CoLOURS OF THE GRANITE BELT. RED Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia
By Rainforest Cookie on 08-Nov-13. Waypoint GC4RQAT

due to removal of the cache and moving house. time to archive

Given the previous logs, we thought as an off chance, maybe we should have a look. This has always been one of those "one day" caches which just never seemed to occur. For some reason i'm a bit chicken caching along a highway by myself; but today i had backup. Once on site it definitely looked as though the cache was gone. Looking at a different angle in long grass tucked away, what do i spy but a hint of red! Given the current status of the cache (tbh i thought it had been archived not just disabled) we decided to take the cache with us to be returned to the CO for redistribution to a more suitable location. Thanks Rainforest Cookie. Looking forward to catching up soon.

Out for the morning caching and on our way home we decided to have a look at this one. I was disappointed to see that it had been disabled, just didn't get around to finding it. When we arrived at GZ the sign and fence were on the ground. Had a bit of a wander around and low and behold, tucked away in the long grass, the red container. As my partner in crime stated in her log, we will return the container to the CO on her way back through here. TFTC?

We parked at the end of McKenzie St and walked towards GZ. GIven the clue and the previous logs we figured the cache would be on a sign. Unfortunately the large strawberry sign has been removed and is laying flat on the ground. There was no way we could look for the cache under the sign. JUst for good measure we got attacked by an angry magpie as well!!

seems it might be gone or shifted i will see what I can do

Tftc but sign has been rioped out for a new fence. Will message CO a picture of new location tonight.

Tfth

Parked down the road & walked to be safe. Red swaps placed. Tftc

We saw red!!! Only red swaps from us! Tftc

Night cache with Thirls and flicklick

Big jump with the MizenClan.

With colyermob

Just had to grab at least one cache this weekend to get the souvenir. I would have liked to have done a lot more but my muggle friends think I'm crazy. We had spent the weekend at Kurrajong Barn celebrating my birthday. We braved the really bad weather and arrived Friday night. No chance to cache on the way up that's for sure. We spent a lovely day on Saturday visiting the wineries and breweries but no chance to cache. Finally got this cache on the way home Sunday morning. I have already spent a couple of caching weekends up this way and intend to return soon to capture all the new green boxes and turn them into smilies. TFTC Rainforest Cookie

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

thanks for the cache

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

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Decided go to cache in the country instead of Town... Always enjoyed drive the car and plenty to see history, country, animals etc.
Thanks for hide the caches - signed the log.

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Parked nearby at industrial area.
All quiet today as no one at work.
Headed in for a quick find and signed the log.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks Rainforest Cookie All good with this cache

Found with team Bbayjohn whilst at Stanthorpe Mega, tftc

Sadly Oz Mega Mega is over till next year. We are super bummed, but we love this area so much that we are staying for a couple more days before we start making our way home. Thanks to all the cache owners, volunteers and friendly residents we have met. We have thoroughly enjoyed our holiday.
TFTC!!!!

Leaving Stanthorpe today after the Mega. We have a number of aims to achieve. The first is to pick up all of the remaining caches we missed close to Stanthorpe. This was the first.
TFTC

A quick and easy find. TFTC

Easy find. Not to pull up on hwy. Tftc

Found whilst attending Easter Mega at Stanthorpe Qld. Rain had stopped and the fog lifted to reveal a beautiful sunny day perfect for resuming my hunt for another cache in the area. Quite surprised that a cache could be placed so close to a narrow busy highway with no verge - I think it's only a matter of time before a serious accident occurs here. Police cruised by unamused and locals screamed obscenities as they drove post. SL.TFTC!

A quick find on the way home from the Mega. Tftc Rainforest Cookie!

Find #: 3798
Time: 9:47 am
Date: Mon 6 Apr 2015
This was find number 5 of 25
Our last day in Stanthorpe was made of a fairly random selection, doing some in the morning along the upper reaches of Quart Pot Creek, then we returned to the Showgrounds to pack up our little van. After lunch we went out Nundubbermere Road to the falls, and cached our way back to town, getting a few last ones in the outskirts.
A quick park and an easy find, no red swaps made, sorry.
Thanks for placing this cache Rainforest Cookie

Nice quick easy find while attending Ozmega QLD

Looking for somewhere on the highway to turn around and go back for a puzzle cache, I pulled up here and saw some other cachers having some luck. I sat in the car and checked my phone, and yes, there is something here. Very serendipitous! One of the advantages of the Mega weekend. Left a red bead. Made the grab then drove back. Thanks Rainforest Cookie.

In Town for the Oz Mega and we are cleaning up a few caches this morning before leaving to drive back to Brisbane for the flight home. TFTC

Catchup of missing online log.At Stanthorpe for the Queensland Mega with Mistraluna and the Chwiliwr. Today we are doing caches in and near Stanthorpe.Found the cache without problems.Thanks Rainforest Cookie for the cache.

Found by Mary & David, in company with micaparamedic, Crackers and the Coffees (signed MMCC) at 1640. The colour of apples, red wine and autumn leaves. No problems with this one. 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.

19464.516 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2009 Ink Frog A#134

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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 quick find. Took red spinner dice. Left red troll. 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 .

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

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 .

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.

And then there were a dozen or so other caches along the way and this was one of them. Enjoying the sunshine today.




Thanks for placing this cache Rainforest Cookie

TFTC. Found as part of the QLD OZ MEGA on 5 April. We had fantastic time. Thanks for helping make our trip a great one.

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.

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.

enjoy it TFTC

Me Easter Sunday bike ride took me to the edge of towne here !!
Beyond the edge of towne even [:o]
I had to cross the bypass

I managed to ride the bike all the way to GZ too, save for the muddy puddle jump
There was much 'meowing' heard in the last hundred metres [:o]
Seems a few pussy cats were spending Easter in the animal pound

TFTC !!

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.

Interesting concept having all the contents one colour, quick find just following geotrails now. 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.....

Quick pick while attending the OZ Mega.
Thanks rainforest cookie

Quick find TFTC

A little tricky parking. We were out with DIAMONJS and Rusty85, who jumped up and grabbed thus one for us all to sign.
Found at 9.50 am on 5th April 2015. TFTC.

This entry was edited by RoddyC on Sunday, 05 April 2015 at 12:10:10 UTC.

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

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

Found it TFTC

Found it with a few other carloads of geocachers who descended at the same time. Tftc

A quick find after enjoying ice cream nearby.
Thanks Rainforest Cookie.

Out and about grabbing some caches while attending the QLD MEGA at Stanthorpe. We 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

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!

Poor doggys

Another ticked off in the granite belt colour series.

TFTC

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.

Great Afternoon with a Mini Flash Mob Geocaching around the area. TFTC

Enjoying some MEGA caching. Thanks for the hide.

Out for a late afternoon adventure in the rain to collect abatch of caches. This was by far the quietest caching time during MEGA.

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.

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 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.

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 1215hrs. The local strawberry fields pickers were working hard at their craft when we found this cache.

Cheers

Bundy

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

Nice hide TFTC

Day 3 of my Queensland Mega Adventure. Started the day with some quick and easy ones not so sunny Stanthorpe. This was the twelfth find for the day. Thanks for the cache Rainforest Cookie.

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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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

Quick find T4TC

Raining again after giving a short break. An easy find but a wet and sloshy access to GZ TFTC Rainforest Cookie

Found during Stanthorpe mega. Thanks Rainforest Cookie

Found at 16:01 whilst wandering around Stanthorpe during the Queensland Mega event with Shonkylogic and Southern Cross Caching
Thanks Rainforest Cookie

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!!

At Stanthorpe for the Queensland Mega with Mistraluna and the Better Half.

Today we are doing caches in and near Stanthorpe.

Found the cache without problems.

Thanks Rainforest Cookie for the cache.

TFTC

TFTC

Found ya while at the Megga Event

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

TFTC,
Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

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

Seemed strange not to be doing an apple or an elementary so thank goodness for some "ordinary" caches along the way. This was our first day so we were pretty keen to get as many as we could.

Found by Sunshine Toledo and Her Majesty at 11:05am. The cache was found quickly. 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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Total Finds now ... 1204
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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

Enjoy caching around during mega stanthorpe
TFTC

Found on a nice day in the area

As the rain started to become even heavier, it was a quick dash out of the car, find the cache, sign the log and hurry back to dry place.

Tks ... Rainforest Cookie ... GazMag

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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

Day 2 of the QLD Mega event and after lunch Bristracker and I set out to pick up all the Elementary caches. After this we picked up a few more caches while it was still light. TFTC

Lucky it was a pub holiday otherwise would have give this a miss . but its actually out of the way really . Thanks .

Took the none Geocaching hubby out this arvo to grab a few caches. Enjoyed having a look around town and tooking the sights, while finding the variety of caches.
Thanks Rainforest Cookie for placing the cache for us to find.
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Day two for me at the QLD MEGA.
Out and about by myself for a few finds this afternoon. 
The 'apple' caches are my target caches for the weekend.
But one has to stop and find other caches as you drive past.
Thanks for the cache.

Plenty of parking around the corner off the road with a small walk today in light rain TFTC very glad of the gum boots

Popular cache this was as we pulled up here...was no real searching needed before our names were in the book and Wombles and I were headed back to the Mega for Mascot duty

Tftc

This entry was edited by Whint & Bad Dal on Monday, 06 April 2015 at 08:01:24 UTC.