Things of Stone and Wood Pearl Beach, New South Wales, Australia
By GeoMonkeys on 21-Nov-02. Waypoint GCAB95

French
Cette pierre se trouve sur la côte méditerranéenne près de la ville "La ciotat".
Elle me fait penser à une tête ! Pas vous ?


English
This stone is on the Mediterranean coast near the city " La Ciotat ".
it makes think of me in a head! Not you?

In Panaca, NV. Looks like a teapot to me.

This is the face of Bertrand Russell, in a tree.

The tree can be found in Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, NY

Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist, and social critic.

The rain was coming down pretty heavily, but I wanted to grab this locationless cache before it disappears from GC.com forever. This is Ghost Rock in Sanborn County Park in Saratoga, CA. Dave thinks it looks like a mean cyclops. I think it looks like a Pac Man ghost. Either way, it's a cool looking rock.

Found a Simulacra in Huntsville, Alabama. This was in in Monte Sano State Park. It looks like a big bird (with a big crest) to me, but it looks like an elk(!?), with horns, to the wife. Either way, it seems like a good idea to not put your fingers and hand near the beak (or mouth) at the right. The park is very nice and has many walking/hiking trails. Thanks for placing this cache. [N34 44.283 W86 30.627]

This monster rock left by retreating glaciers in Indiana looks a bit like a skull (eyes and nose are at the far left in the photo). The notch on the top of his head makes me think he met up with an axe murderer!! TFTC

Young Man along Pout Hillside in Mendon Massachusetts. If noone else sees him, I still do everytime I pass by. When NH lost there Old Man, I used this guy as my avatar for a while.

This local attraction is so well known that there is a Frog Festival each summer in the town for it. You can find this frog while you are heading towards Waynesville, MO. The story goes that as the road improvements were being made, this large rock was left behind. A father and daughter were driving down the hill and his daughter noted that the rock looked a lot like a frog. And as they say, the rest is history. TFTC Rock-6

This one may be a stretch as the image was due to the low light focus flash on my camera. The full flash shows it to be just a tree, but the low light flash shows a face. In fact the low light image spooked me a bit when I first saw it late that night.

Love must be wonderful, even for trees: Here is a tree who is hugging the huge tree next to him, putting his "arm" around his "shoulder".
TFTC, Beutelteufelweibchen & Beutelteufelhalfling

This is the best picture we could get of this famous landmark in our area. Unfortunately, the best view we have seen is from the freeway, and that is life or death to stop there and get a photo.

Camelback Mountain is a prominent feature in my city. The outline of the mountain resembles a dromedary camel. On the mountain is another famous simulcra called the praying monk. I do not have a photo of that.

Tree Face or Bikini Body??? You Choose...

Found this roadside at intersection of SR 41 & CR 39 in Citrus County, FL. Depending on the light I either saw a huge face with a winking eye, or a headless body in a bikini. Either way, it's a great tree.

Located in a County park near Galesburg, Illinois.
The HEART in this oak has a local fable.
A young Man and his girlfriend often picniced under this tree as they got to know each other, and love bloomed. They cut a heart into the tree to show their undieing love. Fate stepped in and he was sent off to war, never to return. She died as a lonely old spinster. The tree continued to grow and the heart did too. Located almost 20 feet off the ground, the heart is now 2 feet high.
TFTC

I found the face of the Ents: A race of giant, tree-like people whose purpose was to protect the forests of Middle-earth. By the end of the Third Age, the great forests had dwindled, and so had the Ents, but they were still to be found in Fangorn Forest.
Interesting to read (in german) http://www.faszination-tolkien.de/volk/ents/
TFTC, Beutelteufelweibchen

This elegant swan’s neck rises from the grassy slopes of Biggin Dale in the Derbyshire Peak District National Park in the UK. The heavily weathered branch is still attached to a log that is almost completely buried in the grassy hillside of this limestone valley. The branch has a striking resemblance to the head and beak of a swan carried on its’ sinuous neck.

Hm, a lot of arms are coming out of this tree and grabbing everything arount

Greetings
Schnueffelnasen

Dressed up as santa this time of year. These are locally know as the Eustis Ave Giraffs! They are permanent, have been there for years! Hope they measure up!

At 1st glance I thought this looked like a moose or a camel. I finallly decided it looks more like the donkey that is in the pasture across the street. Now I know what he is braying at all day and night. If you look close it also appears that the eye is part of another face looking the other way. Now look closely between the eye and mouth you will see another animal, sitting with its back to the camers in the hollow with its front legs on top of the nose, looking to the left. This rock is about 4 ft tall, 8 ft long and 2 ft wide.

This rock is known as turtle Head Rock - you can see it is a snapping turtle emerging from the ground - stand back, it has a nasty bite!
This was found while doing a particularly tough geocache, Uitkyk kop.

Found this turtle only 5m. from another cache (GCP9C8) in Sweden.

During a Cachetour in Hemer, Germany, we found this Camel.

TFTC

Greetings from Team Goldregen

Queen victoria profile sleeping in Hawaii. It is on all the tour maps

I found this Kamel in the Rocks in Germany, NRW in Hemer. At the same Place i found a fieh, Ochsenkopf.
TFTC
Gruß Snowdream

We were on our way back down the beach after finding a nearby geocache, when Special K said look! What is this? And chamois-shimi said It's a dog! A German Shepherd! Sure enough. From the other side it looks only like a chunk of driftwood, but from just the right angle... it's definitely a dog. There were even pawprints in the sand in front of him- some other dog had been by to say hello! We know the cache description mentions "crappy driftwood", but this one seems high enough on the beach and heavy enough that he should be there for quite awhile yet!

The female thinks it looks like a bull dog, the male thinks it looks like a grumpy old man. What do you think?

This is the "Turtle Rock", and as you drive by, his head appears! Will post two pictures.

I found this tree, with the face, in Solingen / Germany.

THX Ralf

This is located in Mingo Park, Washington Co., S.W. Pennsylvania. -- Dog Head ---

Thanks for the hunt, that makes kill #184 for us.

TEAM COPYCAT
California, PA

Found this "dinosaur head" tucked in the garden of this business. He has a lot of sculptures in the garden. This is just a log, but fits in quite well. I didnt realize I could log more than one. There are several in my area, including famous ones. I will try and get them before the locationless caches are archived as a group.

Found this nice figure on a tree in the woods near St. Ingbert in Germany. I was really surprised when I saw a springing horse on a tree ! Thanks for this magnificant cache ! thomas63

Made of stone in Ishøj Danmark.

We found this demonic little face while visitng the West Kennet Longbarrow (GC6A05) if you look to the top left hand side of the picture, just above the big rock you should see it!

I have lived here all my life and have heard people talk about how beautiful this is.The day was cold and windy outside. Waiting for spring to come already so I can ride my new four wheeler.
badgerbait

Do you see this beautifull dog . Thanks for the idea.

Border

This little fellow is allso my cache:

Kunsten at balancere med noget på næsen !
(The noble art of balancing things at your nose !)
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=465df7bf-0c0f-41db-bc1e-9861b8b606a7

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Gade - Frederiksberg, Denmark

Cayuga Lake in Ithaca, New York often has lots of driftwood. This driftwood seemed to have the distinct face of a dog.

Made of Texas stone and wood in Kerrville Texas.

We have found this interesting rootage in beautiful valley of the Ohre river. Czech Republic, West Bohemia, region Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad).

Team Nightowls01 Gypsy & Moles found this unusual Rock that has some fame locally. We found it off Table Rock Lane near the intersection of Cherryhill Rd. Wheeling,West Virginia. You have to cross an open field and thru a copse of woods to another open field. It is right on the woodline. There were several grave markers near the rock. It is called Table Rock locally but to me it looks like a table with a birthday cake on top. Moles says it looks like a mushroom depending which way you look at it. Your choice. view the photos. THTC

I have found many neat items but I have not before today found one that I felt was worthy of this cache.

Today while hiking to [url=http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=c0477781-251c-4f70-bc23-c9c8aed4cb7a]Snow-Lighting Storm Cache[/url] we came across what appears to be the petrified head of a TRex.

Look at the image and judge for yourself, did the TRex rule the mountains of the southwest? One may never know.

Spotted a face in this rock, the mouth, nose and heavy eyebrows are just above grandson Connor's head.

While caching in High Mountain Park in Wayne, NJ, and while walking back to the car, I spotted this tree, it appeared to have one of thos Lord Of the Ring Tree Faces, but as you walk by it the features completely revert to nothing. !0 feet either way makes all the difference.

This rock formation high above KY 550 in Hindman, KY is called "camel rock" due to its undeniable resemblance to the Camelus dromedarius.

This rock embossed with the head of a gorilla sticks out from the rough escarpment of Bamford Edge, high above the village of the same name in the Peak District National Park in the UK. The profile of the rock shows the prominent forehead, deep-set eyes and rounded mouth with a jutting lower lip that is easily recognisable as a gorilla. The rock is a type of sandstone known as millstone grit and lying not far from the gorilla-headed rock is a partly finished millstone that was abandoned when quarrying ceased at this remote in the 19th century.

This the Mars Hill Mountain which is in a very flat section of farm country in Northern Maine. It raises 1000 ft about the surronding area. As you approach it from the west it looks like a sleeping elephant. This was first shown to me by my children, much better imagination. And now that they are older and we drive by they just call it the sleeping gaint.

Today we went for the Things of Stone and WOOD. We pass this tree many times a week and every time we think of an ostrich. The tree is an old pollard willow.
This old tree is found in the east of Holland in a small village called BAAK, appr. 30 km from the German border.
Thanks for your nice cache, I enjoyed watching all logs.

CrankyHenkie, team member Egni

Looked like a bunny to me and as i was taking the pic..my daughter walked up to me and said..."Daddy..that looks like a bunny"...so i think this fit the cache description...TFTF

located close to sallisaw, OK, in the Wild Horse BBQ parking lot

the old man in the tree has deteriorated over the years, try to imagine him with his full mustache (half seems to have fallen off)

i was alone during my photography session and i was unable to get in the photo since he's so high on the tree

found this arche called "Küssende Sau" - "Kissing PIG" near Blaubeuren, Germany

Glueckauf
Die 5 Steinweisen

Haliburton County Ontario Canada. We were out doing some caching today and came across this tree, just off the trail, and quite close to the cache hide. Now, we may be seeing things, but we're pretty sure this is a very large hand, with very bony fingers, reaching down to pluck an offending stump from the ground. What do you think? Thanks for giving us the fun of finding this one.

While looking for a spot to hide a cache I happened upon this fungus in the form of a frog. Unfortunately photographs really don't do this work of natural art justice. It is quite realistic and is somewhat permanent since it is a hard fungus which takes several years to form and grows very slowly.

Found a whole bunch (a bevy) of Swans. Located at the Tate Farms, about 10 miles north of Huntsville, in Madison County, Alabama. These are, as the sign says, Speckled Swan Gourds. Admittedly, they are not permanent and immovable, but with so many in the one area I thought this was different enough and was just too cute and unusual to pass up. Hope you will accept this. Thanks.

This is a crop of rock at Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, UK. It is known as 'Lion Rock' because it looks so much like a lion. This is close to where I live and whenever my children and I pass by we always say 'hello' to the lion.

Thsi was a great day with many finds. We stoped at cache GCMDK7 and logged the cache. On the way out past the unique rock wall rock formation my partner and wife spied this person looking back at us. It was relly neat. This angry looking person seems to be protecting his territory against intruderers. Thanks to CHSMATHWISCH for placing the cache and letting us find this. Did not see any birds in the sanctuary but did beat the storm home. 70 degress in November in Pennsylvania. Go figure.

I had this cache on my mind and was walking by this tree when I noticed a walrus looking out.

See you to it face and the chest??? The chest is, le mont du lac des cygnes. In Charlevoix in the Parc National des Grands Jardins.

Gevonden in Nederland.

Walking octopussy.

Thanks Carl M/

Found this "lying face" on a rock in Italy. Lake Garda. Near the city Torbole. Thx. for this cache.

Mary found this man's face on a rock in Dornwood Park in Topeka, Kansas.

Steve & Mary Brown
http://mysteve.com
Kansas City, MO
MOKan Geocaching Forum
http://mogeo.ipbhost.com/index.php

This limestone outcrop is in the Hervey National Nature Reserve at Witherslack in the Lake District National Park in the UK. The rock has the profile of a dog’s head with cracks marking out the mouth and a deep fissure for the eyes.

This face profile can be seen on US 14A between Powell and Cody, Wyoming USA. It is best viewed traveling west from Powell to Cody on the right hand side of the road. Need to look near the top to see the eyebrows, nose and chin. Mother Nature doing her thing for us to enjoy.

We found this monument into Warstein (Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany), admit by its world-well-known beer. It refers to a hut of a moving association.

Thanks for the Cache
Ulrike and Rainer

At the right side is a head of stone.
Found in south germany.

This tree is very funny, it is similar to a vase. It is in Barcelona, Spain.

When I was looking for the cache GCPRBP "Lisovska skala" I found that magical group of stones which look like the head of dachshund. That formation is situated on a stone cca 12m high. It is chapped in small cubes, it was made by freeze weather. The head of dachshund is cca 2m high. The name of rock is ,,Lisovska skala,, and lies in ,,Zdarske vrchy,, not far from the city ,,Zdar nad Sazavou,, in the Czech Rep..

This huge stone is very funny, it is similar to the human face
It is have eyes nose mouth even hair
I find it near the GCMYWE cache

The glove of the giant...

To day we came along this big tree simulating a giant hand.
Near the river Leie not far from Ghent in Belgium.

Pierre and Anne

Pulpit Rock is famous in Colorado Springs. Well...because it looks like a Pulpit. It is clearly visible from many locations in town and is surrounded by City Park land.

Found this simulacra while caching with Bushwack Bob. We were returning from the Forty Acre Rock cache when we saw this tree. Depending on the angle, it looked like a rapture (eagle/falcon), dragon head, lizard, or bird beak ... fascinating. TFTC!

This rock is called GOOSE and it looks like a goose, which is drinking a water. We found it in Kokorinsko near village Hvezda, Czech Republic. T4TC

Cool!

Near the south end of the Mississippi River Bridge (vicinity of the $1 Toll Booth)
New Orleans, Louisianna, USA

Resemblence: Jimmy Durante (check out that nose!!!)

I wasn't really looking for this one today, but cache hunting brought me by such an obvious and unique tree (that survived the two recent hurricanes to pass through New Orleans, Louisiana), I had to document it.

Thanks, Johann Panholtz

I first saw this cache last night. Since I was going to the North Georgia mountains today (Dahlonega, GA), I kept an eye out. Sure enough, I found one in a park!

The simulacrum I found is only about four inches high. It's the knot formed by a removed branch. I see a bear, carrying something.

My husband claims this tree actually has TWO simulacra, but I couldn't really see the sea dragonbut I uploaded it anyway. (The sea dragon is a relative of the seahorse, not a mythological creature, by the way.) If anyone else can find it, good for you!

Thanks for the great cache idea! I probably wouldn't have looked twice at the tree if I weren't thinking about this cache.

Xandria
Find #9 (first locationless)

We found this deep, big heart left in a stump of a tree in Southwest Germany near Ochsenwang on our tour getting Bellavista-cache-series along the Swabian Alb.

"German Swäbische Alb, continuation of the Jura Mountains in Baden-Württemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. The upland plateau extends approximately 100 miles (160 km) from the Black Forest (Schwarzwald) to the Wörnitz River at an average elevation of about 2,300 feet (700 m). The plateau rises in a steep northwestern scarp some 1,300 feet (400 m) above the valleys of the Neckar, Rems, and Fils rivers to its highest…"

Greetings from Germany,

team edelstein
Ottomar + Elisabeth

" MONSTER ROCK " is located south of Rock Springs, Wyoming on hwy 191 about 8 miles South of I-80. It was/is used by teenagers for beer busts and the like. This rock was not famous until after the hwy was put in. It now also contains a cache called "Monster Rock".

This is a pretty unhappy face, found in a stone which is used for stairs. Must be over 100 years old, because the house, where the stone is built in, is that old. Found in the first district of Vienna, Austria.

Beutelteufelweibchen

This "Rock" is located in Green River, Wyoming. It is well know as "Mansface". Their are several stores that are even named for it. Starting at the upper left hand of the rock, you will see his eyebrows then his nose and his mustache flowing down to his long chin.

This tree is on the local golf course and is very well known in the neighbourhood. It looks like a mother holding a baby (not a good picture it needs to be viewed from a longer distance)

As anyone can plainly see, this pine door has the image of a female sheep with long, blonde hair combed over one eye, a la Veronica Lake!

Had visited this tree, a 100+ year old English Weeping Beech Tree, earlier in week to log (GCGGBD) A Real TreeT, and returned with Mrs. XD to tour the Captain Bangs Hallet House Museum. http://www.hsoy.org/historic/hallethouse.htm When the tour went out to the tree, the guide pointed out this "boy in the tree".

Known locally as Turtle Head. There's supposed to be a cache right under it, but I couldn't find it. So at least I'll get a cache for scrambling over those rocks. TFTC!

This tree grew around an iron ring forming the face of a man. It is located in Battle Park, Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

Look at this great snake in a forrest in Essen-Kettwig, Germany.

Found it.
It is perhaps unusual, but we found a Troll who was nowhere near a bridge. Instead, we found him in a tree guarding a cache in a cemetery in Chattanooga, TN. Thanks for the cache.

Found this Woodbildung in NRW / Germany, in a Archo - Park. Gruß and TFTC Team Snowdream

Hope this counts, it’s a tree beard of lord of the rings
No its marks the entrance to a forest park

Found this whale well and truly beached, just about as far as you can get from the sea in the UK's Derbyshire peak district. It must have been one hell of a tsunami.

We actually found this some months ago whilst caching in the area and even took a photo. We did not know about this cache at the time so we didn't have the coords. We just had to go back and log it properly at the first opportunity.
[^]Nuts in May[^]

We thought this one was particularly appropriate. We had just stopped along New Mexico SR 4 between Bandolier National Monument and White Rock to take pictures to claim another locationless cache involving Anasazi Indian cliff houses. Drove just a bit farther down the road, and noticed this Indian face in the rocks!

Another elephant out of rock (roccia elefante) in the northern part of Sardinia, Italy.
It is close to a federal street. Main difficulty is parking your car..
Thanks for the interesting cache.
Alpini

On a recent trip to the Mojave Desert just east of Barstow, CA, while riding our ATV's, we ran across this rock formation that looked amazingly like the profile of an old man getting ready to sneeze. Achoooo!!

Edit: Added the money shot.

[This entry was edited by RANTAN on Monday, October 03, 2005 at 2:00:32 PM.]

Have passed by this tree many times, sometimes it looks like a dog, and sometimes it looks like a rat. Located on the side of the road, just pull over and take a look. What do you think?

WOW,in the "wilds" of Wyoming....scary face - I didn't see it logged here. I actually found this one on the way home from Yellowstone on Sept. 2 and in doing some caching looking and maintenance realized I haven't gotten this one logged yet.

A Face in the rock wall, His eye is a brown moss and he has a pretty big nose. The crack on the lower part looks like a mouth.
Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada.

This "Old Man of the Sea" formation is located off of Aliso Creek Beach in Laguna Beach, California.

This stone profile is on Town Hall Road in Intervale, New Hampshire. It reminds me of one of the Easter Island statues with the large pointy nose. There is also a similar profile when viewed from the other side which is a little unique. The trees on the rock make it look like it actually has long hair. There is no sign or marker so I think this is basically an unknown face in front of someones house as you can see a mail box next to it. It is about 7 feet tall.

Found this on the way to Hanging Rock Observatory. When I first looked at it I thought it looked like a buzzard head coming out of the tree. Then a group of hikers came by and I explained geocaching to them and they agreed that is looked like a head of some sort. Thanks for making me look. Thanks for making me look.
Greg S., Severn MD

This is a Whale on east Slovakia. On this place is also geocache Whale - http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=21e8fd4f-94dd-4675-8003-3ba1241e621a . I found this geocache 14.sep 2005.

Found this head of a gorilla while placing one of our own caches out in the woods. It's location is in the forest of Kindsbach, Rhineland palatinate, Germany.
Thx 4 Cache
the_kauls & Merlin

S 33° 30.624 E 151° 25.150
This ones located at Little Beach, Central Coast NSW Australia. Does take a little imagination at first - but once you have seen it you'll wonder why you couldn't see it before. Great spot to camp or just for a barbie if your so inclined - looks best at sunrise so I have timed my photography to show it off a bit better.

It actually a profile of a mans face on the southern cliff of little beach. He is looking out to sea, has a serious expression on his face and his brow is furrowwed, almost as if he sees a storm rolling in to spoil his days fishing and he isn't happy about it! The pronounced set of his nose and the defiant angle of his chin give him away most. Most Central Coast locals have visited this spot as kids and seen the face in the rock - I'm surprised it hasn't been logged before now.

Digital photography still isn't the best, the shot has to be taken from a distance and cameras don't zoom like the good old human eye does! I'm a bit disappointed with the results when the website reduces the image to such a small size. Co-ords are provided for those who really want to see it!

The "Odissea" is the poem writte by the greek ancient "Omero". It tells the story of the journey back home of "Ulisse" after the Troy war. During this journey he met the "Maga Circe". A story tells that when Ulisse left the Maga Circe, she feel asleep with the hair in the water and she get transformed in a mountain.
As you can see from the pictures, the mountain has the shape of a human profile.
The pics are taken on a wonderful day from the Sabaudia beach and the from the highest point reachable by car (Nicole was less than 2 months old, so we couldn't get upper... we will, we will).

I think this one qualifies. This little volcanic plug sits about the Hurricane Valley in Southern Utah. It is affectionally called "Mollie's Nipple". The story is that it was named by a lonely sheep herder who was lonesome for his fiance, who happened to me named Molly. I don't know about that, but it is popular to claim, after climbing it, that one has stood on "Mollie's Nipple".