Angel and Gnome Home Invermay, Tasmania, Australia
By Tassie Trekkers on 08-Jan-18. Waypoint GA11443

Another cache solved before this caching trip. Mr Beetle tackled the find here and I'm glad he did as apparently it was easy to find but deep in its hiding place. A tool from nature helped retrieve it though.
Thanks.

I had solved the problem and had the corrected co-ordinates for some time but today was my first opportunity to look for the cache. The cache was a quick find and all was in good condition.

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today we choose to target all the caches in the Trevallyn dam area, we attempted 14 caches with 13 finds and 1 DNF. it was a very hot waling along the trail so we were always on the look out for our slithering friends.
this cache was a quick find with accurate co-ordinance but accessit was the trouble so with a rope with a hook on it i was able to retrieve the cache. TFTC

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Took the opportunity today to return to the Launny area as the boy and I had to drop the girls off at the airport to spend a night in Melbourne. So it was just the boys out and about searching for caches today. After we fueled ourselves with a hearty Macca's brunch. We got stuck into searching for few for a couple of hours. Then we decided to head home and relax.

This was an easier find than sign kinda cache. After found I thought there is no way that I can reach that...AND.... there is no way I'm gonna put myself in there to retrieve the cache. So it was back to the ute to check my toolbox for a suitable retrieval tool. Hmm, what could I use?? Got it an ocky strap worked a treat!! . Log signed and cache replaced by the same method it was retrieved. TFTC

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Took awhile to get the puzzle out and then when the coordinates were revealed it was back to familiar territory. Surveyed the cache site and realised it was beyond my capabilities. Waited till Carlin&sondra was in the area orienteering and enlisted his help retrieving the cache and with his long legs it was an easy out of the cache site. Onto another cache I was having difficulty reaching but he was no help so it looks like I will have to return the area for yet another visit at the weekend. Thanks for the puzzle & cache Tassie Trekkers

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Hi Trekkers....after solving all the puzzle caches some time ago, it was time to round a few caches up. A Dr appt in Launnie provided the perfect opportunity with good weather.
Pulled up near gz and didn't need to use the gpsr as spotted the hide straight away.
Once at gz...what the...no option but to get inside to retrieve and the first time ever signing a log inside a ...'you know what'....my favourite hide for the day.
Many thanks Tassie Trekkers for placing all these caches during the summer games...much appreciated...just so glad I kept these in reserve...given the extra dz pts....another top cache...cheers ST.

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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)

GA11443 "Angel and Gnome Home"
This puzzle was a quick solve
A gentle drive to get to GZ, unlike some of the others of your caches found today
A quick find and a small climb soon had me at the cache container
For entry and exit, my gymnastics (parallel bars) score was almost perfect; probably scored a 9.5
The disappearing act scored a perfect 10
Comments back at the car were hilarious!!
Thanks for the extra exercise
Sainted the cache at 0936 hours as the fourth find for the day
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint

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My caching buddy had been here before so again stood back and let me do the work. I gained access through the garage rather than the sunroof, manipulating things with just one hand and leaving the cache in place. Not sure if that was the plan but it worked for me. Thanks for another puzzle cache Tassie Trekkers

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.

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Second last day of the SOTN summer game so we decided we needed to target some caches for scavenges that are still gaps on our list. A quick detour on our way for a FTF then it was on with our trek to the wilds of Trevallyn to see how successful we could be with those gaps. A fairly good day, only missed two, but as one is a moveable maybe we'll find it somewhere else in our travels. As for the other one, well, maybe another visit with a bit more time up our sleeve will meet with more success. This cache was a quick find when we got to GZ and a tool we carry in the cachemobile made retrieval fairly easy, TFTC and the puzzles

well the puzzle drop me a bit of time and oddly enough I was stumped by how to get the cache out
but I got there in the end
thanks for the cache

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. Good thing Mr W went in to retrieve the cache as Mrs W wouldn't have been able to. 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.

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Puzzled this one out this morning and headed off early afternoon to track down a few in the general area. Finding the cache was was the easy part, the extraction not so easy. Surprised myself with my agility and thankfully didn't get trapped within. Enjoyed the challenge.. thanks..!!

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While Mrs Y'stassie took the Reverse cache to its tool Mr Y'stassie went to look for this cache, the last on our list for today. The puzzle had been solved last night and when the geochecker approved our answers we added it to our list.

He had no trouble locating the hide but due to mobility and balance problems doubted that he would be able to access the cache and extract the log book. however necessity is the mother of invention and he spotted an access point so after a little contortion, the use of a tool or two and some wiggling and jiggling he had the log in hand. After signing he then had to repeat the process to put everything back together again. In the end all went smoothly.

When he told Mrs Y'stassie about his exploits she was glad he went with out her as she knew that if she was there she would have been the one jumping into the fire - not sure how she would have got out.

Thanks for another puzzle cache Tassie Trekkers. This one tested one of powers of adaptation.

Once I had worked out how to work out the code it was easy, so off I went to find it and find it I did, took a bit of lateral thinking on how to get it out without getting myself stuck but implements around to help. This inspired me to search for some more in the area. So close to a FTF, TFTC.

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Did the brainstrain last night and headed off to pick up the newly published caches this morning. A quick find at GZ, but then how to retrieve the cache. Thankfully we had brought the more agile Ch member of the team with us, and he jumped inside the large receptacle and found another unmarked logbook giving us a FTF. We were so excited with the find that we left the scene sans GPSr. A quick return trip and the GPSr was back in hand. Thanks Tassie Trekkers. Go Tassie!

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