Fruit Run No. 28 Dalveen, Queensland, Australia
By Team Robins on 20-Jun-11. Waypoint GC2YJ73

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****

Nice one

Coordinates led to easy find. Exchanged trackables. TFTC

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

This was easy to find! TFTC!

Bingo. Got it. TFTC

I've been carrying a big stick with me to all these caches today. If a Muggle was to pass by, it would be a sight to see little-old-me whacking and prodding away on the way in and out.

These locations stress me out a bit ... but here I am ... adding smilies to my map.

TNLNSL.

TFTC ...

After camping the night at Storm King Dam we are making our way back home, taking the scenic route. A short walk into the bush and a quick find.

Tftc Team Robins

Easy find. Happy times!

TFTC

Easy fin fftc

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

We stopped here, found this cache and signed the log

Tftc Team Robins

Travelling with TBU1Bikesu from Rutherglen to Brisbane.

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

Tftc 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
TFTC

All good with this one

Was glad to find an easy parking spot. Cache easily spotted and in good condition. TFTC

Quick find. TFTC

Nice drive back from Stanthorpe.

Left a trackable, please keep him moving!

Easy find, love the wildflowers around. TFTC

Found with Dozenmater tftc

TFTC - found with rainygirl74

Thankyou team robins for all the amazing caches

This was awsome find lots of fun

Found it with Silence49 while on travelling

Found it with lance51 TFTC

What do you call a cat who eats lemons? A sourpuss!

Another quick find whilst roaming around the Warwick region - TFTC!

Found relatively easily. Had the weirdest cocoon I have ever seen attached to it. Had heaps of prickles all over it, which were left in my son's finger when he picked it up. Anyhow, cocoon is now gone. See the photo attached though. Anyone know what that is?

Foond

Loving these quick finds TFTC

This one was good!

I'm leaving the new Mrs Mister JD at home while I go to care for my aged Mum in Brisbane for a couple of weeks while my brother visits his grandkids in Sydney. I'm looking forward to seeing
mum but sad to be leaving my wife at home. I'm taking four days for the trip because
I want to find caches, and long trips are way in my past due to my crook back. Caching is ideal as I can stop and start practically as I like. Today's leg is home to Dubbo. I got off to a late start, and found the traffic out of Canberra was horrendous, so I took a back road just out of town, and finished up doing part of a power trail before I got to Yass. I really enjoyed that road, but took too long and found only a few more on the rest of the day. I did stop quite a few times for my back and to give Sophie GeoSchnauzer a bit of a run. Sophie is a bit sad, we have just lost her lifetime companion, Oscar GeoSchnauzer at the ripe old age of fifteen and a half.

This is day 2 of my journey, driving from Dubbo to Tamworth via less traveled ways. We started in Dubbo, collecting caches, fuel and supplies, then headed to Dunedoo, then on to Coolah, Breeza and Carroll. finding caches and a couple of delightful power trails along the way.

Today is day 3 of my trip. Starting in Tamworth, I'm doing some trails and interesting caches around Tamworth, then heading for Stanthorpe. My old Dad used to tell me I wouldn't know what day it was. I never believed him, but now there is evidence. Today, on the 18th April, I signed all my logs with 17th of April. Oh well, he will be having a good chuckle from his perch in heaven ...

Last day of my trip. It's getting wearing. My back and tailbone are sore from driving, with only geocaching providing relief. Hopping in and out of the car really helps relieve the pain and stiffness. I'll start slowly, and work up to it. I anticipate lots of holdups due to flood repairs today. Well, here we go.

Another easy one.

Find no 7 of 19 today. Thanks, Team Robins

Quick find.

TFTC

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

Kudos to Mrs Wandering Me for the find
Caching with Baby Birt and Wandering Me today
TFTC Team Robins, SL
No. 1364 for me

TFC

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.

Took Pokeball.
Left bowling pin and bowling ball erasers.
Dropped a tb
Tftc

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

#1756 - 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!

Nice size.

I AM GUR

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

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

Nice easy find. TFTC!

A few places to choose from... where to start? Got it on the second look. 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

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TFTC. Log to follow

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 Robins. #1279

Yap was easy

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. Cache all good
TFTC Team Robins
Total Cache Finds 6409

Soon found this little fella in its hidey hole. TFTC

Nice big container.
TFTC

Find was accompanied by the mournful song of two trees rubbing together

Logtime: 14:20 #6347
Heute: 5. 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.

TFTC

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.

Nice little spot. Tftc

Found!

Shame about the rubbish. 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.

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

Traded eyeball for a pokeball & standard soldiers. Every cache should have soldier guards Tftc Team Robins xo

3 for 3 I beat him again . Lovely way to spend an afternoon. Tftc

TFTC! Nice little spot to stop and park

Left something to keep an eye on the cache. Kutgw

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

Tftc

Thanks

Thanks

Heading for the border today on ou trip to Bright. Wonder how many we can grab without endangering our lives and that of the caravan. Hit the fruit run trail. Interesting to drive here as it is the old highway that I have traveled many time before geocaching days.

This one we found, thanks team robins as there wew a few we did stop for

Found with kcsfinch. TFTC

Cool Stanthorpe.

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 3:27 pm.

Everything is rather wet at the moment, it’s not raining now but it has been drizzling on and off through the afternoon. The upside is that everything looks so green and this wet weather is great for the land.
Thanks Team Robins
Domsky

Awesome

Awesome

Found it

TFTC

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!

TfTC Tor and Betsy geocaching westies are now touring australia.

Nice easy one. TFTG

Tftc a quick find, log in good order

TF

We came to Stanthorpe for the first-time years ago before we had started geo-caching, then we started geo-caching and we missed out on the mega event as we headed off in another direction that Easter. This was finally our time to come back and make some of the finds around here.

We when told the geo-teens about it our geo-son just couldn’t contain his excitement…

TFTC Team Robins

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TFTC!

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.

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

*Live logging*
Found with sesblocker.
Great coords made for a quick find.
TNLNSL
TFTC  Team Robins

Day 2

A wonderful weekend away in Stanthorpe resulting in 374 finds, including 22 mystery (Stanthorpe Apple) and 1 Earthe cache. I hoped to log each individually as I usually would but the tyranny of time prevents me from continuing to try and achieve this goal. A big thank you to all the Stanthorpe CO's. We said many times we wish we had more consolidated trails in Brisbane. TFTC

Some cute swaps in this one but TNLNSL