The Unley Unicorn Blessing Unley, South Australia, Australia
By Ismartis on 11-Aug-15. Waypoint GC61E40

15:09We looked high, we looked low, we looked in, we looked out, but today there was no way we could work this one out! We're a tipp'n it's a miss'n. No blessing for us today and a D/T that we were looking forward capture.Anyway, thanks Ismartis for bringing us to this location. *This log composed and published using Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK).*

Quick find today.TFTC

Day #12 Leaping Forward AdventuresOne last day of local adventures with OzHockeyChick, GeoTurtle37 and Papi4506. Exploring targeted caches, favourites, D/T and others.We spread out and began searching with OzHockeyChick coming up trumps at GZ. An interesting puzzle here that took some formatting and wonder to deliver an outcome.Thanks Ismartis for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy. ----------------------------------------------------------The Ballarat GeoTour ends on 4 March 2024! Be sure to find all the caches and earn the souvenir before the tour is archived. The [Farewell Ballarat GeoTour Event - GCAFQ8B](https://coord.info/GCAFQ8B) is on 18 February 2024.Looking for caches to find when visiting Victoria? Why not check out the geocaching lists available on the [Geocaching Victoria Website](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists/). There are plenty to choose from including all of the previous nominees and winners of the Victorian Cache of the Year Awards.

As OHC worked the hint out quickly, the cache was found just as fast. Can't say the same for the solving of the puzzle. Thanks for placing this cache for all to enjoy.

Geoturtle37, OzHockeyChick, RoamingHowie and myself are out picking up some selected caches before we all have to go our separate ways.Had no idea what the hint meant but OHC worked it out quickly and found the cache with the same speed.Thanks for placing the cache for us to find.

Adelaide day four: Teamed up with RoamingHowie, Papi4506 & Geoturtle37 to find some caches of interest. I was in the company of one who'd pre-solved this, so was lucky to be able to sign today. I added it to my list of homework, and once home (now 2 weeks later) I have finally solved it, and happy to now convert to a smiley.Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, Ismartis ~~

Found during a somewhat spontaneous and impromptu trip to Adelaide for 'The Great Leap Forward' Mega Event. Made the most of the unique opportunity and had a very memorable experience! Teamed up with Loci612, DARKSIDEDAN and pantspeople. Thanks to all Cache Owners for their contribution to the game.A short stroll down the road from where we parked. TFTC

**Today**Leap Day has arrived! Today myself, DSD, Muppet95 and pantspeople teamed up for a whole day of fun! With the mega event opening up at 10am, we decided to spend the morning cleaning out the city as much as we could. 8-12pm was on foot walking around the city, successfully finding two webcams, more virtuals + ECs than we could count and whatever physical caches we could grab on the way! Afterwards, we spent some time at the mega venue doing all the labs + getting goodies & refreshments to get out of the sun for a while! The afternoon was spent driving from street to street picking up as many epic caches on our list as we could, caching until we were exhausted!Thanks to all the COs -**This Cache**We were blessed by the unicorns and the cache fell into our hands! Or maybe just pantspeople was blessed, whilst the rest of us looked in other useless spots that did not contain cache containers.

Hey another cache found by DARKSIDEDAN. Signed DSD. After D/T Loops today so needed this cache. Thanks

I made the find on this one. Teaming up with Loci612, DARKSIDEDAN and Muppet95 for the day. Nice hiding spot. Cheers --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In the spirit of reconciliation we would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country on which we geocache throughout Australia and their long lasting, and ongoing connections to land, sea and community. We (the pants people) pay our respects to Traditional Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

Found in our group of six Queenslanders unsupervised in Radelaide mega'ing. We've left Stacey's mom behind today. All logs signed or stamped as SQUIRM. Thanks for the cache Ismartis

The second full day in Adelaide for Six Queenslanders Unsupervised In Radelaide MegaingLast night we got to watch a couple of half naked cowboys demonstrating unicorn sex interspersed with some circus acts Fringe Festival Today its back to caching and its all about oldies, desirable D/Ts, rarer cache types and anything else that we stepped over on the way past with a plan to concentrate on the City we still managed to cache from Mile End, West Croydon, North Adelaide, Unley, Linden Park & Anstey HillA very successful and entertaining day spent hooning around in Stacey with absolutely no questionable driving or parkingI missed the Unicorn cache earlier today, but this was a late addition to the listAll logs stamped SQUIRM Thanks Ismartis Find #10913

The SQUIRM team has travelled from Brisbane for the MEGA. We are here for a week and a bit of Fun, Fringe and caching.Today sees us tackling some caches in and around the city area, we'll try not to get too distracted on the way in. Thanks for the cache.

Day 3 of Team SQUIRMs adventures around South Australia and today we are staying close to home, checking out Radelaide.A quick find here.Tftc IsmartisFind #5464

Found it I had an aha moment on this puzzle over the weekend, and the coordinates just fell out. Decided to swing past whilst the geokid was dancing for the find. aka the coloured mint tin by the sea peopleaka Minty ManTFTC Ismartis

Was in the area after work tonight collecting a couple of other caches so called by for this one.
A straight forward find in a logical spot
TFTC

Sir_spectre and I had stopped nearby to grab tea on our way home from a weekend of caching on Yorkes. A quick find

Another cache found with richlink during our 2022 South Australian Adventure.

Today we left Port Augusta heading for Adelaide picking up a few caches along the way.
Thanks to all the CO for placing these caches.

Staying in the Unley area a couple of days. This puzzle was solved in preparation for our SA visit. Headed to gz after dark when the traffic is lighter to record our visit. Thanks Ismartis

Found while caching with Wollaston and Liz&Bruce.

Thanks to the many hands and minds taking time to set out and maintaining hides and showing us your special part of the world

Log signed with group stamp

TFTC Ismartis

Find # 3528

Thanks for arranging and hiding. Caching with Wollaston and SeasonedBird.

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce. It’s a great day for caching. TFTC Ismartis
Find #5885 at 17:57.

A rather psychedelic puzzle and a find that took a bit of hunting. Went to GZ yesterday and found an obvious spot to hide a cache but it was bare. I was in a rush to get back to work during lunch so only had a few minutes to look, but gave up.
PAF'd a previous finder who confirmed that I was in the right location. Came back today and dug around in the leaf litter and uncovered the cache. Signed the log and reinstated it back where it should be. 11 months without a find, and the first find for 2020 - a little unloved.

Nearly 12 months ago I finally cracked this colourful puzzle. Today the was found. Having an allergy to unicorn hair I didn't hang around GZ for too long. Another day without a puzzle cache find now off the list.

Thanks for the puzzle and cache Ismartis

I have been to a few event where the posted co ords are of this cache, it was burning me to find it, tonight I was going past GZ and soon made the easily hidden cache.

On my way home claiming an FTF on a cache on O'Halloran Hill, I decided to collect a few others on the way home.
Thanks for the cache

Today I had a big lesson in ciphers. $&@#% was first and then this followed. In the end I did some brute force work and didn’t get my coordinates in the way intended but still worked them out myself. I then went back and got all the right info the proper way.
It’s a pretty, colourful and clever puzzle which I enjoyed playing with.
Called in at GZ on the way home from work and made a quick find in the obvious spot. Then home to cook the geohusbands birthday supper. TFTC and a nice lesson which has let me solve 3 puzzles today.

I had received a hint on how to solve this puzzle at a recent event so after some working out I had the coordinates...
Headed out after this morning's event with 3LG & earthlight to grab a few caches while the sun was kinda shining...
I was very pleased to find I had calculated the coordinates accurately for a quick cache find...
TFTC Ismartis

After the morning event I walked to this cache with hevwalker (who did the solving) and earthlight. We enjoyed a lovely morning strolling around clearing up some unfounds

TFTC Ismartis

Found with Hevwalker and 3LG after attending an event. Cache all ok. TFTC

25/03/2019

After the event - on the way home and detour, found signed the log as EV.
enjoyed the puzzle. [^][^]

Thanks for Ismartis for the hide the cache and hunt.

Submitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

With a bit of free time after being at Uni all week, I decided to head out and grab a few caches that were somewhat close to home. A pleasant afternoon was had as I made my way around the southern suburbs of Adelaide, picking up find after find.

TFTC

It was a wet morning, but that did not stop us. Out with an Owl, Snake and a Starfish attempting a number of DNF,'s. This was on my DNF list. Had some help in solving this puzzle, thanks to the patient Doctor Owl. The last time I was here the cache was elsewhere.
Today I found the cache on the ground.
Stamped the log and put it back in the right spot. Tftc

Learning that this had finally been replaced we quickly grabbed it while in the area clearing up a few DNF's. Cache was found lying on the ground. Log signed and cache replaced in a spot where it would hopefully stay. TFTC

We moved into the area about the time this cache was published, but I never got around to seriously trying this until last week. Not sure how I cracked the puzzle, but it fell out quickly with help from my unicorn-mad daughter.
A trip to some nearby establishments for needed supplies included a detour for a cache. Even in the dark muggles abounded, so it was a cautious find until they went inside for dinner.

Found while out caching with e.gregory1 early on a Sunday morning. Thanks Ismartis for the cache.

A return visit with EsromL this morning for a quick find after my previous DNF when the cache was missing last month.

Thanks Ismartis for the puzzle and the cache.

Owl was early to pick up Sushilord for a caching day out, so she detoured to find a cache that wasn't there last time she was here. Today the location was muggle free and full of a cache. Phew!

Had this one solved for awhile but after seeing a few DNFs decided to speak to the CO who said I could replace it. A great puzzle which I knew I would like as soon as I saw all the unicorns.
TFTC

A DNF for me here today.

found with getnict. Got permission from the co at a nearby event and replaced on the way home. The mini maker likes My Little Ponies and likes alicorns or pegasus more than unicorns.

Another dnf here. 3 of us had a look but to no avail.

When two caching friends ask Owl on the same day to solve and find a puzzle, it just has to be done. Fortunately the puzzle was easy, as she spotted the type immediately. (Let's not talk about the ones that aren't so easy.) Today she decided to do part two - the finding. Not so easy, with multiple muggles appearing from all directions. A PaF confirmed that Owl was looking in the right place, but unless it's been moved or she's cache blind, it isn't there any more.

So this puzzle was near by local food shopping complex, and so continued to entice me every time I was around the area. Staring staring at the puzzle until I could admit I was completely stumped and asked the CO for a hint. Thanks very much to Ismartis, who gave me some small help. Right, then had to do the hard work of putting all the pieces together and solve it. I worked backwards a little to then realize the required keys and huh, realised what I should have done (some major over thinking and searching not required).

It wasn't long before I was in the area of GZ passing through, so decided to take a look. Not many muggles at the time of my searching, but a neighbor was a little suspicious of my searching, and needed to tell him a cover story. Looking looking and needed to take a walk and returned. What does that hint mean.. Finally I returned to where GZ was taking me, and thoroughly searched. Found! Ahh OK, I'm still not learning as I only connected the hint post find.

All in all great puzzle (once I solved), appreciate the entirety of this puzzle, thanks! Ps didn't seem to see in logs that it got replaced, so I'm assuming the CO knows about this replacement cache?

We received an invite from brisal5 to come to town and spend some quality caching time to hunt down a few BFE caches, but of course there are always other caches that get in the way. Found on our way to Bobland. SL TFTC

I had mentioned that I was in the process of trying to solve all the Reel caches and wanted to have another BFE hunting day to get a little closer to Reel Nirvana. Muff1 wanted to do the same and so they drove all the way over from Victoria to have said BFE hunting day.
But first we had to get from my house to BobLand and that could only mean getting a few caches along the way.
Having got DNF recently here I returned with extra eyes. This time it was a very quick find. The C.O. had informed me where I went wrong.
Thanks for a great puzzle and cache Ismartis

Had to come to town to drop of some tax paperwork. Might as well grab a few caches whilst I'm down here. But did you ever have one of those days when you seem to find one, not find one, find one. This was one of those days.
After finding the first cache very quickly, reality set in. The Puzzle turned out to be far easier than finding the cache. It didn't help that every man and his dog and every woman and their baby in a stroller seemed to be passing GZ ever minute or so. After about five interruptions I decided I will come back later and try this to find this one. You pwned this noob Ismatis.
Thanks for the puzzle. I will try again later!

TB drop

Solved after a nudge in the right direction and took the opportunity of searching for the cache with a few minutes to spare before a nearby appointment. Thanks for the puzzle and cache Ismartis!

Great cache and a nice final hidey spot

One of 3 puzzles in this area that I targeted this afternoon. Not done a puzzle quite like this one but got there and made a quick and easy find on a quiet street late afternoon.
Thanks Ismartis

2nd times a charm, after my DNF how the hell did i miss that, i must need those pesky unicorn glasses. Maybe the unicorns flew away to a majestic place as they knew i was coming.
Thanks ismartis for the nudge and the cache

An epic DNF on this one during my lunch break. Was it due to cache blindness or doing over 80 hrs the past week? I will return for this one

I've been working on this puzzle on and off for months after being given a few hints on how to get started. I then worked through it a little more and put it away.

After further assistance to solve the puzzle, tonight I was with the lovely Micaparamedic (who Locus Cache and I brought over from Victoria) and we went to GZ and found the cache before enjoying an evening full of fun and laughter.

Actually on the way to the cache the heel broke off one of my black high heel boots on the paved footpath,[:(!] .... grrr.... so it felt like a long walk to and from GZ....but at least I grabbed the smiley!

Thanks for the cache Ismartis!

This one took me a long time. When it was first published I had no idea so put it away. [?] It was only after solving a couple of the CO's new puzzles that I decided I should revisit this one.
So after a small hint I was on my way, but it still took a while for me to work through all the steps, then another hurdle and duh why didn't I notice that. [?][?]
I think I need lots more practice with these sorts of puzzles.
So then it was a case of working through the symbols and yes some co-ordinates which I was very pleased about.
Tonight I had been out and decided to stop off and get the cache on my round about way home.
Thanks for the puzzle and cache Ismartis.

After solving his one a month or two ago, today afforded the opportunity to drive past this one on my way home from work. A quick and easy find at GZ. Thanks for the UniPuzzle. 18/05/2016, 5:00 PM Find #2155

A quick find early on a Sunday morning.

The puzzle took a while to sorry out but got there in the end.

Tftc

Thank you so much Ismartis for your clues. Have kept coming back to this over the last 6 months.
Finally solved and found.

This puzzle drove MM+2 crazy. So crazy we praised Noah for leaving the bloody things behind. We tried all sorts of things to get some numbers. We blame BFE. Working through his puzzles recently has scrambled our brain so we only see Bob-math and fudge factors in all the unknowns we look at. Eventually we bit the bullet, swallowed our pride and asked for a nudge. After a kind direction from the CO, we were back on planet earth (not Elsewhere) and after a bit of work, the numbers revealed themselves.

Ahhhhhhh! Don't you love that feeling when a close to home puzzle that has been driving you nuts finally goes into the solved pile.

The find was attempted today at lunchtime BFE style (it seemed the appropriate way to do it). I managed to take a wrong turn and although I was on the wrong road, still found a park a few metres from GZ. The hint finally made sense! Found in the first place I looked.

Thanks Ismartis and thanks for bringing us home from Elsewhere. I think we've spent too much time in the Northern suburbs recently!

My daughter helped me out with this one. Found it ok afterwards while dodging a muggle at her front yard.

Thanks Ismartis for the cache

Gotcha!

Unicorns! Unicorns! Everywhere! They're trying to tell me something, I can tell.

Tell me, they did. Listen, I did. Seek and find, I did.

Thanks Ismartis

ZZzz..

CACHING Member - Cachers Against Canned Hunting In Nomadic Groups

Catching up on lots of logging.
Found while out caching with Mattycat.
TFTC

A couple of caches to find with Sebastbat.
A blessing is also having friends who can decipher this stuff !
No magic horns were touched in the locating of the cache,
but it did make us smile
tftc Ismartis

Missed seeing them on the blue moon but we diid find the cache, quick find after a few false starts until we found the right way to unravel this puzzle TFTC Ismartis

This finding marked the end of an era for me... This is the neighborhood were I lived and worked for some years. And finding this cache pretty much at what used to be my doorstep was a cool way to say bye. Thanks Ismartis

Found at 15:18. Someone mentioned a hint in the text, but I still haven't worked out what that was. Fortunately, the only thing which made sense to me also happened to give the solution, and with the help of a newly discovered website, solved rapidly.
This cache happens to be just a few metres from my caching partner's former residence. She didn't seem very nostalgic, but perhaps that was because she found the cache before I could.
Thanks Ismartis

I had planned to attend a SALA event nearby that mysteriously wasn't on the day thought it was! So we found this cache instead! SL TFTC

Once I got onto what was needed, the rest fell into place.
Seen this somewhere before!
Stopped at GZ late this arvo and made the quick find.
TNLNSL
Thanks

In the area this morning so dropped in to grab this one!!!! A life of sex and drugs and rock and roll has left my brain so addled that I couldn't work out the hint staring me in the face ...... but I eventually got it!!!!! (Doh!!!!) Realizing I was now only a short distance from the CO's place I headed around to celebrate my find ....... armed with French champagne, Belgian chocolates and Russian caviar I hammered on the door but either no one was home or someone w.as hiding from me ....... oh well. Thanks Ismartis for the hide. This was one of six I did today ...... all MICROS ....... please make your next cache a brightly painted 44 gallon drum!!! Thanking you in anticipation!!

Another puzzle which appeared while we were away. While we have seen narwhales in the wild, an actual unicorn is yet to be sighted.

This blessing of 5 helpful creatures provided us with the opportunity to look for some numbers. The teamwork they employed was especially helpful and some information began to appear.

Eventually there was a sequence and a valid looking GZ. Into the list of solved but not yet found it went.

Today I found myself traveling between meetings and in the area so I stopped at GZ.
I half expected to see another helpful pair of horned creatures, but alas not today.

However I was able to leave the GPSr in the car and walk straight to the cache so perhaps they were there in spirit?

TNLNSL

TFTC and for the puzzle Ismartis

It's so fluffy!

I'm sure the unicorns made a come back with Agnes' song:
Unicorns i love them,
Unicorns i love them,
Uni-Uni-Unicorns, i loove them!

Uni-Unicorns i could pet one
if they were really real..
And they are!
So i bought one so i could pet it.
And it loves me,
And i love it...

A quick find and sign and then back to the fluffy geomobile.

TNLN, TFTC Ismartis

Cheers

Mr Tardis eventually got some sense out of the unicorns and headed off to the blessing.

You've got to love the multicoloured magic when you find the cache in the first place you look.

I thought I saw a unicorn once, but it turned out just to be one horse running through a field of maize.

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache Ismartis.

A frog meets a unicorn. There is smiling and celebrating. The ordinary folk are blessed with much amphibian monoceros benevolence. Woot. The Payero is cleaned of 40kg of little desert mud. Sturt lose the grand final to Port Adelaide. Woot. Woot.

BTW that logbook looks especially appropriate for this cache and puzzle.

CACHING Member - Cachers Against Canned Hunting In Nomadic Groups

Unicorns are real!! They are just fat and grey and we call the rhinos.

Puzzle was sorted in quick time (maybe just a tad longer than CoC) but I wasn't prepared to drive the 15.8 km required to chase a FTF. The football, basketball and rugby were all on. Too busy!!
TFTC Ismartis

Found It!
So we sat at the international caching day event and discussed this puzzle - small hints were given but we all had a pretty good idea of what it was we had to do. One for a day when I'm home with my laptop and have access to all that wonderful software on the internet that can make solving these easy. Then the stargazer wandered over and said \"I've found a bit of paper - let's solve this now!\". So we did - it took a bit longer than it should have but we got there in the end.
Then he rushed off to GZ at about midnight and got FTF. I took things a little more casually and went to GZ and 10am the next day and got 2nd!
TFTC

I'd just come back from the land of the Lion and the Unicorn and noticed this cache pop up on my email. How nice. I'd been thinking of unicorns and why they seemed to be everywhere I went (see pic of a good example). Still can't figure why I seem to focus on unicorns - however I focused on these after a sizzling Chinese chicken dish at the International Caching Day Event Dinner. Unicorns in different colours do have a meaning huh? And what colour is their blood? My thanks to LL for the cache page on the phone and to the restaurant manager for the piece of A4 paper. My thanks to the other solvers for not racing out for a FTF. My FTF a definite blessing in disguise. No unicorns tonight.

International Geocaching Day and what a fantastic day it was!
JM Minion (Mel) had joined us and then we met up with lots of other crazy water loving geocachers.
Brodie and I started the day with a kayak for me and a couple of swims for Brodie His choice, of course!
The rest of the day consisted of watching a star kayak capably across a lake, walking to a cache near the International geocaching Day tea event as a pre meal constitutional, enjoying a fantabulous evening meal and endless laughs at Asian Central followed by JM Minion (Mel) scaling Mulligan and Mini Moo's and then a just after midnight FTF on a blessed unicorn to complete the day,

Luckily for me, providing Astro with a kayak so that he could cross a lake earlier today to find a cache led to him sharing the solution of this puzzle with me
I had wondered what Laighside Legends and Astro were busy consulting about during the tea event, now I know.
Since JM Minion was travelling with me, we followed Astro to GZ and made a very quick find as the cache was exceedingly obvious
I wonder if the unicorns had been pawing at it[?]
Expecting to see other names in the log book due to the exposed cache, we were thrilled and surprised to share a joint *FTF*
The magic of the unicorns must have protected the cache from other searchers
Ismartis, your ability to solve and create puzzles is impressive! [^]
Thanks for the lovely ending of one day and the beginning of the next

TNLN. SL. TFTC Ismartis

Despite the name of the cache I was pretty sure the secret message was more of an elephant or deer type of puzzle. A single horn just does not suffice.

I had 24 minutes to kill whilst waiting for our son and as it turned out that was exactly the time I needed. 8 minutes to solve, 8 minutes to drive to the cache and 8 minutes to get back. Pretty Black and White really.
Bless you Ismartis.

It was me flying solo after Mr Minion went home after an amazing very busy Very LOUD dinner at Asian Central leaving me to watch and find my feet and voice to chat with the many cachers at the event after some tree climbing by torchlight Team Astro and Locous took me with them to find a unicorn sharing how to solve the puzzle which was cute and very difficult Thanks Ismartis Joint FTF just after midnight TFTMC

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Solved - but no chance of getting there for a FTF