Patience & Karma IV Willow Vale, Queensland, Australia
By D&Mocha on 15-Feb-15. Waypoint GC5MTNP

Out for a day of caching with CuriousQuest. After finding a nearby cache, we made our way to this one. After a bit of a search, the cache was discovered a little way from the posted coords. With our names added to the log and everything returned as found, we continued on our way. TFTC

Out for a day of caching down the coast with Selva Girls. We headed out and found an assortment of different types of caches and this was one of them. All caches were found easily enough and once the log was signed; all were returned as found. TFTC

The cache is brokenIt is still findable thoughStill a lot of fun

Big hike

Dropped the munchkins off at wet n wild and had plenty of time to go find a couple of caches. This one had a nice DT so I thought Id start off here. That hill certainly got the blood pumping!Found the container without a hassle and said gday to the resident cache guardian who has been mentioned before. Left my scribble and replaced as found.Its a pity the puzzle container is broken Thanks for the cache D&Mocha

After not much luck finding 1 and 2 on the trail, finding this one was a big boost of confidence. Was happy to have walked through the trail without finding a cache but at least this one helped us understand what we needed to look for. Cache was a little bit broken and the bag containing the logs had a hole through it.
TFTC ️

Found with a nice big surprise in it ️puzzle box and nah containing log is broken

My phobias were hit hard when opening the box ️️️puzzle box has been broken

Was damaged put it back together

Cool cache, lots of goodies! TYFTF

Great spot, ashame the puzzle is broken, would have been a tricky one. Tftc

Nice quick find. Thank you for putting this series out there, I've enjoyed looking for these.

Well hidden, again, otherside of track to gps

My memory of the different boxes may be a little hazy but I think I recall this one as being unfortunately broken into several pieces. It could probably be repaired as all the parts are there.
TFTC and the hike which was good exercise.

Enjoying this rural area in willowvale so close to the hustle and bustle, and the deadly trail of puzzle caches along the way

Last one for this trail, I’m far too tired and these hills are very steep, tftc, off to brisbane!

Tftc! Time to get back to the airport to fly to Victoria!

With an event later this afternoon at the Gold Coast Regional Botanical Gardens, Patrol14 and I have decided to celebrate 2’s Day on the Goldie…

This is our first stop of the day, and we’re here because of a hole in both our D/T grids that only a bit of Patience & Karma can fill…

As others have mentioned the inner container has seen better days, but the walk certainly got the blood pumping…

Tftc…

Peppa and I made a plan to geocache today before attending the event at the Botanical Gardens this afternoon. As we both needed a few higher D/T rated caches, these few caches were our main target for today.
We certainly got our early morning workout walking up to this cache.
Luckily the rain stayed away while we worked on the cache.
As previously mentioned the puzzle box is broken but we are still happy we made the effort to get here.
Interesting location above the houses.

TFTC D&Mocha

Found it with dutchaus yippee!

Found it all good with TripCow puff puff TFTC

Had to come back and find this one
TFTC

Great puzzle! Thanks for the hide!

Cache is still findable and able to be signed too expensive to replace currently.

I like these sort of container, but this one was broken.
It just need some clue, but we didn't have it with us.
TFTC

I made a little walk together with Jebjeb and we found the cache.
TFTC

Dieser Geocacher hat gemeldet, dass der Behälter beschädigt ist.

As per the previous log, this cache needs a repair (which should be possible). I tried to rebuild ot before realising the problem.

After a bit of a search, we found this cache! It appears the puzzle is broken but the log is very dry. Thanks for the cache!

We finally found a path “yeah” oh yeah & lots of Cobblers pegs that TGG & I need to take off. Garters are required cache found & away we go

Muggle65 needed this one for his DT grid. This was definitely Cobblers Pegs Central. Spent quite a while picking them off then the fun of the cache. These caches rock!

Sadly, we were getting towards the end of our lovely walk today and the puzzles in the field were going to run out.
This was another one we enjoyed and then it was time to continue our journey closer to where we had originally parked the car.
Thanks D&Mocha. A great series and puzzles.
Domsky 

Realised we are very unfit but we got there finally thank you

On this side of town after attending the CITO this morning, CHAMAD had a plan to head further south to find the recommended Patience and Karma series, I jumped on board to help out.
This was the first find, unfortunately the cache has been broken leaving the log easily accessible.
Log signed, cache replaced as found we moved on to the next one.
Thanks D&Mocha for placing the cache and bringing me here.

At today’s CITO event collecting rubbish and a cache. Bumped into Willis007 and we decided to go grab a few caches around the Pimpama/Ormeau areas, a few target caches I had on a list. After solving the nearby puzzle cache and the four series caches up the road we were off to grab our target caches for the day the Patience and Karma series.
What a fun little series of puzzles and cache hides. A great area to walk around, just not in the middle of the day or on a hot day, lol.
Cache IV puzzle is damaged and requires some fixing, cache number V was a little sticky and required a gentle tap to unstick the mechanism inside to move, but the rest of the puzzles all worked fine. Once we got the hang of the puzzles it was a reasonably quick method of opening the puzzles. I really enjoyed doing each puzzle and it was nice to see the different varieties of the same style of puzzle. With the logs all signed and caches replaced as found it was onto some others in the area.
Thank you so much for this series and am giving a favourite point to my main target cache of today.

brilliant container BUT i think it's been broken so i was easily able to sign the log

it's either been broken or not put back together properly

Great walk I can see why the terrain rating the puzzle box is broken u fortunately as well as the bag it was broken too this would have been a great one to do an try and catch your breath

Found it but puzzles broken

Hooray thanks for share Deafgroup

Whoo! What a walk up here! We re stuffed DeafVW half for this one! Unfortunately the puzzle was broken! It wasn’t me!

Got it by deaf group

Found it
Deaf Geo Group

Got it quick with Deaf groups TFTC

We had arrived at the last cache of the day and last karma hide. We knew from the previous log that the box was a little bit damaged which was good because I only had a few brain cells left and needed them so they could be killed off with wine later on.

We found this one a bit exposed and was surprised no one had stopped for an inquisitive look. Just recently we had been joined by a dirt bike rider who shat his pants when he saw us and we didn’t want him ruining anyone’s fun by spying the cache so we covered it a bit betterer.

It was time to make the hour drive home and I knew the bottle of Savvy B in the car fridge would be cold by the time we got there. It was! tftc

Nice one. Unfortunately someone has forced this box, and it was broken. Would've been the most challenging I've yet. A bit of glue and it will be as good as new though.

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Wednesday. Another spot where our arrow just wouldn’t settle (even though it pointed us straight to GZ first up, it soon was spinning like a top). Read the helpful hint which was appreciated. Log signed, cache replaced and a short rest here.

This was the 6th of 10 caches found on today's trip.

Thanks ***D&Mocha***, for showing us this place.

Found it pretty easily whilst puffing and sweating up the hill. TFTC

Decided to find a few caches to help me recover from the flu and this set seemed perfect. An interesting solve, TFTC.

TFTC smile 4932 out and about with miss Millie geo dog and Brislions we had a lovely walk in the reserve this morning Thank you for placing this cache for our enjoyment

Last week I ask grannysmith1947, if she would come and help me grab 4 caches for my D/T grid. And two old caches too. We also found 4 trad and 1 Challenge cache. We had a good day out.

Cache a day to keep the doctor away, or is it to keep me sane. No it’s to keep my streak alive ¥256 days. D&Mocha. #1667 finds

Sorry for a generic post.

A great little series in a beautiful patch of bushland. Thanks for placing

Another useful DT set and a pleasant walk with some fine fellow cachers. Walked past and gazed upon a beautifully landscaped home. A tad envious but a garden like that doesn't automatically pop up out of the scrub. I'm sure there is a small army of gnomes working tirelessly each evening keeping the aphids and lawn grubs at bay. Couldn't imagine there'd be any cane toads in this garden. Thanks for setting up this P&K puzzle series D&Mocha.

After at least two abandoned attempts (rain and daylight issues), we finally made our way to collect these caches. Picked a route with as little up as possible. All caches found readily, and opened without too much difficulty. It helped we had see some of these puzzles before. TFTC!

Finally mostly everything was in alignment and we made it to the series. I was not feeling the best but I couldn’t miss the opportunity to grab the series and be present for Team ARF’s Loop 2 achievement. It was a very pleasant walk made all the better by today’s company. Glad Ardom has done his parking homework to save us lots of up walking. I may have seen some of these in my own series which was great for the patience level!

Love puzzle caches really test the grey matter

Hey future finders.
Can someone PLEASE TAKE A PHOTO OF LOG and all the finders names and add to your log or personal message to me.

Also don't forget to time yourself and add it to the log for fun.

Quick to find but longer to open.

Phew. Tricky. But got it. Quick exercise after work

Went for a wander over the hill with the woofa's. As usual when I walk in Willowvale, it rained, but was a pleasant walk none the less.

Enjoying the puzzles, this is a great trail.

TFTC

The puzzles are getting harder and I’ve broken a sweat from the walk but I was able to figure it out after a few minutes

Thanks for the cache D&Mocha. This was find #4303.

Found with burgo78 on a great afternoon of caching

All good with the container too, enjoyed the puzzle at GZ

Thank you for hiding here
R

Down from Townsville for some more work training. This time ‘Adventure Based Learning’. Sounds fun right? Sadly this involved sitting in a classroom for 3 days talking about ABL rather than actually doing it.
Interesting DT for these and happy to get out here with Karicka.
Made surprisingly quick work of this one.
Tftc D&Mocha

Reezielou and I headed here from number 3, back tracked and continued up the track rather than attempting the bush bash. Bit of a slog up the hill, again I was thankful for the breeze and the nice log to sit on when we got to GZ. Now to the puzzle. This one was the hardest of the bunch and it took us some time. Finally got into it...geez it was satisfying to see that open! TFTC.

Really enjoying the trail, such peacefulness, great log to sit on and ponder how to open this one with krcamber and I passing the container back and forth trying different techniques took longer then it should’ve but finally our names are on the log. TFTC

Last one found in series but unable to sign. Guess I won't be finishimg the series.
Thanks anyway
Hunter

PS. Plastic bag broken

This one took me longer than it should have. Great idea for a cache. In good condition.
Cheers

Tftc

Tftc I like this one

Took me a few minutes but finally got there

Took a little longer but finally got it. Thanks!

Tricky box took a bit longer than V

We were starting to get a few sprinkles of rain on us here and it was quite pleasant, but it only lasted for a second. We were lucky enough to not have had heavy rain through here as we can see the path would get pretty muddy and slippery through here. We hiked up the hill and then ventured off the track to make another find.

Arriving near GZ it was all just about choosing the right one, it didn’t take us long before we found it and could add our name to the log. We made a few swaps along the way to pick up some of the trinkets we collect while caching.

Tftc D&Mocha

I started from number 6 for my adventure today for Geosportz 2018. I must have looked a real sight with my backpack, a Hobby horse and a long piece of conduit pipe for my challenges here today. I was really hoping these puzzle boxes would not be too hard, but I had done some Youtube homework before doing these just to get an idea of what I was up against.
On my way to this cache I noticed a humpy up on the hill I do not know if it is a kids cubby or a homeless persons humpy. Just be careful it's not hostile up here in the bush on your own. The man I talked to at P & K 6 said he had seen young kids dragging up shovels and tools into the bush so maybe it is a cubby house. This cache is a whopper container..nice size and hide and located quickly close to the track here. Dragged it out and began the puzzle, phew another quick work out on this one and I could get this one back together easily. Another challenge done for Geosportz 2018 for Billiards. I signed the log and dropped a TB in here, I think it was this one anyway its in one of them. replaced as found. TFTC D&Mocha

On the walk with dahumbug, Kiki97 and SnowBear. This one was the fourth cache in the series, and as dahumbug had already found this one some time ago he dropped back and let us get the find and then sat back and watched entertainment of solving the puzzle.
This one was hidden in nice easy spot. But the puzzle did take a few minutes to work out.

TFTC D&Mocha

Yay

Found with Black Flag 78 + ODST 501, TFTC

TFTC

Lucky we got our good shoes on because it was a great workout today. We came up to GZ and discovered the location and then with the container in hand worked out what to do to get to the log book. Took a few minutes and was a very well done cache container. Signed and returned as found. TFTC, great job.

This was the most challenging both for the brain and body but we finally had success with the puzzle and happily signed the log and placed it back in its hiding spot. Thanks.

This one had us thinking a lot more then the previous ones, took a little longer than usual but loved it and a favorite point from me. Thanks D&Mocha for the good hide and neat field puzzle & TFTC

Heading down to see Mum for a belated Mother's Day lunch, so I took the opportunity to get out for some early bushwalking and caching.

From 3 I headed up the hill, I can see how the heavy clay would make this tough going when wet. The cache was easy to locate, and at first the puzzle had me stumped but then I tried something that had the log in hand in no time flat.

Thanks **D&Mocha** for bringing us here, this find makes #3598. Discover our trackable TGQNRV.

This was my favourite cache of the day. I enjoyed the views near here, and soon found the cache. I sat down on the conveniently located log and tried to solve it. Well it certainly had me stumped for some time. I considered giving up on it but persevered and soon found the neat trick that revealed the log - this was really satisfying.
Fave point from me for this cache. It was a pleasure walking this trail today.

Found it

TFTC. #wooliescrew

We were checking the map for an upcoming trip to the Gold Coast area and noticed that we had somehow neglected to log all of the caches found on our previous day out down that way. We remember the very enjoyable walk we had, even though it was rather warm for spring weather, and the at times frustrating moments before managing to get our hands on the log to enable us to add our name before continuing on our way.

Thank you D&Mocha for having placed the cache for maintaining it for everyone to enjoy

I love these. They're so awesome. Thank you!!

Solved this one!!! Thanks to the 8 year old !!

Tough mother Monday. Beautiful day for a walk.Tftc

Out with lisylou, bennyboppers, jemillalucy and mnance101 for the Monday trek. Finding these better to do as a circuit, hence 1 2 3 6 5 4. All containers performed well, some were very well put together.

Last one in this series, we wandered along the path and into gz to find another little box. Thanks for all the caches in the area, we have had a nice walk in the area and enjoyed all these little boxes. Will give yiu a favourite point. Tftc

Tftc out with lisylou jemilalucy mnance101 and remsjw off to the car now

Out caching with Jemillalucy, Bennyboppers, Remsjw and Lisylou. Thanks for a great cache and a great series. We loved doing your creative puzzles!

This is the last of D&Mocha's Karma Series which tested our patience. But with gentle handling and guidance - signed without breaking it.

Thanks for the much needed exercise/bush walk !

Enjoyed this series so much! Another Fav!

Did the whole series in a round about way! Great walk- yes I was sweating and panting but really nice series! This one had me stumped!! Thanks for the kindness no longer a Dilemma ! TFTC!!! Excellent series!!

Well this is my first foray into the world of D&Mocha caches. I was certainly surprised to see how many there were, and gave us a great opportunity to scramble around this great little bushland area. Right up my alley!
Finally we made it to the top. Sadly no great view, but rewarding just the same. I was happy to know it was mostly downhill from here on in. SNJ I think it was that made quick work of this one - he is the bright one.
Thanks for the walk around this wonderful park. I guess we will be back for the missing one another day!

After a paddle around to find Herbz Challenge this morning, Crookedpete, Swellerfungus and I headed over to gain some caching karma. It was finally my turn to step up to the plate and solve a puzzle. Having learned a trick or two from the previous caches along the trail some deft manipulation soon had another logbook making an appearance for us to sign. TFTC

After a paddle on Hinze Dam this morning followed by a rather exciting T4 tree climb at Lower Beechmont, SeffnJarah, Swellerfungus and I rumbled up the highway and decided to collect a few caches located around this one, attracted by the seemingly generous difficulty & terrain ratings on offer in these parts (and so they were).

No troubles here. We have got the hang of these field puzzles now.

Thanks D&Mocha

Pete

#3,011

Found a great way in and thankfully walked a track to GZ. Found the well hidden cache fairly easily once at GZ and then managed to find a little shade to work on the log access. Took us a little bit of fiddling and trying this and that but managed in the end and gratefully signed the log. Thanks D&Mocha for this challenge. Cheers and happy caching! [^][^] This cache was part of our 25 D/T in a day challenge!

First attempt and we were half right had the idea but couldn't get it to quiet happen, had a PAF and yep we were right but probably being a little to soft (oh well better then rough), log revealed we signed and went on our way. TFTC