Jack Speak - The Sun is over the Yardarm Flinders, Victoria, Australia
By -Lisette- (now adopted by pimpmyballoons) on 01-Nov-11. Waypoint GC35Z9F

TFTC! 15 October 2024 12:09:44pm 8621 thanks to pimpmyballoons for the cache! A relatively quick find. Thanks for the series

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.

Third of the day and third for the series. Log book signed and in good condition. This one was a nice quick find but unfortunately the last for the day after the youngest gang member got sick from the chocolate shop up the road ????? Will be back at this series next weekend. TFTC

Having a long weekend break on the Peninsula, and seizing the opportunity to search out some caches. Having not solved this one previously, I obtained the final coordinates in the van after finding the previous find in the series. I parked opposite GZ, and after looking in one spot, moved along a little and made the find of the little container. Not the most common means of attachment for this type of container, but it works. TFTC pimpmyballoons and for keeping the series in play

Yes, we used to use this saying a lot when we were alcoholics. No more! Gave it away and took up geocaching instead haha. TFTC.

**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 .A very nosy neighbour was watching us with intrigue, time to pull out the fluoro vests & clipboards LOL. Found when I reinterpreted the clue (which left? My left or your left? And how to you go left of a round host...?)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**

It's funny when reading a hint of how accurate it can be yet you still are looking in completely the wrong spot!Lucky LetThemEatCache let her eyes wander a bit.Thanks pimpmyballoons for maintaining this series.

We sailed into the dock and noted that The Sun is over the Yardarm indeed.Our luncheon is due to begin in about twenty minutes.A quick lap of the obvious, a check of the Captain's Log and then the chart was uncovered.The penultimate prize is ours at last!Found with +Wife and EveTheStaffy.Thanks -Lisette- (now adopted by pimpmyballoons)

TFTC

Quick find

Found it TFTC

Quick find

Not attached very well tftc

Slowly making inroads into this series. TFTC

A trip for a tour of eastern Victoria. TFTC.
Found on the ground. Now back in the tree.

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.
Initially had worked out the coordinates wrong. Walking back to the car recalculating when we realised we parked next to it. 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

Quick find again in a nice shaded pine area with pine needles all above caught in branches. Sun going down slowly behind us. 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

Find # 10893

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!! 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 find it. 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.

Was handy to have a second pair of eyes here as my buddy spotted this one as I was sure it'd be on the trunk of the tree. My thanks to the previous CO and the current CO for placing and maintaining these.

Either my coordinates are incorrect or I just couldn't spot it this time. 3 months since being checked, so perhaps another check might be needed or I'm just not very good at this game.

Checked September 21 - All good

Love the puzzles
Recently found.
Tftc

This is actually a really late log from last visit to the Peninsula. en some time to come back. A sunny day saw a spontaneous new plan to head down on a multi mission that includes working towards 400 caches on the Peninsula - quite a challenge when you live in the mountains TFTC and the FUN

Jack Speak - The Sun is over the Yardarm 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.

Perfect height for me. A quick find.

Thanks -Lisette- for the cache.

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

Stood there for some time looking at the trunk stood back checked GPS looked up and there is was, stood out very clearly 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.

This proved to be a cheeky little cache - nothing seemed to be turning up on initial searches and there were plenty of ways that the hint could be interpreted.
A few different trees were investigated before we came back to the one at the coordinates and found the telltale sign mentioned in past logs.
Very sneaky!
Thanks for placing it!

TFTC, Brainiac03

Quite sneaky but not difficult.

This was the second of two Jack Speak finds today. On a relative high after locating 'Make and Mend' and not having an opportunity to stop/park safely at several others in the series (lots of speedy holiday traffic combined with narrow gravel verge), this was my final JS port of call for the day.

While my GPS was pointing off about 12m my eye happened to fall on something suspicious and closer examination revealed the bison tucked away from immediate view.

Signed the log, thanks for the cache and the educational quality of the series, -Lisette-. (I'll wait for a quieter traffic period to come again and try hunting down more of the series.)

Circled gz a few times but didn't see the cache today.

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!

#15978. 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!

Yes, we reckoned it was definitely over the yard arm by now so we are aiming for a lunch stop very soon. In fact this was the last one before lunch at a very nice cafe in Flinders that was dog friendly. This was a little bit sneaky too but we both sighted the tell-tale sign at the same moment. A nice hide here.

Thanks -Lisette-

Day 25 of my trip from Adelaide to Canberra via Tasmania and Victoria.

After spending the night at Rye, I.meandered around the Mornington Peninsula then on towards Wonthaggi, seeking out targeted caches along the way. It was great that the weather has improved a bit with no rain or wind today.

All in all it was a successful day with some enjoyable walks and 17 mystery, multi, letterbox and traditional caches found.

I had solved this series of puzzles prior to leaving Adelaide, but didn’t really have enough time to stop and find them all today. However I couldn’t resist stopping to find a few of them as I was driving by.

Unfortunately after a long search I was unable to locate this one.

Thanks anyway -Lisette- for the puzzle.

16:04
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.

#4394

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.

I decided to take a post-brekky stroll for a look for this one. Having completed a nemesis one yesterday, it was starting to look like I was going to replace that with this one when I finally spotted something that didn't quite fit in with the 'structure' and sure enough, I was signing the log at 11:05. Phew.

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

Sunday arvo drive on the Jacks Speak series. Bit of a sneaky spot but finally found it. 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. When I pulled up at the GZ I decided to check the hint and took it quite literally . and I guess Left or right depends on how you approach .. for me Left was not right but that left right which in the end was right from where I was standing... a cleverly hidden cache....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-

Another quick and easy find.
TFTC

Staying at Cape Schank for a couple of days with sassieold55, nice easy find Tftfc

Nice sneaky cache - had to go back to find it in daylight -logical hidey place though . Tftc

This one was a bit sneaky and after checking the hint we really took a wrong turn. Found eventually.

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 ran into teamGbunny here and they made the find and kindly let us sign it. Thanks Lisette.

Sunday 15th July at 12.40
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 @12:53 pm, Find # 1679

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. Definitely a sneaky hide.

Thanks to -Lisette- for placing this cache

This took a while, but perhaps because I was convinced it was somewhere that it clearly wasn't. Widen search and saw a cheeky tie.

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. We had a little debate about what is the left side of a round object but spotted the cache anyway. TFTC

A quickie to keep up our days streak. Thanks Lisette

Out for an early.morning cache hunt. Who knows where I will go or end. Tftc... 12. It wasn't it the first place I.looked but strangely it was the last place I lookef

Found with TaylorHunters09 who did the hard work while I kept kids safe. Thank you

Pulled up and decided its best if LouJean1970 stayed with the GeoKids for this one. Took a few minutes to make the Find but got there omg he end.
Thanks

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

**Find #1442**

Great Puzzle. This cache at GZ was a nice little challenge. The clue was not clear, but reading a previous log had me in the zone. Very nice hide. There is safe parking here, which was good.

Thanks **-Lisette-**

TFTC.

another great final collected while travelling to bon beach. was fun solving them all prior to my aussie visit.

Look for the cable tie.

This one took a few minutes lol we kind of took the hint too literally and spent along time scouring the tree trunks with nyochi even climbing up one a bit! But I finally realized we needed to slightly expand our search and the cache was found pretty quickly after that! 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

It was almost time for the family party in Flinders, so we had judged the time pretty well, and we had only missed 1 of them, because I missing to parking place and I didn't want to miss another cache. Parked and my son quickly got out because he didn't want to be late. We didn't find the cache on the first pass around the obvious tree so while he ran back to the car to grab the GPS, I was just about to spy a cable tie and found the cache at the other end.
Thanks for the cache Lisette
Hunter

Find 1154
Getting close to the end now as we continue the series. Cache found in good condition. 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

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

Cache replaced

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**And don't forget,** once you have addressed the issue, post both an "Owner Maintenance" log, see here; [Removing the Needs Maintenance Icon](http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=404) and an "Enable Listing" log, see here; [Temporarily Disable and Enable ](https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235 ) to get your cache up and running again.

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Had a really good look for this one but with no luck. Either its not there, I am missing it or well camoed?

Like others no . luck aftet a long search. Found the obvious spot but still no joy

Co may like to check this one considering the number of dnf

Nope, couldn't spot it in the dark.

Couldn't see it today, had s good look around and the one really obvious spot is not hiding it.

Sadly i was not able to find this cache. After looking for over 30 minutes and finding what I believe to be the original location I was unable to find its moved spot. Searched the trees searched the ground looked left and right, but no luck.

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!

Found on ground so put back where I think answers hint. TFTC

Great camo. Had me climbing because I had no idea where it was. TFTC

After some crazy acrobatics (which were completely useless but had us giggling) the cache was located. A busy road today. 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...

Just finishing off the last few in the series this afternoon, we had a little trouble deciding on which co-ord's to trust, but it was only a minor difference and it was soon located, plenty of room to get off the road and make the find. TFTC -Lisette-.

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. As we had two different cords - I was doing my puzzles very late at night so maybe a minor error but we found 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.
One of the hardest to find in the series for sure.

**9/07/2016, 13:50**
**Find #2491**
**Mystery Find #297**

After a successful FTF hunt just up the road, I headed here to attempt to finish the Jack Speak series, a series that I started 2.5 years ago. I DNF'd here on my previous attempt. I can remember if the cache had been muggled or if I simply didn't find it, but today it proved no problem. It's alway good to turn a DNF into a Find.

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.

The sun is getting lower, normally it would be time for a drink.
But still a couple of caches to find first.

When I touched a bit of bark, the it fall with the cache to the ground.
After signing I put it back, hope it stays in place.

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

2:20 PM #1959 Out on a rainy day mission picking up a solved puzzle series with OzHockeyChick and MarkandKelly : Another great hide.
Tftc

Find number 26 for the series which Kelly and OHC sat up all night (well 2am) to solve. Almost at the end now, and yes its almost that time of day. See our log on GZ29P5 for the full adventure...TFTC...