Parkville Puzzle 35 - You got the Blues? Flemington, Victoria, Australia
By ParkvillePuzzlers (ahomburg) on 10-Dec-17. Waypoint GC7FWY3

**??FOUND 16th November 2018??**
I cant change date back far enough on
Phone sorry

So ive been BULLIED into logging my Mega caches by an unnamed SSRAT Of tasmania.????
I am useless at logging caches but here it is,
We had a ripping weekend together caching Goose&Egg and SSRAT all the way from Tassie.
Its great they come to Australia so often to cache !! Between setting up and showing off my Lab caches and also caching with the ultimate FTF HOUND Hunter999 we got a TON of caches and even more laughs.
Cheers to another Fun MEGA.
Sorry for generic 'blahh' logs but its a while ago.


Tftc,

Toolman

All Parkville Caches have now been collected and archived.
Thanks to all the puzzle writers for their efforts, and the committee for their organization.
Lastly to all the finders, we hope you enjoyed the caches on Melbourne's bike trails.
Wiser than Owls.

#16567. Riding the trails with Robmc as we started to collect the Parkville Puzzles and Challenges. Managed to sign off on a lot as we picked them up.

Thanks Wiser than Owls

Find No. 2867. Found with FUF009 at 11.53am

A day trip to Melbourne with the bicycles on board to ride around the city grabbing the Parkville puzzles seeing how they are going soon.
We left home around 6.20am, got to Parkville unloaded the bicycles and off we went for our days adventure. It was a typical Melbourne day with all kinds of weather.
For us it was quite different getting around the city on our bicycles and travelling all the bicycle paths. By the end of our adventure we had peddled 32.5 ks and ended up with 65 smilies.
It was quite an enjoyable day, something different for us to do and one that we will remember for quite some time.
All the caches we found were in good order and the co-ords spot on which made most of them a quick find.

TFTC

Find # 8537

Found with Tyred n Cranky
Seeing as the Parkville Puzzles are going soon, and that we had them all solved, we thought we had better load up the bikes and make a day of riding around the city.

We left home just before 6:30am and got back at at around 8pm. Inbetween we managed a good number of around 60 finds with the puzzle series and a few extras thrown in. And by the end of the ride we had peddled just over 30ks.
It was interesting seeing the city from the bike paths, its not our normal way to travel down this way.

I gotta say we had a typical Melbourne day too, from gale force winds and heavy showers to 10min later the sun was beaming down, making it hot and humid. But we ended the day all smiles and a great and intetesting new look on what the city has to offer (geocaching and bike path wize)

All caches were found in good order and with good coords unless stated.


TFTC ParkvillePuzzlers (ahomburg)

Day 154

With the Parkville caches close to their expiration date a small team was put together to tackle the hides as our hometown celebrated a public holiday for the Geelong Cup. Our bikes were taken off the racks, helmets put on, sunscreen applied and we were off on this very warm day, riding our way through Melbourne and this series. Lots of laughs were had with ThePacman, anikano and Jacko83 as each cache was searched for, found and signed.
Thanks Wiser than Owls (ahomburg) for the placement for us and others to enjoy for the Parkville Mega.

A day out walking the Maribyrnong with nirgalagrin.
Collecting the remaining Parkville Puzzles, Challenges and any others that we pass on the way through.
A lovely location that I had never been to before.
Cache in good order.
Thank you for placing this Micro cache for us to find, ParkvillePuzzlers (ahomburg).

Out caching for the day, MontsII and myself decided to divide and conquer. A diverse assortment of puzzles, and a pleasant walk. Thanks for placing the cache ParkvillePuzzlers (ahomburg)

Found in the company of quiet1_au and GJMMelb, on a very pleasant day. TFTC

Out for an afternoon Parkville Puzzle run - or rather walk - with lochb and G' GJMMelb. I think G' solved this one, but I remember doing this or another very similar too... We left one car down-river and driven the other to near this one so we didn't have walk back. We had originally planned to take bikes but was glad we decided against it - too many muggles about, it was easier to tackle these on foot. It appears I found this cache - with so many finds today they're starting to blur into one another... TFTC

I thought I knew the Blues Brothers well but I needed to watch the movie to get the numbers here.
Today, on this fine day, Quiet1_au, Lochb, and I walked a five km stretch along the river finding Parkville series caches as we went. We set up a car at each end. By this time it was quite warm. The others got to Gz here first and found the cache. Thanks ahomburg
GJMMelb

A great weekend to pick up a few caches with friends - Skullracing, the GeoPrincess and Jascat. I provided the accommodation, food, drinks and bike for Jascat. Between us we solved what we could and were given some help on others.

Surprisingly we had great weather both days and found some spots in Melbourne that were pretty cool.

Mostly quick easy finds. Thanks to the Parkville Puzzle group for the challenge and caches. Not sure the Princess was thankful for her very sore bottom at the end of day 1.

*12 Oct 2019, Found @3:24 pm, Find # 3342.*

Out for a bit of a ride with dazzpte and skullracing on this nice sunny day. Having solved a good number of these puzzles and with a bit of a nudge on the others we formulated our plan and off we went.

We are making our way through these fairly quickly aiming to pick up as many as we can today. Thankfully this one and many of the others found have not given us too much trouble. I think it might be time to upgrade the saddle or maybe I just need to get out on the bike a bit more.

Thanks to all those that were part of creating these puzzles and to the Parkville Puzzlers for placing them and keeping them going.

Found with Dazzpete, Jascat and The Geoprincess on a sunny weekend.
We solved as many of the puzzles as we could until our heads hurt, then we got a bit of help and a nudge with the rest, so after plugging all the right numbers into the pointing boxes, we came up with a plan of attack....and attacked it we did, with pens in hand.
The pushys were dragged out of the shed and about 100 cranky spiders were made homeless, and we were off at the speed of wobble for 2 days of fun and giggles...and sore bottoms, but no stacks. We only had a couple of technological glitches but luckily we had the eyephones as backup to get us in the area then we used the force.
Thanks to all the puzzle contributors that tested the grey matter, and to the Parkville puzzlers for putting all of them out and maintaining them, there were only a handful that were missing....cheers.

On a lighter note, we couldn't help but notice some bunch of clowns who called themselves "Extinction Rebellion" had spray painted their logo EVERYWHERE, on the ground, walls, pylons, equipment, all over the shop...…
Perhaps someone should mention to them that releasing hundreds of spray paint cans into the atmosphere isn't super good for the environment.....
…..But they all probably were just getting off on the paint fumes.....oh well, gives them something to do....

Thanks Bro

Luckily I managed to find this online - Netflix never has anything I search for - and found all the information I needed, hooray!
We ignored the Footpath Closed sign, and safely and easily made our way to the cache. I spotted it - exactly the same style as the first Parkville cache I ever found.
Thanks Parkville Puzzlers

I was a total passenger on this one. It was one of the last I had left to solve and was dreading doing so. Not really a fan, to be honest. Happily jimbo_80 revealed that he had gone through the motions and had constructed coordinates! Phew! Not all heroes wear capes.

Appropriately enough jimbo_80 led the way to the cache today. "There it is!" it was exclaimed. Yea verily, it was so! Awesomeness. Thanks again ParkvillePuzzlers!

We love the Blues Brothers.
Some icon scenes in the movie like the mega car chase.
Thankfully today a quick find and a quick getaway.

Thanks for the puzzle, cache and putting these out for us all to enjoy.

14 September 2019 @ 10:25 am

Thank you ParkvillePuzzlers (ahomburg), for creating, placing and maintaining this cache. I have enjoyed finding it and visiting this spot.

Follow my story on Instagram @AlphaDeltaIndigo

14 September 2019 @ 10:26 am
Caching buddies:AIphaDeltaIndigo
Just had to distract a local fisherman whilst adi grabbed and returned the cache.
Tftc ParkvillePuzzlers (ahomburg)

We set off early from Wangaratta for the 4x4 show at the Melbourne Showgrounds, but had to stop for a few Parkville Puzzle caches along the way. A brisk walk along side the Maribyrnong River resulted in four cache finds this morning. Team BGF found a copy of the DVD and we got to watch this great movie together, gathering the numbers during our viewing. So with the puzzle sorted, today was the day to turn it into a smiley face. SL at 10.30am #6465 TFTC ahomburg - now it is away for some 4x4 fun at the Showgrounds.

I had been working hard recently to get the Parkville Puzzle solved and found whilst they are still up and running. Today I had a couple of hours to spare so I decided to pick up a bunch that I had sitting in the solved pile. A bit of a showery afternoon but I shuffled the car to convenient spots and managed to pick up 10 caches in total. I’m not too familiar with the subject matter here but I worked with SirJ-Oz who was quickly on to what was needed and we soon had some good looking numbers that satisfied the checker. I walked past this one once today but stopped on my return journey and soon made the find between the passing muggles. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for the puzzle ahomburg and to Robmc and all the Geocaching Victoria team for the work on the series of caches for the Parkville mega event.

I have slowly being making my way through the last of the Parkville puzzles and this week I finally solved the final ones. I was determined to collect them all today despite the frigid and rather wet weather.

Isn't it always the way that when you are on a way to a cache there are no muggles around but at the GZ there is always a steady stream of muggles. I had to wait for the next shower to get a clean run to retrieve the cache. TFTC.

Find number 7481 at 4:22:16 pm
Travelling home from work and picking up a few more Parkville mega caches, down to a few small groups here and there now and doing a little pub crawling as I go
Quick find on a wonderfully sunny winters afternoon
**Thanks for placing this cache ParkvillePuzzlers (ahomburg)**

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*16th & 17th November 2019 - GC7DN55 - St Arnaud - Victoria*

Enjoying a lovely walk in this area. Really glad I chose to do this set. Tftc

Another day, another Parkville Puzzle. I've worked my way through the ones (barring one) over by the upfield area bike path and am now onto the last ones around the river area. It makes for a nice change of scenery. Many thanks for placing and maintaining these caches for everyone's enjoyment.

Some of the times were slightly different to the Netflix version so we had to rewatch some of the scenes to match the clues effectively . And then we missed one of the flags...but got there in the end.
The cache was found after rechecking the hint.
Thanks AH! This was a fun cache topic!

Our 2nd day walking and driving the Parkville puzzle or challenge caches. Not as nice of an area today compared to yesterday but we still had fun and enjoyed ourself.

Yep, watched and got info! Fun puzzle.

TFTC

Out with xambo4u, we planned the day to sign all the Parkville Puzzles that we had solved before Christmas.
With pleasant weather and great company we set off. It took longer than expected as one was quite tricky and two were missing.
A beautiful spot to place a cache. Thanks ahomburg

Out for the day with echidna44 to put some smiles onto these challenging puzzles. Some we solved and some we jointly solved with support crew on the puzzle solving days. Some we resort to higher force by using the network. We would like to congratulate the committee for all the hard work put into these puzzles for the mega event and for the support they gave especially with the puzzle solving days they ran. Nice easy find. Thanks for your cache Wiser than Owls

Amazing puzzles, love it... Enjoyed day with geogirls. Thanks

Amazing puzzles, enjoyed solved successful with geogirls..
Enjoyed day and beautiful walked so nice windy..
Sign the log with geogirls.
TFTC

Beautiful sunny windy day for walk to find it with ALL7 & 63ROOS
TFTC

Melbourne Day 3: Maribyrnong Trail and Museum Precinct

Day 3 started off a little soggy, with passing showers and gloomy skies. Still, I pressed on and cycled from the heart of the city to the mouth of the Maribyrnong and rose upriver as far as I could, collecting caches, most of which are solved Parkville Puzzles. Had lunch by the river and took the train back to the CBD, where I cycled a little more to pick up the last few for the day. Another productive day all round, and thanks for all the caches.

The following is the specific log for each cache:
Luckily the show is available on Netflix, so spent a night watching the movie and trying to get all the answers. Well, that’s one movie watched... today, it was time to claim this cache, and it was a quick one... much quicker than the movie. TFTC!

Easy find when you don’t know where to look but you know what to look in

Today I decided to tackle the puzzle series on foot and manage to complete the northern and north west sections only. It was a big day where I enjoyed the scenery walking along the rivers and canals and talking to muggles as one rested along the way.

We would like to thank the ParkvillePuzzlers for their time and effort in publishing a variety of challenging puzzles with a range of difficulty to test our skills.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

This cache was found on my afternoon caching session with Kittykatch. All caches were signed KK and SG. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for us to find.

Found cache in good condition. TFTC

Day 9 of our epic 12 day / 10 night trek to the Parkville Mega in Melbourne.
The constant was my travel companions for the entire trip, - Anymules and S.A. Sewer Rats but we were joined by almost local cacher Bushfire once in Melbourne. So to save space in the logs we usually just wrote our initials BABS.
We had spent our last night in Melbourne but there were still some caches along the Maribyrnong River Trail to find so it was back on the bikes for one last time.

The puzzles had all been solved in the months leading up to the mega so it was just a matter of finding them. I love this movie so an excuse to watch it again was great. Asking how many police cars crash in the movie would have been great. I am sure nobody can answer that one! A little different hide than the rest.

**Thanks Wiser than Owls for this cache. **

An epic trip and caches found.
Travelling with Brisal5, Anymules and Bushfire.
There have been a lot of adventures.
Picking off more Parkville caches before we leave town.
Logbook signed BABS!

The Melbourne Mega has been and gone so now the hardest part for me is to log all these great caches that we have found over the past six days. We have had six days of full on caching which started with a few high D/T caches in Ballarat using kayaks, ladders, etc the assault started last Wednesday 14th November 18 but not without a few mishaps that included a tree fall, a number of bike mishaps and numerous bloodletting. Some of us look like the walking wounded but you just have to keep soldering on as there is always another cache to be found. I also have to include the stiff legs from all the kilometres walked.
Most logs were signed BABS which stands for brisal5, AnyMules, Bushfire and S.A Sewer Rats to save space in all the log books. This will a generic log owing to the huge number of caches to be logged so I would like to thank all cache owners for the time and effort it takes to place these caches and also for the maintenance of the said caches.
Again thanks to all the cache owners that helped to make the 2018 Melbourne Mega the great success that it was, so now to look forward to St. Arnaud next year where you will be blown away with the quality of the hides.
Save up your favorite points as you will use heaps in this area.

Picking off the remaining Parkville Puzzles. Log book signed as BABS!

Thanks for the cache Wiser than Owls.
Found on 20 Nov 2018.

See the number in the red geocheck box..... we added an embarrassing amount to that. [xx(] Thinking you know answers is just not good enough for geocheck.

This was a very quiet part of the bike trail which made looking for the cache easy. A quick find and we continued on. TFTC Wiser than Owls.

Found at 11:45 AM GAFF4/3.
First attack at these wonderful cache series - so much effort in setting them up and such a lovely area to cache.
Thanks Wiser than Owls.

Now am doing southern cache of the Parkville series of cache...
TNLNSL 
Thanks

Well its MEGA time again and plans were put in place with the FurfacesLL ladies for another weekend of fun and trouble Had the company of one of the ladies just for the weekend however was lucky enough to have the company of FFLL#1 for the drive down, across the weekend, as well as a week in and around the Gippsland area. We attended a number of events, visited a number of Earthcaches, virtuals and a nice number of caches. Many challenges collected and many multis completed.

Many puzzles solved prior to coming down for this Mega Event, some were easy and some really had the brain working overtime. No issues locating this one tonight.

Thanks for the cache hide Wiser than Owls and the ladies of FurfacesLL for another great caching adventure away from home

Time for another adventure to attend the MEGA in Parkville VIC. Plans were made with Rapidlywild to work on all the puzzles around the area before the trip and head down to this event together. Lots of fun was had collecting all types of caches over the long weekend/week which included puzzles, multi's, earth caches, labs, letterboxes, trads and even a couple of virtuals for good measure, (think we may have to invest in an e-bike).

Another one solved and on our to be found list. Some really had the grey matter working to solve.

Thanks for the cache ParkvillePuzzlers (ahomburg) and thanks Rapidlywild for the giggles and another great adventure.
Sorry for the generic logs

After visiting family in SA i decided i would pop over to Melbourne for the MEGA event. I had an ebike for 5 days and did so much sightseeing in between looking for caches. I have been trying to log cache finds ever since. Teamed up with SKVR and Kyzabra and rode about 30 km picking up lots of caches en route. This was a quick easy find on one of the many enjoyable days at the mega. Thanks for the cache parkevillepuzzlers

I didn’t do this puzzle the traditional way. Instead the puzzle went like this for us....
1) Hire bikes and ride a ridiculous distance to WP2 of a multi which started in Parkville.
2) See cachers emerging from a bush on our way past
3) Look at the geo-map and notice no trad in this spot
4) Go and check out the bush
5) Log a Parkville puzzle
Photos of our adventure added to log
TFTC

Found accidentally with The Rustys on our epic cycle tour!!

OCW ESCR - Had these solved prior to the mega. It was a beautiful bike ride to collect all of them.
Cheers

Day Four of the odessey over to Mexico for the Parkville Mega event. Day 2 of the event and a bike ride around the eastern loop of the Map of Victoria Geo Art caches, as well as a few other opportunistic caches that were found along the way. I was joined by my muggle mate Ben, who enjoyed getting outdoors and was especially impressed with the Lab caches. It was a hot one, but a lovely spot to ride along the river and we managed to complete most of the series, though sadly this meant I missed the closing ceremony.

This was find number 21 of 30 for the day for me. TFTC Wiser than Owls!

We have seen this movie so many times. A classic!

We had a lot of fun solving this series of puzzles before coming to Melbourne.
The series was a Mega target for our group and we managed to successfully find them all.
Thanks very much ParkvillePuzzlers

Generic Mega log:
Our trip to the Mega was shorter than the originally planned 4 days due to various personal issues. But a late gap in the calendar meant a FIFO for Brad only rather than the originally planned DIDO for both of us. Ruff_Ruff and TBQ also missed out.

Fortunately Brad was able to hook up with some enthusiastic teams for a busy time. Logs were signed /stamped with individual team names, or in some cases the various teams' initials of KBFGDJM were used for a group log. (or variant anagrams thereof.)

Thanks to all the tireless workers and hiders for all the great caches and for another excellent Victorian Mega Event

Found it with pwala, kangas11 and everlasting, signed as C.P.K.E
Thanks for the cache.

Found on 18 Nov 2018 at 11:23 am.
When these were first published on a long weekend I had a few solved straight away but I didn't bother coming for FTF hunts because I was basically too lazy and i had to pay tolls to get here. I then finalised a few more at a puzzle solving event as well so at least we had a fair few to go and search for.
Today on the bikes Fleabag- and I cruised around for nearly 3 hours and met a couple of other teams along the way. Longest search was probably a couple of minutes at one of the caches, otherwise no DNF's and we also picked up 3 I hadn't solved just by guessing where they would be based on the hints. Love it when that happens. We also picked up a few trads that were along the way.
We then headed back to Mega HQ for some lunch and headed off.
Thanks ParkvillePuzzlers (ahomburg) for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Accompanied with crank1, pwala and Everlasting. Beautiful weather for a Mega weekend. Puzzle solved. Found it. Thanks for the cache.
Parkville Mega 2018

Accompanied with crank1, Pwala & Kangas11
We enjoyed search, found and signed the log as "C.P.K.E" [^][^]

Thanks Wiser than Owls for the cache and hunt. [^][^]

Had a great time solving these puzzles over the last few weeks and collecting them today. Met lots of cachers out and about. Thanks to all the puzzle makers!

Logging with team DFGJK. Thanks.

I loved solving this puzzle because I got to watch the great Blues Brothers movie again. Some of the questions I was able to answer without watching it. But some of them were quite tricky because the timing on the Stan version of the movie didn't match up with the timing mentioned in the puzzle at all. I worked it out in the end though.

I was supposed to be meeting the geowife in the park after she dropped me off to walk along the river and collect the caches there. But she was off getting supplies so I decided to keep going along the river and told her to meet me at the next park. This was a quick easy find and I only had to worry about rowers on the river as I was out of sight of the path.

Thanks for the cache ParkvillePuzzlers (ahomburg). This was find #3721. Please discover my trackable: MMGJ6B

Today Spiffy- and I met up at the mega and decided it was time to collect a few solved puzzles of which Spiffy- had done the bulk of the heavy lifting for. Sunny but no issue for the stealth bikes. A few random meet ups too with the mega bringing others out for the hunt. Many devious puzzles but all finds were straight forward. Thanks to ParkvillePuzzlers (ahomburg) for placing this cache.

I had a great time in Melbourne during the event and awesome company. JACS team and i planned our rounds to tackle all those challenge and Victoria map caches thoroughly. Without having a bike it was quite important to do good team work to get the two series done in about 5h each day of the weekend.

Thanks a lot to the Victorian geocachers to create another great event with awsome trails of geocaches.

Tftc

Georode

Out today (Day 3 - Sunday) with Crank1, Everlasting and Kangas11 for the Mega event weekend at Parkville. Thanks for the cache.

I had my boys Tyler and Cooper with me today as we attended the Parkville Mega. We attended the events and spent the day on our bikes with Jacko83 and perpetuallylost doing some of the caches of the GeoArt.
What a perfect day for a ride and to catch up with caching friends.
Thanks for the cache.

Spent a week down in Melbourne for the Mega, and it did not disappoint!
We spent a few days working through these puzzles so that they were ready to collect.

Great series - TFTC

The first day of the Melbourne Parkville Mega event with the Godfather Freddo and gridge98, and we spent the day finding a few caches by car, learning about the SA Millicent 2020 Mega event, and then riding around the various river and rail bike trails collecting the Parkville caches. We ended the day by checking in to the Mega event, performing some lab caches, before having a nice cooked BBQ.

This cache and contents turned out to be all good. Thanks heaps for the work and preparation towards this cache! Cheers.

This puzzle was easy to solve as several people on our brains trust love the Blues Brothers.
A relatively easy find today on one of the prettier sections of the Parkville Puzzle trail.
TFTC ahomburg.

The afternoon of the Mega had me out riding picking up the Victoria GeoArt with PerpetuallyLost, Quarsar3671, Tyler and Cooper. I spent months solving these. Unfortunately they have all become a blue. Thanks to all the CO's in their efforts creating these!

This was actually a really fun cache.

Everything was stunning out along this track today. Including some of the people.

My first weekend of solid caching in forever!
Although attending all the Vic mega events over the past few years I have always been to busy to go out and find caches. This weekend is going to be different! I drove down from Wangaratta early to start cycling the creek trails. I was out with a few cachers today so the log books were signed DFGJK being our initials.
I apologize for the completely generic logs but I didn’t have enough battery charge or time to make any notes throughout the day. We had a lot of fun exploring a part of town I probably never would’ve seen otherwise, so TFTC’s

In Melbourne for the Parkville Event. Today was a day for Labs and getting a head start on the puzzles and challenges series. Huge amount of walking completed which is good for the old step count.

16,953. Found during the Parkville Mega trip down south with minniek.

Its Mega time ! After knocking off a fun bunch of Lab caches we headed out for some more caching fun. We had solved a bunch of the Parkville puzzles so we decided to grab a few of them. Managed a park nearby and went for a bit of a hike along the river. A quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache, and we continued along to the next one.

Thanks ParkvillePuzzlers !!

TNLN - TFTC !!

Road trip to Melbourne for the Parkville Mega with fitzy_1965 and my 4 geokids, B0tmun, Lovetherabbitohs, death killer & my_name_jeff_1 (signed kids a 4GKs). Had sneakysquirrel3326 with us for the afternoon as well.

Day 2 saw us doing the lab caches then head off to find some of the new puzzle caches we had pre-solved. Quick find here today.

Cache found by the groovy white payhero crew on a mega Mexican Mega visit.

Found with Aussie M&M and mogni as team 'SAM' which turned out to be a mega day caching while attending the Parkville Mega. Great company, great scenery and great caches, what more could you ask for

Thanks for placing and maintaining these caches.

TFTC
Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

An afternoon spent cycling with Jacko83 (who graciously lent me a bike after mine failed to get off the mark), quaser3671 and his two enthusiastic boys Tyler and Cooper, inbetween festivities at the Mega. Each of us had our fair share of finds but credit to Jacko83 and quaser3671 for having solved the puzzles we found along the way.
The young boys were onto this one like a fly on a BBQ!
Nice to see the river from a different vantage point after always seeing it from the bridge as we drive over.
A great day and great caching, thx to all the COs.

In town for the MEGA and thought we would spend the day collecting caches along this trail, headed out on the train with our bikes 20kms ahead and many hides along the way. Two flat tyres and a couple of DNF's many, many muggles that snuck up very quickly.

The timings seemed out but got what we needed. A quick find and were wondering about the unfinished house across the water, so many stairs.

TFTC
CJJAHC

Joined up with Aussie M & M to tackle this series. This is what we are targetting for our long weekend here and only grabbing other caches with they cross our path.
Thanks to those that put these out and to those who are maintaining them.
Thanks to Wiser than Owls from mogni

xApologies for the generic log below:

Away for the weekend with Freddo and Davidwazza to the Parkville Mega.
My first mega that I had attended and I had a really enjoyable time.
Some of the log books were signed with my name others were signed with just a G part of the group name, a combination of KBJGD.
We were happily joined by KB who was a machine finding a lot of the caches.
Thanks to the CO for all the placement of caches, the earyh caches answers will be sent in the coming days also.
We were very successful in finding majority of caches but some we DNF.
TFTC

Visiting Melbourne from Perth for the Mega Event. Teamed up with Kyzabra and dezzabills for the day.

Hire some electric bikes which were the effect way to zip around.

Happen to be in Melbourne for work and timers it to work with the Mega weekend. Extended my stay for the event.

Picked up SVKR_WA from his hotel around 6.30 and we headed out to grab some caches before hitting the event.
Met up with Dezzabills at the event and we all headed out on our bikes.

We worked on these puzzles on the lead up to Melbourne and happy we got this one sorted. It's a long way from WA so we were determined.

Wiser than Owls, Kyzabra found your cache Parkville Puzzle 35 - You got the Blues?, on 17/11/18. The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

Down in Melbourne for my first mega event and found this cache on the day!
TFTC

A crazy movie we’d watched a few times on the past but had to be viewed more closely for a couple more times before the coordinates were found for this one.
Finding the cache was much easier on a pleasant stroll with Muggle Hubby whilst in Melbourne for the Mega

**# 23248** Found on a drive around Parkville trails while here for the mega.
A great day on the bikes with Rebel Acts and Ski Pair.
Many good safe hides and mainly quick finds.
Thanks for the cache Wiser than Owls,
***Roostaman***

What a beautiful area, I really enjoyed the ride along here.

A long weekend escape from the Apple Isle had stainless steel rat and I hooking up with 1tooman on Friday to ride the Mooney Ponds Creek Trail, then out along the Maribyrnong River all the way to Avondale Heights finding as many of the Parkville puzzle and challenge caches (thanks sharkifan) as we could, along with some of the traditionals, a couple of multi caches, and some ‘ring ins’ (that had been there longer) as we passed by their hiding places. We rode from just before 9am through to 6.45pm with a very short stop for a ‘dirty bird’ lunch, and then headed off to the bowls event.
It was a big day riding with lots and lot of laughs, around eighty finds, a few catch ups with other geocachers along the way, and a very sore ‘you know what’

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Mega - Eve, the perfect opportunity for another bike ride on the city outskirts trails, seeking out smiley tokens to add to our collection, making our own outline of Victoria on the geo-map gradually become a reality.
Mega Effort by ParkvillePuzzlers to identify hiding spots and have such a range of puzzles created to lead cachers to the GZ's and a cool piece of GeoArt.

Thanks to 'Wiser than Owls' for placing all these caches on the geo-gameboard.
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My good Mate Roostaman was down from Wagga Wagga for the Mega and staying at My place, A plan was hatched to meet up with Ski Pair and ride some of the trails today, Roostaman left us for dead with his new electric bike. We enjoyed the ride with some great hides found. Many hours went in to solving all the puzzles for the event. Thanks Wiser than Owls for the cache.

Most of the times didnt match for me but whats the hardship in watching the Blues Brothers a couple time on Prime

What a great, no in fact a MEGA weekend!

Myself and gooseandegg had booked our accommodation and flights from Hobart many many moons ago and we both have spend late nights solving puzzles in readiness for the trip, a couple of days before we fly we still had no real plan other than having fun and catching up with cachers, but we got our stuff together and were as ready as we would ever be.

Leaving work early on the Thursday to get our flight we landed in time to grab a few caches before heading to the hotel to check in.

We were pleased it wasn't too hot on the Friday since we had a big bike ride planned thanks to Toolman we had bikes and a second car so we could leave one at each end of our planned route but this locked us into a ride from Paso Vale to Avondale Heights, with side trips to grab extra caches we signed most of the logs as "Team GTS' of "GTS" and must have covered 25Kms? By the end it was showing so we missed the last few so we could get to the bowls event as we were all starving hungry .... well this was where our plans went down the tube, all the ideas of having a nice sit down meal with fellow caches were off and it was only a chance meeting with some cachers we know that made us all fill a car and head off to a place we had passed on Racecourse Road while on our bike ride.
But as it turned out it was a great evening with 5 of us Tasmanian cachers on one table (unbeknownst to us some other cachers we know were in a another room) a great feed of streaks all round.

After a few caches on the way to the hotel it was sleep then up in the morning to head over to Parkville for a main event, we spent a far bit of time doing the labs and some local caches and the 2020 event before heading out to find a few more puzzles and challengers, this was cut short when the TOOLMAN got a call that one of his lab caches had been damaged so we rushed back via Bunnings so we could help fix it up.
The evening was spent grabbing a few more caches with us getting to sleep after 1am due to solving a couple of puzzles.
Sunday we spent a bit of time at the main site catching up with fellow caches before we were joined by 999Hunter and we set off to grab a few caches we missed on Friday, it turned out Hunter had the same unfound caches as us three so it worked out very well, we got back to the Mega site just in time for the closing event and then the loooong wait for a pork sandwich, every Mega I have been to it's been the same, next Mega I'm taking a cut lunch.
After a bit of a relax and more catching up we ended up doing a local tree climb on the spur of the moment since someone had a ladder to get us started after that we said our goodbyes and headed to the airport, we got home not long before midnight.
Thanks for a great Mega.

Found on 16/11/2018 at 3:49:00 PM

The best caches I have found so far by type are:-

Traditional [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)
Multi [CoaledHearted](http://coord.info/GCKGZ5) By [CraigRat](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=256663)
Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045)
Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)
Earthcache [Alum Cliffs and Gorge](https://coord.info/GC5KVHA) By [jandalfan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=2409043)

We met up with Rebel Acts and Roostaman the previous day and cached the area round Moe concentrating on the Robot Charlie Series of puzzles that had only recently come back on line, but today it was off to Melbourne and time to get into some of the many caches placed for the Parkville Mega.
We all travelled down separately and were organised to leave a car at the end point and then travel to a starting place so we didn't have to backtrack once we had completed the bike ride on the trails. This was well and good until a couple of trucks came together on the Westgate and traffic snarls added to our difficulties.
Rebel and Roosta arrived considerably earlier than us and got as organised as is possible for them before we got there. Then it was time to get the bike off the back of the car and catch up.
What a great set of trails to ride on! the day was lovely in the mid 20s with only a slight breeze so great for riding amongst some great parks and scenery. I even managed to keep up despite having the only fully pedal-power bike in the group! Although the others delighted in passing me on every hill!
Early riding was at times challenging with many ups and downs and tight bends, but what a great ride. There were quite a few people out, both cachers and muggles!
We picked up a great variety of caches; puzzles, letterboxes, multis, trans and a wide variety of hides. I believe we only missed 2 for the day!
At the end of 25km, we had had a great ride and done some good caching.
A day filled with meeting other caches, and much fund and hilarity.
Thank you to the Mega team and all other cache owners along our route.
Well done to Rebel, the brains trust behind the puzzle solving.
We will be back to complete those we haven't attempted yet.
TFTC

We enjoyed solving this puzzle as it gave us the opportunity to actually watch the entire movie for the very first time.
A straight forward find too. A favourite point from us.

Brahms6 found this one with Wazza and Kara. TFTC

It has been some time since we have seen a Blues Brothers movie. So we enjoyed the research and once the information was obtained, we had a set of coordinates which were confirmed by the GeoChecker. Today we went to look for the cache. Accurate coordinates led to a quick find. the cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks PatkvillePuzzlers and ahomburg for the cache.

On a search with 2y'stassies on a search of some of the Parkville caches, This was one of many for the day. All good with cache.

Out with Trailstevo last night, a Saturday night adventure instead of our usual Sunday night. Arrived at around 7pm, just late enough to miss the worst of the races traffic. Plenty of muggles about so we had a bad start literally failing on our first 7 cache, but knowing we were going to have to com back through later on the way back, so no big deal. Great to pick up a few more of the solved puzzles, another escaped animal, Geo-sensed our way to three puzzles we didnt solve and few extra trads down in Yarraville. We covered around 11-12km, a nice steady walk and great to get some fresh air, although some areas smelt a bit fishy! Thanks for the fun.

Once the Flemington crowds had died down took to the cyclepaths either side of the river with Gunks. Picked up some traditionals and some puzzles. Didnt have the same version of the movie so had to check out some different times. TFTC

Now I join the many people all over the world who have seen this movie 100 times, thanks to this cache

Nice change
More details coming later.

I have an absolutely Blues Brothers obsessed geokid. He dresses like Elwood and quotes the film constantly. Makes me proud. Fave point added. TFTC

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Hitting the bikes on this awesome Melbourne Saturday to put some smiles and miles on the map.
There is always many laughs and excellent conversations when out with Happy Pants and Happy feet.
Cheers for the cache and day of fun.

Today's plan was to ride from Maribyrnong along the river in towards the city, grabbing as many hides while doing some of the Parkville series. So with Happy pants and omegaman1971, we packed up the bikes and make the most of the nice weather and headed off early. We made some great discoveries, clever hides and generally enjoyed the caches I found, and my time in the area. We enjoyed so fun and good laughs along the way. The meandered along the bike paths, was very enjoyable but we all have very sore backsides, by the end of the day.

Picked this one up while heading back to the car

Thanks Wiser than Owls for placing the cache for us to find and doing the maintenance to keep it in play.
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Found this one today while hitting the area on the trusty bikes. It was time to dust them off and load up the gps with a few solved puzzles and make the most of some glorious weather and good company and try and grab some smilies. We soon had this one sorted after a short search, thanks ParkvillePuzzlers for the cache, found with Happy Feet and omegaman1971 while exploring the area.

Suscoe had a day out in Melbourne today.
A few things to do and a bit of caching time as well.
A pleasant day, just right for finding caches in the outdoors.
Thanks to the Parkville folks and ahomburg for this puzzle and hide.
All good here today.