The Brisbane Line Bryans Gap, New South Wales, Australia
By Fangsoki (maintained by Fangsoki's cussie bro) on 05-Jul-11. Waypoint GC2ZMFF

Making our way from further north gradually down south, we are spending a couple of days in the tent field area under the canvas. Finally, we have a day without rain, and so the canvas is dry. It is quite cold here after the hot Queensland temperatures over the last couple of weeks, however everything looks lush and green here at the moment. At GZ and around the area, we were exploring thunderbolts cave and then the World War II Tank Traps. Such an interesting area, and we are glad to have the opportunity to stop here for a couple of days. After having a look at the history of the tank traps and how they were constructed, we came to find the Geocache, which we found to be in good order.We have added our name to the log. Thanks Fangsoki and cussie bro for this piece of history you have highlighted. Domsky

Checking out the tank traps and thunderbolts hideout, decided to do a little caching. Tftc. #265

Mr D (also now known as PommieJonny or PJ) wanted to go for a drive. I looked at the caching map looking for the more elusive little green dots that are in our DT allowance. We had a choice - either Boonah or Tenterfield. Quick flip of the coin and Tenterfield one. I was pleased with this, cos there were a number of caches on Mt Lindesay Road that we had not attempted last time we came down that way.I got to within 5 metres, on one side of some bushy things, then moved to the other side, and once again was within 5 metres. But could not penetrate the bushy things. Muggles galore~ Will return another day (possibly a week day)Interesting information about the Brisbane Line. Have seen the tank trap at Paddy's FlatThanks Fangoski for the hide and the funNB: if our Dunmowin stamp is on a log, that means that PJ was present.

An interesting stop point on the road to Bald Rock. It shows how anxious Australia was about invasion.Thanks K&M

Out riding round Bald Rock and then caching up on the rock. Picked off a few caches on the return drive to Tenterfield. Spent some time reading the information and looking at the main attractions.

Interesting to read and see the details

Its amazing the untold stories of planning that went into Australia's possible defence.Out for a short run today to see some of the local sites such as Thunderbolt's Hideout and the WWII Tank traps once the weather warmed up. Some interesting locations and a few caches on the way.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Fangsoki.**SKI Pair****

I was fascinated to see what i thought was a theoretical line on a map. What an interesting place. TFTC

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A really enjoyable find today . Came by with Micjor and LadySim. A bery intersting piecenof history that even engaged the non geocacher amongst us! All is well with this cache and a nice place to put a cache. A gave point from ne.

Staying at Tenterfield and a quick dive out to see some of the local historic sites. Good Coords and a quick find at GZ all is good with the cache. TFTC

Could not find

Loved finding this one with the geokids thanks!!

Easy peasy find tftc

I am once again staying near Stanthorpe over Easter with bushwalking friends of 40+ years including sausage3. After climbing Bald Rock this morning, I chose a couple of caches with high favourites to find on our return, including this one. I had downloaded this one to a list. It didnt take long with the help of the hint and all is good with the cache. Thanks for showing us this interesting piece of history. Tftc

We could not find it! Phone reception too poor and bouncy. Bring the GPS!Thanks For The Hide!

Fascinating history about this place and enjoyed the walk in to find the well placed cached
Thanks for bringing us here

Thank you.

Found with Goldielover today. A nice drive along this road.Some interesting reading here. Took a little to track the cache down.All good here with your cache.TFTC

Found with stairman1. We are heading home and traveled down a road we have never been. A lot of history here. Fascinating reading. Not sure how the generation of today would cope with what the men of war had to deal with. Unfortunately geodogs had to stay in the car while we searched. All good here. Have a favourite point from me. TFTC

Love the history and the beauty of the bush.Tftc

Revisiting with new cachers Dunnski. Great history and cache.

Fascinating area Tftc

Great little spot, love to learn a little history along the way

Was this a Government initiative or a Local Defence Group (Dad’s Army) activity? According to Army Historians, this was never a decision made by the Govt but each Regional Militia took steps to protect their own areas. TFTC

Wow, so lucky we are as a country.
Such a great spot.
Love the history, and took many photos.
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After hitting the summit of Bald Rock it was time to head towards Tenterfield and visit some geocaches along the way. This was one of them. Thanks for the cache and thanks for highlighting this fascinating history.
Cheers

After climbing Bald rock, Wayn0 and I had plenty of time left in the day so slowly made our way to Tenterfield.

Interesting place to stop in at, didn’t know this was here. Tftc Fangsoki

A little walk through the old tank traps and I found the cache. Tftc

We had to search for a long time, but then we could find the Cache.
Thanks for it, Reki

Interesting place and information. TFTC

Arrived at the parking and wandered down the gully. Read the signposts and absorbed the fascinating history. Pleased we are based in Brisbane and not any further North so perhaps will be safe in the event of a future threat. In saying that we live 1.2kms from the beach so maybe not! Haha. Loved the location and little known history. Cache found after a brief search. Leaving you a fave point.

Current infiltration of the coastline by ne'er do wells smuggling or illegally landing indicates how hard it is to protect a northern coastline largely uninhabited or very lightly inhabited. Pragmatic politicians probably realised this and were prepared to sacrifice the north but protect and defend their own little homes. Fortunately no invasion occurred so it is now all academic. The tank traps are an interesting concept. Was the idea developed in Australia or imported from overseas? Would the invaders have used small tanks, or would they have used bicycles like they did in Malaya?
Had a good look around where the Garmin thinks is GZ, but found nothing today, and with other tourist decided to abandon the search. TFTC anyway, fangsoki.

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Found TFTC. Out and about from Mackay Qld. Weather a bit miserable but great caching.

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I found The Brisbane Line today as part of our random road trip to who knows where????

What an interesting place to visit! Thanks for highlighting this for us.

Many thanks Fangsoki for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

Little Swelling

A small town on The Sto Plains Line in betwen Hapley and Huddle that is a centre of the worm-breeding and worm-herding industries. (A necessary supporting industry to the dominant Cabbage-growing agrobusiness.) It hosts a shrine to Aniger, Goddess of things that get run over by carts, and has a wealth of local knowledge about recognising edible track-kill and the thousand and one recipes for turning Nature's inadvertant bounty into something nutritious. Aniger is worshipped here once a year on her feast-day. It is wise not to speculate on what went into the feast. Accomodation and non-wriggling drinks may be obtained at the Worm-Herder's Arms.

Interesting history here and we made a quick find. Thanks for the cache

TFTC. Sone lovely rock formations here. We have had a lovely time exploring the surrounds. We are visiting from the Hunter Valley. It’s rather cool here atm.

Found nice spot

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Loved this one! Found with josh301. TFTC

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Seffnjarah and I hate crowds, so instead of heading north for Easter, we have planned a long weekend doing various short walks and collecting interesting caches, meandering south to Armidale and surrounds.

Having camped overnight at Bald Rock, the first goal today was to climb Bald Rock for sunrise. Now we are heading south and after a visit to Boonoo Boonoo Falls, we arrived here. I read the information boards with interest - just as well I did, since I couldn't imagine those traps stopping tanks, until I reading about their soft underbelly.

The traps continued up the hill a lot further than expected - where I found the cache in good condition. Always enjoy a cache with some interesting history. Many thanks Fangsoki

Pete

While on my way back from Tenterfield to find some high elevation caches to fulfil a challenge north of Brisbane, I stopped to find this cache along Mount Lindsay Road.

I always wonder why they think making these walls or traps out here to stop invading tanks where the countryside would do a good job with all these boulders lying around...

I seem to have taken the long way round to get to this cache but the hint helped locate this one quickly. SL then returned as found.

Found on 15 February 2022 at 4.46pm.
TFTC Fangsoki (Maintained by Fangsoki's cussie bro)

Borderpasses arranged we looped into Texas this morning, it is Tuesday!
Interesting to read about the thank barrier here.
Cache found in good condition
Thank you for hiding this geocache
Find number 24839
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Wow, 20 mins find. Made harder with over grown shrub

This was a fascinating piece of World War 2 history. And the cache was a beauty. Took us a while to find, but eventually located it with the help of the clue. Thanks for bringing us here.

Auvidman mad an easy find

Fascinating piece of history... wow! We had no idea abot this ‘line’. Love it.

Thanks to all involved in placing and maintaining this cache.
All is good here.

5217 1 April 2021
Caching around Tenterfield while travelling to Dayboro for the Mega. But plans have changed and we won't be crossing the border unfortunately.
An interesting and historic site.
SL
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Tftc Fangsoki, interesting place to stop and walk around.
Thanks for bringing us here.
Cache is in good condition

Noice cache. Nice spot.

Today was the day for a geocaching trip to Tenterfield. I had previously been to this spot before I took up geocaching. Thoroughly enjoyed the drive along this road especially with all the history along the way! TFTC.

Very interesting history!! Tftc

AWESOME hide!! Thank you

Interesting history lesson for the geokids! TFTC

Sats had us all over the place, eventually found, nice hiding spot.
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I explored the area as I tried to follow my wandering sats when BHK86 called out to say he had cache in hand.

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Thanks Fangsoki. I’m surprised for the need of the logs. Seems the terrain would be enough, apart from the road through. Who knows, certainly not me

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On my way out to do the cache of the day, being Newluru at Bald Rock. I couldn’t pass up caches on the way to and from.
Cheers
Seemyshell

Another amazing story.

Quirky bit of history here,

Missedyah - Looked and looked but could not locate. Tftc

I had 2 caches highlighted to find along the road to Bald Rock. This was one of them. It sounded interesting. And it was. It must have taken a bit of work to sink those posts in! The water in the creek looked very inviting too. So good to see there is actually water out this way again. Last visit (to Girraween) everything was bone dry.

TFTC and info. Getting a fave point for pointing out this location. Thanks.

27/1/20 Find #3424
The CO, PPrime, Crew153 and I were spending the Australia Day long weekend in and around Dorrigo. This was our final day of our trip, and we were well on the home stretch.
Wanting to check the condition of the area post-fires, and knowing I hadn’t yet done this cache, a stop in here was a must. We were surprised to see the traps were barely affected by the fires, with just a little charring - we had expected them to have been completely destroyed. The area had certainly received quite the burning.
Time to search for the cache. It didn’t take long to make the find, and then notice all the rest of the traps even further up the hill - I can’t imagine how any tanks would be likely to be able to conquer that area, traps or not! It would have been interesting to go for a wander up the hill and see how many more traps there were, but with my migraine taking hold, the heat, and the end of the day nearing, we still had quite some travel to do.
Thanks for the cache Fangsoki (maintained by Fangsoki's cussie bro). A favourite point from me for this interesting location and the history here.

Checked as I passed by after fires. In perfect condition

Out for a day trip from Stanthorpe to Tenterfield via the Highway and return along Tourist Route 7 caching along the way ,most were quick finds while a couple took a bit longer. Interesting piece of history here

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A bit of a search to find the correct flat rock with the GPS sending us in circles. TFTC

Wow. WW2 not only in Europe, also here. Thank you for showing this historic site and the cache.

Great bit of history here - left a Qld Health lanyard TYFC

While spending three nights in Tenterfield we decided to grab a few caches while we were seeing the sights

We are always amazed at how much wartime history is to be found around this beautiful country.
Many thanks for the cache and showing us this historic site Fangsoki

Found Ok

We're on our way south back to chilly Victoria but thought this series of caches would be worth a quick visit. We decided to spend just 5 minutes on each cache, if we hadn't found it in that time we must move on. Needless to say we did not discover them all.

Found It

Easy find while sight seeing in the area. TFTC

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I was in town visiting a mate and his wife for a couple of nights. Now this is one bit of history I didn't know anything about. Another enjoyable find. Thanks.

Found in this rugged aussie Bush. Thanks for placing fresh log sheets and Thanks for hiding this cache for our enjoyment Fangsoki (maintained by Fangsoki's cussie bro)

Took awhile but geo hubby found it

On our way to Tenterfield we stopped and found this one.
This was a really interesting spot to have a look around and read about the history behind it.
But it got me thinking, they must have had machinery to put the poles in.
Why didn't they just move some of the big rocks around here into stategic positions?
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All good here, nice park and grab.
TFTC Fangsoki
Total Cache Finds 6288

Found tyftc.

Was driving by with the CO himself, and Crew153 - so a wee bit of history schooling for our day otherwise mostly in the car. And to drop off a Geocoin needing a new home for a bit.

I recall reading about the Brisbane Line concept during University-level Aussie History - although not on how effective it was expected to be (to replicate this from Gladstone to Adelaide is mind-boggling). It is an easy drive along the tarred road now, but suspect that might have been blocked back at the time.

The cache remains in excellent condition at an important spot for our history, and really exciting scenery all about. Thanks Fangsoki.

I was on a road trip with Pprime and Fangsoki and we stopped to check on this one. It was a maintenance visit for Fangsoki and as Pprime had found it previously he stayed at the car.

I found the cache easily and the cache was in good condition.

I am perplexed about the usefulness of this installation but I suppose the military boffins of the day had it as part of their strategy.

Thank Fangsoki and Cuss for showing me this historic spot and also to Petan for the extra history in your log.

So great to see a BIG cache! after logging our name we continued to climb a fair way then I decided that while the UP was fine on my knee, the DOWN would not be so I headed back to the car while the EmBem606 and Saint175 and Jet the Geodog continued to the top. I took some more photos for the album and they were down in a jiffy. All in good nick here!

With more than a passing interest in South East Queensland WW2 history, this site was on the must do to visit while we were in the area. As others who have logged this cache have commented... why here? The information brochure we picked up from the Stanthorpe Info Centre suggested that the idea of the tank trap was to force the tank upward revealing its 'soft belly' which had less armament than the tops or sides. You could then shoot at it with your pop guns. But again why here? Why not along the rail line though Stanthorpe? Or a beach landing on almost any of the isolated beaches on the North Coast? The reality is that by the time they got to this point in time the Japanese were seriously short of fuel.... there was no-way they could have set up a supply line to support tanks. No doubt just about all of the fuel reserves in SE Qld were mined thus able to be destroyed in the event of an invasion. Still, this area is a testament to the panic of the time.

The site of this cache raised interesting questions and down another rabbit hole of research I go.

Thank you for the cache.

Fascinating piece of history. Quick find
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Sad to have to DNF this one today. I was completely amazed at this piece of history I had never heard and love that there is a cache to bring people to this location. With fading light, we couldn't find it but I look forward to coming back another day

GPS was jumping but quickly found

At Thunderbolt’s Hideout cache we saw that there were some WW11 tank traps further up but we had also read there was another entrance further up that would put us closer to them.

We drove up further and thought this would be a cool spot to put out a cache. We scrambled through the car and found nothing that could possibly be a cache which led to the discussion that we should be more prepared in case we came across areas like this. We headed in to have a look and while Mr 4ando was checking it all out Mrs 4ando opened the app and what do you know, we couldn’t put a cache out here even if we were prepared, there’s one here!

Heading over where the GPS was putting us, it was easily spotted as it was right out in the open. We signed the log and tucked it back under and covered it up. Leaving a FP as we would of picked this place for a cache as well.

Tftc Fangsoki

Quick find on a sunday drive,TFTC

Quickly found, somehow I do not think the Brisbane Line could have stopped anything. TFTC

7461 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 0950. After a cold stay in Tenterfield last evening it is time to head to warm sunny Queensland. After a little misty rain we made the stop back along the roadway a bit. We spotted the sign for this location and pulled with the van. A most interesting location. We have managed to travel a bit of the Brisbane Line all the way from Tocumwal on the Murray river in NSW. SL Tnx Fangoski.

Tftc staying here for a couple of days

The flat Rock is now in pieces but with the aid of another is still able to conceal the prize. TFTC

Quick find, TFTC trying to make the numbers for our hidden creatures souvenirs. A well placed cache thanks

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This was a VERY memorable cache... for a few reasons.
Memory 1: being excited to find a super cool location and enjoying exploring it.
Memory 2: finding the cache after going the wrong way a few times.
Memory 3: my friend trying to start the car after the lights had been left on... and failing to do so. Oops.
Memory 4: being relieved to find that we had reception here and calling NRMA... the phone dying part way through the call.
Memory 5: calling back on the other mobile and managing to communicate where we were, before finding out that it was unlikely they could get to us before 5pm.
Memory 6: Waiting on the side of the road near the car, seeing a Ute with two blokes slow down, stop and get out 15m from us, ignore/not hear me call out ‘Hi’, watching them check their load and get back in the car and drive off... leaving us two gals in our twenties on a random road at almost sunset beside a car that is clearly not being driven. CHIVALRY. IS. DEAD!
Memory 7: a lovely NRMA man pulling up and jump starting us just as it was starting to get dark and cold at 5pm He’s my favourite!
Hope you enjoyed the tale! In hindsight, it was hilarious! We will have to come back with a fully-charged battery and finish the trial Can’t wait

Loved the history of this place that we never heard about at school.

Have had a most enjoyable and tiring day fulfilling our aims and some. It was planned to climb up to the top of Bald Rock; down to the bottom of Basket Swamp Falls; up to Timbarra Lookout and throw in a few traditional caches along the way that had historical significance such as Thunderbolt's Hideout; The Brisbane Line and F111. We achieved all that and a couple more.
To all the COs and the maintenance teams, a huge thank you and pleaase forgive my logs - I'm rather tired.
All logs were signed as Smittengranny or SG depending on the sizeof, and space on the logs.