APM -- 1996-2007 -- John Howard Pinery, South Australia, Australia
By firesafe on 16-Apr-10. Waypoint GC26WVY

Picking up some Prime Ministers on the way back to Owen Thanks Firesafe for the hide Tftc

Today out and about on 209 of 274 days to get my daily cacher Emerald Using my Garmin Etrex 22X and MacBook Air!Thanks for the cacheTFTC

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Quick find and sign TFTC

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Found it! A lazy morning today after a full day caching yesterday and a late night drive out to get some photos of the Aurora. Finally decided to get out of the house about 2pm, chose to knock off this fairly local series. Got this one on the return journey as there was a farmer on his tractor right at GZ on the way. TFTC!

Love getting out on these back roads. Beautiful day for some caching. Quick find. TFTC

Out and about caching early this morning before it gets really hot. Found the cache and signed the log. TFTC OxFireSafe

Staying at Andrews Farm and came up early this morning while it is cooler to visit the Prime Ministers and some other caches around about. Thanks to the COs.

Found with the Nelson crew on our way back to Adelaide for the mega. Nearly there now just wasting a bit of time now so we don't hit rush hour traffic.

We are now making our way back to Adelaide for the leap day mega tomorrow. Sidewaze, Paddle Chick, Bullertrout, IsisNZ and Nanzie are signing our logs as SPBINZ or sometimes SPINZ as BT has done a large number of caches on the Peninsula. TFTC OzFiresafe#16168

Caching as team SPBINZ: Sidewaze, Paddlechick, Bullertrout, IsisNZ and Nanzie from Nelson, New Zealand. Having had one record day caching (430+) and then another quite full on (200+) were a bit more laid back today, taking our time for a good look around, several AdLabs some earthcaches and generally a more laid-back sort of a day.People sometimes ask how you can see much of the scenery when youre so busy caching but I find I see more than the average tourist who keeps to tar-sealed roads and drives from town to town. So, another awesome day exploring rural and small town South Australia. And learning a bit of history along the way.Greetings from the Shaky Isles across the ditch and many thanks for the hide.

Found as part of the SPBINZ team (Sidewaze, Paddle Chick, Bullertrout, IsisNZ, and Nanzie). Today we've taken a slower and more scenic route along the coast as we head back towards Adelaide for the main event tomorrow and trying to target caches Bullertrout hasn't found on his previous visits. We have just completed the big 6 0 on the map and have decided to sign off a few of this series before we finish for the day. At least I'm familiar with this list of names unlike the PSA series where I don't think I knew any. TFTC OzFiresafe and kia ora from Aotearoa/New Zealand # 21,763**tepoti/Dunedin is the place to be 26-27 October, 2024 for GCA7ZHD - Geo Toroa Mega! Please come and join in the fun, find heaps of caches and experience some wonderful Southern hospitality.**

Found with SPINBNZ Team Another nice easy find on this great trail thanks for placing this trail for us to find .I am starting to remember these Prime Minsters now firesafe

TFTC OzFiresafe your cache APM -- 1996-2007 -- John Howard that we found today. Day 4 in Mallala as we wait for the Leap Day Mega. After a solo trip around town we headed off to find the Australian Prime Minister series from Mallala toward Owen. We needed to replace a couple of containers as they were damaged beyond use. Some recent tree lopping activity is evident and container gone. Replaced.Find Count: 18412

A quick drive by here today TFTC

On my way to Adelaide to watch T20 World Cup and grab some caches on the way. Tftc

Found thankyou

Foind it

Maintenance run today – cache checked and all OK

Quick find. Farmer out today, gave a little wave. All good TFTC

Out with the Waldo’s. Thanks for the Pm series. No24

Easy one John
TFTC

Found it tftc found with franson69

Quick find with littlewhyle5. Tftc

Decided to get out and about to collect some more caches again this Good Friday, while making a journey up to the Yorke Peninsula to perform maintenance on some of my existing caches and hide a new one as well.

The Australian Prime Ministers trail and It's a Small World are on the radar today, including some other caches hidden around the towns of Mallala, Long Plains, Wallaroo, Tickera, Alford, Parham and Webb Beach.

A total of 77 finds and 7 DNFs for the day.

A little bit of bloodshed but that's all just part of what makes geocaching fun.

I started the Australian Prime Ministers trail back in mid-2021.

Today I returned for caches I didn't get around to last time or couldn't find.

Easy find here today.

Put my signature in the log book and returned the cache to its hiding spot.

Signed as "P.Goldy"

Happy Easter to all Geocachers.

Thanks to OzFiresafe for this cache.

Find No.675
15/04/2022

Geowife Added another scratch to her leg. Go caching they said.. Quick find. TFTC

Thanks firesafe for the cache and the series. A successful day of caching in the hot conditions. Howard was one of the only politicians to introduce a new wholesale tax for the country, not a common thing to be done. Cache all good here. Find #5224

Today I had a number in mind, a required number of caches for 2021 and for many reasons, I was a little behind as December rolled through. Today was the last day to bolster some numbers for 2021 but the weather was not on the same page. So I rose early and hit the trail by 6.30am to avoid some of the heat. With a few of the OTD’s missing from the set, and several others that didn’t want to play ball, I ended up at 2.30pm with 9 more to get. Balaklava was not forthcoming so went south to Owen to complete the haul. A great day out, with the temperature ranging between 40 and 45 degrees from 11am onwards. Thanks to all the CO’s for their placement and ongoing maintenance.

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird. TFTC OzFiresafe
Find #7184 at 11:47.

Out on caching adventures on the APM Series with Wollaston.

Thanks to the many hands and minds taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot in logbook with stamp

TFTC OzFiresafe

Find # 4811

Thanks for the cache! Found with conardel. John Howard was my first PM

Thanks for the cache found with Webberg! Little Johnnie, the star of “How green was my cactus”, a radio gem.

John H ...
We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come.
Thanks Firesafe for the hide.

Out on a maintenance run today - All OK for this one. Good to go.

Day 2 - (bit bummed that today's finds wont make Feb stats!) A drive to Hamley Bridge to surprise an old bud (yes, not that far I know, but add time from Happy Valley!!) .. and I've grabbed a few caches on the ring route!!! tftc firesafe

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Today, with the Adelaide COVID-19 lockdown lifted, I decided to head north and target the *Australian Prime Ministers* (APM) Trail, and the *It's a Small World* 60 series. I swung by St Kilda initially, reminiscing about the playground and mangroves I once visited as a child, and then continued to snake my way north following the Prime Ministers, and visiting Mallala in doing so. It drizzled on/off for most of the day, and as the rain started to set in as the sun set, I decided to take that opportunity to head home.

I commenced this APM trail starting at our well known first Prime Minister, Edmund Barton, at 13:45 hr, and from taking a few detours, ended up finishing at John Howard at 19:15 hr. I did notice that it wasn't the usual "power trail" given the distances in between caches, but perhaps I was also a little thankful at driving this series solo, and having a good rest in between. This geocache was found quickly, and the cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks Firesafe/OzFiresafe for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

FND
Nice day for it

Great spot

Tftc

found it

Day 182 (Thursday 27th) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Tailem bend today. A total of 7 for the day and 3487 for the trip. TFTC.

Dusty caching day! TFTC for the find, FireSafe!
At the caching crossroads

DNF, too cold and wet to go looking

I reckon he was the last decent PM we had, TFTC

Johnny begins his run up and bowls, and we know the rest

It was a lovely sunny autumn day so with our N T cachers Peerages we decided to do the Prime Ministers series which we thought appropriate as by tomorrow a new one may needed to be added after we have all voted.
Thanks a good series

TFTC. SL. While on holiday from the NT. Thanks to firesafe, out for a history lesson today with local caching team Pegasus46.

Co-it’s good - straight to the point just like this statesman.

GPS a bit off but not hard to find. TFTC Jones Family

We soon found this one on arriving at Ground Zero. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and for the interesting information on the cache page. Greetings from Zimbabwe

An afternoon caching expedition had been organised with Michells&hound to tackle the February OTD series and the Prime Ministers series along with a few others along the way. [^]

M&h had also targeted three multis which we added to the list, and we also found. We had a successful afternoon (4 finds and 2 DNF's) which ended up extending into the early evening, but hey when you are on a roll... It was a beautiful day for caching, warm with a breeze which turned into quite a cool wind at the end of our day so it didn't bother us too much. Saw lots of wildlife with one huge paddock containing hundreds of goats running around...I had never seen so many goats in one place.

We had finished the OTD series, grabbed a few multis and a couple of random trads on the way to the Prime Ministers. We started with the last one, wondering how long before the next cache will need placing. [?][?] We didn't know how far we would get but in the end we completed them all with no DNF's. It was a fun series with long gaps between caches and a few different containers.

Thanks for the cache and series OzFiresafe.

After lots of dramas at work it was nice to finish at lunch time and head out on an afternoon caching expedition with JJ52.
The plan was to tackle the February OTD series and the Prime Minister series.
I also requested the add in of 3 multis as I am trying to qualify for the SFE multi challenge which is still a long way off.
We had a great afternoon/early evening out finding over 60 caches and only 2 dnf which both appeared to be missing.
The weather was glorious, not too hot and made for a super afternoon.
Thankfully no snakes were seen but we were vigilant as it seemed like perfect snakey weather. Plenty of birds were seen as well as a rabbit, lizard and many many goats and other farming animals.
TFTC and this series we found all. Really enjoyed this series was nice to have some big gaps between them and enjoyed the rural dirt road drive.

Today was a prime day to minister to the needs of these geocachers, so along with ilook4geo the hunt was on to collect most of the caches placed in honour of our Australian Prime Ministers to the current one. Each cache was a nice easy find, all log books had two more names duly noted and each was then hidden again to await the next finder.
Thank you to OzFiresafe for placing all these caches and for the cache pages with some history about each Prime Minister.

Found this series while out caching with goingplaces2. Interesting series and page notes. It took us on a tour of the countryside with some different sights. We had a fun and successful day. TFTC.

Left the Yorke Pen, today for another years visit. reasonably successful on the fishing line, returning to Gawler before heading up to the OZ Mega. What a winds, hot day today picking up the remainder of the APM series commenced a couple of years ago with scroungers54. caches all good
Find No.5372
TFTC OzFiresafe

Quick find while out caching with Go Grandys.TFTC

Stamped as "Fabulous Randoms"

The weather was average but the day was enjoyable as there were caches to find

Thanks so much for the series OzFiresafe! [^]

After completing the unicorn, I had to drop Davidwazza off over near this series. I completed some off these back at the start of the month. Back to complete another part with only a few left now to find. TFTC

Quick drive-by. Tftc firesafe

Found with FUF009.
Day 6 of an 8 day epic tour of SA.
Based in Tarlee, today's goal was some OTD caches and the APM series.
Various side tracks to get other finds along the way were added in as they presented themselves.
The OTD series are so different in style of hide so that kept things interesting.
The APM was a long drive for few caches which we didnt really enjoy but it was heading in the direction of our accommodation so was convenient.
Again, I was impressed by the diversity of the SA countryside and it was a pleasant day.
204 caches found today. Apologies for the generic log.
All caches were found in good condition unless mentioned at the start of my log.
Tftc

Find # 6368
Day 6
On the list was OTD April and February, then onto the PSA series and the big 60 onthe map. After that it was a look at and completion of the APM, long and bumpy, trail. This took us all day and just to the brink of the night.

Found with sharkiefan

A Big week was planned to travel around South Australia, staying in Minlaton, Tarlee and Adelaide. We cache along a number of Trails, managed to grab a few off the beaten track, some well known caches and the odd one that
came up on the map as we were travelling around.

It ended up being a massive week of 2960 odd kilometers travelled, with day find counts of 25, 256, 361, 318, 66, 205, 104 and 76 (yep thats 1411 for the 8 days)
1062 micro, 238 small, 60 Regular, 45 large, 3 Virtual and 3 Other.


TFTC firesafe

A quick find and sign at 14:27 on 2/4/18. TFTC OzFiresafe

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TFTC 2nd attempt & found it on our way home. )

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Found with Larayugal on a fine afternoon of caching. TFTC.

found it with troyyugal

Had a day off work Friday decided that I would do some more caching so planned to make a serious dent in this neck of the woods, I must say that it wasn't a to bad of a day only missed a couple but there were some caches that may need to be checked as these were unsignable due to water damage or logs full. Big thankyou to all cache owners who maintained their caches it makes it worth the trip and a good day all round.

Found with Superman_22, found lying on the ground put it on the fence line near the tree.

Found with Northstar76, might need to be reattached to the tree

Found on the way to Pt Hughes for the weekend. TFTC

Tftc! Thanks johnny!

TFTC easy drive by.

Went on a caching drive with Timotatus.
Thanks for replacing, all good now in the obvious hole
TFTC OzFiresafe

New container and log book - all good to go

Needed a cache for the day, so why not make that twenty!
Went for a short run to pick up a few PMs I hadn't been past before
The only PM who's eyebrows have been used as a hint for a cache hide (as far as I know!).

Sadly the tree Mr Howard's cache may have been attached to or hidden within has undergone some destruction.
There is still a nice hollow base, but by torchlight I couldn't find a cache (and so far they've all been pretty good).
Looks like the storm recently may have damaged the burnt tree some more and then a chainsaw might have been involved too.
Will watch to see if anyone else finds it or gets checked

Thanks for the challenge OzFiresafe
will place on the watch list and return asap!

TFTC

Not as slippery as his name sake, TFTC. SL.

All good to go

New container & logbook - now a micro

This cache has been temporarily disabled due to a recent fire in the area. An extensive area of farmland has been burnt out and poses a potential risk to public safety. For safety reasons, visitors should keep clear of all areas that have been affected. See updates at http://www.cfs.sa.gov.au/site/warnings_and_incidents/pinery_fire_information.jsp

A lovely day to go caching so we decided to shake the NSW/Qld dust out of the geo-bag and find some good old "Croweater" caches A good day with 38 smileys. The only frustration was the merry-go-round called the GPS, but it did not bet us!.
TFTC TNLN

John Howard, can't say I ever voted for him, certainly didn't mind pushing the envelope a bit bringing in the GST.
A quick easy find
TFTC

Nice hide

[green]Find #14 of the day and Find # 5675[/green]...

Found this while House Sitting in Virginia... Grabbing some caches as I took around this beautiful area, letting my GPS be my guide... A glorious day to be out & about...

A bit of a stroll, a short search, found cache, stamped and returned... A beautiful, typical country area...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment OzFiresafe... A nice idea for a series...
- P

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log...
[green]Cache Condition - All Good[/green]...

Easy find

Good find at night

Hard find and unsafe so moved not fair away from original position

Love him or hate him, he did something right to stay in the top job for 11 years! OMG those eyebrows though! you could shelter a small family under them! TFTC

We can blame him for the GST. But I suppose I don't really notice the extra tax on almost every thing.
Thanks firesafe for placing this cache.
Found 18 January 2015 3:21PM Find # 284

Quick and easy find.
My last APM series find today.
All easily found, but a lot have water in the container, due to poor fitting lids.
Tftc.

TFTC Mark & Nay ( & chooks )

Tftc!

Tftc

TFTC

Say no more about this fella TFTC

Found as a part of TheKellyGang, writing this as a genaric log as I was a part of TheKellyGang and am now out on my own.
If you do not agree with this you are more than welcome to delete the log.

[Green][font=Comic Sans MS]G'Day from W.A.[font=Verdana][/Green]


[font=Arial Black]Out and about with FelixII again today we moved on up the road from Highway 1 Caravan park to the Mallala show grounds to free camp for a few days. The weather was wet, wet, wet and did I mention the hail and icy cold wind?

After arriving rather late in the day we headed off to find the PM series of caches. All were straighforward hides luckily as the weather was rather miserable (did I mention the rain and hail) and the roads were muddy and flooded.

Thanks for your cache OzFiresafe, we had fun. [font=Verdana]

Touring Australia having left Perth in late February and attending Oz Mega. Now we are leisurely checking out the rest of the State.

Today we moved on from Highway 1 in company with friends iluvtrekking.

We had many reasons to not leave until lunchtime. Once we were finally on the road we arrived at Two Wells when we had a phone call and a reason to return again to Highway 1 caravan park. [B)] [xx(]

We unhitched the caravan and Mr Felix went hunting caches whilst Mrs Felix retraced our steps.

It was raining and hailing during our drive today and on arrival the camping area was fairly muddy. We quickly decided on likely spots to set down our homes on wheels.

Then it was into wet weather attire and our assault on the APM series commenced.

The weather was pretty cruddy, but the drive was great out in the countryside. It was dark o'clock before we finished with today but we happily returned to Roast Pork for dinner.

Interesting idea for a series. Nice quick finds. Just making the right decision on where to park so the finder didn't step out into a puddle was the biggest problem we encountered today.

TFTC