Ekrpat Blaxland, New South Wales, Australia
By Toriaz & Monkey Girl on 16-Apr-17. Waypoint GC73ZZ8

Time for this cache to go and let the area be used by others

A tricky place to get to, but managed to find parking not too far away.
Survived the game Frogger and was able to sign the log, thanks for the puzzle and hide

Solved this one e a little while ago, today was the day to come find it. A quick find once through the cobwebs.

Found with DQ. She solved this one. My last puzzle for 2022.

Happy new year!

After doing an AL at Springwood, I decided to grab a few normal caches in the area on my way to another at Mt Riverview. I followed vk2df's parking instructions and had no problems making my way to GZ. What should have been a quick find, however, wasn't ... but eventually spotted what I should seen on approach.

Thanks to Toriaz and monkey girl for placing this cache.

A quick internet search had this cache figures out pretty quickly. I'd never heard of this particular code/cipher/device before so thanks for the lesson The cache was a different matter. How on earth does one get in to that particular spot? After much speculation we decides to try a certain plan of attack and parked the car accordingly. Once we got out it was clear that this was going to work. A few spiders webs in the face (yuck!), but we soon got to GZ and the cache was seen on approach. Thanks for introducing us to this little spot and thanks for the cache.

We are on another short (four day) caching holiday in Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains, staying for three nights in a park cabin at the Ingenia Nepean River BIG4 Holiday Park at Emu Plains. Planning to collect some of the solved GFA puzzle caches around Luddenham and Wallacia, then visiting the Blue Mountains from Springwood to Wentworth Falls (over two days) for numerous Adventure Labs and other targeted caches.

Today (day 3) we completed two Adventure Labs that had their various stages scattered around Springwood and Winmalee, and also collected numerous caches of various types (Traditional, Multi, Mystery/Puzzle, and Virtual) that we passed along the way. Also visited an old "2 Dogs" Traditional cache from 2001 that we needed for an "old school" challenge cache. This was our 36th find of the day (day 3), and 82nd find of the holiday.

The family's chief puzzle solver had solved this one before we left home, and it was to be our last cache stop for the day, on our way back down to Emu Plains. Parked on the side of the road, just short of the cache location, then walked the short distance down the track to GZ for a nice quick find. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. Thanks Toriaz & Monkey Girl for the puzzle & cache.

Find #5351

#8798 (11 of 11 today - including 1 Adventure Lab)

I am terribly behind in my logging. It's getting close to two months since I regularly reported on the caches I've found. YIKES!

In this time only the Adventure Labs found and my First2Finds have been written up - don't want people racing out when it's already been snaffled.
But I've been busy finally getting ready to move into our new house - now in and I'm still coming to terms with the extra room/rooms!

But I did still try to find time to cache on the days that my 2022 goal of 16 finds per caching day demanded I find something. In fact, for the most part my modus operandi has been to actually aim for 20. So far I've only failed on that a few times, and only by 1 find. Amazingly I'm on track for 19 finds per day, but somehow I expect that will eventually prove too hard as I have to travel a good distance if I want more than a cache a day.

Anyway. thanks to all the CO's who are getting short shrift from my generic logs. I hope to eventually get back to them and flesh them out, but no promises.
I've found some fun Traditionals and solved some interesting, but not impossible puzzles. And Multis and other cache types have been grabbed where possible.
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Anything interesting from my day will be added here - don't hold your breath.
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I've had the solution to this one for a while - time to go for it.

So much tall grass between my parking spit and GZ. Kept using a real stick to ward off any lingering wriggly ones - none seen thankfully.

Quick find at GZ.
SLTNLN
TFTC

Tftc - easy find the difficult bit was getting there but got and sign

After having this is a did not find on my map for ages I finally found it tftc!!

After solving this puzzles a couple of weeks ago we finally got out to find the cache. Nice easy,fun , puzzle. Easy access to site too. Tftc

Another one, thank you so much. Had no idea this spot existed up until now

Picking up caches on my way to the autumn event in the blue mountains. Quick find here
TFTC Wilbert67

This guy has been sitting in my solved file for a very long time and as I had parked close to the starting track to this cache I just had to wander down and have a look.
The cache was soon located and with the log signed, it was time to let the many spiders rebuild their webs and try to catch their next meal.
Thanks Toriaz & Monkey Girl for placing this cache.
The aging Bushfire has lost a pair of optical sunnies somewhere today so I guess it means a trip back and try to find.

OCW Brewmaker and EverestHigh. TFTC Toriaz & Monkey Girl!

Another easy find with helpful hint. OCW Brewmaker and MaxAdventurer. TFTC Toriaz

Solved then found after the Community Celebration Event today. Very busy here today after seeing the other three previous finders at the event too. TFTC

quick solve & a quick find with Ris768 thanks Toriaz & Monkey Girl for placing & maintaining this cache

Log 2635
SD 1464

Quick find with Deep_99 to keep the streak going. SL #4772 on streak day #3104 TFTC

After the community event is was time to grab a few more caches in the area so headed over. No real problem with the puzzle and on reading so recently logs was glad to hear of a parking spot nearby as heading west a quick look did not look too promising. Well it was there a little before the cache and a walk through the long grass to GZ for a quick find. We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC

Kooleen worked out the clues. Co ordinates were spot on. We did need to head from one side to the other of the railway. TFTC

Found with Raincatz. Coordinates go straight to it. TN left fish. TFTC

When I first solved this puzzle I was thinking hmm maybe I have the wrong spot. Luckily there was a nice stopping area eastbound before gz with no signs around telling me not to park there and as it turns out the coordinates were extremely accurate. Cool little spot. TFTC

there was too much leaf litter to have a good look and also a few spiders that scared me off

A straight forward puzzle although I had come across this before. Headed up here on a Grumpy mission, with not so grumpy mate and this was conveniently available on the way back.
Made a quick find in the logical spot.
SL TFTC

I came up The Mountains by train (and lots of walking) today for some caching, two stops, Blaxland and Glenbrook.

Very successful as all 6 target caches were found plus this one!

While planning the caching day I noticed this puzzle not too far away.
I knew there was another way but how does it work?
A previous finder told me what to google and from there it was a successful solve of the puzzle. Checking the location on google maps and it looked too far away from the other caches I was hunting with the trains only running once an hour.

I'd found all the others in Blaxland and had 45 minutes to wait for the next train so decided I had enough time to walk to this GZ and back. I probably didn't walk the best way, along the highway but it worked out alright.
At GZ there were a few things that matched the hint but the co-ords were very good and I found the cache quickly.

Returned to the station a slightly different but equally unusual but suitable way.
Made the train with 8 minutes to spare! (Time to eat lunch.)

I learnt something doing this puzzle.
TFTC # 3630

Caching with oldmorty finding a few of our solved puzzle caches in The Blue Mountains.
A search on Google helped find the correct tool to solve this puzzle.
And a nice easy find on our way home.
TFTC Toriaz & Monkey Girl.

Up at frazey's Blackheath retreat for the weekend and as it may be sometime before we get back up there she thought that we should finalize a few of the puzzles that she had recently solved. She prepared a list that included four puzzles, a trad and a new virtual all owned by the local luminaries. So on a cracker of a winters day in the Bluies we set off down the mountains for home and visit some caches along the way.

Thankfully we had a quick find here after having spent a long while at our previous cache also owned by this CO, well one of the CO's. TFTC Toriaz & Monkey Girl.

Solved several puzzle caches some time ago & today on a trip to Springwood and surrounds it was time to claim them. After a short search cache was in hand. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Thanks for this cache Toriaz & Monkey girl. I found ekrpat very interesting.

I’ve had this cache on my to do list for some time as I had figured the coordinates last year, so today with some prompting frommy son, I picked it up. Actually I needed a cache today to fill a blank in my calendar and went to Wascoe Siding but when I went to log it I had found it in 2013. Hmm memory fading I think. Anyway thanks for this cache and cache is in good condition.

This has been waiting to be picked up for sometime now. Since we're in the area we came with Chalk! Geo grandkids here. Made a quick find. TFTC

We are been looked after by our Geo Nana and poppy, we think it’s great cause we get to go caching with them. We did a swag of caches today. This was one of them. Thank you all the COs for their hides.

Solved some time back. Good day to find while visiting the in-laws. Thanks for the interesting puzzle!

Found. Solved a while ago and have been driving past this location almost every week day. Finally stopped and made the find.Tftc

Finally found with brandonpuri

Found it with Cameron S

#2336
The puzzle was solved nearly a year ago and has been sitting in my todo list ever since then waiting for an opportunity when I was next in the area. Having spent a great weekend camping with team canary & co to celebrate his 9000th find at "In the loop", I still needed a find for the day. I was under a bit of time pressure to get home and was hoping this one wouldn't prove too challenging to find. Picked a great location to park and after a short stroll, had my name in the log.
TFTC Toriaz

Out for a long walk from Blaxland to valley heights so I just had to find this one, job done.
Thanks for the cache.

I had to go to Blaxland today and i had solved the puzzle yesterday. It was an easy walk to GZ. Lovely day out. TFTC

Yippee yippee my 100th find

Going for a drive up the mountains today so decided to do some geoing worked out some puzzles for today soon had one in hand and signed

On our way to the blue mountains and while having breakfast this morning worked this out. A quick find

On our way to Katoomba and stopped by to pick off this puzzle we solved. TFTC

I don’t know what the title is meant to say but I figured out the co ords months ago. I’ve kept forgetting to visit GZ on my travels.
Not today, with a bit of time spare before the afternoon heat kicks in, I stopped in for a nice neat little cache hide! Easy find but should remain muggle free! Tftc

I tried whistling a happy tune when I saw this but it was in the wrong key. Fortunately we'd made a virtual visit before leaving home, so today, our entrance was stylish and graceful. Thanks Toriaz & Monkey Girl.

A quick find before dinner, in the rocks.
Pity the idiots throwing rubbish around don't get to clean it all up.
TFTC

Found with u_c and gm10

Found with btm and gm10

found with u_c and btm

A curious cache which had us solve a two-handed puzzle, scout around for a way into GZ and wonder how the heck T&MG had any idea this small feature was here. Thanks for the brain exercise, the driving tour of the neighbourhood and the unexpected location. SL TFTC Cheers... Gaztek

Found this one today on a mountain tour to gather terrain/ difficulty, hidden date and name sake caches. This one i had solved ages ago and was a park and grab today whilst finding my targets. Thanks Toriaz & Monkey Girl for the puzzle and placement. I nearly DNF this one after find what i thought was the remains of a cache container nearby to the GZ. A check of the hint had me fortunately redirected to an easy find. Cheers

Solving puzzle was easier than working out the closest place to park safely to access GZ. It paid off doing a bit of extra research before leaving home and then confirming landmarks as I headed up the mountain, making the quick park and grab on the way down.

Tftc - finally got this one, interesting place to hide it

We had solved this one a little while ago which wasn't difficult once you had cracked the code. A quick find at GZ enabled us to get a souvenir for International Geocaching Day.TFTC.

Worked this out quite quickly which was pleasing. A quick stop heading down the Mountain and soon had cache in hand. TFTC !

Solved puzzle a couple of weeks ago, but hadn't had a chance to hunt for the cache. Found time this morning, so parked nearby. Short walk to GZ, then a quick find. Signed log and replaced as found. TNLN. TFTC.

Quickly solved. Parked in side street and walked across road. Signed and replaced. Thanks for the puzzle and cache.

While searching this code I came across a few like it in other hides so once I found the result i went back and solved those too
Cache name made perfect sence, and after reading about the tennis stroke this was the game changer.
Enjoyed solving this one.fav point.
TFTC

Streak Day #1422 - Solved this one the other day and dave8153 solved it this evening so drove to GZ then a short walk with a quick find before heading to the shops. TFTC

Found it today with Snoopy1976. An easy find today for tonight. TFTC

A hint from the CO gave me enough to find the code to crack this one. Google. Now! getting to it was the fun part. There's no need to traipse through the long stuff and no need to endanger yourself on the side of the highway...but you'll be close to trucks whooshing by. While finding the right tool for the code, I came across the Dancing Men...so there's another one solved! TFTC

I had solved this one a few weeks ago and as a calendar day fill was needed decided to do it today early. Just as well it was daylight, and i could see the huge pothole near where i parked, that would have swallowed my little car! A short walk to GZ and a quick find. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

At first, we had know eye deer how to solve this puzzle. A ngjtf dcy rb irrin. orrb iak. go a orngycrbv YUYJ

After my first day back at work I had find the new caches by three lovely ladies and a monkey girl!?!

I solved this while I was away after working out what to research. Today I parked near the scout hall and made my way to GZ for an easy find.

TFTC.

#530, Not very good at these type of puzzle caches, however searched a group of words to find several similar caches around the world , however as this is a puzzle very few hints were given by finders, after all there is no fun if the answer is known. Off and on searched for info but could only find a "tennis stroke" had to be used, whatever that meant and check the toolbox? never used that before, checked about a dozen in the toolbox not knowing how some of them worked, one group led to another 60 or so, no success there. Finally decided to go over all the cache info again and googled something that worked- and had an answer- and I recalled seeing the same thing earlier in toolbox.
Tentatively put the first word in which worked out and then the rest for a solution
Travelled North for this one on an afternoon of geocaching. Parked in side street then a quick dash and a short walk for a nice find. Favorite point as had to work the brain cells,
then off to Maccas for a late lunch, and on to more geocaches TFTC Toriaz & Monkey Girl

#4158-Joint FTF with Garks @ 3.15 pm.
A quiet holiday at home with Garks, doing housework. Bikerbuddy and nickoheap had headed into Penrith for some retail therapy. I saw this cache get published, so I heard inside to the computer to see if I could work it out. Explored a few ideas with no luck, then tried something else, and it worked.
Earlier today I had been reading up on diving mystery's, since that is one area I am sadly lacking in.
Without a car, as it was in Penrith I had to wait till the guys returned. Then it was off for Garks and I.
Being the last day of the Easter break, the traffic was starting to build. I knew the general area well from a previous cache a bit further in the same park, but it didn't know this feature was here.
Garks walked straight to it and pulled it out- he's still got it, though I know he won't log it.
Thanks Toriaz and the Monkey girl- this gave me a break from the routine of the day.

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