Fruit Run No. 16 Cottonvale, Queensland, Australia
By Team Robins on 23-May-11. Waypoint GC2WV7C

We woke today to quite cool and foggy morning so we decided to wait around for things to warm up a bit.It was then we received a phone call from a family member traveling south that they were heading through Stanthorpe and would we like to catch up for a coffee. We never pass up the opportunity to catch up with family so it was on! They suggested we meet at a place in Thulimah, and we duly did.This set the agenda for the day. We decided afterwards to head further north up to Dalveen before working our way back home along the Fruit Run. It was only about halfway through the series we realized that there were fruit stalls all along the route, some open but many obviously no longer operational. We guess a new highway finished many of them!We collected a few other caches along the way as well.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Team Robins.**SKI Pair****

Easy one for the kids

Thanks! Well done!

Nice hide CheersThe madmyers

Going great another ..Gotcha here today for us

Got this one too. TFTC

Late start to the day with a long list of caches I hoped to find. I knew someone had been here recently as I could see tire-tracks in the same spot I intended to park. A fairly quick find after checking a couple of spots that weren't it.

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Heading to Stanthorpe for the weekend and took a slight detour along this road.
No trouble finding this one in the likely spot.

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Caching on a day needed to fill my grid. I had been working to try to get around 7 times, but it was becoming a bit taxing, so have reduced the number to 6. and will see how we go. Can always do 7 next year.

Have been past this location many times on our way south or north, today was the day to stop and find a cache.

Found in obvious spot, after looking in other obvious spots. Thanks Team Robins for the hide and the series

Which old thing that is still standing?? Do you mean me???
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Travelling with TBU1Bikesu from Rutherglen to Brisbane.

We stopped here, found the cache and signed the log.

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We are on our way home from the MEGA EASTER 2023 in Rutherglen.

We stopped here, found this cache and signed the log

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I made a quick find here. Thanks for the fun Team Robins

We are staying in Applethorpe for a few nights to look for a few of the many caches in the area we still have not found.
Finally the rain has stopped. Grass still wet but that isn't stopping us
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Quick and easy find. TFTC

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Found and signed the log

This was a sneaky hide

Submitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

Nice little hide but the log book is getting soggy. Thanks

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What did the fruit say when he was surprised for his birthday? Wow... I'm s-peach-less! TFTC

Quick find
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Very cold breeze today so this was a quick park and grab.

Very easy

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Easy find

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Another great find. Thanks for hiding this cache for our enjoyment Team Robins

Caching with Baby Birt and Wandering Me today
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No. 1353 for me

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Recently deciding to tackle the Apple art, a group of us got our heads together to solve all of the puzzles then visit the area to collect the wonderful caches between Warwick and Stanthorpe.
Our group of CHAMAD, NayFee, Triple Turmoil and myself had a fantastic weekend finding heaps of caches, we signed the logs Team TWOCAN.
Thank you to all of the COs who have spent time placing and maintaining these caches for us to enjoy, sincerely appreciated.
Thanks Team Robins for bringing us here.

I have just had the best weekend caching around the Warwick, Summit and Stanthorpe areas. With caching buddies (geonayfee, Willis007 and Triple Turmoil) for the weekend we got in a very large number of caches, completing the apple geoart, the fruit run and a few other special caches along the way. I had a fantastic weekend with lots of laughs and funny events it just made for a fun time; the puzzle solving in the lead up to the weekend was great also.

A big thanks to all the CO’s of the caches along the way; for placing and maintaining the caches for us to enjoy. Visiting this area and seeing places I would never see in a normal trip here was enlightening, so again thanks.

In the weekend I got around 180 caches so firstly apologies for the generic part to the log, I do not remember all specifically but some did stand out so I will add a little to those in my posts.

Day two and it was an early start, there is so much still to get in the area. A fun and eventful day in many ways, lol. As we started to work our way back home it was a matter of zigzagging and back tracking the caches to Warwick. The fruit run series we were setting our sites on to complete, most were easy finds, with just a couple we did not find, then there was the a few others as we passed by, thanks.

Day two on our epic journey around Stanthorpe and surrounds with Chamad, TripleTurmoil and Willis007.

After some much needed rest we woke up bright and early (Thanks Chamad for the farmyard sounds) and set off for another full day of caching around Stanthorpe to clear up the rest of the Stanthorpe Apple and a few other caches in between, then we slowly made our way back north towards Warwick while grabbing a bunch of caches we didn't get yesterday.

Same as yesterday we had a wonderful time exploring the area. I really enjoy visiting this part of the world, it's a great feeling to get out of the city and enjoy the country life.

Thank you to each and every CO for placing caches at these locations. We had a great time.

Signed as Twocans

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After meeting Willis007 and Chamad at a previous event over New Years, they invited me to join them on an epic geoart mission at Stanthorpe. After weeks of puzzling and planning, today was day 2 (together with Nayfee). We covered a lot of mileage, had a lot of laughs and learnt a lot along the way.

Between Stanthorpe and Warwick (on our way back to Brisbane) there are a LOT of caches to sign and we did a pretty good job of getting every single one we could - signed as Twocan to save 25 seconds of signing at each cache, as we had work to do!

In good condition

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Day 3 of our Granite Belt Grabathon saw us heading North back to the GC. At least today is not wet! The temperature may reach 13 degrees today but the wind is stronger so probably still an apparent temperature of around 6 degrees. No one ever said the Geocaching was meant to be easy!

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We stayed in the car and let the kids find this one. TFTC

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It’s nice to see that all these caches have a little bit of swag in them. Yesterday we picked up a bag of toys from the op-shop in town but haven’t had to drop any in yet. The stuff we bought is just a bit to big to squeeze in. tftc

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Next on the list was this one and as the hint suggested might be old but still useful.
We've come to the conclusion we won't finish the Fruit Run this time but its good to have the remainder to look forward to for next time.
Thanks for the Cache Team Robins.

Eskies5 and I planned a trip to Stanthorpe and surrounding areas to nudge me a little closer to a milestone. This was the eleventh stop of what would be 58 finds for the day for me. Found this cache at 8:32 with not a problem. All signed and returned. TFTC

Out for a day's caching from Stanthorpe to Dalveen and beyond, most were easy finds while a couple took a bit of searching to find

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Fruit run continues. TFTC

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Got it getting good exercise

Nice quick find

It was a good caching day today and we picked up some more smiley faces for our map, along with ilook4geo. We found more caches in a few different series and only had one DNF to spoil the day. Each of the caches had the log signed, usually as GP2 and ilg. Each container was then put back into place as it had been found. Our thanks go to Team Robins for placing this cache and adding to the fun of the game.

Caching along mostly very quiet country roads today with goingplaces2 gave a really good result for the day. Logs were signed, caches were put back and we were soon headed off to the next find. Thanks for this cache.

Our last here at Stanthorpe befotre heading down to Queanbeyan for the 2019 Mega. It has been great, but with mixed success. Didn't achieve as much of the Stan's Apple puzzle series smileys as we would have hoped but we will pass this way again and will pickup and redo those ones that we missed. We are lov'n this series not always easy, but still finding them and still getting the smileys
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Total Cache Finds 6400

Moving along the run easy find. Thanks for placing it in this place.

Great power trail.
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Sorry for the generic logs but there are so many caches in this area and there are only so many things you can write. We have loved caching our way here and around the area. We are only here for a day or two so not sure how many will will get done, but we will do our best. Thank you to each and every CO for the effort that has been needed to place and maintain the caches that we were fortunate enough to make it to. Thanks.

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Today is the last big day of caching in the Stanthorpe area as I will have finished collecting the new souvenirs. Many thanks to Pa for putting up with my crazy addiction to caching, and souvenirs, and for chauffeuring me around for hundreds of kms. Maybe our holiday will start now.
Decided to travel north on the back roads as neither of us fancy pulling up on the highway. We found most of those we tried for with only 2 DNFs and 28 smilies. Most caches were in good condition, in fact a few had lovely new logs! I had never been to this area before so seeing the Rabbit Proof fence here was a highlight.
Thanks to all the COs and Maintenance teams for the caches along the way. All logs were either signed Smittengranny or SG depending on my mood, the time taken to retrieve the cache and the space available for signing.

Out caching in the area, this is one that I found ... TNLN ... TFTC

Nice one.

TFTC! Nice easy find

Another one for me. Yay. Tftc

Another quick find. Loved to have picked an apple while we were there. Kutgw

Sometimes it's just about the numbers and this run was for that and if course the planetary souvenirs. I truly admire those that have done 100 or more, we were exhausted after just over 50 but that gets us half way there. We still enjoyed the driving and looking on the back roads and thank you for your effort in putting them there for us to do this run. TFTC

Thanks for the cache Team Robins
We are staying overnight in Stanthorpe and decided this was a good day to do the fruit run series and any others that may cross our path
Thanks for showing us a bit of Stanthorpe and the surrounds

WillPunkey, Scoob and I went for a day trip to Stanthorpe to see the Apple and Grape festival and find a few caches along the way. The kids and I started on the remaining Fruit Run caches we have missed on previous visits.

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Mrs Esky, along with a muggle friend, travelled Stanthorpe way on a numbers run in preparation for the next milestone. However, on leaving home the weather didn't look too promising...only clearing around Applethorpe. Priorities in order...our first stop at Stanthorpe was the bakery for morning tea & a coffee to warm up...temp was 14 deg!

Down to the business of caching we worked our way around Stanthorpe before slowly caching our way north (and homewards) accumulating a record number of caches in the day for the Eskies with a total of 57...and only one brief shower along the way. Thanks to all the COs for a fantastic day.

Note: I have just realised that I signed EVERY single log for the 2nd instead of the 3rd.

Tftc! Big day on the cards, trying to cram in as many as we can!!

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Monday 25 - 31 December 2017 (Christmas Day) - Found 7 from 7 caches. TFTC Team Robins.

Found with caz17

Found on a hot day. TFTC

Thanks for the hide on this cache, found and SL

Thank you for the cache. Log signed and cache replaced. *OCW Throsbyonchurch*.

OCW Throsbyonchurch, found cache and SL. Thanks for the cache.

Found 10 November 2017 at 12:30 pm.

Another quick find as we travelled along this road. A lot of effort has gone into placing these geocaches for our adventure and fun.
Thanks Team Robins,
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I set out bright and early this morning for a day of caching, but not before I'd kidnapped a geo-guru on my way through Toowoomba, to be my chauffeur, and to find a few he had yet to get further south. It was a big day and a good day. Found this one and signed the log, thanks for the cache!

Yeah good. Exactly the kind of place you drive past & wonder if there's a cache hidden there?! Well there was!! Tnsl tftc TR xo

I haven't been caching for a while. I've been sick, and I've been helping out some mates. I've come up to Brisbane to help look after my aged Mum after her hip replacement. I was meant to arrive yesterday, but stopped in Stanthorpe due to tiredness. I didn't sleep well, so I amd stopping for caches on the way to keeep myself awake. I'm doing some of the fruit run that I didn't get to on my last trip two years ago. That is giving me a cool ten out of ten to start off with and to see how I go.

Coat is back on. Breeze is almost nasty. Sun is lovely.

Find no 5 of 13 today.

Thanks, Team Robins

Continuing the Northern trek. Today was Stanthorpe to Toowoomba and it was perfect weather for caching today. TFTC.

Tftc found log in good order