F.L.A.K.E. #27 Harrietville, Victoria, Australia
By Ronice88 on 09-Sep-23. Waypoint GCAE1DW

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 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

This is a qualifying cache I am using for Ramblers Reward Challenge (Dunedin).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.My thanks for the cache, Ronice88.

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. With rain coming down.Thanks Ronice88

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.

Ditched the car in favor of bicycles from now on. Had a very pleasant ride along the path grabbing these caches along the way. Thanks 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.I had stopped to help Chewin with a few trad he had not collected, so BB was the finder for this cache.Recovery was a bit harder, not a T 1.5 for someone shorter than 2 meters.Where did you find all those themed stamps?Thanks, Robmc.

# 21641. 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.I continued on whilst Rob and chewin stopped for another cache. Spied this one rather high but handy tool made things easier. I liked this one a lot so Favourite Point.Thanks Ronice88

After a lovely relaxing lunch by the river and a change of clothes as it was warming up, we set off for an arvo of caching admiring the beautiful surrounds at different points along the way. This was the next for the arvo and we used a handy nearby tott to retrieve this one lol 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 10:32 AM GAFF1.We thought how the heck is this a T of just 1.5 and then all the pieces came together and all was understood Thanks to Ronice88

I was out with kbucky today to collect the majority of the SNOMO series. It was a beautiful day to be walking along the Bon Accord track. The numerous bird calls really added to the magical atmosphere of this lovely setting. We had a very busy day, walking over 13km's and then a quick bike ride along the Great Alpine road to collect some of the F.L.A.K.E series. It was a coincidence that I met a local woman hiking on the Bon Accord track and then I met her again, and her husband, on the bike trail as they were also riding. We were surprised to cross paths twice in the same day.This puzzle took some time to solve with a few of us working on it at the same time. I loved the container Ronice88

One of the last FLAKE puzzles to solve which ended up with four of us sitting around the table, 2 of us getting one result, the other two getting another result. Finally sorted. This was the last find of the extraordinary FLAKE series. Love the fitting end with the year of the magpie cache to celebrate! "Stamped" the log, gave a magpie cheer.Thanks Ronice for you creativity, research, and the joy you bring to us all with you geocaching capers.

FTF. This was the last of the puzzles to be solved and took a few attempts to get the correct figures. With clarification from the CO finally got there. At GZ I spent a little while trying to narrow down where the cache was but finally spotted it. Then I thought I might need to return to the car for a TOTT, but a handy-dandy natural tool did the trick. TFTC

Nice stamps hey! Just to clarify the missing values...check updated hint.

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