Jack Speak - Gongs Point Leo, Victoria, Australia
By -Lisette- (now adopted by pimpmyballoons) on 01-Nov-11. Waypoint GC35Z92

Out for another day of caching adventures with carmlee1 We've had a lot of fun solving this series, so now we get to get out and find the little suckers

Completed the puzzles recently and at the mention of this to doddlingalong our next adventure destination was sorted. Thanks for the puzzles and TFTC

TFTC! 15 October 2024 12:29:36pm 8618 thanks to pimpmyballoons for the cache! A quick find. The traffic comes fast along here!

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.

Found the blackberry shortly before the cache. All good, thanks for the hide.

Nice quick find

With a lunch at Pt Leo Estate I was so happy to find more caches right next to where we were headed. We started the Jack Speak series yesterday on a way to a winery for lunch and here we were doing it all again.

I’m starting to wonder whether we will run out of caches or wineries first. He thing we will probably run out of first is days left in our holiday. 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

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

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.
I got attacked by a blackberry bush argh. Easy find after though. 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

Certainly met Ivy and some of her thornier friends at this one.

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 # 10884

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

I went out with Jetsons23 today to try and tackle and maybe finish the Jack Speak series and grab a few others along the way.

I just got back from the Townsville Mega caching in 30 degree humid days and I welcome the very cool weather here today.

Thank you for the cache here -Lisette- and pimpmyballoons

Out with oshfam on this cool but fine day to hopefully finish this jack speak series. Thanks for the cache.

We're back again for the Jack Speaks series after finding a number of these back in March. Apologies for a number of generic logs. The finds were straightforward although traffic on the nearby roads was always a concern. As were the blackberries!! The last one for the day and apart from a DNF the end of the series. Thanks to -Lisette-/pimpymyballoons for the puzzles and the caches.

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... but the last for a little while as I now have enough finds to go after my target for the day... ** Double Calendar Challenge **. Thanks **pimpmyballoons** for keeping **Lisette's** series of caches alive.

Tftc … geo kids are loving these

Jack Speak - Gongs 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.

Overshot this one so went for a walk back up the road to grab it in the cool shade.

Thanks -Lisette- for the cache.

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

We got a gong here for finding the last solved Jack speak cache.SL at 11.12am now for some sightseeing along this road. #7317 TFTC Lisette - a few more found and some more clues collected.

#50 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

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.

A beautiful little environment in here, ivy everywhere and the sunlight beaming down from above.
Some cool spiderweb patterns about too, I've attached a nice photo of one with this log.
Easy to spot and signed with ease.
Thanks for placing this here!

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 7:16 pm on 10/8/19.
Find # 1848

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!

#15971. 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!

I was looking here there and everywhere and it was actually right in front of me staring at me.

Thanks -Lisette-

Thanks

14:53
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.

#4385

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.

Sunday arvo drive on the Jacks Speak series. Nice easy cache to grab. TFTC

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.

Returning to find some more of the caches from the “Jack Speak” series. I completed the puzzles from this series a while back hopefully I can gather a few more today. .when I made my way to the GZ I initially thought it would be an impossible task but the GPS gods were smiling and the coords were spot on... thanks Lisette for the 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-

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.

Never thought bisons in a tree could be as easy as this!
TFTC

We decided to bring the 'loaner' down here for a trip to visit the winery nearby. After that, it was time for a cache or two before the trip home. This was first and a nice quick find had me signing the log at 16:55.

Unfortunately, I forgot to grab the clue (forgive me, I'm only new at this game ). Not to worry.

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

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

Quick find on the side of the road.

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.

Sunday 15th July at 2.27pm
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 @2:58 pm, Find # 1685

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 a nice quick find.

Thanks to -Lisette- for placing this cache

The day was getting late, I made this my last one for the today.

Headed down to Flinders with SciFiRulz and PapaGrouch today with a view to work on the Jack Speak series I started a couple of years ago. TFTC

Found as Nicnax with PapaGrouch and WeRAmused. Yes, there was lots of ivy and some blackberries too. TFTC

Ivy and blackberries were conspiring to trip us up on our way into the cache, but we intrepid cachers battled our way through found the cache, then found an easier way out- naturally!

With Surefoot24. TFTC

yup another one done and dusted thx.

Not liking this roadside parking really. I enjoyed solving but am not having so much fun finding. Oh well I'm still grateful for them being here.

Another nice easy find for the day! TFTC!

So beckgiz has been puzzling away at home getting ready to attack this series, as it often goes she's the brains im the muscle :3 so lets get us some CACHES

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.
While the kids couldn't be bothered getting out of the car here, I'm glad my wife and I did because this was my favourite GZ. Just the shade thru the trees, onto the leaves on the large vine that was covering the ground and part of the large trees was lovely.
Thanks for putting the puzzle cache here 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.

Now this one may cause a bit of searching as we approached the target. Geowife was straight to it and I was pleased as the log was signed and back safe again.
Find1147

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

Another super quick find

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

Today I had the day off so I decided to go and have a big day of caching around the Flinders to Balnarring area, with the goal of clearing this area out. With me have to attend a Welcome back party for one of my friends who was studying abroad for a semester. Anyways sadly my day was cut short as I had to drive around and do some surprise errand in the afternoon. Anyway this cache was quickly found with little to no hassle. I would like to thank you for the cache and the adventure.
**Buhfuhguh #760**

What a fabulous tree!! TFTC

Constantly on the wrong side of the road. So it's playing chicken with the cars when I cross and hope I don't get run over. Should be doing this from the other way 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. Enjoying the company and the series, 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.

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

Good to see that these are consistently in good condition at the moment, despite the sort of weather that can be troublesome for these sorts of containers. 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.

We over shot this one, so i run back to make the find.
And D@geo done a u-turn to meet me.

I need a gong for my running style

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

1:51 PM #1952 Out on a rainy day mission picking up a solved puzzle series with OzHockeyChick and MarkandKelly : Lucky for us Kelly was on the ball and found this quick.
Tftc

Find number 19 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...

This was especially pretty in here! Straightforward find.

1:50 PM #1845
Signed either in full, or as OHC, M&K & 88a…

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 cache.
Having a pleasant time on the trail.

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

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-

I loved this location and enjoyed finding this cache. My husband had eaten all the lollies in the car and wanted to find some shops so my today's caching trip is coming to an end. Thanks for the caches that I have found so far.

Find #1881

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 14 of 27 for the day. This was tricky with some good use of the natural camo. Tried a few likely spots and before too long I spotted it.. 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]# 13619[/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].

#7763 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 4592 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