SSE #64 Biddeston, Queensland, Australia
By Brother Colin on 03-Apr-17. Waypoint GC7399X

Found with Pprime` as part of our Toowoomba adventure.Thankyou for the entertainment here.

Today we travelled south from Chinchilla to Tenterfield as we continued to make our way to board the Spirit of Tasmania next Friday. Whilst we were in Oakey, we realised that we were very close to a puzzle series that we had almost completely solved. We calculated that we could allow two hours and we set off to see how many we could find in the time. The plan is to come back at some time in the next year or two to look for the remainder. So today was really a reconnaissance mission.Having recalled that we had seen this font before, we soon had this puzzle solved and the coordinates confirmed. Today reasonably accurate coordinates led to a quick find of a familiar style of cache container. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Brother Colin for this puzzle, the cache and the series.

A really fun puzzle and another find after taking the pups out for a run. Thanks Brother Colin.

We spend three nights in Toowoomba to clean up the leftover and new caches. Found the cache with TBU1BIKESU and signed the log.Tftc. Brother Colin

This was day No 2 during our stay in Toowoomba to enjoy the flowers in the gardens and collecting some more SSE caches.Puzzles were solved partly with help of fellow cachers. As before, mostly we found the caches within 5 m of our GZ, some were a bit further out. We signed the logs, and put the caches back.TFTC Brother Colin

I was up in Toowoomba to visit my sister in hospital today.Visiting hour is 11am. That gave me some caching time.Caches were found and signed,Brother Colin thank you for placing and maintaining this cache for enjoyment of the caching community.

GeoArt EnterpriseWe have spent some time puzzling and researched the GeoArt Enterprise puzzles in the run-up to our tour.At some point we reached the point where we had run out of ideas for a few caches - and we asked for help - which came immediately - thank you.Soon we had all the solutions together and we drove towards Toowoomba to visit the Enterprise.We travelled from one cache to the next throughout beautiful natural surroundings - it took us a total of 2 days to complete this great circuit.We were able to find all the caches quickly, a few took us a little longer to find - but no problem - we had a lot of fun.Almost all the cans are in a neat and tidy condition - I just wish that all cachers would fold the logbooks neatly and hide the boxes back in the fence holes - then the logbooks won't get wet so quickly.Thanks to Brother Colin for this great GeoArt EnterpriseWe are happy to spontaneously pin a favorite point on the Enterprise here and thereTeam sissifalke

When Mr SKI first noticed the SSE geoart he immediately recognized the Enterprise. Star Trek was one of his favourite shows as a young person and he is still regularly known to watch re-runs and repeats of the movies. He has even introduced the show to our grandchildren who enjoy it.Solving the puzzles was another matter and took a long time and a lot of effort. Plenty of time was spent during Victoria's long Covid lockdowns!Finally we have made it to Toowoomba and today was the day we set out to find the caches. Having solved some quite some time ago we had to do some recalculations on the run for a few, but we also managed to perform some basic maintenance on a number of others.A long day for us as they were spread more than we had imagined, but we managed to finish just before dark.Well done on a great series.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Brother Colin.**SKI Pair****

Found with PapaGrouch on a visit to the area. The puzzles have been solved for years but we hadn't managed to find some until now. TFTC

Found this one with SciFiRulz TFTC

Found it. With Daltzfam.

Found! With TW crew

We are looking like we may finish this art trail off today. Y.A. Another gotcha.

Happy New Year - I decided that I should probably go and get some caches and wanted to go for a drive. I only grabbed two of these because I needed to be back in Toowoomba. I am really looking forward to 2024. Thanks Brother Colin.

Since the Google camera car drove through, another car (or truck) has driven through the centre post and twisted the two half signs at 90 degrees. Nevertheless a mint tin was soon liberated and the dutiful deeds done with the pen. TFTC, Brother Colin.

The second day for us driving around the country roads finding the caches. I started working on solving the puzzles in this series a few months ago and left the hard ones until last. As time was fast approaching for our trip out here it was then a bit of a frenzy to get them all solved. With some nudges and a bit more for some of them we arrived with a list of all the caches solved. All good with this one, log signed and replaced as found. Thanks Brother Colin for each puzzle and cache.

Found TFTC with Barrod. Log needs replacing as it is saturated

found cache tftc

We're at Aubigny for a day or so, and found your cache today 25 August 2023 4:01 pm , while enjoying another day in the Queensland countryside. TFTC Brother Colin

We are now heading north to avoid the coldest of the winter weather in Victoria. Today we headed off from Toowoomba and out around Aubigny where we will stay for the night. A great opportunity to grab some of these SSE series. Loved the easy parking and good co-ords.

Stopped off here and made a quick find. Pleased I'm using my gaiters today after seeing 2 snakes recently.

Thanks Brother Colin for placing this cache and doing the maintenance, so we can enjoy finding it.

Found while on holidays from Mackay with alphag_25. Slight change in the original plans with heavy rain and thunderstorms forecast for Easter Friday we started out early to get as many as we could in the SSE Geoart. Caches all logged 7/4/23 however found over today and yesterday. Some lovely back roads travelled, stopped for a picnic on the side of the road where we found some mown grass and had the farmer come out and check us out making sure we hadn’t broken down . All caches found quite quickly, lots of long grass but thankfully not too many people about. TFTC.

6 Apr 2023 GC7399X SSE #64

micro mystery cache 2.5/2.0



TFTC SL



Geocaching with mackay_geocaching whilst on holidays. Travelling down from Mackay Qld through Rockhampton, Maryborough (JBF Mary Poppins GeoArt), Gympie, Wivenhoe Dam Kayaking caches, Toowoomba (SSE GeoArt) and Sunshine Coast. Doing as many as possible mystery caches, virtuals and earth caches and the assortment of traditionals. Checking out he local tourist items and got a Camel ride at Summer Land Camels Harrisville.



Thanks Brother Colin for placing this cache for our enjoyment.



Checkout the GeoArts in Mackay,Qld Region, GEOCROC and FRESHWATER.







*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

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TFTC

With HippyDonna TFTC

On the road again, heading to Charleville for Qogm.  Did your SSE #64 today.  8 September 2022 10:56 am Tyfc  Brother Colin  total caches now  5121  .

Tftc Brother Colin,
We are camped at the showground for a few nights. Plenty of caches for us to choose from.
First up for us is this SSE series as we have solved the puzzles.
Most were relatively quick finds with all in good condition unless stated otherwise.

After many months of discussing a group attack on the SSE with geocaching friends, we spent hours working on the great puzzles in preparation for a great day out. The day arrived, unfortunately I was not able to join my friends that day, but was lucky enough to attend a local event that evening and met the CO.
Back today with my trusty Geopup to see how many SSE caches I could collect. I had a great time enjoying the beautiful scenery on the lovely country roads. So glad I could get out here and collect them.
Thank you Brother Colin for a terrific series, the effort into putting the art together, creating the puzzles, placing and maintaining these caches is sincerely appreciated. All caches were in great condition after some recent maintenance.

What a huge day of star trekking across the Oakey landscape. Wrap speed back 12 months and after a successful weekend caching in Stanthorpe, our little group set lasers to stun the enterprise. But too many battles with Klingon's and Romulan’s saw us constantly regrouping to finally get a free weekend to launch an attack. A sip and solve session prior gave us a good jump into the completing the puzzles.

The weekend was set and included an event organised to celebrate the reconstruction of the enterprise. We had allies from all over the countryside to congratulate us on a job well done. We had the captain of the enterprise (Brother Colin), attend the event and who may have been overwhelmed by the attention he received.

The drive around the countryside was spectacular, a little muddy in some spots from the recent rains but it was fantastic to see the area in a green, lush, splendour, add to it the flowering jacarandas, beautiful.

The puzzles and complexity of some was awesome, a very good learning curve for a non-puzzler, lol. Brother Colin explained the hides and I could now see the reasoning to the placements and the thought process behind the whole geoart. We found all the caches and even found some with new logs, thanks to some other cachers on the trails as well.

It was a great weekend with lots of laughs and antics from everyone. Thank you Brother Colin for a splendid piece of art, the unlimited puzzles and headaches and some nice placements. For me it was a very good learning tool as well.

TFTC smile 10332 3 day weekend out and about with Hatzofff RoddyC Echocage1 Imbunda no miss millie geo dog this weekend great friends, great day ,good weather love the area (day1)plenty mud and a little rain just to make it enjoyable
Thank you, Brother Colin, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Eleven months ago, after a weekend in Stanthorpe, a group of us mentioned the SSE as a geoart goal. After many distractions along the way, we finally had a date. Lots of learning when completing the variety of puzzles, some easy, some a lot more difficult for a beginner solver. With everything solved, we were on our way and ready to meet at Oakey with Chamad, Simber15 and Nayfee.

Lots of mud. So much mud. But all were found and the mission was completed. Thanks Brother Colin for the effort that went in to completing this geoart. We love geoarts because there is a sense of completion.

Caching today with RoddyC (designated driver) echocage1 and GS1947 aiming to complete SSE trail and attend the event.

Thank you for keeping this series going.

Quick find while chewing it over.
TFTCache Brother Colin

Having run a 'Sip and Solve' puzzle solving session online last year during lockdown the GeoArt had been on the to do list for a good year. A plan was formed more recently to camp at Oakey over the October long weekend (due to Ekka being postponed) and tackle the art. The call went out to a few others we enjoy travelling with and the solving began! Lots of back and forth between members and we finally had a full set a few days out from the trip.

We met at SSE 6 and formed a plan of attack on the best route to collect the art in a day. The roads were wet and muddy but that isn't going to stop a group of dedicated geocachers on a mission! The rain held off which we were grateful for however chunks of mud were often shaken off shoes before returning to cars and moving on to the next one.

As is always the case when caching with others there were many laughs and a great time had by all. Always a great sense of achievement when you've been working through a project over a number of weeks.

Thankyou for placing and arranging this series for our enjoyment. The fields and flowers were in bloom. Birds a plenty enjoying the roadside water sources. The scenery was refreshing. Always enjoy a taste of the countryside.

A plan had been put in motion and the almighty team (TripleTurmoil, Simber15, Chamad and myself) beamed onto the StarShip Enterprise to put the the poor bugger back together again, with a bit of tinkering here and there the ship was in tip top shape ready to explore the unknown and to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Thank you Brother Colin for placing and maintaining this wonderful GeoArt for us to enjoy, we had a fabulous time exploring the area.

#2565 - TFTC

Back on the SSE roads this hot afternoon.
Made time to log some more here on my return from a loop taking in Rockhampton.
Had these solved since the first 2020 lockdown, it has taken me too long to get out here to sign the logs.
Most were quick finds, some even spotted from the car.
It was a hot and dusty day, even if it has rained recently.

A generic log, my apologies.
Enjoyed solving and the country drive
Thank you
R

Cactus made itself a host on the nearby tree here...
Tftc

Today, with Adelaidean e.gregory1 travelling through Queensland, I decided to catch up with him in Toowoomba. We had both worked through the *Starship Enterprise* (SSE) puzzles, and so that consumed the majority of the day in finding. Following that power trail, we used our remaining daylight in walking around Mount Peel to collect a few of the interesting cache types and challenge caches. We then had a fast food dinner, and we used the remainder of the evening finding additional challenge caches in north-west Toowoomba around Cotswold Hills and Torrington. An enjoyable yet exhausting day!

A number of these puzzles were enjoyable to complete, as I had seen many of the puzzle solving methods previously, but a few of the higher difficulty puzzles did require some outside help. I had solved many of these in the last few years, and I had prepared to visit Toowoomba in Easter, but that was prior to SA friends turning back during the COVID-19 lockdown.
This SSE series has got to be one of the toughest power trails that I've done. It took e.gregory1 and I a total of 6.75 hr, starting at 09:15, and finding our final cache at around 16:00 hr, but that did include a needed half hour lunch break. The cache locations weren't the most logical (favouring the second or third post in, rather than a corner post, for example), and the caches were just so small, that some required a bit of time hunting. Then there was the trouble of extracting and reinserting the logbook, and use of the waterproof paper took time. Furthermore, as the geoart was over so many sections, it was difficult to get some momentum (although I did enjoy the rest that it provided in between). There were some roadworks in the area that required us to stop/slow a few times, and perhaps they wondered why we made random stops whilst crawling along, but otherwise most of the roads were quiet and allowed us to complete this series in peace.

After stopping nearby, pretty much right next to GZ, we searched around the obvious structure, and no cache was found. We had several attempts looking over, and with nothing else in the vicinity, nor anything around the ground, we felt confident that this cache had disappeared. We subsequently replaced the cache container and logbook on behalf of the CO in the logical hiding place. Thanks Brother Colin for the cache placement.

Found on a day out in the Toowoomba area with Davidwazza.

I am currently travelling from Adelaide up to Cairns to meet up with friends later in the month. I’ve got plenty of time to get there so have been taking the opportunity to do a bit of sightseeing and find a few caches along the way.

I was intending to do the SSE geoart series and Davidwazza was also keen so we met up early this morning to tackle it. After a cold morning, the sun came out and it was a perfect day for caching.

Most of the caches in the geoart series were found reasonably quickly and were in reasonable condition, although most of the logbooks were full.

This cache was missing and we put out a temporary container and logsheet until something better and more permanent can be arranged.

Thanks Brother Colin for the puzzle and the cache.

Collecting a few Caches around Toowoomba before I have to go back to work next week. Quickly found, log signed and cache replaced as found. TFTC

# 13908 Found and logged at 8:13:00 AM
Out on the SSE trail while in Oakey for a few days
Beautiful weather to be out and abor
Thanks for the cache Brother Colin
Lgoody

Easter trip away (in the hopes of getting into Qld) with fitzy_1965 for the cacheQLD Dayboro Mega.

Up early to head over the border thanks to the Qld Premier. Headed through Warwick to Toowoomba then onto the Mega site in Dayboro.....a long 14hour day.

Met up with nibletricecakes & GLISS! to do the SSE series and signed logs as MiNiFiG!s to save space.

Nice quick find unless otherwise stated.

23,965. Found with minniek on our Dayboro QLD MEGA Adventure trip. For this series we also cached with Nibletricecakes and GLISS! to form and sign as MiNiFiGS!

With the sudden COVID outbreak in Queensland putting the Mega in doubt we decided to head up to the New South Wales / Queensland border and see what happens, while developing a Plan B (Longreach region) and a Plan C (New South Wales counties loop) ! Day 3. With the announcement that things were mostly returning to normal we decided Plan A still looked good. An early start today with an aim of caching our way through some counties and catching up with some caching friends to do the Star Ship Enterprise series, then head to Dayboro to set up camp. This was the next stop for the day. Finally started on the long anticipated Star Ship Enterprise series as Team MiNiFiGS! All finds were made nice and quickly without problems unless otherwise mentioned. We parked nearby this one for a quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache as found, then headed off to the next one.

Thanks Brother Colin !! As a long time Trekkie I really enjoyed solving these and completing the GeoArt ! Please forgive the generic logs.

Fast find on this one.

Signed today as MINIFIG! as I teamed up with GLISS! Minniek and Fitzy_1965 to tackle the SSE. Great to be finally in Queensland with our eyes on the Mega Prize.
This is the first Mega we have had in Australia in over a year. We have navigated lockdowns, mouse plagues, floods and the dreaded Covid to get here. Great to be able to be out caching in Queensland. Such a privilege. Thanks for the cache.

Hitting up the SSE trail before heading to Dayboro. All caches were quickly found unless otherwise indicated. Caching in a group and signed as MiNiFiGs! TFTC

Geoturtle37 and I set out this morning to see how many of this series we could put a smiley to. There were so many done in quick succession that I apologise for the generic logs. We will put a summary log at the end.
Thank you for all the puzzles. They certainly took some time.

With the Dayboro Mega on, the race was on to solve these puzzles so we could find the caches while in the area. Lots of work over many hours by the cachers who were coming up this way and today was the reward.

Started at the last one in the series and worked out way backwards. Managed to grab 37 today and will be back for the rest tomorrow. A neat series and a bit of fun to solve. No real problems with those found today, with only one being an issue.

Thanks Brother Colin for the series.....and the hides.

#10644 - 5:18:00 PM; Day three of a road trip with Sol de lune as we head north for the CacheQLD - Dayboro Mega. We had to spend an unscheduled night in Goondawindi due to road closures caused by flooding and after queueing with numerous others at the roadblock outside of town, we were finally able to head off towards Toowoomba around 9:15am this morning. Cached our way through Yelarbon, Inglewood, Warwick and Allora before finally reaching the Starship Enterprise trail, which we originally planned to start yesterday according to our schedule. Better late than never, as we set off to start the SSE. Most caches were located and signed without incident, although a couple took a little longer where we became complacent. Apologies for the generic logs. TFTC Brother Colin

Had some spare time this morning so headed out west to put some more of the spaceship back together. Definitely learnt something new with this one. Tftc Brother Colin

Out for a girl’s weekend with traboo to finally collect the caches of this series! Lots of fabulous puzzles to learn from and great country outings to collect. We had an awesome day with a variety of hides and cache sizes to keep us on our toes! A spot of rain and thunder but nothing ominous. Wind picked up though! Was enough to blow the hair off a hippy at one stage. Thanks BC for this awesome geoart!!

Enjoying a girls weekend away in Toowoomba with my mate Gcoven to master the SSE geo art series. Enjoyed learning more about puzzle solving and finding some interesting locations and different cache types. Excellent day today completing the series. Thanks to Brother Colin for creating and maintaining this great series.

Had to revisit this puzzle. Found the bison on the ground! Returned it to the coordinates.

I AM GUR

Sneaky, but we finally found a way in!
We drove via Toowoomba about two weeks ago on our return trip from Canberra to Brisbane. and collected just 2 in this series. Clearly this needed a very long day or two of caching to collect all, so we decided to come back. After a very early start, we put a plan in place to work methodically through the roads and lanes to collect as many as we could.
We began solving these puzzles just over 3 years ago. It has been a long task, as we decided not to come out and collect until all were solved. Today was the day!
So many of the puzzles have challenged us, and we have certainly acquired more caching skills through perseverance with these puzzles.
Great to be back in Toowoomba for a visit.
Thanks Brother Colin. What a cache-hiding legend you are!
Excellent puzzles, geo-art and hides.
Domsky

We’ve learnt so much from this series of puzzles. So many ‘things’ we’ve never come across before... this being one of them. Persistence paid off (much time on the internet) and soon we had our answer.

This cache was almost a drive-by grab. Very good.
Thanks for the puzzle and cache Brother Colin.

It has been quite a while since my last finds in the SSE Geoart, lately I have been focusing on the last 50 puzzles but there are many left unsolved that can wait for next time. Unfortunately I missed the recent zoom puzzle solving session which would have really helped.

Today Willpunkey, Scoob and I set off to find the caches. While I did all the solving, they did most of the finding which was mostly quite easy because of the quality of the coodinates. Thankyou Brother Colin for the series and also thanks for the puzzle designers who come up with the ideas for these puzzles.

Puzzle: These symbols were hard to find
Hide: Could not find it and after reading a previous log I wondered if it was on the ground again, the long grass made a search difficult but I did locate it after hearing it hit the metal pole on the ground.

Found it

TFTC.
Sorry for the cut and paste logs.
The following is padding to get my word count up for The Author Badge my stats on Project GC dot com. Today's plan started out as getting as many different types of caches in one day as possible. Then I changed my mind and decided to go for quantity over quality (mainly because I didn't want to drive to Brisbane) just because its the 29th February, and if I ever want to double up on days found in my Finds by Found calendar, today would be the best day to do it.

See SSE #96 for the full log. Quick, easy find. TFTC

We solved at homework a while, trip to qld for weekend to do catch Star Trek run series..
great enjoyed drive with hot day with 63ROOS.. Thanks

Solved at homework before trip to QLD with ALL7..
Great enjoyed to run UFO series and wow interesting puzzles..
Signed in with good dry..
TFTC

100 Puzzles in a day - the final frontier. To boldly go where no Prime has gone before. They say Resistance is futile, so here we are - Fangsoki, 1MinnieMoo, Crew153 and myself. Noone wearing a red shirt. The SSE series has been on the collective radar for some time, and with group effort the Starship was exploded on our maps, and a trajectory was calculated through which it could be repaired again. Today is a a good day to cache!

Live Long and Prosper Brother Colin. I have been and always shall be your Prime.
*{Overall find #7378}*

Gentle cache owner, please forgive my generic log

Pprime, Crew 153, 1MinnieMoo and I undertook to get a large amount of caches in one day. We did this in the the Toowoomba region - starting with Brother Colin's SSE series. After returning to Brisbane, 1MinnieMoo and I continued to find caches until late.

We enjoyed all the caches and appreciate the effort of creating and maintaining the various finds we made. TFTC

11/1/20 Find #3231
A decision was made that today Fangsoki, PPrime, Crew153 and I would head out to grab the SSE caches and in doing so get at least 100 caches in the day. Well this betters any previous day’s caching count by far, as my best was 36. So, at some unhealthy hour of the morning, the alarm went off, followed very quickly afterwards by a message from PPrime to say he was on his way - 15 minutes ahead of scheduled time. Well that got us up and moving fast!
But on our way we soon were. A short while later we had collected Crew153, and after a bit more of a drive we began our day. It didn’t take long at all for us to start racking up our numbers, and despite a few DNFs our day ran rather smoothly overall. And somehow we all ended up in fairly good spirits still at the end of the day.
Thanks for the cache and the series Brother Colin.

Note: This cache was found on ground so we popped it back up.

A late decision last week was made for an attempt to complete the SSE in one day.. Fangsoki, Pprime, 1MinnieMoo and I headed off and found the first cache just before 7am and had searched for all the caches by 1pm and then decided to find a few more caches around Toowoomba before heading home.

This cache was one which we found for the day

TFTC Brother Colin

This week I'm staying in Toowoomba for a few days. Today my plan was to find as many of the SSE series caches as I could (for the puzzles that I had solved). This trip has been planned for a while so over a period of time, I solved as many of the puzzles as I could. I went over some of them 3 or 4 times before the solution finally clicked. Others had me stumped until it was too late to try and solve them. Anyway, I had a great time today criss-crossing the countryside chasing cache containers. Most of the caches were easy finds - being fairly similar style hides. Apologies for the cut and paste logs. I'll try to add anything that stood out for me. Love the geoart. The classic Star Trek series and movies are great, although I haven't really gotten into some of the more recent iterations of it. Thanks for all the effort that has gone into setting up and maintaining all these caches.
TFTC, Biggles.

Other weekend with DeafPhantom and DeafCat it was wonderful and beautiful country thanks bro colin

Thanks share DeafVW Deafphantom

TFTC ️

A nice quick find.

Thanks for the puzzles and

TFTC

On a mission to locate the space ship geoart whilst staying the area. An early start and a very full on day but we completed it with Tassie Trekkers. TFTC

Today we tackled the Starship Enterprise Geo-Art series with Gullivers Travels54, signed the log with our initials.

We had a great day out as the caches took us down country roads that we have not traversed before.

Cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks Brother Colin for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

TFTC. Our aim today was to make a start on finding the caches for the geo-art Starship Enterprise. We had been working on this puzzles over the last four or five months in preparation for our trip North to follow the sun. We had solved many of the puzzles on our own but then had some help of varying degrees from other puzzlers in our group. We camped at the Showgrounds and made a positive start too the series. 49 finds and 3 DNFs.
Thanks for this entertaining group of puzzles. I still have some hair left. All the caches found had spot on co-ordinates. As a finder you cannot ask for any better.

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Finally got around to finding some of the SSE Series. The Geo Dawg and I were out today in the company of Miss Direction rolling them up. Not only found caches but also wildlife lots of farm machinery and a great bunch of back roads.
Thanks brother Colin for the fab geoart and puzzles,
Thanks for the great Series and adventure Brother Colin

Thanks brother Colin for the fab geoart and puzzles , we are out today with Jfindit to pick them up. Found a nest, some rabbits, some hairy caterpillars, birds of prey, lots of farm machinery and a bunch of backroads. Love days out with Jfindit, he’s a bright funny spark and for once I ain’t making him climb a tree.Tftc

Our second day collecting this geoart as yesterday the temptation of going to an event was just too much! We had worked out our route which meant we didn’t have to retrace our steps and it worked out well. We would also like to point out that all the coords (except one, a replacement one) were spot on which is a credit to the CO!! Well done Brother Colin.

Ok, that was different, had us scratching our head for a second!!!!

TFTC and puzzle!

We had been gradually solving the various puzzles for this cache series over the past few years, mostly with success but occasionally needing a push in the right direction from various friends Finally, the planets aligned and we were able to organise a weekend away in Toowoomba to coincide with a local event

Generally, we found all co-ordinates very accurate and the caches easily found [^] with just the one case of cache blindness and two instances of fumble fingers entering co-ordinates [xx(] requiring a recalculation for the correct ground zero.

Thank you Brother Colin for creating this series of puzzle caches and for maintaining them for everyone to enjoy

Heading back to QLD from Sydney via the western regions and I picked up some caches along the way and this was one of them.

It was late in the afternoon and I decided to do just a few of this series before I had to continue on my journey home.

A lot of interesting puzzles and most co-ords were good and once the logs were signed the caches were returned as found.

TFTC Brother Colin

Our apologies for these generic logs, this does not take away our appreciation of the effort that has gone into placing the caches and designing the art work.

All the caches that we found today are in good health and the co-ords are spot on.
The SSE series has sat in our solved file for far too long. Due to happenings last year our return trip to Queensland needed to be postponed for over six months. But return we have, and as we were in the area with nearly a full day to spare we collected a fellow Victorian and headed out to show them some of the back roads around Toowoomba and collect as many of these caches as possible.

All the containers bar three where bison's, the other three were larger than a bison, and they created excitement just because they were larger. At number 32 we did encounter a snake that was less than happy to be disturbed, even wanting to make a dash at another car that when by. A fun time was had and loads of cache chatting was done.
SL TFTC

Some early morning messaging and a phone call soon had me driving to some coordinates to meet up with muff1. The SSE series were in the solved pile so it seemed a good day to head out and find some. We had a great day with excellent company and accurate coordinates. Thanks for all your work in setting up this challenging series Brother Colin

Time to finish off the SSE series! Not many more to go now.

TFTC

We completed the Starship Enterprise while visiting friends in Toowoomba. This mammoth of series took us a few weeks of solving and 2 days of finding. Most caches were found without a problem and were signed 'Mr E'.
Thanks to Brother Colin's huge effort to create this series. TFTC

Our journey has started, Team DrB are going to get lots of smilies at the end and what I find interesting is that I have been on some of these roads previously but not sure why. Thanks for a great tour of the country side. TFTC

Away on a small caching trip with Diamonjs and bobbiesgirl to tackle Brother Colins spaceship. Normally I am the one getting in and out to find the caches but this time I am the driver as I had hurt myself the week leading up to this run. Boy did I have fun being the driver. Thankyou Brother Colin for putting this geo art out. TFTC

Had solved these puzzles quite some time ago and when DiamonJs and rusty85 invited me along to do the series I jumped at the opportunity. Thoroughly enjoyed the variety of puzzles and the whole journey. The copy and paste nature of my logs in no way detracts from my enjoyment and appreciation of the mammoth effort involved in putting out a series like this. A big thank you Brother Colin. Logs signed Team DRB to save time and space.

Hi there Brother Colin.

We found your cache **"SSE #64"** today. (This makes our find count 19587).

Today was the second (and final) day of caching the Starship Enterprise series. Today's route was much easier and back tracking was kept to a minimum. We've learned plenty of facts along the way, and here's one more to add to the list: "There are at least four different qualities of barbed wire to be found in the area".

We found 49 caches today (DNF'd 0), and again we were pleased to see that the accuracy of the coordinates was really good again today. Thanks for placing these caches here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting back roads on our travels.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found each cache around 3m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** All containers and logs are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** A Smiley Badge if the cache was big enough.

Live long and prosper.

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Life has gotten in the way recently and caching outings have been scarce. To gather up the souvenirs on offer at the moment, some numbers were needed and the Star Ship Enterprise Series, which has been on the Bromance radar for a while, seemed perfect.

Most of the hard work solving the puzzles had completed a long time ago, but in the end motivation to finish off solving a couple of nastier puzzles (stab fork into thigh type frustrating puzzles) was lacking. KeepingUpWith decided to join Seffnjarah, Swellerfungus and I for the day and he was quickly tasked with solving these remaining puzzles.

A trademark early start in Brisbane found us caffeinated and fed at the first cache just before a very frosty 0700. SeffnJarah had calculated the most efficient route which avoided backtracking. The highlight of the day involved the ever clumsy Swellerfungus and an electric fence.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this puzzle, Brother Colin .

Pete

#4284

Accompanied by Crookedpete, Swellerfungus and the resident brainiac Keepingupwith (who was tasked with polishing off those stubborn puzzles that just refused to reveal an answer for the rest of us), we hit the road for Toowoomba on a chilly winter's morning to complete the SSE puzzle series. Winding our way along the country roads, we took turns grabbing the caches (some more successfully than others) depending on which side of the car the hide was on. No problems with this one. TFTC

When this series was just a twinkle in the CO's eyes I was lucky enough to be asked to help create a few of the puzzles that would be part of something big. Unfortunately i was very busy with work at the time, and was only able to help out with a few. Since publication, I have enjoyed some of the distress felt by those trying to solve them! Eventually it was my turn to feel that pain, as I worked through puzzles ranging from mostly easy to ridiculously impossible. To all the CO's I take of my hat to you as makers of something very special!

Today saw a misfit bunch of a crew heading of in the SS Victor Del Prado across the Aubigny galaxy including a Vulcan(seffnjarah), Kling-on (CrookedPete), a 'data' droid (Keepingupwith) and the illustrious Kirk-like humanoid captain (Me).

We set off in the dark from the Sumner Park Space Station, stopping for a refuel in the newly opened Withcott Space Dock (told to have had an unusual mix of space creatures) and headed out into the unknown. One by one our objectives were uncovered and dealt with, and eventually we had finished victorious.

Thanks for a great day caching, and for the 'little shock' along the way!

**KiffNJerk Starlog**

*Star date SSE#64.* The mission into Enterprise System went we extremely well with the heroic KUW displaying cunning, wit, relentless determination and a little bit of flatulence to secure a brilliant find on a unique and challenging hide. Tin’atlhqam and Crooked Ship Engineers Pete also seem to have contributed in some vague way.

We had solved the puzzles - in parts then completely not too long ago and decided to try to do the whole series in one day —today. With E(: and Patrol 14 went on a mission and we were successful! A cold windy day... but a nice clear one as well... Thanks for the cache and SSE series, Brother Colin!!

With the puzzles solved, E(:, NeversayDi and patrol14 teamed up to find the SSE series of caches past Toowoomba.
An early day with a start time of 8am, we started at Wellcamp and worked out way around until we were nearly back to the start.
What a beautiful day even if the temperature was only 4deg when we started. The wind kept the temperature on the chilly side.
Great lot of different puzzles which certainly worked out our grey cells and the location was fabulous.
Caches were easy to find and in good condition.


Found at 10:55 AM, TFTC Brother Colin

I have solved this GeoArt puzzles many months ago with the help of friendly and helpful cachers who I am very thankful for. Really enjoyed solving them while very much challenged. So happy to exercise my brain.

Thanks for the cache Brother Colin. Your time, effort and knowledge are very much appreciated.

#2242 Found on 8 July 2018 10.53 am

I love these types of puzzles and I solved this one on a Thursday night waiting for my friends at our regular bar. At gz it wasn't long before I spotted the familiar hide. Tftc

Oh dear, we left the logging for these caches far too long. Sorry, Brother Colin, your series deserves much better than this, writing generic logs half a year later.

We were out the Toowoomba way one more time to look for a potential four-legged family member as well as collecting some more caches from outer space. Our geo mobile wasn't going anywhere near light speed but we got there in the end.

TFTC Brother Colin

A group attack was planned for Brother Colin's SSE series of caches this weekend with me providing the transport and Zacgyver working out the puzzles ably assisted by La Kedi. Manage to make this one a literal park and grab. TFTC

An unexpected spot, given the standard we’ve seen today. But bulldozer made it a literal park’n’grab! I was impressed.

In Toowoomba with Zacgyver and bulldozer 72 for an enterprising attempt to catch hidden creatures. Zac was the brains, bulldozer was the brawn: and I was keeping them in check. ’Twas a crisp Darling Downs day but perfect for geocaching. TFTC, Brother Colin. =^.^=

A week ago I mentioned to La Kedi that I had that night started looking at the SSE puzzles and she suggested we go up to Toowoomba the next weekend and get these to fulfill the Hidden Creatures souvenirs challenge in one go. The deal was I solve the puzzles and she would provide the transport and accommodation. That is fine by me, I can solve just over 100 puzzles in a week right? Sure...
By this morning I had solved about 75 and had around 10 half solved. La Kedi solved a few last night.
Yet another puzzle with several steps, but fun.
Bulldozer 2 drove us around today as we collected the caches. His literal drive-by was highly amusing.
Tonight is the time to finish the puzzles for tomorrow and hope we can complete the Enterprise.
TFTC

Day two of the SSE findings. Out with cheekybum_15. Great day of caching.

TFTC- day 2 of this journey to get this series done after working out the puzzles with the snakepiters. Have had great fun solving these caches with a lot more skills gained from the experience.

Another on to print out then surf the web for an answer. It took a while to get it, and I think it might be one that showed up on a revisit. Google is grand when lots of people are looking for the same things.

Another nice break in the search locations here. I spied another menagerie somewhere along this road.

As I look back through our phatalog (photo catalogue) of images for our trip, it was clear that we hadn't taken enough although we literally had 100s of me dancing at certain caches. Unfortunately I need to include some of the ordinary poses to make up the numbers.

With my wife back in the drivers seat, she was back to her old self of fanging it up the dirt roads. It was impressive (and scary). tftc