GRANITE BELT BIKE TRAIL, TOMORROW Glen Aplin, Queensland, Australia
By Rainforest Cookie on 08-May-13. Waypoint GC4BN5A

and its gone.

Continuing our journey. Another great little cache. All in good condition. Thanks!

Easy find.

Tfth

Tfth

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 3:08:00 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.

What a great region this is! We have spent the last few days enjoying the scenery, the attractions, and also the caches.
Thank you to the COs of all of these caches for their diligence and thoughtfulness in giving visitors to this region a vast number of little (and not so little) gems to discover and the opportunity to see so much countryside which quite possibly could never have been seen except to a very select number of passers-by.
We have had a great time – thank you!

We arrived at GZ and thought it would be a quick find but after looking for a while we come up empty. Then I had a idea and found the cache where possum had previously looked.
Thanks Rainforest cookie for the cache and a new log sheet. Also our 500th find

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

log book sorted all good to go

Our last day of caching in Stanthorpe after the Mega. TFTC

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

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

Found the cache without problems.

Thanks Rainforest Cookie for the cache.

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

Found on the last day of mega....caching with earthly65 and grubfred....tftc

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 during Stanthorpe mega. Thanks Rainforest Cookie

A bit tricky Rainforestcookie TFTC

easy find for us today
tftc

TFTC

Found at 17:56 whilst wandering around Stanthorpe during the Queensland Mega event with Shonkylogic and Southern Cross Caching
Thanks Rainforest Cookie

Found with Mum & Dad (jasenjanine) while here for the Mega .. TFTC

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

Wonderful holiday in Australia with laalaa. We drove around Stanthorpe and we had fun.
Greetings from Finland.
Thanks for the cache.

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Found it with Team FIN [kapeka & laalaa]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in Australia ( Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Australian Capital Territory ). Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and huge country!

Greetings from Finland!

working with Bancroft5. TFTC

Enjoying a beaut day in Stanthorpe & surrounds with our good mates DazRascal & Mvyrmnd.
Our goal today was to find as many types as we could & help us reach 4000 finds.
We enjoyed our drive along the back roads to find these caches, seeing some great countryside, beaut hides, lots of laughs and no DNFs.

Cheers.

Found duing a wonderful weekend at the Queensland Mega

[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[/green]

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Out and about for a days caching with Haveanez and Mvyrmnd picking up a couple series of caches during the Mega weekend.

The weather wasn't the best but we didn't let that deter us from getting out and enjoying the Stanthorpe and surrounding areas caches.

This little series of caches came recommended by many around the campsite at the Mega weekend.
With Haveanez needing a few more finds to log the Mega as a milestone we came down this way to find a few more of the smaller series of caches.
This would have to be the widest "bike trail" I would have ever seen

TNLN, Cheers.

Day 7 of our Qld Mega holiday & it was spent roaming around the countryside to see how many cache types in a day we could do….

This was another cache found whilst attempting the nearby multi… Quick find here

TFTC Rainforest Cookie [^]

Day 3 of Oz Mega. We are enjoying the venture around the countryside. Not going for big numbers today, instead enjoying the journey,
TFTC

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.

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

TFTC

Found with the help dazrascal & havanez & mvyrmnd TFTC log book full!

Log book totally full! Needs replacing

Tftc

We've reached ten out of ten. Will we be able to squeeze in anymore before the flash mob? Maybe just a couple. TFTC

We continued along this trail and met a couple of other vehicles full of geocachers. It was a very social gathering.

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

Found while at the Mega. Happy Easter. TFTC

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

Found with Uni and Shonky while in Stanthorpe for the Queensland Mega.

TFTC,
Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

Smilie #2043

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.

At first I had trouble spotting this one.
Looked where I thought it would be & came up with nothing.
Changed my search area just as Geo-mamma decided to join in.
Geo-mamma walked straight to it.
I blame the sun in my eyes! LOL ...

TFTC Rainforest Cookie

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 nanno 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 1415hrs. 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

doing the granite belt bike trail with red dwarfs and ned and mrs Kelly. having a ball at the Stanthorpe mega. gracias rainforest cookie

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 2:36 PM ...
TFTC! - [blue]Rainforest Cookie[/blue] ... [/green]
Total Finds now ... 1250
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Tftc

Found while in Stanthorpe for the mega. I grew up in this area and it was great to come back to this area. TFTC.

Found while staying at Stanthorpe for the Mega. TFTC

Found while out and about with Haveanez and DazRascal while attending the 2015 OzMega. Shooting for all of the available cache types today. Thanks to the CO's for their respective caches.

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.
Our thanks to Rainforest Cookie for the cache and a view to tomorrow today.
Regards
The "foresight" Coffee's

Found with Tassiegirl13 while in town for the Qld Mega.
Another quick find for us while travelling along the bike trail.
TFTC

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.

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.

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 seen before and collecting caches along the way. Stamped the logs with t&J or our names.

Thanks to all the CO's for the caches and making this such a memorable trip.

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

Out caching up a storm with Alpenmilch80, signing the Log as ACDC while on tour (Alpenmilch80 Cats&Dragons Caching Tour)
Thank you to all the cache owners that put these together for us to enjoy while at the OZ MEGA 2015, as NZer's we certainly did appreciate them.

So again thank you for the FUN of the hunt

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.

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 by Sunshine Toledo and Her Majesty at 3:50pm. The cache was found quickly. TFTC

Arrived today with Cats&Dragons at the Mega and after settling in we decided to head out and to start cleaning out the town. TFTC

Out and about on the mountain bikes with Ruzzelz, teamdfl, T-Tech and IolantheK. This was the next one on the trail and was quickly found before pedalling off to the next one. TFTC

Quick easy find

Small micro or fat nano? Found it anyway more easily than expected for a little fella. 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.

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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 1015. 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. Enjoying our day so far, and the Bike Trail in particular. 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.

We didn't have any trouble finding this cache.

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

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.

I seem to remember this being one of the flatter sections of the trail. I think T-Tech was first on scene at this one.

No problems at this one.

Thank you for Stanthorpe Oz Mega....

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

#6281Found and Logged 8:04:00 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]# 11613[/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].

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

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 .

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.
TFTC

found on our Gold Coast, Oz Mega holiday
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.

19190.242 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2006 May Signal #1 A#27

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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 #2977. Another quick cache find along the bike trail. 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. TFTC