TWC - Whittlegram Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia
By Wiser than Owls & The Morris on 18-Nov-19. Waypoint GC8G57K

This one had me googling many times to get the right outcome. Took a bit of patience. Wonderful spot for a cache too

Id solved this puzzle in time for the mega but by the time I went to collect it was underwater due to flooding and I wasnt going to risk my life for a cache. Today I made the quick find after a bit of a balancing act. Thank you Wiser than Owls for placing and maintaining TWC - Whittlegram for us to find today.

Boom! It was by pure chance I was here today for my daily cache. A previous frown had me worried but I gave it a really thorough search this time and nothing. I was about to hit the DNF button again and thought one more look cant hurt. I headed to another spot and sat down and there it was. Right next to me. Time to turn that frown upside down.Tftc

The last 14 on the list for me to solve. Of course, the hardest are always solved last, and as I can claim to nut out most of this 14, some I had to get help on, and a very few were gifted .Unfortunately, I had to dnf 2. One was gone, and one I am not 100% sure is gone.This has been an awesome series and I have been plugging away at them for 2 years now. I have learnt so much about puzzle caches, thanks to these puzzles .Thank you Wiser than Owls for maintaining them for future finders.All caches found were in very good condition. dalerious and I planned a weekend in Whittlesea so I could find and sign the last of TWC mystery caches. I left the hardest (for me to solve) till last . We put our names down for 2 events at Lake Eppalock as well.We had planned to leave Saturday morning, head to the events, then off to Whittlesea. It wasn't until Friday night when we were going over our plan that we realised that the events were on Sunday.Well, that changes things around a bit doesn't it.We haven't got that much on our list for Whittlesea, what else are we going to place on there?DGS! Those wonderful Pentagon shaped geoart caches that we have been wanting to do for so long, how about those?Love to, but we probably won't get too many done, you know, with my knee and all. Partial knee replacement almost booked.It will be good to go and do a recci, check out the parking, lay of the land. I will be happy just to sign one for the day; three would be super awesome. We we found and signed 17 of them and still had energy to get back to Whittlesea and sign all of the TWC one's and a Night Cache! With also a few odd caches here and there.Life is too short to be sitting at home on the couch .

Working my way through some of the Whittlesea puzzles. Not managing to solve all of them but logging ones I can do. Learning new things along the way and enjoying my trips around the area. TFTC

Found with icw. I solved the puzzle and retrieved the cache. Tftc.

TFTC, lot easier than an earlier one that had been muggled done with TFTC

Puzzle: Google helped me out here and I learnt a few things along the way!

Hide: A short walk to this one and again teamwork was the winner. Geodaughter stood to one side and announced her suspicions and the geopartner did the retrieving. Geoson threw some rocks – everyone had their part to play.

Find No. 3998. Found with FUF009 at 12.30pm.

A day trip to Whittlesea to explore the area and grab as many caches as time permitted.
FUF009 came with us.
We were impressed by the region and enjoyed caching on the quiet country roads.
On this trip we finally achieved our 4000th find - Yippee

An easy find after doing a balancing act.

TFTC

Find # 11801

Found with Tyred n Cranky.

A day of the long weekend down in Whittlesea.
Plan for the day is to grab some of the caches we missed out on when we were here for the Mega. We have quite a few to choose from, as we didn't get much of the compass done back then.

A couple of premium TOTT on board (Ladder and fishing pole) as we will be needing to put these to use at some stage

A bit of a balancing act but managed to locate the cache easily enough.

TFTC Wiser than Owls & The Morris

No luck with this one. Will come back another day and have another crack

A thought I had solved all this puzzle, but the final just didn't work. Turned out I had a couple of the words slightly wrong and they had me grasping for answers. But I got there in the end.

Having finished work for the year, I had the whole day free to go caching somewhere. Hadn't really planned anything, but I knew I needed a Mystery and Non-Traditional Geocache for the day. Looking at the map, I realised that I could visit a Dead Premier and cache in some LGAs that I needed some more geocaches in. This geocache was one of them.

Cool hide in an old bridge that I wasn't expecting. Glad no one came past while I was balancing on top signing the log book.

Thanks for the cache Wiser than Owls & The Morris
Hunter

This Event the Whittlesea Mega has been on and off for a long time due to that rotten COVID-19. The sad part is that due to MND I really think this will be my last Mega as I am in the area for a week thanks to my two great SA friends who travelled from SA visiting Ballarat for a couple of days and then moved down to Geelong only to pick me up and we are staying in Craigieburn for a week and then they are taking me back to Geelong. It’s generosity like that Geocaching folk are renowned for, plus all the help that I have received in the past few days which I will be forever grateful. We logged this guy while we were in the area in November, after one of the many events but we has a miss on our first look but after someboy had logged a find we went back for a better look and success this time. Thanks Wiser than Owls and The Morris.

This was a straightforward puzzle and we soon had confirmed coordinates.

Today we went to look for the cache. Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find but we had to be careful when attempting to retrieve the cache. Unfortunately the two log books were a sodden mess. So we removed those and left a replacement logbook in a sealed plastic bag. Thanks The Morris & Wiser_than_Owls for the cache.

Find number 11347 at 1:14:44 pm on Saturday the 26 November 2022
Well, after spending several days in Whittlesea over the last weekend and the Mega, the very next weekend I have some time free and where do I finish up, yep, back in Whittlesea, but at least this time I'm finding geocaches
The time to find power trail geocaches is obviously just after a Mega as the geotrails were clearly defined and lead straight to the prize, happy days
The downside to just about all the geocaches found today was that they were heavily guarded by mozzies , generally a quick in and out in all cases.
I solved the range of puzzles over the last year or two and am only finally getting around to finding them.
Log wet
**Thanks for placing this cache Wiser than Owls**

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Still here at the mega at Whittlesea we have found a few more in the area and this was one of them.

We had a great tour around the country side finding pre solved caches and others along the way.

Thanks to all the cache owners whose caches we found today.

Out with Dty73 and Tankengine with the WCCG from Canberra. Kutgw

Found during the mega with a group of Canberra cachers and signed as WCCG. Our group included - Nibletricecakes, minniek, Albida33, SolDeLune, LuckyL10n, kittykatch, joolay, isopeda, barb2e, smittengranny, dty73, youban, tankengine, greyhams, aquilus, cosmonaut97, silverfox1970, firebatman & contesta.
All caches found without too much trouble unless otherwise stated. TFTC.

Found with the family whilst attending the local mega. Cool area and everyone enjoyed their time out and about. TFTC.

After a long grueling day walking around the challenge trail, today was going to be a car day with nearly all park & grabs in a convoy. It was a big group effort to solve as much of the Geoart as possible, and in the end I think we got almost every one.

The bevy of cars all belong to the WCCG, being the Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group.

Thanks to all the CO's who placed caches for us to find!

Whittlesea day 3 with fitzy_1965

Last full day of caching before heading home.

Throughout the weekend we signed as fitzy & minniek, F65 & MK, MAFS, WCCG or similar depending on who we were with at the time.

Today we cached the TWC with our friends from Canberra. Unless otherwise mentioned, all caches were found quickly and easily.

Today was tiring, very successful and great fun. It was a joint effort by the group solving all these puzzles before we came down. Today was the day that we decided to go out and find them all together with some traditionals, letterboxes and multis as we passed them along the chosen route.

As I said it was a very successful day with no DNFs and all logs were signed as WCCG - Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group. Well everyone had lived in Canberra or nearby at some stage and it was great to join up with those who have moved on - without our permission I might add.

Big thanks to all the COs for the placement and maintenance of all these caches that added to the fun and excitement of the incredible MEGA.

28,985. Found with minniek during our Whittlesea Mega Adventure Trip. Alternatively signed as fitzy & minniek, F65 & MK, MAFS, WCCG or similar depending on who we were with at the time.

Day 4 of our Mega Trip. After three great days of our trip this was to be the biggest day plus heading home. The Canberra Region Cachers gathered for coffee and food before heading out to tackle the TWC, Letterboxes, Beginner Puzzles and anything else along the way (and there were a lot). Next cache of the day. A quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache as found, then headed off to the next one.

Thanks Wiser than Owls !!

Whittlesea Mega Trip Day 4. The second day of the Mega was a day for a whole bunch of Canberra cachers get together and make a mass effort on the TWC puzzle caches and any other caches that are on the roads we pass along the way. A huge effort had been put in by everyone in the team to solve all of these over the past year or so. There were several cars and our full group was Kitty Katch, Joolay, Barb2e, Isopeda, Dt773, Tankengine, Youban, Aquilus, Grayhams, Sol de Lune, LuckL10n, Smitten Granny, Contesta, cosmonaut97, Nibletricecakes, Gliss!, Fitzy_1965, MinnieK & I. We signed each log as WCCG - Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group. After grabbing a coffee at the on site vendor, we headed off and started tackling caches. There were some very rutted and wet tracks, a few trees that had to be cleared and even a walk or two. There were a few highlights, I will mention those in the relevant cache. It was a long tough day, but we made it back for the farewell event and a chance to get something to eat.

Thanks for the cache Wiser than Owls

39099.92 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2006 Satellite V3 A#25

**Albida**

With the Whittlesea Mega, its GPS maze and a number of events on over the weekend, GreyHams and myself set of for our four-day caching trip. Perhaps one of our trips with not much of a plan but we seemed to fill the days fully and ticked of what we had in mind.

The trip down was one that followed the most sensible route... past lots of virtuals and definitely not the most direct, perfect! With a number of AL's as we passed and a few caches of interest we arrived at Whittlesea in time for the evenings event.

Saturday's forecast wasn't the most favourable for caching but the challenge series at Mt disappointment was of interest, and it's a challenge series after all so what's a little rain! We did get lucky really and a few showers blew through but for the most part it was dry enough. It was a long walk and a huge push, but we made it back to the car, a little broken and sore but it was a great series and worth the suffering! (There was suffering!) The day also saw us through the maze, a few AL's, caches and events.

With the prep of the puzzles prior to the weekend it was a group approach of the solving team, the Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group, logs signed WCCG for the Sunday. So great to head out with this group, a great trail of such variety of caches and locations. The huge storm overnight made it a little tricky with so much extra water about, a few downed trees, wet feet, some walks and a couple of leaches (was that just on me!) Great to collect these caches, or at least most of the ones we could.

It's not a caching trip without collecting new LGA's and we did manage a few extras, into Melbourne and its surrounds, feeling a bit stiff and sore from our huge walk it was a limp about for the rest of the weekend but cache on, we did!

Monday saw us back at the Mega for another event, a chance to finish of the AL's and a few last caches. Our journey home taking us through a few new LGA's, more virtuals, and caches of interest. A great weekend away, we filled all the days to the fullest. Many thanks to the Committee for organising and to all the CO's in the region and as we travelled about for your caches.

In Whittlesey for the mega with team tackt when after jaamc and I were running around trying to do a wherigo, we decided to catch our breath and grab the cache which we had solved before the mega, luckily the creek was down and the prize was soon in hand, thanks for placing it

Solved earlier and made the hunt with PrezDough and LoriGus74.
We didn’t have any luck at night so made the trek by day and fortunately we made the find.
Quickly added our monikers and headed off before we fell.
The cache, container and log are in excellent condition.
I visited 3 TB.
TFTC.

Find #6622

Great to be picking up some of the many puzzles and multis solved over many months and trips, as well as collecting some letterboxes and trads and whatever else was in our path. ??????

Today were some joint finds with Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group and signed WCCG. Caches in good condition unless otherwise stated. Many are the worse for wear from all of the flooding and wet weather events.

Thanks so much Wiser than Owls for getting us out and about, and for the adventure highlights around Whittlesea. ??

Found today with a group from Canberra and signed as WCCG - Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group. Tks for all the work on some great puzzles and putting the caches out. Tftc

Found with CJDenno and LoriGus74. CJDenno and I found this cache with LoriGus74 on our second attempt and we were able to manage to get the find. We had a lot of fun trying to get this, and managed to find it on our second attempt. We were lucky we didn’t fall. Fortunately, we managed to ink our names and returned it to its hiding location. The cache, container and logbook are all in magnificent condition.

I visited 4 TB

TFTC

Apologies for the generic logs. It’s just getting away on me. Only just retrieved. Water so high.

Signed as WCCG. Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group. Made up of a big group of Canberra and surround cachers.

Time to get the party started. Puzzle pickup day. ??.

Thanks for getting me out and about Wiser than Owls

Whittlesea Mega
Great to attend another Victorian Mega and we had a lot of fun solving these puzzles. Picked up with the Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group (WCCG). A tricky wet location !

Thanks for the hide and effort put in to these puzzles and caches.

Here for the mega and gps maze

Enjoyed all the caches we found today

Log signed

Tftc

Out with a big group of caching friends picking out the puzzles that we worked on for a few months and got a few others on the way. We signed as WCCG - Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group, which was comprised of barb2e, Joolay, Kittykatch, albida33, fitzy_1965, Minniek, Nibbletricecake, Gliss!, Cosmonaut97, Silverfox71, Firebatman88, Contesta, DTY79, Tankengine, Youban, Greyhams, SolDeLune, LuckyLion10, SmittenGranny, Aquilus1 and me.

Sorry for the generic logs, but we moved so fast, I just couldn't log on the run. We managed to get back to the closing event.

Thank you for all the puzzles, multis and trads.

Bit wet around the ankles this one...

Chooo ooo [Found] with dty73, youban and a whole bunch of other Canberra/ex Canberra cachers on our Whittlesea Mega trip down south! We had dedicated today to collecting as many of these caches for which the puzzles had been solved prior to the Mega (and a few others) ... After last night's storms and much rain, it was lovely to see the sun again today! Mind you, almost everywhere we went was flooded, and it didn't take long for our shoes and pant legs to be completely soaked! Some lovely caches/locations amongst these! Signed as WCCG (Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group) - Thanks heaps for the cache!

Having a blast down at the Whittlesea Mega. Teamed up today with a group of friends from Canberra to tackle the puzzles and caches around town. Signed as WCCG (Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group). Have come home covered head to toe in mud and smiles. This one was like a swimming pool!! Thanks for a great day. Thanks for the cache!

Catching up on some very old logs from the mega. Found while out with the crew. It was great to spend the day caching with friends and finding some great hides. Many a laugh and fun was had.
Thanks for placing this hide for us to find.

Found this while attending the Whittlesea mega.
Depending on the log size and who I was with this is signed as nikid1, ND1 or TQ5 (team Queensland).

This series was solved back in Brisbane over quite a period. Some of these were easy and some just plan hard, lucky I have smart friends to help.

Thank you for all your efforts in setting up this series Wiser than Owls I do love a piece of geoart

Out and about at the Whittlesea MEGA and spent some time collecting smilies for these mystery caches which had been solved earlier. Special Thanks to Let Them Eat Cache for the assistance given in helping solve these mysteries.
Didn't have to go far from the MEGA to find this one. Luckily for us l the rain hadn't started yet and we didn't quite need scuba gear to get to this one. Pretty sure by the next day you would have needed it.
Thanks The Morris and Wiser than Owls for the mystery and the hide. The cache was a great hide, was dry and in good condition.

Found a on a big day out caching with Loci612, Darksidedan, pantspeople, Sui_001, Sebass19 et al. We had a great day out caching at the mega, targetting mostly the compass but a couple of others along the way. Many thanks to all the CO's and to those who volunteered at the mega. Looking forward to the next one! TFTC !

This series was solved a few years ago when it was published, back today to find the caches in the series for the mega. All caches found are all good

This weekend was mega weekend and we headed over with Freddo, team Waldron, e.gregory1 and Davidwazza as part of our team called: ‘Aussies on Tour’, the log books were either signed with the name, AOT or our individual caching names.
A great weekend away and a very well organised mega despite the horrible weather thrown at us we still managed to find quite a few caches

Thanks for the cache

Found while in the area to attend the Mega Event at Whittlesea.

Today I joined up with Team Waldron, Freddo, gridge98 and Davidwazza as we targeted caches of interest. All caches were signed or stamped A.O.T.

Thanks Wiser than Owls & The Morris for the puzzle and the cache.

**This Cache:**

Very muddy to get to this cache! We had to walk very slowly and carefully across a muddy section to get here, and then we had to stand on the old bridge to retrieve the cache! The magnet is thankfully so strong, that despite it going underwater only a couple days ago, it survived!

*Signed the log as **AB!** for "Adventure Boys! which for this cache consisted of Loci612, DARKSIDEDAN, injuryman, Sui_001, sebass19 and pantspeople*

**Today:**

After being around Melbourne since Monday, the weekend had finally come and it was MEGA day!

After being split up in numerous places during the week, the "Adventure Boys" finally got all together in 2-3 cars for a day of fun! We all met at the "Welcome to Whittlesea" event and had a plan to smash out every single TWC cache we could, whilst detouring to each event that was held when the time came! We started off with the Maze & gadget caches on site, which took us to about 11am

We started this assault with the first TWC cache found at 11am, and after a busy day we had visited and signed every cache except for five of them by 9pm at night! pantspeople and Sui_001 had to leave a little bit early, but myself, DSD and sebass19 stuck together throughout the day. We also had numerous people join us for small sections including Roostaman, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild and BellaHappyChappy. Apologies if I have missed anyone!

Thanks to all the CO's

Whittlesea Mega Wobble and Wade Tour: Day 6: Lets do some serious caching

Once again myself and Anymules were in Victoria on our way to a Mega event. We made a detour via Geelong and picked up Bushfire. It had been three years since we last all cached together. [^] Many laughs with friends at events and on the trails, many caches were found and unless something stood out these will be generic logs.

Having got a DNF yesterday only to have somebody find it afterwards we decided for a second look as we were doing the night cache. Thanks to whoever made it a much easier find.

***Thanks Wiser than Owls for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Found while we made our way to the mega.


TFTC

Cache found and logged on our roundabout mega tour.

November 2022. Time for the second Victorian Mega of the year. This time in Whittlesea. What is it with W's? Time for another epic road trip. Who will join our merry crew? We traveled from South Australia and camped in the pig pen. It rained. It blew. It was sunny. It was not sunny. All four seasons. Beautiful location and some awesome caches.

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke für den Cache. Gracias por el caché. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos kätköstä. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Köszönöm a cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas.

After much planning and waiting, the time had come to head south for a few days to attend the Whittlesea Mega.

So, with the car packed, the convoy consisting of us and Rapidlywild hit the road. Our plans for the weekend included grabbing this series as well as others around the area.

The Victorian weather was interesting, definitely agree with the four seasons in a day, but it didn’t dampen our plans too much.

Apologies for the generic logs, thanks to all the CO’s for the placements, we had a great time solving the puzzles and collecting them.

We have been planning our Whittlesea Mega trip for quite a while now, and then it was postponed, so new plans were made. It was finally time to make our way down with a convoy of myself and the FFLL ladies. We had a big weekend around Whittlesea with the ever-changing weather, fighting some hay fever, and finding a range of cache types. We also managed to catch up with a few cachers we had not seen for a while. We had a great time away, so thanks to all the COs and event hosts. Apologies in advance for the generic logs across the weekend finds, it in no way devalues any of the hides, we just have a lot of logs to write up.

Officially day 1 of the Mega, however day 2 for us in Whittlesea. It was off to the Showgrounds for us to attend some events and do some labs. After attending the event, doing the GPS Maze, it was time to head off for some caching around Whittlesea. We had the TWC caches in our sights, so off we went. With the CITO being completed, we headed off for some more caching. Quite enjoy these kinda solves and a nice find here to boot. Stamped with out FFLL & RWLD stamp.

Many thanks to all the COs (including the event hosts) and thanks to the FFLL ladies for another funfilled weekend away.

Day three caching together as TQ5 (Team Queensland Five) chamad, Willis007, nikid1, KerriMG and Snickersallan.
This certainly was an action packed day filled starting off with a variety of awesome WEGT gaget caches in the field as well as a great assortment in the showgrounds. The amazing Maze was next then off to participate in a very wet CITO, collect some more beaut TWC puzzles and a few trads. The afternoon was spent at the geo shop, a very fun Puzzle Room adventure, another Event and finally the long awaited magical fireworks display topped off this fun filled day.
A special thanks to all the cache owners and event organisers for making this an extra special day for all of us.

Thanks Wiser than Owls & The Morris for the neat hide ??

Having a wonderful time in Whittlesea for the MEGA, collecting a whole bunch of caches with the TQ5 crew.
Thanks Wiser than Owls & The Morris for a great puzzle and cache.

**Found whilst in Whittlesea for the Mega**

Joined by The Empire & H, Happy Feet and omegaman1971 after attending the CITO and between Events and Lab Caches. The thing I love about caching is the interesting stories, the extra interest and attention you take when traveling, the sight-seeing, the history, the interests of the individual CO’s, *the fantastic photo opportunities* and sometimes finding places that even some locals don’t know about. I, like most cachers, look for more that a mint tin or a container under a bush. I appreciate the time that most CO’s take to construct a cache and write up a comprehensive listing and to create an interesting cache. **I love traveling this big land of ours.** I love taking the roads less traveled. I love the diversity of the land, the different scenes in the different seasons, the fresh air, the open plains, the lofty vistas and the magnificent waters. I even enjoy the longer scenic walks although I'm not as young and as fit as I used to be. I love the different coffee shops I find. I enjoy the times I cache with others but I usually cache on my own.
Thank you Wiser than Owls for highlighting this area. Appreciate your efforts.
- P

*Took*: Nothing
*Left*: Nothing

**Warning**, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to learning new things and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise.

Cache on!
**#17756**

The cache is still in place and able to be found despite surrounding impacts.

?? such a creative use of an old truck chassis! Thanks @wiser than Owls for the check & placing this cache

Very cool location, it was cool the old truck chassis was still left there even though a new bridge is in place. TFTC!

Found withh adventure boys

Second day at the mega with the Rats. Big day around town doing puzzles labs and events. Weather is still holding up and we are surely enjoying ourselves.
TFTC Wilbert67

Spending a few days on the road with Wilbert as we travel to and from the Whittlesea Mega event.
Having a great time finding an array of different types and D/T rated caches.
Thanks to all the CO’s for hiding your particular cache.
Day 1 of the mega and it’s a hive of activity, gadgets, puzzle room, the maze and a plethora of caches around town. Thanks to all the volunteers who’ve made this a lot of fun.
My apologies for the boiler style log.
TFTC ??

This puzzle took quite a long time to solve. It almost took longer to work out how to get to the cache. After a number of attempts to get there via car, we gave up and walked there. Li10n helped us get the cache, so we didn't have to worry about wet feet. We did have gumboots on. Tftc.

Attending the Whittlesea mega with Luckyl10n, along with lots of like-minded people from around the country. Spent time at the main event area in the morning grabbing a few AL's, visiting the maze and the puzzle room before setting off for a few caches around town. Then it was back to the main area for tonights awards event.. All up a good day's caching.

Many thanks to all the CO's for the caches....

Finally the Whittlesea Mega has arrived!
Bettyboo3747 and I arrived Friday morning for a lovely sunny caching day.
Today started with an event, continued with several very good caches, and finished with another event.
After lunch we again hit the deadly treadlies and rode around the Whittlesea township doing AdLabs and the occasional cache. The weather was a bit damp, but not too bad.

Took a while to work through this word puzzle, but logical steps followed each other.
A very damp ride to GZ today, but at least we didn't fall in!
Thanks, Robmc.

#16868 - 3:20:00 PM; After attending the welcome event, surviving the maze, juggling the gadget caches and solving the puzzle room, Sol de lune and I headed out for a bite of lunch and some caching, before attending the CITO in the Tambo Conservation Reserve. With the CITO complete, we set about doing some more caches in the town, before heading out to the Yan Yean Reservoir where we streched our legs and enjoyed a stroll along the dam wall and the wetlands. The wind really picked up while we were out there and really caused some white caps out on the reservoir. All caches were found without incident and in unsurprisingly good order, with one exception. All logs were stamped/signed to evidence our visit. Joined by Larafolk at GZ and soon spotted the cache and managed the retrieval. TFTC Wiser than Owls

Find#3642
Nice hiding place
Found with Adventure boys
Thanks for the cache

Always great to have the crew back together again, this time for the Whittlesea Mega.

The day was full of laughter and catch up's with old friends.

Cheers Wiser than Owls & The Morris for adding to the enjoyment.

Omegaman1971

Found and signed DSD or DARKSIDEDAN or AB or Adventure Boys to save space in the logbook. Thanks for the cache and the adventure.

I Cache in Peace for All Mankind..!

Fun little bridge and a good puzzle. Took a bit of searching with the adventure boys. Signed as AB.


Whittlesea Mega review/summary of Saturday 19/11/22:

Our first mega and a mammoth day of caching in and around a lovely town to mark the occasion! We travelled down from Canberra yesterday with the day off work, before being adopted into the adventure boys today.

We convened at the welcome to Whittlesea event before making a beeline straight for the maze and gadget alley, where we were first in line! This was the start of a pretty solid lab cache haul, before the rest of the day would be spent tracking down physicals.

The GPS maze was incredibly interesting and informative, with so much to learn. I am sure we will have more to learn from another visit at the next mega!

As for gadget alley, there were so many clever and confounding contraptions that I’m glad we had a team to divide and conquer them. “Manfred was bored” was a particular favourite, as was the gnome in the tree. Turns out the artist who created said gnome is a fellow adventure boy!

From there we returned to reception, bumping into a few Geocaching HQ lackeys along the way (!) and collecting some loot . A few more labs were knocked off and then it was on to the road, in search of TREASURE.

Our main target was the Whittlesea Compass series, which we knocked off the majority of before I had to depart for other social commitments. May have to return another day to finish the job. There was a very solid mix of types collected today, with Wherigos, a CITO, a locationless (signal!) and a few other varieties as well.

All in all a very solid day on the geocaching trail, with a very good haul of swag and cache finds (and no DNFs!). Thanks to all the COs for their placements, puzzle/gadget creations, and all the effort that goes into keeping the heart of this game beating strongly.

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In the spirit of reconciliation we would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country on which we geocache throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We (the pants people) pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

Adventure Boys!
Pick your quote below, cause it’s for you.

We found in peace

May the find be with you

I love the smell of fin in the morning

Foundiddily

This cache is _found_

Found town. Population: this cache

Mc Found (with cheese)

F to the OUND

foundaloonie

Found
Pound
Mound
Round
Sound
Bound
Hound
Clowned
Nouned
Towned


Curse your sudden but inevitable find!

I know geocaching

Live long and found it!

Danger, Will Founditson

Holy Foundit, Batman!

I love it when a find comes together

Resistance is Found it.

Found it, the final frontier

To the Found-it mobile!

_I_ am your found it.

Hasta la foundit, baby

Here’s looking at you, found it

Frankly, my found it, I don’t give a damn

Yippee ki yay, motherfoundit

The name is ‘It’, ‘Found It.’


#nosuchthingas [ftf]

TWC - Whittlegram
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19 November 2022

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In the spirit of reconciliation I would like to acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

Found by The Empire + H
Another cache found whilst attending the Whittlesea Mega. A quick one here whilst chatting with other mega attendees! Thanks for the cache Wiser than Owls & The Morris.
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#20567. Saturday is here and it is Show Time at Whittlesea. After attending the Welcome Ceremony we headed out with The Morris to Yan Yean to do the wonderful little series of WEGT caches. We enjoyed the experience of doing them by bicycle.

After lunch Robmc and I rode around town collecting a few caches and doing the two AdLabs. A fun word puzzle - a bit time-consuming but good to do nonetheless. Was a tad worried at GZ but Rob made a quick find. Quite a boggy area around here at present.

Thanks Wiser than Owls

Whittlesea Event trip. Day 6. Caching today with bushfire and brisal5.

After our initial DNF earlier, we ducked in here before heading off to do the night cache.

I found your D2.5/T3.5 Small Mystery called TWC - Whittlegram at 19:55 on 19 November 2022. It was find #16367 for me. Thank you Wiser than Owls for placing this cache for our enjoyment in the wonderful state of Victoria.

I arrived at Whittlesea for the mega event. What a great place, and so much going on. I meet up with my caching buddies for the weekend and off we went, chasing caches all over the place. There are some fantastic views from up in those hills. It was a great weekend and I got a lot of caching completed. It was nice to see the rewards for the hard work solving those puzzles. Sorry for the generic log but I am sure others will supply hints in their logs. But as you know there lots of caches found on weekends like this.

This TWC series had us all over the place, some of the puzzles I found worthy, but then a few were really challenging. The hides were in nice locations, thanks for working on these.

Second time lucky!

Little bit wet on the track! WHITTLESEY MEGA 2022!

Lucky l10n made the find for us. Another great puzzle

Omg! I nearly got a wet butt and blown off! Haha thanks for the cache from team TACKT

Find# 2740

Visiting the area for the Mega! I found TWC - Whittlegram today. Had a bit of a look last night when we were out doing the night cache however had no luck. Was much easier during daylight hours.

Many thanks Wiser than Owls for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

TB Visited

James0116

A straightforward solve except for the spelling anomaly on one of the answers.
Out grabbing a few caches after dark at the MEGA and trekked through the squelchy mud to GZ.
An interesting structure that appears to be a repurposed truck chassis.
Struggled to find the container, but was assisted by James0116 and Azzo7777 who spotted it.
Quite muddy after the recent high water but the log book quite dry.
TFTC Wiser than Owls ??

Out for an evening of caching with Rebel Acts & Tiz13. Lucky me designated retriever of this cache - Not! More than a little challenging to retrieve but I think we were lucky to find it Friday as after all the rain as it would have again been submerged. It was signable - but had obviously had a previous soaking as the cache was full of sludge. tftc and creative puzzle WTO & The Morris

I have decided to come to Victoria and go to the Whittlesea Mega, I will be travelling with Azzo7777 and other great geocachers at the mega,

Thanks to Wiser than Owls for the cache

James0116
Friday 18 November 2022
9:33:10 pm AEDT
2400

Whittlesea Mega Wobble and Wade Tour: Day 5: Lets get to the Mega Site.

Once again myself and Anymules were in Victoria on our way to a Mega event. We made a detour via Geelong and picked up Bushfire. It had been three years since we last all cached together. [^] Many laughs with friends at events and on the trails, many caches were found and unless something stood out these will be generic logs.

No luck for us today after wading out to GZ. Even risking life and limb on the rails and reaching under water didn't get us the prize. You pwned us noobs.

**Thanks Wiser than Owls for the search anyway. **

Grub62 and I were out replacing cache containers for Wiser than Owls and this happened to be one of them. We couldn't help ourselves so we signed the logbook of each one as we went around just prior to the Whittlesea Mega. We found/maintained a cache now in good condition. TFTC

An easy and enjoyable puzzle to help get acquainted with the home of the Victorian Mega 2022.

It was a wet track to the cache though for the little kids on bikes, the waterholes were the next best thing in riding.. up and back and up and back and........ Arriving at GZ the obvious question arose... is the cache still here? It was and a most interesting retrival followed. TFTC Wiser than Owls and The Morris.

Much of the hinted object is now under water. This might need a check.

I came and searched for your D2.5/T3.5 Mystery today, but it didn’t reveal itself to me.

PS the water is bloody cold!

Definitely still there and surprised there was a dry log. Bit of mud inside but that didn’t deter me stamping the log. Be brave and don’t fall in.TFTC

Surprisingly not wet! Great hiding spot

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Thank you for maintaining and placing this cache! We really appreciate your effort! 

TFTC Wiser than Owls & The Morris

Thanks for this Mystery Cache and for letting me have the opportunity to find #TWC - Whittlegram

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Found on November 18, 2022 at 9:33 PM
Find 3298 

Found during the Mega weekend! TFTM

Out and about before calling it a night.
ILT suggested we go for a wander and complete the nearby night cache to the show grounds. TLW joined us at the start and we all headed off together into the night, kids in tow.
Several caches were found in the vicinity as we meandered around the sodden park.

Back into the mud we went. Arriving at GZ I was the brave one searching the site. Cache found relatively quickly.

TFTC

Having talked kbucky and Rebel Acts to indulge my challenge mission we set out to grab this cache. Kbucky went in for the find I don't think I could have bent over after an Epic 8 hour of caching earlier on..

The second day of perfect weather! How lucky could we be, to be caching with our special friends Suscoe. Our search continues, with a set of plotted cache loops centred around Whittlesea.
Again we enjoyed the variety of puzzles, hides and locations amongst some amazing views.

Thanks to Wiser than Owls for your amazing contribution to the gameboard.
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Well a new day and sadly we had to head for home.
But the good news was that there were more caches to be found on our way.
We continued the trip with our great friends Phetlern and had lots of fun along the way.
It was a bit cloudy this morning but gradually the cloud eased a bit and some nice sun broken through here and there.
This part of the state is looking good and we were gald that the edges of the road were firm after the rain that has fallen recently.

Thanks to Wiser Than Owls and The Morris for this hide.
Mr P did the honours here for us all.

Back again, and despite high water the cache is a survivor! Thank goodness for water- and mud-proof paper

Nice one!

TFTC

PS I was being super careful that I didn’t drop my pen or phone whilst signing the log…BUT…I managed to drop my drink bottle which surprisingly drifted quickly South. I chased it with a suitable TOTT before it got too far. Love a geocaching adventure
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Are you coming to join in the fun?
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I am heading over to Whittlesea for the Newbie Mega lead up event and as per usual I left a bit early to find a few caches along the way.
So after visiting a few parks on the way up I’m now back on the TWC series to find a few more.
I will admit that I solved a few and had help solving others as my brain is not built for puzzle solving.
There has recently been a couple of DNF’s on this one and as I had previously solved this one I was asked to do a health check on it.
The cache is definitely in its right hiding spot and just waiting to be found.

Thanks Wiser than Owls & The Morris TFTC

Some of the Whittlesea crew checked on this cache today. It is definitely still in place and ready to be found. As always, take care when retrieving when making your find.

Crank1 and I came here, hoping to find one here as DNF last time as cache has definitely gone missing and thanks CO for the replacement. However, today there is water flood just under the bottom of rail level, as we know where it should be and bit challenging here and no luck. It could be either well secure hidden place / hard to reach or it has gone missing again? Thanks anyway. Better luck next time.

Please see pwala message I was unable to find this one today. Thanks for placing the cache Wiser than Owls.

Thanks for the puzzle and for replacing the cache hide. We looked in a few spots before spotting what we thought could have been a sneakily hidden container.
Some well placed steps later and we had the cache container in hand. Now to work out how to open it!!! We added our names to the new logbook and returned the container.
This was a fun puzzle to work through. Thanks Wiser than Owls and The Morris.

The cache has now been replaced and is read to be found. Please be careful when retrieving this one and ensure it is replaced securely.

The cache has now been replaced and is ready to be found. Please be careful when removing and replacing the cache to avoid it falling. Enjoy!

DNF. Looked most of area with Crank1, unfortunately, no luck here. Thanks for placing the cache Wiser than Owls.