Model lion Shelley, Western Australia, Australia
By fairwaydrivers on 29-Dec-10. Waypoint GC2KQQ6

TFTC! Log is damp and cache is a bit moldy.

Log is damp and moldy.

I found it! Lots of running and head scratching lead to me finding it!My first time also writing in one of the log books! My favourite find so far!

That was an unexpected surprise; the keyword, the final resting place of the cache, and it being a golden oldie. And a beautiful day for a river stroll, too. TFTC, fairwaydrivers!

Cracked the code but couldn't find, possibly too wet? K+T

TFTC

TFTC! Cool cache location and hide, fun little cipher

Quick find after figuring out what famous Lion. Tftc

Found it!

Don’t know if it is the wooden poles or something else

As usual geowife solved the mystery and I got the final. TFTC!

All good here. Day off stroll by the river all is good in my world..cache and log in excellent condition tftc

Had this one in the solved bank for so long I had almost forgotten solving it, but rereading the description I see it was quite a straightforward puzzle.
After today's rain we headed out for a sunset stroll along the river, picking up this hide as we passed by. Thanks for the puzzle and the hide here fairwaydrivers

Made hard work of finding this. Duh!
With cmb212.

Nice spot

Out and about trying to clean up the green dots and the solved puzzles and trying to turn them into smiley faces. Love the view and how peaceful it is Thanks to all the COs for placing and maintaining their caches for others to find , tftc

Find 11 of 15 with three DNFs on a bike ride based around Rossmoyne.

Can't work out why it's taken so long to come and get this one, we've ridden round here many times. Finally we came to collect today. Great to see the original logbook and some famous names on its pages from before we started caching. Great cache all round.

TFTC fairwaydrivers!

Thank you! I headed out with dad for a little caching, with a couple of challenge caches the focus of the day. Solved this ahead of time, and eventually spotted the container, which I got dad to retrieve for me. I signed the log while he checked out the small tradeable items.

Not today as the council were doing some serious lopping and mulching of tree etc right next to gz..will return

Hi there fairwaydrivers. While out on the road today we found this cache at 02.14 pm after a short search - the container and log are both in good condition. We'd solved this puzzle some time ago but today was the first opportunity to be down this way. TN, LN, SL. Thanks to fairwaydrivers for this cache - our find 8898 and the 4th of 4 finds for the day.

Found it with Skycat, loved the puzzle. My favourite lion ever. TFTC

Good fun. Great puzzle and well maintained cache. Watch out for overlooking muggles.
Swag left. Tftc

Nope not there.

So clever

Found it I really enjoyed the decoding of the message this was my first mystery cache. Very clever hiding spot... signed using green pen hehe

Nice easy find. TFTC

After working some long days this week I get half a day off. What better thing to do than spending some caching. Had mountain bike in the back of the car, and headed to Rossmoyne and Riverton to cleanup that area. Successful afternoon making 14/17 finds. Thanks cache owners for your hard work.

Out doing some cache maintenance and placement. Swung via here while in the area. Thanks fairwaydrivers for both the cache, and the help you gave me along the way! Cheers!

A quick park and grab along the river foreshore. Thanks for the cache.

Today we ride with our bicycles along the Canning River.
It was not too busy and so we had time to search.
We had bad Internet, but this one was solved.
We are able to find the container after a short search.
Thank you and special greetings from Germany send Moorhelmi

Awesome TFTC

Quick find after solving puzzle great place to walk TFTC

A fun easy puzzle in a nice area. Tftc

Out this morning to cleanup a bunch of newly published caches around the southern suburbs between cockburn and Waterford.

A beautiful morning to be out with mostly quick finds including a couple of puzzles.

In the area and picked up this cache TFtH

Find #86 of 365 streak. Who would have thought so many lions and lioness plus homes can make 11 letters?
After filling pages with scribbles I went to google and found a possibility I would have never thought of.
Finally something legible came out. I went down the garden path at GZ only to find the cache not where I expected it. TFTC and puzzle.

Patch is really getting into these Puzzles and Mysteries. She solved this one some time ago but this afternoon saw a good opportunity to pop on down to pick it up. Great puzzle and a well-made container that's in perfectly good condition. Thanks again for all of your work fairwaydrivers.

TFT nice puzzle. So many famous lions I now know about. LOL. Would be a quick and easy puzzle unless you try to use every single lion in history from all customs and backgrounds; all the while missing one you already deciphered due to not reading full decrypt. Look forward to picking this up soon.

Great hide. Loved the location.

I have had this in my solved pile for awhile and today with the geo daughter decided to finally find some of these puzzles I have solved. Cache was found quickly in between foot traffic. Tftc

Had a very enjoyable Christmas Day picnic at nearby Shelley Foreshore, after which we headed to find this puzzle which was on the solved list. We looked here and there and I was quite happy when megawat60 made the find. Thanks for a good puzzle and cache in this lovely location, fairwaydrivers.

The Christmas tradition lives on although the PP2 brigade were absent this year. So after our picnic lunch and paddle we went for this on the way home. Was looking elsewhere but I followed the GPS instead of my instincts and it paid off.

Thanks faitwaydrivers for this puzzle and the sneaky hide well worth a fav.

Another puzzle solved many moons ago... I remember finding so many lions & it was the last one I was going to try before giving up! Whilst in the area I made sure to swing over & find this one We quickly spotted the hide & thankfully there were no muggles about with the passing showers... Found a nice seat to sign the log before heading off to the next one

TFTC fairwaydrivers [^]

I made the most of the pleasant weather today to get out and about to find a few caches around Perth while on a holiday from SA. Solved this one prior to leaving Adelaide.

Found during a small break between passing muggles.

Thanks fairwaydrivers for the puzzle and the cache.

Thanks to mr ooh yeh for solving this for mom and I. Quick find, lovely location. Tftc

Headed out with the geodaughter Redlipsandunicorns and her muggle partner to grab a few caches this morning. I didn't even realize the hubby had solved this puzzle until the other day when I was looking at caches to find. Today we were up in the area so we parked close by and it didn't take long to spot the cache in its hiding spot. TFTC fairwaydrivers

Another revisited puzzle that was easier this time around - we have learned lots on our geo journey. A nice quick find of this clever hide.

TFTC fairwaydrivers this is find # 1580 for us

Still chasing down my last few hidden dates to reach my end of year goal. So this mornings early (to beat the heat) caching adventure was brought to you by the city of Canning. This was my 4th stop after solving the puzzle yesterday. Very clever puzzle and was lead astray with the keyword until I remembered a special lion home. Had lost of fun with this one. Cache was a quick find and grab in between passing muggles who were out for a morning walk before the heat set in to fry us all. TFTC fairwaydrivers

Found Model lion. SL TFTH and puzzle fairwaydrivers.

On a big day out with McFonz and the Spatial One, South of the River, to pick up some puzzles we'd solved and then complete the day with another Duck run.

Whole mixture of great hides throughout the day with Duck excelling himself as we have all come to expect. We also got a little sidetracked, co-existing with other fun Geo location games. It all made for a great day out.

Thanks for all the Caches.

MM

Earlier in the week a plan was hatch along with McFonz and the Machman to head SoR to hunt down some puzzles we'd solved and then finish the day in Duck43 country.

After an early morning start we arrive at the first cache around 7:30am and found our last find around 4:30pm. For me it was 26 finds and 2 dnfs. Pretty good going considering the quality of hides.

A great day of geocaching (plus the odd munzee and flagstack). Thanks to the CO's for some very inventive puzzles and hides.

Solved this one some time ago, so happy to finally get SoR for the find. TFTC.

Out caching with hhheddy & dezzabills, on another beautiful day in paradise. TFTC!!

Found the cache while out caching with Lazarus and Dezzabills. I had worked out the coordinates many years ago so wasn't sure if the cache had been moved since I decoded the coordinates, gave it a go and there it was. a nice quick find. Thanks fairwaydrivers for the cache.

tft fairway drivers. hhheddy had solved the coordinates and also found the cache while i parked the car. A quick find on a great day.

Found it. TFTC first find with whole family

Lovely find here at 5pm and a fairly simple puzzle to reveal GZ is most welcome. Love this quiet area of the river, great for riding or walking! Cache is in good condition. TFTC!!

Found it. Great hiding spot

Woo hoo found our first one ever!!

From reading the previous logs I decided that the best time for searching for this cache was early in the morning before the folks across the road were up and about. I eventually solved the puzzle several days ago, after an aborted attempt several months ago. I finally got the chance on an early morning bike ride to come by and look for the cache. It was not in the first place I looked but I turned my attention to other places and soon had the good size container in my hands. My searching and log signing duties were virtually unhindered as there were not many people about. Thanks for the great cache fairwaydrivers. I've given it a favourite point. As I rode off I got the point of the cache title. Very clever.

I have had this solved for many more months than I care to think about . Each time I have passed (about 4 times now) there has been muggles opposite enjoying coffee and entertaining others. I was passing by today and spied no one so I pulled over and headed for GZ . Just as I got to my GZ the muggle family returned from what appeared to be the school pick up [xx(]. OH NO!![:(!]. I did not want to leave without getting my name in the book so waited them out and made the quick grab, sign and replace . A fave point from us for the puzzle and the frustration here

fairwaydrivers - jinta29 found your cache Model lion on 25/08/2015. This is my find #3620 and find #5 today. The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

Nice sized cache and so glad we didn't need to venture closer to the river through the long grass. Nice strong container but did have to wait quite a while for muggles to clear. TFTC. Enjoyed the puzzle and the cache hunt.

Originally found under family caching name clan-wallace, now re logging under own name.

I enjoyed this puzzle as I am quite a novice at them and this was good practice. CybergranV & I rushed off enthusiastically into some quite unpleasant terrain & Geohubby strolled straight up to the cache & retrieved it in seconds. I would never have thought of looking there! TFTC I think it deserves a favourite point.

I was not liking the look of what we were trying to fossick around in here, so was very grateful that Geohubby discovered this so quickly. Thanks for the puzzle, the cache, and the smiley on our maps.

Well hidden

Worked out the coords a few days ago (after coming up with many lions) and so I headed down to GZ. Found cache at the exact location. My first mystery cache. TFTC.

This was our second ever solved puzzle and first cypher and has been sitting in the pile for a little while. Today we were out on a birthday adults only cache run, attempting to clear that list. Hubby found this one after a couple of minutes and some log reading. TFTC.

Had fun doing the solve, initially first pick for the name, but dismissed and went into greek history, etc only to return. Has got me heading towards great puzzles for my own cache collection.
TFTC

Solved this puzzle a while ago and have already had one go at finding it. That time a muggle from across the road came over and started telling me how they had seen a rather large snake in the area. This was probably because was searching in the wrong area, any way I left empty handed.

Have since had a think about it and read some logs giving me an idea of where the cache might be. Came back today and found it straight away, a very clever hide in a high muggle area. Was able to grab it and put it back after doing the signing duties on the nearby bench without anyone noticing.

SLTFTC

Enjoying working this one out before heading west. Enjoy finding this cache but what a busy area. We has to wait for ages to replace it with all the muggles passing in both directions. Finally safely returned. TFTC

Up in Perth visiting muggle partners parents and I was allowed to get one cache each way of travel. Lucky for me I managed 2 each way

One night I decided it was time to start working on some fairwaydrivers puzzles and this was one of them.
I had problems working out the keyword for a minute or two but my computer helped me with that so it was solved in a few minutes
I actually did get the keyword right of sorts but my spelling was off so it didn't have 11 letters

Very busy along here. Muggles everywhere you look.

Cache was quickly found in it's great hiding spot

TFTC fairwaydrivers

What a great trip! Thanks for the ride!

Thought I would focus my hunt around picking up some puzzle caches that had been sitting in the solved pile for a while. Headed northwards and started the day in the Manning area. Then headed down grab a few puzzles around here. Happy to make a quick find and claim my smiley. Thanks fairwaydrivers

Out with Gypsy Roaming to track down a couple of solved caches today.

TFTC. fairwaydrivers

Found with IQO. Another one off our list. TFTC Fairwaydrivers.

Sorry it's taken such a long time to log the visit. A surprise find, as we were looking for a munzee, lol, loved the concept. The log book was a bit damp though. Tfth

Hello, what a lovely surprise to find this log. Went out looking for a munzee and found this cache. Loved it. And a beautiful view at the same time. Thanks very much
Glenda

I had to have a few goes at the puzzle using different codewords before I got some sense out of it. Today, I was quite taken aback by the cache. It was not what I was expecting. Very clever hide. TFTC fairwaydrivers

We have been trying to solve this puzzle for three months. After introducing ParrotHerder to the sport, I mentioned that we were unable to solve this one. When I read out the description to them, they read it totally different to the way we have been, the answer became instantly obvious (was looking for a lion who's name was 11 letters long).

The cache itself is cleverly hidden.

TFTC

The zip lock bag holding the log and contents was damaged. The contents smelled quite bad and the log was quite damp.

I've replaced the bag, but I fear the log is going is going to be permanently smelly now.

Found this cache after working out the coords a while ago. Thanks for the cache

Solved this puzzle soon after it came out, so was most happy to be in the area today to make a very quick find. There was some water in the container but the log was dry in its plastic bag. Felt most conspicuous from the house across the way. Luckily had just replaced the cache when the muggles emerged onto their deck for some afternoon tea.
Thanks for an interesting puzzle and the cache fairwaydrivers.

Didn't get a good dig around, but will come back to it when I have more time...got the lion in the second go!

Solved the puzzle some weeks ago , found on a geobike ride round the river
TFTC

Had fun working out the puzzle and Keego found the cache.
Thanks Fairwaydrivers

Out and about with AmstradKid and Jazl, for some caching along the Canning River. The GPS'r took a while to settle here and then the muggles were everywhere, Keego came up with the goods, thanks for the nice puzzle, SL TFTC fairwaydrivers

Rode over south of the river yesterday but only had time for one quick find before I had to get to work. Similar issue this morning except I manage to squeeze in 2 caches hence 2 smileys. No problems finding the correct lion once I had google as assistant. The lady across the road was out the front and investigating me thoroughly. When I went to "admire the view" along the river and check out the tree she stood up to see what I was doing. I spoke briefly on the phone but she seemed intent on doing her bit for neighbourhood watch. I did take as stealthlike a picture as I could manage on my phone before riding to work, but will have to find a more opportune moment to sign the log. Thanks for the cache fairwaydrivers.

Another one of those puzzles I had done the workings for a while back and never knew when I was going to be able to get the cache. Finally got to Perth and had a hit list as long as my arm.

This was a good puzzle and it took a couple of lions before I was on to the right one.

Info in hand and GZ was visited with a quick find made.

TFTC and puzzle

MCFonz

Spent hours on the puzzle, only to find later that it was my third choice. Neat hide, tftc

Found with hadrollo. Easy find but I had trouble with the puzzle. My second guess was correct, however I thought the first four digits were gibberish. Went through several lion names and places until I realised I had already got it. I'm tall so no problem grabbing it but i could see the vertically challenged having trouble!

Mrs Felix still working all of Easter, so Mr Felix teamed up with Tanzanite! for an adventurous days caching South of the River!

It is taking us a long time to sift through these puzzle caches. Got lots of help to work this one out.

Was hoping for a quick find here, but alas we looked in all the wrong places first! Even worse to believe seeing as we have a hide very very similar to this....

TFTC fairwaydrivers

Out for a day of caching with Mr Felix II and what a dirty and periodically frustrating day it was - luckily for me I had paired up with a buddy who saved my sanity on this most trying of caching days!

Well after trudging around in the reeds for a silly amount of time, Mr FelixII's common sense won out and the cache was located elsewhere!

TFTC fairway drivers

Good Friday and a day of caching with Mr. Wileyclan. An opportunity to grab some solved puzzles and some other caches up in some areas we do not often visit.

Another fun puzzle, as with others the lion in question was not immediately obvious to me, however, returning to the puzzle recently, I remembered another I had yet try, and once I spelt it correct the final co ordinates were revealed, Today was the day for the smiley face to the added to the cache notes

Thanks fairwaydrivers for the puzzle and the cache

So today I headed north for a caching run with rudi63 in search of my 1000th find. We had a plan in place, go find caches. Seems like such a simple plan and it worked for us for the most part!!

I remember solving this one only after a whole lot of head scratching regarding the lion I needed. I am pretty sure that I ended up getting a hint from a friend which finally made me figure it out

Today the cache search was short and sweet and we were on our way in short order

Thanks for the cache and puzzle fairwaydrivers

Cheers

Took an chance to take the geo-daughter on a quiet late-morning stroll along the river and thought I'd pick up a cache along the way. Realised that hadn't saved my solution in my phone, so stopped at one of the nearby benches and did some quick decrypting, had the co-ords and a quick find. I think geo-daughter was quite impressed! thanks for the nifty puzzle and cache!

Nice puzzle. Nice house for sale across the road. I guessed high 700's. I fired up the realeastate.com app. $2M thank you very much. The cache should last in this high rent area. Doubt if the locals will want to touch dirty cache hidey things.
Thanks to fairwaydrivers and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Spotted it but cant reach as I am small so Astro do for me... Took micro geocoin. Signed the log. Thanks fairwaydrivers.

Another good puzzle cache, thanx fairwaydrivers.

Find # 1958 (see Koalacanuck post for more details)