PATOG Series 070 Andrews Farm, South Australia, Australia
By equipe de cinq on 26-Jan-21. Waypoint GC95M9H

Left home early for a day's caching in the Gawler to Bolivar area to see if I could achieve a Personal Best month. Most caches were in good condition, but there were some on the Gawler to Port Adelaide trail that needed maintenance that I didn't have with me. TFTC

Busy little

After staying in the area after a nearby Event I thought Id walk into a few of this series. Early Sunday morning so I expected it would be very quiet ....... Noooope!!! .... some sort of fun run going on had a hundred or so runners passing me! All I got to were easy finds!!

After doing my chores I decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather , grab my bike , jump a train or two and head north I wanted to get off at Womma Station, but the train had other ideas, so I disembarked at Elizabeth Station and started pedaling The plan for the day is to continue on the PATOG Series between Womma Road and Waterloo Corner Road. A nice easy ride.All caches were found, exercise for the afternoon completed TFTC equipe de cinqKeep smiling

Found by The Boofs while out on a walk TFTC

Found earlier today with Bam Bam Scott, introducing her to the wonders of Geocaching. Her 2nd.

Second find TFTC

found the cache with ease, as well as plenty of ants

I am needing some exercise so thought the Patog by bike would be the way to go.Brrrp!! Wrong!I got to 61 where I aborted due to running out of fuel, water (I only carried 2L) and enthusiasm. I mean, really, what kind of twit does a long distance cycle in 35 degress? My kind of twit, apparently.Still, if it wasn't for the weather and the lack of fuel, I did enjoy the ride. Loved the information boards and the walking/cycling quotes along the way.

Found with Pprime` as part of our Mega Leapday adventure.Thankyou for the entertainment here.

Found with T4mmmy on our Leap Mega Adventure.Thanks equipe de cinq for entertaining me at this location. *{Overall find #12261}*

Heute am spten Nachmittag noch diese Caches gesucht und schnell gefunden. Besten Dank frs legen und pflegen.

I am from Switzerland...and we travel all states and terretorries of Australia .We do housesitting all over the world and this time we started off in Tasmania .I have been in Adelaide many times before .and have arrived a few days ago . Its nice to be back and this time even better with geocaching Nggi2 and I decided to walk this track for a few hours in the afternoon and we enjoyed the sunny weather very much .We found all caches in good time but had to find some sticks to dig them out as I`m scared of snakes... since I had an encounter with a big one in Tassie. Happy Australia day !Thank you for placing this Dsli (Dsli means little box in Swiss) oinkoinkInvasion of an Armeeatacke. In my This was really crazy how they they atacked us and followed us and wehn we arrived at our friens house two wer still climbing on me

We're calendar-filling again to get rid of those pesky zeros for the rest of 2023.This cache was not far off our route between Salisbury and Gawler.A quick find.TFTC equipe de cinq.

James0116 and I had been talking about the PATOG series recently
As a result, it was deemed that today was the day for us to try and ride some of it to collect the caches on the way[^]

It seems that my new pushbike (without electronics) is a pretty good fit for me[:X][^] as by the end of the day I had ridden almost 22km[:X] from Gawler to Waterloo Corner and found 26 caches
The next half of the PATOG will bring me more finds as I've not found any down the Port Adelaide end, yet

Most of our ride was sunny[^][:X][^] with a bloody head wind making riding even more fun I did end up wishing that I'd chosen to start at the Pt Adelaide end instead of the Gawler end

About 4.30pm, we got rained on and combined with a now freezing wind[xx(] and a lack of sunshine, our now dampened bodies and spirits gave up and called 'day's end!'[xx(][xx(][^]

My lovely sister[:X][:X] had agreed to come and pick James up from wherever we ended up and take him back to his car[^][^], while I waited with the bikes until he returned in his car with the bike rack[^][^]
There I was lying on the ground, talking to kmace on the phone, while it rained on me[}:) I was cold, wet and chilling down fast![xx(]

James was back sooner than I had expected though and the car was beautifully hot inside[:X][:X]
A final short drive to Bolivar and I had Cappucino and donuts to warm me up[:X][^] while James had donuts and Maccas

Most of the Gawler end caches had spot on coords[^] However as we got closer to Waterloo Corner, we needed to spread out away from GZ to find the caches[?] Green growing things made finding the caches much harder and sadly there was a few DNFs for James0116 on some of the caches which I had already found.

Really pleased to have finally cleared this end of the PATOG[:X]
Now to see when the next chapter occurs!

TNLN. SL. TFTC equipe de cinq

Southern Autumn adventure Day 49. Mid North section of SA trip Day 20. Gawler Day 8. Today was my last day in Gawler before heading to Mount Barker in the afternoon. I started with finding another section of the NEXY bike track to visit, as this is why I had setup to the North of Adelaide. Today's section had several DNFs. I then connected up the van and drove via some back hills roads to Mount Barker, stopping a few times along he way. The late afternoon was spent walking around Mount Barker Central area collecting Multi details and a few other caches before heading back to the Van for dinner.

Thanks for the cache equipe de cinq

42709.14 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & September 2017 Orenda A#365

**Albida**

Muggle central right when i try to retrieve the cache, typical.
Signed and returned.
Love the smell of wood fires burning in the nearby properties along this trail.

Heading out to Elizabeth for the first week of Rugby finals and I had to stop for a few caches along the way. All caches were found in good condition.

Find #7260

TFTC

Found it

Found it

Day 2 back here getting more done. Found with superman_22, giselle_13

Day two back beautiful day for it found with northstar76, giselle_13

Found it!! With Northstar76 and superman _22

TB Visited

James0116

Great hide

Pencil added

Thanks equipe de cinq for the cache

James0116

Slowly but surely doing the PATOG series. Might take me a few years to complete, but I'll get it done. Easy find. TFTC.

Needing a few caches for the day.
So nicked down to the PATOG this evening.
A quick find. Tftc

TFTC
Ants ants ants watch out for the bloody

Out for a ride with the 4 Goonies. Doing some along the trail.

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finding your cache equipe de cinq, thank you so much for placing it.

Lots ants

All good. Sorry to disturb the habit. TFTC

Mrs frog felt the need for a walk so we placed a car at each end and wandered from Curtis road through to Penfield road, a few were found on the ground but we reattached at the logical spots
TFTC equipe de cinq

Riding the biketrail today. Found and signed the log.

A quick easy find

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Out to continue my walk along the trail.

Today the weather was overcast with the occasional shower.

All caches were in OK condition.

TFTC

Thanks for the cache found with Webberg

Tftc! Found with conardel

Quick find. Thanks for the cache. Enjoying the trail so far. House of Jones

On a lovely ride with brisal5, thewhitedoggang and Featherwaite, signing the log sheets with the acronym BAWF. There was barely any wind and no rain. A perfect day for a ride and cache. [^]

Thanks to equipe de cinq and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^]

Doing this series with brisal5, Astro & FeatherWaite today
All logs signed as B.A.W.F.
Good co-ords, nice containers & easy finds make for a great day
Thanks for placing these caches, well done.
TFTC

Found by brisal5, TeamAstro, thewhitedoggang and Featherwaite, signing the logsheets with the acronym BAWF. Being cool, cloudy, no rain and with light winds, it proved a great day for a ride along the bikeway. Thanks for the cache and series equipe de cinq!

GENERIC LOGS FOR PATOG series! [8)][8)][8)]

Time to attack the PATOG series. [^] So the calls were made to find a group to take on the ride and a group of brisal5, Astro, WhiteDogGang and Featherwaite were available. So the acronym BAWF was formed to sign the logs. We chose Tuesday 8/6/2021 to make the ride but the forecast of a thunderstorm, continuous rain and howling winds caused the newly formed BAWF to balk and we delayed until Friday 11/6/21! [B)][B)] What a great day for a ride, overcast, a nice cool breeze and not a drop of rain to be felt. All caches were found in good condition except, one that needed a new cap (done) and one that needed replacing. (also done) Great day had but I felt like BAWFing by the end! [:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)]

Only one of the three goals from last year achieved. So once again trying and fill my calendar with multi-caches and complete loop 11 again this year. [^] For my third goal I will try and get my DNF numbers to single digits. That should keep me busy again this year! [:o)]

***Thanks equipe de cinq for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Another big walk on the PATOG trail. Have now only got 2 left to find. Proud of myself for walking from Port Adelaide to Gawler, it’s taken a while! Hopefully will get the last 2 picked up eventually.
Was a super day for a big walk, my Apple Watch says I have walked 20000 steps. My healthy living burst is coming along well.
As I collected the bridge cache the Gahn came through that’s what the people with all the money do on a Sunday.
Thanks for the great series and the exercise.

Tftc Tnln

Stopped by to grab a few more of these to fill a calendar gap.
A little walk was had here...
TNLNSL
Thanks

This is the third series of caches we've found along the NEXY [|)] and it's been awhile since we've ridden the bike track . Have to say the place is looking like a dump these days (with enough bags and buckets lying around to clean it up as well) [:(!].
TNLNSL.
Thanks Equipe de cinq.

Grabbed a few more PATOG caches (one's I didn't really have to walk too far for) at lunchtime today. Another three bite the dust. TFTC

Millions of bull ants. Thanks equipe de cinq

Claiming a cache find as part of the awesome beta testing cache placing crew for this super fun cycling series. All of the PATOG caches in the series have been found many times so our work must have been good. Kudos to anyone who does the full end to end ride in one session and collects them all. If you run it or walk it then you get extra bonus kudos.

Eventually some time in the future when the rail access is restored to Gawler it will be possible to catch the train to Port Adelaide, ride with the wind to Gawler, and catch the electric train home. From Patog one to Patog eleventy first. That would be awesome.

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Easter 2020 was supposed to see South Australia Geocaching hosting the next Easter big MEGA event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Due to COVID restrictions the event is now postponed to early October 2021. Check out the event page and our website for new details. We would love to see you at this four day event. Mega event sponsored by Wattle Range Council, Geocaching.com and many other supporters. Lots of caches to find with two classic geo art trails including the famous animated bottle and glass.

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This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and a Samsung S8. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs...

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

Quick find. Watch out for the big ants at GZ!

Out for a long bike ride with Uni and Medusa along the Northen Expressway and beyond. We parked a vehicle at each end and took the mountain bikes along the trails - 48.9kms and 115 caches in around 5 hours.
The bike trail allows one to see a lot more at 20kmh than whizzing past in a car at 110kmh. There is interesting WWII history in amongst the market gardens and salt flats. I really enjoyed the massive redgums and lushness around the Gawler River. On a hot day one would want to take plenty of water, there isn't a lot of shade or facilities along some of the stretches.
This cache was found at 11:33:00 AM and was 72 of 102 finds today.
Apologies for the generic log but it is a powertrail. Thanks equipe de cinq

Found at 11:33 on a perfect cycling day with Shonkylogic.

Thanks for the hide

A group of us(JJ52, mogni, Sir Spectre, Azzo7777 and Dad, Tallbikestan and I) decided to do this series. We started at number 1 at 8:30am and finished the series at 1:30pm with a few other caches along the way. TFTC equipe de cinq

A big day out was planned with allister w, sir_spectre, mogni, azzo7777 and tallbikestan to tackle the PATOG series and give my new ebike a good workout. [^]
We started early from #1 leaving cars there and then were picked up at the end. It was a fun, but very tiring day and we managed to find all the caches quickly except for a couple that required extra effort.
Thanks for the cache and series equipe de cinq.

All caches signed as Mystery Randoms

Awesome day out riding bikes with allister w, sir_spectre, tallbikestan, JJ52 and mogni!

TFTC equipe de cinq

Thanks for this Traditional Cache

Cache on!

Found on February 21, 2021 at 8:23 PM
Find 1459

Found out riding with my tallbike with some friends

Out with Tallbikestan, allister w, JJ52, azzo and mogni. Todays target was to do all of the PATOG Series using bikes or power assisted bikes. Getting dropped off at one end and getting picked up at the other end. The only problem we had was the one cache that needed a ladder, Tallbikestan's bike was just too short by about 1/2 foot. Easy found with the ladder deployed. i never got to complete the last bike trail, i only ended up finding about 11 of them. We even had a lunch break about 3/4 down the trail. A fun but tiring day out. All logs stamped as mystery randoms.

A big day out with sir_spectre, Allister W, JJ52, tallbikestan and azzo (and his Dad). Today we tackled the PATOG series and all caches were found, only a couple took more than a few seconds.
Thanks to equipe de cinq from mogni

Staying at Gawler Gateway, we noticed this recently published series. Mr F wanted to tackle this series so a plan was made to attempt before the coming week of hot weather. Mrs F dropped Mr F and his trusty steed off at the cycleway, for him to head south before turning around at 001 and returning to complete 88 for today. . A big days cycling, some wetlands, and a few shady areas to return sunburnt. Alas not wearing climbing boots so at least 1 DNA (did not attempt for the day)

TFTC

There had been discussions between Freddo, Davidwazza and myself to place this series for quite some time but never got around to it till the other day. Finally we set off from Gawler and made our way to Port Adelaide riding the full 49km and enjoying the path as we went. Placing bee caches and removing the old series. A great day out despite the rain to start us off. I hope people enjoy the new series and a lengthy bike riding series.
Logging as a beta tester.
TFTC

Had other things on when these were published and decided I'd have to leave the FTFs for others. Initially had all today clear for caching and was wondering if I'd attempt the whole lot. Something else came up so I decided to settle for half, and am now thinking that was a very good idea. Doing the whole lot in one day, for me, I think would have been a mistake. Kudos to OzGrumpy for managing the feat.
All 57 caches looked for were found, some quicker than others but all in a condition reflecting their age. I'll be back for the rest.
Thanks equipe de cinq for this cache and a nice series to get the new bike out for

*This log composed and published using GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife).*

Oh, ok, just one more since it’s close to the car. GZ currently teeming with large ants, no doubt furious that their quiet world is now the middle of a powertrail. And a large black spider is capitalizing on the presumably new SPOR.

TFTC and series.

Today was dedicated to the newly published PATOG 111. I managed to complete the whole series by push bike in one day, yes that’s from the first to eleventyfirst. All hoovered up in a day like a whale gulping plankton. Collected 15 FTF which was nice. A highlight of the day was meeting other cachers on the journey, nothing like bringing cacheroachers out of the woodwork with a teaser of FTF. I met Malco, Csaba, two turtles, a lovely couple (larayugal) and a Hurtle. Thanks equipe de cinq for the cache and series. Fantastic work.

Published

{*FTF*} 10.39. On our way to Kapunda when these were released. Explained that we might be a little late as we ducked off the highway for the odd one or two or few on the way! Thanks very much for your efforts to create this series.

Today, I had organised with Freddo and gridge98 to ride the Northern Expressway bikeway to complete the *Nexy Challenge* series geocaches. We rode the full distance, and then in the afternoon, jesswrigley and I visited the south-eastern end of Cleland Conservation Park and took a few walks around the area. The day began cold spitting a little, but towards the afternoon, it turned out to become quite warm and not too hot; almost the perfect day to be outside and hiking.

Freddo, gridge98 and I had set off early to complete and collect the *Nexy Challenge* series, and concurrently, we stealthily placed the new version 3 series: the **PATOG** Port Adelaide to Gawler series. A discussion was had 6-9 months previously about arranging a day, and with my time running out of Adelaide, it turned out that Australia Day became our collective free day. Magnets were purchased, and cache containers were prepared. However, we ran into a problem early, as our plan to use magnets was thwarted when the sign poles were aluminum, not steel. Who would have thought that the frog's kryptonite would be metallurgy today? Nevertheless, alternative hiding places were found, and the series was rolled out. It was a significant session riding the 49 km, but at least they are now available for the community to find. Thanks equipe de cinq for the ongoing maintenance of this series, and hoping that this version can last longer than the previous two.

Note that this geocache was beta tested on 26/01/2021.