COLOURS OF THE GRANITE BELT. YELLOW Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia
By Rainforest Cookie on 24-Aug-13. Waypoint GC4KP72

Found with Matcha, thanks heaps for great cache! =)

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A lovely long weekend and the sun is shining and it seemed opportune to drive out west and hit the trails. So peaceful out here and I spotted plenty of wildlife and even a wee wascally bunny on the hop

I took a wrong turning and ended up here and found me a cache A huge family event meant I couldn't make it to Stanthorpe at Easter, so taking advantage of a long weekend.

On I rolled in Sooty the increasingly-dusty Cachemobile...

TFTC Rainforest Cookie [:d]

We were unable to get to the MEGA Event earlier in the year so decided to come caching in Stanthorpe for the long weekend. This was our third day of caching.

We had attempted this cache yesterday but were thwarted by a council work crew having lunch right at GZ. As expected for a Saturday morning we had the place to ourselves. We made a quick find. TNLN TFTC.

Quick find. TFTC

Found on a night run with kaedun, cheers

Another night cache. Cache in good condition. Careful on the rocks going down. Tftc

Great night cache

Night cache with Thirls and flicklick.

Easy find and found with MizenClan

Easy to find

Argh! Geo-stalking joojoo57 again.

Interesting spot, enjoyed finding

One of our first finds for the day - hope we find many more. Retrieved the TB. TFTC Rainforest Cookie.

Thanks for another colour to add to our granite rainbow. I think we managed grey & yellow on our brief visit. Plenty of grey in some granites but not much yellow. We're just a little early for the wattle if that comes in August, though we have read that somewhere in Australia there's always wattle blooming no matter what the month. TFTC.

Found at 11:41:00 AM, 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 had heard about the Apple series from fellow Wagga cachers so we decided to put Stanthorpe on our list of places to stay on our trip. We grabbed this one while doing the apple series.

Thanks Rainforest Cookie.

Found With MalDawg and StephLego on our family day trip to Stanthorpe

Found

easy to find even at night

Out and about in the Stanthorpe area for a few days so I headed out to grab a few caches. There were puzzles from the MEGA and a power trail or two, thanks to all CO's for placing them. I managed to find a variety of caches in some very interesting locations, this was one of them.

Once the log was signed all was returned as found.

TFTC Rainforest Cookie

Cool

Easy find

Behind the black stump . Tftc

Found with team Bbayjohn whilst at Stanthorpe Mega, tftc

TFTC. Description at GC5H9DO.

We attended the QLD Mega event in Stanthorpe, which was an awesome weekend!! Tomorrow we begin our drive home to SA, so today decided to do a loop down to Tenterfield, past Boonoo Boonoo and back to Stanthorpe. Has been fun exploring the awesome granite landscapes. TFTC!!

Quick find after I forgot to pick at CITO event,
Thanks. Rainforest Cookie

This one came up on the radar as we approached the CITO site. A quick wander up the hill for a quick find.

Found on Day 4 of the Stanthorpe Mega event trip. I started at Stan's Apple 01 and headed around town with Gunnie69, doing some of the Stan Apple caches, before heading west to gather the elementary series. The day ended with me going solo around the Quart Pot Creek.

Thanks Rainforest Cookie for the cache.

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!

Found by Mary & David at 0915. A big day around Stanthorpe today. We're thinking the yellow of the leaves. Our thanks to Rainforest Cookie.

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

With the drop-off point for the CITO event right by GZ, I expect this cache had almost as many finds today as the event itself! A quick scarper up to GZ had me collecting the cache from a previous finder, and passing it on (with re-hiding instructions) to the next, who did the same. Busy spot! TFTC, Rainforest Cookie. =^.^=

Out and about doing a few more Apples and other caches on MEGA MONDAY and collected this cache.

There was way too much traffic up here on the previous day to try to seek this one.

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!

quick and easy find tftc rainforest cookie tee hee.

3awesome cache

Found with taurus1955 and B/dale Bandits. Had nothing yellow to leave. TFTC

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 .

found with unicorn princess and mighty minions.great cache tftc

Day 4 at the MEGA, and it's gonna be a big one [^] I'm planning to get 10 different cache types today, in the company of T-Tech and Nurseyjulie.

This is the Traditional, #7/10. I loved coming to Mount Marley today, as there were several different cache types we could get up here, there was a great view to see, we could dump the rubbish we had collected, and so many people were up here enjoying the MEGA! A quick detour as we went to the CITO drop off, and as others were already there with cache in hand, it was a quick find. TFTC, Rainforest Cookie.

Found with Phetlern on a day when we concentrated our efforts around Stanthorpe town as we also attended the events.

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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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
TNLN
SL

A quick find. The CITO event hosts pointed me in the right direction.


tftc rainforest cookie

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

10 in a day was my caching priority for the day. The day had begun before sunrise with a mega attendance heading south from Stanthorpe for a multi, a letterbox, a trad, and then back into town for a lab cache and a puzzle before breakfast. During the day there was a CITO, an Earthcache and an event plus a beautiful lunch at the TAFE college overlooking their vineyard and lake with the town beyond that. Then there was the flashmob event and that left about 2 hours to find the wherigo cache before heading down to pyramid road for dinner and a concert. Tough day but some-one has to do it.




Thanks for placing this cache Rainforest Cookie

A quick find whilst dropping off the rubbish that we'd collected for the MEGA CITO event. TFTTC

found by Team T.I.N.S at Oz Mega
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a nice quick easy find while here visiting the Oz Mega ,Thanks for the cache Rainforest Cookie tnln sl

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.

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Setting out with Alansee, to reign in some caches close to Stanthorpe, we were treated to a dry day with some periods of warm sunshine. This is one of the caches we found as we picked some more of Stan’s apples, walked beside the river, collected rubbish, followed the trail of a bushranger and waved for the camera at the Flashmob Event.
It was starting to get a bit chaotic on the road - anyone would have thought there was an event about to happen in the vicinity!!

Our thanks to Rainforest Cookie for bringing us here.
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Out and about with Bullertrout and ADV exploring some of the tracks and trails around the Mega

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

Radnoski & Family QLD Mega 2015 Roadtrip
Day 3 - Variety is the spice of geo-life

Finally the day was here to add a "Mega" icon to my list of cache types. Everyone was racing around in search of 8, 9 or 10 cache types in a day. Honestly I was happy with just one but did manage seven (?) different types including a lab cache.

With the CITO so close to this one it would be just plain rude not to grab it. Another cacher was leaving the GZ so we knew which way to head.

Found with: Fangsoki & P'Prime
Traditional Caches Found: 15
Mystery Caches Found: 9 (8 Stan's Apple & 1 Challenge)
Events Attended: 1
Earthcaches Found: 1

Thanks for the cache Rainforest Cookie and thanks again to the committee and helpers involved with making the 2015 QLD Mega a great way to explore the area.

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.

Another quick easy find TFTC.


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Found while attending the Mega. A weekend of mixed fortunes caching and weather wise.
After a quiet day yesterday we were keen to get out a find a few today.

TFTC Rainforest Cookie

While attending the nearby Stan's CITO event, we made the short walk to the cache and added our name to the log. Thank you for having placed the cache Rainforest Cookie.

Found whilst out a the Mega! TFTC

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!!

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Found while attending the QLD Mega over the Easter weekend. A quick find. TFTC.

A quick find 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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Found this one while on the hill for my first cito event thanks Rainforest Cookie.

After attending the CITO; noticed a large amount of people heading up the hill side. Clearly a cache existed.

Headed up and signed before passing on to the next cacher who joined the line!

TFTC.

Out with IolantheK and Nursie Julie to attempt the 10 types of caches in one day whilst down for the QLD Mega [^]
Arrived at this convenient location (right next to the CITO), and close to a number of other cache types to grab on the hill
With this one complete we moved onto our next objective, which wasn't far off now
TFTC Rainforest Cookie

Nice easy find after completing the CITO across the road. TFTC

on a mission today
as many unique / different caches in a day
this was the 7th stop after logging the CITO event
... OK we had already done a traditional, but it was so close ... why not
another wont hurt anyway
Thanks Cookie - maybe see you next time you are back up our way
cheers
now to get back on to those uniques ...

05/04/2015 10:39:00 AM
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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!!

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

Quick find during CITO.

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 # 892

TFTC!!

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With Rhyssa6, Dutchie1950 and Triciac2 at the Mega. Whilst waiting for the nearby CITO to begin, we decided to find this cache. It was an easy find. After signing the log, we made our way to the fast growing crowd awaiting the CITO

[green]A massive day of caching for me today but I found the time to drop off a full bag of rubbish for the CITO event that I managed to find while caching earlier. While throwing the bag in the bin I looked over at a heard of sus cachers on the hill. I fired up my phone and what do you know, there's a cache up there. So without further a do I jumped up and found it myself. Signed, sealed and replaced for the next trash collector.
Thanx again Rainforest Cookie[/green]

There was an actual traffic jam at GZ with the drop off of theCITO event nearby.. It was in a clear (non rainy) part of the day and a good time laughing with the fellow trafficjamees at GZ

TFTC

Although the yellow sun was hidden behind the clouds and it was too early in the year for wattle and daffodils we did find the ‘yellow’ cache. Grabbed as we dropped off rubbish for CITO event. Thanks Rainforest Cookie.

Cruising the area with membsec, omaster, aerial_tennille, jilcycle, Mini Munchkin and dabom81, chasing caches for our 8 in a day challenge. After dropping off our rubbish to the CITO we walked up to GZ. A nice quick find. Log signed and cache replaced..... onto the next one.

Thanks for the cache Rainforest Cookie

Spy jordy did the hard work and the find. Tftcsl loving the area

Found while attending the mega event TFTC

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At the CITO and just decided to pop up the hill and found this one. TFTC

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Nice quick find! Thanks for the cache!

Tftc, found while at the Mega.

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Quick find while waiting for the nearby CITO

TFTC

Found whilst attending Easter Mega at Stanthorpe Qld. Rain won't stop so decided to hunt for a cache close by. SL.TFTC!

I was having to make it over this way to attend to the CITO nearby, so I figured why not take a look for the cache. Quite a number of others were also in the area to take a look, although they had already signed off up here. So Up I go and soon enough the cache was in hand and my name added to the log.

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 #3995}
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A nice quick find today while out and about for the Qld Mega.
TFTC

Out and about with Roostaman and lgoody today. Last day in Stanthorpe for me. Grabbing all the various types to get as many as possible in a day. Thanks to all the placers for the variety of caches out this way.
Thank you Rainforest Cookie for placing this cache .

Out and about getting some more caches for the day. TFTC.

Found with Ali600 as we waited for the CITO to commence

09:53 Found it on my third day on QLDmega2015.
TFTC SL

Found while out and about caching today. Visited a few TB's. TFTC Rainforest Cookie.

At the CITO I noticed a few people climbing up the rocks so I thought I'd join them and get a cache while I'm at it.TFTC

Quick find on way up the hill. Lots of finds today. TFTC Rainforest Cookie

Found today while out caching with the Hancock Clan, Aries44, Tronador and wazza9 hoping to reach 2000 finds by today. TFTC

Found with aerial_tennille, jillcycle, membsec and nyssaflutterby while out and about getting as many different types in a day as possible for those that did not yet meet 8 in a day requirements. TFTC

Quick grab while dropping off CITO garbage. Don't book me, officer!

Quick find behind everyone else dropping off cito.

Quick cache to find while dropping rubbish at the nearby CITO. Found at 10.20 am on 5th April 2015. TFTC.

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Day 5 of our return to Stanthorpe saga. Found with aerial_tennille, jillcycle, omaster and nyssaflutterby while out and about getting as many different types in a day as possible for those that did not yet meet 8 in a day requirements. Picked up at the CITO along with so many others.
TFTC

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

Thanks for the cache, out with omaster, Aerial_Tennille, membsec