This cache was originally placed in Melrose but was too close to the final of a puzzle I had not yet solved. So it was either ditch the cache page or take the concept somewhere else. The original site had a rather large and quirky retaining wall brick sitting in the middle of a bush track on a path to Scotts Lookout. There were no nearby houses. How it got there, why it was left there and who carried it there will forever remain a mystery. I was not prepared to carry the brick back to the car. The "bricks" you see at this cache site are of the natural variety. Riverstone Terrace is well named as there are a lot of small rocks and boulders on the ground and in streams in this suburb. The cache is now hidden in a stand of much taller forest. The cache is near (but not in) a boulder strewn stream.
What does Thick as a Brick mean?
1. Thick as a Brick is the fifth studio album by the English band Jethro Tull released in 1972. The album is notable for only including one song, which spans the entire album. Thick as a Brick was deliberately crafted in the style of a concept album (and as a "bombastic" and "over the top" parody). The original packaging, designed like a newspaper, claims the album to be a musical adaptation of an epic poem by a (fictional) 8-year-old genius, though the lyrics were actually written by the band's frontman, Ian Anderson. The album was a commercial and critical success and topped the US charts.
2. In the British Isles 'Thick as a brick' is used to describe someone who takes a position which flies in the face of reason and who seems unable to see the stupidity of the position he/she has taken. The sort of person, for example, who insists that all Scots are drunken, violent, wasters whilst ignoring all evidence which points to the contrary conclusion. Such a person would, after all efforts to convince him/her of the error of their ways had failed, be classified by all and sundry as 'Thick as a Brick' or even 'as thick as two short planks'.
3. Geocaching. How you feel after a series of DNF's when everyone else says the cache was a quick find or easy...
The cache is not under the "bricks" in the stream but you are looking for a "brick".