PATOG Series 111 Buchfelde, South Australia, Australia
By equipe de cinq on 26-Jan-21. Waypoint GC95MBG

Quick find

TFTC quick find

Quick and easy find TFTC

another quick and easy find. thanks for the cache

Bit of a reach, my biro to the rescue. TFTC equipe de cinq.

In the area mainly to complete the Anna Tommy series. But Im happy to find any cache along the way. Rented a bike at the Gawler Visitor Info Centre. Did 36 km total. And always into the wind. No problems here.

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I have not had any decent exercise while I have been in Australia so I decided to do this series. Borrowed Skuzzybear's bike and headed off.Oh was that ever a mistake. I started here, at Patog 111 and got as far as 61 where I aborted. It's 35 degrees, I had 2L of water and was nearly out when I got to Patog 61. But it was not till I was half way back that I worked out the other problem - I was right out of fuel. I had been eating very little while here, and I suspect I am right out of free carbs, and was probably running on fats which take longer to process. No wonder I felt knackered!Also, so many of the caches need maintenance. I noted them in my notebook to add to the logs, but stopped after a while. Many of these tubes are broken/lost their caps. Or missing. and/or problems with the log sheet. I have put a needs maintenance on this cache, not to say that this cache needs maintenance (it doesn't) but as a reminder for the series as a whole.Maintenance needed on: 109, 105, 102, 95, 92, 87, 86, 85, 80. The last few are DNFs. One of them is just me, so it is possible it is still there. After 80 I gave up noting the maintenance, but as you see, it is about 1 in 3 caches that need a bit of help.So, to make a long story short, if it was 15-20 degrees cooler and there was some maintenance done, this would be a great series.And it has definitely got me covered for that bit of exercise I was craving!

Found with Pprime` as part of our Mega Leapday adventure.Thankyou for the entertainment here.

Found with T4mmmy on our Leap Mega Adventure.Thanks equipe de cinq for entertaining me at this location. *{Overall find #12229}*

The Great Leap Forward event day was finally here so with chooknchunk we set off caching chasing different cache types all the while visiting some very interesting locations.Needing a find in the Light LGA for a personal challenge we headed here just to grab 1 cache. The bull bar came in handy for us shorties in reaching the cache.Thanks equipe de cinq for the placement.

Logging to keep finds in order.Full log to follow

Nice quick find. Tftc

Tftc... lucky I had bbq paraphernalia in boot.. tftc

Boy, do I immensely appreciate power trails like this one to increase my geocaching find count!Greetings from the UK and Happy New Year!

Day 3 of my escape to Adelaide with Smittengranny and collecting a few targeted caches and LGAs. Tftc

Day 3 of my trip to Adelaide with barb2e in search of LGAs. This was one of the caches we found and signed. Thanks to all COs for adding to my enjoyment of this game.

I found it on the way home.Thanks, quipe de cinq, for the cache.

Its good

Ez

Great Hide

Thanks equipe de cinq for the cache

James0116
Sunday,30 Jul 2023
11:30:14 am ACST
3658

On my way to another destination and saw this cache on the way unfortunately height was not on my side for this one so this cache loses out today!

AussieGal88

South Australia is the place be for GCA1DNA - February 29th, 2024 in Adelaide! Let's show the rest of the Geocaching world what Australia is made of at The Great Leap Forward!

The magnet is not strong enough to hold cache up high so it's now low so the wind doesn't blow it off GZ.


TFTC equipe de cinq

Southern Autumn adventure Day 44. Mid North section of SA trip Day 15. Gawler Day 3. The weather was quite a bit better then the last few days, and it was time to get out on the bike trails to do some PATOG caches. I managed to go too far for my poor scooter and had to walk the last three km's back to the car. Other than that today's section of trail went pretty well, much better than sections later in the week. After that exercise was over, I went onto some back roads for solved puzzles and other miscellaneous caches I was able to get to before I ran out of energy.

Thanks for the cache equipe de cinq

42491.2 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2012 Oz Mega Tag A#225

**Albida**

Easy.

This was our first find of the day on our caching morning with alisonborgas74. It was a lovely day for an amble along the NEXY bike trail. Us mums had a leisurely chat while the geokids did the hunting. A quick find and the first of 11 finds in the patog series today. TFTC

Easy find

Found

Goldy is back out for a drive around Nuriootpa, Lyndoch and Gawler to get a step closer to 3000 finds before Sunday.

I started the day with the Blair Athol event for breakfast before heading on my way out north.

I also swung by Geostuff for some more goods.

Shoutout to unssy who let me borrow their pole for the day to get some higher terrain caches.

I ended up with 13 caches, 6 adventure lab locations, 1 event attended and 2 D/T spots filled.

A quick find here today.

Thanks equipe de cinq for this cache, which brings Goldy's total find count to 2952 on the 19th of April 2023.


I have hosted quite a few CITO's in my time, making huge differences thanks to the people who came along!

Whether you're out finding caches or just taking a stroll somewhere, remember to always be CITO-ing to help maintain our parks and reserves!


**South Australia is the place be for GCA1DNA - February 29th, 2024 in Adelaide! Hope to see you at The Great Leap Forward!**

Easy

End

First spot I looked

Today I decided to head out on my bike and do a few more of the PATOG Series.

TFTC equipe de cinq
Keep smiling

Found

First ever geo

My son found his first cache today. Easy find. A lot of muggle activity

The last day of Signal's challenge - we still need so many points!

Found quickly on my walk. TFTC!

Day 12, week 2 of 5 weeks holiday.
Rockhampton Queensland to all over South Australia.
14 degrees, feels like 10 (there’s that lovely cutting wind back again)

Apologies, there is going to be a lot of copy/paste today.
I have decided to walk the trail of caches while Buttons goes and does a McClouds Daughters tour nearby.
What better use I could put my time to than wandering down a highway while I wait.
Hope she can find me when she’s done. ??

Cache found, log signed (on the back, as it’s full) and replaced.

TFTC

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TFTC

Found both, old one had fallen down. Signed both

A quick park and grab on our way back onto the highway. Cache was quickly found and log signed. Logbook is around half full, otherwise in good condition. Cheers.

Find #4109 on 20 May 2022.
TFTC equipe de cinq!

TFTC

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

My genetics didn’t bless me enough to reach this one

We are still to short

Needed a TOTT but we were prepared
TFTC

Glad we were prepped for this - not for the vertically challenged!!! TOTT needed, TFTC

Found with franson69 tftc

Found with littlewhyle5 but both being vertically challenged could not reach it. Great hide though we found it in the light so didn't need any extra. Tftc

Hello familiar spot. Wow how times have changed since I visited you last! Only have enough freedom to do a couple today. Log in clean and dry condition. Front of log nearly full. TYFTC SLTNLN

TYFC

A quick stop a find, on our to Greenock. TFTC

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird. It’s a great day for caching. TFTC equipe de cinq
Find #7089 at 19:46.

Out on caching adventures 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 equipe de cinq

Find # 4716

Found while out with Mr Cupcake. Signed log as GTMC. TFTC.

Found while out with Guz's Travellers. Signed log as GTMC. TFTC.

Sweet

Finishing off this series by bike. An enjoyable ride!

Last find on a sunny early morning walk.

Easy find - TFTC

Afternoon cache + stroll with @theBear.
TFTC

these were so much fun and great spots!!

Out today to finish off the PATOG series and pick up a few others nearby.

It's taken 5 months with a few months off over winter.

TFTC

A nice quick easy find on my way home from father's day breakfast with the family

Nice

Quick find while in the area. Tftc

With the morning free we decided with the nice weather to tackle the top end of this trail, With our bikes out of action we decided the walk would do us good, we completed from 111 to 103 before needing to head off, all were found in good condition
TFTC equipe de cinq

Found

2 out of 2 today To FTC

Thanks for the cache found with Webberg

Tftc! Found with conardel

With poppadon. Tftc

Found at 1:10 PM with Rostann. All good. TFTC

On a lovely ride with brisal5, thewhitedoggang and Featherwaite, signing the log sheets with the acronym BAWF. There was barely any wind and no rain. A perfect day for a ride and cache. [^]

Thanks to equipe de cinq and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^]

Doing this series with brisal5, Astro & FeaterWaite today
All logs signed as B.A.W.F.
Good co-ords, nice containers & easy finds make for a great day
Thanks for placing these caches, well done.
TFTC

Found by brisal5, TeamAstro, thewhitedoggang and Featherwaite, signing the logsheets with the acronym BAWF. Being cool, cloudy, no rain and with light winds, it proved a great day for a ride along the bikeway. Thanks for the cache and series equipe de cinq!

GENERIC LOGS FOR PATOG series! [8)][8)][8)]

Time to attack the PATOG series. [^] So the calls were made to find a group to take on the ride and a group of brisal5, Astro, WhiteDogGang and Featherwaite were available. So the acronym BAWF was formed to sign the logs. We chose Tuesday 8/6/2021 to make the ride but the forecast of a thunderstorm, continuous rain and howling winds caused the newly formed BAWF to balk and we delayed until Friday 11/6/21! [B)][B)] What a great day for a ride, overcast, a nice cool breeze and not a drop of rain to be felt. All caches were found in good condition except, one that needed a new cap (done) and one that needed replacing. (also done) Great day had but I felt like BAWFing by the end! [:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)]

Only one of the three goals from last year achieved. So once again trying and fill my calendar with multi-caches and complete loop 11 again this year. [^] For my third goal I will try and get my DNF numbers to single digits. That should keep me busy again this year! [:o)]

***Thanks equipe de cinq for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

A nice quick stop

Just a quickie on the way past..TFTC

A small detour on the Southbound trip after a very pleasant few hours around the Barossa. Not often I get down to SA, so it was nice to not only be here, but to have great weather and enjoy the Wine region. [^]

Pulled up within 1m of GZ and spotted the container immediately. No need for a gadget to locate this container. Name was added to the log equally as quickly and everything returned as found.

Cheers equipe de cinq.

Tftc Tnln

Slowly picking off these caches. Seems a lot of the locations we've been to before!
A little stretch required here But friendly parking.

Thank you to equipe de cinq for placing and maintaining this cache


"A cache a day keeps the doctor away" - a pretty good fitness plan for 2021!



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- - Search at a good social distance whenever you can - or at least with nice clean friends - -
Things are slowly getting back to whatever normal might be - take it carefully!
Catching covid or gastro or anything really would mess up your streaks and challenges!
Keep away from all the nasty bugs ( except nice travel bugs of course ) Move them on!
[|)] - 2, 4, 6, 8,,, let's all go and vaccinate, one day when it's available lol !
[|)] - keep away from crowds as much as you can, they spread those nasty bugs! [:o)]
[|)] - go out and find or place some new caches in our safe country areas away from bugs!!

Life's good. Enjoy ! ! ! Cache the countryside

First for the day and it's always good to start with a find .
This is the third series of caches we've found along the NEXY [|)] and it's been awhile since we've ridden the bike track . Have to say the place is looking like a dump these days (with enough bags and buckets lying around to clean it up as well) [:(!].
TNLNSL.
Thanks Equipe de cinq.

Nice easy find

Found it on my way home from work. Container and contents in good condition.

First for day after chatting with another bikie

TFTC Out with little T today. We returned to this one as i needed a TOTT to reach haha. I am short, even when using Thomas as some extra help with height.. didn't quite reach it lo

Stopped by to grab a few more of these to fill a calendar gap.
A little walk was had here...
TNLNSL
Thanks

We started the PATOG series today, we are working backwards and managed 111 to 93 with geokids in tow. Nice series, TFTC. HouseofJones

Claiming a cache find as part of the awesome beta testing cache placing crew for this super fun cycling series. All of the PATOG caches in the series have been found many times so our work must have been good. Kudos to anyone who does the full end to end ride in one session and collects them all. If you run it or walk it then you get extra bonus kudos.

Eventually some time in the future when the rail access is restored to Gawler it will be possible to catch the train to Port Adelaide, ride with the wind to Gawler, and catch the electric train home. From Patog one to Patog eleventy first. That would be awesome.

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Easter 2020 was supposed to see South Australia Geocaching hosting the next Easter big MEGA event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Due to COVID restrictions the event is now postponed to early October 2021. Check out the event page and our website for new details. We would love to see you at this four day event. Mega event sponsored by Wattle Range Council, Geocaching.com and many other supporters. Lots of caches to find with two classic geo art trails including the famous animated bottle and glass.

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This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and a Samsung S8. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs...

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

Big walk today along the PATOG trail. Another 20’or so ticked off the list almost half way now. So that means I’ve almost walked to Gawler from Port Adelaide now, seems slightly mental. Hopefully will get the series done this winter.
Was a nice day for a walk until the banana cake energy wore out then had to pop into Gawler for an energy refuel and to get my target multi for the day.
Big day out for only 25 finds was shattered by the time I got home but think the exercise did me good. TFTC PATOG crew.

Out for a long bike ride with Uni and Medusa along the Northen Expressway and beyond. We parked a vehicle at each end and took the mountain bikes along the trails - 48.9kms and 115 caches in around 5 hours.
The bike trail allows one to see a lot more at 20kmh than whizzing past in a car at 110kmh. There is interesting WWII history in amongst the market gardens and salt flats. I really enjoyed the massive redgums and lushness around the Gawler River. On a hot day one would want to take plenty of water, there isn't a lot of shade or facilities along some of the stretches.
This cache was found at 1:29:00 PM and was 112 of 116 finds today.
Apologies for the generic log but it is a powertrail. Thanks equipe de cinq

Found at 13:32 on a perfect cycling day with Shonkylogic.

Thanks for the hide

TFTC

I cant drive for 2 weeks and CPWanderer suggested a wander to collect a few of these. Well, perfect conditions, and a borrowed pup, good navigation and parking allowed us to find quite a few of this series, starting near Gawler. I had started many years ago, with CP and never finished the Nexy series, so some were areas were deja vu. I had a few problems on my FTF hunt on publication date so grabbed a stick for the higher ones, but it was only needed once. I continued to carry it, as my insurance policy, but didnt need it. Was surprised to see crops of roses, almonds and olives? along the section we did today. A few bikes and would have really loved to have grabbed a ride on the ATV that was also sharing the path, weeding. We agreed bikes would be easier, and our thoughts turn how to tackle the rest of the series. A nice social day out (when I couldnt be enticed to overuse my hand at home) and even sweeter given Im on sick leave

Thanks guys for another great effort placing this series, great co ords and a lovely 'smiley' walk for us today.

GeoVenture Mega Event at Millicent, still looking forward to it!! A new date has been proposed for October 2021 now.

Found today with SpiderMonkeysmum and Laggy the pooch!!! We walked from #111 to #83!! ........ lovely day to go for a wander!!

A group of us(JJ52, mogni, Sir Spectre, Azzo7777 and Dad, Tallbikestan and I) decided to do this series. We started at number 1 at 8:30am and finished the series at 1:30pm with a few other caches along the way. TFTC equipe de cinq