Snow 11 Flakes The Summit, Queensland, Australia
By Granite Belt Cachers on 07-May-17. Waypoint GC759VG

Weve come to Stanthorpe for 2 nights in our van to hopefully finish getting enough caches to earn the current souvenirs. We had a great day today finding a variety of hides but I must admit Ill be happy not to see another granite boulder for a while!!!Thanks Granite Belt Cachers for the placement and maintenance of these caches.

A quick little cache on a drive by TFTC

We woke today to quite cool and foggy morning so we decided to wait around for things to warm up a bit.It was then we received a phone call from a family member traveling south that they were heading through Stanthorpe and would we like to catch up for a coffee. We never pass up the opportunity to catch up with family so it was on! They suggested we meet at a place in Thulimah, and we duly did.This set the agenda for the day. We decided afterwards to head further north up to Dalveen before working our way back home along the Fruit Run. It was only about halfway through the series we realized that there were fruit stalls all along the route, some open but many obviously no longer operational. We guess a new highway finished many of them!We collected a few other caches along the way as well.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Granite Belt Cachers.**SKI Pair****

Couple of days in the cold and rainy country watching kids rugby league games. Took the opportunity to zip out for caches when other teams were matching up.

Thanks for the great cache.

We had a good look around here .sorry to say we couldn't find anything here at all. The gravel pit has been cleared from what we could see.

Nice easy find

First one for the day. Plenty of parking. TFTC

Easy find nice photo spot for the car

We are on our way home from the MEGA EASTER 2023 in Rutherglen.

We stopped here, found this cache and signed the log

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Travelling with TBU1Bikesu from Rutherglen to Brisbane.

We stopped here, found the cache and signed the log.

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Omi35

Very cool!

Even after all the rain today, cache was in good condition. TFTC

Nice find!

full of water emptied out

container was full of water so we emptied it out, log book was ok from memory so we signed and left it . tftc

Spent a lovely weekend on the Granite Belt with Sausage3. While our husbands had a nana nap, we spent the afternoon geocaching, mostly avoiding the rain. Even though by the highway, it was good to have plenty of easy parking. Logbook was a bit damp so placed it in a plastic bag. Tftc

Found

Found but log is wet

Tftc ,
Warming up now the sun is out, very cool again this morning.
Made the find here.️

Day 3 of our 4 day excursion to Warwick and the Granite Belt area.

Last one for today. Now back to Warwick and some warmth.

Log signed and cache replaced as found at 5:01 PM on May 29, 2022. TFTC, Granite Belt Cachers

Weekend away to Warick and Stanthorpe targeting oldies, recommended at night and anything else in our way.

Travelling & Caching with RoddyC grannysmith1947.


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After attending the CITO in Warwick today, RoddyC, Hatzofff, GrannySmith1947 (and Miss Millie the Geo Dog), and half of my team (Mr D had to stay home to cook a hot dinner after a long day of caching) set off down to the Granite Belt, chasing those little smilie faces. Great afternoon, many caches found, only 2 not so...Some I had already found, but still had our travel bugs visit.

Cache was wet inside, hole chewed in the lid. Thanks Granite Belt Cachers

Will replace next time we are down this way, unless already done.

Favourite points for today's fun

demaerestars

Easy find again

Easy find, soaking wet definitely needs to be replaced!

Found this container full to the brim with water. Emptied it of course and replaced in its location, but had no suitable supplies on board to replace it sorry. Photo is attached for CO.

Box a bit wet but still logged. TFTC

Out and about Stanthorpe and around Stanthorpe district while visiting from Brisbane for a few days. Thank you to all CO's for placing these caches in these locations. Really enjoyed the time travelling around the countryside and town. Found cache and signed log. TFTC

Very mouldy

Needs maintenance very wet and mouldy

Very wet and mouldy

nice quick find log is ok emptied water put of container tftc

Wet drained out the water as best as I could. Left 2 marbles

I mentioned to some geobuddies that I wanted to go to Stanthorpe to finally collect the last of the Apple caches. A plan was hatched and a weekend away was planned. The weather did not look promising this morning, so we started out a bit earlier than originally planned. Next, we headed to this one. A quick find was made and the log signed. TFTC

This one was completely full of water

Tftc found with earthly 65

Bit difficult in the dark...Gps not friendly either so very happy to finally make a find...cache had a lot of water in it..log unsignable...added a new log and baggy ...tftc

I have just had the best weekend caching around the Warwick, Summit and Stanthorpe areas. With caching buddies (geonayfee, Willis007 and Triple Turmoil) for the weekend we got in a very large number of caches, completing the apple geoart, the fruit run and a few other special caches along the way. I had a fantastic weekend with lots of laughs and funny events it just made for a fun time; the puzzle solving in the lead up to the weekend was great also.

A big thanks to all the CO’s of the caches along the way; for placing and maintaining the caches for us to enjoy. Visiting this area and seeing places I would never see in a normal trip here was enlightening, so again thanks.

In the weekend I got around 180 caches so firstly apologies for the generic part to the log, I do not remember all specifically but some did stand out so I will add a little to those in my posts.

Completed some of the fruit run series and as we are working our way into town we are now starting the snow flake series. Some great hides and some easy finds.

I was invited to join Chamad, TripleTurmoil and Willis007 for an epic Geocaching adventure on the Granite Belt and surrounding areas. Our morning started bright an early at Warwick (For some good ole caffeine goodness) and slowly but surely we made our way south towards Stanthorpe while grabbing MANY caches on the way.

The main goal for the weekend was to complete the Stanthorpe GeoArt and sign a couple of the challenge caches. We had a wonderful yet tiring day, we did plenty of driving and visited several locations I haven't been to before

Thank you to each and every CO for places caches at these location. We thoroughly enjoyed the experience and had a blast. We'll certainly enjoy our sleep tonight.

Signed as Twocans

Apologies for the copy pasting crap.

#1673 - TFTC

After meeting Willis007 and Chamad at a previous event over New Years, they invited me to join them on an epic geoart mission at Stanthorpe. After weeks of puzzling and planning, today was the day (together with Nayfee). We covered a lot of mileage, had a lot of laughs and learnt a lot along the way.

Between Warwick and Stanthorpe there are a LOT of caches to sign and we did a pretty good job of getting every single one we could - signed as Twocan to save 25 seconds of signing at each cache, as we had work to do!

Heading out to Stanthorpe this weekend to grab some of the wonderful caches on offer out here. Our group of Triple Turmoil, CHAMAD and NayFee signed logs as team TWOCAN.
An easy find at gz today.
Thank you for the cache Granite Belt Caches.

We usually have the caravan in tow on this section and can’t pull over but today we were sans caravan so pulled in and made a quick find.
TFTC

It’s some years since I beadled around the Stanthorpe region and the promise of a temperate climate and low humidity drew me here. Lots of caches, cheese, jam, wineries, truffles, happy hour, awesome scenery, you get the picture Even managed to convert a muggle to our evil ways Lots of fun!

All is fine with this cache

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All good.

I AM GUR

Night time caching around Stanthorpe.

Thank you for placing this geocache Granite Belt Cachers
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Day 2 of our holiday in Stanthorpe. Last cache of the day. A record for us of 14 finds today. TFTC!

This week in Stanthorpe we have been visiting the local op-shops for pieces of gold. I have been looking for swag and my wife is a prep teacher so has been looking for all things kid friendly. Some of her purchases have made it into the back seat and I can’t wait to get them out of my car because some are downright freaky. tftc

Early morning caching run before heading back to brisbane

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Eskies5 and I planned a trip to Stanthorpe and surrounding areas to nudge me a little closer to a milestone. With the nudge now being a push this was the forty-second stop of what would be 58 finds for the day for me. Found this cache, our last for Queensland before crossing the border to NSW and a little closer to the milestone at 11:06am with not a problem. All signed and returned. TFTC

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Log a little water logged. TFTC

Very wet so we dried it off as best we could - log book in bad shape - left a pink champagne cap TYFC

Easy find, log saturated, tried to dry off as best we could. TFTC

Found with brother and father. Nice easy find.

On our way to QOGM (Blackall) day 14 of our trip. 2 caches for the day and 435 for the trip.TFTC

Quick find on our way to Wollongong. SL TFTC

Enroute from Toowoomba to Glen Aplin for a day of hiking cherry picking a few caches to fill requirements for the Mystery at the Museum souvenirs...this one was the last one needed for the third souvenir. TFTC Granite Belt Cachers.

Fun!

We were On the way to winery.

Found with Muddtrax & 2 Shadows
Found quickly and the log book is a little waterlogged. TFTC

#644 ~ Out night caching with Krossbo & 2Shadows in the drizzling rain. Who in their right minds, after a long dry spell from caching goes out at night in the rain? Only mad cachers Our first cache for the night!! TFTC!!

Out night caching with muddtrax and crossbow and mr shadows. The gang got together over the Easter weekend and decided to pick up a few caches
close to home. This was long time coming

Journeying from Brisbane to Queanbeyan for the Clear Waters Mega, with a geocache laundry list carefully compiled for the road trip down . This one was rather damp and mouldy but managed to add our stamp.

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Log signed at 17:45 and cache returned as found . Thanks for the experience and the smilie  **Granite Belt Cachers**

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Our last here at Stanthorpe befotre heading down to Queanbeyan for the 2019 Mega. It has been great, but with mixed success. Didn't achieve as much of the Stan's Apple puzzle series smileys as we would have hoped but we will pass this way again and will pickup and redo those ones that we missed. Log wet, unable to replace run out of stocks.
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Total Cache Finds 6380

Found It! TFTC. Log sopping wet

Quick and easy find. TFTC

This was a quick find in a lovely morning in the area. Log is very wet. TFTC

Cache was wet.....dried it out as best I could. Log was fine. Thanks

Sorry for the generic logs but there are so many caches in this area and there are only so many things you can write. We have loved caching our way here and around the area. We are only here for a day or two so not sure how many will will get done, but we will do our best. Thank you to each and every CO for the effort that has been needed to place and maintain the caches that we were fortunate enough to make it to. Thanks.

Found

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Snow 11 Flakes
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126 Km from Home

We had loaded up Scooby Doo (Car) & the Mystery Machine (Van and mobile GEO HQ) and headed off for 6 days of camping and caching. Our first stop was a lavender farm not too far from Stanthorpe where we set up the Mystery Machine and headed off to do some of the local caches.
We took nothing but memories; we left nothing but footprints, and our tag.
The hide is excellent, the container is in good nick. and the log is in good condition and ready for the next finder.
Thanks for the cache Granite Belt Cachers.
Cheers
Roaring Ford
Discovering Australia and the World, one hidden treasure at a time.

Found by Mary & David at 0910. Sunshine, blue sky, but still cold. Heading for the mandatory photo of the BIG APPLE, but we found later that it was closed. Making our way via family stops to the QOGM and WAGB Events. Our thanks to Granite Belt Cachers.

27 of 32 caches found today.

Having successfully put to bed the newly published Winter series, #1 thru #10, it was time to spring into action & convert some more smilies around the local area.
Winter the Geo-cat was happy to continue, she loves caching days & long country drives.

Quickly found in the most obvious spot.
Took TB.

Made our mark & replaced as found.
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Found with a few other cachers after a bit of a rock scramble earlier today.
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Found with stairman1 on the way home. All good here. TFTC

A quick find on a visit to Stanthorpe.
Left tb.
Thanks

TFTC

A road trip with Stephlego, WillPunkey and Scoob which started near Bathurst then down to the snow near Jenolan caves back to Bathurst for some ice skating and then a drive to Toowoomba Qld with a few caches to break up the trip. Thanks Granite Belt Cachers

found it

TFTC! Nice easy find with plenty of parking

Thank you CO for placing. All is good with cache. Left some fairy dust. Miss 5 and 9 found this one

Quick stop and find. TFTC

Out caching in the area, this is one that I found ... TNLN ... TFTC

We have returned to Stanthorpe to visit our friends Team Robbins before we continue on our adventures north. We still have many caches to find around this beautiful part of Queensland and with the weather being so perfect we set out to find a few. This is one of several we found today.

thanks Granite Belt Cachers

Ian & Sue - Team Pathfinder uses T.P. to sign smaller logs.

Loving the many P&Gs on our way to Armidale. Parked roughly 10m from GZ. Cache is in great condition. Took the basketball game and left a . Thank you Granite Belt Cachers for the cache.

Nice one.

Geomum did her best geoninja cobweb dance as she walked face first into a huge cobweb . Geohubby completed caching duties while geomum completed her routine Tftc GBC xo

My first cache WOW

Sometimes it's just about the numbers and this run was for that and if course the planetary souvenirs. I truly admire those that have done 100 or more, we were exhausted after just over 50 but that gets us half way there. We still enjoyed the driving and looking on the back roads and thank you for your effort in putting them there for us to do this run. TFTC

After a weeks holiday in Queensland am now heading home to SA. The X-Trailers are with me on this trip. TFTC

No spider sighted today
Easy find with earthlight as we head towards south australia
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Not exactly where the map said but easy enough to find.

Easy find. Bloody big spider there!

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We are nomads. Having left Perth WA in February 2014 we now live in our caravan and go wherever the will or caches take us.

Visiting Robins Nest and had to grab a few caches in the area.

Dropped off a trackable.

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Managing to find a place to park I staggered back to the cache, which was an easy find. TFTC..

Decided to spend a day caching in the Stanthorpe area before Christmas.
Well, we got in 1/2 a day before the heavens opened up ..

All Good .. TFTC ..