Hafenblick Mackay Harbour, Queensland, Australia
By Myra Howerd on 07-Sep-06. Waypoint GCY6MZ

Send me an email when its all shiny and new again.

This one has been outy of action for a while.

it would appear that someone has nicked it!! Give us a week or so to fix it up.

Dominic

Looked for at least an hour but could not manage to track down this geocache.. Maybe it has gone missing??? The hint "YELLOW". well nothing yellow anywhere that we could see and we must have upturned every rock that could be moved to see if it was underneath. Will try this one next time I'm here in Sept school holidays.

It appears from the recent logs that this cache may have gone AWL . Could this be checked please as I was going to grab this one in the next couple of days

Lovely location - pity we couldn't find the cache. Spent quite a while looking all around but no success. Thanks for bringing us to this great spot though.

Headed down to the waterfront during my first full day in Mackay. The weather was calm, and the water clear. Saw a heap of fish that would suit a saltwater aquarium down to the ground. But, do you think I could find a cache, nope. I checked along the wall, about 20 metres either side of where the arrow pointed to. There were plenty of muggles around, but fortunately, not near where I was, just passing by. After poking and prodding for an hour or so, I gave up.

Returned on the 6th after getting a bit of help from a local cacher at the 4wd event I was at at Finch Hatton, and in the intermittant rain squalls, I again searched the wall, this time further down looking for the clue to the location. I found a few locations where the clue could be "loosely" applied, but still no luck. I ended up rockhopping about 100 metres of wall. Again searching the area indicated by the GPS, and still no luck, so I have to call it a day, as I have one on the way home to grab, and daylight is fast ending.

Cheers
Bundy

Nice hiding spot. Spotted some seals and a turtle near by while looking for cache.

Had 1 good look & 2 attempted drive bys without luck.

Nice and easy, lots of muggles around but not in line of sight to the cache when i was there luckily!!! TNLN - TFTC

Found the cache at midday with ease. Muggles everywhere! As we were looking for the cache a large sea turtle surfaced so this was an added bonus. TNLNSL

this 1 was tricky, had to go back 3 times to not have muggles even then it was midnight and hard to see, the clue yellow is only a very small clue but found eventually with the help of hilux2000 took batteries ,brass razoo, and my little girl had tohave the plastic fruit left little car and a snake (rubber)had a ball chasing this 1 look forward to more of the same

Found at 18:51 hrs. Nice hiding spot. I used to swim off these rocks when I was a kid. Lots of changes to the harbour since then.
TFTC.
TNLN. SL

JG

The rain had been chasing us around all day but it finally caught up with us while we were searching for the cache so we madly raced back to the car. We had our fingers crossed the rain was going to pass as we needed to find this one as it contained a clue for a multi. We made a phone a friend phone call while we waited as we didn't have the new co-ordinates for another stage of the multi. Eventually the rain stopped and we soon managed to locate the cache our 3rd for the day. TNLNSL Thanks for the cache.

i found this one while in town doing my xmass shopping

tnln

i did write on the note as there was no pen and too many muggels around to just get one and go back.
thanks fizzer

Found 0930 17 Dec 2006. Muggles, but all looking the other way. Did not read clue beforehand but when I saw it in the field I got the idea right away. Meaningless to a muggle but significant to even a newbie geocache hunter. Well stocked cache in good order. Took pottery pig, left pack of 4 brand new AA batteries for a GPS.
The Earlybirds
Peter and Coral.

Found the cache at 10.45am. Excellent place and enjoyed look at the boat etc. No swap. Thank you for organise the cache and hunt.

Found at about 12:30 am, was well hidden and took a bit of searching in the dark.
It needs a biro or 2 as there is currently none and I didn't have a spare to throw in.
Plenty of goodies but took none, Just signed the log

Nice intro to GeoCaching. Accompanied JimW83 and Deathtrip for the find. Interesting cache, brilliant location. Was a really good view just after midnight.

Cheers
CowboyMacca.

Great Cache, done with Deathtrip
took Goanna TB
Jimw83

Returned to find this and another cache on a late night cache expedition at around 12:15am. Tried a search earlier in the day but as warned there were dozens of muggles. Very nice at night to see the floating city of coal ships. Great clue! I was accompanied by Jimw83, Dion, and Cowboy.

Took: Bag of Marbles
Left: Dolphin and Brass Razoo Keyring

Thanks,
Deathtrip

Just a quick check on the status. I notice the clue is changing hue, so to speak.

Dropped in TB Goanna to give him a chance to move on.

Myra

... yep back here with MapMonkey ... left a plastic shark this time ... as I didn't leave anything the first time.

Dropping in to grab a clue for another cache....fish seem to be biting.

mm

Found it easy enough but muggles everywhere. I tried for it on the 14/10 but as muggles had parked there boat right in front it made it a bit hard. Got it on the 15/10 but could only make a quick log and miss the clue. Had to come back 6am on the 17/10 to get it.

Took - Geocoin to move on
Left - nothing

This is similar to a Cairns cache but a little tougher with all the muggles at this one. We didn't have any rods or reels to blend in with the fisher muggles so the camera was clicking at anything to look like a tourist muggle. Think it worked.

Found without to much trouble, then the dilemma. Two items of interest, a Geo coin and TB. We hadn't read about them to find the goals they had, so we gambled. Took Boof TB and left geo coin for someone else. Liz has some love and inbuilt girly thing about finding TB's [B)] she just read this. Boof has to go south, we were heading home north (hope the Yowee king understands), but we are off to Bris in a couple of weeks so he will head down there with us.

Left koala
Took Boof

Also Got the second clue to finding Myras Pandanus Cove cache

Scoped out GZ... too many muggles to attempt with fishermen everywhere on a Sunday afternoon. Maybe later this week before I will attempt to locate.

Just a quick check on things and to drop in Boof and his swag. I guess we should have put in a bigger container...

quick stop on way through town - had seen the coin before so left for others...
plenty of fishing muggles - but to preoccupied to notice.
TNLNSL
TFTC

Even though i had seen this cache on the list so close to home for several days, there seems to be no real challenge in gaining a FTF as is the case in some larger areas.

Nice hide, though i did use the clue to minimise suspicious looking activity. Well stocked container, thanks. The wind was driving the swell over the wall today with some good gusts of wind blowing me into the cache location.

Funnily enough two pens were not working very well, so i swapped them out for a guaranteed pen that will work. Please leave this pen behind.

Left a geocoin and a simpsons figurine. Only took the dead pens.

Thanks for the cache location......cache name quite appropriate [^]

Map Monkey

Rated: for Overall Experience

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