Geologists' Hollow Victory Alexander Heights, Western Australia, Australia
By Silama on 18-Jun-07. Waypoint GC13D4G

I was in the area getting a few smiley's and thought I'd give this one a go. Had the co ords for a while now (I'm hoping they are correct)... but didn't hold up much chance of finding anything after reading previous logs. At GZ I found the bottom half a sistema and nothing else... I'm not even sure that it was part of the original cache. Have added a tube and log sheet in the hope of keeping this going for a while longer....

Found the remains of the geocach. Sorry for all that has happened

A lovely view from gz today. Unfortunately the logbook is soaked and unsignable so ive raken a photo as evidence of my find. Tried to dry the container out as best I could. Tftc

Find 10 of 13 on a drive across from the coast to Ballajura collecting as many unfound as possible and clearing a large section of map. The weather was too foul to consider biking it today.

The description of the puzzle is so cryptic and ambiguous - maybe deliberately, maybe not - that we have never gone down the rabbit hole of trying to solve it. Unusually for us, we have just taken the co-ords from a previous finder. Today was the day to collect and it was a quick find, although the high winds and length of time since the last find have led to it being particularly well buried.

TFTC Silama!

We had no idea how to get coords for this puzzle but were fortunate to be given assistance by a previous finder. A nice path and all good at GZ.

TFTC Silama this is find #8821 for us.

Out n about with B12 TFTH

Had half a dozen caches on the list today that have been always put in the too hard basket or just never got around to knocking them off.

Today we made a plan to knock these off and had a good day of it.

Thanks to the local COs for their caches.

Out for some exercise & collecting some smilies on the way. TFTC Silama

Out on a rainy day I managed to stay dry even though it did take a while to find the cache as I was looking for a different size cache tftc

Out and about today to continue our smilie hunt, happy to say we came up trumps with a find here today TFTC

Can’t find anywhere. DNF for me today

I had solved a few puzzle caches in anticipation of a visit to WA and made the most of the good weather today to try and find a few, including this one, north of Perth.

Been a while since this one was found!

Thanks Silama for the puzzle and the cache.

Hi there Silama.

We found your cache **"Geologists' Hollow Victory"** at 10:26:00 AM today. This one makes our find count 15081.

Ian spent some time solving a cluster of puzzles last night, so today we strolled around the park logging them (together with any others we came across) before the weather became too hot.

We thoroughly enjoyed our trip around the area & ended up finding quite a variety of container types, and sizes hidden along our route.

Today we found 8 caches & DNF'd 0. Thank you for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found this cache around 2m from where our GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

I will take over and place a box
Thanks for the opportunity
Please keep the geocaching

Thanks

This cache has been a very long time in the making, or should I say, in the solving and finding!
We found the required travel bugs a long time ago, "BACK-AND-FORTH" on 20/10/2007 and "TO-AND-FRO" on 23/8/2008, but we were unable to unravel the puzzle and put the cache on our ignore list and forgot all about it.
Then, a couple of months ago, whilst doing a spot of spring cleaning, I found a box of old papers in a cupboard, amongst the papers was the workings of some old puzzles. Some solved and found, some solved but archived, and some, like this one, not solved, not found and not archived. I still couldn’t readily see a solution so I passed the printout on to Muggle son-in-law not holding out much hope. Low and behold, a few weeks later he handed me a set of coordinates with a sheepish smile and an apology for taking so long. So, long story short, we hightailed it out tonight to see if the cache was still there. Thanks for the puzzle Silama, I see now that some things have changed over time, there is, however, a cache and a log in place. Now, it seems that I need to have another look as some of the other papers in the box.

We (BettyBoo3747 and I) had solved a pile of mysteries in the months preceding our trip. Today we spent a bit of time seeing if we had got some of them correct.
We had the solution to this puzzle from our last trip to WA, but it has taken this long to see if it works!
The peak of our walk through this park brought us to GZ, and some nice views.
Thanks, Robmc.

# 6207. Today Robmc and I decided to visit a lot of the puzzles that we had solved prior to our trip. I thought it would be some nice easy suburban caching - how wrong can you be? I was wearing shorts and soon had to resort to sockovers but the scrub is certainly scratchy stuff over here. Not sure why so many great puzzles finish with long walks along sandy tracks and through thick scrub.

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Rob had the answers for this one from his previous trip - when he didn't get to do it. As we were walking through the park collecting some other caches we added a smilie to this one too. It seems it has shrunk over the years - from a regular to a micro but amazingly we found it straightaway.
Thanks Silama

Did a day run to north east of Perth, to cache in the area.
Had an enjoyable day, visiting some amazing parks and bush land.
Solved this puzzle a while ago, and happily added our name to the log.
The cache was well hidden, and in good condition.
Thanks for the cache, Silama.

Found @ 12:48!

Find #7 in Koondoola Regional Bushland today! Solved all the puzzles in this area so I could justify the hour or so of walking to get here. An amazing area when the wildflowers are out - it turned out to be more of a photography session than a caching trip!

With a name like this, how could I resist trying to solve this one?!

Had a bit of help with this one, but easily found KB's replacement in a pretty obvious place - the difficulty was opening it! The lid was screwed on really tight and I thought I was going to have to give up and just submit a photo or something, but managed it in the end!

Curiously, I am the first person to sign the log - the top part has been ripped off! Strange...

TFTC!

Happy to finally log this one with KB's help...cheers Silama

Rode up a few weeks ago hoping to log this find and replace the container. Unfortunately, there was nowhere near GZ to place a large cache, so I left a log in a bag tucked in an obvious place. Returned today and, great news, the log was still in place. I have removed the log and left a micro cache in the likely location, which is the remains of what I suspect was the original hiding place. Once the vegetation flourishes sufficiently, I'll happily return and swap the micro for something larger.

Thanks for the puzzle Silama.

Finally completed the puzzle with help from a friend and found it with not sure if this one was cache, my geo-buddy who had been here before and realised the cache destroyed by bushfire. see the photos. please maintenance it, thanks Silama for the puzzle.

Mrs Felix was on night shift last night so set about writing a list of caches close to home, that we hadn't managed to find so far, for various reasons.

So after a massive 4 hour sleep x 2 in 48hours, it was time to get up and go and start the list! Nope hit snooze, not getting up next week will be soon enough!

Well apparently the cat had heard that the plan was to get up at lunch time and the revised snooze didn't get communicated? So soon enough it was up to discover it was 36degrees and the house (outside the bedroom) was horribly uncomfortable, might aswell get out there in it.

Made the car aircon look very inviting. Soon at GZ, via a little detour to collect a caching buddy, who also wasn't keen to be out in the heat today? Do we both have rocks in our head?

Well with 5 of my geo buddies (including 2 of my puzzle fairies) having found this cache it was more a matter of when rather than if we found the cache.

Last time I was in here, (chasing munzees) before Christmas I was hurriedly moved along by my sighting of a very large snake, hence I was not in a great hurry to return.

At leasst today I had someone with me if I got into trouble. I had read the previous logs during my time muddling around with the puzzle, so the cache readily presented itself on arrival nearby at GZ. (Geobuddy, previous find, hid out on the footpath giving no clues!!!)

Good thing Mr Felix wasn't present, or else he would surely have got some more ideas from this hide.

Love your work.

TFTC Silama

I had looked at this Puzzle Cache last month and despite a considerable amount of number crunching,
scribbling and screwed up scrap paper, I still had not come up with workable set of coords, so I decided to put
it to one side and to carry on with a number of other puzzles, with varying degrees if success.

Anyway I returned to this Puzzle last night, thinking the break might have done me good, but alas I got no further than
any of my previous attempts, so I resorted to emailing a friend for a hint to confirm I was at least heading in the
right direction.

My generous buddy soon returned with some very generous guidance, which resolved all my problems !!!
Anyway was up early this morning, so headed out with the Geopooch for her morning walk and to collect the Cache.

Fantastic hide, love the camo, I can see where the Cache gets its name from now,

All very clever, thanks again.

With the appropriate Intel, I was able to perform the required mathematics. That was the easy part. The electrical storm that was punching out the lightning was the hard part.

Boom. I could see the forked lightning come down somewhere over Whiteman Park. My next group of caches I had on the list. Was I stupid?

This one was found in the first place I looked, right there, all safe and sound. I decided not to do my usual geological trick - that is lick the rocks. I kept my tongue in my mouth today for fear of pointy objects bleeding charge off and becoming a target for the electrons in the clouds above.

Lovely puzzle. Lovely work! [^]
Thanks to Silama and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Well it's been 1 year and 9 months since this was last uncovered so it was good to be able to sign the log on this one. Another wonderfully put together puzzle and well commo-ed cache too! Definitely deserveds a favourite point!

Great area to do some caching, really amazing views. Being up here it's sometimes hard to think you're in the middle of a city!

Thanks for your assistance in solving this one silama, it wasn't easy to crack.
Well that's 4/5 of your puzzles now completed, only dancing with the stars to go ... which I'm not looking forward too.

TNLNSL. TFTC.

My appologies for not getting to this earlier.
It appears that the simplest way to solve the missing bug problem is simply to include the bug information in the cache description with the bug title. I have modified the cache description to include this. Good Luck.

I apologise to anyone still waiting for the travel bugs to re-appear with the first part of the clues . They have gone missing and been replaced several times so it appears that this is not a great way of starting. I am currently thinking about some other way of doing this and will post it as soon as I have it worked out.

Any chance of releasing another TO-AND-FRO if it has been lost? It hasn't been dropped off / moved / discovered since September 2009...

Found both trackables quite a few years ago and was able to solve the puzzle. So glad the caches are still around and the details have been unchanged. Finally happy to log the 3rd of 4 Silima puzzles sitting in our 'to do' pile. Loved the camo - we want one just like it!

[This entry was edited by richlink on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 4:06:52 AM.]

We were very happy to be able to claim victory on this one. Nice area around gz. Found the cache without any problem. Thanks Silama

Finally completed the puzzle with help from a friend. It was in the hard basket for a long time. It was great puzzle. Took a geocoin and left nil. Thanks for the cache and exercise.

Phew!!! I had very little idea about where to even start working out this puzzle - had my hand tightly held for most of the way to the solution by ROgue - which led to a nice walk on a very blustery day to a cleverly hidden cache. I am still in the dark about what some of the information was all about though...
TNLN
Thanks (I think?) for a very vexing puzzle and hunt, Silama.

Found this afternoon but not without the invaluable asistance from Silama. I have often ridden past the cache on my way to or from work. Great hide.

tnsl
left Squirrel's GC
tfth

Had worked this one out a while ago but only now have got around to testing the theory. We really weren't that confident that we had it right, but there it was, right on GZ. Not only a great puzzle, but a very clever hide as well! A well-stocked cache with good swaps, but TNLN. Thanks Silama. Three of yours solved and two to go!

"Bronze" Third to Find. Found the cache at 8pm. Lovely and enjoyed walk along to the cache. Thanks to Silama for advice me - real appreciation for his time. I am enjoyed challenge the puzzle and learn alot. Took - Geocoin. Again Thanks Silama for organise the cache and hunt.

I understand the name now. I'm sure I could have found a closer parking spot but Larissa (the smaller half of wiggytig)and I were enjoying the walk through the bushland.

Surprisingly I got what the TBs meant first off but for the rest of the math I had a bit of trouble. With a bit of help I was able to work through it and it is an easy find. Took 1 trackable.

t4th

Apologies again. Typo errors and different interpretations of "check-digit" calculation have convinced me to alter the wording of the checking clue. Thanks to Rogue for alerting me to this. Hopefully there will be no further "confusions".

Found this tonight at 8pm.

Wow, what a puzzle! This one has been doing my head in since it was released. I was very very happy to find the cache! Great hide too

The puzzle has had me going around in circles for days. I've done pages of calculations and check digits.

I came out last night for a stab in the dark (literally), but found nothing. So had a think about some other possible options, and came back tonight successful!

Took the FTF card.
Left English Egg GC and Bunya's GeoFaex GC.

Great puzzle - great cache - thanks Silama!

Congratulations ROgue for your FTF. Looks like someone else had better be quick with Executives Closet to avoid a Rogue "clean sweep" for my first three caches.

Apologies to any and all cachers attempting this one. I gave the wrong "check-digit" values in the original listing, I have now corrected this. Thanks to Chwiliwr bringing this to my attention.

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