Zagadka Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
By Damn Freddo on 28-May-10. Waypoint GC29BPM

#24872. We worked out where to park, and got there Ok. But as we arrived a gate opened indicating a car wanted to come out of its drive. With space tight, Troodles got turned round and into a park, allowing the other car to get out. Short walk to GZ and a quick find. TFTC.

After spending time in the Barossa Valley, StreetWalkerNZ and I drove back to Adelaide this morning as we fly to Sydney tomorrow. With the rental car, we are more flexible than we were on our initial visit when we mainly relied on public transit and walking.A tricky wee puzzle that took a while to nut out, so pleased we were able to make the find today. SW did the honours as I didn't want to put my hands in unseen places. Nice spot for the final. TFTC.

Great puzzle and hide!TFTC

Out for a stroll around the CBD before heading out to dinner.I had some help with the puzzle, but found the container all on my own. Cool structure.

Solved this puzzle a while ago so it was great to convert it to a smiley today. It was a quick find which I didnt expect. Found in the second spot I looked. Thought it would take much longer. Thanks

Out in Adelaide with Brad & Janet, using up some time to chat and pick up some final caches before I fly back to Canberra. Interesting doing the various manipulations here: language, settings, etc. But the tranlation came out in good enough english for me to turn into coordinates. GZ was an interesting spot. Rather rustic!! Anyway, soon, I had found the container and signed the log. TFTC Freddo

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~The logbook is signed **pesti-Hoot** for *pestinette* and *BlackHoot*.In: Nothing.Out: Nothing.Thanks **Freddo** for the cache.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~*Here is the palaver from my log "3615-MyLife" that you still don't have to read:*After multiple outings together, here are some examples: the park at T5 in the Orlans region, the Letterbox Matrix in Provins on the return of GeoBulles 2023, a getaway to Rambouillet and Fontainebleau, the Mega in Oliveira de Frades in Portugal, that in Spain in Camarasa with a memorable passage in Andorra, a foray into the Drme at the beginning of the year, I have the immense luck and pleasure to accompany the pestinettes who asked me last summer to be part of this crazy trip to Australia to participate in the Adelaide Mega on February 29 !So I start by thanking them once again for the invitation as well as for the preparation of all logistics and the program of discoveries planned for these 17 days on Australian lands: Jasmers including three from the year 2000,webcams, virtual ones (full), challenges, Earthcaches, mysteries, Events.I would just add my two cents with the Matrices by cache type as well as obtaining as many Addons as possible for Leap Day ! Then depending on the time that we will have left at each of our stages, all caches allowing usto visit a nice new place.We only visited a tiny part of this beautiful country which makes us want to come back although it is not next door and I would also remember the warm welcome of Australians and their kindness.I sincerely thank all the poseurs without whom the exploration of all theseplaces known or much more discreet would not have been possible. A big thank you for your personal investment for the pleasure of all and ours in particular during this beautiful trip shared in friendly company ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~**Against a sedentary lifestyle, geocache! Get Out and Play! Saia and play! Sal y juega!**

6 months ago, during a frenzy, we said to ourselves "why not going to the mega in Adelaide for the leapday". From scratch we moved on to preparing an 18-day project in Australia.Our objectives are simple, visit a small part of this immense continent while validating a few caches. There are so many caches (impossible to do everything) that we will select. Our plan will allow us to visit Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Mount Gambier and finish in Adelaide for the famous Mega.During our stay we will log PestiHoot for Pestinette and Blackhoot.During our 5 days in Adlade, we visited the centre and around while following the caches and labs. We resolved some mysteries before our trip. We made some great discoveries and great experiences.Easy to find when we go ton the good spot. But the neighbor's dog barked a lot, fortunately no moggles in the area.Thanks to the caches we visited many sites evoking Australian culture and history.Thanks for the cache and the discovery of beautiful or original spots

Northbound from the city to Mawson Lakes this morning, I had some housekeeping to take care of in the form of solved puzzle clearance. After finding a convenient parking place near GZ, I headed in for a pre-dawn hunt with the phone torch on hand if needed.Thankfully, no torch required as the cache was in hand after a brief scan of GZ, so I moved back to the car for business and returned the cache once I had my name in the log. I don't recall when I solved this one, but I do know it's been a very long time in the corrected coords pile. So, as I made my way slowly to an event where I would spot the CO at the other end of the table, it was nice to have it transformed into a smiley.Cheers Freddo.

Clocking up cache finds for the July Wheel of Challenges, whilst working toward other challenge goals and milestones!

Solved and found on a Sunday Geo arvo with Peas&CarrotsForever and pineapplegoldy


TFTC

AussieGal88

South Australia is the place be for GCA1DNA - February 29th, 2024 in Adelaide! Let's show the rest of the Geocaching world what Australia is made of at The Great Leap Forward!

I made a plan with AussieGal88 & Peas&CarrotsForever to grab a pole cache in North Adelaide today. However, it turned into a full afternoon grabbing caches.

It was an enjoyable time with lots of chats, walking and laughs.

I had have this one sitting on my map for a while waiting to be found.

Since we were nearby I suggested going to it and trying again after I was muggled out back in October last year.

Today was muggle free and I had safety in numbers to search freely.

We all picked a spot to search and Carrots of Peas&CarrotsForever found the cache.

Cache was signed and returned. All is well here.

Thanks Freddo for this mystery cache, which brings Goldy's total find count to 3288 on the 23rd of July 2023.


CITO's are a brilliant way to help keep our community area's clean. The Earth is our playing field and we need to protect it!

Always be sure to cache the "leave no trace" way!


**South Australia is the place be for GCA1DNA - February 29th, 2024 in Adelaide! Hope to see you at The Great Leap Forward!**

A day out caching with AussieGal88 & pineapplegoldy was organised after last night's event.

Having been muggled out from finding this cache previously, Goldy wanted to to return today for another go. Of course we agreed and we all started our search in a different spot. As usual I was being guided by my phone, whereas Carrots follows his geosenses and of coursel he made the find. TFTC Damn Freddo

*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Found on caching day with JJ52 and Michells&hound. I needed the Z for a challenge Cache I have found. TFTC

Out on the bike collecting a couple of caches after work……this one, the very last place I look
TFTC

A very persistent muggle was preventing me from having a go here today.

Most of the time I don't care, I can always return. This muggle however, was in the one spot I didn't want and was getting on my nerves while trying to wait them out.

You win muggle.

Thanks anyway Freddo. Will return another day.

Caught up with Wayne APN for some high terrain caches at North Adelaide today.
Nicely hidden away. Log stamped.

Out with Weredunn4 finding caches in the NA area

Nice hide.

TFTC SL

I had solved this puzzle back in September 2018 after receiving some help. Perhaps it was those odd and different characters that scared me off every time I opened up this puzzle, but it was good finally have a solution. I'm not the biggest fan for using these machine ciphers, as it seems like you need the right source in order to make the correct decipher.

This Anzac Day weekend, jesswrigley and I were back in Adelaide whilst attending a wedding. We took the opportunity to catch up with family and friends introducing our newest member of *Team Warren*, and where we could, we visited a few geocaches that I had either missed during my residency, or new geocaches published in the last 1.5 years.

Today, we began our day with a Tardy Mouse event catch-up at Mile End, before jesswrigley caught up with friends in Lightsview. I was then able to find a few geocaches in the vicinity and North Adelaide's park lands, before heading back to our accommodation for the afternoon's wedding plans.

After finding a spot to park for this geocache location, I looked through another set of weird and sunken characters. I had a hunch to what I was looking for, and it was just a matter of time before finding the correct nook of this nicely hidden cache. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks Damn Freddo for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Found while caching with Wollaston and Liz&Bruce.

Thanks to the many hands and minds taking time to set out and maintaining hides and showing us your special part of the world

Log signed with group stamp

TFTC Freddo

Find # 3209

Thanks for arranging and hiding.  Good to be having a look around the area.  Caching with Wollaston and SeasonedBird. Fav point alloc

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce. Another great day for caching. TFTC Freddo
Find #5561 at 18:28.

We headed into town for a reschedule of the Van Gogh event, so had to track down a cache while we were here. Trying to increase my percentage of mystery caches and I had managed to solve this a while ago. Turned out to be a great walk, thanks

Easy find in the rain.

Cool puzzle

TFTC

Headed out after I had bagels for lunch with a plan to collect a few caches along the way. The weather was great but the traffic and my ability to get red lights were appalling. Nonetheless the day out was okay with six mystery and one letterbox caches found. Unfortunately a few DNFs along the way as well because of fences, dodgy looking spots, lack of TOTTs, etc.

I'm not sure what part of this puzzle was the most difficult, however I managed to work my way through the various steps to find a GZ that I have driven past hundreds of times. Felt a bit exposed at GZ but the cache was discovered thanks to a spot on clue. TFTC.

Another day out was organised by the JAMMS team targeting kayak caches and some high terrain caches in and around the city with a few others thrown in. A fun day was had and a few weary bodies headed for home after a full day.

We were in the area so decided to stop off here to find this one as well. After lookn a coiuple of wrong spots the cache was found right where the hint indicated.

Thanks for the cache Damn Freddo.

Big day out with the JAMS crew which involved a lot of activity. Today I wore waders for the first time, carried a kayak further than the kayak seemed to go In the water, walked a long way through a drain and utilized several other TOTTs.
Not too many caches found but a very rewarding day. Absolutely knackered afterwards!
We were a depleted JAMS crew as we were down 1 action man but still a fun day and enjoyed a coffee break and a lunch break. Lots of laughter today.
This was another one of those that I had always wondered why there wasn’t a hide here. TFTC Freddo

Another JAMMS day, today it was a city adventure targetting kayak and other high terrain caches. Another great team work day collecting smilies.
Thanks to Freddo from mogni

I was trying to hide a cache somewhere in City of Prospect. I find a good location, but reviewer informed me that the location I prefer is too close to the final location of this cache. So I decided to try this cache.
This puzzle is difficult, but luckily I got some useful hint from the cache owner.
First step is doable for me, but step 2 and onwards are hard to handle. Took me several days to get the final cords.
Then I visited the final location. No luck. Cache owner is very kind to confirm that the cache is still there. Then I went back, and found the well-hidden cache.
It must be a well-hidden cache, as the log book was there for over 10 years!
And last find was over one year ago.
Signed the log, and placed it back.
Thanks for the puzzle and the cache, Damn Freddo.

On does not simply look at languages and learn, one must simply study and learn the process.
One found the tin, tin had no lid

A fun puzzle that had me drawing on a number of puzzle-solving tools. I was surprised to see one particular aspect in a D 3.5. Normally that aspect, IMO, would warrant a higher D. But I suppose it's not uncommon these days.
At GZ I surveyed the possibilities then went in to make a quick find.
TFTC
+1 FP

Out with the usual Tuesday group of SA Sewer Rats and Brisal5. They were passing this one when the Starfish threw Owl out of the car and told her to find a cache. A short time later the Rat handed Owl the cache and told her to log it. Great! Now Owl has to brush up on her Russian!

Out with Getnict for the day getting the planetary points.

This took a bit longer to solve but was a nice quick find

An interesting puzzle that took us some trying but was also quite a bit of fun . The first part was not too difficult as we have some prior experience with the Cyrillic alphabet, but the second stage gave us some grief as we could not find a tool that would generate a fully legible answer. Maybe this was intentional on the part of CO, and eventually we concocted the right sequence of numbers that made sense on the map. Our visit to GZ today during the day was a bit of an adventure, a lot of traffic nearby made finding the container inconspicuously somewhat difficult, but eventually we managed TNLNSL TFTC

This was a rather interesting puzzle.

A previous finder gave me a few hints.

I solved it form home earlier on as it was a place I was passing in my Adelaide travels.

Soon found the clever hide.

I signed the cache and was on my way.

TFTC

Getting into town late a quick check of nearby caches showed this was in the solved pile and given the location thought night time would be a good time to make the find. Well we approached GZ and it all seemed familiar as looking at our off line iPad it had shown we had already found this which on checking the log was confirmed. So to avoid some issues with reshuffling mile stone logs we are adding this time. Certainly a lot of work for a D3.5 cache where similar ones have been higher. TFTC

It will be nice to drive past with this cache off mͦԑ

KrabiBoy was onto this one under the watchful eye of the nearby patrons on the bus

This was day 1 of our adventure and we made our way out of the City and headed towards the underwater themed geo art [^].

I had been eyeing off an interstate trip for some time now and made plans to head to SA to power through the geoart trails over here . I roped in my geo buddy Krabiboy to join me and we set about solving [?] caches and highlighting Jasmer caches that aren't available over in WA. Our adventure took us from the CBD over to the Yorke Peninsula and then back across to the Murray Bridge area . We were relentless in chasing down the finds and picked up as many as we could in the week that we had available. Due to the park and grab nature of our visit, the log books which weren't able to accommodate the ink stamp we had made were signed with the initials 'jk'! Fave points will be awarded for those caches which are considered awesome

A massive thanks here to Freddo for placing this cache here and for tempting us to venture over to this area. Cheers!

jinta29 found your cache Zagadka today. This is my find #6531 and find #9 today. I was able to get my name in the log book here and we replaced the cache as we found it. Thanks once again Freddo for placing this and bringing us to this part of the world!

jinta29 and I are in town this week after many months of planning for a week to remember. We are heading to the Yorke Peninsula, Murray Bridge and as many places in between as we can get to. This was one we found along the way.

TFTC Freddo.

Freddo, I found your cache Zagadka on 24/4/17.
This is my find #3379 and find #7 today.

out for a day and night of caching with snap happy and getnicked. Well I knew a puzzle final was " there " I just never knew what one. ( I drive past in in the truck maybe 10 times a week or some times more ) As it's just over the border of my personal caching area going north after work I never got around to finding it. Since others had solved the puzzle we went and found it.

**Find #9974...**

*Found whilst out and about with getnict and sir_spectre*...

A beautiful day to grab a few smilies whilst sharing many laughs on our City Cache Chase... Confess to having help solve this one too... [B)]

A short search, found the cache, stamped the log and returned...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for my enjoyment Freddo... Appreciate your efforts...
- P

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log...

Out collecting smiley's with Snap Happy and sir_spectre.
It was a day filled with fun, laughter and smiles.
TFTC
Find #724

I'd driven past this one on a number of occasions. Today the enigma of where it was hidden was finally revealed. TFTC. 24/11/16, 4:49 pm Find #3383.

Now that the nights are warming up the snakes can come out to play, we hate the cold weather. Out with the Rats for an evening of grabbing those solved puzzle caches that are in high muggle areas. Of course the clever Mrs rat did all the hard work in solving the puzzle and she also was on a roll in the finds. Cache is all good, nice and dry. SL TNLN TFTC

Out for an evening run with the Crazy Geo driver and a snake.
It was a lovely evening not to many muggles around on the roads.
We decided to grab the puzzles that have been sitting on the GPS for awhile and some new ones.
Took me awhile to sort this one out but got there in the end.
Cache took awhile to find, the lid is missing, but the log was dry. TFTC

Fortunately found this in daylight.
TFTC

This looked like a lot of borscht initially and I was surprised to get to a result. Over from the east coast for a few days and this was one of the last of what seemed like a long day. The cache has adopted the same coating as its host but the log is just fine. Thanks Freddo.

TFTC felt hell suss looking for it in the spotlights

After just having solved a puzzle based on the same concept, it was time to come back and finish this one. Not the easiest 3.5D puzzle I have seen! This cipher stuff is not easy and that's even without a real machine.
Finally after an hour or two of translating and then playing with emulators I got the numbers and fortunately they match where the cache is, as I had already found it using the old "there must be a cache there" method
TFTP Freddo

Heading to Geelong this weekend to do several challenge caches. Over there they have higher D ratings. Needing Puzzle caches starting with V, X and Z was all that was between me and qualification for GC4EMYC so you can guess what I have been doing the last few days. . So when the oldest asked if I could drop him at Uni and having finally got some useful coordinates I was happy to oblige. Muggle traffic at GZ wasn't quite peak hour so I spent a fair bit of time taking photos. I attach the most obscure one but if you can guess GZ from it you are better than me. The container is missing a lid but log inside dry as I guess it would never get wet where placed! Thanks Comrade Frederiko

Found this one before solving the puzzle. Some spare time and some assistance from a friendly cossack and it was done!
TFTC Freddo

Having a Latvian geoson was no help at all.
But spies are always helpful in Russia, and well, it's kinda where I thought there should be a cache anyway.
Always beaten to the good spots
tftc Freddo

Found with bucketeer
Apologies for the late log

20/01/2015 9:50:00 AM
This one took a while to located and I eventually uncovered the well hidden cache in a spot that was one of the first I checked. An enjoyable puzzle too that I cracked a year or 2 or 3 or more ago.
Thanks Comrade frog

Gotcha!

What starts with a Frog, ends with a Frog, and has 5 question marks in it?

My morning puzzle cache run around the inner suburbs this morning.

I saved this one for last. I do love a good... RIDDLE, VRAPPED IN A MYSTERY, INSIDE AN YENIGMA.

Fortunately, my Russian comrades were able to assist me.

Thanks Freddo

ZZzz..

CACHING Member - Cachers Against Canned Hunting In Nomadic Groups

Firstly thanks to Bek for organising the translation of this cache. After reading it some of the terms reminded me of something and viola a few minutes of googling and we had the solution. TFTC

What an enjoyable puzzle cache

After working out the first step with the help of a work colleague, some likely words started to emerge, but I wasn't sure what to do with the rest.

Enter squirrel and walrus. These two knew exactly what to do, so after a short time, slightly mistranslated coordinates began to emerge. After a little deduction, we had our solution.

Tonight was the night - squirrel and I both needed it for our calendars, so we made the trip out from the nest to claim the smiley. A quick find - admittedly we did use the hint - thanks for the cache Freddo

Gave myself a short lesson in Russian. Gave myself a longer lesson in complex ciphers. Gave myself a drive to GZ today. Gave myself a smiley.
Enjoyed the puzzle and TFTC. Cheers

A toughy that forced me to consult my interstate guru. Within hours a solution was uncovered that was surprising in its simplicity .
Made the long march today to collect the prize.
SL TFTC

Mr Tardis got this one solved many moons ago after some help getting started (and then more help to keep going). It solves that mystery of why this location never had a cache - well it turns out it has!

On a stinking hot day Mr Tardis put on the cloak of invisibility and searched for the cache. Some really impressive camo here - it blends in quite nicely.

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache Damn Freddo.

I'm back in the USSR
You don't know how lucky you are, cache
Back in the US
Back in the US
Back in the USSR

Just Geodadov seeking this one as Missmooski is locked up in Gulag 13 (childcare!) today. Happened to be this side of town, and having discovered a word document with the solution to this on my desktop at work last week, I had the coordinates downloaded into my GPSr. Great how you can use the structure as an iron curtain to hide yourself from the nearby muggles.

Thanks for the challenge again Freddo!

Yeah yeah Huurtle - another Freddo cache - about my 100th found of his, I am the lesser of the addicted pair LOL Thanks Monty [^]

Another solved long ago.
Finally on a quiet Sunday morn, the well weathered looking cache was found. Blends in well!
1st for the day on a caching spree, so what better way to start than with a Freddo cache. It's not a caching run without a Freddo find! In fact I will be joining prolific frog soon for tge rest of today's haul!
Thanks

After attending GPS' Help Us Celebrate 1,000 event, RideTheGeoWalrus and I decided to get a few caches...only a few
The run finally finished at about 4am after we visited 22 caches for 17 smileys and, sadly, 5 DNFs
Driving past here a long time ago, I was told that 'there is a cache there.' Surprised, not! It is a great spot to hide a cache
Tonight, under cover of darkness, we infiltrated the area and locus cached the well aged remnant of an ???????? ?????.

TNLN. SL. TFTC Freddo

I tried and tried and tried and tried to solve this - without success.
I knew approximately where it was (tried to hide a cache nearby) but needed to phone the help line (Thanks Freddo)
SL. TFTC. <>

Stopped by here as always wondered why no cache?
Now I have the answer.
Your cache was here so have logged as found although i have not completely solved the puzzle as yet.

TFTC Freddo

my wife solved this one whileworking on the nullabor ,gave me the solution and off I went a guick find in the end.SL TFTC.

Well, this fine puzzle was solved before we left home. We got a chance to find it now - although it required quite a walk from our hotel.
There were many possible good hiding places, so some 5-10 minutes search was needed.
TFTC!

Like parislaura i found this one by accident. I often go past this location and thought there should be one hidden here. As i checked it out i made the find. It blends in well in its location. I havnt solved the puzzle yet. Thanks freddo.

1st Wednesday of the month means my 4WD Club meeting and an opportunity to grab some caches there and on the way home. Tonight was no different.

11:30 pm is the right time to find this one. TFTC.

Only the second time I have found a cache by accident, I have driven past this spot so many times and thought 'why is the not a cache there?' so today I stopped armed with a painted cache container and was ready to place it, and low and behold what did I find, a cache! I had to check log dates to work out which puzzle I had found, but then once I had that part I was able to use the internet to work out the puzzle.

This was really amusing to work backwards on to solve a cache. Thanks Freddo!

finally got this one a large group made the recovery easay now off to dairy bell

LOL..loved this puzzle...mrs scoobtser took pride in helping solve this one when a hoppin frog was bouncing down the wrong road... re-directed.. and soon had the answer in hand!.. freddo freddo freddo,.. you can just imagine the names we called you after this one!!..LOL
Nice quick hide on a night out!
TFTC

The following text was meant to by written in Cyrillic, but unfortunately, the log engine will not shown it in its intended format. Please translate it into Russian at your leisure. Have a nice day....

"Yes, it was a good puzzle. Fortunately, the tool for its solution is easily available online. Cache find without too much difficulty. All is well.

Thanks for the cache, Freddo."

Ahhh.... Commrades.... around here we have the need to hide ca$h.... and *&$#@! da froggie got to it first, explains all, the blank spot on the map, now the flipper's are in the log instead of da page!
Ruski da Frog for the fun in the rain.
Comrades Flppeski's over & out!

Having solved a couple of english versions of similar puzzles in Darwin, figured this one to be a piece of cake, however translating the leters one at a time was painstakingly slow and the resultant answer in broken english (I guess you could say it had a accent) but clear enough to understand, down in town today found after a short search TFTC freddo

That damn dancing frog in the background is kinda hypnotizing. When you daydream while looking at him, he looks 3d.....:O

Trying this with a translating app on my phone - getting some interesting things.
"...Or a dog under a goose ppkg drunk and in 1111 A..."

"OHOH ALL: EXPEDIENT"

"Complete ......Peloponnesian ADS.... kpeppinkt + those who... WHILE!....O Oz 'told me'...Messers. most-violence; OOD DIO Centre on; 'the O'"

"In the 'IIM oonlucf born lv 1........destruction:men....UCU accounts un un un"

I'm getting concerned, what DOES this say?!

Loved it from start to finish.
The visual appeal, the apparent success, the confusion, the light globes, the research, the painstaking decryption, and the great final location.
Littlest Cyclist found it immediately, after which I warned her that there are bitey things hiding in SA!
Thanks for one of my favouritest puzzles, Freddo!

A tricky little puzzle that Mrs TiedyeSmileys had finally nutted out. Found on May Day (although the iron curtain is now truly in pieces, with fall of the iron curtain everyone is now free to find caches

TFTC

With help/advice - loves hide spot. Signed the log. Thanks Freddo.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
I went through hell with this puzzle, so I kept going as we never never surrender and never never never give up. The Bolshevik code was fought on the beaches, on the landing grounds, in the fields and in the streets. Ultimately though I needed to defect to the east and look for the iRon cuRtain in order to eclipse Russia’s evil actions.

Did this in reverse order. Stumbled across the cache by chance 10 days ago while checking out a possible location for a hide (reading the logs, looks like many others before me had a similar idea!). However, didn't consider I had earned the smilie until I completed the puzzle. And what an effort that has been! Solved the first part reasonably quickly, but the odd dodgy letter here and there in the second part had me bluffed. Finally worked out tonight that, in this case at least, a mixed up letter here and there doesn't necessarily make it indecipherable. Great puzzle that links beautifully with the final location and a great learning experience. Spasibo - horoshii tovarishch rabotu Freddo.

Found accidentally with e.gregory1 while looking for a possible cache location and signed log. I haven't managed to complete the puzzle yet but it sure looks tough. I'm claiming this anyway. TFTC

Arrrgh, that's all I can say, Matey
TFTC

Seems to be some common thoughts in the logs. I, too, was thinking of placing a cache here. I, too, was surprised that the odd letter here or there did not affect the overall result.

A shortish walk from the igloo after dinner. Thanks Comrade Freddo!

I enjoyed working out this puzzle a while ago. A good learning experience. After intending to find the cache numerous occasions, today was the best chance. The clue and previous logs helped with locating the cache. Thanks Freddo.

A long walk from the city today to get this great cache!

Zagdanka! Spent a week in Moscow and St Petersburg back in '98, learnt a lot in a in that week! But its all Russian to me, anyway found at 20:00 just before needing to pick up the older Miss E from choir practice. Quick find. Thanks Freddo for the find and the chance to brush up on my languages.

Found at 22:41
I was also surprised that transciption errors don't effect subsequent encoding. Nice puzzle.

Nice puzzle that I had solved surprisingly quickly.

A nice hide which even on a Sunday afternoon was pretty easy. There was a lot of traffic, but they were too busy talking on their phones to care about me.

TFTC

My friend helped me out on this one. Found it nice and easy. What an unusual sculpture(s).
Thanks Damn Freddo for the cache.

In Soviet Russia, you don't find cache. Cache finds YOU!
Once a week for the last two months I've driven past here and thought "that'd make a good spot for a cache. I should investigate it sometime"
Wish I had. Would have saved myself a lot of bother.
Cache found once I stopped looking in the more difficult spots. Quick sign of the log as the rain set in, then onwards to swim some laps and sit amongst hairy men in the spa.

It all looked double-Dutch to me; solving it seemed like an unlikely prospect. Got it though, thanks Freddo!

Find 1013 My Way Without a GPS.
Found amongst the metallurgical space junk.
Thanks to Freddo for the cache.
Fine Elsewhere.

When this first appeared I was worried I was going to be looking under somebodies bed to locate it
Discovered a useful standard that got me 80% of the way there, which thankfully didn't matter with the wonderful device that one can find on the internet. From previous plays with the device I was under the impression that a bad input would make all the good bits wrong, but it doesn't
In this city for dental work (alas the politburo doesn't exist to cover that, and so it was at my own expense), and it provided a perfect opportunity to nab this cache.
Chose the park to the west (would love to see Skippy bring his truck in here) and amongst all the muggles in their Lada's casually nabbed the cache from the Red spot (naturally).
Logged, took a shot of Smirnoff to calm the nerves, returned and then off to work http://www.allposters.com/-sp/USSR-Udarnaya-Brigada-Proletariata-Vsego-Avant-Garde-Posters_i395696_.htm
TNLN, TFTC Komrade Freddo

Cheers

At first glance this just looked like a bunch of random characters but after a while out popped Olga then Laika, Chernobyl, Gargarin, Nyet of course and damn Frog??, I don't know where that came from!
It was time to Putin some effort and my trusty online friend did some work for me and then I did know what to do with the assortment of letters.
Wasn't sure about parking here, not being a local, so I walked 425 metres instead.
Cheers Freddo

Close but no cuban cigar. Pulled into the convenient Troika parking, only to get the phone call from Mrs. C saying she was ready to be picked up. Had a very brief look to see if I could spy the enigmous cache, but with muggles abound, decided not to cross the polar deserts of Siberia, and instead score some browny points by picking up Mrs C straightaway, thus avoiding an outbreak of war
I shall return.....

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Nyet, is not linguistic skills required, is just understandink of comrade frog. He is chocolatey cleverness wrapped in metal foil. In mother Russia, you do not find cache, cache finds you.

Loved the puzzle - both the theme and the construction. It's mostly straightforward, but sprinkled with some little nasties to trip up the unwary. GZ was also nicely themed with the puzzle, and an easy find even at night. It's an interesting spot that I've somehow never noticed before. All in all, another classic Freddo cache .

TNLN - Thanks Freddo!

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