Mt Remarkable

 Rose and I headed back to Melrose.

Today was beautiful, sunny and a little warm.

The perfect day to attempt a climb of the mountain.

 Rose set the pace.

She had me almost power walking up the mountain!

 We stopped at a huge rock for a rest.

 And we climbed higher and higher.

Past the remains of a plan that crashed into the mountain in 1980.

 It took us almost 2 hours to make the 6 km climb to the summit.

My thighs were not happy.

We sat and munched on strawberries and apples.

 Rose climbed onto the top of the pile of rocks that mark the summit.

We searched for the geocache that is here but were not successful.

Might have to make the climb again.

 The scenery, fauna and flora made the ache in my body a little easier.

The kookaburras laughed at us often as we made our way back down the mountain.

We stopped at the huge rock again for a photo.

By this time it was my bum that was hurting for the downward slope.

More information HERE on the beautiful township of Melrose 

and the Mt Remarkable National Park

Gladstone and Laura

 Another afternoon of geocaching.

This time in Gladstone and Laura.

Gladstone has an old gaol, which you can B&B in, if you ever fancy locking the kids up.

Gladstone also has THE best op-shop, 

I found an extra bowl for my Kenwood, a K beater and balloon whisk there for $5.

Laura is the home of Golden North Ice Cream and the kids had to sample some.

A couple of the cafes do a sample bowl with a pile of different flavors.

Laura has a great play ground for the kids to let off some energy.

 We went looking for 6 caches and found 5.

I thought that was pretty good.

One was a Mystery cache so we had to solve the clues  

to work out the  co-ordinates to find this one.

 The one we didn't find was in Laura.

Will try again another day.

 The statue is of CJ Dennis

CJ Dennis spent some of his schooling years in Gladstone and Laura

Triantiwontigongolope was part of the clue for this geocache.

 Another cache found at a long ago school site.

It took a little bit of dirt driving to find this one.

Fern was navigating, so I got directed to the wrong road.

We're running out of near by caches!

Another Geocaching adventure

We're getting a little geocaching addicted around here.

A pretty good addiction.

Costs nothing, you learn lots and get active too.

The perfect family pastime really.

Yesterday we headed out to find two more caches.

One we were successful at and one we didn't find this time.

We found the traditional cache by accident looking for the Mystery cache.

Traditional caches are found by using the GPS coordinates.

While Mystery ones require you to solve a couple of riddles and problems to get the GPS position.

I loved this old school, it had a clue to the Mystery cache.

The photo was taken on my iphone late in the afternoon.

It looks rather spooky!

Geocaching - Taking us places we've never been

 After our morning walking in the forest.

We decided to do a little geocaching in the afternoon.

 This time we were successful.

Rose found the one here quicker than I got out the car!

It was a fascinating place.

Hard to believe that for 45 years children went to school in this little building.

 The chalkboard was still there!

Many of the names listed on the board we recognised as local names.

We found 3 more caches today.

Lilly found her first! One that we had failed to find on another occasion.

I'm Mumto7 on the Geocaching Site, if you'd like to add me as a friend.