CREWsinn TB motel Hillcrest, Queensland, Australia
By Deco on 02-Sep-05. Waypoint GCQD5J

well as the Crew has moved on, and it looks like the council has cleared out the area, I am going to have to archive this one.

Cheers Jason

After reading the previous logs I thought I would give this one ago, but no luck today. With 3 Geokids and myself we just about turned the place upside down looking for it. I think it's been muggled. Will have another go once owner checks on it.

Even with the help of the friendly and slightly bored next door neighbour (she came out and was wondering why people are always digging around near her fence, lol!) I could not for the life of me find it. She assured me that someone came out and dug it up on Saturday, so I'm fairly sure the problem is me and not the cache. -.-

I'll stop by with some more time again soon.

? Given the exposed position and the fact that previous finds were so easy, we think that this one might have been muggled. We spent quite a bit of time looking for something fairly large in an area no too well equipped with hiding places. None-the-less, we could well be proven wrong ... we hope so. And if so, this is quite embarrassing

Visited this cache again to drop off a geo-coin that has been to NZ and picked up a TB that wants to go to NZ.

easy found with alchemy2... swap TB...

I forget put TB

swap tb
in=fur-bee tb as request.
out= hippy cos it looks interesting.

Nice easy find. TFTC TNLN.

Just a visit to the old cache to log in my Travel Bug "Tic Tac Toe" which started its journey here over 2 years ago.

It has now completed over 4,500km to Melbourne and Mackay.

I retrieved it from Sunnybank Railway Wetlands to put it in here.

Second attempt at this one. Found it 2 days ago but couldn't get near it due to muggles in front yard nearby. No swaps. Thanks Deco.

Found it No. 809 ... Took TB and left Chinese Coins

Entered into the book of LEDGIN'S. !st find this morning. Dropped off 2 TBs. Took nothing. TFTC

Drive by cache on my way to Lincoln Green. Crew 153 were under the front Veranda but, to occpied with Junior for me to say G'Day. Maybe another time.

TNLN
Cheers

0920am placed the Diabetes TB took Kamballa TB first cache for the day -took my muggle mother travelling with nodo.

9.20am. First on a rather hot day. No one around the house.
Thank you. David and Noeline

Number three for the day , driven past this to many times so today its off my to do list.
Taken the Ray Ray TB
Left Kambella TB
TFTC

nice quick find. took TB, left nothing because I left all my geojunk at home...oops!! Don't think I was terribly inconspicious as I tramped through the trees, but don't think anyone spotted me!! TFTC!

Found at 10.13am. A nice and easy drive-by find. Took Endian 2007 geocoin and little hopper geocoin. Left Ray Ray TB. TFTC

Just dropping in Ray Ray TB

Accompanied with Alchemy2. Took: Send Me Selma TB and Left: Endian 2007, 1st Mini Geocoin Applewomyn and Diabetes TB. Thanks Deco for organising the cache and hunt.

Thank you everlasting bring me there. Ill drop in again next time. thanks to Deco.

[This entry was edited by Alchemy2 on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 8:03:08 PM.]

Quack! Checked in for a very short stay on the way home this evening. TFTC =]

Varoom!! found it with no trouble. Kept an eye out for the Crew but did not see anybody about on Saturday. Took watch game and left TB Evil Monkey. Only thing is I left only to find that I had the monkey still in my pocket. Had to go back on Monday and put him in. Now I know why they called him Evil. TFTC Diesel48

I did see a ute pull out while I was looking, not sure if I was spotted though, thanks

Found when member of LEDGIN'S.

In the book of LEDGIN'S. Found at 0827. Had fun with this one. The neighbours were going to work - Hmmm - how does one blend in - well had the camo pants on BUT I think the white blouse kind of gave me away. Anyway look busy picking up some of the rubbish around until they went on their way. SL TNLN TFTC

We felt quite exposed here. But we scuffled around and made swaps etc, hopefully appropriately masking our activities. Thanks.

Regards,

Pseudo-Geek.

found whilst in town for a sporting weekend.

Nr 16 of 22 for the day. A quick roadside and we were on our way. Thanx for leading us here.

TFTC / TNLN.

Greetings from South Africa.

nice hide crew must have been out...haha found with geokid steff got some strange looks walking out of the bush though....lol...took - heart bowl, left - bear didn`t see any tb`s though tftc

Nice easy road side cache. We looked but didn,t see Crew 153,no one was home.TFTC Took nil..left a Harry Potter Owl pin.

Just to let all seekers know that Crew 153 does not live here any more There are now muggles living in the house so stealth may be required at times.

Logging in coins to get them started.

Our last QLD find before heading back home to Vic. An easy find. Took two TB to head south. SL TFTC

Tis a nice afternoon to find.

In: Drea Trollenada (From AHTAWARAK Calling)
Out: Unite for Diabetes. A close to me subject for my dad.

Found at 1330. I was almost at this one, and I couldn't resist the temptation to find it... Didn't look like anyone was home today.

Took Barrus TB.

Left "Aniakvik Creek (AK)" Red Jeep TB.

TFTC Deco

Looks like the house has been sold?

What - a TB motel with no guests? Dropped off 3 TBs.

TFTC

Yep kooper69. The Crew's lot is on the block.

Had to make a decision - Keep mowing 5 acres or go geocaching. Easy decision. Downsize to a townhouse.

It will be hard to move into suburbia after having no neighbours for the last 30 years though.

Taken keyring and pony, left watch and party popper.

The porche is moving on.

Found the cache. Nice hiding spot. Just on the left where you park on the gravel there was a car go through the fence today too. Didnt see the car, but it must have been a mess. This car took out about 15 of the wooden posts, the ones that you normally see around parks - about knee height. The posts were in a straight line, they have taken out about 15 of 17, gone through the fence, sideways by the looks of it, and just missed hitting a tree. All up they slid about 100m so they must have been flying! Lucky no one was parked there looking for the cache at the time. All that was left of the car (tow truck had taken it) was a side mirror. The mirror was off a holden commodore vt or vx. Anyway TFTC, good spot. Crew153 is your lot for sale??

Found with Captain Tomato and Ryan King. Nice and easy. TFTC

Found with tic toc and Ryan King.

Found the cache after a bit of a search. Left Porsche 924 TB and took 2 other TB's. TFTC

On our way to friends and made a little detour to make use of this TB motel. Thanks for our friend's bride temporarily home (She's on her way to meet her groom (who's currently in the USA) back home, in the Netherlands).

A nice easy find no swaps made thanks Crew 153

Found on a dark and very wet night in Brisbane.

Can't remember what they took but
In: Butterfly Stickers, Football Stickers, Christmas Stickers, Rubbers, Cooee Cobber TB

Though I would drop by find the cache and drop in wicket TB.

Well this was a surprise. On arrival at the coordinates we were greeted by one of the "CREW 153" who was out mowing the lawn. The kids couldn't believe that they meet the people who planted the cache. This was out fourth cache and by far was the best one yet. The kids get so exited. Very easy to find. Thanks for taking the time to introduce yourself, CREW 153 and for also informing us about your new night cache. Formerly (FamilyRoss). Just changed user name to ROSSx4.

Well this was a surprise. On arrival at the coordinates we were greeted by one of the "CREW 153" who was out mowing the lawn. The kids couldn't believe that they meet the people who planted the cache. This was out fourth cache and by far was the best one yet. The kids get so exited. Very easy to find. Thanks for taking the time to introduce yourself, CREW 153 and for also informing us about your new night cache. Regards Rossy's.

Easy find with Lat&Long this morning. Seems to be a bit of confusion for some as to which book to sign. Crew153 didn't apprear to be home and we couldn't linger as there was a bike race to watch!!! TNLN TFTC

A quick find on our way to Parkinsons curse.

Out on our way to do Parkinson Curse when I stopped here for a quick find. I also didn't realise that you lived so close. You were getting in your car and going out and I did feel rather exposed there with my torch. Thanks for the cache.

Nice easy find enroute to a couple of other in the area.

It was a bit to late to go knocking on the door to say hello

Thanks

Busy but nice ...well done!
TNLN d.d.dudes

busy road this sucker.grabbed vial for future cache left glove box tool kit.
also grabbed tb
tftc

Finished work in the field turned on the GPS, selected find nearest and I was off to see how many I could get before dark.

Didn't realise you lived close by as I didn't have the cache notes with me.

Took Truck
Left Coin.

dropped off coin

Found by Sunshine Toledo at 10:40am. Lots of heavy machinery being used nearby but the nearest house was very quiet. In: Kaine the K9 Out: I need a good cup of coffee. TFTC

Easy find. Left Ceocache Coffe TB and took Lopez TB and K1W1 geocoin. SL's TFTC

No problems finding this one. Made a couple of swaps then said hello to Max.
Took: soccer game
Left: fish game

Yes, truly a small forgotten piece of council land. Yes, we have driven past many times.
TN. Left 2006 Kiwi Geocoin.
TFTC

Found it after a bit of a walk from the accommodation at Browns Plains in the dark. Grabbed the TB which is jumping on a flight to Newcastle tonight. TFTC

Quick visit to drop of two TB's before I head overseas. Crew153 home and banging around but obviously deaf to my presence. I'll be back here in the future to drop more TB's.

Thanks for the cache Took Geocoins. Do'nt think Crew153 were home today

Just on our trip down from Townsville again. Dropped off two coins and collected the TB to journey home with us.

Dropping off Geocoin thief

aaaargh!,sailin' past this today dropped in t.b.,no sign of that scallywag neighbour!,thanks J.

Just dropped by on the way past. We are down from Townsville and seeing as we have found this before we thought there may be some TB's that wanted to journey north. None today so we must keep searching.

I also found after recovering a nearby moveable cache. It did take me 2 goes though. The first time then GPS put me over the road. I took Crikey TB and the Troll TB. The box was fulley exposed so I covered it up. Cheers The Nanks.

Called in today while at a nearby cache,
TFTC.

Dropped in the crikey TB on my way past to finish up Oxley Johnson. I didn't even bother checking at the neighbours, I figured for sure he'd be out and about

Found this one easily. Took a spider and left a heart-shaped plate. Rang the bell at the neighbour's house but no answer, so had to go and find some more caches

This was a nice easy one to start the session off. I needed to cool my annoyance that, twice in two days I had been to the dumpshop and it was closed, the first as it is not open on Thursdays and the second cause it is closed over Christmas until next week. Swapped a gold coin for a koala keyring.

Tigey Wigey
29/12/06 11:40

At last I got around to making a booking. Checked in at lunchtime today in the middle of a downpour
The motel is nice and dry though, but lightly booked at the moment. Plenty of spare room
I took Australian Honeymoon TB and dropped in Alexina White Jeep TB.
TFTC. The neighbours were very quiet today. I don't think they were home. Probably enjoying some sunny weather somewhere else

NICE EASY FIND C/O SPOT ON L/N/T/N/S/L.THANKS DECO FOR THE CACHE
REGARDS ANGEL DUST

We were in the area this afternoon and picked up this one on the way through. No sign of the neighbours today.

Cache was an easy find. No swaps today. Thanks for the cache.

Our second visit to this cache. We called here on our last visit to Brisbane but there was work being done in the area and the cache was unavailable. All our Travel Bugs were in the caravan so it was TNLN. Thanks for the cache.

This was our third of the day, toook a little time to find it but not to bad. We are certainly looking forward to searching for more next visit to Brisvegus.

Left our wooden geocoin and our trademark koala.
Dropped off gremlin TB

Picked up Orlando Daphne to tour North QLD

dropped in some TBs to get them moving.

checking in some coins!

This cache was not too far from where we were Thursday Night shopping and we desperately needed to drop off a TB that had been in our possession for 5 weeks. This was a quick easy find and Orlando Daphne had a room for the night at the Crew's Inn. (so thats where you guys live) The Mini Inks were sad to say goodbye to a member of Mystery Ink.

Took: Chinese Money

Left: Bottle opener Keyring

TFTC

New location

Crews Inn has reopened the doors!

The front door has been moved. The gas problem is fixed and the pool has been cleaned!

Bring on the customers!

Starting Raphael on his adventures.

Just logging my geocoin to get it started.

Still finishing up the renovations.

I have temporarily closed the doors on the CrewsInn TB Resort so that a gas problem can be rectified. Not sure which room it was coming from but pewww...

Seriously, the gas company is installing a gas main in the front lawn of the hotel so I have taken the cache into possession until the workmen vacate the area.

Will probably take this opportunity to install new carpet in the foyer and clean out the swimming pool.

Dear Patrons,

The motel is temporarily closed for renovations, re-carpeting, and to allow gas works in the area to proceed unhindered.

We will advise once we are reopened for business.

We appreciate this may cause some inconveniences to some, so please accept our sincere apologies in advance.

Yours respectively

Management, CREWs-inn TB Motel.

Visited with Duck + lings today. Nice short and simple cache close to home. The lings and one of my pups found the cache very quickly and were quite excited. Thank you Deco, for a reasonably urban cache without the muggles.

T: Nemo TB, wooden spoon, wallet
D: toy truck, small electronic game

Decided to do CREWsinn while dropping Crew 153 off. Dropped off I'm not Nemo and took Nani.

[This entry was edited by Nosugrefs on Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 1:51:04 AM.]

Nice easy find whilst i was in the area.TNLN SL Thanks

Starting some new Travel Bugs

Thanks for the cache crew, picked up 2 TBs and dropped off one, though this TB has been in my hands for sometime as the owner is uncontactable.

MOW YA GRASS!

Agsmky

Found this one today at 12.35pm after organising to meet Crew 153....strange he didnt give me an Address....just these Co-ords...LOL
TFTC

Dropped off travel bugs from the Summer Geocaching Picnic.

Found this one after noticing some neatly stacked flora!

Dropped off Traudel in case someone else can get her on her way back to Germany.
Picked up GeoCoin.

[This entry was edited by The_Sentinel_ on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 at 6:58:43 PM.]

Started Crew's Compass Rose Geocoin from the Hotel.

Just to check the geocoin back in after a look at it.

Just dropping in "Deco's Compass Rose Geocoin" TB

Found 1627. Dropped off Baxter TB. He’s been out in the wilderness for a while now so I thought I’d check him in for a shower, a shave and a good lie down. Just what I need too.