CARORICA, Gladstones TB Motel. Byelee, Queensland, Australia
By Bundyrumandcoke on 20-Oct-06. Waypoint GCYZ1H

Sadly, after all these years, this cache has gone missing. Sad to see an old cache like this gone, but quite frankly, given the size and location, its amazing it lasted so long.

No luck finding this one. Unless it has been moved from where the coords point, perhaps it has been taken

There appears to be no cache at this location. We moved anything that could be and unless it's buried in the ground, it's not there. Hopefully council muggles haven't decided to remove it

Love the cache. No TB's checked in at the moment.

Bit big

Tftf

Found it. Cool little spot. We put a little rubber ducking in side, an took this trackable on to its next adventure.

Oh boy oh boy
Yipee found it
Tftc

Found it with tamagotcha, was hoping a pencil may have been in the cache but no. And of course no pens in the car Oh well I'll come back another day to sign log

Great spot, Google maps took us the long way round in amongst the industrial plant (see photo- the red line) but we could have easily accessed it off the main road (blue line).

Great TB hotel.
Listed TB not present.
2 x TB dropped and logged accordingly.

Found on part of our ‘north for warmer weather’ trip from North East Vic to Central QLD via Curtis Island!

Found with tikitere. TFTC

TCTC

TFTC

Has taken us far too long to come look for thos one. Found after spending the weekend at Byfield. Left a penny TFTC

Quiet little spot, nice easy find

So camping at Awonga Dam for a few days means I can get into Gladstone and do a little caching and some shopping. There are a few particular caches in town that I saw and some fun looking hides.
While driving around town I am impressed on how Gladstone has “cleaned “itself up. Being here some years back, I thought I would never come here again, but I am very impressed with the town and the friendly people here. The new areas and the attractions around town, very nice, thank you.

Seems Gladstone has a lot of “older” caches so I was glad to be in town cleaning up what I could.
All good with this cache, I signed the log and replaced the cache as found. Then I was on my way to the next. Thanks for placing this one here.

Tftc happy new year

Easy find! Great cache! Nice and big for treasure!

Found it. Happy new year!

Dropped off a trackable that I've had for a couple of months.

Was a long drive but was so worth it easy find

Found it

Found it. Didn’t move the traceable though. Lots of treasure to find. We went 4wheel driving through okra opps

In the area with Selva Girls today to pick up some caches and this was one of them. SG had already found this one but left a TB once I made the find.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for me and others to enjoy.

TFTC Bundyrumandcoke

TB Drop

A good little adventure to get there.. Found it.

This is a cool spot! Easy to find. TFtC.

Great Northern escape 2022 Day 123. Raglan to Gladstone. After a night serenaded by trucks and trains, I had a slow start to the morning. The first item on the agenda was the three caches around Raglan I had left for today, and then it was off to Gladstone via Mount Larcom for an amazing sausage roll. After setting up at the show grounds, I was off for some caching, starting with the LABs at the botanic gardens. A fun afternoon around town.

Once I found the driveway into this it was a short drive up to the huge cache. It is great to see a fun cache like this. No one at home today.

Thanks for the cache Bundyrumandcoke

37240.5 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2018 March Born To Cache A#375

**Albida**

easy find

We were delayed in Rocky so had to skip a few caches along the road south. We were flying along the highway when the Wench yells out "cache there". The next turnoff revealed a bumpy access track so we doubled back for a quick find-and-sign.

Our thanks to the Bundyrumandcoke for this cache.
#4205 @ 15:40.

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Good
Don't listen to Google maps

Very easy to find. Turn safely off the road though.

Very easy to find. Lots of treasures!! Added two ourselves.

Accidentally pressed DNF.
We did find it

Hidden in plain sight. Road was nice and quiet for cycling north. Took 2 TBs. Thanks for an easy cache.

Quick and easy find and trackable dropped off.

Continuing my journey home, I was detouring towards a target cache but decided to stop off to look for this one. I was surprised to see a TB Motel in plain sight! {:o} Log signed and I was on my way again. TFTC

After the rapidly spreading Covid outbreak forced us to cancel our plans to attend the Wangaratta mega, a decision was made to stay in Qld and head North on a road trip instead.

Hardest part was finding the best turnoff, then it was an easy drive right to GZ. No TBs resting, they must all be on adventures

Find #12048 @ 07:09
Thanks Bundyrumandcoke for giving us a reason to visit.

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**Found Friday 07-January-2022 at 09:42 Smiley #1666**

Annual Christmas pilgramage for the family. Was destined for Dubbo but for the third time we've tried, COVID-19 has prevented border crossings or made them too unpredictable. But hey, there's always someone else in a worse predicament then our family holiday being shifted around.

Ended up driving the Australian Country Way from Toowoomba to Rocky, then down the coast back home again. Not a drop of rain until we ran into Ex TC Seth, who apparently didn't socialise well. Got stuck in Tiaro for the night, before making the made dash back to Gympie once the way was cleared. We didn't get many caches on the way, there was too many to justify stopping at every single one, but we did find ones at cool spots we were stopping at anyway

Had a lot of fun driving through the mud to get right up to the cache. Grabbed a few and dropped a few TB's to keep it going.

All the logs are in good condition unless specified otherwise, and they were all found with ease unless specified otherwise.

Cache logs are either stamped, signed with Rogersclan13 or just RC13 for space. Thanks for the cache and thank you for breaking the drive up **Bundyrumandcoke**

Rogersclan13

What a find....hint-dont get too distracted, careful of the meat ants TFTC Took TB.
29/12/21

Nice...just started yesterday so cool to see how it works and the items used watch out for the

thanks for hiding this cache out here. TB dropped

Big one, some awesome treasures.

Woohoo! Final Gladstone find before riding north to Rocky! Took a TB and will log when i stop for a beer, 3 left in the Motel.
TFTC!

Yay got it! Tried to cover it a bit better. TFTC

Funny places where gps can take you. We followed it and it seemed we were heading for private property so we tried a different way. Whoops that then had us going into Orica, pondered while we went to get the WICET one, came back and parked near the lights. Almost like a cricket pitch walking down, I spied what I thought may have been a cache while Was was telling me it was off in the bushes. One to me but I did need him to unscrew it. Took one tb with us. All good with the cache, tftc fav pt from us,

Logging old caches originally found with alphag_25. Now have my own account and logging them separately so that i can claim the finds or not as the case may be. TFTC.

21/6/21 Down from Mackay on holidays and doing some geocaching. Dropped some TB and Discovered some, Took none. TFTC SL

Went for and took my partner for his first geocache, we picked up the pickle travel bug and will drop it to Warwick QLD

Decided to do this on the way back. Park a bit further away but wanted to be safe so many people using the road and a wide load as well.

We started walking in and chose a place to walk into, then into the swamp left from recent rain. I trudged on along a track but then I could see where I was meant to be, OH well through the drain I went. and up the other side. Seems there is a really good path.

I found the motel and emptied the contents, exchanged TB's I have had you all too long , safe journey.

Log signed I walked back to the car.
TFTC Bundy

Just a quick checkup and mass TB drop.

Cheers

Bundy

Tftc. Nice and quick and large and cool. Tftc Bundy

Grey nomads travelling around Australia in our caravan. 2020 done and dusted, 2021 here we come

Our Rocky farm sit now over, we still have time to spend in the area for another month or so, so we have moved on to Gladstone.

After attending to business in town, we chose which five caches we should target today.

Yes a nice big cache with room with heaps of room for all sorts of things...... but there were no travelbugs in residence.

So, we left a travel bug caravan to continue it's journey and a huge marble to add to the collection inside the cache. Thanks for the hide Bundy, fave point given

Found it

With overseas travel currently out of the question and state border closures still a lurking as possibilities, my family and some close friends decided that travelling to North Queensland was our best option for a Christmas/New Year escape. After staying in Bundaberg last night, our destination for today is Rockhampton, with a number of caches on our itinerary along the way, including this one.

My daughter and I had been sharing the driving duties and she was a little nervous having to take the car off the main road. Victor Del Prado is made to easily handle the drive in so we arrived safe and sound at GZ. No chance to miss the cache container here. Great to see the longevity of this cache. TFTC

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Tftc , nice easy find. Took 3 trackables, left 1. Also left an unopened ooshie which you could sell on eBay!!

I have a project to collate photos of original logs for old geocaches. This is one of them! Thanks Pprime for the photos.

Off for a long weekend adventure in Gladstone Region, along with Crew 153, 1MinnieMoo and Fangsoki. Mostly targeting older caches, and whatever else popped up on our radar. After an aquatic adventure earlier today we regrouped back on the mainland, and after a great Irish pub meal we headed out for a short night run. No worries at all here (our turn around point this evening). A lovely little walk up the path and a massive find at GZ. Nice hint.

Thanks Bundyrumandcoke for entertaining me at this location.
*{Overall find #8083}*

1MinnieMoo, Crew 153, Pprime, and I were in town grabbing a few caches. We decided to grab this one.

Very unsure why I hadn't found this one last time I was in Gladstone. We kitted up at night and made our way to GZ. Crew 153 joked about where it would be - and he turned out to be right!

We signed the log of the bold container and rehid the cache as found. A good hide and fun find. TFTC Bundyrumandcoke

3/10/20 Find #4174
Fangsoki, Pprime, Crew153 and I had had quite the eventful day here in Gladstone, and decided to treat ourselves to a nice meal at local establishment “Dicey’s” as recommended to us by a new local acquaintance. The meal was good, made all the tastier after such a crazy day, and feeling rather comfortable now, we decided to grab just a couple more caches to make up for the day’s itinerary delays.
Parking the car and grabbing our lights, we made our way in here, and noticing the marked size of the container on the cache page, had a joke about a particular structure being the cache, as we neared GZ. We then had to laugh when we realised we would indeed be searching there and quickly made our find.
Would like to know the purpose of that pipe at GZ other than to disguise the cache of course.
Thanks for the cache Bundyrumandcoke.

A long weekend caching trip to Gladstone had been planned with 1MinnieMoo, Pprime and Fangsoki and a list of target caches had been prepared.

After dinner at Dicey's we decided to find a few caches in the dark before going to bed.

We parked at the road and walked in the track to get to this one. There was no missing this cache, even in the dark.

TFTC Bundyrumandcoke

Nice one! My kid took some glitter and I put in Tom Petty on cassette. Thanks!

Found it that go track

Dropped two TBs. Thanks for the cache

There’s no better feeling than getting your man! We caught up with our criminals and managed to apprehend them at Wilinus Pass. Seems I’m capable of still living up to my reputation. I could never have done it with John and Keel. Those two unicorns have surely been a gift from The Lady! I asked them to join me in the watch but they tell me their assistance is needed back in the land of the Elves fighting the Queen. Now to work our how to get these guys back to the city and a short walk down the long stairs to the cells.

Took the bug will find him a new home soon.

Found it easily

Nice walk along the water line

Thanks! We dropped a TB

Spotted one event TB. Left a TB.

Travelling back home after spending couple of days in Townsville.

Stopping in Gladstone for lunch.

Tftc

Found it with TBU1BIKESU.TFTC

Nice geo spot

An early morning drive bought me to this great cache and a good one it is too! I took a TB signed the log and replaced as found. TFTC

Found by the 5 year old grandchildren with plenty of hints from us the grandparents. Took two TBs. Still a few there. TFTC

Nice quick find. Awesome spot and awesome cache. TFTC

An easy find and wow, did not expect this size despite reading the description.

Didn’t take a bug but left a nice surprise for the next finder.

TFTC

Tftc

Found 06/12/2019. Thanks

Was a great find.

Very cool find

Day 3 of our road trip to QOGM in Blackall. Today we are caching in the Gladstone area and surrounds. First stop was to drop off a few TBs so they can keep travelling. Thanks BRC for this special cache.

Visiting Gladstone for a few days. Found the cache easily. Placed 2 new TB’s and took 1TB. TFTC

Dropped these 2 TB’s in the TB Hotel cache

An odd spot to stop in the middle of nowhere !! [:o]
But I stopped anyway
And with the sounds of heavy machinery nearby,
I wandered up to an obvious spot at GZ

Checking around to see that nobody was watching,
I meddled with the bit of infrastructure to find this cache

Trackables swapped,
I was outa there !!

TFTC.

Kudos for such a large cache [^]

I left the "Dogs Abound" TB here.

This was a nice drive thankful i took my rav 4 so was able to drive straight up to. Was easy to spot. Very close to where the fire was. Took TB cachers best friend. TFTC and my first retrieved TB

Good sized container nicely placed away from muggles.
TFTC

TFTC Thank you for hiding this cache. You have shown us a new place and have helped make geocaching an enjoyable activity. Interesting drive in.

A quick find on my afternoon of geocaching around Gladstone! TFTC!

Found while staying down the road in Calliope and taken a trip into the nearby big smoke for look around and to add a few smileys to my count. Couldn't help but find this one. Nice quiet area away from the traffic. TFTC.

Tftc! Picked up a travel bug from class 4a in plettenberg, Germany, because we're in class 4a in Gladstone, queensland!

Not your normal cache! Loved it!

Thought i was going to drop off a tb but it seems alot of people have had and done this so i didn’t leave it I just collected 5 Great Spot for a motel. Signed log KFAU ( my shorted username ) 2:15 pm 14/5/19 and replaced as found, Bundyrumandcoke TFTC.
2 X TB Visited.

Just love this one! Absolute gem to find

By far the best one ever!!! Lots of hidden gems in here and highly recommend. Track was a bit hard to find but easy to access from the side

found after a little drive. teaching the kids about geocaching.

All good, a new log book added to augment the 12 1/2 year old original. Also a massive TB and geocoin drop for those I picked up while away down south. I logged these as I dropped them in on my phone, but for some reason, they are still in my inventory.

Cheers

Bundy

A great one for the kids to find