Gnome's Country Home Fletcher, Queensland, Australia
By wingaap on 08-Jan-15. Waypoint GC5JZ6W

Cute little geocache#408 for us!

Finally it was time to leave work, Narrabri and cotton fields behind and go for adventures again. This time we packed our belongings in to the car and tent on the roof is going to be our home for the next few weeks.First we visited some friends in Moree and after camping by the river we continued our journey towards Brisbane. A quick stop here also visiting Gnome. Thank you for the cache!

Finished working in Narrabri and now happy to travel again! On the way to Brisbane area slowly. TFTC!

You are the reason we love caching

Weve come to Stanthorpe for 2 nights in our van to hopefully finish getting enough caches to earn the current souvenirs. We went to a winery for our daughter in law this afternoon when we arrived and then got a few caches on our way back. These were well worth the detour. Thanks wingaap and pajamateam for the placement and maintenance of these caches.

Love this cache always inspired by your caches Wingaap.

Very cool!. Love the home, but the gnome was out. Probably still at the pub. Not sure why there was two current logs, but better than none I guess. Thanks again wingaap for your creative effort.

A favourite from us for a great container.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****

Found it. Gnomey seemed high & dry & happy to have some visitors. Thx again Wingaap.

Out for a drive on our last day in the granite belt and the high favourite points bought us here. A pleasant drive and the find didnt disappoint. Thankyou for placing and maintaining. Log signed and replaced as found. All is good with the cache. TFTC. This one delighted the kids so take another FP

Very unique little cache. Enjoying this series.

We could see why this cache had so many favourite points. AFP from us as well. Tftc

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. Beautiful work.

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

A lot of work to create this appreciate the effort TFTC

My friend and I had been in Stanthorpe for a short break this week; today was our last day. I had wanted to do this little trail for a while so with him driving and me navigating we made short work of them today. The caches did not disappoint and I gave a few favourite points away.An easy favourite here, how gorgeous is Gnome's Home? If it were big enough I'd move in.Tftc!

Wow another love it moment , thank you TFTC

Awesome TFTC

LTF

Such a cute cache!

And what a beautiful home. Well done. Thanks for all these great caches.

A very cute little house. Favourite allocated. Thanks for the Cache.

Very cute house. Dropped a tb here while enjoying this series. 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 thought this was a gnome home but it’s apparently now a Huntsman home and he wasn’t very pleased with us interrupting his sleep today. Mr DisSister got quite the surprise when he picked up the logbook container! Another fabulous creation. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Quick grab here, speed from the road, thanks

TFTC. Love the cool cache!

Love this! It’s so creative!! TFTC!!

Spotted this one from the road. Little nest inside for some little wasp, no thread. Signed the log and this one gets a favorite. TFTC

#166
I spotted the cache from the car went up to it and knocked on the door to see if anyone was , as I opened it and went to grab the cache someone was home, a massive spider was Gaurding the cache he did a spider pounce and went back in. After using a stick to flick the cache out the spider (I think it was a huntsman I didn’t quite see it properly) ran away.

Just a little notice if he is home to be careful.

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 a gigantic (!!) 140 FPs as of the time of my visit.
I followed my GPS into the dense bush, and I must have been checking the wrong area initially, and then headed slightly north to find the gnome home staring back at me. I really loved this former CO construction, as it was so beautifully decorated! The cache container and logbook were in good shape, and a Favourite Point from me for a cache that will live on in my memory. 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.

For this one I must have parked in exactly the right spot because as soon as I turned to get out of the car I spotted it.

TNLNSL TFTC

So cute!! Walked too far in and had to turn back. Another the geokid told me was FP worthy Thanks for placing such fun caches.

Awesome all your ideas! TFTC

Cute little Christmas gnome was home to greet us. Thankyou for your effort making this home.

What amazing metal work! TFTC

20th Wedding Anniversary Geocaching️

John4068 told me I can only find one cache today so I’d better pick the best one.

So, of course, I chose one of the Wingaap caches - TFTC. Your caches are always so creative - so it is unsurprising they get so many favourite points. If only I was so talented!

And after seeing this one, John4068 relented and we deferred our cheese factory visit in order to find 7 caches in total + 3 yesterday! Yay!

Almost walked past this one, rattle alerted me to its location. TFTC

A lovely home. No wonder your caches got so many fav points!

Awesome !

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

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

A fav point from me

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. So cute - definitely a fp.

What gnome would not want to live here! Tftc a favourite from us

We found here a nice house with a view.
Tftc

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. Giving this beautiful country home an FP

Another find on Peppa and PirateLinda's Brisbane to Stanthorpe Jaunt.
Found with Willis007 and chamad.

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…

A really good cache…

Tftc…

Driving between Brisbane and Armadale. Stopping along the way. Thanks for the smile!

Easy find

Great hide

I did a maintenance check on the 10 caches I adopted from Wingaap. I could not let these be archived along these two roads. Just knock on the door of this one and you will find two mint tins with logs so plenty of space for everyone to enjoy.

Gnome's Country Home was transferred from wingaap to user pajamateam

Very sweet little hide. So pleased to see all these special container types 1)not getting muggled and 2)in great condition. I can just see a little robin trying to set up home in this, but a grumpy gnome would shake its fist and tell it to find somewhere else ️ TFTC

Just wow. This is why we love wingaap caches. I will add a favourite. Thanks for the joy

Very cool!

Found with Nic and Jess ️

45seconds from car to cache. Tftc. #205

Found with stairman1. Rough road with all the rain but worth it. Love wingaap’s caches.

Found with goldielover today. Easy to give another favourite point for your tally.
TFTC

Found it ! Amazing cache 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.

There was gnome body gnome today, we signed and returned the cache to the Country Home.

Wowza what a cool hide

I was impressed by the hide, nicely crafted. Had a bit of an argument with my jumping GPS, before spotting my target through some trees. What a relief. TFTC.

Wow! That’s a beautifully made cache! We actually found two containers here holding logbooks so we signed both. Then we left them exactly as we found them.

Thanks wingaap.

Wife said “Nice one”. Signed both logs. Sneaky. TFTC.

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* 5230 *Finds*

Find # 6780
Nice quick find.
We give this cache a favourite point for the gnome house.
TFTC wingaap
29 March 2021 4:52 pm

Another great container! TFTC

Cheeky cache.

Quick find with SJG66

Found with O319 on our way north.

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

Love the cache! Tftc.

Spent the night in Stanthorpe and took the opportunity to grab some caches. Very nice cache design, there were 2 logbook so signed them both! All good with this cache. Tftc wingaap

It’s some years since I beadled around the Stanthorpe region and the promise of a temperate climate and low humidity drew me here. Lots of caches, cheese, jam, wineries, truffles, happy hour, awesome scenery, you get the picture Even managed to convert a muggle to our evil ways Lots of fun!

What a beauty! We signed both

TFTC Dropping a FAVE point here.

Tftc wingaap, signed both logs? Very creative,

That's amazing.
Well crafted.
Took a couple of photos.
Tftc

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 fantastic creation. Thanks Wingaap.

Pete

#5,809

After a long anticipated 4 day hike in NSW, that was originally planned for this week, had to be abandoned because of the border closures, Crookedpete, JezNDez and I rearranged the week to start with a hike along the Stretcher Track and end with an extended weekend hiking in Giraween.

Leaving Brisbane early Friday morning to avoid any peak hour traffic, our first stop was for coffee and some breakfast in Warwick before heading on towards Stanthorpe via the back roads in search of a number of unloved caches.

After stopping in town for some lunch we headed off again to gather a number of other caches, before checking in to our accommodation. Settled in, we still had some daylight to burn so headed back out for a few other caches nearby including this one.

The last time I had cached down this road was back in October 2013, prior to placement of this cache. Glad to have the opportunity today to return and find this well designed cache container. Easily the best cache of the day so far. TFTC

My absolute favourite along here. Pity I can't allot 2 fav points hey.

This one was awesome! Loved the gnome's tree house. Tftc!

Very cute. Very patriotic. Tftc

On our 4th day of holidays in Stanthorpe. We all loved this one. Such effort put into beautiful caches deserves reward. A heart from us. TFTC!

What a cute little house. It seems that at some point someone wasn’t able to find the original log stash and added an extra one. Signed both log books and returned as found.

Started looking a couple of metres early but found it quickly once we extended our hunting ground. Great cache!

I wish we had more favourite points to give as this was also sensational. We are having the BEST caching afternoon Cant wait to see what's next
Attention to detail in the crafting is awesome.
I think we signed both logs here before heading off to the next one.
Thanks Wingaap for the cache and the great overall experience.

Very easy and nice

7/12/19 3:11 pm Find #2856
Out in the country with Fangsoki for a Stanthorpe weekend, we decided it was only fair to drop in and see if the Gnome family were home. Well I knocked on the elaborate door and rang the fairy bell but it seems the gnomes had headed off perhaps to their Brisbane home for the weekend, as there was no answer.
They did leave two logbooks for visitors to find however, so I signed both and locked up house for them.
Thanks for the cache wingaap, and here’s to another FP.

What a lot of work went into this one. Favourite due to beauty.

Found Ok

After having found Gnome's other home I kinda knew what to expect of this country getaway...another cool, little creation. A fave pt for the cuteness! TFTC wingaap.

Sybil and I have got to go visit the country estates to tend to some issues. I hate the country. A man knows where he is in the city.

Mr Gnome was nowhere to be seen today. Maybe he was at his town home which we visited a while ago. Thanks for the cache

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 not a difficult cache to find with ilook4geo. It gets a favourite point from us for the well decorated home. 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.

And another very clever cache. TFTC

What a surprise to find these gems along this road. It’s been great! TFTC

Cute little home. TFTC

They say there's gnome place like home and the residents here seemed pretty happy in their cute home.
TFTC Wingaap

After finding a great cache, it was time for the “gnome off”. A “gnome off” is where two middle-aged adults of suspect intelligence, stand in the middle of a dirt road and pose for their best gnome photo. Looking back through the photos there were dwarfs, orcs, slugs and dugongs but nothing you would be proud to put in your garden. tftc

Hubby couldnt find the log. Very cool cache. Clever you. Tftc