?Potter Puzzles #9 Caboolture, Queensland, Australia
By Miss_Direction on 04-Jun-20. Waypoint GC8TBV3

seems like this one has gone missing and we are currently having a hiatus from caching

Solved the puzzle. Found some rock where mower had hit it and then moved it but no container. Thanks for the hunt.

I’m following in BM75’s footprints… again…

Unless the pics that people have posted are designed to be misleading, I couldn’t spot a rock amongst the long grass today…

Couldn't find a rock in all the long grass

After visiting the Sunday Market at the Caboolture Showgrounds we walked back to camp and had some lunch. In the afternoon we headed out with a focus on the Harry Potter series, but of course picked up a few traditionals that crossed our path on the way. We got all bar one on our travels and had a successful if at times eventful day.

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Miss_Direction.
**SKI Pair****

In the area today and decided to pick up a few caches and this was one of them. I parked nearby and once at GZ the cache was soon in hand and after signing the log all was returned as found.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for me and others to enjoy.

TFTC Miss_Direction

I had a couple of early morning meetings and then free time for the afternoon. As I was already on the northside I decided to go for a little drive and finish off the last piece of the towers adventure lab in Caboolture. From there I headed out to grab a few of the harry potter series, plus a couple others that I may pass.

What a nice area, I never knew this area existed or the plantations along the way; strawberry farms, pineapple farms and even a lawn grass farm, thank you for bringing me out here.

This was the next cache of the series for me and it was an easy find. I was looking for a rock as per the hint, lol I guess a few girls would be happy with this rock. A fun cache to find, the log was a little damp but I was still able to sign, replaced all contents as found. thank you for the funny cache, nice one.

While our parseltongue may be up to scratch, our translation is not quite the A grade.
We solved this one in January with the younger generation of our family. A bit of trial and error, and a green light eventually.
Coordinates were spot on at GZ, and log soon signed.
Thanks Miss_Direction. We have enjoyed all of these puzzles.
Domsky

Tick to #9. Though went past it a few times without realising I had skipped 9. Thankfully easy to spot. Real diamond of a cache. TFTC

A nice drive around the plantations this morning collecting smilies for the remainder of our solved puzzles in this series. One came out quickly and trial and error eventually found the other two! All good with this cache which is a cute container. Pleased I don’t speak this language! log signed and replaced as found. Thanks Miss_Direction.

Another trip out today to find some more caches that I have had some help to solve the puzzles. A different type of container for this cache, good to see some recycling. TFTC Miss_Direction

Out for an adventure with mum for the morning and the Harry Potter’s were the sole focus. We had a wonderful time talking about plans, upcoming trips and just generally having a natter

Loved the container tftc

Today we decided that we had attempted enough Little Bird and we headed off in a different direction. We have found ourselves doing another series, The Harry Potter Puzzles. Most of these we solved ourselves but a few we had help with from friends. All the caches we attempted were found bar one. We will return to this one. All caches were in good condition. SL TFTC

Another puzzle solved prior to our long weekend visit to Caboolture. Located the cache and added our name to the log. Thanks Miss D for the puzzle and the hide. Our sixth find in the series this morning.

Day 5 camped at the Caboolture showgrounds.
This Harry Potter series we had planned when we arrived but just getting around to find them today.
The tarck into # 1 was so wet & was the only one we did not attempt. The puzzles were completed a few months ago, I had not read any Harry Potter books & had only seen advertising shorts on TV.
Thankyou Miss_Direction for placing this cache.

Shining bright, the cache beckoned to wombles, it took her no time at all to have in hand.

Thanks for the puzzle and cache Miss_Direction

After a lovely weekend at Somerset Nyssaflutterby and I were headed home and as we had unexpectedly ended up with no children, we decided we should spent the afternoon caching.
We had a lovely lunch in Caboolture at Gather and Feast then headed out for some Harry Potter caches. Accio caches!!

This cache was a very quick find fortunately and we happily signed the log before cleaning and replacing where found. Thanks for the puzzles and hides in this series. There’s such variety and many different types of hides. This one was a quick find. Thanks Miss Direction.
Cheers and happy caching!

Stopped by and checked on this one log is remarkably dry for this weather, all is good here

Found at 1:01 PM GAFF3.
Went right past the cache hiding spot without seeing anything. Came back and after digging a bit found the really well concealed cache - gosh a lot of debris has piled over it with all of this rain.
However - even with 3 layers of protection, the log book was saturated!
Thanks Miss_Direction.

TFTC smile 8389 out and about with miss Millie geo dog having a great time, quick fine been wanting to say that for a long time
Thank you, Miss_Direction, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Have solved these neat puzzles long time ago some with PAFs. Time to pick up the caches with georode.

Thanks for the cache and taking us here Miss_Direction. Enjoyed solving the puzzle and finding the caches. Great series/Geoart!

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I teamed up with E-Smiley this morning to hunt down the caches for this series.

I had a lot of fun but also needed a fair bit of help solving the puzzles. All caches were found easily and are in great conditions.

Thanks for the fun series and showing me this nice area!

Georode

Oh this puzzle was way to amazing!!! Then I get a proposal at GZ! Alas I had to decline as one husband is too much as it is! Although this guy can cache!

I was an innocent bystander to the whole proposal and aftermath / bloodbath. Such a precious and tender moment to be savored and all because of some plastic bling. Was that a tear that leaked from my eye or sweat dribbling from the forehead. And such a wonderful background to propose - knee high sticky / itchy grass and a power pole. This new norm will soon take over from sunset beach settings or standing with Elvis at a chapel.

Then I thank my lucky stars that Gcoven was closer to the grovelling Mr Woody than I. Thanks Miss_Direction for instigating another caching romance.

When we pulled up there was only one obvious thing to check and so we thought we would be on our way very quickly. When I was handed the cache I had other ideas.

With a beautiful diamond ring in hand, I was overwhelmed with emotion and for the second time in my life I got down on one knee and asked for Gcoven’s hand in marriage. It was such a beautiful moment that you couldn’t wipe the smile from my face. I looked lovingly into her eyes awaiting a response, but unfortunately my first wife was also at the cache and she vetoed the idea. Words like polygamy, polygyny and polyandry are all too hard to spell anyway.

Once I had some sense smacked back into me, I thought that having two wives would be too much hard work. I already have one wife that finds more caches than me so having a team working against me would seal my fate. There would also be two wedding anniversaries each year that I wouldn’t remember. tftc

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 Miss_Direction
Found 3 January 2021

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

Ininteresting container.

TFTC Miss_Direction

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.

Griphook would have been proud of your cache container.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on January 3, 2021. TFTC, Miss_Direction

The HP puzzles have been sitting on the map for some time. So today off I went on a mission to find all of Harry’s lost treasure. And to honest, as definitely not a potterhead, got a lot more out of the hunt than the mysteries Logged 14/15, ‘tho I went back again to the DNF. Fun day wandering around the backroads

Cute container, all dry inside

TFTC Miss D

Got it nice area to explore because we're not from around here. Found the cache after a short search. Thanks for this puzzle series Miss_Direction and for your cache placement.

I like Harry Potter and I 've read all books jears ago.
Easy find.
TFTC

Out today on a mission with OBC and mini-OBC. Swung by here for the next of over 120 finds today. Being a fan of the books I liked the themed containers on the Potter Puzzles, and the themed puzzles. Nice job.

Thanks Miss_Direction for entertaining me at this location.
*{Overall find #8344}*

Out and about on a power trail today - targeting the Roses geoart (wahoo! highly recommended), the Potter Puzzles geoart, and the Hamilton power trail. It was a long but fantastic day with myself, Pprime (P') and mini oz_bean_counter, and the logs were signed as OP'X to reflect this. Started at 4 am with a check on the US election progress, in the car by 4.45 am and the first cache by 5.30 am. Home and dead tired 12 hours later, where wine and pizza were necessary to refuel the body before I crashed for the night. I was delighted to end the day with 124 finds (plus 5 DNFs, and revisited 2 caches) - a new daily record for me. I was really really happy to be celebrating that achievement with family and good friends.

Thanks for all the COs for their time and effort in placing and maintaining these caches. Apologies for the generic log.

TFTC and TB visits

Great container.

My poor brain hurt solving these puzzles and I had to ask for lots of guidance from my puzzle solving geo-friend. Anyone who isn't a massive Harry Potter fan should probably add a point or two to the difficulty level. One consolation was that the caches themselves were easy to find and not too many micros among them
Thanks Miss_Direction for the puzzles and the caches.

Having completed a couple of AdLab series not too far away we decided to clean up a few more green blemishes on our sea of smilie faces.
#16 of 21 smilies added today!

Another puzzle with 'teething problems' but we soon got past the 'glitch'.
Super quick park & grab.
Made our mark & replaced as found.

TFTC

Out and about with Selva Girls and Brislions today.We parked up nearby and made our way to gz . After a bit of time we finally managed to find it. Log was signed and replaced as found. TFTC

A day out caching with Brislions and Mr Curious Quest. After finding a nearby cache, we headed to this one. The cache was quickly located and the log signed. Sorry for the generic logs....it was a really big day! TFTC

Out today with Selva Girls and Curious Quest grabbing caches north of D’Aguilar Highway and around. Had help with these puzzles. 19 mystery and 4 traditional. So making 23 finds. Sorry for the generic post.

Cache a day to keep the doctor away, or is it to keep me sane. No it’s to keep my streak alive. Miss Direction TFTC *599* streak. *3668* Finds

Another great puzzle! This is the sort of puzzle which is right up my alley (Diagon Alley?), so after a short time I had some good looking coordinates. Today, with the youngest geodaughter driving we made a all those green boxes disappear..."Evanesco!"Tftc Miss_Direction

We found this to be a challenging puzzle, the format was easy enough to spot but the required info just wasn't forthcoming. Some elbow grease later, and we had the coords. Nice container here, that's original! Needs an FP

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Thanks for giving us a reason to visit, **Miss_Direction**. Our log is trackable, mention this cache.

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We had the same experience with the puzzle as Slow Puncture and returned to the source after clarification from the CO. Really clever work with all of these HP caches! And the containers too. I recognised the theme for this one straight away and called out to the geofam in the car what I had found. Looking forward to more We also really enjoyed exploring this neck of the woods. The last time I was in this particular area was many many moons ago and nobody but the odd farmer lived here. Next time we'll drop into the strawberry farm around the corner. Thanks for the fun!!

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Wednesday. (FTF) Wow! What an amazing puzzle. With the puzzle itself, I actually had the right link first up days ago, so stick with your gut feeling and work with that as you are probably on the right track. The first word comes out really well, if you get that, you know you are on the right track, so work with that and you’ll soon have the puzzle worked out. The hide was spotted as I drove up. I must say, Mr Garmin sure was sticking it to me today on the way though! Luckily the phone GPS directions didn’t lead me up someone’s driveway. Lovely to see a new unsigned log (for me), but also glad the CO has a find on this one now too! Very cute container and loved the themed ideas. Great cache puzzle idea.

This was the 1st of 5 caches found on this outing.

Thanks ***Miss_Direction*** for showing us this place

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