Jack Speak - The Oggin Shoreham, Victoria, Australia
By -Lisette- (now adopted by pimpmyballoons) on 01-Nov-11. Waypoint GC35Z99

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

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

TFTC! 15 October 2024 1:12:41pm 8619 thanks to pimpmyballoons for the cache! Thanks another relatively quick find. An easier spot to park!

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.

This cache was in plain sight, thanks for the hide.

Thanks for replacing the cache. We are pleased to convert this to a smiling face. Stunning views.

**Jack Speak series**These have been sitting on my solved pile for some time. Time to turn them into smilies Found with Snips and Co on an enjoyable days outing to the peninsula. This was our first foray into this series, hope to return to complete over the summer. I think we found 9 or 10 in the series.A relatively quick park and grab with fabulous views to boot!Thanks Lisette for placing and pimpmyballoons for maintaining this series for our geo-enjoyment. Cache on *Throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Explore. Dream. Discover.* **Mark Twain**

One can only imagine how sea became Oggin. Lots of unlove on this one. Thanks for the cache pimpmyballoons

Cache has been replaced and is all good to go again.

Cache is missing just cable tie hanging in tree

DNF missed hang cache

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.

We did not find this cache -sent photo to CO.

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.

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

Another quick find. Spotted it from a few meters out. All in good order. TFTC

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

OK. Fastened with a bit of hay bale twine because zip tie broken, but all OK.

Find # 10890

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 hide.

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!! Thanks to -Lisette-/pimpymyballoons for the puzzles and the caches.

My visit to the Peninsula was triggered by a plan to find the ** Double Calendar Challenge ** cache for my 3,500th find. With that task complete and still plenty of time left in the day, I was now stopping for of the **Jack Speak** series as I started my way back to Melbourne. This one was a nice, simple find.

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

Given myself the challenge of trying to complete this series. Sometimes the names would appear in the puzzle within seconds, sometimes it took 20 minutes to see the name. Have solved them all and now it’s the task of getting out to find each of them. Will have to return to the few I found in the past to collect possible clues I may have missed.

They’re not really my kind of caches and many of the locations are awkward and inconvenient to get to, but I suppose it is what it is. I’m not always going to enjoy myself while out caching, but you got to do what you’ve got to do. If you put your mind to something and commit to doing it properly, you’ll most likely reap the rewards and appreciate what you put in in the long run.

My thanks to the previous CO and the current CO for placing and maintaining these.

Tftc. 2 puzzles solved

Jack Speak - The Oggin 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.

A good spot to pull of the road and grab this easy cache.

Thanks -Lisette- for the cache.

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

Easy 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

Catching up on some overlooked logs.
My apologies for the delay.

Found with n0w0rries on our way to our CITO in Flinders.
Thanks for the cache and the series -Lisette-

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 simple find in the obvious spot.
Another one ticked off in the series - thanks for placing it here!

TFTC, Brainiac03

22/02/2020 #2
A quick find on our way to our CITO in Flinders.
Thanks for the cache and the series -Lisette-

#3961 Having set up camp at nearby Stony Point for the long weekend, it was time for a bit of an explore and hunt down some dinner in Flinders. Mrs BGF had solved the Jack Speak puzzles during the week and we thought we would make a start en-route.

After negotiating our way through the long thick green grass, Mr BGF spied the cache container before too long. TFTC and puzzle Lisette.

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. Needed to widen our search here a little. 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!

#15975. 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!

Oh, that little pine tree. We had searched the other 3 bigger ones but then I spied this one. Another one done and dusted.

Thanks -Lisette-

Thanks

15:37
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.

#4391

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.

Lucky last before hitting the wineries today. Thankfully it was a nice quick find at 12:55 as the welcome was being well and truly worn out.

TNLNSL noted clue and our BYO pen geocoin had a visit to mark the occasion. Thanks again -Lisette-.

Sunday arvo drive on the Jacks Speak series. Grabbed this one easily. 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.

I completed the puzzles from this series a while back adding to the list of puzzles solved but not yet found so I will attempt to rectify this over the next few days. I enjoyed learning about “Jack Speak”... some of the terms I had heard, others were new. This was the quickest search as I could see the cache as I approached from the car .. it all depends on the angle of approach I guess. TFTC

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-

Could see this one on approach from the car!
The views from here are great!
TFTC

Found it just where it was expected ! Tftc

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

Quick find on the side of the road. Cows were very interested in what we were up to.

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 1.21pm
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 @2:05 pm, Find # 1680

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 and made a stop here along the way. Spotted this one on approach.

Thanks to -Lisette- for placing this cache

Easy pickings with the clue. I know I haven't been writing down the clues, so a revisit will be in order at some stage.

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. TFTC

solved back home. so was nice to find and sign these all off thx.

Haha oops went a bit to far for that one.

We got to GZ and going by the clue I assumed we needed to look at the row of pines up the steep embankment so saying this nyochi immediately scrambled up thereto search but couldn't find anything meanwhile I saw the gps was pointing a couple of meters left so I moved across and watched her search for a few minutes before glancing down and wouldn't you know it? The cache was just hanging right in front of me! So she searched up there for no reason but then again that's what you get for plowing straight in without checking first lol! 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.
Certainty some lovely views around here. Parked the car, and with the lady across the road on her rider on lawn mower heading away from us, I raced my son to find the cache. Fortunately for me her took the wrong tree and I quickly found the cache. After signing the log, waved to the lady on her ride on mower and returned the cache when she started heading away again.
Thanks for the cache Lisette
Hunter

Find 1151
Nice views which we took a minute to admire. Back to the search and it was quick .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

Had a heap of cars go past here so took a while to sign

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 #753**

This involved a tiny bit of fancy footwork to get to (not to the extent that T1.5 felt inappropriate) but the cache made its position known quite swiftly thereafter. Thanks -Lisette-!

Jack has spoken. I have had these on the Astro radar for a while. Great to explore and also catch with AstroThomas who is working in the waters near by. met some interesting people and tasted some good local food and sipped some local beers as I explored over a few days here.


Thanks to -Lisette- and *clear skies* from TeamAstro. Cache the planet!

Great easy find. Good to do some more of this series again.

Nice a quick cache. TFTC

Another quick find in the series. TFTC

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.

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. Nearly at the end now and everything is appears to be ship shape, 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. We were watched by Cow muggles

**9/07/2016, 14:52**
**Find #2495**
**Mystery Find #300**

Yet another member of this series that I had DNF'd on 2.5 years ago. Like the others, this one also was found quickly today.

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.

I can see the oggin from here

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

2:09 PM #1956 Out on a rainy day mission picking up a solved puzzle series with OzHockeyChick and MarkandKelly : awesome view across the water. Always looking around gz helps to see what is local .
Tftc

Find number 23 for the series which Kelly and OHC sat up all night (well 2am) to solve. Pity about the drizzle today otherwise we might have had a view of the o'l oggin to match the cache. See our log on GZ29P5 for the full adventure...TFTC...

I approached with foreboding, but it was not at all hard.

2:09 PM #1849
Others required tools…

Mrs. Womble strikes again. Replaced cache & log. TFTC 27 May 2016 11:59 am

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 the puzzle and cache.

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.**
Great view from here

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-

Quick find. Thanks!

Getting a safe park on the side of the road is sometimes difficult, especially as we are doing the series from South to North. My husband is actually enjoying his afternoon of driving.
This was my sixth find.

Find #1875

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 8 of 27 for the day. It was a hot day and a quick find was good so I didn't have to spend too long out of the car. 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]# 13623[/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].

#7767 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-