Rocks and the Rock Cycle for kids Tamborine Mountain, Queensland, Australia
By The X-Trailers on 07-Nov-17. Waypoint GC7EKWH

Day 13 of my fortnight+ road trip up to Brisbane and back to Blue Mountains. Leisurely drives. Avoiding GC power trails. Randomly driving to various spots that take my fancy. Came up Mt Tamborine to get a few finds in another new LGA for my geo challenges later on. Answers sent to CO, TFTEC The X-Trailers

#6291Needing a find for International Earthcache Day, I chose this one as I was in the area exploring. A nice little park to visit.Answers have been sent to the CO for verification.Thanks for the geo-fun.

Visited the earth cache, learning more about area through geo caching than I thought I could

Answers sent. Cute little earth cache to get the geokids out and involved. Picked up by Braelair and Pancake (no Hobbits). Storm coming in!TFTC

Found it with thanks!

Found this earth cache while visiting the area with my daughter, had a nice wander around the Gallery Walk, now on to see the Glow worms.

Fun little activity with the kids, thank you.

Visiting South East Queensland for a week from Port Macquarie. Today we ventured out towards Tamborine Mountain before finishing the afternoon around the Southport area. After a chilly morning, the afternoon warmth was very welcome and made for a rather pleasant day of caching. This general part of town was by far the busiest but managed a parking a little up the road. Soon found the required answers which we have sent off. Very cool sculptures in this little park.Thanks for the cache

It was raining when I visited but theres a nice undercover area to use whilst answering the questions.

Out and about on this beautiful Monday with karen rinora. We toured around, and of course found some smilies along the way. Thanks for adding to our great day! I made my observations and answers will be sent. Thanks for bringing me by!

Out this morning to collect a few local government area specific caches to close out a challenge cache Ive been working on for sometime. After finding a safe place to park the car I quickly made my way to ground zero where it was not too long before i had the geological point of interest in my sights.Answers collated and sent to the cache owner and Now off to the next adventure. Fun trying to find a park on sundays.A big thanks to the cache owner for making this cache available to be found by fellow cachers.

Today RoddyC, Hatzofff and I had an early start to cache our way to Beaudesert for an Event then cache after the Event too. Hatzofff was trying to get enough caches in the Scenic Rim for a certain Challenge.Found this Earthcache and collected the info then sent my answers off to CO. It really is a beautiful area around these hills etc. TFTC

Home from our trip away and getting back into caching. An event in Beaudesert and a challenge to qualify for has brought us to the Scenic Rim.Answers forwarded to CO.Caching with RoddyC and Imbunda.TFTCache The X-Trailers

Great little spot on a busy corner

Friends and I spent an enjoyable hour or so at Tamborine Mountain Distillery, sampling an amazing array of different flavours. Following the Tasting, we wandered down the road to choose a spot for lunch. Fortunately, we were across the road from this Earthcache, I was keen to get at least one cache here, as I havent been to Mount Tamborine for maybe 20 years, and I didnt have a Scenic Rim cache. Im sure Ill be here looking for caches at another time, but this was the perfect opportunity for a quick visit to get the answers for this Earthcache. Answers have been sent to the CO. Thanks,, The X-Trailers, for this Earthcache. Im definitely keen to come back to look for more caches, and to enjoy the lovely are?pa.

Down the coast with IolantheK dealing with a radio site that was off-air due to the Boxing day storm Whilst in this neck of the woods we decided to do get a cache before returning.Answers found and messaged to CO Enjoyed the poetry TFTC The X-Trailers

T-Tech wanted to check on a radio site at Eagle Heights after the storms went through, and on the way home we stopped to visit this Earthcache. No trouble finding what we needed and I enjoyed the history lesson here too. I have sent my answers to the CO. TFTEC, The X-Trailers.

Answers sent, thanks

I was bored of looking at fudge and craft in shops so left the wife to do her thing whilst I wandered off to find this earthcache... Thanks for putting it here and saving my sanity.

stopped here and had lunch so grabbed this Earth Cache
TFTC

Needed an Earthcache for the Wheel of Challenges this month. Thought I could manage one aimed at kids. Answers sent to CO. TFTC.

Sure, what should I say?Beautiful day for a drive. Thought we would do some geocaching. Thanks for this little quiz.

As the sky began to turn from the blue of a beautiful day to the hughes of a Queensland winter evening, and the traffic quietened down, I paid a visit to this cache before leaving town.

A family came along and enjoyed the sculpture, taking a few photos of their little ones who climbed atop and posed .

Gosh, this is a lovely little town.

Thank you for bringing me to this corner.

Thanks for this delightful EC. Visiting from Perth WA and saw this was just up the road. Very quiet so answers found quickly.

We didn’t choose the best time to visit this cache as the area was very popular and parking proved to be a challenge. There were children climbing on the sculpture so luckily this was an earthcache so we could still find the information needed. Answers have been sent to the CO. Thanks The X-Trailers

My geodog Scruffy wanted to look for some caches so I thought "why not?"

This was an interesting little EC.
Of course Scruff and I mucked about round the sculptures til we finally decided to look at the questions.
But for the photo shoot, Scruff did NOT want to be there. This shot was taking very quickly under extreme protest.

All Good .. TFTC ..

answers messaged.

Headed up the mountain today, found a few caches on the way. The boys had fun exploring and helping with the answers. Thanks for highlighting this for us - we may not have stopped otherwise

Thanks for showing us the spot with the earthcache.

After a beautiful Anzac Day Service, where my 10 yo grandie participated, we headed up the mountain for an icecream and a cache or two. It was her decision. Race you to the cache. So we decided to see how we went at the end of the day.

Grandie had never done an earthcache yet, so we decided to call a truce on our race but as we arrived she said "see how we go with the answers.

We checked out the Rocks and she found the question to question 3, I said I would do the research to Question 1 & 2

So decided that made us
Score: Dunmowin 4, Grandie 4

Thanks X-trailers for the fun. Answers to come

Enjoying an afternoon on ANZAC Day chasing a hankering for fudge. Mt Tambourine is just the place! Despite some showers, we managed bush walks, a picnic and the requisite shopping!

We love an Earthcache, so made a beeline for Ground Zero. Cool spot, another one which would have escaped our notice if not for Geocaching.

Answers submitted as requested.

Thanks For The Earthcache!

Quick find

Chikinlittler gathered the answers for this one and they have been sent to the CO. This was our last cache of the day as from here we went back to witches falls for a picnic lunch. Thanks for the fun earth caches on Tambo.

TFTC! I rarely do earchcache as many of the times it requires a bit knowledge in geology and that's not my strength. But I found this one quite easy, so thanks for placing such a cool cache here at Mt Tamborine! Hopefully my answers are correct.

The Esky family came to Tamborine for a few nights. First stop was lunch and while we waited for it come out I had a look at what was nearby. This was less then 90m from where we were sitting so after lunch we wandered over to check out the sculpture. Answers gathered and sent on behalf of Eskies5, Mr Esky and TheEskyBoys. TFTC The X-Trailers

Found with Brissy Cat and elina_maree.

Great to have an Earthcache dedicated to help kids learn about geology. It’s been a while since I’ve visited Tamborine and gee it’s busy! Found with BrissyCat

Elina_maree and I had organised to find some caches after our church camp and GeoM was keen to tag along. We managed to find a park in Gallery Walk, which was crazy busy on a Sunday afternoon. After coffee and donuts were consumed, we headed over to check out the sculptures. We talked to GeoM about the types of rocks and he helped to answer the questions before climbing all over the sculptures. Thanks for this kid-friendly Earth Cache.

Geo Dad had purchased a SUP on Marketplace so he dropped us off at the park, Geo Mum had some calls to return so we were left to check out the rocks. Thanks The X - trailers for making a kids earth cache it was much easer than the ones Mum makes us do for school work. A lovely park too

While I was buzzing around Mt.Tamborine I came across this earth cache and this area. It was so wet and fogged in this morning. The wind was crazy and there was a bit of a nip in the air. While I was getting the information for this cache the sun peeked through the clouds and I was able to get a little rest from the cold and drizzle.

This was definitely a different type of earth cache but an interesting one the colours and textures and rock formation was yes interesting, thank you.
Answers have been sent.

Thanks ! Much more interesting than just shopping! Tftc.

#183
Another find to keep up my streak.
I live local, but didn’t know about these rocks. always read about them on the app while lying in bed.

Great little park with some interesting pieces of art. Thanks for bringing me here. Tftc

The three of us were here on holiday, and stopped by to complete this earth cache while waiting for some lunch.

Mini Tardis and Mr Tardis compiled the answers and sent them off.

Signed the log. Thanks for the earth cache The X-Trailers.

Nice and easy me and my dad got stuck on the first question we came back after lunch and the first thing i read was the type of rock we had both missed it, was very funny thanks for the adventure, TeenTardis

Had a lovely few days on the Mountain, unfortunately was so relaxed didn't think about caching till the last day!!! So just did a few quick and easy ones as we left town. Stopped off at this park and very cool sculptures.

Thanks for the cache I probably wouldn't have stopped to see all these otherwise.

Answers sent to CO

Nice wanders sent

Easy peasy tftc

Answers sent. Thanks for pointing it out. FP. TftEC.

I'm here from Canada, visiting family & friends in SE Queensland.
Sister-in-law drove me up to Tamborine today to this cool sculpture.
Thanks for bringing us here today.
Giving it a fav point!

Haven’t geocached for years but today my Canadian sister-in-law and I found this amazing cache at Mount Tamborine.

Out with geohubby and daughter for a day up the mountain. Answers sent to CO. TFTC.

A lovely day out with Davidwazza! TFTC!

Today, [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I took my visiting family south to Tamborine Mountain. We first took a short 1.4 km walk through the MacDonald section of Tamborine National Park, before then browsing the Gallery Walk street, and grabbing a bite to eat for lunch.

During our walk, [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I walked past this with baby Ada, and we stopped to admire the Bower sculpture and the nearby rocks. We soon found the plaque in question, and it didn't take long to answer the required questions, which were then sent to the CO for verification. Thanks The X-Trailers for the EarthCache placement and organisation. You don't see too many sculptures EarthCache outside South Australia and in Queensland.

TFTC

Answer sent to cache owner

Thanks

On a day out caching. Haven’t been to Tambourine for a while. So good to get up here again, always like Tambourine .

I AM GUR

TFTC

Great little area to start a walk down main street. Lovely town

Was a good place to visit with my kids

I normally avoid Earthcaches, but while out with PirateLinda and 2manytrailers this cache seemed doable... even for the three of us...

Many laughs later we submitted our answers and hoped back in the car... tftc...

Found with Peppa and 2manytrailers on our day of adventuring. Have had a lovely day around Tamborine

Found with Peppa and pirate Linda. Beautiful day out and about.. loads of laughs

TFTC!

Weather too nasty to ride today, so off in the car to hunt some smileys. An AL to do up here plus a couple of earthcaches.

Still ahead of the weather. Another "new" installation on the mountain.

Answers sent, thanks for a nice simple earthcache.

Beaut spot. Thanks X-Trailers. Fav point alloc

Quick stop here in the morning before heading off to the nearby lookouts.

TFTC

Georode

A bit windy and wet on the coast, so came up the hill to enjoy a coffee and cake.
TFTC

After an enjoyable walk down long road, we spotted by this Earthcache to eat some lunch, fudge and convert another smiley. The kids enjoyed helping find the answers and burning off some energy too. TFTC

Time for a trip up Mount Tamborine again think I’ve been up this mountain almost every trip to the Gold Coast for me. I do love it up here. Came up today with mum to collect the answers for the 2 earthcaches up here, I have submitted the answers for this one to the CO but not the other one yet as i have misplaced the sheet of paper I wrote the answers on. The CO has given the go ahead to log this one.

Nice and busy up here today, but that’s to be expected on the weekend, had to wait out climbing muggle children so I could gather my answers and take a happy snap. Thanks for the EC at this interesting location The X-Trailers

Great little interlude before heading home after a day on the Mountain. Thank you for bringing us here!

Enjoying these Earth Cache Sculptures. TFTC

Answers sent to CO. Had a great afternoon in and around Mt Tamborine after taking the kids fossicking at the bottom of the mountain. Always a challenge to park around Mt Tamborine, but soon we were looking at this great piece of sculpture. Thanks for bringing us to this spot. TFTC.

We were out cycling around Tamborine Mountain and stopped for a beer. We realised that although we've been here many times we hadn't completed this earthcache. Whilst Mr.
Herbz was recovering from his exersions on the bike, Mrs. Herbz went over and found the answers. A nice easy and enjoyable earthcache. TFTEC.

Mrs Gunnie and I planned a cosy picnic for two up this way today, but of course you can't fill an entire day with eating...Can you [?]

We ticked off the Cameron Falls walk, did coffee, watched some paragliding off the hill, did the picnic, then off to Curtis Falls and the adjacent circuit. As we headed to the last of the walks, I swung into the carpark to glean the all important information for this cache. I had seen the sculptures on many a drive by, but never pausedto have a look. This was a great excuse. [^]

I quickly had the info I needed, snapped an obligatory I was here pic, then headed off to appease Mrs Gunnie who is not a lover of our game. She was much happier when we hit the next walking trail.

Thanks for the E/C and making me take notice of the art here. On logging, I note a Sandgroping visitor was also here this morning. Hi SVKR_WA. Hope you enjoyed your stay on the hill.

Cheers X-Trailers.

A mice quick one here for the morning. A pretty little park at the top of the street.
Answers sent to CO

A couple of days in Tambourine Mountain, staying at a little Airbnb cottage. Headed out for some touristy stuff and a few caches today.

On Annual Leave for a month and that leaves more time for geocaching.

We have taken a 2 week holiday from Perth to QLD. Spending a few days on the Sunshine Coast, a few days in the mountains and then a week on the Gold Coast.

The X-Trailers SVKR_WA is happy to have found your cache Rocks and the Rock Cycle for kids today at 09:07:23 22 Mar 2020. This brings my find count to 4041

The X-Trailers - Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment. We love travelling and visiting some places that we would only visit due to this game.

Came up here today looking for some cooler weather.
Enjoyed doing this earthcache. The geology was at my level.
Thanks The X-Trailers for the cache.

With owners permission

Visited this earth cache after lunch nearby, collected and sent verified information. Nice to see an earth cache engaging kids, our teenagers are on Bribie Is while Mr and Mrs CNQ do some caching around Mt Tamborine, we get more done this way! Thanks for setting up this earth cache X-Trailers.

Out for a drive today. Stopped for an icecream and a cache.
Cheers from NZ

On holiday from NZ. Great to wander around and enjoy the area. A lovely little village to meander around. Answers sent to CO.

I am logging using the Cachly app template so please excuse generic logging along the way. It’s just my way of keeping track, but I do genuinely thank each and every one of you cache owners for taking the time and energy to place these cache. Many Thanks for bringing me here. Cheers

TFTC
1 - it is a Sandstone sculpture known as a Megalith.
2 - it is a sedimentary rock.
3 - on each rock it says “STUMKAT 2017”, the surname of the sculptor Paul Stumkat and the year it was sculpted.
Great day out with the family.

Ok for our first catch

We love this type of cache and have been saving it for today,we made a special trip up the Mountain to obtain our souvenior TFTC our answers have been sent to the CO

Just a quick note as a place holder
Until I get a chance to email the answers

nice day on Mount Tambourine
OK I am just a big kid when it comes to Earthcaches
had to stop for a look
message with answers finally sent

changing 'Note' to a 'Find'
thanks for the Earthcache

Stopped on the way through to study another rock! “Gunks the Geologist” said no one ever!
This one seems quite straight forward so hopefully I pass. Nice little spot too, shame the weather was not behaving. TFTC

This was a quick stop as we happened to be driving past, so we called in to have a look at the Earth cache. Answers were collected and sent to the CO. We hope it's OK that we are not kids and didn't have any kids in to- we just enjoy Earth Caches! Thank you for placing and maintaining this Earth cache.

Visiting from Melbourne and looking for a cache to mark my visit to the Tamborine area. We had a great day exploring several parks and finished off the day with this cache. Thank you The X-Trailers. The answers were sent a few minutes ago.

Sent answers and have been accepted. Thanks for a nice spot to stop off and learn something.

Answers sent. This a is a gorgeous group of sculptures. Thank you for bringing me here! TFTC

Thanks for the excuse to visit this park.

Founds whilst Travelling around Australia TFTC

Nice earthcache has n Tamborine Mountain.

TFTC From Canada.

Visiting the area with muggle relatives and of course I just had to sneak over to the corner park to get the information required for this Earthcache and what a beaut idea for little cachers to come here to learn a little about geology.
Answers messaged to CO as requested.

TFTEC The X-Trailers
Found February 22, 2019

Thanks for bringing us to this lovely little park. We are visiting from Canada and had been to the brewery on a previous trip in 2016 but did not notice the park.

Tired of unpacking boxes went for a drive here.
Cool forest and lunch with the crowds.
The rocks looked familiar and I have sent my answers
Thanks for the cache The X-Trailers
R

Founds whilst Travelling around with family.The answers were submitted nice spot.TFTC

TFTC

Answers sent.

Thank you for this Earthcache. The weather wasn’t good but still a beautiful location.
Cheers

Fun day out with Krcamber picking up some caches on Sunday