Wanderer's Ridge Hartley, South Australia, Australia
By CPwanderer on 21-May-10. Waypoint GC28ZC8

TFTC!Beautiful spot up here! Giving this one a fave point!A lot thicker scrub out here than we're used to.Nice to know there are still safe spaces for native wildlife to thrive.Sadly no roos or mallee fowl spotted today, but see lots of tracks and diggings in the area.

Headed South from Adelaide again this morning to continue picking up caches in the general Monarto South area.Cache quickly found and log stampeda long time between drinks for finds with this cache TFTC

Day 3 of my three day weekend camping and geocaching around Murray Bridge.

Today I concentrated on the area South of Murray Bridge.

A good place to come when you want some alone time - nobody around here. I really enjoy this type of caching, on foot and amongst nature. The bush was pretty thick at times which resulted in some scratched up legs but that all part and parcel of this hobby.
All caches found were in good condition.

An enjoyable day with lots of great caches.

Thanks for the cache CPwanderer.
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A very peaceful and beautiful spot to walk thanks

Just completed the 2 new nearby caches. Checked on this one on the way back to the car. All is in perfect condition, dry log, not bug or a cockroach to be seen.

A walking afternoon found us in Ferries MacDonald, finding what we thought would be the last of the unfound caches. Lots of ducking, diving and weaving. No straight lines anywhere.
TFTC CPwanderer.

When CP popped up a FB post about coming out to one of 'his' areas, I was quick to cancel all my morning household duties! Left the city at 730 to avoid the traffic, fuelled up with coffee, petrol and donuts at Mt Barker and continued on to add to my list of DNFs. He once gave me a card that declared "ISAG" and this weekend I did. In a group though, what could stand in our way? Someone suggested we were "herding cats"..... we were all fighting off killer mozzies, fairly dense bush bashing, and at times going around in circles. The light rain proved another pain with our screens. My "snakebite insurance kit' worked well though, just one lizard that poked its tongue out at the Otter. I did ask CP a few times why he put caches out here, now I ask why others put caches out here........ Anyway we were impressed with the size of the caches and the logbooks, sadly the mozzies made it impossible to stand still for more than a few seconds. TFTC

With a day off work what better way to spend it, wandering around the Australian bush!
Thank you for the invitation CPwanderer, a most enjoyable and entertaining morning with Otter61, Spidermonkeymum and Are we there yet?
While wandering it was most enjoyable but stop for a second and we were under attack from the locals Some of them even wanted there photo taken!!

TFTC and the adventure CPwanderer
Keep smiling

LTF

Awesome cache a long way from anywhere

Sir_spectre got to spend a rare weekend at my place so of course we went caching. He had decided it was time to head towards CP country and find a few memorable hides. Oh and look for some great locations for some new hides.
Well that was an adventure, much more challenging than I was expecting but we did an extra couple of kilometres checking out the park.
Thanks to CPwanderer from mogni

found with mogni. Well we took the very round about route to get here. We where looking for some where to put the 2 wooden boxes i carried out with me. Since they where themed i didn't want them disappearing. I must as the closer to get to the rear of the park the thicker the scrub gets. Followed roo trails to the cache and by the time i got to the cache i wasn't carrying any boxes any more. No wildlife seen of any sort. A lot easier walking out with out those boxes. Could have picked a cooler day.

This evening, gridge98 was keen to head to Monarto for a FTF, and so we took the opportunity to also visit Ferries McDonald Conservation Park. It was some long walks over sandy soft terrain, but at least it wasn't stinking hot, with a coolish evening and nice breeze. After a few walks/hikes, we returned home via Hartley.

This geocache was certainly a lonesome one by itself, and so, gridge98 and I chose to make the hike to this one. I previously hiked Monarto CP with jesswrigley on a hot day, and with minimal shade cover, it wasn't the most enjoyable of experiences. So I was kind of relieved to see the sun didn't have as much bite today as our previous adventure. We tried to use the fence line as much as possible in our hike to here, and then cut in when the distance was optimised. The initial part didn't feel too bad with low density growth and managing to avoid scratches, but the density did start to increase by the end. Once we arrived to GZ, it was a quick find by [@gridge98](http://coord.info/PRGKDMY). The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks CPwanderer for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Can I suggest to the CO to add the intermediate waypoint coordinates as actual waypoints to this geocache? It would facilitate navigation to this remote location, rather than having to copy/paste the locations from the description into user defined waypoints.

Parked at the given co ords and made our way along the fence to the next set of co ords, to save some time and effort we continued north along the fence line till almost in line with the cache and made our way through which wasn’t too bad but easy going. Arrived at the cache and the cache and contents are all good

With a new puzzle solved yesterday at Manarto a FTF was on hand so set up with Davidwazza to head put this way this evening to collect it before 2 walks around ferries McDonald conservation park. A nice night with the weather cooling, came away with 14 finds for the night.

Thanks for the cache

Hadn’t been found in over 5 months so thought I better go check while in the area. Yep it is still there and being the type of cache it is should be there for a while to come.
Can’t believe you hiked that out here CP... that is commitment well done! Looking forward to seeing you at one of your events again later on the year. TFTC

In all are travels we would not have even thought to traveled to this location.
(Ha Ha). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - CPwanderer [^]

This was the cache of the day for us at Ferres-McDonald, mainly because it was unloved and last logged nearly 2 and a 1/2 years ago. We parked near Big Macs and then weaved our way through the scrub to get to GZ. Upon opening the log book we noticed an entry in 2018 by two walker as a "random find" - looks like it was done by non-geocachers (possibly someone monitoring the mallee fowl nests???) . Anyway it was good to get to this one - thanks CP!

Shank's pony geocaching definition : ,using one's own legs and GPS to move from geocache to another geocache: The only way we can get there is by shanks' mare and watching the metres count down on the GPS.

This was a very enjoyable trail to do and although earthlight had done this trail she still enjoyed revisiting it,

After completing #7 we decided hey look Wanderer ONE is not to far from here so lets grab that one and then from there it was hey Wanderers Ridge is not to far that way and also Wanderers Heart so we set off and completed them ones to discover that these ones would have been easier accessed from a way shorter route and then the long walk back to #8 and finish off the rest of them, we didn't mind as the weather was fantastic and we saw heaps of Shinglebacks along the way with a lot playing follow the leader so there should be a lot more Shinglebacks next year
TFTC's

Glad to say this cache was found after a great walk with 3LG.
Was expecting a large ridge !!!!! but glad it wasn't.
The weather was cool so a great time was had even though our feet where sore at the end.
TFTC

A cool start with the sun finally showing it's self. Tried to follow some of the paths as best I could and eventually got the cache. Took the paths near the fence line and found it a quicker way back to the car.

We wandered along with Brisal5, at times taking sperate wanderings due to which way each of us considered might be the 'path of least resistance', this was a phase that was well used and agreed on by all today.
No kangaroos, birds were heard, sometimes seen as they appeared oblivious to our wanderings.
At GZ the cache was opened, being aware to check for creatures with four legs, all OK here. The cache is in good condition. I collected two path-tags from this cache and to my good fortune I was allowed to keep both as Brisal5 already had them in his collection.
SL TFTWander

Arranged to meet up with muff1 for a short walk to clear a few caches in the Ferries McDonald Conservation Park. A few turned into 25 after a few CP wanderer caches, the Fairy series and then the Shanks Pony series. The short walk turned into about 12 kms with a lot of that following roo tracks at best and weaving through dense scrub at worst. [^] The usual caching accompaniments of torn clothing, blood flowing and laughs and giggles were also present.
First up this one. Plenty of animal tracks says the narrative. Yeah right. We found a few but they all petered out and copious amounts of weaving through the brush was required resulting in Dennis in particular leaving a red DNA trail. It was damn hot in my long sleeve jacket, but it was worth it!
Eventually a large native cherry appeared in front and we made a beeline to it finding the cache without fuss. Thanks for the cache CP. Still in great condition.

Took the time to collect this one while the rest of the family was committed elsewhere. Weaved and bashed my way to the top where I quickly discovered the cache. Back down the same way (sort of). 55min round trip from car to cache to car again. Thanks for the cache. I really enjoyed the walk and the area. Took nothing but photos. Signed Log. Thanks CP.

Whilst planning our caching weekend trip to celebrate our 365 day streak, which happened to be the 7th of August, we decided to head down to the Monarto area for a few night caches via a kayak at Mannum :c) Rather than heading home after, we decided to camp over night and check out the Skank’s Pony cache trail this morning, before finally trekking into Wanderer’s Ridge. It was challenging but fun finding our way through the dense vegetation, and managed to cross paths with a large kangaroo who quickly disappeared. Find #1390 :c) TFTC and the adventure CPWanderer!!

Found during a wander through Ferries-McDonald Conservation Park. Discovered that the shrubbery was like walking through a brush fence, which is not surprising as the dominant plant, Melaleuca uncinata, is what is harvested to make brush fences! Also found that a carefully selected branchelet of said plant makes a very serviceable fly-swat. It was hard going on a warm day, but got there in the end. Thanks for the cache CPwanderer!

We are currently staying in Murray Bridge for a few weeks enjoying the sights and finding some caches. We both love bushwalking and finding a cache (or two) while hiking is always a bonus. We noticed the CO's hides in Monarto and Ferries McDonald Conservation Parks so wanted to give them a try. We also wanted a reasonably cool day to deter snakes and today seemed like a good opportunity.

We waited for the morning showers to clear, packed some lunch and were on our way. We hoped to at least achieve finding WP1 for 'Wanderer's Heart'. A nice cool breeze and complete cloud cover kept us very comfortable. The directions in the cache description are very helpful. We made sure we were well covered to avoid too many scratches and were very glad to have covered ourselves in Mozzie repellant...they are the size of budgerigars here

As expected all was in good condition with the cache except I jumped (and may possibly have squealed a little) when a large, hairy 8 legged critter darted out of the lid After finding this great cache we then headed for the final co-ords of the nearby 'Wanderers Heart' hide.

Surprisingly during our day we saw no wildlife at all except birds (and of course the aforementioned arachnid)....not even a lizard but we were very glad not to have seen any snakes. I had seen a recent Facebook post from the CO stating that he had recently seen two red bellied blacks and a large brown snake in a similar area...I had conveniently kept that info from geohubby

Many thanks for the hide and the great walk CPwanderer...we thoroughly enjoyed it[^][^][^]

We set off after finding No Big Macs. The start was easy, as stated in the cache notes. Once we hit the corner it got a bit more treacherous. The kangaroos weren't as obliging with their track creating as we would have liked, or we were too focussed on heading in the right direction!
Found easily when we got to GZ. Aren't these trees interesting!
It seemed easier on the way back.
Thanks CPwanderer, a great area.

1025 GAFF1 Not wanting to walk in unknown type of terrain (so far from home) I was glad to have Manning Valley Mountain Biker along for the morning (non-premium at moment, but there is always birthday time). This was the first of the three in the conservation area, and while we heard the occasional roo we didn't see any, just their spore and scat. Came prepared with some food, and sufficient water. Great weather for such a bush push (not a BASH). The kangaroos are only useful for clearing a path up to my waist level, and the rest of the animal tracks had to be separated as we went.
(By the way, the parking coordinates are only useful if the cacher has a 4x4; as there is quite a graded drop off the side of the road. I wasn't going to 'test' my 'new' SUV out.)
GZ was relatively easy to navigate to compared to some recent bushwalking South of Sydney. Cache found dry and intact, and with good coordinates I left a Correct Site Marker - surgical marking pen.
Brought through for mileage: 12-12-12 Event, 3 Bros NSW, Auckland NZ'13, Aussie Christmas Geocoin, Blaze the Campfire Travel Tag, B 2 B Travel ingot, CII-35Z, CITO - Upper Swan and Beyond geocoin, Dixie, Explorer Tag - Jeremy, GCookie EARTH Cache 10 year Celebration Coin, GxPROXY Traveller - MATT, Iconic Bridges 2012, JERSEY THE WOOKI DOG RSPCA FUNDRAISING TRACKABLE, Mei letzter Schilling, cache critters Baa, Neigh Neddy, and Oink, NZ Mega 13 signature, NZ Mega 2013 GCookie Coin, Semmels first 1,000 Geocoin, TransAustralia, Travel Bug Janklebu, X-Mas Geocoin 2011, and trackable shirts.
TFTC CPwanderer (PLEASE accept my sincere condolences) your work with the local caches is definitely appreciated

All I can say is I am glad I came prepared. Took water, allowed time. You cant rush a cache like this. The bush wont let you. blood was split in the hunt for this find. But it was worth it. No one had been hear for over a year. I picked up a trackable that had been stuck for a while. And avoided the Red back that had set up home in the latch.

Find 3 of a very good day out bush.

TFTC CPW.

At Wanderer One, I headed back to follow the fenceline north, like others before me, until I could see a bit of thinning out of the scrub.
Was still tough going on the feet, but the thongs held up well.
Nice spot at gz, took in the ambience and solitude, before heading off to find Wobbly Bottoms
Left a tb here also.
Thanks CP

WOOHOO! our 100th find. Great bushwalk on a overcast day, Geoboys came too, took a couple of hours to do the round trip.Took warhammer model, left face mask and medstar landyard. TFTC

Was a heaps good walk

After some rain earlier it was now a nicer day. Not a drive by. Heed those words. I chose to follow the park boundary until I could see the open area on the ridge. Much easier walking. Lovely views on the top. Scrub and more scrub. Lots of birds about this morning.

It looked straight forward to approach this one from Wanderer 1 [^], but there's no easy way along the fence line . It's a real pity there's no semi-formal tracks around the park (apart from the diagonal down the middle) .
The day was a sunny 18º, which was just perfect for this walk around.
Followed someone else's boot tracks some of the way and found several clearings and 'roo trails to reach GZ .
What is that tree doing here [?].
Took shower cap. Left War Hammer dude. SL. Another FTF (this year) !
Thanks for one more CPWanderer.

Stopped to find another cache but thought it wasn't too far for this one and the day was very pleasant. True to description first part was easy then zigzagging between the bushes to finally reach GZ. Well worth it for the view. The mozzies were quite agro for some reason.Took a couple of pathtags and left a fridge magnet. Thanks CPWanderer for another one.

Great morning to do the caches in this park. Bit of zigging and zagging to GZ but enjoyed the walk. Very quiet today with very few birds singing. Saw a few roos though. A few hundred metres from GZ it stood out like a beacon. I was pleasantly surprised by the nice view looking back towards Mt. Barker with the paddocks all green. TFTC

I did this one and Wanderer ONE as a pair and clocked up a total of 6.8km for the two. After leaving Wanderer ONE, I followed the fence line as far as the park corner. Sitting there, sunning themselves completely oblivious to me were a small mob of ‘roos. I managed to get some photos of them using the zoom function of the camera before I got too close and scared them off.
Once past them, it was over the fence and scrub-bashing once again. However this one was much easier once I had located the ridge it was on as the brush thinned out considerably and I was able to walk (relatively) easily.
Spotted the cache location from some distance away (you’ll know why when you get here ) and again was thankful for a nice cache prize at the end (although it’s the journey that’s the real reward here [^]. Although I was thirsty, I left the emergency water in the cache for someone who might actually really NEED it . Left a pathtag. Another great cache. Thanks CP Wanderer .

Came over to this one from Wqanderer One. A long walk but impressive effort all the same. Thanks guys for taking us into the depths of all these parks.
Cheers from the Posspet Boys

Enjoyed your previous walk in the park, came back today to walk in the other direction, came across a Mallee bird nest quite impressive T TB TFTC

Easy Find TNLN TFTC

Made the trip up from Adelaide just for this cache. A hard long slog through the bush sounded just about perfict!
T - YO YO
L - TRAVEL BUG DOG TAG & GORILA
Thanks for the cache!

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Absolutely enjoyed the short stroll to the cache. Who said short. Now this is what caching is about. Getting out and enjoying nature. Did not find it all that hard going. Found a good Kangaroo track all the way to the cache. Saw a picket on way to cache with a tag and a number on it. Thought might have been on a old walking trail. Who knows was probably nothing. Was very very surprised to find a third to find prize. Thank you very much. Took a path tag. Had nothing with to put in cache as back pack was in vehicle. LN. SL. TFTC.

Have been thinking about doing some bush walking caches in our area. Very hard so far to get permission to use some areas. Even from people who have friends that cache. Don't know when we will get it up and going. Have about 8 spots so far with permission. Will all be walk to caches similar to this. Really enjoy doing these caches. TFTC. TNLN. SL.

Team "A" at 11-00 am

[red] WOOOHOOOO [/red]SILVER To the FLIPPERS
headed out to snare this one.
Now, out of the three next stories, try and work out WHICH is the real story.

1, I drove to Parafield Airport and hired a helicopter to fly me to the GZ, arrived at Gz at an altitude of 100 mtrs, the pilot ( Steve) found a clearing right alongside GZ, this enabled me to abseil out of the helicopter and take a 5 mtr walk to the cache, quickly found, signed and replaced. Steve then winched me back into the copter for a quick flight back to town.

2, rang Birdwood earthmovers and hired a D9 bulldozer for a few hours, dozer was quickly unloaded from the float, made going thru the fence real easy. trundled up to the corner, always looking for the farmer from the property next door ( he must have been elsewhere) . Gunned the big catapillar engine and followed the GPSer to the co-ords, was rather easy actually, didn't even break out in a sweat. arrived at GZ found, signed the log, left path-tag and followed my lovely 4 mtr wide track back to the awaiting low-loader (this now makes it VERY easy for the next people to find)

3, parked the Geomobile at the gate, grabbed the back-pack from the boot, placed a few water bottles in it and followed the fence to the corner, way tooooo easy.
Mmmmmmm spoke too early didn't I ??? followed the arrow on the GPS, said I was only 500 mtrs away, I reccon I walked about 900 mtrs to the cache. this little trek to me about 45 minutes from the car. arrived at GZ, took the second place prize, ( thank you very much).
Covered up the cache and headed back to the car, tried to follow my snail trail, but reverted to go scrub bashing again, at least it was slightly down hill this way.

Arrived back to the car 35 minutes later, grabbed a nice cool drink out of the fridge, and reflected on the cache.

Very well done, nice size, Great contents, great walk.
Am glad that I did this one on a nice cool morning, would hate to do this on a day warmer than 25 degrees.

T second to find prize,
L one of our PATH-TAGS ( and lots of sweat)

SL TFTC

CHEERS FROM THE FLIPPERS
[purple] MARK/GAYLE [/purple]

[This entry was edited by FLIPPER&CO on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 4:45:21 PM.]

Enjoyed doing this cache it was cool and overcast but i did take water followed your instructions. Worked out the Kangeroos must be shorter than me was almost on hands and knees following their tracks from the couner to the cache is 700 m but i think i doubled that was surprised when i got there I was FTF the FTF gift was worth the effort big thanks for the cache

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