Fraser Islands Coloured Sands Orchid Beach, Queensland, Australia
By CADS11 on 21-May-10. Waypoint GC28YZ7

Answers sent via formPhoto of visit attached hereTFTCA beautiful island I love everything I visit

The Pinnacles

Apologies for the late logging but I don;t have a mobile phone and can only log when I get back to the UK. Answers to the task emailed.Thanks for bringing us to this spot with its lovely coloured stones in 'Paradise'.

We went to Frazer Island today and had a wonderful time here. We especially liked the coloured sands.Answers sent to CO. Thanks for the quick reply.Thanks for the Earthcache on this phantastic island.Kind regards.schuhlstroo

We were on a day tour of kgari and stopped over at this location. Beautiful colours . Thanks for placing g thus earthcache here.

Today on Fraiser Island, wow, how beautiful. Tftc

Beeindruckende Sandformation!

Another day in paradise having left CaptainVimes and JDavs to enjoy a day of resort living, Beardman75, LDavs and I continued in our roles from yesterday Im now playing the minor role of dumb blondeA chance to stop and admire Mother Natures handy work the change over the last 13 years is obviousA brilliant weekend away, only made possible thanks to some truely remarkable friendsThanks CADS11 Dingo count - 0

Day 2 of our wonderful weekend on Kgari. We have left Captain Vimes and JDavs at the resort to enjoy a sleep in and the day spa, while Beardman75, Peppa and myself were up early to explore the north of the island. We visited the pinnacles 3 years ago but didnt realise there was an EC there at the time. Righted that wrong today as we stopped in our our way north. Really cool spot, thanks for highlighting CADS11Find #4706

We had the place to ourselves to have a look around. Thanks for the earthcache CADS11

Spending 4 days here and having a wonderful experience. TFTC

Photo of our group

Interesting place to visit.
TFTC

A fascinating place to find answers. TFTC

We did this earth cache while visiting the highlights of this amazing island. Trefoil Gwen has sent in the answers on behalf of our group TFTC.

Answers sent by Trefoil Gwen. TFTC

Trefoil Gwen has sent the answers for our group including me . Interesting colours for the sands tftc

We spent a couple of days on K'gari (Fraser Island) visited all the highlights and also did some geocaching . This nice earth cache at wonderful Lake McKenzie [^] was one of the caches on our tour.

Thanks for the cache!

erdnus

P. S. I'll send the answers later.

2nd day of the amazing 2 day tour around the island, stopping in all the best beauty spots and natural phenomenons. Answers sent.
Tftc, #1673.

AustraliaA country that has fascinated me for a long time. But the distance to get there was just as great as the desire to drive there. So it was dreamed but not implemented.But then our friend nalfion moved again. And this time to Down Under. That gave the go-ahead to plan a little more firmly for the first ideas and fantasies. The bosses were asked about a longer vacation and then we went to the travel agency with our rough ideas.For such a complex thing we wanted to have support. And after a few appointments there, the basic structure was in place.During our summer holidays we went to Sydney via Singapore, where we spent 2 days. 2 days in Sydney city and then we went with a small camper van with the whole family via Katoomba to Cairns. Our friend lives in Adelaide so ended up staying there for a few more days at the hotel before heading back to Germany without any lengthy stops via Melbourne and Singapore.A wonderful holiday that at least brought us a little closer to this huge country and gave us many great memories.We spend a few days in Urangan to make a day trip to K'gari.Such an amazing island with such a beautiful lake.We even saw some Dingos, but only out of our coach.Thanks for the Cache.

Friends of mine from Germany were visiting me in Australia. While travelling through Australia, we found this cache. This cache was logged together with Bari_MS.

We are on our long-awaited journey around the world in 99 days. Second try after canceling in 2020.
Our fourth stop after Los Angeles, Hawaii and New Zealand is Australia.

This time was of course used to find some geocaches here.
Today we visited Fraser Island and while that we were searching for the Earthcache **Fraser Island’s Coloured Sands**

At the given coordinates the needed answers where found quickly and after sending them, ther is a new smile on our geocaching map!

At least we would like to take this opportunity to thank CADS11 for creating this Earthcache!

Greetings from Nuermberg/Germany
**Wild_Bee_**
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Thank you for the cache - जियोकैश के लिए धन्यवाद - Vielen Dank für den Cache - Gracias por el caché - Merci pour le cache - Grazie per la cache - Obrigado pelo Cache - Bedankt voor de cache - Tak for cachen - Hvala na predmemoriji - Takk for cachen - Kiitos välimuistista - Tack för cachen - Спасибо за кеш - Díky za mezipaměť - Dzięki za skrytkę - Önbellek için teşekkürler - Dankie vir die kas - Asante kwa kache - ขอบคุณสำหรับแคช - 感謝您的緩存 - キャッシュをありがとう - ޝުކުރިއްޔާ - Terima kasih atas cache

Found on an amazing K'Gari holiday. Coordinates are very wrong, this cache can be found at the Pinnacles, a km or so further north. Answers sent and response received.

We were here today on our QLD coast leg of our ‘Around Australia’ trip.
We set off back at the start of 2021 expecting to go around Australia in 12 months - here we are still going in 2023 with about 1/3 of the island left to lap.
My (Geo Mum) personal Favourite experience: Too many to choose, Finding Gold and Opal high up there, working on a CQ cattle station was awesome too.
Favourite location: Gibb River Road/ Kimberley closely followed by Nhulunbuy/ Arnhem Land.
Best paid activity: Horizontal falls
Best free activity: Kings Canyon Rim Walk, Matt Wright putting us up for free in one of his helicopters was pretty awesome. (Let’s not talk about his current situation )
Most interesting location. Arnhem Land
What you have learnt: I wish I had something insightful to put in here, if I though really hard about it perhaps I do but I guess the most practical things I learnt are: Mango sap burns, midges are xxxx’s and dog beds are a versatile alternative to real furniture.
Miss the most: Family & Friends, closely followed by my garden and my chooks.
Look forward to the most: The Whitsundays
Regrets? Worrying so much and not heading off years ago!
TFTC
*Sorry for the copy and paste log but I’m notorious for getting behind with logs and fluffing them up!

great Island, answers mailed, fun to drive to this cache, greetings from Austria

Email sent.

I saw this area while driving to Sandy Cape and decided to visit when coming back down. One of many beautiful locations on this wondrous Island. A small plane landed on the beach with tourists when I was there. I'd rather drive the island than fly over it.. but maybe that's just me haha. Thank you for this Earthcache.
Cheers

Beautiful spot. Thanks for giving me a reason to get the muggle husband to stop for a moment.
Interesting learning about how they are formed.
TFTC. Found whilst on a week camping trip ️

Rolled up here in a hurry as the tide was coming in fast. The beach was disappearing!

My first visit to spectacular K’Gari island and I decided only to log Earthcaches. This was the first location for today ️ I would struggle to count 72 colours but did enjoy the amazing display.

The Maheno shipwreck was something else!!!

Planning to come back for a longer stay and do some of the walking trails

TFTC CADS11 Dropping off a FAVE.

Amazing

Great spot

Great spot on our first day on Fraser

Day 3 of a 3 day adventure on K'Gari - Fraser Island. Able to collect the information even though we were on a tour bus.

Been to Europe and seen ancient historical relics, stay in Australia and see things from the birth of our land. Wow, wow, wow.

Such a magical place. Tftc!

A few days on K'Gari - Fraser Island, and a 2 day tour of some of the beauty spots
1st stop second day was the Pinnacles
which gave us a chance to have a close up look at the coloured sands
Just to the south was a good spot to see the various horizons and a large section of the horizon below B exposed.

Answers already sent to the CO and approval to log granted
Top spot
Thanks for the earthcache 'CADS11'
cheers

Spending a few days on Fraser Island.
Driving up 75 mile Beach on a sunny morning.
A long term wish coming true.
Plenty of whales in the ocean and colourful sands on the other side.
Thank you for hiding this geocache CADS11

R

Finally catching up on all my logging from my recent trip north with geo friends chamad and TripleTurnmoil.
We had driven past this Earthcache twice but then remembered we had to stop on our way back prior to catching the barge over to the mainland. We enjoyed seeing these amazing colours that seemed to appear out of the blue as the landscape really changes as you progress along this fantastic sand highway! We were a little confused with question 2, thickness or height but came up with an idea each.

Answers were sent to CO as per e-mail option.

TFTEC CADS11

I have never had the opportunity to visit Fraser Island. Chamad wanted an adventure. A road trip and I am super grateful that he took me along. We had a 3 day road trip, on Fraser Island, Double Island Point and Rainbow beach, plus a detour on the way home to Brisbane through Gympie, Boreen Point and Noosa. Snickersallen joined us too and it was great to meet someone new, especially someone fun to cache with. So many laughs, frustrations and more laughs. Lots achieved. Some road blocks preventing some wanted achievements, but we enjoyed ourselves anyway. This was day 2 of our adventure.

We were not really sure of GZ for this one. It put us at a very tree-covered hill with no coloured sands at all. So we travelled 800m north to an area that matched the picture and the name. Nature is amazing.

A three day camping road trip with Snickersallan, Triple turmoil and myself was organised to see Fraser Island, Rainbow Beach and Double island point. What a fantastic time we had; driving around enjoying the scenery, bush walks, visiting lakes, lunch and dinners on the beach, and a great camp site at Dundubara. The trip was full of laughs and great companionship, thank you.

Day 2 and it was now time to start heading back on our tour of the island. We arrived at GZ only to find that it was 800 metres up the beach. With the information obtained and answers sent to the CO we were off to the next one. Thanks for placing this one here.

We were here on a day tour from Kingfisher Bay. So many beautiful places to visit in one day.
Answers sent. Thanks for the cache.

Answers sent using online submission.

A really interesting place to end our journey up the sand ‘highway’ before making an about turn and retracing our steps back to the barge. A wonderful journey all round!

Diesen Cache habe ich als Teil des Teams LaMaLaMa (jetzt: Mr_Lama) gefunden.
Da sich das Team leider getrennt hat, logge ich nun unter meinem neuen Account Lærry nach.

Ich hoffe auf Euer Verständnis und danke Euch für’s Verstecken der vielen tollen Dosen!
Selbstverständlich werde ich jedem Cache einen Favo hinterlassen, bei dem es der ursprüngliche Account auch getan hatte. Falls ich einen Cache vergesse, dürft ihr mich gerne anschreiben.

Ich wünsche Euch viele tolle Caches und sage zum Abschluss: Bis bald im Wald!
Liebe Grüße von Lærry

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I found this cache as a member of the team LaMaLaMa (now: Mr_Lama).
Since the team unfortunately split up, I am re-logging with my new account Lærry.

I hope you will understand.
Furthermore I thank you for hiding the many great caches!
Of course I will leave a favo to each cache where the original account did it. If I forget a cache, you are welcome to write to me.

Best wishes, Lærry

Impressive and colourfull

While holidaying at Hervey Bay, my family and I had a day trip to Fraser Island. We got to see a dingo casually wander up the beach, occasionally stopping to scratch itself. Had such an amazing time! A couple of months ago my Mum sent answers on my behalf. TFTC!

While holidaying at Hervey Bay I had booked a day trip for the family to Fraser Island. I was so glad to see that four of the destinations had earthcaches. It was an amazing day. The Pinnacles was lovely to visit. We got to see a dingo casually wander up the beach, occassionally stopping to scratch itself. My answers were sent to the CO a couple of months ago on behalf of my daughter Pinkypie05 and myself. TFTC!

Stayed two nights in Fraser Island with pippies tours. Beautiful colourful rocks, tftc!

Fraser is one of my special places to visit. Live the tailor run each year.
TFTC

Our adventure-4wheeler-bus made a short stop at the pinnacles,
really interesting place, thank you.
energiefans

Interesting stop during our Bus Tour across Fraser Island. Thx for placing an EC here, it was our pleasure to find out the answers !!

Our today’s trip took us with a guided tour to magnificent Fraser Island. What a spectacular overflow of natural wonders! We really enjoyed this day at so many amazing places. It goes without saying that the three Earthcaches along the route were geocachers duty to do.
The first EC on our 4WD-adventure were the Pinnacles or Coloured Sands. Such a great spot ! TFTC!
# 3441

This was our third EC stop for international Earthcache weekend while bouncing around the island on a fun adventure tour bus. We discussed the answers as a group and I have sent them on to the CO for all of us.

Thanks for the Earthcache CADS11

Visiting Fraser on a 4wd tour for earth cache weekend with Nyssaflutterby 1minniemoo Team nanabombana and Mrs Membsec.
I expected more colours though the tour guy said there’s 72. I thought they’d be more different colours.
Very cool how these pinnacles have formed here.

12/10/19 2:20 pm Find #2766
A weekend on Fraser Island for Earthcache Weekend courtesy of the wonderful NyssaFlutterby’s planning, had us girls (NyssaFlutterby, wombles and co, membsec, teamnanabombana and I) finding 4 earthcaches, w out g this one being our third of the day.
As the clouds began to drizzle chilly rain down on us we left the Maheno and made our way here, our furthest point on the island, to check out the pinnacles.
Such an impressive sight, and although we didn’t have too long here, the group of us stood and seriously debated our answers for this one, as time has obviously changed things here.
Satisfied with our answers, we hopped back on the bus and headed off for our final stop of the day.
Thanks for the cache CADS11.

Lady membsec came up from Tassie especially for Earthcache weekend which has become a tradition amongst a few of the girls! We were excited to find a tour that would take us to some Earthcaches on our way around Fraser Island.

Can remember coming here twice before and I cannot wait to get home to view photos taken in 1979 (our first visit) and then again in 2000 as I believe this area has changed over the time.

Thanks for making us take a better look at the coloured sands! A great area of Fraser.

It was a nice trip at our vacation in australia. We see so much interesting points!

Best regards from germany!

Broesel124

A day trip showing us a lot of magnificent geological features. Priceless

TFTC

Found this Earthcache on our Roadtrip through australia
What a nice view to the Coloured Sands! Fraser Island is a spectacular part of the australien eastcoast, too

Greetings from Germany and thank you for this cache
Team_Pandabeers

Today on the Fraser Island tour we stopped on the Coloured Sands too. What for an interesting place..

Thank for showing and the fast response
-Dansee

Great day with the family up here while on holidays, reminiscing with my kids all the fun times we ourselves had as kids. Plenty of memories of trips and holidays in this place. But that was back when we were kids, the fish were more plentiful and the people were few. Now it's the other way around. Thanks for the cache.

Erst ein mal vielen Dank für die Ausarbeitung dieses Earth-Cache GC28YZ7 und viele Grüße aus Berlin und Rheinsberg. Von 1.3.2019 bis zum 29.03.2019 weilten wir in Australien und hatten eine sehr schöne und aufregende Zeit. Am uluru machten wir unsere erste Station. Wir besuchten auch mehrfach den größten Monolit der Welt. Sonnenaufgang, Sonnenuntergang und die Umrundung des Gebirges waren zauberhaft beeindruckend. Von Sydney aus starteten wir dann die Ostküste Richtung Norden und kamen so auch auf Frazer Island. Diese Tour auf die Insel war wunderbar und so fanden wir auch den Ansatz für diesen Cache. Wir hoffen die Fragen richtig beantwortet zu haben. Einen FP gerne hinzu.

A great day trip on Fraser Island today. Thanks for an excellent Earth Cache. Email sent. TFTC!

We visited Fraser Island on a daytrip today - well worth a visit.
This was a very interesting and neat Earth cache .
Answers have been sent.
Many thanks for placing an Earthcache in such a great location.

Found together with Murphy.law on our Australia trip. The answers to the questions of this EC were already sent by Murphy.law separately. TFTC!

Today Roxyline and myself had an exiting trip on Fraser Island. This is a real paradise. Even we could only get a blimp it was a wonderful day with magic moments at Lake McKenzie, Central Station, The Pinnacles and Eli Creek. We had the chance to absolve during our guided tour some earthcaches. Also this one was part of it and the answers were sent already. Many thanks for placing and maintaining of this earthcache, Murphy.law

We stopped at The Pinnacles today - amazing! (They are located further north of the given coordinates.) We have sent our answers via the Form. There's only one spot for the second question so we put them both in there. Not sure how else to do it.
Thanks heaps for setting up this earthcache CADS11. Top spot!

During an amazing day trip we visited this colourful place, too, and enjoyed the great view. Sent the answers via the form, though there is only one field vor two thicknesses to estimate. So we added our estimates of the two horizons.

Greetings from Switzerland,
The Navikatzen

This was one of our last stops on tour on Fraser Island. Beautiful colours!

We were there at 5:02 PM in the company of nana nel and wazza9..
We were camped a few kilometres from here on the beach and passed by this interesting spot every day for 6 days!
The island has so much variety and diversity, that it is interesting every where you look.
Thanks CADS11.

Amazing island, we loved it ! TFTC

In Queensland with the geo family for a holiday and today we headed to Fraser Island on a day trip tour. A cool spot here and we enjoyed looking at the different coloured sands. Answers have been sent. Adding some pics! Many thanks for the cache.

My visit to The Pinnacles was a highlight of my day, the colours of the sands were really vivid in today's beautiful bright sunshine.

I have sent my responses to the CO's tasks.

Thanks CADS11 for establishing this fascinating earthcache at this amazing place.

13/07/2018
I will send answers when back home in august.
Will add photo
Thanks, greetings from Belgium.

Wonderful few days on Fraser Island. The Pinnacles as part of the coloured sands are a wonderful geological phenomena.

Thanks for the Earth Cache

What a great day
Fraser Island is soooo beautyful.
Many thanks for this earthcache.
Greetings from Austria _9604mec_

Hubby geo nut and I on a bus tour visiting the Pinnacles lovely colours and layers.
Not sure about the horizon questions took a punt we will see what happens next.Took a few pics of the layers.

It's a long time ago, that i set my feet on the sand of Fraser Island, but I still remember the great time traveling there and to other nice places in Australia.
Arriving from Rainbow-Beach my travel-mate and me reached Fraser Island and spent three beautiful days on that island. The right terrain for our bush-camper.
Driving on the 70-mile-Beach was so nice, but also the hikes to the dunes and lakes a bit far away from the beach. The sandy roads in the inland were pretty rough and we felt very shaked....
I liked the long beach, this width … We also enjoyed the Pinacels and the landscape around it. So nice, all these natural colours.

Thank you, CADS11, for this little "flash-back" to a great traveling-time in Australia!

Fraser Island I arrived with a tourist group, which I didn't know before. Because we had two Petes in our group, I was named Swiss Pete. While introduction theorie a guide asked, who's already experienced in driving on sand. I held up my finger. That made the people curious. Where in Switzerland there would be any sand? I told them, that I was a truck driver in the Swiss army and there we trained on sand as well. After that I was called Swiss Army Pete...
On the island we had a fantastic time together. The group matched perfect. We felt like in paradise. The only matter was, inspite of the beauty of the sand, it disturbed in the mouth. Even when you opened a new beer, there was already sand in it...

In the eve we made a fire, sat around and played a few funny games. We learned a lot about each other. After midnight the folk went in their tents for sleep. I asked two British girls, if they wanna sleep next to the fire beside me (not with me). First they were scared about the dingos. Eventually they decided to agree. After talking for a while under the stars we aslept. In the middle of the night I awoke about a noise. When I awoke and opened my eyes, I looked straightly in the eyes of a dingo. Oops, that I didn't expected. I throwed a few empty tins to the dingo and tried to be calm, I didn't want to awake the girls. The dingo disappeared and I slept on...
In the morning I meant, nobody would know about the nightly visit. But I forgot that there were traces in the sand. So I had a longer discussion, before we drove to the next place...

Thank you very much for this Earthcache. For the great memory and the beautiful place I give a blue heart.

Thank for this cache. It was a lovely day in Fraser Island.

Tatiyo from France

Although I'm not sure whether my answers are correct, I log this cache as found because I've tried hard. I hope the owner accepts the answers.
Our trip to Fraser Island was great, the island is fantastic.
Many thanks for this EC,
Bigerchen (from Germany)
(#5863)

Belated log: Found it together with zer0seven, but did not yet log it online.
The story about us finding this cache can be found in the log of zer0seven.

Thanks!

The second stop of our Fraser Island day tour was at the Pinnacles and Coloured Sands. It is an amazing and quiet interesting place. We enjoyed the view for a while. Great to have such interesting background information! Good to have this answer checker.

Thx

Log picture: GPS = Camera

Love this place. I can remember a small jar of colored sands my grandparents had from here when I was a child. Felt great to bring my kids back and show them. 4 generations of visitors to the coloured sands.

Bit late on logging as we were here back in March
Only stopped here for a short time/quick photo as the tide was heading our way and it was time to start getting off the beach & back inland.
Beautiful spots along this stretch

Ohh yeh fraser is an a super island! Tftc

Great spot. Really wish I had more than a day to appreciate this wonderful part of the world

During our tour today we found this nice and lovely spot on Fraser. The coloured sands with his amazing colours. When we send our answers we also find out that our guide needs a new job. He talkes the whole tour but give also wrong information.
Nevertheless a beautiful spot!

On our four week tripp through Australia hansmahans ans myself found a lot of caches together. This was one of them. He wrote a bit more and sent answers if necessary. Thanks to all cache owners on our way

During our visit of fraser Island Tumbalalaika and myself visited these beautiful pinnacles! Thanks for the quick answer and this earthcache!

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I was on Fraser on the Easter Weekend. Beside of offroading and enjoying the island I also searched for some caches. This is one of a few that I found.

Thanks to CADS11 for hiding and maintaining this geocaches.
**T4TC with number 4461**
Luis959
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Great one on an amazing day on fraser island. Message sent and here comes greetings from sweden

The end of our Fraser island visit, on the way back to the barge.. Another great eartchcache. Email to follow when we get back to Melbourne. Tftf

Great Island!

Nice drive up the beach to this interesting spot. Thanks for bringing us here.
Greetings from Wales
TFTC

Honeymoon Caching

tftc

On our Australia trip we spent one day on this beautiful island. Due to our guided tour we couldn't go for tradis. The happier we were when we realised that we came across three Earthcache. This was the first one. Many thanks!

Claiming this cache as answers have been accepted thank you. The sands were interesting formations to see, hard to believe it's just sand and difficult to estimate size from such a distance! Not being on a tour we didn't hear the Dream time story but came across it in the shop at Eurong. Thanks for the cache.

This is a really great Cache, one of 3 Earthcaches on Fraser Island that we made during our tour this day. The answers have been sent by E-mail. TFTC, CADS11, from Team Seidenflamingo and Feuerhund and greetings from Potsdam, Germany.

Vor doch schon längerer Zeit war ich hier auf Fraser Island. Damals hatten wir eine Tagestour gebucht. Da wir einen ausgewanderten Deutschen als Reiseleiter hatten, konnte er uns damals eine Übernachtung auf der Insel organisieren. So hatten wir Zeit, auch zusätzlich einen Inselrundflug durchzuführen. Schon cool, wie die riesen Wanderdünen zwischen den Wäldern herausstechen. Übrigens sehen die Wälder von oben wie Brokkoli aus
Der dreifarbige Sandfelsen, dem dieser Cache gewidmet ist, war auch ein Anziehungspunkt.
Was auch toll war, wie das Süßwasser ins Meer fließt. Hat man auch nicht alle Tage
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