ES #018 Cross River Gorilla Bookham, New South Wales, Australia
By Rapidlywild & specimenX on 17-Apr-14. Waypoint GC54VZ5

On my way back from Victoria, I thought I would get this series done. Cheers

Out for a look from Burrinjuck, so thought we would grab a few on this trail. Thanks for the placement.TFTCIronbark

Tftc. Took a while to find this one. Guess sometimes we miss the obvious

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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 a quick find was made.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.

Found it

TFTC

Team Groodle found it. Next.

#6269.
This was a quick find. TFTC!

We decided to grab a couple of caches before the close of 2022. We aimed to find most of the caches on the Benangaroo road and then made our way to the Endangered Species Power Trail. We did a bit of planning beforehand as we have two young ones in the car and therefore time is somewhat limited before they start complaining. We were also aiming to reach 365 caches for the year and we managed to reach our goal. We found most of the caches on our list and enjoyed the mostly quiet road. Thanks to all who created these caches for us to find!

TFTC smile 15299 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.

TFTC smile 15326 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.

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. Thanks for the cache

Tftc,
Camped at Yass for a week, today our goal is to make a start on this series.
Your efforts to maintain create and maintain this trail is appreciated.

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.

A wonderful quick find looking forward to getting all of this power trail tftc

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

Quick grab here

Tftc

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), parking was mixed, 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. In the end I also only found four of the clues for the puzzle so that was not solved either
TFTC Rapidlywild & specimenx

This one was about 15 metres out - this may have explained some of the later DNFs but most were pretty spot on.

Found

Found it

Nice quick find, thank you!

ES #018 Cross River Gorilla was transferred from Rapidlywild to user DARKSIDEDAN

Found while visiting the area Thanks for the cache Cheers

Find # 5258
Found with sesblocker. We are camped in Yass until Saturday and this series has been on our radar for quite some time.
Great coordinates made for an easy find.
TFTC Rapidlywild & specimenX
1 October 2019 10:09 am

Thanks for the cache!

Tftc

Easy find

Neirbo4750
Enjoying doing this ESTrail

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 7572

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.

Found by The Empire
On my way to the Clearwaters Mega Event in Queanbeyan! I found the first 5 of this series a few years back on my way home from a trip to Canberra. We didn't have time to complete and series then and that didn't change today.

I did a lot of it, the weather was spectacular. Apart from a few dead wombats, thing went well. I was able to pick up find number 12,000 during my short run today too! Please excuse the copy and paste logs, it's going to be a big weekend! Thanks for the cache, and the series Rapidlywild & specimenX.
- M

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

What a dreadful state of affair. Only 280 left.
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.

Cache 4046 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: all good.

Thanks Rapidlywild for the cache and the fun!

#9856 @0843
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 and glad to do so in such a beautiful part of the country.
Cache was found quickly and is in good condition.
Tftc

#3316 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. TFTC specimenX & Rapidlywild.

Tftc! Top cache on a wet day

Nice easy find tftc

Tfth

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. 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

TFTC

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.

Sorry for the repeated log entry - all comments on ES1 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.

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 #93 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 = 660 total consisting of 627 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

Tftc next

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. Never had the pleasure of meeting this one. Signed and replaced as found.

**Thanks to specimenX & Rapidlywild for placing this trad cache and fun series for us to find**
**Smile # 5497**

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

What's so cross about this River Gorilla?

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.

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.

Gorillas look calm, but I wouldn't want to tangle with one.
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.

TFTC

Caching with Little Cricket and 007Mushu. Having a great day and enjoying this Cache Series. A lovely drive with beautiful scenery. TFTC

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

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

Found with nissan 65 and bonfire 7. We are up from the coast for a day's caching. Thanks for the cache

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

Went on a rainy caching adventure with minniek nibbletricecakes and dk

Out in the rain with minniek, Countrykittykat and DK as I try to reach 999 before I get to Alice later this week. Thought we'd tackle the endangered species trail.

Headed out for a caching run with nibletricecakes, DK & countrykittykat. We are on a mission to get nibletricecakes closer to 1000 before we hit Alice Springs Mega next week. Signed logs as MK, DK, NRC, CKK.

Sorry for generic logs. All caches found easily. Got angry honked only once along the way. TFTC.

Find number 1352 at 6:14 pm.

Thought we'd attempt the series while camped at Jugiong on our way to the Mega at Alice Springs.

Thanks for placing this cache Rapidlywild & specimenX

Lets see how the trail goes. How many would I find? A late start, but the day looked promising. Final details posted at the last cache (of the day). Great views, no wiggly sticks but plenty of spiders, grasshoppers, sheep, cows and the odd roo and wallaby. Oh, llamas as well. Got into the habit of waving to passing muggles, they all wave regardless. Noticed some caches weren't rehiden that well, maybe the weather, or maybe just someone a little slack. Had fun regarless, which was the important thing. TNLNSL TFTC

Suscoe returned today to complete this trail after our visit last weekend.
It was going to be a 38 degree day out here and so we started very early.
Sunny but with a pleasant wind this morning kept the temperature around the low to mid 20's.
We enjoyed the caches again on this run down the numbers from 1 to 60.
Fairly quiet today, we saw lizards, cows, cockies, sheep and millions of grasshoppers. Oh and did we mention the millions of grasshoppers????????????
Quick finds along the trip and all caches in good condition.
Thanks to Rapidlywild and specimenX for the excellent work done in creating this series.
A most enjoyable way to spend a few hours on a Saturday morning.

Not familiar with these fellows.

Thanks for an awesome series in amazing surrounding landscapes. Adding a theme like endangered species made it all the more informative. I had time to attempt the first 60 before I left badsett and miltsy92 for the 4 hour drive back to work on Australia Day. Came across a lot of cicadas and beetles and a lot of long grass and thorns. Thank goodness we started early in the morning to avoid the heat of the day. TFTC.

Nice trail through the country side with some fantastic views along the way. A great way to spend a day TFTC

TFTC

Such a lovely power trail. Heading to a Canberra for a very special cache we wanted to make it a milestone but we were short about 70 smiles. We made a dent doing a few on a Wagga Wagga trail and a few other odds and ends along the way we reached and needed another 40. Took us about 2 hours as we picked and chose which ones to get - avoiding way long grass, houses, farmers, cows and ones that seemed to have lots of hiding places. Everything was found in good order and returned as found. Thank you for placing and maintaining this power trail.

Tftc,

So today was a mission. A mission to complete the Endangered Species Powertrail in Bookham. I dragged Azzepious along with an early morning start. We made the journey down to Bookham, grabbing a couple of caches along the way before starting the trail. Along the way we encountered spiders, snakes, kangaroos, sheep, cows, alpacas and horses. At one stage we were held up behind a flock of sheep. We were treated to some wonderful views. We better planning we would have brought a picnic to have down by the river.

My caching partner Azzepious suffered a bruised heel and a few ant bites. His limping and screams of pain slowed us down but we pushed through to the end. We emerged victorious back into Bookham to find the puzzle cache, capping off the trail.

Thanks to the COs for creating this wonderful trail!

#20 of the day.
MrSmith00 and myself are on a mission for 100 caches in a day. Bookham certainly seems like the place to do it.
Thanks to all who placed these caches and sorry for the copy place logs.

111/111 on this great series today. Full log on the final.

TFTC

OCW delloro and Pipes_down_under, we found all 111 out of 111 in the **Endangered Species Power Trail**. A great series to help us spend the time exploring this region. A lot of work has gone into putting this together, so apologies for the generic log, but will include more detail for the puzzle cache. TFTC.

Out to grab this great **Endangered Species** series today with delloro and Brewmaker.
All 111 completed in this fabulous area. Please Excuse the repetitive posts until the final.

What a glorious day and an even better Power Trail.

Congratulations to both of you, specimenX and Rapidlywild, on your incredible work. Finding the coordinates for that many locations is hard enough, but all the research and the maintenance makes it a huge achievement. Well done.

I'm sorry but my logs will be generic - they won't compare with the effort you put into these caches.

Most of the caches I found today were in good condition and I only had 1 DNF and 71 finds.

I have never been down this road before, so was very impressed by the beautiful scenery, the fantastic properties and the picturesque river. Many thanks for bringing me here.
SLs as SG.

Set out with dty73 to see how much of the ES trail we could get through today. Started at #1 at 8am and finished at #110 at 4pm with 1 dnf and 8 we didn't get to with a road closure. Logged at 9.33am with this being #18:102 of the ES trail we achieved. An outstanding well maintained trail surrounded in stunning scenery. Well done specimenX and rapidlywild a truly outstanding effort! A quick find.

Apologies for the general log, I plan to add detail soon. Great trail, Coords were spot on and the hints made it quicker to . Thanks specimenX and Rapidlywild!!!

. 2018 so far for us. Thanks for placing this cache Rapidlywild, without cachers like you we wouldn't have a hobby. Signed log.

This is a really fun series, so thank you very much !

Been dying to do this trail or in today's case at least make a start. Having a rare weekend off (shift worker) and a sick geokiddie at home it was a good chance to head down the Hume and make a start. Great weather for it. I seem to encounter plenty of muggle traffic initially as there was something taking place in town here but after the first ten or so caches I rarely seen a car. Boots on I started, scratched the legs (shouldn't worn short) more times than I can count, ripped a shirt (always have spares) and nearly rolled my ankle few times. But that wasn't going to stop me... I had an absolute blast having some time to myself caching... I'll be back again either alone or with the geofamily to do another stage or even try and finish the rest. Took a few caches on the way. Thanks to the cache owners involved can't wait to return

**Staying at Yass and intending to do the ESPT over two days. I think this is the best time of the year to do the series with everything green and lush and hopefully not any snakes. Best scenery we have seen in a long time. The finds have been relatively straight forward and I noted many caches have new log books. We are using the 4WD so no issues we hope.TFTC and TFTPT. From Aries44 and Mrs A.**