The Rock that does not Roll New South Wales, Australia
By Grahame Cookie on 29-Feb-08. Waypoint GC19T7F

Was closely watched while collecting this geocache, by about 40 young calves. They appeared very disappointed that I had nothing for them. tftc

Found It!Strange looking rock. Is it natural or did someone put it up there?TFTC

Found with only one thorn prick! Decided to use my extendable magnet as a pokey stick till I heard it hit plastic! TFTC

Found tftc

A quick find with frmen1. Tried not to look suspicious with all the passing cars. Picked up TB. What an amazing feature! One strong wind and surely it'll topple. TFTC

Found while admiring the view.Thanks

Had to fight the blackberries. Great geology here.Dropped off a TB.In Glen Innes for parkrun before heading back to Adelaide via Lightning Ridge.Grahame Cookie, I found The Rock that does not Roll today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Today we undertook a short move from Inverell to Glen Innes on an overcast and cool day. We picked up a couple of caches en route but took time on arrival to walk the main street and admire all the older buildings and the range of retail outlets on offer. We live in a town of very similar size, but only developed over relatively recent times, and cannot boast town centre Glen Innes can.We picked up a number of caches later in the afternoon and finished our exploring at the Standing Stones. A great feature with its adjoining lookout.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Grahame Cookie.**SKI Pair****

Thanks to previous notes it was a quick easy find TFTC

Quick find, interesting geology TFTC

Pretty hidden. If u need some help, look near the fence.

A prickly spot but beautiful view!!

Great little find

Pity its not blackberry season! Good stash

Very hard waiting for muggles a little random location to not be suspicious

We like the rock - thanks!

Slight challenge in the grass and black berries

Great find thanks for hiding.

Found quickly after a few photos of the rock. TFTC

Tried looking for a good 10 min. Got stabbed a few times by the bushes and couldnt find

The area had me worried for snakes and thorns so we decided to write this one off. Good luck to future cachers though!

I have to admit that it took us a hot second to spot the rock in question even if there was a huge-arse tourist sign pointing right at it. Yes it was impressive but there are a few things that might test its stability.

First off the wind. I’m not talking about a breeze or a cyclone, I’m talking about the breath of a young child that can blow out the candles on a birthday cake when it’s not even their birthday.

You know when you light all the candles on a birthday cake (two or three) and one of the young guests can blow them all out from five metres away. Simply put a birthday cake on the rock with a couple of candles lit and it wouldn’t stand a chance. tftc

Very hard and scratchy find with thorny bushes. Not really child friendly. Nice balance beam.

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Woohoo!!! After two previous DNFs, it's so nice to be able to turn that blue frownie into a smiley. I found a spot earlier in the logbook to sign as people have left pages. Thankfully, not many blackberries at GZ today. Love the balancing rock. I would love to get up close for a better look but private property prevents that.
Thanks for the geofun GC.

Here with Calypso62 on his third attempt, turned his blue frown into a smiley and we got one too! A lot quicker find that we were expecting given his history. There are a lot of balancing rocks around that’s for sure, got me beat how it happened!

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Good find you don’t need any good shoes or anything else the rocks

Found with Alice_Kelly, lots of long grass and berry bushes, some judges cows but other than that a pretty easy find.
Thanks for the cache

Nice hide. Took about 5 got stabbed by thorns but we found it. Got some cash in a cache and a bug was added. Some good photos taken and felt like we where being watched. Thanks for the cache.

On ground amongst blackberries????? You have to be joking. You need to rethink this one.

Needing to find some high altitude caches, Kolour, chamad and myself planned a day trip to Glen Innes and Guyra.
Continuing on our journey south, we stopped here to collect this cache.
A quick find, log signed and off we went.
Thanks Grahame Cookie for the cache.

With the holiday Tuesday, Willis007 came up with a cunning plan. The plan was to go for a long drive to complete a particular challenge cache. We are heading to Glen Innes and Guyra to collect some high altitude caches and a few fun ones along the way. It is going to be a long day with Willis007, Kolour and myself. All three of us have set goals and a few extras to collect but we all want those Tuesday caches. With only a couple of stops along the way we were making good time until. I spotted 4 new FTF’s in the area. We ended going for the walk on one and grabbing the ftf, awesome.

We stopped here and found the cache nice and easy, the coordinates are spot on. Some pics were taken and some comments on the trees and how beautiful the changing colours of the leaves are. Oh then more views of balancing rocks, hmm.
We signed the log, replaced as found and continued on our way. Thanks for the fun we had today and placing this cache here.

I joined Willis007 and Chamad for a drive to Guyra today. Another one by the road with a view of a balancing rock. Willis007 quickly found this one. Tftc

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Ended up with a few thorns in ny fingers. Tftc

What a beautiful area, bit how you going looking for this one but sucked it up and when for the grab. Found it, thanks

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TFTC.

I was in town for work when I decided to grab a few older caches in the area.

I was a little daunted by the previous DNFs but decided I'd take a look anyway. I puled up and ventured to where the smartphone indicated. "Oh g'day bloody prickly vine grabbing my leg". I ended up having to "co-exist" with the vine in my search and I was very glad to spot the beast. It was in good condition.

I signed the log and rehid the cache as found.

I haven't *stopped and looked* at Balancing Rock since I was a 10 year old. Thanks for giving me the excuse to do so. A fantastic reason for a cache. TFTC Grahame Cookie

Grass to long to find anything plus sharp thorny shrubs to rip your arms and legs on. Suggest relocating to a more sensible location.

Long grass all over

Found after a brief search in the long grass. Awkward stopping with a trick right behind me!

Long grass, yep! But as we were in a hurry, this find didn’t slow us down too much at all. Not a park’s grab but found nevertheless.

Wow that's grass is really long. Of course, a tad damp this morning too. Waterproof sneakers help. Left a Tb to continue its journey amd had some cows.come.cjeck out what I was doing. My geodog was quite interested in them from a safe distance
Be careful of the blackberry vines growing around gz, they have helped me offer my usual blood sacrifice to the caching godess .

LTF

Fairly quick find

We had planned a road trip to Queensland to visit family in 2021, but our travel plans were stalled due to border closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that the world was trying to get back to a semi normal state, we decided to have another go at getting away from the cold and head up north for some sunshine and warmth.

Day 19 – On the slow trek home so today’s journey was from Tenterfield to Tamworth with many caching stops along the way.

All caches were found along our journey that we attempted unless otherwise mentioned.
Thanks to all cache hiders for keeping this hobby alive and breaking up a long drive.

Tftc
Quick find with a new local cacher

found w/ @Mackron72 and @ZackieW

Great hide - left a treasure. Thanks to hubby for finding it and we had fun day out on a cold winters day with our daughter (BBRXXE). Signed log book. TFTC

Tftc more later

It’s been a while but found a cache. Took TB will log later tftc

Good find for the kids

Nice quick find on the way to Armidale for the weekend. TFTC.

Found with geokids on way to Auskick!

Crookedpete and I were given leave passes from our respective families for the Easter long weekend for a geocaching road trip. I suspect that this was our families' Easter present to themselves to have a weekend alone without our company .

As members of The Bromance geocaching collective, we are a rather contrarian bunch, so while the main geocaching action was apparently up north over Easter we decided to instead head south from Brisbane. Our main focus was on caches with lots of favourites, good DT combinations, high elevation or sitting sad and neglected with no visitors for an extended period.

After a second night camped on the roadside on the way into Armidale, our plan for the day was to head out towards Mt Hyland in search of a FTF. With that mission successfully accomplished, we headed back towards Ebor for a few caches there and then turned for the long run home.

Out intention had been to find some accommodation or a roadside spot to stay overnight and find a couple of unloved caches on the run back into Queensland. While having dinner at the Glen Innes RSL we came to the realisation that the lure of a real bed and our first shower in three and a half days was more than any cache could offer. So instead we head off on the four hour run that would get us home some time after midnight. This cache provided an opportune stop to stretch the legs and look for a cache at the same time. Being pitch dark, there was no chance of spotting the balancing rock but we did manage to spot the cache. TFTC

Instead of heading mega north to Townsville for Easter, Seffnjarah and I planned a long weekend road trip south to Armidale and surrounds. Having spent the day caching along the Waterfall Way chasing unloved and high elevation caches with an FTF thrown in for good measure, we finished up at Ebor at dusk.

Time to start heading home. A long drive in the nasty "between' light and we were powering north. Time for a couple more on the way including this one. No sign of the rolling rock in the dark here tonight though.

After finding this, we tucked in to a rather unremarkable meal at the Glen Innes RSL. The original plan had been to find a cabin, or decent caravan park so we could clean up after 3 days roughing it. No such luck - so we took the decision to power on and head for Brisbane and a clean bed and hot shower.

Thank you for this cache, Graham Cookie

Pete

Day 53 of our southern trip. Travel home day 5. Our Final day. From overnight in Glen Innes to home.

Slipping back a bit south for a few we had to miss yesterday.

More Small size than Regular.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on March 3, 2022. TFTC, 12Fieldtrip.

Day 53 of our southern trip.

Heading towards home (watching the weather at home)on the New England highway.

Still picking up caches on the area as we travel around the area.

Travelling & Caching with RoddyC.

Found the small container hiding away. So many geotrails.

TFTCache Grahame Cookie

Quick easy find with added bonus of a handful of ripe blackberries! Yum! TFTC

Cool

Cheers to the previous finders who stomped down the spikey bush! Took nothing, left nothing. TFTC!

Found with jasmr and furstyferret

Revisit after many years with furstyferret and Ollie jf_h

Jasmr, olliejf_h and I are out on a country drive. We had intended to go look for a friend's lost sheep using a drone, but the weather has beaten us. What better way to use up some bonus time than geoaching?

Thanks so much for the cache, Grahame Cookie. Took nothing, left nothing, travellers visited and we signed the log.

Great fun. Awesome to find my 1st

Over the past few days I’ve been keeping a close eye on the forecast for potential snow on the northern tablelands, with things looking promising I booked myself some accomodation at Glen Innes for two days. My plan for those two days was to chase some snow and take some amazing pictures and grab a bunch of caches along the way.

I didn’t hold much hope finding this one with the prior DNFs, however I surprised myself and found the cache nicely tucked away straight away, just be weary of the thorns nearby, they’re a tad grabby.

#2167 - TFTC

That’s amazing! Even in this wind that rock hasn’t toppled.

Good coords meant the cache was quickly found. All nice and dry here.

Thanks Grahame Cookie.

TFTC searched and searched but not luck today

Unhelpful cows! Long wet grass and lots of thorn bushes. Gorgeous countryside though.

Found it after some search because of the high grass.
TFTC

Took a tad to find. Easy catch watch for snakes!!!

Worried about snakes couldn’t find

Easter trip away (in the hopes of getting into Qld) with fitzy_1965 for the cacheQLD Dayboro Mega.

After leaving home yesterday afternoon, this was our first full day of caching with the aim of heading north whilst county hopping along the way.

A nice easy find here today.

23,883. Found with minniek on our Dayboro QLD MEGA Adventure trip.

With the sudden COVID outbreak in Queensland putting the Mega in doubt we decided to head up to the New South Wales / Queensland border and see what happens, while developing a Plan B (Longreach region) and a Plan C (New South Wales counties loop) ! Day 2. An early start today with an aim of caching our way through some counties and spending the night in Tenterfield. Everything went according to plan which made for a great days travel and caching, with some wonderful places visited. This was the next stop for the day, and another nice quick find by minniek. Signed the log, replaced the cache as found, then continued on up the highway.

Thanks Grahame Cookie !!

Found after a rather short search. The cows weren't at all sure.

On our way North, we have looked for one several times, today looked like another face, but soon saw something, that we needed to find. Stamped log and replaced. Thanks to Grahame Cookie.

What a fabulous diversion. Made a quick find although the container is not a regular anymore.

SL TFTC

TFTC,
We came over the mountain yesterday to escape the bad weather and stayed overnight at Walcha.
Checked the Adventure Lab cache app and found there was one here.
So before leaving town we completed it, found some Traditional caches and the Bonus for the AL.
As usual, I have left a few for next time.
Moving along and we are back where we have been several times before.
Success this time and good to get rid of a blue face from my map.

On a road trip from NQ to Tas. T4T$

A nice quick find for wombles. A few photos taken and off we continued on our weekend getaway.

Thanks for the cache Grahame Cookie

A quick find here, after I followed the geotrail in. I looked in the wrong corner at first but soon spotted it.

found

Found but not a 3rd size.

Found with bedlem2

Just followed the geotrail!! Tftc

I just had to pull over and look for this cache on my way to Ben Lomond because there were so many cows! Made the find quite quickly thanks to the grass being squashed by the previous finder
Be careful as there are thorns, my arm isn't as pretty as it was

Very cool and very interesting.

Just have to watch out for the blackberries that are growing very close to GZ

HAPPY NEW YEAR - love the find! Lots of long grass thou

So pretty and after the heat on the coast I am loving this squally weather. Thanks for bringing me to this lovely spot Graham

On a trip with teamMerlin and TARDIS 0061 into regional NSW a lot of kms were covered in a few days. Today we got to 13 caches found and a number of LGAs hadn't been to before

With cache in hand we signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for bringing me to the area and thanks for placing the cache Grahame Cookie

The following TBs visited for the distance - Hawkesbury Tiger, 2011- 2019 NSW geocoins, Area 51 Tag, Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, Cache In Trash Out Tag, CITO Micro Geocoin, dirty Black Juke, Four Elements Geocoin, Mary Hyde's compass, Optical Illusion Geocoin, Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, Trackable Building Brick, Wales Flag, Wheel of Caching Geocoin

On a caching run exploring regional NSW and collecting some previously unfound LGAs along the way with phlphotos and TARDIS 0061. Another big day driving today with a total of 13 caches collected, covering 6 new LGAs. Careful of the blackberries at GZ. Signed the log and replaced as found. All caches and logs found are in good condition. Thanks for the cache Grahame Cookie.

The following TBs came through for the mileage : Bob geoMinion, Dave geoMinion, Evil geoMinion, Jerry geoMinion, Larry geoMinion, Mary Hyde's Treasure, Stuart geoMinion, teamMerlin's 7 Deadly Ducks Tag (Lust), Vanlith The Youngling, Hidden Creatures Geocoin TB, teamMerlin's Football, Searching for Paradise, Moneypenny Deadly Duck

Full log to follow

Found it

Cache Replaced, so 'Game On'!

Thanks to StMadHouse for the replacement of this wayward cache, it may be again searched for.

I was travelling by after a trip south to visit my Mum and to do cache maintenance since the first covid lockdown stopped me travelling. I stopped here after seeing the recent logs and thought I could check it for the CO. This cache has been replaced and is at GZ. I will restate that there is NO reason to go past the fence. NO tresspassing! The cache is easily grabbed, logged and replaced from where I took the attached photo. Happy Hunting

Hi Grahame Cookie,

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 45 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

If you require more time please be sure to **post a note** (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require. For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the listing and post a new note every 45 days to keep everyone up to date, if you do not then you cache may be archived without further note from a reviewer. Caches archived due to lack of maintenance are no longer unarchived and you will need to submit a replacement as a new cache.


Ministro - Matt

It's been a year since this cache was last found. Time for another road trip GC?

A cursory look around the gate buy muggled out