Opal Mining Quilpie, Queensland, Australia
By KerryL62 and Quilpie Information Centre on 19-Jul-19. Waypoint GC8B1YG

Unfortunately there has been no response (or regular update) from the owner within the time requested and as per the original note this geocache has now been archived. If you wish to replace it please submit a new listing via [this link](https://www.geocaching.com/play/hide).Jingeri

G'day,This geocache appears to be in need of owner maintenance. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the geocache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 28 days) to prevent the geocache from being archived for non-responsiveness.If you require more time please be sure to **post a note** (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require. For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the listing and post a new note every 28 days to keep everyone up to date.Cheers,Jingeri----------[Geocaching Help Centre](https://www.geocaching.com/help/)[Geocache Hiding Guidelines](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines)

Area is now fenced off and is a shooting Range.

We searched for quite a while in all the usual spots but no smiley for us today. Thanks anyway KerryL62

I had a pretty good look for this one in the pile. I could not see it even when I climbed up on to the pile. However it had been raining quite a bit today and it was a bit slippery.Pity the last 3 finders had not removed it from the pile and placed it in a tree near by. It was obviously not in the initial location. By the comments over the last 12 months it would appear that the owner is no longer doing caching and the information center is unaware of geocaching. If I had found it I would have hung it in a tree nearby as it is only a matter of time and the pile will be burnt.However if the owner is still involved you need to do maintenance on this one.

As a few previous logs have mentioned, this area has been cleared and any vegetation is now in a huge pile away from GZ. The cache possibly needs a new home and a new set of coordinates.

To potch or not to potch! Found in the middle of the bushes that had been pushed up. Thanks to Tenkae for reaching in and bleeding

Arrived at GZ and saw what others had found, a large cleared area and a pile of folage to the side. Closer inspection if the folage revealed the tiny bison but reaching it turned into a bloody task. Log signed but this cache will need to be moved to a safer location or archived as there seems to be new plans for this area. Tftc

This needs serious location change as only a daredevil crazy could get there

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

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 really looks like the land use of this area has changed. We had a forlorn look at the pile of rubble, but did not have that miracle moment. I am sure it is time to retire this listing.

Thanks.
Albida

Extra DNF from me.

Area has been cleared. Don't bother

Ground zero seems to be over a fence signed as a shooting range. Must not be here anymore.

Looked for this one on our way in to town. The area at ground zero has recently been flattened out and all that’s left is a pile of trees and vegetation plus what was a Sign is now lying on the ground. We asked at the Information Centre if they were aware of the recent land clearing but the lady hadn’t heard of geocaching and wasn’t aware that the Centre was looking after the town caches.

Quick find while out for a day’s exploring and caching around Quilpie. 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.
Took a little while to find this tiny one.

**Found Wednesday 14-December-2022 at 15:52 Smiley #2052**

Annual Rogers Clan road trip throughout wherever the map takes up. Initial plan was Beaudesert, Nindigully Pub, Charlotte Plains, Bourke, Lightning Ridge, Walget, Hebel, Dirrabandi, then home. Unfortunately Bourke flooded so we ended up going Beaudesert, Nindigully Pub, Charlotte Plains, Charleville, Quilpie, Thargomindah, Yowah, Cunnamulla, Nindigully Pub home.

We didn't grab every cache, instead targeted selected ones for a reason or just to break up the drive. Thanks to QOGM there's what feels like literally millions.

Nice simple find, thanks for the information centre putting the efforts in for this

Cache logs are either stamped, signed with Rogersclan13 or just RC13 for space. Thanks for the cache **KerryL62 and Quilpie Information Centre**

Rogersclan13

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 adventure lab on the way in, found some caches, finished the lab, and found some more hides, before looking for this one ... currently the last one in town.
Found the right access, and wandered over to the obvious, when Temingi found it nearby.
Signed as DDT, and replaced
All good here
Thanks for the cache.
Now to have a look at the nearby Earthcache

TFTC! 28 September 2022 1:18:47 pm 3508
Thanks for the cache. Found on our day trip to Quilpie.

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.

After attending the Cooladdi event this morning, Snickersallan, Imbunda and I are going on adventure to Quilpie and maybe Windorah trying to grab a few more LGA's and caches.

Stopped to search for this one and made a quick find.
Signed log as team SIP, returned as found.

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. 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 #11372

Caching Charleville in a convoy to Cooladdi for the local event for QOGM 2022 and whipped across to do some Quilpie caches with muggle mates Pat & Carol.

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 # 9009

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 ??

11284 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1040 in company with Nana Nel and wazza9 on our drive around Quilpie. SL TnxKerryL62 and the Quilpie Information Centre
The container is now a micro.

FFTC found on a trip to Thargo with IAMSO
Another on my map
Another nasty nano

Rather obvious eventually lol

Thanks to previous comment we were able to drive straight to it.
TFTC

Tftc took a bit of driving to get to it.

It’s actually MICRO - possibly the smallest cache I have found. TFTC with @Patogenic

Take the back road and you’ll be able to drive right up to it

Found with @Pattos2020

This is definitely the tiniest cache I’ve ever seen, TFTC

Took us a while to find our way in to this one.

Having battled against the Big Bash traffic yesterday, more fools us , we decided to have 2 nights out on The Lake. After a very lazy start to the day we headed to town so I could pick up all the caches here.
It turned out to be a very successful day as all caches were found and signed. Thanks to "all" the COS for giving us something to do on our "quiet" day.

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

27/6/22

No such luck, wanted us to go beyond the locked gate.

Cheers, "Bulba's"

Found at 3:59:00 PM(t) GAFF2.
That one took a lot longer than we thought it should have as we were looking for a "small", but eventually found that it was actually a nano! Makes it hard when the description is incorrect.
Is this area an opal fossicking location?
Thanks KerryL62.

Awesome little spot tucked away,
A round about way to get to gz
But we managed to find our way, and sign the log
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.

This country has its
Dangers and secrets, avoid
Them like desert snakes.

Tftc

Took a bit to find a way in to GZ but we managed in the end. Once there it then took a bit of a hunt to find the cache as we were looking for a small rather than the tiny micro that it is. The colour gave it away in the end. TFTC KerryL62

Enjoy with DeafPhantom, DeafCat and DeafVW TFTC

Found it with Deaf group
Nice rest area

Thank you for the hide. Logging with DeafCat, Deafphantom and DutchAus

Awesome with DeafPhantom DutchAus DeafVW

Gate was closed and locked.

FINALLY found our way to the appropriate area. Then, a police car came up the road, unlocked a gate at the back, and took off again. We still hadn't found it when he came back again. Mrs close-by concentrated her search where she knew it had to be and hey presto! There it was. TFTC

21/09/2021 12:01:00


Managed to head out west for a few days and managed to find a few cases
Thanks for the cache

On a caravan trip with Tbu1bikesu to QOGM Cunnamulla, we stopped in Quilpie.

We took our time to visit the points of interest and getting some smilies.

Tftc KerryL62 and Quilpie Information Centre

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

We found the cache and signed the log.

Tftc KerryL62 and Quilpie Information Centre

Was looking at the sign daughter found nearby

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 Quilpie Information Centre

Found on 26th. Obviously forgot to log. TFTC KerryL62

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. The cache was found in good condition when widening the search after being distracted by another potential hiding spot. Thanks for the cache KerryL62 and Quilpie Information Centre!

Great spot to waste time

First we found the cache and then we looked for some opals.
We found some potch pieces.
TFTC

Nice gent showing me some opal when I got near GZ. So I got a cache and a couple of sample rock/opal. Here for the Outback Qld Masters Golf. Yesterday I caddied but today I’m caching. Trying to get as many as I can today. TFTC

Please disregard my last comment as I gained access via the council road
TFTC

This is a great area for noodling opal bits and pieces
Easy access
Mile high RnC

The area is now a NO GO ZONE

No longer open to publuc

Thanks More like a micro.

Just tried to get to this one, seems all new fencing around it, not gain to jump barbed wire look angry lol

Neat little cache, we nearly missed it

It took a while to work out how to get to this cache. At GZ I fixated on the obvious spot, as usual. When I found nothing I cast my net further afield and had success. Nice hide.

Had me a bit fooled then went in the right direction should rely on gps rather where I think it could be! Tftc

Out Quilpie for work and decided it was time for some site seeing and why not some caching as well while out in this gorgeous part of the world. So day trip it was. this little guy had fallen from it's home I suspect, so put back to safety. Great little cache.

Thankyou - log only take pen

Out on our bikes for a look around Quilpie and to find the many wonderful caches here. TFTC

TFTC - found with rainygirl74

Found with Dozenmater TFTC

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.

Well that snake info board does not fill me with confidence... almost 50% in the very bad category. TFTC!

This cache was on the list for us to collect while passing through on Day 5 of our geotrip to outback QLD. We took note of the snake info, signed the log and left (having being spooked by the snake info!).
There was a family nearby fossiking but it was way too hot for us to attempt any opal discoveries today! TFTC

An interesting place to explore and great to see some people hard at it here taking their chance.

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.

Tfgc

Another quick find with Gem-54 in the rain. Logged cache and replaced as found. TFTC

Yep go another great find .. p.s. still raining.

TFTC, all is good out here.

Found it and hopefully found our fortune too

Tftc

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 quick find as I passed through Quilpie.

Thanks KerryL62 for the cache.

Arriving in town this afternoon, quick find, stamped log and replaced. Thanks to KerryL62.

TFTC Kerry,
We are enjoying our escape from NSW and today picked up our last 2 Council areas in this part of Queensland.
We spent some time talking at the Tourist Ifo Windorah and they would love to get into QOGM in years to come.
Once again, thanks for so many caches in Outback Queensland.

Found new cache container. With X&S.

Have replaced cache. BYO pen.

The Lady at the info centre said the rig this hide was attached to has been towed away

Thanks anyway

Didn't find a cache, didn't find an opal

Dnf

Easy find TFTC

Wrightbros86

After visiting a nearby earthcache, I headed to this one. Pity it was getting late, as I would have liked to have explored this area a little more. The cache was quickly located and the log signed. TFTC

An instant find, the last before we left town.

Easy find tftc