Fruit Run No. 18 Cottonvale, Queensland, Australia
By Team Robins on 24-May-11. Waypoint GC2WW0E

Unfortunately there has been no response (or regular update) from the owner within the time requested and as per the original note this geocache has now been archived. If you wish to replace it please submit a new listing via [this link](https://www.geocaching.com/play/hide).Jingeri

G'day Team Robins,This geocache appears to be in need of owner maintenance. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the geocache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 28 days) to prevent the geocache from being archived for non-responsiveness.If you require more time please be sure to **post a note** (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require. For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the listing and post a new note every 28 days to keep everyone up to date.Jingeri

We had no luck with this one either.

Thought I'd have a look, even though there have been a few DNF's ... but no luck for me today either.

I found clips to the old container but no sign of the replacement

not today

DNF ?? Tree branch down and wondering if cache is still there?

Found and signed the log

found

Couldnt find it again

I love the way this was hiding

Found

As per previous logs, this container wasn't in great shape anymore. We found the log saturated and accompanied by a leech and a spider. Considering the cache is over 10 years old we replaced it with what we had on board, a camo pill container and new log. TFTC

Easy find as log was on ground...? Not sure why, unfortunately lid broken so can't be sealed properly. Put back carefully with lid sit on top. Could do with some tlc
Tftc

Tftc. We don't have an interesting story. Had wine, went caching.

Clips have come off container but log is dry!

TFTC.

Found with Jess and Nic.

Nice spot

Be careful of the barbed wire here. Agree with previous cachers - the hint could be revised.

After 10 years on the road, we have finally decided to settle and put some roots down. Warwick is our chosen town. While we wait impatiently for settlement, we sit out time in our caravan, or go shopping for furniture, or go caching! It rained for two days, so today it was off for a drive down towards Stanthorpe in the sunshine.

We found this nice back road to follow. What is down here, about six caches we hope as that is what we need to put us at #5500 today.

What we found did not match the hint we signed the log regardless. Thanks Team Robins. Looking forward to meeting you.

Another one found.

Quick find.

TFTC

Out geocaching today with Magpie Cottage and Wandering Me. Another great find. Thanks for hiding this cache for our enjoyment Team Robins

Unhelpful hint. Kudos to BB for spotting the hideyhole from the road.

Caching with Baby Birt and Wandering Me today
TFTC Team Robins, SL
No. 1356 for me

Hint not helpful but still managed get a smiley

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

#1748 - TFTC

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!

Easy find

All is well

I AM GUR

Tftc Team Robins, nice easy find. All good here

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!

TFTC Team Robins

Thanks

Thanks

Last one for the day before our dinner booking at the Central Hotel. Thanks for a fun day with the kids!

TFTC

Every time we visit a wine region it always seems to be the the time when the vines look like they are dead. I’m not sure if it’s just us or we don’t get the timing right. Thankfully the wineries have lots of stock and we have been loading up each day. tftc

Quick find
Tftc

Dnf

Cute container for this one. We wondered what it had previously been used for.
Unfortunately our time here is almost over...we're closer to our 1000 cache goal, won't make it today but we'll come back again....we love the place.
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 tenth stop of what would be 58 finds for the day for me. Found this cache after a bit of a search and tree branch removal at 8:28am. 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

TFTC

Little bit of a struggle for this one. TFTC

That was a little bit of a search and few cuts on the legs.TFTC

TFTC. Log to follow

A lovely day for a walk

Got it

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. Rain easing only fine misty rain now, so out we get to grab this one. Cache all good.
TFTC Team Robins
Total Cache Finds 6402

The sun is peeping out for this one. All good here. TFTC

Quick find
TFTC

TFTC

Love that this cache fills a gap in a challenge for me. Thanks for the cache and the quick find.

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.

Tricky spot to get to

Found it tftc

Found

PM TUMUT NSW

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.

TFTC! Nice sneaky little hide. Wasn’t aware of this place til now

Out on a day caching in the area, and this is one I chose to do ... TNLN ... TFTC

Nice one.

Nearly need the 4wd lol. Tftc

Traffic is starting to become more often along this road so we are starting to slow down to cope. Hope they don’t think we are trying to pinch their strawberries. 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

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

Tftc

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

Good hide. Found with kcsfinch. TFTC

Yum yum, long grass.

Thanks for the hide on this cache, found and SL

Great find, thanks

TFTC! Log full

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 12:38 pm.

Nice fruity bite!
Now that has made us hungry. Time to stop for some food and drink!
Thanks Team Robins,
Domsky

Awesome

Hooray

????

Found it

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!

Pulled up close to gz & spotted the cache. Had wondered what the hint meant, but that was obvious on arrival. Rehid out of sight. 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.

That's seven nice easy grabs, with mostly interesting hidey-holes. The GeoSchnauzers are on their fifth walk. I am starting to feel more alert.

Find no 7 of 13 today.

Thanks, Team Robins

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

TFTG

TF

Tftc we found this one after our apple pie so no need to bite.

We are loving the fruit run, pull to the side, jump out while get away driver still has the engine idling, instructions being yelled through the window from other members in the car "try there!", it's a family effort:)

Another fruit run found, but make sure you adhere to the rules...

TFTC Team Robbins

Sixx jewells found it. Needs new log. Tftc

Tftc

Tfgc

TFTC

TFTC!

It was easy

Quick easy find

With a milestone coming up, I decided to go roadtrippin' down to the Granite Belt and Tenterfield to pick up a swag of smilies I missed while visiting for the Mega last year. Left Brisbane at 0330 and after 15 hrs on the road driving 650kms, managed to find precisely 100 caches .

A quick grab was made here while powering along the Fruit Run. Managed to get a little too friendly with the barbed wire here.

This cache is in good condition, thanks **Team Robins** for showing us this spot. Discover our code TGQNRV, and mention where you saw it.