SSE #62 Biddeston, Queensland, Australia
By Brother Colin on 03-Apr-17. Waypoint GC7399N

Found with Pprime` as part of our Toowoomba adventure.Thankyou for the entertainment here.

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

This was day No 2 during our stay in Toowoomba to enjoy the flowers in the gardens and collecting some more SSE caches.Puzzles were solved partly with help of fellow cachers. As before, mostly we found the caches within 5 m of our GZ, some were a bit further out. We signed the logs, and put the caches back.TFTC Brother Colin

Brother_Colin is doing a maintenance run and I tagged along.All good, nice and dry Tftc

Spent a lot of time researching this one, and came close I believe to the solution but failed on the last hurdle. When our boys were young they were given a small clockwork animated toy showing the subject of this puzzle doing acrobatic swings around a horizontal bar. "That's xxxxxx" they said, obviously having watched the series on TV. TFTC anyway, BroCol. I believe my calculated coordinates were close, but my longitude put me around 50 metres 'over there' in the paddock

### 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

Initially some numbers jumped out at me without much effort except for a blaring gap they could be coords. Some further research and I still could not work this out. Now I understand the D4 rating. Time to think outside the box and try a few different numbers. Eventually I worked this one out. A great puzzle. Thanks for the cache, Dropped a TB here as I enjoyed the cache and nice to find a bigger container.

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****

Found this one with SciFiRulz TFTC

Found with PapaGrouch on a visit to the area. The puzzles have been solved for years but we hadn't managed to find some until now. Another quite challenging puzzle to solve. TFTC

We are nearly finished with the trail, only a few more to be found. Tftc

I haven't cached in a minute so it's soooooo great to get out of my stressful life and find green pastures, good size caches and sign my name in a log book, smile with my friends that have previously found it.For this I give you a fp.Thank you for getting rid of my depression.Tftc

The second day for us driving around the country roads finding the caches. 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.

Down in SEQ for a few days to celebrate the life of a caching ambassador and a great friend Karicka. It’s more than likely he’d found this one.

Targeting 4 LGA’s and some rarer DT today. I have all of these on my solved list but with limited time I just cherry picked the higher DT, mainly the 4/2s. All were in great condition. Nice scenery around here.

Good to find a larger container here and to sign just below my great pal once again.

Thanks Brother Colin for adding to my day. FP

found cache tftc

Found TFTC with Barrod

This was such a great series for us to do, just about all the caches were found in excellent condition and with great coords. Thank you for placing and maintaining them Brother Colin

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 in the SSE Geoart. 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 GC7399N SSE #62

regular mystery cache 4.0/2.0



TFTC SL



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.







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Muggle65, Brislions, The Bug and l have a long weekend to cache around Toowoomba. We decided to grab a few SSEs. Beautiful day for it today so we went for it and signed what we could. Thank you for the fun

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In Toowoomba for flowers snd caches.
Went for a drive in the country, plenty of puddles and mud holes after the recent rains.
Got my feet wet quite soon but avoided getting bogged.
Think this is my third trip to the SSE geoart and there is still more to do.


Thank you Brother Colin for keeping this going
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On the road again, heading to Charleville for Qogm.  Did your SSE #62 today.  8 September 2022 4:22 pm Tyfc  Brother Colin  total caches now  5147  .

On the road again, heading to Charleville for Qogm.  Did your SSE #62 today.  8 September 2022 4:24 pm Tyfc  Brother Colin  total caches now  5147  .

Dtopped a tb. On the road again, heading to Charleville for Qogm.  Did your SSE #62 today.  8 September 2022 4:25 pm Tyfc  Brother Colin  total caches now  5147  .

Tftc Brother Colin,
Thanks for the puzzles, enjoyed most of them struggled with a few but had a few friends we called on to help us out.
All caches in good condition unless stated otherwise.
Quick find here

I am staying in Toowoomba for the weekend. I had couple of caches on my target list. I found 43 today the breakdown was 30 mystery, 3 traditional and 2 adventure labs with 5 waypoints each. The total was 43 finds.

Today had a few tree climbs a ladder climb and few park and grab. I had a good day caching.
Sorry for the generic log.
Brother Colin *TFTC* 6802 *Finds*

After many months of discussing a group attack on the SSE with 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.

Caching today with RoddyC (designated driver) echocage1 and GS1947 aiming to complete SSE trail after being in Toowoomba for the event yesterday.

Thank you for keeping this series going.

TFTCache Brother Colin

TFTC smile 10470 out and about with miss millie geo dog and Snickersallan great caches, great day ,good weather loved this area good variety of caches
Thank you, Brother Colin, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

What a huge day of star trekking across the Oakey landscape. Warp 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.

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.

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.

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.

#2583 - TFTC

Found

Out with the DaltzFam today to knockover some of the SSE series. It's been a hard slog solving these puzzles, we sure learnt a few new tricks along the way. Logs were added where needed.

Thanks to Brother Colin for the puzzles and maintaining these caches.

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.

After stopping nearby, and making the jog to GZ, we managed to make this cache find reasonably quickly. 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.

# 13912 Found and logged at 8:33:00 AM
Out on the SSE trail while in Oakey for a few days
Beautiful weather to be out and abor
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 14 hour day.

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

Nice quick find unless otherwise stated.

23,983. 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.

Surprisingly fast find!

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! TFTC

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)

#10692 - 9:53:00 AM; 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

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.

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

This one had me tricked for awhile. However I ended up getting it worked out. had to get out for a stretch and this one gave me the required stretch. Thanks for this one only about a 1/4 way through these it might take me awhile to get them all if I do at all.

Brahms6 found this one. Wazza and Kara and Mrs Wazza and Kara some down from Cairns for a couple of days geocaching and we hit the roads. Saw lots of back roads. TFTC.

Our 20th cache on our geocaching adventure with Brahms6 this morning. A quick search at the GZ and the log book was signed. TFTC

Out for an afternoon drive picking up a few more of these caches, slowly putting the starship back together. This was a challenging puzzle had to have a few goes at it before I got the green tick, all good with this hide. 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. We had an awesome day with a variety of hides and cache sizes to keep us on our toes! A spot of rain and thunder but nothing ominous. Wind picked up though! Was enough to blow the hair off a hippy at one stage. 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 and different cache types. Excellent day today completing the series. Thanks to Brother Colin for creating and maintaining this great series.

We had a Japanese friend translate for us but sti ya problems with the figures until they added up

I AM GUR

This puzzle took forever!! I knew I was on the right track, but could not get everything to line up correctly. Finally, with a little help, I go the green light. Very happy to put this one to the side, and then sign the log today.
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

I was contacted by Mrs Eskie who is related to Brad. She didn't think that I was in the right place and asked me to check my coordinates. It turned out that I had made a mistake typing in the east coordinates. Back today this was a very quick find in between two others that I had already found. TFTC

This was our last search for the day. We couldn't figure out how to get to it when we were quite close by and the only way to it seemed to be down a private road. After finding the rest of the SSE caches we came for another try. We drove down the road that we had previously ignored and got very close to GZ. While I was searching a man (Brad as it turned out) came up in his tractor and asked what I was doing. I said I was geocaching. He said his brother-in-law, Geoffrey, was a geocacher so he knew what it was about and jumped down to give me a hand. My compass pointed a 30 feet inside his fence. When I told him that he jumped over the barbed wire (never knew that was possible) and searched in posts on the other side. Nothing was found but he did say that the fence was relatively new. Before Brad turned up I managed to get time for a decent search and was just turning away when he arrived.

Solved at homework before trip to Qld with ALL7..
Great enjoyed journey for run UFO series..
Signed in 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

Find 3 for the day. Came out to get the souvenir that was available today, and met another geocacher. 63Roos was kind enough to let me follow her around to all caches that she had done the puzzles for and I hadn't. So thank you to 63Roos. I had a much more productive day thanks to you.

BC had to do a bit of maintenance to a few of the SSE caches ... so I came along for a few free finds.
Thanks for the cache.

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!

Halfway. The plan called for this to be lunch. But it is still very early so we sailed on. Our 3-4 minute pace is holding steady, but she cannae take anymore cap'n.

Live Long and Prosper Brother Colin. I have been and always shall be your Prime.
*{Overall find #7351}*

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 #3199
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

Thanks share DeafVW Deafphantom

TFTC ️

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

A nice quick find.

Thanks for the puzzles and

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.

On a mission to locate the space ship geoart whilst staying the area. An early start and a very full on day but we completed it with Tassie Trekkers. TFTC

We are chasing down a star ship and a jewel thief and coming up with the goods on both accounts. SL TFTC

TFTC. Our aim today was to make a start on finding the caches for the geo-art Starship Enterprise. We had been working on this puzzles over the last four or five months in preparation for our trip North to follow the sun. We had solved many of the puzzles on our own but then had some help of varying degrees from other puzzlers in our group. We camped at the Showgrounds and made a positive start too the series. 49 finds and 3 DNFs.
Thanks for this entertaining group of puzzles. I still have some hair left. All the caches found had spot on co-ordinates. As a finder you cannot ask for any better.

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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

This one had a few different steps and was a favourite.
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. Tftc

We knew we had solved more than we could find this trip so just picked up some selected and nearby one in this geo art. No real problems with the hides as we worked our way around. We added our initials to the few variations of containers and hides. 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

Generally, we found all co-ordinates very accurate and the caches easily found [^] with just the one case of cache blindness and two instances of fumble fingers entering co-ordinates [xx(] requiring a recalculation for the correct ground zero.

Thank you Brother Colin for creating this series of puzzle caches and for maintaining them for everyone to enjoy

Smiley number three today while out and about in the HOT sun with membsec. Happy to find a good sized container!

Thanks for the cache Brother Colin

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).

Another nice size container which was spotted quickly.

TFTC and puzzle.

Out the Toowoomba way to finish off the geo art today. Happy to have the SSE smilified which took us a while. We collected the first lot of 50 back in May 2017, then another batch in June last year.

For the puzzle we received some help from its creator.

TFTC, Brother Colin TFTC

Finally got a good reason to finish of this great geoart. An event and Christmas holidays are a good combination and today the weather was much better so it only took us a few hours to complete the series.

Thanks a lot for your efforts establishing and maintaining the series BC!

Cheers

Georode

Some early morning messaging and a phone call soon had me driving to some coordinates to meet up with muff1. The SSE series were in the solved pile so it seemed a good day to head out and find some. We had a great day with excellent company and accurate coordinates. This one we approached with care as a large brown snake was curled up just below the cache. It eventually moved a short distance so we’re able to sign this one Thanks for all your work in setting up this challenging series Brother Colin

Finally back in the area to get some more SSE smilies .... raindrops starting to fall ....

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

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

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

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 #62"** today. (This makes our find count 19544).

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

#4280

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 to complete the SSE puzzle series. 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. No problems with this one. 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#62.* 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.

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 exercise my brain.

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

#2269 Found on 8 July 2018 1.08 pm

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!!

With the puzzles solved, E(:, NeversayDi and patrol14 teamed up to find the SSE series of caches past Toowoomba.
An early day with a start time of 8am, we started at Wellcamp and worked out way around until we were nearly back to the start.
What a beautiful day even if the temperature was only 4deg when we started. The wind kept the temperature on the chilly side.
Great lot of different puzzles which certainly worked out our grey cells and the location was fabulous.
Caches were easy to find and in good condition.


Found at 1:11 PM, TFTC Brother Colin

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. The number of ticks versus crosses on the checker is a little daunting. TFTC

There was a beautiful golden sunset from here, and a lovely big cache.

In Toowoomba with Zacgyver and bulldozer 72 for an enterprising attempt to catch hidden creatures. Zac was the brains, bulldozer was the brawn: and I was keeping them in check. ’Twas a crisp Darling Downs day but perfect for geocaching. TFTC, Brother Colin. =^.^=

A week ago I mentioned to La Kedi that I had that night started looking at the SSE puzzles and she suggested we go up to Toowoomba the next weekend and get these to fulfill the Hidden Creatures souvenirs challenge in one go. The deal was I solve the puzzles and she would provide the transport and accommodation. That is fine by me, I can solve just over 100 puzzles in a week right? Sure...
By this morning I had solved about 75 and had around 10 half solved. La Kedi solved a few last night. Bulldozer 75 drove us around today as we collected the caches.
So this has an interesting history, I worked out what many of the characters were using google and thought I had a cool linguistic way to solve it, but it didn't quite work...I show it to La Kedi and explain my thinking. She says "what about doing it?" and has a 21st century method to provide the answers I spent hours coming up with. Of course I probably self-created a D5 puzzle...Anyway with that she beavered away until she had some good looking coords, but the checker said no....Message to the CO and he replied saying it was absolutely correct, but it was missing s conversion. Thing was, we kinda got confused wondering how there was a missing South conversion and not a missing East conversion. It wasn't until just before retiring for the night La Kedi says, "S is right beside A on the keyboard, maybe it he actually meant 'A' conversion... " She then headed off to bed, and I pondered, A conversion, well I could....but which one? Oh that might be what that cryptic clue meant...and voila the checker says yes and I am very relieved. Maybe this joint puzzle solving thing isn't so bad after all?
Tonight is the time to finish the puzzles for tomorrow and hope we can complete the Enterprise.
TFTC

Day two of the SSE findings. Out with cheekybum_15. Great day of caching.