BRIGHT SPARK Vasse, Western Australia, Australia
By heidiseeki on 27-Sep-15. Waypoint GC645G0

Today is the fourth and final day of WAGB 2024. TaurusSix and I created a general plan about how we would focus our geocaching time today, to make the most of the day. We decided to focus on collecting our most different types of cache finds in a day statistic . Our record is currently seven and we figured by leaving unfound all the different types from Augusta and a few back up the highway we could make eight . This also would mean we could collect the long outstanding challenge cache in Busselton which was requiring for five different cache types in one day prior to collecting the challenge itself . The day commenced well as we had saved one of the Adventure Lab elements knowing we would need it for today , followed by a multi, then a traditional that we had saved for today then on to the final event for four days of WAGB. During that we collected a near by Letter Box, which even though it was technically a night cache, with a little bit of improvising we were able to locate it. After that it was back down the coast to the tip to pick up an earth cache and a virtual cache. We then left Augusta to hit the highway and stopped to pick up a small stretch of puzzle caches on the Wadandi Track just north of Witchcliffe. With eight types of caches under our belt we collected a few more stragglers around Margaret River before heading to Busselton to collect the aforementioned challenge another couple of puzzles and a really tricky Pood cache that has had us stumped for quite a while, we were super happy to finally find that. All in all a wonderful long weekend of geocaching before making our way back to Bunbury. This was our sixteenth cache find of the day , we had solved this puzzle a little while ago and today we parked up and walked nearly a km along the bike path to the gz. We enjoyed the walk ,perfect weather and muggle free. At gz we soon had cache in hand. Thanks for the cache find.

Dopo aver passato la mattinata a loggare Challenge ed il mezzod in spiaggia a prendere il sole e nuotare nel mare, nel pomeriggio dobbiamo andare a Vasse perch BA ha un appuntamento con il chiropratico. Prima della partenza vedo questo mistery, i crociverba numerici mi piacciono assai, lo risolvo ed inserisco le coordinate pochi minuti prima della partenza. Mentre BA si fa curare, mi sposto con l'auto fino al parcheggio. Una camminata in stile nordic walking, una firma e torno velocemente a Vasse.Ciao e grazie. #10990After spending the morning logging into Challenge and midday on the beach sunbathing and swimming in the sea, in the afternoon we have to go to Vasse because BA has an appointment with the chiropractor. Before departure I see this mystery, I really like numerical crosswords, I solve it and enter the coordinates a few minutes before departure.While BA gets treatment, I drive the car to the parking lot. A Nordic walking style walk, a signature and I quickly return to Vasse.Hello and thanks. #10990

Solved this one before heading to Busselton for a concert and some caching. Pleased to report all is well here. Picked up a few weird grass seed balls on my shoes getting to GZ but happy to make the find. Tftc

Down in Busso for the weekend, and there's a few caches on my hit list while here, including a bunch of solved puzzles, some completed challenges and a few unloved hides Of course there is always room to squeeze in a few more that I'm passing, or happen to be nearby Was a little apprehensive here as it's been quite a while since any finds, and a year since the CO checked. But guess what - it was a very fast find in the first place I looked! No problems here at all - TFTC

Checked on this cache today and all is as published. Exactly in the same spot and in good condition. Happy hunting

Have to check on it at earliest opportunity. Suspect it's gone ... yet again. Sorry

Find 7 of 16 with three DNFs on a warm ride exploring Busso's bike paths from Southern Stars campsite to East Busso and back.

Solved a while back, first chance to visit - nice easy find!

TFTC heidiseeki!

Found today thank you

Took a little while but found it in the end. TFtH!

Found whilst out on an extended weekend road trip to Busselton, Dunsborough and surrounds with I C Nothing, Meme28 and geotrakka. Signed log as KAMEINGT.

Finally our girls weekend has arrived Kapelula, Meme28, Geotrekka and I C Nothing are heading south with four full days of caching to celebrate some birthdays and geo milestones. We have been puzzling like crazy in preparation so our aim is to find those caches and everything else that takes our fancy. Maybe even a challenge or two. Signed log as Kameingt.
Nice puzzle and a nice hide.

Heading south with Kapelula ICNothing and geotrakka (KAMEINGT) on our girls weekend.
Another smiley...

Out on a girls long weekend away with ICnothing, Kapelula and Meme28. Thank you to all the c/os for placing the caches and creating the mysteries. We are logging as a team KAMEINGT to save time and paper. Hoping to hit some milestones along the way.

Loved this spot, and solving the puzzle to lead us here, TFTC

Quick trip down to Busselton and surrounds. Managed to snag a few caches. Great to see a few of the 4wd tracks and Cravo’s new car handled it well.

Out on a caching run in the Southwest, recently getting two new toys I wanted an excuse to use them and try them out, head south was a great reason test the purchases.

TFTC with Never2old and geo dog Opal

Having worked out the required information, very happy to find the cache and claim my smiley tftc

Hi there heidiseeki.

We found your cache **"BRIGHT SPARK"** at 7:16:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 23722).

The day promised to be another warm one, so we decided that logging some solved puzzles would be nice. We thoroughly enjoyed our drive, walks and the scenery - even though the flies were particularly "sticky" today.. We found 5 caches & DNF'd 0.

Thanks for placing this cache here. Over the years, Geocaching has taken us on many adventures and to lots of wonderful destinations all over Australia. Without 'caching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our nomadic wanderings. 'Caching has also introduced us to a diverse group of like-minded people, many of whom we now call friends.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache around 3m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The cache was soaked, we spent some time drying it out, but it still needs some "Owner TLC".
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Smiley Badge.

Thank you heidiseeki for adding to our adventure.

Regards

Ian & Penny

Clues have been reworked. Necessary because of the disappearance of "Contact"

Disabled as the coordinates to find this cache were obtained by solving and finding "CONTACT" which has been muggled out of existence.
An edit of this cache's description will be published very soon as the cache is there in good condition.

The information obtained at "Contact" ensured a suscessful attempt here.
As has been mentioned the logbook is saturated and unable to be used. We placed a small notebook and plastic bag in the intrim.
Thanks for the cache.

Accompanied with everlasting and Varuna
Found it
Thanks for the cache

Day 4 of our stay in this part of the world and out n about with megawat60 to put more smilies on the map.
Yeay, love it when a plan works and I make the find. TFTC!

Second day of the WAGB weekend and out with m4yb for a few caches around the neighbourhood.
Geo sense got her there in the rain.
Thanks for the hide and smiley heidiseeki.

Enjoyed the walk down to the cache and got the find.
Was able to add my name to the damp log but didn’t have a replacement on me, dried out what I could in the short time I was there. TFTC.

Checked on it. All good at mozzie-central.

Was meant to come down this way yesterday to grab a few caches with Rach2 but weather prediction wasn't the best so we canned that idea.

Mr dimor had work done to his car the other day and needs to do a 1000 kms then take it back to get checked so we decided last night we'd come down here today and grab my last few smilies to get all my souvenirs
That was after he fixed my computer so it would download to my gps

A quick find here then met up with Mr dimor who sat in the car waiting for me to finsih my walk in the rain

TFTC and puzzle

All caches replaced as found

A quick find after gathering the required information.
Day 2 of our Busselton caching trip. Picking up solved puzzles and trads along the way.
TFTC heidiseeki this is find # 4751 for us.

Went back to contact had co-ordinate in hand had pretty quick this time and then picked up bright spark tftc

Found the CONTACT and soon found out the coordinates for this hide, and after a walk we found this without problems.
TFTH

We finally got around to finding this after getting bright spark a few months ago.
TFTC

Had planned for the last week to do a day trip down to Augusta to pick up the caches there and a couple of others on the way. The weather was terrible when we left early with torrential rain and thunder and lightening. We decided to still go and by the time we got to Augusta the weather was fine and we were able to get most of the caches on our list. There was lots of muggles everywhere we went but most caches were quickly found with a few that took a bit of searching. Thanks to all the CO,S for placing these caches for us and everyone else to find.

Finally had the opportunity to finish this mystery double having solved Contact two years ago.
Had to ask the CO for a hint and are a bit embarrassed given my occupation is closely related to the cache title but was lucky to pick a random block on the board and soon came up with a green light.
Then it was off to GZ on the bike and had the log in hand soon after.
Sheet was a bit damp but signing accomplished anyway.
Thanks Heidiseeki for a good pair of mystery caches.
fave point for this one

Oh my goodness, what a pigs ear we made of this one! Not the COs fault it's a great concept & cache BUT these two hot & tired old so & sos struggled...mainly due to her poor eyesight & his poor listening. We got it in the end though. TFTC

With the info collected, I headed down to log this find. Took a TB. Thanks for the hide.

Thanks, this was good fun to find. This path is a great walking track I had not been to before. Great hide, great puzzles. Left a trackable

Thanks for taking us here again heidiseeki. We visited Contact a little while ago, running out of time to find Bright Spark on the same day we left it. Since that was a few months and a new phone ago I'd lost the coordinates. So today I enjoyed a walk to Contact to find the coordinates again then back to BrightSpark. I had a rough idea where it was but needed to narrow down the search. Enjoyable walk with a crazy border collie who could along run the path. The coordinates were spot on and took me to another interesting spot that I had thought of putting a cache myself.

Found before I lose the coords tnln all in good order

Tftc and the tiger snake was not necessary nearly made contact

Nice one. Thanks for the hunt

Had this one solved some time ago, at last we can come and claim our smilie. Well done heidiseeki.

Happy to have claimed this one as part of my busy busso challenge. Another cache I have saved especially for this occasion. A great spot that our Geodogs appreciate too. Tftc heidiseeki.

After finding the cache Contact we worked out the coords to find this cache! A short walk to gz and had cache in hand in short time! Thanks for the cache!

Checked this morning and it IS there.

It is not at this location

22362 found
Enjoyed wander around the country and search, found and signed the log. [^] [^]
Thanks for organising the cache, heidiseeki

Integrity check this afternoon revealed all ok at the cache. When going for this cache mind the rather sticky grease used on the nearby fittings.

After finding CONTACT in 2015, it was time to complete the pairing and locate BRIGHTSPARK in 2016.

Thanks heidiseeki for the cache.

Very much loved this lil series!
However at this site- there are several potential decoys very close by that appear to be insect traps/poisons ??? Just have a looksey before poking about ...

Great little series had fun with my boys looking for these to. Left TB pelican. SL TFTC Heidiseeki

An afternoon caching, this was an easy find. TFTC

Loved this one!! Tftc

Loved the whole concept of this cache. Got rather damp on the walk to this cache. A little surprising for November

Time to return for the companion cache to CONTACT after running out of time yesterday. Such a great cache that led to this one, and another clever hide to back it up. Can't wait to get some more spare time to find the rest of the caches in this area. Tftc heidiseeki

A great idea, loved it. Thanks heidiseeki

In my usual style, I have fallen behind in my logging, yet again. Had an awesome day of it though, and am happily recalling the day now that I have finally got around to it. I enticed geobuddy Mark into coming down with me to do a bit of cache maintenance and find a few of the newer ones in the Bunbury/Busso area. The feeder cache to this one was definitely the "cache of the day" for both of us, but this one is special to me too. The CO knows why. So another favourite point for this one too. Thanks heidiseeki

Loved this pair of caches and enjoyed the short walk. TFTC

A successful solve at Contact gave us a good set of co-ords and made for a quick find here.

Decided that this needs to be renamed Mozzie Gully

Thanks for the puzzle & cache heidiseeki [^] all was god & dry.

After working out the previous cache it was a simple find amid the mozzies. SWAG left. TFTC

Published

Yet ANOTHER FTF for Pood. Very well done. Next time I put one out I will avoid the school holidays

A nice start to the holidays with a FTF here today.
Lots of colourful wildflowers out on this track.
A great way to use the tool and came up trumps with the cache.
We had looked at this spot for placing a cache ages ago so we had a good idea where to look.
Thanks for the cache Heidiseeki.