We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat #4 - Dusky Flathead Valentine, New South Wales, Australia
By the_garbageman on 17-Nov-15. Waypoint GC670WR

With some personal health challenges in recent years and growing kids with diverse sporting commitments, maintenance is not as achievable as it used to be. Indeed, my involvement in any form of geocaching in general is pretty limited at present, so I will create some space on the board on focus on ALs, which I dont need to maintain!

Quick find in the bush. TFTC

TFTC and a nice quick find with Deni-f this morning. It was already 30 degrees and only 9:30 am.

Find #1759I have solved all of these puzzles but some are difficult to find as they havent been found for a while. Seeing this cache found not long ago I came with techsavvy9 today and we made a quick find at GZ. Cache in good condition. The log was damp but fine to sign TFTC

While in Newcastle we did end up finding at least one of these cache.
I did plan on doing them all in the time I was up there but time does run out eventually and plans do change. The weather was amazing in our little trip up there with the sun shining most of the time, but without a vehicle it is a bit hard to get out and about.

Thanks for this cache the garbageman

LilDonna

Nice find, Thanks GJ

Got the coordinates, a lot of them on the map, then how to get to it? Hard way in (not too hard) easy way out. Read the previous logs and expanded the search area. It then became fairly obvious. TFTC

The puzzle had me stumped, and i could not see the forest for the trees. A litle hint from the CO helped me along. Haydos101 finally got a game in, at Warners Bay, and i thought this would be a quick drive by. Had to extend the search area around gz, but found it i did. TFTC.

A nice little puzzle and a simple find. TFTC

After not finding #3, I cycled further down the track to this cache, and walked into the bush to make an easy find. TFTC!

Found with banj ward a while back tftc

The second in the series complete. He has been left a little high and dry .TFTC and the series .

Arrived in Teralba yesterday after a long drive from Yass, looked at a few of a puzzle series solved a while back but not in the area to look for, so today we were taking an easy day caching along the foreshore.

TFTC the_garbageman
Total Cache Finds 7669

Found on Thursday afternoon after work with Beary_Unicorns. Be careful of the Orb weaver webs, visited trackables, tftc.

Solved with the assistance of others at the Mega event. Finally got around to finding it today while out riding.

Out and about with Tassie Trekkers and GulliversTravels54 finding all the We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat Series of caches while in Morisset after being in town for the OzGeoMuster. Thanks for showcasing this beautiful area and for the great puzzles. There are so many wonderful spots around the Lake. TFTP

Today was the day to tackle the "We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat" series with Gullivers Travels54 and whitewebbs where we found a variety of hides, some were more challenging than others and this was one of them.

Thanks "the_garbageman" for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

The Mega is over so it is time to find some more of the local caches and this was on our list TFTC

Found it with Crank1, Everlasting, Dranyer, skyejam & sevabo during "OZ Geo Muster 2018" at Morisset.

It has been pleasure to meet people here.

Logged as Deaf Group.

After this, we went to Mega event, saw the fireworks.

Thanks the_garbageman for bringing us here.

A lovely stroll

2 April 2018 @ 6:42 pm
Caching buddies: Moneydork

We split up now, in the dark, wearing thongs,I was not confident I'd find it.. but some searching and more searching revealed the hide!!

TFTC the_garbageman

I'm not normally one for night caching but it was something different and fun to do. Nice spot. TFTC!!! #1304

Day 3 of Oz Geo Muster and our team (RoddyC, Snickersallan and Bluewattle) headed out early to finish off the Geo-art caches we started yesterday.
We parked nearby and took the walk in to locate this cache.
Made a quick find, SL then returned as found.
Is a beautiful day to be out on the water and hopefully catching fish especially Flathead!
TFTC and the puzzles.

Caching as MCTeam consisting of Aussie Liahona, DiamonJs, Rusty85, ozglory, bobbiesgirl, Richmond Lad and myself. We had a wonderful time searching high and low for a variety of types of caches as well as seeing more of the beautiful Lake Macquarie. Thanks to all the COs.

Found with Gonefishen and Zoboo4 while at the MEGA.

Great day out with a great group of cachers, thanks for the hides. TFTC

Found with Freddo while attending the OzGeoMuster in Port Macquarie over the Easter weekend.
It was a fantastic four days filled with finds, fraternizing, Freddo and friends. Sorry for the generic logs as we found so many caches. Thank you for placing and maintaining this cache for us to find.

TFTC
Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

15,668. Found during the OZGeomuster 2018 with minniek and Family - and today's addition to the car was Albida33.

Mega Day 3 - Headed out early after a yummy Scout-supplied Bacon & Egg Roll. Our aim was a loop of the lake targeting a selection of caches, including this Bigger Boat series. Next stop of the day. Parked nearby and walked to GZ for the find. Signed the log, replaced the cache, and headed off to the next one.

Thanks to all of the COs for their caches !!

TNLN - TFTC !!

A big day caching with friends today as we continued geocaching while being in the area for the MEGA. Many hours already invested with puzzle solving we were glad the finds were not too difficult to make. We signed the log MC Team to save space in the logbooks which will be taking a beating this weekend. Many thanks the_garbageman for these caches!! They are in great locations around the lake. Cheers!

Headed up to the OZGeomuster Mega from Goulburn. Early start again for day 3. All puzzles solved prior and caches quickly found today unless otherwise mentioned. Signed log as AMF or MAFF (depending on who signed) for myself, fitzy_1965 and the geokids (B0tmun, Lovetherabbitohs, DeathKiller & my_name_jeff_1). Albida33 was our car companion today.

Found it with Everlasting, skyejam, dranyer, Pwala and crank1 during OzGeoMuster 2018 long weekend in Morisset. TFTH

We are staying in Morisset for the Mega Event.
Today we are doing the boat series with YoungOldFella who had solved all the puzzles. We are support Crew.
Thanks to all involved in the puzzles and placing the caches


Thanks for the cache the_garbageman

Mega weekend.. lovely scene .. Thanks for the cache and hunt

Caching day today while we stayed for mega
Accompanied with pwala,everlasting, dranyer , sevabo and skyejam
Log as Deaf Group
Found it
Thanks the_garbageman

My Apology for the cut and paste, but megas are a bit busy. Please don't think this reflects in any way on your cache which we enjoyed and wish to thank you for placing. Signed as MC Team to save time and log space. tnln sl

Oz Geo Muster weekend Easter 2018. Day 3. Today I headed out with Fitzy_1965 and Minnek for a lap around Lake Macquarie and lots of caching in the bright sunny heat of the central coast. This was the second series we took on today, and all the hides proved interesting and some a real challenge.

Thanks.

24884.84 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Nostradamus A#130

**Albida**

I had worked out all the puzzles prior to leaving home 790 klm away and armed with the corrected
co ordinates it was time to complete this series. Used youngoldfella in most of the logs but used YOF in any log sheet that was small or micro to conserve space on the paper. The series was great fun and some hides were easy some where tricky and one you got set. Pick the tide for this done. Apologies for the boiler plate logs. TFTC the_garbageman

Ozglory, joojoo57, Rusty85, DiamonJs, Aussie Liahona, Bobbiesgirland I (Richmond Lad) signed as MCTeam. Found these caches while at the OZ GeoMuster Mega. Thoroughly enjoyed doing these caches near and close to the water. TFTC

Had this series of puzzles solved before coming down to the Mega. Found in the company of ozglory, joojoo57, richmondlad, diamonjs, rusty85 and aussieliahona. Signed log as MC Team to save space.

We came across your cache, the_garbageman, during day five of caching during the Easter Mega.

Quick find.

Log signed and replaced at 3:31 pm on 1 April 2018. TFTC.

Third day of caching in the local area with geo friends on a beautiful autumn day.
Another good team effort in finding this one, beaut hide.
TFTC the_garbageman
Found April 1, 2018

Found with Zobo04 and Alansee We signed the log as GAZ . We had lots of fun exploring the area. Thanks for the fun and all the effort gone into placing them for us to find. TFTC

TFTC, Geo Muster time, found with Snickersallan, RoddyC and Patrol14

Find while in the area for the Mega event with skyejam, everlasting, pwala, crank1 and dranyer thanks for the series of caches.

Found during the weekend with a great group of Qld/NSW cachers we called the MC Team, sorry I am cutting and pasting but so many logs.. Loved all these hides and I loved the puzzles to. TFTExperience.

370 Stacer

The eleventh find of the day. This series was one solved before the mega event in an attempt to find all the caches in all the geoarts. We decided to give this series a crack before the event at lunch time and that turned out to be a good call. As we made our way around the lake, Loci612, buhfuhguh and I racked up the finds on this series. Each find had its own little challenge which made this series memorable and we were lucky enough to have found them all. TFTC the_garbageman!

Today was the first official day of the mega event and myself, Cankid and buhfuhguh woke up nice and early and were off by 7am. We had a pretty huge day planned which consisted of completing the "Bigger Boat" series, finding a few of the rare virtuals, attending the flash mob and then spending the rest of the afternoon doing the highly anticipated "OZGM" geoart.

We had a long and tiring day but by the end of it we managed to complete every single cache on our list and were thrilled by the results! Thanks to all the hiders and organisers! Cache specific log below.

*P.S* - Signed as **LBC** in the logbook. ( **L** oci612 , **B** uhfuhguh, **C** ankid)

*End of cut & paste*

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Another hide in the series I can't quite place my finger on, but by memory it was a quick find at GZ!
Thanks

So finally, after 5 weeks of torture I have hit the mid semester break for Monash University. And luck for me that it coinsides the Geomuster this year, so after working hard over the holidays I was able to put some money aside for my 4th mega event. Arriving to Newcastle Airport late on the 30th I only had a couple days off before heading home on the tuesday morning. Meeting lots of familiar faces and meeting many new faces was a major part of my first mega out of my home state. Eitherway with lots of caches done this weekend and not enough time to write up detailed logs for all of them (mainly due to my 3 3000 word geology reports due after my week break). But eitherway thanks for the caches/ event I had an absolutely amazing weekend this weekend and cannot wait for my next trip to the beautiful NSW and especially the astounding Lake Macquarie area.

Day 3 of the OzGeoMuster, and out and about with PommieParkin2 and megawat60, this time starting with what we are calling the “bigger boat” series, solved before we left.
Found by megawat60 not far from where we spied a big cache guardian lizard not far away. TFTC!

Out again with m4yb and PP2 for the Mega GeoMuster NSW. Central Coast 2018. A tentative reach away from the Cache Guardian!
Thanks for the smiley and hide

We are heading for the Flashmob with m4yb & megawat60 & collecting our bigger boat on the way. TFTC The_garbageman

Out and about during the Mega with the gang that tends to be more at home at Tizzana's Winery. Never caught a flathead! TFTC

Coming through with the team after signing in at the OZGeoMuster 2018 today. With all of the puzzles worked out prior for the OZGM series, today we collected all of those caches before grabbing some additional target caches for the day. Thanks for the cache the_garbageman.

The following TBs came through for the mileage: Bob geoMinion, Dave geoMinion, Evil geoMinion, Jerry geoMinion, Larry geoMinion, Mary Hyde's Treasure, Stuart geoMinion, teamMerlin's 7 Deadly Ducks Tag (Lust), Vanlith The Youngling.

#4929 (7 of lots and lots today)

After registering at the Geomuster I had two days of caching. Too many to comment on individually - if I'm to retain my sanity. So here is the cut and paste version!
So many there were times we just assigned one person to do logging duties - those saved seconds really add up compared to passing the log around!

Day 1 was Puzzle Day. A few sets were nabbed and it's really useful to have a squad watching your back. The finds just fly by. Mind you, the facts a number of them were park and grabs helped up the numbers.

The first day also included an event near the Geomuster site - I suspect the Club didn't know what hit them once we arrived in great numbers. What any club members normally there thought...

Day 2 was Lab Cache / Traditional Day. Of course other cache types were in the mix including a Virtual. A lot of driving around getting the Lab Caches (can I say the chips in the establishment near the Flash Mob were very generous in quantity and quite tasty as well).
After a series of traditionals in the bush at Mt Hutton it was time for me to head home.

Thanks to **TARDIS0061**, **EverestHigh**, **Brewmaker**, **The Bebes**, **Team Merlin** and **phlhotos** for the finds this weekend.
Of course thanks also to the Geomuster Committee.

Top time had. I'll have to do this again some time.

SLTNLN
TFTC

Now having caught up with all of the crew we tried to find as many caches as we could in a 12 hours of daylight this one fitted into our plan of attack so pulled over to get this one. A solution, which was nice and easy, for this one was made so it was included in areas we wanted to get too. Too many caches in a short period means copy paste gets used yoo often (about 100 in 12 hours)

Found the cache. We all signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for the puzzle series & getting me to come to this area after caches the garbageman

The following TBs visited for the distance - phlphotos 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017 NSW geocoin, phlphotos travelling 2012, 2017 NSW Geocoin, phlphotos Mary Hyde's compass, phlphotos Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, phlphotos, phlphotos Area 51 Tag, phlphotos backpacker canister cover, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Tag, phlphotos CITO Micro Geocoin, phlphotos Col Miner geocoin, phlphotos Four Elements Geocoin, phlphotos Optical Illusion Geocoin, phlphotos Trackable Building Brick, phlphotos Travel Bug Dog Tag, phlphotos Travel Bug Dog Tag, phlphoto Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, phlphoto Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, & Bamboo the Panda Travel Tag

log to follow

Hard to know whether to say that's an easy puzzle or a hard one...... it's definitely a sneaky one though.

Went to search for the cache with maccamob, DiMorgan, pprass and The Morris (D3 for today) and it was Bill/DiMorgan who walked straight to it. TFTC the_garbageman.

We are now camped at Morisset for the Geo Muster at Easter with our interim caravan.
Today we joined in with 4 other teams to primarily tackle the We're gonna Need a Bigger Boat series before it gets crazy at Easter.
A group of us had worked on the puzzles - man some of these were mind benders but with some persistence they were all solved for the event.

All logs have been signed with the infamous camping spot team name of D3 + Maccamob.
TFTC the_garbageman

Found at 2:01 PM GAFF1 in the company of The Morris, DiMorgan, geono and today maccamob. We signed our name as "D3" in the log sheets - which is the area that we are staying at the showgrounds
A very deceptive simple puzzle - giving it an FP.
Thanks the_garbageman.

Found by Mary & David, in company with pprass, The Morris, DiMorgan and geono (all logging as D3), at 1400. A fairly easy puzzle in hindsight, but not at first. Another fairly quick find. Even a bigger boat wouldn't be much use here though. Our thanks to the_garbageman.

Day 3 Mega
Today we were caching with pprass, The Morris & geono. We signed the log as D3
Joining us today was also Macnmob
Our 1st cache of the morning was up the mountain to have a FTF on Heatons Lookout. We then returned lakeside to complete a Bigger Boat series.
Thanks for placing this cache the_garbageman

Mr Minion and I came for a drive to find a cache or three today and have lunch together. This one had us walking in circles, the gps did not know where it wanted to go for a while and we found lots of spider webs in the process. Mr Minion made the find and we were of to the next one. Thanks for the cache the_garbageman tnln replaced as found sl

Finally after a bit of help, was able to get a smiley for this one while staying at Eleebana for a few days. Quick find but only after help with co-ords.
Thanks garbageman for another good cache.

After coming here last week for a walk, I checked for caches by had not transferred completed puzzles to my GPS. It appears that I am doing these in reverse order but I am doing these in order of difficulty, Nice quick find for this one, good clue. TFTC garbageman.

It was getting late for lunch and I couldn't spot this.

I will return.

Pre dinner this was a really quick walk to GZ and find. Shame I had to look twice!?! My bad.

TFTC.

Have had a great run of finding these one today. It's fun to do the puzzles and get the prize of finding the treasure

This one had me thinking for a while but then the numbers were clear. A lovely day to walk along the foreshore.

Had to get help from geo sister with this puzzle then found it

we stopped by to do this cache while here to do the havoc people choice award nominee and we couldn't just leave this cache for another time, a quick find was made after working out all the possible hiding spots that matched the hint. Found today with kingfisher-au, thanks for the cache and for bringing us here.

down in the area as part of the Havoc nominated cache awards. and done this before we left don't mind doing this type of puzzles keep up the good work

#501
The decision was made to brave the cold wind today and finish off the Series! Puzzles solved with a bit of guidance from CO at the last HAVOC workshop, which were great fun to do. Found cache quite easily. SL TNLN. TFTC the_garbageman

Found with a muggle friend on a lovely weekend staying up at Lake Macquarie. Worked these out several months ago but hadn't been back in the area until today. There are some spiky plants in there as my legs found out quickly Lots of picnic-ers in the park, but none near us. TFTC

Added a Check Sum to the hint section, just to help 'reassure' everyone that they have the right coordinates. If you've solved the puzzle though, you wont need it. Thanks everyone for the positive feedback about this series so far.

I left this series a while before attempting to solve them. While sorting through some NSW puzzles these came up and got solved. I really enjoyed this puzzle, had me stumped for a while.
After coming close for work I though I would finish the journey and find the cache today. A short drive and I was here. Obviously approaching from the wrong side, I went through lots of webs and managed to get two decent sized spiders on me (not the ones in leaves, had about a dozen of those today, but do not really count), which I managed to flick off with a stick before they touched skin, but I was still paranoid about any I may have missed until I got home and changed. Cache was found easily and I was on my way again.
Thanks for the puzzle, spiders and cache!

Find No: 5146. Started out as a lazy Sunday afternoon but ended up pretty busy dodging massive spider webs whilst looking out for Joe Blakes, thanks for the cache the_garbageman!!

Back my account, old profit was kamfindit...

was found with ALL7 in 2016,

found with kamfindit.. Thank

Took a couple of thoughts and ideas. to solve the puzzle. Thanks for an interesting time

Found today with Kamfindit. Nearly got ran over by a mad cyclist but made a quick find TFTC

Solver puzzle at home for a while ago, still working on and PTF for one hint advice, then realize to got answer, wow amazing... I never though that... VERY excellent job...
Anyway after found at #2, on way to next #4, hate lot spider webs through to GZ...
Nice hide well, sign the log with ALL7.
Thank you for it
Enjoyed all series well...
FAV POINT for you.. smile !!!

Found on a walk with the family on Christmas eve. I have past this area several times and thought it would be a good place for a cache I have even set an orienteering course in the area a few years back. Decided to attack this one after giving up at another one nearby. Was a little worried about my coordinates but on arrival spotted a likely location very quickly. TFTC. Will have to find another one in the series on our next walk.

Nice cache!!!!

We parked the bikes in the scrub, and bush bashed our way to an obvious GZ, the cache was found within quickly once there. Sneaky puzzle! TFTC
Left an LED keyring.

As others will do, I dived right in to solve this easy puzzle, but came up short. A number of avenues were checked for a way through with still no advancing. After quite a deal of hair pulling, I noticed something and soon had good coordinates. Today, we drove here and I again reluctantly entered an area where I was not comfortable on such a hot day, armed with a TOTT which was fortunately not required. The cache was seen in a likely place where I logged and hurried back to the air-conditioned geoMazda, in which MrsFish was relaxing and ignoring my complaints. Thanks again to the garbageman for a really neat puzzle and hide. Looking forward to more when they come out!

Reperio at 0610. *FTF*

I saw this puzzle come online yesterday afternoon, and although my initial thought seemed like it would be fairly straight forward, I soon noticed a problem with it. It was only a few more minutes after that did I realise what was required to solve it. This morning I got up nice and early, found a good place to park near the cache, and enjoyed a nice stroll to GZ where the cache was found safe and sound. A nice little puzzle.

Gratias the_garbageman.

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