?Potter Puzzles #13 Caboolture, Queensland, Australia
By Miss_Direction on 04-Jun-20. Waypoint GC8TBZD

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

Out getting some caches today so IolantheK could sort out some challenge [^]

This one is definitely gone but after looking over the logs for our next solved ones we realised that all the other ones had multiple DNFs This wasn't helping the IolantheK challenge one bit, time to change tacks.

TFTC Miss_Direction

Solved the puzzle. Arrived at GZ and those dancing ladies have swept off with the prize. Thanks for the hunt.

A short stop on my way past to pick this one up which was missing on my last visit.

Once at GZ the cache was soon in hand. Once the log was signed all was returned as found

TFTC

Very old find log. 20/01/21. Apologies Miss-Direction. Logging find according to our msg of the date above. Just realised I hadn’t done it so turning blue face to smiley one.

This was a bit tricky to retrieve without disturbing the local wildlife. Thanks Miss_Direction and happy caching

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****

Today we are aiming to spend the day caching in the general area of north Brisbane basically concentrating on Labs, virtual's & earth caches because of the amount of muggles there are and of course anything else that is possible along the way.

When we hoped that we were coming up to Qld to attend the Townsville mega we concentrated on doing as many puzzles as we could in areas we knew we would be visiting.
When we spotted this series we rang our daughter who is a Harry Potter fan and she was really happy to join in solving the puzzles.
Unfortunately that plan didn't work out quite as we had hoped but we still got quite a few solved anyway so today was the day to try our luck.
The ones we could get to we found but unfortunately there was still a lot of water laying around and there was quite a few we couldn't attempt.

Please don't be offended by the generic log, we really do appreciate the time, effort and expense that goes into setting up a series like this. It's hard to remember each individual hide when you do so many in a row and we thank you for setting this lot up.

Another play day with Peppa, PirateLinda and Davinells to help DV reach a milestone.

Now I know where some of our pineapples come from.

An interesting puzzle quite apt for the Yule Ball. No dancing ladies at GZ though which was a bit of a disappointment but we found the cache anyway.

TFTC Miss Direction

Out for the day with PirateLinda, Patrol14 and Davinells with the goal of getting numbers for an upcoming Milestone… With the Urban Safari starting in Petrie tomorrow we decided to target Caboolture and surrounds…

Logs signed Wadda Mooli, WM, PL - P14 - DAV - Peppa or some combination of all of them…

A many layered puzzle that I managed to work through…

A relatively quick find on some not so secure infrastructure… tftc…

Out and about in Caboolture today with Peppa, patrol14 and PirateLinda chasing numbers to reach our next milestone.
This was a good series to target to help reach our goal. Tftc

Found with the Watta mooli team. The hiding spot for this one looked a little precarious but still in place atm

Replaced a nano here try to be careful when th retrieval, happy caching

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 not a fun find. I looked in all the usual spots looking for what has been a container style bunch of hides. I gave up and moved on, noticed the string of dnf’s as well, I have to come back past here on the way out so will have another look then. Back again and no change to my notion it was gone, I found a preform tube and a fresh log to which I added my name.

Thank you for the series and I guess I will be back to grab the remaining missing caches.

3rd visit here. This time with TreasureTrakas that have previously found it. 3 of us looking and still couldn’t find. Disappointing.

A nice puzzle! It took a little solving and thinking to finally picture what was needed, but we soon had a green light on this one.
Out in the field, we had a pretty good search, but this one just seemed to evade us. No luck today.
Loving this series.
Thanks Miss_Direction
Domsky

Found yesterday not found today. Need another pair of eyes.

Obviously lots of people are more clever than me at solving Harry Potter puzzles. I have only been able to solve 6 so far. This is one of them. TFTC

A lovely drive finding our way around the country roads this morning collecting smileys for the puzzles we have solved so far in this series. The first part of the puzzle caused some eye strain until I found an easier way! With the checker giving the ok the coords were updated and at GZ the cache was spotted. Log signed and cache replaced as found. All good with this one. Thanks Miss_Diection.

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

Yep and another one bites the dust 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

Thanks for the puzzle and the hide Miss D. This was our twelfth find in the series this morning. So far we have seen strawberries, pineapples and macadamia nuts being grown. We are feeling very agricultural as we tour around an area in Caboolture we have never visited before.

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.

We saw some beautiful horses nearby this cache area. We have enjoyed the area immensely with the different locations these caches have taken us. This cache located we signed the log. Thanks for the tour Miss Direction.
Cheers and happy caching!

Found at 2:22 PM GAFF1.
Found in the first spot that p-pprass looked in - unfortunately he didn't spot it then and so had to go back after a bit of a search to the first spot to eventually find it [:o)]
Thanks Miss_Direction.

TFTC smile 8662 out and about with miss millie geo dog, having a great 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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A lot of water has flooded through here in the last couple of days but still found the cache in its hiding place - unfortunately it was soaking wet but managed to dry it out and sign the log before replacing it in a new zip-lock bag. TFTC Miss_Direction

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

Lots of photo logs here and too much shenanigans. Would not have it any other way

After all the posing and mug shots were taken, would loved to have had some chalk to mark out the final resting spot of Mr Woody. The next pressing issue would be where to plant him? And how could we track that?

So with the same said chalk, a scribe would mark out his progress every 30 seconds as the others pulled him toward the ditch. It would be an animation of chalk poses creeping away from the impact point in 2 dimensions. A final photograph on the collated chalk animations and a foot sticking out of the ground could be framed for the family dining room for all to remember. I'll keep that idea in mind when we next cache together, long may he rest in peace! Thanks for the cache Miss_Direction.

Normally people aren’t so understanding when we take time after we find a cache to line up a phlog (photo log). That could normally be time better used finding another one. Fortunately we were caching with some great mates who understand/tolerate our idiosyncrasy.

In fact they started looking around for locations for us and spotted one at GZ. They both knew that if there was a camera pointed in their direction that they just had suck it up and get their stupid on.

They both knew that if they pulled out the old “Oh, I don’t do photos” that we would disavow them and any of their IM force and then self-destruct in 5 seconds.

I’ve looked at all the photos for the day and everyone scrubbed up pretty good. Snap, my wooden nose just grew an inch. 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 January 3, 2021

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

What can I say. Hope the force holds in the downpour.

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.

I really didn't think of looking for the cache there, but Snickersallan did. No ballet skills were used in recovering the cache.

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

TFTC Miss D

Got it nice area to explore because we're not from around here. Found the cache after a longish search. First place I looked was near the cache but I missed seeing it. Thanks for this puzzle series. Direction and for your cache placement.

I like Harry Potter and I 've read all books jears ago.
We searched quite a while and then found it on the other side of the road.
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 #8348}*

Found 7;06am on 7 November 2020 with Hedwig 26. Out for an adventure seeking finds from a week of hard puzzle solving. All good with this hide. TFTC SL Find number 769 for this Pirate Lady Yowhoo me hearties. Thanks Miss Direction

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

I’m a HP fan but have struggled with these puzzles. Second one figured out with PirateLady64.

I really struggled to find this cache . I went here and there and here and there and back to here and the back to there. I must have passed the cache a dozen times before I spotted it. Tricky.. I loved this type of puzzle . Thanks for

Quick find here today nice scenety

Out and about with Nyssaflutterby and 1Minniemoo, the first time this term that we have all managed to make our wacky Wednesday!
A couple of Potter puzzles while we were out this way.
Slugulus Eructo!!

To be honest I couldn’t find the dancing ladies anywhere but knowing how to read code I used my logic and was able to get a few pointes from them as to where the cache was hidden.

Out for an adventure with wombles and 1MinnieMoo today. We were heading to the Sunny Coast but got sidetracked and ended up going the scenic route and picking up a few extra caches, as you do

We arrived at GZ and started off hunting further than needed, 1MM soon discovered the container though.
Mischief managed!

Thanks for the cache Miss_Direction

16/9/20 Find #4107
Wacky Wednesday wandering with NyssaFlutterby and wombles and co, to end the term.
Now I’ve been accused many times of being potty, which is rather accurate an accusation I guess, but I also enjoyed Harry Potter with my kids.
Arriving here we almost could’ve used a little magic as a creepy guy drove past and slowed down to have a look.
Thankfully he didn’t stop, and we could soon commence our search. We had initially overshot our mark, but geosenses kicked in and I felt the need to check something else.
Soon enough, the cache was found, where I expected yet not exactly where I expected at the same time.
Thanks for the cache Miss_Direction.

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.

Out and about with Selva Girls and Brislions today. A quick find awaited us. 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. *3673* Finds

First placed I looked is where I found the cache. However I didn’t find it first look so after exploring both sides of the road I relooked. How did I miss that??

Clever twist on the puzzle here and some magical creatures at GZ turned a QEF into a special experience. We had to stay and have a chat even though they were very shy. Just beautiful! Oh yeah - and we signed the log while we were there too Another fun cache, thank you.

Did the work for this one and had the numbers fairly easily. Likewise at gz it was a quick find that had me dancing back to the car and off to the next one. Tftc Miss_Direction

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Wednesday. Another puzzle solved a few days ago and I did come out - at night time, which made it $%&@! hard to spot! Came back in daylight and it was quickly spotted. It didn’t help that at night, my arrow was moving from one good looking spot to another, but today worked a treat. Said hello to some friendly nearby animals.

This was the 3rd of 5 caches found on this outing.

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

With a new series celebrating the boy wizard, we got busy trying to solve a few before heading out today to find them.

Looked in a few spots before turning around and there it was!


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#8527 found at 10:24.
Thanks for giving us a reason to visit, **Miss_Direction**. Our log is trackable, mention this cache.

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FTF at 7:04am 10/06/20. Log to follow.

{*FTF*} at 7:04am
I had seen this kind of puzzle before but it was my first time solving one. Seeing this wasn't found yet, I set out to make myself cross-eyed and complete it last night. Big sigh of relief when the checker said yes! Out here early this morning, I struggled to park, but took a little chance since it was so early. Found after a quick look around GZ, signed and replaced. Number 2 for the morning.
Thanks for the puzzle and cache, Miss_Direction!

The plan for today was to seek out some Witches Hats but as we had done a few quick solves on these we thought a slight detour was in order.
None of the 6 were logged as found when we set out but as we got closer they began to fall, one by one.
Nevermind, we'll still grab a few smilies before getting back on course for the Hats.


***STF***

2nd of 21 found today.

I quickly realised what was needed to grab some numbers here & before long the coordinates threw themselves across the screen.
At GZ we almost ran over the cache we parked the Geo-Beast so close.
Spotted the cache as we walked towards GZ.
Ants are quite active around the cache, possibly agitated by the multiple visits here this morning.
Made our mark & replaced as found.

TFTC

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