All Puzzled Up #2 North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
By Equipe des fous on 18-Oct-11. Waypoint GC3662J

Value for B was missing from the cache. I have put on the log now.

The first cache of the day with Scaphoid, on our final day in Sydney! I solved this cache many years ago and its been sitting waiting to be found ever since. Not sure why its taken me so long to come find it, given I have family that live in this rough area! The carpark was quiet this morning & we had a pleasant walk across the field towards the cache location. A quick find upon arrival Thanks for the cache!

Being relatively new to caching there is a lot that Im discovering and enjoying. One of those things that is a new discovery is caching trips. Loci612 and I had discussed a trip to Sydney for a specific event, unfortunately, I couldnt make the event but I was still able to enjoy a good few days of caching with friends.Day 3 focused on the drive home. I wanted to be home for dinner while making sure that we still targeted some awesome caches on the way. We made our way across the dewy field for this one and clambered up the wall to GZ. Cache was found fairly quickly and we were soon back in the car off to the next one! TFTC!

Managed to solve 5 of the puzzles in this series so decided to have a go at finding them. 4 found, 1 inaccessible.One of the quicker puzzles. I've definitely walked past here before, shame I hadn't done the puzzle then! Quick find after a little scramble. TFTC

Solved this puzzle a very long time ago and finally made it to GZ. Fairly easy find. TFTC

Container is back in place. I may have found the previous one but it was only a small not regular, which didn't match the size it was meant to be. The log was not signed either or have the cache name on it. I've put a larger container now with direction from the CO.

Cache confirmed missing and will be replaced soon.

6 months ago, during a frenzy, we said to ourselves "why not going to the mega in Adelaide for the leapday". From scratch we moved on to preparing an 18-day project in Australia.Our objectives are simple, visit a small part of this immense continent while validating a few caches. There are so many caches (impossible to do everything) that we will select. Our plan will allow us to visit Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Mount Gambier and finish in Adelaide for the famous Mega.During our stay we will log PestiHoot for Pestinette and Blackhoot.Second day, we take our car to visit north of Sydney. Our circuit is planned based on caches selected for their D/T, their installation date, or the PFs received. We will discover fauna and flora different from ours. We will be surprised to come across dragons.Thanks to the caches we visited many sites evoking Australian culture and history.Thanks for the cache and the discovery of beautiful or original spots

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Maintenance carried out following previous DNFs.The logbook is signed **pesti-Hoot** for *pestinette* and *BlackHoot*.In: Nothing.Out: Nothing.Thanks **Equipe des fous** for the cache.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~*Here is the palaver from my log "3615-MyLife" that you still don't have to read:*After multiple outings together, here are some examples: the park at T5 in the Orlans region, the Letterbox Matrix in Provins on the return of GeoBulles 2023, a getaway to Rambouillet and Fontainebleau, the Mega in Oliveira de Frades in Portugal, that in Spain in Camarasa with a memorable passage in Andorra, a foray into the Drme at the beginning of the year, I have the immense luck and pleasure to accompany the pestinettes who asked me last summer to be part of this crazy trip to Australia to participate in the Adelaide Mega on February 29 !So I start by thanking them once again for the invitation as well as for the preparation of all logistics and the program of discoveries planned for these 17 days on Australian lands: Jasmers including three from the year 2000,webcams, virtual ones (full), challenges, Earthcaches, mysteries, Events.I would just add my two cents with the Matrices by cache type as well as obtaining as many Addons as possible for Leap Day ! Then depending on the time that we will have left at each of our stages, all caches allowing usto visit a nice new place.We only visited a tiny part of this beautiful country which makes us want to come back although it is not next door and I would also remember the warm welcome of Australians and their kindness.I sincerely thank all the poseurs without whom the exploration of all theseplaces known or much more discreet would not have been possible. A big thank you for your personal investment for the pleasure of all and ours in particular during this beautiful trip shared in friendly company ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~**Against a sedentary lifestyle, geocache! Get Out and Play! Saia and play! Sal y juega!**

No luck with this today. I had solved a while ago and location looked reasonable and like people had been off track looking for caches.

No luck with this one today. I'll have to come back for another try.

Out caching with oldmorty finding a few caches around the area.
The cache container was quite a surprise. Not what we were expecting.
Thanks for the puzzle and the cache.

Caching with frazeydaze today around the middle North Shore. On the list today were two newish caches, a couple of older puzzle caches and two previous dnf's that have been sitting on my map for ages.
This was the second of the two puzzle caches by EDQ whose caches live on thanks to his friends. Frazeydaze did the hard yards with solving the puzzle and also got her hands on the prize after I suggested where to look.

No issues with the puzzle, solved during the long winter nights, and now with long summer evenings it’s time to get out and about. The inhabitants of the cache weren’t too keen to see me, but I signed the dry log and departed before they could exact their revenge. Thanks Equipe des fous for the cache

How this hadn’t been muggled long ago. I do not know. I guess passers by would just think it was trash. Tftc tnln nice area. Shame about it being from a puzzle. Can’t remember where I got the answer from.

With three more of these puzzles solved, plus two DNFs confirmed to be in place, I headed out to look for 5 from this series today. This was the second on the list.

Just glancing at the cache description, I really had no idea where to begin. But once I finally sat down to make a serious attempt at this puzzle, the solution appeared pretty quickly.

The trail to GZ was a little muddy after this rain, but nothing too bad. Coordinates were spot on and the cache was quickly found. Seems like there are two log books in the container and I signed the new one – pages are dry and easy to write on and the log has plenty of space for many more cachers to sign. I’m guessing the previous cacher signed the old log.

Current series status: 5 found, 1 solved, 2 DNFs, #4 and #10 yet to be solved.
Thanks Chudles for keeping this great series alive.

Quick find with Deep_99 to keep the streak going. SL #4831 on streak day #3162. TFTC

Solved this one a week or so back. headed out here with Ris768 today to make a quick find. the log is dry at the moment but most of the pages are stuck together we managed to peal a couple of pages apart to sign the Log
Log 2698
SD 1522

Solved this last year (even watched the movie out of curiosity - pretty good!), and finally dragged the kids out on the track to retrieve it at the end of school holidays but must not have logged it - was a late Jan 2021 find. Thank you so much to those who are maintaining Equipe Des Fous’ brilliant caches - what a legacy!!! Have a couple more to track down; one more to solve.

After a very quick puzzle solve due to it being one of the standard paths to the solution, we headed to GZ and found the very rusty container not soon after. Thanks!

I am in the area for work this week, so I will take the opportunity to find some of the APU caches I have solved. I hadn’t solved this one when I did this section of the GNW so will add it to my travel path. An interesting cache container in a well protected spot. TFTC! GNW #5

TFTC from the Kayakviking.
Having solved most of this series during the recent quiet period - I needed a walk in the fresh air and decided to pick up a few.
I had seen this type of puzzle before so fortunately not too long to solve. A couple of spots to check at GZ but pretty obvious once I looked around
All good cheers KV

Having solved the series it was time to finally collect. Used geosenses and the cache was in hand in no time. Great container btw

Solved and found with [@coybear2000](http://coord.info/PR9547H). This one, along with a few of its mates, has been sitting in our solved-but-not-yet-found folder for some time. Today we were in the area with a bit of time to go for the find. We parked near the oval and headed to GZ. Even though it was smoky there were a few muggles using the park. Once at GZ we started searching and soon spotted the hide. We obtained the info, signed the log and replaced the cache. We walked back to the car and now there were more muggles around - maybe afternoon soccer? We then continued on our way to visit family. TFTC.

Was in the area with [@trodectus](http://coord.info/PR8JTE0) visiting family and decided to go for this puzzle that we had solved a little while ago. Parked at the oval and walked to GZ. After a bit of searching, had CIH. Log signed and returned. TFTC

A walk in Kosciusko National Park was planned many months ago for the first week of January, before the now infamous fires were but a spark. As Christmas came and went, and the fires grew worse, I was not aware that fires were also starting in Kosi National Park. A day before we were to fly out the park was closed for a few days due to nearby fires, so with the chance of still going, we headed to Sydney. We waited and waited for the warnings to clear, but sadly this was not to be, and in fact, it has gotten much worse and the closures continued. We were not going to Kosi . While this was an inconvenience for us, our thoughts are with those who have suffered so much worse than us in this devastating event.

We decided to stay around Sydney and Newcastle for the week, and salvage as much as we could of our holiday. We had some great walks, cliff faces, beaches, swims and rocky crags. It was a fantastic time all around. Thanks to all the CO’s for the work they have put into these caches.

Logs were signed as The Bromance for Seffnjarah. CrookedPete, JeznDez and myself to save room in the logbooks.

Over the the past few years, the Bromance (comprising CrookedPete, Seffnjarah, SwellerFungus and most recently JezNDez) have enjoyed road trips, bushwalking, overnight hikes, mountain climbing, kayaking and other adventures in search of some elusive caches. The first planned adventure for the brand new decade was a multi day hike in Kosciusko National Park bagging Australia's highest dozen peaks and all nearby caches.

Enroute to our adventure, Australia's bush fire crisis unfolded, and with the Kosciusko region on fire and closed, our plans gradually morphed to a caching road trip back to Queensland, collecting unusual and rarer caches along the way.

With solved coordinates in ou possession, we stopped to grab this one along the way. Then decided to grab most of the series whilst we were here

Some logs were signed with individual names or initials if log space was an issue, others with "Bromance". Our groups brand new "Bromance" stamp also got it's first use on some cache logs.

Thanks Equipe des fous

Pete

#5,334

My family and I travelled down from Brisbane to Vincentia and Canberra to spend the Christmas/New Year period with relatives. Yesterday my fellow geocaching team members from The Bromance (Swellerfungus, Crookedpete and JezNDez) arrived in Sydney to join me for a planned hike in Kosciusko National Park (ultimately cancelled due to closures by bush fires). The plan was to head to Canberra after collecting them from the airport but the smoke was so bad in Canberra that we decided to spend a few days caching in Sydney to see if conditions improved.

Because of the late change of plans we did not have an organised list of caches to find, instead we identified caches to target on the fly. This was one of the caches we managed to visit as I had solved the puzzle prior to the trip. Logbook signed with The Bromance team name. TFTC

Howdy from Dallas, Texas

We didn't have time to stop to read The War of the Worlds in the cache, too many caches to find, but thank you for placing it in the cache and for the amazing puzzle.

This trip was planned some time ago but we kept running into issues. So when a business trip to Asia came up I decided that an unconventional route and an extended stop-over were in order as opposed to waiting for the stars to align on a pleasure trip.

Our 2020 goals are to find all the year 2000 caches and complete 6 original FIZZY loops (loops with caches placed before April 6, 2007). No one in the world has done the latter. Only one person is at 4 loops, LISDOWNEY from Ontario, Canada. So, of course, Lane Cove and Geocache - Relocated topped the list this trip and one other south of Canberra that we found, that wasn't easy.

I had been to Australia once before for a honeymoon years ago but promptly headed off to the Hayman Islands to scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef, so I didn't get to take in many of the touristy things Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, and Wollongong has to offer. This trip we fixed that anemia. The aforementioned cities played as our hub cities each night and the launching pad for the next day. Sydney was the only city that there were two overnight stays. Sadly the first day after landing we had found all the target caches that we had for Sydney, so I fixed that staying longer in Wollongong and did some epic hikes.

I would also be remiss if I didn't mention that while in Sydney a sad record-breaking day occurred. When driving out of the city toward the outback a radio announcement said that that day was the worst day in Sydney's history for the smoke covering the area from all the wildfires. It was bad, I could really feel it in my lungs. But, just an hour west and it was a beautiful nice day.


Things learned about Australia while on this trip (I know COs in Australia don't care about this stuff but we have students that like to read our logs here in the States and some creepers that obsess about us - no joke we had an event while there and showed a group of Sydney cachers our trolls) :

- Birds are so different here, all kinds and Cockatoos were like our Krackle birds as noisy as heck and everywhere.
- Kangaroos are like our dear. Cool to watch, see and eat. Yes, eat. It was on the menu one night.
- The Average Aussie drinks 96 liters of beer per year
- Highway 1 is the longest national highway in the world
- There are more kangaroos than people
- The Drop Bear was created to scare tourists
- And they love Vegemite
- Melbourne has the largest Greek population outside of Greece
- There’s a mountain named “Mt. Disappointment”
- Australia’s dingo fence is longer than the Great Wall of China
- Some of the world’s deadliest animals live here
- Australia was inhabited for at least 50 000 years before the British came
- Australia has over 10 000 beaches
- It’s the 6th largest country in the world
- The Australian Alps receive more snow than Switzerland
- Home to the largest living structure on Earth – The Great Barrier Reef
- The Kangaroo is the national animal of Australia
- Home to a larger population of camels than Egypt
- Wombat poo is square/cube-shaped so they don’t roll away. This makes it easier for them to mark their territory.
- The name ‘Australia’ comes from the Latin word ‘australis’, meaning southern
- Total Population: 24,970,200.
- Capital: Canberra.
- Biggest City: Sydney.
- Highest Mountain: Mount Kosciuszko
- Land area: 7,692,024 km2.
- Biggest Lake: Lake Eyre (salt) and Lake Mackay (freshwater)
- Government: Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy
- Prime minister: Scott Morrison
- Currency: Australian dollar (AUD)
- Official language: English.
- National song: “Advance Australia Fair”
- Official website: www.australia.gov.au

I just got the $120 USD toll road bill for just two days caching in the Sydney area.

Previously logged under team account BoogieRogue. Re-logging with my individual account. #Find#: 2413#

Found on: 21 September 2019 12:11

Buddies: none

Muggles: none

Weather: sunny

Cache condition: good



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Found it finally.

**TFTC Equipe des fous TNLNSL**

Discover my trackables: 654EMY, GSVG86, TAKM0W, GM5KY0

#Find#: 2413#
Found on: 21 September 2019 12:11
Buddies: none
Muggles: none
Weather: sunny
Cache condition: good

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Found it finally.
**TFTC Equipe des fous TNLNSL**
Discover my trackables: 654EMY, GSVG86, TAKM0W, GM5KY0

Mrsmith00 suggested I should attempt this puzzle, and to my surprise I had no issues solving it.
This afternoon gave me an opportunity to head to the GZ for the find.
Tftc.

visited was on 2015 with ALL7, .... Changed my profit 63ROOS instead kamfindit..

See attach my log from my gsak records and run all series...
TFTC

We returned today with a replacement log book in a new zip lock plastic bag. The code for APU#10 was also added to the front of the new logbook. Happy caching everyone

Today we headed over to East Ryde to continue with our short walk and "park & grab" cache hunting, and to collect some solved puzzle caches. This was the 13th of 15 finds for the day.

The family's chief puzzle solver had been busy working on EDF's All Puzzled Up puzzle cache series and the ones that she had managed to solve were added to today's cache target list, and this was one of them. The puzzles had been quiet challenging and we were all pleased to be able to join in for today's physical cache container hunt.

Parked the geomobile and set off along the track, then off into the bush and up to GZ. Unfortunately we found the cache container laying wide open and covered in leaf litter. The only contents were the logbook and a paperback book, both of which were soaking wet. Looks to have been out there for quite some time, judging by the dark colour of the stewing leaf litter and the rust forming in the metal hinges, so was probably muggled shortly after the last logged find on 25th April 2018. Code for final is still readable at the front of the logbook and we managed to sign the wet paper.

Cleaned things up as best we could, but log will need replacing (unfortunately had none with us today) ensuring the code for the final is transferred, and then we placed it tucked up out of sight in the "natural" sheltered area at GZ.

Thanks go to Equipe des fous for the puzzle & cache, and also thanks to the other cachers who have provided cache maintenance on the APU caches following the sad loss of the CO.

Find #2654

We were in the area today completing the Catch 22 caches when I saw this puzzle in the map, I had a quick look and quickly worked out the coordinates thanks to some tips I have been learning from BeckNmonts I’m so glad to finally be learning something’s about puzzles TFTC Equipe des fous, I really enjoyed it!

LouLou solved this puzzle as we were eating lunch. She was very happy with herself, so we just had to set off and find it! We soon found the rather bright container. TFTC Equipe des fous

From Chudles: Switched the checker to the GeoCaching standard one. Thanks to Baktrak from double checking all the solutions!

Solved the puzzle and found the cache. tftc!

Clever and unique puzzle + nice hide location = awesome cache. Tftc

Quick solve back home in preparation for this unexpected trip across the ditch. Lovely walkway, fun to see all the lizards scampering off the path. Quick find though was cognisant there might be dropbears lurking. Cheers Equipe des fous

OCW Geodad EverestHigh and AlphaDeltaIndigo. TFTC Equipe des fous!!!

OCW MaxAdventurer and AlphaDeltaIndigo, finding a dozen EDF Puzzle caches in the Lane Cove Area, including the All Puzzled Up series. Great Puzzle Caches! Equipe des fous is sadly missed by the Sydney Geocaching community. I hope his caches remain active for as long as possible. (Please don't log 'needs maintenance' or 'needs archiving'!). TFTC EDF

Whoa this one took me a long time to work out. Abandoned it about a year ago and only picked it (and a few other APU caches) up again a few weeks ago knowing I was going to be passing this area a bit over May. A little more experience with unknown cache puzzles got me there fairly quickly this time and boy was I WAY off last time lol.

Needed a spot between Crows Nest and Granville to have lunch today and whaddya know the Navman takes me straight past Pittwater Road. Once around GZ I was having trouble with my i4GPS so I followed some geotrails and eventually spotted a rather loud container glistening in the light .

Thanks for bringing me to this lovely spot, EDF, and thanks too for another cool puzz! Cache in cood condish. Log perhaps a tad damp but ok.
#432

Found after reading recent logs as GPS had me down lower. TFTC.

Another one off the list!

This is only the second one in your great series that Bluewattle and I have done so was pleased to have been able to get out here before dark to find it. Loved the bright blue thing, certainly a big surprise and a favorite point from me for the puzzle. Thanks Equipe des fous and TFTC

Tiding up caches so I can remove them from the "waiting to find" file. Found with Snickersallan

I'd solved all nine in the APU Series quite a while ago - now it was time to actually find some of the caches at the confirmed coords. I decided to head out of the office in Epping during my lunch break to claim #1 & #2 and earn my third & final Mission Souvenir on offer from HQ. Enjoyed the short stroll to GZ after trying to access this one from a road that did not exist as shown on the map on my GC street view map on my iPhone from nearby #1. TNLNSL / TFTC

#6447 14:15
After solving the 9 All Puzzled Up caches, it was time to go out and find the caches and clues for the tenth cache from the series.

With these kind of puzzles, I do some standard checks to find clues, and one of those checks quickly revealed the answer! Today in the field, it was a short hike from the carpark, and a short uphill climb to find the large cache! Weary of crawlies, I used a stick to retrieve and place back the cache.

Thanks for the cache, EdF!

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I knew right away what I was doing in this one and unlike #1 understood why my answer was correct! Nice short walk this morning and an interesting container, haven't seen it's like used before! That will do for now, will save the other for another day! Cheers

We solved this puzzle at C62s C,C & C last week. This type is the most difficult thing I've come across.
I have no idea what movie people are talking about in their logs, obviously a genre that does not interest me. I also have another problem with the GPS when you enter co-ords so just followed the track keeping a look out for somewhere I'd hide a cache and went for that and there it was.
Definitely a different container to anything I've seen before.
SL, visited some TBS and returned to the geomobile before the rain.

TFTC # 1400 - glad to make this milestone one of your caches E de F.

We had solved this so many years ago we had forgotten when or why!!! Delighted when we found the cache so that probably our longest "solved - to be found" has been cleared of the books.
TFTC

No. 532

This puzzle was quickly solved by doing what I'm sure a lot of cachers do as a matter of course when confronted with something like this. A quick scan of the others in this series, and I can see that they won't be as simple!

Walked to GZ before work this morning, passing only one jogging muggle (a joggle?), and made the scramble to the cache. Got the clue of the final in the series, signed, and moved on. TFTC, I'm looking forward to the other 9!

#364
Having nutted out all of the series puzzles on a quiet evening a few weeks ago, this morning looked like an ideal day to go and find them.

Really enjoyed the stroll here. Had views of an office building where I worked half a life time ago. Found a few muggles exercising on the way but I was on my own at GZ. After fighting with some spider webs, I was surprised by a quick find and size of container. TFTC

I'm enjoying this series so much that I'm dipping in for a taste now and then to prolong the experience, so picked up 4 more today...2, 1, 5 and 4, along with some caching karma on a sunny Sydney afternoon.

Solved this some time ago. I really like the movie and enjoyed the walk to GZ, there were a few badly knocked about baseball's on the way. Was expecting some snakey substances but only a few skinks amidst the leaf litter on route to GZ. Quickly found, signed and returned. A bubbler in just the right spot on the way back to the car. Thanks EdF.

Solved this puzzle too

Great Puzzle Series! Thank you so much for the enjoyment, it was a lot of fun! TFTC

Beautiful park and a nice little hike! Lots of little lizards about that make lots of noise to scare you! Take a stick to GZ to scare off any critters- lots of hiding spots for them. Otherwise beautiful spot.

We have soved the Puzzle at home.
During our stay in Sydney wie took a beautiful Walk in the park and searched this Cache.
Thanks
Team sissifalke

After reading and re-reading this puzzle, I was a bit perplexed as to how to solve it. I did enjoy the movie however, and after a little bit of digging the solution was found!

Having solved this excellently diverse puzzle series quite some months ago, I finally mustered up the courage to venture out to the CO's stomping ground to actually find the caches and complete the puzzle series. I had plotted #1 through to #9 on a map to pick a mostly optimal route finding them, and this one was the third on my route.

After picking up #7 just up the road, I drove a little further, as close as I could to GZ and then parked and walked the rest of the way. I had to wait for a muggle jogger / walker to move on down the path so I could grab the cache without arousing suspicious, thankfully this one was an easy find. SL. TFTC Edf!

I forgot to collect a number from a previous hide, so parked close to that one, and enjoyed my walk to GZ, very peaceful. Looked here and there until I spied a cachers hides hole and was rewarded, thanks EDF

Second in series today. Found easily as it shone in its home. After completing signing the log I replaced and covered a bit better. Very damp contents.

Found easily as it was exposed to the light. Log signed. Sister replaced with more coverage.

Middle sister found it but very water logged

This has been the easiest puzzle and find for me with this series so far. On top of this its quite a pleasant walk to the GZ. Thanks

#390 - Garmin eTrex 30

This was the second of two finds for today. After finding 'No One Gets Out Of Here Alive, Now', I took advantage of being relatively close to this cache. I worked out the coordinates many months ago and found this was one of the easier puzzles. I had previously collected the rest of the APU caches (except this one and #6) in one day but the terrain rating for this one put me off until I could possibly locate it with someone. In the interim, a past finder said the terrain wasn't too difficult and having experienced a 3.5 terrain cache with a guide gave me some confidence. Today, I found parking in the parking lot near the sports fields and walked to GZ. The ground in some spots was water-logged so I was walking up and down across the grass to avoid sinking. I found the Great North Walk track and kept walking until the Garmin showed me where to turn up the hill. I surprised myself on how I handled the terrain up here and although the Garmin showed I was right on the cache, I couldn't find anything. I walked up a bit higher and found a spot large enough to hold a decent-sized cache and tucked just out of sight was the cache. This cache might need some maintenance as there is water inside however the log book is still able to be signed. SL. Completing this cache also marks off another D/T combo and fills in a missing day on the dates hidden calendar. TFTC.

After Events KamFindif and i drive around to find All Puzzled series then zoom to home... thank

Solves puzzle at home work age ago, finally make it go today after Event...
Enjoyed series with ALL7, good spot, sign in as no trouble... Thanks

#1634

Caching with jendid and alphadeltaindigo

Solved this puzzle quite quickly and the find was even easier. Tftc

Monkey business done by brainy pk1965 and intelligent AlphaDeltaIndigo. Drove them to the cache and left Adi down to watch the dog while PK and I made the find and signed the log. TFTC

#1006
18 April 2015 1:13 pm
Log is signed as ADI aka Alphadeltaindigo

Before PK's half a century bday tomorrow, we organized to go gc today. He decided what caches he would like to get and this was one of them.
Doggie and I waited down as I don't trust my feet today, while pk and Jen signed the log.
TFTC Equipe des fous

Geodad has watched the movie so he showed me how this one is solved.
I loved the cache container and the location.
TFTC.


We noticed that some of the puzzle caches we have solved have been archived, so we decided to pick up some of the puzzle caches that we have solved but haven't had the time to find.

Thanks! Found this one, grabbed the clue. Easy find

Solved the puzzles to this series about a month ago, but I tore my calf and was out of action for a while. It was feeling good enough to head out today, so I knocked over most of the series.

The puzzle was easy enough with a little bit of a web design background. The cache was interesting. It wasn't exactly camo'd

I was tempted to take that copy of War of the Worlds from the cache but I had nothing to replace it with. TFTC!

#5546 14:14
For our Australian Tour we selected to search this Cache.
We had a find at a nice Location and thanks to the owner for placing and maintaining this by
arbor95

Together with arbor95 I stay 3 weeks in Australia and planned a roundtrip. For this we looked for some interesting caches. These puzzle serie seemed to be nice to visit, and therfore we solved 9 of them in Germany before we leaved.

Today we looked for the caches at GZ. Some of them have been easy found and some not. But we get them all today. And finally we also get #10 solved and founded.

It was a nice day and we enjoyed the hunt.

Thank You for all the caches and for the the mysterys and for keeping them going.

Greetings to the owner.

First puzzle cache!!

good find

This had been on the "to do" list for a while now. The series was done previously but this one was unfound.

So why tonight? I was passing time. The CO had a night cache out and I was in the mood for some night caching! But there was still too much daylight for night caching.

I came down from the path above which I really liked so I went back the same way even though it wasn't the easiest way.

I pushed the cache back in a bit further to protect it a bit better.

I need to say again how much I liked this series and how much it taught me about puzzles. I owe you one, EdF.

Thanks Equipe des fous. The cache is in good shape. Took the smurf bros TB. Found at 7:11 pm.

cache find # 2024. We had solved this puzzle before we had left Brisbane. We are here in Sydney visiting family, and GZ was only 2 klms from where we were staying. We strolled to GZ, and made our way to the cache. mm unusual cache container. Found the clue for another puzzle, so will keep that for another visit. Left Tb. TFTC.

Needed a bit of help to solve the puzzle as hadn't come across this type before, very cool. Come here every week for baseball and didn't know this track existed. Thank you for bringing us here!

This entry was edited by leemsue on Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 02:40:32 UTC.

Found at 1:50pm.

My first find for the All Puzzled Up caches!! And it feels good.

Although this one seemed easy to me, it still gave me a lot of satisfaction when I eventually found that container. I'm not very fluent in the language of puzzle-caches but there is the odd one that I grasp fairly easily and enjoy accordingly.

On my approach to GZ, I sensed that the terrain was going to be difficult but in the end it wasn't so bad. Plenty of lizards around but nothing too frightening. I found where I needed to be once on the path and went in for the kill. Came up with the goods within a couple of minutes after allowing the GPS to settle. A nice container, not exactly subtle but not too obvious either in the camo.

I made note of the clue for APU# 10 just in case I do end up getting through all of them. I suppose sooner or later this will be the case, it's just a matter of time.

Looking forward to working on the other puzzles in this series and hopefully I won't need to tear my hair out while doing so.

SL - TFTC Equipe des fous

Quick find and nice puzzle TFTC

0614 and I'm rummaging in the bush.
No pen in the case but dry. Remembered my clue. Looks like a cracking sunrise coming shortly.

This was solved a while ago, but now I had all nine solved it was time to find the clues for number 10.
A nice walk along the track as the sunlight was running out. The cache was easily found in a spot that was not covered well, an unusual container.
One more to find to complete the set.
Thanks for the challenge.

Fourth cache knocked off the list today with Heathcote & Co.

A bit of a wild scramble as the GPS arrow refused to budge while we wandered back and forth, but eventually Heathcote came up with the goods.

Stayed at Skyejam place for weekend... the weather was lovely... Have been homework with advice from the owner... real big appreciation for his time... I am real enjoyed the puzzle - something new and never stop to learn (what my mum always said "Never too late to learn" ) It was good fun search, found and signed the log. Thanks Equipe des fous. Fav from me....

Lots of kiddies and teenagers played the soccer competitions on the 2 fields, Everlasting and I were strolling along the walk track until we stopped here and she found it in a few minutes. TFTH

At last we begin the final assault on the APU series. These puzzles have been carried around in notebooks, back pockets and bottoms of backpacks for well over a year and been on several overseas trips. When all nine finally had a result that agreed with eVince, it was a joyous occasion. And that was back in February! So today we undertook a few that were geographically co-located.

I learned about how to solve this puzzle from a Geocaching website that had lots of hints about puzzle solving. I haven't found a way to solve it on the iPad though. Finding the geocache brought us on a nice walk to find a unique container. SL TFTC Cheers... Gaztek

652 (240) Very glad to find this one after logging a DNF last year. It was there this time. You little beauty. I had seen the movie so I knew what to do straight away. Tks EDF!

Found, full log to follow.

Picked up a few of these before our cruise. Tftc!

Great puzzle and nice location for the cache. We liked the container. SL&R.

This entry was edited by Caliazuljewel on Saturday, 15 February 2014 at 00:43:40 UTC.

Found with CJ this afternoon whilst on a cache raid seeking to find puzzle caches.

This one has been on the radar for at least 12 months, but I've been avoiding some of the puzzles because of the complexity, which can be quite challenging.

It was worth it when we found this one. Such an unusal container. No chances of any muggles at the GZ here, which was great. It wasn't too hard to find once we solved and found the coords. I was a finding navigation a little tricky with an iPhone today. We usually use a GPRs but it has gone into Garmin for a service after getting all scracthed up with some climbing in the Budawangs recently.

Anyway, we soon had the cache in hand, found the clue to EPU # 10. We signed the log and replaced the cache.

It was a satisfying find and a great day to chase down more caches. Thanks Equipe des fous for your cache. SL TNLN TFTC

Certainly on of the easier puzzles in this series but still very sneaky

I decided to tackle all the finds for APU1-APU2 today so I hopped on the bike, packed a picnic and got started.

Loved the location and GZ itself was even better, awesome hiding spot!

#370 (5 of 11 today)

Out for a second time today - looking for 8 different cache types...

After a little help, worked out this one, so today I just needed to find it.
Arrived at the park, and there were baseballers practicing/playing. Found the path and walked to GZ.

Looked at the area the iPhone was pointing to, and asked myself where I would hide it. Walked there and had CIH. That easy in the end.

Grabbed the Pure. Color Geocoin to take to THE WAYFARER EVENTS #9 - SYDNEY event.

SLLN
TFTC

This entry was edited by Gatherer Hade on Saturday, 01 February 2014 at 22:45:55 UTC.

New container in place. Unconventional container - please report condition if it deteriorates. TB included.

Cache check - gone! Back soon. Thanks tyreless for the heads up.

I have been on both sides of this debate. As a finder who DNF'ed and then the CO replies "it's still there, just where I hid it" and as a hider who says "try again, it hasn't moved".

So, on the flip-side, thank heavens it's gone. This time I am not the person who tried but couldn't find it when it was still there.

But, CO to CO, what a pain, it's gone. Now you have to replace it and hope the destroyer isn't a serial muggle.

I'll return some day to find it because it is an awsome hiding spot.

Cut myself at GZ when I tripped in the tricky terrain. Had a good long search but cam up empty handed. After 25 minutes I decided to head back out and up to the main road. Enjoyed the puzzle, though.