Cricketer Chronology Cache Invermay, Tasmania, Australia
By DaFiChNi Team on 07-Jan-18. Waypoint GA11492

This morning we were in Launceston to collect our tiles for our house, as we were early we grabbed a few select caches that would help with the Geosportz challenges.
Solved this one the other day so that it could be found today. TFTC

I think I solved this puzzle just after I had found a few other puzzle ones in this general area, so put finding this one off until I was out searching in the area again and found easily in great condidtion.

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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,
Sauntered on from the last cache...enjoying the open terrain. Another quick find...very much appreciated...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 must have walked past this one on one of our previous expeditions but revisiting today and found it! TFTC and the puzzle

Found on a Journey to Launceston with a caching Mate

TFTC

Hi DaFiChNi
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

GA11492 "Cricketer Chronology Cache"
This puzzle was a quick solve. Also one I was very interested in, as I still get to play the occasional competitive game and constantly follow the Tasmanian and Australian Teams
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 tired, but they'll learn to love me again
Sainted the cache at 1309 hours as the fourteenth find for the day.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint

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Last cache in this area and another good puzzle that I enjoyed. SSR had been here before too so he just stood around like a decaying tree stump and left me to it. Wee, that's not quite true, there was a group of riders up the hill so he stood strategically to block their view. Have you ever seen a rat trying to shield a goose? They were gone quickly anyway, in fact a couple of minutes later they rode past us.
Thanks for another good cache DaFiChNi Team


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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while away for work I spent a fine evening walking around Reserve collecting puzzle caches that I have solved previously thanks for the launch 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. 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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Had a crack at this one the previous day, however, stuffed up the math and subtracted instead of adding so ended up in somebody's front yard. Nope that's not right. Returned today with the correct numbers and after a short hike soon had the cache to hand.. thanks..!!

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As cricket tragics we usually race one another to see who can solve the cricket puzzles first. However in this case Mr Y'stassie saw it first and had it solved before Mrs Y'tassie knew anything about it. He has been forgiven just this once.

We spotted the cache as we approached as the cover had been disturbed, maybe by a passing animal, and the cache was quite exposed. After signing the log and replacing the container we looked around for some forest floor litter to help conceal the container. When we stood back to admire our handiwork the cache container was invisible. Hopefully it will remain undisturbed.

Thanks DaFiChNi Team for another interesting puzzle, a large well stocked cache and some more useful points for the SOTN game.

Solved this puzzle yesterday and rewarded with a [*FTF*] today @ 10.15 hrs. Some googling soon had the puzzle solved - impressed with the large and well stocked cache. Made a quick find at GZ with accurate co ordinates.

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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Batter up!