Childers Historical Trail #1 Doolbi, Queensland, Australia
By halez1993 and Hanlea on 16-Aug-20. Waypoint GC8YDNQ

Thanks!

A nice straightforward find here today while exploring the area.An interesting morning to hitch up and leave Bargara and get on the road. Having arrived home after a night cache to find a car had parked right up close to the hitch the previius evening. Impressive driving by sacada with margins so narrow to reverse and turn with many obstacles. Phew, made it out of the seemingly impossible. Into Bundaberg for more adventures of the fun type with caching, ginger beer and ALs. Gin Gin was a short stop that was a little longer. The joys of going with the flow! I've always liked little goats, and the groovy goat was a pleasant place to be. Not quite the same type of goat, but a good one still.Stopping for caches at towns as we passed, Childers had a few good AL's and a nice little town. Camping arrangements pre made, we arrived at a camp ground just north of Maryborough after dark. 100 kids just left that afternoon and we were the only campers. Great facilities, great price and they also had complementary fresh eggs to gift! Thanks for your cache to add to our enjoyment!

Finished another long trip around Australia. The 6th. Next up to Townsville to grab the Palm Island LGA. Only 2 LGAs to complete Australia.Firstly heading back south for some Canberra time.TFTC. Interesting start to the morning where someone decided to park right in front of the caravan's hitch. Careful manoeuvring with millimetres to spare and I managed to get the car in and hitched.Back to Bundaberg for the Ginger Beer factory and a few other caches.Went to Gin Gin to get the Ad Lab and enjoyed the food at the Groovy Goat so much we left town with only 3 points.Next to Childers where we did 2 Ad Labs properly with a few other caches.Next to the scout campground at Maryborough which was super cheap and he also gave us chicken and duck eggs. Worthy of another night's stay.Nice quick stop and grab.

Gotcha Found with Juju54

Found with HRH54 and a lab here too! TFTC

Thanks so much it was fun climbing the tree

Okay, made me look a but but got there in the end.

found while driving to Childers, to see about some dinner, and grabbing a few caches, Thanks halez1993, all is in good condition

On a bicycle ride from Redbrook Lake Retreat. An easy find. Thanks for the cache.

fast find tftc

Easy find tftc

Found it

Got a bunch of caches today in the region from our car out of Port Marina bundaberg. Thanks

This and an ad lab all in one stop. I threw in a Canadian coin since there was room. TFTC

Nice little spot here under the big s. Signed and returned cache to its hide. We started the a.l. at the same time.

Thank you! Easy to find

Bit of a drive from town but part of an AL was here so it made it worthwhile Thanks for the cache. Kutgw

Quick easy find with Youban. Cute little spot. Tftc!!!

Very easy to find, not covered. Stamped log and replaced covered over. Thanks to CO

TFTC,Today visit was to get Geocaches, Quick find by Nana Nel.Visited trackables

Today I took a day trip to Childers to visit the Heritage Festival and do some geocaching. As always the first stop when arriving in Childers was a coffee and cake at Insane Caffeine . The plan for the day was some new ALs and a few traditionals along with a walking tour, a visit to the CWA hall and a visit to the quilting display. I visited this spot this morning (pre coffee) for an AL and did not realise there was also a traditional!! I made a quick detour on the way home to collect this one. It was nice and easy to find. TFTC

Quick find with TheKiltedKacher on our way south today. TFTC!

I have driven past this one on a daily basis wondering if there was a cache there so today is a day of caching and we got it. Nice simple find, TFTC

Very easy

Thanks

Easy

Easy find with the kids lots of swappables. Great fun. Thank you

Hint was a good hint easy to find

Good hint

T4T$

Cute cache thanks

Nice spot

Nice easy one after a tough day, thanks

TFTC halez1993 your cache Childers Historical Trail #1 that we found today as we travelled around the area. We had stopped here to complete the AL. So a 2 for 2 deal.Find Count: 17199 .

Found by Mary and David at 11:35. A true 2 for 1. Loving the sunshine, Have been to the final QOGM at Longreach. Slowly heading back to Melbourne. Our thanks to halez1993.

Geocaching on our way home and this was a nice find. TFTC

A quick stop for a cache at Childers on our way North.---Over a week ago we made a trip up to Yeppoon to visit family and some of the big things dotted around the state. On the way we stopped off at Noosa Heads (big pelican) and Maryborough before staying in Hervey Bay (big whales) for a couple of days to break up the journey. Whilst in Hervey Bay we went out on a glass bottomed boat and explored Big Woody Island and Round Island. Onwards again and we visited Childers, Gin Gin and got stuck in a crazy tailback a few kilometers from Miriam Vale (big crab, big donut and big Magpie). It would have been rude not to pick up a cache or two on our journey North.We visited Great Keppel and did some snorkeling (and Jack spotted a large sting ray), Emu Park to view the Singing Ship, Rockhampton (big bulls) to visit the zoo (which I wasn't too keen on) and just about every restaurant and coffee shop in Yeppoon. It's a lovely part of the world.On the way back home (boo) we visited the caves at Cania Gorge and stayed overnight at the retreat and then on to the Three Moons Silo Mural, Gayndah (big orange) and then onto the Bruce and straight back home.Thanks!!#3498

I was thrilled to find this today, my very first experience geocaching, I see why it’s so popular, I was ear to ear smiles when I found it. Thank you

Found with O319 as we headed south

Found with SJG66 as we wind our way south to Brisbane. TFTC

Found

Out and about am27.6.23 with TBU1Bikesu for more smileys Tftc

On the hunting trail with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce celebrating Christmas in July. Another great day for caching.
TFTC halez1993

For anyone making Geo plans, do yourself a favour and visit Australia’s only current Geotour at Ballarat while it lasts: https://www.geocaching.com/play/geotours/ballarat-victoria

And for anyone that can travel to Longreach, Queensland, late September 2023, Google “QOGM” which is the Queensland Outback Geocaching Muster. You’ll have at least 8 or 9 days of pure geocaching fun with around 200 like minded people attending a mix of events and access to over 200 geocaches placed by the QOGM team. It’s not a Mega, it’s better.

Thanks halez1993 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

Find # 9432

#LockitupintheOutback

**THE** **WHITTLESEA** **EVENT ** **2022**
19th / 20th November 2022
GC8EW40 – Whittlesea – Victoria

Found whilst doing part of an adv lab. Cache all ok.
TFTC

Trouver

Nice and quick find
Lest we forget

After our recent stay in Bundaberg we stopped on the way back in Childers to refresh memories.

We found this cache and signed the log.

Tftc halez1993 and hanlea

Found this cache while at the nearby monument completing a Lab Cache.
TFTC

Tftc!

OCW PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa

Staying in Apple Tree Creek for a couple of nights, we popped into town today and headed here to complete the AL.

Bonus, 2for1

Tftc

Ocw the Bebes. Stopped for the AL and this cache. Quick find. Tftc

Found at 10.50hrs. Out and about in Childers to get some more smiley face. Easy grab for this one and it was out in the open. I covered best I could.
TNLN
TFTC
SL

Quick find. Tftc

Spotted before we even hopped out of the car

It's always fun to branch out to new adventures

Beautiful spot

This one was a lot easier to retrieve. I didn’t feel like I was digging around someone’s front yard Tftc

Found quickly.

TFTC

Georode

On a drive from Hervey bay to yeppoon for some R&R as only one piece of the triple turmoil.

Thought I better see if there was a cache here while getting the AL

Great one for the kids. Thanks

Lovely spot. TFTC

A quick drive to Childers today, one to see where we are taking our caravan for a service and secondly to grab some local caches on a lovely sunny day.


Thanks halez1993 for the caches.
Total Cache Finds 13971,

After having the caravan serviced we are visiting good friends who live in town. It is time to head out to find ta few caches to help fill in our day. All the caches we found are in good condition with a large variety of caches and cache styles to be found. SL TFTC

Hi there halez1993, we found your cache Childers Historical Trail #1 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 close to where our GPS said we should be looking.
Cache Condition: Good.

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

In Childers today for a DRs appointment, arrived a bit early, had this on my to do list.
An easy find.
TFTC

11696 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 0940. Easy roadside find. We are having a bit of a drive in the local district. SL Tnx halez1993

Tftf aroha and happy caching from new zealand

Good find!

Went on a road trip today with Aaron to Childers then onto Woodgate then back to Burrum Heads for the night

Sorry for the generic log, found 19 caches today and had 1 DNF, great day out ab thanks for showing me a new area.

some logs signed as RP & AJ to save space or squeeze names in.

TFTC.

Found it

That was easy

Amazing watching denki climb the tree, great cash

Awesome sunny

Grabbed a quick ice cream at the golf club while waiting for the coast to clear.
Thanks for bringing us to this memorial.

on a work / play trip from Brisbane to Bundy and had time to pick up a few caches along the way. What a nice little monument nearby that i had a look at before going to the wrong tree first and then once at the right tree spotted the cache no worries. THanks for placing this cache here for us to enjoy

First Geocache found for me & my kids & our Elle pup since moving to Childers.. Smiles all round! Cheers!

Easy find

Not too hard

A planned couple of days away with my girls. Heading north to meet up with friends and stay a night in a motel resort, which turned into a sleep over at a friend’s place.

First on the agenda was a few caches in the Sunshine coast LGA. However, because we spent so much time at a FTF we had to move up the schedule a little. We grabbed a cache in Tiaro and then signed a few challenge caches on the way into Maryborough. It was then time to meet our favourite cachers Liz and Bruce. We managed to chat for hours and time just got away on us. We said our goodbyes and headed off to Bundy, but not before we stopped off for a toilet stop and cache find in childers. We parked right beside the cache, we got out and Maddie found this one straight up, well done.

We signed the log and replaced all as found and continued our journey north. Thanks for bringing us here to such a cool location.

A lovely little monument to honour not only those that gave their lives but also those who returned. TFTC which was easily found.

Since we were driving through this beautiful little historic town, we decided we would stop and grab all the caches here.

Within minutes we had the cache in hand. We quickly added our ink mark to the logbook and replaced as found. As we started to walk back to the car JLK started drafting this log.

Thank you for the cache placement and maintenance Halez1993 and Hanlea
Thanks for the Hunt
Thank you for bringing us to this very 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
Found this cache with Tiny 1508, Captain Monkey 96, DFC _ JLK 2019 & MummaBear66

Quick and easy find for us found with Nixon 189.

Quick and easy find found with callking20

Since we were driving through this beautiful little historic town, we decided we would stop and grab all the caches here.

Within minutes we had the cache in hand. We quickly added our ink mark to the logbook and replaced as found. As we started to walk back to the car JLK started drafting this log.

Thank you for the cache placement and maintenance Halez1993 and Hanlea
Thanks for the Hunt
Thank you for bringing us to this very 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
Found this cache with Tiny 1508, Captain Monkey 96, Princess 1005 & MummaBear66

Since we were driving through this beautiful little historic town, we decided we would stop and grab all the caches here.

Within minutes we had the cache in hand. We quickly added our ink mark to the logbook and replaced as found. As we started to walk back to the car JLK started drafting this log.

Thank you for the cache placement and maintenance Halez1993 and Hanlea
Thanks for the Hunt
Thank you for bringing us to this very 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
Found this cache with Tiny 1508, Captain Monkey 96, Princess 1005 & DFC_JLK2019

Noah and Sarah found it!

Fitting day for this find: ANZAC Day. Lest We Forget. TFTC

Quick find, lovely shady spot.

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....

#14365 - 9:45:00 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 as well. All caches were found in good condition unless noted in the log. No problems here. Logs signed L.L10n & Sdl or vice versa. TFTC halez1993

Lovely little spot. Stopped with the geokids. Having a day out and about caching in the sun for this Good Friday. Nice quick park and grab. Shady sweet little location. Tftc

Out and about travelling to Townsville Mega Event. Visiting caches along the way to break up the trip. Found cache and signed log. TFTC

Heading north for the Townsville Mega, taking 5 days and finding caches along the way. Thanks to the COs for placing these caches to show us more of your local area.

Quick easy find. Thanks.

First one we found, Found it in the tree, kids were very excited

TFTC! Traded TB’s

Thanks for the cache.

Found on our travels to Bundy!
TFTC

Found this one and left a trackable