Christmas in July - Stanthorpe Event Applethorpe, Queensland, Australia
By Team Robins on 10-Jul-10. Waypoint GC2843Q

Another great event

This one has been archived and now organising the next.

With six months since the event might be time to archive this one.

Thanks for enticing us to visit Stanthorpe. We had a great weekend and enjoyed your event. Thanks for all the work you must have put in providing all that wonderful food. Yum

Had a great time in Stanthorpe much thanks to Team Robins for the event, for the lovely food and beverages provided. It was great to finally get back to Stanthorpe again after many years.

It was good to put faces to new names and to catch up with the regular crowd.

Our first event. What a huge weekend, could have snowed though. Heard about Father Christmas coming but I guess we will have to wait till end of the year now. Lots of yummy food from the Master Chefs Kitchen, soups pumpkin and chicken pasta, steak, sausages, bbq spuds, bacon, eggs, cakes, bikkies, more soupppppp. Had a few too many egg noggs but didn't try the mulled wine. Had a FTF thanks to our name being drawn out of bucket. It was good to see a lot of other fellow Geocachers now we can put a face to some of the profiles. Our warmest thanks to our hosts Team Robins for your hospitality and kindness in putting on this wonderful weekend at the Summit

What a great weekend. There's nothing like camping onsite, sharing stories - some true, some welllll, putting faces to names and names to non de plumes, sharing a meal and a tipple or two and even making time to find the odd cache. Thank you Team Robins for your generosity and effort to make it happen.

Thanks Team Robins for a FANTASTIC event, it was great to catch up with you and everyone else.
The efforts you went to I'm sure were appreciated by everyone and your soups where very yummy as well.
Thank you as well for opening up your home to us all too and also for the fun we had with a few new caches.

Thanks Team Robins for organising what turned out to be a great weekend. It was quite enjoyable place to cache and visit.

It was a great evening of food, mulled wine and some interesting fire starting techniques. Would have loved to camp on site but just couldn't convince the rest of the ghostgums clan to bring the camper trailer.

Thanks very much for organising the event. [^]

I had fun playing with my friends, and the fire was really good.

Attended with my dad GhostGums and my brother MrMeccano.

Thank You

Another great event, and this one marked my 1400th Find, so was quite chuffed. The food and company was great and lots of special treats too. Thanks Team Robins for organising the event and four new caches too.I don't know what I can say about the bonfire that hasn't already been said... just that I'm surprised everyone still has all their eyebrows!!

Great weekend, thanks for the excuse to return to this great part of the world.

I think the others in my tribe summed it up pretty well - we had a fantastic time at both the event and the caching in and around Stanthorpe. The kids had fun, we got to see places we'd never been, and catch up with like-minded folks. One of the highlights for me was my little MissGeosie shouting "PAT HIM! PAT HIM!" at George the goat Thanks for a great event, Team Robins, we had a ball.

Our first official event!! And it was fantastic! Thanks Team Robins for organising and hosting, the soup was yummy and the bonfire was great. Thanks to everyone else for attending and making it so much fun and special mention for Mrs JAT and her mulled wine!!

It was very exciting. The food was very good and the bonfire took a long time to light, but was very good. Had good time.

Attended with GhostGums and RoseGums.

TFTC

Came down to our first event, Alkzura, Palopinto, EngPhil and I not really knowing quite what to expect. What we got was a fantastic weekend, organised to perfection by Team Robbins. We got to put lots of faces to names, enjoy wonderful hospitality and do a heap of caches. A special thank you to all the people who helped me juggle our baby who I think was finding the cold a little challenging. He did loooove the puppy though and giggled madly everytime he got crash tackled (they are of a similar size so it looked quite cute). Unfortunately the wheels fell off our boy before the bonfire, but we did get to taste some rocket fuel aka egg nog. Many, many thanks for a wonderful event cache.

This was our first "official" event cache, and we decided to make it a road trip with EngPhil and Palopinto, and associated kids to visit Stanthorpe and catch up with everyone.
We enjoyed every moment of our trip and every moment of the event. We unfortunately had to depart earlier then expected, as our youngster was a little rambunctious and unable to sleep.
Despite leaving early, I would like to thank Team Robins for putting on a fantastic event, welcoming us into your home and being so hospitable. Oh and the Egg Nog was worth the trip alone!
It was a great event, well organised and it was a great chance to put faces to names.

Thank you Team Robins for putting on such a fabulous event and your wonderful hospitality. And thanks all for the birthday wishes. What a way to spend a birthday!

This was my first trip to Stanthorpe and I will definitely be back. The newbie is now hooked on geocaching!!!

This was our first ever event cache, and we (Palopinto, Alkzura, NyletaM and I) had a blast. I think the kids did too -- MissGeosie even got to play wit a bouncy puppy, pat some goats, and meet chooks! It was great to meet some new faces (and match them up with names we'd seen time and time again in logs) as well as catch up with some familiar folks as well. The food was tops, the company most excellent and the hospitality just great! Pity we had to skip out on the bonfire due to toddler sleep requirements, but all in all it was a most enjoyable way to spend the afternoon (and the weekend)! Thanks for organising the event, and for your hospitality, Ian and Chris, there's no doubt it was appreciated by all! TFTEC [^]

So that's what a cold Christmas is like. I think I'll pass on the snow and stuff, although the food and company couldn't be better [^]. I didn't try the egg nog or mulled wine, but from what I saw, it was kinda intense . Thank you 'Team Robins' for all your efforts. The recalcitrant bonfire was worth the wait, even if it did nearly consume a couple of cachers . We even had a FTF on the weekend when our name was drawn out of "the hat". What a great weekend .

A great get together. It was good to be able to put faces to names.

Thanks to Team Robins for organising the event. I'm sure it ended up a lot larger than you originally planned but you had things well organised.

Thanks also for pulling my name out of the hat for the FTF on the cache.

31 finds for the weekend with no DNF gives testiment to the quality of the caches that are in the area and in particular the ones placed by Team Robins.

Clan Gunnie had a fanstastic time at the event and enjoyed the hospitatility of Team Robins for the weekend... Thanks Team, I am sure there was a hole in that Brandy bottle though...

Great to see many hunters make the trek to the Granite belt for the weekend and make for a really great afternoon / evening. Some new faces as always which is nice. Some familiar faces too and some who took much delight in smirking at my DNF this morning... You know who you are...

I am sure I left the event carrying a little extra internal baggage.. How well catered for were we all... Huge thanks to the team for making sure the crowd was more than satisfied.

I did partake in the Mulled wine and a couple of sips of egg nog... Hey, they had good "thermal" properties OK... So at the end of a great weekend, Clan Gunnie took to the road having really enjoyed the company, the food and "beverages" and the area.

Fantastic job Team Robins, I can't thank you enough... [^] [^]

We had a terrific time at the Christmas in July Event and experienced the wonderful hospitality of Team Robins who went to a great deal of effort to host such a well organised event. Everyone had a great time and some of us tried egg nog and mulled wine for the first time. [^] We enjoyed catching up with some old friends and also getting to know a little more about some of the new teams who are now enjoying caching Thanks for hosting the event Chris and Ian

What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon/evening......

Great surroundings,
Great converstion
Good companions
warm fires (numerous) to combat the night chill
Great food
Wondeful Hosts.......
Plus 4 new caches for the afternoons activities....

Thanks to Team Robins for organising this event - your efforts & Hospitality are much appreciated by one & all

Thanks again for an excuse to come here for a great weekends caching & fellowship [^] [^]

Logging in a geocoin which had not been logged out of Straddie Delight.

What a wonderful "Christmas" was had by all - complete with Christmas tree, decorations, Chrissy Pudd and Fay's famous egg nog - and then there was Robyn's mulled wine. .....then Ian's bonfire - the kids - big and little - had a wonderful time. Chris and Ian, thank you for your efforts and hospitality. A great way to spend a weekend. Thank you

Dropping in some TB's

Thanks guys for a great day, sorry we could not stay for both days but what we were able to attend was just great, the best we have been to so far, great to meet up with some familiar faces and then meet the people behind those familiar names. AWESOME thanks Team Robins

An excellent event enjoyed by all. A huge thank you to Team Robins for all their hard work and effort to make it such a great weekend.

I cannot thank Team Robins enough for their warm hospitality and a wonderful caching event. A lot of effort has been put into it - and everyone had a wonderful time. It was great to put faces to names - and catch up with some familiar ones

Dropping off another TB

Dropping in TBs & GCs

aaarrgh!
wont be able to sail on in after all,busy fixing masts!
'ave a great time ye' landlubbers.

Just dropping in another TB we picked up today.

Just dipping my leaf...

Gunnie will be there and as it is illegal to leave me behind... I'm comin along too!!!

Hi everyone, Sorry I can't make it as I am stuck at Shepparton Vic since last Saturday as my car is broken down - the service is very very slow - I am not happy with service. They told me my car will be ready by tomorrow arvo or so.... 1,000km long way for me to drive the car.

I am very very disappointed and upset not be there with you all...

So have a nice weekend.

Dropping some coins in.

Oops, forgot to dip my dragon in for a visit too.

Looks like we'll be drowning in trackables at Christmas in July!!!!....just dropping in our load

Dropping my geocoin in!

Whoops, forgot to RSVP for this one, will be there with EngPhil, NyletaM & Alkzura!

Dropping in Swag items.

Ah yes, trackables... Thanks for reminding me Max. Here's my swag... [^]

When in Rome...!

Unfortunately The Ksix crew have other "warmer" commitments that we need to attend to this weekend so cannot make it to this event. Hope everyone has a great time.

Cheers,
Ksix
"Eat... Sleep... Geocache..."

Dropping in some trackables

Just confirming my attendance for this one. I'll be sleeping in the back of the Territory... under MANY blankets. Will be good to catch up with everyone and put some faces to names

We will be there (x 2) as close to 3pm as possible and will be staying until after the bon-fire, then sadly we have to head back to Home.

Ready leave Melbourne on the way to the events - see you all there. Danielle

We plan on being there with our little camper - as much as we might like to see a white Christmas, we hope it doesn't snow

“Ooooh Bonfire!” exclaimed Mr Co. “No way am I camping in July” responded Mrs Co. “And if we’re going to snow country” chipped in K8, “there should be a log fire”.
So Mr Co hit the internet not realising what a tourism hot spot the Granite Belt is. After spending several days trawling accom sites he has finally found shelter that meets all requests without requiring a second mortgage. Thanks to Katie at the local RE, K8’n’Co will be there with a bag full of snags and marshmallows.

Bedmaker and Myness will be attending, see you all there!

Disappointing to cancel attend this event which I was looking forward to it.
Lots things to do before move to Melbourne next month!
Wish you have a great time.
Gonna miss you all gangs.
Happpy Winter Christmas to you all.
xox

So wish we could come. We love country towns. We are away and won't be back until just after this event so sadly we will miss it.

Accomodation booked, can't wait, this is one of my favourite places in SE Qld!! and as a bonus, there is always the outside chance of snow!!

The lokipagan's (by 2) will be there - accommodation booked. Surely can't be colder than Victor Harbor where we will be the week leading up to this... :/

This entry was edited by lokipagan on Monday, 07 June 2010 at 20:16:20.

Littleflowers will be attending the event. Accommodation organised, will be bringing lots winter woolies:-)
TF CIJ

Winter woolies are packed as we leave home (hopefully to arrive in Stanthorpe for the event in 5 weeks time.) Will be great to catch up with other cachers again.

We're booked in! Time to dust off the old cold weather gear! Brrrr!

Clan Gunnie (x5) will head south for Christmas and see what drew Team Robins to the Ganite belt. Accommodation sorted thanks to the hosts of the event so just need to ensure we have enough warm clothing and blankets for the reptiles among us...

Looking forward to a great weekend in fine company...

Cabin booked at Accommodation Creek. Looking forward to the chilly nights.

Accomdation booked, so the ghostgums clan will be there to terrorise Stanthorpe.

I certainly plan on attending this one. I will be braving the cold and bringing a tent. I may live to regret that decision Will be good to put a few names to faces

Hey, this looks to be less than 2 KLMN from my place!.... But alas im away with the Jeepers doing a christmas in july camp....

Have fun everyone, and bring the winter wollies,,

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/IDCJDW4140.latest.shtml

Andy...

As per previous, I will be attending with NyletaM and geobaby.
Accomodation booked.......

Team Herbz will be there - we love Stanthorpe!

Alkzura and I are planning on coming up with the geobaby. Not looking forward to the cold, but the rest should be great!

[This entry was edited by NyletaM on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 12:55:54 AM.]

aaarrgh!

ye' pirates hope to sail on in'

'ave secured hammock for a couple of nights!

Woo hoo, another two adults, also big kids. Have a nice cabin booked for Friday and Saturday nights.

woo hoo - all booked X 2adults (big kids)
Have secured a cabin for the stay

[This entry was edited by Pigwig2 on Monday, May 17, 2010 at 5:22:20 AM.]

Hi Team Robbins..

We will be there 2 adults 1 geochild ...

However we are taking the easy road & staying in more regular (& warmer) accomodation than camping would provide...

Sorted some of the dwindling supply of beds available for that weekend so now just need to maybe search out the warm jackets etc (having stayed in Stanthorpe B4 during winter) - a white event is not out of the realm of possibility (shiver shiver)..

Hallo Team Robin.
We are coming for sure.. three of us
Looking forward to it.
Happy Hunting

Sure I will try my best to come over there and meet you all....

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