PT 57 Lanthanum Hammond Park, Western Australia, Australia
By loubla, adopted by Benson_Boys on 15-Jul-12. Waypoint GC3QHFA

The bush was honestly to prickly to enter and we couldnt find it

Tftc

Did not spend alot of time here, only a very cursory look as alot of scratchy bushes here so could not really say it was a DNF as could very well be here

There is a new foot path so may of been taken

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Cool

A couple of scrapes along the arms getting this cache out and the container cracked a little in my hands. Have placed it back with the broken side down but might need a check-up before winter.

Thanks benson_boys for placing PT 57 Lanthanum for me and others to find.
I added my name to the log at 16:37 on 10/2/2022.
This is find number 4048 for me.

Nice quick find
The container is broken and needs replacing

I took the advantage of the dodgy weather we have had this week and cycled a bit more of the cycle path. Some of the caches need maintenance as I logged 9 DNF’s and 29 finds. The path has been pruned in areas this has contributed to difficulty in finding some. I saw my first cyclist after 20 caches but by the end of the arvo there were a few more dog walkers and mamils (middle aged men in lycra).

I enjoyed my ride and had a few sprinkles of rain though it started pelting 500m from the car on return.

TFTC loubla (originally) and now benson boys

I thought this was a goner as a new track has been carved west of the bike path but the 2m strip of bush including the prickly GZ is intact.

Last time I was here was in 2012 This time i came back and manage to find it at long last. TFTH SL.

Ouchies. TFTC

Thanks Benson_Boys for the cache. Bush is still prickly.

Yep - very spikey bush

Did not like bush but super easy

Beware of the prickly bush .

Hi there benson_boys. Today was going to be cooler so I pumped up the tyres and headed out on the freeway south from Beeliar Drive. All caches were found quickly - and the containers and logs are in good condition. TN, LN, SL. Thanks to benson_boys for this cache - our find 8365

Out and about on the bike today to complete some caches along the freeway. Quick find here TFTC

TFTC

So the most caches that we have found in a day up until now was 19... but with only 1 day to go for the Mystery at the Museum to be completed a plan was hatched with thronsy.4 to tackle a section of this power trail.
Take the train to Kwinana (after reducing our crew to 4 - to streamline finds) and cycle to Auburn Grove grabbing all the caches on the way (totaling 33 finds and 1 DNF ) and then take the train back.
Pleased to say we now have a new record 33 finds. (Not as good as some others but still something. )
TFTC and thanks for keeping this series alive.
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This one was a bit pickly to get to but still got it.

Out and about with Thro60clan to collect the rest of the caches we need to catch those dastardly villains for the Mystery at the Museum. We decided it would be easiest to ride this trail after catching the train down. After splitting into teams of two we alternated caches down to Aubin Grove station, occasionally stopping to help each other find the caches. Some finds were easier than others. Some required a bit more of a thorough search. All in all a great day with beautiful weather. All we could here on approach from Wildflower was, Ow that bush is so prickly Mum! Tftc

a glorious morning for a ride and chance to pick up a few caches on the way..all good here cache and log in good condition. tftc

Doing the walk from auburn grove to Kwinana. Thanks for all the caches

7th find for the day. Spikey little spot

Easily spotted. TFTC

TFTC

TFTC

With our bicycles we made the series from the elements.
Here we began with Nr. 49 and are able to find every cache. Some logbook was wet, than we spent a new sheet of paper. So it was an successful day and we had a lot of fun.
Thank you and greetings from Germany send Moorhelmi

Bit mean with this location. Bring kevlar gloves and wear sleeves for this one TFTC

TFTC

Out grabbing a few of the periodic series between Aubin Grove and Kwinana, as well as an assortment of caches around the Kwinana, Parmelia and Wellard areas. Ended the day with 49 finds. All caches were in good condition, unless otherwise stated below.

Found it, but had to reach through a horribly spikey bush for it. Had to take my shirt off afterwards to take all the spikes out, and then wash the smaller spikes off my back. May the person that placed this one have their rear end infested with 1000 march flies!

Spikey plant..owe... Found it then crawled to get it.

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Post-adoption cache check complete!

Quick find by S TFTH

I didn't find this one when the series was originally published but I was passing by on my morning run so I stopped for a look and spotted it straight away. It must have moved a little from its original location.
TFTC Loubla and Blakids

PT 57 Lanthanum was transferred from BlaKids to user benson_boys

#9 for the arvo. Watch out for prickly parrot bush.

Tftc

With Parkacruz and myself on grandparent duty we thought that we would tackle a bit more of the Periodic Table and a few others along the way, hoping to get as many souvenirs as possible for Yeatesy89 and Piknik15, we only had one dnf for the day and managed a variety of finds. So I'm not sure who is more tired, but I know that the pram must of put on at least 10 kilos by the end of the day. tftc

Out today with Nann ( Neva2old) and Parkacruz who had piknik15 with them, we had a great day caching and playing in the parks along the way. My legs are sore now. tftc

A fun filled day in the sun with Piknik15, Neva2old and yeatesy89, happy to say we came up trumps and walked away with a smilie TFTC

Out with Nanny & Poppy aka Parkacruz, neva2old and yeatesy89 to find some geocaches, a fun day and we even got to do a water cache TFTC

Another quick one again All ok tftc

Thank you bittgirls

TFTC

We are visiting from Adelaide and staying nearby at our rellies. They kindly leant us their electric power assist bikes. So we headed out to try the bikes and tied in some caching. It was a glorious day to be out and about. TFTC and the series

Filling in a section of the freeway we have missed today. Taking advantage of beautiful weather. Hubby dropped us off at Rowley Road and miss 15 and I are walking with Miss 4 and miss 2 in strollers and miss 9months in her carrier to the Aubin Grove Train station.

Nice easy find here. Just followed the footprints left earlier today tftc.

Quick grab on morning ride. Tftc

See Hafnium (72) for more information. The cache was surrounded by a very mean bush! TFTC

Recently I have been getting back into cycling after taking a break for a couple of years. Today I was keen to get back out onto the freeway path to shake of the cobwebs. I cached the section between Russell Road to Thomas Road with only 2 DNFs for the day. Almost all found containers were in good condition and found relatively easily. TFTC loubla and BlaKids

Good little spot

another nice find

Apologies for the super late log, doing a catch up today. Nice quick find whilst beginning the huge assault on the freeway caches. Tftc

Sadly work and the festive season has interfered with our caching this month and with just a couple of days to go until the end of the month some serious caching needed to be had.
Whilst Mrs fratra headed off to work Mr fratra jumped on his new bike and hit the Freeway cycle path to hunt down some periodic table caches.
He rode from just after Cockburn central south to Thomas Rd and managed 34 finds and 3 dnfs.
TFTC this is find # 3827 for us.

Completing just a short section of this trail today TFTH hopefully soon I will complete the entire trail

Found

It has spiked protection

Nice quick find. Out on the bikes. Hoping to complete the series today. TFTC

A day of geocaching along the kwinanna freeway, today I want to do from Aubin grove to kwinanna stations

Number eight signed with no troubles

Tftc

Lanthanum - Periodic Table was transferred from loubla to user BlaKids

Replaced & moved to a better location.

Coordinates changed from:
S 32° 10.463 E 115° 51.384

Coordinates changed to:
S 32° 10.466 E 115° 51.384

Distance from original: 18.4 feet or 5.6 meters.

Moved as things change over time.

Found after a short search. TFTC.

Replaced the cache & moved it to a better location. Things change in any given location over time. See new coords. Will update the cache coords when it comes available.

Another very soggy logbook after the recent rains. TFTC

Cool cache

Out with geogypsys for another great day of caching. Must have planned this well, coming up from Busselton to do these this weekend - the coolest weekend for a while.
Puff puff...
TFTC

A caching weekend with Pood, found on Friday after work. TFTC

Didnt even have to get off our bikes to find this one

Unable to spot this one today. Will try again another time.

Log wet and disintegrating, unable to sign

I decided to come out here this morning with the goal of reaching 700 finds and completing some more cycle path caches. It took About 90 minutes one way (while caching) and 15 minutes back. I had a few people ask me if I was alright, which I responded with a yes. It's nice to see how many caring people there are.

loubla, I found your cache ‘Lanthanum - Periodic Table’ today. It was the twelfth find of twenty-six finds with five DNF’s and brings my total count to 692.

The caches were found in a good condition (though some were a little wet and one had no container) so I signed the log books and replaced them as I found them. Thanks for the hides and the effort put into maintaining this series. It makes for a great power trail.

Needs the extraction tool for this as log sheet all wet and soggy on one end.
Wow, a cool forecast for late December. A great opportunity to get out and bag a pile of caches today. Took the bike out on the trails today to see the sights.
This was find number 15 today at 8:50. Not sure how many I will find but way more than any previous single day.

Enjoyed the Saturday afternoon stroll along Freeway South of Russell Road to pick up several of the “Periodic Table”. Thanks for the cache loubla

Another quick find. Log sheet on this one is sodden too. Thanks for the cache loubla.

Found Lanthanum - Periodic Table. Coordinates were spot on. Log sheet is damp and at the point of disintegration. I’ve gently taken it out, signed the log, and nicely rolled it back into place. TFTH loubla.

#211

Found after a brief hunt . Log is very damp may need replacing.

Out with hhheddy & dezzabills polishing off this series by bike. It's been an interesting journey, reciting thru the table of elements one by one, like back in science class. The overall distance daunting, but just kept focused one at a time; having buddies help search effort and spur each other along to the end invaluable. As anticipated most caches were easy to find and in good condition, some required extra effort; couple out in the open, couple half-buried; dozen wet log papers. In hindsight could've been prepared to dry log papers & bring some mint tin replacement containers.
Thank you for the cache series!

tftc loubla

I have been looking at the periodic table series of caches for some time now. Since I have decided to complete a challenge I need the numbers hence the reason for the run today. I took the day off work and co=opted a couple of fellow cachers, Lazarus_68 and Dezzabills. I thought a couple of days would finish the series off, So today we set off early on our pushbikes with the idea of completing as many as we could manage. As it turns out we made it all the way to the end. We were very fortunate to find the caches quicker than expected. So to sum up the day we found 117 caches in the periodic table and a couple of extras along the way giving me a grand total of 119 for the day. Not bad if I say so myself, and surprisingly there were no DNF's so all in all a great day. The ride down from home in Como took us 6 hours and 58 minutes. While my fellow cachers took the train home I toughed it out and rode home in just over 2 hours. We stopped several times down and back for a break and a bite to eat to refuel the bodies.

This was the 58th find of 119 for the day and was found at 11:48AM Thanks BlaKids/loubla for the cache. hhheddy

DNF Lanthanum. GZ is too bushy that it is impractical to penetrate. TFTH loubla.

Tftc Log is wet Cheers

Out to complete a little more of this series. Found 9 today as we took the geodog for a long walk. This was number 3. Cache container is in good condition but the log is like paper mache ( wet) Couldn't get it out. Added a bit of paper as temporary log but this log needs urgent tlc. Tftc.

Out for a ride today, to pick up some caches, and what a misson it was. Started at Cockburn shopping centre,and finished off at Baldivis, 26 km of pain. 76 finds and 3 dnfs for the day.Thanks to Roma308 for joining the misson.Tftc sl tnln.

Went out for a bike ride with jackyleggs, we rode almost 30 kms
It was good exercise, but we pulled up a bit sore.
Tftc

Nice day to progress with some caches.
Thank you

Spent a while looking in the bush next to it until I saw something out of the corner of my eye
TFTGC

Having reached our 3,000 and enjoyed the previous outing to get the first 40 of this series we decided to tackle the stretch from Cockburn Central to Kwinana. It was a warmer day so by the time we reached Kwinana we were ready to call it a successful day.
At a couple of caches we found 2 containers, so we signed the log on one and took the other which we then used to replace other broken ones further along. We also replaced a couple of logs as well and dropped in one of our tagz in a couple of caches. All up the series is in reasonable condition.

Thanks for the cache loubla [^] - another one where we found 2 containers so signed the log on one and left it and took the other for maintenance further along..

This was find # 16 of 40 and 5 today giving us a total cache count of 3016.

Up in Perth for a week from Albany, this trail was number one on the list of things to do. Starting in Perth and riding south we managed to find most caches in the series with only 4 that we couldn't find! We had some test tubes of our own which we replaced with some of the more broken containers but unfortunately didn't have enough to replace them all. Thanks for the epic series guys and also for maintaining them so well!

Tftc

Good hide - cache and log in great Nic - TFTC

If there is a cache here and it is under that bush then there is a fair chance it will never be found again. Cache replaced from the resouces of the Freddo back pack. Bush is looking second hand.
Given a whole day to go caching in Perth the inner scientist in Freddo could not resist the geeky awesomeness of a Periodic Table PT. With bicycle supplied by .K.B. I travelled by train to Kwinana and folllowed the trail of elements from one end to the other. The cache finds ranged from seen as I arrived, to hides that have me looking for twice the 3 minutes I had allowed. Some caches were replaced. A few caches were unfound and will stand as DNF's.
I know these elements. My job as a metallurgist means that I deal with a large portion of the common 92 at work. There was a sense of pride reeling them off. And then there was the joy of cruising along on a bike on a beautiful winter day that actually feels like an Indian summer.
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This cache was found using a Garmin GPSr, Montana 650t, Oregon 550 or Dakota 20. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK 8.
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Day fifty seven of the WA road trip with BettyBoo3747.
We loaded up the deadly treadlies after dropping the car off for it's service in Fremantle and hit the Periodic Table Series trail at Bull Creek. We worked our way south until we came to where we had finished up a month ago (about #66), then jumped the train at Kwinana for the trip back to Bull Creek. We then completed the last four elements heading north to Perth.
Unfortunately a large collection of DNFs, and one replacement container, and a few replacement logs.
Lovely day for a ride though, and (apart from the DNFs) loved the trail.
Thanks, Robmc.

# 8247. Day 2 of our week in Fremantle and Rob's car is in for a service at Melville. We decided to try to finish off the Periodic Table series that we started in late April, by riding down the trail to Kwinana Station and catching the train back to Bull Creek Station before riding back to the Ford Dealer. It turned out to be a 38km day, not altogether successful with 57 smilies and frustratingly, 10 DNFs.

We replaced a couple of logs and one container, but some of the other logs have got rather damp and are looking mouldy and a big time-worn although generally there are plenty of spots left for signing.

Thanks loubla

Gosh it's getting hot, luckily we have plenty of water with us & lunch on board for when we REALLY need a rest. TFTC

Found it but forgot to take a pen with us!!!

Headed Off early this morning on my scooter to complete a big section of this series.
My goal is to get my 1000 before the holidays end and this made a huge imapct on it.

Started at Einsteinium at 8.00am, 3 1/2 hours later I finished at Zirconium at 11.30am.
60 Finds in hand and No DNFs

Most being easy finds. A couple of hunts took some time but all in all a great morning.

Had to replaced a couple as they were broken.

Thanks BlaKids and loubla for this awesome series.
Sorry about the generic logs but its hard to remember all of them in a power trail.

I found it. I left my mark. I replaced it and I left. TFTC.

Having a go at the '300 caches per month challenge' so need to knock off some power trails. Jumped on the train at Cockburn Central with the bike and got off at Kwinana to ride back and clean up all the 'Periodic Table' caches along the way. Unfortunately I had a blowout on the bike and had to walk the last 5 or 6 k's. 44 finds with two DNF's not a bad afternoons work I reckon.

I think by this stage I was walking. Couldn't spot an obvious GZ and my heart wasn't in it so moved on.

TFTH

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