Forgotten Staircase Karragarra Island, Queensland, Australia
By 1MinnieMoo on 30-Sep-22. Waypoint GCA0BX6

Found it.

Out for a fund day of caching on some of the bay islands. All caches were quickly located and our names added to the logs. TFTC

Out caching today visiting the Bayside Islands with joojoo57 and Selva Girls. Great weather hopping on and off the ferry of the 4 islands we visited. Found the cache and signed the log as JARS. TFTC

Great day to be island hopping and finding caches along the way. Many thanks to the COs for placing and maintaining these caches.

TFTF

Out and about enjoying the sunshine today. A little too hot for a hike, so we ventured to the islands. What a great choice! Lovely cache, thanks for taking me here 1MM.

This was a great local find, and I always find forgotten/abandoned structures/relics interesting. Consequently, it was an enjoyable location to visit, and I had a few ideas to where this cache would be, but it was only until I searched a little away that I found the cache nicely tucked away. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks [1MinnieMoo](https://coord.info/PRDCNKE) for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.----------This morning, my parents arrived in Brisbane and were visiting from Adelaide. With no plans set for the day, I suggested a trip to the Southern Moreton Bay Islands (SMBI) by ferry. It just so happened to be a bonus opportunity to grab a couple of newly published geocaches at Karragarra Island. I had previously visited the islands on 18/07/2021 with [jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T), however, that was before an explosion of new geocaches that coincided with the [Celebrating 20 22 years of Geocaching: Karragarra](https://coord.info/GC8HK43) Community Celebration Event, that we were unable to attend.Consequently, we boarded the 12:20 hr ferry, and we visited Karragarra Island and Macleay Island (coincidentally, the only two islands that I had geocaches to find). I brought my E-bike to expedite my islands visits, whilst my parents explored the islands on foot. A terrific winter sunny day, albeit with a chilly wind to the air.

No luck with this one today

Ty

Quite tricky but found it, tftc co

A quick find here, although I didnt brave the staircase this time!

We have been watching these new caches put out on Karragarra island for quite some time, but either the weather or timing was not quite right, but finally a great day was ready to be had, got the ski serviced, and we headed out from Surfers Paradise to retrieve these shiny nice new caches on this island.Absolutely perfect day out on the Well.Interesting set of stairs found here.TFTC

Another really fun one

Day 16 of our attempt to get the new souvenirs. Our longest streak up until now was 10 days. So thanks to the new souvenirs we have now bettered it!! But I do think we can miss a few days and still get the souvenirs.

Dog and house sitting for friends at Redland Bay for 2 weeks so took the opportunity to cache in a different area.

Decided to come to these bay islands today which we have never been to. We brought our bikes and our geo daughter came with us. Due to a late start we only did Russell and Karragarra islands and left the others for another day.

Beautiful cycling and caching weather

Nice easy find. All good with cache

Happy to find a cache 30kms from home so we don’t clean up all our close ones.

Thanks 1MinnieMoo for the cache.

Had a Lovely day out catching the ferry from Redland bay to karragarra island with the Grey Parrots...aka mum and dad. . What a total babe of an island. Have grown up in the Redlands, but never made it over here. Thanks so much for the cache!!

Found it!

Nice old stair case
Good little hide
Tftf

Found it

Found with Dingohash1!

Quick find here. TFTC

Another nice find on our 70km day/night walk around the islands

Thanks MinnieMoo

This staircase is pretty forgotten. Pretty quick find.

Feeling a bit exposed here, I rode my bike down to the bottom of the stairs before beginning my search and quick found it. Thanks for the fun 1MinnieMoo

A very good hiding spot! Don’t give up!

It was quite a walk along from the previous cache, but we were all still fairly fresh. The staircase was not visible from the road, but quite evident from the lower terrace by the water. Matt spotted this one for us, so we signed and had him replace it where he found it. TFTC, 1MinnieMoo.

The best hide on Karra Island and so I’m glad we made a 2nd visit here and found it.
TFTC

Chamad and I both had a spare day today and were looking at options for a ride as Mr TT9 usually enjoys a ride more than Miss TT11 (who was off on scout camp). Chamad mentioned taking the bikes on the ferries and doing the 4 islands to complete the new AL. I have often thought of taking the kids to Coochiemudlo to do caching with the bikes, so this seemed like the perfect practice.

The weather was hot but perfect. Some of the hills on the islands were a bit much for Mr9, but he pushed through and gave it his all. There was a lot of whinging and giving up at times, but at the end he actually said he had a really good day. So did I.

Except now, as I am logging these finds, he is covered in Calamine Lotion. Either his swim or the lie down on a towel in the playground resulted in almost his whole body covered in bites of some kind. Glad it took hours for them to show up or it may have been a painful ride home. Bike, ferry, car....we travelled them all today.

So a while back, I had this great adventure and thought what a great day’s outing it would be for me and the girls. We could take the bikes, island hope on the ferry’s, grab a few caches in the bay and do an adventure lab as well. Should take approximately 4 hrs of caching plus a lunch and drinks ok 5 hours. We could have some lunch at one of the islands and even take in a swim. Well life deals some bad cards some days, so the idea got shelved. That was until I got a phone call from triple turmoil saying she and Rylie had a free day and was at a loose end, hmmm. So I pitched an idea at her and the next thing we were set.

Today we did just that, jumped on the ferry and went to Russel first, grabbed the adventure lab and then a lonnng bike ride to grab a cache. Back on the next ferry to lamb, easy grab a cache and a couple of labs. Back on the next ferry to Macleay, grab a couple of labs. Back on the next ferry to Karragarra. Here we had a swim, a bike ride and finished the days outing, labs done, caches done, awesome. The ferry service was just great and the operators were very helpful in telling us what to do with our bikes.

It was a very nice day and a great days outing, thank you to the CO’s for the caches and the lab. We signed all logs and were happy to find all caches today.
So here we are on the final island and finally a bit of flat island to ride around. Sneaky little hide and I like this one, a favourite point here, thank you.

Out and about on the bike collecting caches on the Bay Islands and completing the AL along the way.

Now after arriving at the nearby event it was time to seek out the cluster of new and the odd not so new cache on this Island . I missed this one on first pass and had to return here in the poring rain to seek it out after gaining vital information from another cacher.

1MinnieMoo and I had placed some caches for our Celebration Event. This was one of them.

I do love finding old forgotten infrastructure when caching. Was happy that 1MinnieMoo placed a cache here. TFTC 1MinnieMoo

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Saturday. The highlight of this day was the Fang event, between that and the weather which changed from Brisbane to Tully half way through, i was surprised to find I had managed to get the SP name into this log (as were you, I am sure!)

This was the 3rd of 9 caches logged on this outing.

Thanks ***1MinnieMoo*** for showing us this place

I love to find hidden treasures such as these stairs, I wonder where they went? who built them? where they a part of a garden or for beach access, who knows? Thanks for your keen eye is spotting these to bring me here.

The forgotten staircase is a OHS nightmare and is best forgotten. Except if you're part of the karra-team looking for a {FTF}. Luckily the team didn't have to venture to the base as I'd expect there'd be unforgotten bodies that didn't manage to climb / fall down the stairwell. Thanks 1MinnieMoo for highlighting the history of Karra.

I has been many years since I last visited this island and found all the geocaches here. But today, I am attending the [Community Celebration Event](https://coord.info/GC8HK43) on Karragarra.. After checking in at the event and having a chat for a while, I decided to motor off for some solo geocaching, my excuse being that a lot of other attendees had done the same.

For the transit, I had brought my less-than-a-week old electric scooter across to chew through the kilometres. Truthfully, I didn't think it made me any quicker than those on foot as I have a tendency to stop and look at things an awful lot.

This was my third stop. Having passed a couple of groups walking, I had this little space for myself. I parked up and couldn't see any staircase. I opted to check the app and noticed it pointing a few metres away. Wild idea, I know, to check the co-ordinates. But it lead me right.

Sure is forgotten - and overgrown. I poked about for a moment before seeing a telltale and beginning to fiddle and diddle to get the container in hand. A fun little hige really. I signed the logbook with the nice view before heading off the long way to the next geocache on my mapo. Thanks for this geocache, 1MinnieMoo

Accio 12:16:30
Out here on Karra for THE event, and there are new geocaches to be had. Having said hello to event-central, T4mmmy and I took a lovely walk around the eastern end of the island. Next stop was here and it was T4 who spotted this one first whilst I was dismantling the railing elsewhere. You don't need to dismantle anything here. I know that now. This staircase is no longer forgotten - it is memorialised.

Thanks 1MinnieMoo for entertaining me at this location.
*{Overall find #10818}*

Mrs Slow Puncture told me about the event here today and we have been planning some island hopping for some time . Today she unfortunately could not make it but Mr Slow Puncture could. The weather was fine when we got there but we could see some big clouds in the distance so i decided to get going quick. It was well and truly raining on the way to this cache and once i spotted the forgotten staircase i had a few looks in wrong places before i spotted this cache. Such a nice spot here. Thanks for taking me here

***FTF with the other lovely folk we joined up with to walk to the end of the island. Signed as Karra-Team to keep in the theme. Thanks for the event and the caches! Fab day even with the rain! This one was sneaky! I had a wee proud moment when I spied it in a spot some others had already looked. Trust me that does not happen very often!

We came across to the Island with Crew 153 to join in at the event and do some caching with some of the other attendees.

We took care not to hang onto the rusty rail while we searched. The cache was located in a spot which a few people had searched without spotting it.

TFTC 1MinnieMoo

Published

FTF shared with Kara team today. We walked along the roadway in a companionable group and discovered this cache at what really is a hidden stairway. It’s well hidden location makes it a slightly tough find but find it the team did and our team name was signed on the log before replacing as found.

Thanks for placing this cache and for the interesting place it took us to.
happy caching.

Tranquil spot

Found with goldielover today while attending the event. Another lovely spot. Doesn't look like the couple of boats have moved for a while.
TFTC

After returning to the event location after finding the 3 caches on the West side I joined a group of cachers who wanted to find the other new caches on the island. We decided to sign the logs as KarraTeam after passing the properties called KarraTime and KarraTide.

We were surprised to see these old steps and we were careful not to test the strength of the rusted rails. The cache was located in a spot which had been searched by a couple of others first. Another *FTF* for the group.

TFTC 1MinnieMoo