The Mary Valley Rail Trail is an unsealed trail linking the townships of Imbil and Brooloo, using part of the former historical Mary Valley branch line with a distance of 4.7km in total along the former railway corridor alignment.
You can start this power trail at either end, Brooloo or Imbil, however we have numbered the caches from the Brooloo end as there are many sources of refreshment in Imbil where you can recharge halfway through your walk, turn around then take the trail back.
The Mary Valley railway line was a branch line of the North Coast Railway Line, which branched west at Monkland (just south of Gympie) and continued to Brooloo in the upper Mary Valley. It was constructed between 1911 and April 1915 to facilitate closer settlement of the Mary River valley. The line reached Kandanga railway station in February 1914 and the terminus of Brooloo in April 1915.  In March 1920 an extension of 10 miles 20 chains (16.5 km) to Kenilworth was approved at an estimated cost of £175,000. However, the extension was never constructed.
This cache is not a micro, but a camouflage painted jar. It is hidden in the fork of a multi-trunked tree. You'll see the remains of an old telegraph pole that followed the railway line in being overtaken by the jungle on the other side of the track.
CONGRATULATIONS to Vegan Cachers for FTF!!