The Element of Surprise Clearview, South Australia, Australia
By The Wriggley Frog on 03-Aug-20. Waypoint GC8XYA8

Cache camo has been damaged and will need to be replaced. The physical cache has been removed while until the appropriate remedial work has been carried out.

Dropped by here this morning in hope there would be virtually no traffic - success Quickly found and log stamped TFTC

'Ah' is the chemical symbol for surpriseOr a surprise is when you fart in the bath and there are no bubbles.Easy solve and find. All good here.TFTC SL

TFTC!

Ah!

Solve this puzzle earlier today, and just happen to be in the area a few hours later. No problem solving or finding. TFTC.

Tftv

First for the morning. Great puzzle. We need to learn how to spot the puzzle sooner. Good fun and round the corner from our house sit. Thanks Freddo for the hunt

Tftc

We are on holidays staying in nearby Kilburn, near relatives and had a free day to do some caching. We decided to head east and this was once of the caches we found. GMelb had already solved this cache as it was nearish where we are staying. Cache was a nice easy find.
TFTC The Wriggly Frog - GJMMelb

Found on a winter afternoon. I like that the puzzle wasn't too tricky!
The cache was pretty dirty and had spiderwebs but is still there.
Thankyou!

I once told a chemistry joke. There was no reaction.

Best I just keep this log brief - TFTC!

A clever and fun cache.
Thanks, Freddo the Wriggly Frog.

The weekly Tuesday Trek with the Befuddled. A Starfish, Adder and the Rat.

The targets were all the newly published Letterbox for suburbs series but alas with many others still to be found on our route we only managed to find a few of our targets.

All caches were is good condition unless stated otherwise.

Another puzzle that the Adders could solve, we like these ones. We had solved this one a long time ago and had driven past GZ many times but traffic and time had never been right to make the stop and find.




Thank you for the cache Freddo Find Number 10335 on 24/01/2023

The published coordinates of this cache are very close to our house, been meaning to have a look at this puzzle for ages. To begin with we massively over thought this puzzle, getting nowhere and getting frustrated, then something clicked. With the final only 800m away we decided to go for an after dinner walk.
Found the cache easily enough, signed the log and walked home again.
TFTC

Another easy puzzle that I’m hoping will earn me a challenge cache in Melbourne.

I did matric chemistry in 1976, and the height of knowledge then was to be able to recite the first 20 elements on the periodic table, in order. They did a great job of ingraining this upon me, because I can still do it today. It’s never helped me in life, and it didn’t help me here either, but this was good fun.

Interesting choice of GZ. I decided to park “around the back” and two other blokes in separate cars pulled up at the same time. Must be geocachers I thought. If there’s a tie in between the final location and the puzzle, I missed it.

Thanks Freddo.

I dragged myself out of bed at ridiculous o'clock for the 7AM Caching Catch Up this morning, with a few caches before and after.

Solved the puzzle earlier in the week not knowing when I'd get to the cache...

Aha! Today.

Cache retrieved and signed.

A successful morning, with 9 caches found and 1 event attended.

This brings Goldy's find to 1455.

Thinks Freddo for the cache.

17/08/2022

Thanks for the puzzle and cache Wriggley Frog. I had a go at this one, but couldnt spot the elemental means for a solve. I reached out, and received some info that was very helpful, and even with the info, the resolution was working against me. So much so, I still couldnt make out the required numbers. Must have been my issue, others have been able to read it. I did try to find a high res version, but alas it was not my day. Solved 11 July, found today on my way to grab some new aSaGR hides that have popped up in the region.

Find #7224 as the cars whoooshed by.

This Saturday, I planed to search for one cache: this one.
The puzzle has been solved back on 26 February this year, then the final coords were saved in the to-find list, until today.
A quick stop, on my way to Lightsview. Parked around the corner, and walked to GZ.
Cache has been found in the first place I checked. Classic spot.
Cache container was covered by spider web.
Signed the log book, and placed it back.
Thanks for the puzzle and the cache, The Wriggley Frog.

With the borders finally open to WA we are heading across to see some old friends that aren't travelling too well at the moment, some how or other we mixed up our flight time as we thought that our flight was a 7,30 am time slot but it was actually 7,30 pm giving us an extra twelve hours caching time,
With no plans we thought that we would concentrate on puzzles that we had solved during the Covid 19 lock downs in Melbourne and also a few multi's for a personal challenge we are working on.

Being a low difficulty puzzle this was one of the first we attempted during the lock downs, although it was only 1.5 , which we agree with once you workout how to solve it, but until the penny dropped we had a fair bit of head scratching going on so whilst we were here we really wanted to give this a try and turn it into a smiley.
We didn't even take a GPS with us as we guessed where the hide would be and we were correct and we were soon adding our name to the log.

Thanks once more Freddo for the cache.

Purple sulphur. #NLAMT.

Thanks for the cache Freddo.
Found on 22/2/2022 at 19:38.
Find #14970.

On my way 2 the twosday event with Jolly0 and of course we had 2 stop for a cache or 2 along the way. The 2 of us solved this one a while ago. TFTC

When I first looked at this cache I thought I’d struggle with solving it, I wasn’t the best at science at school, but as fellow cachers have said to me in the past with solving mysteries, “don’t over think it!”

I think this table would have messed with Sheldons brain

A couple of caching mates on a 2’sday night out and about to find at least two caches before heading to a very unique event on this 22nd day of the second month in the year 2022. We have to be there by 22:22 hours! This is almost too much for two youngish gals.

TFTC The Wrigley Frog
Keep smiling

I had a few hours to spare tonight so I decided to clear up a few caches that I can't usually get because I don't have time on the way to work.

Puzzle solved a long time ago and tonight was the ideal time with the reduced traffic.

Log quickly found and signed.

TFTC

I made this one way more complicated then it had to be. After nudge I had a solution. Don't know how I missed it the first time. Found with SupaOrange and SupaTurtle. Thanks

Made the find with SupaTurtle and Csaba!. Very busy location at this time. Tra La Laaa

In the area for basketball training and a cache along the way. Turtle out

Only one of the three goals from last year achieved. So once again trying and fill my calendar with multi-caches and complete loop 11 again this year. [^] For my third goal I will try and get my DNF numbers to single digits. That should keep me busy again this year! [:o)]

Another Wednesday wander with just S.A. sewer Rats today. Today was about finding some DNF's and whatever else we could find in between them. The puzzle was a quick find. Holey Dooley what a place for GZ. Can you really use stealth here during the day! Cache found and replaced using the Be brazen and nobody gives a damn method!

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

A Duo of Geo-animals went out on a Wednesday wander.
The Starfish picked up the Rat, from the Rat cave.
This puzzle was quickly solved not lon after it was published.
We found a safe place to park, the Geo mobile.
Then we took a short stroll to GZ.
The Rat quickly located the hide, in between the fast paced muggles.
Logbook stamped and replaced the cache to it's hiding place. Tftc

All love a surprise and this was solved not long after being punished. Like the idea and something very different. Cache easily found

This evening decided to go for a bit if night caching around the eastern suburbs, total of 11 for the evening.

Thanks for the cache

Looking at this puzzle left me with the element of confusion,
no surprises there

"What say you Sherlock ?".
"Elementary my dear If." he replied.
"I must disagree with you !!.
This puzzle is not at all elementary."
The element of surprise appeared at last,
and some surprising numbers fell out

I waltzed off to GZ,
and was soon saying "Hello Toronto"

TFTC and a chuckle

I am currently on my L-plates and wanted to get some hours up. Today was a perfect day for a big 6h drive mainly on the North Eastern side of the city. Lots of opportunities for parking practise, reversing, u-turns and finding a few of those mystery caches that my dad had solved throughout the year but never collected. Total tally was 18 caches visited and 18 caches found. Most caches were stamped with my dad’s stamp but when there was a pencil available he also added my name.
Thank you to all Cache owners

Our geodaughter Skyebird3 is on her L-plates and wanted to get some hours up. Today was a perfect day for a big 6h drive mainly on the North Eastern side of the city. Lots of opportunities for parking practice, reversing, u-turns and finding a few of those mystery caches that had been solved throughout the year but never collected. Today’s total tally was 18 caches visited and 18 caches found.

Cache #5 and probably the quickest of them all. No surprises where the cache was hidden!

Grabbed a couple of caches after attending a work breakup lunch.

Quick find in the obvious place.

Thanks for the cache The Wriggley Frog.
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This evening, I had planned to head out and do a few geocaches along the Linear Park trail, however soon realised that driving those was quite inefficient when compared to cycling that route, so my plans changed to various miscellaneous suburban geocaches around Paradise and Lightsview, and included a short hike up at Rostrevor, targeting high Favourite Point caches and puzzles.

Like the CO, I had not heard of the origins of this period table or TV show until jesswrigley explained it to us. The CO made that "ponder" face knowing that a new puzzle type was just around the corner. I thought that we may have had an advantage, but as it turns out, the CO made it not too complicated. I left the solve to jesswrigley to obtain a set of coordinates, on our behalf. However tonight, it was just me solo driving past this location, so made a quick park and find. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks The Wriggley Frog aka. Freddo for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Found with Sir Spectre, mogni, JJ52, Michell&hound on a day driving around the area finding caches. A good day with great weather. TFTC Freddo

Out and about with the JAMMS group again ( JJ52, Allister w, Mogni, Michells&hound and Sir_spectre ). We had a run down sheet of 50 caches to find and found about half a dozen extras with 5 dnfs. Most of the group visited caches they had found before at some stage of the day, so others could make the find. As usual i was the team navigator and Allister w was driving. A wide range of caches found today some with high d, some with high T free climbing or with the aid of different TOTT's but we did forget the UV torch. A fun day was had by all.

Another Sunday with the JAMMS crew. We are still targetting BFE caches but we seem to get distracted from this mission and find so many others. A great day out working as a team to find and solve these challenging caches.
Thanks to Freddo from mogni

Does the element of surprise include "Jazz Hands" from the nearby establishment?

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache The Wriggley Frog.

Solved the puzzle a day or so ago after noticing something a little odd. Called past today to make the find between stops in the traffic. Thanks for the elementary puzzle and cache Freddo!

Wow I made a meal of this very easy puzzle. Not seen the table look like this before!
Headed to GZ today after Geohusband left to head back to the farm. Needed a puzzle for the puzzle calendar but ended up finding one on the way to this cache. Maybe I should have saved it for another day still many days to fill on the calendar.
TFTC Freddo and the nice easy puzzle

A simple puzzle soon had a set of coordinates to have a search at GZ, found in a fairly typical hide location today, a caching day out with Mattycat and Sebastbat looking at collecting a few solved mysteries, completing a few multis and the odd wherigo that have popped up around here in the last few months.
TFTC Freddo

Went on a wander through suburbia with Mr Froghoppin and Sebastbat.
Found a few things along the way

Nobody expects the Spanish Cache.

Thanks for placing and maintaining a puzzle cache I could actually do without a big nudge Freddo

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Stay safe out there, caches can be dirty!
wash your hands, wipe down your cache gear,
sanitise, exercise, even wear a mask if hayfever season gets to you and
cache the countryside safely distanced at least an adult brown snake's length apart ! ! !


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Well that puzzle contained the element of surprise.
And today we were out north and diverted towards GZ. But approached from the wrong direction and had to cover extra distance to get to a safe parking spot. As we parked Janet noted that it was windy and raining. I suggested that it was her turn to brave the elements and get out to find and sign the cache while I stayed to guard the cache.
Cue hysterical laughter.
When she had recovered all she had to say was “Off you go cache-boy”
I am still trying to decide if I should be offended.
Also still trying to get dry.

Owl finished her work and decided she deserved some fresh air and a few caches. She got more walking than caches, but that's how it goes sometimes. This puzzle was harder than it should have been, but that's the element of surprise for you. At least it was a straightforward find.

Well this simple little puzzle took me longer to solve than it should have to bring all the essential elements together. Once again, over complicating - I couldn’t see the gold for the helium (or something like that)!

I’ve since driven right past GZ a few times but keep forgetting to stop. This time I remembered as I went past one way and made a point of stopping on my way back home.

After parking at a vert convenient spot nearby it was just a short stroll and a quick find.

Thanks Freddo for the puzzle and the cache.

I am very surprised to find a cache here because I found one very close to here in the past. But it must have died after being exposed to too many elements or traffic surveys.
With all the traffic and muggles around one might be mistaken for thinking they are in downtown Toronto. Or somewhere. Thankfully I was not surprised by a muggle saying hello whilst retrieving signing or replacing the cache.

Veni. Vidi. Vici. Scripsi.
Saw this one published but only having the mobile at the time I could not use the element of surprise to view the cache page properly so put it to one side for a while. Over the weekend it was opened up again. In the intervening time some assumptions were made that proved to be quite wrong and made the solving of this a little more difficult than it should have been. When I opened it again and had a look around I noticed some special elements that surprised me but also led to the solution. Quickly identified the special elements. Solution Checker agreed with my numbers.
This morning it was my turn to escape the WFH thing and work in the office so on the way in a few caches were found. This was the third and last for the morning. PArked round the corner from GZ and wandered around. Timed the arrival at GZ with the traffic and in a break made the grab in the first place I felt and got the cache. Stamped the log and then reassembled it and then in another break in the traffic replaced the cache in its hide. now into the office.
Gratias pro cache The Wriggley Frog

Found It!
I solved this puzzle without any problems a couple days ago. After that, I thought I had already found the element of surprise but then I went to GZ today. Without giving it away, its nice to see the nearby business acknowledge what the NBN was really built for, especially in these lonely coronavirus times...
TFTC

The obligatory 15 minutes was spent over thinking the puzzle. But of course it’s all just elementary my dear Watson. TFTC

Initially I made this one much harder than it should have been...so, after having a proper look I saw the tell tale info and very soon after had the green tick. [^]
I decided to come out here after freezing at a netball match which was sort of close and made a quick find right where I knew it would be.
Thanks for the puzzle and cache The Wriggley Frog.

It’s fairly elementary these days that Canada is off the table. I’ll get to Ontario one day! Bronze position kinda makes up at the moment.

Thanks Freddo and clear skies from TeamAstro. ️ Cache the planet!

The surprise element here, was the ease of solving...
Quickly found between chariots.
TNLNSL
Thanks

It was a toss up today between grabbing a few caches around the area or heading to the Sturt v North match at Prospect Oval. Given at the time of writing, North had kicked 1.8 to Sturt's 0.3 in th shadows of half time, I think I made the better choice by finding a few caches (including this one). This is a different periodic table than usual, however the answer was quickly forthcoming. Today the cache was soon found. TFTC

Published

*FTF* @ 5:50pm
It was either an adventure out north, or solve a puzzle. Ronso was up for the challenge, and quickly had some likely coordinates!! Peak hour traffic always seems worse when your keen to get somewhere Arriving at GZ, a quick find was made and a crisp new log book revealed, whooo!! Nice to meet Lockchick as we were signing the book. TFTC Freddo!!

Woo! 2TF by a whisker. Team Redronso still had the hot little cache in their paws.hehe TFTC