November Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By minniek on 06-Nov-17. Waypoint GA10733

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	Traditional
Container:	Small
Coordinates:	S35° 16.814' E149° 6.479' (WGS 84)
	55H 691713E 6093841N (UTM)
Elevation:	591 m
Local Government Area:	Australian Capital Territory

Map

Whodunit Geocache

Description

Phonetic Alphabet - November

A nice simple series of caches to help boost your numbers (and mine!!). Scattered around Canberra in groups you may choose to grab them all at once - which will help you towards a number of dragonZone Trophies based on finds per day of the week/month - or maybe do them one a day which will help your dragonZone streak ! Either way have fun and BYO Pen ! There is safe parking within 50m of these caches on Black Mountain Drive.

The 26 code words in the NATO phonetic alphabet are assigned to the 26 letters of the English alphabet in alphabetical order so that critical combinations of letters and numbers can be pronounced and understood by those who exchange voice messages by radio or telephone regardless of language barriers or the quality of the communication channel. In other words so that messages can be understod without the similarities of the sounds in letters such as b c d e g p t v being responsible for misunderstandings.

The series will consist of:

Alpha - GA10698

Bravo - GA10699

Charlie - GA10700

Delta - GA10701

Echo - GA10702

Foxtrot - GA10703

Golf - GA10704

Hotel - GA10728

India - GA10729

Juliett - GA10730

Kilo - GA10731

Lima - GA10801

Mike - GA10732

November - GA10733

Oscar - GA10734

Papa - GA10735

Quebec - GA10736

Romeo - GA10737

Sierra - GA10738

Tango - TBA

Uniform - TBA

Victor - TBA

Whiskey - TBA

Xray - TBA

Yankee - TBA

Zulu - TBA

Phonetic Phinale (Puzzle) - TBA (This will be a stand alone puzzle without info required from the 26 Traditional caches)

Hints

Tbys Havsbez Nycun Ebzrb Qrygn

ROT 13:	ABCDEFGHIJKLM
	NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Decode

Logs

21-Jun-21

Goldenwattle

I went up the mountain to log a Virtual cache and came down finding GA caches. The log is a bit scrappy, but still okay. TFTC minniek.

Rated: for Overall Experience

09-Jun-21

Nibletricecakes

A cold wet night to be out caching. Heading up to Telstra tower to meet the crew, GLISS! and I thought we had time to grab a GCA or too. I jumped out to get this one off my solo list. Thanks for the cache.

08-Jun-21

GLISS!

Finding gcas for the current game. This one was a quick find just before the rain hit TFTC Minniek.

09-Jan-20

Knoke Family

Look closely

24-Apr-19

whitewebbs

Day 13 Mainland trip
Still camped on site after attending the Clear Waters Mega which was a great event. Thanks to all the organising Committee and volunteers we had a fantastic time. Today out hunting caches with Tassie Trekkers and this was one we found. TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

24-Apr-19

Tassie Trekkers

Found this cache with whitewebbs whilst caching in the area.

Many thanks Minniek for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.

Tassie Trekkers are now a locationless geocache we have published a 'Geocacher cache' - Travelling Trekkers GA10932 - so if you spot us in your area sign our log book and receive a code word to earn yourself a Very Happy

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Rated: for Overall Experience

23-Apr-19

Gullivers Travels54

Found while staying in the area for the Mega TFTC

08-Jan-19

Smittengranny

I had a really frustrating day today as I didn't keep track of exactly which caches I had done to start with, so I had to do them all over again. I eventually completed this trail so thanks Minniek. All caches found and logs signed. Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

09-Dec-18

Poldark

Thanks for the park and grab. These are always appreciated when it's hot. TFTC

11-Jun-18

Decrypter

Finally got out to do some caching. This 'powertrail' looked to be just what I needed for some quick GA's.
Just a couple of hours before dark on this beautiful, clear Canberra day.
My compliments to Minniek for this lovely jaunt through one of our countries' most scenic areas.
Thanks for the cache Minniek. Dancing

Rated: for Overall Experience

11-Apr-18

Flintstone's

Dropped Wilma at school and thought I'd do some caches on the way home. One thing led to another and I was on a roll to collect the GCA caches of the Alpha/phonetic alphabet series. Very happy to have these unfound piles of caches turned into smiles. Smile

TFTC minniek.

06-Mar-18

JayOmegaTor

Easy find when doing the bushland walk that starts just below this cache. TFTC Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

23-Feb-18

Kittykatch

Found on a quick drive up the hill while out on a work mission with Joolay. Another date filled in my calendar days. I am leaving this series (and others) to use as easy pickups before or after work. Thanks again MinnieK Smile

Rated: for Overall Experience

23-Feb-18

Joolay

Found with Kittykatch filling in a day of the month. Quick find and then back to work. Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

11-Feb-18

andrewbt

After the GC Info Event, I figured it was high time to find these 6 caches along here. Not having a 4WD, finding somewhere to park nearby made it a challenge. Though each cache was found after a slightly longer walk that is likely anticipated. Oh well Very Happy

TFTC MinnieK!

14-Jan-18

Canberra_bushwalker

A nice easy find. Used part of the botanic gardens trail instead of walking up the road.

23-Nov-17

fitzy_1965

GCA 1818. Lunchtime run find with minniek.

We decided to find one of each others caches today - all of about 40m apart - lol. While I walked up the road for this one she went bush for mine. Quick find.

TFTC !!

Rated: for Overall Experience

18-Nov-17

Just a cacher

An easy find here today but parking was a challenge occasionally.

Thanks minniek

18-Nov-17

Black Bunny

Out and about with Just a cacher today so we decided to stop in and grab these caches. A quick find after finding an appropriate place to stop.

Thanks minniek

16-Nov-17

Sol de lune

Time to grab a couple of these newer ones to fill in a few holes in the calendar. No problem with this first one and my name was soon in the log....

Thanks Minniek...

Rated: for Overall Experience

08-Nov-17

LuckyL10n

#GA2178 - 11:35; I saw the continuation of this series published a couple of days ago while I was out of town and thought that they would again prove handy in filling a few blanks on the dZ calendar. That is proving to be the case as I dropped by for a quick find and sign to close another said hole. Parked in a rather convenient spot and quickly had the cache in hand once I reached GZ. A surprising 2TF! TFTC minniek Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

07-Nov-17

2y'stassies

After spending the morning and the early afernoon looking for caches in the HMAS series we set out to see how many GA finds we could collect. We need to drag our dragon zone caching centre north if we are to have any hope of reaching this trophy challenge. We currently have 37 finds for the 7th of the month.and need 13 more to reach the fifty we need on each day of the month. We also have 187 finds on Tuesday so need 17 to reach 200 for the last Day of the week trophy. Finally we need 13 more difficulty points to reach our Shooting for the Stars trophy. This was the first on we looked for.

After having found the first caches in this series in the rain yesterday we were pleased to see the next six had been published. So today we knew what to look for.

Stopping close to the published coordinates we had no trouble finding this cache and were surprised to see that the log sheet was blank giving us a {FTF} at 14:25. We had to wait for a cyclist to ride passed before replacing the cache.

Thanks Minniek for this cache in the next group of NATO Phonetic Alphabet caches. We were really chuffed to get an ACT ftf.

06-Nov-17

minniek

Come and find it !!