BBP - 25 - Colours 5 Carlyle, Victoria, Australia
By Wiser than Owls on 21-Feb-22. Waypoint GC9NRQX

Big day out today collecting unfound caches before they disappear. Thanks Robmc

The time has come to retire the 2023 Rutherglen Mega Caches.We hope everyone enjoyed finding them.Wiser than Owls.

Well I am still making my way back from the Canberra Geobash Mega (it is such along way between Melbourne and Canberra if you dont take the direct route).I have been stopping along the way to do a few different series and to also tick off a few challenge caches as well.After spending the night in Beechworth to help find Randolph I happened to catch up with one of the COs who reminded me that this series was about to get archived very soon.I had worked out all of the puzzles previously and some were quickly done and others I had a couple of nudges to help solve and injust ran out of time at the Mega to find them back then.Im glad I decided to do these today as it rained all night and I would not have been able to travel on those roads to find them.Thanks for another piece of geoart on my map.Thanks Wiser than Owls TFTC.

A nice puzzle series around the wine area here, cache found and is all goodToday on my way home from the Capital Geobash in the ACT, I made my way from Wagga Wagga to Rutherglen via Albury/Wodonga. I started off with the Pub series followed by a few along the way and a few small trails around last years mega. Unfortunately half way through the day I fell from a try about 6m up but was okay to continue on. Thanks for the cache

Found with PapaGrouch on a mission to collect some more of the Mega caches before they are archived. A quick find after a slighly more challenging puzzle. Once worked out it was obvious. TFTC

Found this one with SciFiRulz TFTC:)

Full time Nomads, travelling around Australia since 2014. Wending our way towards Canberra for the Mega. Orignally we planned a whole week here to collect the most smilies we could but alas plans had to be changed and now we are in a rush. Today we tackled the BBP series and anything else that jumped in our way. The multis we mostly solved yesterday but again today we were collecting coords for another day. TFTC Wiser than Owls

Wagga Wagga Expedition Day #2After my day of work on Friday, I jumped into the car and headed off to Wagga for the weekend. Of course for the Geocaching Expedition events and various caches. Given that I live so close to Wagga, I decided on finding the caches further away. This included a trip to Rutherglen to find the BBP power trail and anything else I could find along the way. But Johno, isn't that a 2 hour trip each way (4 hours total) and that does not include finding the caches. Yes, that is correct but it was all for a good reason. This is for a few reasons, including (but not limited to): I was yet to find them, it would make for a great day out and they are getting archived soon. Last night I was able to convince ADACacher to join me. We left at about 5:40am and returned just in time for today's event at 5pm. It was a great trip and many caches were found. A few missing logsheets which have now been replaced. Hopefully, I can at some point get back for to find the mutli-caches before they are archived. Anyway, I loved the day and so did ADACacher! Now time to rest up and get ready for tomorrow. Sorry about the generic logs but given the amount of caches found today, that was going to happen. If there were any notable caches found, a full log is to follow. TB visit. A big thanks to the CO for adding this cache to game for the Geocaching community to enjoy. TFTE & TFTC's!

WAW Day 1 - Rutherglen dash with JohnoMawbs.No 52. After spending some time on multis preparing for a Rutherglen trip I was offered an opportunity to tag along with Johno Mawbs for a run on the BPP series "and a couple of other" as he put it. I had an amazing day hunting around this lovely area of Australia and all caches were found easily unless otherwise noted.

In the area with AnyMules, brisal5 and 6Hinemoa2 signing all logs as BAB6 to save space in the log books or their personal stamp. This may be the ageing Bushfires last Mega as the effects of advancing MND continues to advance but as I said that after the Whittlesea Mega, we will see.I must thank my three mates and lots of other folk for all the help that I have received over the last year or so for which I will always be very grateful. This cache was found on our travels around this great area while attending the Mega Event in Rutherglen early April 2023.I am slowly logging these caches but I don't know if I will finish only time will tell.You never know what life has in store for you so you must expect the unexpected.Thanks to Wiser than Owls for placing this cache.

Sorry this is going to be a generic for all the caches we picked up today. A lovely day out Rutherglen way with Ampitup, picking up some caches before the grass got too long. Thanks for the puzzles and the caches.

I enjoyed a great morning out with jorgo_crew. Slowly ticking off the many solved caches around Rutherglen.A total of 25 found today and 2 dnf'sThankyou wiser than owls.

It was a nice sunny day and we got back on our bikes to try and complete this series. We found the puzzles enjoyable and nearly all were within our ability. We ended up finding all the caches in this series. The coords for all caches were very accurate. We cycled 18km in 3 hours to grab 34 caches. By then us seniors were worn out. So we did the rest as drive-bys which was not as enjoyable. Thank you very much for this lovely series of puzzles and caches.

Out on an autumn day that hopefully won’t rain too much! TFTC.
SL at 13:43 pm
PUZZLE: hmmm. No idea on first look then a bit if google and ignoring the red herring it was solved pretty easily.

6 April 2023

Sorry for delay logs
Accompany with DeafPhantom, and DutchAus
It was good fun - the weather was nice for us all...
Thank you for organising the cache and hunt,

Sorry about copy and paste

After attending the ANZAC day parade in Albury the weather was too good to not go caching. Wanted to head back to Rutherglen to try and finish some series over that way (not certain how long so many caches can be maintained). In the end got 61 caches in the end with no traditionals(!) - 31 Brolga Bill (complete), 21 FTF Explosion (1 to go) and 8 Easter Wherigoes (about 44 to go - 1 more day I reckon). All caches were found relatively quickly and the geohound and I enjoyed the beautiful sunshine.

TFTC Wiser than Owls

This puzzle took a couple of attempts to solve but solve it I did. Spotted from road as I continued my walk.

Missed the mega, by that much. Finally a nice warm sunny day!!! Many thanks to all everyone (local and far away) who put together a great crop of caches.

This series was solved in preparation for the Rutherglen Mega. Today we managed to sign the log. TftcApologies for the late log, these were all saved offline and I've just found them.

Great Hide

Thanks Wiser than Owls for the cache

James0116
Tuesday11 Apr 2023
11:04:59 am AEST
3132

Headed out this beautiful bright morning to complete the Brolga Bill caches. It was a quiet morning and I was lucky enough to have the roads all to myself. All caches found were in excellent condition with logbooks all in great condition. Thanks Wiser than Owls for this excellent series. Enjoyed solving the puzzles and then finding the caches. Such a huge effort putting this all together for us to enjoy

Still in the area after the Rutherglen Mega and today I am after the BBP Series. Thank yiu Wiser than Owls for setting this trail for our enjoyment.

#5137 Well after completing the Beginner Challenge Series, thought may as well knock over a few more in the Brolga Bill that we started a while back. This sequence was on a nice quiet back road so again we got out of the geocar and completed finds on foot with the geohounds.

Will be honest and say we didn't solve this tricky puzzle, just stumbled upon the hide when we were travelling between solved puzzles along the same stretch of road . TFTC.

Great day for caching around here
TFTH

Caching buddies: EverestHigh, Brewmaker and JennyFromTheFarm

Thank you for creating these geoarts! As a team it was rather fun to solve and find!
Loved visiting Rutherglen and the Mega event!

#6286

This morning we had the target of doing a part of this series, OCW Mighty Minions.

Had a fun morning doing the BBP and the surrounding caches on a nice sunny morning. Signed as M7.

TFTC Wiser than Owls

#6286
It’s our last morning in Rutherglen, so we hit some more puzzles with Mighty Minions - signed M7…. TFTC!

During our stay in mega event what a great lovely drive out here quick find and placed back where it belong TFTC

Apologies for generic logs.

I have really enjoyed solving these puzzles and the way in which the have been constructed from an easy solve and to getting harder. I did need help with 10 of them but I have learnt sooo much.

Found with Itchyfeet2020 and the Seagnoid -signed as NZBITS. We are one group of several kiwis over here for the Rutherglen Mega at Easter. It’s going to great with so many sessions of things I want to learn about. PLUS so many caches to find.

Kia ora rawa atu for the cache Wiser than Owls.

TFTC,
Out with Nana nel and The Neighbs doing caching. Signed as SSG.

Find # 8990
Nice quick find. We added more paper for the logsheet.
OCW Wazza9 & Nana Nel, logging as SSG (Sutherland Shire Geocaching).
Found on Day 5 of the Rutherglen Mega event
TFTC Wiser than Owls ??
10 April 2023 11:28

Easter Monday, said farewell to our friends The Hancock Clan. Geocaching with The Neighbs and wazza9. Quick find, signed log as SSG Sutherland Shire Geocachers. Thanks to CO.

Out on The BBP trail. Signed as J.I.B.E. and ADI. Only 5 to go!! TFTC

Quick find. OCW Brewmaker and ADI and JFTF and Irondale. ?? 3

Thanks for providing a great range of caches to introduce us to the fun of solving puzzles.
The last day of the Mega event - so we have bumped into lots of other cars out and about.

**10/04/2023, 14:55:00**
**Find #5270**
**Mystery Find #1006**

Monday of the Rutherglen Mega Event. A fine but windy day and the wind was bitterly cold at times. Only one DNF today and we were able to find that on a return visit. Mostly mystery caches were found today including around six that we hadn't solved but were able to find by looking at proximity circles in Cachly and also looking for tyre tracks and cacher trails. An excellent assortment of caches and all were well placed. Apologies for this generic log but there were far too many to remember individual caches.

**Thank-you to Wiser than Owls for placing this geocache**

Time for our next exciting geo adventure - Rutherglen Mega. NZ_B, the Seagnoid and I are here from NZ. Today is Day 6 and time to pick up all the BBT puzzles. I really enjoyed solving these over the last few months, especially the increasing difficulty - they are a great series, thank you. We tried one of these roads two days ago and it was to boggy - today it was a ok. Logs are being signed as NZBITS for NZ_B, Itchyfeet2020 and The Seagnoid. Thank you Wiser than Owls.

A great series of series of puzzles, and I really enjoyed solving them with the team. Spent a day collecting just two on Easter Friday, which we then aborted due to the boggy roads. Now, a few days later we figured that road would have dried out and came out to finish them off. All were straightforward finds, there seem to be just two standard hide styles

Found during an awesome 10 day Aussie trip, centered around the Rutherglen Mega event. Log signed as NZBITS, for NZ_B, Itchyfeet2020 and the Seagnoid.

Today was our attempt to find the BBP series. Thanks to Wiser than Owls for such an amazing puzzle series. We had the chance to practice and learn more skills for solving all those ? Very happy to say we only needed assistance with three in this series. Mostly easy hides with a variety of containers. Well done.

*Found on the 10 Apr 2023 @ 2:54 pm.*
*Cache find # 14547.*

Day 4 of the Rutherglen MEGA trip.
Out and about with biggles1024 around town and walking the rail trail finding lots of caches.


**Thanks to Wiser than Owls for placing this cache.**

Found out and about on the 2023 trip for the Rutherglen Mega. A massive fun experience with endeavour3, joojoo57, Richmond Lad and TeamAstro (JALEAR)

Awesome cache thanks Wiser than Owls from deanside!

Our last full day in the area, so trying to grab as many caches as possible. This morning we teamed up with lee737 and Samuel737 to tackle this series, we had a lot of fun. The logs were signed as M7. Thanks for the cache wiser than owls tnln replaced as found sl

This was a fun set of puzzles, of varying challenge and difficulty.
We enjoyed them immensely!
In Rutherglen, we did not have our bicycles, so these were found either as we walked or drove.
It was good walking weather, not too hot!
Thanks Wiser than Owls
Domsky

All logs where stamped as " Mystery Randoms " today. Found after doing the nearby wherigo trail. Quick find.
Found with JAMS (( JJ52, Allister w, Mogni, plus sir_spectre ) Mitchell&hound wasn't with us this trip) crew. All logs stamped as JAMS to save log space. This trip we are off to the Rutherglen Mega and then slowly coming back to S.A. for a total of 8 dys and 7 nights. The targets of this trip are for JJ52 to get 11 more multi to get to 1000 multi's and a few more Victorian LGA's, Allister W was targeting 17 virtuals ( or as many as he could get ) a few more Victorian LGA's Mogni to make the Rutherglen Mega her 20, 000 find and also for her to complete all Victoria LGA's, sir_spectre needs 1 more multi to get to 1000 multi's and get his Victoria LGS's down to 2 LGA's left. We got 20 or more finds in a LGA if we stayed in there over night. We also detoured to stamp any challenge caches that we were " in the general area off " and to complete that challenge before we came back to S.A. This meant that some times dirt road (s) had to be walked down because they were to wet to drive down and/or haven't been repaired since last years flooding. We started off the holiday in the rain and then that cleared up only to start raining and a overnight thunder storm but most of the trip was dry. Over 600 caches found for the trip including over 120 lab stages in that total. Got to complete the GPS Maze at the Rutherglen Mega for a 2nd time. Allister w was the team driver for all of the Victorian part of the trip. I think this was the first trip ever to Victoria that the extension pole didn't get used but the 6.2 meter ladder did get a work out.

The JAMS team (JJ52 allister w, mogni and sir_spectre) were on a road trip heading to the Rutherglen Mega event (staying in Corowa) for 3 days then winding our way home via Albury, Wangaratta, Bendigo and various other places in between. It was a great week with many more caches found than we expected. There were targeted caches, challenge caches, Ad Labs, events and various others to fulfill various statistics for the four of us. We were lucky with the weather, it rained a bit on our way over on Friday, then half a day after we left Wangaratta but on the whole it was great caching weather. We did drive a few slippery muddy roads, but nothing too bad. We also caught up with lots of people either at events or out in the field and enjoyed many great chats. All in all a fun time with lots of Victoria explored and then very tired when I arrived home. [^]

Had fun solving all these puzzles and today we went and found them all.

Thanks for the cache Wiser than Owls.

Stamped as JAMS - JJ52, alllister w, mogni, sir_spectre. All of these teams are from South Australia and after some major planning we managed to find approx 700 caches while being away for a week. Also qualifiied for a variety of challenges, found LGA's and had lots of laughs. Found while attending the Victorian Mega in Rutherglen.
Thanks

5:04:00 PM: (34 of 49)
Day 5 caching
a nice day for caching had some time today and started the BBP series as well as what we could gather around
Found during the Rutherglen Mega, from Canberra traveling with Tankengine, DTY73 and Youban

thanks Wiser than Owls

Our last full day at the Rutherglen Mega - Tankengine, Mtrax, Youban and I had a great long weekend. Nothing is more fun than going to a new place and caching with all our caching friends. The Mega and events were great and Rutherglen and the surrounding areas have so much to offer.

This cache: This was the only series we did all by ourselves. We were a little sad to have no friends, but we didn’t need them as the coords were all good and the containers found quickly. Great series. No issues, unless a note was added below. Tftc!!!

At the Easter Mega with Flaggy's, MooFlagg & tflagg67. Finding some more in this series. Harder to solve. Tftc.

Our group consisting of bushfire, Brisal5, Anymules and me tackled this series while at the Mega,. We signed in as BAB6 to save space in the log books.
Had all these presolved for the trip andwere hapy to have completed this one.
Thanks for the fun here today Wiser than Owls

Out with bella at waggy and others collecting all the puzzles and challenges on our last day at the mega. Enjoyed preparing for the trip earlier in the year and working on the series of puzzles. Many thanks Wiser than Owls for all the work putting these together.
Often signed as Megatrons.
SL TFTC

Found while up in Rutherglen for the MEGA event.
Fantastic location for the MEGA.
Thanks for having a cache here for us to find on our visit.

Found with McAdies and Jelly_Bean14.
We were in Rutherglen for the MEGA event and found this cache while there.
Thanks for the hide.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie.
I had a great time at the Rutherglen MEGA.
Thanks for hiding this cache in the area so i could enjoy finding it while there.

The JAMS (JJ52, allister w, mogni and sir_spectre) go mega... We came, we cached, we laughed, we hugged and we had a great time. All caches were replaced better than found. Today at times we were with some others at times and used BAB6 and JAMS as our log for each cache
Thanks to Wiser than Owls from mogni

Last morning at the mega for us, doing a few more caches with Larafolk, Flaggy’s and TFlagg

Out caching with the larafolk who solved the puzzle
Tftc

Found

Over from New Zealand to attend the Rutherglen Mega. Attempting my most finds in a day so sorry about the template logs. Signed as WW
Thanks very much for the cache, Wiser than Owls
#4753

I found your D3.5/T1.5 Micro Mystery called BBP - 25 - Colours 5 on 9 April 2023. It was find #18022 for me. Thank you Wiser than Owls for placing this cache for our enjoyment in the wonderful state of Victoria.

Out today with CharisMaree and Blacktownman( BTM) thank you so much for the BBP puzzle series of caches hoping to get them all signed off before this afternoon's closing event

Log is full at this cache container

After solving these puzzles months ago in preparation of the mega it was out for a hunt with bellahappychappy and blacktownman (brm) thanks for all your effort with placing these caches. Has sure helped get my numbers up!

Found with teamashy on the MEGA Weekend. TFTC

Found with thomo31. TFTC

Chooo ooo [Found] with dty73, Youban and Mtrax !! on our Rutherglen Mega trip down south. - Signed DTYM. Nice find here! Thanks Wiser than Owls!

Caching at the Rutherglen mega. TFTC.
Grabbing a few more of this series today. Great one.

Out with dty73 and tankengine and matrax touring around getting. Kutgw

Found with charas and ballhappychappy

Happy Easter ???? 2023!
The day started with an egg hunt and a bike ride, then it was a BBQ lunch before tackling all the new explosion multis. The farewell event was the last on the agenda for the day and it felt like a great send off.

Thanks to all the COs and GV for all the smileys ?? today! It’s been a memorable Easter with my two little geokids ??

Find number 11798 at 4:41:00 pm on Sunday the 9 April 2023
I was just heading out of camp to go south and find some Wherigo’s when my iPhone went ping and my plans were hastily rearranged to head north to chase an FTF, after failing by about 60 seconds I decided to do a few more of the solved puzzles not far from here.
All caches were found quickly and in good condition.
**Thanks for placing this cache Wiser than Owls**

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We’re all going to Rutherglen to participate in Victoria’s next Mega!
*Are you coming to join in the fun?*
[**The Rutherglen Event 2023**](https://coord.info/GC9MH9M)
*6th - 10th April 2023 - GC9MH9M - Rutherglen- Victoria*

Rutherglen Mega Trip. [^] Day 7 - What a day. Many caches, stop for yummy BBQ lunch then back to caching finishing many, many series. Caching right through to the Farewell event.

Our crew for the week is:
Bushfire
Anymules
Brisal5
6Hinemoa2
BAB6 for short and to save space in logs.

Most logs will be generic or there might be some more under here. Thanks CO's for the caches that made this such a great week for us.





**SA’s Leap Year Event GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024.**


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

I was up here for the Rutherglen Mega along with CaptainCoop09 and we found this cache.Day 4 of our trip and we had our last day planned with a few more local attractions and sites to visit, and of course caches to find, including the BBP series.All in all we had a great day, managing to catch up with many fellow cachers along the way.TFTC.

signed as group GDS+M

Today was going to be a huge day of a variety of caches. First up was registration and then the maze, followed by a bunch of gadget caches and lab caches. We bumped into people all day long, it was so much fun, and those gadget caches were just as tricky as before.

We took a drive and did the Ladder series and the Challenge series. It was then time for a break and some food before we headed out and got into the BBP series. There is so much to do in this town. we got in some Adventure labs and some multi’s.

We signed logs and depending on who was doing the signing at the time the pen colour may change, lol. However all logs were signed and all caches replaced as found. Thanks to all the CO’s for the hides

This was another great series of nice puzzles and some fun hides

For more than a year, the group of us, has been busy solving these caches.
Now we can make that work, in to nice yellow smiley faces

To save time and to not take up room on the logs we sometimes signed as GDS+M
Gwd.aussie = G , D@geo = D , Sharon14 = S , and Mezza74 = M
And other times with sign with our normal or shorted caching names.

Thank you for the Puzzle and the hide Wiser than Owls, and Brolga Bill

Found with a "gaggle" of South Australian cachers!! A great day out and none of the bogging issues myself and SpiderMonkeysMom had yesterday!! Thanks for a great series!!

In the area for the Rutherglen Mega. Teamed up with GWD.aussie, D@geo and Mezza74 to find some caches. Log sheets, if not signed with Sharon14 signed with the team name gds+m , S14. Thanks Wiser than Owls

Day 3 of our loop through Vic and SA then home.

Today I teamed up with dghoffy to finish off the Easter geoart this morning then back out on the trails this afternoon after a short stop for lunch back in Rutherglen.

All caches were found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned.

In town for Mega and met up with some of the other Queenslanders for three intense days of caching. Signed as TQ6.
We're going like Eveready bunnies signing anything we've solved.
This exercise reminds me of the old pacman game going along- munch, munch, munch?? spitting out the smileys on the map. Yummy!??

TFTC??

We hope you were Wiser than Owls and placed all these caches without stressing yourselves too much. You have provided so much brain exercise and physical exercise for us all and we want you to know how much we appreciate your hard work in setting up all the puzzles, challenges and locations. We cached as team JALEAR as at these events its so much fun caching together with others instead of the often usual solo caching near home or on trips.
Cheers and happy caching!

Yay! Road trip! Down from Canberra for the Mega and all of the caching and the fun!

After completing the Easter Wherigos, it was time to knock off the BBPs. Most were easy finds and a few took a few moments more. The puzzles were relatively easy to solve only a few had me reaching out to a geobuddy for hints!

All up another fun day out in the geounit caching around the countryside.

Thanks for the hide, Wiser than Owls

Enjoyed the puzzles and cache finds for this series! A little bit different than solving the Wherigo's, but a nice variety. The cache hides were a lot easier to find in this series too, with excellent coordinates and placements!

**NOTE:** After the first 11 caches in the BBP, we lost the "T" and signed as "BLAS" as Toy Hunters decided to head to the dinner event early, and opted to find the caches by himself at a later date instead.

Jamin Appleford (JA) also joined our team for a while during this series, was good to cache with you, thanks for the extra set of eyes!

Many thanks to the CO for placing & to the puzzle creators!

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**Rutherglen Mega Day 2**

Today was the BIGGEST day for us! An early start, with the goal of completing the entire "Easter" Wherigo series and "BBP" series. A couple other stragglers and new caches diverted our attention briefly, but we were able to stick to the goal until after the sun went down!
My long standing record from 5 years ago of 200 caches in a day was smashed out of the park! Unsure of final numbers, but definitely in excess of that record!

**Signed as BLAST**
**B** onfire7
**L** oci612
**A** Muppet (95)
**S** ebass19
**T** oy Hunters

Special thanks to all the people we had the pleasure of caching with today outside of BLAST, including Flintstone's, Dino, Tankengine, dty73, Youban, mtrax, Jamin Appleford & "MR"

Apologies for generic logs on powertrails, I will always strive to write individual and detailed logs on those caches outside of the trails.

Rutherglen Mega - Easter 2023 - Day 2: Saturday

Spent the afternoon tackling the BBP Series. Signed as 'BLAS' (Bonfire, Loci612 & Sebass19) and 'FD' (Flintstone's & Dino'). We were also lucky enough to team up with Jamin Appleford for part of the trail too.

Thanks to all involved in creating and maintaining this series.

MEGA day 2 - after taking a look at the maze, we met up with the Qld crew (Domsky, chamad, Hatzofff, RoddyC and Echocage1) and headed out to collect the BBP puzzle series. To save room, the logs were signed TQ6.
Thanks Wiser than Owls for the great puzzles and caches. A very enjoyable trail.

Came over the mountain Friday with mezza74 for the Rutherglen Mega meeting up with gwd.aussie and Sharon14 who came over a couple of days earlier. Solved many many caches before the trip sadly more that we will be able to find while in the area.

Log sheets, if not signed with d@geo signed with the team name gds+m.

Thanks Wiser than Owls

On a trip from WA with Burns345, Rutherglen was our destination.
Cache found and some logged as WA B345 M28.

At the Rutherglen Mega. Picking up smilies all over Vic. Greetings from Western Australia. TFTC

Found by Daisy while walking for the Mega

Another quick find. Thanks

Find # 12117

Rutherglen MEGA Long Easter weekend trip. Day 4 Easter Saturday.

Found with sharkiefan while spending time in the area caching n chatting and all things MEGA
This year with new tools and transport on board. Bike, ladder, poles and a variety of other items to help with the cache grabs.

Puzzles were all sorted before the weekend. Making way for the finds to come.
Plans sorted for cache attack days, between ladder climbing, power trail grabs and the large amount of ad labs in the area. Not to mention the MEGA site visits and numerous other events to attend.

My stat's of finds started at 11,886 ?? before leaving home. Let's see what the final numbers are at trips end for the MEGA.


TFTC Wiser than Owls

Nice series to knock off by myself. I seemed to be going the opposite way to everybody else

Time to team up with my ole mate Slowdog today for his first day at the Rutherglen Mega. Today our plan was to mainly find these puzzle caches we solved weeks ago. Most caches were a straight forward find, a few we ended up teaming up with other cachers as we crossed paths and temporarily joined forces. After all we were all on the same mission.

Thanks for the find, found while attending the rutherglen mega. TNLNSL. Cheers

Out and about today as part of the mega. Picked up most of the BBP plus extras around and made a trip into Corowa as well.
Great day finding all the caches we looked for. Thanks to COs for their efforts.

Having completed the Easter series, Minniek and dghoffy decided there was enough time and energy to knock over this series. A successful run with no dnfs. Couple of the roads were getting a bit cut up after the rain but not an issue for a 4wd. Some of the caches were obviously placed by a very tall person. Thankfully we had one of those in our group too. Thanks for setting up and maintaining the series for our enjoyment. Tftc

Found with FUF009. Day 3.
Rutherglen turned up a pretty nice day today.
After a sleep-in, we did some more AdLabs, pathtag trading, and a few events, then all the BBP series, which included some hairy roads. Then FTF madness kicked in and we raced for a few but without luck. So we ended up rounding up as many multi finals as possible before heading into town for dinner, pizza again! Still excellent. I got my 13,500th cache somewhere amongst all this. Currently logging at the same time that we night cache the Easter 2023 wherigos!! Its going to be a nice sleep in tomorrow. Tftc

Caching today with Tiz13 finding as many of this series as we can ….. and we did. A busy day today, a few pathtags found and lots of new friends made along the way at the Mega. TFTC

Our journey today started with an early morning departure from Canberra and a road trip to Rutherglen.

On arrival it was straight into getting the official registration carried out, the journey through the Maze, a set of Adventure gadgets, the ladders, the challenges, the BBP series and a few multies and other caches. Then head to our accommodation for the next few days.

Log sheets if not signed with full signature were signed with the team name TQ6. (Team Qld 6) which included RoddyC, hatzofff, chamad, willis007, domsky, Echocage1.

TFTMystery Wiser than Owls

So it is 3 weeks before the Mega event. As I only started caching in July 2022, I had never heard of a Mega event, so I asked a seasoned Cacher about it, and she really encouraged me to go.
With just over a week before the big event, I was looking up what caches were in the area and found this series. ?? oh my, I spent every night and any spare moment I had trying to solve them before I arrived. I managed to solve all but 4 before I arrived, 2 the morning I got here and the last 2 I found someone who had done them to give me a hint... at last, they were all solved! Now to collect.
I headed out this morning keen to get the whole series done in a day. I met some fellow cachers in my travels and did a stretch with tis13 and slowdog. Met others and did some with them, too. In the end, I had 51 finds and 1 very sad DNF. The stretch along Eggleston Road was too soggy for my little car, so I completed those ones on foot.
All the caches found were in great condition... and most were quick and easy.
TFTC, helping me further develop my caching and puzzle solving skills and the adventure!

Found out and about on the 2023 trip for the Rutherglen Mega. A massive fun experience with endeavour3, joojoo57, Richmond Lad and deanside (JALEAR) Thanks to Wiser than Owls and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^]

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SA’s Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. Keep looking up!

Found with and signed as BLAST FD. Grabbed a few of the BBP this afternoon before the dinner event. Fun finds and fun puzzles in nice Victorian countryside, TFTC Wiser than Owls!