C5 The Mystery of the Blue Train Bellmere, Queensland, Australia
By Waz and Vik on 09-Aug-19. Waypoint GC8BXMY

Road being developed, no longer suitable

Having only recently discovered this Agatha Christie series I set to researching the books to solve the puzzles. I really enjoyed reminiscing the stories of the books, many of which I had read & some had even been released as movies. With today being forecast as a sunny day with no rain predicted I set out to see how many I could find. Only a couple eluded me & perhaps 3 did not have convenient areas to park so were bypassed. I think I got all the rest. The puzzles & the finds were all great fun. Thank you Waz & Vik for the enjoyment this series brought. TFTC

Found today, log was damp, but still able to sign, Thanks for the hide, and series, Waz and Vik

A few weeks back we collected some of the Agatha Christie series before weather stopped us. Today is the day to collect the rest.
Cache 4 for the day.
Thanks for the cache. Logged and moved on

Decided to attempt some caches close by. Picked a time that I thought would be more appropriate. This cache was quick and easy to find.

TFTC

Nice quick find when caching in the area solved a few of these puzzles a while ago
Thanks for the cache

In the area today picking up some caches and this was one of them. I parked nearby and once at GZ the cache was soon in hand.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for me and others to enjoy.

TFTC Waz and Vik

Enjoying these puzzles with Juju54 TFTC

Enjoying this little trail of puzzles with HRH54 today TFTC

Nice quick find. 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 todays altitudes were peanuts. SL TFTC

Gotcha. 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.

24,259. 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

31947.63 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2015 19,000 Finds A#314

**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 12:48 PM GAFF1.
A good spot to pull over - especially as there are double lines here.
Stepped over the cache and missed it at first as we were looking for a more substantial hiding spot.
Thanks Waz and Vik.

I had to skip this cache one my first pass as there was a courier driver parked at GZ... he passed me as I was signing another in the series so I’ve stopped on my return... it wasn’t until I was at the car with the cache that I realised it had a guardian attached... for once I didn’t hurl the cache... instead I just flicked the guardian into the air... I’m still eyeing it off as I write this log... tftc...

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.

What do you call a train loaded with toffee? A chew chew train! TFTC

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


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.

Another easy find.

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 65
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.

#1525 - 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. We like the back drop of the Glasshouse mountains. Thanks Waz and Vik

Found 9.43am 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 783 for this Pirate Lady Yowhoo me hearties

Tftc. Found at 9:35am Quick find.

Quick find
With DeafPVC

A lovely drive. Signing with DeafPVC. Thank you Deafphantom for doing this puzzle!

Hooray Thanks for share DeafPVC enjoy drive

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 #8197}*

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.

Out for some caching fun with CuriousQuest. Another quick find and sign and we were on our way again. TFTC

Thanks for another one of these mystery caches. All is good with this one

After having solved the puzzle at home prior to traveling to Caboolture, we were keen to get out and find the cache.
We parked nearby and quickly made the find.
Thanks a Waz and VIK for this hide.

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.

A nice quick find here. TFTC,

Found TFTC

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 an 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 ..

Got it. Tftc tnlnsl

TFTC quick easy find TNLNSL

#10 of 23 Agatha Christie series & #15 of 30 overall finds today.
Solved 10/4/20, a fun mystery to investigate. Great to be out adding some geo-art smilies to our map.
Glad to be off the main road for a bit. Another familiar container. A few 10c's lying around that we collected on our way. Left FTF magazine card, took green crochet.
#2346 @ 1440h
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.

A quick find in the area close to the calculated co-ords. A suspicious pile of sticks SPOS gave the cache hide away. TNLNSL TFTC

Easy find with Earthlight
Tftc

Found with The X-Trailers. TFTC A great series.

I only managed to solve 2 of these at home before we travelled to Australia. This was the first one and it was a nice easy find. TFTC

NO mystery here1

So many synergies between trains and murder. There is plenty of time to commit murders on trains, conversely time waiting for trains to appear brings on murderous thoughts. Combine the two and you have one of the many stories from last century. Thanks Waz and Vik for setting up this AC series.

Another quick find for the day. TFTC

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 2003
Who guitarist Pete Townshend was arrested on suspicion of child porn offences. Police officers impounded seven computers from his £15 million ($25.5 million) home in Richmond, Surrey.

11/1/20 Find #3293
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

Nice easy find today; thanks for the cache!

Well spotted by geohubby he’s learning quickly what to look for and a great help. TFTC

Too easy.

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

Cheers, E

Out in the open so easy find here. This is a great series, tftc

Easy find as it was laying out in the open, not hidden.

Out gathering the Agatha Christie series today.

Tftc

A quick park and grab here and another smilie for me. Tftc and the puzzle Waz and Vik

Had to jump around mud puddles on these verges to keep my feet clean but made a quick find here. Thanks for the cache

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. This cache was found in good condition and we signed the log and returned as found. TFTC

This was a quick find after I parked the car and eked the short distance to find the cache. Log signed and cache replaced as found. TFTC

This was a quick and easy find once at GZ.

Find #2513

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

Found with Quesera on a lovely day of caching, thank you for placing this cache here for us to find.

My geo work buddy and I get together most lunch breaks to try and solve a puzzle. We have been working on this series over the last month and really enjoyed them . Some we had trouble and took us a couple of lunch breaks,others we could solve a few in one lunch break. Today sharpem and I decided to turn them into smileys . We loved the drive around here. It's getting green after the rain we had and so the cows were busy munching. We saw one dead snake that I nearly stepped on and lovely country roads. Thanks for the fun puzzles and for placing these caches for us to enjoy

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

We are enjoying the drive and all the finds. The size of the containers also makes this an easier challenge which is a lovely thing when we’re trying to collect the entire series.
Thanks for taking the time to put these puzzles together and also the great piece of Geo art.
A fun day out!
Cheers
Domsky

Quick and easy find and solve.

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

loving finding these caches

dropped off crocodile tb but it has been rudely grabbed from me so unable to drop off online

Took smiley face
green

When I was a kid we used to have our own wars with army men and a magnifying glass. It was a battle to see who could harness the sun’s energy better and whatever country the army men were fighting for never fared well.

I’ll admit it, I was part of a genocidal regime to see how long it could take to melt an army man. You have to remember that this was a time when plastic was made to erode and not last forever like today’s material.

I’m thinking about starting a lobby group to pressure the government into including army men in the Containers for Change recycling scheme. If I could get 10 cents from every bit of plastic about to shoot someone, I could get rich, solve the world’s plastic problem and fight a serious war on gun control at the same time. I still prefer the getting rich part. tftc

It was too nice a day to stay at home, plus I'd built up some brownie points with Sadra and the geomonsters were out yahooing around with the neighbours kids, so a peaceful mornings caching was in order.

I worked out the coordinates the other day at work and this was quickly located.

Thanks!!

#2441

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Saturday. The sun was starting to set and the air was definitely cooling down so we were about to call it for the day. Still time to grab a couple more caches in this series though! We soon spotted this cache hiding under its camoed material and we had the log signed in a trice.

This was the 11th of 14 caches found on today's trip.

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

Out today to pickup some of Agatha Christie’s series. And a few others.

Cache a day to keep the doctor away, or is it to keep me sane. No it’s to keep my streak alive. TFTC Waz and Vik ¥264 days. #1720 finds

This road is quite busy during the day. 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

Did a wander alongside the roadside to find the cache in the absence of a strong signal.

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.
#21 of 30 caches found today.

I think I need to learn how to use my Garmin, both our phones were playing games of their own out here today ... maybe it's the poor reception (even with those caches saved offline?).
Winter the Geo-Cat decided it was time for some exercise & quite enjoyed wandering up & down the roadside, having a roll in the sandy soil & checking out all the country smells & sounds while we did a quick recon & Mrs VC came up with the cache.
Took the resident TB and left another in it's place.
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 alos had a nice chat to other cachers on the way.

Thanks for the series and fun.

Georode

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

TFTC smile 4905 out and about with miss Millie geo dog Thank you for placing these cache they are really good for a oldie like me who has trouble with the internet Thank you for placing this cache for our enjoyment

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

Thanks for the cache Waz and Vik

Out caching with nyssaflutterby on a sneaky day out!

Geopartner and I were out enjoying the sunshine today for Ekka holiday. Solved the puzzle last night. Had read the book as a teenager. A nice quick find and signed the log and returned to where we found it. Now at the end of the convoy today but first to log these today.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks Waz and Vik All good with this cache and puzzle

Still enjoying our caching in the countryside today - another one for me. Geowife 5 - hubby 1
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. Coords were bang-on here making for a quick grab. Left a TB for the next finder.

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Log signed at 06:20 and cache returned as found. Thanks for the smilie **Waz and Vik**. This log is trackable.

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