C3 The ABC Murders Upper Caboolture, Queensland, Australia
By Waz and Vik on 08-Aug-19. Waypoint GC8BWHK

Roadworks has made this difficult to get

needs to be replaced as water is getting in to it.

Quick find but couldn’t sign log as it is saturated. TFTC Waz and Vic

We have now set up camp at the Caboolture showgrounds. We have been joined for a couple of days by pprass.
Today we ventured out to the AC trail, a lot of research was involved to work out the puzzles.
We left the camp in overcast conditions started with a couple on the railtrail before starting AC. We found it enjoyable caching along the country roads but we were surprised by how much traffic passed.
Most were good sized containers with plenty of swaps inside.
Thankyou Waz and Vik for placing this cache.

TFTC. We had stayed in Dayboro after the Mega to do some more caching. We had solved many puzzles while in lockdown and it wa s time to reap the rewards by finding the caches. We targeted this Agatha Christie series for today’s adventure with muff1.

We made the decision to spend another week at the Dayboro showgrounds to give ourselves the opportunity to find more of the many caches that have been placed in the area. The area is still showing signs of all the rain we have had recently with the creeks flowing fast, today we did not need to negotiate roads with water over them. We found all of the caches that we attempted today. We felt we were very high with great views but the map told us that we were not that high. As we used to live in FNQ at an altitude of 880 m today's altitudes were peanuts. SL TFTC

Done. Signed today as MINIFIGAS! as I teamed up with GLISS! Minniek, Fitzy_1965, Albida33 and Smittengranny to tackle some counties, trails, oldies and interesting caches. It was another very wet day making some of the driving a little tricky, but we still managed some awesome caching. Great to be finally in Queensland with our eyes on the Mega Prize. We had a truly awesome day!

This is the first Mega we have had in Australia in over a year. We have navigated lockdowns, mouse plagues, floods and the dreaded Covid to get here. So wonderful to be able to be out caching in Queensland. Such a privilege. Thanks for the cache.

Easter trip away with fitzy_1965 for the cacheQLD Dayboro Mega.

After a slow start due to the rain, we teamed up with nibletricecakes, GLISS!, Albida33 and Smittengranny (signing logs as MiNiFiGAS!) to tackle the balance of We <3 Geo and Geosaurus, as well as Agatha Christie and part of the Coat of Arms Geo-art trails and any others in-between. Then ended the day with a great catch-up at the Tropi-Cal Party.

All caches were found in good condition unless otherwise stated.

24,273. Found with minniek on our Dayboro QLD MEGA Adventure trip. For today we also cached with albida33, Nibletricecakes, Smittengranny and GLISS! to form and sign as MiNiFiGAS!

With the sudden COVID outbreak in Queensland putting the Mega in doubt we decided to head up to the New South Wales / Queensland border hoping that it would still go ahead, and with the announcement that things were mostly returning to normal we decided Plan A still looked good. Day 5. An early and still wet start today with an aim of caching our way through finishing some of the Geo-Art around Dayboro (all being pre solved) plus various bonus caches along the way. This was the next stop for the day. We parked nearby this one for a quick find at GZ. Signed the log as MiNiFiGAS!, replaced the cache as found, then headed off to the next one.

Thanks CacheQLD and all the other Cache owners !! Please forgive the generic logs.

Dayboro trip. Day 10. Day two of the Mega weekend. I again joined Fitzy_1965, MinnieK, Nibblericecakes and Gliss for a full day of caching after a bit of time spent at mega HQ for catch up and learning. It was another wet day, but not as bad as it could have been. We mostly visited solved puzzles in the nearby Geo-art, but also did the other caches that we passed along the way. The day ended up in another remote part of the area, that meant a difficult wet drive home along narrow maintainous roads. All in all another fun day with great company.

The final set of caches for the day were the Agatha Christie caches and we could see a marked difference in the cache types, very nice.

Thanks for the cache Waz and Vik

31961.77 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2007 Australia Black A#82

**Albida**

I am out in the rain on Day 3 as part of MINIFGAS. We are having a ball despite the rain. A great mob, great caches and great fun. Thanks to all the COs for the caches. TNLN SL

Hitting up the trails around Dayboro today. All caches were quickly found unless otherwise indicated. Caching in a group and signed as MiNiFiGAS! TFTC

Day 2 of our Dayboro mega weekend and a group of us headed north to find some Agatha Christie mysteries - mainly in the rain! Thanks Waz and Vik for the series.

Our second day out in the area and we decided to hunt for the Agatha series today. This was on our list and we are pleased to say we found it and gladly signed the log.
Many thanks for placing this series out for us and others to find.
Cheers and happy caching!

Found at 11:57 AM GAFF1.
Cache was found to be soaking wet - even the double bagging didn't save the log book
Thanks Waz and Vik.

Another quiet spot to find a cache... I’m going to a “needs maintenance” here as water has gained entry to the cache, and the log book is now saturated... I’ve got it on the bonnet of Renaldo to try and help the drying process along, but I don’t think any amount of silica packets will help here... I’ll double bag it and add silica, but the co may need to visit this one... tftc

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

With the day off today I had planned to revisit the caches of the new horsehead Geoart and attack the AC art series. I mentioned it to Willis007 and she had managed to get the day off. We arranged to meet at an area that was near the start for us and visit the caches along the way, some I had already signed. On our travels in the area we bumped into Simber15 who also had a day off. After some discussions it was decided that all 3 of us would go and visit the art series together.

After the horse series and some lunch we headed up this way to grab the AC series and a couple of trad’s along the way. It was a nice drive around the streets of the area with some fantastic views and again some big laughs.

Thank you for the series, it is nice to have completed the puzzles and grab the caches. Today the log was signed as each cacher’s name and a few dnf’s rectified.

With a milestone approaching and a Mega event on the horizon it was time to get outside and find some caches! A plan was set to collect some smilies in Dayboro while the roads aren't too crowded and a day off work was requested. An early start ensured we made the most of the daylight available and we hit the tracks and trails and enjoyed a very varied day out. This cache was found with Chamad and Willis007. Thankyou for placing this here.

How does a scientist say the alphabet? A B C D E F G water P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Haha TFTC

Staying over after the newbies events in Kilkivan to do caches in the area.

Quick find.

TFTC Waz and Vik

After the New Year Events in Kilkivan, today's caching area includes the Harry Potter and Agatha Christie Series, with hatzofff and Snickersallan in the geovehicle.

Nicely manicured lawn to boot!

Log signed and cache replaced as found on January 3, 2021. TFTC, Waz and Vik

Making my way back down the coast with hatzofff and RoddyC & spending a few days in the local area to do some geoart puzzles and others in between.
All hides were found relatively easy and apart from a few wet logbooks that we changed where we could, caches were in good condition.
Apologies for the generic logs CO's, thanks for placing for everyones enjoyment.

TFTC Waz and Vik
Found 3 January 2021

Now that the bulk of the rain has passed I decided to venture north and grab the AC series that I've had solved for a little while. I left first thing this morning to HOPEFULLY avoid any of that wet stuff that falls from the sky, luckily I only bumped into a few passing showers and nothing too serious, pheew! However in a few parking spots the ground was a little too wet and I nearly got stuck several times, thankfully that didn't happen.

All in all it was a great morning out in a wonderful location, I thoroughly enjoyed my morning exploring the area. Thank you for the fun puzzles and for placing the caches for us to enjoy.

In the end I found 23 and DNF'd 1.

#1538 - TFTC

Today we've looked for the Agatha Christie caches.
This one we've found easily.
TFTC

Nice puzzle series and as an avid reader I do like a murder mystery. Straight forward find at this location. Thanks Waz and Vik

Tftc Waz and Vik, found , enjoyed your series thanks for the puzzles. Found. Easy one.

Found 8;35am on 7 November 2020 with Hedwig 26. Out for an adventure seeking finds from a week of hard puzzle solving. All good with this hide. TFTC SL Find number 776 for this Pirate Lady Yowhoo me hearties, almost needed some rum after a lovely cow scared me half to death.

Tftc. 8:35am with 64PirateLady Where a lovely local cow welcomed us.

Found it with DeafPVC
Beautiful drive and scenery

Log is safe! A lovely lovely drive. Signing with DeafPVC. Thanks Deafphantom for doing the puzzles

Hooray Thanks for share DeafPVC awesome

Was taken on an unexpected ride today, and since the brains of this partnership had already done her work, it was up to me to be brawn today and run the legwork parts. With the mini-OBC in the back randomly providing artistic entertainment. I mostly kept pace and we ran through this series in quick smart time.

Thanks Waz and Vik for entertaining me at this location.
*{Overall find #8211}*

Solved the majority of these puzzles last night over a glass of wine and a bowl of pasta. Good brain food! Most were relatively straightforward, with two requiring some extra thought.

Picking up my caching partner in crime, and dragging geokid #2 with me, we decided to tackle this one like a power trail. I drove and navigated, slowing down every 200m or so to kick out Mr P. Reset the GPSr to the next cache, checked the hint / size, and if he hadn't find it by then, jumped out to give him a hand. 21 times. Geokid was happily distracted drawing animals from A to Z in the backseat.

All 21 were found - 2 we skipped due to recent DNFs and 1 has been archived.

Thanks for a great series, Waz and Vik!

Out and about with geopup collecting the Agatha Christie caches today. I solved these a few months back, saving them for a free day. Today's the day! The puzzles were all fun and easy to solve.
A quick find at gz today.
Log signed, all replaced as found.
Thanks for the fun series and the cache Waz and Vic.

After solving this puzzle some time ago, today was the day to head out for the search. At the GZ we had a quick search and the container was soon located. TFTC

Really enjoyed solving this series. Murder mystery is my favourite genre and my parents had the whole series of Agatha Christie which is where my love for these books began. Ironically they used to live quite near where these caches are hidden.

The caches were all easily found and there was always somewhere safe to pull off the road.

We have given a few favourite points which are intended for the whole series.

Thanks for the puzzles and the caches.

Did my ABC quite awhile go with this one. Finally getting around to get these

Found TFTC and the series

After a few months of living in isolation, it was time to dust off the geo gear and head out into the hills to find some smiley's again . We had solved all the puzzles so it was a enjoyable drive around finding all the caches.
TNLNSL TFTC

Needed to be in the area for the day, so decided to turn some of the completed puzzles into smileys.
Also my geodog Scruffy wanted to do some caching as well

All Good .. TFTC ..

A quick find this time. I can definitely say that this cache was not at this spot when I had my previous search. TNLNSL TFTC

Quick find nice. TFTC,

Got it, tftc tnlnsl

TFTC quick easy find TNLNSL

#6 of 23 Agatha Christie series; #11 of 30 overall finds today.
Solved 11/4/20 - excited to find some puzzles that we could actually solve 1st go. Out today on a murder mystery mission to do our 1st geo-art.
Well hidden cache but I think the termites have found it. Beware of muggles discovering it when this post needs to be replaced, possibly soon. Took eye, mermaid sticker, left sarong tie.
#2342 @ 1412h
TFTC Waz and Vik ️ ️ ️

Worked my way through the series this week, finishing the last of the mystery's last night. Couldn't resist getting out this morning to finish my first piece of Geo-Art.

Thanks to the CO's for placing the series.

I had a good look around, but came up empty. There has been some new fencing done recently....
Another day..................

Another road with a cache
Found with Earthlight
Tftc

The X-Trailers and I worked our way along this series today. TFTC

After a fun morning, my geocaching buddies headed for home. I grabbed a bite to eat, then sat and looked at the options for the afternoon. After much procrastinating, I decided to head to these puzzles that I had solved some time ago. As I approached Wamuran, I wasn't sure how long the rain would hold off. I could smell the burnt wood nearby as I was signing the log. TFTC

Miss Marple and Poirot set off on a mysterious day of collection and detective work. This was our first and required no too much sleuthing! TFTC

Started the day with a move to C3. This sounds more like a move in a game of battleships than collecting AC novel based puzzles. Left home and the sky was rumbling and wet stuff was falling. Arrived here and it was just a short time later that the wet stuff started falling due to the vortex created from our time travel through the space continuum, to infinity and beyond.

Quick find in a logical spot and noted the smouldering logs in the adjacent field. Never and unlikely to read an AC thriller but if there is a lull in the sport on the idiot box, or a thriller or a test pattern I haven't seen then it'll be an hour on the couch to watch an AC episode and it may as well be The ABC Murders. Hopefully the episode will have the cast of the Sesame St staring. Thanks Waz and Vik for researching and setting up the AC series.

Another one located and my name added to the log. Thanks.

Mrs Just a Trifle was thrilled when IolantheK invited her out for a day of caching After a few days of puzzle solving, it was time for our day of fun around Caboolture and Wamuran It was quite interesting to learn a few things about the author while solving the puzzles and one day, I might even get around to reading some of the books

We had no difficulty in locating this cache and with our names added to the log book, we continued on our way.

Thank you Waz and Vik for placing the cache and for maintaining it for everyone to enjoy

Out and about today with Just a Trifle, to collect caches we both needed around Caboolture and Wamuran.

I've had this whole series solved since they first came out, and it was a pleasant wander back through these Agatha Christie's books! She was certainly my favourite author as a teenager. Today we had complete success and collected all 24 smileys in just over 2 hours TFTC, Waz and Vik.

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Headed South early this morning taking advantage of cool mostly dry day to try my hand at the Agatha Christie Series and a few others

Thanks for the great Cache and Adventure Waz and Vik

This Day in Music
13 Jan 1969
Elvis Presley began a ten day recording session that would produce his final US number one record, 'Suspicious Minds'. The tracks were laid down at American Sound Studios in Memphis and marked the first time Presley had recorded in his hometown since his Sun Records days in 1956.

Second of the series on my way home. TFTC

11/1/20 Find #3284
Having spent the day in Toowoomba with PPrime and Crew153 and surpassing our goal of 100 caches for the day, Fangsoki and I decided to up the score and continue caching on our return home.
We added a few of this series to the day’s hunting in the wet weather.
Thanks for the cache Waz and Vik.

Gentle cache owner, please forgive my generic log

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

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

When Mr CNQ said that there was series of caches based on Agatha Christie novels, Mrs CNQ was very excited, having read every one of her novels. She set about solving every puzzle, so Mr CNQ said, “Well, you solved them, so you can log them.” So here goes:
We are visiting from Charters Towers, but I grew up in the Caboolture area. Every time I return I am constantly surprised at how much the area has grown and changed. When I grew up here, it was basically a farming town, but now it is unbelievably suburban.
We set out this afternoon, ready to add this series to our tally.
This first cache was a nice easy find.
Thanks for the cache, Wazz and Vik!

Quickest find of the day probably could have grabbed it without getting out of car. TFTC

Park and Grab at this GZ. Only took me a minute to find and replace. TFTC

Was the most scary part of the hunt!

TFTC Waz and Vik. Thanks for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Cheers, E

Nice easy find. Great country drive. Tftc

Out gathering the Agatha Christie series on a beautiful day.

Tftc

I had a bit of a hunt here, I could see all of the geotrails in the one area and knew it was the logical spot but couldn't see the little bugger to save myself. Finally I reread a few logs and with a small piece of new information I found the cache almost straight away right where I'd been all along. Cache blind! [:O)] Tftc Waz and Vik!

Headed down here to do this one first and make my way back. Quick find and then turned around to head to the next one. Thanks for the cache

This cache was found easy enough after arriving at GZ.

Find #2558

Thanks for the cache and puzzle ***Waz and Vik***

We enjoyed solving these puzzles and learning more about Agatha Christie and her writings thanks to the CO for the series. We headed out to the area and had a lovely drive early in the morning to avoid the heat of the day. Low and behold this cache was found in good condition and we signed the log and returned as found. TFTC

No luck today. We will be back

Due to the pouring rain we thought that we wouldn’t be getting any caching done today, so the girls set off to the shops to create some photo pages and buy some frames for the walls while the boys went out for a learner driver course in the rain.

Later on as we were putting up the frames (just us now, the kids have already aborted on us), we look out the window and what do we see…sunshine! Photos were forgotten and we were in the car quick sticks to make a few finds. With having these AC caches solved, we thought that we would go for an afternoon drive and pick some of them up. We cannot believe how much people have dumped along this road, mattresses, car and tractor tyres, we even came across a fridge…and yes we opened it thinking it just might be the cache that we DNF’d on, we tentatively opened it and then the look on our faces would have been priceless when the stench actually hit our nostrils.

We had a great few hours travelling along these back roads finding the caches.

Tftc Waz and Vik

I've taken the week off as the the geomonsters are on school holidays. Fortunately Sandra had booked them into vacation care for the day, so it was either do some work in the peace and quiet or go out caching.

I'd worked out the coordinates shortly after this series was released and decided to get them finished today. This was a nice quick find. Onwards...

Thanks!!

#2467

We enjoyed solving all these puzzles last night and today with a free day decided to head out into this area to do some geocaching. After a bit of a search at GZ we soon had what was needed. It is lovely to see so many different types of containers and hides in this series. Plenty of larger containers also. We signed the log and backtracked along the road we had just driven along.
Thanks Waz and Vik. Great geo art.
Domsky 

Perfect day to head north and log the Agatha Christie Puzzle series. These were solved jointly with the bearded redhead a few weeks back Brought back memories of a much younger me reading the books in high school. A great idea for a geo series

No problems with most of the caches, but a few had me spinning in circles A few of the local farmers have scary signs on the fence. But I didn’t see any muggles today. Pretty much a clean run.

TFTC Waz and Zik

Out with geowife doing the Agatha Christie series and some others. Tftc

It had been ages since I'd been caching and I noticed a new puzzle series of caches had appeared. Hmmmmmmm, Agatha Christie...they might be fun to solve. Today was the day to go and pick them up and bb was with me. We had an enjoyable day zipping up and down to and from Wamuran in Monty the mini, getting a few of the other caches that were nearby as well. TFTCs Waz and Vik - sorry about the generic logs - I am close to reaching a milestone and have a stack of caches to log

Found date Friday 13th ... Online log date Sunday 15th

My geobuddy loves Agatha Christie
All solved and off we go on a country

how did we miss that one … the me-wire … I blame the me-wire

Took Canadian quarter
green

One of our Sunday caching traditions is for Mrs Woodyrothwell to read the travel guide out of the paper while I drive. We add all sorts of destinations to our bucket list and only wine regions get pushed to the top. Seeing we have about 9 lifetimes of places to visit we had better start that retirement plan pronto (and maybe put our names on the liver transplant list).

This cache seemed to take us a while to find and weren’t sure how far in we were allowed to go. In the end my left boot found it before I did.

I’m definitely a bit fonder of my left shoe than it’s halfwit brother the right shoe. I don’t seem to be able to kick my left boot as high, so it never kicks me in the arse out of spite. tftc

Thanks for the cache

Cache a day to keep the doctor away, or is it to keep me sane. No it’s to keep my streak alive. Waz and vik >276 days. #1761 finds.

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Thursday. Had to laugh when we finally found this one. All the logs talk about how quick this one had been found. We looked and looked. It wasn’t until I moved something that I made the call that we had this one.

This was the 9th of 10 caches found on today's trip.

Thanks ***Waz and Vik***, for showing us this place.

Quick and easy find and solve

When grandson was picked up today, we took off for the next smilie.

We still got a couple of solutions missing, but three more are ready.... looking good for the streak week.

Tftc

Found it with TBU1BIKESU.TFTC

TFTC smile 4959 out and about with miss Millie geo dog on our way to Wamaran this is my last AC caches Thank you for placing this cache for our enjoyment found

A quiet little part of the world. TFTC

Taking my sisters dog out for a bit of bonding as he settles in for a six week stay and I was very pleased with both the puzzles and the pick up. Tftc

As each installment was released we solved them all … but from afar, too far to make a quick run for a find.
When the last release was published we were quick to solve them & for a brief moment we contemplated doing a night run but then remembered how many avid cache stalkers lived so much closer than we did, Orange Crew had certainly made a meal of the earlier releases! LOL ...
Waking early we checker our phones & saw that grannysmith1947 was out & about, on the prowl but we had already decided we were out of the FTF race & that, now the series were all published, we would just make a morning of trying to convert them all to smilies.
#20 of 30 caches found today.

OMG, this was certainly easy as ABC for Mrs VC!
IPS (in plain sight) once you're at the right angle.
Made our mark & replaced as found.

TFTC Waz and Vik

After the remaining puzzles of this series were published last night, I left the house early this morning hoping to get the one or other FTF done. But it looks like I was about one hour too late for this challenge. At the end I managed to find all caches in just under 2 hours and a l also had a nice chat to other cachers on the way.

Thanks for the series and fun.

Georode

This one I'm going to work on again as I missed it

Helped mum get this series going for Mothers Day earlier this year including placement and puzzle checking, so pleased it’s finally out.

After an early start with Open Day Of Caboolture U3A and thereafter couple of hours on Bribie, we went searching the containers of the first 4 puzzles, which we solved last night.

Here we got something wrong, so have to check it at home.

Tft interesting puzzles and caches!

Out with wombles to create a few new smileys on this lovely winters day.

Thanks for the cache Waz and Vik

Geopartner and I were out enjoying the sunshine today for Ekka holiday. Solved the puzzle last night. Must put this one on the list to read. A nice quick find and signed the log and returned to where we found it.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks Waz and Vik All good with this cache and puzzle

Out for a sneaky extra caching day with nyssaflutterby.
I liked that I could actually solve these puzzles. Though there’s one I still haven’t managed to tease numbers out of.
We started at this end because of traffic on the main road, a historical motorcycle club out for a ride. Took us a while to remember of course it’s a holiday for Brisbane!

What a beautiful winters day for geocaching. Found this one before geohubby even got out of Tuna. Geowife 6 - hubby 3. TFTC Waz and Vik

With a sick child and a studying spouse, my afternoon yesterday was spent tinkering away at solving this series of Agatha Christie mysteries, but being unable to leave the house to find them. Like Poirot, I took many wrong turns and got lost down some rabbit holes but got there in the end.

Today there was a chance to duck out and try to find them, so an early start was made, arriving just before dawn. It was interesting learning a bit more about the plots of these novels, some are so complicated, and nothing is ever quite as it seems. Must make for a good read.

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Log signed at 06:09 and cache returned as found. Thanks for the smilie **Waz and Vik**. This log is
trackable.

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