So This is Paradise North Ward, Queensland, Australia
By BenM70 on 03-Aug-20. Waypoint GC8Y0VR

Hide type no longer possible. Magnets don’t work on aluminium. Plenty of hits in its short life. Thanks for finding. No doubt the world will mourn the loss of another mint tin

Table being refurbished and cache missing

Took me some time, had to wait for the muggles to leave.. found it. Tftc!

NTNL

Found it!!!

On holidays.
Geocaching with Grand kids, great way to engage.
Thanks for the cache

Good find good view

It’s not the trickiest spot to locate a hide but I couldn’t earlier. Managed to on the second visit. All that effort and I can’t even claim a find…

Found it

Was just on ground. Maybe not its original hiding place?

Unable to locate. Will have to replace or archive. I’ll ponder that and get back to it in the coming week

Good find

Sneaky find

Great hide I love sitting and looking at magnetic Island tftc

Fun find

First time muggles sitting right therr! Went off to find snother csche and saw it was free on the way back so went in for a quick grab. Thanks.

TFTC

Always love these kind

Found with The X-Trailers as we walked along the Strand. Cache all ok.

Easy find today
Found with earthlight
Tftc

Found it, first one thank you

It was a bit windy to call it Paradise today. But we made a nice quick find.
TFTC

Nice find

Too many muggles

Too many people this time

Tftc

Good

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Thanks for the find

Very windy and lots of muggles tftc

Bigger than I thought it would be! TFTC beautiful spot came at a good time with little to no people around so quick and easy find

Nice cache, nice spot, watch out for muggles.

Gee Wiz. My 2nd find for the day. Wind getting chilly, I had to be fast. Love the rock pool. Tftc

Found this and was a fun experience and it was so fun trying to find it

Found it!

Was a really fun find thanks

Beautiful spot and easy find thanks

Beautiful morning. Found with the TFLC crew.

Took a little looking but we found it.
Good that the area was free and we were able to make the find.
Thanks

Nice spot.

Tricky

Great beginner Cache!

It's well hidden a my first one that I've ever found but great fun

Under the table

Thank you!

Overall a fun experience

Aldhwkdisj found it

So fun

Pretty easy

Look everywhere

Not there

Replaced, Thanks for the notification

Little fella found it! He was well chuffed with his find. Thank you!!!!

A bit breezy and as Monday so not many muggles about
Took a bit of a search but got there
TFTC

This one is a little trickier, but good fun

Noice Gary.

Found it!

gg tftc

Streak day 2

After coming down and seeing muggles at the cache decided to move on the nearby adventure lab.

Came back 30mins later for them to have moved on.

Enjoed this day of caching out with piggy.

TFTC Ben and the fun day.

Nice Quick and easy find for me GeokidNQ

Found

Log book had a little bit of ink spillage on it

Found 29/4/22. What a location! Log signed and replaced. Thank you.

With the lad musy13

Found it strait away with my friend Samcricketer11. Thanks creator for the fun

Me and the bro musumecil found it as soon as we rocked up but overall great hiding spot and great view to look out from so thanks creator.

Tin full of water, dried as much as we could. Coongoola & Geodog are on an adventure after attending the Townsville Mega event in Qld. We found your cache today 26 April 2022 2:47 pm , while enjoying another day out adding to our tally. TFTC BenM70

#17375 @1410
Day 14 of a 3 week holiday driving from Canberra to Townsville and back to attend the Mega. The morning started with doing more of the Ross River Power Trail by bike/scooter with Albida33. I then headed for the Jezzine Barracks area, followed by some more caches at Pallarenda. Cache easily found. TFTC.

Tankengine, Youban and I had another day of a caching fun planned for today around Townsville.

This cache: A quick find while luckily an ex-Cacher was sitting at the table. She thought she would have to take that up again. Tftc!!!

We found this one on a lovely walk along the Strand. We would like to have continued further, but there was work being done nearby and various parts of this area were closed off.
The container and area at GZ however were open, and it was a quick find for us.
Thanks BenM70. Great views!
Domsky

With great excitement we headed to Townville for the for the first FNQ Mega - we were very curious to see how much it had changed since we lived there pre-caching.

Today we spent the morning with Pprass and BeckNMonts looking skywards, mostly in Anderson Park and then headed here for some lunch before we went our separate ways. Very few people here today so Pprass had it in no time.

Thanks for contributing to the fun BenM70

Chooo ooo [found] with dty73 and youban on our Townsville Mega run! Nice find here after we kindly ask the woman seated here if we could check under her butt! Thanks BenM70!

Pushed a muggle out of the way to get this one.She was enthralled with what we did.. kutgw

Out caching today while visiting Townsville for the Mega. Thoroughly enJoyed the time up here and finding the caches. Signed the lo book. TFTC

Found at 2:09:00 PM(t) GAFF1 in the company of The Morris & beckNmonts.
Today - there was hardly anyone around and so while having lunch, I grabbed the container and signed the log book. We were watching the cleaning of the rock pool while eating lunch - a massive job!
Thanks BenM70.

Third time lucky with this one!! Not sure if it was signed GoodLook or GTU.

Thanks so much BenM70.

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I am so happy that I attended the Mega (and surrounding events), it was a welcomed change of scenery and I was able to embrace the fresh opportunities that awaited.

I spent time with people special to me and managed to score more cache finds than I had expected! Not having my vehicle or caching TOTTs was tricky, but I took the opportunity when it presented to utilise these from others when available.

This trip to Queensland enabled my 3rd attendance at the GPS adventure maze and attending my 13th Mega.

I had solved some of the puzzles and was helped with others, so being able to collect many of them whilst in the area was great.

Exploring Townsville and surrounds proved interesting, and I also spent plenty of time in the motel room (not planned for) - but I LOVED the air conditioning and the time to chill. Super lucky with the weather (the rain stayed away). Enjoyed lots of good food and conversations.

A fantastic time was had by all.

We had three attempts at finding this cache, the first two we were seriously muggled out so couldn't even attempt. Third time lucky though. TFTC BenM70.

day 10 and our last day in townsville ... tomorrow we hit the road and head inland

not sure why we made this so hard
how did we miss that ??

08:50
After a mega weekend of Events, caching with friends and of course fun, we spent the morning seeking a few more caches before heading to the airport ready for the trip home.

Thanks BenM70 for creating interesting caches for players to find.
32086

Nice quick find when we narrowed down which chair we needed

Had to narrow down between 2. Gotcha.

TFTC

Cleaning up some remaining caches after being inTownsville for the mega.  Did your So This is Paradise today.  19 April 2022 2:36 pm Tyfc  BenM70  total caches now  4764  .

Met up with some lovely fellow cachers.
Truly enjoyed the walk:) TFTC

Met another couple while waiting for muggles to vacate gz. T4T$

Found with bubba_89, barbbowman and FastEd 59

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TFTC. This was our last day in Townsville before starting the journey home. We targeted som caches that we wanted to finalise and a couple that had eluded us from a previous visit. Th and to the COs in Townsville for the variety and quality of hides. WE have left a lot,still to do. Means we will be back.
This one was quickly spotted.

Out and about collecting some caches in the city and along The Strand this afternoon with chamad.
A quick find here, all is well with the cache.
Thanks BenM70 for the cache.

Found in the company of Earthbound Chief OSHFAM & ahomburg. Thanks for the puzzles BenM70. We signed the log as “The Whole Gang”

Date: April 18, 2022
Find #12562

In Townsville, hit the trails with beckNmonts OSHFAM and Earthbound Chief. Found this one along the way.

Day 15, no pattern to today, started heading towards the book series and then random caches along our travels. A fun day.

Massive thanks go to BenM70 for placing this one. ??

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Lots of muggles around today, but GZ was unoccupied, so we could do some stealthy searching. Sadly for us, it wasn't enough and we didn't find it. Have to return on a quieter day for a more detailed search. Our thanks anyway to BenM70.

In Townsville with my daughter for the Mega. We are staying with and enjoying caching adventures with Earthbound Chief, beckNmonts and ahomburg.

Yes indeed this was paradise for a lot of people too it seems. Not too much trouble locating it here as there was a small break in muggle activity. Log signed "The Whole Gang".

Thank you for the cache here BenM70 ??

Just noticed that I had not logged this. Found it on the 18th when I did a last lap of the Strand before flying home.

We found So This is Paradise while on our saintly pursuits in FNQ. ...we are glad we have finally made it here.



Thanks BenM70 for hiding this cache so that we could come and enjoy ourselves

Muggles were sitting right where we needed to be, but thankfully they let me look! A nice quick find. Its Mega time once again!! Woo hoo!! Love these epic road trips and a wonderful Mega event. Managed to cache with loads of different people throughout the long weekend - such a fun way to cache! Have signed as SCG, X, Snag, Capital crunchers, NRC, Nibletricecakes, Minifigas, Minifig or some combination of the above! Thanks to everyone in the region for the top quality caching. Appreciate your efforts planting and maintaining these caches.

Here it is the end of the month and I still haven't finished logging all my finds from the Mega and I am now up in Cairns with plenty more finds since Townsville so please excuse the generic logs that I am about to write.

On 17th April I was out caching with Albida33, GLISS! and Nibletricecakes hunting down a variety of caches from trads, to ALs to Fishing poles to kayaks to mysteries and multis. This is one of those caches that we found . All caches were found in good order unless otherwise stated. They were signed with individual initials or as NAGS or SNAG. T

Thanks to all COs and the Committee for such wonderful caches that enticed us to travel from the ACT.

A bonus trad picked up while in the area completing the Jezzine Barracks AL. TFTC.

Great Northern escape 2022 Day 10. Townsville Mega section Day 10. Mega Day 3. On the final day of the official mega period, the day started with Gliss!, Nibletricecakes, Smitten Granny & I headed over to the ROWES bay CITO where we managed to get one of the last plants and deploy it on the sand dune. Then it was off caching along the coastal stretch to the point with more World War 2 bunkers. This all took a bit longer than expected, but we eventually had a chance to do the walk around Jezzenine barracks before heading to Anderson Gardens for a tree climb and back to the mega site for the farewell event. Then there was a canoe trip and few more trees, A trip up Castle hill and a few puzzles before calling it a day.

Thanks for the cache BenM70

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