I Am A Rock Allora, Queensland, Australia
By Slow Puncture on 14-Mar-17. Waypoint GC70XA8

Arrived at Allora to catch up with Joo Joo and find a few caches for the day, I started with this one where I had a seat while waiting.TFTC

Today teamdfl and I had a plan to climb up Tabletop and then take the walk along Road Reserve Trail, but sadly we were unable to access the carpark due to a landslide, so we made up Plan B...Followed by Plan C...And now we're up to Plan D This one was collected as we started the AL in the nearby park. Answers have been sent to the CO. TFTEC, Slow Puncture.

Whacky Wednesday with IolantheK. Out this way chasing ALs, stopping as we feel fit. Groovy rock. Thanks for showing it to us. Answers sent.

"I Am a Rock" is a song written by Paul Simon. It was first performed by Simon as the opening track on his album The Paul Simon Songbook which he originally recorded and released in August 1965, only in the United Kingdom. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, as the American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, re-recorded it on December 14, 1965, and included as the final track on their album Sounds of Silence, which they released on January 17, 1966. It was released as a single in 1966, and subsequently included as the B-side of the 1971 A-side reissue of "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)".Thematically, "I Am a Rock" deals with isolation and emotional detachment. Yes, I did listen to the song on the way home.

Nice workmanship on show here

This was a quite interesting rock just sitting there in the middle of nowhere in particular. An interesting piece of sculpture with some beautiful patterns. The EC insured we did some closer observations and spent more time examining it and gave us a far greater insight into the sculpture.Thank you for bringing us here.Answers sent.We have had a good time in Warwick and seen and done more than we anticipated but it is time to move on, so we traveled to Toowoomba, not too far!We had stopovers in Allora, Clifton and Nobby where there were Labs and a few caches, as well as to simply look around. It was by chance we thus discovered that Nobby was the home of Steele Rudd of Dad & Dave fame. The things you find out via Geocaching!A short trip broken up with some great discoveries.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Slow Puncture (LJCC).**SKI Pair****

Yesterday I called up my father in law to see if he wanted to go for a drive. Seems he had never been to Allora so was more than happy to come and have a good look at the historical sites in town. We both really enjoyed this rock, and the creativity of the artists. We spent awhile admiring the work and reflecting how long it would take to get those grooves so perfectly aligned. Thanks for this earthcache. Definitely a spot worth seeing.

We found plenty of safe parking even with our van on. We walk to G.Z and sat on the set and checked out the park. Tftc Sent answer's to C.O.

On the hottest day Ive encountered in a while, we tore ourselves away from the delicious air-con in the car to do this cache. It is an amazing piece of sculpture. And my Geohubby is sure that he could see an elephant on the back!! LOLTFTC

Found driving the scenic route home from Stanthorpe. I took some time to answer the questions then had a seat for a photo. Tftc SP!

It was a beautiful day to stop by and consider some art. Tftc!

After setting off from Brisbane yesterday to enjoy a few days away and to explore Warwick and its surrounds we spent last night in the beautiful abbey of the roses in the most amazing room, and managed catch the fabulous World Cup match a the criterion.Go Matilda’s.

Had this one in the radar for this morning and headed out at sparrows this morning for a spot of caching.

Found a safe place to park the car and trundled off to a likely spot where the cache was found quickly, log signed and stuffed back into its hiding place for the next lucky finder to retrieve.

A big thanks to the cache owner for making this cache available for fellow cachers to find.

Cheers

**Found Saturday 22-July-2023 at 15:53 Smiley #2269**Wow, I have slowly just been finding caches, signing logs, logging drafts and simply forgetting about these and never actually logging them. My sincerest apologies to the relevant CO's, especially if I found issues with them and didn't do anything about them.Unfortunately my drafts were also designed to jog my memory about the cache to assist with the logging process. Doesn't work when some of them are over 2 years old. Here comes some generic comments. Once again, I apologise Out and about doing a big loop from home to Toowoomba, south through towards Warwick and then back home through Boonah. Answers sent and the approval was received from the CO'sCache logs are either stamped, signed with Rogersclan13 or just RC13 for space. Thanks for the cache **Slow Puncture** Rogersclan13

Found it and sent answers to CO.
Tftc

This cache was found today and brings our overall cache find tally to 12534.

We stopped in on this one not long after 6am as we headed south, walking over to GZ I could hear the crunch of the frozen grass. I gathered my details and have sent our answers to the cache owner via the message centre. This was a nice spot and I liked the addition of the southern cross.

Thanks Slow Puncture (LJCC) for the cache.

I found it, I took photo, I wrote about it but how do I get it accepted?

Beautiful small town
Perfect day
Thank you

Out this way for a group CITO on the Condamine River. Afterwards Que Sera, DeafPhantom and myself decided to stop in and check out Allora.

Nice piece of artwork to the north of town.
Thanks Slow Puncture (LJCC) for tracking down the artist and providing some information about their work.

After a paddle down the condamine river Nikid1, Deafphantom and i decided to check out this nice little town and gather some smileys. What a wonderful seat this was and to have the artist himself describe this piece of art was really nice . We are the lucky ones to know all about the making of the seat. Thanks for taking us here and giving it a FP for showing us this art

A summers day, in a green n' warm Allora
Gazing from my car window, AC going, looking at the park beside
Thinking how f'n hot it looks outside
And I've gotta walk to that rock, a fortress deep and mighty
When I'm unlikely to get a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow, or a frosty amber beverage in the next 30 minutes.

Oh well, better have a closer look at this chair when I'd rather be hiding in a bar, I touch no one and no one touches me. And the earthcache was interesting, thanks SP for highlighting this art piece.

While out caching in the area, we stopped here to admire this sculpture and consider the sandstone. Thanks for the earthcache Slow Puncture (LJCC)

Heading south and dropped in here for a break.

Morgo sent in the answers.

TFTeC

We are heading south from Brisbane in 2023 and picking up as many new LGA’s as we can.

I took a seat and studied the rock. Answers sent.

What a year Sandyofthesea and I have had. We kitted out the Prado and took off from Perth, Western Australia at the start of April 2022 to travel more of Australia using geocaching as a guide to see the sights. We started with the Nullabour, Eyre and York Peninsulas, the Riverlands, visited family in Victoria and then back in SA it got cold. Flinders and the Oodnadatta Track was amazing and we finally warmed up in Dalhousie Springs. The Alice beckoned and then a change of plan and we ended up tackling the Tanami Track to the Kimberley and Bungles Bungles. Territory Day in Darwin was unhinged - please try and do it! The Gulf, the coast and the car breaker ‘Old Tele Track’ to the top of Cape York. This is a must but it’s not easy! Eventually made it to Brisbane to get some fixes to the car….. let’s see where we end up.

Slow Puncture (LJCC), I found I Am A Rock today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Lovely park and interesting sculpture! Answers sent. Tftc

Answers were sent to CO and we got the ok to log the find .

It's a beautiful park and the sculpture a really excellent one - drawing the attention to a lot of historically interesting things with connections to this area.

Thanks for showing us this sculpture and for the earth cache, Slow Puncture

Nice one to do thank you for the Interesting Earthcache:

Interesting piece of art and comfortable

I saw in this yesterday, not realising it was an earth cache!

TFTEC. I was here earlier in the month and we stopped here on the way to Glen Innes for lunch after spending 2 months in Queensland wandering around. What a lovely little town Allora is. We have only ever passed by here but so glad we decided to call in for lunch.

Today we moved the caravan from Toowoomba to Clifton. Once all set up and lunch was done and dusted we hit the road to try our luck at some smilies. Popped into the butcher at Allora for some yumminess as recommended by other travellers.

Answers sent to CO

TFTC Slow Puncture

I enjoyed my visit to Allora and found all the GC and GA caches, except for one DNF. I sent my answers to this earlier. TFTC Slow Puncture (LJCC).

Found with HippyDonna, finally catching up on missed caches .TFTC

A lovely spot with a lovely walk. Have sent answers to CO on behalf of myself and MrGravel.
MrGravel reckons the photo is model quality - I think he’s full of crusher dust

TFTEC

Goldielover and I are staying at Gordon Country for the long weekend we headed out for a caching trip with team herbz
A great wander around the path with the dogs.
Team Herbz have submitted a group effort of answers.
TFTC Slow Picture

Staying at Gordon Country for the long weekend we headed out for a caching trip with Stairman1 and Goldielover.
We did a nice walkie circuit of Allora with the pooches grabbing this on en- route. An interesting stone for sure.
TFTC Slow Picture

Thanks for a great earth cache
TFTEC

What an amazing carved piece of sandstone, thanks for taking me to the area

Driving back from Stanthorpe and a side trip to NSW. Stopped at the pub for a meal and headed over here for this EC.
The rock seems forgotten in the edge of town.
Sat down and considered geological time before reading up on the sculpture.
Thank you for hiding this geocache Slow Puncture
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Thank Slow Puncture for taking us here.
The amount of times if been through Allora and never then the time to check out this sculpture.

Gotcha !!! Thanks for showing us this modified rock. Answers sent to CO.

You have to marvel at the inspirations and the results of the ideas of such artists.

Answers sent to the CO and logged for International EarthCache Day. Find #1144. Thanks Slow Puncture

Found with Muggle Hubby on 10/4/21 on our way back from the Dayboro Mega, our last great adventure together, for sadly he passed away on the 1st October.
We loved this Earthcache, very comfortable it was too.
Thank you Slow Puncture, we would have missed it otherwise were it not for your Earthcache.
Logging it on Earthcache Day

I love Simon & Garfunkel's music and play a few of their songs at our jam sessions. What a pity the local council doesn't tidy up the area a little bit and make a real feature out of this huge piece of rock art.

We found all the caches in Allora and this one was the last one to log. Geodog Buddy enjoyed sitting with us for the photo.

Answers were sent to the CO for approval.

# 6541 on 23 May 2021
Thanks Slow Puncture for placing this earth cache.

Heading to Stanthorpe for caching. Took two extra days of. Yippee
Today haul is 4 Adventure Labs with 20 waypoints, 13 traditional, 3 mystery, Multi, Earthcache and Letterbox. 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

Slow Puncture*TFTC* 5178 *Finds*


Slow puncture

Found while caching around NSW

Answers Sent to CO

Thanks for the Cache Slow Puncture (LJCC)

GeoJoe_

This morning JezNDez and I were out doing a health check visit to one of my caches around Cunningham's Gap. Earlier in the week I had read somewhere that there were some paddocks of sunflowers in bloom so we decided to drive out towards Allora for a look.

After driving around a few paddocks and stopping for some photos from the roadside (unlike others who clearly couldn't read the posted signs and went wandering off into the fields for their Insta-worthy photos), we headed off into Allora. The route was a little longer than expected as the road I had planned to take from the sunflower fields to town was closed due to flooding. Obviously the recent rains had been pretty good out this way!

Near GZ there seemed to be a hen's party being held on-the-cheap in the park. Dez resisted the urge to join the ladies for a champers and headed off to GZ to visit the location. The rains had their impact here as well with the grass a lush and healthy green. Dez took prime position in the seat while we gathered the required information and formulated our answers.

TFTC

##Out for a tip around to do some more Holidaying now that the Mega has finished. We are heading down to NSW. It may take a few days to get there, but still going.

Answers Sent to CO for the cache for reviewing

Now for the adventure to begin.

Thanks for these cache you have found the info for and spent time to research, Slow Puncture (LJCC)

LilDonna_ ##

and what a rock! If the grass wasn’t so long from the recent good rains, this would be a very pleasant place to sit and ponder. It’s a good sound barrier as I mentioned I was headed back to the car and mum was carrying on a conversation with the air.

Thanks for detail on this rock. Loved it
Answers sent and replied. Tftc

A great little EC. Answers sent to the CO. Attached is a photo of me at GZ

The X-Trailers and I had a great time discussing your earthcache. Answers have been forward and ok to log recieved..TFTC and afav point for the great spit to sit and rest.

TFTC. We had decided to spend another night in Warwick while decisions about lock downs and the Mega were still pending. We took a drive out to the historic town of Allora to attempt the caches there and to follow the Adventure Lab around town. A lovely day for a drive and great caching.
A lovely looking sculpture, just asking to be sat in.

Photo at GZ almost took opportunity to have a rest

Discussed this earthcache with Liz,Earthlight. She has submitted answers for us both . Logging as a find
Tftc and lesson

#10613 - 13:55; Day three of a road trip with Sol de lune as we head north for the CacheQLD - Dayboro Mega. We had to spend an unscheduled night in Goondawindi due to road closures caused by flooding and after queueing with numerous others at the roadblock outside of town, we were finally able to head off towards Toowoomba around 9:15am this morning. Cached our way through Yelarbon, Inglewood and Warwick before stopping off in Allora for another Adventure Lab plus the other local caches including this one. Visited the rock and gathered the required information. Answers sent to the CO who gave a lightening quick OK! TFTC Slow Puncture

Out with LuckyL10n on our way to the Qld Mega and after a stop start run due to the flood waters we were starting to get closer. Called into Allora for a couple of caches and stopped by for this Earthcache. Gathered our answers and sent them off to the CO who was good enough to respond in a very short time.

Another interesting EC...thanks to Slow Puncture for setting it up....

We have traveled through this town many times and have never spotted this seat. Thanks for giving us a reason to check out the area. TFTEarthcache

Great (not so) little earthcache. My answers have been graciously accepted, by the CO.

TFTEC Slow Puncture

Found by Sunshine Toledo and Her Majesty at 11:00am. Answers were approved by the cache owner. It is an interesting cache in a lovely little town on the Downs. Everything is so green atm from recent rains. TFTC

We loved this earthcache! Definitely our favourite to date and a fav point to go with - thanks SlowPuncture! Have promised the minions we will be back in July to see the southern cross!

Found my new camping chair at GZ. Only problem is it doesn’t fold up Posted it on jigidi as a jigsaw.

Great little town to explore this morning on a lazy day Thx for bringing me here.

Responses sent to the CO

TFTC SP

2/1/21 Find #4477
Fangsoki, Radnoski and I were spending New Years camping in Goomburra, and today’s biggest goal was to head here so I could grab this Earthcache, the last one I required to complete an Earthcache challenge. So making a few other stops along the way, as cachers so tend to do, we finally turned up here. A quick dash over to check out the item at GZ, which from the right angle almost looks like the remnants of an old chariot. I will admit I looked past the owl being an owl at first, and saw it as the ornate chariot corner.
Answers discussed, and photos taken, then it was time for some adventure labs before making our journey back to Goomburra, with the additional required caching stops along the way.
Thanks for the cache Slow Puncture (LJCC).

Radnoski, 1MinnieMoo, and I were in town having a small break from camping and we decided to grab this earthcache.

I was surprised to see a Slow Puncture Earthcache out in these parts. We set about finding our required answers and submitted them.

The Ghost Gate Owl featured heavily today. In this earthcache - and the traditional at the Gate itself.

A great little Earthcache with something to learn. Our answers have been graciously accepted.
TFTEC Slow Puncture

We have supplied the answers for this Earthcache to the CO. We thoroughly enjoyed visiting this location and seeing the amazing sculpture. We took the photo at a nearby park as we entered the township of Allora. Thanks for this Earthcache and bringing us to this lovely little town.

Tftc Slow Puncture, stopped off in Allora to do this earthcache and to grab another Mary McKillop.
Interesting sculpture, great that the info is directly from the artist. Thanks for bringing us here.

Found this one - I teach science and geology is one of my favourite topics so I already knew all the answers ... (hehe). Thank you for this one!

Visiting Toowoomba and finding a few caches around the area. Day 2: a big loop south taking in Wyreema, Cambooya, Nobby, Clifton and Allora as well as other areas of interest along the way.

Lovely example of the local geology and history here. Logging in order, will fire off some answers when I return.

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Thanks Slow Puncture for giving us a reason to visit.

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Grey Nomads, now totally sick of the covid hold up time, and then more time in Brisbane for knee surgery. So now with the blessing of surgeons and physios, we hit the road again, and can get back to placing yellow smilie faces around Australia (Queensland for now)

Doing a few Kays around SEQ before we have to go see the doctor again, so filling in a few gaps on our map.
We camped at the nearby RV Stop, and went for a nice walk through town. This cache happened to be in the way. Fortunately. Cos we got to sit down..... Thanks Slow Puncture for the earthcache and the seat

I decided to get out of the city. I closed my eyes and Pointed to an unknown spot on the map. Allora was the closest town, so I decided to head there. Whilst there, I visited this earthcache. What an interesting spot! Answers have been sent to the CO.Thanks for bringing me here and TFTC

Found

TFTC

Have driven through Allora a few times on the way to other places, but it was nice to stop and look around. Found the sculpture and examined it from all angles to get the required info. Logging with permission, thanks for bringing us here Slow Puncture

A mountain top on Main Range seemed like a great place to practise some social distancing in these unusual times. In keeping with this policy, the usual Bromance numbers were reduced. So early this morning, Seffnjarah and I headed up Mt Mitchell to collect an earthcache which had been published since I was up there last.

I have had my eye on a centroid challenge in Victoria, which I signed 18 months ago. To qualify for this cache, you need to find the cache closest to your centroid provided it is more than 100k from home. After my most recent batch of finds, I noticed my centroid had moved from about 95 ks west of home base to 115 k.

So having climbed Mt Mitchell, I headed from Cunninghams Gap towards Toowoomba - my centroid cache is about 20ks south of Toowoomba. Along the way, I stopped and grabbed the odd cache, including this one.

I appreciated this sculpture and the geology therein, mostly because the cache description provided some interesting detail.

Many thanks Slow Puncture

Pete

#5,593

Logging with permission
Stopped in Allora on our way home from Stanthorpe earlier in the week, little late in logging this though.
We appreciated the extra effort you went to to gather the information on this lovely sculpture.
I felt it was facing the wrong way though.
The information made interesting reading that I couldnt have gleaned just from looking at Serene Seat Allora.
Thanks For The Earthcache
Slow Puncture

Answers sent.

Thank you for this Earthcache. A pleasant stop during a long drive.
Cheers

Many thanks for the opportunity to admire this piece of art. The artist has good use of the rock features and colours
Some pretty inclusions scattered around too.. thanks

Today i started my Trip to the south after spending a night here. Great work this bench. I will send the answers later. Thanks for showing.

Found a few months ago....but we forgot to log it when we got the all clear!

While in Allora today for the 150 year celebrations we took the time to walk down and complete this EC.
It was a welcoming spot and a handy seat to have while we completed the questions. Some of the details on the piece were amazing.
We enjoyed the rest of our day around town looking at the history and enjoying the street parade, to get a bit of caching done while here was a nice bonus.
Thanks for setting up the Earthcache Slow Puncture.

Today is the day to make tracks towards home in SW of WA, sadly leaving the sunshine ️of the Gold Coast behind.
Today’s destination is unknown, just stop when we’ve had enough.

A quick call in along the way to gather hopefully the right answers.

TFTC

Answers on their way shortly

TFTC smile 4780 out and about with miss Millie geo dog Thank you for placing this cache for our enjoyment found on the 27th June sorry for the late log

Cheers great ride around town to find these.

Answers sent to this unusual sculpture. It is a nice piece of stone and is well carved. TFTEC

Found on my walk around this delightful town this morning. TFTC

We stopped here today on our way to Canberra ,we have sent our answers to the CO and are logging to without a reply to keep our finds in order ,thank you for placing this cache

Whilst updating the rental car decided on the way home it would be via Warwick.. tried to get cannoli from Mussels cafe but they where out .. so we had some lunch and head home through Allora. Thought we would pick up a few caches on the way.. Thanks for the caches.. You've been Bear'd

Logged with permission. Found this unique sculpture today whilst on our super fun geo adventure down country roads. This was technically find #3. Thank you for making us stop and check out this rock

An interesting sculpture ! Logged with CO permission. Tftc

I am resting on a rock

Stopped here overnight at the showgrounds and did this earthcache before checking in there. Have sent answers to COs and logging now to keep things in order and earn the points for the last souvenir.

Was a nice spot at the end of the day.
TFTC Slow Puncture.

Logged with permission. Thanks Slowpuncture!

Logging with the permission of the CO.
Great sculpture, glad we took the detour off the main road for this cache.
TFTC

Hi there Slow Puncture (LJCC).

We found your cache **"I Am A Rock"** at 8:51:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 20687).

Today we cached around Allora and surrounds. We found 9 caches in a variety of container types and sizes (& DNF'd 1). Thank you for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places to visit on our nomadic wander around Australia.
Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Found it and answered questions.

Always happy to find an earth cache on our travels. Answers have been sent. Thanks for the cache.

Love another earth cache. Thanks for placing it. Answers have been sent.

Making our way home slowly after a hectic weekend caching around Toowoomba and picking up a few caches along the way. Thank you for bringing me here. Answers sent.

Found this cache with my Amazing Geo-Wife KaleidoscopeCass during our 6 day roadtrip starting off with the Geocaching for Newbies event held at Widgee, Qld. Cache was found and signed and logged, Thanks for placing this cache and being a part of our journey!

Thanks to Slow Puncture for going to the effort of placing an Earthcache here. These are wonderful to bring us to a place we would have otherwise not known about and just driven through town. The information provided is fantastic and enriching to learn about. Geohubby WallabyTim and I took a minute to sit on the seat and bask in the winter sun on a chilly day <3

We came across your cache, Slow Puncture, while visiting Warwick on behalf of our RSL Sub-Branch.

Nice rock. Answers gathered for sending to CO.

EC visited at 4:18 PM on June 19, 2018. TFTC.