Burdekin Historical #3 Ayr, Queensland, Australia
By Newcacher#2 on 22-Aug-19. Waypoint GC8CGQM

No response from the owner within the time requested and as per the original note this cache has been archived. If you wish to replace it please submit a new cache via [this link](https://www.geocaching.com/play/hide).

Ministro - Matt

Hi Newcacher#2,

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 28 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

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Ministro - Matt

Unfortunately a string of DNFs here tonight. The bushes looked very well trimmed with little space to hide anything near the locations.

Looked under every bush and came with nothing

Looked under the dead logs and all the bushes did not find. Next time.

??DNF Looked with 2Shadows for this one but couldnt locate it.

Dusty

Grey Nomads travelling around Australia - more recently, just Queensland, and of late, Airlie Beach to Ayr & Home Hill. Arrived Home Hill, planted the geo-van and set off for a drive around HH and Ayr with my Garmin showing me the way. Some we found, some we didn't.

This was one we didn't. After checking out all the bushes (per the hint) we called it a day, and headed back to the caravan for a refreshing drink.

Looked everywher e for over half hoyr digging up the whole garden lol

Daughter found this one easily!

Quick one. Tftc

Inevitably on a long trip when many geocaches are being found, some get missed. Unfortunately, at the time, this was one of them. So, although out of chronological order, I am logging them today for simplicity. So my apologies for the generic log and the out of date sequence.

Our trip commenced on Friday November 28th and concluded on Tuesday December 22nd. During that time, we visited caches in Maryborough, Childers, Rockhampton, Yeppoon, Sarina, Mackay, Bowen, Townsville and Cairns, with other places in between like Proserpine, Home Hill, Ayr, Ingham to name just a few, with many wonderful single stop caches along the way.

Our party consisted of myself, hatzofff, grannysmith1947, and on occasion, youngoldfella.

Log signed and cache replaced as found. TFTC, Newcacher#2.

Day 21 and the start of our return road trip home from Townsville to the Gold Coast with hatzofff, grannysmith1947 and RoddyC.

I don't mind trains but I don't like dirt but I needed to be in it to find the prize today, thanks CO.

TFTC Newcacher#2
Found December 17, 2020

TFTC smile 8141 out and about with Hatzoff RoddyC Snickersallan and miss Millie geo dog having a great time I did log a did not fine needed help please, RoddyC was laughing, I could not see for looking had been digging the garden for 10 mins when they all came and I was down the wrong end of thegarden

Thank you, Newcacher#2, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

DNF

Thank you, Newcacher#2, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Day 21 on our return journey from our northern adventures with RoddyC, Snickersallan GrannySmith 1947 caching south to wards home.

Nice quick find.

TFTC Newcacher#2

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Found and swapped

Found

Easy

5th for the day and realise I had pretty much backed into the hide. Headed over to the pub for a bev... looked very interesting. Thanks for placing these hides... what a beautiful little area this is...I only ever drive thru. #970

Gefunden

Looked and looked but no luck.

Nowhere to be found

A day around Ayr combining caching and running in my new bike.
355k done and another area cleaned out.
Thanks for placing these.

Geocaching with the GeoGrandkids when we were just about to give up when the 7 year old yells “Found it!” We will have to take them with us more often. TFTC

Thank you!

Took a bit of digging but found it, tyfc

To the right, to the right.
Good hide on a trip to Ayr for the day.

Tftc, easy park and grab

Got it with Team JLBL while exploring this nice town. Thanks

QRs waste of infrastructure is terrible. Perhaps Linfox will do something about it.

Cheers

Bundy

Found eventually a couple of meters from coordinates. Easy enough find on our way to Bowen for a caching weekend

Found with orth71 on a trip from Townsville to Bowen.
I think we made it harder than it should have been.
Nice hiding spot in a quiet area.
Muggles across the road gave us strange looks - but all good.
TFTC

A short stop over in Home hill with a visit to Ayr for some caching. Both are nice little towns with plenty to offer the passing through trade.


9756
TFTC Newcacher#2

Bowen to Home Hill, overnight at the showgrounds
Caching today with the Snakepitters.
Just a few caches to find in the local area.
Thanks for placing this amazing series Newcacher#2

Found - just after we replaced cache a train came past and honked its horn for the kids, they were so happy! TFTC

Found with Dozenmater TFTC

TFTC - found with rainygirl74

Although there was a couple of DNF's for this one, we decided to stop off and take a look and were quite surprised to find the cache safe and sound in its lair. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC Newcacher#2

dnf

17/7/20 1100am DNF Heading back to Mackay from an awesome holiday that included Geocaching.

Quick find by Mrs Blingg

TFTC

Found it with Geowife TBU1BIKESU on our way to Townsville.

Tftc

Travelling North from Moreton Bay to Townsville. Stopped here for a break and caches.

Tftc

Found, a few metres away from the original coordinates will put back closer

Nice DIDO. TFTC

Fast find ! Tftc

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TFTC

TFTC

We found this one in between rain showers and storms, boy are the road gutters full. Hubby was the one to find this cache and it is in good condition. L 3 TB's and T 1 x TB. SL TFTC

Orangery blossom

Haha good hide. TFTC

TFTC

Found after quite a search.
Thanks for the cache.

We had only planned to do the snake cache up the road but there were so many people there that we decided to move on and attempt this one. It was a few minutes search as the clue does not match up to where we eventually found it. Left it where we found it and dropped off a TB

We found our first one so happy!!

Visiting the Burdekin and noticed that there a few new caches since i was here last. Thanks Newcacher#2. The cache was not where the hint suggested but it was easily located

Was pretty obvious, but we overlooked this one. Not exactly where GZ is but within a few metres. TFTC

On the way from Townsville to Airlie Beach, during our holiday in Australia, we also found this cache! Thanks and greetings!

Taureau

Hubby had cache i hand before I could start looking. Quick easy find. T4T$

Found with lwell69: TFTC

Found with caltoto5 TFTC nice

Found by Mary and David at 10:20. No cars parked here at the time we visited, which was a surprise. While we were searching, a cattle train went by. We found the cache about 8m SE from our indicated GZ. Our thanks to Newcacher#2.

A quick find for OzGeoker.
Not at coords but close.

SL TFTC

I found it. It was very obvious and I camouflaged it to ensure it was out of sight from pesky muggles.

Found in an obvious spot and added camouflage so it would be a bit tricker to spot for future geocachers.

First find on a 3 day trip to Townsville from Mackay.
Had to expand search area, but it is within 10m of coords.
Thanks for placing this cache.

To start the new caching day,
I popped by the station at Ayr.
A muggle was waiting in their car in the carpark.
Waiting for what ??

I wandered over platform side,
and realised,
I could hear a train approaching fast !! [:o]

Into view from the south the 'Spirit of Queensland' slid to a stop
Out hopped another muggle,
and soon there was a muggle huddle [:o]
They took their sweet time before finally leaving

With the coast finally clear,
I had l look.
But couldn't find this cache [:o]

Booger !!

DNF Visiting Ayr from Townsville today... we found a couple neat hiding spots but no geocache today. Thanks for bringing us to Ayr Train Station... not a muggle in sight today on this sunny Saturday arvo.

Quick cache on a rocket run up and down the coast. Nice cache.

TNLNSL

Dipped TB's

The sneaky little hide had our group searching Found with the Phoenix Ferals and BenM70 while heading down to walk to the Bowen Lighthouse. TFTC Newcacher#2

Found with EatSleepCacheOnline and BenM70. A quick stop on our way down to Bowen Lighthouse.
TFTC

I though this one was pretty cheeky. Found with the Phoenix Ferals and EatSleepCacheOnline while heading down to walk to the Bowen Lighthouse

We ended up covering a fair area as the GPS just didn't know where it wanted to take us and going by the clue to start with we were probably looking a little lower then we should have been but we were on a mission and we have to admit we were a little surprise to find it sitting where it was. With all this wind around I'm not sure how long it is going to stay hidden.TFTC

Published

FTF . We were on a mission and not going to let this beat us. Due to being overcast we were getting put off by our phone GPS. This made it into a pure search of the whole area until the cache was located. This is a very busy main stretch of road due to it being the highway bypass. Although the pub looked very quite. TFTC