4.6 KB Scarborough, Queensland, Australia
By agap2 on 19-Apr-14. Waypoint GC3ZP88

After staring at this for a bit on the boat at the marina i had an idea and then started working it. And after using a few tools online I came up with the solution. Biked over to the GZ and found it, but the log is soaked. So picture is attached. If we're in the area again and have some more paper I'll drop it in there.

bsharwood did all the work on this one but I found it with him. Unfortunately the log was wet when we found the cache.

Pine Rivers Day 2We are now camped at the Lawton Showgrounds for a few days.Started our morning with breakfast at IkeaOur plan for today was to head to Redcliffe a few ALs, some witch's hats & the Bee Gees Virtual.Not used to city traffic, so it's a bit hectic for us.The scenery is really spectacular as you drive around the coastline.The log book is just mush it will need to be checked by the COThanks agap2 for hiding this cache.

First cache for the day. Headed to the peninsula for a bit of caching on a day off. Solved the puzzle during the week. I really enjoyed the process, very clever. We ended up parking about 100m away and on approach we suspected a likely host. Two times around the mulberry bush and i spied a likely hiding spot. Scratched around in the leaf matter and there was the container. Unfortunately the container was ful of water and so was the inner plastic protector. i emptied these out and retuned to its spot. Since the wife was driving today in her car, my usual spares were not with me. Thanks very much irrespective agap2. Enjoyed the challenge and the outing. Cheers

This puzzle, while not particularly difficult, took me a little work to extract the co-ordinates. But I sorted it eventually and today we headed over to add our name to the logbook. It's been a while since it was found so I needed to use a stick to uncover it since I wasn't in the mood to go poking my fingers into everything today Thanks for find #5170TNLN

A friend was having a surprise milestone birthday party and a trip to Brisbane was required to attend.

After accidentally (on purpose), booking my flights a few days earlier, it was time to do some pre party caching around town.

Following my 4am wake-up to catch a 6am flight, the plan was to head north to find some challenges and other targeted caches.

I spotted this cache while traveling around and decided to pull over and see if I could solve it roadside. Fortunately I didn’t have to do this manually. With the coords in hand it didn’t take long to make the find.

Thanks agap2 for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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We enjoyed this puzzle, tho’ it did take us a long while to work it out.
Your cache was found in good condition.
Thank you.

Found today after the event time.

Tftc

Georode

Couldn't remember if l had found this one and signed it or not. Was in the area today so l popped in and signed it and will log it so l know that l have done it. Thank you for the fun

Seeking a place date & a local cache such as this one fits the bill. I did arrive after dark and was great to have very few muggles about. Easy find.

I had this puzzle solved a while ago and noticed the last log was a dnf. I messaged the CO suggesting I could replace the container but did not hear back from him. Today I put a new container at GZ and signed the log. I hope that is ok with the CO. Thanks agap2 for the puzzle and showing me the lovely view nearby.

Sadly Dnf here

Needed a lot of help with this puzzle, fortunately the find at GZ was much easier. TFTC agap2

Love the puzzle.
And love the view

We need a quick 8 before our 3000 this was one of them.

This afternoon, a trip was made to the Redcliffe Peninsula to Newport and Scarborough to grab a few geocaches, including a newly published cache. A nice was had around Scarborough Park just prior to a heavy rain downpour, and it was then time to make the drive home, stopping at a couple of last geocaches at North Lakes.

An interesting puzzle that I had solved some time ago.
Today whilst I was in the area, I pulled up close to GZ, and then once I got to the right tree, the cache was a quick find in its hinted location. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks agap2 for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

On the hunt this afternoon for a few caches below sea level for a nearby challenge cache. Found in good condition

Found it
Beautiful view

After this morning’s Australia day event, I mentioned I was heading off to do a few caches in the area and clean up was I had left behind. Our assault on these caches today was Esmiley, Willis007, Bella (geopup) Charli and I. We stopped at a trail of caches, some were previous finds and some were new finds. It was a fun day in the rain and with some big laughs as always with Willis007and Esmiley.

We all had this one as a solved so it was a stop here to grab today. With the amount of people in the area, I was not sure if we would be able to get to GZ. I found a way in that was undetectable and began a search. Moving a couple of strategic pieces and the cache was soon revealed, it was well hidden. With log signed and cache replaced as found, we were then onto the next one on the list. Thanks for placing it here.

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D 2.5 T 1.5 Micro Mystery Cache

Caching with willis007 (with Bella), Chamad (with Charli) after simber15's Australia Day event in the area. We had heaps of fun and lots of belly laughs!

Thanks for the cache and taking us here agap2. This has been in my solved file for awhile. Chamad found the cache.

Relogging found caches under the name Bonkersandshush to my other accountGAZKERSH.Thanks.After solving the puzzle possibly the long way we had a set of coords and felt confident we had the right spot.Searched all around but no cache to be found then as we were going to leave we found the log sheet on the ground and its container nearby.Replaced cache to where coords pointed and so it fits with the hint.Thanks for the puzzle and the cache

After solving the puzzle possibly the long way we had a set of coords and felt confident we had the right spot.
Searched all around but no cache to be found then as we were going to leave we found the log sheet on the ground and it’s container nearby.
Replaced cache to where coords pointed and so it fits with the hint.
Thanks for the puzzle and the cache

After a bit of this... and a bit that... I was surprised when I ended up with a solution... that almost never happens... today while in the area I thought I’d look for the cache...

The log was a little damp so I dried it out and added a snap lock bag... tftc... a very satisfying puzzle to solve...

After solving this a little while ago, I decided to tackle a couple of adventure labs and grabbed this while I was in the area.
Cache was quickly spotted, log signed and cache replaced as found.
Thanks agap2 for the cache.

Escaped the wind and came here.
The area around GZ empty, and it was a quick find.
Solving this cache was fun, always appreciate it when I can use excel to solve a puzzle.

Thank you agap2 for this one
R

Watawieh from Norfolk Island South Pacific.
This has been sitting on my solved list for quite a long time. This afternoon Mrs e3 decided she wanted to explore Redcliffe. I parked on Endeavour Esplanade and found the cache in Endeavour Park. How appropriate is that.

Out with grannysmith1947, Snickersallan, RoddyC to complete the geoart we started some months ago. Now with the balance solved it was time to go out and complete them As well as the caches released since our visit.

Solved this year's ago so today was the day.

TFTC agap2

On a clear day out caching with hatzofff, RoddyC and grannysmith1947.
Have been meaning to come up to this nice part of the world to find this one for quite some time.
Nice hide and a quick find for us today.

TFTC agap2
Found October 30, 2020

Was quite a straightforward puzzle to solve (thankfully) and had done so months ago. I took the geomonsters over to Scarborough today as they needed to burn off some energy, so this was a quick find on the way.

And the last Ancient Wonder I needed for the World Explorer souvenir.

Thanks!!

#2685

Solved this one a while back.Nice quick find at GZ . TFTC,

Found with Goldielover and Ms Maddy today. I was lucky enough to be invited along for the days caching, While I never solved all these cache puzzles I still loved finding them with someone who did. Lots of muggles around but no one takes any notice what we were up to.

TFTC

A purrfectly sunny day for a few geocachers and a couple of happy dogs to hunt for witch’s hats Goldielover and I have been here previously and it seems this cache is long gone. During the week I messaged the CO without success

So, as this puzzle deserves to live on, Stairman1 parked here and I scooted over to GZ with a replacement cache and logbook Hope that’s OK with you, Bruce

TFTC agap2 Fun, yet torturous puzzle

many sets of eyes and nothing for us.

Out with geo friends during our search of the Witches geoart series today and thought we'd look for this one before we left to go back home.
Five sets of eyes searching but all of us came up empty handed.

Thanks for the good hide agap2

DNF July 12, 2020

We searched thoroughly but no cigar

Look at all these 1s and 0s I’m glad I had the perfect tool to sort this one out as it would have been a little much by hand I really enjoyed solving this puzzle and the GZ was a lovely spot for the geodogs and kid to hang out while we made the find TFTC

We solved this puzzle back in the days when we lived in Canberra, in the hope that one day we would be here to find it. I think at the time I did not realise we would be moving to Brisbane, and the move was made in 2017.
It has taken us this long however to get out to Scarborough and find a few of the Geocaches here.
What a beautiful location and there seem to be views wherever we drive.
Thanks agap2
Domsky 

Cache a day to keep the doctor away, or is it to keep me sane. No it’s to keep my streak alive. agap2 TFTC *537* streak. *3210* Finds

team b are spending the morning wondering around the canals

a quick detour
woops barb has not fixed her mistake with the co-ords
lucky she remembers where

Another one that was solved a long time ago.
Quick find while in the area.

I’ve looked at this puzzle a number of times in the past, but I have no idea how to solve these yet alone most puzzles, me and puzzles don’t get along so I tend to stay clear of them, but something made me think I could jetski this one. So I went to the location which looked obvious from previous log photos and found the cache in the first place I looked. Bingo!

Unfortunately it’s a cold, miserable wet day, but that won’t stop me from heading out to grab a cache.

Find #951 - TFTC

Out and about on a Redcliffe Wednesday Covid Cycling Ride ( aka doing my permitted exercise).

Last night I noticed a puzzle which appeared to be near my planned route and set about attempting to solve it with no success. I did however note several photographs which allowed me to narrow down the general area this cache would be hidden in

Cycling along very close to GZ I started looking for the tell-tale signs and bingo. No evidence of any Ukrainian Levkoy in this area. JetSki while riding past. Had to be one here and I was right.

Well that was easy if you look hard you might even see it yourself.

Thanks, love a good bike cache

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TFTC smile 6318 out and about with Brislions Selva Girls and miss Millie geo dog



Thank you, agap2, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Knew I was coming to visit mum so looked at this puzzle. I tried this and that getting nowhere. Got a nudge and realised I needed to keep going. It wasn’t that easy. After a bit more work some favourable coords appeared. Quick find at GZ. TFTC agap2

I am on holidays and can't go anywhere due to covid . I am only going grocery shopping and 1 bike ride a day. I am using hand sanitizer before and after touching the cache just to be safe . This was hard puzzle to solve but got there in the end. At gz I found the cache but no log book inside so I put one in and then went to enjoy the view. Thankyou for placing this cache here for us to enjoy and the fun puzzle

New cache in place

With son at Fishing and Camping show I set about getting a few caches. This was an easy find when I arrived at GZ as it was lying on the ground so after I signed the log I put it back somewhere near GZ as I didn't know exactly where it should be. TFTC

It is the start of a New Year and also an opportunity to get the first souvenir for 2020. Billy the Geopooch needed a walk and so did we, so we decided to go look for a couple of caches close to the water to get a nice sea breeze. Billy loved his walk, especially as he got to go paddle in the water while I searched for the caches.

This was our target cache for the day and we initially had to walk past it because muggles decided to park their car near it as we reached GZ. Bummer! So we went and found a couple of other caches and another car of muggles pulled up, really? Luckily they weren't paying us any attention and I finally was able to collect the cache - I think it must be at least 3 years since I solved the puzzle. All is good at GZ, TFTC agap2

Solved this puzzle in advance of a birthday party in the area. Quick to solve but definitely don’t do it by hand!

Geokids found this one after a climb / play. The log is a bit damp but still usable.

Great views today, apart from the smoke.

Out for a quick pedal and hunt this morning. A nice cool start to the day and not too many muggles about. This one has been solved for a long time, but I have not headed out this way since. I had to look at it again to remind myself what it was all about.

Today was the day for finding. All good here thanks.

Log was damp and shredding so replaced with a ‘rite as rain’ weatherproof log from my notebook.

Thanks for an amusing puzzle! This one I did solve on my own.

I’ve had this in my ‘solved, not found’ list for a while, and today we have had a chance to find this little cache. Fantastic, but the log was wet. Tftc

Had worked this one out a while ago and decided to find it today. Quick find Tftc co

I once had a contact randomly saved in a text document on my computer desktop. I noticed it's size was 23 bytes. I thought that was small. So I opened the file, added a character, then saved it. 24 bytes. Ah yes, I should know any character (I'm guessing a word like ascii or unicode should be added here) is stored as a single byte. Does that mean it's 8 bits? Probably, I dunno.

And knowing there is 1000 bytes to the kilobyte, I guess we can safely assume there are 4600 characters in the puzzle of this listing. Plus or minus a significant figure or two I presume. Which is a bloody lot of ones and zeroes. Or dots and dashes. Or any character really. And unless it's in legible English, I'm going to need some sort of solver.

Being that I solved this so long ago, I have not a damn clue what solver was required, but my personal note has the output saved. That's nice. And convenient! Today after finishing a day of training and having both time and anxiety to kill, it was some wholesome distraction by geocaching for me!

First, food! I wound up pulling into a nearby carpark with the last of whatever grease box Hungry Jacks had in the middle of their drive through menu as I had a gander which direction to walk. It's quite a nice spot here - I watched a plane fly overhead departing YRED. and I headed for GZ.

Once there I poked a few spots and quickly found the little guy tucked away. Unfortunately inside was wet, so a photo log will do me for today. I replaced as found and ambled back to the car. I think this geocache has inspired me to hide one called 4.6 MB. Actually, 4.6 GB. No, make that 4.6 TB. Hang on, what's this yottabyte that wikipedia mentions? Do we have that sort of computing power readily available? Moreover, I need to recall what solver is needed first. Thanks for this geocache, agap2

#16816. Last cache before heading back to downtown Redcliffe for a coffee and some lunch. TFTC.

It is StreetWalkerNZ's and my last day in Queensland before flying home to Christchurch this evening. We decided to spend the day in Redcliffe, one of our favourite Brisbane suburbs.
We were supposed to be looking for a coffee, but are always keen to pick up solved puzzles when we can, so coffee was put on hold. Cache was a quick find. Thanks for the puzzle and TFTC.

Has been on our list for a long time, good to finally find it

Quick and easy find beautiful views

Caro from Jess & Caro, Eskies5 and I made a plan to head down from Toowoomba for the day to pick off a few of the caches in this area. I found myself on a little puzzle role when searching the area, so why stop. Solved a few just in case we had time to hopefully grab them as an added bonus for the day. Didn't have too much trouble solving this one and once seeing where it was it was added to the list. Once at GZ Eskies5 made the find where I didn't look hard enough. TFTC agap2

Kestal and one half of Jess & Caro headed down the range from Toowoomba nice and early with a rather lengthy geo-list. After our primary goal of signing the nearby challenges was complete we spent the rest of our time finding caches that fill the requirements. TFTC agap2.

Out for the day caching with Eskies5 and kestal. We made our way to this cache and it was a nice quick find. Thanks for the puzzle and cache, agap2!

Solved this puzzle a little while ago as it was blue blip on an otherwise cached out area. Great puzzle took a little thinking!

Found with Jacs tftc

A puzzle we had long solved. So today while in the area headed over to make the find. A few muggles around and we had to dig deep to get our hands on the container. We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC.

I remember well our efforts solving this one.
Liking a challenge as we do we opted, despite the advice not to, to do this one manually.
Yes, pen, paper & the rusty old grey matter!
Ignoring the magnitude of the task we surged forth into the fray to find that indeed the pen IS mightier than the sword!
I will admit to spending considerable time in the solving but solve it we did!
Taking in our daily dose of vitamin D we headed up here to round up a few missing smilies.
Surprised at the ease & speed at finding the cache once at GZ.

TFTC

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Solved a while ago, but it was lovely to get out here with a buddy today! Lovely area on a lovely day. Thanks for the fun!

Got it. The birds in the tree weren’t too happy about my presence though. TFTC

I looked for this cache last weekend but to no avail. I was glad to see the CO checked it and replaced it so I returned today and quickly located the replacement cache. Thanks so much agap2 for replacing this. I never like DNFs on puzzle caches. Great weather out today, nice views. TFTC

Checked on this one, it was missing, so replacement cache in place.

I checked all the spots I thought it could be hiding but found no cache.

Lots of muggle activity so I didn't want to stay too long but nothing in the obvious spots

I admit that I solved this so long ago that I don't recall much of the solving, except that the volume of numbers scared me, and that I think I had to use at least two different programs to smack it all down to size.
Today it was a super simple slip into the garden, and plucking out the cache from its nook. All good here so TFTC and puzzle!

Another day of caching to pick up some of those previous pesky DNF's and solved puzzles over on the north side. A great day out, but now I have a few more DNF's on my list!

This was my first for the day, and now that the wedding has moved on, was a quick grab while avoiding muggles as they completed their early morning fitness regime.

Thanks for the fun cache agap2!

Today I was out and about picking off a few of my solved puzzles, and this one appears close enough to grab. Not the best day today, 3 DNF's due to people sitting/parking/throwing a wedding on or next to the cache....That was tough!
DNF#2. I pulled up right at GZ. Unfortunately so had 50 guests at the wedding all waiting for the bride. And to rub salt into the wound I had parked in the approaching Limo's space! Not very inconspicuous - I'm outta here!
Thanks anyway - Ill be back!

After our mountain climb with woodyrothwell we headed on down to Redcliffe rsl for lunch and a well deserved wine, then we thought we may aswell go and grab this mystery cache we had solved, we love it down here as we both grew up here and have lots of memories. While we made the grab geoson still madly running around trying to crack his egg in Pokemon!!!
Tftc and puzzle agap2:)

I had solved this one a while ago, before I knew how to correct coords. Consequently, the solution was still at home. As we were passing by GZ today, my caching buddy remembered that the cacche was just there. So I parked the car and wandered over to make a quick find. TFTC

With a bit of spare time on hand before an appointment at Redcliffe this morning for work, I decided to spend the time wisely an gather a few caches. Certainly a lovely sunny winter's morning to be down by the water. A dumped pile of mulch right at GZ had me initially worried but a further search turned up the cache safe and sound. Good timing for my visit as the council work crew were only a little further down the road spreading out the outher piles of mulch. TFTC

Double binary code, took forever to solve. Once we had the code we didn't want to lose it so we had to come straight away to find it. Came at night and had fun hiding from headlights. Tftc SL

Moje první mysterka v Austrálii. Vyluštěno s pomocí BLECH. Díky za kešku.
IN: TB USC Mom
OUT: TB NG 10 to Australia
Pozdrav z České republiky.
My first mystery in Australia. Shelled with BLECH. Thanks for the cache.
IN: TB USC Mom
OUT: TB 10 NG to Australia
Greetings from Czech Republic.

Dropping TB back

Out for an afternoon of caching with IolantheK, Dutchie1950 and Mrs Just a Trifle to do the nearby Friends series and of course any others along our route.

Mrs Just a Trifle had already solved this one so off we went and found the cache and added our names to the log.

When I got home I looked at the puzzle and thought I immediately knew what to do with it. Hmmmm not quite as easy as I thought. After a few minutes playing around on the computer I added some playing around with pen and paper and then some more playing around on the computer and hey presto, some information began to appear.

Mrs Just a Trifle was out for a day of caching with Rhyssa6 and Dutchie1950, primarily to complete the Episode Series of caches but to also pick up any others we came across along the way. After a few hours, we were joined by IolantheK which completed our day of fun and hijinks.

The solution to this cache has been sitting in my solved pile for some time so we took the opportunity while in the area to have a look. The cache was easily found and with the end of light approaching, we decided to finish for the day.

We mostly had pleasant weather for our day on the Redcliffe Peninsula, with just an occasional shower here and there to cool us down.

Thank you agap2 for having placed the cache and maintaining it for everyone to enjoy

# 1323 - Met up with Mrs Just a Trifle at our usual meeting place, coffee at the ready, and made the trip to Redcliffe where we were going to attempt the Episode series together with Rhyssa6. IolantheK joined us after lunch and went back to the first few before going home.

We could search for this cache thanks to Mrs JaT who had solved the puzzle and was in possession of the adjusted coords. Nice hide.

TFTC agap2

I had just dropped off Sweet_bee at work, so I decided to grab this beastie.

I was most pleased how quickly this puzzle came together for me. And I had been ignoring it as I thought it was one of **those** "puzzles" that I seem to always struggle with.

I parked up at decided to go for a trot to get the cache. It was a lovely day for a walk - even if a bit hot. I arrived at GZ and started the hunt. Well it wasn't in the first place I looked - but it was in the second

The cache was in good condition. I signed the log and re-hid the cache as found. TFTC and the puzzle, Mr Gap

Found this one today with help of RoddyC. Perfect cache size to drop my TB.

I recognized how to solve this puzzle reasonably quickly. Getting the cache was more fun... I quickly slipped into the hiding area and was looking around when something rubbed against my backside - a big dog had come in to say hello. Its owner must have wondered what was going on when I yelled at it. So much for stealth! Once the dog and owner had left, I quickly located the cache.

#3776 [09:00] i like this kind of puzzle where i have solution fast this took me about two minutes and i logged it during dog walk. moskytos were the only bad part of the hunt thanks for the cache and my first australian mystery

Just found a little list of caches that I had forgotten to log. We had a lovely day finding a few caches in the area. TFTC, agap2.

Marco had solved this one - but it did take him ages to work it out. Fortunately it was a quick find once at GZ. TNLNSL TFTC

Sweet

I had a couple of hours free this afternoon and I slipped out to clean up a few Geocaches that have sprung up recently. My Redcliffe peninsula map used to be cache free, but no longer

Another puzzle that has sat in the solved pile for too long. . Time to remedy that. There was some muggles nearby at the playground, but I was abkle to approach from the other direction to make the find undetected.

Thanks for a nice puzzle, agap2

Pete

#2,770

I love these ones where I get to put my information processing hat on! It's been a while since solving it but I had a great day out around Redcliffe Peninsula finding these cool mysteries.
Thanks agap2 for showing me this beautiful part of SEQ.

As this did not take a lot of brain power, it took a lot of work. Phase one: Turn gobblety-gook into flim flam: easy. Phase 2: Turn flim flam into hodge-podge: spent two hours mindlessly drooling over keyboard wishing I had an app for this. Phase 3: Turn hodge-podge into coordinates: easy. Upon arrival at gz, made a quick discovery. A B-U-T-ful day for caching. TFTC agap2.

Solved this a year ago and really enjoyed the puzzle. Very well done.

No problems finding the cache.

TNLNSL TFTC.

Spent the day with Konie, and we headed down to cache around the Redcliffe area.
We found a good variety of hides, while driving around the beaches.
With the weather being a bit cool, most areas were muggle free.

Geo-wife took some time to solve this puzzle, and eventually got a new set of co-ords.
Cache was found after a short search, signed and replaced as found.
Many thanks for placing this cache, agap2, for us and others to find.

Checked on this and no cache here, so put in a temporary cache

Well whaddya know? I can read double binary!!

Thank you for the entertaining puzzle and the well hidden cache.

Harry and Jim of the CCF on this one.

[Blue]# 12190[/Blue] Found on our 2015 Winter escape trip to Qld.
Another perfect autumn day for a trip around Redcliffe with the Tassie Trekkers.
The TT's had a start at this one and then with a nudge finally solved it too.
Cheers from Wagga Wagga in the Riverina, NSW.
Thanks for the cache agap2,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

Today we teamed up with Roostaman and explored redcliffe. Burnt some midnight oil on this one, eventually solved it and found GZ in and easy to find place as per hint.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.