COLOURS OF THE GRANITE BELT. GREEN Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia
By Rainforest Cookie on 05-Jun-13. Waypoint GC4DKF6

and its gone.

In celebration of all the rain we've had of late, your Green cache was due to be found. With my partner in caching gram4380 we decided to brave this. We always seem braver (or more crazy) in company so it was time. We eventually found a safe place to park and made a dash for it. Soon the cache was in hand, signed and now will be _finally_ converted to a smiley. Thanks for these caches, we've enjoyed doing them (Even if it's taken a little while to get around to it.

DK and I were on a roll. Been out all morning, and this was our last one. We'd found 1 cache that had been disabled and as this was another cache we both had been putting off finding, today was the day. Drove past a couple of times to find a safe place to park, waited for all the traffic to pass and made a dash for it. Found in no time, signed and replaced and now to wait for a break in traffic. Why had I been putting this off for so long, maybe having company gave me the dutch courage that I needed, I'm not keen on caches near busy highways. TFTC

Found with goldielover while visiting this great town.
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Found with stairman1 on Father's Day. Lots of traffic buzzing by. Cache is nice and dry.TFTC

Green swaps placed, nothing taken. Tftc

Found night caching with flicklick and mcaz1108. Watch out for wet feet

Night cache with Thirls and flicklick

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

TFTC down for the long weekend. Using averages by numbers given from each family member, I have been told that I am permitted to do 5 caches today without destroying family harmony.
Whipping out the iPhone, it decided to take on a 60 m circuit before I read the description, came out of the long grass and headed for each of the pine trees. From the road a geotrail led me right to it. Nicely concealed, but not to the seasoned cacher, which is good when you don't want to pip the kids off in the car. Left a green slinky

Came up here for ANZAC day celebrations and decided to grab a couple of caches while in the area

thanks for the cache

Found this while in town for ANZAC celebrations with An Old Hag and the Cache Maker. TFTC

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Today the weather is very nice so have a ride the car and detour some caches

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Was a great find but a tad dangerous at night or for slow geocachers. Tftc

Found with team Bbayjohn whilst at Stanthorpe Mega, tftc

One of our last Stanthorpe finds - thanks fro some awesome caching!

Leaving Stanthorpe to go to south.
TFTC

Found with Jonsey65 while attending StanThorpe mega event. TFTC

Catch up of missing online logs from Mega trip.Out with Mistraluna and Chwiliwr doing caches in and around Stanthorpe today.Found the cache without problems. Log was signed and the cache returned as it was found.Thanks Rainforest Cookie for the cache.

Had to park aways off as it was very busy on the main road. A short walk and all was good. Thanks Rainforest Cookie.

A quick find by Mrs M. So obvious I at first ignored it. Silly me.... TFTC

Found with Poco and nedandmrskelly at Stanthorpe Mega. Tftc Rainforest Cookie

Found with Gonefishen07 and Lazzal on another fun day caching in Stanthorpe. Thank goodness the weather was much better today. Trying to get Stan's apple finished before we have to go home. We signed the log as GLZ TFTC

Found by Mary & David, in company with micaparamedic, Crackers and the Coffees (signed MMCC) at 1630. The colour of vegetable crops and grape vines. Found after a short search. Our thanks to Rainforest Cookie.

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 ten and the day of the actual Mega had arrived. There were a few events to get to but otherwise it was another day of caching on the local Stanthorpe area getting the final apple caches and anything else we had not yet done yet. Happily the weather had come good for the day. Thanks.

19472.524 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2010 Compass Rose Corvo A#190

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I must've taken the hardest possible approach, climbing up far too early and wending my way through webby branches for a long distance before arriving at GZ and noticing the ascent spot there... Ah well. I returned the easier way. It took me ages to actually find this as it was well under the local camouflage, and what I assume was meant to be the 'marker' had been dislodged... Anyway, suffice it to say that I did, eventually, find the cache and gratefully signed it before retreating. TFTC, Rainforest Cookie. =^.^=

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!

Found while in Queensland for the Mega with Team Crackers and Micaparamedic, we enjoyed visiting all the locations.
Thanks for the cache,
Regards The Coffee's

Found with taurus1955 and B/dale Bandits. A very good hide. This was well camouflaged. Left large green paper clip. TFTC

While this cache had successfully been loaded from a 'Stanthorpe' pocket query, whereas all the corrected puzzles had been dumped I had also seen that parking was a 'touch' difficult. So tonight after realising that I still had a few caches required to fulfil another challenge I had a nice dinner, loaded a few caches on the GPSr and headed back out. Not too many cars on the Highway tonight, so I felt a lot safer parking in an unusual spot. Avoided a small stream and soon found GZ, and with good coordinates the cache was spotted @ 2121.
Dry and intact, but don't think there was an o-ring. Unable to fit a CSM
Bookmarking for the Night Caching elective #6.
With logging this cache belatedly (14/5), I have forgotten the particulars on the cache hunt. But I do remember that it was a lovely afternoon. Assistance had been given by our local group of cachers for the working out of some of these final Stans Apple puzzle series.
Found @ 1555, GAFF3, unable to fit a CSM.
Will add a book mark for the Puzzle Solving elective #2.
Through for mileage: 12-12-12 Multi Event - Auckland, New Zealand; 2014 Geocaching NSW geocoin; 3.1415 Pi & Ice Cream Slice; 3Brothers-NSW; Auckland NZ '13; Blackmagic Spessart Kangaroo; Brausefass Lifesaver Geocoin; Bridge2Bridge Travel Ingot; Cache Critters - Baa, Neigh, & Oink Geocoins; CII-35Z; CITO - Upper Swan, and Beyond; Cleaning Games; Discover Me & Animals: GCookie; FTF Official Geocacher Badge-holder - GCookie; G Cookie Earth Cache 10 Year Celebration Coin; GCookie FIZZY coin; Grahame Cookie t-shirt; Hello Cocky TB; IconicBridges2012; Kengu; NZ Mega 13; NZ Mega Auckland 2013 Signature Trackable; Oz Mega 2014 GCookie; Qld Mega 2015 GCookie coin; Rhinoceros Geocoin 2; thank you- moliva; and Transaustralia.
TFTPuzzle Rainforest Cookie

Day 3 of our weekend at the Mega in Stanthorpe and we are out and about in the rain, yet again. Only ducks and cachers would be silly enough to be out in this. Anyway, onwards we went and found this cache quite quickly, a good hide. About with misschief18, B/dale Bandits and Bentley TB
TFTC
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I found this cache while visiting Australia from New Zealand and while staying in Stanthorpe for several days for the 2015 Mega Event. Today I joined forces with fellow kiwis Vamber and Yorkshirekiwi83 (signing our logs as "VYV" to save time and log space) for another day of caching around Stanthorpe. This was a nice quick find while driving around this morning. TFTC!

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A great days caching on a road trip toward Oz Mega 2015 with Team Crackers and The Coffees. Many differing experiences, some where I walked right to the cache and others where I needed to hunt around a bit. As usual I have enjoyed the various challenges set by the CO's and the fact that I get to cache with friends and am outside in the great outdoors.

Many thanks Rainforest Cookie for placing this cache .

Had a great day out caching with Zobo04 and Lazzal. The weather was much better today so we managed to get out and find a few caches in some very interesting areas. Thanks to all the CO's for the hard work in placing and maintaining these caches for us to enjoy. TFTCRainforest Cookie

A great days caching and road trip at the Oz Mega 2015 with Taurus1955 and Misschief18. Lots of experiences and adventures we had lots of laughs along our travels some where I walked right to the cache and others where I needed to hunt around a bit. I have enjoyed the various challenges set by the CO's and the fact that I get to cache with friends and am outside in the great outdoors.

Thanks placing this cache .

Catching up on some late logs.


We were in Stanthorpe attending the Mega and grabbing some of the local caches on a very wet day.

Today we were traveling around with micaparamedic and The Coffees and had a great day finding quite a few very enjoyable cache hides and leaving
a favourite or two.
We want to thank the all cache owners for their effort and helping to make this visit such fun.



To save room on the smaller logs we signed as MMCC micaparamedic, maccamob.The Coffee's and Team Crackers.


We apologise for the generic log but with so many finds it was hard to keep track.

having a ball at the Stanthorpe mega. gracias rainforest cookie.

After spending the last couple of days frantically driving around this gorgeous countryside, today was to be a leisurely day attending the Cito and Flashmob, tidying up the puzzles and collecting a few others along the way. Thanks Rainforest Cookie

Vamber, myself and Vistra (signing as VYV) knew we had to make an early start today, we had a couple of goals, to get the 10 caches types in a day for Vamber, to finish the apple series, to attend some sessions at Mega GZ and my own private one was to get 35 caches to make the Mega itself my 7500th.

Not being able to see the entire name of the cache on our gpps unless we opened it up, we were playing guess the colour on approach. Quick find, TFTC


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Day 4 QLD Mega. After a busy day with the CITO, FLASHMOB, using whats left of the afternoon to explore a few other spots around Stanthorpe. SL. TFTC.

Found with Albida33 while attending the Mega.

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

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

Found with richliink on day five of our Mega 2015 Stanthorpe adventure.
Today was the big day, the day of the CITO, the Flash Mob and the closing ceremony. Time to say goodbye for tomorrow we are on the road to Warwick. Thanks Rainforest Cookie for your cache, which added to our fun.

A quick find on a busy road. Thanks.

Half a day today collecting around Stanthorpe before heading to Coolangatta and NZ.

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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After a climb to the top of Bald Rock this morning we headed back to camp to recharge the batteries with a breakfast of bacon and eggs. Once that was complete Swellerfungus, Walandor and I headed back out to grab some other interesting caches in the area. I had set my GPSr onto this one on the drive home but our route did not take us near this cache. However on the drive out after breakfast I looked down at the GPSr as we drove along to see we were only 70m from the cache. Luckily no one behind me so a quick stop and we dashed over to the cache where Walandor made the find. TFTC.

Happy Easter Stanthorpe!! Back out on the road again today with Chwiliwr and The Better half, trying to finish off the remaining Apples and lab caches, plus whatever else popped up along the way. Thanks for the cache Rainforest Cookie

Plenty of green in evidence this weekend. The Stanthorpe area is looking wonderful indeed. Cache safe and well. Thanks Rainforest Cookie

Found while attending the mega event TFTC

Out early today looking for numbers to get to 1000 on our 46th wedding anniversary. Before CITO today found this one. Found at 7.20 am on 5th April 2015. TFTC.

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On the way to a wherigo and letterbox we stopped for this quick traditional. TFTC

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Found during Stanthorpe mega. Thanks Rainforest Cookie

Found at 12:56 whilst wandering around Stanthorpe during the Queensland Mega event with Shonkylogic and Southern Cross Caching
Thanks Rainforest Cookie

13:56 Found it on my third day on QLDmega2015.
TFTC SL

I appreciate the hide thanks

Found it while a the Mega Event TfTC

Find #: 3797
Time: 12:55 pm
Date: Sun 5 Apr 2015
This was find number 4 of 12
Easter Sunday was spent mainly caching around Stanthorpe, or within a few kilometers, with a visit to the markets in there somewhere.
Found after a search which took too long, and after being joined by another cacher.
Thanks for placing this cache Rainforest Cookie

Found while we were out caching today while at the mega event for the weekend. This is a great area to explore. TFTC.

A bit of ditch jumping and the cache was in hand. Tftc

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

TFTC,
Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

In Qld from SA for the Mega event and having a great time, apologies for the generic logs, but very much appreciate the efforts of the CO. Great container, very apt! TFTC

Out with Mistraluna and the Better Half doing caches in and around Stanthorpe.

Found the cache without problems.

Thanks Rainforest Cookie for the cache.

This was the choice for the traditional that gets our 10 cache types in a day (we include lab caches!) and though we pulled up in a slightly unusual spot, I am not sure where else you would!. We quickly grabbed the cache by following the very evident geotrail....I guess that is what a mega does to a place!

Day Four of the QLD Mega saw us tackling the 10 different cache types in one day, accompanyed with yorkshirekiwi83 and vistra. Found this one enroute to picking up some of the necessary caches that we needed to complete our challenge. Thanks for the cache!

TFTC log to come

Quick find. Another one during the Mega. TYFTC

The final afternoon of mega event caching around the area, so time to get a final few finds. A bit of a drive around to get some caches and some fun exploring. Apologies for the generic logs but I suspect the cache owners are going to be buried in emails and not reading all the logs. Thanks for the hide Rainforest Cookie.

Another team was here and made the find just as I got near GZ.

That makes us 499 with mega to log

It's Ozmega 2015 time and I found this cache on my four and a half day weekend. Woohoo

Date: 4 April 2015
Time: 15:01
Find #5144

A plan was put together, very cleverly orchestrated by my regular caching partner sedgwickDave. The plan was to attempt to find at least 25 D/T combo's in a day and Qualify for the Marcus Vitruvius "The Unique Difficulty/Terrain Challenge" west of Newcastle. Dave had worked out there was 28 different combo's available to get this done, so together with Ice Foxy, the challenge was on!!!!

This series of puzzles was the last ones we managed to solve before heading to Mega Land, some very challenging puzzles here. Woohoo, another Stanthorpe series now complete.

Thanks to Rainforest Cookie for the cache. TNLN

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14th / 15th November 2015 - GC5HCJ8 - Casey Fields - Melbourne Victoria

Found while out doing a little MEGA caching with my old caching buddy IF.

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This was our last full day of caching in Stanthorpe so we set out early to complete the Stan's apple series and the 25 unique D / T challenge. Despite the persistent rain, sedgwickDave, AHomburg and myself put in a solid effort today and achieved our mission before a well earned pub meal in town A nice quick find.
TFTC Rainforest Cookie

Found while attending the 2015 Queensland MEGA at Stanthorpe.

Many thanks for the hide.

Found on a rather rainy day with Phetlern while at the MEGA. Despite the rain we visited several of the local establishements as well as managing to find a few caches.

Day 2 of the mega. I was up early and headed out just on daybreak. It was a bit damp and getting damper but not so damp that I was getting saturated. I found a few caches east of the railway track around town. I had to give Xmas tree a miss as it was just to wet to stop. After breakfast I dropped bee2 off in town as she was working at a friend's shop. I headed out to the showgrounds tohave a look at teh markets and picked up a new beanie perfect for Antartic cruising. Back to the B&B for a nap and then out for anniversary dinner.

A fun filled day. Thanks for the puzzles and the grand tour of some places I had never been to before.



Thanks for placing this cache Rainforest Cookie

Out caching up a storm as with Alpenmilch80, signing the log as ACDC (Alpenmilch80, Cats&Dragons Caching Tour). What a great way to be spending a rainy day than caching with friends and seeing the countryside area here

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

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

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Weather or not! We thought it was a good idea to list caching with Alansee, on the agenda for today. Finding caches was interspersed at regular intervals with stops for strawberries, cheese, wine and cider; which proved to be a great way to dodge a few heavy showers of rain as well as satisfy our hunger for caches.

Our thanks to Rainforest Cookie for bringing us here.
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We navigated our way safely onto the dirt track that runs parallel to the Highway and parked safely. Negotiated the bar wire fence that separated us from our cache find. Signed the log and moved off to the next nearby find.

Quick find in the rain while attending Ozmega 2015

Nice one.

Found during the Oz Mega Stanthorpe. The rain was steady, and so was the caching.
Approached this one from the safety of a side road. TFTC Rainforest Cookie.

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We approached from the side road also, and parked and walked part of the way. It was quite pleasant, thanks for the cache.

A night time caching effort brought us here. We are trying to get a few more caches in dispite the drizzle. Oz Mega this weekend only slightly dampened our efforts and we are thankful to all the great caches in this area.
TFTC

Found with Aussie M'n'M, angloj and diamonjs. Kiddo and diamonjs went in first to grab thus cache. Found nice and easily after a few moments. TFTC Rainforest Cookie

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Found ya while at the Megga Event

Our second 'Colours of the Granite Belt' cache. Found with zoeandcalin.

TFTC

Found @15:00 #4189
This was the last full day for me and icefoxy to cache around Stanthorpe before moving on tomorrow morning so the focus was 2 missions 1) Complete Stan's Apple 2) Find 25 unique D/T combos. Teaming up with ahomburg we headed out in the drizzling rain at 9am and all was done by 5:30pm. A total of 35 caches found and 27 unique D/T caches. An awesome run with some great locations and hides seen.

Another surprising rare combo in the Stanthorpe area. A quick fine too. Nice.

TFTC Rainforest Cookie

Found this cache with Aussie M&M, kestal and diamonj before ducking back to Toowoomba to hand my geogirl over to her Nan. TFTC

Found with geo-family while in town for Oz Mega 2015 TFTC

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Found during the QLD Mega event with Calypso62 (Skyebomonkeytown & Ali600 were doing girl things). I persuaded C62 to do the Lab Caches but we also kept finding other caches such as this. SLTFTC

In the area with Just-Lookin for the MEGA.

Stamped the logs with t&J or our names.
Soon found this one, thanks for the fun caches, we had a great time.

On a geocaching trip with tmann421 heading to 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.

TFTC. Found as part of the QLD OZ MEGA on 3 April. We had fantastic time. Thanks for helping make our trip a great one.

TM at the mega.tftc

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


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Attending the QLD Mega with Skyebomonkeytown, Ali600 and Geotooter. Geotooter and I were off doing the lab caches and enjoyed finding this one into the bargain. Thanks for the hide.

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