Rocky Icons - Urban Waterfall Kalka, Queensland, Australia
By dandent on 30-Nov-06. Waypoint GCZM36

apologies to all - disabling cache

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.

Can this one please be archived? I went looking for this one.. couldn't find it.. then checked the logs. Repeated DNFs and no answer to call for maintennance since October last year.

We thought we were in the correct place but couldn't find the cache.

Co-Ordinates put me in the middle of a car park. Could not get to waterfall because of closed track. Adjustments one way of looking at them put me in middle of highway, another way put me over in shopping centre. Could you please check co-ords ?? Many thanks The Garnets

Well, we went looking, but we didn't find it. Now I see others have been unable to find it too.

Went there but read the logs nothing there

As I said below we found the book but nothing else, so this cache is not there.

Well we found the log book only, the log book was recovered from the leaf litter, but there was no sign of the container or it's contents, including the travelers that were in it. We have bought the log book home with us and will contact the owner regarding it's return.

Ahhh! Just read Fuddleys log and that explains why I couldn't find it!!

Just like a cache I have, the waterfall is bone dry! Did the calcs and then made a hard job of getting to gz where the cache was a quick find, thanks dandent.

OH goodness... geoson and I tried twice today to find... but no. The 'blonde' in me must be working overtime I think. I am so sure that the cache should be hidden in the jungle but it looks as though the council have been doing some severe pruning... found two sets of keys that we delivered to the police station though. Was so hoping to find this one as it would have been my 100th, and a couple of bugs to take with us on our around aussie travels.

Very enjoyable find. Taken TB THE LAST (N). Dropped off Suncompass geocoin and Out of the blue TB

We found the cache and on returning to the motorhome met up with a couple we had last seen in WA a few months ago, must have been good carma coming from this cache. Spent the rest of the day chatting and catching up untill some locals sniffing from plastic bags hung out by us. Please be aware that they may be around when you are doing this cache so as not to cause any issues with your safety and the safety of the cache. L TB T N TFTC

Found it second time round. I also left a byro in the cache as there was nothing to write with.

I was driving past today and I pulled in to have a check on the cache after the DNF by JeffGaz. The cache is still there.

Dooghan

Unable to find it!

Organised a kids birthday geoparty, and this was first cab off the rank. Funny sight sitting on GZ trying to decipher the clue. TFTC Dandent.

We would have to log this find a GAFF5 if we used that system. We were having lunch nearby with CamHelen and discussing Rocky caches when it became apparent they had found this one and we hadn't, so without co-ordinates or the clues Avagomob got to sign the log and liberate the TB.
Thanks Dandent

I loved the peaceful surroundings
and enjoyed the challenge
TFTC TNLN SL
gypsy jj

This area is beautiful up close
The falling water drowns out the traffic noise nicely [^]
With the prime seating location to meself, I took me time to calculate the whereabouts of GZ.
A short terrain 4.5 stroll later and I was there
The cache didn't stay hidden for long and I grabbed the Wotta Rippa Zippa TB.

I really enjoyed this hunt. found at 1022 on a Saturday morning. there were a fair few people using the park but no one was close by while accessing the cache and writing in the log.
to celebrate cracking 100 finds this weekend I decided I would help some trackables find a new home
Took - The Old London Phone Box GF68ZR
Took - Geocoin- Cache Critters On Patrol CCN19N
moving them south to Gladstone. Thanks for this great cache

Found a few weeks ago.. just forgot to log. Was a little tricky to find.

Just dropping off some coins and tbs

Took us ages to find this one. The ground was covered in leaves so it was rather hard to find. But we eventually found it. Good hide!

Was good to return to this place... But this time I know about geocaching... And there's one close by!! Great little puzzle. Thanks dandent.

Dropped off gc and tb

Found it as last bloody find..It really very harder to find bit far away.Lovely waterfall and park.Thank you for organising the cache and hunt.

T.F.T.C

Found it this morning while going for a stroll through the park...logged visit.
Took: Bunyas' Aussie 2006 geocoin to move it on inland a little,
Left: Gecko (plastic one of course...).
TFTC.

Tricky to find! Very sharp foliage!! 20 mins to find. good fun. Only our 4th geocache. Took Travel Bug, will take on a holiday next weekend.

Found it. The "adjustment" of the co-ords was a bit ambiguous but we got there in the end. TFTC

Dropped off GC and TB which we have brought up from Brisbane.

had a little trouble finding withGPS so found it by "where would I hide it" system. It often works

Second go at this one this morning, due to undesirable muggles last night, GPS co-ords plus maths worked out fine
9AM S-log TNLN TFTC-dandent

Cardinal Adjustments took me straight to GZ. Said to my son (Iron_Lung) it has to be within 3 meters of here. It was.

TFTC TNLN

it was difficult but it was fun. TFTC

UNFORTUNATELY WE HAD TO GIVE THIS ONE A MISS AS WE WERE ON A TIGHT SCHEDULE & DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO WORK THIS ONE OUT, WAS DISSAPOINTED TO FIND THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE CACHES CLOSE TO THE HIGHWAY THROUGH ROCKY WERE OF THIS TYPE OF CACHE AS WE WERE HOPING TO QUICKLY GRAB SOME CACHES ON OUR WAY THROUGH BUT SUCH AN ABUNDANCE OF THESE TIME CONSUMING CACHES CAUSED US TO PRETTY MUCH SKIP ROCKY FOR OUR CACHING ADVENTURES.

Found @ 13:15
A nice, quickly solved puzzle(?), on our way trough town.
Only 3 of the 4 in our party were injured retrieving this cache, I got stung by hornets, my son cut his finger retrieving the cache, and my wife was stung on the foot by some unknown critter on the way back to the care.
Just gotta love the tropics.
Otherwise an enjoyable cache.
No swaps.
Thanks dandent

I parked in the car park and began to walk to the chair to take a reading. On the way I looked over saw a good spot to hide a cache, went over for a look and guess what I found a cache.

Took the Big Kahuna

TFTC
Cheers
CamHelen

Good cach! dropped of the Big Kahuna... its not technically surfing water, but its near water none the less!

The easiest of the Icon caches. THought I was going to end up a lot closer to the waterfall than I did. TFTC

GOTCHA. GPS Co-ords were spot on today!

Took Geocoin, Left Kangaroo Pouch Swaggie (SW0143), with South African R1, R2 and R5 coins. Aus $1 APEC coin.

TFTC

Dodgy GPS readings had me everywhere - so eventuallly I decided simply to look where I would hide a cache - and there it was. Thanks for taking me closer to the waterfall and finding out what hides behind! Took Kughlhupf geo coin . Left Goodec Geocoin

Cache is still in good condition and not covered up by mulch.

Dooghan

Well I tried, but no luck.

Ill give it another go next weekend. I was a bit concerned that it may have been covered up, several heaps of mulch have been dumped around the area, Can anyone confirm its is still OK?

2nd try at this one and finally success.
Ended up in the same spot as the first time but persevered with the search this time.
Great Fun
Dropped off a TB we have had for too long. Hope it is able to move on more quickly now.

Found this one at 2:20pm. The adjustments were spot on and was able to find rather quickly. I was in town from Emerald for a dentist appointment and thought I would sneak in a cache whilst in Rocky. Another note worth mentioning is that you should not try and eat a hamburger, hold a soft drink, and search/navigate with a GPS (Very difficult)

TNLN

Thanks
Deathtrip

The offset co-ords worked well and I found it exactly where it should have been! I had to rush the log though as it was starting to rain and my car was a KM away. Bye. TNLN SL.

Thanks. SM.

Found it at 11:20 this morning, and not in the place I suspected...sat on the chair near the falls and had a think, and decided to take a walk to an area I didn't think it would be.
Very good hide and I don't think any Muggles will stumble across it there. Cache in good dry condition.
Took red superball.

Easy Cache, liked the offsets to make ya think a bit. Zip lock bag for the log is torn a bit but otherwise Cache is OK.

TNLN
TFTC
daBuzzard

Went to the seat in front and did the maths but then walked around the back and found another seat, is thgis one closer? hmm. Will try again another day

Found with qldwarrior in the natural and artificial rain! TFTC

Found with Temingi. Light rain this morning, but more inconvenient were the sprinklers that were blocking out way to the cache. Sat down and helped decrease the mozzie population for a while until the sprinklers let us through. In: Coin tin
Out: stubby cooler
TFTC

Have driven past here many times. The boys abandoned the hunt at the waterfall and headed to Hungry Jack's while the girls completed the mission. A quick log entry as we were being eaten alive. Took: earrings, Left: pack of Australia tattoos (for Australia Day!) Great spot, though at the moment it looks like a stampede of rhinoceros (geocachers?) have been through.

StopTheWorld girls

We meant to go shopping but ended up looking for this. I was not dressed accordingly and was bitten a good 20 times by crawly creepies. But I had to have it this cache. Lovely suroundings and the kids liked the calculating.

Out for a leisurely afternoons caching, and with the rain no one around to hide my activities from. I sat on the bench and enjoyed the waterfall, then it was off to the cache location. A quick find, I was pleasantly surprised that the adjusted coords were spot on.
No swaps, but did grab the Falls TB,
Thanks for the cache,
best wishes,
Wal

Picked up Waterfall Hunter TB from this cache.

In town for a week visiting relatives who recently moved here from Armidale! Great opportunity to do some more caching in another part of Oz! Arrived at GZ earlier in the day with a constant drizzle and the presence of dozens of spiders and their webs but sadly no luck. Second time around more successful . Signed log and lifted a TB. TFTC, Cheers, Rav 4 Raiders

Found this cache some time ago with the help of one of the locals just realised I had not logged the find. I will backdate the find date even if I can't remember the correct date.

Found ages ago. Have no internet at the moment and have had problems getting online time to log these. Took Quik the Tortoise.

Tijdens onze vakantie in Rockhampton Australie enkele caches gedaan. Deze ligt in een van de vele mooie parken in die plaats.

We have done several caches during our holidays in Rocky Nice walk in an beautiful parc. Thanks.

Team Blitar Holland

This is one of my favourite areas in Rocky - 3rd find for the day!

The cache itself was a little elusive but we found it in the end.

TFTCSL

Did this cache while on the way to the airport with a bit of time to kill. It was most fun! TFTC. Team SSS from California. Am here for Talisman Saber and took a moment for a bit of caching. Left US nickle

came to a favourite place to drop off larger TB's and found a coin which we decided to take. swapped TB for Coin.

Beautiful location - we felt we were somewhere other than near the centre of a large town. Left geocoin and Rainbow Sands Souveneir and took oak badge. Thanks dandent for bringing us to this great spot.

Great cache dandent. Found it at app. 3.30pm today. Took Erin the Fairy TB, Fees Smart TB and Narnia TB. Intend to take Narnia to Brisbane so someone can take her to NZ. The other 2 will go into caches I am getting together here in Moura. Left an Oakcoin Pin and a Koala.
Thanks for a great cache - cheers - Betty

Virtual Drop

An easy find on the way home from the great Event at Mount Morgan. Cache location was where dan had described when we first went looking for it, even though we were looking in a different location.

Nice peaceful area, with no muggles around.....well worth the trip in off the highway

Thanks for the great cache. There were 3 TB's in this cache which i just left for others to enjoy (actually i didn't want to loose them)

Map Monkey

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found iton our second try,can not understand how we missed it the first time we looked.

Dropped in after work to add 2 more TB'S to the one that's already there.

Dooghan

quick stop to drop off a TB
coin gone tho ...

poped in to take the masked mutt to a party but he was gone should have checked first took seven sumits coin left Wokchang cooler

Second go at this one. Eventually got it, after co-ords had me up the hill a bit. Marvellous what you can get from reading previous logs. Beautifull spot but very hot sitting on the seat. TFTC. TNLN.

dropped in the Hoppy trails TB, it wants to find its way to the Red centre - Ayres Rock.
Took the Masked mutt on a trip.

Found it this time. With the right co-ords it amazing what u can do. Great spot
TFTC
Left geocoin & took Roo TB

found with little trouble. a nice cache at an ideal location. TNLN.
Thanks Dandent,
Jimw83

this is my first for today as i teach a friend about geocaching. it was much easier to find when your looking in the right area.

took. race car
left the masked mutt tb

fizzer

first cashe for me an afternoon learning with fizzer nice hide thanks

FOUND 2.20PM took compass, left porcupine earrings, SL

Found this one quite easy, located cache in less than 15 minutes from go to woah.

TN, Left 2x Sunglasses Cleaning Wipes


TFTC

Spectactular view at night

don't know what happened here [:o)]
Have edited the listing new 'cardinal' adjustments to save some confusion - and revamped the clue. Hopefully they have nailed that chair down by now

hi

jot found by me as yet but i'll be back to get it later.


fizzer

We tried twice on the event day. We even joined other teams in trying to find it but to no avail. The next day on our way back from Byfield, we thought we would give it another go. We did have a hint from the cache owner to where it was. I decided that we would do it from the start again and not use the hint. We went to the seat, where I sat for 5 mins averaging out the coordinates. Bloody hot 5 mins they were. Did the maths and the coordinates where a lot better today. It would have put it very close to the hint we got. Off we go to the cache location. As we neared GZ we lost a number of sats due to the tree cover. The GPS was telling us to go in one direction (16m) where we couldn't. This left us with only one area to search. Found the cache within 2 mins.

TNLNSL

Dooghan and Family

FTF this one!!! took us a little bit of help from dandent but its all the same!! sorry about the delay in logging this cache

STF. Found the cache at 5.30pm. Thanks to Dandent for help us. Wow!! Lovely waterfall so beautiful - after read bundyrumandcoke mentioned about “rubbish tip ". Surprise me…. Thank you for organise the cache and hunt.

Spent some time with other caching teams looking in the wrong area, however had fun in the process. Nice waterfall, especially considering its geological history.

Will be back [^]

mm

Found as part of the Capricorn Cachers First Meet and Greet. We DNF'd this one during the day, finding out (later) that we were searching about 50 metres from GZ. Apparently something to do with the movable seat near the waterfall, or was that movable sattelites. But after a clue from Mrs Bundy, who was caching with Everlasting for the day, and a chat with the owner and Dooghan, we found it about 7.00pm. Its hard to believe that this whole area was rubbish tip about 25 years ago, or that the waterfall was originally one long man made cliff, supposed to resemble Canarvon Gorge IIRC, but the centre (now waterfall) section collapsed not long after it was opened.
TFTC
Cheers
Bundy

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