Up in Smoke Idalia, Queensland, Australia
By trishtrish35 on 15-Oct-06. Waypoint GCYWJA

No response from owner. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the near future (next 30 days), just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 30 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness. If you require more time please be sure to post a note (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require.

After many calls for maintenence with no response, this one need to be archived.

Just attempting to track all the caches I've done with a TB

Didn't find, made Belken come with us the second time and even they couldn't find it!!! Maybe someone has borrowed this cache.

As a previous finder I was asked to look for the cache. I can say with the utmost confidence that the cache is not in the hidey hole it should be. Tonny of Destonny can say with the utmost confidence that the cache is not anywhere under or in that bloody tree. I checked to make sure they had the right tree.

26 Apr 2012. Had another crack at this on, no luck.

A previous finder told me that he couldn't find it again either.

Can the owner have a look at this one before I try again?

Could find even with local knowledge. Will check another time.

Logging for couple account. TFTC

I gave this one a good search in all the likely places and some not so likely places too.
With this one not being found for quite some time could the owner confirm it is still there.

Cheers and happy caching.

This was are second and last chance to seek out this one before we go... Still didn't find it...

Found this one previously so logging for this date. TFTC

My very first cache! Added a dog tag, took nothing... TFTC...

Found a friend to help me with the spider phobia and put his hand into "dark place" for me. BINGO! Found geocoin Whizz Kid too. Going on mini break over long weekend so will look for suitable cache.

A different kind of mystery. The mystery here is how everyone ends up at the wrong tree, myself included. A lot of tracks around one, not many around the other. A simple find if you get to the right one.
Thanks!

Looked at two trees but too scared to put my hand in too far as very scared of bitey things. Lots of mozzies about and curlews. Disappointed as found by someone yesterday.

Will have to write a note. Ken thought we had done this one and we still looked in the wrong tree. When we did find the cache we saw that we did find it back in 2006. Will log with that date. Thanks twice.Dropped a coin in the cache.

This entry was edited by BelKen on Sunday, 29 May 2011 at 12:39:38 UTC.

Great fun looking for this one. Searched the wrong tree, got eaten alive by the mossies and then the youngest Geokid found it and rubs it in. TFTC. T - pen, L - Marble.

Great hunt. Good cache.

tftc tnln

NOT TOO SURE OF PUTTING MY HAND INTO A DARK HIDING SPOT

TOOK A DEEP BREATHE AND FORGED AHEAD

GEO HUBBY KEPT GUARD AS BIRD KEPT TRYING TO KEEP US AWAY FROM AREA

TOOK TRAVEL BUG -SMURF LEFT GAME

TFTC

No wonder I didn't find it in the dark the other night - I couldn't see the bricks which are bleedingly obvious in the day time.

Dropped TB Smurf off to continue his travels.

suz, Miss S and JJ (friend) - Fairly easy find when the right tree is searched Swapped GD phone charm for smiley lanyard. T4TC. Had fun. Plenty of screams when face to face with spiders.[^]

Been looking for this cache for some time and with a hint from braelair finally have the cache in hand.... TNLNSL TFTC P.S. Number 22 for the day and time to head home

Great little hunt this one. Plenty of mozzies but I came covered in repellent which beat them to a stand-still.

Couldn't follow the clues relating to the severed roots but took a punt on the dark spaces and came up trumps. MARVIN was not in residence.

TFTC ... TNLN ... SL ... Dipped TBs & GCs.

Found it! Millions of Mozzies!!! OMG!!! I was eaten Alive!!!

TNLN TFTC...

SL

FG.

Just dipping my TB I brought through this cache.

As per other logs, found quickly once we were at the right tree but spent a while looking in other likely spaces that matched the clue. Nesting plovers nearby that were a little protective of the area! Tftc trishtrish. T tb

Another one on the way home after work. I found it no worries. TNLN

Marvin must be in transit. Need LONG arms! Was scared of snake but didn't see it ..... maybe it with Marvin. Council woman doing some work, so had time to catch my breath and look at the bricks of red. TFTC Excellent clues! SL Took gold pirate coin left snail shell.

We did the riddle and found plenty of great hiding spots but they were all empty After half an hour of searching, we gave up. Unfortunately this was the start of a bad losing streak at a number of strangler fig caches.

273rd cache. 97th in Oz.

Second attempt for this cache, searched the right tree this time!!!
Easy.... [with hindsight]

Last of 3 before breakfast today.
TFTC

Found at night by torchlight
Signed Log
TNLN

Found this one at 8.30pm by torchlight, which is quite a spooky experience. Spider webs, trying not to be seen or heard by walkers going past the GZ, rats etc all made it quite interesting. A fun little riddle, but the cache was quickly found. TNLNSL, TFTC.

two visits and "phone a friend" and we found it.

No TB in container

TFTC

Drive past this everyday nice hide
T-Jellyman/coins
L-Grasshopper
FISHABUNGA

1 in 3 for the tree
1 in a million for the roots
cache was hidden choices 1
we got your prize and then left some

TN L TB Marvin Marshin and swaps

1st cache for a 5 day weekend

TFTC

Found it after awhile of searching in the wrong area but eventually found it was a bit of a tricky one. TNLN TFTF.


yogie71

First find of a Sunday afternoon caching trip together with yogie71. Took a moment to figure out the riddle but then it was easy.
I like this kind of cache, makes it a little harder (and more fun) than just following your GPS. Thanks for this one!

T: Caching in Qld Geocoin
L: flexible ruler

After not finding this one a couple of days ago, we returned after reading previous logs. Searched the correct tree this time, and after finding the root cut in the middle it was plain sailing from there.
Left the Caching in Qld GC (The Spider should feel at home here!) and crossed this one off the list...TFTC

It was an obvious place to hide it, but we had to walk around and around it till we found it. These are tricky nooks and crannies. T: 2cent coin L: army man. TFTC.

Found this one really easily. Great location.
T-Guam souvenir
L- D&G souvenir

TFTC

Found tis quite easily. Nice little hide.

T - Penny and Patch
L - Stickers

Signed Log TFTC

TFTC
After wandering around looking for a while where the co-ords had sent us we decided to check out some of the options. Once we did this was a quick find.
TNLN

The second, now I am beginning to see how devious people are in hiding these things, the green pen has had it I will put a pencil in today (29th)

Woo-hoo our 50th cache!!! We agree with the entries in the other logs in that the clues and co-ordinates were a bit off. Our eldest cache kid found this one after wondering off as he thought that he'd try one of the other fig trees and his whim paid off. Unfortunately we left our swaps at home (geo-dad's fault) so other than a lot of mozzie bites we took nothing and left nothing. TFTF.

2 Years and 6 visits later I have at last found this cache, must admit a torch helped a lot this time. No mozzies, no snakes just a lot of cobwebs, left a few old coins and happily signed log.

Wow this one was a real challenge. Did try and find GZ in the morning no luck. After work and after reading the logs I went back and found it with little difficulty. Co-ord are definitely out out. T 1 xsquishy stress ball and L 1 x bouncy ball.

TFTC

Just popped in to grab STARLIGHT ORANGE TB to wing it's way to Guam next week. TFTC.

[This entry was edited by bubblensqueak on Friday, November 07, 2008 at 12:20:41 AM.]

Hmmm! 50 metres from GZ. Interesting approach.

Follow the clues and you find.
TNLNSL TFTC

TFGC my 2nd after work b4 heading home 1710. Got some nice photos to add to my collection too. The mosquitos were rather too friendly. [:o)] Another great spot, thanks. Took Sheep Critter LTB Orange Starlight and car card.

This cache goes to prove you should read the clues CARFULLY before rushing off to find it, we got it on our third tree GOOD ONE !!!
Took Frog
Left Cecil the Sheep Geocoin

TFTC
Dorik

[This entry was edited by Dorik on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 5:39:23 PM.]

Thankyou for the great clues. Thanks to our son's keen eye we can record our first ever find.

Found this one on the final day of a work related visit to Townsville at 5:15pm
Followed the clues and found cache quickly.
The smoke stack is worth the visit alone.
TFTC
TNLN SL

were distracted by the large feature nearby but after enjoying the view we took the hunt seriously and quickly matched the clues and found the cache. TNLNSL

We had been previously told that this one may be a bit tricky. However we broke the clue up into parts and did it one step at a time. This was a quick and easy find. Found the cache at 1605. Signed the log and left a bouncy ball.
TFTC.
B&B

This was our first find, was great fun and kids had fun solving your riddle. Thanks for the hunt..

WanderingAus wandered by on day fifty-nine of a 6 month trip Wandering Australia, and made an easy find.

My find No 651, LCC, TNLNSL, dropped my WanderingAus Happy New Year 2008 Gold GC in for a visit before grabbing it back again.

T4TH trishtrish35
Keith

Second visit to this site as we got chased away a couple of days ago by snake. Returned today and found easily, although I'm sure we looked in that dark spot the other day - if we had found it then we would have avoided the unpleasant encounter with the snake on the other side of the tree! Also didn't see the listed trackable in the cache.

Hilly Hunters found this one easily. Took pencil sharpener and left a green spikey ball. TFTC

Found as member of LEDGIN'S.

In the book of LEDGIN'S. Found at 1600hrs. Good, but easy find. TFTC.

in company with Ledgin's we had done the leg work on this one a previous day, but the rain chased us away so only had to peer and find. TNLN TFTC

Arriving at GZ I had put my GPS away and was firing up the PDA for a check of the notes. As I did a male walked past and said, "you're in the wrong area." I asked what he meant and he said, "the geocache, it's those trees." I just smiled and checked the PDA before starting the search.

Having read the previous logs and taking note of the placement date it was always going to beinteresting which tree as there was plenty of new growth.

I picked a tree and was duly rewarded at 1620hrs after a short search. There are definitely some great fig specimens in this area.

I didn't notice the TB in the cache.

TNLNSL

TFTC

[This entry was edited by Konie on Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 2:55:44 PM.]

Thought I was in the approximate location, but there were too many potential hiding spots. Happened to meet Scorpion + Butterfly today and they gave me a little clue, so will give this cache another shot in the next day or so!

Scorpion & Butterfly first visited GZ the day before with Geo-Brats and spent an hour searching for cache after finding what we thought was the cut fig vine. Time passed but the Mozzies didn't, so Butterfly and Geo-Brats took for cover as Scorpion returned later that afternoon to continue the search. Scorpion was overwhelmed with muggle activity and decided to return later that night before the muggles called the police about the strangle man going through the gardens like a scrub turkey. But unfortunatley the cloak of darkness was no friend to the determined Cache hunter. Scorpion, not one to give into anyone let alone anything returned the following day after work, and dressed in full uniform tried one more time to grab the bounty. Once the right cut vine (with roots now growing from it) was found the Cache was found in less then five minutes.

T: Pink and Purple Plastic Woven Ribbon (For Breast Cancer I believe)

L:Plastic Rubber Frog.

Ciao! [:p]

Finally found this one on the second attempt at 11:45am while in town from Emerald visiting family for Easter. This was my second attempt. On the first attempt, i found myself looking in the wrong patch of Fig trees and could have sworn it was the right one. First attempt, I spent 90minutes looking and spent 10 minutes in the second attempt.

TNLN

Thanks,
Deathtrip

Should have followed first instincts as gps sent us to wrong tree. Found by Geo kids who stayed with first tree.
Took Last for day Geocoin
Left Bubbleblower
TFTC

TFTC L:Geocoin T:Geocoin SL

Parked the car nearby and traipsed on over to where the arrow indicated. Taking heed of the riddle and and after a glance over some previous logs we eyed a couple of suspects - one of which seemed much more likely than the other. Gave one location a half hearted and cursory look over before wandering over to where we thought the cache would lie. The mosquitoes were certainly out in force - even in the middle of the day - but fortunately the muggles were not.

Had another read of the riddle and inspected various roots and bits of tree. And a fine looking fig tree it is - just love the tangle of roots and the spreading shadeful canopy. Anyway we spotted something which could be interpreted as fitting the clue and spotted a couple of obvious hidey holes - I mean where else would a cache be hidden here!

My hand was reluctant to be sent blindly groping into the darkness - this is the tropics! - so a careful perusal was in order before the container was retrieved. Afterwards we took a short stroll along the riverside path, past the ginormous chimney. A pleasant little spot was this. We made no swaps, however dropped off a geocoin and picked up the Dog Tag TB.

Great cache in a really interesting place (why did they leave the chimney?). Dropped of Travel Bug Dog Tag XWTRQ7. TFTC.
PS. DID NOT SEE SPARKY3 TB.

524 10:30am

Thanks TrishTrish35 for a fun easy cache once you get to the correct tree. Like others have stated, it is a long hard search at the wrong tree.

Thanks for the hunt and the beautiful tree.

Yes - the answers to the clues are very very obvious at the correct tree.

Picked up a TB

*Overall Experience: 4*
http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Rating

Rated: for Overall Experience

hi girls
finally got back up your way with some time to have a crack at this one ...
well put all the pieces to the puzzle together and found naught.
went back over the rhyme and went off in a different direction ... got it this time.
grabbed a coin and discovered a bug
tftc
Dan
# - saw 'Lindy's bug' don't recall another bug being present but may have just overlooked it too

Worked out al the clues but couldn't find this one. not sure if it was cache blindness or the fact that I was being watched by a possum who didn't want me there. So I left him to it.
Cheers

Placed Travel Bug "Lindy's Bug" PG3JK1.

Found at 1240 hrs without using the GPS, the clues made it so easy. I haven't been here for about 20 years.TNLNSL. Thanks for fun find.

Thanks trishtrish35 I love your caches especially the ones with riddles. Of course I found myself at the wrong tree to start with but all was good in the end. It's worth a trip down there just to see those beautiful big trees. I was however a little bit put off by signs of loo paper so was very cautious as to where I put my hands. Took War Geocoin and left Travel Bug "Lindy's Bug".

GRRRR, didnt this one cause me some problems.
First off, the GPS and clues took me to the wrong tree. With a bit of poetic licence, I managed to make the rest of the clues fit, and come up with nothing.
Also, at this time of the day, it was muggle central around here. Heaps of cyclists, and walkers.

Trying to think laterally, I headed to check out some likely spots for the final cache location, still nothing.

Finally, returning to the clues, I spread my search for the correct spot, and finally came up trumps with one of them, at a totally different spot to that which the GPS gave me. But applying the supplied information had the cache in my hands in seconds. Many swaps were done, given the effort and time taken to grab this one. On replacement of the cache, I again tried to retro fit the clues to the cache location. It still took me a number of minutes to find one particular piece of the puzzle. It has grown back a fair bit, and can only be seen if you look carefully.

I probably spent a good hour on this find.

Found at 0720 hrs.

Find number nineteen for the trip out west and up north.

Took the Idaho 2007 and Canadian Dec 2006 Geocoins, the Mojo and Nine ball TB's, and the Year 3 hitchhiker. Left Fort Sumpter and 5 years of Geocaching Geocoins.

I didnt see Sparky TB in the cache, otherwise I would have grabbed it too.

Cheers
Bundy

Our first Cache and what a beauty, the boyz enjoyed looking through the contents. Very excited!

Left Guam tag, took nothing

Picked up "Arrow One" GC & Slug Bug TB

Great Cache
Cheers
Scooby & the Boyz

Just doing a coin and TB drop. Have had them for too long (unfortunatley time doesn't permit us to get out as often as we would like)

Found it! Went to right tree first, couldn't see anything. Went to wrong tree, and spooked the hell out of the kids in the long grass. Eventually found the darn thing with the help of 6 year old eyes. Made me wish i had a long pair of tongs handy. Took wristband and tats, and left a dancing cow statue. She only just fits. She's fragile, don't drop the cache!
Thanks for the hunt!

Found it this time. Had to take Mrs Oricas to do the looking and decoding for me. I would suggest you put some insect repellant on if you are going to do this one as the mossies were thick. Boy had to have tiny spray bottle. Left wrist band. I didn't notice any TB's in he cache. TFTC SL.

Found on our second attempt after going to the right tree this time!! Lots of mozzies, but not as many as last time we looked.

TNLN

Couldn't find it today. The spiders and mozzies were putting me off. Have had another read of the log entries and think I was a bit confused and looking in the wrong places. I'll try again another day.

Found this one after a return visit & my third one in Townsville, I finally found a TB to take back to the USA. I got the U.S. Flag TB and will be taking it back to the Washington DC area of all places!

Very enjoyable and what a great specimen. Thanks trishtrish35. TN and left travel bug.

Easy find once the Reluctant Companion decided we had the wrong tree! Good rhyme and spot on with everything. Thanks for the experience. Have never been in that area before but driven past so many times!! It is a great spot.(No mossies or toads today)! Took nothing left an ID patch.

Interesting site- got out the camera to get some shots, which is just as well as we had to have a cover while looking for this one. Dumb photo-enthusiast seems to work well as a cover as it doesn't involve much pretence.
Did a swap but can't remember what.

The riddle was right on. Thanks for the history lesson as the interesting cache. TNLN SL TFTC

i'm up from sydney...this is my first find...i'm staying close to this cache so it was a nice walk at nght...with a torch...lol
found the mozzies....and toads(which scared me) and then the cache....great hidie...
look forward to doing many more whle visiting...
took TB
left glowsticks
tfth

Found in the fading light. A lot of mozzies about. A nice ride on our 'Deadly Treadlies'. A reasonably easy find. Also a lot of muggles about. Took the 'Billy The Blue Plymouth'Travel bug. Left a 'Going My Way' fridge magnet.

Having Fun!!

Liz wasn't with me when I found this for the first time. We had some TB's to move on so took the chance to show her this cache.

Dropped off two TB's
Around the world
Billy the Plymouth

Took the lonely bull TB and the Aussie Nomad geocoin

dropping off TB

GPS was a bit off today and with the large number of roots and leaf litter, I couldn't find it. You might have to up the difficulty level as 30 minutes of searching was unproductive.
TFTH

Cache is still there had become hidden under some leaves etc so cleared it up a little...the clues are still good if you find the right roots you will have it no hassles...

This isn't my lucky day! Still can't find it. Have stood between many and had no luck. I did find Map Monkeys dunny paper, no cahce there! CITO, hope it was clean.

looked really hard. Hmmmm. will try again. Clues a bit vague as there are many of what you have to stand between!

Just not our day, might not be looking hard enough. Will try again later this week.