The Hottest 100 Australia Mowbray, Tasmania, Australia
By DaFiChNi Team on 07-Jan-18. Waypoint GA11491

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.

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Hi DaFiChNi Team,
This was the start of quite a large journey to find many caches nearby. This cache was quickly found...many thanks for a top cache...cheers ST.

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Doing some caching the Launceston area to take advantage of the x 5 points during the Commonwealth Games. We'd solved some puzzles but hadn't had a chance to look for them so out and about today on a beautiful autumn day. We've been caching near here before but today this one was on our hit list. TFTC and the puzzle

Found on a Journey to Launceston with a caching Mate

TFTC

Hi DaFiChNi
A quick find as my thirteenth cache for the day
Sainted at 1300 hours
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint

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Enjoyed working this puzzle out and then getting lost in the bush and then finding the cache and an easy way out! TFTC.

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After making sure I poured some coffee into the guys first, I spend the morning rambling about the reserve with SSRat and Goose&Egg. Third cache for the morning and we were off to a pretty good start. TFTC

This puzzle took a bit of working out. I got the idea of what I was looking for quickly but had a bit of trouble finding them all but I really enjoyed it. Nice size container and good swag (not that I took anything, I prefer the Kangas)
Thanks DaFiChNi Team for a good puzzle and cache.

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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another nice puzzle quickly solved and today I get the chance to find it due to the cache being so big that was easy thanks for the cache

Some research soon had the required co ordinates and once at GZ the cache was soon spotted.

Many thanks DaFiChNi Team for publishing this cache for our enjoyment 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 We were one of the lucky teams to receive a pathtag from Geocaching Australia for publishing a "Geocacher Cache" - thanks Geocaching Australia.

The States of the nation games are here - join the fun from the 16th December 2017 - 21st January 2018

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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 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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Mr Y'stassie did the Wiki work for this cache and he soon had a set of coordinates that the checker agreed with. We added this cache to our list of caches to look for today.

As we still had an hour or two up our sleeves we decided to head over to this part of the reserve. We enjoyed the short walk to this cache. On arrival at GZ there was a little debate about who would make their way through the rushes to the cache. Usually there would be no discussion as Mrs Y'stassie tackles hides where Mr Y'stassie's poor balance might cause problems. Old wood and a fear of another snakey encounter made her hesitate today however after a short halt she decided to face her fears and tackle the reeds and the log. Luckily she managed to retrieve the cache container, extract and sign the log and replace everything as found without even seeing a snakes tail tip. Maybe it was even too hot for snakes today.

All was in excellent condition.

Thanks for the puzzle, the cache and the SOTN points DaFiChNi Team. We are certainly enjoying your well planned, simple yet very effective hides. We hope we are able to catch up with you some time soon.

Wikipedia can be your friend - strangely I have yet to make a donation when that pop up appears on my screen. Armed with viable coordinates headed out early and after a brief trek through the scrub was rewarded with a virginal log book.. thanks..!!

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Beat that drum!