Robot Charli - Carmen Sandiego Moe, Victoria, Australia
By kryslazz on 29-Sep-17. Waypoint GC7KEBW

Its with a sad an heavy heart ive decided, Charli has ran his course. In hindsight.... placement should have been better and away from so many Muggle homesteads. Maintenance is too much for me to keep up with as time with Miss 2 takes priority. Its been an awesome ride mate, we achieved amazing things together. Rest easy with the Caching gods my friend. x

At some point, Kryslazz will be back in the caching world with much better placements and long term maintainable caches.

I don’t remember how I solved this puzzle - it seems I’ve neglected to save a note about this. But the cache was very quick find - out in the open under a tree. I placed this back in the tree to give a little more cover. Thanks to kryslazz for the puzzle and cache.

With restrictions eased and travel to regional Victoria now permitted, a trip was planned with Crustyvarmint and his muggle friend Keith to pickup some solved puzzles in Gippsland. Heading home after 3 days on the road, today was dedicated to trying to find as many of this series before fatigue set in, or the weather turned nasty. Whichever came first.

Loved working through the levels of this puzzle. Second stage took a bit of thinking, but I was pleased my first thought turned out to be correct.

After dismissing the clue, the cache was an easy find.

Cheers kryslazz.

A group solve again, cache located, log signed, onto another. tftc.

Apologies for the generic log. Found over a year ago with SirJ-Oz on a trip to Gippsland for the Rockwiz series, Robot Charli and a few assorted others. A busy day with 39 finds and several DNFs thrown in too. Thanks for the puzzles kryslazz which passed some time during lockdown as we worked through them all and for the cache we picked up this pleasant visit. Sorry to see this one has been archived since our visit.

Find #4909. Found @ 14:06 with Annoying Tarbit

After many virtual puzzle solving evenings over lockdown Annoying Tarbit and I have solved lots of puzzles in and around the Moe area, so an outing was planned for today to collect on some of the geo-art puzzles, and some others along the way.

There was really only one general place that a cache could be hidden here, so it was an easy find... sticky, but easy.

Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables.
Thanks for the cache kryslazz

We had a bit of time spare this afternoon on our way home to check if we could find this cache since it had been replaced. The hint might need updating but we were happy to change this previously unfound to a smiley.
Thanks for the very challenging puzzle and for replacing the cache.

We found this cache today on our Very Wet Bairnsdale to Melbourne Road Trip. This one was the final for the day. The rain is pouring and parking is too difficult in this wet weather to continue. We shall return on a dryer day to continue and hopefully, complete the series. Thanks from D & HA B-A

Had the chance to stop and collect this one while in the area picking up other caches.
Living in Melbourne for 3 weeks and the chance shorten the travel time was too great.
Thought that I could ride my fold up bike. Not smart with those tracks and uphills. Walked more than I rode.
Enjoyed the puzzle and happy to win here. VERY sticky here.
Thanks kryslazz -

Since I love maps and geography type quizzes this one captured my interest. And it was fun although not immediately solvable. Up my alley nevertheless. Taking the long way home to the NE and happy to have a Charlie break enroute! This series has been enlightening - like some sort of brain development in progress if its not too late at my grand 'ol age (I hope) Yes, it did take a few hints from my now not so new geo buddies who collectively managed to find some strategies to get some of the final solutions. Glad its a quiet day in this road section. TFTC and the fun kryslazz - its been a blast!

Maintenance run today. How some of these are gone, is beyond me. Ohhhh well. Replaced and ready to go. Happy caching.

Sorry another 6 sets of eyes fail....

Had a farmer muggle get a bit suss

We thought we knew what we were looking for here but after a lengthy search came up empty handed. We enjoyed the puzzle and also enjoyed dodging the water from the sprinkler in the paddock. When a farmer came to tend to his watering system it was time to move on. Thanks for the challenge.

When a free afternoon without kids comes up and you're in the area anyway? Well that, my friends, sounds like a golden opportunity to collect a few more of this series. these puzzles have been solved for so long but frustratingly difficult to get to gz in amongst the daily grind.
Nice quick find here although the log was very damp and unprotected in its container - owner maintenance needed. TFTC Kryslazz!

Omegaman asked ahomburg and myself if we wished to come and find this series. So I set about looking at the puzzles in the lead up. In the end a great day was had collecting the caches. Thanks for placing the cache kryslazz and for the puzzles.

Date: 8 December 2019 Time: 2:10 pm
Find #10752

Headed out on this beautiful summers day with beckNmonts and omegaman1971 with the main focus being the Robot Charlie series and a few other nearby puzzles and multi's. Sadly the day finished with quite a lot of DNF's (Not through lack of trying) and an incomplete Robot Charlie.

Many thanks to kryslazz for the cache. TNLN.

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Out and about in the area with BeckNmonts and Ahomburg to tackle the local geoart and put a few smiles on the map.
The day was full of laughter and many awesome hides, unfortunately we did have some DNF's.
A few of the caches had some fun containers and interesting themes.

With a great day out yesterday, DAB and I wanted to continue the fun exploring day out with some more finds. With the little Na'wal enjoying themselves with a few stops along the way playing at playgrounds, it allowed DAB and I make a few finds we had on our list. The morning was full of sun until about lunchtime when the weather turned. Still a great day out!

After getting up early to make the most of our time here, we set off with the plan of finding a select few in this series only due to time constraints. We parked the geo wheels as best as we could here, not much room to do so. A tricky puzzle and a game I loved as a kid playing on a very old PC. Cache was soon spotted after a quick search.

[^] **Thanks for placing this cache for us to find and enjoy kryslazz** [^]

After a good nights sleep, we awoke feeling refreshed and ready to tackle some more caches. We were planning on heading home around lunchtime and we still had a dozen hides to find. So after breakfast, we packed the car and got cracking !!

Having only limited time today, we picked a handful of caches from this series. There was a great variety in the puzzle types and in the hides. Hopefully we can return here again and collect a few more hides in this series. TFTC kryslazz

Able to get back to this area for a short while again, and trying to catch up on finalising the series, having solved all the puzzles some time ago. Thanks Kryslazz for all your hard work and persistence in keeping this series alive.

At 3 separate times I have collected various Robot Charli caches, but only now getting around to logging them.

This is certainly a terrific series to do.

Thank you kryslazz for designing and placing this series for our enjoyment.

Catching up with late logs

We really enjoyed working our way through these puzzles, some of them were exceptionally clever and we've had the corrected co ordinates for quite awhile and today we were finally going to head down and try our luck with Alansee and Micaparamedic. Fortunately Alansee mentioned there had to be a few changes to allow for the shifted caches and we were able to sort this out on the drive down.

We found all that we searched for except for the Great Race and with parking at a premium in some places we were happy that we were only in one car today and as the cache pages say some of the caches require a bit of walking after parking the car.

To save rooms with the smaller logs we used the acronym MATC.

Unfortunately picking up other caches as we went today we didn't find them all so we will have to return another day to do that.

Thanks kryslazz for an enjoyable series.

Found with Team Crackers and Micaparamedic today. Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego. Used to play this a long time ago.

At last we are back in the right area to collect some more of Robot Charli's caches. We did remember to re-check ALL the co-ords before setting out.
We decided that we would drive home when it gets dark so that we can gather some more smileys for Charli. All of these ones were found nice and quickly, although one did give us more than we bargained for. Still have a dislike for cache guardians even though we seem to be seeing a lot of them. This one was the one that took us the longest to find. Neither of us have ever seen this container. Not sure how the cache guardian got in but he was there.
Thanks for these caches and bringing us out here. Glad that you were able to move them and didn't archive them.

After having spent so much time on these caches it was great to be able to look for some more on our way home from the Walhalla events. So pleased that after the initial issues, these have been moved and not archived.
We managed to find all the ones that we had time to look for. One or two took longer than the others and one is lucky to still exist after we were greeted with a secreted cache guardian. Lucky when it flew, we were able to track it, retrieve it and return it.
Thank you for the effort that you have put into this great series. We didn't get the chance to quite finish this trip so hopefully one more trip and we will have them all. Thanks.

I haven't finished with the series from last year so decide to come here again to catch up. Very warm day today. Puzzle solved. Found it. Thanks kryslazz for placing the Robot Charli series.

30/11/2018
3:42:00 PM

Accompanied with crank1 for the day, before go home (Perth) Enjoyed ride the car to Moe.
The weather is pretty warm day. Many thanks to crank1 and friends for the puzzles.
Moe is lovely country - plenty of cows/bulls also some sheep's.
Only found 21 out of 45 so "must come back to finish the series".[^][^][^]

Thanks for kryslazz for the hide the cache and hunt.

With the Mega now over it was time for one of the FurfacesLL team to return home for work and the other one to soldier on with Rapidlywild. Also visiting friends around the area on the down days when RW was busy.

Well a clear day for a change so we went to collect the Robot Charli series. Can't take any credit on these RW did all the hard work solving these as we were actually off traveling overseas trying to solve their puzzles. So today we rewarded her extra gray hairs with smileys.
The log was missing at this one so we contacted the CO to let them know.

Thanks for the hide and puzzle and bringing them back to life kryslazz and thanks to Rapidlywild for the company and caching adventure.

Sorry for the generic logs.

The Mega had been and gone however myself and FFLL#1 were staying on for another week with some other commitments. I had a charity Gala dinner to attend to on the Saturday following the Mega so it only made sense to stay on in Victoria. We were staying out Gippsland way so we had targeted Robot Charli and a couple other series to do, however the weather decided to go against us and we did not get all that were planned. It doesnt matter, we still got a fair few done in the time we were here. Once it was time to start heading home, we went via Albury to pick up some more puzzles of which we had solved.

Well it was time to get out and clean up Robot Charli. I was one of the early solvers of this series, I earnt myself MANY grey hairs solving this guy and I was super upset when he got archived.... But he was resurrected, and in time for us to come collect him!!! The puzzles ranged from easy to super hard, truely was a series for all the puzzle solvers! Apologies for the generic logs, its been a massive week with the Mega (bike riding and lots of walking) and then this series soon after, the legs were feeling it thats for sure.

This one was missing a log inside the container, have spoken to the CO and let her know.

Thanks for the cache hide kryslazz and the ladies of FurfacesLL for another great caching adventure away from home

It was great to see Robot Charlie come back on line and give us the opportunity to go out to search the final locations.
With Roostaman arriving from places afar to the area on his way to the Parkville Mega, it was time to team up once gain with RebelActs for an attempt on the series and some of the caches we had still not found in Moe. Today we were also joined by KI Bug in the hunt so a fun-filled day was definitely in store!
Credit to Rebel who was the key to the puzzle solving and had put in many hours over quite some time to finally achieve success to unlock the series.
A plan was hatched to meet and head out. We came across a variety of hides with some interesting twists in widely differing locations. Some easily accessed and others more challenging.
There was much by-play throughout the day, mostly seeming to centre round ‘organization’ and the need for GSAK, despite the fact it won’t run on IOS! There were caches missing logs, only to find the log-overlooked within the cache! We discovered ‘Emergendy logs!!!’, a new terminology that was embraced and will be a common thread in conversation from now on! The biggest disagreement was over the lunch venue, with Rebel detailing the pluses and minuses of McDonalds over Hungry Jacks!
All in all, a great day out touring the local area with much fun had by all.
Thank you for the series Kryslazz.

I was asked if I would like to join some mad “oldies” (a cheeky farmer’s description of us on the day!) on a day’s geocaching in the Moe area, mainly focusing on the Robot Charlie series. Having not been in fine geocaching form over recent months I was a little concerned that my physical participation may have been limited however I jumped at the chance. Consequently Mr K.I. bug joined an amazing outing with Mr SkiPair, RoostaMan and Rebel Acts. It was a day full of friendly barbs and jokes and a great example of how much fun can be had geocaching with great company.
Thanks must go to the other members of the “team” who completed a lot of “solving” and organized the adventure.
We hit the ground running (well sort of!) and successfully found a cache every few minutes in a combined effort. We went at a fast pace, not stopping until late lunch time and I must admit that on occasions I was the “provider of the pen” rather the member who scaled the cliff or whatever else was required however I was very pleased with my effort on the day. Consequently it looks like more geocaching will be coming up!
Although there were a good variety of hides with some requiring a walk, all were generally found quite quickly. What else, with such an experienced team! We did have to provide a couple of “emergency logs” where they had disappeared.

I remember Carmen very well - had lots to do with her - a blast from the past! Thanks again kryslazz.

**# 23173** Found on a drive around Moe while visiting nearby.
A great day on the trails with Rebel Acts, Ski Pair & K I Bug.
All good safe hides and many quick finds.
Thanks for the cache kryslazz,
***Roostaman***

My good Mate Roostaman was down from Wagga Wagga for the Mega and staying at My place, A plan was hatched to meet up with Ski Pair and KI Bug and do the Robot Charli series and a few other caches in the Moe area. With Robot Charli almost self destructing I was keen to get them found after spending so many hours working on it. Thanks kryslazz for the cache.

Cache ready to go. No changes made for the original.

RIP

Cache unarchived to facilitate adjustment and/or relocation due to an issue associated with local residents.

### **PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LOCATE/LOG THIS CACHE UNTIL IT HAS BEEN ENABLED BY THE CO.**###

*Found whilst on a Robot Charli cleanup*

Out and about with The Empire.

One of the many caches we found but was unable to log them until they were enabled again.

No issues with the first few. It was only later that we had some issues as we found ourselves too close to some peoples properties for their liking.
Some ordinary hides in some ordinary locations. It seems that the new hides have rectified this.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache anyway kryslazz.

Stamped and returned as found...

Found by The Empire with Snap Happy
The plan was to cruise through Moe, pick up the caches in the Robot Charli series, then off to Foster for the night. The longest stretch of caches in the series started off wobbly and ended wobbly. What was in the middle was a decent run of finds, which after solving all of these puzzles at home, was a relief. Thanks for the cache and the series kryslazz.
- M

I was out today with Biggles Bear to concentrate on finding as many as we could of the Robot Charli caches that we had solutions for.



My thanks to kryslazz for the cache.

Found 1:39:00 PM, during our June Caching day out with Muzza.

TNLN, thanks kryslazz (F=1021 H=52).

Found by Mary & David at 0900. Today is our 46th Wedding Anniversary. We ran out of daylight last night as we arrived here, so back again this morning in daylight. We had hoped to finish the series yesterday, but not nearly enough time after we found a few other caches along the way. We thought that solving the puzzles would be the hard part, but some of the hides took a while to find, while others took us a while to find the log. We certainly remember Carmen Sandiego as our children enjoyed it when they were young. A FP for bringing back those memories. Our thanks to kryslazz.

Out visiting Robot Charli Series with Crank1. Thanks kryslass for the fun puzzles, caches and brilliant workshop. Keep up the awesome work you have put in for us to enjoy. I enjoyed this physical challenge!

Pwala and myself visited Robot Charli series today. I loves kryslazz's puzzles which give me more determine with it.
Enjoyed with this puzzle easy.

Thanks for the cache kryslazz

Ah, an interesting puzzle that was helped along with the aid of the RC workshop.

A funny find with lots of laughing to retrieve.

Thanks Kryslazz!

A great hiding place.

A tricky puzzle that Surefoot24 and I had been working on together prior to attending the workshop event today. We had correctly identified the countries Carmen had visited, but could not find the correct key to gain the passport to the coordinates, until given a tip at the event. Four heads and Mr Google then gave us the solution.
But then came the even harder task of scaling the heights to reach ground zero. I have enough difficulty getting in and out of a vehicle, it certainly required a leap of faith and a lot of determination to get there, but even then the cache eluded us, until we called in the expertise of our chauffeur Darren, who finally managed to locate it.
Thanks for the exercise and the brain teaser.

This was another challenging puzzle of this series. We found it difficult to find despite it being quite obvious when it was found. Access to the cache is not easy. We parked on the opposite side of the road, which was the only place we could get far enough off the road to be safe from the cars hurtling by. Then we had to tackle the mountain to GZ. The slope was only about 50 degrees and with our walking sticks Cybergran and I managed to scale the height. It was only about 3m high at GZ and by walking about 20 metres each side of GZ a lower slope was found to climb. All three of us took several minutes of careful searching before finding the elusive target. We’re enjoying the adventure of these caches, but they’re not for the faint hearted.

Being in town this weekend I decided to tackle some of the puzzles that I had managed to solve, and had some time this morning to find as many as I could. This was another puzzle of the theme that I enjoy. At GZ it was a quick find of this cool little container, and a nice location with a gentle breeze blowing across.

Thanks to kryslazz for placing this cache.

The last part of the puzzle stumpted me. I was able to solve the first part, after a couple of searches of the couple that I didn't recognise.
Then I ended up creating a spreadsheet of things that I had tried and failed. Knowing I was heading back again soon, I reached out for a hint and was then given an idea I hadn't tried.

This is my fourth visit to collect more of the Robot Charli series. I had been sitting on a half dozen FTFs, but was unable to come and collect them. The longer I took, the more I could see them being found.

Find number 2 this morning at 7.10 am. Looking from the correct angle, the cache was soon seen. Should have looked from that angle first

Thanks for the cache Krys Lazz
Hunter

Joint ***FTF*** 10:15AM
after joining forces trying to solve this one when it was release we sat there for agers trying to work out the last little bit driving to grannygeos house something clicked something we hadnt thought with coffee in hand i sat down and put the thought into motion and it worked yay thanks for another brain testing mystery puzzle .

***joint Ftf*** at 10.15 with teammoss5 and apple460 well this think forever and in the end team work prevailed so happy to get the green tick off we go and found the cache well done really enjoying the puzzles and the series tftc

***joint Ftf*** with teammoss5 and grannygeo64 solving this one was fun it took all of us a s a team to solve this one then jumped in the car and off we went found it and signed another joint ftf yay tftc and the series

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