Pick a flower Trevallyn, Tasmania, Australia
By Tassie Trekkers on 07-Jan-18. Waypoint GA11431

These four geocaches have been in my solved pile for several months and today was the day to venture back into the reserve. Rain did not stop me and I went up and down tracks that had water gushing down so I ended up with quite wet feet! All the caches were in good condition and no water had got into the caches even though there had been quite s bit of rain overnight and today. Of course I took several wrong tracks and ended up doing over 14500 steps collecting up these four caches. Thanks for all the puzzles and caches put out over the summer, I have enjoyed solving them and the trek to find them. This puzzle was a stumbling block for me and took several goes to get a tick from the geo checker.

Hi Trekkers,
The journey was finally nearing its end but had a sudden start when walked past a curled up snake which was sound asleep??...didn't move in the slightest. Once the heart rate stopped it was a quick find at gz and my last cache for the day..22 in total.
Without doubt one of the best days caching I've had even though the terrain was quite testing at times.
A huge thank you for your enormous effort in getting all these caches out during the summer games...outstanding...most appreciative indeed...cheers ST.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found on a Journey to Launceston with a caching Mate

TFTC

Hi Trekkers
A great caching day today. Another day out with Budge and a total of 37 caches found.

Travel:
Left Huonville for Lenah Valley at 0515 hours, met the Blue Flier and then on to Launceston and return to Huonville at 2240 hours.
Another 14.53 kilometres were covered on foot requiring 19217 steps burning 2322 calories.

Weather:
Overcast and drizzly morning. A fine afternoon and a bit warmer.

Thanks to Budge for a great day, great company, laughs and above all else his friendship

The majority of caches found today were hidden by Tassie Trekkers and my thanks to them for their dedication to our SPORT and giving me as much fun as I had today (as well as the sore legs and aching body - cheers) The balance of finds was made up of many caches put out by DaFiChNi for which I thank them for the fun I had finding them

GA11431 "Pick a flower"
This puzzle was a reasonably quick solve. I wished I'd had a green thumb doing this one, but the solution finally bloomed - the geo-checker had bee fed the right fertiliser and came up with the chocolates; ROSES.
Glad I didn't have to walk too far down this hill as I remember how steep it can be by having found other caches in the area
By now the legs are really getting more tired, but they'll learn to love me again
Sainted the cache at 1345 hours as the sixteenth find for the day.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint

Rated: for Overall Experience

I finally decided to start looking at some mystery caches and this one was easy enough, so the journey continues. TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

I forgot, it says pick A flower, I don't think the egg would be happy if I picked just one and took it home. I left the flowers and found a cache instead. Not far from GZ I spotted a circle of stones and some bigger ones partly buried in the ground. I stopped and checked in case it was an old trig point but nope. Moving on we found the cache and signed it quickly before heading off to a cricket match.

A comment to stainless steel rat on Thursday night turned into a plan rather quickly over the following 24 hours. After a later than expected Friday night I dragged myself out of bed while the clock still started with a 5, Urgh!
My first stop was the Rats Nest to pick up stainless steel rat and after loading his things in the car we departed at 6.05am. Our first stop was Mood Food for coffee and to find some lunch to throw in the esky for later, followed by a much needed stop at the train park in Perth (to offload the coffee), then it was on to the house of TazScout for another round of coffee.
We spent the whole day caching in various parts of Trevallyn Reserve and then picked up a few other caches as we left there late in the day. We found traditional caches, puzzle caches, a trig point, some moveable caches, a pod cache, a reverse cache, a beacon cache, a gadget cache, a night cache and a multi-cache. We also found a cache of EVERY terrain type from an easy T1 right through to a ‘fun’ T5.
After a late dinner in town, we returned back south with a couple of fresh air stops on the way. After dropping stainless steel rat back at his nest, I arrived home at 11.45pm absolutely exhausted.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Oh I think I remember where we were now yes, after making great time along a nice path we soon had this cache in hand , with Goose of GooseandEgg, cache in good order, thanks.
This trip was a spur of the moment thing only first dreamed up on Thursday night, GooseandEgg wanted to clean up a few new caches in the North so with the weather looking good for today we left home at 6am and got back home at 11:30pm. Thanks for great day out.

Rated: for Overall Experience

We had limited time between family commitments and bowls to gather caches that we could use for scavenge points in the States of the Nation games. With the northerners and northwesters publishing puzzle caches profusely (and all with large containers) we set about solving them as profusely as they were being published.

We decided to take a couple of days to make our assault and this was one we found on our trip. The weather varied from warm to hot, to dry to wet to torrential rain, to a change of clothes in the empty car park in Trevallyn Reserve (nearly considered "Nude up for a smiley" but luckily we changed our mind - not enough points on offer for that one!)

We thoroughly enjoyed solving the puzzles and the tour through the Geocaching Australia and Geocaching.com toolboxes.

Thanks to the cache owners for their hardwork in creating and hiding the large caches.

Sorry about the lengthy logs. We are currently aiming for a dragon zone virtual verbosity trophy. We have just received the 100 word trophy, so now aiming for the 150 word trophy. For all new GCA cachers, a warning, write a decent log to start with in case you want to get these virtual trophies down the track. Having now passed 2000 GCA finds with a lot of one word logs (on many moveables) makes for a lot of typing now!

We are participating in the States of the Nation games which are currently running from 16 December 2017 until 21 January 2018 and we will try and use this find against one of the scavenges.

States of the Nation is a real and virtual geocaching scavenger hunt where your home state will compete against other Australian states to find and hide geocaches. Over the 5 week course of the game there will be hundreds of scavenges that you can track down, find and convert into points for your state. Some scavenges will be easy. Some scavenges will be tough. Some scavenges may be impossible. Don't despair. You are not competing just for yourself; you are competing as a state.

There will be a number of scavenges released on a weekly basis but each scavenge will remain until the end of the game. This means even if you decide to join the game part way through, the early scavenges are still available for you to claim. Scavenges will require you to find a geocache, hide a geocache, attend an event or do something else completely different. The game focuses on all aspects of geocaching and so all cache types, sizes, terrain and difficulty will be up for scavenging. TrigPoints, Events, History, Virtual, Webcam, Podcache and Locationless geocaches are all scavengable, so you're not just looking for a box under a bush. Each week there will be a mix of physical, non-physical and locationless geocaches so even if you are not in a geocache rich area, use the locationless component of scavenger series to get out, find something to log and gain points for your state. If you watch the scavenges as they are released you might also spot the 'not so hidden' patterns and plan for future weeks of the series.

Hiding geocaches will also be a large part of the scavenger series, but please remember this is a game of geocaching and geocaches that you hide should be long lasting, be of good quality and you should be proud of what you hide. Please avoid hiding a geocache just for the day so your state can find it before you archive it. Geocaches that exist for a short period of time may result in any claims on that geocache being disqualified. Play creatively, but also play fairly. More geocachers hiding more geocaches makes for more geocaching fun.

Go Tassie, Go Tassie, Go Tassie, Go Tassie Go Tassie Go Tassie Go Tassie

The States of the Nation games have helped boost our dragon zone points and we have achieved a few milestone trophies as well.

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whitewebbs are now a geocache themselves as we have published a 'Geocacher cache' GA10805 - Where's whitewebbs? - so if you spot us out and about in the field sign our log book and receive a code word to earn yourself a smiley.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Mrs Y'stassie is the flower queen so she took on the task of identification and soon had a set of coordinates that met the approval of the geochecker. This cache could now be added to our to do when next in Launceston list.

It was very hot in the open ground around GZ and we kept our eyes open just in case there were any reptiles basking in the sun. Luckily we did not encounter any. Even so we used our walking poles to extract the cache container from its hide. All was well with the container and contents. After signing the log we returned the cache to its hiding spot.

Thanks for another well designed puzzle and another large container Tassie Trekkers. Hopefully the points will assist Tassie in the SOTN game.

We had to be in Launceston for a family occasion today and had a couple of moveable caches to rehide so while we were in the area we decided to have a go at finding this puzzle. A fairly straight forward find when we got to GZ, enjoyed the experience. TFTC

We were busily hiding a few caches when this one came through. Surprised we didn't cross paths. Mr D had no clue with the flowers, but thankfully Mrs D was on the ball. A couple of false starts choosing between gerberas, daisies and asters, before geochecker gave the ok. A quick find at GZ due to accurate co-ords and a 2nd FTF for the day. Thanks Tassie Trekkers for organising this cache. We will have a few puzzle caches published shortly. Go Tassie!!

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