Budgie Fletcher, Queensland, Australia
By wingaap on 28-Dec-12. Waypoint GC43E04

Very cuteFind #413 for us

A quick find here alls well with budgie TFTC

Not much room for parking near this one, but budgie was a quick find and all in good order. TFTC

We headed out of town today with the Elementary Series and a group of high favourited trads in our sights along with any other caches we might pass by. We weren't disappointed on both fronts.It was a cold day with light winds so looked warmer than it actually was. We were pleased to be in and out of the car so the cold didn't really get to us. There were showers as we returned into town, and then the sun came out brightly. Melbourne weather!!Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache pajamateam.**SKI Pair****

Nice little cache.

We wife spotted this hide . It did maker here day. TFTC

Love the cache art heaps of fun

Visiting Stanthorpe for a few days. The winery I wanted to go to isn't open yet and I saw these ones with so many likes so had to come investigate. Very cute

We were out having a drive around when I read a message from a some friends (ILTW) to let us know about this series of caches they happened across this morning. We were only 5km away so it was a pleasant detour . TFTC

Love it love it love it TFTC love these well thought out interesting ones

Awesome stash!

Thank you

Wonderful stash

Cute added detail - on point with the cache name.

///operating.nurse.independence

Haha cool.

LTF

Super cute budgie. TFTC.

Loved the container. Thanks for the cache

Very appropriate hiding place for this cute container. Thanks for the Cache.

Cute container. Nice little detour as we head back home. Tftc

We had the opportunity to spend Easter in Stanthorpe so took advantage of the days off to find some caches while we were here. We detoured along this road to collect this series on our return. This one was reminiscent of one of the first caches I ever found way back in 2007. Great memories. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Quick grab here on our way back home

TFTC. Love the container

TFTC

Fourth for the day! TFTC!

Quick little drive by after finding a way to get to the road. Brilliant little container.

This weekend, an overnighter at Girraween National Park was planned with the aim to tackle Mount Norman. An early start on Saturday had me attend Warwick parkrun and visit Warwick, Leslie Dam, Stanthorpe, and then Girraweeen to walk to Underground Creek. On Sunday, it was a walk/hike through Girraween's south vicinity visiting Mount Norman, Castle Rock, and Turtle Rock, before venturing across the NSW border, and then heading northwards via Ballandean and Stanthorpe, detouring past the *Elementary* series and *Stan's Apple* series.

Today, I joined Beardman75, Davinells, and wayn0, and we spent the morning with a hike in the southern vicinity of Girraween National Park. A tough expedition to Mount Norman's geocache, and after taking a breather with the group and then saying farewell, I continued north via Castle Rock, The Sphinx, and Turtle Rock, thanking the car shuffle for only making my journey a one-way walk. It was then a southern drive towards Tenterfield for a few geocaches, before proceeding back north targeting geocaches with high Favourite Points, in particular the cluster around Fletcher. It was then a detour towards the *Elementary* series, and lastly, I took a few more stops west of Stanthorpe finding a few more of *Stan's Apple* geoart, and completing the [Stanthorpe Art and History](https://labs.geocaching.com/goto/99df815e-d7c7-4bde-8575-b2c5ff71d8cc) Adventure Lab, before fatigue and daylight got the better of me, and I proceeded home.

This geocache had been on my priority/target list given the high Favourite Points (FPs), with it having 41 FPs as of the time of my visit.
This geocache was a reasonably quick find, and it matched my thoughts of what this cache would be. Another well-constructed cache by its former CO, and the cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks wingaap for the cache placement, and pajamateam for its ongoing maintenance.

Visiting from Coffs Harbour and a was recommended to try this series and now I can see why. Very interesting caches.

TNLNSL TFTC

Love the Budgie. TFTC

Last find I think before we move on from Stanthorpe to Armidale for the week. Enjoyed this little series of creative caches

Cute blue budgie! Part of my 20th anniversary series. TFTC

20th Wedding Anniversary Geocaching️

Sometimes I mud use every inch of stupidity when I decide how to approach a cache. I didn’t access it from Sutton Lane. I went in via Fletcher Road (a failure to zoom in properly and realise there was a lane way on the other side of the rail tracks!). So, yes - I definitely bush-bashes this morning

Great cache series. TFTC

#135
Love the container so cute there was some good stuff in there. Going back to the rabbit one now to see if I can find it.

On my way back to Morayfield, found it with TBU1BIKESU
TFTC. wingaap

A fav point from me

Awesome ! That is such a nice series! Very creative!

We are on our way back home. We went to QOGM 2022 in Charleville first, then decided to go on a camping trip in NSW for a change and visited also Canberra.

Now we stay a couple of days in Stanthorpe.

Tftc Wingaap

Spent a lovely weekend on the Granite Belt with Sausage3. While our husbands had a nana nap, we spent the afternoon geocaching, mostly avoiding the rain. Great to find a trail of Wingaap caches out here and no one else about. Cute cache. Tftc

Who’s a pretty boy? That’s a favourite from us,tftc

It’s blue!

Wait, a budgie this color here?
Tftc

Another find on Peppa and PirateLinda's Brisbane to Stanthorpe Jaunt.
"That's not a rabbit!" ????

PirateLinda and I have come down for Beardman75’s Catch-up in Stanthorpe event tonight… Apparently people come here in the middle of winter… for fun… Being our only full day in town, it was all about Girraween…

Having conquered Girraween, or at least some of it, a group of us are making our way back towards Stanthorpe…

Found with PirateLinda, Willis007, and chamad…

It was such a pleasant surprise to find a wingaap trail here… a really great addition to what has already been a wonderful day…

Tftc…??

After a very early start to the day yes 4 am on the second coldest day in the year. Willis007 and I left Brisbane and headed to Stanthorpe and Girraween for a walk and catchup with a few other crazy people. It got to -4 degrees at one point of the journey but that did not stop the enthusiasm of the group.
We finished our big trail walks and started to collect caches around the area. We headed south to a particular challenge cache for Willis007 and then we headed north back towards town, collecting more caches, timing it to finish before our dinner event at 5.30pm.

We bumped into Peppa and Pirate linda and suggested we cache together for a while. We started down this road and found a little trail of wingaap caches. This trail did not let us down and in true fashion a surprise at each cache. I have just giving a bunch of favourite points to this run of caches, well done. It was a great bonus to an already fun day. Thank you and it was good to see these still here after 10 years.

A great day out in Girraween National Park with chamad, Peppa, Pirate Linda and Beardman75. The main focus was to visit some of the waypoints for the earthcache in the area, and to attend the event in the evening.
Of course, there are always plenty of caches to visit while in the area, we made sure we made the most of the beautiful day.
I must say I was very surprised to see a trail of Wingy caches, they are always so wonderfully thought out and put together.
A quick find at gz, thanks wingaap for bringing me here.

After wandering around in circles for a couple of minutes, we found the budgie in its nest. Thanks for the cache

A pointless albatross is a large sea bird that doesn't think twice about flying for thousands of miles without stop for just a can of anchovies.

Tftc cute budgie

Easy find

Nice stash can ,easy find tftc

I did a check on the 10 caches I have adopted from Wingaap. This little bird was tucked away in its hide looking out for visitors.

All is good with plenty of room on the logs to sign. Enjoy

Budgie was transferred from wingaap to user pajamateam

TFTC

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The budgie is cute indeed. Pretty and blue. Amazing. Lots of prizes. Beautiful plants. Beware of snakes. TFTC.

Lots of birds about here today, but only one budgie! TFTC.

Cache was find nice and cosy in its nest! Cute cache, leaving a FP! Thanks

Hehe great cache easy find

Found it ! thanks

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! Settlement has been delayed by a few days, so we went for a drive today down to Wallangarra and back. Started picking up caches around Ballandean.

I used to have a blue budgie called salt! Thanks wingaap

Yirdiny means bird.
Birds are amazing

July 2021 11:19 am Found with guideyirdiny

Loved this container too. Tftc wingaap

Found nice and easily on a lovely back road! Tftc

This one is for the birds. Great cache. Tftv

Found safe and well, a great cache. I was excited to hunt down this series of caches, starting with this one. TFTC.

We pulled up 9m from GZ but couldn’t see him. Not until we were very close did we spot him in his nest. Very good. All is nice and dry here.

Thanks wingaap.

Heading to Stanthorpe for caching. Took two extra days of. Yippee. Now day three


Todays haul 29 and the breakdown is 11 traditional, 8 mystery and 2 Adventure Lab with 10 waypoints. Lots of fun finding caches or learning stuff about the local area.

Thank you CO for bringing me to outback Queensland.

Sorry for the generic log

Wingaap TFTC* 5226 *Finds*

Quick find. Cool container. Thanks for the cache!!

On my way back from Stanthorpe to Tenterfield today, I was lured into turning off the highway by the large number of favourite points the caches down this back road have received. They are indeed nicely put together caches and so much better than what we tend to see so thanks for going to the effort wingaap, and for the smiley.

Find # 6776
Nice quick find.
Based in the Sutherland Shire of Sydney, we are meandering our way North towards the Mega event in Dayboro Queensland on the Easter long weekend.
TFTC wingaap
29 March 2021 4:35 pm

Great container! TFTC

Noice cache.

Found with O319 on our way north.

Quick find with SJG66

I was blessed enough to spend the weekend away, caching and camping in Texas, Stanthorpe, Girraween and Toowoomba. The weather and company were perfect. Not so the loud and obnoxious teenagers camping next door! That aside, it was a fabulous weekend.

We were finished in Stanthorpe, and heading towards Girraween, and I decided to take a drive down Wingaap lane. Sadly, I don't have enough FPs for Wingaap lane to be truly honoured. This cache embodies everything I love about geocaching - a great location, great company, great creativity, and great implementation. Wingaap, you never cease to amaze me - thank you once again for a great cache. I wish I had some FPs left.

TFTC and TB visits

Nice easy find - tftc!

Spent the night in Stanthorpe and took the opportunity to grab some caches. All good with this cache. Tftc wingaap

Tftc wingaap, made a quick find here, thanks for this series.

What does tftc mean?

Headed round the bend from Stan to find this one. The GPSr did take me back and forth for a while before the hide was eventually made. Last for the day as it was time for lunch. Greetings to the CO!

Queensland border closures put an end to a Bromance extended hiking adventure in Oxley Rivers National Park in NSW. Still needing a break, a Bromance plus weekend trip to Stanthorpe with Seffnjarah, JeznDez, Swellerfungus and Lady Sim was organised

SeffnJarah, Deznjez and I got an early start today and planned to focus on collecting rare and unloved caches today, After a big day, we checked into our cosy accommodation, got a fire going and then headed back out to collect the caches along this road.

Another find of yet another masterpiece. We took the time to clean up all recycleable cans along the roadside.

Thanks Wingaap.

Pete

#5,805

Been along here b4....a great selection of hides. Thanks

Quick find. Keeping an eye out for snakes.... Tftc!

On our 4th day of holidays in Stanthorpe. Once again the kids had the cache in hand before I was even out of the car. TFTC!

tftc

Very cute cache! Thanks

Cute cache!

Great little Aussie, I've owned many in the past.
Looked so real from the road
We're thrilled to find so many great caches in such close proximity with very little traffic.
Loving our afternoon of caching in the area.
Thanks, Wingaap, for the making, setting and maintenance of these caches for us all to enjoy.

Was a very fun find

7/12/19 3:26 pm Find #2860
There was little to no chance I’d disapprove of this cache. I mean for starters it belongs to Mr wingaap, but also.... Budgie!! My first ever pet was of course a budgie, and we ended up having a number of them when we were growing up. I still love those sweet little birds, although currently own other rescue birds rather than any budgies.
I headed on over to find this little fella tucked away safely in his home. After signing the log I headed back to the car still wondering if just maybe perhaps I should get a budgie again sometime. I am a true sucker for animals!
Thanks for the cache wingaap, a favourite point from this bird brain!

The wife is a bird lover, she loved this one. TFTC

Found Ok

This was next on the list and with the afternoon getting on it was starting to get cool in the shadows. This cutie was a straightforward find. Thanks wingaap.

Making our way north we have now reached the granite belt and there are a lot of interesting and quite spectacular rock formations around. This was a nice easy cache to find with ilook4geo. After doing the signing duties, all was put back into its place before we headed on our way for the day. Thanks go to wingaap for putting this cache into play.

We are now caching in the granite belt with goingplaces2 and enjoying finding some fun and interesting caches. This one was easy to find and soon had our names on the paper. TFTC.

Last cache for my holiday It was a grand run and I will be back. Thanks for all the effort.

Lucky enough to meet the cache owner. Dry nice couple. TFTC

Nice little nesting area. TFTC