Logs for Suncoast_Smiths 

What a great thing! Will come past on our way north! 

In lieu of being able to make it to climb Mt Kosciusko this summer, I decided that we'd best a. do some other mts instead and b. get some practice at challenging walks / climbs. So at 4pm Tuesday before Christmas myself and the small smiths set off for our climb, the first "mountain" climb for Miss 4 and Master 8. Wow. I've been rather unfit the past few months, and the early steps nearly did me in but the fortuitous burst of fear of heights from my young man giving me a little break, and the encouragement of all the climbers coming down who began to promise that we were 'almost there' about half way up seemed to help. Plus the climb really did get easier after the steep steps near the exposed rock face. We were rewarded with a beautiful clear view of a glassy ocean, I'm very glad we climbed on a still day, no wind! Now I suspect we'll be trying to repeat the experience in whale watching season We had a lovely picnic and photos at the top before I discovered that mosquitos and sandflies don't suffer any difficulty in making it up coastal mountains! Thanks so much for making this great earthcache, Konie! 

Ok, I am not sure now how to log this cache, there seems to be no way to add a photo, which is a shame as the fireworks at Sundale Aged Care for Christmas are spectacular. We enjoyed an evening of carols followed by this brilliant fireworks display. I am glad to be able to log this cache, and to let people know that in early December there are fireworks annually. Thanks for this cache. I'll keep trying to work out the photo!!! 

On a Bruce Springsteen tour of the country. We were staying across the road from this lovely park, so we adventured in the playground for a while, did some tai chi and then the small ones found this cache by themselves with a few hints from the previous caching team. 

Found the lady on the hill but not the cache. Difficult to be surreptitious with 3 excited children! We hsd a great play anyway TFTC 

I searched a few weeks ago to find a whole themed list of caches in Nambour, bonus! Today we decided on the spare of the moment to do a spot of caching after a long break. This one was our first find in a long long time. I was surprised tonight to find it 'logbook only' as it contained a little dinosaur toy inside. Being used to swaps, we've swapped that for a lego dude, so please Parko's tell us if this is not an intended swap and we'll fix it up, reluctantly on the part of the 6 year old. Thanks for this cache.

This entry was edited by Suncoast_Smiths on Saturday, 30 November 2013 at 14:10:24 UTC. 

This is where we caught up with the MEG3 group today. Eye opening to read all the logs as we were so involved with our scootering muggle-like children that we had no idea about other goings-on in the vicinity!

The adult members of our team arrived in time to see the somewhat less muddy beast ready for return to its very water-prone hidey hole. I'm not sure that the geochildren even realised a cache was going on, as they did laps around the very expansive bikeway.

A pleasant return to a lovely park, although I am hoping the council get to mowing it soon! Thanks for yet another cache Scrub Bull. 

A cache in a poignant place, as we remember Daniel well here. Not only did we drive by that Sunday afternoon (didn't see anything) but we have been supporters of the Ride for Daniel over the intervening years.

Cache found with the MEG crew in the drizzling rain.

Take a look at the incredible work that Bruce, Denise and the Morcombe Foundation do:
http://www.danielmorcombe.com.au/app.html 

Well now we found this cache, quite recently and I have tried to post logs at home so I'm not forced to hunt and peck type on the phone but with my current life busyness its turned out to be totally impractical. So here I am, logging our find today, goodness knows how many days later, logging our find! I am just glad to have gotten a cache at all in between nursing homes, birthday parties and a trip to Sunshine Plaza - which brings me to knowing that our find was last weekend, likely Sunday as we went to get supplies for free dress day at school and supplies for the veggie garden! No wonder we ended up forgetting to log as when we got home it was a mad scramble to plant out seedlings make dinner and get everyone to bed! Thanks for placing this cache 

Checked this one after floods, looks to be washed away 

Wow, an unexpected find. The pontoon is amazing, cache also great. Will write more on pc 

Great day out here, saw pheasant up close! Will write full story from
Home TFTC 

Hello the Lost Bunch,
We are happy to adopt your caches around the Sunshine Coast - due to illness last year and limited use of the forums, we were unaware of your request for cache adoption. Please respond via GC contact to Suncoast_Smiths if this is amenable to you. Cheers. 

Hello The Lost Bunch.
We've recently become aware of the need for someone to adopt your caches. We're happy to adopt rather than see your excellent caches go to waste, get archived and then have to re-start a new cache. Please contact us via GC. 

On the spare of the moment we decided to go for a quick round trip to grab some caches before tea. I knew exactly where this one was from a previous visit, long long ago in the pouring rain. So we pulled the geomobile up right outside and got all geochildren ready to 'hunt for the playground'! And then the race was on across the grass and down the hill to the strangely located slide and swings. So far so good. Then geohubbie followed the GPS down into the depths to retrieve the cache and in doing so stirred up the local mozzie population!!!! Well!!! Sitting on the swing with geobaby I still managed to collect 1/2 dozen mozzies who were all ultra quick to suck blood! Hubby came back with cache in hand, signed log in record time (it was still damp), swotted 5 mozzies in one hit as the rest of us beat a hasty retreat while he negotiated the slippery pine needles and mozzies to replace the cache. Quite a bit of running back to the light and the car and we were on our way super fast. Geohubbie says that for all of the terrain and environment difficulties it was an easy find, thanks! 

Oh look. Its us again. Someone take pity on us please and on your next visit to KONIE, bring us along. Maybe we will have to host an event to get hordes of people here to find it for us? The only other cache we've been this stumped by before is Itchy and Scratchy in Hillcrest, near Browns Plains. I searched, but wasn't game to stick my hands into holes, so sent Mr Smith back (he's the rockwall expert anyway) and left him a marker of leaves showing where I thought it was. But no, he didn't find it this time either! There is of course the remote chance its not there as we're the only people to log lately with DNF, but I wouldn't be too sure of that, given that we've tried at least 4 times to find this cache! Its certainly been a busy time hunting! Thanks d.d.dues ! 

Hurray!! I've really enjoyed making longer logs since deciding to do this cache, so much so that I hope to come back and log again and again

And I'm very happy that my perseverance has paid off - my GCA stats say:
Average of 60 words per log
Longest log of 455 words on Lambeth Walk by Biggles Bear
Shortest log of 1 words on A Ferny Vale by an old hag

The shortest log was actually a mistake sent on the iphone. I now wait to log at home because the phone is such a pain to try to type decent logs.

Thanks for this locationaless, its great, and has been a real inspiration to help our family get back into geocaching after a long break. Hope to log again soon! 

It could have been cache blindness. Or fatigue of looking at small items, as we visited this cache location straight after a visit to Cockington Green.

I had a quick glance, but left the more thorough examination of ground zero to my geohubby who pronounced the cache not there. Highly disappointing as we had coincidentially heading for the mclunch before discovering that our destination had its very own mccache!

We are wondering if the cache has been cleaned up as the GZ was very tidy and ground level quite exposed.

However, there's always the possibility of cache blindness among weary travellers overexposed to the sunlight, we don't get much of that on the rainy coast these days.

Thanks for the hunt! 

Another interstate trip, another attempt at caching on holidays! This cache seemed like the perfect fit with our limited timeframe, and turning up smack in the right location. I particularly loved the comment of 'no chance of a DNF here!' Thats what I like to hear when caching. I love the hunt, but sometimes its good just to know you've succeeded in finding the tupperware (or sistema!).

With my eldest geochild navigating, it was an easy find, and then a quick hunt, using the clue, voila! cache in hand and back to the car to sign. Wait, to sign? Despite having room for a small implement of writing, this cache was sadly bereft, as was our rental car! This lightning holiday was so rushed that we were flat out having what we needed in the way of autumn Canberra clothing, let alone a caching kit! No log pen! What to do? Well what we did was leave a little slip of purple paper in the logbook - next finders with a scribing implement it would be appreciated if you noted "suncoast smiths" in the log, or on our paper

This was a terrific cache, it certainly brought a little smiley into my morning. Cache rehidden without incident and we rejoined the remainder of the clan for some Canberra touristy visiting. Thanks The Lego Crew for a terrific, simple, fun cache. 

Whats not to love about this cache? We have a family tradition of coming up Mt Ainslie every visit to Canberra and taking photos of the family. This visit was a little different as Mr Suncoast_Smiths had a telephone interview for work while the rest of us played and explored! When all that was done, Miss geoseven took a likely stick and with excellent teamwork from her little brother, cache was in hand and in the car for log signing.

We searched high and low and through the luggage. We found no pen. So we took a few photos of the little cache instead and thought no more of our lack of pen for the moment, having thoroughly enjoyed the cache and the walks. No photos of the trig point because of the phone/camera being otherwise engaged but we can save that for next time!

Later, at the airport security, we were asked "whose bags are these?" - and there we go. A whole pencil case in hand luggage, of the elder daughter's school pencil case, including PENCILS and SCISSORS. So if we'd been a little smarter in our searching for a scribing tool, we also wouldn't be facing the purchase of a brand new pair of school scissors today!

Thanks for the cache, it was ingenious and lots of fun for the little ones. 

Arrived at GZ with light drizzling rain. Sent Mr Smith out solo to search but after a very short time realised that he was going to take time and probably help to be successful in his searching. So out piled the geochildren and I to 'help'. Much confusion ensued about what 'outside the square/circle/gun' could mean and I began to wonder if the coordinates were an indication rather than precise, as I figured there was an obvious circle to think outside of. There wasnt much chance for contemplating as a huge wasp's nest was discovered by Mr Smith moments before he stuck his hand into a likely hidey hole. Lots of wasps, no cache. None of us could see any camoed caches, made especially hard by the searching being now conducted only visually for fear of wasps. In the end, the weather decided our dnf fate as a downpour took over the drizzles and we were soon watching a flood heading down the stormwater drain to the creek. Not wanting to waste the day we rescued a 2L softdrink bottle from a short trip to the ocean and moved along in the pouring rain! Thanks for the hunt! 

We've had this little cache on the radar for a little while, having noticed it wasn't far away from our daily trek. Circumstances seem to always conspire against stopping in to visit the little cache here. Until today, when we had a nice amount of spare time, cooperative little geochildren and therefore the opportunity to cache hunt.

It was an easy find to get to the carparking and children's park. I happen to be a big fan of caches in children's parks, as they are the perfect place for us to cache with the family, whether the children are keen on caching or just want to play. This one is particularly enjoyable, with little geoson having a great time racing us around and around the play equipment and playing 'trolls' on the climbing bridge section.

The seat too, was most convenient, perfect place to sit and feed tiny geobub. I found both the description and the clue both somewhat challenging and cryptic but used my cacher brain to decipher them both perfectly. Mr Smith was totally lost, looking high, low and in between until I stepped in to save him with some instructions about exactly where to look.

The bag was broken and log wet, so needs a new baggie to protect it. Thanks lots for this great cache. 

We've tried here once before, long ago, with 2 geo-preschoolers in tow. Not a cache thats easy to do with small folk of that size! Today's caching came after a DNF at Views on Buderim, so we were getting quite desperate to log a smilie for leap day. This time our search was only with a school aged geochild, so hopefully the dangers of passing traffic would be less distracting for Mr Smith as he searched.

At home, I tried to see if Google maps would shed any clues. From google maps I had quite specific instructions for Mr Smith. In the end, I have no idea if he followed those or not! He spent a few minutes searching, along with my other hint from the 'ask the internet' friend to 'methodically search at ground level'. Again, no idea if that hint was followed with as much enthusiasm as it was given. Mr Smith had half his mind on the melting icecream in the geomobile

And with that in mind, he came away from this one again without the smiley. We're still going to try this one, but for now it has us stumped. 

I am very grateful for us3scouts for hiding this cache! We originally hoped that fate would allow us some afternoon geocaching and attending the city caching event today, but mechanics and children conspired against that option.
Then geohubbie was sent to fetch what looked like a simple cache on the way home from the school pick up run.

But that was not to be either! With icecream melting in the back of the car, and phoning me at home for hints (even using online help) we were defeated by cache #1. Ever hopeful there was another cache directly on the way home...so they stopped there too. That one had us stumped a long while ago, so it wasn't to be either!

A quick and desperate search of easily accessible caches in the area brought me to finding Koala and Roo, one I'd bookmarked a long while ago, but on a road we use only for caching, so we hadn't 'gotten around to it' yet. Thankfully!

What seemed like an endless drive into the ever increasing dusk after children were all fed for the evening finally yielded the right location to pull over, and the very obvious cache location, given the direction of the beam of our headlights! I love the hide!

But it was still not to be that simple, cache was not in the obvious spot, and some rummaging around was required to get hold of it. Cache was eagerly inspected by young geocachers, log signed (almost forgot to bring a pen) and replaced in the more obvious place.

Luckily the drive home wasn't too long for the smallest cacher who simply did not appreciate the entire proceedings. Thankfully, given her obvious grizzles this evening, I'm glad we didn't attempt Brisbane caches and were able to grab this terrific and very cute cache. 

So I've been eyeing this cache for a while as its now on a much-travelled route for our family. This and one other cache have been on the 'next to find' list, but the usual hectic rushing meant it was still unsearched for when 29/2/12 came around.

We'd hoped to get to the event cache in Brisbane this evening, as well as catch a couple of caches in the city, but our mechanic conspired against us, leaving only enough time for the school pick up run, and not even enough time to do a pick-up-and-keep-going trip to Brisbane.

So I gave Mr Smith explicit instructions about where to stop on the way home. I believe they were something like this "Please get icecream for the little cachers and then stop by and grab this easy cache in the Lions Park on the way past" I hadn't read the logs!

So quite a while later I get a phonecall, "where is this cache meant to be love?" he asks. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and I leap into action looking the logs up for the first time on geocaching.com while geohubbie describes how so far it has been impossible to find. He's sure of the coordinates but equally sure he can't find the cache.

Oh no! reading the logs! This cache isn't straightforward at all In fact it looks quite tricky. I look up google maps but can't get an accurate location that way either. Street view puts me in the same general area as geohubbie. I give him some fairly unlikely suggestions about taking a look in the less obvious locations. He assures me he's looked at the obvious, and the next obvious and the not-so-likely spots. Then I come to the log that mentions something glinting in the sunlight. Huh. I relay this to geohubbie. We decide to return in the morning, when there is a chance of sunlight glint as we're all out of ideas.

Geohubbie moves on to the next possible cache for our leap day grab, KONIE. Thanks for the amusing armchair hunting combined with field hunting Parko's. 

Happy to achieve one goal for the day in finding this cache and a trip
Along memory lane as this road used to go all the way through to Eumundi-Noosa road before the great railway line embankment was built for the upgrade to Electric trains services to Gympie. Clue was terrific but GPS doesn't even point to the end but another likely (but unlikely) location. Word of warning, there seems to be a waterfowl nest within a metre or two of this case as one piped up it's objections to our presence and was still there objecting when we replaced the cache - might be polite to the birds to leave this one if you're not in some kind of rush to get this cache in particular. Outer plastic bag was wet but cache ok TNLN TFTC 

Its good to see that even on the busy Sunshine Coast there is a little bit of paradise left with the traditional 'letterboxes at the end of the road' set-up. These used to be so commonplace and it was always fun to see the different varieties of boxes that the creative owners came up with. This particular set of boxes is adjacent to Eumundi Cemetery, home to the cache GC22Q6K - Highway One - Yacidka. I have no idea what the Yacidka stands for, you'll have to check it out to find out if there's a meaning.
Thanks for this terrific locationless cache, its a beauty. 

This is as close as I got to the cache entitled "Its not a Chimney" at this location. Am glad I thought to take a quick pick for the sake of the Locationless cache that I also had in the back of my mind.

Its the shot tower in Melbourne, near Clifton Hill. Only one of 2 left standing in Victoria, it has quite a few interesting features, not least of which, for me, is its original function and the windows!

I was fascinated to read the excellent description of the shot tower here - http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC18BKQ

Apologies for the hasty photography. As far as traditional caches go, this was one of many that 'got away' this weekend.

 

Hello there, I'm writing this note as this is one of my 'unfound' caches during my lightning fast 30 hour trip to Melbourne this weekend. I had researched caches directly along the routes of travel, and close to accommodation, and came armed with a list of possibilities for my first Victorian cache! Travelling with 2 geodaughters, 7 and 6 months, and with a hectic schedule of folks to visit I expected caching to be difficult, and hoped only for a single 'FIND' for the whole visit. One find would have been the ultimate smiley for this frustrated cacher. Alas it was not to be! Read on...

I am grateful to you Alansee for placing this cache, and for the informative lesson in history, which I was able to relay to my daughter as we swept by the Shot Tower on our way east, after a delayed arrival in Melbourne. Sadly we were running so late that stopping to find the cache on Saturday wasn't possible. This cache however gets the weekend's prize as 'unfound on two occasions' as trying to re-enter the eastern freeway from Hoddle Street on Sunday morning saw me in the right lane instead of the left lane. The shenanigans and turns I had to take to re-enter the freeway placed me going almost straight past the correct parking place for "Its not a chimney". Annoyingly I didn't realise this till I was breezing past once again in the outbound traffic! I suppose thats why they call it being lost - you are not aware of your surroundings!!!

I'm logging this cache as a reminder to return and give it a proper hunt. Next time I'll be making time to hop out of the car, unless of course I get lost! Thanks Alansee. 

Hello there, I'm writing this note as this is one of my 'unfound' caches during my lightning fast 30 hour trip to Melbourne this weekend. I had researched caches directly along the routes of travel, and close to accommodation, and came armed with a list of possibilities for my first Victorian cache! Travelling with 2 geodaughters, 7 and 6 months, and with a hectic schedule of folks to visit I expected caching to be difficult, and hoped only for a single 'FIND' for the whole visit. One find would have been the ultimate smiley for this frustrated cacher. Alas it was not to be! Read on...

I had my hopes pinned on this cache. It seemed like fun. It was close. It seemed relatively simple! In the approaching twilight myself, geochildren and muggle friends visit the Tudor Village and the bright muggle friends figure out most of the answers faster than I can take notes. I then realise that without quiet peaceful time alone, there's no way I'm working out the new coords with the iphone anytime soon. So after what I thought was brilliant detecting in the almost-dark to figure out the miles to Oxford it was with some hope for tomorrow that we retired.

Returning the next day we recheck our Oxfordian distances, saw a poor bloke almost hit on the head by a falling Bunya Nut - did you even know they had Bunya Pine in Fitzroy gardens?? They weigh up to 5kgs and fall from great heights, so quite potentially deadly. Not to mention the gazillion falling branches that seemed to increase as the morning passed.

None of this made us particularly keen to walk under trees with our 6 children including my 6 month old baby in a carrier. After re-checking the cache size and groaning to myself that I ought to pay more attention to 'potential to find' on attempts I make when I don't have a lot of time, or many hours sleep under my belt, we all persisted in attempting to locat the little beauty, while side-stepping falling and fallen tree parts.

And we failed to come up with the goods. Let it be noted I'm not the tree person in the family. For reasonable sized containers, that would be Miss geoseven was with me, but for unreasonable tree hides it is always the Mr of the Suncoast_Smiths who makes the find. I felt like a poor host to the sport of geocaching, but I'm not sure that the enthusiasm of the children was dampened. Or perhaps they were just glad, as I was, to get out from under the trees in the dangerous conditions.

It was not to be today. I wish it had been. 

Hello there, I'm writing this note as this is one of my 'unfound' caches during my lightning fast 30 hour trip to Melbourne this weekend. I had researched caches directly along the routes of travel, and close to accommodation, and came armed with a list of possibilities for my first Victorian cache! Travelling with 2 geodaughters, 7 and 6 months, and with a hectic schedule of folks to visit I expected caching to be difficult, and hoped only for a single 'FIND' for the whole visit. One find would have been the ultimate smiley for this frustrated cacher. Alas it was not to be! Read on...

So its Sunday morning, the schedule is hectic, and the sleep hours are low. The multi cache is unfound and the enthusiastic and curious muggle friends are rushing for the train...

This is the scene of the unfound 'stop the presses' of this windy morning. Wind. Did I forget to mention the wind?

As you may know the city's winds were out in force. At one stage, while searching for this cache in entirely the wrong location, my daughter and I were clinging to each other, blinded by our hair and waiting for the gust to die down so we could keep walking safely.

And thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it. It was the wind. I was interested in the history lesson of the cache description, but too windy and unpleasant today to go into detail with my companions. It was the great description as well as the location that made me inclined to try this one. I'm pretty disappointed but we had no hope. Gales and the iphone as GPS don't mix well with narrow alleys and poor visibility.

I'm logging to bring this cache up in GCA so that I don't forget to try again next trip! TFTC CamBendy. Great fun was had. Some of the time. Just not in the wind. Ok, it was horrible, but that wasn't your fault  

Hello there, I'm writing this log as this is one of my 'unfound' caches during my lightning fast 30 hour trip to Melbourne this weekend. I had researched caches directly along the routes of travel, and close to accommodation, and came armed with a list of possibilities for my first Victorian cache! Travelling with 2 geodaughters, 7 years and 6 months respectively, and with a hectic schedule of folks to visit I expected caching to be difficult, and hoped only for a single 'FIND' for the whole visit. One find would have been the ultimate smiley for this frustrated cacher. Alas it was not to be! Read on...

This cache perhaps gets my award for the most-passed-but-not-found cache of the weekend. I think the tally stands at 4 passes along Princes Street directly past said pub and 2 flower shops. Oddly I didn't notice the park, although looking on google maps, I'm not sure how I missed it! I'll admit I'm fascinated to give this one a go in earnest on our next visit, no matter how time-poor we are! Sadly, the reason for travelling past the location so often was that I seemed to be getting myself lost around here, taking wrong turns and having to correct my travels! This of course made me later than I already was for arriving to visit friends and relatives, so I refrained from being side-tracked by the very entrancing possibility of a cache just beyond the corner. My plans for getting even one smiley backfired, and I wish I'd stopped for this one as it seems like it would have been fun to grab. Thanks for the terrific location and clever cache description, melbournechica. I'm logging so that I am reminded to return by GCA, not a reflection on your cache as I never left my car, much to my disappointment. 

Hello there, I'm writing this note as this is one of my 'unfound' caches during my lightning fast 30 hour trip to Melbourne this weekend. I had researched caches directly along the routes of travel, and close to accommodation, and came armed with a list of possibilities for my first Victorian cache! Travelling with 2 geodaughters, 7 and 6 months, and with a hectic schedule of folks to visit I expected caching to be difficult, and hoped only for a single 'FIND' for the whole visit. One find would have been the ultimate smiley for this frustrated cacher. Alas it was not to be! Read on...


Research showed me that I would be driving right past the entrance to the cemetery and the cache was not only of historical interest but seemed like a possibility for a quick find as we drove past on our way east. Where's Wills II was marked down as a priority to stop at before moving on to family visits. Driving along after our freeway exit I was explaining Burke and Wills to Miss Geo7, and that the cache was in a tree in the cemetery, like the one we've previously found in Toowong, Brisbane. She was unconvinced but cooperative, but I suspect quietly overjoyed when the entrance I had planned on using to access the location was blocked off and not in use. I'm not sure if this is a recent or temporary difficulty, but with our schedule, I'm afraid it meant that the cache lived undisturbed and unfound another day!

I'm keen to return, if there ever comes such a thing as a trip to Melbourne with 'more time on hand' and thank you to miray for the historical information!Logging as a DNF so that I'm reminded to return by the little GCA 'beaten me' list. I'm sure your cache is safe and well in its location, as I said, we simply drove by, but want to show my appreciation for your cache hiding efforts. 

This isn't a spectacular view, but its a common sight from all the local bridges lately. With heavy rainfall again this year, we are seeing a repeat, on the Sunshine Coast at least of weather and river conditions very much like January 2011.

This is the Eudlo Creek crossing on the Bruce Highway, near Forest Glen, taken on Wednesday 25 January 2012. This creek will often rise quickly to within spitting distance of the bridge over the highway, but I don't remember it crossing the highway at all in recent years, though it often looks like it might.

Eudlo Creek flows into the Maroochy River at Diddilibah.

There is a cache, GC169K3, Forest Glen BP Southbound just up the road. 

Here is our home-grown pumpkin, growing! Interesting fact that never used to be true, and still isn't if you're lucky enough to live in a bee-friendly spot... you now have to fertilise pumpkins by hand, because there are no longer enough bees around to do it for you! Now I'm allergic to bees, so on one hand that makes me feel slightly relieved, but overwhelmingly I feel sad that not only is "The Bee Movie" alarmingly true, but its appalling that we care so little for our environment that we threaten our own food supplies. Our vine would produce about 5 times as many pumpkins if we could rely on nature to do the fertilising. But fertilising a pumpkin flower is a right pain. First you've got to be up at the crack of dawn, otherwise the female flower is already closed!!!! 10am is not good enough and you're lucky if its not prised shut by 9am! Then you've got to tramp through the pumpkin, finding a likely boy flower to rub against the girl flower, all without stepping on the vine and destroying months of its growing work! Suffice to say we have 2 pumpkins in production, and have worked hard for the stars to align for these 2 to grow! 

This photo is of my father, in front of the sign for the street named after our family. The Clarks were among the early settlers in the township of Eumundi, living there from the 1880 until the present day. The building in the background was previously "SunnyBrae", the Eumundi Hospital, where my Dad was born. I believe it is currently a community hall located at the new sportsgrounds.

This spot is a short walk away from GC18ZYC, The Black Stump.
 

This obelisk in Nambour's Quota Park is the New Cenotaph for Nambour. The old one can be found on the hill overlooking the main street if you travel back past the RSL from the park. Presumably because of changes to the road, and the difficulty in shutting down the main street, the new Cenotaph has been used for quite a few years for ANZAC and Memorial services.

There is a circular wall of remembrance, with a wide footpath running from the park entrance, through this circle towards the Cenotaph. This park floods easily, but the landscaping around the Obelisk has managed to come through with minimal damage. Petrie Creek runs around Quota park on 3 sides.

Quota park is the venue for local musical talent to get together fortnightly for "Nambour Originals" on a Sunday afternoon.

I'm not good with coordinates, so I hope I got them right. 

Yay! Great fun was had! We thoroughly enjoyed the trivia and the venue that supplied a wonderful opportunity for us to have some adult time laughing about droids heads and talking horses. It also helped that our team were victorious in our humourous trivial superiority Thanks for organising & Happy Birthdays To NyletaM and Palopinto! You did a terrific job, looking forward to another event! Happy to have achieve 150 finds by attending

This entry was edited by Suncoast_Smiths on Saturday, 28 January 2012 at 11:16:36 UTC.

This entry was edited by Suncoast_Smiths on Saturday, 28 January 2012 at 11:16:47 UTC. 

Interesting part of town, thanks for the tour and the clever hide! We enjoyed guessing which houses further afield would have been Mater Prize homes in their day and to get a glimpse of the age of the suburb. The zappy looking cache would have had me totally stumped but luckily geo-hubbie had read the hint and was quick to retreive it regardless of appearance. We love caches like this that are easily accessible with a car full of small people who just want to go home, still fun, but not a long wait for them

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This entry was edited by Suncoast_Smiths on Saturday, 28 January 2012 at 11:13:24 UTC. 

Our first experiment with caching was looking up geocaching.com and discovering it really helped to have a login, especially to get to GCA. So on the hop, not realising how often we'd be using this login on logs and in person, I thought it was easy to identify us by our surname, Smith, and our region, the Sunshine Coast. So Suncoast_Smiths we are. Its occurred to us to change it since then, even to divide us up from a team to individuals, however so many of our caches are a team effort (sometimes that means me in the car with the sleeping baby and the 3 others out searching!) that we decided to keep us as a team. So its boring, too long! and possibly too identifying but for now, its ours. 

So here we were a week early in Zillmere for the caching trivia event. So we gave the children some playtime and grabbed this cache. Managed to avoid being grabbed by the spider guardian too. TFTC 

TFTC 

In a hire car - no pen!!! TFTC 

Found cache forgot pen so will sign log next trip through. TFTC 

Sadly no pen to write in log, but the children enjoyed a play on the rocks nearby for over 15 minutes. The game was apparently more exciting than cache hunting! Great place to stop on the way back from Ipswich. TFTC

This entry was edited by Suncoast_Smiths on Saturday, 28 January 2012 at 11:19:06 UTC. 

Geohubby and children retrieved this one no problem during a baby feeding pit stop on the way to Brisbane today. TFTC Rong 

Spotted!!! Hello from Suncoast Smiths who spotted today's Intrepid geocacher while he signed the log for this one nice geoshirt! 

Great spot for a cache, geochildren had a play on the nearby playground and we enjoyed a spot of late afternoon birdwatching on the grass and in the pond. Because it was holidays, we backed the geomobile up close for easy log signing and replacement. Cache spotted by geomiss7 who has an eagle eye for this type of placement! tfyc

This entry was edited by Suncoast_Smiths on Saturday, 28 January 2012 at 11:22:21 UTC. 

A table of 4 adults for us an two guests plus our 2 children and baby.
sounds ike great fun 

Didn't see the archiving but agree with decision. Too muggle prone for a cache even this size. It is a wonderful location but a bit too exposed to locals and council workers