Community Celebration; A Newbies New year 2020-21 Kilkivan, Queensland, Australia
By Sweet-Sour on 01-Jan-21. Waypoint GC8ZDK0

Thank you for hosting this geocaching event! The date of the event has passed. We automatically archive events after 30 days (60 days for Mega- and Giga-Events). Attendees can still log archived events, log trackables, and share their experiences.

A special thanks to John (yof) for his help throughout the event for his help and his caches that make these events.
Some other cachers that need to be thanked, my daughter Dianne (discrappbooking), Bruce (Liz and Bruce) for hiding some more caches for me and others to find in the area.

This years event was not without its own problems, due to Covid 19 and its seemingly and endlessly changing restrictions. All good in the end, except, on arrival on Thursday 31st, we were informed that we couldn't camp inside the enclosed area, except for those under the 2 buildings, everyone else had to camp out on the grass. Just meant a longer walk or drive to the showers, no big deal. The reason given is that tents and caravan annexes tend to kill the grass under the tent floor, as was evident when the cachers left. Understand fully. We even won something, found out the last day, we don't have to remove our rubbish anymore, as the Gympie Regional Council have put the Showgrounds on their garbage run.

New Years Eve went off well, first time in manyayear that I got close, think I called it a night with about 10 minutes to go, oh well, there's always next year.

There was some discussion about keeping these events at Kilkivan or moving them somewhere else. After much discussion and positive feed back from you, it has been decided to keep them here, at least for the next couple, which will be in June/July and again for the next New Year Fri 31st Dec - Tues 4th Jan.

For those that attended this years event, please pass on your favorable comments to your friends for the future events held here, especially any newbies that you come across. just love their comments after they have found Mudlo National Park GC7QYWD. Some are priceless.

And lastly, Kilkivan thanks everyone that attended with their boost to the local economy.

Till next time, Cheers Keith.

All four members of the SunCoastGeocaching team would love to thank Sweet-Sour for creating this great opportunity for us to come and participate and catch up.
We are not newbies anymore but always willing to learn.

Big Thank-you Sweet Sour

I love these events. I have so much fun! Thanks Sweet-Sour for holding them. See you next time. TFTC

I learned a new Domino game, last night, which was lots of fun and laughs.
Now were out fining a few geocaches.
Thanks for this event.

Thank you for hosting this event. Really good turn out. It has been great assisting you with these events in Kilkkivan. TFTCE

Great to get back here for an event! Unlike the last few years I was unable to camp overnight, but managed to make the most of a looong daytrip instead. Big thanks to Keith and John for your generosity organising, hopefully next year my dates line up better and I get to camp again and have a more relaxed visit.

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Thanks Sweet-Sour for giving us a reason to visit.

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Attended with my main squeeze, Oddiewan and our new little geopup. This is our third event in Kilkivan and we are keen on this place, the camping and all the caches we have found and have yet to find. We always enjoy ringing in the New Year with dear friends and new friends— dominoes kept us all awake until the NY toast this time. All good fun!

Thanks for the fun, Sweet-Sour

1/1/21 15:48 Lucky the event was spread out over a few hours and I still only just managed to make it here on time. Thanks for the event Sweet-Sour. A nice way to start the new year.

**Bugs First Celebration Event**

Been eyeing this event off since creation but was unsure I would be able to get there or not. Recent events led me open for a few days for a trip to Gayndah to attend to some cache maintenance from the last trip.

To be honest, cachers only need an event as an excuse.

Dropped past today 11:30-12:30 or so before I was on my merry way.

Thank you so much Sweet Sour for organising this one. This is the first New Years Newbies Event I have got to since 2013!

It has been great to meet some other cachers. I will be going home with some new skills. Looking forward to sharing them with my children. Certainly didn't have time to get every cache up here, so I will have to come back one day.

So this trip was my third trip to Kilkivan for the new year newbie event.
I always have lots of fun at these events. And long night of chatting to do.

So for the generic post. Because I always find to many caches
Thank you Youngoldfella and Sweet-sour for running these events
Sweet-Sour TFTC

As the host for this event, and this is the only cache type that the CO is allowed to log, I better claim my attended smilies.

See my previous log for more comments.

Thank you so much to sweet-sour and you for putting this great event together. I really enjoyed meeting cachers I hadn't previously met, and loved catching up with familiar cachers.
Will be back at the next event for sure.
A massive THANK YOU to those who placed new caches for the event, and to those who have maintained the older caches here. Your efforts are truly appreciated

My plan for Friday was to attend the New Year’s early morning event, then drive up to Gympie to grab a couple and then on to Kilkivan for the weekend event. Having never been an event of this type before I really wasn’t sure what the processes were, so I planned to only stay one night.
It was a great setup, people were coming and going siting their itineraries; the whole set up was very laid back, awesome.

I was greeted at the meet up with a big “how are you” and it was good to see some familiar faces, this really eased my apprehensiveness.
A day of caching and there is sooo much up here to collect I was overwhelmed. Day two and I still hadn’t achieved my target, so with an extended leave pass from home I managed to stay an extra night. There were caches, ftf’s, fun, catch-ups, games, adventures, some mishaps and a great time.

I really enjoyed being here and will be back next time; a big thank you to the organisers and the helpers for this event, it was really well done, a very well deserved favourite point for this event if we could.

Thanks to my caching buddies with caching time and to the others with the helps during the event.

We finally made it to a kilkivan newbies event!!! What a great location, and a great bunch of people. We dropped in after the cito and some caching on Saturday before heading off again. Sorry we didn’t get to meet you keith — John said you were out nabbing some new hides . We stayed and chatted with the couple of others still around while we had our lunch anyway and had a good time all round. Thanks for these new year events SS in this lovely town.

Just moved to the Sunshine Coast last year, so I'm a newbie.
I've heard about this annual event and so glad I could make it this time.

Thanks for the event and taking us here Sweet-Sour. Enjoyed the company of like minded people.

Please check out https://coord.info/GC8M4ZQ - CacheQLD - Dayboro  - Queensland's Next Big Event  03 April 2021, 07:00 - 23:45 and log your will attend. It's going to be a great event.

Many thanks to the organisers, a credit to the local geocachers. It never ceases to amaze us that so many geocaches have been placed in and around Kilkivan (population 713). There are some towns, much larger than Kilkivan that have far fewer geocaches. Coonabarabran NSW (population 2,500) for instance, has NO CACHES listed on geocaching.com within 20 klm's of the town centre.

Greynomads - Bill and Diana TFTC TNLN SL

A great event, plenty of caches and shared experiences. We even managed to stay awake and saw the New Year in by playing dominoes and enjoying some beverages . Thanks Sweet-sour and YOF

Great to catch up at another newbies event in your area Sweet-Sour.

We enjoyed another frenzy of picking up caches in the country.

TFTC Sweet-Sour

I went to this event with Tbu1bikesu. Thanks for organising this, Sweet-Sour

In the Kilkivan area for a couple of days caching based around the annual Newbies Event. Loving the tradition, and today it wasn't too hot and the rains disappeared come lunch time. Thanks guys for all the organisation.

Enjoyed coming up from the GC for this event, so lovely to catch up with geo friends and also some new cachers.
Thanks Sweet-Sour and youngoldfella for organising this beaut event, very well done

Also, thanks everyone for all the newly published hides, so much on offer in the Kilkivan and surrounding areas

Attended 1 January 2021

What a fab event to see in the New Year Lots of catchups and even met a few new peeps here.

A pretty solid effort caching around Kilkivan again Thx so much for organising.

TFTC Sweet-Sour

Back again for another year. Such a great event.
So many new caches.


TFTE Sweet-Sour

2/1/21
5:09 pm

In the past year, we spent couple of days in this area. But it's our first time for a New Year's event. Thanks for organising this event, Sweet-Sour.

What a great finish to 2020 and start to 2021! A big thank you to Sweet-Sour and youngoldfella for all of the hard work they do putting these events together and placing so many hides for us all to find. And to other players as well for their extra hides too! Great to see some old friends and new faces alike. Grateful that we managed to stay mostly dry and that we had pleasant temperatures instead of searing summer heat! Happy caching everyone

Karicka and I drove up for the event. It turned out to be a massive day driving to and from Brisbane in 13.5hrs and collecting 45 caches along the way including 2 events, 10 labs, 3 multis and a few puzzles. Thanks for the event

Attended for a morning catch up.
Great to see the level of organisation, would have liked to stay overnight but it was not an option this year.


Thank you for organising Sweet-Sour
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Attend and got my name in the book. then went out caching before catching up wit old friend as they arrived. TFTE

2 coming for the day.

Planning on popping in to say hello on my way to Gayndah . Probably look at doing the AL in town while I’m there.

If anyone would like to the AL with me please send us a message .

Cheers,
Bug.

PS...I have my pathtags now so say hello if you see me.

Let us know if there is a tree fishing or tree climbing Cache we can set up while I’m around.

Oops former note was meant to be camping Thursday night! See you soon

Planning to come on the Saturday if folks are still around we’d love to join in. Hopefully the weather holds out

Hope everyone has a good time, sorry I will not be there, woe is me, TFTE see you next year

Not sure if I have given details in my will attend. So here they are if a bit late.

I will be bringing all my mates so there will be (1).

I attend to arrive Thursday and leave Mon morn so 4 nights 3 full days.

looking forward to it.

Going to log a will attend, we will camp Friday night, 2 Wallabies and 1 Dog

Kilkivan tomorrow, the rain has been light over the last 24 hours, at Widgee we have had 30 mm in the last 24 hours, from reports I've had Kilkivan is the same. The forecast for Gympie is showers for the weekend, Kingaroy forecast is slight chance of a shower/mostly cloudy and Kilkivan is in the middle that equates to cloudy with a chance of a shower, all good.
This is no excuse to quit, should make this a very pleasant weekend See everyone there.
Cheers Keith

Already on our way!!

See you on Thursday

Road in-
Just as you enter the showgrounds, you are to ver right, going on the dirt track to the bottom road, where you can enter into the compound that we have used before. The old track is blocked off.

Fuel -
Kilkivan - is the most expensive
Gympie - coming from the south, the 2nd gas station is the cheapest
Goomeri - at the Shell

Cash -
There are no banks in Kilkivan
The Post Office is open on Thursday only
I think there is an ATM at the Hotel.

Possibilty a wet weekend -
Bring Gumboots or Thongs

Have a Safe Drive and I'm looking forward to seeing you from Thursday

Plan to drop in during the event hours

We shall be there.
27/12/20
10:20 pm

Attending with my main squeeze, Oddiewan.

Thanks for the opportunity for fun, Sweet-Sour

Looking forward to attending x 1

Will be with my son. Hopefully there Thursday after work

As Susan said before, we are attending: with caravan, for 2 nights 2 adults, powered site please from 31st Dec.

Thank you, Keith

Pauline and Rod will be there

We should be able to make the main event. Caravan is at Hervey Bay so won’t stay over but can come and see some familiar faces and find a few caches in the beautiful hills!

been trying to attend this event for a while, today i was given the green light to attend, so excited. thank you.

Greynomads (2) are planning to attend and will need a powered site. It will be good to meet up again after a horrid year, let's hope 2021 will bring better times.

Going to try and get to this event thx for organising.

31 Dec for 2 nights. 1A for power + water plz.

We are planning to attend with the caravan so camping for the 31st Dec and 1st January is required. Thanks Sweet n sour for arranging this event.

Coming on my own for my first event. A little overwhelming, but also exciting.

Will definitely be there for the event and will camp overnight. Will possibly arrive afternoon of 31st Dec, still figuring things out

I will be there (1) and staying the same number of nights as the CO. Will have my 30 in place for that great weekend. Looking forward to meeting everyone.

Hope to be there planning to arrive 31 Dec.
Just me (1).

Hoping to get to this one. No camping for us, but a day trip could be on the cards.

I am hoping to be able to visit

At this stage, we will be attending this event. Not yet sure if we will be camping. Will let you know if.
Thanks for organising this event.

Will be there

Might be able to attend this one, only an hour and a half drive from my place. Might only be there for the event.

Will be there at some stage, hopefully overnight but a day trip if not

I’ll for sure be there for this event. Will have to firm up details about an extended visit before committing to that.

I wouldn't miss for all the world, see you here.

Welcome, 2021!

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