sobBINGOver Bifid Golden Valley, Tasmania, Australia
By
Tassie Trekkers on 13-Jan-18. Waypoint GA11604
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Unknown or Mystery |
| Container: | Large |
| Coordinates: | S41° 39.413' E146° 41.900' (WGS 84) |
| 55G 474882E 5388274N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 1101 m |
| Local Government Area: | Meander Valley |
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Description
A cache placed for the States of the Nation games 2917/18
Cache is not at the listed co ordinates
Solve the puzzle below to reveal the cache location
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Cache contains log book, pencil and swaps
Hard to obtain an accurate GPS reading please read the hint - no need to climb
Hints
Haqre ebpxf onfr bs gerr arne pyvss snpr tebhaq yriry |
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Decode |
Logs
A great day so I am looking forward to locating caches from Deloraine through to Poatina. I missed this on my first drive past and had to backtrack to make the find. Accurate co-ordinates led to a quick find. Log was a little damp but still able to be signed.
Rated: for Overall Experience
This was one of the quicker puzzles to solve and one of the quicker caches to find.
Mr Beetle's parents had a shack at the lakes so travelled this road frequently and Mr Beetle remembers this area as being quite clear exposing the cliff face well.
There is now quite a bit of rubbish in there but it was too wet when we were here today to do our bit for the environment.
Thanks.
Mr Beetle's parents had a shack at the lakes so travelled this road frequently and Mr Beetle remembers this area as being quite clear exposing the cliff face well.
There is now quite a bit of rubbish in there but it was too wet when we were here today to do our bit for the environment.
Thanks.
Hi TTs, thanks for the cache, and indeed the series. I particularly like what you've done with the cache names.
Out on a mostly GA caching adventure with AlbyDangles.
Wow, who put a cliffface here!
I was sobbing here, as AlbyDangles eventually found this one in a place I'd overlooked, or not looked hard enough!
About 28 finds all up, Breona to Westbury, via Deloraine. As usual, a great day out in excellent company.
Cheers,
EPs.
Out on a mostly GA caching adventure with AlbyDangles.
Wow, who put a cliffface here!
I was sobbing here, as AlbyDangles eventually found this one in a place I'd overlooked, or not looked hard enough!
About 28 finds all up, Breona to Westbury, via Deloraine. As usual, a great day out in excellent company.
Cheers,
EPs.
Rated: for Overall Experience
"Hello Tassie Trekkers thank you for the cache.
I started looking at the middle of the cliff before headed off to the other end of the cliff with out any luck. I then worked my way back and eventually found it as per the hint. I did not expect to find a cliff here.
After spending a few days solving your puzzles most of them were straight forward but there was a few that I did need a help with.
Today EeePees and I went for a drive along the Lake Hwy with the prime objective to find GA caches along the way.
It started off a bit cold but ended out to be a lovely day.
And of cause the company was fantastic.
Found on Sunday 15 March 2020 at 1203
TFTC"
I started looking at the middle of the cliff before headed off to the other end of the cliff with out any luck. I then worked my way back and eventually found it as per the hint. I did not expect to find a cliff here.
After spending a few days solving your puzzles most of them were straight forward but there was a few that I did need a help with.
Today EeePees and I went for a drive along the Lake Hwy with the prime objective to find GA caches along the way.
It started off a bit cold but ended out to be a lovely day.
And of cause the company was fantastic.
Found on Sunday 15 March 2020 at 1203
TFTC"
This afternoon after going to mawbanna this morning we decided to go try and finish off the lakes road caches. In total we attempted 7 caches and found them all. We only have 2 left now to complete the series up this road.
This one was a quick find using the hint, everything was good in the cache. TFTC
This one was a quick find using the hint, everything was good in the cache. TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
Out and about with the Rafas caching, A day that had it all Rain Hail Snow and Shine all four seasons in one day. It was cold enough to lower the temp. of the motor while going up to Bothwell and warm enough driving from Perth to home to put us all to sleep. a great day caching on an old road thats worth traveling on. lots of GCA caches to find, TFTC TNLN log dry.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Thank you for the puzzle cache Tassie Trekkers.
I solved a lot of the puzzles that were published for the States of the Nation game when they were published. However, I don't often travel the Highland Lakes Road so haven't had a chance to go and find them. A couple of weeks ago, RLD4963 and I were returning back to Hobart from Burnie along the Highland Lakes road and I mentioned that there were heaps of GCA caches along the road. At the time we didn't stop to look for any as we needed to get back home to pick up the GeoGSP from his doggy pet resort.
When the Blitz game was published, we decided that a drive along this road would certainly be helpful for us, so we picked a day and off we went - this time we had the GeoGSP with us. The weather wasn't terrible, we certainly had lots of blue sky, but also a few periods of overcast weather, and even a few short periods of light snow, and the occasional shower - but it was never cold, so all in all, we had a great day as we made our way, looking from caches between the Melton Mowbray turnoff and Deloraine. It was a big day, leaving at 7am in the morning and turning back in to the driveway 12 hours later, but we had heaps of stops and breaks to have a bite to eat, we even found a dog park in Deloraine for the GeoGSP to really get out and stretch his legs after sitting in the car.
Thanks for publishing and placing this cache, I learnt a lot doing all the puzzles that were published for the states of the nation game.
A nice quick find with RLD4963 and the GeoGSP.
I solved a lot of the puzzles that were published for the States of the Nation game when they were published. However, I don't often travel the Highland Lakes Road so haven't had a chance to go and find them. A couple of weeks ago, RLD4963 and I were returning back to Hobart from Burnie along the Highland Lakes road and I mentioned that there were heaps of GCA caches along the road. At the time we didn't stop to look for any as we needed to get back home to pick up the GeoGSP from his doggy pet resort.
When the Blitz game was published, we decided that a drive along this road would certainly be helpful for us, so we picked a day and off we went - this time we had the GeoGSP with us. The weather wasn't terrible, we certainly had lots of blue sky, but also a few periods of overcast weather, and even a few short periods of light snow, and the occasional shower - but it was never cold, so all in all, we had a great day as we made our way, looking from caches between the Melton Mowbray turnoff and Deloraine. It was a big day, leaving at 7am in the morning and turning back in to the driveway 12 hours later, but we had heaps of stops and breaks to have a bite to eat, we even found a dog park in Deloraine for the GeoGSP to really get out and stretch his legs after sitting in the car.
Thanks for publishing and placing this cache, I learnt a lot doing all the puzzles that were published for the states of the nation game.
A nice quick find with RLD4963 and the GeoGSP.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Had a day off work, and decided to do a geocaching trip with Geo Kid E through the central highlands. Mainly to find caches for the latest event, Journey or Destination
Games
Journey or Destination
Game Period: 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST
It is sometimes said [citation needed] that the game of geocaching is not about the destination it is about the journey. This game is about the choices you make in the experience of the journey or the destination.
On your entry to the game you will be asked to create a playing field with a number of ground tiles. Your playing field is a grid 20 x 20 ground tiles making a total number of 400 possible steps you can take on your journey or destination. You choose whether you want to find and follow the path or whether you wanted to meander around. A playing field is unique to each player so there is no benefit in teaming up to beat the system through brute force.
For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath. There are a number of different ground tiles that will be revealed when you click on your playing field. It should be noted that there are no punishments for clicking a tile but there will not always be the reward you were hoping for as you reveal each tile.
Dirt. The ground beneath the ground tile is just plain old brown dirt.
Dirt with some points. The ground beneath the tile is brown dirt but it has some points associated with it.
Concrete. The ground beneath is part of the pathway that will lead you on your way to your destination but has no point value.
Start. A concrete ground tile that has a blue map marker.
Destination. A ground tile that has a green map marker.
Meandering around and avoiding the path will accumulate points that will be used to place on you the ladder of wanderers. The more you stay off the path the higher the number of points you will accumulate and it will be your journey that will be the determining factor in whether you place into a prize winning position. You are free to select any ground tile to click on; they do not need to be next to each other.
Trying to find the path may mean you strike out on the dirt until you eventually come across the path and as a geocacher who can't say that this isn't a tried and true method. Once you find the path however will you try and follow the path as it changes direction around your playing field? Do you go North, South, East or West to try and find the next concrete tile along the path? If you head one way are you heading towards the start or towards the destination? When you do happen upon the destination tile then you will automatically be in a winning position.
At any point you are free to change from the journey to the destination and vice versa but you won't be able to regenerate your playing field. You are also free to keep playing as long as you have qualifying geocaches, accumulating more and more dirt tile points and placing you higher and higher on the ladder.
Qualifying geocaches fall into two categories. Finds and Hides.
A qualifying find is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia
The geocache has a hidden date prior to the game commencing
The geocache was logged by you on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period
The geocache was physically found by you during the game period
The geocache is not owned by you unless it is a moveable geocache
The geocache has not previously been found by you during the game period
The geocache is one of the following types:
Burke and Wills
Moveable (you will qualify only once for a find on a moveable geocache)
Traditional
TrigPoint
Augmented Reality
Beacon
Gadget
Multi-cache
Night Cache
Podcache
Reverse
Unknown or Mystery
A qualifying hide is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia
The geocache has a hidden date after the game has commenced
The geocache was published on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period
The geocache has a container size of regular or larger (Note: A regular geocache has a volume of 1 litre or more)
The geocache is one of the following types:
Moveable
Traditional
Augmented Reality
Beacon
Gadget
Multi-cache
Night Cache
Podcache
Reverse
Unknown or Mystery
The game tracking mechanism relies upon your honesty when logging geocaches as found or hidden.
The games administrators will undertake verification of a statistically significant number of logs.
Players who continually log inaccurate information will be disqualified from the game. The game administrators decision is final.
The game administrators will subtract qualifying hide or find geocaches from your tally if they are found to be not genuine.
The game administrators reserve the right to provide clarifications to the rules at any point during the game.
Don't forget to claim your limited time game trophies, if your qualify, while the game is in progress. Once the game completes the ability to claim your trophies is lost for ever.
We found some of these caches a little disappointing as they seemed placed only for the SOTN event and did not take advantage of some nearby great places. Some caches though were great and placed with a real reason and certainly were worth the visit
TFTC
Games
Journey or Destination
Game Period: 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST
It is sometimes said [citation needed] that the game of geocaching is not about the destination it is about the journey. This game is about the choices you make in the experience of the journey or the destination.
On your entry to the game you will be asked to create a playing field with a number of ground tiles. Your playing field is a grid 20 x 20 ground tiles making a total number of 400 possible steps you can take on your journey or destination. You choose whether you want to find and follow the path or whether you wanted to meander around. A playing field is unique to each player so there is no benefit in teaming up to beat the system through brute force.
For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath. There are a number of different ground tiles that will be revealed when you click on your playing field. It should be noted that there are no punishments for clicking a tile but there will not always be the reward you were hoping for as you reveal each tile.
Dirt. The ground beneath the ground tile is just plain old brown dirt.
Dirt with some points. The ground beneath the tile is brown dirt but it has some points associated with it.
Concrete. The ground beneath is part of the pathway that will lead you on your way to your destination but has no point value.
Start. A concrete ground tile that has a blue map marker.
Destination. A ground tile that has a green map marker.
Meandering around and avoiding the path will accumulate points that will be used to place on you the ladder of wanderers. The more you stay off the path the higher the number of points you will accumulate and it will be your journey that will be the determining factor in whether you place into a prize winning position. You are free to select any ground tile to click on; they do not need to be next to each other.
Trying to find the path may mean you strike out on the dirt until you eventually come across the path and as a geocacher who can't say that this isn't a tried and true method. Once you find the path however will you try and follow the path as it changes direction around your playing field? Do you go North, South, East or West to try and find the next concrete tile along the path? If you head one way are you heading towards the start or towards the destination? When you do happen upon the destination tile then you will automatically be in a winning position.
At any point you are free to change from the journey to the destination and vice versa but you won't be able to regenerate your playing field. You are also free to keep playing as long as you have qualifying geocaches, accumulating more and more dirt tile points and placing you higher and higher on the ladder.
Qualifying geocaches fall into two categories. Finds and Hides.
A qualifying find is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia
The geocache has a hidden date prior to the game commencing
The geocache was logged by you on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period
The geocache was physically found by you during the game period
The geocache is not owned by you unless it is a moveable geocache
The geocache has not previously been found by you during the game period
The geocache is one of the following types:
Burke and Wills
Moveable (you will qualify only once for a find on a moveable geocache)
Traditional
TrigPoint
Augmented Reality
Beacon
Gadget
Multi-cache
Night Cache
Podcache
Reverse
Unknown or Mystery
A qualifying hide is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia
The geocache has a hidden date after the game has commenced
The geocache was published on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period
The geocache has a container size of regular or larger (Note: A regular geocache has a volume of 1 litre or more)
The geocache is one of the following types:
Moveable
Traditional
Augmented Reality
Beacon
Gadget
Multi-cache
Night Cache
Podcache
Reverse
Unknown or Mystery
The game tracking mechanism relies upon your honesty when logging geocaches as found or hidden.
The games administrators will undertake verification of a statistically significant number of logs.
Players who continually log inaccurate information will be disqualified from the game. The game administrators decision is final.
The game administrators will subtract qualifying hide or find geocaches from your tally if they are found to be not genuine.
The game administrators reserve the right to provide clarifications to the rules at any point during the game.
Don't forget to claim your limited time game trophies, if your qualify, while the game is in progress. Once the game completes the ability to claim your trophies is lost for ever.
We found some of these caches a little disappointing as they seemed placed only for the SOTN event and did not take advantage of some nearby great places. Some caches though were great and placed with a real reason and certainly were worth the visit
TFTC
A quick find on another good hide in a sneaky little cut away. Cache and contents are in top condition.
Many thanks Tassie Trekkers for another top cache...cheers ST.
Many thanks Tassie Trekkers for another top cache...cheers ST.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Today was the day I made an assault on the Golden Valley puzzles. I thought I would take a short cut from Longford via Liffey but it turned out to be a “long cut” . I solved most of the puzzles several weeks ago but couldn’t find the time to get here. I found 9 of the puzzles today which was all I had time to find so I will have to come back and find the rest another time. Thanks Tassie Trekkers for the cache, a quick find and cache well hidden and in good condition
Rated: for Overall Experience
Absolutely loved this sheltered spot, a break from the heat, with shade and shadow, sights and smells. Had it all.. thanks..!!
Rated: for Overall Experience
We were undertaking the recent puzzle caches placed in the Golden Valley region. The aim was to find 20.
Looked around this way and that way for a cliff. GPS said behind me, but could not see a cliff. Till we looked from a different angle, resulted in a quick find.
Have noticed that the caches are progressively getting more difficult.
Score 6 of 20
Thanks Tassie Trekkers
Looked around this way and that way for a cliff. GPS said behind me, but could not see a cliff. Till we looked from a different angle, resulted in a quick find.
Have noticed that the caches are progressively getting more difficult.
Score 6 of 20
Thanks Tassie Trekkers
For us, today was all about the two (originally 5/5) events on the coast, that was the reason for our trip up. While we were up there we planned to find a few other caches to top up our meagre contribution to the States of the Nation Game. We managed a handful on the coast and one or two more on the Highlands Lakes Road, finding all but one (I need to check my cords on that one).
My apologies for the copy and paste log but if I have any hope of finishing and claiming some scavenges, it’s my only hope.
We found all containers in good condition and really enjoyed our time at the events this morning and our various finds during the rest of the day.
Thanks to the various cache owners of our finds today (mainly Tassie Trekkers and 2y’stassies).
My apologies for the copy and paste log but if I have any hope of finishing and claiming some scavenges, it’s my only hope.
We found all containers in good condition and really enjoyed our time at the events this morning and our various finds during the rest of the day.
Thanks to the various cache owners of our finds today (mainly Tassie Trekkers and 2y’stassies).
Rated: for Overall Experience
As the first to find has now been claimed, we will log a find. We beta tested this cache for the cache owners on a recent trip through the highlands. Enjoyed solving the puzzle. Accurate coords and hint led to a quick find. Thanks Tassie Trekkers for the puzzle and the large container.
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.
We have had fun participating and as this is the last week it will soon be over. Then what do we do? Thanks to all the cache owners who have placed caches that meet the scavenge criteria for us to find. Go Tassie.
We no longer need to do such lengthy logs as we have received the virtual trophy "I write treatises for a living" averaging 150 words per finds on valid dragonZone caches.
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.
We have had fun participating and as this is the last week it will soon be over. Then what do we do? Thanks to all the cache owners who have placed caches that meet the scavenge criteria for us to find. Go Tassie.
We no longer need to do such lengthy logs as we have received the virtual trophy "I write treatises for a living" averaging 150 words per finds on valid dragonZone caches.
Rated: for Overall Experience
This was the last cache on our list for tonight and we were pleased to find a suitable spot to pull over off the main section of the highway. We enjoyed the short walk to GZ as this area is quite pretty. As we approached the hide site we spotted the hide and were a little alarmed to notice water dripping onto the covering material. When we opened the container there was a small amount of water in the container and the log book was slightly damp. The lid might need some seeling compound to protect the contents from water damage as this area appears to be quite wet. Cache container was replaced as found. We hope the Sobbing did not produce the water that had entered this cache container.
Thanks for the large puzzle cache hidden in a pretty area Tassie Trekkers. An interesting way of including BINGO into the cache name. We hope this series gets a lot of finds in the future.
Thanks for the large puzzle cache hidden in a pretty area Tassie Trekkers. An interesting way of including BINGO into the cache name. We hope this series gets a lot of finds in the future.
Hi Trekkers
A day of caching was required for the States of the Nation Scavenger Hunt.
Weather:
It was fine when I left Huonville where it was seven degrees Celsius and a little over cast.
At Liawenee it was only six degrees and it stayed at that temperature whilst on the Plateau. Mind you, the wind chill factor was a lot lower.
The temperature increased the lower down the hill I went and the closer I got to Deloraine.
Travel:
From Huonville, I travelled straight to Liawenee and found my first cache. Left Huonville at 0630 hours getting back at 1920 hours.
From there I travelled toward Deloraine stopping as required to find caches and then on to Huonville again.
Total mileage for the day was 530.3 kilometres per the car.
On foot, I took 7398 steps burning 1598 calories to cover a distance of 5.97 kilometres finding twenty caches for the day.
GA11604 “sobBINGOver Bifid”
Fifteenth cache for the day. Drove almost to it. Enjoyed the short walk and quick find near these cliffs.
Sainted at 1412 hours
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.
A day of caching was required for the States of the Nation Scavenger Hunt.
Weather:
It was fine when I left Huonville where it was seven degrees Celsius and a little over cast.
At Liawenee it was only six degrees and it stayed at that temperature whilst on the Plateau. Mind you, the wind chill factor was a lot lower.
The temperature increased the lower down the hill I went and the closer I got to Deloraine.
Travel:
From Huonville, I travelled straight to Liawenee and found my first cache. Left Huonville at 0630 hours getting back at 1920 hours.
From there I travelled toward Deloraine stopping as required to find caches and then on to Huonville again.
Total mileage for the day was 530.3 kilometres per the car.
On foot, I took 7398 steps burning 1598 calories to cover a distance of 5.97 kilometres finding twenty caches for the day.
GA11604 “sobBINGOver Bifid”
Fifteenth cache for the day. Drove almost to it. Enjoyed the short walk and quick find near these cliffs.
Sainted at 1412 hours
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Spent some time over the last few days solving puzzles for a loop through this area. We set off fairly early on a mission and found all the caches we targeted. We even got a couple of FTFs along the way, this was one of them. The weather was lovely at the start but a bit over halfway up the clouds lowered and the rain started, not too heavy but it did mean that one cache that was a "maybe" on the list became "leave it for another time". This cache container was half full of water so we emptied it out and tried to dry it out a bit, the logbook was nice and dry though. The finds today should mean some good points for scavenges in the States of the Nation summer game so thank you to both the teams that devised the puzzles and hid the caches that we found today
