HMAS #6: BALLARAT North West Rural Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By Cankid on 14-Jun-14. Waypoint GC56YHW

Picked up as part of HMAS payback CITO

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.

Found during HMAS Pickup CITO event. Glad to have been part of this.

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

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 09:38

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

TFTC

Thank you

Out and about with Happy Uke again for a big weekend of caching. In Canberra with our sights targeting the HMAS series before it vanishes over the horizon.

This proved to be a great walk for the both of us through some nice countryside.

I do enjoy these historic caches.

Thanks!

Sorry for the generic log but Finalf29 and I found seventy two for the weekend. We came down to Canberra to finish the HMAS series before it gets archived at the end of the month. We found the last HMAS puzzle as the sun set on Sunday afternoon. We were very tired after walking goodness how many kilometres, but had a fantastic weekend and enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks to all the CO's for your caches, but a HUGE thanks to Finalf29 for joining me in this crazy game... you are the best walking buddy a person can ask for!

Tftc. Great spot. N

Quick and easy!

Fairly flying through these caches today!
TFTC, Cankid and Smittengranny

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 with Legocacher79

The geohound decided to eat the grass right where the cache is. I guess that is some form of cache maintenance.

Went for a walk today checking #1-20. I have not replaced any caches but made them waterproof for the remaining term before I archive them at the end of May 2018.

Found at 0830 - a nice quick find at pretty much the most obvious feature. Thanks Cankid / DRT / Smittengranny.

Coords are so good so far!!! TFTC

Found with misty thanks for the cache

Found...on the open ground.
Replaced in what was certainly the original place.
Found a second travel bug.
Will log at home and send on it's way to Mudgee

Found with Mum and Dad.

Found on our geocaching day trip. Signed as OAC. Trying to do the first 10 in horrible windy weather.

Headed out with our Outdoor Adventure Church (OAC) group for a leisurely stroll and a bit of caching along the way. Logged as OAC for ease...but nibletricecakes, b0tmun, Lovetherabbitohs, death Killer, MyNameJeff1 and JDogmonkey were all present.

All caches were easily found despite the dust storm that had just blown through. Made sure no caches blew away....ok one lid escaped us but it was successfully retrieved.

A VERY hot VERY windy day to be out of the trail with OAC and our kiddlywinks. Will still try and get a few before we bail. Tftc. Signed at OAC

Finally got to finishing the HMAS series with Runner5ive. The other Zombros did not join us this time. 27km and 65 caches later we had this all knocked off. A fair bit of backtracking through the first half due to some bad navigation. Sorry for the generic log but it has been a big day. Thanks for maintaining and looking after all of these.

Finished the HMAS series (traditionals only for now) with aramil. Also did some incidental nearby ones. 65 caches in one day, and not a single DNF! It certainly helps having two pairs of eyes. Thank you to the series creator and the current series custodian, sorry for generic logs, CIH TNLNSL TFTC

### 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 9:41:00 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 one completed! Not much protection from the elements at GZ.

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

In the A.C.T for a holiday, since i did not have my bike with me decided to take a hike.... hot sunny and windy.... soon ran low on water and had to call it quits after around 13 caches ... glad to see no muggles around today

thanks to Cankid for this cache Merry Christmas

TNLNSL

Found it!

Found with 2N's. TFTC

Spent the 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. Accurate coordinates and a familiar style of hide led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. 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.*****

I went for a nice walk with my parents and dogs to add to my finds today. We saw lots of cows and roos and were able to get quite close to a flock of black cockatoos. As well as all the caches we found a small turtle shell with some ants clearing out the last little bits that they could scavenge. The sun was a bit warm and my younger dog was tiring out so we headed back a little earlier than planned, taking a short cut by wiggling under a fence while the cows watched curiously. Overall, a wonderful way to spend an afternoon.

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

Found during a long caching stroll on this lovely winter day. TFTC

A "short" detour on way home to grab a pile of caches in this series and to get rid of a geocaching itch I have needed to scratch for a few days as have been tires up with family and work to get out. First of over a dozen for the evening in the fading light. Nice easy find. Tftc. TNLN

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!

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. Too busy watching the Black Cockies play while talking it took the gps beep to remind me we nearly walked right past! Thanks for the cache.

9:25am I really like the tree at GZ. Something a little different. TFTC!!!

Found

Tftc

Found this with Trodectus (who had done it before) on a pleasant walk from Coppins Crossing Road.
Thanks For The Cache Smittengranny and Cankid

This one was a bit exposed so made sure it was well hidden after we signed the log.

Made a start on the trail on a glorious autumn day with Maris4, geo-Lagotto and muggle friend. Thanks

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.

Tftc

Easy find with sami_180

TFTC

TFTC!

TFTC

Went out after work to start this series, nice and easy finds. TFTC!

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 brief struggle with some nasty blackberries, I soon had this one in hand. TFTC

Ge yar

Tftc. Nice walk through here, but even covered in bug spray, I was eaten alive.

Nice fine, not too cold, afternoon, with a spare couple of hours between work and a sewing evening in the next suburb ... and rain forecast for the rest of the week - decided I might have to go for a bit of a walk somewhere nice and/or interesting for my daily cache ... hmmm ... maybe I should come down here and grab a few HMAS ones today, because I think it could be fairly horrid out here in the rain later this week ... so I came, walked, found 7 caches before it started to get cold and dark - HMAS #2 - 7 (found #1 a couple weeks ago) and one other cache that was in among them ... and it was both really nice and quite interesting out here - just what I needed
The first bit was quite an interesting experience - the herd of cows that I walked past/through as I walked along the track to the first cache (HMAS #2) decided to follow me to the cache, stand on the road just above me and watch me do my thing, then they followed me to HMAS #3 and surrounded me and watched while I did my thing there! ... and half of them investigated GZ at #2 before they walked over to join the other half that were right behind me as I walked over to #3 ... but for some odd reason they didn't follow me any further (hung around near that second cache for a while, then wandered down into the paddock) ... so I now have a whole pile of photos of cows (including some selfies - lol) and then quite a few of trees and sky and the Sunset and stuff - lol
TFTC - 6th find for my afternoon stroll ... as I approached I thought it was a bit further along on the other side, and decided to go down the creek where there was a bit of cover to ... er ... go ... then I walked back up the creek, and over to where I had thought it would be, looked at my phone and realised Inhad just walked past it - lol
(also I was probably too busy looking at/taking photos of the dead tree nearby

Snaffled whilst on a planned route through the arboretum. Grabbing every second ANZAC class frigate on the way, leaving the remainder for when I return with my keen MTBer son. Great Victorian built ship here, with upgraded helos now. TFTC cache and series.

T.F.T.C

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!!

A nice easy find.

Tftc!

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. Thanks so much for the cache.

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!

Tftc

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: No GPS needed here, as I spotted the camo as I rode up for a super-quick find. TFTC!

ANZAC weekend caching with the Geokid Juculu TFTC Cankid & Smittengranny

#1991 3 of 23 today.

I've known my 2,000th find was approaching, but other things have been getting in the way & it seemed to be taking forever to get there. So today after the CITO event I decided to knock it off by finally completing the HMAS power trail. I started this what seems like years ago, but then a whole bunch of new ones appeared not long later.

I parked out at Coppins Crossing Rd & traveled by mountain bike. I was surprised how quickly I managed to grab the 20-odd caches remaining. I was back home in about 2.5hrs.

Thanks for the cache Smittengranny.

#8031 Found and Logged at 8:35:00 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

Our 24th find in Canberra..Doing as many of the HMAS and other caches as possible today and this is number 7....thanks for bringing us here and TFTC!

#4229 - 14:35; 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

Found 2:35 pm with LuckyL10n. So headed off with LuckyL10n after finding the earlier HMAS cache via our pedal power to this cache. The find was very quick and we had the log signed and cache returned in next to no time.
Thanks for the cache.

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.

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 easist 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 truely gone.

As we drove back I looked through the maps to see what we could manage doing and decided on a nighttime walk through the Kowen Pine Forest. So at 9:00pm armed with our head torches and iPhones we began our walk through the Cache Consellation 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.)

Found with dghoffy. A fun bike ride finding all the series. Loved the history of each ship. Plenty of fun finding each cache.

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

Found while trying to retrieve a moveable near the river! TFTC

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.

# 10292. 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

Replaced wet log. All good.

I parked off Coppins Crossing Road, heaved my bicycle over the fence, and went off to find the caches along this dirt road, placed here since my last visit. All easily found. TFTC Smittengranny & Cankid.

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

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.

open when i found it but closed it up tight

Quick easy find and a good walk too cheers

Great day out getting a first section of this series TFTC

No problems TFTC

Found it, what a great hiding spot - thanks for the cache

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.

A quick and easy find tonight, enjoyed the solo trek around the forest tonight, it is an easy trail to follow.