville via Quilpie.Some more caches that will break up the drive nicely and people often wonder why it takes me so long to get from A to B.The scenery never gets old for me around her and I love outback Queensland.Happy to not be towing the van as I can pull over anywhere I want.I have stayed in Quilpie before and there a few more caches here now.So a stop at the bakery and museum was called for then I was on my way.Lots of art to stop and look at as well.On my way out of town now and Im heading east and thanks for the lesson on reference trees that I had never heard of before.Geocaching just keeps on teaching.Thanks KerryL62 & Quilpie Information Centre TFTC.

Found it very tricky.TFTC

A quick easy find for this tricky cache. TFTC

We found your cache today 7 June 2024 9:49am , while enjoying another day in our beautiful countryside. TFTC KerryL62

Thanks for putting this one out to find. I have not found the one nearby as I only gave myself a set time. I did not put DNF there as I am certain it would still be there. The one at the old opal fossicking area is another donut. However so far I got all the others in the town.

A quick find on my way into Quilpie for the night. TFTC

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Day trip to Quilpie from Charleville. Spending a few days out here with other geo friends.

13131 Located by baby&Mrs gopher in company with Simba15 at 1120. SL Tnx KerryL62 and the visitor information Centre. Cache in good condition.

Woo hoo!!! Finally made it to my first ever QOGM, was so sad to have missed the earlier ones, but this one was great! Loved the musters and the creative activities. Sadly its now time to head back home. Taking a bit of a roundabout way to pick up a couple of extra counties; Barcoo, Quilpie and Bulloo that we missed on previous travels. So glad that we have made the trip it has been such an incredible adventure, full of amazing scenery and incredible wildlife! Great to be out travelling the countryside again with GLISS! Signed as G! NRC or our individual names. Thanks to everyone who has placed caches and enabled this wonderful adventure! It will certainly be one i will remember for many years. This was a very cool cache. I always like checking out places like this! Thanks for the cache!

Found with Nibletricecakes on the drive from Quilpie to Cunnamulla via Thargominda. TFTC

Sporn of Satan. Let’s go.

Found on a sojourn all around on the way to QOGM 2023. A fun jaunt with lots of dust, mud and starry skies.

Thanks KerryL62 and clear skies from TeamAstro. ️ Cache the planet! Thanks for the fun with Tenkae.

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SA’s Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. Keep looking up!

Nice blaze tree

Heading towards Longreach QOGM 2023,loving these outback trails, red dust, green foliage and blue skies!

Thanks KerryL62 for placing these caches, contributing to this great game for others to enjoy Happy trails, Deanside

We were only discussing blaze trees yesterday so it was great to see this one today. We're on our way to Longreach for QOGM and making a few detours to explore the outback. Tftc

32,669. Found during our Queensland Outback GeoMuster (QOGM) 2023 Longreach Adventure - a 33 day epic tour of Northern NSW and Outback Queensland finding many caches, attending great events and catching up with awesome Cachers along the way.Queensland Outback GeoMuster (QOGM) 2023 Longreach Adventure Day 9. Well the trip was well and truly underway. I have never been to a QOGM before, and since this was the last one I decided to head up there for the fun. Having basically cleaned out the Charleville region we are now heading to Quilpie for a few days. A new County for me Today we headed up to Adavale and Lake Dartmouth. This was the next find of the day. A quick find once at GZ. Signed the log, usually as F65 A33, replaced the cache as found, then we continued on our journey.Thanks KerryL62 !!

QOGM 2023 Longreach Day 8. Quilpie Day 1. Driving from Charleville to Quilpie via Cooladdi. Fitzy_1965 and Albida33 are on our trip in early spring to Longreach. With no caching left to do in Charleville, we packed up and started west. With plenty of stops along the way, but the best was at Cooladdi where had a good look around and a late breakfast. On to Quilpie, where despite the rodeo and show being in town we were able to get a site at he caravan park. The afternoon was spent visiting the various caches around town, and even doing a bit of maintenance where required and possible.

It is always good to have some of the history of the land pointed out, so it was well worth the stop here today.

Thanks for the cache KerryL62

44110.1 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2012 Pirate A#226

**Albida**

Wow. Nano. I'm so happy

Find it and sign the log as EV, and thanks for the cache and hunt.

Cute little find. Closed in shoes would be a bonus. tftc

Great cache and interesting piece of history. TFTC. SL

Quick find while out for a day’s exploring and caching around Quilpie. An interesting piece of survey history. TFTC

A trip to Perth checking out some of the awesome places along the way in ACT, NSW, outback Qld and NT. Grabbing some old caches and missing LGAs. TFTC.
Lol. Not the type of container that I was expecting.

Found this cache as part of the Queensland Outback Geocaching Muster (QOGM) 2022 events Container was found and replaced as found.

Thank you for the cache placement and maintenance
Thanks for the Hunt
Thank you for taking 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 1/2

Found this cache with T1NY96, Captain Monkey 96, Princess 1005, DFC_JLK2019, Muff1, The Green Geckos, Muggle65, GeoHoppe and DngrCat

Found this cache as part of the Queensland Outback Geocaching Muster (QOGM) 2022 event
And was found and replaced as found.

Thank you for the cache placement and maintenance
Thanks for the Hunt
Thank you for taking 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

Found this cache with T1NY96, Captain Monkey 96,
DFC_JLK2019, MummaBear66,The Green Geckos, Muggle65,

Firstly I will appologise for the boiler plate log. This does not take away from all the effort that the QOGM placement team and other geocachers have taken to ensure that we have a fantastic QOGM.

This log covers from around the 20th September to the final day of QOGM the 2nd of October, 2022. We attended many events and found untold nuimbers of caches that included puzzles, multi's, Whereigo's and AL's. We made new friends and caught up with old friends, both locals and geocachers. The meals that we had at two of the events where out of this world, such that we cannot give them a star rating as we do not have enough stars. At the final event their was so many prizes, we feel that you whould have been very unlucky to leave this event without something. This year we were not able to team up with our usual cohorts and were invited to join another group who were fun, enthursatic and well organised. It was very different for us to not be the driver. We look forward to hopefully attending next years QOGM in Longreach. SL TFTC

Gotcha !!! Caching with Dandent at QOGM2022 TFTC

At QOGM 2022 with Temingi
Now that the festivities are over ...
And we are staying another night ...
But all the Charleville caches have now been found
Taking a drive out to Quilpie, the closest block of caches Temingi hasn't found.
Started the new lab
Then started on the ones in town.
This was a bit different too
All good ... now to continue the run around town.
Thanks for the cache.

TFTC! 28 September 2022 3:05:21 pm 3514
Thanks for the cache. A big day drop out from Charlesville.

A great but long day had out in the countryside driving to Cooladdi and then onto Quilpie, a place I had never been to before. Our group of three signed all logs as Team SIP (Snickersallan, Imbunda & patrol14)

Thanks KerryL62 and the Visitor Information Centre for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

11.37am
After attending the event at Cooladdi today Snickersallan Imbunda and I are going on an adventure to Quilpie and maybe Windorah if we can make it.
Had to stop here to find this cache. Log signed as team SIP. Clever hide. A fav point from me.

During QOGM22 Team S.I.P. (Snickersallan, Imbunda and Patrol14) headed west to attend an Event at Coladdi then further afield to see what caches we could find.
Nicely found, log signed and cache replaced as found. FP given. TFTC

Day 3 of my outback travels and the continuation of my Queensland Outback Geocaching Muster for 2022. As a continuation from last year’s event and a very successful team collaboration of Willis007, Jacs Team, Triple turmoil and myself; we continued with the team again for this year. We have worked hard in getting to a point where we can just jump in a car, go, and have fun for the day. There are lots of laughs and repetitive jokes seems to be the call for each day.

Today was a drive to Cooladdi for an event and then a drive to Windorah via Quilpie. Yep a 12 hour day of driving, collecting some LGA’s and a few caches along the way. We left the event and set off on our mission. Ticked off a few personal goals along the way; a couple of extra LGA’s, another couple of earth caches and a few extra caches in the haul. With time pushing we just made it back in time for the last dinner bell at the pub.

Thanks for the caches and the travels out here today.

Found as an early bird for QOGM - Charleville 2022. On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird (aka Mrs Geo, Salty Chook, the Old Boiler, Old Chook, Dirty Bird, Angry Bird & occasionally even Love Bird). It’s a great day for caching.
TFTC KerryL62
Find #11378

Caching Charleville in a convoy to Cooladdi for the local event for QOGM 2022 and snuck over to Quilpie to catch up with friends and take them caching around town. Amazed this tree is still largely in tact so many years after it was carved.

Thanks KerryL62 for taking time to set out and maintain this hide and for showing us this very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot with stamp

Find # 9013

Found while on a mission with JacsTeam and Chamad, Patrol14, Snickersallen and Imbunda. Signed as CV's. Out west for QOGM at Charleville and on our way to Windorah, chasing an LGA.

Found this cache as part of the Queensland Outback Geocaching Muster (QOGM) 2022 event Container was found and replaced as found.

Thank you for the cache placement and maintenance
Thanks for the Hunt
Thank you for taking 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 1/2

Found this cache with T1NY96, Captain Monkey 96, Princess 1005, MummaBear66, Muff1, The Green Geckos, Muggle65, GeoHoppe and DngrCat

On the way to Charleville we took a detour and found a few caches. Thank you for the fun ??

Thanks for the history. The wind today made unrolling and logging a tad difficult.

Lucky the ants weren't near log today TFTC

Found but it’s literally covered in fire ants so didn’t write in log book - beware! With@Patogenic

Found with @Pattos2020
Didn’t Log in book because cache is covered in fire ants.

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Yes, I have to agree with a previous logger that the cache has numerous guardians. It was however an easy find a cautious retrieval and return of the cache once the log had been signed. TFTC
Noticed the meaning of the cache name as we drove off. Thanks for drawing it to our attention.

A great trip over to Queensland.
Was able to put a few smileys on the map.
This was one of them.
Now catching up with logging them with five minutes on the computer.
TFTC

Found at 3:06:00 PM(t) GAFF1.
Wow - what is happening here! A huge ant colony was living in this tree and also used the home of the nano as a refuge! Tricky getting the nano out without getting these weird black and red ants all over us!
btw - was that ring a Stock Route Marker?
Thanks KerryL62.

Travelling homeward bound to Busselton from the Townsville Mega, how lost can we get?
It’s been 2 months since the CacheQld mega and we are still in Queensland, that’s still a long way to go to get home to WA
But the fun bit is, finding all these geocaches along the way.
No matter where we park our caravan for the night, it’s always an exciting day to see this great country through the eyes of the local geocachers.
Thanks to all the COs for showing us your favourite spots along the way.
TFTC

Found it thanks.

Another good cache found with woolwood9.
*Enjoyed the drive / walk around.*
SL **tm/ww NZ** ????
*Thanks for the fun find!
Really appreciate the effort put into this cache.* ????

Log full

Easy find and when I’m very glad we stopped to do it was great to see this tree still with us original mark on it although I’m not sure for how many more years that tree will be alive looks like it’s been infected by ants pretty bad

Faint traces of those
Who passed this way when it
Was wilder than now.

Tftc

What an interesting find! Log is absolutely completely full unfortunately. TFTC KerryL62

Found it with Deaf group

Enjoy with DeafPhantom, DeafCat and DeafVW TFTC

Awesome with DeafPhantom DutchAus DeafVW

Great cache logging with DeafCat, Deafphantom and DutchAus

Nanos, don't you love them. Tftc

Found today, with a full log sheet, so signed with "V". Didn't have a replacement log so dropped into the visitor information centre to let them know and the lady who does the cache maintenance had the day off work. Hopefully, a message will be passed on.
TFTC

After enjoying the Bullooo River Walk and breakfast by the river, We drove out to get this cache. TFTC

Love that this cache brings you to an actual location with a story and is not just a magnetic might tin on a guard rail. Nice bit of history here! TFTC

Logbook full. We signed on spot No. 35. Don't have such a small replacement.

A fav point.

On the way to QOGM Cunnamulla we made a little detour. Caching with Tbu1bikesu.

Tftc KwrryL62 and Quilpie Visitor Centre

As hubby said, we are on the way to QOGM in Cunnamulla.

We found the cache and signed the log which is overflowing. Squeezed TBU on place 35

Tftc KerryL62 and Quilpie Information Centre

Great spot

Full time nomads since 2013. Still tootling around the country trying to avoid Covid hotspots.

Touring Quilpie and Adavale today using Geocaching as our guide.

TFTC KerryL62 and the Visitor Information Centre

Found while visiting the Quilpie region A quic find. TFTC

NEF TFTC

Found while traveling on my 'Quest to the Cape' trip from Adelaide to the northern tip of Australia on Cape York Peninsula. The plan was to tour along the Strzelecki Track to Innamincka, out to Noccundra and through Quilpie, Blackall, Barcaldine, Hughendon and Ravenshoe to Cairns, then out to Weipa and up to the top. I ended up staying at Quilpie overnight in a free camping area at the eastern end of town. Thanks for the cache KerryL62 and Quilpie Information Centre!

Don’t get bitten

Thanks co. Great find. Couldn’t open but took photo.

Here for the Outback Qld Masters Golf. Yesterday I caddied but today I’m caching. Trying to get as many as I can today. Favourite from me for the pure simplicity of the container and hide. TFTC

It was quick find as there weren't many places to search. However it took us some time to get the container open and even longer to extract the log - but eventually we succeeded. Our first find on a trip out west. TFTC

Most unexpected little beauty
Little being the operative word as we could not extract the log
TFTC

Thanks Couldn’t get the log out but got photo.

That is an innovative cache. TFTC

Heading into Quilpie to refuel, I decided to check out this cache. It is very sneaky but I got lucky and found it quickly. Great spot for a cache.

TFTC

TFTC!

That was sneaky creative - thanks Log only take pen

Thanks for showing this interesting history. TFTC

Found with Dozenmater TFTC

TFTC - found with rainygirl74

Day 5 of of a Queensland road trip with EatSleepCacheRepeat and JACS Team - Big day of driving today - Charleville to Cunnamulla via Quilpie and Targmomindah. Just collecting any cache that got in our way.

Good information on what a reference tree was. TFTC!

This cache was on the list for us to collect while passing through on Day 5 of our geotrip to outback QLD. A quick find at GZ despite its tiny size!

Next stop and to my surprise my parents were the FTF on this cache. Adding a fav point just for the novelty of it.

We enjoyed the variety of caching. Good hides and a little challenging. Our thanks to KerryL62 for placing this cache and enhancing our enjoyment of the area.

We found it it's a wee one tftc

Great location. Enjoyed this one. Signed log and replaced as found. TFTC

TFTC, all good here.

Yes found it could only fit the date of my stamp

I decided to take a break from cold Adelaide and head north to warmer climes for a month or so. The (loose) plan is to travel up to Innamincka then into western and central Queensland camping along the way. Where I go and how far north I get will depend on how distracted I get along the way and how hot it gets.

Last night I camped at a great little spot south of Eromanga. From there it was on to Quilpie, Adavale, then half way up to Blackall, retracing some of my travels from a couple of years ago and finding some new caches that had been put out since.

This was a really interesting bit of history.

Thanks KerryL62 for the cache.

TFTC,
We are moving on today and making a late start to get the available caches in town.
Had to look around to see it.

Picking up the local caches before moving East, quick find by Wazza9, stamped log and replaced. Thanks to KerryL62

TFTC what a great piece of history - thank you!

Yep got it. What a beauty almost missed it. Thanks

TFTC Kerry L62,


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Once again thanks for the cache.

Brett and Judy.

Continuing my Outback adventures after QOGM, I had spent the night in Quilpie. After finding a nearby cache, I headed to this one. This cache was quickly located and the log signed. TFTC

Well I was not expecting to find one of those out here. Easy find thanks.

What a prick haha

TFTC