A14 4.50 from Paddington Upper Caboolture, Queensland, Australia
By Waz and Vik on 12-May-19. Waypoint GC8CABH

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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

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

Okay, these are a series that my Geo-Dad solved, and he has asked me to come collect them with him. So, only having a limited time day, we'll grab what we can in my allotted time and come back for the rest another day.
Cache 11 for the day.
Parked and wandered to GZ. Cache all good, signed now too. Thanks for cache!
Yep, one more

The day is starting to warm up, and sun has come out from behind the clouds, must be soon time to pull the pin on caching, but only a couple of the A series to go, Thanks for the hide, Waz and Vik, all is in good condition today

GPS a little bit out here also but widened our search & soon found the cache TFTC

GPS was playing tricks but spotted quickly With Juju54 Enjoying solving the puzzles TFTC

Found with some difficulty as gps was a bit out. 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

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.

24,268. 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

31956.72 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Crystal Compass Rose 2009 5th Ann Earth A#146

**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 12:03 PM GAFF1.
Saw a couple of lovely looking purple toad stools behind a tree near GZ and thought that they were the camo for the cache, but then decided not to touch them as the real cache was sighted just nearby [^]
Thanks Waz and Vik.

Today my GPS was about 9 metres out... but once off the road it was a nice quick spot...

Once again there was moisture in with the log, so I’ve doubled bagged the log in new snap lock bags and added some silica... 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 did Paddington say when he was trying to locate the cache? "I'm just trying to get my bearings!" TFTC

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

Nice 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.

A better opportunity for a PnG than Aggie's place.

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.

#1533 - 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, all good here.

Found 8;50am 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 778 for this Pirate Lady Yowhoo me hearties

This puzzle nearly drove me crazy. Worked it out and was a quick find. Tftc.

Found it
Love country and drive too
With DeafPVC

A lovely drive. Logging with DeafPVC. Thanks DeafPhantom for doing the puzzle

Hooray Thanks for share DeafPVC love it

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 #8206}*

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.

We solved this puzzle some time ago and today was the day to head out for the search. At the GZ a quick search soon saw us signing the log book. 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 one found got them all worked out but limited time today. Tftc

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 ..

Nice quick one. TFTC,

Found. Log book very wet, could scribble our initials though

TFTC quick easy find TNLNSL

#7 of 23 Agatha Christie series; #12 of 30 overall finds today.
Solved 18/4/20 - had fun investigating the intriguing murder mysteries.
Out today on a mission around Wamuran to seek out some geo-art.
Quick find once in right direction - bright container, bit of an unusual type although have seen some before not too far away. Traffic on the road was very busy while we were there. It seemed the bogans were out in force....
#2343 @ 1420h
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.
Considering the cache container is a water bottle, I thought it ironic that it is not waterproof and there is water inside! TNLNSL TFTC

Enjoyed solving the puzzles to this series of caches
Found with Earthlight
Tftc

Found after short search with The X-Trailers. . Think my GPS said 4.5 away .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. This cache was quickly located and the log signed. TFTC

The train was not on time but someone had dumped a whole heap of rubbish from the window of the previous service! TFTC

So many things I could write about re the reliability of the rail network especially after rain events, service reliability, cancelling a service after the train was due and keeping to timetable. It was appreciated to see the 4:50 train was on time and had good but messy patrons.

Sooo much rubbish strewn around the place, along the main track. Did take a few items back home to deposit in the recycling bin. Another quick find due to the good coords. Packing up the chariot on heading down the road for more AC adventures. Thanks Waz & Vik for your effort in putting this series together.

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.

8671
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 1970
Steel Mill, (featuring Bruce Springsteen) played at The Matrix in San Francisco, California. Boz Scaggs was the scheduled headliner but he cancelled at that last minute due to illness. Rock critic Philip Elwood, who turned up intending to review Scaggs ended up writing a highly favorable review of Steel Mill for The San Francisco Examiner.

11/1/20 Find #3288
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

Thanks for the cache! Found it without too much trouble.

Bright blue container easy to spot as cammo paint wearing off. TFTC

Another quick find when I arrived at GZ. Signed the log and replaced the cache as found. TFTC

Quick find by Tenkae like all the others we picked up in this series.

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

Cheers, E

Out caching on the first day of the year. All good here, tftc

Out gathering the Agatha Christie series today

Tftc

A quick park and grab at this puzzle final today. A few muggles passing at speed gave me a strange look as they spotted me All signed and time to fit in a few more before dark! Tftc Waz and Vik

Getting eager to finish off the last few now as it's getting close to lunchtime and I'm getting hungry. 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 along with some thirsty ants and we signed the log and returned as found. TFTC

This was a quick and easy find once at GZ.

Find #2542

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

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!!

#2469

Another Great novel. We answered the questions and got a green light from the Geo-checker. Today when we drove to GZ, we spotted the container straight away as it was a little uncovered. After signing the log, we replaced and hit it a little better. Another good sized container out here in the country area. Thanks Waz and Vik.
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

round the corner and on the home stretch

Took pineapple stamp
green

One of my secret loves in caching is finding an army man in a cache. I don’t know how this fascination began but I have been collecting them ever since and have a bucket of them just waiting to find out what they are good for.

I know that in the impending zombie apocalypse that the maligned plastic army man will become currency and so I have been stockpiling. Why waste your time and effort amassing water and food when 1 and a half inches of a man kneeling down with a gun in plastic will buy your way to salvation?

I know that some people that have been hoarding their clipped toenails think that they will be way in front during the apocalypse, but they are flat out crazy. It’s only army men that can save the human race.

I will admit that even though I am secure financially in the upcoming Armageddon, I worry about the lack of army-women that we find in caches. Sexism might be the last thing we think about in the upcoming bloodbath but I also want to set a good example for my zombie-daughters. 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. #1762 finds.

We got some more puzzles ready, so we took off for getting the smilies.

Number A9 disabled, so this one was our last one for today.

I dropped a TB.

Tftc

Found it with TBU1BIKESU.TFTC

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Thursday. We pulled up near GZ and as I raced into the bush, Mr SP made the call that he’d already spotted it. Glad there are two of us here today! Not sure how I didn’t spot this one from the roadside though

This was the 6th of 10 caches found on today's trip.

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

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

Out for a nice quiet afternoon of geocaching.
I had solved the last 9 yesterday.
Headed to this cache and soon found the container.
Signed the log and returned to where I found it.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks Waz and Vik All good with this cache and puzzle

Quick and easy find

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

Out and about to clean up the rest of this series with wombles today.
Most caches were found without a hassle and we did a bit of CITO work as we went.

Thanks for the smiley Waz and Vik

Escaped with nyssaflutterby for the morning, we finished off all the AC caches today and met 1minniemoo later for lunch.
Nice quick finds at almost all the caches today.

We had no competition for the first 15 FTFs in the series when they were published last week, and had grand intentions of coming back and tidying up the remaining FTFs but they were snapped up very quickly the following day while I was still on night duty.

There was therefore no rush to return, so we came back today and had a leisurely drive around to pick the remaining caches. All were found without too much trouble. Great to have this nice series now wrapped up

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Log signed at 08:54 and cache returned as found. Thanks for the smilie **Waz and Vik**. This log is trackable, mention where you saw it.

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Back here to continue the second half of the Agatha Christie series on a beautiful winters day. Parked up and scrambled up the bank for an easy find. TFTC Waz and Vik

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.
#14 of 30 caches found today.

Despite the heavy fog earlier this morning the day is certainly heating up now!
There have been very few muggles so far today as but the traffic is building as the day progresses.
This cache was another nice quick find.
The drive out this way has been a nice break from suburbia & all it's noise & pollution.
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

FTF Yeh log to come

TFTC smile 4925 FTF out and about with miss Millie geo dog Thank you for placing this cache for our enjoyment out early to see if I can pick up a few FTF and I did how good is that in the dark for the first 4 now it's daylight