Rocking Tulare is a California-based initiative where children paint rocks and hide them around their communities. The finders of the rocks go to the Facebook page and post where they found them, and the game continues. 

When an American girl named Sally painted a rock and hid it, she never expected it to end up in Tasmania – but that’s exactly what happened when the Eastman family found it. 

Mum Lisa Eastman and kids Pella, 11, Max, 10, Dino, 8, and Pixie, 5, then went a step further and took the rock on a trip to Bali, hiding it inside a luxury resort. The finder, from France, has updated them on the Facebook page, and now the rock is presumably on its way to Europe. 

Lisa said she hopes the project is doing well in Tasmania. 

“I think it's wonderful,” she said. 

“I’m certain that I’ve seen people hiding rocks. I think it’s wonderful to do it around the parks, especially if you connect it back so that the next people can carry it on.”

It was originally her mother-in-law that found the rock, on a beach in California where she lives. However, it was her kids who got really engaged in the project.

“They were all pretty involved in it,” she said.

The Tasmanian version of the kindness rocks initiative is called Tas Rocks, and began in George Town. 

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