Old Crossing Alloway, Queensland, Australia
By youngoldfella on 31-Jan-20. Waypoint GC8JP27

TFTC. Seems I timed this one perfectly as the previous cachers left a path in the otherwise jungle of a trek to the cache.

I didn't like the scratchy long grass to this onetftc

Out with KabbellaQld tftc

Wheres a machete when you need one? The access to this cache gave a jungle exploration vibe as we traipsed through very tall grass, fought off lantana branches, stumbled over debris and finally made it to the largest cache container we have ever seen. Probably a wise choice as we dont like the chances of finding anything smaller in this exuberant undergrowth. Tftc.

We were here a few days ago and had no time to try for it. We did get some help to get this dune and dusted. The cache is there to be found.

I couldn't fins any access that didn't need a machete so gave it a miss.

Arrived at the parking spot and had a bit of a look around because I'm here by myself. I decided yeah, nah. Maybe another day.

Arrived at the parking spot and had a bit of a look around because I'm here by myself. I decided yeah, nah. Maybe another day.

Out with Muggle65 and Brislions tonight to find a few local caches. Of course we have a long list and a short amount of time.Thank you for the fun

Up for an event in Maryborough tomorrow via Bundy tonight and finishing up in Mitchelton Saturday afternoon. Easy find at GZ.

Hubby did the honours here wading through the very long grass. TFTC!

Brought back memories of the jungles of SE Asia. A bit of bush bashing required. TFTC

We parked up and figured the direction to GZ and avoiding the lantana were soon at the big bucket. All good with this one, log signed and replaced as found. We enjoyed the little detour here. Thanks youngoldfella. Fav from us.

Definitely recommend shoes and something to swap, lots of goodies

Found Ok

Found quickly

Together with my favorite geocacher Milonguera we traveled to Australia We went to Melbourne via Singapore and from there we explored the south, the center and the east coast.
We walked around Melbourne and had a nice meet & greet event. Than we visited Philip Island with the pinguins and the Great Ocean Road. We fed and petted kangaroos visited the koalas and continued north via Coober Pedy to Alice Springs. We hiked around the impressive Uluru and through the beautiful Kata Tjuta and breathtaking Kings Canyon. The gorges of the Macdonell-Ranges are nice too. We traveled north and than east to Townsville and Magnetic Island. From Airlie Beach we rafted to the Whitsunday Islands for snorkeling and swimming at Whitehaven Beach and took a seaplane to the Great Barrier Reef.
On the way south we visited the capricorn coast, Great Keppel Island, 1770, Bundaberg and Rainbow Beach.

Zusammen mit meiner Lieblingsgeocacherin Milonguera reise ich nach Australien. Über Singapur flogen wir nach Melbourne und von dort wollen wir mit dem Camper den Süden, das rote Zentrum und die Ostküste erkunden. Wir liefen durch Melbourne und trafen nette Menschen bei unserem Event, wir besuchten Philip Island mit den Pinguinen und die Great Ocean Road mit den 12 Aposteln.
Wir fuhren nach Adelaide, besuchten die Koalas und weiter gings Richtung Norden über Coober Pedy bis nach Alice Springs. Wir wanderten um den eindrucksvollen Uluru, durch die wunderschönen Kata Tjuta und den atemberaubenden Kings Canyon. Auch die Schluchten der Macdonell-Ranges sind sehr schön. Weiter gings Richtung Norden und dann nach Osten Richtung Townsville und auf Magnetic Island. Von Airlie Beach fuhren wir mit dem Raft zu den Whitsunday Islands zum Schnorcheln und Baden am Whitehaven Beach und flogen mit dem Wasserflugzeug zum Great Barrier Reef. Auf dem Weg Richtung Süden besuchten wir die Capricorn Coast, Great Keppel Island, 1770, Bundaberg and Rainbow Beach.

**Thanks for the cache!
Thanks for showing the location and for hiding the cache. You should come to Berlin in Germany to find a lot of interesting geocaches, visit lost places in the surrounding Brandenburg and meet nice people at many events.
I wish you a lot of fun and great adventures while searching for the next geocache!**

Ich bedanke mich bei youngoldfella für den Cache, das Zeigen dieses Ortes, das Legen und Pflegen der Dose und den Spaß beim Finden! Thanks for the cache!
Ich wünsche weiterhin viel Spaß bei der Suche nach den Dosen, nette Menschen beim nächsten Event und tolle Erlebnisse und Abenteuer beim Suchen und Finden!

Ohne tolle Owner wie Euch wäre das Spiel nicht möglich. Ich freue mich, wenn Ihr auch meine Caches in Berlin-Britz besucht. Neben der Hufeisensiedlung, die zum Kulturwelterbe der Unesco gehört, gibt es viele alte Bunker zu entdecken und die Baustelle der Autobahn A100 ist auch immer wieder interessant. Von der neuen Minna-Todenhagen-Brücke zwischen Baumschulenweg und Oberschöneweide hat man einen schönen Blick auf die Spree und kann nebenbei ein paar Dosen finden.
An Neumond lade ich zum Sternegucken auf die Berliner Berggipfel oder an astronomische Orte ein. In der dunkelsten Nacht zwischen den Vollmonden genießen wir den Blick auf die blinkenden Sterne und die funkelnde Stadt Berlin.

»Old Crossing« (2.5/3.5)
*Dies ist mein Cache Nummer 20128.*

Viele Grüße von XETRO aus Britz im Süden Berlins.

5 Wochen Australien -
heute von Bundaberg an den Rainbow-Beach
Danke an youngoldfella fürs Herlocken und Legen.

5 weeks Australia -
from Bundaberg to Rainbowbeach today
Tftc to youngoldfella

On a New Years getaway down from Townsville for a bit of Jolly Brolly Folly and some other targets as part of a catch up with Townsville’s finest DNFer Greencordial
Wasn’t just going to drive by a large letterbox in the scrub.
Thanks youngoldfella for this hide GC8JP27 Old Crossing. Cheers

Finding a few on the more odd cache types this morning
Good to come across a large container here

Thank you for hiding

Hi there youngoldfella, we found your cache Old Crossing today.

We started the day off by nominating a cache cluster in an area we would like to visit, and then took a route that was determined (mostly) by the next closest cache as determined by our GPS.

We thoroughly enjoyed our tour around the area and ended up finding a variety of container types, sizes and ratings.

Coordinate Accuracy: We found this cache where our GPS said we should be looking.
Cache Condition: Good.

Regards
Ian & Penny
(Found and logged using Cachly).

Avoided the lantana and took different track to the cache. All good here and log signed. TFTC

You have put out a lot of caches for our fun and happiness! Thanks a lot!

We are staying couple of days in Bundaberg as that is a beautiful place and a nice variety of different caches waiting for us.

Tftc Youngoldfella

We are on a caravan trip, exploring the area and collecting smilies!

Tftc youngoldfella

A great sized cache. Mrs SKI was relieved it wasn't as far up the hill as she had first thought!

We have moved on from Caboolture and wound our way north to Woodgate. Not much caching to be done but some relaxing time walking and riding along the beach and catching up with family.

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache youngoldfella.
**SKI Pair****

After battling the lantana we forged our way to GZ where we found the cache. We were attacked by the mozzies as we signed the log.

TFTC

Fabulous day for some caching! We were a bit worried about the fence then saw that GZ was nowhere near it. Battled the lantana and forged a way to GZ where we found the cache in good condition with lots of swag. Mozzies attacked as I signed the log then we took a more direct route back down.

TFTC

Day 17 of the road trip to Townsville with LuckyL10n for the mega and today was day 4 of the drive back to Canberra.

After a second night in Bundy it was time to head off for Caboolture, with a few stops along the way of course. Heading along the back road to Childers we stopped for a few interesting caches to help with a few different cache types. No issue with any of the first few and the caches were all in good condition.

Many thanks for yet another cache on the trip YOF....

#14363 - 9:01:00 AM; Day seventeen of the Townsville Mega adventure with Sol de lune. Left Bundaberg lthis morning heading for Caboolture, collecting caches along the way to add some more counties to the collection as well as some adventure labs too. All caches were found in good condition unless noted in the log. More jungle between us and the cache here! Logs signed L.L10n & Sdl or vice versa. TFTC youngoldfella

A great sized container. Was hoping for projections but still a great spot.

Thanks youngoldfella for the cache.
Found at 2:26 pm on 16/1/22.
Find # 2409

On our way to Bargara for a week of caching, stopped off here on our way. No trouble finding this one, all good with the cache. TFTC youngoldfella

Found it.

That is large, not the largest we have come across though. TFTC

We are currently travelling along Queensland‘s coast on a short vacation. Of course some target caches were also on the list of must do’s along the way and this was one of them. Thank you very much for placing this geocache. It was a great pleasure getting it and much easier as expected. Simply following the beaten grass

In the area today and picking up caches along the way and this was one of them.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for me and others to enjoy.

TFTC youngoldfella

Today I had an opportunity to visit this area and finding a few caches.

Thanks for hiding and the maintenance.

Georode

As I am not all that stable on the old pins these days I sent hubby after this one while I watched from below, great to hear "I see it". All is great with the cache. SL TFTC

Found as I meander my way from Adelaide to Cairns.

With no real travel plan and three weeks to get there before I meet up with friends, there has been plenty of opportunity for sightseeing and finding a few selected caches along the way.

Thanks youngoldfella for the cache.

TFTC. We had been in town for an appointment. On the return we decided to detour down Goodwood Road to find a few caches. This was the second of three before we had to get back to continue work on the Motorhome. Things should be dry by now.

Day 4 of my week away exploring Bundaberg and Maryborough.

This was easier than I was expecting.

Today was another long day and I will be doing generic logs to all the caches.
My apologies to all the CO's.
A big thank you to all the CO's for their hard work in placing and maintaining all the hides for everyone to find.

I have enjoyed my long weekend in the Bundaberg area. Still a little time to find a few caches before heading home. I made my way to GZ where I spotted a good sized cache. I added my name to the logbook, returned everything as found, then continued on my way. TFTC

Thanks for the cache. Always nice to find a large container.
Cheers

On holidays roaming around and did a quick stop to find this cache, I picked the wrong way in but still found the big bucket, log signed and replaced as found, picked a much easier way out, thanks for placing and

TFTC

Thanks for the find had a good walk lol

Another great sized container.
TFTC youngoldfella

Tftc youngoldfella, Another large log signed. All good here.

Staying in Bundy for a few days and finding some caches in the region.

What a sensational find! Nice big bucket full of goodies, felt like Xmas! Left my stamp and replaced everything as found. FP for the fun find

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Thanks youngoldfella for giving us a reason to visit.

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Coordinates changed from:
S 24° 59.128 E 152° 22.754

Coordinates changed to:
S 24° 59.132 E 152° 22.745

Distance from original: 55.2 feet or 16.8 meters.

Replaced Large sized container and moved it to a new GZ where there was tree big enough to put a loop of wire rope loosely around it. Good to go again.

I came home yesterday and was given a suitable container so today I am back to replace it at another spot. This time the container is a 15 Litre plastic bucket with lid that fits really snugly so you may struggle removing it. Please replace the lid securely.

Large container has been taken. Replaced with a temporary regular sized container till I can get my hands on another 15 litre container. There is currently no letter box stamp in this one. I hope to have the large container back in place within the next 7 days. Co ordinates still good. Will relocate this one when I replace the large sized container. Look at the end of the concrete abutment and behind.

Couldn't find a cache here today.

We are clearly suffering from cache blindness based on its size and previous logs, will be back in the future.

Long search. Got it

Mooching around the Bundy hinterland today,
I popped by this local's rubbish dumping spot
I hopped over the wubbish and headed on up to the correct caching level.
A quick find once up there
How could it be otherwise,
with a cache of this size

TFTC !!

No trains were spotted during the finding of this cache.

Another quality find on the way out of the Bundaburg region.
Thank you sooooo much for your quality caches youngoldfella.
Such a credit to the Bundaburg caching community...
And now I know where you live...
Watch out.
I might rock your roof,
Or turn up unannounced.

Thank you

Railway. It’s the talk of the city. Strange things go on down there I do know. Goblins are everywhere.

Spotted the container sitting up there as we drove in. Thanks for the cache

Definitely worth a favourite for the size of the cache. A great one for kids. Look and you will see it. TFTF.

What a great big cache.. spotter from in the car TFTC

Heading back to Brisbane from Bundy and collecting a few caches on the way. Thanks to the COs for the placing of these caches as it breaks up the trip and quite often takes you to interesting side roads.

After spending a few days in Bundaberg, it was now time to go home. Decided to do a number of caches between Bundaberg and Maryborough. Really enjoyed finding these caches and signing the logs. TFTC

A caching day with Wazza9 and Liz and Bruce, a quick find after a bit of a walk up.... Stamped log and replaced. Thanks to CO.

Teamed up with wazza9 and nana nel for this cache. Another beautiful day in Bundaberg. Thanks managed to get this one without any exciting photo opportunities.

TFTC,
Out for a day caching with Liz & Bruce, always a great time, undertaking a series selected by Bruce.
Great to add a variety of cache types to the day.

On the way home from a lovely few days in Bundaberg. Came in and wasn't too keen on staying for the cache as there was rubbish and an abandoned and vandalised car right near where I needed to be. Checked there was no-one in it before turning around in case I needed a quick exit.Just as I was parking a train came past!Scooted up to make a quick find and sign of the cache before heading out of there.TFTC??

TFTC smile 6933 out and about with miss Millie geo dog on our way to Bargara for a Event



Thank you, youngoldfella, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Bundaberg Day2
Our caching partners for today was the Snakepitters, headed south towards Coonarr Beach.
Travelling along roads we have never been to before. A good variety of hides & caches found.
Thanks for placing this cache youngoldfella

Day 2 in Bundy and out again with DiMorgasn but in our car. Bad choice today, plenty of soft muddy roads to traverse, but the Hilux managed with ease, not so sure the Pajero would of got through. note to self - don't wash the car before goecaching in bundy).


9363
TFTC youngoldfella

Easy find.

We found this cache whilst staying in Bargara thank you for the cache young old fella

A few weeks back I was asked if I would like to go on a weekend caching trip chasing some target caches. With a leave passed granted, if I got all my work done at home, and seeing i would be on holidays anyways, a green light soon appeared.
Our first day of caching in a group and with target caches set, we were off. We had some multi’s, oldies, letterboxes, trads, puzzles and a lab series on the list to collect today, yes a busy day. The list did get added to as we passed a few others along the way.
This was one from the list, there’s a love for letterboxes and there seems to be a lack of them getting around so when it was spied it was a must do. All good with this cache and with the log signed and cache replaced as found it was off to our next target cache. Thank you for placing this one here.

Ardom is correct in that every trip JACS includes lots of letterboxes but I do not mind as I love them too!

Being dragged around all the local letterboxes by JACS Team... TFTC!

Spent a long weekend picking up caches around the area with great company! Thanks for placing and adding to our amazing adventures

I simply love letterboxes and so I had thrown as many into the list.

All caches signed at cage-j which represent the group of chamad, Ardom, Gcoven,EatSleepCacheRepeat and JACS Team.

2/7/20 Find #3871
The last letterbox for this area today for me, while Fangsoki watched on from the car.
I got out of the car and looked over. And up. And wondered just what would be the best way to attack this, hoping there would be a bit of a better way than straight through all that long grass, and my uncertainty of the ground it hides.
Fangsoki called out something about heading up to it from the right, so I headed over and found a nice track. Ahhh well that’s better. Then I headed across...
And came out a little higher than I needed to be. A bit of a leg stretch down and I was at the cache. Then it was time to head back to the car. Well this time I headed down the opposite way and managed to navigate my way through a bit of a geotrail and avoid most of that long grass.
Now it’s off to Kilkivan for us.
Thanks for the cache youngoldfella.

With the start of the school holidays and the only weekend I going have free. I decided to head away geocaching with my son. Had some caches on my radar on my for D/T and hidden month. And Bargara had 2 caches for my D/T. Woodgate had a cache for my hidden months challenge.
All good here.

Cache a day to keep the doctor away, or is it to keep me sane. No it’s to keep my streak alive. Youngoldfella TFTC *570* streak. *3505* Finds

TFTC

Thongs not used for that climb. TFTC

Tftc. Holy hell was walking all over the hill. Once we found it we were like omg so obvious. To be fair it was dark! Pajan20 helped me!

That was hard. Lucky I had my friend kayteepotatee with me. Tftc.bush bashing at its max. A few grazes but I'm fine. Good hide.

Coordinates changed from:
S 24° 59.125 E 152° 22.754

Coordinates changed to:
S 24° 59.128 E 152° 22.754

Distance from original: 18.3 feet or 5.6 meters.

Driving Past and re checked my numbers again and these should be better.

Coordinates changed from:
S 24° 59.133 E 152° 22.762

Coordinates changed to:
S 24° 59.125 E 152° 22.754

Distance from original: 65.8 feet or 20.0 meters.

S 24° 59.125 E 152° 22.754 Should be better and more accurate co ordinates. I thi nk I posted where I parked the car. Oops.

Making tracks south today to the birthday event in Widgee.

Passed this one then said we had to go back. Nice find to get the heart rate up.

TFTC youngoldfella

We are leaving Bundy after a few days with YOF.

Originally we didn't plan on doing this one, but Hatzofff spotted the icon and that was it! Agree with Fangsoki, the coordinates are a bit out but the hide is logical.

Log signed and replaced on March 7, 2020 at 9:43 AM. TFTC, youngoldfella.

**S 24° 59.125 E 152° 22.754**

Heading back toward Bundaberg - I headed for this one next.

I pulled up and the smartphone indicated I was 3m from it. Hmmm.

I read the listing and the clue.. and noted the terrain rating. I knew where it was going to be. After a bit of a trot, I soon found the handsome cache container. I signed the log and recorded my own version of the coordinates (mine were recorded on a smartphone!)

I love a cache at old infrastructure - so I enjoyed this one. TFTC youngoldfella

Despite the poor weather forecast, Crookedpete, JezNDez and I set off on an impromptu road trip from Brisbane to Bundaberg chasing a large patch of potential FTFs which appeared to still be on offer. After encountering rain on the drive up, we lucked in with the rest of the day remaining precipitation free. In the end, a great day to be out caching.

As this was the first cache of the trip, we were a little tense as we searched for the cache, eager for the status of the logbook to tell us if the four hour drive had been worth the effort. We quickly found the rather large container (although not quite big enough to house the enormous TB Dez had brought along), and an inspection of the logbook revealed we had made the **FTF**, much to our delight. TFTC

FTF @ 09.39 on 8.2.20 with SeffnJarah and DeznJez. Log to follow.

{*FTF*} @ 09.39 on 8.2.20 with SeffnJarah and DeznJez.

Some heavy rain forecasts scuttled the planned Bromance camping weekend in North NSW. The forecast around Bundy looked reasonable, and there were 70 FTF's with some generous DT up for grabs. Swellerfungus opted to continue the repairs arsing from his 10 cent bathroom washer replacement (current cost is into the $1,000's), leaving the Bromance Lite* heading north early this morning.

This was the first for the day. After driving through the rain we arrived here in sunshine. The long grass looked pretty snakey, but none were sighted. A nice quick find revealed a clean logbook. We were treated to a train passing whilst at GZ. The team conducted an impromptu CITO at GZ removing a few recyclable containers to cash in later.

Logs were signed with the team's Bromance stamp. Many thanks youngoldfella

Pete

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