Ruby's Birthday Cache Mossman, Queensland, Australia
By Rudy&Ruby on 03-Jul-04. Waypoint GCJWED

It appears the cache has been lost I have had a offer to place a cache in this beautiful spot, so hopefully there will be will an active cache at this location soon.

Afraid it's not there anymore.

Looked and looked and looked but without any luck. Strongly suggest that this one has gone.
Beaker

looked for ages wile a thousand tourists walked above. didnt get sprung at least

Nice cache, i found it easily. Bigger problem were all the tourists.
There is a nice spot, where we had a swim.
TFTC CADS11

IN: Coin

There were heaps of people visiting the gorge today. Waited on the boardwalk lookout for a while to see if there was a gap in passing and returning traffic but no chance! . I had come a long way to get this cache and wasn't leaving without finding it.

I hatched a plan. I would drop my handkerchief over the boardwalk and onto the ground then would have to scamper off and under the boardwalk to retrieve it (and of course the cache). I would go with keys in hand and drop them when I picked up my hankie, muttering about looking for my keys and giving me an opportunity to search around under the boardwalk for the cache.

I then proceeded with the plan, explaining to people walking past what I was doing. Got the hankie then started muttering about dropping my keys and couldn't find them, while looking for the cache. It worked well. But I had to then hide the cache on my person and retreat to a different area to sign the log. But how to put it back without raising suspicions. Well, I planned to wait about 10 minutes until a new batch of muggles had arrived and the old batch had departed, then repeat the hankie and keys plan. All the while people were walking up and down the boardwalk. Then two ladies decided they would stop right on GZ and talk - for ages! I waited, and waited, and waited. To avoid spending all day there I contemplated issuing a tsunami alert for the river to get them to move but finally their husbands dragged them away. I then repeated my plan with success - I think!

After all that I signed the log. TFTC Rudy&Ruby.

Found at 1120hrs. Had my son and daughter with me. My daughter found it fairly quickly after we worked out which 7th support to look for.

1250hrs. Shame we didn't have our costume for a swim. Place was packed on a beautiful day. Grabbed coin to move on. TFTCSL

Very nice spot.
There were a lot of peol´ple around going for a swim in the river.
Left 1 coin

TFTC

A quick find at 11:35am, once we actually got around to GZ. GPS reception was very tricky and lots of muggles around. What a beautiful spot!! we spent at least an hour swimming afterwards. Absolutely awesome!

Great spot - lots of people swimming and visiting the lookout. Too bad the bridge was closed as that view of Mossman Gorge was something we were looking forward to on our visit to Australia. Now it's just one more reason to come back! TFTC - #279.

TFTC TNLN SL

Pt. Douglas Trip 09.6. There were lots of people in the water today, a side effect of the heat. It meant most people were watching those in the river, not me poking around off the track. Thanks.

2582.55 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Dragon A#44

Albida

Aug 30, 2009. 14:10 Hrs LT.
Took some effort to get the cache without being detected. Lots of people around. That, in combination with the high temperature, produced a lot of sweat!!
TFTC in this beautyfull Gorge.
Left my 'trademark' a golfball, marked:
"Pocileh (Aus 2)" from the Netherlands.

#350. Logged on a quick tour of the Mossman Gorge. Nice place..

Found during our family trip to Australia.
Thanks to all australian cachers for making us discover all those nice places!
Greetings from France!!!!

Found it at our trip through Australia. Greetings from Holland! TFTC!

Beautiful spot - found with the Alpine Nomads on our winter holiday to Cairns from chilly Canberra. TFTC

What a great spot Just the sort of spot for a cache, tnln. Found this one in company with Mewt..

Found it quickly, muggle central
TFTC
Cheers
CamHelen & Kids

Found today on our loverly walk up the trail. Muggles were about but not to bad. Water was flowing and we had a paddle! TNLN TFTC

Constant stream of muggles coming and going today, in the end just couldn't find an unobserved moment to search for the cache. Too bad! Also, the longer hike in this area was closed today, a bit of a disappointment. Still, a pretty area, glad to have seen it.

NIce cache but river flowing too high for a safe swim. Must be a lovely spot on a sunny day.

Cache easily found, then off for a nice refreshing swim.
What a beautiful spot!
Many thanks.

Great swimming hole and the water was warm...TFTC

good ride through the cane fields rewarded by a nice cache. TFTC

Beautiful in the morning, no people at all, murmuring waters - thanks for this special spot!
Ruby must turn 16 this July. Does he still like Geocaching?
TFTC
T Elephant
L party popper
Ingrid and Walter

This was a nice place to visit the water was flowing really well due to recent rains. Pity it wasn't a bit sunnier at the time. I would have had a swim but the water was too cold for Bedmaker. All the other tourists where braving the water which was good as that left GZ clear of any muggles. Found it and all OK. TFTC.

perfect day to go for a swim, lot's of mugles thought the same... found it right away;

thanks
Trapiche

this was really easy to find, but the logging took some time bevcause there were so much muggles around. but finally made it. thanks for thie nice cache.

zeith (ophiolith)

16.50 - First in 2009. Tricky with poor sat reception in the tree cover. Hint and instinct made up for it. Nice location and bugger all muggles on this rainy Sunday pm. -/+ 0. T4TC

Nice spot. TN left toy elephant.

My first cache in forest and 5 in Australia. Nice place. Thanks
IN: Czech coin

Thanks for the cache!!! It was so much fun. It is my first cache on the Australian continent. And what a perfect location for it. I found it without any GPS device at all. I tried a few possible location with no luck, but when I came back from the extended jungle walk, it was pretty much clear where should I look for it. SL. TFTC!

Thanks for the Cache. Greetings from Germany.

For some unknown reason the last thing we expected to see was cattle grazing around the swamp, there was also a few birds making use of what's left of the water. This is a really great location as in Victoria not many of the hides have such good identification charts. Once the GPS finally settled down we knew exactly where the cache would be
Took the tb and a few photos of the area
Thanks Searchwise15 for the cache

We had alsorts of fun here, we couldn't take our GPS out of the car as our batteries were flat, so we searched under every boardwalk we came across. We will be back to try and find it another day, and as we only live 15mins away, we will come again when it isn't so busy. What an adventure, it was our first day caching, and second stop... back soon.

Lots of muggles about (as usual by the looks of things!) but isn't it amazing how clumsy nearby some caches? Oops! I dropped my.... (fill in the blank). Was able to retrieve and return the cache without arousing any suspicion. Loved the gorge, and the water was only freezing for the first minute or two TFTC

Found on our day trip to the gorge. Had no satalites so used geo sense for this find Great swimming spot .
TNLN SL TFTC
Cheers
LIVERPOOLRED
(Y.N.W.A.)

Likewise, heaps of muggles about. Spotted container but elected not to retrieve it or log the find.

Today everyone decided to visit this site. It was muggle central. Fortunately most were into swimming and an opportunity arose to dive into the hidey hole and do the deed while several more groups passed over. Cache container was on the ground so replaced it back up where it won't get washed away in one on the tropical down pours that occur during the wet season. Then another gap in the traffic allowed me to rejoin the intrepid one and noone was any the wiser.
TNLNSL
TFTC
Found at 12:55

We have to admit we used the hint to find this one - without it we would have been scratching around for a while, and with hundreds of muggles about on a beautiful day we would have been way too suspicious. The hint helped us find the cache within seconds. Took nothing, left a silver ring, a shell, and a red soccer ball. TFTC.

Finaly we can cross this one off the list. Woooooooo. TFTC TNLN SL.

Out caching with Searchwise015 today. TFTC TNLN SL

Happy Birthday to Ruby. GPS was all over the place when a signal was available. Resorted to the hint which made it very easy. TNLN TFTC. We should have built in the time for a swim.

A message for you, Ruby: Your cache is popular and often surrounded by muggles. TFTC

1100 With Mrs C, we had decided to head north while there was a possibility of the sky clearing. Not warm enough to go swimming, but enjoyed the view (and the cache). Grabbed an inactive coin (Oink, cache Critter).
Brought through: Ikey TB, and Baa geocoin.
Left: 'What is Geocaching' card, some 'Note-it' flags, and a stretchy snake.

Found safe and sound with great coordinates, the clue wasn't needed! We were worried about signal strength, and we lost it intermittently, but close to GZ it was OK. A truly fabulous spot, and one we were going to visit anyway, the cache was an added bonus. We only wish we had our swimming gear with us - a bad oversight! Thanks Ruby&Rudy

Took: Rubber mobster finger puppet thing
Left: Unactivated Geocoin

Rated: for Overall Experience

XC and ex Muggle "Conman" out on a hunt in rental car. A day off from Veterinary conference allowed us to get out and about.
Came here and enjoyed the walk up to GZ. Soo many muggles we had to pick our moment. Managed to retrieve between waves of muggles.
Signed log and uplifted trackables in residence. Dropped in Destination Bangkok TB. Hopefully it will move further north.
TFTC #772

Veni-Vidi-Vici
Quick found. Great spot.
TFTC
Greetings from Luxembourg
in : TB
out : coin

**Datum corrected**
Jeah found it with wenzer very quickly in a great spot!
IN: GC
OUT: Pin
Greetings from Luxembourg and TFTC!

Took some new cachers along to 'see how its done'. Plenty of muggles about today but we were able to locate cache without a problem. Replaced with new cache container and log book.
Left: Richlink's United World Geocoin

Went caching for the first time today with Richlink and we found it.. Looks like we're hooked!
TNLN

Gorgeous area, glad I got up early to visit as I was able to find the cache without disturbance, however the lid was rusted and I couldn't get it off! The contents of the cache look wet through too. So it could do with some TLC.
Took some photos from the nearby viewpoint that I will load up later. On my way back from the rainforest trail, the area was heaving - muggles galore!
TFTC #317

Found by Mr Emu & Demon Boy on our "FNQ holiday" @ .m., GAFF3 http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/GAFF . What a wonderful location. The whole family enjoyed the visit to Mossman Gorge, and we did a lot of walking after finding the cache. Unfortunately the cache itself is a bit wet inside - probably not an ideal container, but thanks for the cache anyway, Rudy&Ruby.

Took: Nil; Left: Nil
Also a quick in-and-out for "Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly" geocoin.

Can say that the water is definately cold. Enjoyed a brisk swim and a tumble down the rapids. Cache was hard to get into but perserverance paid off. An unusual container but with a bit of back and forth on the lid it finaly gave us our prize.

After several attempts we couldn't remove the lid from the cache, due to corrosion. Contents look very wet.

Found at 11.50am on a stunning morning at this beautiful location. Couldn't get the lid off the cache to sign log or make swaps. TFTC

Found the cache but the log book was a wreck. Dropped in a replacement piece of paper for cachers to use as a temporary log but the container also needs upgrading to make things more waterproof. This is a fantastic spot for a cache, perhaps one of the locals could adopt this one and help fix it up. TFTC.

[This entry was edited by Kiwi_Explorer on Sunday, May 04, 2008 at 6:31:52 PM.]

My husband really wanted to come and visit Mossman Gorge. We got there in the early evening, and went for a loop walk on the track. We enjoyed the different viewpoints, Mossman River, Rex Creek, and the swing bridge.

I was worried that we wouldn't find the cache, as we were having difficulties with reception, but we managed to get it. We almost had the whole place to ourselves, which was pretty nice (except for a couple that we found sitting by the water at one point).

When we got back to the parking lot, it was getting pretty dark, and we saw lots of fireflies. The only time that we saw fireflies while visiting Australia.

Yes, the cache is here and quite wet. Great place to visit from Santa Barbara, California. Thanks.

Great spot.Not much GPS signal and raining heavily.Lid not screwed on properly.Log wet . Unable to leave message.Took garfield glasses cloth.Left dinosaur finger puppet.TFTC.

This place was over run with Muggles today. Nice hot weather has bought everyone down to their favourite swimming hole.
Due to lack of GPS reception, we kept walking till we came across the right place. Very difficult to extract with people everywhere, waited for the right moment and dived under for an easy find. Yes it is quite exposed, should it be higher?
Contents are wet, but we had nothing to replace the log with.
TFTC TNLN SL

Tried this one a couple of days ago, but there were rangers all over the place painting it with decking oil. Nice easy find early today.Cache was sitting quite exposed, not sure if this is intended, so sat it behind post. TFTC. TNLN.

This area is beautyfull!!!

TFTC
YACUP

13:35hr #075
Did Mossman-Gorge today. Picked this one also. Realy nice surroundings, loved the spot. Found the stash easily.

TFTC greetinX from team Jahemas Holland
L: nothing, our TB's were to big! at least their attachments....
T: Canadian Forces Coin

Lots of muggles around here on a Sunday, but we were able to get to the cache when no one was looking.

Took the globe Travel Bug, and left a Canadian Forces Geocoin.

TFTC.

Found the cache and then went for dip in the water. Very refreshing.
Marc B - Belgium

Lovely walk in Mossman Gorge and the bonus of a nice easy cache. Dropped off "Globetrotter" TB.
TFTC

Nice walk. Beautiful area. Visiting from Vancouver Canada. TFTH. Big Bopper 1

Found our first cache with the help of our friends (craigsam) & the use of their gps (as we are yet to purchase our own). Easy find but lots of muggles today as the cache is in a very popular spot. We are definitely hooked though and can't wait to find number 2 for the day.

TNLN. Thanks for the cache!

Muggles everywhere, Nice spot have been here in the past while up this way for work.Did a day trip with some friends.Cache was found by Wayne and Carly. TNLN hanks for the cache

Yep, lots of muggles alright. We bided our time and managed to grab and then replace the cache during a short break in traffic. This is a lovely spot, one of my favourite in far north QLD and our third visit here although the previous times were almost 20 years ago! Thanks!

Before crossing the Daintree river we went for this cache at the Mossman gorge.
First there where too many muggles around so we decided to do the 2 KM walk first.
Beautiful. When we returned we could sneak the cache from its place.
TFTC. Team Fixitwell from the Netherlands

We have been here once before, what a lovely place this is.
Lots of mugglers, ooops dropped my glasses had to go and find them.
TFTC
TNLN
SL

A lovely spot to visit. Really enjoyed revisiting this spot. The cache was on the ground near the original hiding spot. Think I put it back in the right place. TNLN TFTC

Found with many muggles near by.

This is another one that I have been waiting to come back online. Thanks for reseting it Liz and Bruce. Arrived there nice and early. Managed to extract cache without a problem howvever putting it back in was a litle more difficult due to constant stream of a cycling tour group passing through.

TFTC

Stoode directly over it but too many muggles to chance a pick up. Thanks for the hide however since it brought up to an interesting spot.

This is a beautiful location that I would recommend visiting to everyone. Unfortunately everyone seems to know this already, there were muggles everywhere so we couldnt look for the cache. We were there at mid-day, so perhaps an early visit to this site would have more luck =)

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 16° 28.196 E 145° 19.796
Distance From Old: 93.8 feet
Under the boardwalk. Seventh support along.

A beautiful location and as busy the second time as it was the first time. We did a return visit to show my sister from Adelaide the area. TNLN. Thanks for the cache.

Nice spot. Car park was full and over flowed down the road. TOO MANY MUGGLES.

We got as far as the carpark, the rain was hitting the car so hard it hurt, and no-one set foot outside the car. After waiting 15 minutes we decided to leave, as it wasn't the weather for a swim and the river was raging. So we didn't even get our swim

We suspect that this cache has been washed out to sea - caches placed nearby to river banks in the dry season quickly become flotsam in the wet season. The particular river that this cache is/was sited experiences significant variation in water levels and is particularly dangerous at anytime except when water levels are low.

If the owner is not available to check on the cache then we recommend archiving.

Yeah!! Search as I can... Nothing there!! I hope the owner will fix it very soon as I will return back eh!!!. Anyway thank you for organise the cache and hunt.

I agree with the last log. Found the empty blue screw top container and took away the rubbish. Looks to me as if this one has been washed away, but then again maybe its just being an elusize little fellow. Thanks for bringing us to a nice spot though, only wish we had taken the time to expore upstream a bit away from the crowds.

This must be one of my favourite DNF's. On a 27 degree day this swimming hole was just fantastic
Water temp was just right and I got a bit sidetracked in my search for a while. Finally got to the search bit, but alas I couldn't locate the cache
(I found a 2litre clear blue, round, screwtop container wedged in the rocks nearby but it had no lid and no contents)
Aaaah well, it was worth the visit for the swim and scenery

Attempted cache on this nice sunny day but the current was just too strong unless your a very strong swimmer it's too dangerous. I got half way across but its just not worth it. In the dryer months it may be better but I don't think its the best place for the cache. I appreciate the cache to do, but perhaps move it to this side of the river to be safer? It's really not that safe.

Visited with Boxigo, but was unwilling to ignore the *three* separate signs advising against swimming here.

We almost got there but the river looked too treacherous today as the photographs show. Hopefully it will be a low, slow tide on our next visit so that we can complete it.

Apart from the Mothers day crowd and the high water levels when I see signs that say swimming is not allowed as deaths have occured in this river at this spot, I wonder about the suitability for a cache which requires you to swim across a dangerous river. TKS.

We went to the area where this cache is placed but after more than 250mm of rain over the past few days we couldn't quite get to the final destination.


Thanks

Very invigorating swim across to the other side. Brilliant underwater visibilty however, with many Jungle Perch in the pools. Loads of people arriving all the time. Cache contents still dry inside plastic bag and container supplied by Team Grey Fox. Handy knife very rusty though. Took Dolphin Left ring holder. SL

Other than half of Mossman being at the 'beach' this was a fantastic interlude.
Noticing that the cache was exposed and wet we picked up a waterproof ( but not ratproof) plastic box in town to replace the broken one and swam across and very carefully ( so as not to attract the thousand or so geomuggles) replaced the contents including a new log and pencil. Took Peeler and placed plastic shark
Top spot!!
Team Grey Fox

Great place to visit - lovely swim as always!

Cache has been attacked by rats and the log book is soaked and unusable

Found with GDOE Lucky. Cache needs new logbook and container by next person to visit this site. TFTC.

To many people on this place. No chance to find the cache.

Carsten

Being a Cairns local, I hadn't been there for years. I was able to take my three children there for a great swim (although very cold). Heaps of people in the area but I was able to swim across and pretend to be nature hunting. The cache is well worn and soaked. The log book is totally drenched and unable to be opened or used. I took three large zip lock bags and placed all of the cache in sperate bags and then the entire cache in another. I took the rubber snake and left a potato peeler. If someone is heading for this cache soon, please take a new Spiral notepad to be used as a log book. I hope that the zip lock bags that are now there will help keep everything dry. Great cache.

Very popular spot! Shame to find the cache in such a bad state, unfortunately we had nothing to help waterproof or replace log with, especially as we were a little soggy at the time! Definatly worth reviving.
Don't forget to check out the quality swing bridge up the track, Ubique!