C6 Crooked House Bellmere, Queensland, Australia
By Waz and Vik on 09-Aug-19. Waypoint GC8BXN5

no longer a suitable place for a hide

I thought I was on a roll with a few finds under my belt but have to record a DNF on this one

Found today, signed log replaced as found, Thanks 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 3 for the day.
Continuing on with Geo-dad, and this one is next.
Worked through and got it.
On to the next!
Thanks CO's.

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

Wow thought there was cache guardian, but it was the wrong hint item! A frogmouth owl! Found with Hrh54 today TFTC

Good hide TFTC

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

Nice. 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.

24,260. 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

31948.64 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 365 Days of Geocaching A#234

**Albida**

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

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

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 1:08 PM GAFF1.
That hiding spot was a bit exposed - would have been better to place it behind a tree.
Thanks Waz and Vik.
Feedback: The log sheet was difficult to get out of the tiny hole as it was bunched up.

Replaced cache today. With the new fencing, there is little cover around, please replace as found.

My first DNF of the day... as others have noted there’s a new fence... so perhaps it’s gone...

No luck here today.

with the recent works and new fence, along with the earthworks we are pretty sure it is not here.

DNF - Unfortunately after a bit of a search with Willis007 and Chamad we came up empty handed. There is very few places for this cache to reside and the evidence of a very shiny new fence is perhaps to blame.

No luck on my second try, even with another 2 sets of eyes.
A lot of clearing has occurred here, not sure if the cache has disappeared with the recent work.

Found it today after work on 1st February 2021. Tftc. Find numbrr 882 for this piratelady . LLP

Tftc. Quick find after work with 64Piratelady

I've been trying to hang a picture of Donald Trump in my house, but no matter what I do it's always crooked! 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.

Good hint.

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.

#1526 - TFTC

Cache has been replaced a couple of metres away from the original due to some heavy bush clearing. You may need to feel rather than look

New cache has been put in place, all good to go.

It appears that this cache may have gone missing. Will be visiting in the next few days to check and replace if neccessary.

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!

No luck here today

Another one that wasn't found, despite being with a previous finder.

Another one found. Only a few to go. Tftc all is good here

We solved this puzzle some time ago and today was the day for tracking down the cache. Once at the GZ we did a quick search and the container was soon in hand. 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.

Another quick one. 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

TFTC quick easy find TNLNSL

Got it. Tftc tnlnsl

#11 of 23 Agatha Christie series & #16 of 30 overall finds today.
Solved 10/4/20 & finally out today on a murder mystery mission. Having fun on the country roads, no muggles & houses usually a fair distance away.
Quick find with a not-so camouflaged container. I see now that it was a recent replacement. Well, better than nothing & there's certainly lots of natural camo around.
Good clue - it was in a scribbly location. No swaps, so left a hello kitty badge.
#2347 @ 1445h
TFTC Waz and Vik Thanks for all of your effort to make this series. ️ ️ ️

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

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, but only the log was on the ground. I supplied a new container, but the CO may wish to have a look. TNLNSL TFTC

GPS not our friend today and neither the muddy grounds
Found with Earthlight
Tftc

Found with The X-Trailers caching the inland today. TFTC

No crooked house and no crooked caches!

Another scary nursery rhyme that's not quite been plagiarised but forms the foundation for another murder. Who can forget the Crooked Man that lived in his crooked house with his menagerie after forking out crooked sixpences (forgeries?).

No crooked houses encountered today but the Aussie day parties that have started, I'm sure there will be crook patrons after a day on the turps. Thanks for the cache W&V.

This section of road was the busiest, but the nice wide shoulder meant I could move out of the way when traffic was heading at me from both directions.

Managed to squeeze this one in just before the rain started. TFTC

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 2005
A report showed that more songs had been written about Elvis Presley than any other artist. It listed over 220 songs including: ‘Graceland’ by Paul Simon, ‘A Room At The Heartbreakhotel’ by U2, ‘Calling Elvis’, Dire Straits, ‘Happy Birthday Elvis’, Loudon Wainwright III, ‘There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis’, Kirsty MacColl, ‘I Saw Elvis in a UFO’, Ray Stevens. ‘Elvis Has Left the Building’ by Frank Zappa and 'My Dog Thinks I'm Elvis' by Ray Herndon.

11/1/20 Find #3292
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

I explained the plot of this book to Mr CNQ while we were navigating to the cache, and he registered some surprise at the perpetrator.
The cache was easily located; thanks for the cache!

Fairly quick find with 2 possible places. Took toy car left Wylie Coyote. TFTC

Another quickie.

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

Cheers, E

Nice container here. First day of the year and grabbing a few caches. Thanks for the adventure

Quick easy find on a beautiful day doing the run of the Agatha Christie series.

Tftc

Another quick stop here, I spotted the container as I got out of the car and made short work of signing and returning it. Tftc and the puzzle Waz and Vik

Not quite what I was expecting when I saw the hint but made a quick find. 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

These caches so far have been easy to find after I found safe close parking. Log signed and replaced as found..TFTC

This was a quick and easy find once at GZ.

Find #2512

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.

Cool cache.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

I remember reading this novel as a young teenager. When I was in my early teens, I was quite hooked on Agatha Christie. After solving the puzzles last night we came by today to make the find. Nice camo container at GZ. Log signed and then on our way again.
Thanks Waz and Vik.
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

took a little longer to find this one

With all the army men on offer in the caches, I was running into swag deficit. I can handle owing the tax man some money, owing my mother $100 that I borrowed 20 years ago and owing my wife for all the lifts home from the pub, but owing a cache is something that will keep me awake at night.

I think we have about a hundred Christmas bon-bons at home and I am seriously contemplating opening them all to replenish my stock.

Our kids are all old and stupid but I am seriously contemplating stealing their Christmas fun to collect more stuff to swap. I know how much they enjoy cracking open a Chrissy treat to get a plastic ring that doesn’t even fit on their fingers, but I have high morals. 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 being behind my favourite tree, this container is hard to miss.

Thanks!!

#2442

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Saturday. Whilst I was looking around for something, Mr SP called out that he could see this one from where he was standing. Ah! I do love these sorts of containers. They will last forever. Signed the log in between passing cars and replaced back to its spot.

This was the 12th 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. #1721 finds

Understood the clue this time. 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 took about two and a half hours all up

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.
#22 of 30 caches found today.

Mrs VC was overthinking this one as I was watching Winter the Geo-Cat take a walk.
A white tray-back passed by & turned in at a driveway not far past where we were stopped.
I wandered over for a quick look & suggested Mrs VC take a look at THAT.
Made our mark & replaced as found.
Loaded Winter back in the Geo-Beast then we jumped in just as the white tray-back came back out of the driveway & veered slowly towards us.
An elderly muggle couple asked if we needed assistance.
They were very pleasant & we replied "All good here, no thank you".
We then gave a quick explanation of geocaching so they didn't get too concerned when future seekers came by.
They seemed fine with it & even suggested they might look into it themselves.

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 4910 out and about with miss Millie geo dog Thank you for placing this cache for our enjoyment very busy this time in the afternoon around 3.pm all the mums running to pick up their kids

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

Thanks for the cache Waz and Vik

A nice quick find here and some cito while we were here too.

Geopartner and I were out enjoying the sunshine today for Ekka holiday. Solved the puzzle last night. Put 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

I think its time I took hubby to spec savers as he looked right where the cache was and didn't notice it. Geowife 4 - 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.

This one and 2 others had incomplete puzzles when published, so I out them aside. Hours later just as I hopped into bed, I noticed they were up and running, so out came the laptop and thankfully they were quick to get solved.

Today there was a chance to duck out and try to find them, so an early start was made, arriving just before dawn.

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Log signed at 06:22 and cache returned as found. Thanks for the smilie **Waz and Vik**. This log is
trackable.

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Published

Seems to be an issue with the questions on this one. Back on line soon.

Questions were not showing so have corrected although they are running together