Rocky Icons - Priminister for 1 week ~ No Bull Port Curtis, Queensland, Australia
By dandent adopted by Dooghan on 30-Nov-06. Waypoint GCZM3A

looks like the cache has gone missing and I wont be putting out a new container.

Nah - not today Josephine. Will try again soon.

Tried for quite awhile and unfortunately ran out of time, wandered off to do Rotary Range and find some success. As Arnie said in "The Terminator" "I'll be back"!

Had a close look at the bull as I collected the coodinates and marvelled at the attempts to keep the bull entire . I then made the corrections and had to search for a while. My coordinate projection was - wait for it - terri-bull.

Thanks for the cache Dooghan et al.

Woo Hoo!

OK probably not all that exciting for anyone else but I have been trying to find this one for weeks. As it is the closest one to my home, it was easy enough to take a 5 minute walk down to GZ and keep looking, but after somewhere in the vicinity of 20 attempts I was about to give up.

Found it at 16:45 on 15/08/2010.

TNLNSL

Found two other caches around Rocky today and now that I had a betterunderstanding of how accurate my GPS was (which is surprisingly accurate considering it is an el cheapo), I decided to go back to basics. I totally ignored all of the hints in the forum (cos they lead you away from GZ) and I went straight to it. Still took me a good 10 minutes to locate, but I found it and now I am quite happy to say that I am NEVER going back to that park again.

TFTC... frustrated the heck out of me but made it all that more rewarding when I finally found it. Good hide!

G

PS: Thank you to those cachers who assisted me with this one without giving away too much.

Round: Umpteen

Cache - Umpteen
Me - Zero

Cache wins by TKO!

There were two muggles near GZ but they were no problem. By the time I had come back from looking where the wrong conversion had taken me, they were gone! With the right conversion the cache was a quick find, thanks. The first find for this one for a while.

Just checked on the cache and it is still there. I also went through the process of finding the cache and got coordinates that are spot to the cache.

Dooghan

[2nd attempt...2nd fail. Not having a GPS obviously makes this game much harder.]

I used the hint to calculate in Metres how far away from the nose of the bull the cache should be. By my calculations I should only have to walk 1.32 Metres North from the nose of the bull and then turn west for a further 0.52 Metres. That pretty much took me to the back corner of the bull where I found a red piece of tinsel (I am guessing still there from Christmas.)

What I did not find, was a cache of any description. Am I even in the ball park of it's position?

3rd attempt and still no luck. Had a much better opportunity to look this time. No muggles and I left the 5 y.o. at home so I could concentrate. This time I had read all the previous logs and got a few more clues as to where the package is. Was looking around in the place I thought was most likely when a couple turn up with their camera's in hand.

Could see what they were doing so I approached them for some help, but they shunned me, claiming they were only there taking photo's of bulls for a photography competition. Would have believed them if they weren't taking photo's of the BULLS @RSE!.

So anyways as I was leaving I thought I would double back and see what they were up to. Sure enough, they were looking in exactly the place I was looking. No bulls there I'm afraid guys! Thanks for the help! Guess I will have to keep trying.

Determined not to be beaten.

G

First attempt unsuccessful. Located the 'Christmas Bull'. Well at least I think it was the one. I could only find one bull. Also located the plaque indicating the name of the Australian Prime Minister but was unable to search properly due to the two indigenous muggles who looked like they had set up for the night. I am guessing they were going to be there a while because they were still sobre but were working on a remedy for that.

Noticed that the Cache integrity hasn't been confirmed for a while. I wonder if it's still there?

The cache is back out and ready to be found.

Dooghan

Doing a maintenance run. The cache container need to be replaced due to a crack in it.

Dooghan

No bull, yes bull, yes ants lots of them, SL TNLN TFTC

Three times I tried. This week with Team Blitar, to see if they had other ideas. It might be that we did not get the Aussie trivia (since we are not Aussies). And i just know it could be right under my feet.

10am second go at this one, did the math still ended up at the same spot but i located it today ( must have been the no water in the water fall today ) TFTC-d&D

I quickly had this cache chase by the horns
With daylight failing I moved fast to round up the prize and brand the logbook.
The cache lid is broken so I patched it with some tape so it should stay dry inside for a little while longer
TFTC

Easy find, nice park

out-TB, in - nothing

TFTC

Fluppo

Found at 1721 good co ordinates, found straight away. TFTC TNLNSL.

Found this cache with the help from geoson as he had found this cache with Avagomob.
Left TB Bug Boy
TFTC
Cheers
CamHelen

First cache of the day with Dec in tow. Took a while to locate. So many godd spots to hide.
Perseverance paid off though.
Dec took the Keyring and left wristband.
Dyl took the TB and left the dice TFTC

Found in company of Tui65 however it was Nathan (CamHelen) who was the finder.....
Took Red mini
Left Wombat
Thanks Dandent

Found it today with the much appreciated assistance of Avagomob if it wasn't for one vital tip I would probably be wandering around in the middle of the road trying to find this one. Thanks also to Nathan from Camhelen fame who actually found the cache.

TFTC

Found it this time. Search was made easier by reading the cache description. Such a picturesque spot. TFTC

Found it as last !!! and take me 30 mins to look everywhere.Take me three times there.It's really very harder to find the cache.Good hide.Put two t/bugs and two Geocoins there.Good luck next someone find it.Thank you for team organising the cache and hunt.

Called here again today 3rd time this week, even jammed GPS into bulls nose to get correct reading, (only minor changes from origional) so after maths takes me to same location , and still didn't find, so we will return next trip to Rocky to try again, Thanks for the search

Third time lucky. Found it with dbrown64. TFTC

Been looking for 3 days.
Not enough light left on our previous attempts.
Found it today. Coords were spot on.
TFTC

Could fellow cachers please keep a lookout for a Richo digital camera that I lost somewhere today. Thanks.

At long last. Thought I would never get this one. I have not been keeping count how many times I have tried this one, but I know the "muggles there" count is larger than the "I failed" count, and there was a few DNF's. Even today I had to go back twice.
Took bangle and left smiley rubber and toy car. Disposed of the two non working biros, and left one good one. Cache is in good nick. Thanks Dan and Dooghan.

No bull? Well there is one missing. I haven't read back through the logs but it's likely been gone for a while. Still doesn't make it any less of a cache given the clue is clear. I had serious doubts that my way point under the nose would be accurate enough and maybe I'd need to average it out etc etc but I ended up having a go at just the one. Mean while the wife was telling Mr 3yr old to stay away from the pond when "splash!" Yep, it was slippery as mum had warned and now he was wet and stinky! It's about time they changed that water, or put some plants in to filter it... anyway, some quick sums in my head had the co-ords adjusted and we found it right away. Then found the plaque.... true, PM for a week. Wonder what that was about? Might have to do some Googling...

TNLN, nor did we sign the log since the geobag was buried somewhere in the car along with the pen, and the two pens included with the cache did not work.

Cache needs a freshen up me thinks.

Anyway, thanks for a nice little puzzle to keep us entertained and out of the car on our long trip.

No luck today. Got the right bull, found the prime-minister's plaque but no luck with the cache. After reading log suspect I was in the wrong spot. Thanks for the hunt.

No muggles early sunday morning.Dodged the ducks on the way from the bull's nose to GZ.Stood and looked at GZ for a while and then a bit of a scratch around and there it was.TNLN TFTC.

Found this morning after my second, half hearted attempt. Quick drop in and completed this one before the drive back to Emerald. Cache all safe and sound.

TNLN

Thanks
Deathtrip

Tried to find this yesterday while it was raining, gave up and went for a coffee. Today I recalibrated the Bull's Nose waypoint, made the adjustments and walked straight into the cache.

Too Easy...(yesterday was a different story )

dabuzzard

a nice new hidey hole ... SL
thanks for looking after this one Dooghan

Found as member of LEDGIN'S.

In the book of LEDGIN'S. Found at 1530hrs. SO DO WE GET THE FIRST TO FIND FOR THE NEW CACHE?????

Easy to find - was just hard to get at. Great way to do a hide. TFTC.

No luck for us today. We found the bull we needed, and took a reading. Calculated our offset and headed to GZ. Found a number of great looking hidey holes, but no cache.

Went back and took another reading, and redid our calculations. Ended up in the same spot. Had another look, but still came away empty handed.

Thanks anyway!

New cache is in place and ready to go.

Dooghan

... I will be transfering ownership of cache to Dooghan ... that is when I work out how [?]

Out with the owner when placing in new location so had to log as a find.
Should be back on line soon.
Took nothing
Left Headphones.

after a discussion with Dooghan,
we have decided that we will replace the cache ...
but as some gardening has put an end to the original hide it will have to be relocated somewhere else close by.
Will endeavour to get something new out soon.

while looking for spots to drop off all the TB's we brought back from NZ with us, this was our second loss for the day.

It would apppear that recent gardening has occured, and the cache and its hiding spots cover have both vanished!!

This is a favorite of ours in Rocky aswell.

thanks guys ... will investigate

Weren't really sure what to do with the adjustments but with the help of the clue we worked out what we were meant to do. Satisfying find in a lovely area. TNLN. Thanks dandent

was fairly easy. Found it first off this morning. A bit tricky for a little while. Took nothing, left nothing. Thanks for a great cache.

found yet again by fizzer this time with deadly fredly

took geocion

thanks dan

found with fizzer nice hide found after looking for a short time took diabeties tb and car left marbles

... quick stop to drop a TB ... OK geocoin
Left a President to mix it up with a Priminister

Found it with Kev,took nothing left a ladybug.

Just dropped off a TB. Cache is in excellent condition.

Found with abseilqld.
Thanks Dandent,
Jimw83

After a bad day on one of Dugan's multi cache's yesterday, we decided to hit some easy ones. 2nd Cache for the day. Found with Jimw83, nice location, fairly easy to find, Thanks for the Cache. Abseilqld.

Found it!!! great cache the 1st clue dan had put us off a bit but after second visit we had the cache in our hands!!

thanks dandent

TNLNSL

cheers maski

Nice spot for a stop. Had trouble working out the coords, kept ending up at a tree not the water.

This was a nice one to find to get us started for the weekend of cacheing ahead...

didn't find it straight away, well hidden, but soaked in the nice surroundings a bit.

Took mini Carabiner
Left 2x Sunglasses Lense Wipes

[GPS was a bit off. TN, Left Troy's mobile number]

second fall

Found Ok
Nice water feature

Interesting work to get the right co-ordinates, and then skillfully hidden. Thanks Dan.

... description, clue and coord adjustments editted.
I have been checking it and grabbing new fixes over the last couple of weeks, to get a better average. Thanks to Dooghan for also grabbing a couple of fixes.

We tried to find this cache earlier in the week. Our adjustments to the coodinates took us away from GZ. So during the week re-read the cache page and used the clues to find it today. TNLNSL

Dooghan and Family

found it on our way out of town after a good weekend of caching i've just taken a while to log it

fizzer

Found with Fizzer. We left it in the hands of Bundyrumandcoke yesterday and returned to make the claim today. Taking TB out west. Left small carabiner. Thanks to Dan for the cache and the fun day yesterday. Lex

(Second attemp) Found the cache at 6.10pm. Pretty search for while with help from bundyrumandcoke. Drop The Thong. Thank you for organise and hunt.

Yippie, First cache for the run during the Capricorn Cachers First Meet and Greet. Also, first FTF for the day. 3 teams arrived at the location at the same time. Initial calculations took us a fair way from GZ. Fortunately, it also took the other 2 teams as well. Revisiting the clues, gave us another chance, which we didnt readily share with the others. A careful search, following the clues proved positive. Cache found. Grabbed, and walked away, unbeknownst to the other teams, who continued searching. Whilst logging the find, another team realised it was no longer there, and left, but Map Monkey, the Mackay whizz, continued the search, much to our amusement. Eventually, he clicked, and we allowed him to log the find as well. Unfortunately, at this time, muggles appeared, and decided to eat lunch on a seat, about 10 metres from GZ, and facing it directly. So, replacing it was out of the question. So, being the sly person I am, I entrusted the cache to map Monkey, to replace at a later time, and did the big bolt for the next cache.
Apologies to later teams who couldnt find it, including Everlasting and Mrs Bundy, but it wasnt in place to find. Not sure what time MM replaced it.

Found this cache in the hands of that devious clan, the BundyRumandCoke family. As mentioned, some muggles appeared and set up camp very close to GZ, therefore i was entrusted with the honour of returning it to its rightful place at a time appropriate to all. After searching for another cache, i returned to find the muggles still there, so after another trip around town the coast was clear for its return.....2 hours or so later.

Thanks for the hunt and the chance to check out a park that i had never stopped at even though we had driven past dozens of times.

TNLN,

mm

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