Gold letterbox Alabama Hill, Queensland, Australia
By Cachedin NQ on 02-Apr-22. Waypoint GC9QPAJ

Found by a patrol of Charters Towers Scouts, giving them the win in a geocaching night.TFTC

TFTC smile 20255 out and about on a lovely sunny day but the morning was so cold walked past 4 times befor I struck gold Thank you Cachedin NQ for placing this cache Gold letterbox for our enjoyment

Great hide fun code

I wanted to get this last time I was here but ran out of time then - however today it was on the priority list. It was our last stop and I was pleased that the find was super straightforward. Everything was in great order and the log was signed replaced and everything was returned as found.

Tb drop

On my roundtrip along Australia with Oopie we are douing always some caches.All COs thanks for bringing us on this nice places and making this caches.

Together with Travelser I'm going Down Under. We are driving around with a motorhome. Started on the 17th September in Cairns. Our plan is driving.along the eastcoast down. Then in the south on to Adelaide and from there ending the 31th October in Alice Springs.During our trip we of course search for several caches. Most of them brought us to very nice spots, like this one.All the CO's, and in this case Cachedin NQ, thanks for bringing us here and give our trip a special accent.

A big shout out to the COs for their variety of well maintained geocache types, especially all the Whereigos, the most weve seen in a single town in our travels, were loving geocaching our way around the WORLD of Charters Towers Cool letterbox cache, one of the seven cache types we found today, picked up trackable to move on TFTC Cachedin NQ, FP awarded !!!

We're back in Charters Towers for a few days and decided to head over this way to grab a few of the caches here that have a high number of favorite points. This was our first stop and it was an easy find once there was a break in the exercising muggles around everywhere this evening.

Thanks for find #4805
TNLN

12773 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1120. This took much longer to find then we thought. The GPS'r showed the container 7 metres from gz. SL Tnx Cachedin NQ Left a TB.

Find number 12345 at 1:56:49 pm on Sunday the 27 August 2023
Departed Melbourne several weeks ago now and have been travelling north for the winter, well, for the northern warmth actually (hopefully ), passing through as many small towns as I can grabbing the odd cache here and there as I travel.
Finally made the northern warmth and the Cape and we have loved every minute of it now we are on our way home again and having many more adventures as we slowly travel south.
Spending a few extra days in Townsville now due to a cracked chassis and tow bar mount, due to get fixed this week before we can move on again.
Out on a day trip today heading from Townsville to Charters Towers and back grabbing caches here there and everywhere
What else could the code be, great effort! And this is my favourite find count
**Thanks for placing this cache Cachedin NQ**

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Found with O319. Enjoying a day caching around Charters Towers

Found with SJG66 as we checked out Charters Towers, TFTC

There are many ways to get there, but of course I took the long one . Yay found it ! TFTC

Ocw the Bebes. A quick find at GZ and got the code no worries. Tftc

OCW PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa

Visiting Charters Towers for a couple of days.

So much to enjoy about this hill, so glad we visited.

Easily accessed our golden treasure.

Tftc

What a great cache! First letterbox! Tftc!

Good challenging hide

Since my last visit to the area just before last Easter’s Mega, 39 new hides had been calling me to return. I’d been saving them for a ‘rainy day’ which came in the form of the final (and still tedious) Signal labyrinth challenge.

With the Mrs roped in for company (and to take the driving duties for the survivor series) we set out to collect the remaining range caches before heading through the back door to the Towers.

After completing the Survivor series there were a handful of labs, the virtual and this in town to target. I am a sucker for ammo cans and locks so I’m sure you’d expect a favourite point here. Anything less would be rude.

Thanks Cachedin NQ for getting me off the couch.

A trip to Perth checking out some of the awesome places along the way in ACT, NSW, Qld and NT. Grabbing some old caches and missing LGAs. TFTC.
Nice big cache. Grass is very wet after 2 inches of rain.

found it took a little bit to find out the code

After setting up our swags at the caravan park, we still had time to find a couple more caches. I parked the geomobile and Konie and I headed up the hill to GZ. There, the cache was quickly located. We added our names to the log, returned everything as found, then continued on our way. TFTC

In the area with Selva Girls picking up some caches as we head south and this was one of them. Headed to GZ and soon found the cache and once log was signed all was returned as found.

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

TFTC Cachedin NQ

TFTC cachedin NQ, TNLN All good at GZ.

Love the concept of this cache! Made my way to GZ, used the code and signed the log within nestled among lots of good swag. Gets a favourite from me.

TNLN TFTC

Out and about with Morgo checking out the sights and finding caches.

TFTC

Awesome cache!

Favourite point added

Sandyofthesea and I took off from Perth at the start of April to travel more of Australia using geocaching as a guide to see the sights. How good is this country!!

Cachedin NQ, I found Gold letterbox today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

28/8/22 Up in Charters Towers for the weekend. Exploring the hill. TFTC TNLN SL

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Out to do an Al and a Wherigo. After 3 days in the car I opted to walk the Wherigo. Wandered past this one. Nice big container. [^]

Great Northern escape 2022 Day 79. Charters Towers Day 2. Today was supposed to be a shorter day doing the remaining caches around town I could get to. It turned unto a marathon of long multis zig zaging all over town with a dash way out to the south for one final location. I then had to out wait a ground staff person so I could make a dramatic climb to my last cache of the day. Lots of success, but it all took so much longer than expected.

This is a very impressive cache in such an easy to get to location. I am not sure why I did not stop at this one in April.

Thanks for the cache Cachedin NQ

36677.4 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & First Geocoin in Orbit Copper A#104

**Albida**

After a DNF in a park in town, we were reluctant to finish the afternoon on that note so we called by here for a straightforward find. Very nicely done thank you!

I pulled over in the carpark across the road coming down from the hill, a short walk and a bit of a scramble soon had this nicely themed and sized cache in my hands, it wasn't hard to work out the code to gain access, log signed and replaced as found, a favourite point from me and

TFTC

A fairly quick find on an overcast and quiet day
Muggles all off voting?
TFTC

Our last day in Charters Towers and it was the bikes turn for sight seeing, after our 4 weeks riding in Townsville, we have come to like caching on our bikes. Plan on doing a few hills but should be ok with the ebikes.

Thanks Cachedin NQ for the caches.
Total Cache Finds 13027,

We liked the exercise need to find the cache... All good here signed big log and returned cache to its hide. Tftc and the challenge

A quick find here TFTC

Got off to a late start to do some caching around Charters Towers with ilook4geo. It was quiet around town being Anzac Day. No problem in finding this cache and adding both names to the log. Cachedin NQ gets our thanks for placing this cache.

Just doing a bit of caching today with goingplaces2 when it was not raining too hard. Sometimes we had to stop, so didn't get to do as many as we would have liked. TFTC.

Tft$ We found the pot of GOLD at the end of the Rainbow. FP awarded.

We came to charters towers, and we struck gold!
It looks like there has been a fire recently in this area but all is well and safe with this Hide. A lovely location for this letterbox hybrid and so lovely to find such a big container here. Gold!
A FP added. Thanks Cachedin NQ
Domsky

Bit of a scramble and a shower of rain could not deter me from my prize! Fave point!!!

We decided to start caching a little bit earlier than usual - best decision ever as it started showering later in the morning and then it just rained all afternoon.
We completed the tribe series as well as many other interesting caches north of Charters Towers.
Thanks to the CO's for placing these caches.
A FP given.

Got it thanks fun times. Fav point alloc

Gold for Goldies!!

Our surname is GOLDau.

Uwe and Susanne Goldau!


Our first full day in CT. We followed the Tribe, now caching around the area.

Tftc Cachedin NQ

Out and about caching in and around Charter Towers today. Caches visited took us too many spots with many varied caches of different sizes/shapes. Thank you for placing the caches in their locations. TFTC Giving a FP for the cache container itself

Gold Gold Gold!

Gold for the Goldies!

What a beautiful cache and contents! And we spell our surname always

Goldau - like GOLD and AU for Australia.

Tftc Cachedin NQ

TFTC. A few days in Charters Towers to find more caches. We had been up Towers Hill and stayed caching close by in the drizzle. We stopped and quickly located the hide. Careful scrambled on the wet rocks to find a well themed container. FP from us.

Out and about on the road with Swearah and jodsta83.

I spied the spot from below and jodsta83 made the find thanks

In Charters Towers for the night making our way back to Brisbane from Townsville. We decided to stop in at this one and I am glad we did this is a great cache. I managed to spot this hide. It was on my way down and it was then that my trusty hiking thongs let me down and I slipped and managed to get my foot between 2 rocks. No major damage just a bit of skin lost. So far on this trip they have climbed trees mountains you name it but here they just lost their grip. Tftc Cachedin NQ ️

This was a cool cache. Stephyy spotted a SPOR from below and jodsta83 made the find. We
got in easily thanks to the hint.

Thanks for the letterbox cache, Cachedin NQ

Grabbing a few extra smileys on my way home from the mega.
Arrived at GZ and saw there had been a fire go though recently.
Scrambled up the ricks and found the cache tucked away all safe and sound.
Opened the containers and signed the log.

Thanks for placing this one.

TNLN

Checked on stamp and it was present. Rebuilt the fortifications, try to only move the top rocks.

Found as part of the Qld Cache mega event weekend in Townsville over Easter 2022. Joined forces with Gunnie69 after flying up from Brisbane to tackle a variety of caches around the Townsville area including three GeoArt series, other puzzles and a few labs! I would like to thank all the cache owners who are making this an enjoyable weekend!



Today we trekked out along the Flinders Highway to the historical town of Charters Towers. Enjoyed some of the sights, old buildings, occasional wildlife and of course lunch at a local pub!



A smiley has been added to the cache!

Thanks Cachedin NQ for the cache, the hunt and the smiley today! [D*|

In town to enjoy the surrounds and break up the Mega weekend in the big smoke. The rarer icons always catch my attention, so this was a must have as Ghostgums and I worked our way around town.

GG and I split up at GZ and shared the huntng which was a must now the sun was well and truly putting in an effort. After a quick scan, Ghostgums had the container in hand and the log out for us to sign. [^]

Business was taken care of and the container returned. Time to head up the hill...

Cheers Cachedin NQ.

This cache was found today and brings our overall cache find tally to 11101.

A nice scramble up to a fairly quick find. No issues working out the password on this one.

Thanks Cachedin NQ for the cache.

In town for the mega, using caching as a guide to show us the best of what the region has to offer.

Early for the CITO so what to do, hmmm. I know, grab some caches
This was fun, have an FP.

Find #12456 @ 06:25
Thanks Cachedin NQ for giving us a reason to visit.

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Whilst the smell isn’t the most pleasant, the burn off did allow unfettered access by the posse of cachers assembled. Thanks Cachedin NQ. Might I add that there is no stamp that i could see but the ammo tin is pretty shmick. Almost FUNKy

First letterbox and it’s pure GOLD. No stamp I have been made aware, but nevertheless this is pretty cool. Visited this cache with the fleetfooted greencordial and BenM70

Great letterbox cache in a perfect location. AtTheLakeHouse and I struck gold very quickly following the CITO event and this is a perfect one for my Many Cache Types on a Day challenge. Thank you CachedinNQ for continuing to add more and more different cache types to the region. Very much appreciated

And with a visit for the CITO on the hill today, provided an opportunity to have a look here.
Plus will help with my attempt at increasing my diversity numbers too
Wasn't going to leave the hill without a look
No worries here
Nice little AU letterbox
Thanks for the cache
Added a favourite.

I honestly thought that I would never get to enjoy a whole series of caches on mega day but it looks like our dream came true. A bit of a late night Rendezvous in charters with BenM70 and the elusive Hoisan and we were glad for the short walk up the hill for this sign. Well done team CNQ



Thank you Cachedin NQ for placing this cache for me to enjoy!

Had the pleasure of meeting Mr CNQ on the Hill this morning and then had the pleasure of doing this cache on our way out. Hmmmmm… I wonder what that 4 letter word could be? . Love the themed container and contents too. Job well done on this cache. Many thanks!

Townsville Mega Day Four.

Having negotiated the Maze, I’m off to Charters Towers for the day.

This is my second golden ammo can for this week. A very well organised letterbox cache, and the wallabies watched on while I signed the log.

Thanks Cachedin NQ.

Day 7 of our trek to the Townsville Mega and back with fitzy_1965 and two of my geo-kids Death_killer & my_name_jeff_1.

The long awaited day we drive into Townsville! We did a bit of caching around Charters Towers before leaving. Definitely some great caching there and some good Adventure Labs worth doing. A simple drive to Townsville: we are all happy to finally be here. The kids were very glad to have a quick dip in the pool at the Motel before some rest before all things Mega kicking off tomorrow.

All caches were found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned.

27,567. Found with minniek during our Grand Townsville Trek up to CacheQLD's Townsville Mega Event over Easter.

Day 7 of our Townsville Trek, and we cached our way around Charters Towers again during the morning, before doing the short journey to Townsville for the main event (literally !). A couple of neat Adventure Labs were completed, as well as their bonus caches (one a real doozy) plus some other must do caches along the way. This cache was a nice quick find once we did the short climb up to GZ without getting too dirty and 'guessing' the code ! Signed the log, replaced the cache, then continued along to the next cache on our list.

Thanks Cachedin NQ !! Fav Point !

Having a great time making our way to the Townsville Mega with Team Crackers, Micaparamedic and Geoturtle37.
We have made it this far and have a couple of days up our sleeves so decided to set up camp for a couple of days and wash off some of the dust. It was an interesting sensation to not be rumbling along the road with the dust in our face, eyes . . . . .
Once we found the correct altitude, the cache was quickly found. We met two other teams whilst here and had a bit of a chat. All heading the same way.
Thanks for placing this cache for us to find.

Team Crackers, Micaparamedic, Papi4596 and I are making slow progress towards the Mega in Townsvlle. We are having a fantastic time finding caches with a little bit of touristing in between. As we are staying in town for more than a couple of hours, we took the opportunity to look for some solved puzzles, complete some multis and grab any trads we drove past.
There were enough of us to tackle the various levels and it didn't take too long for papi4506 to come up with the goods.
Thanks for the cache.

Having arrived in Townsville a few days earlier for the MEGA event, Tour De Ville (TMZ59, Imbunda, Peppa and I) are taking a day trip to Charters Towers and Ravenswood to claim another LGA and find a few caches in the area.

Always enjoy finding Letterboxes and this one didn't disappoint. Located the box, checked the contents, stamped my letterbox book and returned all back to its hide. Loved checking out all the historical places here.

As the saying goes - There's GOLD in them thar hills!!
A fav point from me.

TFTC Cachedin_NQ

While in Townsville for a week we Tour de Ville (Peppa, patrol14, Imbunda, and I) decided to head out to Charters Towers via Ravenswood and claim a few caches. The history of the area is just amazing. Looks like a fire has been through this area recently, luckily the cache was outside the fire zone. Log signed and cache returned to its hiding spot. Thank you for the cache. ??????

We arrived in Townsville on 11th for the MEGA Event as the Tour de Ville Team - TMZ59, Patrol14, Peppa and me and decided to do a few trip about the outer reaches of the area and we all needed this LGA I think.
We had a very over priced lunch in Charters Towers, the smallest wrap I've ever seen and a coffee almost $20. Should have had a sandwich about $5 cheaper but nothing had prices on them.
We didn't take long to find this cache and had the log signed before replacing as found. Favourite point given. TFTC

First find in The Towers. We spotted a few other cachers heading up the hill and followed. Nice to meet other cachers before the Mega. TFTC.

Another day in Townsville… another trip in the Habanero Sport… today though I’m at the wheel… watch out Townsville!!!

With TMZ59 as co-pilot and Patrol14 and Imbunda in the back, we’re off to Ravenswood and Charters Towers for a bit of hysterical, sorry historical, learning…

Back in Brisbane, I created a list… everyone does… it wasn’t as long as others, but it would certainly keep us busy… if only we could stick to it…

We’ve now had lunch at a very overpriced cafe in town, visited a pharmacy and replaced my shirt…

Once at GZ it didn’t long to see the reflection… a nicely executed letterbox in a crispy location…

Dropping a fave point… tftc… log signed Tour de Ville - TIPP ??????

We camped in Charters Towers again last night with micaparamedic, Geoturtle37 & Papi4506 and started the day with a nice leisurely morning picking up a few caches up along the way before we left town to head to Townsville for few days to attend the mega.

We stopped here and the approach to gz was made quite easily because of a recent burn off and once we were at the right altitude Papi4506 found the very nice sized container quickly and as we have been doing for most of this trip we signed the log as "The Vics" to save room, not that this one needed it.
We were about to put this back when we saw some people approaching, it turns out that they were cachers so we had a bit of a chat to them for awhile before heading back to the car and on to the next one.

Thanks CachedNQ for setting up this letterbox.

It’s Mega time once again!! Woo hoo!! Love these epic road trips. This time the plan is Canberra to Narromine to Cunnamulla to Blackall, a detour via Winton and then swinging back to Charters Towers before the main event in Townsville. Will see if the April rains and flooding detour us! Thanks to everyone in the region for the top quality caching. Appreciate your efforts.

Ran into some other cachers at GZ making the hunt significantly easier

Thanks for the cache!

#13921 - 11:45:00 AM; Day eight of the Townsville Mega adventure with Sol de lune. Made it through to Townsville last night and headed out to Charters Towers to try our hand at the variety of cache types in the area today. Managed 30 finds for the day on the way to and from and around the town in Charters Towers, with one DNF. Cache types we found included Adventure Labs, Letterbox Hybrids, Trads, Multis, Unknown (Puzzle), Wherigos, a virtual and an earthcache. All caches were found in good order unless noted in the log and where required each has been signed L.L10n & Sdl or vice versa. Luckily the recent burn off missed this well constructed cache. A favourite for this one! TFTC Cachedin NQ

Awesome cache with a great them, loved it. No problem finding this or working out the code. Nice big log book.

Day 8 of the road trip to Townsville to with LuckyL10n and today it was a drive from Townsville out to Charters Towers.

A quieter day than others on the trip, but that was due to the different types. Puzzles, WIG's and Multi's were the order of the day. A couple of trads of course as went right past them....and we couldn't leave them could we?

Left CT around 2.30 and head for Cardwell to help fill in a few counties up towards Cairns and the Tablelands. All up, another great day.

Thanks to all the CO's for the caches....they all help to make the trip a good time.

Great location and a fav point. Picked up one of the travellers to keep travelling and discovered the other. TFTC.

#17044 @1210
Day 5 of a 3 week holiday driving from Canberra to Townsville and back to attend the Mega. Today was Torrens Creek to Townsville with a stop in Charters Towers. Approx 300km. Cache easily found in good condition. TFTC.

Date: April 12, 2022
Find #12361

Travelling up to Townsville for the Mega Event and Maze with beckNmonts. Found this one along the way.

Day 9, starting in Charters Towers and headed for Townsville. Now to cache along the way picking up as many puzzles and rarer cache types as we could.

Massive thanks go to Cachedin NQ for placing this one. ??

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Like all geocachers, I’m taking the scenic, slow route to Townsville. Along the way we detoured for, amongst many others, this geocache.

As this was one of the more unusual cache types, we made sure it was detoured to!

Thanks for placing the cache Cachedin NQ, without hiders the game wouldn’t exist.

On the way to Townsville and stopped to find some caches here.Met E gregory from South Australia at this one, knew the name but can now match it with a face.All good here after a fire.TFTC??

Found as I made my way up to the Townsville Mega from Adelaide.

I camped last night near Charters Towers, then finished doing the caches around the town that were of interest to me this morning before heading east.

It had been another warm and humid day, but fortunately the only caches requiring any sort of a walk were completed this morning before it got too unpleasant.

All of the caches, including this one were found without difficulty and were in good condition.

Thanks Cachedin NQ for the the cache.

Found it. Thanks to Cachedin NQ for placing this cache. Very nice cache. Loved the stamp.

10 April 2022

Find #1206

**This Cache:**

My first cache of the day, and an excellent one!
Parked at the bottom of the hill and made a pretty straight line hike up onto the rocks. The well sized and good quality cache was soon discovered! I loved the code to open it and the theme in general, well done!

TFTC

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**Today:**

Day 5 of my road trip from Canberra - Townsville Mega Event!

Today was laid back, I had made excellent time and only needed to get from Pentland - Townsville! I spent almost the entire day in Charters Towers! I initially only had a couple of caches planned, but I fell in love with the caching and town itself and ended up spending all the time I could until I had to be in Townsville to meet someone at the airport!

Wow, caching in Charters Towers was just fantastic, super high quality hides and a very cool town with lots to see. It was a highlight of my trip!

Stopped in Charters Towers for a few days to get a few more caches on our way to Townsville for the mega. Did your Gold letterbox today. 9 April 2022 6:37 pm Tyfc Cachedin NQ total caches now 4538 .

We have commenced our journey towards Townsville Mega Event
Charters Towers Day 4 Our final day here.
Now that the lookout area has been reopened we returned to the lookout to complete the AL & the new virtual that was placed since we arrived. Then a couple of WIG, Letterbox & a puzzles to finish off our time here.
Charters Towers is a wonderful place to explore & some amazing heritage buildings.
A FP given here
Thankyou Cachedin NQ for placing this cache.

Oh what a glorious day to find a slice of GOLD below The World. Geo_Jewel and I set out early to pick up this little gem as I went to bed dreaming of GOLD.
Never nice to see fresh burn at a trailhead but knew the CO would have it all under control.
Left behind 5 golden ‘takables’ and left one of the inactivated tra cables for STF.
[FTF] streak continues! Thanks for placing this amazing cache Cachedin NQ

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We missed seeing this when we were doing the wherigo. And it looked too good to miss.... so we came back. Felt like we'd struck gold. Loved this themed letterbox... another FP from us. TFTC and the 2TF unactivated TB Cachedin NQ. Left Simrebel's A Merry Caching Christmas with Signal (2017) Multi-Color LED TB. With an attached gold coin it was perfect here. [^]

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