Jack Speak - Dogs Body Merricks Beach, Victoria, Australia
By -Lisette- (now adopted by pimpmyballoons) on 01-Nov-11. Waypoint GC35Z8N

Dog across the road was wondering what I was doing lurking in the bushes. Fortunately made the find quickly before he got too interested. Is he the keeper of this cache, as it seems to be named after a dogs body? TFTC.

Spring Victorian Incursion 2024.Day Thirteen: Mostly Mornington Peninsula.Weather: glorious!!One of several Jack Speak caches logged today. I actually had a former RAN officer staying at my place for a extended period back before I was caching - he knows the slang, I tested him on some of them. I had one DNF today and for the finds, the caches seemed to be in reasonable condition in most cases, but I was a bit concerned about the state of the logs and Im not sure if I picked up all the available clues. The road is relentlessly busy today, and although the placement of the bonus seems to want you to go west to east, I found that in a number of cases you needed to be going the other way to be able to safely pull over. This is a pretty awesome body of work, and I do hope I get to finish it one day, thanks for all your efforts -lisette- and pimpmyballoons.

Find # 8,850 for me on 23 May 2024 at 11:00am. The weather was Overcast Clouds 14C 68% 4 m/s . Found while having a holiday with some friends and PamJ at Boneo. We were out doing touristy things, and caching where we could. After morning tea at the Merricks General Store we decided to have a crack at this one. Looked for a while in the wrong spot but it was eventually found, quite easy to spot actually,when looking from the correct direction. Thanks pimpmyballoons, for giving back to the game.*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Mr S was keen to find this one. Off he rushed, got it quickly too. TFTC.

found it yesterday thanks for the cache

My GPS was off with this cache it was only as I turned around in confusion. Did I see the shine of the cache from about 10 meters away.

Yesterday there was a bit of rain just as we had finished caching and it was the heaviest rain I had seen in Melbourne. Normally the rain is only heavy enough to ruin a newly washed car and not enough to water the lawn.

Last night there was a little bit of rain but it was the wind having the fun. I was worried about today but the sun was out and I didn’t even need to crack a jumper or the beanie. Even jumping into the wet road side wasn’t that bad. tftc

Good old Jack Speak. I had tried to finish these last time but it could not be done. I had a whole day this time so I got to work. Left as found.


Found out and about on the 2023 trip for the Rutherglen Mega. Thanks to pimpmyballoons and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^]

Found it TFTC

TFTC! 15 January 2023 5:39:32 pm 4643
Had most of these solved for a while, and the remaining few solved in the car this morning. A quick find today. Hoping to finish picking up the rest of the series.

After a little help from dromaniax & the CO we calculated all the waypoints for this series and set out with our dog to see how many we could find.

We started at the most Southern Point and are working our way North.

We are enjoying the series, despite being scratched and prickled by a variety of overgrown bushes and vines.

Found this cache easily then headed to the Merricks General Store for a cheeky wine.

Found it. Thanks for the series

Holidaying in Victoria had a look at caches that are near our accommodation and came across this series. Given my love of pirates I had to give it a go. Early morning start with the kids while everyone else slept in.
TFTC

We were heading over to Phillip Island to ensure we were there for the start of the Great Victoria Cache Crawl. We caught the ferry from Queenscliff and had laid ourselves a cache trail to follow around to Phillip Island.

The weather was great for caching as the sun was out and the wind was merely a gentle breeze.

We have had the Jack Speak series solved for quite some time and today we had the time to find quite a few of them. We suspect they were designed to be found heading in the Southward direction, but we were able to find a safe park for all of them as we headed roughly Northward.

We found the cache safe and sound, Thank you -Lisette- for this cache and to pimpmyballoons for adopting and maintaining this series.

Great winter’s morning- had solved these some time back and thought we’d grab this one before heading off on the Redhill series. Glad we had our system that generated accurate co-ords.

Found with Bogonghazy who has previously solved them. Cold day but always time to cache. Thanks for placing the geocache

Pining after another cache and here we found one. I remember riding the trail near here a few years ago.

After solving the series had some time after work to grab a couple nice easy find, thanks for placing this series

Finally got the chance to make a start on finding these caches, after solving in lockdown.
Quick find - TFTC

Find # 10880

Found with sharkiefan.

The task for today was to tackle the Jack Speak series and a few around the area.
Despite the morning drizzle we still managed to make the Jack Speak finds along the road. Even with a DNF we still managed to work out the final.
Then when the rain passed and the sun was out we done more exploring and finding quite a few "Welcome to..." cache at each town we passed coming back up.
Throwen in was a couple other puzzles we had solved.
A fun day had over on the Mornington Peninsula with a total of 45 smileys for the trip.

TFTC -Lisette- (now adopted by pimpmyballoons)

Found with FUF009.

Jack Speak Day.
We had planned this trip a while ago and had the puzzles solved even longer ago.
Depsite the wet weather and gloomy looking day, we decided to head out and have a crack, prepared to give it up if it became too miserable.
Pleasantly we ended up with some beautiful if not windy weather and had a great time out this end of the state.
Tftc

My progress towards Cape Schanck was rather *stop - start* with these *Jack Speak* caches placed reasonably close together. For this one, I walked down from my previous find... a Red Hill Express cache.

Thanks **pimpmyballoons** for keeping **Lisette's** series of caches alive.

We solved these puzzles some time ago and finally managed to find time to come down to this area to find the caches. Apologies for some generic logs. Most of these caches were found reasonably quickly. Thanks to -Lisette-/pimpmyballoons for the cache.

Down for an extra long weekend camping at Point Leo and picked this up on the way. Only about a million of this series to go!

With such great weather today, Jetsons23 and I set off to chip away at this series which we had solved the puzzles for some time ago. Kid free was something we don't get to do often. A variety of caches and hides kept us busy. Will have to come back again to hopefully finish off the series soon.

Thank you for the puzzles and cache here -Lisette- and pimpmyballoons

Out on a spectacular day with oshfam, we decided to do a couple more of these series having solved the puzzles a while ago. Had fun doing the puzzles. And equal fun collecting the caches. Thanks for the cache.

Tftc , great day to do a bit of finding

Jack Speak - Dogs Body was transferred from -Lisette- to user pimpmyballoons

After visiting a friend nearby I decided to grab some caches including the jack speak trail which I had solved long ago.

Stopped by the general store and then ducked across the road for this cache.

Thanks -Lisette- for the cache.

With the help of the hint it was an easy find.
TFTC

Having a fun time dodging in and out of the traffic along this road. It seems pine trees are a popular choice for hiding these caches. SL at 10.52am #7313 TFTC Lisette

Quick easy find Tftc

Why am I surprised? Accurate co-ords help! Not sure all this naval lingo will help me in the mountains, but this series was a confidence booster to puzzle solving capacity which is close to very average. Really enjoyed the research and the big ticks. Nice day out before the BIG winter LOW looms in on us. TFTC

Quick drive by during work. Easy pick up. TFTC

After a successful run at the first half of the Jack Speak series last weekend, it was time to take on the other half en route to an event in Flinders today.
I'd solved the puzzles about a month ago, finally taking a closer look and realising they weren't as scary as they seemed, progressing through the series in spare time over about two days - nice and relaxing puzzles to solve that I enjoyed sitting and working out.
Much nicer weather today made for some lovely cache hunting and a fantastic lunch at the beach.
Thanks to -Lisette- for placing this series and maintaining it through the years.

An easy one to kick off the day hidden in a style resembling much of the rest of the series.
Nice colour and a great phrase!
Thanks for placing this one.

TFTC, Brainiac03

#3999 We have had mixed success locating J. Speak caches thus far. We were en-route to Arthurs Seat & Sorento for the day but dropped in nearby for a quick brunch. Only being a stones through away we decided to swoop on this cache which was quicky found! yay! TFTC and puzzle Lisette.

Out today tonight to do a few caches in the hope of finishing the museum event. Unfortunately the rain and a few dnf’s made this a lot harder than it should have been. Thankfully as time went on the traffic became lighter and hunting became easier. Thanks for the series.

Thanks -Lisette- for the cache.
Found at 7:02 pm on 10/8/19.
Find # 1844

Out with my geo son today doing our first geo trail together. We had finished interesting puzzles learning about all the navel terms a while ago and was just waiting for a full day to pick them up. Great day starting with the sun just rising and finishing off as it was setting, Discovering this area was an added bonus. Picked up this along the way. Whow its a red one. Thanks for the series Lisette we really enjoyed our bison day

Out Caching with XAMBO4U for a Mother Son adventure day. Time to knock out this series!

#15967. Heading to Portsea for a few days but detouring down the left side of the Peninsula so I can gather up the Jack Speak Series that I have wanted to do for so long. Also picked up a couple of "Welcome To" caches along the way. Two DNFs and a lot of caches without clues did not help me to get the final - which will have to wait for another visit, maybe!

Certainly a few of these hides today and another expression I rather like.

Thanks -Lisette-

14:33
It was leafotwind's idea to see if we could knock off the Jack Speak series (which he'd done the virtual hard yards on), and maybe turn the outing into a 50+ day. I provided the vehicle as he's, er, between cars at the moment, and despite the weather not quite cooperating, we achieved our goal, and some.

Only one DNF, which is pretty darn good considering my usual blindness to one particular kind of hide which happened to predominate this afternoon.

-Lisette-, thanks for a fun trail of caches.

#4381

I had solved the series some time ago and had always intended to try and combine it with a couple of the shorter series' put out by other cachers to achieve a tally of 50 for the day. I thought some company might be in order both to add to the fun as well as provide a separate set of eyes. Nirgalagrin answered the call and a good thing too! He dialled in a little earlier than I and a number of those bisons might have taken a lot longer without him!
We did end up hitting 50 for the day and amongst those found the only 5/1 trad in the whole of Victoria by happenstance!
Thanks to all the COs who placed these caches for everyone to enjoy and indeed in the case of the Jack Speak series have maintained them for all these years.

Today I decided to pick up a few more caches in the Jack Speak series .. it is a cooler day today and being a Monday, not too many people around .. i was tempted to stop for a coffee at the nearby Merricks General Store but decided to get the cach first .. unfortunately I had made an error in transcribing the coords which took me to a nearby equestrian trail . while it was an interesting walk there were no pine trees here only some old dead trees ... hmm didn’t look right so I rechecked the puzzle . oops . the revised coords took me right to the cache .. I am enjoying this series .. Thanks Lisette for creating and maintaining this series

Crustyvarmint and I decided to attempt this series after completing the puzzles but after doing about 10 of them we thought it might be advisable to go back to the ones we had already completed to check for clues. Oh well a newbie mistake I know but I was having a bad day.
Saying that most of these caches were reasonably easy to find (some more difficult) but well set up puzzles, a joy to complete and informative. Great series. TFTC.

I went out today with Bunadoorian. We had each solved the puzzles to locate GZ, then shared the hunt. It was an enjoyable trip and we gathered the information for the final, but somehow it didn't work. More time required to complete the task. Thanks very much for the series Lisette. Please accept the generic response for our finds today.

After the hectic festive season, I needed a day to escape from my busy life and do this series with beckNmonts. I really enjoyed exploring this area. -Lisette- Thanks you so much for the fun series.

Pwala and I decided it was about time we found these caches. We had solved the puzzles about a month ago, but today was the day we were both finally free. I was skipper for the day and Pwala the main finder. We managed to only have one DNF for the series, and had a great afternoon! Thanks so much for placing this series -Lisette-

Red one this time... still having fun!
TFTC

Find #3744. Found @ 10:07 with LouiseAnn

The plan for today was to knock off the Red Hill Trail caches by bike, and grab some others along the way.

I'd solved these puzzles an age ago, and they'd been sitting in my "to find one day" pile. While I was waiting for LouiseAnn to show up, I thought I'd grab a couple of them. A short walk later and I was signing my name in the log.

Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables.
Thanks for the cache -Lisette-

Staying in Cape Schank for a couple of days with sassieold55, and hoping we can put some smileys on this series again today TFTC

Found it with annabella02

Quick find here. Definitely getting quicker with the finds even with darkness approaching.

What an extraordinary morning. Fantastic day for caching in the middle of winter and finding some mythical creatures. Out with Cheeky Wink for a great day of fun and this series certainly delivered. All puzzles solved earlier apart from the last one which we hope to complete today. Thanks Lisette for the effort put into this series. We enjoyed the route, the scenery and the hunting.

We both jumped out to look for this one and it didnt take long before we were signing the log, TFTC!

Sunday 15th July at 3.10pm
Collecting this series today on this beautiful sunny yet cold winters day as a 7 year anniversary adventure (last weekend 9th July)

4 Jul 2018, Found @3:37 pm, Find # 1688

What to do when you’ve got two weeks holidays solve a few puzzles that’s what. Out this way picking up the solved puzzles. Spotted this one blowing in the wind.

Thanks to -Lisette- for placing this cache

Another second visit one. Looked for ages last time, an easy collect this time!

Tftc still more to go

Found as Nicnax with PapaGrouch and WeRAmused. This one was a fairly easy find. TFTC

Out for an early.morning cache hunt. Who knows where I will go or end. Tftc... 8 ... found it

Thank goodness these show up against their hosts. It’s sometimes hard to work out where the caches are when under tree coverage.

With Surefoot24. TFTC

Snuck out last night for a bit of a drive for 4hrs. Left home straight to Hastings, took an hour, then crept my way down towards Flinders picking up a few more of the Jack Speak series and a couple of others on the way through. Not quite finished the series but have enough info to take a stab at the final co-ords. Next time. Thanks for the fun. TFTC Lisette

managed to solve this series and so nice to collect while in aussie visiting thx

Just finished the Red Hills ride. Gunna clean up a few of these before we go.

With a family birthday party down in Flinders, as a family we left early to collect some more of the Jack Speak series before going to the party.
I thought it would be easier to collect this one by first parking in car in Merricks and taking a walk to collect the cache. Kids weren't happy with this idea, so my wife and I collected this one.
Nice easy find and the cache is in good condition.
Thanks for the cache Lisette
Hunter

After spending yesterday doing domestic chores around home, we sat and worked together to solve this series after dinner.
With +Wife doing the first part and me finishing each one off, it only took until 2am!
This afternoon we drove down here with our GeoMutts, EveTheStaffy and MaxTheCollie.
We picked up two letterboxes and a total of twenty in this series.
We also found a great fish and chip shop.
Thanks for the series -Lisette-
We will return to complete the course.

It was a lovely afternoon for a drive. The Geomutts are always impressed when their day includes sitting in the back seat, watching the world whiz by. Barking at other mutts and checking out the sights, sounds and smells in new areas.
Today had all of that, and more. Fish and chips in the park. Many finds and not a single dnf for us.
We started at "Letters to Dad", continued on through this series and finished our day at "Letters to Mum".
I drove all day and n0w0rries did most of the walking.
Thank you for placing this cache for us and others to solve and find -Lisette-
Puff The Magic Dragon paid a visit.

Find 1143
A nice quick find as we continue along. Log signed and all back safe again.

Visit Flinders for the day with my partner and on the way to Hastings to do the Jack Speak series. Found it. Thanks -Lisette- for the series

Cache replaced

After a bit of nagging on my behalf I finally got the CO of this series to do a bit of a maintenance run on some of their caches in the area that I have been trying to finish for a while. This morning was the selected day to get this done and double checking whether or not there are caches actually still here or whether or not they needed replacing, and in most cases they needed replacing. Eitherway had a great morning meeting another local cacher and keeping the game pieces playable. Thanks for the cache and the fun little trip.
*You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.* -Sir Edmund Hillary

I took a long look here. But nothing could be seen

Couldn't find diddly.

Couldn't spot this one in the dark

The long-planned birthday cache run finally arrived! Having discovered that Omegaman1971 and I were born only two days apart, we agreed to go caching to celebrate our almost-joint birthday. Omegaman invited a few geocaching friends along, and we soon had a couple of cars full. After birthday cake and presents in Hastings, we piled into cars and started out on the Jack Speak series. We had planned this trip months earlier, and had long since solved the puzzles. We picked up a few other caches along the way to add to our collection of smiley birthday faces In the end, I did find my 1000th cache; it was nice to do it with such a great group of geocaching friends!
Thank you to everyone who placed and maintains caches in the region. I look forward to completing more of them when I move down to the Peninsula next year...

Okay...we have finally got to the Jack Speak series with 6 cache teams. We all worked on the series prior to arrival and moved though them progressively, making quick finds in most cases, although there were a couple of tricky ones. Also learn a lot about naval expressions. In most cases, this will be a generic post. Thanks -Lisette-. Great work.

Out with the Birthday Team (Morcs4, QueenK8, Promontory, Omegaman1971 and Happypants) to celebrate two birthdays. Thanks for the cache.

Found with omegaman, Promontory, Morcs4, (_o), QueenK8 this afternoon after a birthday bash in Hastings and we planned to tackle this series to celebrate the day, so far, so good with locating the caches. There seemed to be plenty of possible hiding spots for this one but we soon had it in hand, thanks -Lisette- for the cache.

omegaman1971
Out and about with Geo pals , Happy Pants,Morcs4,QueenK8 Promontory and (._o) on this great Melbourne Saturday to smash some caches and to celebrate QueenK8's and my Birthday. And to get QueenK8's 1000th cache. Awesome series and a fun puzzle to work out.
Thanks heaps to the Co for your awesome effort on this series.

Found along side happy pants omegaman  (._o) queen k8 signed under the birthday team.

Great day so far not as cold as I thought it would be. Thanks

**9/07/2016, 15:30**
**Find #2499**
**Mystery Find #304**

A quick find, sign the log and then on to the next.

Thank-you to -Lisette- for placing this geocache

Today gwd.aussie and I targeted this series of caches and enjoyed exploring the area. It was well into the afternoon when we started but in most cases we had the cache quickly to hand.

Thanks Lisette for setting up this enjoyable series.

Me! a dogs body, no..., well may be.

No, the answer is no.

Out caching with D@geo
Thank you for setting up the Jack Speak series.
Thank you for putting out & maintaining the hides -Lisette-

1:30 PM #1948 Out on a rainy day mission picking up a solved puzzle series with OzHockeyChick and MarkandKelly : This one took quite a while to find but kelly came the hero after i rethought things out...
Tftc

Find number 15 for the series which Kelly and OHC sat up all night (well 2am) to solve. This one took the full collective to hunt down. Although we started in the right spot our errant GPS's had us wandering all over until a change of app and an eagle eye had it. See our log on GZ29P5 for the full adventure...TFTC...

Were getting through these. I'm loving the consistency and obvious maintenance that must take place.

1:30 PM #1841
In the comfort of the warm geomobile…

Suscoe had a delightful day out on the Peninsular today.
It was mostly sunny with a cool breeze and some rain came in late in the day
How lucky were we.
Saw some beautiful countryside and enjoyed a fantastic range of caches.
Thanks to -Lisette- for this hide and puzzle.

Found it. Cache had been replaced by a mint tin & found on the ground. Replaced with bison in place matching clue (might want to make it chest high now!). TFTC

Day 6 of our geoholiday in Victoria and today we are heading out to Red Hill to what we thought were going to be drive byes but luckily we took the bikes, we started at Eastbound and made our way through to the end, after the trail we rode along grabbing a few of these ones and for some silly reason i thought going back to the car via the road was going to be easier, oh how wrong i was as it was nearly uphill all the way am those are very hilly hills,,TFTC

A pleasant Easter Saturday drive to collect some more of the Jack Speak series. My husband is doing the driving while I jump in and out of the car.
I searched here for about 10 minutes without success but I couldn't find the cache amongst the pine needles. I am sure that it is here somewhere.

We had solved the puzzles before leaving home. Thanks for the puzzles, caches and the Jack Speak series. A great day out with aqau.
Thank you so much for bringing us here!

After picking up our new beast in Melbourne (Landcruiser) we headed over to Hastings in the company of DAB to conquer the "Jack Speak" series on this lovely sunny day. With perfect conditions for caching we started up one end and worked our way down to the last puzzle, collecting the clues as we went, enjoying the views from some of the vantage points. With the detailed hints making for quick finds most of the time. The new 4x4 didn't miss a beat , coping with the stop starting as we worked our way through the series making for a fun day. We unfortunately did not get all the clues for the final, but there will be another trip on another day where we can finalise this Naval slang series giving us an excuse to come back to this lovely area.
**Thanks -Lisette- for the fun puzzles and an awesome series.**
Found the log on the ground , so we placed in a mint tin and rehid until CO can replace the hide.

Another combined effort for a caching trip, today it was The_Tritonz and myself. Our plan was to grab the " Jack Speak " series of caches. It was very interesting learning all of these Jack Speak terms. Thankfully the puzzles weren't too hard either, they were all a pleasure to do. We thoroughly enjoyed our day, collecting the caches. There were plenty of laughs, mainly at Chris's expense. We were spoilt with the scenery and the gorgeous weather. Unfortunately we didn't find all of the clues and we missed out on the final. We will return for the missing clues and claim the final !! Thanks for filling in our day. TFTC -Lisette-

Find #1885

Apologies for the late log. I'm still clearing a backlog (no pun intended) of finds from over the holidays. I headed out on a warm New Years Eve morning to tackle a number of the Jack Speak series and a few other along the way.

This was find 18 of 27 for the day. This one took me a while to find the right spot and was a tricky one. I sometimes think with these it is complete luck when your eye falls on the right spot in the 'haystack'. At this point I passed up on any of the Red Hill Series to save for another day and kept moving on Jack Speak. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for this series and for the cache -Lisette-.

I picked up a handful from this series while passing through. Had all the corrected GZs on my phone in case I ever found myself in this position, but also had the bonus of shogun-'s memory for pertinent local details to keep me efficient. Mysteriously, I found no actual bison here, just a log all by itself in the location described! Thanks -Lisette-!

Today we targetted this series of caches and enjoyed exploring the area, accurate co-ords led to quick finds.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

On a road trip collecting caches after attending the Melbourne Mega.
Thanks for adding to the enjoyment of this trip.

TFTC

Here for the Mega and out caching with Lgoody & roostaman.
So much variety in the caches and in the weather!
Ventured a little further from our base today and enjoyed the countryside immensely.
Thank you -Lisette- for placing and maintaining this cache.

[Blue]# 13615[/Blue] Found on another adventure with lgoody and The Green Geckos
along the Jack Speak and Red Hill Express trails, as well as a few others.
The weather was fine and we found some very good hides as well.
Thanks for the cache -Lisette-,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].