Of CORS it’s Morse Rossarden, Tasmania, Australia
By Tassie Trekkers on 13-Jan-18. Waypoint GA11605

This one was solved when we were doing the Ready Aim Fire series of caches a few weeks ago. We were surprised to find that the final of this one was nowhere near where we were travelling.
Today we were heading to Hobart to watch our muggle son race at Baskerville this weekend so we decided to go via this cache and another one we had solved in the area.
This was our first cache for the day and a quick find almost exactly a year after its last find.
Thanks.

Rated: for Overall Experience

An early start was required today to drive to Gretna to install some gear into a farmers tractor. Took the Lakes highway to save a bit of time. This didn't really work as there was ice and fog everywhere. Stopping for caches didn't really help the situation either.

Found easily enough signed log and returned to hiding place. TFTC

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.
A nice quick find with the hint for AlbyDangles, while I wondered whether we should take a trundle along this side road (but we didn't).
About 28 finds all up, Breona to Westbury, via Deloraine. As usual, a great day out in excellent company.
Cheers,
EPs.

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"Hello Tassie Trekkers thank you for the cache.

A nice easy find as per the hint.

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 1144

TFTC"

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.

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This morning we had to go to Golden valley to collect a timber thicknessing machine, so we decided to do as many of the series of caches on highland lakes road as we could before miss DEZ055 had to be back for work.
we attempted 11 caches with 10 finds and 1 DNF before turning to head back home.
this one was a quick and easy find using the hint. TFTC

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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

A quick find at gz with cache and contents in top condition.
Many thanks Tassie Trekkers for another very enjoyable cache...cheers ST.

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We were undertaking the recent puzzle caches placed in the Golden Valley region. The aim was to find 20.
Well here we going again, bashing through bush, getting knicked by this and that. Bitten my March Fly's and its only January.
We searched around till right GZ was found then quick sign and move on.
Have noticed that the caches are progressively getting more difficult.
Score 8 of 20 - loving this
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).

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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 after another bit of a detour, TFTC and the puzzles

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.

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We have occasionally looked at this spot and wondered how far we could travel down this way but have never really had time. It is a good place to park as you are well off the highway and out of sight of most passing traffic.

Our GPS was very insistent that we needed to go well into the bush however after a fruitless search we returned to the road where we read the hint and spotted a possible hide. Back we went and soon spotted the hide and uncovered the cache. Our GPS indicated we were 6m from the hide.

Thanks for another little puzzle, a big cache and some good scavenge points Tassie Trekkers.

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.

GA11605 “Of CORS it's Morse”
Thirteenth cache for the day. Drove almost to it. Never parked in this spot before. The little bush bash was most enjoyable again. The find took a bit longer on this cache.
Sainted at 1340 hours
Yet again, I was surprised to see a blank log book so thanks for the *FTF* - Greatly appreciated.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.

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