Baroon Montville, Queensland, Australia
By The Garner Family on 27-Feb-05. Waypoint GCMYC7

Today, the primary plan was the hike up Kenilworth Bluff. An early departure had me driving via Montville, detouring past the northern side of Lake Baroon to check out the spillway. I then made a few driveby stops before arriving and setting off on our group hike and attending the *A Worthy Bluff Bug Bash* Event. It was a long walk around the bluff's plateau to the extent of the nature reserve, before returning back just as the light began to fade. I then made the drive back home connecting to the M1 highway via Gheerulla, following the quickest route.

Whilst nearby, I thought I would make a quick visit to this spillway, when I noticed this archived cache may still be here. I managed to find the hidden/lost track, and made my way down to some superb views of the spillway. With all of the rain that we've had, the spillway was letting quite an amount of water out!

I did spend a good 10-15 minutes searching around, although I didn't hold too much confidence since it had been nine years since it was last found. I was clinging on to the hope that my search prod, prod technique would make a clunk on to the ammo container, but alas, nothing was forthcoming. Given Team Benders had mentioned it took them an hour to find, and that was back in 06/2013, I was happy to have enjoyed the view, and moved on for the day, all the while suspecting that the cache was still here somewhere. Thanks anyway The Garner Family for the cache placement. Had I made this cache find, I probably would have also given a Favourite Point.

It was a beautiful cool morning and there was no one else around so I was able to make my way down to GZ while enjoying some beautiful birdsong and the sound of water going over the spillway. I found a track through some revegetation (where the old track used to be) and recent disturbance lead me straight to the cache. Take care of the bush in here folks.
The log was a bit damp but useable. Thanks Garner Family if you're still listening.

I love finding archived caches and when I saw that the mob from Meg#3 had found this one I just had to come and have a look for myself.
We must have searched for an hour before this one turned up.
Had to hide a few times as muggles coming to look at the spillway showed up and it was spectacular today.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks The Garner Family All good with this cache

MEG#3. This one had been archived but we thought we'd give it a go as we had ~20 pairs of eyes looking. It took a while but we found it. It was in good condition considering. Nice spot. TFTC.

Found with the rest of the group on the MEG outing today. TFTC

Definitely dragging the chain on this log...

Found when out and about up the sunny coast with the MEG#3 mob

TFTC The Garner Family!

Thx to Crew 153 for providing the GC code so I could (FINALLY!!!) get around to logging this cache

Out and about with the MEG3 mob. After a lengthy search that magic sound of hitting an ammo box was heard! A hooray was had at finding the well hidden archived cache.

TFTC The Garner Family

This cache was mobbed as part of 2013's Mission Empty Glass (MEG) - tackling all caches in 'The Glasshouse Mountains'. Mysteries, Micros, Multis, Mountains, Madness, the lot. MEG#3, the Glass Borders, was a day trip around the outside of the defined Glasshouse Mountains. I put out the call if anyone would like to join me for the trip, expecting I'd hope a couple at least to share the day ... was joined by up to 27 of us at the peak, in convoy. Big day out for some caches. Across the day we mostly consisted of myself with Censations, net88, La Kedi, Fangsoki, Sweet_bee, Bedmaker, TassieGirl, Jimmyproject, Karen_hippo, Brother Colin, Iolanthek, T-Tech, Hiltonclan, Nyssaflutterby, membsec, Crew153, Ms Maddy, Nurseyjulie, Hunting Rabbit, Dansync and Just-a-trifle.

An archived cache. No planned hunt by Pprime is complete with one, or two. The reason for archiving seemed to imply hope it may still be there, so included in the hunt. Good thing someone keeps track of these things. Not seen for 18 months, less time than some, but does not diminish the hunt. The convoy pulled up and off we went to mob this poor unsusecting cache. Quick little jaunt down the track - certianly all open now, although we are told by past finders it's a different track to the one that got closed back then. So that means we arrived at GZ slightly below the hint and from a different angle. Not a problem for us. And so the hunt began. Yes, the hint still works, although I would put it at 2m personally. Look here, look there, poke this poke that. Clunk! Oh what a glorious clunk. A clunk that stopped all activity in the vicinity. It was there. An ammo tin survives a long time. And still in perfect condition too, as expected.

Thanks for placing this cache, The Garner Family. Found in good condition.
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Yes it is still there!!! Awesome dam and water fall views on the way to the cache. Found with the MEG#3 mob. TFTC

Found on Meg #3 by the mob. Made a special visit to find if this one still existed and sure enough after a few minutes it was located all well despite a good covering of vegetation.
TFTC

Found with the MEG#3 mob on a great day out. TFTC

I took part in Pprime's MEG#3 today This was my #23 for the day. We knew this one had been archived, but many of us suspected the cache was still in place, just waiting to be rediscovered. We all headed towards GZ, and once there much searching took place, and shortly Fangsoki made the find by thumping his walking stick on the ground and we all heard a very satsifying clunk It was well covered with debris, but the ammo can has survived beautifully. We made sure to tuck it back into place before we left. TFTC, The Garner Family.

Headed north out of Brisbane with IolantheK set for a big day of caching through and around the Glass House Mountains as part of Pprime (P`)'s MEG#3 mob
For those not in the know MEG stands for "Mission Empty Glass" or to explain, P` wants to bag these caches and a bunch of us cachers went along to get them as well [^])

A great day was had by all with a mile stone or two to boot.

This was cache 24 of 39 finds and 3 DNF today [^]

For an achieved cache this one was still very much alive if not seldom found, great spotting Fangsoki [^]

TFTC The Garner Family

Cache number twenty two for me whilst caching with the MEG #3 group. It wasn't hard to find this one with so many eyes. Thanks for the cache Garner Family

Found with MEG#3. It was pretty cool having a few dozen people all hunting for this cache in a small area. It was ultimately located and in remarkably good condition, though given how sturdy the container is, that's understandable.

Found with MEG#3 Group. Had a lovely day caching around Sunshine Coast. TFTC

MEG#3 MOB, Cache 23

It was nice to see both ends of Lake Baroon today. The cache was just off the trail to the spillway. Nice easy walk once you get down the initial drop. This was our first archived cache for the day. No idea why it's still archived...the cache is definitely there. It took two blokes pulling on the box to get it to open.

Found as part of the MEG#3 group.
A short walk to this one. Great views of the spillway flowing.
Thanks for the cache.

I was caching with the MEG #3 group and it was decided that we should see if this cache was still in situ.

After checking out the flow of water over the spillway I joined a few others looking for the cache and I was standing beside Fangsoki when I heard the distinctive thud of his hiking pole on an ammo can.

It was great to get our hands on this oldie. the insides were a bit rusty but still quite dry.

TFTC.

As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Can the cache owner please disable the cache as the area is closed off due to safety reasons.

Disabling cache due to area being closed off - will re-enable in time.

Found with the rest of the group on our Sunshine Coast Hinterland caching trip. TFTC

Found it..

part of group caching visit to the area today...

Stepped around that fence (or was it over it) and followed an easy walk dowmn to cache..

TNLNSL


Thanks Garner Family for the cache..

Found in the company of our group out here for the day.
Marvelled at the plug hole that was there at the time while the water was flowing.
TFTC.

Hopped over the orange tape with everyone else and grabbed this cache. TN/LN/SL Spent a good while gazing at the bottom of the spillway and thinking about the beautiful place under all that water. I visited a couple of times before the dam arrived and even camped by the creek once. I know the dam was/is needed, so I kinda wish I didn't know what was under there .

What amazingly tall lush grass trees with flower spikes! There is nothing quite so special as the Australian bush. Lots of magpies around. We even saw the ultimate in lazy dog owners. Their idea of exercising the dogs was to drive in circles in the car park with the dogs running beside the car!
TFTC. I did enjoy the bushland.

What sign? I saw nuffink. Oh, I did see a cache. And a sort of whirlpool in the water as it went down what appeared to be an enormous plughole. Made quite an awful gurgly sucking sound, too, just like a bath being emptied. Memorable! TFTC. ='.'=

I was at the back of the group so the cache was already out and doing the rounds by the time I arrived at GZ. Nice to see the water is still going over the spillway. TFTC

Well - a sign and a makeshift fence saying "No Entry" blocked our path. We were not having any of that so everyone darted around it and made our way to GZ. I was hunting in the incorrect area, while Lokipagan came up with the well hidden beast. We had a bit of a look from the nearby platform. TFTC The Garner Family - it has been a while since I have been here

The track down to this one is closed off at the moment but it wasn't going to stop us getting the cache! Beautiful spot! Thanks The Garner Family

Nice location - just signed the log and put it back. Thanx for the view!

Found today on our return to Brisbane from a beautiful weekend at the Sunshine Coast. nice spot would be beautiful when the spillway has water flowing over it. The cache is a bit damp as some water has got in, the logbook was also slightly damp but should be ok. TNLNSL TFTC

Found easily today while on holidays. The path to gz is well worn. Good cache. We are staying close by at secrets which is absolutely beautiful.

Found this one today on our tour of the range. We came here a couple of months ago when the spillway had 3 meters of water flowing over it, but the muggles were endless. Much more successful today. Lid could use some WD40 as its getting hard to open. TNLN Thanks The Garner Family

Nice one during our first daytrip in Australia. A bit wet and rusty.
TFTC!

Dropped off Larry Csonka commemorative coin (Not a geocoin) and picked up Barney Rubble toy - Geowife reckoned Barney was 'cute'!!!
TFTC. The nearby Great Walk up the valley to Kondallia was one of the nicest walks we've done in the area. Certainly holds up against walks in the UK and Europe.

Here at first light so ran to the picnic area. Then had a great trot up to Kondillala taking about an hour. Good work out.

good find. was in a rush as the gates were closeing which made it more fun=) left a trav bug there,

Doing the tourist drive on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland so this was a easy find for the day. All the other spots the muggle density was too high fro my liking.

I was hoping the overflow would be in action after the recent rain but I had forgotten how dry it had been in this area and the dam still have a little way to go to reach the top.

The log in the cache indicates the last cachers to find were Canadians, we to had a Canadian in our party today (not a cacher - just a visitor).

Nice are to visit TGF

Popped by today after driving around the area being tourists; we loved the area so much that we hiked the trails on the 18th!

T: geocoin
L: rubber duckie and metal puzzle

TFTC,

B&P’s Adventures

Very nice place. Thanks.

It is a realy nice walk. Thanks

Dropped TB and Coin

Even though it was only 2.30pm when we arrived, the gates were closed. We didn't notice the steps to the correct path and ended heading down to the gorge - this wasn't the right place! After a short scramble back up, the cache was located easily enough. TFTC

Quick find. Geowife and I decided to stop at the lake and have our picnic lunch. We were here a few years ago staying at Secrets.. What a great day for caching!!!

TNLNSL

TFTC
Meekster67

Nice hide. Would be awesome to see in full flood. TFTC

Nice walk first thing in the morning and an easy cache to go with it - what more could a cacher want. Perhaps some sunshine. Very foggy over the water - see image.

TNLNSL TFTC

Nice easy find. Quiet spot and well worth coming to visit. Found with giddys. Tftc

Had used picnic facilities at start of this area b4, hadn't realised that you could drive part accross the wall and this section was open to the public, the gate was always closed.
Easy find S-log 8AM TFTC

After completing the cache on the opposite side of the dam we drove around to this side great little walk TFTC.

Had been at the southern side of the lake earlier in the day. So stopped by here for lunch after finding the cache. TNLN

Found this one easily... Once we jumped a fence to get in.
Nice little area... No muggles around... Cosy little area for our last cache for the day...
Team Aria
AKA Mel and Phill xx

Found at 0850. Pleasant walk at the dam easy find. Cache dry and ok. TFTC.

I found it people TFTC

Set up geodad and geodaughter preparing our picnic lunch while geoson and I geocached. Ended up having a lovely lunch in company of a carpet python languidly looped across a rafter of the picnic shelter. Lots of shrieks and oohs and ahs from other park visitors - two even asked if it was ours ...

Now to the cache. Forewarned by the last six months' logs, I came prepared. Dried out the box, which doesn't have any apparent leaks, and hauled out most of the swaps which were in dismal condition - mostly destined for the bin. Sorry folks.

Returned a slingshotting lion and head of Boo the Bear and two little plastic doodads to the cache. Took small purple car as swap, and left a clown fish (marked WW). Took original log book home to dry it, and left new book (ever so slightly damp) in a new bag. To the next-who-comes-prepared, the box needs a new geocaching burb, and I'm guessing a wipe-out for the box and an airing for the log book.

Oh yes, nice spot, and thanks for the cache!

Doing the Tourist Drive and diverted to search this cache out and have a look at the lake.
I was surprised to find the contents very damp. I do not recall seeing one of these superior containers leak before.
I mopped out what I could with a couple of tissues and left the contents open to dry for 15 minutes or so but they remain damp.
TNLN TFTC

Found while staying at Montville. TNLN

didn't bring my GPS along but was given directions from a friend. Was looking around the wrong tree stumps. Had to give up. Will try again next time.

Did the 12km walk from Kondalilla Falls to Lake Baroon with friends this morning. Got to go for this cache at the end. Cache has taken on water. Logbook is fine but the container needs some attention. Don't think the GC was in residence. TFTH

Found on a clear day. I had never been here before so it is nice to see the lure of a cache paying off once again.

SL TNLN.

left popstar TB
TN SL
cool spillway!!

Oh, what a crazy-cool spot - thank you for taking us here! The sound alone! We arrived here right after "The Lost Bunch" who strangely find every cache a few days before us, over distances as far removed as Maleny and Morningside...? Who are these masked cachers?? Hopefully we'll meet them one day.
kt4d on behalf of the Spangled Drongos (formally the "Monsfordes")

Quickeasy find. Water running over the spillway today.
Needs new lod book

TFTC

Lost PDA sylus damit. grabbed the two coins to take back with us. Thanks for the cache.

Found in a damp state. Never been down to here before so thx for the detour. Left a GC TN TFTC

Found it. Cache is a bit wet, but too many muggles around to spend time drying it out! Log book is full too.
Great cache, had to wait around before the muggles decided to leave and we could strike the cache!

Took orange dinosaur, left fish magnet.
Thanks for the great cache!

Cache is leaking, log is still OK except that its full. but rest is damp.

Found it no worries, this is a nice little spot. Good to see at least one dam in QLD works, water lapping the edge of the spillway today. TFTH. dropped off the ladybug coin.

Nice easy find. The geotrail is almost as well defined as the walking track. It's nice to see a dam full of water. Here at home they are all near empty.
The inside of the cache is wet but the logbook dry. Someone with more time available may be able to dry it out.
TNLN

TFTC

Kev

Great spot, not much water down the spillway today, nice easy find, TNLN SL
Thanks
The Olly's

Beautifull place for a spot of lunch, unfortunatly the toilets were closed today, being painted.
TFTC
T Carabinah
L Toy dinosaur
Visited 3 travelling companions

We found it without too much trouble, although it is only 1.5 m uphill of the stump.

Took the happy camper TB, left Canadian Cacher lapel pin.

TFTC.

Nice area, easy find. Introduced two friends into geocaching.

Found at 1445hrs after an interesting search. 10/10 for cam and concealment.

Grabbed Jeep 4x4 TB

TNLNSL TFTC

Nice evening walk across the dam wall. Lots of stars and sounds of wildlife. Thanks for bringing us here.
Took sidney and keyring, left compass, keyring and Jeep TB.
...eatmorchikin & Stigglepot

we were here when maintenace was on a few months ago,as we were doing lilly veiws,took this chance to get this sucker.easy find and a well stashed cache.left ted key ring
tn
tftc

Number 983, Found in the dark of night with the company of Danielle of Everlasting. I dont know where we took the wrong turn but the track vanished down at the bottom ,near the waterfall. The fenced area near the cache, which I presume is the track which I should have been on, looks like it got damaged in the last storm. Anyway , with 120m to go, I told Danielle to wait while I tried to get to GZ. It got a bit hairy and I struggled to get there. Anyway the cache was found and so was my caching partner on my return. We discovered some "glow in the dark" mushrooms on some logs. They were amazing. Thanks for showing me some more fantastic places in the Sunshine Coasts hinterland. Cheers The Nanks

I thought I logged this one a long time ago but must have missed it. Easy find after a long walk, cache very full.
TFTC

Great cache - very full at present. Took: small toy, left: glitter pen. TFTC.

Found the cache at 2.25pm. Lovely and enjoyed walk along to the cache. TNLNSL. Thank you for organise the cache and hunt.

After leaving the caravan park and parting ways with Mad Myers, The Nanks & Bruce and Lizzie we continued on our quest to find more caches on the return trip home before the likely chance of a downpour.

Find 15/21 today
Took: TB
Left: Dinosaur Keyring

Gate was locked at 2:30pm when we arrived due toa malfunction however was only a short 10min walk to the cache in the light rain that was falling. Beautiful views from the dam wall.

Found during a break in the rain today. No swaps as was only by chance i had the GPS loaded with this cache

Found by Sunshine Toledo and Her Majesty at 3:30pm. The dam is low in water but an interesting walk along the wall to GZ. In: TB Debbie the Dolphin Out: TB Idaho

did this one ages ago..... must have forgotten to log it.

1525 hrs. I thought this was going to be an easy one as I have been in this area a couple of times. But after walking all the way down to the swimming hole, I realised that I would have to rethink what I had down. After a rethink I was back on track. Have to trust the GPSer.
Took Orange Dinosaur
Left B1 in pyjamas.

TFTC

Nice hide. Great cache too. We stopped and had a picnic too - lovely location and am really happy we visited.

Pretty easy to find once we went the right way. Oh well, it was a nice walk into the gully anyway . Took screwdriver set, kfc game and a toy car. We left a whole bunch of toys in return.

NICE HIDE AND EASY FIND. THE CHOICE OF CONTAINER IS NICE AND SOLID AND LARGE ENOUGH TO HOLD CONTENTS WITHOUT CRAMPING.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.

No luck today, it was our last cache of the day and the littlies were tired and hungry so we didn't hang around too long. Lovely spot, we'll go back and try another time. My daughter said, Ooh it's a GarnerFamily cache, it'll be at the base of a tree" LOL.

Found with mightybent after a nice run from Flaxton. Went for swim in lake afterwards.

Took the easy way to the cache with Hawke-eye.

Found it quickly.

TNLN TFTC

Wow, it seems that there is a very easy way to get to this cache. Of course, we completely ignored that and decided to add 2 and a half stars of our own.

After a 2 kilometre bushwalk, we found ourselves down in the creek and about 100 metres from the cache - Vertically of course!

We rock-hopped along until we could go no further and then scaled up the sheer cliff to GZ, logged our find and strolled back to the car.

The cache is in good nick and pretty well stocked, We left a keyring and took nothing.

Thanks to TGF for a fun walk!

We actually directed Trev to the right track for this one, and it was well worth the drive down.
A bit cold and windy on this sunny day and the spillway wasn't spilling.
TNLNSL thanks.

Nice drive in and a pleasant location. Found cache easily. Took ball and left keyring. Thanks The Garner Family.

Arrived after the gate was closed so had the 390 meter walk. It was nice though. '3 meters uphill' really TGF where was your tape measure on this day? Only joking! Mr Nosugrefs searched all areas further afield with no luck; Mrs Nosugrefs (don't you hate it) found the cache a little closer hidden well. The dam was pretty dry today; although we suspect not in as parlous a condition as the Brisbane dams. TNLN

This was our fourth cache for the day on a trip up and around the range. It proved to be a really well stocked cache in a picturesque location.[^] We will probably visit again in summer when the bass are biting...kinda like the idea of a day paddling and fishing here.
After sorting through the cache contents that were positively bursting from the box we took a large purple turtle a tube of dice and a bird fridge magnet. We also picked up the parrot head TB to move him on (This is the biggest TB we have encountered so far, and the noisiest). Interestingly we found a kind of geoscroll thingy, we signed it and will move it on also, not sure how to log it properly as it hasn't got a TB number...will place it soon though.
In return for all this we left at tool kit (socket set), combination lock bike chain and a watch.
It took a while to close the lid on all this and the assortment of other goodies that the cache holds...however it did ultimately fit and the cache was duely replace.

Thanks for the cache Garners. It was a good one.[^]

Good cache spot, no muggles to worry about today. Took juggling ball & toy compass, left dice game & galah thermometer. Picked up Garfield TB, left Parrothead TB and signature wrap (sign it and pass along). TFTCSL

I looked high and low for this cache. I was ready to give up and called TGF helpline for a clue. Adam directed me to a spot I had already covered. That area and a whole lot more. Well...maybe I need new glasses...coz it was easy to find this time around!

Out: Plane
In: Car

Thanks for the clue and the cache

Walked down to Obi Obi creek from the carpark first and then using the GPS found an unofficial, steep track back up to the spillway track. Certainly made it more challenging. I recommend checking out the creek while there. It's only a short walk from the carpark.
Took playing cards.
Left juggling balls.
Dropped off 'Tickled Pink' TB.