GRANITE BELT BIKE TRAIL, FLAKEY. Somme, Queensland, Australia
By Rainforest Cookie on 08-May-13. Waypoint GC4BN27

and its gone.

Really?? There?? If only my GPS was playing nicer. After a bit of no luck, i tried again and thankfully took me to a much more useful area - mainly because it contained the cache. It seemed almost in celebration of the find a rabbit took off at top speed away from us. Thankfully the only buzzing around here was all the bees in the coreopsis. Thanks again. All in good condition.

After a brief time searching around we were able to find the hide. T4TC

This entry was edited by TheReshimehs on Sunday, 23 August 2015 at 11:04:03 UTC.

A slower day today preparing for the trails tomorrow, we did some excellent caches today, 30 caches in 3 hours ,all fine finds, many thanx to all cache placers for the efforts put in, top stuff

Found at 4:15:00 PM, staying in Stanthorpe for a couple of days and grabbing a few caches before continuing on our way North to escape Wagga's winter. We started the Granite Belt Bike Trail this morning and soon realised that if we were going to have any chance of completing it in one day we would need a bit more horsepower so we swapped the bikes for the Geomobile.

Thanks Rainforest Cookie.

Having a great day picking up a few more caches.
TFTC Rainforest Cookie

Keeping the boys looking for a while on this one.

An enjoyable visit and find on my first day of a return road trip from the Queensland MEGA.

Many thanks for the placement.

On a geocaching trip with tmann421 with the focus being the MEGA at Stanthorpe. A fantastic trip away seeing a part of the country I had not been to before, collecting caches along the way. Stamped the logs with t&J or our names. Thanks to all the CO's for making this such a memorable trip.

In the area with Just-Lookin for the MEGA.
Great fun driving around these caches

Stamped the logs with t&J or our names.
Thanks for the fun, we had a great time.

Last day of Mega....having a great time camping onsite....caching today with robbieracer66 and Team Grub Fred...tftc Rainforest Cookie

Visiting from Newcastle, staying onsite at the Mega, travelling around with earthly65 and robbieracer66, TFTC Rainforest Cookie!!

Nice easy find, we are nearly done with this series. Them onto another!

In Qld for the Oz Mega has brought us caching in this area and we are thrilled with the caches here. Kept us entertained and on our toes.
TFTC

Thanks for the cache found it with earthly 65 and grubfred

TFTC

When I first spied this series, I thought id walk or cycle it, turns out, its more of a driveable Trail...

Visiting QLD from Central Coast NSW, and attending the Stanthorpe MEGA EVENT for about a week. Camping at the showground, caching days done mainly with SpikeyMikey, meeting up with members of CCG, HAVOC, and others from all over Australia.
Many thanks to all responsible for a smooth operating event, my first Mega, and first visit to Stanthorpe. Plenty of reasons for a near future visit
Whilest it did rain and drizzle almost every day, I much preferred this over hot days, which is what I encounted on the Gold Coast return journey, as well as a repeated bout of coughing with the flu on the long drive home.

Great Puzzles, Power Trails, landscapes, History, Apples!, and company. Politeness and respect by all

Many Personal records smashed this weekend First MEGA, Finds per day, Altitude, etc

[green] - Found It on Saturday ... at 5:08 PM ...
TFTC! - [blue]Rainforest Cookie[/blue] ... [/green]
Total Finds now ... 1264
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Found by Sunshine Toledo and Her Majesty at 10:30am. The cache was found quickly in good condition. TFTC

out having a great time at the mega with red dwarfs and ned and mrs Kelly. gracias rainforest cookie.

Completing the bike trail as part of the how many different caches for the QLD Mega. Appreciated the variety of cache containers and places visited. Thanks Rainforest Cookie.

Catching up on missing online logs from this trip.At Stanthorpe for the Queensland Mega with Mistraluna and Chwiliwr.Today we are doing caches in Stanthorpe and then down into NSW and back.Found the cache without problems.Thanks Rainforest Cookie for the cache.

Up in Stanthorpe for the Mega Event over Easter. Did caching on this day when the weather was showery however this did not stop us caching. Enjoyed locating this cache and well done to the CO. TFTC

Touring around Stanthorpe and area with DOC-WHO, doing the Mega event caches.
Found quickly after a short search. TNLNSL TFTC

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During QLD Mega. [:X][:X]

In the Afternoon, Whitepaws9, Eskies5 and myself wander the Granite Belt Bike Trail - enjoyed drive the car.

Thanks for organising the cache and hunt.[^]

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Tftc

Thank you for Stanthorpe Oz Mega....

As part of the caching group tour de Stanthorpe with Alansee, Maccamob, Phetlern, Zobo04, Lazzal and The Coffees we found your cache. We signed the log as GLAMPCZ, I apologize for the generic log.
Our thanks to Rainforest Cookie on this one.
Regards
The "many thoughts here" Coffee's

Found with Tassiegirl13 while in town for the Qld Mega.
TFTC

Had a fun filled day caching around the area with Gonefishen07, Lazzal, Alansee, Maccamob, Phetlern and The Coffees. Thanks for the interesting tour around the area and thank you fir all the effort that has gone into hiding theses caches TFTCRainforest Cookie

Found on the fourth day that Pheltern, Gonefishen07, Zobo04 and Maccamob and I had cached togethe rduring the MEGA event. Another great day's caching with no DNF.

Had a great day great caching with Alansee, Maccamob, Phetlern, Zobo04, Lazzal and The Coffees. Found lots of caches some easy to find some not so. We signed the log as GLAMPCZ. Thanks to those that have gone to the effort of putting out caches in this area for us all to enjoy wre had a great fun day. Thanks to Rainforest Cookie

Some more geocaching around the town. Signed those logs as ACDC (Alpenmilch80s, Cats&Dragons Geocaching). TFTC

Found as part of a short caching adventure before the official start of the OZ MEGA with Slieschke, Yorkshirekiwi83 & Vistra 0n Thursday 17th April. All logs were signed as "3ST"

We had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed the drive and the caches that we were presented with (learning along the way some local acronyms SPOR which occasionally we turned in to LPOR )
Thanks for the fun of the run and the sights that we saw including a large Lizard basking in the road (swerved to avoid) alongthe power trail.

So again thank you for the FUN of the hunt

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Enjoy GRANITE series runs with Everlasting after event by SA.
Also bumped into other cachers... follow all the way till end of series runs.
Thanks for the hunting and caches.

Rainforest Cookie

Out collecting a few easy caches with Screma today. All good fun

Had a few eyes looking here and found quickly.

TFTC

We spent the day continuing to cache around the district collecting some more of the ones we planned to do yesterday. TFTC

Out Caching with Jaminappleford for the QLD Mega, looking for some quick finds TFTC

Found by Mary & David, in company with Gonefishen07, Lazzal, Alansee, and Phetlern, The Coffees and Zobo04 (now signing as GLAMPCZ), at 1326. Our fourth day out and about around Stanthorpe, and we enjoyed more of the scenery, some wonderful caches and the company. We also made a start on the new Lab caches. Flaky rocks, flaky signal, and we're hungry for some Melbourne flake. Our thanks to Rainforest Cookie.

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[font=Comic Sans MS]A great day out with, Alansee, Gonefishen07, LAZZAL, maccamob, The Coffee's and Zobo04 logging as “GLAMPCZ” to preserve log space.
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[Red]C[/Red] [Blue]urious looks from the muggles -[/Blue]
[Red]H[/Red][Blue] ow are ye doing mate?[/Blue]
[Red] I[/Red] [Blue]ngenious caches![/Blue]
[Red]N[/Red] [Blue]amesakes by Wingaap are gold! [/Blue]
[Red]G[/Red] [Blue]reat caching round Stanthorpe![/Blue]
[Red]Q[/Red] [Blue]uestions to answer, quizzes to solve,[/Blue]
[Red]L[/Red] [Blue]ab caches as well.[/Blue]
[Red]D[/Red] [Blue]NF’s equal none – for the day![/Blue]
[Red]M[/Red] [Blue]accamob logged in 21,000- fantastic![/Blue]
[Red]E[/Red] [Blue]veryone clapped & cheered,[/Blue]
[Red]G[/Red] [Blue]eo friends all around.[/Blue]
[Red]A[/Red] [Blue]great day of caching with 62 found.
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Our thanks to Rainforest Cookie for bringing us here.
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At Stanthorpe for the Queensland Mega with Mistraluna and the Better Half.

Today we are doing caches in Stanthorpe and then down into NSW and back.

Found the cache without problems.

Thanks Rainforest Cookie for the cache.

With Everlasting & Whitepaws9 leading the way Mrs Esky and the eldest kid had an enjoyable afternoon along the Bike Trail racking up the smilies in order to log the Mega as #800. Lovely to meet you both. Thanks Rainforest Cookie.

Arrived in Queensland early yesterday morning and headed straight out here to Stanthorpe. Oh so many caches and only such a short time for us to find as many as we can, whilst still taking time out to catch up and socialise with all the other geocachers who are in town for the big event. Headed down into NSW today , then crossed back over the border again into Queensland. No problems finding this one. Thanks again Rainforest Cookie

#6296Found and Logged 10:10:00 AM with Roostaman and The Green Geckos
One of 31 caches for the day 0f caching out about around around Stanthorpe while in town for OZ-MEGA
Thanks for the cache Rainforest Cookie

[Blue]# 11630[/Blue] Found on our 2015 Winter escape trip at the Qld Mega town.
Another perfect Autumn day for caching with lgoody and The Green Geckos.
Another morning of caches on the GBB Trail and nearby.
Cheers from Wagga Wagga in the Riverina.
Thanks for the cache Rainforest Cookie,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

Out on a very enjoyable days caching with Roostaman and LGoody.
Having a fantastic time caching and exploring this part of the planet.
Kudos to all the local cachers for the many and varied caches in and around town.
Thank you Rainforest Cookie for placing this cache .

Day 2 of our return to Stanthorpe saga. Began the day with the Bike Trail and returned to it later in the day. Enjoyed the link to various goodies in the caches but our GPS hated the rocks.
TFTC

QLD Mega trip 2015 with Sol de Lune. On this almost 400km road trip we drove from Canberra to Stanthorpe caching in all the towns along the way with mostly great success. Around the Mega there were heaps of caches to be done including a few power trails. Despite the weather we got all of the planned caches done.

Day six was fairly gloomy and wet, but we started by heading up to the Bald Rock area, even though it turned out to be too wet to attempt the climb. Then it was back to the main road and trail caching for the rest of the way to Stanthorpe. Thanks.

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Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2009 4th Birthday A#144

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Found with Albida33 on the way to the Stanthorpe Mega......so please excuse the generic log.

The cache was found without any issues and the log was soon signed....then back in the car and off to continue our travels.

Thanks for the cache and adding to the fun of our Mega trip.....

Find #2988 we are in town for the Mega and are doing the trial to log the final multi on Sunday TFTC

Out and about caching with Tassie Trekkers around Stanthorpe doing the Granite Belt Bike trail and other caches in the area. TFTC

Today we explored Stanthorpe with Whitewebbs using geocaching as a guide.

We targeted this series today while being here for the mega.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Out for a day caching with Gullivers Travels54 and this trail was on our list. mmmm when I ate chocolate this was my fav one. TFTC

Pprime does MEGA! Loving my days seeing all nooks and crannys of this wonderful area.
Thanks for placing this cache, Rainforest Cookie. Found in good condition.
{Overall find #3662}
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Travelling around Australia in our Caravan with our cat.

Arriving in Stanthorpe yesterday to cache and check the location out in advance of the Mega.

The town looks very inviting and everyone has been friendly.

Decided to head south today and work our way back towards Stanthorpe. Managed 35finds on a leisurely day.

Oh how embarassing. This took wayyyyyyy too long. After returning to GZ a swift find was made.

TFTC

Looking forward to meeting other geocachers at the next Australian Geocaching Mega event

GC4X31B Queensland Geocaching ---- Event - Stanthorpe 2015 www.qldmega.com

Day 72 of my trip to Brisbane.

Today, I'm having a bludge. I didn't sleep that well, with all the rain last night, so I slept in, had a small snack for brekky, and booked myself into the Barrel Room for lunch. After a some top tucker, it was time for the GeoSchnauzers and I to do a few caches. As it was cloudy and rainy, I took them to the lunch venue, and they sat in the car. We then drove back in the general direction of Stanthorpe. The rain is even clearing for me.

No 2 of 14 today. Thanks, Rainforest Cookie. This was another quick grab, in rocks but across a running gutter, so the GeoSchnauzers stayed in the car again.

Almost to the end of the trail with Aussiemates and the car on a cold windy day. TFTC

Weekend in Stanthorpe with Stealth Seeker. We were going to ride the bike trail but with winds forecast at up to 35klm/hr we changed our strategy. Very glad we did. Even in the car this was a big day.

Mark another one down for SS.

The coordinates were bang on. We heard lots of fairy wrens flitting around but couldn't see them. TFTC.

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Gotcha !!! TFTC

Great setup.
TFTC

Taking for a ride

[font=Comic Sans MS]Hi there Rainforest Cookie. We found your cache "GRANITE BELT BIKE TRAIL, FLAKEY." at 11:59:00 AM today.
This was our 3rd cache find in a caching run of 9 Finds & 1 DNFs today. (So this now makes our find count 9425.)
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Today's cache run was a quick raid to see how many "Bike Trail" caches we could find on the western side of the highway.

Please excuse the cut-n-paste logs for the series.
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Coordinate Accuracy: Excellent. (We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.)
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Smiley Badge.
Dropped Trackable: "Brothers smurf and Australia NSW travel bug."
Thanks for the hunt today,
Regards
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much easier find this year, sad to see the kangaroos the only ones using the netting now though. Thought I was going to miss out again when I had to stop to let some steers be herded across the road into a new paddock but no the cache was at the next farm and took about 10 seconds.
tftc

After a fun filled week-end caching and going to the Christmas in July event I still have one more day in town.
So I headed south and slowly worked my way north before continuing on home to Brissy.
I got lucky here and found it the first place I looked ... as I drive around the back roads.
Thanks for the cache.

Found at 1046 while in the area to attend the C I J event at the Summit this weekend. TFTC.

Haha! Approaching from the north instead today, I didn’t recognise this cache from yesterday.

So I SEARCHED FOR IT AGAIN TODAY. How dumb can you be?

Got quite a shock when I found my name already in the logbook.

The funny thing is, it took me much longer to find it today. At least I’d re-hidden it well...?

Found after a 4-5 min search. Thanks Rainforest Cookie

This was my last one for tonight. I skipped the rest and headed into town and a nice cosy motel room, a one-off luxury I indulged in ahead of arriving at Team Robins tomorrow and spending some chilly nights sleeping in my car.

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Travelling North to the Xmas in July in Stanthorpe, Qld to meet old friends and to greet new ones and generally have a ball and of course the chance to discover some caches along the way and visit some interesting places. Great cache. TFTC

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing

Thanks for the great cache %OwnersName(8D)

Another quick find . Very good coordinates for this one Thanks Rainforest Cookie.

Nice cache easy find fun to do with grams4380

Been out for lunch and decided to do some caches on the way home. Out with Team Paulsen. TFTC

Found with J+J.au as we found some Stanthorpe caches We stopped along the way and enjoyed various cache hides and locations. Enjoying this trail along a very different landscape to our own. SL..TFTC

Baja15 and I are up north enjoying Easter break and have taken the opportunity to get out and enjoy the country side and collect some caches, the weather is perfect and thank you for placing the caches for all of us to find. Enjoying the varieties very much. TFTC

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

Finishing off a few of the cahes south of Stanthorpe that we bypassed yesterday. Another good day with mostly easy finds aching with Liz & Bruce. Thanks to Rainforest Cookie for these great caches.

A great combination of hides kept us entertained as we cached around the Stanthorpe area. A big thanks to Rainforest Cookie

Cache # 2458, Found @12:14:00 PM.

On a weekend trip to Stanthorpe to pick up a few we had missed on previous trips. This series was published since we were last in the area so it was more incentive to visit a great area. Really enjoyed the series and the great drive.

Thanks to Rainforest Cookie for the cache

Found this cache whilst out for the day with Captain Terror. He had already found these caches but was willing to take me around and grab the few I needed. We pulled up to this one and I jumped out to start searching. With a bit of guidance from the Captain I was able to walk straight over to the right area and have the cache in my hands within a few moments. I signed the log and replaced the cache as found. Thanks for the cache Rainforest cookie.

I really was running late now but I really wanted to complete the series. Luckily another easy find

TFTC

We are staying south of Stanthorpe to do the caching in this southern area. Arrived early & set up in the caravan park, lots of fruit pickers staying here.
Now its off to do the Granite Belt Bike Trail & others in this area.

Thanks for placing this cache Rainforest Cookie.

Surprising how many cyclists there are actually riding this track today-spoke to a few heading toward Stanthorpe , as we were, but that is where they had started-we had started at the other end so we had a long way to go -making good time though.

TFTC

After two fabulous days caching the power trails with La Kedi and The Marble it was time to go home. I couldn't resist stopping off for "just one more" along the way. Thanks for placing this cache here so I could do that!

Approaching 11:30am I was feeling a little flakey meself
It had been raining steadily since 8:30am this morning and I was a bit damp
Only the thought of chocolate had kept me going this far

Still, if you are going to chase caches in the rain, the GBBT is a great series of caches to go after.
By car, not bike [:o)]

TFTC

next yep I found it again
TFTC

Out caching with ratdog12 and her friend. This one is all good. Pity all the stone fruit trees are gone now

This one was also found without any problems, we have been very lucky today as we have no muggles to worry about. TFTC

What a delicious series of caches. Cheers Rainforest Cookie

well I kinda figured I was in the right vicinity to find the cache but was muggled out by the fruit farms family doing a tour of their boundary fence. how unlucky can you get.
While having a chat them I asked why they had chopped down their fruit trees and what variety had they been. The mother responded that they had been stonefruit and the market had downturned so much that the crop had cost them too much money to continue to grow them. This is a story that is being repeated many times across Australia which doesn't stop it from being a sad state of affairs.
By then I had spent too much time hanging around an obscure rock pile to make another attempt at the cache and will have to come back another time.
Eat australian fruit!

Missed logging this one at the time! Sorry for late log...my Mums fault!

COuld do with a flake about now - thought this one would be really hard but Geobuster found it real fast!

Found with Nebji today. really enjoying the caches in the area.
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Back to Stanthorpe to have a crack at the granite Belt Bike trail. Had a good look at Google before I went and I still made a fundamental blunder. Explained later. Followed GPSr to the start of the Trail. I had a stop at the visitors information Centre to gather a number and I also had the brochure which I was able to down load from the internet.

Arrived at GZ and a quick find. Cache in good condition. TFTC and Series Rainforest Cookie

Previously logged under a team account. Re-logging with my individual account.

Relogging this under individual account, previously a member of Gaz'n'Kab account.

Out and about bright and early today, we decided to tackle this series. We had a great drive out on the road, travelling around this great part of Queensland. We found the cache nice and easily, signed the logbook, and returned it to its spot.

TFTC Rainforest Cookie, a great series along some nice roads

Gaz'n'Kab

Out doing an early morning run on this series, this was next on my hit list.

I parked about 70m from GZ for safety reasons and made my way to GZ. After a bit of an inspection of the area, I noticed a likely hide - and sure enough, a cache dwelled within. It was in good condition.

TFTC Rainforest Cookie

After passing the beautifully cared for peach orchards we arrived at GZ . . a location that can cause us some not so quick finds but not today.
I often used these chocolates for decorating kids birthday cakes and always bought too many on purpose. TFTC Rainforest Cookie

A great series and this choc would have to be one of their best sellers, surely. A popular one! A great cache too. Thanks for placing this new series along here Rainforest Cookie, to bring our attention to this nicely laid bike trail by the local authorities. Good one! NINOSL.

A cold, wet and windy day out while I explored the bike trail by myself today. I had planned to ride my bike around, instead it got a ride in the boot for the afternoon. You can read the details of my travels through the series in my log for the final multi at http://coord.info/GLB5VPM6

Getting to this one was both exciting and boring. I got stuck behind a produce truck who was taking his time around the windy (in both senses/pronunciations of the word) road. But this made me look outside a bit more. Following the river, seeing glimpses of waterholes, vast farms and yet more of the general beauty of the Granite Belt which reminded me yet again why I love this area.

I parked across the road from this one as the side of the cache looked a bit boggy. Walked across and oh my! That is a lot of places to hunt. In my head I narrowed it down to 'over there' then to where the co-ords pointed a bit,, then stood back and looked for the one giveaway sign. Sure enough I spied that one thing that was a bit different and the cache was in the first place I looked. Signed and replaced all as found, like the others, in good condition.

Oh yes, I managed to guess this one (I think it was pretty easy though) And always fun in icecream aren't they? TFTC Rainforest Cookie