Auslan #2 Shire of Cardinia, Victoria, Australia
By crank1 on 02-Mar-20. Waypoint GC8M80T

Haven't solved all the caches in this series yet, but came along with goingplaces2 to find what we could. Thanks go to crank1 for creating this series and thanks to all those who were signing Auslan in the videos.

We decided to start work today with ilook4geo and put our attention on the Auslan geoart series. There are still a lot of these for us to solve, but we will keep these for another visit. All the logs for the caches we found had two more names added and we then moved on to the next target. Thanks for this cache placement go to crank1.

Cache was found after a short search. Thanks for the fun. Cleaning up Victoria with gridge98. We are on a mission this week. Completing twenty finds in Mexican local government areas is the challenge. Another find with the correct criteria. It is in Victoria and we have not accumalated twenty finds in this local government area.Today was the day to find this cache. Today is Thor's day the seventeenth day of the octavus month of the Roman calendar in the wonderful year of twenty twenty four. We found your cache container and added some inky stuff to the paper sheet or note pad you have supplied for a log book or scroll. The cache container and log book or scroll were in good condition. It was a bit windy today. It was so windy today.With the log signed and the cache replaced it was time to leave. Onwards to the next cache. Woot, that is not to far.I would like to show my respect and acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Land, and their continuing connection to it. I wish to pay my respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past, present and emerging.I will apologize right now, because everything from here on is here solely for the purpose of padding the word count and winning that one hundred word diamond badge again. Somebody moved the goal posts. So many caches to find. So many caches to log. We find them, sign them and replace them.This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and an Apple iPhone 11 using the marvelous Cachly app. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs macro.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. Apologies for the generic part of the cache log. We do apologise for the generic logs. Thanks to all the cache owner for placing this cache here for our enjoyment.Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke fr den Cache. Gracias por el cach. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos ktkst. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas. Ksznm a rejtst. Vdaka za cache. Dzieki za cache. Takk for at cache. Obrigado por isso cache. Dky za ke. Aciu u ta talpykla. Paldies par o cache. Aith selle eest cache. Tack fr att Cache. Tak for denne Cache. nbellek iin tesekkrler. Ksznjk, hogy a cache. Graas para o cache. Dankon pro la kasmemorone. Dank fr de csch. Eskerrik asko cache horrengatik. Na gode da wannan cache. Zikomo chifukwa cha cache.I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Blockheads Unite in 2025.

Solved this series during Covid when in Tasmania, today we were in the area so stopped to find a few along the trail. Some needed tlc so we fixed them up as we went. Travelling around Victoria with Freddo for a week finding caches as we go. With two challenges on our radar we were in full force. All logs signed with our names or F+g98 for the smaller caches. Thanks for the cache

Found this one today. TFTC. TALLY HO!!!

Found with fried lemon jed 74 and angoose.tftc

Out and about collecting all of our solved puzzles on our way to Bunyip. TFTC

After spending a chilly afternoon yesterday cracking codes and learning AUSLAN, weve decided to venture out today and find as many as we can. Its been a while since weve done puzzle caches and a few of these have hurt our heads!The not so small one has her powers of observation switched on this morning and soon had this in her hands.TFTC

The planets aligned and a spontaneous decision to head to the "ISLAND" for a day and a bit coaxed me into a detour along this stretch. Time to pick up some more of this really good series along this stretch. I enjoyed it so much I signed up for a course but I have been a poor student so far. Still somethings happen and even "casheering" as my dear mum put it took a back step for awhile. All of these along this thankfully quiet backroad were found with spot on co-ordinates. TFTC crank1 and thanks to all those that contributed. Really fun and good lessons learned - well at least an insight for starters!!

A language I just can't seem to pick up too easily! Some fun puzzles to solve so I will keep plodding away at them. TFTC

B & M were bound for Paynesville today and not in a rush so figured we would start to target some solved puzzles on the way. Todays choice was the Auslans, hoping to knock off as many as we could.Managed to get a handful knocked off before a combination of rain and too many farmers out and about (even on a Saturday) meant we decided to move on. Thanks for the caches, will hopefully return for some more in the future!

All ok at the cherry plum, I think the birds will get them before they are ripe.

We found out 3 weeks ago that we had a BBQ in Poowong today, so have been solving this series since then. It's great how much learning you can do with repetition. Today started out muggy and sunny, but the forecast rain started about 2pm. We got around 20 before the BBQ, not sure yet how many we will get on the way back in the rain though. Enjoyed this series greatly, thanks

Geosenses were on my side today

Been wanting to do this series for some time now, it was a beautiful sunny Winters day so it was perfect to go and grab these caches
Stamped log
Thanks for the caches.

Solved the series awhile ago and have been heading down periodically to turn into smileys.

Today I managed 13 finds with no real difficulty and no DNFs, avenging two “misses” from my last trip.

Thanks for a fun series.

My wife and I were a bit wounded today and not from all the wines we’ve been enjoying. Mrs Woodyrothwell is just over some shoulder injury and so can’t get in and out of the car all that quickly. I had a sore hand from all the imaginary autographs I’ve been giving to fans in my sleep.

She was doing the driving while I jumped in out to stamp the logs. It took us a while to get in the swing of things rolling all the logs back up to fit in the bisons but we had the whole day to see how far we could get. tftc

Not happy with blackberry plants - hurt me..
Find it and sign the log as EV, and thanks for the cache and hunt.

I really enjoyed solving the AUSLAN puzzles and the hides.
Depending on room and size the Log sheet was signed with either Sharon14 or with the team name gds (gwd.aussie, d@geo, Sharon14).
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache, crank1

Finally after many of these were solved quite a while ago (thanks primarily to Sharon14 and gwd.aussie) we made plans for a cache run down to undertake this series. Cache spotted quickly but cautiously retrieved.

Depending on room and size the Log sheet was signed with either d@geo or with the team name gds (gwd.aussie, d@geo, Sharon14).

Thanks crank1

Found the bison turn just sitting on, the bush and the log sheet was keep it on.
Due to this some water got into the tube, we dried it out a bit, and sign it.
I found a few bison tube today, that weren't screwed on very well.

So many times, we wanted to turn these solved puzzle in to smiley.
So yesterday or the day before, I checked if any coords had changed.
I only had to re-calc 4 caches.

So today was the day, we found most caches quickly.

Out caching with D@geo & Sharon14, sometime written as D@G & S14, me GWD
Thank you the puzzle and the hides crank1

AUSLAN 2 - Miss 10 found this one. Beware of the current prickled barriers.

What a lovely group of caches. Loved the puzzles, learning, re-learning, having the kids and husband help with the puzzles as they all have done AUSLAN at school and then finding that the caches are not too challenging to find.

Today Miss 10 was allowed to choose the activities for today for her and I for our Mum and daughter day– after running with the Pakenham Road Runners and then painting a pot at a local art studio, Emma chose to find the first lot of AUSLAN caches for the afternoon. Good choice as she found most of them and I helped with a few. Mr 12 and hubby are not fussed about the collection of the caches but I’m grateful for their assistance in the puzzle solving activities so that they can be included in the activity too. Thankyou so much, what a wonderful experience.

The plan: Solve all puzzle caches at home during school holidays with the help of the 2 kids who like puzzle solving but one isn’t fussed by the caching part, by using the computer, then go searching for all AUSLAN caches. The actuality: Solve 15 puzzles at home on the computer, get to cache site, realise that I haven’t paid for my phone to have the upgrade so all caches are grey and not blue, use google maps co-ordinates to solve first 4 – get frustrated as it’s taking too long and we have 1.5 hours to collect 15, purchase yearly subscription, find remaining caches in little time. Total finds 13. Much easier with the upgrade.

Today I had some errand that had me in Pakenham this afternoon and I still had a good few caches to find to get close to my Milestone of 7000 finds for a trip to the Mega on Saturday. With the Auslan series saved a long time ago it made sense to grab a heap of them. The only issue was that with them solved so long ago a couple of them had had some changes. So there was a couple of recalculations but nothing too difficult.

Thank you crank1 for the series

Thank you Crank1, I have had a lot of fun deciphering the puzzles and refreshing & learning Auslan along the way.
Was a lovely day for a drive to an area I have not been before.

Today we avenged our 5 DNF’s on this series on our way back to Melbourne after enjoying a 3 day weekend east. On our previous visit to the Auslan geoart we failed to find 5 of the caches. It seems we only had cache blindness on 1 and the others had gone MIA or the coords were out.
Great work in putting this series out and maintaining them for everyone’s enjoyment.
Thanks crank1 for the geoart placements.

Due to unforeseen circumstances Mr Smokey Bear will no longer be a part of Team Smokey Bear and will continue his adventures as "SmokeyBearOG".

So I'm relogging all previous finds under my new account.
Unfortunately this log will not show the original logging date.

**Thanks to crank1 for this adventure, looking forward to many more.**

Adam
SmokeyBearOG

Spoke too soon. Sabotage by blackberries, easy find.
Crank1 your AUSLAN series is superb. Thank you for the challenges, the learning of some AUSLAN, excellent coords and pristine caches.
kbucky

We decided to spend the day searching for a few of this Auslan series. The signing puzzles were interesting to solve although not always easy and are a reminder of communication issues faced by many. Apologies for some generic caches. The roads were quiet today and in most cases the caches were found fairly quickly. Not our favourite type of cache especially in trees! Thanks to crank1 for the cache.

Endeavouring to try and find the remaining caches in the AUSLAN series, this one took a bit of time before I had it in hand. Thanks Crank for the series, I enjoyed the puzzles and hopefully a learnt a bit too.

Second find today as a part of the auslan puzzles. We really enjoyed solving these ones, focusing on an awesome language.

I had traveled down to Victoria from Brisbane on a whim for the Mega and had this lovely series pointed out to me as being close to where I was staying and that it was just a little bit different.

I was pleased to see some of the friendly faces from Queensland grace the videos that I set about working on them. I still have a few in the series left to solve, which is good I still have about half the series to collect - not sure when I'll be back for an extended stay where I will be able to finish, but I do hate incomplete geo-art, so you can bet there will be a plan somewhere in the works over the next year in order to get it complete.

I enjoyed the country drive, particularly as my companion for the day xrocketx was mostly doing the jumping out and I got to drive his car.

Thanks crank1 for the interesting series.

The first of the Jigsaw Puzzles, oh this will be easy, he said, not looking at the others yet.

The cache took a little time to locate, and the tree had a few spikes on it that needed to be avoided. All was good, and then off to the next one.

Earlier this year we came across this Auslan series as we prepared for a caching trip to Victoria. We worked our way through the puzzles. Some were solved very quickly whilst others took some time. We discovered how to slow down the video and that made a tremendous difference, especially with signers who were very proficient and quick. At the end of our work we had solved 53 of the 59 caches. We then sought some help from the CO for a couple of things that we didn't understand. We received very helpful information and that led to all caches in the series being solved.

Today we focussed on looking for the caches in the series. When we first arrived we were pleased that the grass on the edges of roads had been slashed meaning that we could park the car off the road in most instances with confidence. However the grass near fences was very high and that slowed our searching - it also made us super cautious about the possible presence of snakes (we didn't see any today). After about six hours we had found 58 of the 59 caches. Unless stated otherwise, the caches and contents were in good condition and the coordinates reasonably accurate.

Be careful at this site as the tree had some long spikes.

Thanks crank1 for a great caching series. It refreshed our memories of Auslan but we are not proficient. Only by frequent use of Auslan would we develop a degree of skill where we could attempt a simple conversation. However it did help to increase our understanding of different forms of communication.

Suscoe was heading to Phillip Island today and we decided to detour via these caches.
We had been solving these over time and we thought that we would have a look at the road conditions and try to find some if it was dry.
Well the roads were ok.
Infact we were kicking up some dust as we went along however there are still a few wet and muddy spots along the roadside.
It was a sunny day today and we enjoyed the drive around these caches that we found.
Thanks to crank1 for introducing us to Auslan in this way.
A most enjoyable series.

Today I went to Auslan Series for maintenance and to replace new logs. Now It's in good condition. 

crank1 asked us need to replaced help her all caches need to new Logs.. We are enjoyed with her and good Laugh to drive bumpon the gravel road and Her car is full dirty from mud/water on the road... thank you crank1

Solving this puzzle at homework a long time ago took a long time, finally making us go there, but the weather is not good for us... Damn it...

Accompanied ALL7, a few days later, on Sunday the weather was dull and cloudy but partly sunny...

Fortunately crank1 just called us to need help for her series caches maintenance.. Awesome us make go there.. wow great enjoyed trip together to the AUSLAN series run...

Thank you to crank1 for taking us to the series... plus enjoyed puzzles and knowledge solved... Well done...
TFTM also absolutely fav from me (mean puzzle so excellent idea)

First off I just wanted to say congrats to this cache series for being a finalist for the 2020/2021 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards!

I am still very keen on trying to find as many of the finalists for these awards as I can, so today I came our here to try and put in a dent in this series.

This is just such a cool concept for a series, I think it was a great way to highlight those who use Auslan to communicate. I truely appreciate all the work that went into this series. I can't imagine all the time and effort that went into all the puzzles and coordinating make all the videos in this series. I had an absolute blast working on all of them.

Today was my first trip out to the area to try and work on completing some of this series. It was great weather today, which made for alot of quick finds. This one was my 2nd find in the series! Thanks for all the fun today and TFTC,

Cache Maintenance Status:

The cache container was in good shape, and the logbook was clean and dry with plenty of room for future cache finders to sign.

12:53
An amazing piece of geoart, for our geo-map! So many puzzles which reveal that wonderful method of communication developed in Australia.
Today we set about finding the caches. Our route taking us through some interesting grazing and produce country, a couple of cows even came over for a chat. Most of the time we found the caches quickly, signed in & moved on.
( Please excuse our use of a generic log)

Thanks to crank1 for creating and placing such an interesting series.
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A great series.
I must sit down and finish solving them all.
A slight detour before heading out to East Gippsland for a couple of days.
Nice easy find here with +Wife.
Spotted on arrival.
Cache in good order.
Thanks crank1

This one is being invaded- I lost the fight against the thorn - good thing I had my tweezers on board lol.

Find number 10540 at 1:45:22 pm on Monday the 6 June 2022
Headed down into this area to chase a few caches that have been nominated for this years Victorian Geocache of the Year Awards. I was targeting 4 specific geocaches but managed to grab a few others along the way.
Couldn't resist just one more...
**Thanks for placing this cache crank1**

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Found in between the trucks leaving a trail of dust. Thanks crank1

Out with the bestie BlazerTriaz getting up to some mischief. Always having fun caching in the dark.Tftc

Out with Ms SmokeyBear on another night adventure. Time to grab a few of these...and for some reason, doing them at night makes them so much more...interesting. The cache guardians are often bigger with fangs, and hiding in squishy places, or LARGE and in charge!
TFTC! Cant wait to get the series!

Having camped overnight on the foreshore it was off to Bunyip today, via a few DNF redemptions and a some high value hides.

I have been working on this geoart slowly over the past year and had to fast track the solves when I decided to head out this way. I like the different ways the topic was used throughout the series. Cache was all good at GZ.

Thanks crank1 for placing this gamepiece in the wild for us to find.

Bit prickly around here but we got it! Love solving the mysteries!

Out caching with Echidna44 and Xambo4u, who did the heavy lifting with the puzzle solving for this series. Today we returned to find the rest of the caches in the series. We were in this area a couple of weeks ago, but time was not on our side, necessitating a revisit to complete the job. An excellent series which had us tripping around some beautiful countryside

Out with xambo4u and BoabTree we returned today to complete the Auslan puzzle series and a few other caches in the Garfield area.
I really enjoyed solving these puzzles and learning a little about signing. Great cache placements and good company. Thanks crank1

Out with and about with echidna44 and Boab Tree. Loved solving these puzzles and learning another language. This is our second run at this series and getting to know what we are looking for. Thought we would have this road on our own but not so. Nice easy find, cache in excellent condition. Thanks for the cache for the puzzles and cache crank1

Headed back out today to find the last 7 of the series. Thanks crank1 for keeping up with the maintenance. We can now officially say we have completed the series.

Replace new logs and All good.

Found at 9:39 AM GAFF1 in the company of Rabbitto.

Thanks crank1.

I found this cache today on our Auslan Asparagus Tour in company of Pprass. We had been waiting all the way through Covid for a good break to come out for this series and today was the day. We had 54 finds and 5 DNFs for the series on a fun yet dusty day. Thanks for the series from D B-A

This was our first DNF for us today even after a PAF, the terrain has changed with the growth of blackberries taking over GZ. We ended up with lacerations on our legs and holes in our clothing.

We were unlucky today but will be back another time.

All three of us Spent the last couple of weeks solving some puzzles and now it’s time to find them! Thanks for keeping us busy and teaching us some Auslan! Tftc

We solved these caches a couple of months ago and enjoyed the variety of jigsaw puzzles, trickily hidden co-ords and reading the sign language and working out the maths as well! JMelb found this one. We also decided we would attempt to spell out AUSLAN and GJMMelb.
Maccamobs comment of “ouch prickles” is right lol, there are 3 different types of prickles here!
TFTC crank1&co - GJMMelb

Found by Mary and David at 15:20. Had these worked out soon after they were published, but we don't get over this way very often. After doing some Labs at Warragul early this morning, we targeted the series for our trip home. Ouch, prickles! Our thanks to crank1.

Found myself in Melbourne this week so joined with WeRAmused to pick up this set of caches. Thoroughly enjoyed the solving process. We needed some assistance from the CO before signing the Log, signed as WRA / MM. TFTC

We searched high and low for this one and after many failed attempts to get through the blackberries we contacted the co for some assistance. TFTC

After a big day of events, we (ahomburg, Coleey Baby, Earthbound Chief and Oshfam) decided it was time to find these previously solved puzzles. It was a great puzzle series, which I enjoyed solving very much. Thanks for placing the cache crank1, and for the puzzles.

The hides were mostly quite easy to spot, but some took much, much longer! Thanks again for a great series crank1

All the logs were signed as AB CEO’s to make signing a little easier.

Date: March 7, 2021
Find #11356

Today was a big day. It started ridiculously early and in the end became a day of numbers. Lots of finds, no DNF's and a few events. A great mix of caches. Spent most of the day with SedgwickDave, BeckNmonts, Earthbound Chief, coley_babee and OSHFAM.

A nice series of caches with some fun and challenging puzzles to solve.


Thanks to crank1 for the cache.

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After attending 3 events held by n0w0rries today, geo kid SowaMLE and I then got together with aHomburg, becknmonts, Oshfam, Coley Babe, Sedgwick Dave headed for this series in a group assault. The weather had started as rather warm pleasant but escalated to stinking hot with the scorching sun beaming down onto us as we went along.

A varied array of cache types and locations which made it all the more interesting and challenging with some. Surprisingly we encountered a little bit of traffic in what is a remote farmland area. We had a slow moving tractor, a big truck tearing down the dirt road and a couple of locals in their utes crossing paths with us.
A great day was had by all.

All log entries were signed with a group name - ABCEO's

Thank you for the cache here and the series Crank1

Apologies in advance for the generic logs on this one, but we hunted all of these in one swoop

After some puzzling in advance, a group of us decided to hunt all these together to make the finding faster.
Along with Ahomburg, becknmonts, Coley_Babee (me), Eathbound Chief, Oshfam, and Sedgwick Dave we named ourselves the AB CEOS for the day to make logging a lot easier.

Most of these finds were nice and easy, a few moments of Blackberry Bushes, and long grasses, but overall a wonderful run of caches to find!!

Glad that I got to spend my first day back caching from a 16 month slump with a great bunch of people, looking for a great trail from a wonderful Cacher, thank you Crank1

TNLNSL
TFTC

We found Auslan #2 on a lazy afternoon drive around the after attend noWorries three events today.
We headed for this series in a group assault with aHomburg, becknmonts, Oshfam, Coley Babe, Sedgwick Dave and ourselves. A great afternoon was had by all

Thanks crank1 for hiding this cache so that we could come and enjoy ourselves

**28/02/2021 07:23:00
Find #4625
Mystery Find #832**

I headed out with Steve for a caching run to try and find the Auslan series. We had most puzzles solved but not all. We managed to find a number of caches that we hadn't solved through dead-reckoning and were quite successful in doing that. All caches were found in good condition and a variety of hides in logical places combined with excellent co-ords, made for a very enjoyable experience.

**Thank-you to crank1 for placing this geocache**

*Found on the 28 Feb 2021 @ 7:23 am.*
*Cache find # 11408.*

I started working on these puzzles some time ago but haven't had the chance to go out and find them.
Today I teamed up with biggles1024, we had 46 puzzles solved which was a good start.
We managed to find all of them plus a another 7 while we were out there.
Some were a little trickier to find than others but with the knowledge that the coordinates were good and a bit of perseverance we came out on top.
At the time of solving these puzzles I was starting to learn a little of the Auslan language but now it has all gone away.

**Thanks to crank1 for placing this cache.**

I am staying at my son's house in Melbourne and had the day to myself. I headed over here to turn some interesting and challenging puzzles into smiling faces thus creating some lovely geoart.
It looked like you all had tremendous fun creating these puzzles and placing the varied containers.
It was very enjoyable to try to solve these unique puzzles and often difficult for me. I take my hat hat to all of you.
Accurate co-ordinates led to finding each container after short searches. After the first few finds I was confident that the caches would be there and that I just had to look harder.
Many thanks for your efforts here.

Found it with lance51 TFTC

Found it with Silence49

We have had a very interesting start to 2021, but unfortunately that didn’t include the opportunity to do much starting. On New Years Eve we started the celebrations early while we were staying with our son and his family in Tumut NSW. We had a lovely day with a picnic and lots of fun with our grandkids in a local river, but on the way back to our sons place we heard that Victoria was about to close the border to anyone returning from NSW, so if we didn’t want to spend 2 weeks in quarantine we need to reach the Albury/Wodonga border before midnight. A quick scramble with us, our daughter and her family of 4 plus our 2 grandsons who were spending a few weeks with us for the school holidays and we made it with plenty of time to spare. A bonus was that we beat the exodus from further north and had very little delay at Checkpoint Charlie. We got to ring in the new year somewhere between Yea and Healesville and finally made it home around 2:30am. The following three weeks we had grandkids staying with us, and the boys are too young to enjoy long days caching, so now we are finally able to get out and about.

During the Victorian COVID restrictions, in between helping our grandson with his online schooling, Mr SKI spent quite a bit of time solving puzzle caches. The Auslan series were some of the closest to home and we are glad to be able to finally get the chance to look for them. During his years as a primary school teacher Mr Ski taught a fantastic kid who was profoundly deaf and though he never learnt Auslan had to make many accommodations in the classroom to help him. These puzzles encompassed a variety of challenge levels, some were quite straightforward, some much more challenging and some required a PAF assist! A great series, thanks for the time and effort that has obviously gone into getting them ready for us to find.

Should have bought a bucket for the blackberries-good reason for stopping. Except one of us is in shorts! Poor choice
TFTC

Apologies for the late (and generic) log! After a truncated year of caching I decided to get out on New Year's Eve and find a few to boost the numbers. I had to be back home by mid-afternoon so I came down here for the morning and found what I could. After one traditional find my focus was this Auslan puzzle series. I had solved (most of) these during lockdown so good to get out of the city and pick them up. I found 47 in this series in a total of 48 finds for the day. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for the cache and the series crank1. I practiced my jigsaw skills and learned a lot of Auslan.

Found as Nicnax with PapaGrouch. Second find in the series, going well so far on our mission to find all the Auslan caches. The puzzles were interesting too, some were easy and others caused a few grey hairs. A couple really had me tearing my hair out. Learnt a bit of Auslan, even if mostly numbers. TFTC

Found this one with SciFiRulz TFTC

Spent a few hours out and about after this series of caches. I had done the puzzles during lockdown, and had just been waiting for life to slow down just long enough for me to find some time to collect some more smiley faces. It was such a pleasant drive, not too far from home. It is great to see so much produce farming going on in our local area. I'm not sure of all of the different vegies being grown in this little area, but there are paddocks full of different greens planted in lovely long rows. Quite picuresque in it's own right.
I have not quite finished the series off, that will be for another day, but was happy to pick up 40 or so caches in just a couple of hours. Will return for the others in the coming days (oh how I love being a teacher as it means school holidays are on, and I definitely need the break given the year we have all had) There were no real issues collecting the caches, occasional stealth may be needed to stop the local farmers from becoming suspicious but for the most part the roads were quiet and you could usually see well into the distance so you could avoid those damn muggles.
Thanks so much for such a great series, both with the puzzles as well as the placement of these caches. It has been a pleasure to work my way from beginning to end on these caches.

I had been craving a good day of caching for a while now. With my eyes set to try and complete the AUSLAN series, I contacted Brainiac03 to join in and go out on one of my days of.

With all the puzzles solved we were off and ready to smash the series out. With only a handful of DNF's and lots of stop start stop start of my car I was quite happy with how we did.

Sadly we had to cut the day early dude to some last minute babysitting I had to do. Either way thanks for the fun series and all the other caches we did in the area today.

Today buhfuhguh and I were out around the Cora Lynn and Bunyip area to pick up some local caches with a key focus on the Auslan series.
We ended up with 55 finds and only 2 DNFs which became my largest caching day so far!

I have a little bit of background in Auslan so I was able to work through the signing-related puzzles in lockdown earlier in the year while buhfuhguh worked on some jigsaws with some help from Brengun1 assisting in the complete solving of the series.
Seeing a wide variety of faces in the video puzzles was a fantastic touch and the creativity with the puzzle techniques elsewhere was also great fun.

I'm not a huge fan of writing plain copy/paste logs, but all things seemed to be in order with the hides and the morning was spent signing logs and hunting down micros!
Thanks to crank1 for going to the effort of setting up this great geoart!

TFTC, Brainiac03

Second find early this morning, and a quick one. In good condition.

As a native Auslaner, I found the series easy to solve and enjoyed the scenic drive around the countryside (amazed that this countryside is actually under Melbourne Metro!). I had great company with me, sussvulture and they did all the driving around which I really appreciated. Great teamwork!

Thanks for the cache and the series, Crank1.

We found most of this series today, in the company of our inspiring friend, S-. More details are in logs #11 and #26.
The plums look nice, but they will need a few more weeks to ripen.

Found on a day out caching. Generally good coords meant for most caches were found.

With not much else to do during lockdown in Victoria, we knuckled down to solve a few puzzles. And why not learn a new language as well.
Anyway, who doesn't love a jigsaw puzzle!
On a beautiful spring day, we went for a drive to tackle this worthy series. Most were found with a little effort. Greatly enjoyed the novelty of driving greater than 25km from home. Think we're on a roll. Yippee!
TFTC crank1
Chiefton!!!

Full of confidence after a quick find at #1, I arrived here ready for another fast signing. It was not to be.
After searching for some time, and reading previous logs, I decided to move on, feeling a bit disappointed. Only the second cache, and already a DNF!
Once I found the next one, I decided to return and look for something similar. Wow! How did I miss that?
Thanks crank1.

From a series that originally scared the hell out me, to one that I absolutely loved working through. I started off with the easy ones first, jigsaws, not that they were easy, but at least I knew what to do, then moved onto the numbers and finally the letters. A huge thank you to all the participants in the videos and I look forward to meeting you all so I can practice my new skill. Hopefully you won’t mind that I can only sign coordinates:)

No problem spotting the cache, although the logbook is wet but we were still able to add our signature.

Thanks crank1 for the massive work involved in setting up and maintaining this series.

I loved this series. I have been learning Auslan at TAFE and soon had all the signing puzzles solved. The jigsaw puzzles took me a little longer... my goodness there are some speed jigsaw solvers amongst us. Then soon saw how to solve the others except for the south coord on one... needed the CO's help... boy that was cheekily hidden!!!!

Came down with Finalf29 to drop the eldest son back in Melbourne... just before another major lockdown! So only had one afternoon to go looking. Wow what a flat flood plain... glad we had a map or we would still be lost out there... as it all started to look the same. Found 54 of the 58... wish we had more time but we had got wind the borders were closing!... made Albury by 9pm. Thanks for the wonderful puzzles and slightly wet and muddy adventure finding them!

*Found with The Empire*

Apologies for the **LATE** log - *Sometimes life just gets in the way Between house renos, COVID and life in general I'm just catching up on some late logs*

It was great to be back out again after the last couple of months due to the lockdown.

Thanks for the cache crank1. Appreciate your efforts.
- P

*Took*: Nothing
*Left*: Nothing

Cache on!
**#15384**

Found by The Empire with Snap Happy
Closing in on my 14,000th find! What a great idea for some awesome geoart! Luckily crank1 was busy during our geocaching hiatus due to COVID-19 - we had fun completing this series, dodging farm tractors and puddles of mud all afternoon. Some logs were wet after recent downpours so we changed a few.

We found all of the caches in the series, even though some took longer than others! A great way to rack up 14,000 finds - caching with a good geocaching buddy, on a series made by another good geocaching buddy! Thanks for the cache, and the awesome series crank1!
- M

It's a lovely day, we are allowed out to go caching again and I have finally solved the last of the puzzles in the Auslan series so I jumped in the car and headed down this way to grab as many as I could in the time I had. Well I managed 44 of the series and 1 DNF - pretty good hit rate! I certainly learnt heaps of sign language!

This one took way too long for what was a straightforward hide - overthought it of course!

Thanks heaps to crank1 and your band of helpers with this one and the series

Today was my first time out and about caching in 3 months. Muzza and I teamed up to complete this series and my main aim was to reinstate my pre-covid19 goal to reach 1000 by February 29. Better late than never.
It was a successful day with only 2 DNFs and a deliberate stop at 999 to save the inaugural 4-digit for a particularly favourable cache over yonder in Toorak.
Overall, locating the caches in this series proved quick and easy with only a handful thrown in to keep it interesting.
Cheers to crank1 for this series!

After a couple of months off thanks to Covid-19, today was my first cache outing. I teamed up with Kristy from Squiiix to hit the Auslan series. With great weather and only 2 DNFs, it was a great day. With this being only our 2nd in the series, we looked for some time before heading off to the next one. Having found that one, we came back to this one and found it. We still don't know how we missed it first time - it is quite obvious.



Many thanks to crank1 for the cache.

Found at 10:48 am.
I slowly started working on these when they were all published and Fleabag- also helped on a lot of the jigsaws. I managed to solve all except the 3 hard D4.5 ones but we managed to find one of them with a lot of random searches today.
So we got 57 of the 59 today and if I find someone who knows sign language better than what I can randomly search words for, I may get the last 2 one day. Who knows.
We found all that we looked for with no DNF's, although 3 of them were found lying in the grass so have been put back where they should be.
After solving all those puzzles I finally surprised myself being able to recognize the signs reasonably well once I had finished. I have quite a tired finger though from moving all those jigsaw puzzle pieces around.
Excellent placement of all the caches out of the view of the houses really helped today with hardly any muggles at all on these back roads made it very pleasant.
This one is so obvious now that I see it, a bit of a theme of the day on some of them.
Thanks crank1 for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Today Spiffy- and I headed out to collect what we could of the solved Auslan series. The puzzles were all well done and the bulk of the video based ones done by Spiffy- while I tackled some of the Jigsaw puzzles.

It took a couple of minutes to see despite being right there!

Thanks crank 1 for the great series.

We were off to a good start and the weather was warming up, spent a bit of time here as i was not sure of what type of container i was looking for. Once found that set the example for the rest of the series. Giving a fav point here because i forgot to do it at #1.
Thanks for the series crank1

*none*31/05/2020
Omegaman1971
The Omega Empire

It was great to be out early on a Sunday Morning caching with Rebel Acts, don't know if it was the fact it was Sunday or that it looked like rain on the cards but we had the joy of seeing very few muggles on the back roads today.

Loved the variety of containers and different hides, which made this series even more enjoyable.
Great work crank1 and I hope to see more geoart from you someday soon.

Happy we did this in winter and not when the weather is warmer, I can imagine the snakes would love some of the areas!

I was sitting in My bus when these were published and no chance of getting out for a good week so I made plans to meet up with My good caching mate Omegaman 1971 today, the weather forecast was not looking good all day but it turned out great for caching.

We signed the logs as RAOM

It was a great days caching for me with 70 finds for the day,

Our horse paddock is very close to this area on Evans road so I knew My way around here, there were quiet a few farmers out and about today but thankfully none challenged us as to what we were up to and we got the series done in a few hours.

Thanks crank1 for the cache.

We ventured out today to attempt to finish this great series. Not sure if we will make, we will just have to wait and see.
I think we took more photos of the car to hide what we were doing than we ever have before, lol. Certainly were some strange looks from the passing farmers and other traffic. We don't suppose that everyone poses their vehicle in front of a herd of cows.
We had a great time and finding these caches and also solving them. GT doesn't want to think of how much Auslan she has forgotten but she got us through most of these without too much trouble.
Thank you for the effort that you have put into designing, placing and now maintaining this series for us to find.

We decided that we would attempt to finish this great series now in case we go back into lockdown. We had a great day and did well. Thanks so much to the CO and all those that helped her.

2:16 pm #9483

Today we travelled south to turn a few more solved Auslan puzzles into smileys. So much work has gone into making this series for us all to solve and find and we appreciate it.
Today, we spoke to cows, waved to farmers, photographed windmills, and best of all, had a lot of fun and laughs.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache, crank1

Hard find