SPS 02 Wendouree, Victoria, Australia
By Shamus1 on 11-May-15. Waypoint GC5V9GW

the life of this cache has run it's course

Found by The Empire + H
We decided to tackle this series after lunch at a nearby brewery. After the first one, we were smooth sailing for the rest. Thanks for the cache, and the series Shamus1.
- M

Found on our Australian adventure. TFTC.

I've had this series solved for way to long, thankfully I had grabbed them as they have come in handy for the Planetary souvenirs.
Journeyed up the highway with simsfamily under the cover of darkness to what feels like a second home for caching.
I assumed it was the obvious but checked with the GPSr which had us on target.
Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the Cache Shamus1
#3,913

After work tonight I was heading out to a Pursue the Planets event near home when I got a message from Ausfox; saying he was thinking of heading up the highway to Ballarat to try and get a little further out toward the out planets of our Solar System.
Thank fully I had this little series solved a some months ago and only picked up one when I was chasing a mystery challenge. So the extra points for the Pursue the Planets is a welcome thing

Thank you Shamus1 for this nice little series

*En route to Ballarat for the "Planetary Pursuit Launch Party - Ballarat"*.

A coolish day to be out and about. Parked nearby and strolled to GZ.

Looking for some puzzles which I had previously solved and looking at earning extra points for the souvenir
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment Shamus1. Appreciate your efforts.
-P

A short search, stamped log and replaced as found.

**Took**: *Nothing*
**Left**: *Nothing*

**#12094**

Cache-On!

The shade from the trees helped

Spotted this one from a distance so an easy find.. enjoying the puzzles and finds.

Mystery solving still perfect. TFTC and the trail

I was in Ballarat for a night earlier in the week to attend the GIFF: returned to explore a bit more and, of course, to find a few more caches.
I had solved most of these puzzles before I left home; good to find a few today.
Thanks for this cache & the series, Shamus1. I added a piece of paper to extend the log.
Greetings from NZ.

A great puzzle series for a beginner like me ..... I do have 2 to still work out though. Great hide and good location. TFTC

This was a clever one. Approaching it from the non-traditional side of the trail, we thought we had worked out the obvious GZ before we got there, but not to be. It was in another place instead. Kept us thinking until the reveal. Great series to solve and find. Thanks Shamus1.

We have been cooped up, keeping warm and nursing our colds for a couple of weeks and we thought we would head over to the 'rat and celebrate Mica's birthday

Time to head for home but keen to collect this series before we do.
We had lots of fun today - thanks Shamus1

A quick park and grab. Tried to do it in between all the muggle traffic

TFTC!

Another puzzle solved by mrs harrowang since our last visit to Ballarat. Out and about enjoying a sunny winter's day of a long weeekend with Markndee. Not where we expected it to be, but mr harrowang wins the prize for the find. SL at 3.28pm. Replaced the torn zip lock bag. Not many places left on the log sheet either. #4603 TFTC Shamus1

Out and about town with Harrowang on our cooperative caching adventure. This time we were 4 of the eyes looking in the wrong spot when Mr Harrowang sighted the treasure! SL TFTC Shamus1

Solved this 3 times in total, the first two times my edited cords and comments disappeared. This time im on to it....a bit time consuming but an easy solve with geowifeE.
The find....its bloomin freezing at 720 am...heading for a feed and a change of clothes before we finish this series. Got this one tho.

10:54
Ballarat by bike this morning: Simple and enjoyable Puzzles, yes we could go along with that. It was the hides, which we found more challenging, perhaps because we were working backwards from #08!

Satellites today had our GZ 9 metres WSW of where we found the cache.

Thanks Shamus1 for creating this series.
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Had these solved for sometime and finally managed to head out, met up with Mi5sie and we braved the cold and wet to turn these into smiles, Thanks Shamus for a fantastic series and all the fun

Cherad and I were on a mission to clean these up today, turn them into smilies. Cherad had worked out the puzzles prior so it was a quick attack. It was too cold today to hang around anywhere for too long. TFTC and puzzles

A week of work road trip Ballarat, Creswick, Bendigo, Echuca, Cobram, Yarrawonga, Wangaratta, Wodonga Gundagai, Yass, Canberra, Cooma, Cann river and Bemm river areas we put some kms on the car. Thanks for all the caches we done over the week with aqau. A great walk.
Thanks

Oh this series rocks!

Out and about with the fabulous Wozzle68 finding caches, having fun, chatting, eating, more caching and enjoying the fun, adventure filled day!

Thanks for the cache Shamus1!

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What a cool Australia Day extra long weekend! I drove from Adelaide to Victoria and did heaps of fun stuff, including:
*attending a dinner event in Inverleigh [^]
*attending an Australia Day event near St Kilda [^]
*caching around Ballarat [^]
*squealing whilst going on some 4wd tracks (inadvertently)
*hanging with the awesome Wozzle68 [:X]
*caching with Moneydork and Locus Cache [:X]
*riding on the Ballarat to Skipton Rail Trail - first time on a bike in over 20 years!!
*accidentally bike riding straight over a big black snake that was about 1.5m long [xx(]
*walking like a cowboy after all of that bike riding! haha [:o)]
*LOADS of giggles and awesome adventures!!! [^]

I LOVE GEOCACHING!!! [:X] [^]

Doctor Owl and sushilord are off on a long weekend trip to find some quality caches in Mexico. We suffered the laughs, joys and frustrations normally experienced on a caching trip and bonded as geobrother and geosister.

sushilord loves puzzles that make him think, this was a nice little series. All final coords had us within cooee of the cache - well done.

Thanks for the puzzle and cache Shamus1.

Not one of the puzzles Owl had solved, though looking at it now she wonders how she could possibly have missed that! Fortunately Sushilord was on the ball in both solving and finding the cache.

Solved a very long time ago. Only decided to go for a hunt tonight as the house was too hot. Cache is in good order. TFTC.

Found with CJ_Curry on our yearly hunt. TFTC Shamus1

SanguineDragonflye and I spent the day caching in and around Ballarat in what is fast becoming our yearly hunt. This was our big walk of the day - I'd already solved the puzzles while back overseas so all that remained was to find them. We got seven out of eight, only missing number 7. This wasn't in the first spot we looked, but we did manage to find it fairly quickly when I looked in the right direction. Cheers!

After some silly number issue we managed to find the cache!!!!

Another good find while geocaching in the area today. SL TFTC

Found while exploring the area. Log signed as Team NZ. TFTC

#5574

Caching with our kiwi group over for the Surf Coast Mega we signed the log logs "Team NZ" we enjoyed exploring as well as caching our way around Melbourne thanks for the placments

On a 2 week mega trip in Victoria getting a few caches. We are from NZ. Solved before coming over so had to get

We solved this fun series at home before coming to Victoria for the mega and extra weeks holiday. With only one full day in town we were not able to do too many but this series was high on our list.
We sort of took it in turns depending on where we parked. I took miss J to this one and we grabbed it as we walked past. We walked off a bit and signed the log before doing a walk by to put it back. TFTC

My gps had pointed me to an area with some natural cover but it was found in a somewhat manmade location nearby. Tftpuzzle and cache

Another find in this series with the GOTHS and locus. TFTC and the series.

Another countdown event to the Surf Coast Mega. This time Ballarat. I enlisted Locus Cache for company and we arranged to meet mogni and Mrs. Aussie M & M there as they were coming from a different direction. Having arrived last night we set off early to cache our way to the event. We had worked on Puzzles on the weeks leading up to the event so were keen to see if we could get some of those and any others we were passing. [^]
Hoot a Puzzle trail. [^] Some hides were harder than others but we ended up getting them all in the end.
Thanks Shamus 1 for the puzzles and hides.

This was the only series we actually finished over the weekend.
Thanks

Brisal5 wanted a 'yapper' to keep him awake as he drove to Ballarat and he thought I'd be up to the task
After a late start Friday, due to his 'anytime is fine' reply when I asked what time we were leaving [)], we landed at our barn accommodation [^] in Ballarat about 8pm. After grabbing tea and a cache, we caught up with Mogni and Aussie M&M before checking out their weekend's amazing accommodation
Saturday we travelled the countryside from cache to cache in our two vehicles and managed to attend an event too (2 months to the Surf Coast Event - Ballarat) then bolted off to find a rare moveable cache [^]
Following a DNF on a bridge cache, our friends headed off for sleep [)] while Brisal5 and I cached until just after midnight by which time we were beat! [xx(]
Sunday after the usual caching breakfast of Maccas we said our goodbyes to the two ladies and then we two cached Ballarat until 1.45pm before finally heading for home.
Weekend tally of 1 event attended, 2 DNFs and 58 cache finds

Thankfully, someone had done some hard work before we arrived in Ballarat and so we had this series of puzzle caches to find
Most of them were very easy to find with only one really giving us any trouble.
A neat series to assist people with learning some solid puzzle solving methods [^]
I had fun splashing through the water, in my rubber boots, on my way to GZ

TNLN. SL. TFTC Shamus1

Solved the puzzle easily last night and made the easy find this morning. TFTC

What a great day to be out doing this mystery cache series!

Found quickly in an obvious sot today. Can't remember why I didn't get it last time.

Not the best of times to be inconspicuous, but nobody stopped! No.2 down. Enjoying the stroll today! TFTC

sitting at the computer going through our caching notes and noticed we are weeks behind on logging our finds so here goes a few hours at the keyboard....

got time off work so been taking out our grand kids so we were able to grab at least one cache each day they are with us....today it was a day trip to Ballarat, an inflatable dingy and oars for a caching adventure around lake wendoree. Geo grand daughter loved the fact that grandpa did all the rowing, she recently got her own account (Cucumber Kid) but is still basic so she has to wait for premium membership to log a lot of finds...

thanks shamus1 for this cache

TNLNSL

#2376

Found on a caching trip to Ballarat with Freddo and Team Waldron, after finishing the BSRT trail we decided to drive around and grab a few more caches. TFTC

Heading over to Ballarat for a caching weekend and picking up a few caches on the way.

We managed to find about 230 caches in 3 days not bad work for 3 old guys

After solving these we were obligated to find them.

The puzzles were easy enough and we found all but SPS07.

TFTC

Quick find.
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This cache was found using a Garmin GPSr, Montana 650t, Oregon 550 or Dakota 20. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK 8.
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Spiffy- GT02 and I had a Ballarat trip planned for some time to cache on Leap Day. Another puzzle solved and another quick find and back on our way.

GT02 Spiffy- and I had planned out a trip to Ballarat and today - leap day - was it. Spiffy- and I had also timed our 4000th and 3000th finds to be on the same cache. Puzzle solved prior to trip. We managed a quick solve at GZ and were on our way. Thanks Shamus1 for the cache.

I have been waiting for this leap day for quite a while now to finally finish filling in my calendar so a few months ago I put in for annual leave at work to make sure I had the whole day to not just get DNF's. I mentioned it to Fleabag- so he got on board with GT02 and we made a day of it making sure we went to an event for the souvenir and then spent the day in Ballarat getting a few tricky and high terrain caches along with a few solved puzzles.
We also combined this day to synchronize Fleabag's 3,000 th and my 4,000 th cache find. The boat and ladder were on board the geovehicle with us for the day and a great fun day was had by all.

I solved all these before we headed up and we managed to find all but one. Number five took a little while to find and we couldn't find number seven.

Thanks Shamus1 for the cache, the puzzle, the hunt and the fun.

Solved quite some time ago, a nice quick pick up tonight. Thanks Shamus1.

Along with Arkbell80 we are gradually gathering Mystery caches for the Mystery cache Month Challenge. We decided to head to Ballarat with Posho6 & our families to gather up some Mysteries in that neck of the woods. I had solved this series earlier on but decided to add it to our tally.
TFTC and the series!!!

Found with Bazinga01 as part of our Monthly Mystery Cache Challenge Ballarat run. Bazinga01 solved all of the caches in this series and i was lucky enough to tag along. A great little series TFTC

Another one out of the series done.
A day planned out and about in Ballarat with half of chooknchunk and FUF009. Initially to find award nominated caches. There was a plan but it was largely abandoned although we ended up completing most of it. We had a really great day which all of us needed and enjoyed. It was a long day. I was up from 5am until 11.30pm!
Tftc

*13/02/2016, Found @ 10:24 AM, Find # 5067.*

Today I headed across to Ballarat to continue my quest to find the caches that have been nominated for the 2015 Victorian caching awards as well as a few other that have good D/T combo's.
I worked on solving these ones the night before, at least I could solve these ones.
I walked over to the object that the GPSr was pointing to, looked up and there it was.

**Thanks to Shamus1 for placing this cache.**

Found after solving this one a while ago. Was driving past tonight and was a quick find. TFTC

This was day 22 of our trip out of Sydney and touring the southern states of Victoria and Tasmania.

We had decided to do some of this series as were near Ballarat. Yay! Found it. Thank you for the puzzles and the cache hides. After the log was signed the cache was returned as found. TFTC.

TFTC good morning out caching with the hubby

This one had been replaced since an earlier visit to Ballarat so I made short work of it today on my way through the top end of town.
Thanks Shamus

Found as Nicnax with PapaGrouch. Nice little series. TFTC

Another round of evening cache hunting TFTC

There's a great network of paths around Ballarat. Great to see another one along here. Thanks for the cache.

We had fun solving these puzzles prior to our recent road trip to Ballarat and the Great Ocean Road. A bit of trial and error until we had a set of coordinates. The cache was found quickly and easily at GZ, and then we were off for the next in the series.

Thanks Shamus1,

Domsky

We saw and solved each of the puzzles very soon after they had been published. Tonight we made a quick visit to Ballarat to look for these and some challenge caches. Accurate coordinates led to a quick find in the fading light. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Shamus1 for the puzzle and hide.

Our 4th day camped at Creswick, and today we decided to go to Ballarat to do a few trails.
Geo-wife solved all of the puzzles except one, which required a little help.

Parked near by and the cache was found after a short search.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Shamus1, for us and others to find.

Find No. 1069. Found with FUF009 at 2.05pm

A trip to Ballarat for the day with FUF009 for one of his appointments, do some shopping and of course some caching.
Last time we were in Ballarat we tried to do this series but couldn't because of the rain. Today we were in luck as the sun was shining which meant a great day for some walking.

Seen this one from the distance and soon had our names in the log.

TFTC Shamus1



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Find # 2538 @ 1409 H

Found with Mrs Tyred n Cranky.
As normal I have a list of solved puzzles with me when I visit Ballarat.
Today was nothing but ? after ? after ? (in between shops and doc appts of course) a total of 10 GZ visits but only with 9 finds in the end.

Last time we were here we had to abandon the hunt due to rain. But today the sun was out and so was the caches.
We could see this one from a few meters away and were happy to get our names in the log

TFTC and puzzle Shamus1

I had solved the puzzles in this series a few months ago. I'm in Ballarat again, so I thought it was time I ticked them off the list. Good coordinates took me to GZ for an easy find. TFTC Shamus1.

Found it after I missed it few months ago when I was in Ballarat for CITO event
Nice hide
Thanks Shamus1

Nice quick find during an early morning walk, the puzzle for this one was easy enough and has been solved for some time and today was the day to pick it up, I had to wait a while for muggle traffic to quieten down a bit but the I found it without too much trouble

TFTC

This was a fun puzzle series and with all my answers gathered I set off for a wander along to attempt them.
Initially my coords put me a little out, but taking note of the clue I backtracked slightly and was able to spot the hide.
Thanks for the cache.

Solved this at home before our trip . Pleased to find quickly on our 2nd attempt tftc

Suscoe and the sister's 13 find for the day.
With the puzzle solved some time ago it was great to pick this one up today.
Getting a bit cloudy in the afternoon.
A quick find and sign.
Thanks to Shamus1 for creating this nice trail of puzzles.

Found last night with Clan McStormy. Good puzzles and nice series once you figure them out. Looking forward to catching them all along the journey.

Night shifters. Tftc

Found on a perfect day for caching with my entire family including my wife, 8yo geoson, 3yo geodaughter, geodog and muggle mum (grandma). Another nice easy puzzle with an easy find to match. I spotted this one in the distance before getting there - TFTC!

Finally we got some proper caching weather.
It was a nice sunny day so we decided to grab a few local caches while we were out.
A nice hide here and a good puzzle too.
Thanks Shamus.

Found with Mum, Dad and Maeve on a great sunny day.
I had a good time finding this one as it was fun to wear shorts again.
Thanks for the hide.

Found with Mum, Dad and Eddie.
It was nice to be out in the sun finding some geocaches again.
Thanks for the hide.

Our second one in hand

Caching day out with kazzacosmo nice quick finds and coords good.TFTC

Found on a freezing windy afternoon with fluffyrabbit113

Found with ctone on a trip to ballarat.
Nice quick find.

This cache had spot on co ords, makes for an easy find. Thanks Shamus1

Out for another adventure in Ballarat today with mazzymay who had already found this series. TFTC

[red]Find #2757 Mystery #263 [/red]

After what seemed to be a very long day at work, I was finally off on my adventure afternoon heading to Ballarat. The end goal is to finish the night with two night caches in Ballarat. I had stopped a few times along the way from Geelong and I seen this series a little while ago. I set to work in solving them and worked my way through most of them quickly. Tonight was now the night to collect. I thought it would be quiet. How wrong as I. I was going to walk the trail but decided to drive with the terrible weather. This was a quick find. Stamped and replaced as found.

[blue]Thanks for this puzzle cache hide, Shamus 1. [^]
Log and container in good condition.
Took Nothing, Left Nothing [/blue]

Found by Mary & David at 0923. Another brief search and another one ticked off. Our thanks to Shamus1.

Found with Emthegem and TeamLauren. We had all the puzzles solved in this series before attempting them all today. Made a quick find at this one. Thanks.

Found with Doormatt and Teamlauren. Another great puzzle solved by Teamlauren. Thanks for the cache.

Quick solving of puzzle and then drive to new coordinates. Saw cache as approaching. Found with DoorMatt and Emthegem. Tftc.

Firstly apologies for the late logging.
Found this with Sorceysal who'd already done the series, and Tessie the geodog, it's always nice to cache with friends .
Another quality series from Shamus1, thanks for all you've contributed to our game

Now why is that old lady standing on the street corner for so long. Someone could have stopped to help her cross. Took about 20 minutes before there were no cars coming in any direction for the grab. TFTC

Found today with The 2 Wanderers. Quick one to spot. TFTC

Had solved this one a while ago but when I planed to sign it had disappeared. So today was the day and I pick up a souvenir Thanks shamums1 for the great series of puzzles.

Found today while out caching with Misschief18 while in Ballarat for a couple of days. Have been busy working these puzzles out.
SL TNLN TFTC

Number 2 6 to go tftc

Tftc

Tftc! #2 converted to a smile!!

#2 signed off. Tftc

Enjoyed the puzzle and also the find, despite the weather being really icy cold and wintery. TFTC Shamus1