Little Boxes Beerburrum, Queensland, Australia
By Slow Puncture on 23-Apr-19. Waypoint GC86T17

Found after the Ngungun climb event. Another lovely road to drive on down, and crossed through some water at the bridge, which the warthog made light work of. After finding my way to GZ, I was searching around for a bit before I noticed the grand treasure chest right behind me! The biggest cache I have found so far 100%! Thanks for the cache Slow Puncture.

Id first looked at this one a few years ago but put it in the too hard basket. When I looked at it again it was still too hard but the CO took pity on me and stepped me through it. That was a while ago and reading my notes now it still looks too hard! Anyway, as I was down in Brissy for some training and Jetstar hadnt allowed my ropes on board I was nearby borrowing some from Georode when I saw this was close by. Not wanting to look a gift box in the eye I made the short detour to collect the excellent not so little box. Thanks Slow Puncture (LJCC) for the lesson and the excellent container. Have a FP.

Yesterday I climbed The Twins with Shazzar66. It was a bit of a last-minute decision. Sitting over coffee and brunch afterwards, we were looking at nearby caches, and I noticed that I had this one marked for several challenges, so I was very keen to find it.

I spent a fair while getting all the required information and then created a spreadsheet to do the calcs. That’s when things ground to a halt. The calcs looked way wrong and I had no idea. I contacted the CO who gave me some information that helped to narrow things down. Plus I contacted a previous finder for some help. As with many of my solves (especially D5’s) it’s a team effort, which is always much appreciated, and each time, I learn something new.

I zipped off to GZ to make the cool find. Not-so Little Boxes. All was good with the cache, I’m very happy to say. FP for the fun puzzle, which had me singing many of my favorites, plus for the cache size. TFTC Slow Puncture

Tftc and the puzzle, slow puncture,
Solved the first phase of this puzzle then needed to PAF to translate the mass of digits on my work out sheet
Great container at GZ.
favourite point for this one.

Love caching in winter so headed up to do the B/W Trail by foot plus others around the area. The road here wasn’t quite what we expected! Thanks Slow Puncture for the puzzle and the cache - we loved it.

Little Boxes was a huge hit. I should remember it... I was the one who got the 45 vinyl for my birthday the year it was released.

If there was ever a cache that could be called Little Boxes it's this one.. the growing rows of answers were beginning to look like a street map of the burbs. And it was just as easy to get lost in. We never did come up with anything the checker liked however we weren't unhappy with the results.

It had rained all night and was still raining but we weren't leaving without a look at our POI. Sure enough not far from where we left the car was the ultimate Little Box. A most impressive container for a cache.. we've been in flats smaller than this. And all was dry after 12 hours of continual rain. [^] TFTC Slow Puncture (LJCC).

Out with my favourite on a early end of week D/T hunt. After serenading all the way up the coast to the tunes discovered in the puzzle . She was so impressed we beat the eta that the GPS estimated( quite considerably) . Loved the hunt & the cache

Muggle65 and l are out and about up north today. Nice early star to avoid the traffic. Couldn't avoid listening to Matty singing Little Boxes the whole damn way Hmmmm. Luckily we arrived at GZ and the fun started. Great cache - thank you so much

The puzzle - after a lot of Googling I had a lot of numbers and then came to a halt after trying this and then that and then it was time for a push from a previous finder! It was a good push and I had the coords that the checker agreed with.
The cache - after reading some logs I was excited to see what would be about at GZ and what a cache it is! After signing the log and replacing as found I loitered around for a while just enjoying the serenity of the area.
After such a long time getting the coords I was sad that this adventure was over and look forward to the next one.
Thank you Slow Puncture for showing me this area that I could even drive my little car to. Favourite for this one from me.

For the day, I was with oz_bean_counter for a hike up a hill, then a wander for some oldies along the coast. Then upwards and inland for a few more. Despite then running out of time, OBC insisted we grab this along the way home; even though she'd found it previously. But, hey can't argue with being given the time to find a solved puzzle.

And solving it had proven to not be a big drama for me. Often me looking at a D2 can cause physical brain damage, but somehow this one came a lot easier. Even if I was humming Simon and Garfunkel for most of it. It was just the sheer number of combinations and permutations that got in the way. But, instead of wasting my time with them all, I wasted my time building a spreadsheet that then gave me an answer much quicker.

So onto finding the geocache. It's many years since the one time I went up this road, and I was glad OBC had some idea where she was going as it's sure tucked away! A good parking space was located and I headed into the bush. Feels reasonably remote! And for all the time I'd spent solving, it took 0.00016% of that same time to find the geocache. And can I say; it doesn't match the title at all!

Inside was of course in brilliant condition and I quickly signed my name, grabbed a trackable and made back for the car. That is a brilliant geocache! Just a shame I didn't pause for photos. Thank you for the excuse to waste time and the chance to find another little box in the bush, Slow Puncture (LJCC)

I came across this puzzle a few years back when down this way powertrailing with mum an' an aunt and started in the solving of it.
I vaguely recall writing out a lot of words and frowning my way through the alphabet maths and loving every minute, so totally awarding a favourite point for the fun of the puzzle itself, somewhat of a rarity the more i find and solve.
Then it sat in the solved puzzle glaring at me on the map with it's unique d/t combination.. one i was yet to find.
Until yesterday, when after a group assault on mt beerwah, this cache was strenuously suggested as a possible next stop.
Nodding the assent, off we powered towards gz, where after a short search i spotted the little box in it's hidey hole.
Thank you for such a cool puzzle and cache size that i reckon'll probably take most trackables.
Thank you slow puncture!
Another d/t down too 5/2.5 woohoo!
Only nine more to go!
Oh oh! A palindromic date too.

Today, I joined a small group in hiking up Mount Beerwah in the Glass House Mountains. We had a reasonable starting time, and then proceeded up to the summit, to be rewarded with some terrific views of the surrounding mountains and plains. After taking a short detour past the summit geocaches, we were back at the car park in 6-7 hr. We managed to take a few more stops in the vicinity, and then I travelled solo south to Caboolture, where I managed to completed a few more Adventure Labs: *Caboolture Oldies* and *Sports of Caboolture*.

Following our Mount Beerwah summit hike, I visited this geocache with E_Smiley and smallwombat. This was a puzzle that I hadn't been able to solve previously, but smallwombat had studied it closely to obtain a set of coordinates, and commented how good this puzzle was (in fact, he couldn't stop praising it). As a consequence, I will certainly have a look at this puzzle again to attempt to solve myself.

Our initial plan to drive to GZ from the other side was thwarted due to the national park, so we approached from the other direction, of which we managed to park reasonably close to GZ. From there, we walked along the established geotrail, where it was only when we looked backwards that we remarked at the size of this geocache. Given smallwombat's puzzle solving capabilities, we let him do the honours in uncovering the geocache. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks Slow Puncture (LJCC) for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Nice little spot would not have know this existed if I didn't need to come here to find this cache

What better way to spend my birthday than driving through the country side collecting some smilies? My last and most anticipated cache of the day was this long solved puzzle though, not only great fun to solve but also a D/T square for my fourth loop. The container at gz certainly didn't disappoint, although Miss17 was a bit scared to open it at first, wondering if one of the locals had moved in Thanks Slow Puncture for another great caching experience

Today was going to be a long day. The bike in the morning doing the trail from glass house welcome to Beerburram, then in the afternoon doing the 27 Club and caches that we pass. A good 2nd day in Beerwah.

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TFTC Slow Puncture (LJCC)

Today we arrived into Bewah to spen a couple of days before heading towards Dayboro.
We teamed up with the Snakepitters the guys going off to cycle the B/W trail,
This was a very interesting puzzle took some research to work it out, along with a push for a previous solver.
A very unexpected container found at the final location FP given
Thankyou Slow Puncture (LJCC) for placing this cache.

Well . . . how about that? My name is in this logbook [^].
Not such a big deal as there are several other names in it too. Why I'm feeling a bit special, is because I didn't solve the puzzle . I did try. I have a fine Excel file that auto calculates, sings, dances and consistently gives up the wrong co-ordinates [:(!].
Last week, I started thinking about where the cache couldn't be. I had much more success with this and overlaying my dodgy co-ordinates, I decided it was time to have a look.
Parked at my calculated start point this morning and had success within minutes .
Looking at my records, I see my closest waypoint is 43 metres away .
Soooo, here's the problem. Do I just walk away now, continue to try to solve the puzzle, or send you an email asking for help?
. . . to be continued ?

Out and about with Chamad on this wonderful Boxing Day to complete the B/W trail series, Hamilton series and any other caches that were in the vicinity. The weather was perfect with a hint of cloud at times to make the day a little more pleasant. We both thoroughly enjoyed our experience today and how can you not enjoy the backdrop of the Glass House Mountains, we really do live in such a wonderful location where we can experience places like this. After several hours we decided to call it quits, I finished the day with 30 finds and unfortunately 1 DNF.

Thank you to each an every CO for placing caches at each of these locations and for giving us a reason to visit.

#1548 - TFTC

I had contacted Geonayfee and said we hadn’t been caching together for a while did he want to come along for a morning of caching. I had planned to grab “little boxes” and the ones along the trail leading up to Beerburum .
Thanks to the Co on this one for the big push along in solving it, but that was a few months back and all I needed today was the finals. This was our meeting point for the morning, but it seems the mozzies in the area knew we were coming too and had a huge welcoming party ready for us at GZ. A great cache and a deserved favourite point here from me, thank you. With the log signed and the cache replaced as found we were off, 3 pints of blood less and a little light headed but glad to be back at the cars, there was no way we were venturing further down the road to grab that trad.
Now it was onto the trail of trads that were nearby, thank you Slow puncture for this cache.

This puzzle took me a while to solve. A fair bit of research and contacting the CO for help... more research, starting excel spreadsheets etc... more CO help needed and finally I got some good looking numbers!

Today I made a detour to GZ as this one is required for my next loop. Drove past a well known location and a few minutes later found the little bugger...

Well done! I'm very impressed.

A big favourite point for the puzzle idea, CO patience and the container!

TFTC

Georode

What an awesome cache. Well done. The gz put a smile on my face for more reasons than being able to find it and I did have to search a few other spots first. Thanks and fav point

Earlier this year OBC and I learned about the existence of this puzzle, and the fact that it was a very complex puzzle. Challenge accepted and many evenings followed of trying this, trying that, oh you've already tried that have you, what about this then. And massive use of tool of choice Excel. Yes, some of us can do nearly anything in excel. A pattern sort of emerged. A theory was developed and refined and it seemed for a long time that we were on the right track, but only dodging passing trucks. However the dawn broke and the checker said nice things finally and the grinning was on.

And into the solved pile it sat for a few weeks - loooooong weeks, until today that is! With OBC hitting the two thousandth milestone this cache was chosen as target destination. The short drive in to GZ was fine - choosing to bounce on afterwards was a decision we needed to reverse - but to GZ was fine. And the little walk in, look around - where can this little box be?

ooooohhhhh. wow. Okay then. I didn't read that part of the cache description. Wowsers. Big time FP for all that this cache has been start to finish. Thankyou.

And with the cache signing done my usually happy pilot did an extra happy dance and a little whoop whoop of joy extra. Happy 2k and congratulations missie. Well deserved. So glad I could celebrate with you.

Thanks Slow Puncture for entertaining me at this location.
*{Overall find #8374}*

*** milestone cache 2000! ***

Today was supposed to be a tree climbing day! But, as with all plans, things didn't go to plan. The sporadic rain meant that some of the trees we wanted to climb were a bit unsafe. But thankfully, we managed to get P' through his fourth loop (wahoo! congratulations matey ) and I managed to get my 2000th cache. Wahoo - happy days all around.

This is a very very clever little puzzle. I agonised over it for weeks, and got really close to a solution. The CO, being a gracious lady, finally gave me the tiny nudge I needed to solve it. And I am so glad that I did. What an awesome cache (one of the biggest I think I've seen!). You're an awesome friend and so glad I could milestone on one of your caches. Have a well deserved FP. Apologies for P' for my driving along this road. But I can't wipe the smile off my face.... soooooo happy to be in the 2k club!

TFTC and TB visits

Found with help of Geowife Dora the Explorer.

Found it? A total of 23 finds on traditionals in 2 days, plus this one, a D5 puzzle. No signature in log. No, you *didn't* find it... Log deleted.

Started off ok with the puzzle but then came to a grinding halt, so messaged the CO's for a push in the right direction (thanks for the help Luke & Kerry). Well I would like to say it was then straight forward for me but it wasn't, I seemed to end up with an awful lot of possibilities and then narrowed it down by using Google Earth and eventually got the green tick. So a trip out today in search of the cache and it turned out to be the biggest one I've ever seen. On our way back we were stopped by a ranger who said they were just about to start a controlled burn in the area so hope this doesn't affect the cache. TFTC Slow Puncture (LJCC)

This was a puzzles we had looked at some time ago so heading north this trip it was time to make a find.
Onto the dirt and then on to GZ. We thought we saw a good spot for a hide and then just about tripped over the final. Great size. We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC

Spent the weekend at Rainbow Beach and doing some 4WDRIVING with a tour on Fraser and then along Double Island Point with some great friends. Today Nyssaflutterby and Lady membsec decided to do some interesting D/T’s around the area. Some were either solved before I arrived in Qld or on the run by Nyssa or myself, some needed a nudge from geofriends.

I was lucky enough to have the FTF person with me but she told me nothing about it and I was so surprised to see such a great container. Wow, worthy of a favourite point! I’m glad I did a major in maths at uni!!!!!

TFTC

Very pleased to add our name to the list of finders for this one. My music knowledge needs some work though as I had to google just about all of the songs :/ Confirmed my method for solving with the CO and received a welcome nudge which gave me the green checker shortly thereafter and away we went. What a private little spot! Never been in that area before and look forward to spending more time in the surrounding forest soon. Thanks so much for all the time and effort that went into creating the puzzle and cache Luke and Kerry, and for the enjoyment we got out of it.

Cache a day to keep the doctor away, or is it to keep me sane. No it’s to keep my streak alive. TFTC Slow Puncture ¥292 . #1841 Finds.

To Cut A Long Story Short the Longest way is ALWAYS the best way. I had noticed this little trail of caches had popped up around the Glass House Mountains. Now ruzzelz is never one to knock back a nice ride mixed up with a little geocaching. But, what can one do to spice up a ride a little along the way.

Looking at the map I thought maybe we could ride over there,up there a couple past those little hills. Along the way we should get nice views, there will be just a gentle slope along the way. Well that is what I told Beardman when he volunteered to come along for the ride.

Why are you walking Blair? That was the easy bit. No trouble just peddle harder mate I said. It is getting so much easier now, it should be all down hill now, well maybe.

Now that was a top day out, I do like having fun and caching.

[Glass House Loop](https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/create-from-activity/3948888519)


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7/8/19 11:32 am Find #2660
Having completed the nearby Beerwah trail, we still had time to spare today, and with only a couple of caches left for wombles and co to get her final souvenir for the current promotion, I asked if we could detour to this one for me to grab. (Wombles has done this one recently with NyssaFlutterby, but I still had it on my need to get list).
So a short drive here - wombles wasn’t sure if the road was in better condition today than when she and Nyssa came through or if it was that my now bigger car handles the bumps better.
Soon we were pulling up and I saw a very likely spot to hide a cache. I headed over and looked this end, and looked that end. And then turned around and.....
Ohhhhh!! Well that’s a ummmm little box
I was worried for a second that I would’ve be able to get it open, but then I saw what the situation was and was soon inside.... no not literally!
Log signed, and all contents left behind - wish I’d brought something to add to the collection in there now. Thanks for the cache Slow Puncture.

Spent many enjoyable/frustrating hours solving this puzzle. Finally got there with a little help from CO. TFTC

I've decided to make this cache the one to celebrate my 100th D5 find.

Tricky puzzle and a tricky find at GZ. Of course I walked past it and searched the obvious.

Thanks Slow Puncture for the puzzle.

Last cache of the day.
I remember as a teenager being in a play travelling around Victoria and this was one of the songs we sung. I played the part of a painter. I belonged to a youth group when we did this play.
Wandered in to find this cache. Soon spotted and the log was signed and returned to where found.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks Slow Puncture (LJCC) All good with this cache and puzzle

Had some luck with Gcoven doing the hard yards on this puzzle. It was left to me to just look good and do nothing more than that. With all the scribbled workings in front of me, found an small arithmetic error which in turn narrowed down a likely search area just down the road which we'd just walked passed. Took the jalopy down the road then parked at a likely spot then headed bush.

Saw a likely spot for a little box. With a decent mill and appropriate skills, you could make heaps of little boxes from this particular hide. After a decent search looked back to where'd we come from and spotted the 'little' box a little ways from where we were standing. If the 'little' had teeth, it would have taken a big bite from us!!

Except for the few blood suckers buzzing around, this is a lovely spot. Thanks for bringing me to this spot Slow Puncture, a fav!!

Had started this puzzle last night ! What a crazy fool am I! Had some hints from the lovely CO that had me close with my East. Another clue whilst in a nearby power trail have us some opportunity for mind power too as we tweaked the numbers to get what looked like a reasonable location based on previous logs. So glad I brought my 3 pages of workings as made the job a tad easier as sort of half done ! Pulled up at the likely location and saw a possible geotrail. We headed in and spent way too long searching a lovely looking cachey hidey thing . I turned around to survey the area and behold a box appeared !!! How did we miss that!!!! Absolutely brilliant puzzle with enough Little Boxes to almost put me in a Big Box!!! Thanks for a fab cache! Fave point awarded

Another spot filled on the D/T grid - only one more to go,

With a few days in this beautiful part of the world I was able to fill two of my last three spots on the grid - something I promised myself a couple of years ago I would have done soon. Better late than never!

TFTC

This puzzle has caused a fair number of my brain cells to short out from overuse. But a team effort eventually found a way to obtain the coordinates. TFTC!

Made a detour on the way home to collect this. A surprise in the bush! Here was thinking it was like it’s name sake. I was almost frightened to open it to see what could possibly be inside, thankfully just some swag and the important log book.

I was working in Landsborough when I got a call from Konie, he was heading to Little Boxes.

I finished what I was doing and met him at a arranged spot.

This has been on my solved list for awhile, so today was the day!!

I hopped into his Geomobile and it wasn't long before we had parked a short stroll from GZ.

The cache was soon spotted and Konie set about figuring it out, he soon realised what he had to do .

Once we signed the log everything was replaced exactly as we found it.

TFTC - SlowPuncture

I headed out to Beerburrum today and arranged to meet up with Mr Wesso, who was returning from some nearby work, to grab this puzzle cache. The puzzle took lots of effort and I hate puzzles, so enough said.

After relaxing by the side of the road for a while I was joined by the young fella who jumped in my geomobile and we headed off and were soon parked nearby.

A short stoll to GZ and it was hard to miss the tiny box waiting for us. A scratch of the head at first before realising all was good and the log was soon in hand.[^]

Once the log was signed all was returned as found.

TFTC Slow Puncture (LJCC)


(This log was written in an environmentally friendly way with reused letters of deleted emails and is completely digitally degradable).

Geograndson was visiting for the weekend. When asked what he wanted to do, the answer was "Geocaching!!!!" A geobuddy had given me a big shove with this puzzle. As we were close by, I decided to detour to find it. I parked the geomobile in a safe spot and we followed the thin trail almost to GZ. When geograndson spotted the cache, he was amazed at thee size of it! It is great to see a good sized cache! I added my name to the log while he went through the stash but he decided that there was nothing there that he wanted. TFTC

Well, this cache was not hidden very well. I could spot it from a distance.

It is great to see caches that match the environment. Nothing worse than a nano in the bush.

All is good here.

Find #2203

TFTC ***Slow Puncture (LJCC)***

I have given this cache a favourite point.

Nyssaflutterby and I were headed north today and stopped in here. I headed towards one area and the cache was not what I was expecting to find.
Nice one SP!

**# 24742** Found on our 2019 trip to Qld for winter.
A fine warm sunny Winter day for a bike ride with Simber15.
Not many muggles around today and a few good safe hides.
After the B/W trail we headed for this one, but had 1 number mixed up in the GPS.
After correcting that simple typo we were on the right path.
An excellent puzzle and even better great big cache and hide, well done,
and a fav point has been added.
Thanks for the D5 cache Slow Puncture (LJCC), it was well worth it,
***Roostaman***

Having worked a few of the most recent weekends some time in lieu was in order. An offer to pedal the new Slow Puncture B/W Trail was suggested and I didn't need convincing. Met up with Roostaman just after 9am and left one of the vehicles at the top end. Switched around cars and bikes and started the journey from the bottom end.

Here's the bit where I thank Roostaman for his efforts solving this puzzle. Admittedly it's still above my 'pay grade' but I am learning and would like to be able to say I am also capable! Luck has it that he managed to pre-solve this before heading out. WELL! He essentially solved it, but did get one of the minutes in the degrees wrong when it was time to set off for GZ and after some muddling back and forth and then back and forth in the 4WD down some very skinny looking tracks the error was noticed and a 'you're a donkey!' comment was made. With the error corrected it was amusing to discover the last +/- 30 mins of bush bashing tracks not exactly designed for the full width of cars was completely unnecessary and the actual GZ was somewhat closer to civilization than first thought. Once at the right spot the 'little box' was discovered and contents accessed. Log signed and returned. Thank-you for an amusing adventure to end the day!

A group effort in solving this one. I did some googling and had to go to work. Luckily one of the team members was able to transform my working into coords! Well done! Well the others have collected this so today was my turn as I return from a ride around Ewan Maddock Dam. Had a great laugh at the natural camo placed on top, not sure it’s achieving much but made me laugh. Thanks Slow Puncture for the fun puzzle and great cache container hidden at the camo (still laughing).

teamdfl and I met up this morning to tackle this series of caches on our bikes. We left the cars at Parrot Park, Beerburrum, and were out for about 3 and 1/2 hours and made them all smileys Most caches came to hand pretty quickly. No great disasters befell us, except for a broken bike chain on the way back. (And I am sure teamdfl really, really, really enjoyed the last 2kms by herself, as it was the only time she got to ride fast ) We had an early lunch at the cafe over the road from the park, then parted company, she to pack up her camp and me to gather more caches on the way back to Brisbane.

teamdfl had got this one started, and I supplied a few more answers, but then we got bogged down in trying to come up with options for what to do next. A request for help was sent to the CO, but we still couldn't figure anything more out, so contacted another friend. This meant we were able to sign the logbook today. Love the final container! TFTC, SP.

Once again a previous log stands out here. I am quite happy to admit when I have received help with a puzzle. I got a hint for this one, which has not yet managed to be of any use. [B)] The final co-ordinates that I also received at that point however meant that we could go hunt this one today.

I have started to try and work out the puzzle by reverse engineering, but even that is proving difficult. You would think this was a D5 or something. [:o)]

We also had the same problem as woodyrothwell at GZ. We got fixated on the wrong big thing and did not notice the obvious.

A favourite point for this one, and the series.

When I first started looking at the B/W trail a couple of weeks ago, I found myself at the pub looking at this puzzle. It is so hard to solve a mystery on your phone while holding a beer. I give myself a big pat on the back for trying.

I knew there is normally more than one way to solve a puzzle so I made a DTAF (drunken text a friend) for some help. I got the low down on what was needed to solve it but it’s virtually impossible to solve supernumerical equations while drinking a beer and checking a keno ticket. I texted back for more specific information and some coordinates were encoded with a plain text cipher.

Hang on, did a cacher just tell the truth. My bad, I solved this years before it was published and I’m just collecting it now.

After riding the trail we drove up to GZ for a bo-peep. I was so affixed on a certain big thing that I missed the obvious. I don’t know how my wife found it either because she was plugged into her phone. tftc

Definitely not a little box or an easy puzzle. Using this to complete room to breathe challenge where you need to find all caches within 5km radius.

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Travelling South by myself this morning, The Geo Dawg had other business to attend too. So it was just me out and about to try for some caches. Nice amble along the track. Thanks for bringing me here. Love the musical questions, Hate Maths


Thanks for the great Caches and adventure Slow Puncture

New puzzle and a bunch of geocachers in the area.. GROUP ATTACK! Thanks for the cache. Awesome container!
Cheers

Spent the day mathing with a bit of reworking when it turned out I didn’t read one equation correctly, but was might happy to solve this one in the end, with some perhaps unconventional mappingmethods added in to narrow down the field. And yes Twas a big surprise to see the cache in relation to the title, love this spot. Tftc Slow Puncture

We all had different priorities today as mountains had to be climbed, planes ?? kept in the air and scout badges prepared for. Coffee was consumed. And at least one of us fell asleep on the couch ?? Those Little Boxes may have contained headache pills ?? In any case this puzzle morphed into an all-day obsession that consumed the minds of many.

Happily the coords popped out and GZ was plotted ?? Actually quite near the anticipated location of this cache. The title appears to be ironic but our names went into the logbook (some today and more to come) and we can all get some sleep tonight knowing there is one less difficult puzzle on the list ??

TFTC Slow Puncture ??

On the way home from climbing three mountains (Tunbubudula-The Twins & Mt Tibberoowuccum) with karicka, Beardman27, wayn0 and E_Smiley and as tired as we were, we still managed to squeeze in a couple of extra caches.
After finding mostly ammo cans today we had a nice surprise at GZ, wow great to see a large one which are far & few between these days. Signed log, swapped TB's, had a chat to Miss Direction and was on our merry way. Thanks CO for placing and a favorite point from me.

TFTC Slow Puncture
Found May 6, 2019

Been literally following the crowd of intrepid explorers for most of the day today. At one stage I was so far behind that I would have overtaken them sideways had a tree wasn't on the path to stop my fall when I slipped on our way down. Whew! That was close.

TFTC Slow Puncture. Surprised to see your 'little' box! Awesome find!

Found 6 May 2019 4:04 pm Find #3616
Cheers, E

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On the way home after a great day in the Glass House Mountains with some awesome cachers.
Great hide!
Played a bit with the puzzle tonight, was about to lose my concentration more than once, these things are addictive.

Thank you for the trip
R

We had seen this puzzle come out and Mr 4ando set to work trying to solve it, thankfully he didn’t get it straight away as all these other gold nuggets came out a little bit afterwards and we were able to bring the bikes out for a ride through this area.

After tweaking the numbers, and a number of times at that, exploring options using google earth, finally a set of co-ordinates were derived, and the checker gave the green light. These types of puzzles only have one word to describe them... "NASTY", other words do come to mind, but could offend

As we neared GZ we were all over an obvious feature along with in it, around it, on it, under it and coming up with nothing. As Mr 4ando turns he spots it and asks ‘how on earth could we miss that?’ One look and this has me inquiring how do you open it and just like that Mr 4ando has it open with a look of ‘just like that.’ Oh, blonde moment!

Tftc Slow Puncture

After a long day up and down mountains, we swung by here to finish off with this. We met Miss Direction at GZ and a quick find was made. Thanks for the cache

As today’s outing was unplanned this puzzle will have to wait

A morning off meant some free time to hunt for some of the newer caches in pineapple country. The puzzle for this one gave me no shortage of grief, but with a truckload of perseverance (and a little hint) a solution finally came to light.

At GZ there was no mistaking the container, what a beaut!

It seemed in need of some TBs, so I dropped a few that came back from the Canberra mega with us. Adding a fave for a job well done!

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Log signed at 08:57 and cache returned as found . Thanks for the experience and the smilie  **Slow Puncture**

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I love a music-themed cache – I have one series of hides in Brissie on a musical topic and I'm working on a big one here on the Sunny Coast – so when this alert came through on a Friday morning and I didn't have any work commitments, I got stuck into it with gusto. Thought I was making pretty good progress, too, when WHAM! – in came the FTF notice. Congrats to Nyssaflutterby on the super-fast solve and find!

It's a tricky puzzle, and you can find yourself getting tied up in all kinds of permutations. My cause wasn't helped by leaving out a tiny element of the cache description when I was copying it across to a separate file to crunch the numbers. Ended up having to get a nudge from the CO to get back on track (thanks!). Even then, there was plenty of work to be done. Don't think I want to see "D * J" in an algebraic equation ever again.

Got the green light in the end, and armed with the coords I set out early on a flawless Sunday morning and made quick progress to GZ. Had a bit of a chuckle when I found the cache because I hadn't bothered checking the container size on the description, and I spent the first 5 minutes looking in hidey holes that were about 100 times too small. I definitely regret not bringing any swag along for the "little" box...

Great puzzle and cache, Slow Puncture. Thanks for the challenge!

Sunday. Slow Puncture was out today placing a few caches and thought we would check up on our own recently placed puzzle, and visit with TBs. All good here, glad to say!

I spent quite some time organizing the information needed for this puzzle and then I got a bit fuddled. Hmm, what to do now? Oh, look at that, there it is

My jedi geosenses were working overtime and I was awarded a **FTF**

Love the container and the pretty location. Great song!

Thanks for the smiley Slow Puncture
Happy to part with a FP for this cache.

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FTF @ 10.57 am
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