Traffic Watch Belmont, Queensland, Australia
By Meeka on 05-Oct-05. Waypoint GCQVWK

Visiting from Coffs Harbour and trying to find a few old caches. Wandered around until we found the right hiding spot. Found with Anne of Green Gables 2.TFTC

So clever!!

TFTC

Take a spoon or a knife, but don't take a fork (well initially!)... tftc

Tftc

Today we drove home after spending a week in South East Queensland. We thoroughly enjoyed our time in the Sunshine State, with near perfect and warm weather for the whole week, and a very high cache finding success rate. A nice quick one after a short walk. After spending the previous couple days in the north side of Brisbane, we felt that the drivers on the south side were notably more reckless Thanks for the cache

Headed up to Brisbane for a performance today while on our Gold Coast holidays. Grabbing some older caches while we are up this way. TFTC

Parked up near gz and a short trip up through the gate and quick find and signOn a caching holiday from Mackay. In the search of old caches and ones to fill DT grid spaces. Found TFTC SL Thanks for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Traffic WatchOut with geopup today collecting some oldies for my Q500 challenge. A quick find here, log signed, all replaced as found. TFTC Meeka# 10154CheersWillis007

Out this way to check on Zazu. Hes doing fine Then a wander up for this one.Think the walk did more for slimming than the powderThanks

After dropping off my husband at the airport early this morning, I drove over the Gateway to do some geocaching in the Wynnum/Manly area. A then drove home, targeting a few other caches including this oldie.I parked in the little western side street of Old Cleveland Road and walked through the very new pedestrian gate (unlocked) and straight up the hill. At the top, I headed towards GZ. I stopped before the chair and surveyed the area then quickly spied a spos in a likely location. There was the cache in perfect condition. It doesn't look like there is anyone camping here now. I think the new gate has dissuaded people. Tftc

Its nowhere to be found, i think somebody took it or it was removed

Ich war noch nie im Leben in Brisbane, aber mein tolles Hobby gibt mir die Mglichkeit, diese unglaublich relaxte, angenehme und schne Stadt von allen Seiten kennenzulernen. So konnte ich auch hier vorbeikommen und ganz nebenbei noch eine sehr schne Dose finden. Vielen Dank frs Legen und Pflegen!

Slipped across to the dark side and found this bad boy. We have been near this location prior on a couple of occasions finding another cache. Today Im here for an oldie & like the other, GZ is in proximity of a campsite.Cache in good condition.

Auch heute haben mich Mama und Papa wieder mitgeschleift, um ein bisschen frische Luft zu schnappen und das Tagesdschen zu finden. Inzwischen trauen die mir ja ganz schn weite Wege zu, ich muss schon sagen... Macht mir aber ja genauso viel Spa wie denen, gebe ich ja gerne zu. Und man entdeckt immer wieder etwas Neues, selbst wenn man wie wir oft auf den gleichen Strecken unterwegs ist. In diesen Tagen ist aber alles neu. Australien ber Singapur und Malaysia, da war ich noch nie. Hier mussten wir gar nicht lange suchen, bis wir das Versteck gefunden hatten.Danke frs Austfteln, Verstecken, Herlocken und Pflegen des Caches!

Im Team gesucht und gefunden.Danke fr den schnen Spaziergang und natrlich Danke frs Austfteln, frs Herlocken und Zeigen sagt Mel_on_Tour**TFTC**()()( , , )( , , ).... ..- ** **`*.. .

Nach der anstrengenden Anreise gestern sind wir heute vor einem Termin hier vorbei gekommen. Earthcaches werden bei unserem Australienbesuch einer der Schwerpunkte sein. Und da wir deshalb hier in der Nhe waren, sind wir auch gleich zu diesem Dschen gegangen.Danke fr's Austfteln, Herlocken, Verstecken und Pflegen !....../ ).....' /---' (_____.TFTC . ((__)..... _ ((___)....... -'((__)--.___((_)

Thank you

Good to see a cache that has lasted so long. TftC

First find!

28/6/2023 Find #6202
A bit of a random middle of the day out and about for me today. I had grabbed a cache or two closer to the city, and then checked my map for what else I could target. The older caches particularly grab my interest.
I parked the car near where some construction was occurring, opened the gate and wandered on up.
Looks like someone has been sleeping rough up here rather close to GZ.
I removed a couple of ciggies from the cache, signed the log and left, in case my friend returned any time soon.
Thanks for the cache Meeka.

No hard to find very easy safe spot haha good fun

Took us quite sometime to find but eventually we did!

Another pretty little piece of urban bush with a nice cardio approach. Great for us on a cloudy Mother’s Day. Tftc

Found it! The scrabble up the roadside hill was too steep for the less adventurous of the party. Once up we found a much more sensible route down. Someone had cut a hole in the fence at the top. Hopefully not a geocacher. Tftc!

Slow slow up the hill, but an email find oncecup here & thanks for such a big cache:-)

It was a tad warm for an uphill hike today but this oldie was calling us so we made our way up. There was a path to the right, which was shadier and less steep which beckoned us so we took it and had a lovely walk all the way around the summit until our arrow pointed us straight in. A short bush bash and search later and we had uncovered the cache. Clearly, others have the same thoughts of traffic watching from here as there were seats set up not too far from GZ. The trees make the traffic a little less easy to see, but we could certainly hear it and see plenty on our decent back to the car. All is good here. Thanks Meeka

Found

Price quick find number 2 for the day. Thanks so much for placing

Good find!

I had to get this 17 year old. I always try to find older ones in the area so that eventually might qualify for some of the challengers out there. Thanks to all that maintain this one.

Just past the peak, sneaky lil cache!

After an adventure and a half trying to decode all yalls pics and messeges xD we found it x

A fun day out with Davidwazza! TFTC!

Today, following a morning Kelvin Grove parkrun, [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I went out for shopping and errands, and then headed to Belmont Hills Reserve on the south side for a walk around the area. The Q100 oldie [Belmont Bushland](https://coord.info/GCGHDB) had brought us to the area, but a couple of hours spent walking around, spotting wallabies and kangaroos, made it an enjoyable afternoon wander.

Whilst baby Warren grabbed a quick nap whilst on our way to our destination, we had an opportunity to go for a short walk/jog around this area. We ascended up the hill and had a look around, before catching sight of the nicely placed cache. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks Meeka for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance. It was nice to have found this oldie 10/2005 hidden cache, of which is one of Queensland's 500 oldest yet active geocaches.
Note that this geocache was logged with the *Team Warren* Davidwazza/jesswrigley stamp.

Had a little bit of time whilst the eldest was at a play date so thought it would be a good opportunity to take the dog for a walk. Being Earth cache day, I decided to find one of those and completed the tasks just on the opposite side of the motorway. Headed over to find this cache whilst in the area.
Parked at the bottom of the rise and we headed up the pretty well defined track. When we reached the peak, we headed in from the trail a little bit and when we were about 10m away, I spotted the cache container.
The contents were all good and there were two pens included here, so the log book was signed with one of those. Not sure how many people get up here off the main track, but there was enough discarded furniture for me to want to hide the cache a little better.
So I have tucked it away in the same hiding spot, just a little out of sight, and the hint is still extremely relevant.
Thanks very much Meeka for the cache placement and the little bit of exercise. Cheers

Our 1st cache. Thanks for hiding it for us!!

Found it

Found it

Quick and easy find. Lots of road works going on nearby.

Nice spot to rest

On route to the nearby shopping centre for a new phone and decided to look for a cache in the area that interests me.. this one was placed way back in 2005! I like finding oldies so this one ticked a box for my pre-work mini adventuring.
Thanks for the cache.
Cheers

Out for another day of caching with BJA3.

Cache & log in good condition,  TFTC!

Out with Team Barritts for the day, picking up smiley's.

After parking close we made our way to the GZ and was lucky for a quick find. All good here, tftc!

Found and signed tftc!

Nice

TFTC

We found it

Found it but this one was kinda scary. There was a rock covered in what looked like blood and a homeless camp near by

Great spot! Thanks for providing a pen!!

I felt “slimmer” from finding this one, not just because of the uphill walk.

Early morning airport drop off and what better way to make my return journey home more worthwhile then to grab a couple of caches.
A very pleasant walk up the hill and over to GZ where a nice quick find was had, thanks CO.

TFTC Meeka

Coordinates are 6m out but good find

Found quickly on this morning walk.

Tftc

Georode

Down in Brisbane chasing old caches for the Jasmer grid. My GPS was sending me around in circles but I finally spotted the hide. Tftc

Was there

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Out with misssusan79, Geokids Madison and Tobias. Brisk morning walk up the hill. Fair bit of traffic too.

easy find - works underway however still accessible when no one is around TFTC

Still in the spot left a surprise in there

Great spot, TFTC

Found it TFTC

Bit of a hike but a good cache.

Found it. Durry left in there?

Another find for me

Out on a short walk in this heat, we decided to not stick around here for too long today. We were also on a mission to find another geocache in this same area and then we will head back to the car and the air conditioning..
The geocache was found in a likely spot, and we have left a travel bug there to continue its journey around the world.
Log signed
Thanks Meeks,
Domsky 

Sadly didnt get to open it. Was jumped by a huge spider!!!

Looks like someone camped up here sometime ago TFTC

TFTC

Great spot, GPS position within 5 metres!

Found it cool little spot

TFTF. A smoke here for someone to enjoy

Cool spot I had no idea about. Glad I wore my joggers. Counting that as my cardio for today.
P.s. whoever left the egg... you definitely got me with your surprise

TFTC

Would definitely recommend enclosed shoes for this cache! Have left a stick nearby for the next person to fish it out of where it’s located. TFTC!

Out today to continue my challenges of a traditional a day and a cache a day, plus we needed to visit relatives on this side of town. With time limited we only had time for a few a caches and this was one of them.
A nice walk and a nice place to sit and watch the traffic though I think this area gets used a lot with the amount of rubbish and paraphernalia up here. An easy quick find and with the log signed we replaced the cache as found and were on our way to the next one in the area.
Thank you for maintaining this cache and placing it here.

Found 1 cache, 6 milk crates, 1 fishing net?? And 1 homemade bong....

After having some retail therapy and begining my first ever Lab Cache nearby thought I’d stop here for a look... wasn’t quite expecting the workout... tftc... left some American coin...

This is my first cache find with over a 1.5 rating on terrain. And it was much enjoyed

All food with this one out in an early morning walk in this great park.

I AM GUR

Doing a loop of Brisbane, searching for particular caches, it was decided that wee couldn't miss this nearby oldie. Near GZ, it looks like someone was sleeping rough for a while, but they seem to gone now. The cache was quickly located and the log signed. TFTC

After we got of the river pack everything back on the Ute. The question was ask what caches are we going to do next. Get some caches local or travel and get some for our D/T grid. We were talking about Friday and Saturday night. I was two short on my second loop and Selva Girls was short by 1. Now of to do a loop of Brisbane thanks Selva Girls for the help with this puzzle.
After picking up the puzzle we then came and got this one.

Cache a day to keep the doctor away, or is it to keep me sane. No it’s to keep my streak alive. TFTC 452 streak. 2763 Finds

Found the right path up here on the 2nd attempt.

An interesting area with a nice view and scattered with the remains of underage drinkers.

Great spot! TFTC!

Cache 14 of 20 today! I was on the southside of town, generally hunting QLD's oldest 100 or oldest 500 caches (with a few slipping into the list because they were so close, or filled in a DT hole).

After a very stressful week of work, it was good to expend some energy, push my lungs a bit harder, and suck in some fresh air. GZ is beautiful, as to be expected, and I really enjoyed the walk and solitude. This one had better views than I anticipated! Beautiful to be up here, and watch the world go by

Cache and log are in great condition.

TB visit x2.

As soon as i parked I had a plan, find a cache then back here for a coffee to go.
The walk up was longer and steeper than I had anticipated but the reward was worth it when I lay my hands on cache
Log was signed and cache returned to where found...now back for that coffee
TFTC Meeka. Great view of Brisbane from here.

While it does look like some locals have left some bogan furniture here to partake in some traffic watching of their own the cache is still here safe and sound. Tftc

uuugh

We found it but when I told my dad to pick it he got the fright of his life because there was a big huntsman spider

We got to the location but looks like people we’re living there and doing drugs so we left terrible spot and we had to tress pass

TFTC windy day
Yeah traffic watch

On a sleepy Sunday morning I was awoken by my wife where the following conversation took place:

Mrs: Your daughter wants to go shopping at Carindale today. Do you want to come?
Me: Nope!

Mrs: If you come I'll buy you a coffee
Me: Tempting, but I have some socks to darn

Mrs: We won't be long, we just want to check out a couple of shops
Me: I've heard this stuck record before. It usually ends up with me sitting around and holding the bags

Mrs: I think it would be nice to spend some time with your daughter and me
Me: I think I'll follow the obdurate manifesto

Mrs: What does obdurate mean?
Me: I'll tell you after I spend the day arranging all my dictionaries in alphabetical order

Mrs: Maybe you can find a few caches while we shop
Me: You have my full attention

After dropping off the shoppers the first port of call was this cache across the road. It looks like a great party spot which I seemed to have missed but at least I wasn't shopping (yet). tftc

Pity I missed the party! Great find, little bit cobwebby but KylieW fished it out so I didn't have to touch it! TFTC

TFTC cobwebs were fun!

Have been down for the count all week with a yerky cold which has morphed into bronchitis. Had been to an appointment over this way and felt the need for some fresh air and sunshine so found this cache fitted the purpose. Parked at the end of the road by the gate and started a slow amble up the track. It was a slow plod in between bouts of coughing but I eventually got up to the top.

Did notice the setup close to GZ but no-one seemed to be there today. It looked more like a place used for smoking illicit greenery rather than a camp site, similar to the one that has co- existed with another veteran cache, Comet Spit, for quite a while now. Found this one but the log was satched. I did have another bagged log book with me so shook the container out as best I could and popped it in. There wasnt anything i could do about the soggy loggy, so I placed it under the container to stop it dampening the replacement log. Covered it over and slowly made my way back to the car.

I would say the "regulars" to this site are aware of the cache and probably check it out whenever they visit to see if there is any new treasure in it. A lot of the cachers visiting here have found it exposed so this suggests it is being regularly interfered with. It definately isn't a cache to be dropping travel bugs, pathtags or geocoins into as they would be stolen.

TFTC Meeka

Found at second spot looked at! TFTC

Appears I was a tad late for the camping trip. My acquaintances were in a hurry to get away from the camp site, leaving the tarp, bean bag and their medications behind. Shame I couldn't par-take in the festivities and watch the traffic from up 'high'.

Cache was found in the second spot checked and the log is in a very moist condition. Only equipped with a pen I couldn't put a new log down or dry out the log book. Thanks for placing this cache Meeka.

Nice one. A bit soggy. Tftc

Found the container open and the contents scattered around.
A mini CITO and I some more cammo. Hopefully, this one survives.
Thank you for this geocache
R

Fairly quick, easy find. TFTC

Found! Good condition bit pen no longer working so TYO! TFTC

TFTC and the view. The cache was quite exposed, so I added a bit more leaf camouflage to keep it safe. The bush camp is a little odd, but it takes all kinds to make a world!!