SSE #3 Wellcamp, Queensland, Australia
By Brother Colin on 03-Apr-17. Waypoint GC7394J

Fixed

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 146 - Toowoomba Day 2. For my second day in Toowoomba, I wanted to do some of the SSE Enterprise series. First I crossed town to do a set of Labs at Picnic point and try for a couple of caches along the way. Then it was all the way back again to get to the SSE series. I managed to find 20 of them and really enjoyed the sections on the quiet back dirt roads. I spent a quiet afternoon at the van in the Show grounds and cooked dinner. Tomorrow is the drive to Brisbane in time for the GCLogan events.The first few around the airport made me feel very exposed, then there were some on the side of a very busy road, but at least it was possible to get well out of the way. Once I turned onto the side dirt rods, it became a really enjoyable experience despite all the flies. This was a great set of puzzles that were done in the lead up to the mega back in 2021, so I was glad to get to some of the caches today.Thanks for the cache Brother Colin49137.5 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & August 2020 Mothman A#425**Albida**

Finally we came down to Toowoomba to get some of this series.Puzzles were solved partly with help of fellow cachers, Today we started collecting them. Mostly we found them within 5 m of our GZ, some were a bit further out. We signed the logs, and added where necessary a new one.TFTC Brother Colin

We spend three nights in Toowoomba to clean up the leftover and new caches. Found the cache with TBU1BIKESU and signed the log.Tftc. Brother Colin

Having found SSE2, SSE5, and SSE6 previously, we knew what to look for here. Mrs George found it first. Added "G.M." to the log as we will do for most of the other micro logs today. TFTC, BroCol.

### GeoArt Enterprise ###We have spent some time puzzling and researched the GeoArt Enterprise puzzles in the run-up to our tour.At some point we reached the point where we had run out of ideas for a few caches - and we asked for help - which came immediately - thank you.Soon we had all the solutions together and we drove towards Toowoomba to visit the Enterprise.We travelled from one cache to the next throughout beautiful natural surroundings - it took us a total of 2 days to complete this great circuit.We were able to find all the caches quickly, a few took us a little longer to find - but no problem - we had a lot of fun. Almost all the cans are in a neat and tidy condition - I just wish that all cachers would fold the logbooks neatly and hide the boxes back in the fence holes - then the logbooks won't get wet so quickly.Thanks to Brother Colin for this great GeoArt EnterpriseWe are happy to spontaneously pin a favorite point on the Enterprise here and thereTeam sissifalke

The Star Ship Enterprise always needs maintaining to be able to travel the universe safely. I do appreciate your NM logs.This cache has experienced a programming error (aka a puzzle storage problem).As you may have noticed many people supplied puzzles to build this Geoart. If you have a suitable 'SPACE' themed puzzle of difficulty 4.5, please message me.Cheers

When Mr SKI first noticed the SSE geoart he immediately recognized the Enterprise. Star Trek was one of his favourite shows as a young person and he is still regularly known to watch re-runs and repeats of the movies. He has even introduced the show to our grandchildren who enjoy it.Solving the puzzles was another matter and took a long time and a lot of effort. Plenty of time was spent during Victoria's long Covid lockdowns!Finally we have made it to Toowoomba and today was the day we set out to find the caches. Having solved some quite some time ago we had to do some recalculations on the run for a few, but we also managed to perform some basic maintenance on a number of others.A long day for us as they were spread more than we had imagined, but we managed to finish just before dark.Well done on a great series.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Brother Colin.**SKI Pair****

Today I decided to restart finding these caches. Lately I have been working on caches north of Toowoomba. But having cleaned up most apart from a few sections that I cannot take the geo pups, its time to refocus around home. Noticed that the sound file was bust and that the coords were easy to access. Could not pass up this opportunity to find a 4.5D cache. Thanks Brother Colin for the SSE aeries that continually grows my puzzle skills. This was a quick find on the way back from taking the dogs out for a run.

Hi Brother Colin. The file referred to is apparently no longer available. "error 404" no longer available. I've tried two separate web browsers.

I had solved this series some years ago so it was good to find a few this evening as the roads were quiet here, all cache found art in good condition here.Up in Toowoomba for a night for an interview hired a car to come and check out an area I had never been to before heading out to Dalby day 2. Nice to see some new parts of QLD.Thanks for the cache

Almost gave up, but geo partner spotted from car. Found with Daltzfam.

Searched for a while. Almost gave up. But then spotted from car.

We stopped here, and after a bit of a surch, we found it signed replaced as found. P.s. we did have to widen our surch as our gps had us 9 metres away.

I started working on solving the puzzles in this series a few months ago and left the hard ones until last. As time was fast approaching for our trip out here it was then a bit of a frenzy to get them all solved. With some nudges and a bit more for some of them we arrived with a list of all the caches solved. All good with this one, log signed and replaced as found. Thanks Brother Colin for each puzzle and cache.

After the recent dnf I headed out to check these caches.
This cache is still in place.

DNF

Dnf

Nice quick find. TFTC

Found while on holidays from Mackay with alphag_25. Slight change in the original plans with heavy rain and thunderstorms forecast for Easter Friday we started out early to get as many as we could. Caches all logged 7/4/23 however found over today and yesterday. Some lovely back roads travelled, stopped for a picnic on the side of the road where we found some mown grass and had the farmer come out and check us out making sure we hadn’t broken down . All caches found quite quickly, lots of long grass but thankfully not too many people about. TFTC.

6 Apr 2023 GC7394J SSE #3

micro mystery cache 4.5/2.0



TFTC SL after completion of puzzles.



Geocaching with mackay_geocaching whilst on holidays. Travelling down from Mackay Qld through Rockhampton, Maryborough (JBF Mary Poppins GeoArt), Gympie, Wivenhoe Dam Kayaking caches, Toowoomba (SSE GeoArt) and Sunshine Coast. Doing as many as possible mystery caches, virtuals and earth caches and the assortment of traditionals. Checking out he local tourist items and got a Camel ride at Summer Land Camels Harrisville.



Thanks Brother Colin for placing this cache for our enjoyment.



Checkout the GeoArts in Mackay,Qld Region, GEOCROC and FRESHWATER.







*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

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It’s been a while since we have been in the area and with work getting us close we did the rest. Being time poor we only cherry picked a number of caches from our solved list. TFTC

On the road again, heading to Charleville for Qogm.  Did your SSE #3 today.  10 September 2022 2:51 pm Tyfc  Brother Colin  total caches now  5205  .

Tftc Brother Colin,

After many months of discussing a group attack on the SSE with my geocaching friends, we spent hours working on the great puzzles in preparation for a great day out. The day arrived, unfortunately I was not able to join my friends that day, but was lucky enough to attend a local event that evening and met the CO.
Back today with my trusty Geopup to see how many SSE caches I could collect. I had a great time enjoying the beautiful scenery on the lovely country roads. So glad I could get out here and collect them.
Thank you Brother Colin for a terrific series, the effort into putting the art together, creating the puzzles, placing and maintaining these caches is sincerely appreciated. All caches were in great condition after some recent maintenance.

tftc

TFTC

***COs- still haphazardly trying to catch up on my massive logging backlog stretching back a number of years. It started as a series of unfortunate events and went from there...I'm logging this cache on the day I visited, apologies for the late log.************************************** Beamed myself up here mainly to do the ??SSE series with hatzofff, RoddyC and Imbunda. ??Went star trekking around the countryside finding all of them over 2 days. Star logs replaced in a fair few of them.???????? ?? No Klingons on the starboard bow or anywhere else, just a little mud which I know to avoid like the plague around here. ????????Some of the puzzles were easy?? and others were a steep learning curve?? in some of the tricks of computer technology???? which challenged my dinosaur brain!?????? TFTC??

What a huge day of star trekking across the Oakey landscape. Wrap speed back 12 months and after a successful weekend caching in Stanthorpe, our little group set lasers to stun the enterprise. But too many battles with Klingon's and Romulan’s saw us constantly regrouping to finally get a free weekend to launch an attack. A sip and solve session prior gave us a good jump into the completing the puzzles.

The weekend was set and included an event organised to celebrate the reconstruction of the enterprise. We had allies from all over the countryside to congratulate us on a job well done. We had the captain of the enterprise (Brother Colin), attend the event and who may have been overwhelmed by the attention he received.

The drive around the countryside was spectacular, a little muddy in some spots from the recent rains but it was fantastic to see the area in a green, lush, splendour, add to it the flowering jacarandas, beautiful.

The puzzles and complexity of some was awesome, a very good learning curve for a non-puzzler, lol. Brother Colin explained the hides and I could now see the reasoning to the placements and the thought process behind the whole geoart. We found all the caches and even found some with new logs, thanks to some other cachers on the trails as well.

It was a great weekend with lots of laughs and antics from everyone. Thank you Brother Colin for a splendid piece of art, the unlimited puzzles and headaches and some nice placements. For me it was a very good learning tool as well.

TFTC smile 10359 3 day weekend out and about with Hatzofff RoddyC Echocage1 Imbunda no miss millie geo dog this weekend great friends, great day ,good weather love the area (day1)plenty mud and a little rain just to make it enjoyable
Thank you, Brother Colin, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Eleven months ago, after a weekend in Stanthorpe, a group of us mentioned the SSE as a geoart goal. After many distractions along the way, we finally had a date. Lots of learning when completing the variety of puzzles, some easy, some a lot more difficult for a beginner solver. With everything solved, we were on our way and ready to meet at Oakey with Chamad, Simber15 and Nayfee.

Lots of mud. So much mud. But all were found and the mission was completed. Thanks Brother Colin for the effort that went in to completing this geoart. We love geoarts because there is a sense of completion.

Caching today with RoddyC (designated driver) echocage1 and GS1947 aiming to complete SSE trail and attend the event.

Thank you for keeping this series going.

Yep. Found at last.

TFTCache Brother Colin

A plan had been put in motion and the almighty team (TripleTurmoil, Simber15, Chamad and myself) beamed onto the StarShip Enterprise to put the the poor bugger back together again, with a bit of tinkering here and there the ship was in tip top shape ready to explore the unknown and to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Thank you Brother Colin for placing and maintaining this wonderful GeoArt for us to enjoy, we had a fabulous time exploring the area.

#2486 - TFTC

Having run a 'Sip and Solve' puzzle solving session online last year during lockdown the GeoArt had been on the to do list for a good year. A plan was formed more recently to camp at Oakey over the October long weekend (due to Ekka being postponed) and tackle the art. The call went out to a few others we enjoy travelling with and the solving began! Lots of back and forth between members and we finally had a full set a few days out from the trip.

We met at SSE 6 and formed a plan of attack on the best route to collect the art in a day. The roads were wet and muddy but that isn't going to stop a group of dedicated geocachers on a mission! The rain held off which we were grateful for however chunks of mud were often shaken off shoes before returning to cars and moving on to the next one.

As is always the case when caching with others there were many laughs and a great time had by all. Always a great sense of achievement when you've been working through a project over a number of weeks.

Thankyou for placing and arranging this series for our enjoyment. The fields and flowers were in bloom. Birds a plenty enjoying the roadside water sources. The scenery was refreshing. Always enjoy a taste of the countryside.

Muggle65 and I are on the long drive back to Brissie from Cunnamulla. We really needed a break from driving and grabbing a few caches seemed like the perfect thing to do. We had a few solved puzzles to grab and went for those. Thank you so much for the cache and the break

Solved these during the 2020 lockdown. Today I finally got the opportunity to begin signing the logs.
It was a great drive in the country, quiet roads, cattle horses and sheep to entertain us.
Found all of these that I attempted, some logs were quite full but I also came across som newly replaced logs.
A lot of copy and paste logs here. Apologies.

Thank you for hiding this geocache Brother Colin
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Cunnamulla here I come.

Day 1 the long drive. Today’s mission was to grab high D/T caches. From Ravensbourne, Oakey and Wellcamp then out to Cunnamulla.
Lot of caching all containers good.
Thank you for the enjoyment

Today, with Adelaidean e.gregory1 travelling through Queensland, I decided to catch up with him in Toowoomba. We had both worked through the *Starship Enterprise* (SSE) puzzles, and so that consumed the majority of the day in finding. Following that power trail, we used our remaining daylight in walking around Mount Peel to collect a few of the interesting cache types and challenge caches. We then had a fast food dinner, and we used the remainder of the evening finding additional challenge caches in north-west Toowoomba around Cotswold Hills and Torrington. An enjoyable yet exhausting day!

A number of these puzzles were enjoyable to complete, as I had seen many of the puzzle solving methods previously, but a few of the higher difficulty puzzles did require some outside help. I had solved many of these in the last few years, and I had prepared to visit Toowoomba in Easter, but that was prior to SA friends turning back during the COVID-19 lockdown.
This SSE series has got to be one of the toughest power trails that I've done. It took e.gregory1 and I a total of 6.75 hr, starting at 09:15, and finding our final cache at around 16:00 hr, but that did include a needed half hour lunch break. The cache locations weren't the most logical (favouring the second or third post in, rather than a corner post, for example), and the caches were just so small, that some required a bit of time hunting. Then there was the trouble of extracting and reinserting the logbook, and use of the waterproof paper took time. Furthermore, as the geoart was over so many sections, it was difficult to get some momentum (although I did enjoy the rest that it provided in between). There were some roadworks in the area that required us to stop/slow a few times, and perhaps they wondered why we made random stops whilst crawling along, but otherwise most of the roads were quiet and allowed us to complete this series in peace.

We parked nearby, and looked over to where our coordinates were pointing, only to find not much around. It appeared to be 50/50 to the nearby structures, and unfortunately my first choice didn't yield success. So we searched the other structure, where we yielded the cache container, about 18 m away from the calculated coordinates? For the record, an additional offset of S +0.009' E -' should be considered. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks Brother Colin for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Found on a day out in the Toowoomba area with Davidwazza.

I am currently travelling from Adelaide up to Cairns to meet up with friends later in the month. I’ve got plenty of time to get there so have been taking the opportunity to do a bit of sightseeing and find a few caches along the way.

I was intending to do the SSE geoart series and Davidwazza was also keen so we met up early this morning to tackle it. After a cold morning, the sun came out and it was a perfect day for caching.

Most of the caches in the geoart series were found reasonably quickly and were in reasonable condition, although most of the logbooks were full.

Thanks Brother Colin for the puzzle and the cache.

This type of puzzle was a first for me, definitely needed help with it. Once I got on the right track it was exciting to get some coords out of it! Came out today to fill a calendar day, so close to finishing this series! Tftc and puzzle BrotherColin

# 13947 Found and logged at 7:40:00 AM
Out on the SSE trail while in Oakey for a few days
Beautiful weather to be out and about
Thanks for the cache Brother Colin
Lgoody

Easter trip away (in the hopes of getting into Qld) with fitzy_1965 for the cacheQLD Dayboro Mega.

Up early to head over the border thanks to the Qld Premier. Headed through Warwick to Toowoomba then onto the Mega site in Dayboro.....a long 14hour day.

Met up with nibletricecakes & GLISS! to do the SSE series and singed logs as MiNiFiG!s to save space.

Nice quick find unless otherwise stated.

23,898 Found with minniek on our Dayboro QLD MEGA Adventure trip. For this series we also cached with Nibletricecakes and GLISS! to form and sign as MiNiFiGS!

With the sudden COVID outbreak in Queensland putting the Mega in doubt we decided to head up to the New South Wales / Queensland border and see what happens, while developing a Plan B (Longreach region) and a Plan C (New South Wales counties loop) ! Day 3. With the announcement that things were mostly returning to normal we decided Plan A still looked good. An early start today with an aim of caching our way through some counties and catching up with some caching friends to do the Star Ship Enterprise series, then head to Dayboro to set up camp. This was the next stop for the day. Finally started on the long anticipated Star Ship Enterprise series as Team MiNiFiGS! All finds were made nice and quickly without problems unless otherwise mentioned. We parked nearby this one for a quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache as found, then headed off to the next one.

Thanks Brother Colin !! As a long time Trekkie I really enjoyed solving these and completing the GeoArt ! Please forgive the generic logs.

Took some hunting for this one. Coords were out.

Signed today as MINIFIG! as I teamed up with GLISS! Minniek and Fitzy_1965 to tackle the SSE. Great to be finally in Queensland with our eyes on the Mega Prize.
This is the first Mega we have had in Australia in over a year. We have navigated lockdowns, mouse plagues, floods and the dreaded Covid to get here. Great to be able to be out caching in Queensland. Such a privilege. Thanks for the cache.

Hitting up the SSE trail before heading to Dayboro. All caches were quickly found unless otherwise indicated. Caching in a group and signed as MiNiFiGs! Cords out by 10m. TFTC

TFTC. WE were in Toowoomba on the way to the Dayboro Mega. Decided to pull up at the Showgrounds as there were 5 blue faces on our map fro two years ago. In 2019 we had completed all of the SSE bar the 4 caches near the Wellcamp airport, which were buried under mulch. Made the day finds this afternoon after setting up camp.

Geoturtle37 and I set out this morning to see how many of this series we could put a smiley to. There were so many done in quick succession that I apologise for the generic logs. We will put a summary log at the end.
Thank you for all the puzzles. They certainly took some time.

Papi4506 and I are making our way towards Dayboro for the Mega. We weren't sure if we would make it as we are being detoured often due to flood waters and then there is Covid. Oh well, we won't know until the day so we are determined to get as close as we can until we get the green light.
Unfortunately, we haven't been able to do as much caching as we would like as we have had to spend a lot of time driving around the flooded areas. Obviously if it is flooded, you can't cache but the cache may have floated away anyway.
This is a series that we had completed before we left Melbourne so, as we were close by, decided to give it a go. We only gave ourselves a day but there are only just over 100 caches, so we thought we would do it easily. Famous last words I must say.
We couldn't find four although one was an error in calculation on our behalf. I don't think any PAF's were used. It is a little hard for someone to help when all you are really looking at is fences, light poles and grasses higher than me in some cases.
The weather was great and we found a nice place out of the wind with a reasonable view to have a bite for lunch.
We should have hurried earlier in the day and then we wouldn't have had to find the last couple in the dark.
There weren't many muggles around other than us having our timing out and being near a school when the dismissal bell went. We met a few tankers on our travels but the day was uneventful other than our caching.
Thank you for the time and effort that has gone into creating these caches. We thank you also for the money that this has cost and another thank you has to go to you for maintaining this series for us and others to find.
Although we didn't use a PAF for the finds, I definitely sought help to solve some of the puzzles.
Thank you.
(My apologies for the generic log but it was a great day that was reasonably uneventful)

Day 2 of a run around this series with LuckyL10n. Started early and had the last 65 caches in the series in the bag in just over 4 hours. Lots of back roads travel, lots of tall grass walked through, but most importantly, all caches were found.

Thanks again for the series and the effort in placing them all.

#10717 - 12:02:00 PM; Day four of a road trip with Sol de lune as we head north for the CacheQLD - Dayboro Mega. We had to spend an unscheduled night in Goondawindi due to road closures caused by flooding, but finally reached the Starship Enterprise trail and made a start yesterday afternoon. After a night spent in nearby Oakey, we learned that many businesses refer to champion horse Bernborough in their names! Heading out early this morning, we managed to collect the remaining caches ion the series. Most caches were located and signed without incident, although a couple took a little longer. Apologies for the generic logs. TFTC Brother Colin

Visiting Toowoomba to find some caches to help with achieving a milestone. Quick and easy find. A lot of my finds today I found that the logs were either full or wet. I wished I had spare logs to take. Signed log and replaced all as found.
Thanks for all the hard work getting this Art set up.
TFTC

On our geocaching adventure today this was our first cache of the day. TFTC

Out for a girl’s weekend with traboo to finally collect the caches of this series! Lots of fabulous puzzles to learn from and great country outings to collect. Thanks BC for this awesome geoart!!

Enjoying a girls weekend away in Toowoomba with my mate Gcoven to master the SSE geo art series. Enjoyed learning more about puzzle solving and finding some interesting locations

FP here for the puzzle. So much fun and we learned a lot about puzzle solving.

I AM GUR

This was a fun puzzle, and I enjoyed playing around with it. Eventually had the answers, however, d'oh! Read the updated listing. At GZ, we were stymied, until a closer inspection of the description gave us an inroad as to what we needed to update. Within minutes the log was signed.
We drove via Toowoomba about two weeks ago on our return trip from Canberra to Brisbane. and collected just 2 in this series. Clearly this needed a very long day or two of caching to collect all, so we decided to come back. After a very early start, we put a plan in place to work methodically through the roads and lanes to collect as many as we could.
We began solving these puzzles just over 3 years ago. It has been a long task, as we decided not to come out and collect until all were solved. Today was the day!
So many of the puzzles have challenged us, and we have certainly acquired more caching skills through perseverance with these puzzles.
Great to be back in Toowoomba for a visit.
Thanks Brother Colin. What a cache-hiding legend you are!
Domsky

It has been quite a while since my last finds in the SSE Geoart, lately I have been focusing on the last 50 puzzles but there are many left unsolved that can wait for next time. Unfortunately I missed the recent zoom puzzle solving session which would have really helped.

Today Willpunkey, Scoob and I set off to find the caches. While I did all the solving, they did most of the finding which was mostly quite easy because of the quality of the coodinates. Thankyou Brother Colin for the series and all of the puzzle designers.

Puzzle: This one had me baffled me a couple of years ago but this time with the right research I discovered the coordinates
Hide: Quick find

Found with MalDawg

SSE#3 is my third find for today. Not planned that way at all, I've only just noticed now that I'm home and logging my finds. TFTC.
The following is padding to get my word count up for The Author Badge my stats on Project GC dot com. Today's plan started out as getting as many different types of caches in one day as possible. Then I changed my mind and decided to go for quantity over quality (mainly because I didn't want to drive to Brisbane) just because its the 29th February, and if I ever want to double up on days found in my Finds by Found calendar, today would be the best day to do it.

I loved the puzzle and learnt a few more tricks for working out coords solving this one. The find was quick. Favourite for the puzzle. TFTC

Solved at homework a while, trip to qld for weekend to do catch UFO run series..
great enjoyed drive with hot day with ALL7..
sign the log with good dry..
TFTC

we solved at homework a while, trip to qld for weekend to do catch Star Trek run series..
great enjoyed drive with hot day with 63ROOS.. Thanks

100 Puzzles in a day - the final frontier. To boldly go where no Prime has gone before. They say Resistance is futile, so here we are - Fangsoki, 1MinnieMoo, Crew153 and myself. Noone wearing a red shirt. The SSE series has been on the collective radar for some time, and with group effort the Starship was exploded on our maps, and a trajectory was calculated through which it could be repaired again. Today is a a good day to cache!

Live Long and Prosper Brother Colin. I have been and always shall be your Prime.
*{Overall find #7305}*

Gentle cache owner, please forgive my generic log

Pprime, Crew 153, 1MinnieMoo and I undertook to get a large amount of caches in one day. We did this in the the Toowoomba region - starting with Brother Colin's SSE series. After returning to Brisbane, 1MinnieMoo and I continued to find caches until late.

We enjoyed all the caches and appreciate the effort of creating and maintaining the various finds we made. TFTC

11/1/20 Find #3158
A decision was made that today Fangsoki, PPrime, Crew153 and I would head out to grab the SSE caches and in doing so get at least 100 caches in the day. Well this betters any previous day’s caching count by far, as my best was 36. So, at some unhealthy hour of the morning, the alarm went off, followed very quickly afterwards by a message from PPrime to say he was on his way - 15 minutes ahead of scheduled time. Well that got us up and moving fast!
But on our way we soon were. A short while later we had collected Crew153, and after a bit more of a drive we began our day. It didn’t take long at all for us to start racking up our numbers, and despite a few DNFs our day ran rather smoothly overall. And somehow we all ended up in fairly good spirits still at the end of the day.
Thanks for the cache and the series Brother Colin.

A late decision last week was made for an attempt to complete the SSE in one day.. Fangsoki, Pprime, 1MinnieMoo and I headed off and found the first cache just before 7am and had searched for all the caches by 1pm and then decided to find a few more caches around Toowoomba before heading home.

This cache was one which we found for the day

TFTC Brother Colin

As I had to drop off a friend at the airport today, I thought i would stop by a few caches while out this way.
A quick find.
Thanks for the cache.

Hooray thanks share Deafphantom DeafVW

Another weekend away with fabulous Deafgeocachers. We call ourselves Deaf PVC. Thank you Brother Colin, for another great geo art. Enjoying the beautiful scenery as well as doing something we love so much, finding caches

Wow beautiful new airport ️

After finding 1 the series gets easier.

TFTC

WOW two puzzles in one we are finally getting to log the puzzles that we solved so long ago and find clues so that we can recover the jewels that were stolen from the museum. SL TFTC

Today we tackled the Starship Enterprise Geo-Art series with Gullivers Travels54, signed the log with our initials.

We had a great day out as the caches took us down country roads that we have not traversed before.

Cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks Brother Colin for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

In the area for a few days of geocaching. This geoart is on our to do list. Easy find. TFTC

Found with Dora the Explorer! We didn’t have this one solved last time we were here.

Nice new log sheet with our names being the first on it.

TFTC

Quick and easy find brand new log sheet, harder to solve

Due to changes at GZ, the cache for this puzzle has had to be moved. Once you have solved the puzzle above and the checker agrees with you, then add this correction to your co-ordinates. S +0.008 to find the cache.

After a drive around this morning with Hans we discovered that the landscapers looking after the little trees have buried the cache under even more woodchip.
I will disable the cache until I can make a new container and re locate so as to NOT have geocachers digging up the woodchip.

These couple of caches had us puzzled. After corresponding with Brother Colin , we have a better idea of what we are looking for. Hopefully we will get back before we leave Toowoomba after the weekend.

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Finally got around to finding some of the SSE Series. The Geo Dawg and I were out today in the company of Miss Direction rolling them up. Not only found caches but also wildlife lots of farm machinery and a great bunch of back roads.
Thanks brother Colin for the fab geoart and puzzles ,
Thanks for the great Series and adventure Brother Colin

Last to solve, longest to solve!
Thanks brother Colin for the fab geoart and puzzles , we are out today with Jfindit to pick them up. Found a nest, some rabbits, some hairy caterpillars, birds of prey, lots of farm machinery and a bunch of backroads. Signing MD Now Tftc

We had been gradually solving the various puzzles for this cache series over the past few years, mostly with success but occasionally needing a push in the right direction from various friends Finally, the planets aligned and we were able to organise a weekend away in Toowoomba to coincide with a local event

This particular cache was one SOB to solve and even with a bit of help, it still had us pulling our hair out trying to get it to work and get some co-ordinates to fall out Fortunately the cache was easily found otherwise, there may have been some harm done at some stage

Thank you Brother Colin for creating this series of puzzle caches and for maintaining them for everyone to enjoy A favourite point for the frustration [:(!]oy

Up in the Toowoomba area just for this great geoart. Had solved all the puzzles when they first came out in fact I can remember solving some at an airport waiting for our flight to Norfolk Island and while on holidays, still looking at them. This has been our first chance to find them as we volunteered to pick up our son’s car in Brisbane and bring it back to Hobart (via Toowoomba, which is where our son was born).

Oops, bit of a change here with the type of hide and container, however, some are harder to spot too. What an interesting area, thanks for bringing us here.

TFTC and puzzle.

Found it!

Yay out Caching with countrygirl889 found it... Yay.

Time to finish off the SSE series! Most challenging part of this find was finding somewhere to pull up, not easy!

TFTC

We completed the Starship Enterprise while visiting friends in Toowoomba. This mammoth of series took us a few weeks of solving and 2 days of finding. Most caches were found without a problem and were signed 'Mr E'.
Thanks to Brother Colin's huge effort to create this series. TFTC

Away on a small caching trip with Diamonjs and bobbiesgirl to tackle Brother Colins spaceship. Normally I am the one getting in and out to find the caches but this time I am the driver as I had hurt myself the week leading up to this run. Boy did I have fun being the driver. Thankyou Brother Colin for putting this geo art out. TFTC

Our journey has started, Team DrB are going to get lots of smilies at the end and what I find interesting is that I have been on some of these roads previously but not sure why. Thanks for a great tour of the country side. TFTC

Had solved these puzzles quite some time ago and when DiamonJs and rusty85 invited me along to do the series I jumped at the opportunity. Thoroughly enjoyed the variety of puzzles and the whole journey. The copy and paste nature of my logs in no way detracts from my enjoyment and appreciation of the mammoth effort involved in putting out a series like this. A big thank you Brother Colin. Logs signed Team DRB to save time and space.

Hi there Brother Colin.

We found your cache **"SSE #3"** today. (This makes our find count 19526).

Today we boldly cached the Starship Enterprise series. Once all the answer in hand it was difficult to decide which route to take so that back tracking was kept to a minimum. Plan "A" worked for a while. Then we discovered a fat finger error in one of the coordinate entries that led us cross country down a 4WD track - so we had to resort to plan "B", and then finally "C".

We found 50 caches today (DNF'd 2), and were pleasantly surprised at the accuracy of the coordinates. Throughout the day we followed the arrow to each cache and let the GPS settle while we signed the log - - it was extremely rare to see a distance of more than 3 metres when we picked it up again. Thanks for placing these caches here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting back roads on our travels.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found each cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** All containers and logs are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** A Smiley Badge if the cache was big enough.

Live long and prosper.

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Life has gotten in the way recently and caching outings have been scarce. To gather up the souvenirs on offer at the moment, some numbers were needed and the Star Ship Enterprise Series, which has been on the Bromance radar for a while, seemed perfect.

Most of the hard work solving the puzzles had completed a long time ago, but in the end motivation to finish off solving a couple of nastier puzzles (stab fork into thigh type frustrating puzzles) was lacking. KeepingUpWith decided to join Seffnjarah, Swellerfungus and I for the day and he was quickly tasked with solving these remaining puzzles.

A trademark early start in Brisbane found us caffeinated and fed at the first cache just before a very frosty 0700. SeffnJarah had calculated the most efficient route which avoided backtracking. The highlight of the day involved the ever clumsy Swellerfungus and an electric fence.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this puzzle, Brother Colin .

Pete

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Accompanied by Crookedpete, Swellerfungus and the resident brainiac Keepingupwith (who was tasked with polishing off those stubborn puzzles that just refused to reveal an answer for the rest of us), we hit the road for Toowoomba on a chilly winter's morning. With a quick stop at a newly opened bakery in Withcott (some work still to be done on their sausage rolls and hedgehog slice), we hoped to have as much energy at the end of the day as the sales assistant who served us - a state surely reached only with the aid of some white powder other than flour .

With dawn breaking as we headed up the range, a short drive later found us at the start of our chosen route. Winding our way along the country roads, we took turns grabbing the caches (some more successfully than others) depending on which side of the car the hide was on. Only a couple of mishaps along the way, involving barbed wire or electric fences, and the series was completed in sufficient time for Crookedpete to be home at the alloted time for family birthday celebrations. An enjoyable day out for all concerned. TFTC

When this series was just a twinkle in the CO's eyes I was lucky enough to be asked to help create a few of the puzzles that would be part of something big. Unfortunately i was very busy with work at the time, and was only able to help out with a few. Since publication, I have enjoyed some of the distress felt by those trying to solve them! Eventually it was my turn to feel that pain, as I worked through puzzles ranging from mostly easy to ridiculously impossible. To all the CO's I take of my hat to you as makers of something very special!

Today saw a misfit bunch of a crew heading of in the SS Victor Del Prado across the Aubigny galaxy including a Vulcan(seffnjarah), Kling-on (CrookedPete), a 'data' droid (Keepingupwith) and the illustrious Kirk-like humanoid captain (Me).

We set off in the dark from the Sumner Park Space Station, stopping for a refuel in the newly opened Withcott Space Dock (told to have had an unusual mix of space creatures) and headed out into the unknown. One by one our objectives were uncovered and dealt with, and eventually we had finished victorious.

Thanks for a great day caching, and for the 'little shock' along the way!

**KiffNJerk Starlog**

*Star date SSE#1.* The mission into Enterprise System went we extremely well with the heroic KUW displaying cunning, wit, relentless determination and a little bit of flatulence to secure a brilliant find on a unique and challenging hide. Tin’atlhqam and Crooked Ship Engineers Pete also seem to have contributed in some vague way.

We had solved the puzzles - in parts then completely not too long ago and decided to try to do the whole series in one day —today. With E(: and Patrol 14 went on a mission and we were successful! A cold windy day... but a nice clear one as well... Thanks for the cache and SSE series, Brother Colin!!

I have solved this GeoArt puzzles many months ago with the help of friendly and helpful cachers who I am very thankful for. Really enjoyed solving them while very much challenged. So happy to excersize my brain.

Thanks for the cache Brother Colin. Your time, effort and knowledge are very much appreciated.

#2199 Found on 8 July 2018 7:46 am

Gotcha! Log to follow. TFTC

A group attack was planned for Brother Colin's SSE series of caches this weekend with me providing the transport and Zacgyver working out the puzzles ably assisted by La Kedi. I admit not getting a chance to listen to this puzzle during the week leading up, lucky my partners in caching did. TFTC