Beware the Sheriff Rosslea, Queensland, Australia
By Pete & Liz on 17-Dec-06. Waypoint GCZVPD

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Previous finder confirmed for me.... It's gone.

We went back today for the seventh time, this time with a tip from a previous finder.

Found what we think is a very unique cache container with no log or anything else. It was just lying on the ground.

I have sent a picture, and will claim this as a find if it is confirmed as the cache.

Logging previous find for couple account. TFTC.

searched surrounding trees and bushes appears to have been hijacked

DNF - looks like this is a goooooner.

Spent half an hour searching and couldn't find the cache. Checked all the trees also.(:()

Look around every tree in the vicinity but couldnt find this cache. We are pretty new to geocaching but have found a few prior to this one. Maybe it has been disturbed as the last person couldnt find it either.

First townsville cache found. Went to log this one today and it's missing? Perhaps incorrect replacement ...

Great park.

Fortunately it was the sheriffs day off, so that Sprudel and I could search for quite a while... and found the cache just as we wanted to leave.

After seaching for long time, we just found it. TFTC

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Can't believe I missed it the first time, found in seconds!! Original log soggy, emergency log ok.

Fun family find

Took a little to find this one as the listed coords were quite a bit out. Cheers Gav [9036]

A great location for a cache - overlooking the river.

Nice easy find by torch light. Cant belive there are people that ride bikes at this hour of the night with no lights. Scared the daylights out of me. TFTC

Found a new geocacher searching for his first cache, but disappointed not to find cache. Used co-ords from log. Will try again sometime but incline a bit steep and slippery under tree, if I had the right tree.??

Found it in the open, but intact. Log was soaked so we placed some paper in a bag till a new log is brought in. Replaced in a likely spot. Left a scout tattoo. TFTC

Found it after a bit oflooking around them we took the sweetpea of to another destination

Found after reading some older logs and with the help of the clue (didn't see the log with updated co-ords as the GPSr only stores the last 6) Our trusty garmin was telling us GZ was 21 meters due east from posted co-ords. Lovely spot to cool down in this heat & humidity. Thanks Pete & Liz

In Townsville again for a flying visit so thought I'd nab the nearest unfound (apart from Choo Chooo! my nemesis!) Found myself in an unlikely cache spot so I read the clue. That put me well away from the coords but in a more cache-like spot. Had a good look up and down for a while, a lot of walking, running, cycling muggles here at 630am. Had given up and started walking away when I read some older logs. Many commented on the coords being duds but no one seemed to post better ones. Then I saw the log by pprass. Put those into the GPSr and found myself back in the right area with a lot more confidence and found it within a couple of minutes. Really those coords should be ignored and the ones by pprass used to save a lot of bother.
Nice hide anyway.
Thanks!

After many attempts FINALLY have beaten "The Sheriff!" Thank the heavens....

This is an Excellent Traditional Cache.. TFTH..

TN.

LN.

SL.

FG.

First looked for this one in mid-November 2009, when I was so new to caching I wasn't even crawling! Dropped by again every 3-4 months since then, to no avail. After a phone-a-friend (by email) confirmed it really was there and providing a good indication of the real GZ (28 metres from the coords listed), this one was in hand in short order ..... sheepishly I have stood centimetres from the hide on more than one occasion; some days you're hot, other days you're an Antarctic blizzard.

Thank goodness this thorn in my side is gone ..... but like it or no, the best hides are the simplest!

TFTC ..... TNLN ..... SL

I dunno about any sheriff ... but the bitey-insects are EVIL.

Easy find. Lots of mosquitoes at night.

Took a while... Dont look for it at night !!!!! not easy

Took me awhile to find this one ,had to go back couple times.
The ground zero really needs to be fixed.

Didn't find this one as it's a bit tricky so you need to read a few of the past finds. I didn't find it as my iphone ran out of charge, so i will be coming back to this one, this time itha gps...lol

Yeah Mandy found it. 30m off co.

Nice easy find not to far from home

TNLN

Came past the park today, and since it was raining there were absolutely no muggles, so I took the chance. I had read in the previous logs that the coords are off, so I just searched likely spots and succeeded in the end.
TNLN TFTC

FINALLY found it. Not me, but my oldest ventured off far enough and BAMM she came running up with the trophy. Coords are really way off though. More like +30m off. I must admit that in my previous search I did not think this place would qualify. But, all is good now. Thanks for reviving this one!

(:))
We love this park and spend a lot of time here and this finds makes it all the more special. We have tried a few times before with no luck but today we finally found it! This was our second find for the day and the geokids were thrilled! Muggles everywhere on weekends ... may want to consider checking this out on a weekday. Thanks!

I could not retrieve the cache as a couple of muggles sat and chatted and no doubt wondered what the hell I was up to.
Back another time to log it.
TFTC

this cache was lying completely exposed in the hiding spot log was wet with a liquified mint making this a sticky situation. we have the cache at home and will clean relog and touch up and put it back tomorrow. so good news for those who feared it was gone .....get back and find it.

I have been to this site about 10 times in the past 3 months and no cache has been found. Now it might well just be operator error, but I think this one needs confirming that it is still in location. With all the work going on and river bank damage it might have gone missing.

Have tried on a number of occations to locate this cache but with no luck. Have looked high and low but with all the rain of late the only protental hide location showing signs of wear and no cache. Sorry

At the rare occasion of not being all on my own, I took the opportunity to find this one. It spent quite some time trying very hard not to make myself look suspicious. Search high and low and behind but did not find. Only found a small magnetic toy thing which was way off cord anyway. It was good to really have a good look at this park though. Might ask my friends to meet up here ones. Nice sheltered playground.

Had a good look around here with not a muggle to be seen, but couldn't find it........there is some repair work being done near a potential GZ, so not sure if this has anything to do with my inability to find the booty.....

Nice easy find. TNLN

No luck today ... had a real good look with the geokids BurgerGirl and Firebolt_Cal but nothing doing. We'll be back.

We say lucky Sheriff. It was 10deg cooler with a cool breeze sitting under the tree on the bench to love lane. K found this one easy find she TN but left mentos in sealed packet. Enjoy. TFTC SL

[This entry was edited by kidmac on Monday, January 04, 2010 at 2:49:26 AM.]

a stupid frog and a stupid park sheriff ware watching me. So I really search hard, but without success. Anyway a nice park

Just dipping my TB I brought through this cache

Found this one fairly quickly but very well hidden for the location! Log is full and didn't have any spares with me sorry TFTC Pete & Liz

O My Geocache!!! This was of course the perfect place to hide the cache! Felt a bit silly we didn't see it the first time. TNLN SL which may need replacing soon! TFTC

Went back to this little cache after finding a while ago (it needed maintenance then) but great to see its in tip top shape
T-RUBBER BALL
L-N
FISHABUNGA

OOOOOO! been back a couple of times! Dodged muggles, tried new co-ordinates, saw booby trap! We must be so close but we just cant put our hand on it! We will not give up!

Found at 12.50pm GAFF3. Another lovely park and another cache that had co-ords over 18 metres out. We went from tree to tree for 30 minutes looking at all of the possible hiding spots - not a very traveller friendly cache. At leaast it was cool under the shade of the trees while searching.
Thanks Pete & Liz - we have supplied our co-ords hoping that they are closer to GZ.

Searched high and low, again with our new geocachers. Teamxxxx mum was the one who spotted this one. After others gave up and tried other trees. TFTC

213rd cache. 37th in Oz.

Great park for the kids. Loads of things to do.
Nice quick find for the boys
TFTC

Pt. Douglas Trip 09.13. Lots of people about in the park today. It took me a few targets before I hit on the right one. Thanks.

2649.122 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2009 Compass Rose Nickel A#136

Albida

Did this one about 20mins after sunset - lots of fireflies around
Signed the log
TNLN

Charlie and I are here from Oregon, USA, campiong the east coast in a camper van. Q&EZ find...then we found the Senious Picnic in the Park and joined in for some of the info they were sharing, and the tote bags...which were great for our camping! TFTFun

Located the cache within minutes after casting an eye over the general area and heading to a likely spot.

This one needs a log, found the old one nearby.

Makes for a good puzzle seeing as the coords are nearly 25 m out. TN L Marble and Pirate Booty.
TFTC

So many new items in this park, Great spot and very popular.

Thanks

What a great park. The family loved it! The cache was easily located and muggles didn't even notice what I was doing.

TNLNSL

TFTC

Tried this one on Sunday i was alone that day and the muggle families around made me feel exposed and i moved on.
Returned today with Mrs Red Devil even more muggles around but easier to search.
Mrs RD spotted it half out in the open!..a spot where i had stood searching just a few moments before.(Thats a worry!!!)
We signed the log, and returned it to where we found it but covered it with leaves, twigs etc so it wasnt visible.
TFTC....

Found at 1103 with Marg and Judy. Thought we'd do this to the high school jubilee. A pretty quick find in a nice riverside park. Cache dry and OK. TFTC.

Last of my Townsville finds. A quick find, even with a few muggles still out walking along the track.

TNLN & TFTC

Great park. The Gz was a little off but Bear had found the Cache after Cat advised him it had to be in this area.

TNLN TFTC Cat and Bear : )

Found after work. The cache log was a soggy mess as well as the contents of the cache. I dried out the cache and contents but the log was not salvageable. I placed the back page of my printout in a small plastic bag and put it in the cache until it can be replaced later. TNLN TFTC

TFTC
This one took us ages as with the GPS co-ords being out and with the number of muggles that frequent this for a great weekend day. Finally found and after a very stealthy retrieve we were unable to sign the log as it is completely soaked.
TNLN

The cache is broken and the log is completely soaked.

Easy Find, but cache was quite damp from recent rain.

Found this nice little stash.A nice 2 k round trip walk from Aplins along the river.
Cache has suffered from weather and time it has a crack in it and is wet inside and new log needed
FISHABUNGA

Out on an adventure in Townsville introducing Beetle to the sport of Geocaching, while I was busy looking up, Beetle sat on the near by resting place looked down and found easily. Signed log and on our way.
TFTC

Found the cache - after read the previous log and easy found it. It was uncovered so I put cover the leafs... SL. Thanks Pete & Liz for organising the cache and hunt.

second time around looking for this one, found it this time. TFTC TNLN SL

Wandered around in the company of QPS74 for a while as there was no cache at the given coords. Eventually while I was gazing skyward into the leaves of the coord vegitation she found it.
TNLN
TFTC

Our first find for the day, nice and easy

My GPS had me 20 metres away but after living on the edge for a bit, I finally found it.

TFTC

Got it 20metres from where our GPS took us.

Thanks for a great hide. My 25th. Another milestone and a chance for some more great photos. SO a great late afternoon wander after work.Thanks folks. Book was damp but some warm weather should dry it out. Still writable. TN L bandaid. 1625. Another interesting park.

On a trip to Townsville, this one popped up on the radar and was duly tackled. TFTC

Popped back today for a spot of fishing as well.

Found a couple of months ago with the help of a friend. Thought I had logged it but must have forgot!
Great hide and a really nice park to chill out in.

TNLN TFTC

This was a nice easy find, even though the co-ords were out according to my GPS. I suppose that no two GPS's would read the same anyway . Just in case it's helpful to someone, my co-ords were S19.17.997 E146.47.481. I averaged these to exhaustion on my GPS. It had eight satellites functioning so it may be a good reading to try. I am a bit slow, but I couldn't understand why the cache is so named. I'll probably get bombarded now by everyone explaining what a dill I am for being the only cache not to get it! Thanks Pete and Liz.

Was looking in completely wrong place at first, but then kezz11 remembered a clue from one of the photos. Didn't take long to find after that.

Found with Townsvillian and a Herd of Camels. Was dark and almost gave up. Luckily remembered a clue from one of the logs and the cache was then easily found.

Started searching just after dusk by torchlight. My GPS had me about 15 meters away from the GZ, and I was thinking I may have to give up, but then Townsvillian and Kez11 turned up to join the hunt. Between us we eventually found the cache (kudos to Kez11). Took nothing, left a penny. TFTC.

We could not understand why there were so many muggles then we realised it was the weekend. Nice hide -- easy find

TNLN SL TFTC
Dorik

Found on my last full day in Townsville (on a work trip)

The coords for me wore out as well, but the caching brain located the little beast where I would have hidden it!!

TFTC TNLNSL

Phew- dodged the multitude of muggles and the mosquitos gathering at dusk to find this one. TFTF. TNLN.

Found this one at 6pm.
Getting dark but gave it a go anyway. Coordinates were at least 16 metres off, so after much searching in the wrong area, we found it.
TNLN SL
TFTC

great park that had a lot of muggles in attendance today. An easy find in a quieter part though. TNLNSL

Our kids were very excited today to find this, their first ever cache. Took a while but was worth the hunt. Left a stamp and took a plastic shell. Off again tomorrow...

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

My find No 643, TNLNSL.

T4TH Pete & Liz
Keith

Coordinates out a fair bit but no problems with the clue.
Thanks Pete & Liz.
Regards Philma and Geo-Cheese & Kisses.

Found at 1225. A few families on the other side of the park enjoying the beautiful day. Quick find. Thanks for bringing us to this lovely area.

Found as member of LEDGIN'S.

In the book of LEDGIN'S. Found at 1530hrs. Took TB. TFTC