Fruit Run No. 22 Cottonvale, Queensland, Australia
By Team Robins on 05-Jun-11. Waypoint GC2XMWG

Thanks for my first find!

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****

It's still raining gently, which is great as we can still keep geoing .Another Gotcha here tftc

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Stamped, TFTC

And another one! Dare I say it... I'm getting pretty good at finding these blighters! Though I do struggle with understanding some people's concept of "Micro" and "Small"! TFTC

Easy find. TFTC

Luckily the road was not too busy today so was a fairly quick stop and grab.

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Heading to Stanthorpe for the weekend and took a slight detour along this road.
A quick find once on the right side of the road.

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Travelling with TBU1Bikesu from Rutherglen to Brisbane.

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

Tftc Team Robins

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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Scary baby

Out and about with Bluecare client, thanks for the hide

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

TFTC - found with rainygirl74

Found with Dozenmater tftc

Found

Found and signed the log

Careful of the curve

I love the way this was hiding

Found

Very good

Quick find TFTC

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.e

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.

I saw it from the geo-mobile, and we quickly found our cache #5500. It has taken us 12 months to go from #5000 to #3500

Thanks Team Robins. Fave point for today's fun.

People seems to like using signs.

Quick find, nice quiet road.

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Kudos to BB for the find
Caching with Baby Birt and Wandering Me today
TFTC Team Robins, SL
No. 1359 for me

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

Enjoying this

I found this geocache on a mystical journey from South Australia, through Victoria, New South Wales and back again.
I did log all of the caches on my handheld GPS however some of the logs did not sychronise properly so I apologise for the generic log on these caches, which are the ones that didn't log proprly from my GPS.
I had a fantastic journey and thank you for placing and maintaining your geocache or earthcache for visitors like me.

Quick find with SJG66

Found with O319 on our way north.

Hard log to get out.
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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

#1751 - 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!

All good. Magnetic

IAM GUR

Found!

Found thanks! I love fudge!

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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My god that wind is cold. Out early this morning to collect a few more of the local regions caches in offer. The cache was found quickly and in good condition

Thanks to the co for the cache

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Quick find to start our second day of the Fruit Run. TFTC

We are loving how quiet this road is mid-week. On the weekends there are a bunch of other crazy tourists like ourselves floating around. When we first arrived we had to line up at the cheese shop before we could make our purchases. Today it’s nice and quiet whilst we fill in time before our lunch reservation. tftc

Two of us jumped out of car without giving gps settle time, hence I started off for a point about 30 metres away.
Geofriend soon called that she'd found it. Yes you guessed it I had walked right past it. I like to think I would have found it on my way back,
Paper work done and all replaced as found.
TFTC Team Robins. We appreciate the effort put into placing these geocaches for others' enjoyment.

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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Took the right turn to find this easy one. TFTC

Well that was turn. TFTC

8863 Located by baby&Mrs gopher ( We also sign as bMg on small log sheets ) at 1045. Now on our way further north headed towards Brisbane. Had to look for containers we could stop near with the caravan in tow. Good condition. SL Tnx Team Robins

TFTC. Log to follow

Logged and Found as WallabyTim/KaleidoscopeCass or WallabyWanderers. Backing this up with our old account, Apologies if you receive multiple logs





Why did the banana go to the doctor? Because it wasn't PEELING well!!! Heehee TFTC

Why did the banana go to the doctor? Because it wasn't PEELING well!!! Heehee TFTC

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On my way to the gong mega with my Dad Brislions. And I finally have premium to log these caches. TFTC

Cache my way down to Wollongong for the Mega with my son. So far we have had a very good day TFTC Team Robin. #1282

Well done

22 going for ynext

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. Another smiley for this series. Cache all good
TFTC Team Robins
Total Cache Finds 6405

It’s a now a beautiful morning for finding these caches. TFTC

Quick park and grab
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Logtime: 14:35 #6350
Heute: 8. Cache von total 12 Caches.

Nach dem Mittagessen haben wir einige Cache der Früchtenrunde gemacht.

Google translate:
After lunch we made some cache of the fruit round.


Danke und Gruss
simeat und Frau
Switzerland.

Found two containers side by side so removed one and will use it for maintenance somewhere down the road. Thanks for the cache . . . both of them.

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Found it tftc

Found

PM TUMUT NSW

Awarding a FP as it has earned me my final Hidden Creatures souvenir.

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

Nice one.

Shiny shiny fresh fine. Tftc Team Robins xo

TFTC! Nice little spot

Geo hubby is cheating. I found it and he said it was wood. Bullshitter. Tftc

Our iPad had us on the totally opposite side of the road and then everywhere. Thought I might check a common place to stick a cache & came up trumps. 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

Beautiful spot to finish the day!

Nice, easy find to finish the day.

Quick find, nice drive. Tftc

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Found with kcsfinch. TFTC

Needed long arms again.

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 1:03 pm. New log in new bag in new container that needs painting. Left old container there too.

Almost a drive-by and our caching instincts led us straight to GZ.
The log is wet and lid is missing, but we still managed to sign with our Fisher Space Pen

Thanks Team Robins,
Domsky

A few final caches in the dark before heading home This one was a quick grab

found it

Awesome

Awesome

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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!

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.

The log is full on this cache. I don't have any paper with me, so I can't refill it for you.

Find no 9 of 13 today.

Thanks, Team Robins