Love 'em or hate 'em? Mandurah, Western Australia, Australia
By Mistraluna on 15-Feb-12. Waypoint GC3CNBB

One or more of the following has occurred:

No response from the cache owner.
No cache to find or log to sign.
It has been more than 28 days since the last owner note.

As a result I am archiving this cache to keep from continually showing up in search lists and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.

Should you like to resurrect the cache please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

From http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=70

4.23. Unarchiving a Geocache

The archiving of a geocache is intended to be a permanent status. That is why only community volunteer reviewers and Geocaching HQ staff have the capability to unarchive it. This is done only in rare circumstances and only if it meets the current Geocache Listing Guidelines.

If a geocache is archived by a reviewer or staff for lack of maintenance it will not be unarchived.

Will be finding viable alternative final gz and adjusting the listing to suit in the next few days.

Disabling this one pending visit to confirm it's viability.

14:29
A couple of Victorians caching in WA for the first time - not such a great start, our fourth DNF!

HP loves 'em, so researched back in the east - we worked the puzzles, made the adjustment, confirmed the check sum! We looked high, we looked low, we looked in, we looked out, but today there was no way we could work this one out!

Perhaps it's time for the CO to do one of those 'regular' maintenance checks, as the last 'Find' log was back in Aug 2015 and there's only been DNF's (3) since then!

Thanks for the hunt Mistraluna - great location

As it has been some time since this cache has been found, perhaps it's time for the CO to check?

This is the 1st of 2 caches we didn't find today. [:(!]

We spent quite some time here at around 10:29:00 AM, but we just couldn't locate your cache. It's either a very clever hide or we are suffering from "cache blindness", so here's a DNF from us - - - not stating it's not there... just that we couldn't spot it.

Ian and Penny

Got rather dirty trying to get this, but no luck

Enjoyed some speed-sudoku at the Oceanic and got a very sensible GZ but despite a good search came away empty handed. Will watch for future logs.

That's a lot of sudoku for a single smiley.

After not finding sudoku #2, I was glad to get a find on this one. Place wasn't muggle free but no one seemed to notice our search. Careful systematic stealthing enabled our find.
TFTC Mistraluna.

Solved puzzles now to find it. Hope the 'did not finds' arent a bad omen...

Been here for 4 days now and staying 100 metres away, have attempted at least a dozen times but either get disturbed or a thousand muggles within 2 metres.
Times like this one needs to borrow children for an hour or so.
Be a piece of cake then.
Great effort in putting this one together, quite a while since it was found, hope it is still there.
This morning the weather was quite difficult, high winds and rain and there were still people around at 7am when I attempted.
I wish the next cacher a muggle free environment.

Played pirate for a while much to amusement of passersby but could not find cache...

we started caching with our family under the name clan-wallace but now it is time to have our own identity, hence embarking on a marathon re logging exercise.

My goodness you have to pick the right time to get this one. This was our fourth attempt. It is not actually that hard & a good hide when you have a muggle free period & time to look. Weekends are definitely out because the children love the place. Very early in the morning it is full of joggers & a little later dog walkers. Today we went, mid week, mid day - too hot for any one except mad dogs & Englishmen! Perfect timing, GOTYA!TFTC Mistraluna

Cache replaced - hopefully it stays there.

Please use STEALTH when looking for this one so as to ensure it's longevity.

Checked on this one - gone!! One of several that have mysteriously disappeared lately. Am trying not to become paranoid, but it does seem strange. Will replace asap. Sorry to those who coudn't find it...

In the area for work. I calculated the GZ for this yesterday. After a quick visit to the GZ I abandoned the mission due to muggles. I made one last attempt this morning before heading to the airport. No muggles but also no cache container in my hand. Bit of a bummer after figuring out all of the puzzles. Hopefully I can make the find if I am ever back in the area. Thanks Mistraluna.

I confess - I hate Sudokus and YES: I solved this riddle with help of Dr. Google. This surely was bad Karma that's why I was not able to find the box.
Cool hideout anyway

Once again, our timing was off, just settled in for a search when we were joined by some delightful muggle toddlers all set to sail the oceans. Played with them for a while but gave up on our primary quest.....for today.

On a trip to Perth to take my daughters dog to the airport so he could fly up to her. Left home over 4hrs before I had to be there so I could get a bit of caching in first since it was months ago when I solved this puzzle
The smileys didn't really help with the tears that were flowing as I was going to miss the dog

YAY finally got this one after having very easily solved it last year. Have been here a few times over the last six months or more but always heaps of muggles

After checking in to the lovely accommodation at Mandurah Ocean Marina Chalets and being given an upgrade to a spa chalet I set about to getting this cache. Again some muggles around but since I was staying locally I could out wait them which is what I did.

Finally free to grab the cache which only took a minute thanks to FFC the other night before I left home

TFTC

My seventh and last puzzle cache found today. Now need the time to find the other 100+ solved ones

The puzzle was the easy part... After 45 minutes of crawling around in sand I resorted to paf!! With direction the cache was soon found and I was able to walk away with underwear full of sand!! Tftc!!

Took awhile to find nice hide TFTC

Tftc

TFTC WAS getting a bit sea sick

TFTC

Out and about in Mandurah today with the geo-family.
A wander down here and an opportunity to find a couple of caches.

I had solved this some time ago and noticed the final wasn't far from where we parked.
Sent the Geokids in for the hunt (they make great cover) but it was me who made the find.

TFT Mistraluna

Aaaaarrrrggggg.... I might have loved the rest of the series, but this one tested my patience a little too much... I had the place to myself with the exception of a few walking muggles who all gave me the obligatory "what is he doing" glance as the passed by. So, I got stuck into the hunt and scratched around all the wrong places... No cache... Hmmm.

I circumnavigated GZ and after 15 minutes, still had nothing to show for my efforts. Right, time to think about this practically. Where would I put a container... [?] With that, I changed my approach slightly and after another 5 minutes or so, I put my hand on the prize... Hallelujah I thought, finally... [^]

Business sorted, I tucked the cache back and headed off mumbling all sorts of things in the CO's direction... This one was a little bit nasty...

Cheers Mistraluna.

Too many muggles today . Will come back another time.

After completing the 6 puzzles, we came up with a new set of co-ords. Arrived at GZ to find muggle city!
Every time we came for a look, there were more muggles than ants.
Tonight, being quite cool & windy, we came for another look.
With sufficient time to grovel in the sand, the cache was eventually found.
Thanks for the cache, Mistraluna.

After playing in the sand I found it! Dropped off a trackable too!

After coming here we had to leave and come back as there was kids playing on thw structure. .. also had to paf but witj the info that was given we quickly found tje cache TFTC

Another puzzle the geohubby solved....We started looking and had to leave as children strarted playing on the structure so after doing another cache we returned for another look. what seemed like ages of crawling in the sand and searching the object more and more muggles seemed to be turning up. Resorted to PAF and then had the cache within a minute in a place im sure we searched haha TFTC Mistraluna

My 1000th find !!!

Found with my 2 bestest Geocaching buddies, Moonlightz and Ebony(GeoDog)

Nice and dark night, after laying on the sand for most of the time here i finally found the cache !!

1000 down, another 100000 to go !!

I had solved this one quite some time ago, but never got round to doing it. wot and I came by under the cover of darkness to find this one. It took quite a search in between people walking by every now and then, and just as we were about to call it quits - wot finally discovered the elusive cache! This was also his 1000th find, so that made the find even sweeter
TFTH.

Ahoy there. Spent a lazy Saturday morning solving the puzzles, teaching my boys in the process. Road out to the GZ and had the best look we can, whilst surrounded by muggles. No joy for us this time.

I hate solving puzzle caches and then not finding them. But I looked on Easter Sunday, when I though people would be at home with their families like they do where I'm from. I was wrong. Being as the area was full of kids and in a play area, I didn't look to hard.

I was lucky to have the help of young Dylan and Tylor today to help us search for this cache. A very high muggle area ! Searched and searched, eventually Jasenjanine found the prize SL and we carefully returned it to its hiding spot. Thanks for the Sodoku and the cache Mistraluna

I completed these puzzles sometime ago now, but have not been in the area since it was put back on line... Luna Maya was looking for some kids to take to the park as cover, luckily I had a couple for her to borrow It was then decided I may aswell go too

The area was very busy, but we were able to have a good search over most of the structure. Even the little ones had a look - so cute watching little Master 1 with his head under the ramp [:X] Sadly we were not having much luck when the CO came to our rescue Once the coast was clear I had the prize in my hands... I had looked in that area, but it was not an area that we had concentrated on due to the muggle mayhem going on closeby

Whilst I was retreiving the cache, Dylan found the shower and gave poor little Tyler a drenching! Luna Maya came to his rescue from the evil traits of his older brother, thanks Sue [^] And thanks Mistraluna for another Puzzle Cache

Was looking for the wheelchair accessible beach and thought that would be a great place for a cache pity hand in to check it out and viola so o searched the location and found this so logged it tftc

Didn't find it because I thought might search after work on Australia day ! Silly me, so many muggles. Will be back

At long last, this one is back up and running. Same puzzles, but different gz, so you need to read the listing again to get your final coords.

Would love to have a go at this Sudoku and cache if you are able to re-enable the cache, no hurry ...

Over from Melbourne fror a week, did all the sums only to be pipped at the post. Had parked the car nearby and left the grandchildren with Mr X while I checked out GZ. Thought had it in a very popular plant container in the east but nothing to be found. Bummer, we are off on Friday..
Sudoku's are not my thing but my daughter loves them. Your final one has got her really going.
Thanks Mistraluna

This entry was edited by xambo4u on Wednesday, 14 November 2012 at 12:51:46 UTC.

Another one has gone to cache heaven. Seems to be a spate of them disappearing around here at the moment... Will try to get another one back in its place soon.

Gotcha !!! Puzzle solved by Mrs Temingi. TFTC

Had some spare time today and so made the trip to Mandurah. While having tea nearby Daz and Mr CDM261 made light work of the puzzles, love 'em. Having finished the meal we made our way to GZ and hand the cache in hand within a minute. TFTP and C!

Mr dazndky and I started working on the puzzles then went for some tea, after a quick break to find a multi cache nearby.
Over tea we finished solving the puzzles on paper towels. Must have looked strange for the other patrons, but we were having fun and good food as well.
After finishing the food and the puzzles we headed of to find the cache.
A quick find was made by mr dazndky while I did security detail.
Nice hide.
TNLNSL
TFTC

Happy to log this but what a very, very,very,very busy place!

TFTC. Mistraluna.

found @ 17:35 with mum and dad (ross47)

I enjoy sudoku, so getting to do these for a cache was great.
Was able to do all the puzzles myself.
At GZ we had a short search before Dad found it.

TFTC

Found @ 17:35 in the company of the geowife and emeraldflame after a short search. Emeraldflame is our sudoku master so the hard work was done by her. What a great hide!

Thanks to Mistraluna for the cache.

Nice Camo.
We soon had this cache in hand,
Thanks Mistaluna

Luckily I knew not to search right in the garden bed, because that was where my GPSr was taking me. Cute hide - thanks!

Found yesterday after the WWFM event with duncdonut73. We were provided the coordinates by a fellow cacher, but I didn't want to log the find until I had solved the puzzle. I finally got the chance this afternoon to attempt the puzzle, and thankfully my sudoku skills weren't too rusty. TFTC

I concur with Richlink re the Sudokus. These ones were enjoyable, not frustrating.

About the ice creams. They were a cover story to why we were loitering about. Kids have it all worked out. They eat ice creams. I search.
Met a lovely group of cachers including a young 'un that could charm your socks off.

Great camo. Would have been a sight seeing Mistraluna place this one. TFTC.

With a bit of forethought, we could have eaten icecreams in this little park too! Found with strangers! Tftc!

Well I don't actually mind them. But after the sixth sudoku last night I got a bit tired of them. Found with friends and strangers after the event today. TFTC!

Was heading down to Mandurah for the Flash Mob so I decide to solve a couple of local puzzles last night. Grabbed before the FM with The Machman. SL TFTC

You just gotta luv Sudoku !!!

Grabbed before the Flash Mob with Snoseeker.

Great little hide as well.

TFTC.

Sort of feel bad about this....no I don't.
Found with a group after the WWFM event.
TFTC

Thanks felix for the hint and also Mistraluna for the puzzle that we never got round to. Only found because someone in our group had the coords.

Quick find before the event. Actually it was already found when we arrived. Great little cache. Of course we solved the puzzles manually! Very relaxing to do while watching tv.

Not really a fan of just being given given coordinates without a good go at solving a puzzle (sometimes it takes years) but I knew I'd be able to solve this one easily, and it was only a few minutes from the event. So I've spent the last half hour power solving this so that I can log this and then other caches I did today. An easy find at GZ and just as we were leaving, Felix and Everlasting showed up. TFTC and the sudoku strains after midnight with more than a glass of port to soothe my brain cells.

Found this after the WWFM IX event with a bunch of fellow cachers.
I don't like logging puzzles I haven't solved myself so this morning after a number of mugs of mocca I solved this one. Unfortunately I don't have a mathematical brain so an online solver was used, it is the only way to solve these for the not so lucky ones like me.

TFTH

Love 'em or hate 'em .... we love 'em, another batch of sudoku to solve. Found just before the event. Saved the Fairway Drivers looking for it but had it back in place before The Machman and Sno Seeker rolled up. Very nice hide as well. Thanks for the cache Mistraluna.

found with fellow cachers after the event. TFTH

Much better luck this time, when the correct coordinates are plugged into the machine! [B)]
And the area was thankfully muggle free while I discovered a great new hidey hole.
There is quite a bit of damage to the garden area close by GZ. Hopefully it is not caused by cachers, but please be aware that there is absolutely no need to step foot onto any part of the garden to find the cache.
Thanks for the puzzle and the great cache Mistraluna.

We found it quickly enough but due to high Muggle traffic it was very hard to retrieve. TFTH.

Sob, sob!

Good thing the wife is on to these ones and this was added to the hit list.
On to GZ by foot after another nearby puzzle and spotted the one that was different.

Waited for the father/son muggle duo who seemed to not remember where they had parked their vehicle to disappear before I grabbed the cache.

TFTC and Puzzle

MCFonz

Today in the area to tackle caches with MCFONZ (visiting from Albany) this was on the very long list for the day.

Yep Love 'em. Finally a puzzle I didn't need to think about let alone spend much time on.

Walked over from a nearby cache to make a relatively quick find, by MCFONZ, after trying to mislead me elsewhere!

TFTC Mistraluna

Having solved the puzzle a while ago, I took the opportunity this morning to pick up this series after dropping the youngest son at work.

Parked in the large near by car park and wandered to the calculated position. The search was cut short by some puppy walking muggles, but luckily that wandered off and I spotted the likely item. Luck was with me, I soon had the cache in hand. I stepped back, just as muggles approached from all directions. Using the nearby seat as a likely resting place, I signed the log, and waited the muggles out. Returned the cache and wandered back to the car please with my quick achievement


Thanks Mistraluna for the puzzle and the cache.

It was a beautiful day in Mandurah today and we decided to walk to the foreshore and do a couple of Mistraluna's caches including this one. We eventually got home about 5 hours later having walked the full length of the Art Walk cache and diverted to a couple of others, as well as had lunch and a coffee.
We had solved this a few weeks ago while we were over east so it was great to have to chance to pick it up. Mrs K quickly spotted the likely hide but we had to bide our time as there were lots of muggles today as it was such a nice day. Eventually retrieved and signed the log and replaced it.
Thanks Mistraluna for the cache, we liked the hide and how it had been secured. [^]

Found after a short hunt
TFTC

Mr allys angels was happy when we saw this one published as he was on nights and couldn't take any electronics into work at the time...so yah sudoku puzzles to solve on his tea break. He loves them! Cache was found quickly. Thanks for keeping him entertained on a night shift.

Love 'em when it all goes right but hate 'em when they are frustratingly complex (often feel this way with Zodiac's puzzles!)This set of puzzles took me arund one hour to work out so very happy to come up with the correct finals.
Loved the camo at gz - well done.

(catch up log as part of chwiliwr team)

Chwiliwr solved the puzzles without problems and then we went for a drive. Arrived at GZ to find some muggles near GZ and waited for a while but when they didn't appear to be shifting anytime soon went for another cache and came back. Saw that Everlasting had arrived when Chwiliwr got back and headed for GZ but found he had a different GZ to the first time so found the cache only after relocating a bit.

Thanks Mistraluna for the puzzles and cache.

[red]Hooray make it for STF[/red] It was great to meet chwiliwr again, Loved your create camo. Good idea... Signed the log. Thanks Mistraluna.

Solved the puzzles without problems and then went for a drive. Arrived at GZ to find some muggles near GZ and waited for a while but when they didn't appear to be shifting anytime soon went for another cache and came back. Saw that Everlasting had arrived when I got back and headed for GZ but found I had a different GZ to the first time so found the cache only after relocating a bit.

Thanks Mistraluna for the puzzles and cache.

Published

Love 'em, love 'em, love 'em

I was on my way to Ravenswood this afternoon when I got the alert that this cache had been published. I sneakily had a look while driving which I know I should not have done. I saw that it was a sudoku puzzle and was excited as I love 'em. I have three different apps on the iPhone for sudokus as well as different links on the three computers that I regularly use to complete online puzzles as well. I didn't have the one that you have suggested though, so thankyou for that!!!

So I arrived at my destination and quickly transposed the first puzzle to a piece of paper and solved it. I wondered how to get the answers that I needed when I scrolled down on the phone and saw that I needed to do more puzzles. Getting onto the father-in-law's laptop I printed them out and did enough to get the number for the green square on each of them.

A quick checksum showed I had something that fitted, although I was a little confused about the way it was worded. I decided to go with what I had and headed into town. Geez the speed limits seem so slow when you are chasing a chance at being first, don't they?

I parked close by and walked into the nice little area. Sitting on the bench I waited for some muggles to pass and then headed to where the GPSr said I should be. It was saying to head into the gardens about 9m, but after checking the hint I looked further afield. I decided to check something and there was the cache.

Opening the log I was happy to see that I was *FTF* at 1505. I then had a bit of time trying to get the cache back together, not sure how it is supposed to all fit, but it seems to work!

Thanks for the cache Mistraluna, and thankyou very much for telling me about a new site to check out!!

Cheers

P.S. - LOVE 'EM!!!!!!!