Patience & Karma II - Reincarnated Willow Vale, Queensland, Australia
By D&Mocha on 12-Jul-15. Waypoint GC5Z3P7

Gps is outFound the cache anyway yayBeautiful day out

That was easy

Considering having found 4, 5, and 6 in this series with ease, I believe this cache is missing… considering the size of the cache and having looked deep into the hollow, it seems that this may need a new home considering how easy it might be to spot by muggle.

Found - was on the opposite side of the track to what the coordinates said. Didn’t have a pen to sign the log

Found it

The only one we didn’t find there’s a very obvious spot but no luck

Nice spot, took us a while to get this one. Tftc

A bit worried about lurking around a pre-school last time I was here, so didn't check as carefully as I might have.

This time I came on a Sunday so I would have plenty of time, so of course it took about 2 minutes.

Found, signed, another DNF converted. TFTC

2nd one this morning along this trail.

A quick find behind a loud day care. I believe o was just out of sight to make the grab and sign. Hardest part was getting the lid back on.

TFTC!

Couldn't find this one at all. Read the hint and looked for about 45 minutes but no luck.

Probably still there and I'm just going mad or blind. Perhaps another day.

Found this one, gps said it was on fence, but it's on the other side of track

I walked past in the afternoon and had several little kids call out hello to me from over the fence! Not the best time for a search so I’ll let this one go for today.

Found this as my final as I missed it along the way, a good bush bash straight over from patience and karma 3, and I was back on the track with cache in hand. I’ve left some swaps for the next intrepid geocachers in most of these apologise it wasn’t logged yeasterday

Tftc! This one was way easier than the last haha thanks

Hmm how did that get in there??
Jar was full of water but managed to sign the log. Tftc

Found it all good with TripCow puff puff TFTC

Found it with dutchaus yah

Nice hide

Reincarnated indeed
TFTC

Very clever! Thanks for the hide!

Nice easy one to figure out!TFTC

Venturing on from I this was a nice walk... with noise from the adjoining centre I arrived at GZ and found the container without issue....

A quick retrieval meant I needed zero patience here... tftc...

Quick and easy find.
TFTC

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

Found this one quite quickly, and also worked out a fast way to sign - but I guess the 'reincarnated' bit means it once was a different kind of container.

This one was rather quick. The exercise is doing me a world of good lol. Thank you

Found it good cache

More patience and definitely rewarded with karma. Thanks for this series!! Very cool

All of the geocaches in this series had great waypoints to help get us going and for those who might choose a variety of parking places, that was added in as well.
For us, the option of just doing a large and circuitous walk was a great option on this mild summer day.
Below us we could see what looks like a kindergarten or school. GZ was obvious as we arrived, and this time retrieval of the paper log was a lot easier with a particular TOTT we travel with.
Thanks D&Mocha. We are enjoying our walk through this beautiful area.
Domsky

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.
Arriving at gz I found the remains of what looked like a terrific field puzzle cache. Unfortunately what remained contained no log to sign, I added a piece of paper until this can be replaced. I am intrigued as to how this was presented, so unfair people feel the need to damage things they don't understand.
Thanks D&Mocha for the effort you have put into this series.

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.

i think this one had been muggled

is no 2 that's med mugged not no 1. I've done no one

Needs maintenance the puzzle is broken and not very inspiring unfortunately but great idea though

Found it

Good find but sad to see puzzle broken

Hooray thanks for share Deafgroup

Bummer broken puzzle
With Deaf Geo Group

Awesome hide
By deaf group

Got it with Deaf groups, sad damage TFTC

Nice place.

Oh no! It seems this cache has run foul of some evil spirit. Our original intent was to walk out to number III and grab the two caches on the way back but we spotted the cache on approach.

It was sitting out exposed without the lid although the contents of the cache were all still there the puzzle box has been smashed into pieces. The pieces of the box and the log were still in the bag but some numbskull has had their way with it.

We stamped the log and tried covering it up as best we could. On the walk back we picked up a heap of bark to put over the cache. There was a juice or medicine container which we weren’t sure was rubbish or part of the cache there as well. Maybe the geo-police can take finger prints off it to find the geo-crim who won the fight with this hide. Just eliminate me as a suspect first. tftc

Nice surprise! Needs a little bit of maintenance. Some moisture has found its way in to the log. Cheers!

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Wednesday. Good thing it was nice and cool today. Had a good time finding this cache and again, we soon had the log book signed and we replaced as found. Headed off down to the next cache in line and glad we brought some water bottles with us though.

This was the 4th of 10 caches found on today's trip.

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

Oh gosh! Nice easy find ttfc

Decided to find a few caches to help me recover from the flu and this set seemed perfect. A quick solve, the cache has gotten damp at some point though though there is no water now and everything works. TFTC.

TFTC smile 4958 found this cache Last week and I don't know why I did not log it. was out and about with Brislions and miss millie geo dog 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. #1669finds

Sorry for a generic post.

Last find for the afternoon before heading home. Realised this one would be a bit more of a challenge since clearly a lot of vegetation had been cleared since it was hidden and the new school had a full view of the Cache. Had to try and quickly retrieve this one as it was in full sight of the after school care groups and didn't want to seem suspicious. Sadly the Cache container was full of water and everything quite wet. I did manage to sign the log and return it and empty some of the water out. But couldn't do a good job as I didn't want to draw the attention of the staff at the school and cause any trouble. Will post a photo of wet container to C O. Tftc

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

Would like to have known what all the people were doing in the kindy. All mysterious and sect like I would guess. But they were happy doing what ever they were doing and leaving our little group alone. JACS Team quickly spotted the cache which has seen better days. Thanks for the puzzles 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!

Fancy looking child care / kindy being set up nearby.

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

Quick and easy find. Cache full of water.

Got it on the short walk

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.

There were nearby muggles at the kindy but they seemed more interested in our dogs than what we were doing, quick find and could sit on a nearby log to figure out the puzzle. TFTC

Very nice!
Added xtra log
All ok
Thanks!

I was going to walk past this one as a middle aged guy loitering near a child care centre is not a good look. But then I spotted it and ducked behind the tree for a quick solve

Thanks for the cache D&Mocha. This was find #4301.

Found with burgo78 on a great afternoon of caching
The obvious hiding place here
All good with the container too.

Thank you for hiding this one
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.
I have one of these waiting to be placed at home.
Tftc D&Mocha

Our adventure continues up the track with us looking at the new building, the playground will definitely be enjoyed by the kiddies. Krcamber reached in and was greeted with a swarm of bugs. Quickly signed and back in place.

Reezielou and I headed up the hill to this one, glad it’s a cool and breezy day! This one is in pretty clear view with the new construction near by but no muggles out this morning. Lots of bugs here but another good puzzle! TFTC!

This morning I drove to the suggested parking locations to collect a number of caches in the area. At 6 in the morning, with it raining on occasion I had the entire place to myself. At stages, I was walking with what felt like 2 kilograms of mud on each boot. By the end of the caching session, I could tell if I was wetter from the inside, the rain or the water falling from the trees.

Ok that one got me, especially after a thousand flying bugs swarmed from the hide. Great hide.

Note for CO - This might be one to watch with construction at gz. They have removed all vegetation right up to the path, and have bark in piles to spread. That means the new building will have full view of this cache.

Thanks for the cache D & Mocha
Hunter

An interesting surprise Cache in good condition.
Cheers

Tftc

Nice surprise well done Tftc

Awesome

Easiest one. Loved it!

Great Find...lots of development going on near cache, but no need to go inside fenced area!

Marching onwards we starting hitting some hills and it reminded us of the walk we had to do the previous night just to get back to our car. There was a Nazi standing at the carpark and if we were going to Pepe’s we were not allowed in so we parked a mile up and down the road, we all needed a breather on return to the car. And here we are again hitting the hills, this time with more pleasure as there are bits of plastics in here to find.

Arriving at GZ we made the find and were excited about what little puzzle there would be for us and we weren’t disappointed. We played the game and headed on to the next adventure.

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.
Well they seem to be marking out this land here I am not sure how exposed this cache will be when and if they start building here on the property downhill. More stealth will be needed or the owner just notified that geocachers may be creeping around here up the back on the fire trail border. This cache was quick to do, no brains required thank goodness. I am hungry and have not eaten all day after the trip to the dentist this morning. One more to go and a long walk back to the car. It is still only lightly raining so the ground is a bit slippery around here and coming down that big hill from P & K IV. I signed the log and added some treasures for fun. Great series of caches in here a tough walk with all the hills and slippery rocks but I made it out unscathed. Just the start of a blister where my gumboots have had the fabric wear of inside, they have done some miles, need a new pair. A fire truck went racing past so I was hoping it was not in this bush, but all is good. TFTC D&Mocha

Out with CoolumRoo and his family members Snowbear and Kiki97 on a Leisurely Sunday caching.The ladies like the interesting caches and I recommended these ones as I had found two of the series back in 2015.
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Onwards up the hill and it wasn't very far. The ladies sorted this one easy enough. Since I was here in 2015 the signs of progression are creeping in. All the adjacent land looks like it's going to be subdivided.

Cheers D&M

On the walk with dahumbug, Kiki97 and SnowBear. This was another easy find and we let the ladies do the honour of working this one out as well.

This area is great for a walk. And I do like the concept of this cache.

TFTC D&Mocha

AAAAaaaahhhhhrrrrggggghhhhhhhh.
You got me good on this one,having done all the others on this hill ages ago I needed this one and was prepared to solve a n opening,well ,it opened way to easy and.
AAAAAaaaahhhhhrrrrgggghhhh,ha ha ,well done.TFTC

Found with Black Flag 78 + ODST 501, TFTC

TFTC

On to this one after finding the first and we strolled along until we reached our destination. We saw something familiar and honed in and grabbed it out. Finding what we needed we opened up to a little surprise, lol. Signed the log and returned as found. TFTC.

Quick find and sign after a quick scare!!! Cute idea. Thanks.

Glad I didn't have to put my thinking cap on for this one, very cute cache. Thanks D&Mocha for the good hide and 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.

Trudged up the track from 1 and found this one after checking a few spots first. It seems that development will soon encroach upon this area, judging by all the pickets and markers around. The inner container sure had the desired effect on me!

Thanks **D&Mocha** for bringing us here, this find makes #3596. Discover our trackable TGQNRV.

This was a fun one! Thanks for the cache

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

Headed down to Bris for an over night stay from Toowoomba hoping to build a few numbers to complete a goal before an interstate trip. Second find on this walk and wasn't too long before I had made the find and signed the log. TFTC D&Mocha

Awesome cache. So much laughing was had by the group! Thank you!!

Found it

Hahaha great surprise for the boys!

Climb onwards and upwards. Oo that looks like a likely spot. Gave bennyboppers a bit of a fright. Tftc

Onwards along the trail, we spotted a likely spot for gz quickly and cache the was retrieved. Not too tricky here but a little surpise was in store for bennyboppers who got a nice fright. E all had a good giggle. Tftc

Out with lisylou, bennyboppers, jemillalucy and mnance101 for the Monday trek. Creepy crawlies not bennyboppers favourite, especially when they jump out. Puzzle easily solved, in and out in minutes.

Thanks Mandy for increasing the heart rate out with lisylou jemilalucy mnance101 and remsjw today tftc

Out caching with Jemillalucy, Bennyboppers, Remsjw and Lisylou. I opened the inner cache and got a small fright. I gave it to the unsuspecting Bennyboppers who screamed and threw it in the air! I loved it. TFTC!

Cache find #330. Good exercise to get this one. Left some fairy dust. TFTC

Quick find. There's development here. This might disappear soon?

TFTC

So far so good! #2. Trails ok. TFTC!!

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!
CrookedPete may have been heard to squeal as he opened this one - but he will deny it I am sure! Thanks for the cache.

After a paddle around to find Herbz Challenge this morning, Crookedpete, Swellerfungus and I headed over to gain some caching karma. We continued along the track to GZ and found the container rather exposed in its hide. Crookedpete opened this one but managed to avoid a chocolate pudding stain. I have a small wooden box at home with a similar concept that used to belong to my grandparents so I was happy for him to be the victim here. 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.

After a short walk from number 1, number II reincarnated was quickly dealt with.

Thanks D&Mocha

Pete

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