GEOCROC-59 Coral Sea, Queensland, Australia
By mackay_geocaching on 10-May-22. Waypoint GC9TJ92

Out for a ride with the crew...thanks for the effort...

Staying at the Central Caravan park at Mackay.This morning the T189 went out bike riding as a groupTheir bikes were all organised & off they went for an enjoyable ride.There was quite a large variety of caches & locations they went to.Thanks alphag_25 for hiding this cache.

Group bike ride to look for a few caches on the bike trail and just off it.Cooler day with a breeze. Great weather.Logs signed T189TFTC

Out with the group today enjoying the bike track and town. Found this one. Thanks for arranging.

TFTC mackay_geocaching your cache GEOCROC-59 that we found today. Out on the bikes with Team JLBL, Snakepitters, DiMorgan and Liz and Bruce. Did a circuit on the Bluewater bike trail. Successful morning riding and walking when required. We did end up with a few DNFs but these had not been found for 12 months or more.Find Count: 20399

Another early start today with a plan to get in some paddle caches along the river, however the recent drizzles have put a little dampener on today's plans. With the change of plans, it is now a drive and cache day. We did still manage to get out and get in a couple of water caches but the tide was all wrong for us and the forecast was for heavier rains later in the day so we decided to abort and go with plan B. The walk around collecting some more of the croc series was nice, yet in that open area it was very windy.We then headed out to grab some multi's and a couple of tree fishing caches before a rugged terrain walk to a couple of challenges of which we aborted one, (next time).The rain did not dampen our spirits and we still had a lot of laughs and a nice time caching and checking out areas of Mackay.There are a lot of caches in this little town and surprisingly they are all there in place. We managed to find most of the caches on our trip and all logs were signed, and all caches were replaced as found. Thanks for the placements here and I'm sure we will be back for the remainder at some point.

We woke up early to a rainy, windy day, so we continued on with our plans best we could with our fowl weather gear on hand.Nearly got blown off our feet at times, but we still managed to find over thirty caches today.All the caches found were in good condition, and a couple were hard to get to but were easy to find once at GZ.Thank you, mackay_geocaching, for another great lot of caches placed for the benefit of the geocaching community.

TFTC smile20483 Out and about on a Sunny day grabing a cache to try and keep a challenge going signed as GS1947 on small logs With geofriends having a great time lots off walking and dirty shoesThank you mackay_geocaching for placing this cache for our enjoyment

Arrived a few hours before low tide and headed up through the dunes dodging the homeless camped in their shelters to grab these few caches, found them all OK although some took a bit more effort to get to, had to cross a water course or 2 to get too the others out near the river and an odd tree climb here and there, thanks for placing these cache's andTFTC

Interesting puzzle solved a while ago and picked up with a couple if others this morning. Cache find but wriggled the tether away from where it was cutting into the bark. Thanks for another cache mackay_geocaching.

Found TFTC SL Thanks for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Good find

found this last one for morning at11.15am to finish on a run of success that is very pleasing,and that lone muggle has gone,tftc

Thanks Mackay Geocaching for the awesome puzzles. Got some help on solving some of the puzzles but fun finding the caches. SL

thanks Mackay Geocaching for the cool puzzles SL

06/11/22 Maintenance Check, cache all good

A nice day out on the bike path today following the others getting some geocaches. We tried out the purple scooters which were fun. thanks for the ca$he

We have solved the puzzles and signed the logs, thanks for the puzzles and the hides

tftc

Our group Team Mackz has slowly been solving these puzzles with a bit of local help. Finally got out for a walk to get them with a couple of locals. Found with gcquest79, mackcacher1208, cachequest11. Thanks Geocaching Mackay for creating this series for us to enjoy. A few of these locations definately had eyes on the lookout for crocs but none spotted.

Thank you very much mackay_geocaching for placing this geocache, giving me a reason to explore this area. I am currently traveling along the coast and try to get as many targeted caches as I can. The majority of them are either in an interesting location, have a great DT combination, a good set of attributes or work in other ways towards my stats. So it was great fun stopping here and getting this cache.
From this series, I solved all the ones I needed before the trip. A few days ago I did the northern part and now on the way back home we stopped once again and did now the southern caches as long as the tides allowed. I very much enjoyed the run out to these ones, a great way to a stretch after having driven up from Rockhampton this morning and now continuing on to Townsville.

Continuing the stroll
chasing geocroc's
all good here
signed and replaced
thanks for the cache

With a few hours spare before flying home today I was able to start on this great new geoart.

Quick find.

Tftc

Georode

Not surprisingly Townsville caching has fallen into a lull after the buzz of the Mega so Ben and I turned our attention to solving Mackay’s new geoart as it was released.

With the generous DT of the last instalment we brought our plans forward to make the trip down to collect the series as we both needed a couple for our FTF grids and I needed two of the combos for my 8th DT loop.

With an early (middle of the night to me) 5:15am start we set off from home with the boat in tow. Ben did his best to get us there as quickly as possible, drafting to increase speed and limit fuel consumption (I’m assuming).

Simple solve and find.

Thanks mackay_geocaching for creating and placing this for us to enjoy.

Currently out and about picking up smileys this fine Saturday in the hope that we cam complete the Mackay crocodile GeoArt and add a few more FTFs to the collection
Certainly happy to have picked up a few first to solves along the way early on when these first trickled out but missed the boat when the latter were released. It’s not like I’m in the running to win a jigidi race
Nice to see that you can pretty much complete a DT loop in Mackay now.
Chilly, without sunny, is even Chillier. Easy find for the beach walkers
Thanks mackay_geocaching for placing these

An easy find on a sunny day.
Chilly but, sunny.

SL TFTC and the series.

this puzzle was doing my head in, thought I had it but the answers were wrong. Seems you don't need to over think stuff.

TFTC
Ratdog is hungry now and I'm going out tonight we need to head home.
TFTC

Mackay Beach walk, couldn’t resist! A *FTF* yay!

Thanks to CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot with stamp

TFTC mackay_geocaching

Find # 7796

So happy to grab a joint *FTF* on the Geocroc series with SeasonedBird. Overcast day making it a good day for beach walking without melting. I’ll leave the more interesting & detailed log to Mrs Geo (aka: SeasonedBird, Salty Chook, the Old Boiler, Old Chook, Dirty Bird, Angry Bird & occasionally even Love Bird) because she writes so much more eloquently than I and usually has much more time to do so while I’m driving. It’s a great day for caching. TFTC mackay_geocaching
Find #10149

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