HMAS #47: MELVILLE North West Rural Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By Cankid on 10-Mar-14. Waypoint GC4V3VM

Missed all of this series when it was around. So grabbed one of the remainibg ones this morning. Enjoying the walk! Tftc!

In line with the ret of this series, I am archiving it as suburbs encroach on most of the area, thus freeing up remaining areas for new caches.

Met up with Touchstone for a walk through the arboretum and a couple of cache grabs.

I've joined Genghicat for a walk through the Arboretum this afternoon. My heart breaks to see the land clearing and development happening. It was so nice to explore all that area when I first arrived in Canberra. Makes me wish I had the money to buy it all up and donate it to the arboretum. Sad.
The cache was found quickly by Genghicat, who decided to have a jog while I took it easy and in good condition.
Tftc

TNLN
Thanks for the cache. I look forward to completing your series by bike as you recommended.

Found it

Nice walk, safe spot to meander around. TFTC.

Found during HMAS Pickup event. Thanks for maintaining this series for so long. It's a shame it had to end but all good things do :>

Thank you for letting us log the caches at the event Smittengranny
I had the chance to do the caches 80 to 90 a few 50ies and a 20 with Fred yesterday. This was a nice series.
Would have liked to do the others as well but couldn’t because I had a sour leg.
Thank you for putting out the cache Cankid

Dino

I was devastated when Angel27 told me that the series will be gone by the end of the week! Horror!
I was overseas when the came out looking forward to do them ever since. Even though we have been back some weeks now I had left them as they are the perfect opportunity to go nearby with the dog and the entire family. So I was waiting for the right opportunity to come here for a nicely planned dayhike or two. (Not realizing that their days were ending of course).

So since this is final opportunity to take on the HMAS series before it's archived I am making a late effort now.
This is the second day effort, this time an early start, important as I was taking on the northern side today.

Found this on at 11:09

TFTC Smittengranny and Cankid, shame that they will be archived.

My final opportunity to take on the HMAS series before it's archived. Need to get through 20 traditionals in the northern section this cold morning, plus 3 stragglers in the south.

TFTC Smittengranny and Cankid

Last one. Not much sun left Have enjoyed my cycle around this part of the series today - despite having to jump several fences and gates
I doubt I’ll get time to come back before the series is archived
TFTC Smittengranny

Conviently slim Geoteen. Phew!!

Found on our hunt to clear out some HMAS. With botmun and Minniek. Great day for it. So glad we started uphill!

Headed out with nibletricecakes & B0tmun in the hopes of collecting the rest of this series....well for me atleast. We managed to do it.....just. The sun was just setting as we finished but still had to walk out from #12 to the road. Thankfully we had a car waiting to collect us. Legs definitely sore by the end. The puzzles will have to wait for another day.

Easy!

Thanks, nice one, last for today.

This was a very nice walk which took me most of the day. I didn't have time to do the whole walk but got the majority of it done. Most of the finds were easy apart from a handful which took a few minutes to spot, plus 1 DNF. The weather was nice and sunny but not too hot. The walk took about 8 and a half hours including a few stops for drink and snacks along the way. Thanks for setting the series and a more detailed log at No. 1. TFTC.

Nice quick grab in an afternoon to clear up the last smilies in this series before it is archived. Easy find in a lovey sunny spot. Number 11 for day!! Tftc

I tagged along while AngelG27 finally finished off this series. I now want to finish this series as well... I'm going to have to hurry though... just found out I've got a month before they are all archived!!! We pretty much picked up the walk and conversation where we left off from yesterday. Again lots of laughs and our gate climbing had improved... but thankfully no barbwire today! AngelG27's last one for the series. But the best views yet... a full 180 degree!. Thanks

Cache 3761 on 26 Apr 2018

My friend HappyUke came down to visit during the school holidays and grab a few caches. I have been meaning to grab the last of these caches for a while and this was a perfect chance to get out and take a wander! Unless otherwise indicated, caches were found easily and in line with the hint.

Last trad of the series - whoot. And a great view!

Thanks Smittengranny for the cache and the fun!

Easy find with kralcm. Thanks.

First one we found from this series. We started on foot from Dairy Farmers Hill. TFTC.

Found at 1311 - a nice easy find as the cache was extremely visible on approach. All was in good order, I signed the log & tried to replace the cache in a way that was a little less conspicuous.

I decided to end today's run here, as I was fairly confident that I had the points necessary to claim the final Planetary Pursuit souvenirs, and was in a good position to make the slow meander back to the car. Then I realised that the best route back would also take me past a couple more...

Thanks for the cache Cankid / DRT / Smittengranny.

Thanks for the journey

Found with mistysoho thanks for the cache

Yay! Beautiful day. Great walk from the arboretum. Thanks!

Tftc! A top location in a great series. Day 6 of working this patch

Found with Jaybeem. Tftc

Finally got to finishing the HMAS series with Runner5ive. The other Zombros did not join us this time. 27km and 65 caches later we had this all knocked off. A fair bit of backtracking through the first half due to some bad navigation. Sorry for the generic log but it has been a big day. Thanks for maintaining and looking after all of these.

Finished the HMAS series (traditionals only for now) with aramil. Also did some incidental nearby ones. 65 caches in one day, and not a single DNF! It certainly helps having two pairs of eyes. Thank you to the series creator and the current series custodian, sorry for generic logs, CIH TNLNSL TFTC

8 of 30 today.

With an indeterminate time between my old and new jobs.. I've taken the oppurtunity to just treat every day like it's my last day of leave.. so with that, I've come down here to finish up the HMAS series.

Started today's run by going off the back side to collect the unfound caches in this series west of the arboretum

From there, I headed down along the molongolo back towards coppins crossing (where I had stopped my run some years ago!). Turned around to collect a tankengine cache, then headed back and scooped up the rest along here.

With only 1 DNF, I was stoked to have to have over half the caches done here!

TFTC CanKid, SmittenGranny & DRT!

2 of 21 finds on a 14km walk/run around the forest, river and lake...TFTC!

### A beautiful sunny day ###

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I have already planed the walk of the HMAS series.
It was beautiful weather so I’ve started this tour with enough food/drinks to keep me going.
I’ve met many cows along the way and was happy about the tranquillity and the nice caches along the way.
I was able to find all caches and bonus numbers despite the heat of 40 degrees on that day.
I’ve watched many kangaroos in the afternoon and a big echidna.

I got back to the car after 10 hours of walking 38km. I’ve had a nice day and I was happy to convert all the caches into smileys.
Thank you for this nice tour.

Team sissifalke

I will look for the bonus numbers tomorrow.

tftc

Found at 2:02:00 PM

Headed out today to find a slew of HMAS series caches with ZimbaW, Joolay and JM383. Some cache maintenance was done and clue collected. 15.5 kms all up, so it was good exercise too.

Thanks Smittengranny

Geocaching today with Joolay, ZimbaW and Noikmeister. Final cache for the day. By my calculations, that’s 52 for the day. Good to have this one signed. Thanks to the team! Now to get to the cafe before it closes!

The bike ride from Tuggeranong finished at the National Arboretum this morning so I took the opportunity to seek out some geocaches around the Arboretum on the way home. The tally was seven, with two getting the better of me! This cache was a straightforward find, being more or less on the coordinates. Thank you smittengranny for maintaining this cache.

Found with 2N's. TFTC

Tnln. HOTA

Spent the day caching with Geo Daughter Crash1970. SL TFTC

This is our fourth trip to the northern island this year. The first three were primarily for family events but with some opportunities to do some caching along the way. The fourth trip is different as caching is our focus. After getting off The Spirit of Tasmania we are heading north to cache at Wangaratta and then Yass before heading into the ACT and Queanbeyan for a week. After that we will travel to Jindabyne for a few days with summiting Mount Kosciuszko being our main target for this part of our trip. Then we will visit Cooma and Tumut before heading back down the track through Wangaratta and Mansfield as we make our way to Alexandra for the MEGA. After the weekend we will continue to make our way south and back onto the Spirit of Tasmania for the “drive” across Bass Strait. We are really looking forward to three weeks of intense caching in great areas and, hopefully, catching up with some geocachers in each of the areas we will visit.

We have been working on the Canberra Mapping Challenge (GC5KB4J) for some time, taking the opportunity of reducing the number of suburbs still required every time we come through Canberra. On Sunday and Monday we concentrated on nine of the ten suburbs where we still had to find at least one cache. We waited 24 hours before the Project-GC Challenge checker confirmed that we had satisfied the requirements for another nine suburbs, leaving just one to go (Forrest). We will try to meet that requirement tomorrow. Today we had a different focus. We spent the morning on the HMAS series of caches in the Weston Creek area. In the afternoon we looked for some GCA caches and any other caches that were in the areas we were visiting. Thankfully the weather was much better than yesterday.

This morning we divided the caching between us. Mrs y’stassie started at “GC4V3TF HMAS 01: ANZAC” and after parking the car at Dairy Hill in the National Arboretum, Mr y’stassie walked to “GC56YK2 HMAS 44: SIRIUS” and started looking caches from there. Accurate coordinates and a familiar style of hide led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Cankid for the cache and the series.

***** We are currently writing detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC. "The Author" Badge challenges geocachers to average one hundred words or more in each log. On 1 September 2017 our average was 86 which seems close to the 100 target. However given that we have found so many GC caches, we have to write many logs with well over 100 words for a long period of time to get our average to the target. Apologies to anyone who finds the logs tedious but it is the only way that we can strive to attain this challenge. After 228 caches (which includes all cache finds up and including yesterday), the average log length is just over 91.65. Progress is being made but there is still a long way before we achieve our goal.*****

Found with LittleSparr0w. TFTC

TFTC

Out for a day walk with the geo-hound and geokids Jnr and picking up some caches along the way!

TFTC!

Spent the afternoon doing one of the major loops of the HMAS series... I think after todays effort I only have about 4 left to do and the bonus ones of course, which I unfortunately only have coords for 6. I guess the others have been rplaced over the last few years, god knows I have seen a few cow smashed ones. Sorry for the generic log... I have about 30 something to log

Twenty third for the day

1st of 13 for the day. I have been taking the pup for walks at the arboretum lately so finally decided to grab some of these caches. Will be back for more another time.

TFTC!

Out with ss1, youban, dty73, Aq and went out to do these series. Found with poo on top TFTC

Out with dty73, Addictedgamer, Aquilus1 & ShadowStorm1 for a caching day. The wind is still blowing & being a nuisance. Kutgw

Out on a cache run with Aquilus1, Youban, SS1 and AddG. Quick find in a not so straightforward hide - under poo. Tftc!!!

With dty73, Youban, Shadowstorm1 and AddictedGamer todays trip was to finish off the series for myself and dty73. Nobody wanted to go in to find this one with its added camo!

Found with Aquilus1, AddictedGamer, dty73 and youban. Went out to do some caches and luckily I now have my own account so I can get out and see some more places. I really liked seeing the Black cockatoos today, there were so many here.

TFTC

On the way to 8000 finds... only about 300 to go!
I have a plan to find my 8000th cache on the 29th of July, in two weeks time. So I have a lot to find before then. So I planned a couple of weekend trips to Canberra of intense caching. Today the HMAS series was the target! I brought my bike with me as suggested... but when I started this morning at 8AM it was minus 4 degrees! Frost covering everything and ice on my car windows and bike. On top of that all the layers of warm clothing made it a bit difficult to move freely so I decided to go by foot.
By the end of the 8th hour I found the last cache, and had another hour walk back to the car. In the end I walked 30Km for 8 hours 50 min and found 99 caches in the area ( a few of the HMAS caches were offline and 1 DNF). Followed by a nice 3 hour drive home!
I'm still short of my goal so I'll probably come back down again next weekend.
Thanks for all the caches!

This cache was a bit conspicuous. It is now covered with some strategically place cow pads!

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See attached photo

Made a start on the trail on a glorious autumn day with Maris4, geo-Lagotto and muggle friend. Thanks

TFTC W T H S J O N

Great

I came here on bicycle to find most of the remaining caches in this series. A quick find here. I signed GW for this cache. TFTC Smittengranny.

Got it thank you!! Loving the walk and adventure

We enjoyed the location - we took the long walk and found this cache.. Thanks to Smittengranny for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Easy find with Trodectus. We are doing these only one a day as a way to enjoy the arboretum and get some aerobic exercise.
Thanks to Smittengranny for taking over this series.

Found with Decrypter. We went for a walk in the arboretum and this was the closest cache to where we parked. We walked down the hill and down through the pine trees and eventually reached GZ. We soon had CIH. Lots of grasshoppers and locusts bounded around. We also noticed spider holes in the ground, but we couldn't coax the occupant all the way out. TFTC

Felt like another walk today, decided to park inside (seeing I had time to wander for an hour or 4 and not get locked in ... actually was there until half an hour before I had to head out - I ended up also spending half an hour hiding a cache right beside where I had parked
Looked for 9, found 9 (including one I had looked for, and not found in the half dark, back in November
TFTC - first of 9 ... Thought I might be on the wrong side, but I wasn't ... and it didn't really matter ... lol

Starting in the middle. TFTC TNLN

First cache in a while

Neat hide for my last of a long afternoon.... oops, left my phone behind...
had to make another 'find', tftc

Thanks

TFTC

Last one today ... no muggles, we're off the main track. This one isn't uncovered - the wind isn't blowing that camo away. Thanks for the caches, SmittenGranny. Great walk, and fun with the puppies. Lots of people talked to us ... cute puppies.

We finished the lower half of the HMAS series a few weeks ago, so came back today to complete the rest! We started around 7am, finished at about 4:30pm, and found 64 caches, including the HMAS puzzles, and some nearby unrelated caches. Some VERY sore feet today (and one exhausted Woofer!) but we had a lot of fun and enjoyed seeing the views. We left something behind in every one. TFTC Smittengranny - it was a great series!!

A quick find, then onto the next one!

Tftc!

Our current visit to Australia had been in the planning for over a year with the very significant help and advice from friends who live in Melbourne. The original plan was for a 2 month visit, but as things progressed we just couldn't help extending our trip to the full 90 days allowed on our visas - after all it's a big country and so much to see and do, especially with our favourite pastimes being birding, hiking and of course geocaching! Our journey started with our arrival in Perth before travelling on to Adelaide. We then continued on to Kangaroo Island, before heading to Melbourne via Goolwa, Strathalbyn, Coorong, Mount Gambier, Cape Bridgewater, the Grampians National Park, Port Campbell, Cape Otway and Lorne. The second leg of our journey was a fabulous 9 days in Tasmania. Having returned to Melbourne we then set off on the third leg of our journey, which is to Sydney via Wilson’s Promontory, Lakes Entrance, Mallacoota, Pambula Beach, Thredbo, Canberra (where we are at present) and Fitzroy Falls. We then travel on to the Gold Coast and the nearby mountainous birding hotspots before flying from Brisbane to Cairns for a week in the area. We then fly to Alice Springs for a week on the circuit to and from Kings Canyon and Ayers Rock before flying to Darwin from where we will spend the last two weeks of our holiday making our way to Broome before flying back to Perth, from where we connect with the flight all the way back home to Zimbabwe via South Africa. We already know we can't wait to return!

We had our sights on this series months before we arrived in Australia, but we only had one opportunity to undertake the trail, and so when the day finally arrived and we woke to pouring rain we were not going to be put off - and so following on from a large breakfast to avoid the need for lunch we arrived at the parking spot, donned our waterproofs, crossed the road and found the gate locked! - but we were definitely not going to be deterred at this stage, and so we climbed over the gate and started what turned out to be a MEGA hike. We managed to complete the entire trail, covering a total of just over 32.9 kilometres in 11.5 hours, although it felt like much more as the rain didn't let up even for one minute during the entire day, so making the track very muddy and slippery so that it often felt as though we were walking on ice, slipping and sliding frequently. The last few caches we searched for by torchlight - and then for the hardest part of the day - the LONG walk back to our hire car, as the last cache was nowhere near the start point! Along the way we saw many kangaroos, lots of cows and a good number of birds including two 'lifers' for us - the best bit of all was we didn't see a single other person in the entire hike - this place is definitely a cachers paradise and very muggle free - we had a great day! When we had crossed the nearby road ford early in the morning the river was just a small babbling brook, winding through the boulders way below the road level, but when we crossed back in the evening the river was just below the level of the road! Being dedicated geocachers we then went on to find 3 more caches on the way back to our hotel to make up for the 4 DNF's of the trail, as we wanted one of our days in Australia to include at least 100 finds. Thanks also to the CO for the massive amount of information provided throughout the trail.

A nice quick find at Ground Zero after climbing over the gate. Thanks so much for the cache.

After yesterdays rain and a cold frosty morning a clear day was the time to finish the HMAS series TFTC Smittengranny and Cankid

TFTC out with MGROCKS for the day on our push bikes, bloody cold out here after a -2 degree morning.

Found with J![m]^^'/!

2 for the day, found with Danryn!

I had to be in Canberra for other purposes this morning, but given I didn't have to be anywhere else until the evening, I decided to bring my bike along and try for a few more in this series. I came in via the Arboretum and was able to park near my first target cache then set out on bike. It was very windy again and this time I saw lots of other people, unlike last time when I didn't see anyone apart from some distant workers. Two mountain bikers, a walker and two people on horseback, as well as various maintenance or land care workers. Anyway, between about noon and 3:30 I picked up 40 in this area, then another 5 on the way home. So that was pretty good for a flying visit. Thanks again for this series and the interesting theme.

As for this specific cache: I had missed #47 and #46 on my earlier visit so drove around here to tick them off this time. It took a few twists and turns to get here but I soon spotted the interesting camo. The logbook is a little damp but still usable. TFTC!

First from the serie for me. Unfortunately no time for more

Having spent the past few days in the alpine area I returned to Canberra to grab a few caches. This series was my target and under clear skies today I set off on the bike to bag a plethora caches.
Starting down near the RSPCA I was nerved to find pockets of smoke coming from various parts the series…. It appears hazard reduction season is well underway.

After 8hrs in the saddle I had found all the caches. Thanks for putting this series together. I actually learnt a bit about our naval history and explored a nice part of Canberra. Sorry for the duplicate logs.

Find 8 of 12 for the afternoon. TFTC

A quick lunchtime find, just 170m from where I am working today! Thanks, Cankud and Smittengranny.

TFTC

Out for a pleasant day on the trail with teamwhitedoggang, this is such a great area for a ride. Perfect weather for it, and we made good time around the park. Gave my legs a good workout, and they were about ready to drop off by the end of it all. I think we may have just missed a couple of other cachers out today, with some other logs for today in some of the logbooks.

TNLN - Thanks Smittengranny and Cankid!

Found this cache when out for a cycle around the Arboretum area bike trails with Winterdragon.
Beautiful day, kicked off at 7.15 & wrapped up about 2.15 with 60 finds in total.
Nice spot, thanks for bringing us here
Thanks for the hunt Smittengranny

#8050 Found and Logged at 10:28:00 AM
One of 41 caches for the day 34 HMAS series and 6 Majora Cycleway while in canberra for the week
A great day to be out in the great outdoors geocaching
Thanks for the series Smittengranny

Decided to give the HMAS series (and a few others close by) a go. Headed out early, met MJW1 at the car park. With bikes at the ready off we went. The goal, to complete as many as we could (had 100 in mind originally, but it was probably also going to be a little too many). A cloudy day to start, but as the afternoon went on, the sun made an appearance, which made it a comfortable ride. A few muggles riding and jogging along the tracks but didn't meet any fellow geocaches. A great day was had, thanks MJW1, we'll finish the remainder soon. 71 finds and 4 DNFs (3 of them already logged). TNLNSL TFTC

Found 4:36 pm with LuckyL10n. We had just completed an earlier HMAS cache and then by pedal power headed over to this cache. After a quick search it was found and shortly after we had the log signed and cache re-hidden.
Thanks for the cache.

#4253 - 16:36; With MrDamage headed north for the winter, we decided that today would be a good chance to knock over a large part of the HMAS trail which we had yet to conquer. We had already logged 40 of 101 caches in the series, leaving another 61 on the 'to do' list. Fifty three of the remainder seemed doable today, but a couple of recent DNFs cast some doubt on that possibility. As it turned out we collected 51 caches, with 2 DNFs (as anticipated) and collected the coords for the remainder, following a couple of other cachers around for much of the journey, although we didn't actually catch up. It was dark by the time we gathered our last few finds and a rather slower cycle back to the geomobile in the absence of moonlight for assistance. TFTC Cankid and Smittengranny and apologies for the cut and paste logs!

A terrific day of geocaching in the company of the most excellent IamCoust. Our aim was to knock off the HMAS series, perhaps with a couple of extras in the way, using our trusty bikes to speed through the twisting forest trails.

While the goal of 100 caches for the day was feasible, it would have required a bit more emphasis on achieving the target and a bit less on achieving a really enjoyable outing with some great chats on the way. As it was, we covered 22 odd kilometres, found 71 caches (and recorded 4 DNFs - 3 of which had been DNFed by a few recent searchers) and had the aforementioned really enjoyable outing. Even allowing for the less than enjoyable blackberries.

Apologies for the generic logs. IamCoust was rather more organised and methodical than myself and made notes on the way, so his entries might have some more details. Sincere TFTCs to those who placed and subsequently maintained these caches.

Out for a huge day caching with The Storm Man, with the goal of breaking his best-day-of-caching record by getting 200 caches. Not the easiest thing to do in the ACT, but we were up for the challenge.

We got up at 5am and drove out to the HMAS trail. With only a few DNFs and most of the puzzle caches found we were able to complete this series on bike by 1pm, then it was off for a quick lunch break before hitting the new CTF trail by car all the way to Captains Flat. We bumped into many different caching groups heading the other way coming back from the day's event. Only 1 DNF on this series and even some time for a few local caches.

We left Captains Flat at 8:30pm knowing we were sitting roughly on 180 caches, we still needed about 20 more to get across the line, and the sun had well and truly gone.

As we drove back I looked through the maps to see what we could manage doing and decided on a night time walk through the Kowen Pine Forest. So at 9:00pm armed with our head torches and iPhones we began our walk through the Cache Constellation Trail. Very still and pleasant this time of night, with only 1 DNF we got back to the car at 11:15pm. Enough time to pick up a few single traditionals around Queanbeyan before midnight just to make sure we were well and truely over the 200 mark.

All in all a huge yet fantastic day.

Thanks StormMan for the fun and thanks to all the geocachers who placed these caches for us to find today. (Sorry for generic log.)

Joelisa was coming up to visit and do some caching and left it up to me to figure out what we would do. Decided to try and crack 200 for caches in a day and after talking to some friends figured the HMAS series would be a good place to start. Armed with camelbacks, head torches, snacks and bikes, Joelisa and I started the trail at 6am (still dark). We finished the trail at 1pm with only 2 trad DNF's, 1 puzzle DNF and 3 other puzzles that we didn't find the coords too, probably because we forgot to look for them. Loved this trail. It wasn't too hard to ride and was really tight so made for some quick finds. Thanks for creating it CanKid and for maintaining it Smittengranny.

Once we had had a quick lunch break it was off to the newly created Captains Flat Trail. Bumped into some other cachers as we made our way through this trail. Very nice to meet you all. Only one DNF on this one, although some took longer to find than others. At the end of this trail we continued on into Captains Flat town where we found a few more before heading back into Queanbeyan.

We still needed more caches and needed them to be close to each other. Joelisa made the call to go for a night cache of the Kowen Constellation Trail. By this point I was getting weary and was sceptical about this idea but went along with him anyway. Turns out it was a lot quicker than I thought and the walk was so easy.

We had about 45mins left before midnight so we made a dash for a few more finds in Queanbeyan just to top the day off. Don't know what the final count is but after a quick review of the day we knew we cracked 200.

Thanks to everyone who created all these caches and for the cool places it took us. Thanks Joelisa for keeping me going when I was close to giving up.

Hot, grumpy day of caching, first find on this fantastic series! Look forward to returning to find them all! TFTC

TFTC

#220
Find 2 of 6 today in this area with Slothlover123, SupermanTN and Cachingbeyonce. Due to the heat we only grabbed 5 from this series but I look forward to returning and nabbing the rest!
TFTC

On our first visit to Canberra we thought we'd try some of the HMAS series. After 23 finds the heat got the better of us. Many thanks to Smittengranny for all the effort of placing and maintaining the series. FP for our first.

#1014. 67 days in a row.

I went for a wander around the Arboretum for a couple of hours while it was still light. Picked up a few of the HMAS series and a separate puzzle cache before heading back to my car. I had lots of "fun" making my way up and down steep slopes, crossing blackberry patches and passing fences lined with barbed wire. After a few battle wounds and ten finds in this area (eleven for the day) I decided to call it a day for caching.

A trip to Canberra - our main target was to do the HMAS series and a few puzzles we solved.

The day was quite warm, but we carried plenty of water and made our way around the first section.
We found 49 of the 50, but number 12 was a DNF for us after looking for half an hour.

Many thanks for placing this series of caches, Smittengranny, for us and others to find.

After a long, long break since my last GC it's nice to have my first find in quite some time found in a beautiful location. Thanks.