Jack Speak - Duff Merricks, Victoria, Australia
By -Lisette- (now adopted by pimpmyballoons) on 01-Nov-11. Waypoint GC35Z8R

TFTC! 15 October 2024 3:39:03pm 8634 thanks to pimpmyballoons for the cache! Another quick find! Hoping to have the series completed today!

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.

Continuing on our search - the coords were about 10m out on this one but we got it anyway! Enjoyed the hunt. The road was very busy, possibly because the end of school holidays is nearing. TFTC.

After checking all pine tree we finally hit GZ cache was on ground at base of tree I did hang it back up where we thought it might go.

There is a very, very good chance (in fact most likely) the cache is still there. It may just not be hanging as it was originally intended. On holiday we were having a quick look for the obvious only. thanks anyway

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

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 - please note in this direction you have to cross the road to retrieve the caches.

We are enjoying the series, despite being scratched and prickled by a variety of overgrown bushes and vines. We should have wore gum boots lol

I’m 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.
GPS kept jumping all over the place, took a little while to find the right pine tree.
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.

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

Lots of good hide spots that fit the clue here, but soon had it signed.

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 # 10881

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

As the morning drifted on, I continued to slowly drift in the general direction of Flinders, stopping as I went for yet another of the **Jack Speak** series of caches. I have had these caches solved for many years and it is only now that I have got around to starting the process of finding them... as I count my way to 3,500 finds. Another simple find... 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.

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.

Thanks for the cache terrific afternoon to do some finding

Jack Speak - Duff 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.

Another quick find and getting into a rhythm now.

Thanks -Lisette- for the cache.

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

Another quick find and SL at 10.57am More photos of the flora by the roadside. #7314 TFTC Lisette

Another quick and 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 as I slowly collect the series. TFTC

What to do this afternoon other then go for an easy drive to go and finish up the Jack Speak series that I have put on hold for a rather long time. So with everything solved from this long time ago I was ready and off and ready to get these last two smilies.

Quick find all in all with no major struggles thanks for the cache and the mini adventure

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.

Easy to find, hanging nicely in its place.
Signed the log and on to the next one.
Thanks for placing this cache.

TFTC, Brainiac03

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 7:06 pm on 10/8/19.
Find # 1845

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. 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!

#15968. 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!

Another one done and dusted.

Thanks -Lisette-

14:39

-Lisette-

#4382

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 .. it was another easy pick up today as I parked right next to the cache once again .. my geo senses are really kicking in .. I am enjoying this series .. Thanks Lisette for creating and maintaining this series

Last time we were down this way, I couldn't find this for love nor money. Today, I walked straight up to it for an incredibly quick find at 13:45. Go figure. Anyhoo, the moniker's now on the logsheet and there's a smiley in the ledger.

TNLNSL, although our BYO pen geocoin had a visit to mark the occasion. Thanks -Lisette-.

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.

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-

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.

Ground hog tree!
TFTC

*2 Dec 2018, Found @12:17 pm, Find # 2260.*

In the area to take a walk along the Flinders coastline and made a stop here on the way. It was nice to avenge this one finally. An easy find today, the cache was staring me in the face.

**Thanks to -Lisette- for placing this cache.**

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

Found it with annabella02, tftc

it was starting to get dark now but we pushed on regardless. Found this one pretty quickly.

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.

I left this one to gnome5580 again since she was able to get in there for a good look while I provided moral support from the car lol TFTC!

Sunday 15th July at 3.06pm
Collecting this series today on this beautiful sunny yet cold winters day as a 7 year anniversary adventure (last weekend 9th July)

Look knee height around bigger tree

4 Jul 2018, Found @3:33 pm, Find # 1688

I can’t see where this one has been rehomed.

Thanks to -Lisette- for placing this cache

Just happened to spot this guy on the ground. Clearly its 'twig' home couldn't withstand the recent icy blasts. I picked another sturdier twig and hung it from that.

Not Found, we checked the tree that seemed to match the hint the closest, no luck. We looked all around at other trees and on the ground but couldn't find the cache anywhere.

Finally found on ground after checking every likely tree in the vicinity. We returned it to the tree trunk after signing the log book. Finding a safe place to park the car can be tricky along here.

I was sent to look at a tree, and Surefoot24 found it on the ground. Good looking Wal-len! TFTC

yup got this one too thx.

Got it thanks

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.
Almost should have walked between the last cache as this one, to say some fuel and possibly time.
Nice quick find by my wife and I before the kids could even get out of the car
Thanks for the puzzle 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.

All good with the cache as we made a quick discovery. Log signed and back safe again.
Find 1144

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

Found on the ground reattached to tree as per hint

I think my coords were out for this, as it was in the middle of a paddock.

An interesting puzzle series that I enjoyed solving. I got started on looking for them pretty late this evening, and ended up looking for most of them in the dark. As a result there were a few that I didn't find that are most likely there. Cheers and TFTC

Solved the puzzles for this series in the week and thought I better get out there and put the smiley faces on the map. Went off on a tangent initially trying to solve these but the co soon recalibrate my head. Hopefully these will put me in good stead to get me to my 4000 find this Easter break. Thanks for the fun, TFTC

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...

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. Many thanks -Lisette- for the cache.

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. I wonder whether Up the Duff means getting into a sticky situation.

Out with the Birthday Team (Morcs4, QueenK8, Promontory, Omegaman1971 and Happypants) to celebrate two birthdays. Thanks 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, 15:22**
**Find #2498**
**Mystery Find #303**

Nearly finished. A quick find here and then on to the next.

Thank-you to -Lisette- for placing this geocache

I was very nearby so collected a few more of these, starting here. Thanks -Lisette-!

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.

It's not a beer?

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

1:39 PM #1949 Out on a rainy day mission picking up a solved puzzle series with OzHockeyChick and MarkandKelly : good little walk up the bank to find... Tftc

Find number 16 for the series which Kelly and OHC sat up all night (well 2am) to solve. See our log on GZ29P5 for the full adventure...TFTC...

I love pine trees. Except what they do to my GPS Still found it

1:37 PM #1842
We headed out on a cold and drizzly Saturday…

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 -Lisette- for this placement.
What a great idea this trail is.

Nice quick find. Replaced log. Fitted o-ring. 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

Cache 3 for today.
A pleasant drive on Easter Saturday to collect some more of the Jack Speak series. My husband is doing the driving while I jump in and out of the car.
TFTC

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.**

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 #1884

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 17 of 27 for the day. The traffic was busier along this section so crossing the road took a little more care. Once in place this one was a reasonably quick find. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for this series and for the cache -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]# 13616[/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].

#7760 Found and Logged
One of 71 cachers on a great big day around the Mornington Pencilar with Roostaman and The Green Geckos While in Melbourne for the megga
Thanks for the cache -Lisette-

Down from Canberra for a MEGA geo-getaway geomission

Today's mission was to head down the Peninsula to target the Jack Speak series and to make a start on the caches along the sparkling coastline!

I solved the easy puzzles prior to the trip and I had a great day collecting the caches. All were easily found except for a couple that required a little bit more time to find

Thanks for setting up this enjoyable series, -Lisette-

One of over 100 caches found on a big day's caching on the Mornington Peninsula with some great friends.
There were many styles of hides and some of the containers were very cool indeed.
Thanks to all the CO's or placing them for others to find.

The caches found with Jabs and Budgietas were signed as JCB.

TFTC -Lisette-
Find 4595 loged from GSAK

Found this cache as part of a caching run with JABs and Code1. Logs were signed with JCBs
We had a great run of cache finds with over 100 found on the first day.
TFTC

First or all sorry for the long log. Code 1, Budgietas and myself decided to do a caching trip / run and the Mornington area looked like a great place to start. So planes were hatched and we got together. This was the first cache of over a hundred we did in the 12 hour period of caching we had.
A well rounded style, type, size, shade and hides kept us guessing at every corner. So thanks for the cache and a reason to get out and about with a few mates for a day of endless adventure and fun.
Most of the caches we did were signed with JCB. J-Jabs C-Code1 and B-Budgietas.
JABs.

Nicely tucked away - Thanks for the cache, Lisette !

Got the rhythm of this series. Only problem is the number of cars speeding by on a sunny afternoon and figuring out a safe place to park. Lot of pine trees down this way. TFTC

Another one down! TFTC