ES #004 African Forest Elephant Bookham, New South Wales, Australia
By Rapidlywild & specimenX on 29-Jan-14. Waypoint GC54VXA

Cache checked no need for maintenance

Out doing some cache's In the aera. Cheers

OCW Ironbark and had the opportunity to visit the Endangered Species Power Trail.Until now I wasn't aware of these species being endangered.Thank you so much [SpecimenX](https://www.geocaching.com/p/?u=specimenX) & [Rapidlywild](https://www.geocaching.com/p/?u=Rapidlywild) for placing these caches and many thanks to [DARKSIDEDAN](https://www.geocaching.com/p/?id=11518384) for maintaining them.

Out for a look from Burrinjuck, so thought we would grab a few on this trail. Thanks for the placement.This one was off the main drag so had us guessing but a quick find ensued. TFTCIronbark

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No.4

Were beginning to give up on getting home early! The trail is too tempting! Thanks so much for all the time and effort. Family is having a blast!

Alot of time and effort was invested into placing this series and I am glad to see that so many people have enjoyed it. After being in play for 10 years, the ownership was trasnferred over to DSD to keep the trail alive, thanks DSD. Learnt alot of new things also during the creation of this series about all the different endangered animals, its sad really.

Catching up on some late logs after attending the Geobash Mega in Canberra. Starting to head home now over the next few days and picking some up along the way.Stopped of here and found after a short search.Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for placing the cache and doing the maintenance needed, so we can find this cache.

This series is the linchpin of my 200 in 24 hours challenge. I've wanted to get it for a while and decided it would work well as the basis to try and meet the 200 goal. Thanks for all the caches you place - it's a huge effort. I struggle to get out and maintain a few dozen.

Not sure how the previous finders found this cache as its clearly missing. Anyway replaced with new cache and logbook. Deep inside the log.

I found it

Very nice hide

Team Groodle found it. Next.

Stopped to stretch the legs and decided to grab a few caches. Nice drive through town and a short stroll. TFTC

Today it was time to return my daughters car to here in Geelong, so this means a long road trip with a few caches along the way. It was meant to be a pretty warm day at home, but my weather checks for my trip locations showed that it should be a nice day, which apart from getting pretty tired from a full day of driving, it certainly was. I have driven by this little town countless times over the last 50 years, and this was now an opportunity to finally take the detour into here for the first time!I had wanted to take in this series one day, and as I was driving by, thought Id just pop by to find just a couple. A short search discovered the hide once I realised just what I was doing wrong!w

Easy find tiday with blue iris

Visiting from Ohio, USA and driving around enjoying Australia in a campervan. Thought I'd hit a few of these before moving on to Sydney. Thanks for the trail!

TFTC smile 15292 out and about with miss millie geo dog on a lovely day Signed and replaced, sign as GS1947 on small caches

Thank you, Rapidlywild & specimenX, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

DNF for this one, We looked at all the likely spots you would/could hide a cache around near GZ, also looked at previous logs for any hints. . DARKSIDEDAN.
Attempted to find this at 11:50AM on this Wednesday the 9th of November in the year 2022

No luck today.

It was very wet underfoot and very overgrown. Some containers were found out in the open and I surprised they didn't float away. I suspect some others have. There were also a number that had wet logs and could not be signed. Overall, it was a fun morning in a beautiful area. Unfortunately, this one eluded me today

Thanks for the cache Rapidly wild and Specimen x. Much rested now and heading back to town for a coffee. Thanks for the adventure. regards from Victourer

TFTC
Camped at Yass for a week, today our goal is to take another bite out of this series of caches.
Your efforts to create the hides and maintain this trail is very much appreciated.
Scenery is great, not too much passing traffic, weather beaut.
All caches were in good condition unless otherwise stated in write note.
Quick find

Today’s adventures out and about picking up some caches around Bookham and surrounds with Marmaduke Rothschild. An epic day planned before our starts to shrink once again with lockdowns closing in around us.

And before the next lot of rain hits us. With winter nearly over I’m sure looking forward to spring and longer days of warmth and sunshine ️.

All logs in good condition unless otherwise noted.

Thanks to COs for placing and maintaining these caches.

Our daughter (Sophiescout) loves elephants and would sit and watch them for hours at the zoo. We have a very strong desire to see these wonderful creatures survive. TFTC

Loving these country roads... TFTC

Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).

OCW the Bebes. On our way back from Wagga Wagga so decided to stop and get a few on this power trail. Tftc.

OCW PelDroedGwin
Heading home after a weekend in Wagga, time for a detour off the highway.

Being animal lovers this trail was a must

One last one on the way back to the highway, we missed this on on the way in

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With a day off and possible FTF’s along the ES trail behind Bookham, I decided on going out there to collect the next chunk of caches along the road. A little more purple then last time I was out here. It was a very peaceful drive until one of the locals hassled me, about what I was doing. She knew about Geocaching but wasn’t fully convinced that was what I was doing, **so future Cacher’s beware.** Other than that, I have now have completed the Dirt part of the trail and a couple of others along the way, which included finding some GCA Moveable caches. These moveable caches have already been moved to the above location. TB visit on all caches. I would like to thank all CO’s of the caches I found and to DSD for maintaining the PT. It has brought me much enjoyment. TFTC’s

Did everybody else go big first? Found in the second place I looked, cache and contents all good, thanks for placing.

The family is on the coast enjoying the school holidays so I decided to have the long weekend in the Yass-Tumut district to increase my numbers for the year. The first challenge was the Threatend Species Trail so I took the blue road grader down this road to try and crack 100 for the day.
The road was very busy (maybe long weekend not such a great idea), the grass was very long and the Caches do need a little TLC. In the end I found 89 caches had 12 DNFs and 2 I just couldn't really look for.
TFTC Rapidlywild & specimenx

Last time I was here I was planning t walk from the third cache to this one before heading home. As I strolled through the bush I could hear music and as I approached I suddenly realised there was a funeral in progress. Plan curtailed so this was the first for today. Started the run at 9:40 and this was a quick find

Found

Found it to

Found it

Took a bit of scattering but eventually spotted it tftc

I was driving to Canberra on a hot and smokey day. Jugiong was too busy but Bookham was much quieter so I stopped here instead for lunch and tea,
Before that I did about 10 caches in this endangered species trail.
All caches attempted were in good condition Didn't attempt#10 owing to recent dnf's
Many thanks for the series.

ES #004 African Forest Elephant was transferred from Rapidlywild to user DARKSIDEDAN

Lots of logs but we found it quickly

Many logs to choose from

Find # 5247
Found with sesblocker. We are camped in Yass until Saturday and this series has been on our radar for quite some time.
This cemetery is a bit out of the way.
Great coordinates made for an easy find.
TFTC Rapidlywild & specimenX
1 October 2019 9:20 am

Nice spot

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Found thank you for the cache.

Easy find but great protector

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Cute animal in hide TFTC

Said goodbye to Di Morgan who are heading further South as we head North and Home. Today was the Endangered Species trail hopefully to be able grab them all, while letting the wife get access to watch the Canberra Raiders on the Phone. (Don't ask, today they did not win) Also picking up the outgoing and incoming where we can.

TFTC Rapidlywild
Total Cache Finds 7560

Working through the Endangered Species Power Trail today, trying to get 100 caches in 24 hours! It's been a beautiful drive. Thanks for the great series! - Adam & Kahlia.

A quick find after the Jugiong event. I'm hoping to make a dent in this series while listening to an audible book for bookclub. TFTC.

Found with 6Hinemoa2 on our travels to ACT.
TFTC specimenX & Rapidlywild

Humans don't need to use ivory with all ability to manufacture look alike products.
our Only managed 25 of this series on our way to Canberra. It was too hot for any more. Loved what we found using your accurate accurate co-ordinates.
Enjoying reading about each endangered animal as I log them.
TFTC series specimenX & Rapidlywild

Found during a drive from Canberra to Wagga Wagga
Great views and good coord for all of them.
We wrote IJS stand for the first letter i our alias ( Jsson, Ingabo, Sivun)
Greetings from Sweden
TFTC!

Together with Sivun and jsson on our way from Canberra to Wagga Wagga. We logged as IJS.
Thanks for placing a cache here for me to enjoy and find.

We got distracted by the cemetery before finding the cache and cache guardian SL,TFTC

Cache 4034 on 15 Sep 2018

A plan was hatched in the last week with TikvaNZ to finally get out to Bookham and do the Endangered Species trail. It has been a long time coming for me and I had several half-hearted attempts over the last few years to get organized enough to do it. But now it is happening! We will attempting to do it all in one go, but no judgement if we have to come back to finish it off another day. Unless otherwise noted, all caches were found easily, in accordance with the hint and in good condition.

For this cache: toy with cache!

Thanks Rapidlywild for the cache and the fun!

#9844 @0814
AngelG27 and I had talked about doing this series for well over a year, prefering to wait for the warmer months and longer days, but avoiding the peak of summer. Everything lined up at relatively short notice to do them today. We departed my place just before 7am, and I was dropped home again just before 3pm. From #001 to #110 took just under 4.5 hours. Most were easily and quickly found. A few were found out in the open. We replaced the lid for one. Some had been replaced by the previous finders. We did DNF 4 but re-searched on our return and found two of them, leaving only two unfound. We didn't find three of the letters, but hadn't looked in the first few caches. Fortunately we had enough to easily determine where the final was. It was a very pleasant day out and the area was looking very green. TFTC and series.

Out for the day to up my numbers. Beautiful part of the world. Love the cache guardian.
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#3304 Today we attempted the first 22 of this series with 20 finds and 2 dnfs before moving on to explore other areas. Must say this is a very pretty valley travel down and learning a bit about each endangered species through caches is a good concept to help raise awareness. Some finds were quick and others took some searching. Finding a safe area to park was tricky at times but it was a very quiet road for most part.

This was our favourite spot to visit on this PT today. We took a moment to explore the adjacent cemetery. Enjoyed discovering the cache guardian here too! TFTC specimenX & Rapidlywild.

Grabbed a few after dark will come back for some more later. Thanks
Disturbed a couple of kangaroos and a few possums here.

A great series but unfortunately we only had time to do a bit of the start but will have to come back. TFTC

Love it

On a mission

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The cache guardian on this one had us fooled for a while!This series has been on our radar for some time, and we have passed by a number of times, always with something important on the agenda meaning we were unable to stop.
This time we left Tumut and made the short journey to Jugiong. A wonderful camp place with facilities and a few caches, but within striking distance of this series.
And what a great series it was. Initially the landscape was somewhat scrubby, but the further we got into the trail the more it opened up into farming country. But oh so dry!
Striking the river we saw it as almost an anomaly in the accompanying countryside. But we particularly enjoyed following it and saw a number of campers in the seemingly remote area.
Most of the caches were nice quick finds, but we did struggle with a few and also ended up with a few DNFs.
Great to see good-sized caches for such a large series.
Our apologies for the generic log, but we really did enjoy the series and the drive through the countryside.
TFTC

Sorry for the generic log - ACTchil and I drove to Cootamundra to visit my family there and we decided we would give this series a hit on the way, we left quite early in the morning and decided to start at #92 to # 61 then turned back to #110 after realising we missed the fork in the road we completed them and back to finish the rest as we have wanted to do this series for a while. This find was interesting as someone had left a dragon toy on top of container just like a cache guardian so liked that tftc SpecimenX & Rapidlywild.

went out with Darzee Di and Banjo the geohound to get this ES series which we have been meaning to do for some time. What a great series and beautiful countryside. tftc Rapidlywild and SpecimenX

Found this as well

A cute and fun series, thanks guys Only my initials are in the book to save space.

What a nice little get away.....I needed some R&R and so decided to head across the border from SA to Victoria and then NSW to attend the OzGeoMuster Mega with friends.

I mainly hung out with the lovely micaparamedic and the fabulous ChooknChunk and I also enjoyed many happy moments with others.

Some of the stand out moments included: camping in Belanglo State Forest and doing a night cache at 1am; 4wding and having water over the car bonnet; sitting around and chatting/chilling; sleeping loads; relaxing continuously and then watching some fab fireworks (thanks Team Crackers), and all in all a much needed break. Gary and I slowly made our way back to Bendigo before heading back to Adelaide.

Thanks so much for the cache Rapidlywild!

After a long caching day and a very long week we decided to do a few of this series. We enjoyed the few that we did and will definitely return to finish the rest. Thanks for an interesting series.

Found this one on our way back. TFTC

Found with Gonefishen and Zobo04. We signed GAZ so as to not take uo space and because it was quicker. We found all the caches bar four and they have had DNF's put on them. Many thanks for the series.

Found with Gonefishen07 and Alansee. We signed the lug as GAZ. We had a great time finding a few caches along the way towards the Mega event. TFTC

Found with Zobo04 and Alansee on our way to the Mega event. We did as many as we could and this was one of them. We signed the log as GAZ.. Thanks for the fun and the cache.

TFTC PKS TEAM AUSTRALIA

Today was going to be an absolute scorcher with temperatures of 30+ expected so we decided to go caching again and the goal today was the endanged species series, however we were unable to finish the endanged species mystery we only had 9 of the 10 numbers found. This was find #107 of our total of 112 finds consisting of 111 traditionals 1 Mystery and 1 DNF.

Thanks Rapidlywild & specimenX for placing this series we started at the last one and worked our way back to bookem before returning to our Yass campsite.

Grand Cache count = 674 total consisting of 641 Traditionals, 18 Multi, 6 Mystery, 4 Earth, 2 Virtual and 3 Event.

In the A.C.T for a holiday, decided it was time to head home, so grabbed a cache or two along the way back to Melbourne... glad to see no muggles around today, hot and windy...

thanks to specimenX & Rapidlywild for this cache

TNLNSL

With another early start we left Yass and headed south to attack the Endangered Species series in the company of Na'wal and DAB on our 3 day camping trip up north. With the weather being ideal, we thoroughly enjoyed our caching day as we headed down Childowla Rd towards the picturesque journey along the river where all but one cache was signed as The DNT.
Thanks so much specimenX & Rapidlywild for the placement of this excellent series for us and others to enjoy.

DAB, the Tritonz and myself were a long way from home for a caching trip. We were up at the crack of dawn again for another big day of caching (signing our logs as The DNT) after camping the night before (well some of us did as it was a bit wet and some others were a little soft A series that had some great scenery further into it. We had one DNF and most of series was quickly found. Signed and replaced as found.

**Thanks to specimenX & Rapidlywild for placing this trad cache and fun series for us to find**
**Smile # 5473**

Another sunrise and yet another assault on the local caches by The DNT...... The dynamic team consisting of DAB, Na'wal and The_Tritonz. With another warm day on the horizon, we started the day early. A successful day all round, with a nice tally added to our counts. TFTC specimenX & Rapidlywild

Joolay and I had a great drive out along this road today. TFTC

I needed to get a hit of caches to make 500 for the mega at Alexandra. So along with Kittykatch we went out to do some of this series. It was a beautiful day and while I would like to put individual comments there are too many to do that. So will copy and paste. Great idea for a series and interesting names. Some I have never heard of. The drive took us to the Murrumbidgee which looked lovely. TFTC

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What a day ! we did not know till this morning that this was gunna happen but a 3 hr drive a great brekkie at Binalong and onto the trail , to get to our 5000 target , we had one DNF and easy finds on the rest, made the beer taste really good on returning to Binalong !! we were hitting each cache in between 2 to 3 minute intervals , we Routers do like a good trail, huge thanx to the cache placers for your work.
cheers from the Routers

We arrived in Yass later than we hoped so found some accomodation for the night. Had a look on the map and noticed this trail so thought we would get some done this afternoon and maybe a few more in the morining on our way out of town. The logs will be mainly generic and we will let you know on the last cache we end up doing, just how we went.

I was heading up to Canberra for the weekend, and managed to leave Gundagai at 6.30 so had to to grab 30 of these as a quick drive by, pretty much, park see where car GPS was pointing, a quick hunt, sign, and off to the next one, thanks for the caches. I missed this one on the way up due to the slight distance from the road, but grabbed it on the way back

A one-week roadtrip from Melbourne, picking up CT_ZA in Sydney, and then going to the Gold Coast, resulted in 4500km of caching, sightseeing and fun.
After the first night's rest nearby I thought I would start the day with some of this series, rather than heading north immediately. I had found a few them already during a previous visit. This time I cached for about 90 minutes and found another 32 caches (from #4 to #35). I missed #20 on my initial run as a muggle farmer was parked right at GZ, but when I returned a little later the coast was clear.

I'm fortunate to be quite familiar with the African elephant - the're native to my country of birth.
Thanks for the series, Rapidlywild & specimenX.

Out on a sunny Queens birthday caching day with Lucky Cricket and Little Cricket, hoping to get as many of this series done today as possible in the time frame we have. A great series in a beautiful location, all caches well hidden and fun to find. Thanks to specimenX & Rapidlywild for this great day. We will be back soon to finish what we have started. TFTC. Sorry for the copy and past.

found with lucky cricket and 007 mushu, a great cache series, TFTC

We weren't sure what the drive was going to be like as we have had so much rain at home, but the road is pretty good here at the moment and it is a nice day too. 007Mushu made this find while Little Cricket was exploring a slightly different location. Great hide TFTC

I'm on my way to Tumbarumba, from Perth via Sydney and Canberra. I did 1-10 before the rain set in. This is going to be a generic log. This was #4 of the ten. Thanks for the cache and the power trail.

Another good find while driving / walking around the area in the morning.
Had a great time going from cache to cache!
Thanks for the fun trail specimenX & Rapidlywild.
Appreciate the good containers and logs. SL

Missed the turnoff to this one on the way in, but got it on the way back - good location here.

I loved the concept! Thanks for this work and cache trail and all the info. Getting off the highway and caching does take us odd and interesting places and landscapes. No shortage of hidy holes along here.

Finally an opportunity to hit the Endangered Species trail. Got an early start and travelled down the Hume to Bookham on a day of showers on Anzac Day 2017.
Had great success, knocking over more than half of the hides today. After reaching 60 finds, I was trashed, the car was trashed and I was soaked and out of food and drink, so decided to call it quits as soon as I had a DNF.
Most caches were easily found, with mainly excellent coords making it so.
Apologies for the generic log,
TFTC specimenX & Rapidlywild for the great series

I teamed up with cullum68 and nissan65 to tackle the series,our day started at 4.30am meeting at Sth Nowra.We found our first cache about 8.00am and finished at around 12.30pm.During the series both cullum and myself reached our 2000 find milestone.....high fives all round.
We found all the caches wihout any major problems and absolutly had a ball while admiring the autumn scenery and finding the caches.
Apologies for the repeated comments but so many caches to log
Thank you specimenX and Rapidlywild for all you efforts put in to make this series happen !!!
TFTC

Out caching with nissan 65 and bonfire 7. Up from the coast for the day. Thanks for the cache

Big day out caching with cullum68 and bonfire7 thanks for the cache

Liked this one

Went on a rainy caching adventure with minniek nibbletricecakes and dk