A15 Dead Man's Folly Upper Caboolture, Queensland, Australia
By Waz and Vik on 12-May-19. Waypoint GC8CAC3

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

After dropping my kids to school I thought I’d find some caches on the way home. After stumbling around for a bit trying to remain discreet while cars drove my the cache was soon found.

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 12 for the day.
Parked and wandered to GZ. Cache all good, signed now too. Thanks for cache!
Well, that is the last one. Time to head for home and get ready for work....
Finished what is available in the "A" of this series. Happy with that!

Last of the A series, and last cache today, Thanks for all the hides along this trail, it has been a lot of trial and error solving them way back in early days of lockdown in Melbourne, but then a long time getting up here to locate. I hope to start the C series next week, Thanks Waz and Vik

Last one of these puzzles for the day as will have to work on the rest! Found with HRH54 TFTC

Enjoyed these puzzles Last for the day and looking forward to solving the rest TFTC

Nice quick find. TFTC Was 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......found this one 13m out and no lid

24,274. 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

31960.76 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Dark Side of the Cache A#83

**Albida**

Hitting up the trails around Dayboro today. All caches were quickly found unless otherwise indicated. Caching in a group and signed as MiNiFiGAS! Very tricky. 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 11:27 AM GAFF1.
We stopped here to answer a phone call and then a nice concerned motorist stopped to ask if we were alright - nice guy!
We were actually parked right next to GZ, but c-pprass still took 5 minutes to find it [:o)]
Thanks Waz and Vik.

My first find in this piece of Geoart... This was the first Geoart that I managed to solve them all...

I’ve never been a huge AC fan... well that’s a lie, I remember really enjoying Poirot...

A little back and forth here, but once I’d established the man made feature was not the scene of the crime, I found the cache... 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.

Back on the trail today to finish off the geo-art. Perfect day for a Sunday drive. 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.

Hooray! Series completedl

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.

#1539 - TFTC

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

Got it thanks waz and vik

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, another quick find made here.

Found 8;40am 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 777 for this Pirate Lady Yowhoo me hearties

Tftc found at 8:40am.

Found it with DeafPVC
Thank you CO

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

Hooray Thanks for share DeafPVC

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 #8212}*

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!

Hi Waz and Vik,

We found most of the caches today without issue! Today, while finding this cache, a neighbour stopped by to talk to us. He was curious about what we were doing, and concerned about theft, given some past experiences. This one might benefit from being moved 50+ meters north, as the current location is a key location of interest to this neighbour.

All the best,
OBC

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. A fav point for the series.

We solved this puzzle some time ago and today was the day to head out for the search. At the GZ we scouted around and soon signed 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.

Thanks for this one. Back getting this series. All is good

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 nice quick find. TFTC,

Found it. Thanks for the series we have now completed all of them in the AC series. Thanks for placing the caches. Enjoyed the mystery challenge. And you have left lots of swag for children. A fav point from us for the series. Thanks again.

TFTC final one in the series. We loved doing them and especially as there was safe parking near them. Favourite from me for the series. TNLNSL

#1 AC series/#6 for today.
I solved this series over a few weekends during April when we weren't allowed to do any non-essential activities, so made the most of the extra time at home. Very interesting to learn about the various Agatha Christie plots - they sound quite intriguing. I haven't read any before but might seek some out after this exposure. Great puzzles - mostly quite readily solvable, only needed help with one, I think. Out on a mission today to complete our 1st geo-art series - this is the 1st one we have solved all the puzzles for.

After lunch at Wamuran, this one was closest, so it was first. Quick find once at gz under some natural camo.
#2337 @ 1345h
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. TNLNSL TFTC

First find in the series and first one for the day
Found with Earthlight whose married name happens to be Wagner just like the business across from gz
Tftc

After bypassing this series 2 days ago ,today with The X-Trailers we located all but 2. Loved the series. 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. As I parked the geomobile at GZ, it started to drizzle. A bit of drizzle isn't going to stop me. I jumped out of the geomobile and was soon signing the log. TFTC

We did a thorough search but no dead man to be found! Found the cache though!

Unlikely the AC murder collection would be made into children's books for all those aspiring mass murderers still crawling around in nappies. There is literally a treasure trove of 'how to deliver death' in the AC books and the board game cluedo.

Wonder if the authorities will ban these as with just about every toy that I had as a child as the parts are too small, or can be swallowed, or inserted in places the sun don't shine, or are toxic, or are likely to be dangerous if used incorrectly, or used on your brother because he deserved it. Where has the fun gone for this current generation of kids!!

At GZ the cache was quickly spotted and signed. Thanks Waz and Vik for creating this 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 1962
Chubby Checker went back to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Twist'. The song first went to No.1 in Sept 1960 and became the only record in American chart history to top the charts on two separate occasions.

Heading home and thought I should grab a few of these before the rain sets in. TFTC

11/1/20 Find #3283
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, we managed to find the cache without too much trouble.

Very quick find after getting past the croc. Last one in the Agatha Christie series my first puzzle series. Thanks Waz and VIK for an interesting reminder of the prolific talent of this great author.

This was my turn around cache and start to head homeward. Arrived at GZ and made a quick find then the paperwork completed and homeward bound. TFTC

Bit of confusion going to this cache. Drove further up than necessary. Got there eventually.

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

Cheers, E

Nice easy find on the first day of a new year. Tftc

Beautiful day to gather Agatha Christie series in good company.

TFTC

What I had intended to be a caching run became a driving lesson instead today, so although not as many of these solved puzzles were collected as I would have liked, Miss 17 racked up some more driving time in her log book. This cache was a quick find and sign for me before returning to the designated driver. Tftc Waz and Vik!

Chucked a U-ey here to pull up beside the cache and make my way back. Made a quick find and kept moving. Thanks for the cache

This cache was found easy enough after arriving at GZ.

Find #2562

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. This cache was found in good condition it was our first find of the day and we signed the log and returned as found. TFTC

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

This was our last find for sharpem and I today. We collected all bar 2. Love the different hides and caches aswell as the fun puzzles. Thanks for taking us on this scenic drive 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!!

#2462

We had fun solving these puzzles from our armchairs last night. With a free day today, we decided to come out for a drive. This was our first find it for the day. There were plenty of places here to hide a geocache, lots of natural camouflage. After a little searching, we soon had what was needed. Log signed and then onto the next one.
Thanks Waz and VIK,
Domsky 

Found it with TBU1BIKESU.TFTC

And a second find today from this series. Now we have to puzzle first for more finds.

Tftc

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 to find this one
had a few spots it could be

Took 50 rupiah
green

After dropping our daughter at work, Mrs Woodyrothwell and I came for a bit of a drive around the country-side.

Our first stop, like all our caching missions, was for a coffee which my wife shouted. Last night I won some money at the RSL which I split with her before heading over to the Moreton Bay Food and Wine festival. I always split any winnings with her because I know that money comes back in the form of wine or coffee and also gives me a leave pass for the next trip to the pub. Winning!!

This was our first find of the drive and set the tone for a cracking afternoon. 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. #1756 finds.

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Thursday. A nice quick find on this cache and again, Mr SPs mojo was on fire.

This was the 4th 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.

Just out for a quiet afternoon of geocaching.
I had solved the last 9 yesterday and I wanted to finish the series today.
I headed in to find this one and signed the log and when I was heading back to the geomobile
two cowboys pulled up and started abusing me. Must be good for their testosterone to abuse a single woman. Just my folly!
Where's Ranger Walker when you need him? He would have kicked the stuffing out of them.
Did that stop me finding the rest? Nah! Just got back in the geomobile and headed on my way.
Thank goodness they were heading the other way.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks Waz and Vik All good with this cache and puzzle

Quick and easy find

Had lunch in Wamuran then headed back to complete series. 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 08:52 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. Signed log after geowife discovered it and returned as found. TFTC Waz and Vik