GRANITE BELT BIKE TRAIL, CRUNCHY CRUNCHY Severnlea, Queensland, Australia
By Rainforest Cookie on 08-May-13. Waypoint GC4BN52

and its gone.

My caching sense was really off again. Looking everywhere, except where i had just stepped over and had thought would be a good place to put one. Maybe i should look better? In any case, another found and signed. All in good condition. Thanks again.

Tfth

Tftc

These caches we did at night, by the power of led lenser ! Our first night in town and just having a feel of the caches, doing 20 in 2 hours of night caching, not too bad after a 10 hour drive to get here , all caches are in good nic and easy finds , thanx so much to the placer's , top stuff

Found at 2:29:00 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.

Just added another one to the list
TFTC

Found by GUC. TFTC

We parked on the opposite side of the road as we thought this would be much safer. The bike riders past us again while finding this. I found this one the first place I looked.
Thanks Rainforest Cookie for the hide.

Found whilst in Stanthorpe celebrating with team robins before leaving on their big walk around Australia.

Another kiddie find in the bush. Tftc

Out for the last day in Stanthorpe with Mistraluna and the Better Half.

Found the cache without problems.

Thanks Rainforest Cookie for the cache.

Bit of a sad day today, being the last day of the Queensland 2015 Mega Event. Many cachers are already packing up and heading home. Not us though - we have another day to fill in, hoping to find as many of the unfound caches around the Stanthorpe area as we can. Couldn't leave this one behind. Thanks for the smiley Rainforest Cookie

Found this afternoon while out achieving my 2000 finds by today. TFTC

Working with Bancroft5. TFTC

[green]I had a pretty busy day of caching today. An early start had me in northern Stanthorpe then everywhere after that. Once the first event for the day (cito) rolled around I met up with Hotwheelsduo for a bit of caching. We head for the Bike trail multi to add it to the list of types for the day so this one was one along the way. The cache was soon located and signed before heading off to the next.
Thanx again Rainforest Cookie, mmm crunchie[/green]

Found duing a wonderful weekend at the Queensland Mega

Quick find could only get a couple on the GBBT . Thanks .

Smilie #2048

Well, having hit 2000 for the Mega we're back caching!
Time to finish the Elementaries & the rest of the Apple!
Doesn't hurt to throw a few extras in the mix along the way either.

An interesting series so far in regard to cache names.
Crunched a few co-ords & soon had another smilie on our map.

TFTC Rainforest Cookie

This entry was edited by Linden/6 on Tuesday, 07 April 2015 at 01:54:51 UTC.

Found with Frog_Lady on the last day of mega. Happy Easter!! Tftc!

TFTC

We found number five and are getting quicker and quicker at it. Geoboys are doing the jump out of the car, grab, log and go. TFTC

We were tag teaming these caches with another car load of geocachers with success. All finds in this series so far.

Found it, thanks for the cache
We're having a great time at the Queensland Mega Event 2015, Stanthorpe & surrounds

Happy Easter!
Out caching with Screma and KB in Stanthorpe while at the Mega Event.
The weather is miserable but our spirits are high!

P&G

TFTC

Out Caching with Jaminappleford and KB for Easter during the QLD Mega
TFTC

Last full day of the mega event and time for another pre-lunch caching run. With the weather in general a bit less wet today than it has been it was a bit easier as well. A bit of a generic log on the 28 I found this morning I'm afraid, but I know the Cache Owners will be getting buried in emails and unlikely to have a chance to read them all. Thanks Rainforest Cookie for the cache.

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.

Found this afternoon while out achieving my 2000 finds by today. TFTC

TFTC,
Out for the day at the Qld Mega to complete #30 and help Nana nel reach 2000 finds.
Completed both goals.
Visited trackables.

Enjoying some MEGA caching. Thanks for the hide.

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

After a rather eventful (read expensive, long and tiresome) trip down to the Mega, and spending yesterday and the morning trying to diagnose issues with the car, we decided we had better go find some caches.

Easy find, at 1340hrs. With all the cachers running around town, we decided to head out in a random direction to see what we could find. This is where our adventures took us.

Cheers

Bundy

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 2:13 PM ...
TFTC! - [blue]Rainforest Cookie[/blue] ... [/green]
Total Finds now ... 1245
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Find #1495 at 17:33 after leaving the cached-out family back at the motel for some rest, in order to get my numbers aligned for a milestone.

Another easy find. I must say, I'm loving the accurate coordinates on this series! Great work! [^]

Thanks for the cache, Rainforest Cookie.

Up in Stanthorpe for the QLD Mega Event. The weather may not have been the best, but the many interesting caches found during Easter, made up for it. Congratulation to all Cache Owners.

Visiting the QLD Mega and apologies for the generic log. Wonderful area and a great variety of caches found. Generally, all had excellent coords and were well stocked with large log books. Many thanks to all the locals involved in setting up the mega and providing lots of challenges for us Southerners. Pity about the rain.

Bill and Diana - Greynomads TFTC TNLN SL

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Exploring Stanthorpe for the QLD Mega Day 3 for collecting more smilies. The rain has set in, but does not deter the keen cacher TFTC!!

Trying to get all the bike trail in today before the rain sets in but we are running out of time. Looking for clues.
TFTC

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doing the GBBT. quick park and grab with ned driving and red dwarfs navigating. tftc rainforest cookie.

MEGA was on so decided it might be a good idea to find some caches. "Some" ended up turning into a few hundred... the most exhausting experience.

Started in the city and pooh corner, ended up leaving a little late for Stanthorpe. Fun weekend, managed to get pushed into swimming across water a few times and finishing off some rum.

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

Doing the wine trail with teamdfl, Bulldozer72, T-tech and IolantheK to do the bike trail we made it half way in the rain and after hot chips and coffee at Glen Alpin turned back for home. Still a great day out with friends

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.
OK crunchies are good and i really want one now, thanks Rainforest Cookie
Regards
The "I like honeycomb" Coffee's

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.

Day two at the MEGA, and this afternoon T-Tech and I headed out with ruzzelz, teamdfl and bulldozer72 on a bike ride along the Granite Belt Bike Trail.

TFTC, Rainforest Cookie.

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

Day two of our Mega 2015 Stanthorpe adventure.
Today was our first real look at the event venue and the town, there was a sense of excitment with many cars zooming around Stanthorpe with the flags flying.
Thanks Rainforest Cookie for your cache, which added to our fun.

Found on our mega caching adventure at the occasion of the QLD mega! We had a ball finding awesome caches, and are grateful to all the CO's for placing and maintaining them. We were signing logs as 'Team Polak' or just TP for sonia26642, /dev/gc0c, tunfisk and myself. Thank you so much for an unforgettable long weekend!!

Come and join us at the next New Zealand geocaching MEGA event!! Register now at http://www.nzmega2015.com to receive newsletter updates and be the first to know. Let us know you are coming by posting a 'will attend' at http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC587BC_nz-mega-christchurch-2015 It will be a great event, come and be a part of it!!

Found by Sunshine Toledo and Her Majesty at 3:17pm. The cache was found quickly. TFTC

Found with Hinemoana, sonia26642 and /dev/gc0c during the mega.
TFTC

Found while attending the Mega. A weekend of mixed fortunes caching and weather wise.
We only arrived today but thought we would collect a few once we had set up.

TFTC Rainforest Cookie

Caching around Stanthorpe with Jackylegs44 during the MEGA. Signed most logs JK44
Lots of finds, all caches we looked for was in place, great job!
We begun the afternoon here with a focus on the mystery caches but stopped at anything along the way.
Thanks for this cache!
R

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

03/04/2015 6:44:00 PM
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We found this cache while over in Stanthorpe for the Aussie mega. A super wonderful time, and super wonderful caches!! Thanks to all the COs, and event organisers! We had a blast!!

First day. Met up here with mum, and both my brothers - we're not often all together these days! And went crazy caching!!

Went out after the event, and found a few of the easy ones nearby

We signed almost every log as 'Team Polak' which consists of hinemoana, sonia26642, /dev/gc0c, and tunfisk - to save time, our hands from overuse, and the logsheets

Consec caching day # 890

TFTC!!

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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

TFTC

A crunchy might have been nice to sustain us on a big day caching! Thanks for the hide.

We joined up with Pprass, Temingi and Squalid and spent the day exploring Stanthorpe and its surrounding area. So many wonderful caches have been placed showing us spots we wouldn't normally have travelled to. A great day spent geocaching with our friends from this side of the country. Thanks to all who provided these caches for us to find.

Our first mega event very exciting. Came all the way from townsville. Loved the puzzles and the effort that went in them. Tftc sl tnln

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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 and about with iluvtrekking on a jaunt between Stanthorpe and Tenterfield while attending the Mega. Beautiful countryside and although we had some showers during the day, it didn't impede on our caching. Thanks Rainbow Cookie

Found by Mary & David, in company with Gonefishen07, Lazzal, Alansee, and Phetlern, The Coffees and Zobo04 (now signing as GLAMPCZ), at 0954. 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. Met some more teams, so we have more answers for our Signal Detection game. Cache found after a short search. Our thanks to Rainforest Cookie.

After a not so early start this morning, getting some of these on the Bike Trail was first on our list today.

Ohhh crunchie has always been a favourite

Thanks for the cache 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.
[Red]C[/Red] [Blue] onvoys of cars,[/Blue]
[Red]A[/Red][Blue] ll stopping and starting.[/Blue]
[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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Out for a day of caching with Gonefishen, Phetlern, Alansee, Zobo04, Macamob and the Coffees. I had been over some of this ground before but went along for the ride and found quite a few that I had bypassed before, and some new ones as well. We signed the log as glampcz in most instances.
Thanks to Rainforest Cookie for this cache

tftc

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.

Some cute swaps were in this cache with an Easter theme great stuff didn't take long to find and while Wombles signed the cache I noted the vampire stake nearby...might have a vampire problem here?

Tftc

This entry was edited by Whint & Bad Dal on Monday, 06 April 2015 at 08:19:31 UTC.

It wasn't till we found this one that the cache names started to make sense

It rained on and off while we were riding, but never very heavy luckily. It was still warm enough that I was in short sleeves the whole afternoon.

I think we all managed to get in and find at least one of the caches along the way.

Thank you for Stanthorpe Oz Mega....

This was the next one as we made our way along the trail on the mountain bikes. Riding along in the light drizzle was nice and cooling and made for a great afternoon caching. TFTC

Teamed up with Team Polak for the rest of the afternoon. A quick find thanks.

The final leg of the trip to the QLD Mega. Will be good to get there!

Found on a trip to OZ for the Stanthorpe MEGA. It is all about the numbers this trip.

Thanks for the hide.

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team T.I.N.S caching at the mega

In town for mega, caching with robbieracer66 and grubfred, cached with roostaman, greengeckos and lgoody when we caught up with them at several caches. . had a great day. . . tftc

Thanks for the cache found it with earthly 65 and grubfred

Quick find T4TC

Like everyone else logging these caches this weekend we have come for the mega event . We are having a great time and only 1st day of the event , defiantly worth travelling from Bunbury , western aus! Tftc

We spent the 1st day of the Mega caching on a tour around the district. TFTC

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. More and more circles.
TFTC

found on our Gold Coast, Oz Mega holiday
left trinkets
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.

19195.247 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2013 Compass Rose Tezcatlipoca A#273

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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.....

cache find # 2972 On a roll with finding these caches in the bike trail. TFTC.

Visiting from Newcastle, staying onsite at Oz Mega, out today with earthly65 & robbieracer66 and later joined up with Roostaman, Green Gecho and lgoodie, 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 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 .

[Blue]# 11599[/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 few hours of finding more of the Apple puzzles and other nearby caches.
Cheers from Wagga Wagga in the Riverina.
Thanks for the cache Rainforest Cookie,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

Out for a day caching with Gullivers Travels54 and this trail was on our list. hmmm broken up crunchy in icecream, very nice. TFTC

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The weather is perfect day for geocacher - no cold/hot

Enjoyed search, found and signed the log.

Thanks for organising the cache and hunt. [^] [^]

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Pprime does MEGA! Loving my days seeing all nooks and crannys of this wonderful area. Starting to bump into more and more geocachers aroundthe place - hello Everlasting,
Thanks for placing this cache, Rainforest Cookie. Found in good condition.
{Overall find #3699}
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#6209Found and Logged 2:08:00 PM
One of 21 caches for for a quite day out and about around around Stanthorpe
A nice cool start then it soon heated got hot
Thanks Rainforest Cookie

Travelling around Australia in our Caravan with our cat.

Currently making a quick 'run' on caches in Stanthorpe in preparation for the Mega.

After a few dramas we finally set off at lunchtime to grab as many 'smilies' as possible.

TFTC

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

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

Bee & Hippo

Found while on an Australia Caching Day. Nice hide TFTC.

Day 67 of my trip to Brisbane.

Today is a semi-fun day. After the last couple of weeks of intensive sorting of ju.., er, collectibles at Mum's place, moving, and cleaning, I'm in Stanthorpe, staying for a week, on my leisurely way home out of the heat and humidity of Brisbane. I had a good sleep, and have nothing to do today except take the GeoSchnauzers for a haircut, collect their dog food, and enjoy myself. I haven't escaped the humidity after all - it's raining quite heavily, so today is a GeoSchnauzer-less park and grab day. After adventures with GPS and relying on my memory of same, I've finally dropped off the dogs, after first getting on the wrong side of Storm King Dam. Anyway, I've got my trusty umbrella, and I'm off.

No 11 of 23 today. Thanks, Rainforest Cookie. It's another easy grab. I would enjoy riding the bike around here, I think.