Non-Fiction Belconnen, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By Eynowd on 04-Sep-06. Waypoint GCY4CC

I have had various small attempts at this puzzle before, and the South coordinates have never seem to be a problem and were solved pretty quickly but I have always had some trouble working out the East coords!

I had another look at this puzzle 2 weeks ago and had the same problem but then decided to take my research a little bit further and dig a bit deeper and I eventually found something that looked quite promising! I put the coords into the maps and it looked like a strange, but do-able spot!

I have had the coordinates saved into my phone and have been waiting for a good time to come find this cache given it is one of the close puzzles to home that I have finally managed to solve. Today I had to drop someone off in Belconnen and it was a perfect time to swing by GZ.

I found the cache quickly however and was expecting it to be in bad condition because I had read previous logs but didn't realise it was now archived! I went to bring up the actual cache page on my phone to add a note to it but couldn't find it. I then tracked down the page and realised it was archived, must of been archived literally days after I solved it! What a bad coincidence! So I have now removed the cache from GZ for the owner as it is cache trash. Will post the final photo of the cache and its scrubby contents for sentimental reasons, before disposing of it!

TFTC Eynowd, disappointing to see a cache from 2006 archived I'm sure we could have replaced it for you but oh well I guess it has had a good run! I have another one of your puzzles solved that is in the city too so hopefully that one remains active!

I worked out the solution before this was archived and went there to-day for a quick find. Alas the log was too wet too sign. Came home to-day and noticed it had been archived. TFTC.

It's time to retire this one. Thanks to all who found it.

Found with epzccc131. Cache damaged

Container damaged, needs replacing. Log soggy

Container needs repair and log book soggy.
Found with lay

In town for a short visit so headed out for a cache. This one had been in the solved pile for a while. A likely spot was noted and a poor condition cache as the other logs explain was found with the whole lid broken in. The log book was signable. TFTC.

Found with everything in it, but without a lid, in the open and 25m away from the coordinates. Possibly the wotk of muggles. Needs maintainence.

Off to Canberra from Bendigo to celebrate Grandma's 80th birthday. Not a lot of time for caching but we were keen to pick up some long solved puzzles. The cache really does seem some attention but the puzzle was a bit of fun.

There are lots of great caches in the area so thank you Eynowd

A fun puzzle with a simple hunt. Tftc!

Cache severely needs maintenance!

TFTC
Cache needs repairing.

Cach container lid is broken in two, log books wet/damp and needs replacement. Container is now inhabited by a number of creepy crawlies that are making this into their permanent home.

Sunday 23 October 2016 - a glorious crisp sunny Spring morning perfect to ride my bike around Canberra Uni. While off to resolve the mystery Poetry coordinates I took the opportunity this morning to pick up this cache thanks to Mr Windy who assisted to finalised these coords during the previous week. This cache is in urgent need of repair. TFTC Eynowd

Had worked this one out a while ago, and today had the opportunity to find it. The log is still very wet and had to write on. TFTC.

I had one attempt to solve this ages ago, but a quick search only found half of what I wanted, so I moved on to other things ... this afternoon I was at a sewing day, then heading from there to an art exhibition opening right near the "?" On the map, and had a spare 3/4 of an hour - so I decided to have another quick google search before I left where I was to drive to where I was going ... and this time I must have searched better because I found both books, rather than just one ... then a bit more searching found me some results with the right information on the page ... which just gave me time to drive via where I had worked out GZ was and have a look
This was almost a drive by - lol - I parked behind the trailer half of a semi trailer, and ducked down and found the cache right where I had worked out it should be - and it was in the first place I looked ... Also found a rather cool (actually the poor thing looked downright cold - lol) huntsman under the bark, huddled up on the bottom of the upside down cache, and there was a small redback inside ... was also a lot of water inside, and almost everything in there is wet/rusty/yucky ... lid is still totally non-functional (falling to bits) and despite the cache sitting upside down everything, including the log book, was totally saturated (although my pen actually still sort of wrote on it ok
TFTC - good to finally come and find this one, and perfect for my daily find ... and the spiders were a bonus - yes, I actually like spiders

#6463 @1610
I solved this during a break at work, in anticipation of being in the area today. I found the cache easily. It was full of water as the lid had completely disintegrated. The log was saturated but I managed to sign the log. I left it upside down to hopefully dry out. TFTC.

The cache is in a very sad state - the plastic has become brittle with age and the lid has collapsed in. I've re-covered it with bark as I'd found it, which will hopefully keep the worst of the rain out, but it really needs a new container.

After extensive reading of the reference documents, I could rewrite Miles Franklin novels in C++ using the standard libraries. This is a useful skill, but didn't get me any closer to finding the cache. So I used another method and out fell the coordinates.

Thanks Eynowd!

Had a bit of concern with our coords since I came up with a couple of different answers for the easterlys. In the end, my best guess turned out to be correct as the cache was instantly spotted at GZ. A nice quick stop for the evening. Thanks Eynowd

Did not have the fairy tale ending ... Maybe not correct GZ, so is a serial edition .... to be continued.......

Cache finally found! After several missteps and fruitless searching, a tip off by the CO had me heading in the right direction. Added my birthday to the well-out-of-date diary TFTC, that was a long time coming!

Afternoon of cache collecting with Trodectus. TFTC

I'd worked this one out sometime ago, so this afternoon I went out with Coybear2000 to find it. Ants were a problem, but otherwise an easy find. TFTC

Quick Find with Goldenwattle. Thanks to Trodectus.
Thanks For the Cache Eynowd

Found with Decrypter's help with the puzzle. TFTC Eynowd.

Today I had originally planned to go and have a look at "Poetry" puzzle however on arrival it was swarming with muggles and all the parking was boom gate parking so I decided I would give this one a crack instead. I have had this one sitting on my solved/unfound list for a while now so time to make the find.

I enjoyed working out this puzzle and thankfully it wasn't too hard

Found a nice parking location and wandered over to GZ to make a nice quick find. Log signed and gave this one its first bit of love for 2015

Thanks for the interesting puzzle and cache placement Eynowd

I am trying my hand at some more puzzles, and have a fair few now in my solved but not found list! I solved this one last night as I am looking to fill a hole in my D/T grid and this one fits the bill! After checking with the CO that my coords were good, I meandered to the GZ tonight to make the find. There were a few muggles parked nearby, but they did not seem at all interested in my brief excursion out of the car, so a super quick find at the GZ. This also extends my daily cache streak to #107 - pretty happy with this for a newbie still! TFTC Eynowd!

I had solved the puzzle for this one quite a while ago but hadn't had a chance to grab the cache until today. Parked close by to GZ and then I made the short enough walk over to GZ to make a quick find. Log signed and cache replaced. TFTC Eynowd!

My third find for the morning. Found with little problem, but had to be careful handling the cache due to the black spider living on the side of it. TFTC Eynowd!

What a gorgeous day to be out and caching with Dragon1982... Good homework with friend help me... Thank

Accompanied with all7 for the day, we enjoyed drive and find cache. Signed the log. Thank you Eynowd

Found 7:41 pm, Yahoo!!. This was second location I came up with the first some time back was good in terms of situation but no cache. Had contact with CO who confirmed I was off track so back to drawing board or should I say library references. Came up with this plausible location still a bit uncertain but yippee it was here and the coords were more or less spot on and the find was easy. Surprising was the 2023 diary still there and no one had made use of it. This find also enables me to keep a streak going now on 49. TFTC

In Canberra to play in the National Canoe Polo Championships. Between games we thought we would grab a few caches. Solved this before we left and made sure we grabbed it while we were here. TFTC

EsromL and I were in Canberra for the National Canoe Polo Championships at Lake Burley Griffin over Easter and managed to squeeze in a few cache finds. A quick find. Thanks Eynowd for the cache.

Took a bit of searching to figure out the second coordinates. Cache is protected by lots of ants. TFTC!

Interesting puzzle. LuckyL10n solved it and snapdragon92 and I went along for the find. Nice spot. Thanks for a gimme from LuckyL10n. TFTC.

Thanks to Lucky L10n

#1221 - 11:15; Had a quick look at this one last night as a possibility as I knew I would be in the general area this morning. Identified what looked to be one of the solutions reasonably quickly, but the other took a little more time before I could produce something which look like a set of viable coords. Plugged the numbers in and was pleased to see a viable looking GZ. Headed off to the morning meeting and took a short walk with mastahdemoli and snapdragon92 to where we hoped was GZ. Took a look up from the iPhone and spotted the hide. A pleasing result and after log signing duties had been completed and the cache returned to its hide, we headed back to the office for more of the usual daily grind. TFTC Eynowd

Today was the first full day of caching in Canberra on this trip. Over the last few months we have been attempting a number of puzzles in preparation for our visit to the ACT. Today we started to look for some of the puzzle caches and this was one of them. We were pleased that research at home resulted in us having a plausible set of coordinates. Today we went to look for the cache and accurate coordinates led to a quick find. The cache and it's contents were on good condition, TFTC Eynowd

# 6789 Found on another cool Spring day for another trip around the area.
Another clear but cloudy day and no muggles around here today.
Another good puzzle cache and a quick find once at GZ. TN LN SL.
Thanks for the cache Eynowd,
Roostaman.

2013-08-26 0231 Liked the concept behind this one. Liked the cache location too. Passed some lazy roos on the way. Tks Eynowd.

One quick bit of research plus another that took a little more digging and I had some plausible numbers. Parked about as close as possible for a nice, quick find. Thanks Enowd.

I worked out this nifty puzzle this morning but wasn't sure I had the coords right. I thought I would give it a go and was so pleased when I found the cache. Great puzzle, nice hide. This one gets a favourite point! I picked up the Cowbell TB and left a pocked diary for 2013 - hopefully someone will pick this up soon and find it useful. TFTC Eynowd!

Required research completed, cache easily found. TFTC

Research done by Justjessie, I just came along for the ride. Dropped in a trackable.

Solved this one a while ago. Love the idea. QF at GZ.

TFTC Eynowd

Searched for about an hour for the south coordinates, there was no book in the catalogue that me nor the librarian could find. I checked the national library but not sure if they use the same system for call numbers or not....

Nice puzzle and an easy find once I knew how to get in closer without being on a main road. This was fun. Note no TB in this cache perhaps it should be logged as missing? TFTC

After having played two games of softball on Saturday, FurfacesLL No 1 needed a walk and stretch to get the soreness out the muscles. Good excuse to collect some off our puzzle list. Nice short walks on a nice spring afternoon. TFTC and the puzzle

1395. I had a look at this one last night on the computer, found some numbers and added to my notes " need to check S** **.*** E *** **.***". So the this morning on the way to work I called in for a check. I was more than happy to find a container with a log book to sign.
Thanks Eynowd for a neat puzzle and a cache that was in the correct spot.

I enjoyed this mystery cache. Before I found the cache, I was very unsure about the correct longitude. Therefore I was even more excited when I found it.

Had solved the puzzle on a visit at the given coordinates last weekend. Had tried to solve it remotely but I somehow couldn't determine all the requirements.
Made GZ tonight while on an errand in the area.
An excellent concept, really enjoyed it. Hope you didn't have read these texts as part of your study, Eynowd! TFTC.

This entry was edited by MajuraHathi on Thursday, 10 May 2012 at 11:58:18 UTC.

The puzzle was clever, though easily solved.
On a lunch break on my work visit to Canberra, I walked through an area where I used to ride when
I lived here in the 90s.
The cache was easy to find, but had no pen, and neither did I, so
I scratched my log entry into the book with a stick and some dirt.
Thanks.

Once the frost had thawed we headed out for a day of caching. Marco had solved this one beforehand with the help of Google, so we had the required co-ordinates. This was a nice quick find. TNLNSL TFTC

TFTC

Found The Cache
Good Hide
took some little rubbers
left some colored marbles

I did the hard mind-work during a previous visit to Canberra before Christmas. This visit I got to do the hard-yards in walking to GZ. I was quite surprised by some of the locals I met along the way (trying not to give too much away), and once I got to GZ the hiding spot was easy to find. I enjoyed researching the puzzle and the nice walk to the find, Thanks for much better way to spend a evening visiting the area.

8462 Completed our research and quietly located the nicely stocked Non-Fiction cache.

Many thanks Eynowd for a cool puzzle cache
Greetings from New Zealand, Cheers YuGeo4

Kids loved finding a geocache in the library. Librarians didn't know about it though!

Had a bit of trouble figuring out the C++ numbers, but a little persistence paid off.

TFTC.

A neat idea that I don't think I have seen before. The OPAC certainly made it easier! Thanks.

One for the geolibrarian, nice and quick

One for the geolibrarian, nice and quick

A quick find - but rather unpleasant approach, as the weather had turned freezing cold and it was drizzling and very windy. TFTC and puzzle!

Reperio at 0730.

Missed out on grabbing this one before I moved away from the ACT, so on a return trip this weekend, I was keen to cross it off the list. Stopped by first thing this morning, and the cache was soon found after parking nearby. Enjoyed the puzzle.

Gratias Eynowd.

Solved ages ago. So long ago that I don't even remember exactly how I solved it! Got to GZ after cycling up through the uni from Belconnen and thought I was looking for a micro for some reason and the spotted the suspicious pile. Off to the next one! Maybe that trig....

Greater the effort the greater the satisfaction. - TFTC the Sumorai team.

Strange that nobody's been here in the last few months. There was a spider under a leaf on the cache, possibly been there since the last time the cache was accessed in February. Sorry for peeling your home away, spider! (We now feel guilty.) Signed an otherwise blank logbook. The cache is in fine condition! TFTC

Ready to go again.

Replaced the old container and log book today (finally!) It should be good to go again now.

I'll take this one out of play until I can get in to replace the log and container.

This cache URGENTLY needs attention, the container is broken, the bag is also on its last legs and the log is full. The log and everything in this cache has gotten wet in the recent storms and a new container, bag and log are needed ASAP.

Our first puzzle cache! We enjoyed solving the problem on our lunch break and went to find the cache after work. Clever puzzle and a good spot for a cache. Please note that this cache needs URGENT attention, the container has hole in it and the bag also is disintegrating which resulted in the log being completely soaked In addition the log book is completely full and needs replacing.

A nice quick unknown. We noticed that the container had a crack in it, the log was damp and there was no trackables found. TFTC

Found it.
SL.....TNLN.....T4TC
troobloo

The shortest time between solving a puzzle and going and finding it....about 15 minutes. Usually I am very slack and they sit around for weeks and MONTHS before I do anything about them. Today must be my record. Very elegant solution too. TFTC!.

Hot, fruit trees, long grass, noisey, busy but empty, a road to no where but somewhere, Ok there is always time to see alot more then the path to GZ and back again. Enjoyed been so close yet far enough to see what else there is around us.
JABs.

Took a short search to identify the info needed for this one. With no muggles in the construction compound the hide was discovered. Be good when all the roadwork's are finished.

TFTC

Neat idea for a quick and artful puzzle, TFTC.

After my geopartner did all the work to find the coordinates we successfully found this catch. For me it was easy! TFTC.

Solved the puzzle yesterday but wasn't able to get to the cache until today. A short stroll through the long, wet, grass revealed the hiding place. Thanks for the intesting puzzle and TFTC.

Easy night find with justis (and easier as all the workers were in bed asleep) but like previously reported, only room on the back cover for a few more finds. TFTC

Found with o'cholio on nice arvo run. Looks safe enough for now but lots of nearby works are happening. TFTC

A puzzle solved so long ago I can't remember how it was done . Some workers set up nearby took notice as we found it with PuddleJumpers. TFTC.

A Sunday afternoon run to finish off some puzzle caches. Took keyrings, left HeroClix figures. The log is all but full, only some space left on the back page... TFTC!

Forgot to log this one, which I discovered back in June. TFTC

Found with The Rats on a 2 caching trip of canberra. Glad he did some research before going TFTC

#4211 Did this cache with Bega-Gang as part of a 2 day trek around Canberra. I'd managed to do some homework on this before we got to Canberra. Not sure if I was correct we headed to a possible GZ. After waiting for the construction workers to leave we were happy to come up with the goods.
Thanks

Seen some muggle activity in area, not sure if they saw it or not (as i was approching)... BTW i placed the highly addictive geocoin back in it cause itl probably be quicker for someone else to relocate it

Found easily (although led in a very meandering manner by Piglet). Had to dodge the Jack Jumper nests too! Nice puzzle, thanks Eynowd

A fairly easy puzzle to solve and a great little stroll to the cache location. The cache was found by piglet, or as he now wishes to be known, "red kitten". thanks for the cache.

Great, Easy Find logged my Visit.
By the way, There is no more room in the log

[This entry was edited by myarmy33 on Monday, March 29, 2010 at 6:46:28 PM.]

Another quick find and again thanks to P from PUDDLE GANG for helping me with this one. TFTC

Puddle senior and puddle wife out on this one (and very lucky to have her with me on caches these days!)

Yay, another puzzle I could solve! TFTC

Solved while at the library in the rain yesterday and collected after the rains today. Cachers need to take care - the ants here are very angry after the rains, I don't recommend the footwear we had (thongs & crocs). Full covered shoes are needed!! At least until the ants are in a better mood! swapped geo-coins
thanks for getting us off the couch.
ps only space in the log for one or two more entries.

An easy find while out and about. Very useful things those libraries indeed...TFTC!

Found while out on the bikes today and just a short walk while nodwar's mum kept an eye on the bikes - she's a little anxious about snake season. Did a little "lose the ants" dance after retrieving the cache. TFTC and quiz. BTW the log is filling up.

Ah, at last!. Finally a cache big enough for my last TB that I have been carting around for a while. TFTC

Forgot to drop off the TB.