HMAS #19: CHOULES North West Rural Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By Cankid on 10-Mar-14. Waypoint GC4V3TW

Cache is not here! I have collected it as part of the CITO organised by the CO in preparation for archiving the series.

This series has come to the end of its life. With pine plantations being cleared and new suburbs encroaching on the area, it needs to be archived. Thanks to all who helped with the CITO this morning and to all who have supported the series. Special thanks to Cankid for the research and original placement of the series.

Thank you for letting us log the caches at the event Smittengranny
I had the chance to do the caches 80 to 90 a few 50ies and a 20 with Fred yesterday. This was a nice series.
Would have liked to do the others as well but couldn’t because I had a sour leg.
Thank you for putting out the cache Cankid

Dino

Thankyou Smittengranny for both maintaining and letting us log the series, as well as the CITO event.

Thanks also to Cankid for the initial placement.

I was devastated when Angel27 told me that the series will be gone by the end of the week! Horror!
I was overseas when the came out looking forward to do them ever since. Even though we have been back some weeks now I had left them as they are the perfect opportunity to go nearby with the dog and the entire family. So I was waiting for the right opportunity to come here for a nicely planned dayhike or two. (Not realizing that their days were ending of course).

So since this is final opportunity to take on the HMAS series before it's archived I am making a late effort now.
This is the second day effort, this time an early start, important as I was taking on the northern side today.

Found this on at 10:25

TFTC Smittengranny and Cankid, shame that they will be archived.

Flip me over - you know you want to.

The 1st one on this walk. Nice, quiet location.

Sunset. Yay!! Another cache under our belt. Getting close now.

Found on our hunt to clear out some HMAS. With botmun and Minniek. Great day for it. So glad we started uphill!

Headed out with nibletricecakes & B0tmun in the hopes of collecting the rest of this series....well for me at least. We managed to do it.....just. The sun was just setting as we finished but still had to walk out from #12 to the road. Thankfully we had a car waiting to collect us. Legs definitely sore by the end. The puzzles will have to wait for another day.

Day 2 of as many days as it takes to clear the HMAS series before it disappears. Today I'm starting at the start, about 2pm, on what looks to be good terrain to get through quickly on a bike. Clearing out as much of the western and southern sections as I can in the daylight available.

TFTC Cankid and Smittengranny

This was a very nice walk which took me most of the day. I didn't have time to do the whole walk but got the majority of it done. Most of the finds were easy apart from a handful which took a few minutes to spot, plus 1 DNF. The weather was nice and sunny but not too hot. The walk took about 8 and a half hours including a few stops for drink and snacks along the way. Thanks for setting the series and a more detailed log at No. 1. TFTC.

TFTC. I'm new to the region so thought I would take a wander to a new area before these are archived.

Going to do this series with Eldritch97 before it disappears. It's been on my to do list for ages...TFTF

TFTC! Found it with legocacher79.

Went for a walk today to check on #1-20. I am not replacing caches but ensuring they are waterproof until I archive them at the end of May 2018.

I tagged along while AngelG27 finally finished off this series. I now want to finish this series as well... I'm going to have to hurry though... just found out I've got a month before they are all archived!!! We pretty much picked up the walk and conversation where we left off from yesterday. Again lots of laughs and our gate climbing had improved... but thankfully no barbwire today! Thanks

Found at 0945 - only just realised that I've been carrying my pen in my mouth between caches, when I took a breath and dropped it! Well, I guess it beats fumbling around in pockets or bags when it comes time to sign, and stops me from snacking on the supplies that I'm carrying.

The cache was quickly found thanks to a splash of colour on approach - thanks Cankid / DRT / Smittengranny.

Such great information and TFTC

Found with misty thanks for the cache

Having had this on my watchlist, I was surprised to see that this was found. I messaged Jaybeem! who confirmed that it was buried deep, and they had brought it up, and a bit easier to find

I went back to where I thought it was, and there it was!

TFTC Cankid/Smittengranny & Jaybeem (for unearthing!)

Tftc. Took longer than it should have but eventually got the smiley.

I'll come back for this one, but GZ looks devoid of a cache... will check logs for notes then try again tomorrow or Wednesday!

### A beautiful sunny day ###

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I have already planed the walk of the HMAS series.
It was beautiful weather so I’ve started this tour with enough food/drinks to keep me going.
I’ve met many cows along the way and was happy about the tranquillity and the nice caches along the way.
I was able to find all caches and bonus numbers despite the heat of 40 degrees on that day.
I’ve watched many kangaroos in the afternoon and a big echidna.

I got back to the car after 10 hours of walking 38km. I’ve had a nice day and I was happy to convert all the caches into smileys.
Thank you for this nice tour.

Team sissifalke

I will look for the bonus numbers tomorrow.

Found at 10:51:00 AM

Headed out today to find a slew of HMAS series caches with ZimbaW, Joolay and JM383. Some cache maintenance was done and clue collected. 15.5 kms all up, so it was good exercise too.

Thanks Smittengranny

Geocaching today with Joolay, ZimbaW and Noikmeister. Another easy cache to find not far from the path.

Found today with JM383, Noikmeister & ZimbaW on a cooler day to cache for summer actually it was down right cold with that very chilly wind coming straight off the mountains. Decided to try finish the HMAS series and got it done. Great walking with everyone. TFTC

A quick grab, although a calf jumped out the bush nearby the gz. I am not sure which of us was more shocked! tftc

Zombros were here.

Nice sunny day with the zombros (runner5ive,Vegas and BF)

Found with 2N's. TFTC

Spent the day caching with Geo Daughter Crash1970. SL TFTC

This is our fourth trip to the northern island this year. The first three were primarily for family events but with some opportunities to do some caching along the way. The fourth trip is different as caching is our focus. After getting off The Spirit of Tasmania we are heading north to cache at Wangaratta and then Yass before heading into the ACT and Queanbeyan for a week. After that we will travel to Jindabyne for a few days with summiting Mount Kosciuszko being our main target for this part of our trip. Then we will visit Cooma and Tumut before heading back down the track through Wangaratta and Mansfield as we make our way to Alexandra for the MEGA. After the weekend we will continue to make our way south and back onto the Spirit of Tasmania for the “drive” across Bass Strait. We are really looking forward to three weeks of intense caching in great areas and, hopefully, catching up with some geocachers in each of the areas we will visit.

We have been working on the Canberra Mapping Challenge (GC5KB4J) for some time, taking the opportunity of reducing the number of suburbs still required every time we come through Canberra. On Sunday and Monday we concentrated on nine of the ten suburbs where we still had to find at least one cache. We waited 24 hours before the Project-GC Challenge checker confirmed that we had satisfied the requirements for another nine suburbs, leaving just one to go (Forrest). We will try to meet that requirement tomorrow. Today we had a different focus. We spent the morning on the HMAS series of caches in the Weston Creek area. In the afternoon we looked for some GCA caches and any other caches that were in the areas we were visiting. Thankfully the weather was much better than yesterday.

This morning we divided the caching between us. Mrs y’stassie started at “GC4V3TF HMAS 01: ANZAC” and after parking the car at Dairy Hill in the National Arboretum, Mr y’stassie walked to “GC56YK2 HMAS 44: SIRIUS” and started looking caches from there. Despite a different style of hide, accurate coordinates led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. One interesting observation was a pair of magpies systematically attacking a forest raven. The raven would escape to some shelter only to come again again almost immediately for the attack to continue - slow learner. Thanks Cankid for the cache and the series.

***** We are currently writing detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC. "The Author" Badge challenges geocachers to average one hundred words or more in each log. On 1 September 2017 our average was 86 which seems close to the 100 target. However given that we have found so many GC caches, we have to write many logs with well over 100 words for a long period of time to get our average to the target. Apologies to anyone who finds the logs tedious but it is the only way that we can strive to attain this challenge. After 228 caches (which includes all cache finds up and including yesterday), the average log length is just over 91.65. Progress is being made but there is still a long way before we achieve our goal.*****

10th of 13 for the day. I have been taking the pup for walks at the arboretum lately so finally decided to grab some of these caches. Will be back for more another time.

TFTC!

Took the geokids and my pile of TB's that I am about to offload on the HMAS series. Beautiful day for it and we did about 25 caches

On the way to 8000 finds... only about 300 to go!
I have a plan to find my 8000th cache on the 29th of July, in two weeks time. So I have a lot to find before then. So I planned a couple of weekend trips to Canberra of intense caching. Today the HMAS series was the target! I brought my bike with me as suggested... but when I started this morning at 8AM it was minus 4 degrees! Frost covering everything and ice on my car windows and bike. On top of that all the layers of warm clothing made it a bit difficult to move freely so I decided to go by foot.
By the end of the 8th hour I found the last cache, and had another hour walk back to the car. In the end I walked 30Km for 8 hours 50 min and found 99 caches in the area ( a few of the HMAS caches were offline and 1 DNF). Followed by a nice 3 hour drive home!
I'm still short of my goal so I'll probably come back down again next weekend.
Thanks for all the caches!

Maintenance done kindly by Lola1983 and Maris4. Many thanks.

3:05pm we are DONE!! After only seeing one jogger, we then had 3 x bikes, two with dogs and two runners the whole day. And close by, Ryan 1 STINKS!! It will take 1 hr to head back to the gate. Tftc!!!

With dty73 we came this morning to see how many more of this series we could complete. Having started with a good few over the far side a few weeks back it was time to see to the ones from this side, with 40 found today.

"Ryan.1" the super vent down hill was working a treat. Walked up the hill with the wind to our backs and super stink the whole way! Last cache though so blocked our noses and pushed on. Glad to have today's sections completed, just the one section left to go and the series will be completed for a nice achievement. Thanks for the cache.

Found

Quick find on a lovely afternoon

Found with sami_180

Found while out for a walk with D. Saw some black cockatoos and crows; no cattle nor kangaroos on today's walk. TFTC.

I needed a daily cache find and I felt like a walk ... and it was a nice day ... time to come and grab a few more of these
TFTC - 9th one of about a dozen

Tftc

Logbook and contain replaced on behalf of Smittengranny

Unable to sign log book, too soggy.

Container cracked and log book saturated.

Yesterday we decided to go for another walk tosay and that we will start this looong HMAS PWT.
The weather was better than expected and we were able to walk about 1/3 of the caches. The rest will have to wait for now

Thanks for setting this serie up.

Here we even didn't try to sign the log. It is soooo wet that it would be more engrawing than writing...

Down in Canberra for the long weekend for a sporting event and also getting some geocaches as well. Was in the area so made a few stops along the way, including a very nice walk around Lake Burley Griffin. TFTH

TFTC! Container broken, log very wet, need maintenance

TFTC

Container cracked but log dry in its zip lock TFTC TNLN

I wanted to take my new mountain bike out for a spin, and the HMAS series was recommended by some fellow cachers. After parking at the coordinates given, I began my journey at HMAS #1 and completed the first 32 of the series.

It took me a few caches to get into the rhythm of pedal a couple hundred metres, hop off the bike, find a cache and continue along to the next. I left a dinosaur in every cache, and collected some great loot from a few along the way.

After a couple of uphill sections and the sun beating down on me, I was more than ready to stop for a rest and find this one!
The lid is cracked and is missing a piece, but the contents are all dry and safe. TFTC

The lid has been cracked and is missing a section. The contents are all dry however, and I made sure to close the ziplock bag carefully to keep the log safe.

I have wanted to finish this series fora long time - I've done it all on foot. Today I finished (this was my last one) as well as getting my 1000th cache in the ACT (I'm keeping track). Thanks Smittengranny.

We finished the lower half of the HMAS series a few weeks ago, so came back today to complete the rest! We started around 7am, finished at about 4:30pm, and found 64 caches, including the HMAS puzzles, and some nearby unrelated caches. Some VERY sore feet today (and one exhausted Woofer!) but we had a lot of fun and enjoyed seeing the views. We left something behind in every one. TFTC Smittengranny - it was a great series!!

We had missed uploading this one when we did the lower half of the series, so had to walk over old ground to find it today! When we arrived at GZ we found the cache easily enough, but it was broken and filled with water. The log was surprisingly still dry, and since we had nothing to repair/replace the container with, we've left it upside down to minimise the chance of water getting in.

One of 60 HMAS caches found today whilst enjoying the walk around the area. Looking forward to finishing the rest off some time. TFTC!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

Our current visit to Australia had been in the planning for over a year with the very significant help and advice from friends who live in Melbourne. The original plan was for a 2 month visit, but as things progressed we just couldn't help extending our trip to the full 90 days allowed on our visas - after all it's a big country and so much to see and do, especially with our favourite pastimes being birding, hiking and of course geocaching! Our journey started with our arrival in Perth before travelling on to Adelaide. We then continued on to Kangaroo Island, before heading to Melbourne via Goolwa, Strathalbyn, Coorong, Mount Gambier, Cape Bridgewater, the Grampians National Park, Port Campbell, Cape Otway and Lorne. The second leg of our journey was a fabulous 9 days in Tasmania. Having returned to Melbourne we then set off on the third leg of our journey, which is to Sydney via Wilson’s Promontory, Lakes Entrance, Mallacoota, Pambula Beach, Thredbo, Canberra (where we are at present) and Fitzroy Falls. We then travel on to the Gold Coast and the nearby mountainous birding hotspots before flying from Brisbane to Cairns for a week in the area. We then fly to Alice Springs for a week on the circuit to and from Kings Canyon and Ayers Rock before flying to Darwin from where we will spend the last two weeks of our holiday making our way to Broome before flying back to Perth, from where we connect with the flight all the way back home to Zimbabwe via South Africa. We already know we can't wait to return!

We had our sights on this series months before we arrived in Australia, but we only had one opportunity to undertake the trail, and so when the day finally arrived and we woke to pouring rain we were not going to be put off - and so following on from a large breakfast to avoid the need for lunch we arrived at the parking spot, donned our waterproofs, crossed the road and found the gate locked! - but we were definitely not going to be deterred at this stage, and so we climbed over the gate and started what turned out to be a MEGA hike. We managed to complete the entire trail, covering a total of just over 32.9 kilometres in 11.5 hours, although it felt like much more as the rain didn't let up even for one minute during the entire day, so making the track very muddy and slippery so that it often felt as though we were walking on ice, slipping and sliding frequently. The last few caches we searched for by torchlight - and then for the hardest part of the day - the LONG walk back to our hire car, as the last cache was nowhere near the start point! Along the way we saw many kangaroos, lots of cows and a good number of birds including two 'lifers' for us - the best bit of all was we didn't see a single other person in the entire hike - this place is definitely a cachers paradise and very muggle free - we had a great day! When we had crossed the nearby road ford early in the morning the river was just a small babbling brook, winding through the boulders way below the road level, but when we crossed back in the evening the river was just below the level of the road! Being dedicated geocachers we then went on to find 3 more caches on the way back to our hotel to make up for the 4 DNF's of the trail, as we wanted one of our days in Australia to include at least 100 finds. Thanks also to the CO for the massive amount of information provided throughout the trail.

A nice quick find at Ground Zero, plus some nice Red-browed Finches! Thanks so much for the cache.

Grabbed another quick cache during my tea break while working nearby. Thanks, Cankid and Smittengranny

With a couple of hours spare today, my goal was to finish the first section of the HMAS series, and do a little bit of maintenance on behalf of Smittengranny. It was a nice afternoon for a ride, but was turning chilly and windy as I was riding back to the car. Quite a few cows on the track today, who seemed a bit bemused to see a cyclist approaching them.

TNLN - Thanks Smittengranny!

Having spent the past few days in the alpine area I returned to Canberra to grab a few caches. This series was my target and under clear skies today I set off on the bike to bag a plethora caches.
Starting down near the RSPCA I was nerved to find pockets of smoke coming from various parts the series…. It appears hazard reduction season is well underway.

After 8hrs in the saddle I had found all the caches. Thanks for putting this series together. I actually learnt a bit about our naval history and explored a nice part of Canberra. Sorry for the duplicate logs.

I'm not normally a fan of power trails but I'm trying to get to 3000 finds by the end of June and, if numbers are your goal, power trails are the way to go. So I came to Canberra for an overnight raid, doing the Majura Cycleway yesterday, and spent today tackling some of this series. Due to various shenanigans I didn't get started here until noon and got back to my car at 5pm, having picked up 47 of the series with no DNFs. I have to say I enjoyed the day on the bike, despite it being not really suited to these trails, and the finds were all sufficiently challenging and varied enough to keep things interesting. I could see myself coming back to pick up the rest sometime, hopefully with a more suitable bike. Thanks for adopting and maintaining this series.

As for this specific cache: Another quick find, despite there being a locked gate in the way. At about this point I formed something of a plan, to loop back up towards the carpark, but on the trail parallel to it, then find a way from the eastern trail back to the western trail at about the Coppins Creek turn. That ended up being pretty much how things unfolded in the end. TFTC!

ANZAC weekend caching with the Geokid Juculu TFTC Cankid & Smittengranny

#8043 Found and Logged at 9:40:00 AM
One of 41 caches for the day 34 HMAS series and 6 Majora Cycleway while in canberra for the week
A great day to be out in the great outdoors geocaching
Thanks for the series Smittengranny

Placed a new log and did some pruning while on a find and maintenance run today.

Our 36th find in Canberra..Doing as many of the HMAS and other caches as possible today and this is number 19....thanks for bringing us here and TFTC!

Found 3:29 pm with LuckyL10n. We had just completed an earlier HMAS cache and then by pedal power headed over to this cache. After a quick search it was found and shortly after we had the log signed and cache re-hidden.
Thanks for the cache.

#4241 - 15:30; With MrDamage headed north for the winter, we decided that today would be a good chance to knock over a large part of the HMAS trail which we had yet to conquer. We had already logged 40 of 101 caches in the series, leaving another 61 on the 'to do' list. Fifty three of the remainder seemed doable today, but a couple of recent DNFs cast some doubt on that possibility. As it turned out we collected 51 caches, with 2 DNFs (as anticipated) and collected the coords for the remainder, following a couple of other cachers around for much of the journey, although we didn't actually catch up. It was dark by the time we gathered our last few finds and a rather slower cycle back to the geomobile in the absence of moonlight for assistance. TFTC Cankid and Smittengranny and apologies for the cut and paste logs!

A terrific day of geocaching in the company of the most excellent IamCoust. Our aim was to knock off the HMAS series, perhaps with a couple of extras in the way, using our trusty bikes to speed through the twisting forest trails.

While the goal of 100 caches for the day was feasible, it would have required a bit more emphasis on achieving the target and a bit less on achieving a really enjoyable outing with some great chats on the way. As it was, we covered 22 odd kilometres, found 71 caches (and recorded 4 DNFs - 3 of which had been DNFed by a few recent searchers) and had the aforementioned really enjoyable outing. Even allowing for the less than enjoyable blackberries.

Apologies for the generic logs. IamCoust was rather more organised and methodical than myself and made notes on the way, so his entries might have some more details. Sincere TFTCs to those who placed and subsequently maintained these caches.

Decided to give the HMAS series (and a few others close by) a go. Headed out early, met MJW1 at the car park. With bikes at the ready off we went. The goal, to complete as many as we could (had 100 in mind originally, but it was probably also going to be a little too many). A cloudy day to start, but as the afternoon went on, the sun made an appearance, which made it a comfortable ride. A few muggles riding and jogging along the tracks but didn't meet any fellow geocaches. A great day was had, thanks MJW1, we'll finish the remainder soon. 71 finds and 4 DNFs (3 of them already logged). TNLNSL TFTC

Out for a huge day caching with The Storm Man, with the goal of breaking his best-day-of-caching record by getting 200 caches. Not the easiest thing to do in the ACT, but we were up for the challenge.

We got up at 5am and drove out to the HMAS trail. With only a few DNFs and most of the puzzle caches found we were able to complete this series on bike by 1pm, then it was off for a quick lunch break before hitting the new CTF trail by car all the way to Captains Flat. We bumped into many different caching groups heading the other way coming back from the day's event. Only 1 DNF on this series and even some time for a few local caches.

We left Captains Flat at 8:30pm knowing we were sitting roughly on 180 caches, we still needed about 20 more to get across the line, and the sun had well and truly gone.

As we drove back I looked through the maps to see what we could manage doing and decided on a night time walk through the Kowen Pine Forest. So at 9:00pm armed with our head torches and iPhones we began our walk through the Cache Constellation Trail. Very still and pleasant this time of night, with only 1 DNF we got back to the car at 11:15pm. Enough time to pick up a few single traditionals around Queanbeyan before midnight just to make sure we were well and truely over the 200 mark.

All in all a huge yet fantastic day.

Thanks StormMan for the fun and thanks to all the geocachers who placed these caches for us to find today. (Sorry for generic log.)

Joelisa was coming up to visit and do some caching and left it up to me to figure out what we would do. Decided to try and crack 200 for caches in a day and after talking to some friends figured the HMAS series would be a good place to start. Armed with camelbacks, head torches, snacks and bikes, Joelisa and I started the trail at 6am (still dark). We finished the trail at 1pm with only 2 trad DNF's, 1 puzzle DNF and 3 other puzzles that we didn't find the coords too, probably because we forgot to look for them. Loved this trail. It wasn't too hard to ride and was really tight so made for some quick finds. Thanks for creating it CanKid and for maintaining it Smittengranny.

Once we had had a quick lunch break it was off to the newly created Captains Flat Trail. Bumped into some other cachers as we made our way through this trail. Very nice to meet you all. Only one DNF on this one, although some took longer to find than others. At the end of this trail we continued on into Captains Flat town where we found a few more before heading back into Queanbeyan.

We still needed more caches and needed them to be close to each other. Joelisa made the call to go for a night cache of the Kowen Constellation Trail. By this point I was getting weary and was sceptical about this idea but went along with him anyway. Turns out it was a lot quicker than I thought and the walk was so easy.

We had about 45mins left before midnight so we made a dash for a few more finds in Queanbeyan just to top the day off. Don't know what the final count is but after a quick review of the day we knew we cracked 200.

Thanks to everyone who created all these caches and for the cool places it took us. Thanks Joelisa for keeping me going when I was close to giving up.

Found with dghoffy. A fun bike ride finding all the series. Loved the history of each ship. Plenty of fun finding each cache. This was our last cache today in this series as the gates put a stop to our biking. The day was starting to get hotter so back to the cachemobile for a well earned drink and a rest.

We're visiting Canberra for the Easter meet and greets with our caching friend from NZ granville86a. We had eyed off this series and decided we could get the old bones back on to a bike. The day started with excitement and we got ourselves sorted with a system to smooth the process which worked reasonably well. Most caches were found reasonably well, amazing how a bit of camo and long grass can be so effective. Co ords were spot on. Thank you Smittengranny for the series. Apologies for the generic log will add where possible. Tftc
This was our last cache as we have been beaten by the gates, we had a look at #20 and came up with the grand idea that we would be able to access it better from another angle. However, we failed to find the other angle. After chats with locals at meet and greet we do have some ideas now and will be back to finish of the series.

Day seventeen of the Southern NSW Lounge About with BettyBoo3747.
Fired up the deadly treadlies and rode the first part of the HMAS series.
Unfortunately, we forgot to charge up the GPSrs from the ride the day before, so we juggled two GPSrs and the phone until they all ran out about #42.
Thanks for the interesting ride, saw heaps of kanga bouncers, cows, and black cockatoos (and 200ml sistemas!)
We shall return for the rest of the series.
Thanks, Robmc.

# 10304. Wow, what a day! Rob's intention (misguided I might say) was that we would ride around and gather the whole series today. However, things went a little awry very early on. Firstly, we had to lift two extremely heavy mountain bikes over the gate - (15kg and 21kg) - not a good start. Then, after only a few caches Rob realised his GPS was on low battery and mine wasn't far behind. We forgot that we were riding all day yesterday too and that they hadn't been charging in the car like they normally do. Very foolish error. We used Rob's until his charge ran out, then we used mine until it ran out and then we used my iPhone until it ran out and then we picked up our bat and ball and went back to the geo-chariot.

This is my kind of caching day and all was right with the world. Easy riding on great tracks with great views and a lot of black cockatoos and huge kangaroos and wistful black cattle.

We ended up doing 41 of the series with 2 DNF's and one we didn't attempt when the iPhone was getting very low at the end and we still had to find our way back.

Thanks Smittengranny

G'day, Smittengranny. HMAS #1 ANZAC has the story of my day.

On our first visit to Canberra we thought we'd try some of the HMAS series. After 23 finds the heat got the better of us. Many thanks to Smittengranny for all the effort of placing and maintaining the series.

I'm on holiday this week so I decided today to have a crack at the HMAS Series.

Managed to find 38 before I got the battery low wind-up on my iPhone. Most were easily found, some not so. Some were filled with water (#4, #5, #7, #27, #28), one was broken (#21) and one I suspect was a throw down (#36).

You should be commended for maintaining this series Smittengranny, its a big ask. Not something I would take up. I think the size of the log books in the small sistema containers is a factor to why some have water in them, the log books that you have replaced work a lot better.

Thanks for your efforts.

Quick easy find and a good walk too cheers

Great day out getting a first section of this series TFTC

No problems TFTC

Gotcha, thanks for the cache, had to hop the gate to get on the trail, but the path continues

Found on the 23/Nov/15 with Muppet95,
Now logging on my own separate account. Thank you.

Mountain Biking for 6hrs, got up to 50 but missed 2. Good day. Quite hot.
Thank you for the great powertrail, both to Cankid and now Smittengranny, thank you very very much!

A great series for its history, a great powertrail for the numbers & a great scenic location! Thanks to all CO's involved

A trip to Canberra - our main target was to do the HMAS series and a few puzzles we solved.

The day was quite warm, but we carried plenty of water and made our way around the first section.
We found 49 of the 50, but number 12 was a DNF for us after looking for half an hour.

Many thanks for placing this series of caches, Smittengranny, for us and others to find.

I adopted this series in November before I had finished finding all the c aches, so I am on a find and maintain mission. Thanks to the original owners for all the hard work in placing these caches.

Seem to be gaining a bit of altitude here now, the gloom is getting deeper, the heart rate is climbing as I got further up the hill. An easy find as are nearly all the caches I found tonight.

I'll try and keep the Copy/Paste section short and add any additional notes (if any).

The basics:
Time - 9:30am-4:00pm (6.5hrs)
Transport - Mountain Bike
Caches Attempted: 1-50

A great series for its history, a great powertrail for the numbers & a great scenic location! Thanks to all CO's involved

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Nothing to report here

HMAS #19: CHOULES was transferred from Cankid to user Smittengranny

Finally a weekend off from work and the HMAS power trail is my target for today (plus a few others in close vicinity). I have been eyeing this one off for a while and I am glad to finially get most of it done. Completed all the traditional caches today. All were there and only one needs some maintenance (which I will log seperately). It was a great day to be out. Thanks for the power trail Cankid.

#5286 @1255
Out for a day's caching and exercise to finish off the HMAS series. I didn't quite achieve that goal due to a few that are currently disabled and one DNF. Found 30 altogether. Most were quickly found. A lovely warm day to be out and about. TFTC.

Down from Sydney doing a few Canberra geocaches. We started this series up to #10 about a year ago however we had the bikes this time which enabled us to cover more ground. Muddy after the rain but we managed Ok. We love the series and thanks to Cankid for putting in all the effort. TNLN, SL. Visited a TB.

My nephew is currently serving on HMAS Choules. Fav point.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one off the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH CanKid [^]

Got turned around on this one started going the wrong way. TFTC

An unexpected free day meant it was off to the Navy series for the day. With mountain bike, GPSr loaded with details and a few snacks the first half was the target for today. HMAS Choules (ship number 100) was the eighteenth of 49 finds today. By this time I had lifted the bike over the fence and was travelling slowly in low gear, so I was happy to make this easy find to celebrate this awesome ship near the top of the hill.
Thanks for the fun series Cankid and Delta Response Team - a huge effort to put this all together. It was very relaxing to be out here with no one to disturb the geocaching bender today!
Fauna count - one jogger, two farmers, one ranger, three mobs of roos and lots of eagles and squawking black cockatoos.
Cheers
MajuraHathi

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TFTC

found it

Found with Jase90 at 10:39 AM, full log to follow. Thanks For The Cache Cankid.

Found at 10:39am with JordsAU.

The Dynamic Duo (JordsAU and Jase90) were on an epic adventure to the Nation's Capital for the weekend. A massive road trip indeed. We had left for Canberra on Friday evening a little later than we anticipated and desired, but escaping the Big Smoke proved to be no problem as we worked our way to our destination.

Once we were on the M5 freeway it was all engines go, myself driving and JordsAU being my handy navigating co-pilot, not to mention the very skillful DJ and great company.

'HMAS #19' was my eleventh cache of the weekend and our eighth for the day.

Today was the day we endeavoured to find 100 caches, a feat which has been achieved by JordsAU in the past but never by myself. My highest in one day previously was 18 finds so we were on a real mission to make it happen.

The HMAS trail appeared to be an ideal way to notch up some smiley faces. Unfortunately for me I had already started the trail back in December but only made it to number 12 so it meant we had to make up the remaining numbers afterwards in order to reach the elusive one hundred milestone.

The weather threatened to make our trek a lot more difficult, especially if the forecast during the week was anything to go off. We bit the bullet anyway and luckily for us we managed to avoid any major interruptions from the rain.

We spotted many animals on the journey including cows, horses and kangaroos as well as a few remarkable birds such as the Crimson Rosella and the Black Cockatoo.

Thanks for the cache Cankid and for the extensive series of caches on the HMAS trail.