It's a zoo in there MacGregor, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By injuryman on 23-Nov-15. Waypoint GC679WC

I worked this out a while ago, and today I had some time to go caching. There weren't a lot of animalistic cache guardians. Not sure if a single Pie-dish beetle classifies as "Zoo".TFTC

Finally got my name in the logbook. After getting to the waypoint, I managed not to read all the instructions. But today, coords were sorted and I made a quick find during a mini mission with AngelG27 in the northwest area. TFTC injuryman

Yet another tricky puzzle that took a little help to solve. Back out again today for a quick and muggle free find. TNLNSL TFTC

We have had this puzzle solved for a little while, so it was good to get around to the multi part of this nifty mystery-multi. The puzzle was superb in our eyes, given we love any kind of wordplay.

Today we first thought were at GZ when we had only reached WP1, given we forgot about the multi part of this hide. The required info was soon within our grasp and we took the long way round to the real final location.

Once there, it took us a bit of searching at GZ but we got there eventually. No trouble from passing muggles thankfully. TFTC injuryman. TNLN.

Solved this one during the morning, while figuring out what to do for the day. We had solved one like this before back in our home town, so quickly had the coordinates required. Clever!
Today we went to WP1 and GZ on the way home and found the cache, signed it and returned before the mugglers past us. TFTC and puzzle.

Found while out and about with a caching buddy. Reasonably quick and easy find at GZ. Thanks, injuryman.

More to come.

This one has been in the solved pile for too long so today was the day to collect it. Fun puzzle to solve. Tftc

Solved long ago. Tonight, I needed a non-trad so this fit the bill. A short walk with G, La_Shee and the geodog and cache was soon spotted. I think I may have found a trad in this area in my early years of caching. TFTC

Cold brisk walk out to this one. Thankfully I had read some logs and realised that I had to do another step at the waypoint before GZ would finally reveal itself. Got that all sorted earlier today so it was a nice fast find tonight between the muggles. Took the TB will continue it on its journey.

Decided to check by and drop of a TB, and much to my surprise, on the way back onto the path waited for a passing car.

I made the same mistake as many others by nit reading the description properly! I solved the initial problem some time ago and arrived at WP1, puzzled not to find any rocks. But I PAF to confirm coords and then discovered there was more to do. Gathered the info, worked out GZ, but it started to rain so I headed home. Back this morning and still got pretty wet in the long grass. Nifty puzzle and nice walkonin

Condition Report:. Good and dry
Log Status:. Lots of room

Thanks for hiding this cache KingPin4

Bringing Pebbles to training is always a good excuse of some caching especially after sitting in front of the comuper all day. Not too many caches left in Belconnen though today I found some of the last once to the west. Both very good and fun though.

The puzzle for this one had me wondering, after reading some logs I though I had an idea what to do and tried to make that work but it was the wrong track I was on. Eventually I wrote the CO and he brought me back on track by giving me a hint. It still took sime time to work it all out as some were quite tricky. I was very happy when it came together and the checker confirmed it.

Yesterday then I was bumped at WP1 ( which I first frogot too even though I had red it so often) , noticed my mistake and found the info need quickly, by then it was dark and I left the rest. Today I was keen to check GZ and made a find here realy quickly. Very happy about that after the ticky Dingo Stash hide I was fearing the worst.

A really nice puzzel well done and a good GZ, I just have no idea why there is a WP1, especially so akwardly placed, maybe some historical context of the cache? I think I would benefit from taking that WP1 out but in any case the riddle deserves a FAVpoint.

Thank you injuryman for putting the cache out and maintaining it and thanks for your help when I was stuck.

Take GeoDog walk to park and make quick find it.. thanks

I solved this one soon after it was published, and stashed it away for my next trip to that part of town. The puzzle was fun, working out what the story was all about, and pulling the coordinates out of it.

Finally made it here today, and after hunting around for a bit and reading past logs, I finally realised it was WP1. But that didn't help me, because the instructions on what to do there were buried down in the waypoint description, which I didn't dig down to on either my GPS or phone. Oh well, looks like it'll have to be another trip, on another day.

Great little journey to find this one. Loved the puzzle

In the area with [@trodectus](http://coord.info/PR8JTE0), he had previously found this one. Arrived @ WP! and obtained co-ords for GZ. After a short walk, arrived and soon had CIH. Log signed and returned. TFTC

Good puzzle. Quick find. TFTC.

Found with LaurenKatelyn and palm23011975

Had some spare time so decided to start solving some puzzles. Made the find today with epzccc131 and palm23011975. TFTC

This one (and a few others in the area) had been baffling me since I moved to this side of Dunlop (at the end of 2015). Then, at a recent event, I was chatting to Trodectus and he gave me a small hint as to what I may have missed/not noticed, when looking for the way in ... so obvious in hindsight - how did I not figure that one out?! lol
Anyway... a quick bit of solving on a bit of paper while looking at it on my phone, and I came up with some numbers that the checker liked
Cool, I can grab that whenever I feel like a walk, or a stop on my way home... so, a couple days later I ducked down a side street on my way home from work... and (like a few before me) wondered why GZ seemed to be so far from the thing that matched the hint... a quick read of some logs and I soon realised it helped to read, and fully comprehend, the listing.
Numbers soon found, and back to the car for some paper, and I had some coords, which I entered into the app on my phone... Oh? Way over there? Surely not? So I re did the maths, and got the same answer. Figured I might have to go for a walk out that way sometime, when it wasn't about to get dark soon ... but it didn't seem quite right...
A few days later, on my second of 2 days off work sick (recovering from the attack of the snot monster), I decided to have another look at this, and see if it was my dodgy math skills that were the problem - did the maths again - got same answer... Had another look on my phone - and it was then i realised my maths was probably ok, but I had somehow typed in a number wrong... Oops!
... Fixed that, and suddenly the location of GZ made a lot more sense... and, it was somewhere i could go walking to this evening, while i have my usual weekly walk/phone chat with Mum - so, that is what I did
I got to GZ and realised I probably should have put a torch in my pocket with the pen, but in the end it didn't matter - found it quite quickly with my phone torch. Was just sitting there opening the cache when 2 dogs came running by, which I became aware of when one came running up and licked my face to say hi... so I got to have a quick doggy patting session too ... Once the dog owner had finished walking past and was out of sight, I signed the log, replaced the cache, and continued on my walk
TFTC - glad to finally turn one of those annoying question marks into a smiley at last. And, an evening walk, with some Geocaching therapy included, actually made me feel a bit better

Found at 9:41pm

Out for the second day of our Canberra blitz picking up puzzle caches that have been worked out for quite some time - some of them so long ago they've even been forgotten by this time. Anyway, this go around we flitted from suburb to suburb picking up park 'n grabs (or very nearly so) clustered around the northern end of the ACT. By no means a power trail as most were scattered here and there higgledy piggledy which turned into a slow moving day in terms of overall numbers but we were thorough and painstaking enough so that at the end of the long day we still managed to scratch our way past the sixty-cache threshold, which was about ten better than we'd hoped to do. A few finds turned out more challenging than we wanted but overall everything was found in short order and without major difficulty. Well done to the CO's on that score. Apologies for the copy n' paste logs - most puzzles deserve a few more words than this - but gathering in a couple hundred puzzles in a short span of time amounts very much to binging the area leaving little time to reflect on what brought us here. Not to worry, tho, everything has been well worth the effort, and will bring us back several more days before we're done. TFTC.

Another day spent ticking off solved Mystery caches in Canberra with 154Crows. It's been very rewarding to convert hours of puzzle solving into finds. This time around, we tackled the NW section of the ACT. Again, we had another big day - 61 Mystery caches (10% of remaining) with 0 DNF's!! Thanks to all CO's for their puzzles and hides (apologies for the generic logs).

Like many before us, we nearly forgot that our coordinates were just for WP1.
Final GZ was quickly calculated and the cache was found soon after. TFTC

Found at 12:43:00 PM

GZ is close to WP1 (in a straight line) however getting between the two is less straight forward. I too was tripped up thinking my coordinates were GZ and not Wp1. Soon got that sorted. I just LOL'd when I read the description of this cache to find that I beta tested it 2.5 years ago. I guess I don't make it out to belco too often. At GZ it didn't take took long to find even though there was a lot of rocks!

Thanks KingPin4

TFT puzzle cache ! First one for me and a good brainteaser too - solved with darkmadviking

Second go. It helps when you realise what you thought was GZ is just waypoint 1.

Great puzzle, and fun finding. Cheers Injuryman.

Another that I worked out a couple of weeks ago, but today was the day. Enjoyed the walk however could have done without the high 30’s temp. Either way enjoyed the mystery and thanks for the cache!

Checked today, cache is still there in good condition

Solved the puzzle and confirmed correct by geochecker. But no luck at ground zero. Two of us pouring over GZ for about 20 minutes and no result.

Perhaps it's not there?

I actually ended up quite enjoying this puzzle. Although I could see what was needed to be done easily with this it was what to do with that information that had me blank. So this ended up being one of those half solved puzzles I kept looking at then loosing the information for so in the end I decided to write the information down in my puzzle book for safe keeping. Best decision I made and as each part was discovered so was the solution to the next step, so simple really! Wasn't all easy though and some of the information for the east coordinates keep me working around the red herrings until finally I had them all sorted. I have been saving this one as a close to home daily find and now that the streak has met its target slowly collecting the saved caches as the streak keeps going to its next target (its hard to stop that streak!) Thanks for the cache injuryman.

Solved this last night, which felt pretty good. I don’t know how many times I looked at it and dismissed it. Finally something clicked as my tired blurry eyes looked at it again. Could it be? Try the next line, there’s another one! Yes! A couple of lines took a little longer, but simple deduction gave me what I was looking for. WP1 was all good. I had an idea of what I was looking for before I got there and was right. Was not feeling the best, so drove closer to GZ to make a straightforward find. Very clever and I’m so happy to have worked this one out finally! Tftc!!!

Was in the area yesterday, and totally overlooked this one in my solved list. But I was in the area again today, so managed to collect it! A nicely put together puzzle. Thanks IM.

#7741 - 14:30; After a few days in Victoria, it was time to remove a few more solved but unfound puzzles from the 'to do' list. The weather is no better than the bleak and showery weather further to the south, but undeterred, I set off for Belconnen on a mini mission. After enjoying success at the first stop, I headed off towards an area where I have cached before to give this one a try. I found myself in a familiar parkiong area and soon made my way to GZ. I spotted the cache lying a little exposed, but in its hiding spot. Signed the log and added some cammo to conceal things a little better before heading off for my final stop for the day. TFTC injuryman

Armed with a long list of unfound caches, Decrypter and I started in outer Gungahlin and worked our way through Belconnen making finds of the outstanding caches. TFTC injuryman.

Now this was a hard puzzle for me! I needed to ask the CO for assistance but I was eager to solve it so I could clear out his puzzles in the area. Once he gave me a few hints I was on my way to solving it. Wow this puzzle is very well done, it must of taken a lot of time to construct it I was thorooughly impressed!

It took me a while to solve it and the geochecker said no 4 times before I had to go back. Finally with a final push the puzzle was solved!

Thanks for the cache, I will give you a favourite point for this puzzle as I think it was well written and had me stumped for a long time

Great little puzzle. Took a geokid helping me to crack it. Fun find

With a day off it was time to visit a few local recently solved puzzle caches. It was pretty hot out in the sun but apart from grass seeds at all of them it was a fun afternoon caching.

Thanks.

22525.3 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2006 Satellite V4 A#60

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#7006 @1905
I bumped into AngelG27 at the Mall, and mentioned the puzzles I still had to do in the area. A few hints were dropped so I spent the rest of the afternoon attempting to solve them. I succeeded with some and got no where with others. As it cooled down for the evening I headed out to find those I'd solved. I collected the info at the WP and then drove to GZ for a quick find. Solving the puzzle wasn't as straight forward as it first looked. Some extra animals were getting in the way. but I got there in the end. TFTC.

Finally some sunshine in Canberra Decided to grab a couple geocaches today, some in the company of FFLL2 and others were done solo. Main target today was the CITO event, cant turn down the chance for a new souvenir [:o)]

I looked at this puzzle a couple of times before the penny dropped, ahh cheaky cheaky Today I went off to the corrected coordinates in my GPSr and started looking around. Doh silly me, I thought I was at GZ but I was at WP1, so after a quick look at the listing, i gathered the required information then plugged in the new GZ into the GPSr. Oh rightio, off I went. Well even then, I still managed to mess up the entry into the GPS and buggered 1 number so I was still in the wrong spot. A quick check on calculations and re-entered again and yep finally ended up at the correct GZ. Cache in hand, signed and replaced.

Thanks for the puzzle and the cache injuryman [^]

A neat little puzzle with a theme seen a couple of times before.....might even have one myself that is similar!

Once the fun of working through it was done, I kept it for a day when I was out this way, and that was today. Parked in a very familiar spot and took the 130 metre walk to GZ. A bit of looking and the cache was soon in hand.

Thanks injuryman......liked it.

10428. Found during a run up this way after work.

Having solved a couple of local puzzles I detoured on the way home for three caches. Having recently looked at this one and seeing the very clever set up, I spent some time on it today and came up with WP1 - happy with that !! Parked near WP1 and grabbed that info. With GZ calculated I drove around to within about 100m and walked over. Had a bit of a poke around and came up with the cahe - nice !

Thanks injuryman !! Very Nice ! Favourite Point !

TNLN - TFTC !!

Have looked at this on and off a few times and had a few ideas gleaned from the logs but nothing was making sense. Then it was a case of look at it often enough and it will start to make sense. I wish they all were like that... But on Saturday morning we managed to spot something that soon led to the puzzle unravelling. We came up with a couple of alternative answers and stumbled again when we forgot the offset but eventually the checker gave us the ok. Today in the area we quickly found the waypoint and calculated a GZ. A quick find once we made it around. Thanks injuryman

Knowing that I would be heading out this way this morning I had a go at the zoo puzzle and surprised myself with a correct answer reasonably quickly. So, armed with the goods I managed to grab the WP1 info and proceeded to GZ for an easy find. I enjoyed the puzzle thanks.

Went for a little walk today with may_45 to take her to her first few caches
TFTC

Found with Army_Stealth
Had fun doing it!
TFTC!

Thanks to Trodecrus for solving this one, and thanks to injuryman for the puzzle and cache.

Found with Decrypter. I had looked at this puzzle briefly a few days ago. Today I had a bit more time, the penny dropped and I had the correct co-ords for the way point. I also noticed lots of red herrings. D and I headed out and soon had the final co-ords. Soon after we had CIH. TFTP and TFTC.

We solved this one a little while after it was released and as we had a client around this area decided to collect this one as our daily.

We arrived at WP 1 and had some difficulty obtaining the details for GZ. The details need to have some maintenance as they are difficult to read. Using what looked like the right set of numbers coordinates were calculated and went off in search of the goods. Not able to locate anything we had another go at reading the numbers, coming up with another version and another set of coordinates. This time we had the right set and soon located the container.

TFTC injuryman

On the one hand, more caches popping up in my 5km radius means more caches to find but on the other hand, it means more caches to find .

Recoginsed the style of puzzle after looking at it for a while, having recently done a similar one north side, so it did not take long for the Coords for WP1 to be magicked! Bobl27 and I headed there this afternoon and found the numbers easily enough, but I had a mental blank and input the Coords into my GPS incorrectly. A walk and time for my head to clear allowed me to correct the error and derive a much more feasible GZ.

Cache was found quickly due to the tell-take cache sign

Thanks for the cache and the opportunity to hone some puzzle solving skills!

(565) *FTF* @ 5:55 am.

I got the notification for this while I was out. One of my friends saw the mixed looks of excitement and disappointment on my face. So I explained a bit about geocaching, and the race to FTF, and how I was excited because I thought I could see how the puzzle worked, but I was disappointed that I wouldn't have time to solve it and grab the cache tonight, and therefore was unlikely to get the coveted FTF prize. Having said that, as soon as I got home I fired up the 'puter and started working on the puzzle. On my first run through, I had gleaned most of the required information. After a second run through I believed that I had all I needed. The geoChecker said yes. (I'll have to figure out how to put a geoChecker in one of my caches these days. Very useful things.)

I woke up early, before the malodorous wind had exited passer domesticus, and headed out in the geomobile without taking any repast. Just a sip of water and it was Speedy Gonzales out the door. At WP1 I found the information I needed, and there it was off to GZ, where I realised that I had managed to score a very rare (for me) first. Coordinates seemed spot on although I didn't let the GPSr settle - cache senses took over as I neared GZ.

Took TB.

On the way back to the geomobile a passing police officer gave me a 'what are you up to at this early hour of the morning?' kind of look.

Tks injuryman. It's just possible that I've seen this type of puzzle before somewhere . I really enjoyed the solve and the find so one favourite point coming your way.

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