PATOG Series 072 Andrews Farm, South Australia, Australia
By equipe de cinq on 26-Jan-21. Waypoint GC95M9K

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

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!!

nice and easy find, thanks

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 #12259}*

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) oinkoink

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

Thank you

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

42707.12 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & October 2017 Celebrate A#366

**Albida**

Cache found and container good but pencil broken in half and no paper log sadly. Need maintenance

Tried two other PATOG caches before this one to get our find for today.
Another day completed - filling our 2023 calendar with at least one find per day.
TFTC equip de cinq.

Found

Found it

TB Visited

James0116

Great hide

Lob book replaced with rite in rain logbook due to log being sodden

Pencil added

Thanks equipe de cinq for the cache

James0116

Found it

Found it

Tftc

Tftc

Day 2 back here getting more done. Found with superman_22, giselle_13 thank god it wasn’t the fence. I’m thinking how do I get in there.

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

Found it!! With Northstar76 and superman _22

After doing my housework I decided to jump on my bike and head off to do some caching as it was a beautiful, sunny winters day. I caught the train to the city and then decided to go on the new electric train to Gawler. Then onto the PATOG trail.
Days total - 20 finds and 5 DNF's which means I can come back another day and enjoy a longer ride between caches

TFTC equipe de cinq
Keep smiling

During my lunch break I went for a walk to grab a couple of caches along this trail. I targeted this particular section to fill a gap in my 360 degree from home grid.

Thanks for the cache equipe de cinq.
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Needing a few caches for the day.
So nicked down to the PATOG this evening.
A quick find. Tftc

TFTC

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

Found it

Luckily we followed the gps and not the hint. Cache hidden at sign, much better not to disturb the creatures that could be in the long grass. 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.

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Nice n easy

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

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 for another one Equipe de cinq.

The Rats of Tobruk. Exit speed 55kph

Day 3 of working our way along this trail with the geokids. Found 83 to 71, quick finds, nice ride. TFTC TheHouseofJones

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.

A historical cache stop.
TFTC

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 11:35:00 AM and was 74 of 102 finds today.
Apologies for the generic log but it is a powertrail. Thanks equipe de cinq

Found at 11:37 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 8:24 PM
Find 1461

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.

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).*

A lot more cyclists out today now that the rain has stopped and the wind has abated. I’m wondering if OZGrumpy has done the entire series in one day.

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.

I'd just woken up[|)] and looked at the phone
Wow Over 100 geocaches have been published[^]
Rex and I got organised and loaded the ebike into the Corolla with a plan to ride into the wind to get a few caches[^] and then use the wind to push us back to the car when we were tired[|)][^]
What a failure that ended up being!
The battery was flat and so all the pedalling had to be done the old fashioned way, using my legs![|)][xx(][|)]
I rode[^], I walked[^], I drove elsewhere and walked again and again[^][|)][|)][xx(]
Between 11.23am and 4.28pm we found 25 caches and 17 of them were FTFs
We saw lots of other names in the log books but never saw another geocacher[?] They must have all had their cloaks of invisibility on!
Pretty sure that both Rex and I will sleep bloody well tonight!
Woohoo! *FTF*

TNLN. SL. TFTC equipe de cinq

Published

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.