Family Connection - Quarry Hill Fernvale, New South Wales, Australia
By Richmond Lad on 01-Feb-15. Waypoint GC5JQ7H

Nice stopover spot on the way home, thanks

Very easy quick thanks to hintThanks for bringing us here

TFTC. Nice park and grab.

Heading home after doing most of the rail trail and decided to grab a few more caches while we could. Nice quick find, TFTC

TFTC. Thoroughly enjoying caching in this area and on the NRRT. Especially thankful that these caches are safe to find by having room for a car to pull over carefully.Logged as BG & SDW. A couple of cachers come to Murwillumbah for 3 days together trying to get as many smiley faces as possible in that time. Thankfully it is a very rich area of caches to pick from well done to the locals for placing and maintaining. The hiring of E-bikes start of trail was a great idea but even then we only got half way. Just means we have to come back again to finish it.Apologies for the generic postings all logs signed and replaced as found.

Have driven past here many times. tftc

Family Connection - Quarry HillVisiting the Tweed LGA with chamad and geopup today to collect caches for a challenge. A quick find here, log signed, all replaced as found. TFTC Richmond Lad# 10134CheersWillis007

Easy peasy find tftc

A lovely day in the area finding caches and this is one we found. All good here, log signed and replaced as found. Thanks Richmond Lad.

Another quick one on our way. TFTC.

Tftc. Quick find on peaceful Boxing day morning.

Found it while on the travels TFTC

I headed out in the geo-car for a few caches today.Decided to hit a few along the wayI found your cache, Family Connection - Quarry Hill today. This is my 2481 find.Quick park and grab Richmond Lad, TFTC, TFTH & TFTSF

I found this cache as I headed home to Adelaide after the QOGM events around Longreach.The plan was to be away for about a month. I travelled up to Longreach via Broken Hill, Cunnamulla, Charleville and Barcaldine, camping and finding caches of interest along the way. I intend to head home via Brisbane and the NSW coast to Sydney, then across to Adelaide. However my plans are pretty loose and subject to change, often on a whim!The weather so far has been good, albeit a little warm at times. I am hoping it stays that way for the rest of the trip.I have had to be quite selective with the caches I have found as there are so many that I am passing. As a result I have mostly targeted non-traditional cache types, although I have also grabbed a few Trads opportunistically here and there.Thanks Richmond Lad for the cache, which has contributed to an interesting and enjoyable trip.

Yay

Staying in Coolie this week and today, I'm doing a geo-tour down the Tweed Valley Way and towns/villages nearby. Traffic is pretty busy on the main road so I'm only stopping for roadside caches where it's easy to pull up and park, like here where I made an easy find.

Thanks for placing this cache.

Out for the day. Found this nicely hidden.

I was again on a solo mission today as my wife was hanging out with her school friends probably day drinking. Good luck to her because whilst it might be frowned upon there is an upside to day drinking. The upside is that if you can hold your nerve it turns into night drinking. tftc

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Finland

TFTC

TFTC smile 15939 out and about with miss millie geo dog on a lovely day Signed and replaced, sign as GS1947 on small caches
FP
Thank you, Richmond Lad, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Another easy find
Log stuck inside cache
Tftc

Visiting from New Zealand for a family gathering in Byron Bay. Now off to Springbrook for a couple of night. Had enough time to stop for a few caches along the way. Cache all fine. Thanks for the smiley

TFTC. No barriers to finding this one

Quick easy find.
We had no pen so didnt sign
Martyn n Sue

Thanks Richmond Lad

Quick park amd grab...thankyou

Heading back home from having a lovely lunch in Tyalgum and grabbed these caches while they were conveniently on the same side... TFTC.

The new traffic division certainly seems to be making itself known. I’ve had no end of complaints about aggressive clamping.

Lots of traffic at this intersection so we had to time it right. Thanks for the cache

My first cache find. Ta good find.

#4575
It was our last full day in the region, so we decided to further explore the Murwillumbah area after our brief trip yesterday. 25 finds and just the 1 DNF for a great day in good weather, with just a few light showers.
It was a bit of a family affair today, the whole family caching the Family Connection series.... Plenty of parking here, although the locals do scream through and onto the sideroads to the west, watch the kids.... TFTC!

Found with my family on our drive up to Murwillumbah today...

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Found today on a cache drive out with the family, had a nice time exploring Murwillumbah and some surrounding places!

TFTC

This was a nice quick find for us as we left town. Thanks for the cache.

Another good find ta

A wet day today, out with DiMorgan picking up a few caches around the greater Murwullimbah area.

10372
TFTC Richmond Lad

Tftc Richmond lad, remember travelling this road as a child

Gotcha - Found easy enough. Log needs renewing.

Nice tftc

Got it quick TFTC

Found it!

Great hide!

Quick found it

Tftc

Found nice and easy although the magnet is no longer attached

Tftc

Found with Dozenmater TFTC

TFTC - found with rainygirl74

This Geocache is active cause we found it

Great find

Disabling due to CV19 and will make them active in due course

Tijdens rondrit op Cape Byron en verplaatsing naar Murwillumbah deze cache gezocht en gevonden.
TFTC and greetings from Belgium.

LOG: 16:20
Das kleine Döschen am Wegesrand konnte ich rasch und unauffällig finden und mich ungestört in das Logbuch eintragen. TFTC!

Quick easy find thanks

Tftc good find

So many muggles but we got it. Tftc

Nice easy find. Thanks.

Coming back from Ulysses Memorial lunch at Crams Farm with bebbles61 Easy find TFTC

TFTC NICE easy fine

Found while on a geocaching holiday with tmann421.
Enjoyed the trip around and all the great hides.
Stamped TM/WW NZ, or if in pen our full names

Another very nice find today with woolwood9.
Thanks for helping make our tour around fun!
Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ or our full user names or tm421 / ww9 in pen.

We visited a lot of guards today!

Parked the car and walked over to GZ. Found easily. TFTC Richmond Lad

Thanks for placing this series. Thoroughly enjoyed it on a Saturday out gathering.

My last cache on this detour today and I was disappointed there were no more. Thank you Richmond Lad for this string of Family Connection caches. We had a slight connection to this area as my parents lived at Mobbs Hill just close to here and we holidayed a couple of times with them and then moved in with them while we built our house on the Gold Coast. While living there our children went to the Stokers Siding School. We loved our time in this area. It's so truly beautiful. Thank you for bringing back many wonderful memories by bringing us here.

Nice quick park and grab. Thanks.

The valley below is filled with fog. TftC.

I was travelling from my parents in the Tweed Valley to Coffs Harbour for a work meeting. They had a medical appointment so after morning tea I was on the road by 11:30. I had three goals today - all of which were achieved. Get 12 caches to get me to 2000 (it is a game of numbers really); extend my caches further east; and finally get my maximum number of "counties" greater than 4 (I had calculated that I could get 6 today). Had a rough plan and got a few extra to add, so in the end got 16 caches of 3 types (plus a couple of unregistered DNFs) and got the 6 LGAs and arrived before dark. Not certain I will get any more in Coffs tomorrow, but also picked up a couple of TBS as well (always a nice bonus).

After scratching around for a long time at a mystery cache in Murwillumbah (not logged - certain it is there, just couldn't get my eye in) I started heading south. I learnt t drive on this road (see later log) when it was the Pacific Highway. However I don't reckon I have ever travelled down the Fernvale Road. Parked in the quarry, sauntered over and quickly found the cache - nice to have a few quick drive bys at the start of this day to get a milestone.

TFTC Richmond Lad

Thanks for this one signed it PJT. All is good here

Have to be on your GUARD here with traffic coming and going
Easy find
Cache and contents all good
tftc

With trucks from the quarry in action behind me, a litre stealth was required. Luckily a quick find was made. TFTC!

1Minniemoo, Nyssaflutterby, some munchkins and I set off on a roadtrip to Ballina for a weekend.
So funny to see a gravel pit here. NF gave it a quick visit then we located the cache.

After a quick hug of the close by gravel pile I joined my companions wombles and 1MinnieMoo to create another smiley on our fun filled adventure to Ballina.

Thanks for the cache Richmond Lad

23/2/19 1:50 pm Find #2386
A journey to Ballina for the weekend for NyssaFlutterby, Wombles&Co and I, with the obligatory stops along the way.
We remember our first gravel pit cache well. It was on our way back from Carnarvon Gorge last year, and ever since then we have had a bit of fun with these.
So imagine our merriment when this one sprang up along the route, especially when I had commented only about a week ago that we would be disappointed to not have any gravel pits for this road trip. Well it turns out I was wrong. And this one gets to be our first one south of the border.
A quick find made here today.
Thanks for the cache Richmond Lad.

Out on a weekend caching run in the area with RoddyC, Hatzofff & Snickersallan.
Stopped here to find this cache. A quick find. SL then returned as found.

Found on 10 February 2019 at 12.22pm. TFTC, Richmond Lad.

Found on day 2 of my trip in the NSW countryside with geo friends. Good clue, good hide.
TFTC Richmond Lad
Found February 10, 2019

Found while out with RoddyC Snickersallan & Patrol 14.
TFTC

Nice park and grab! Tftc

Day Two of our caching from our base at the Murwillumbah showgrounds. Today we were impressed with the coastal scenery as well as the hinterland scenery which presented itself at every turn. We enjoyed finding this cache. After being introduced to the chocolate coated frozen banana yesterday we were on the lookout today and managed to get one at the place just up from the Fruit Platter cache. Nice. Thankyou Richmond Lad for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area

Back in Down Under for the next edition of SuCos Great Australian Roadtrip!
Heading from Sydney to Brisbane in a HippieCamper, what a great fun...
Driving north towards Gold Coast, we took a nice detour along this tourist drive to enjoy the scenery and stop for some caches. Nice drive!
Nice and easy. TFTC

Caching drive the long way to Casuarina. Nice quick find on the way down to this series. TFTC Richmond Lad

Watawieh from Norfolk Island South Pacific.
I have always wanted to see how many caches I could find in a day. Today I see off on a caching run through Northern Rivers. This was find #28 for the day. My final tally for the day was 31. TFTC

Heading out for a grand tour of the Tweed Valley with joojoo57 as my chauffeur and guide. We set out from Tweed Heads, headed south to Murwillumbah, south again through Fernvale and Stokers Siding to Uki, north to Byangum and west to Tyalgum, collecting about 30 caches for me, and just 2 for joojoo

This series of caches were our main reason for the adventure today, as joojoo was keen to show me the places connected to her family. As I headed to GZ she warned me of ants, but there were none within cooee A quick find in the obvious spot. TFTC, Richmond Lad.

Another quick find on the way to the Gold Coast from Lismore. Looks like this quarry is still in use, some fresh tracks lead into the area. Thanks Richmond Lad!

Another quick park and grab! Thank you!

On first arriving here there was a cycling event with police escorts and so I did the loop picked up the other three cachesand when I came back I was able to make a quick find. I enjoyed the family connections to the area.

Out for a milestone day of caching with stortigirls. I still needed to find a few caches to make the milestone, so we stopped by this cache. The cache was quickly located and the log signed. TFTC

SElva Girls and I were travelling South to meet up with friends to do a milestone cache for her. We stopped along the way to collect a smilie here. Tftc Richmond Lad

Got it thanks find 24 for today so far thanks

Mullumbimby Day 2
Today we went for a Sunday drive on a Thursday. Headed north & then circled back, travelling through scenic country side & quaint villages. Caches were well maintained & in some good locations.
Thanks for placing this cache Richmond Lad

Quickly found. Used to drive through here heaps when we lived locally back in the 90s. Tftc

Find No: 6585. Visiting from Newcastle, staying at Chindera, thanks for the cache Richmond Lad!!

Nice quick find.
TFTC Richmond Lad

found it

After returning from the railway we attempted all the the caches on the way north. TFTC Richmond Lad

My last find for the day. Thanks for placing these caches here, Richmond Lad.
TFTC

Caching on a wet Sunday. Tftc. Tnln

Tftc quick and easy find