F.L.A.K.E. #17 Harrietville, Victoria, Australia
By Ronice88 on 30-Aug-23. Waypoint GCA4Y3E

Second day with a Group of cachers who also collaborated on the puzzles. We had a most enjoyable two days in the area. Many thanks for all the caches. Signed as Vic1.

Found by Mary and David with the VIC1 group. Today we started with the Bon Accord track caches and several others around Harrietville. After lunch at the pub, we headed out of town to tyackle the F.L.A.K.E. cache, which we completed. We found few Trads and multis along the way, and finished the day with an Event at the Bright pub. Our thanks to Ronice88.

Found today on day 2 of our Snomo and Flake series in company of maccamob, Muzza, Alansee, micaparamedic, McLookers, feathertop and ThePacman. Log signed as VIC1. This was found on our afternoon walk through the Flake series. Thanks from D B-A

Love the large caches.Much puzzle solving and planning. Fuelled up after lunch. Log signed as VIC1. Found today with maccamob, Muzza, Alansee, micaparamedic, Rabbitto, feathertop and ThePacman.Thanks for placing the cache Ronice88.

Out today around Harrietville with Alansee, Feathertop, Maccamob, Rabbitto, Pacman, Micaparamedic and McLookers, concentrating mainly on finishing the SNOMO caches before lunch, then F.L.A.K.E., with a few others along the way. All caches found in good order. Signed or stamped as Vic1.Many thanks to Ronice88 for the cache.

And so to the Flake caches. Following lunch in humid stormy conditions we set off on a long bike path walk. All caches found with nice coords. A few trads found as well. Log signed as VIC1. Found today with maccamob, Muzza, Alansee, micaparamedic, Rabbitto, Mclookers and ThePacman. Day 2 and weather threatening. Onto the last section now.Thanks Ronice88

Drove to the first few of these caches before resorting to Shanks pony for a few more. Impressed with the size and detail in many of these hides. Thanks again Ronice88

Chewinprickles, BettyBoo3747 and I decided upon today to try some of the F.L.A.K.E. puzzlesSo we loaded up the deadly treadlies and set off for Harrietville.We had solved them all when they first came out, but had not got around to look for them. We had to look at the puzzles again as so many of the hides were well themed.Nice puzzles and great hides for this series.The dozers have been working on the road which made it a bit muddy walking to GZ.We were glad that some of the weather maps weren't current as some rain here would have made it even messier.Another good sized container. Hopefully we will still be able to find micros later in the day!Thanks, Robmc.

# 21629. The puzzle solver Robmc has had these done for a long time now. While the weather is still pleasant and with all the autumn colour in full force we decided to team up with Chewinprickles and have a nice ride and some harder walking to knock over this series.And another whopper - make them easier to find that is for sure.Thanks Ronice88

We had solved these caches bit by bit when they came out and what great puzzles they were! We had asked our niece about the weather up here and she said it can be warmer in summer and cooler in winter so we waited thill the weather was cooling down a bit in Melbourne and on the spur of the moment on Saturday we booked a place for Mon-Thur! After taking pretty much a whole day to get here yesterday and catching up with our niece late arvo there was no time to do any caches here yesterday so we made up for it today!! We headed north out of Harrietville and this was the next cache for the day. Continuing on foot after the too big puddle for the car lol, GMelb ascended to this cache and found it easily -it was getting a lot warmer by now but as we were out of range of the phone signal, we didnt know what the temperature was, but high enough that I wished I had my shorts in my back pack lol On to the Trad. TFTC Ronice88 - GJMMelb

After a couple of days walking out and staying overnight at federation Hut , Mt Feathertop with Purplepeopleater. We had a go at doing caches around Harrietville and surrounding areas. With Puzzles solved and traditional cached to get, it made for a busy day of easy and not so easy terrain ratings. I will be back another day to finish off some of the ones we missed. TFTCMCheers dkmacca

Down in the Victorian Highlands for a couple of days hiking and geocaching with DKMakka. Perfect weather and a welcome relief from the Sydney humidity.Solved the Flake Series in anticipation of our trip, and enjoyed the well themed and innovative puzzles. A lot of work has gone into the caches themselves and it was great to discover some monster size caches mixed into. An excellent series and loads of fun (and effort) Thanks Ronnice88, I will be back hopefully sooner than later to this wonderful area.SL TFTC

Found at 12:21 PM GAFF3.A bit of a technical error with the co-ords and after a few minutes searching in the wrong spot I went over to the real spot and found the cache.Thanks to Ronice88

I was out this way with kbucky yesterday and missed going to this cache for some reason. We have travelled this road a few times while staying in Harrietville so I was glad to put my name in the log. I can't claim any credit for solving this one unfortunately. This was another great container, although there was a little bit of water in the bottom but luckily the log was dry.

The Snow Flake! I was a bit late to the party with this new geoart and needed assistance with most of the puzzle solves but I managed to get a few to collect whilst in town with the geokids this long weekend Awesome work with the hides again Ronice! Big caches are something you do so well! And the kids appreciate it!Lots of hard work has gone into the creation of this series. Thank you! Its a beautiful place to go searching for caches in.

The day was starting to get away from us after our grand afternoon out up her chatting at the event and picking up some of the pre-solved puzzle caches.These last 5 were solved by the Queen on the fly this afternoon and when we picked them up we were surprised that we were only second to find on them.Each one was found OK in a really cool spot.Loved the different containers that the CO puts out up here, better than a sistema thrown under a tree.

Found. FLTC

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