The Esplanade (Combo #3) Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia
By Mikey Moo on 26-Oct-06. Waypoint GCXNVR

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.

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I'd say this one is gone. The garden has just been overhauled.

Was rather disappointed not to find this as it was the only one in the immediate area we were staying at. Noticed that the gardens had recently been tidied up, so it's possible that the cache was removed.

First and only DNF on a morning of caching with kholometers while camping in the area. We had not done the previous two but we were pretty sure we had the area as the hint made it clear. However, the garden has a freshish looking layer of hoop pine bark so we think it may have gone missing.

Found at 1018. A busy area but I think I grabed and returned it unseen.

Lots and Lots of Muggles. It took great patience on a weekend to get this one unseen. 1st one for the day with Dannza. 16th for trip. TNLN

First for the day, my what a lot of muggles. Geo sister kept look out and a quick dive in and retieve! TFTC

Found this with Smilee and another little buddy. Thanks to the GPS on a phone which helped as I was there a week ago in the 'wrong' area and couldn't find it. It wasn't quite as concealed as I would have expected it to be so I made sure it certainly was when I left it. Little buddy took a happy smiley face sticker and chose to leave a playing card. TFTC!

0563 re-logging due to name change

563 This would have been the worst non-hide that I have ever come across. After signing the log I hid the container the way it should have been in the first place - whoever the previous finder was didn't have a clue about hiding caches from muggles. TFTC Mikey Moo

Sorry for the late log. I am from Germany. We travel to australia because the word youth day in Sydney. So we stay a few day in Mooloolaba in the backpacker.
I found the cache in the evening. There are no muggels. Very nice place.
Pity! i am cheered too soon to find my first TB or coin but there are no coin inside.

TFTC and best wishes from Germany
Lamm_Bada

My very first cache Used my N95 to navigate and the hint helped. Lots of muggles it was afternoon jogging time but managed to locate and fill in the log without attracting attention but did not explore the contents. Must try something less public next time. I was surprised that it was still in place as the council have just mulched all the gardens with fresh bark.

Found as a cache in its own right while we were on holiday in Australia. Lovely spot, but lots of muggles made it difficult to retrieve and replace without raising some suspicion. But patience is a virtue and eventually, with some nonchalant yet swift action, the deed was done.

Jeez, this is a bit brazen. Had to turn our backs to the footpath whilst doing the 'paperwork'.

Took Sock TB, left American coin, SL

TFTH

PS. Forgot to mention that the original log book was full. I left a new one.

[This entry was edited by Bushoi on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 4:26:50 PM.]

A quick holiday up in Maroochydore and had to do a few quick Caches with our friends.
What a fantastic day! Dropped off a TB and grabbed another to move on.
TFTC

Had breakfast nearby and then started our caching. This one was a short walk from where we had left the car. Mrs S found it in a place Mr S had already looked.
Thanks Mikey Moo

16:21 An easy find but forgot to get the clue to the next cache. Tftc

Found on an afternoon drive. Took geocoin and left TB. Thanks for the hunt.

Returned to drop geocoin - 'perfect weather coin' for a location that gave us perfect sunny warm weather....

Nice morning run find. Will return with geocoin. TFTC

Found it ... TN and left Chinese Coins

After a coffee and cake down the road, we decided to walk it off with the geo pooch. No problems locating cache. The listed TB does not appear to be in the cache. Found at 1615.

QLD#17
Found quickly whilst wandering the area, lovely place to visit.
TNLN
TFTC!

A quick stop on our way to Noosa to retreive a coin. Easy find with not too many muggles around, but still had to use lots of stealth. We'll be back later the week to exlpore the area better. Took war geocoin. TFTC

Nice place,container wasn't hidden very well but is all there signed log dropped off Geocoin and covered it all up a bit better.Also the contents is a bit damp and log is nearly full.TNLNSL

[This entry was edited by emujim on Friday, April 04, 2008 at 10:17:06 PM.]

Dropped Civil War coin

I was in town participating in the Mooloolaba triathlon. On my way back to the unit after racking my bike, I passed right by this cache. Lots of people about, but I sat down and placed my bags discreetly and was able to retrieve sign and replace the cache without issue.

Thanks Mikey Moo for the cache - it really is a lovely walk along here.

found this one quickly. There were alot of muggles so it was a bit difficult to log

A note to drop off geocoin

The lizard was still guarding cache but it was aneasy find. Took geocoin. TFTC.

An easy find after a walk along the esplanade - a bearded dragon was guarding the general cache vacinity, nice of him to keep the muggles away First cache find (we couldn't find #4 of the series) for some friends of mine who I think will be new converts to the geocaching game. Swapped geocoins. TFTC

Found by just geomum and goeteen caching together. What a turnup for the books! Teen (15) actually unearthed the cache. Retrieving cache without attracting attention wasn't too difficult.

Took: geocoin "Sydney Koala" which doesn't seem to be logged in to this cache, left Appalachian geocoin and shampoo.

Just logging the Sydney Koala geocoin into this cache (which is actually where we found it), then removing it.

Easy find. Tried not to look too obvious! Right near our accommodation actually. Very handy.

Nice easy find in the dark.

Nice easy find, picked a short window between muggles, TNLNSL
The Olly's

Easy find although had to wait for many muggles.

Note to self: Do not go caching in popular beach side areas on the first weekend of schoolies.

Mrs Bent and I stopped nearby for some lucng at the nearby hamburger place. After wolfing that down we ducked inside and caught the Melbourne Cup.

It was then onto the cache which we found no problems especially after reading the clue. No signs of any lizards there today, a bit wet perhaps. The park below looks like a nice place to pull your caravan up to. Thanks Mikey Moo.

quick find, just living across the road. TFTC

the lizard has a family
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l $2

gblock was here

Found this one without Problems during my short Trip up to Mooloolaba. Was nice here...
Thanks for the Cache!

Well guarded by 2 of the local army cadets. Thanks.

Found Ok

Sorry this log is late. Easy find with Son and family visiting from USA (us from Vic.) Apartment right across road from cache - thought this was great. Beautiful lizard keeping guard. Great holiday destination. Took Whistle, Left Kangaroo Keyring.

Found while on holidays up here. Great spot. TNLNSL

Great Spot

Left other GCs in Australia Zoo shop.
Made two wrong choices of levels here which required a 100 metre back track each time (you'll know what I mean when you do it!)
Easy find once you get the right level!
TNLN
Many thanks for another 'foreign cache'

We'd been staring at this cache for days from our hotel window across the street. And yes, the lizard was still standing guard... TFTC

Scouting Sunrise Day. A bit late with the entry. Found this cache while the others were diving on the Brisbane. Stopped to take a photo of a lizard atop a rock only to discover that it was the very spot.

Shannon found this quickly and we deciphered the clues for the mystery cache.
+ Johnny Depp

Another easy find with a low muggle factor today. TFTC

This one was quite easy in the end....however after wandering through the caravan park and taking a short cut through the bush at the back of the toilets we had a few muggles looking at us strangely and had to take our time to locate the cache in the right location. Easy enough to sit on the rocks and pretend we were taking time out whilst peering around for the cache.

Searched around at GZ for a good while without any luck locating it. Will have to try again another time we're up the coast.

Nice spot, always something to see and do here.
TFTC

First found it at 1135hrs.
Had to go back to #2 to confirm I had the right building.
TN/LN/SL TFTC

Here with Moneydork

Another night time find. TFTC.
Took Geocoin - now bound for NZ.

Nice night cache.

thanks bitsprayer from NZ

Womblywoo found it quickly in the rain. TFTC

Found today in the rain while caching the coast with lochb.
TFTC
Dropped off the V coin.

No problems with this one, although I am sure it would have been nicer without the pouring rain. Not complaining - we need the rain.

We grabbed the clue and ran for the car. No swaps. Thanks for the cache!

Nice little location, TFTC.

We were staying in a hotel very close to this one so we couldn't resist doing it. It was a nice easy find and not too many people around as it was night. TFTC!

Another great location for a cache. The youngest Ink would give a thumbs up to this one but unfortunately she is at school today. [^] I might go and celebrate the find with a refreshing surf at Mooloolaba.

Thanks for another beach cache. [^][^][^][^]

Visiting from Christchurch, had nice swim at nearby Alexander Headlands. Stopped on side of road to find this one. Got to within a few meters of GZ, but the warm weather had brought out swarms of muggles, so had to sit a wait for a gap between swarms. After about 10 minutes made a dash for the cache and fortunately was an easy find - the co-ordinates spot-on. Took bouncy ball, left Pokemon stickers. TFTC.

Nice easy find.
TNLN TFTC.
Regards Philma and Geo-Cheese & Kisses.

Had to wait around on this one. There were a couple of electricians doing some wiring in amongst the trees. We think they wanted to go to lunch but were waiting for us to leave so that they could leave the wire in the bushes right next to the cache We went shopping and came back and grabbed the cache. Saw a nice yellow bearded dragon sunning himself on the nearby rocks.

TFTC

Found by robjane

An easy find after a pleasant walk along the water front. I am amazed this cache hasn't been muggled. Great spot. TNLN TFTC. First of 6 Green team 2 caches today.

Fun and games on this one, down loaded wrong numbers into GPS so we where about 100m out. It got a lot easier with the right numbers. TNLN

Found the cache at 4.30pm. Lovely area. Enjoyed walk along to the cache. TNLNSL. Thank you for organise the cache and hunt.

Great fun doing this caching with the other teams. Thanks Mikey Moo

Find 12/16 today
TNLN

Didn't complete in order as some of the multi caches have become inactive.

Found in company with Liz & Bruce, Madmyers and The Nanks

Number 780- With all the Nanks team on board we had an afternoon assault down south from the caravan park. A nice easy find but the best bit was watching the Mad Myers getting soaked while returning to their car. He He. Found with the Mad Myers, Urdera and Liz and Bruce. TNLNSL. Cheers The Nanks

Found OK. Had to guess the name of the building seeing #2 is out of action. Took golf ring left halfpenny coin.

Ok! So we did this one out of order.
We will visit #2 tomorrow but this one is outside our hotel.
Geo wife's extraordinary powers of deduction found it in notime flat.
T puzzle ball
L keyring

With our bellies full from lunch we made the short walk from a conveniently-found carpark to GZ. The kids saw lots of water dragons along the way.

When we got to GZ there was a limited number of spots to look and every one in the group seemed to swoop on a different spot... as a result the cache was in hand in seconds.

Many years ago Mrs Garner used to live directly across the road. TFTC.

Found by Sunshine Toledo and Her Majesty at 10:47am. This cache was being guarded by a large water dragon. TNLNSL TFTC

Easy to locate but muggle infested and difficult to get at while trying not to compromise the hide. Nice one!
TNLN. TFTC.

this was an esay find even when y gps was out a bit.

tnln

fizzer

Also in the company of the Spud Willis we discovered this one gaurded by a large water monitor. Thanks for the hide

Found OK. Lots of lizards about. Quite a few muggles walking past but weren't too interested in what we were doing.

Took: Car
Left: Ball

TFTC
Cranky.Don =)

Found at 12.50, not many muggles around and no one took any notice of us, nice easy find. TFTC on to #4 John & Terry

Also in the company of the Pooh Bears we discovered this one gaurded by a large water monitor. Thanks for the hide TNLNSL

found with the furry camels

Found at peak time for joggers. Still following clues.

Found this one with ease, walked straight upto it, didnt get the clue at this stage but carried on to the 4th cache....

TNLN

Great day out exploring Maroochydore and surrounds. Thanks A&C

Found this one quite easily. There were a lot of muggles around but successfully found and hid the cache without being noticed.
TNLN
Moogerah Marauders

Very first Cache found with our new Christmas Present.On holidays,staying just up the road from this one. We couldnt wait to find one & this was it.Took stickers left car.Thanks for an easy find.

Met the resident lizard - very cute local touch. Found this one and hopefully have the clue correct. Merlo. TNLN TFTC

Lovely resident lizard! Poor little guy had to scurry off so we could look for the cache. Very easy find. TNLN, TFTC

An easy find, once I got onto the right level TNLNSL TFTC

Easy-peasy! Time for icecream & swim while VWNuts tries to unravel clues!

TNLN - Saw a HUGE lizard though. Thanks.

Found easily today, grabbed the clue, but when we tried to apply it we couldnt work it out....only realised once we got home that we missed out on "the Wharf"....hopefully will be back in the area in early Jan so will complete the series then.
TFTC

Walking along the esplanade, ahh can there be any better pleasures in life
Past the coffee shops, the boutiques with wares from around the world and the artists displaying their creativity along the footpath. But other treasures are to be found here, known to few [:o]
There carried along on the nearby breezes was the unmistakable scent of a cache
A nice easy find in between the muggles who were thin in the midday heat
I'm getting closer to that cheesecake, I can almost taste it

Nice and early and easy to park. Should have read the comments better but it was a nice walk on the beach. Got on the right track and found the cache easily. Better half acted like a tourist with the camera while I checked the clues.
Good hide. Off to No4.
TNLN
TFTC

A nice easy find after a stroll by the sea.

Thanks