Wandering Heroes... Flipper&Co Naturi, South Australia, Australia
By CPwanderer on 18-Mar-11. Waypoint GC2QDZK

Found it! After a morning walk in Monarto and intending to spend the day in that area, a FTF hunt led me further east past Tailem Bend. After successfully grabbing the FTFs, I continued on to the endless Wandering Heroes series. Quick find here. TFTC!

So many Heroes ! Thanks to the COs for this series Tftc

Found with Bullash on 28 March 2024

Out and about caching today. Great day out in the countryside and thanks to CO for the placement of the cache. Cache found and log signed. TFTC

Spending several days in Tailem Bend to collect the 'Straya' Challenges, Ice Cream geoart, some of the Wandering heroes and quite a few interesting caches. Thanks to the many CO's who placed and maintain these caches - it is appreciated.

Find # 14168I'm in the Adelaide area for the Great Leap Forward event. Not just for the days event, but making it a week long trip of caching n catching up with mates.Flying solo......Day 8. Homeward-bound.Day started off with a tree climb and a big stretch off the ground. Then a bit of a look around Mt Barker. Then it was the trails. It's been a while since I've hit a long trail and being alone it was just me and the caches to fill the rest of the day in. Some power trails are tougher than others, ie parking locations and barriers can be annoying and chew up time. But happily I managed all hurdles. Even the odd orb spider that made some tracks mazes. Happily that what I'd pland out fell into place with only a couple of DNFs.End of day was a surprise with my biggest solo grab of over 300 in a day. But I have plenty more trails in SA to utilise if I want to better that score TFTC CPwanderer

Im making my very slow journey back to Melbourne from Adelaide after the mega yesterday. This was one of the finds I collected today. Thank you CPwanderer for placing and maintaining Wandering Heroes... Flipper&Co for us to find today.

Just a perfect morning for a few geocaches. Thanks for the fun!

Good hide!We walked past it and its not really that hidden.Put back where found.TFTC

One of a cluster of Wandering Heroes found today. This series is so huge that despite numerous previous nibbles, I doubt that Im even halfway there yet. All the history makes for interesting reading, sadly I am guessing that a lot of the theming on this oldest segment of the trail has been lost with maintenance over the years. A big thank you to the various COs who have contributed, and to those who have helped out with maintenance. Lets keep this series going.

Nice shady spot

Quick easy find with CherryRose on a beautiful sunny afternoon. TFTC TNLNSL

Quick find with Beary Organised even though her gps didn't count down. TFTC TNLNSL

Day 5 of tackling this series. Based on Murray Bridge. What a great section of this series. Enjoyed the day. Thank you to all the cachers who put these out for us to locate. Found 64 and 2 dnf today.

Quick find TFTC

TFTC CPwanderer for your cache Wandering Heroes... Flipper&Co that we found today.
WE are camped at the Football Oval for a few days exploring and caching around the area. Today the plan was to head along the Kulda Road finding Wandering Hero caches. We got to Martin Road and then detoured as the traffic along the road was getting a bit much for us. All caches found in good nick and pretty accurate co-ordinates.

Find count : 15770

Grabbing the odd hero cache to keep numbers up. TFTC CPWanderer

On the wondering hero's trail with @sesall tftc

Out for the day knocking off a few of the vast ocean of wandering heros tftc

Got stood up for a catch up with a friend today, but then weredunn4 proffered a day out caching at Tailem Bend……so here we are picking up some of these Wandering Heroes caches and a few others.
A great day for it
TFTC

Targeting the Wandering Heroes series with Cheezel1961 on the bikes today. Doing about 35km on the bikes in perfect weather

19 April 2022
8:43 am
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Hi CPwanderer, I found Wandering Heroes... Flipper&Co today. I am on my way between the Goulburn Valley in Victoria to McLaren Vale in South Australia. Collecting a few smilies on the way.

Many thanks CPwanderer for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

Borders are open (sorta) and Christmas is fast approaching so this can only mean one thing, WATBAC returns to SA to spend time with family and friends. This can also only mean one thing, that a caching day out with my geomum, Doctor Owl, was long overdue and very much needed (because apparently I am not great at finding time to go caching otherwise). So I sent a text to let Doctor Owl know that I was in town and Doctor Owl let me know that she had some maintenance to do on some of her Wandering Heroes caches. Perfect, there are a lot of them that I haven't done (in that I had previously only done about 10). So off we went...

Nice easy find and a nice change to have one on the side of the road that we were driving on to break up the crossing of the road. TFTC.

Owl's geodaughter WATBAC was in town and this means caching! Owl had maintenance to do and an ever-increasing Wandering Heroes cache list to find so this was an obvious choice. A hot day so they took it easy and didn't even come close to finishing. However, the maintenance was done, WATBAC did her 700th cache and a good day was had by all. A quick find in a good run. And a wave to Mrs Flipper, who Owl knows well.

Found out geocaching with friends as mystery randoms

Caching with the JAMS crew finding Wandering Heroes caches. We ended up finding over 300 and hiding 2 more. We replaced a lot of containers that were broken. We had a few showers of rain early which were getting us wet but they didn't last too long and it ended up being a nice day. Thanks to all the cache owners for placing the caches.

Out with the JAMS crew JJ52, Mogni, Allister W and sir_spectre, plus TallBikeStan and BratKat on this run. The logs where stamped as Mystery Randoms. The target's today where the Wander Heros trail ( as far as we could get ) plus any other caches in the towns or close to the road and the nearby Lab cache in Karoonda. We got slowed down by the rain till almost lunch. No wildlife sighted, not even a kanagroo. We found over 300 + caches, some of us had found some of them before but we are aligning all of our maps to the same finds. We replaced over 40 wandering heroes caches we found broken, most logbooks where dry and put in the new cache. Any logsbooks found close to full had a scroll added to the cache and all broken caches we removed and put in the bin. By the end of the day we had over a garage bag full of broken caches.

Another JAMS day was organised to tackle the Wandering Heroes trail (JJ52, allister w, mogni, sir_spectre plus tallbikestan and BratKat). We started the day with rain and hail as we drove through the hills towards Tailem Bend but by the time we started the series we just had a couple of light showers and then for the rest of the day it was fine although we had strong cool winds.

That didn't stop us though, and we had a fun day finding around 300 caches plus an Adventure Lab in Karoonda. We had come prepared with lots of spare containers and replaced a heap of broken containers and sometimes logbooks. We managed to get to Sandalwood where we called it a day, so now have plans to come back and completed the last of the series.

This was my first unfound since my last visit out here in 2016 and by the end of the day I had 197 finds plus the Adventure Lab which I was pretty happy about.

Thanks for the cache CPwanderer.

Quick find on our journey down the trail. Beautiful view. Thank you.

After watching Giselle play netball up here, we thought let’s go geocaching. Found with superman_22 Giselle_12

Wandering through the heroes!
TFTC

Quick find while visiting from Adelaide. Tftc. Took longer than the others but shouldn't have

nice day for it, TFTC

I have an hour to spare, so what do you do, go caching !! TYFTC

This evening, I decided to make the drive to Tailem Bend to attend the CITO event, hosted by a few visiting Canberra Geocachers. The park was very clean by the end, and to justify my long drive, I then did a large loop of the *Wandering Heroes* geocaches. My morale was high, and I ended up finding a significant number, with some great creativity that had gone into some of those hides. A late night drive back home.

I made the drive to do a full *Wandering Heroes* loop that were the closest to Tailem Bend; That is, along Kulde Road as far as Zytheran's cache, and then returning back along Westbrook Road. I had completed a few miscellaneous heroes geocaches along here, in particular the new-ish ones when I had been in the area with others, and so tonight it was a matter of getting in the right frame of mind, and getting to work. This geocache was a reasonably quick find, and the cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks CPwanderer for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

How extraordinary to meet CPwanderer at a CPwanderer cache! Also met Carol from Gizmo's Gang (which was ironic too, as our first find today was one of hers). Nice to meet you both. It's extremely difficult not to shake hands upon greeting! At least with Bindi there's no problem shaking paws/hands....
Thank you for the pathtag, CP. We've found loads of CPwanderer caches in Monarto and always appreciate the handiwork, time and effort you put in to your creations.
TFTC CPwanderer.

TFTC

Found with Bublyn TFTC

Found with Redrover09 TFTC

TFTC FUN FIND

Found this and several of the WH series/PT as with most Pt trails the caches were all easy to find with a few short searches thrown. Had pleastand day out in the country before it started to warm up and I started getting hungry. TFTC & the series I still have a lot more wandering heros to find.

Gee what an honour to have a cache or two placed to immortalise a cacher. We haven't had the pleasure of meeting Flipper&Co but they sound lovely.
Not having time to do much caching today we just went for a couple of convenient finds on our way through. One day we will return to do more of the many caches in the area but then we need the time to log them in the fashion they deserve. We love to hear the sound of our own keyboard, haha.
We know the CO is a snake magnet and we weren't sure if his caches may be also, so far this season we have only encountered 5 snakes and all from the safety and comfort of our car, phew. Not bad considering pretty much all our caching is in the bush,
No heroes here but we shall keep wandering. Thanks CPwanderer for placing this cache. Found it signed it and replaced it safe and sound as found TNLN

Day 174 (Thursday 20th) of our trip. Caching along the way. Left Millicent today. A total of 24 for the day and 3063 for the trip. TFTC

Tftc

Found flipper and co. Or rather the cache in their name. Took TB

Found the nice fresh container and log book left by the recent maintenance. Dropped off a TB.

Thanks for the cache CPwanderer.
Found on 21 Sep 2019 at 1:40 pm.
Find #9356

Nice new logbook. Great maintenance.

Thanks for the hide CPwanderer.

We spent last night in Meningie. A bit of the Tailem Bend power trail this morning and then some sightseeing on our way to Adelaide via Victor Harbour.

We are visiting from South Africa. . Landed in Sydney and are driving along the coast to Adelaide.

Vir die Suid Afrikaaners. Ons is op toer van Port Elizabeth. Eers na Singapoer en dan na Australia. Ons het in Sydney geland en ry kuslangs na Adelaide. Baie lekker.

After reports of dampness Ive replaced the entire cache!! Ammo box put out here some time ago has been pinched.

This cache needs a new bag as log is a bit damp. We didn't bring any spares today as we weren't sure how our 100 caches in a day attempt would go timewise and wanted to hustle along.

Thanks for your series, and TFTC

Tf

A quick find while staying it Tailem Bend to finish this end of the trail.TFTC

We had two hours of the afternoon left before sunset, and so we decided to search for a chunk of these Wandering Heroes caches before heading off to our campsite for the night. We enjoyed reading about the various geocachers, some of whose names we recognise as owners of caches we have found on our travels around Australia, and some whose names we recognise having seen them in log books around the country. Many thanks to the COs for having laid the trail and we hope we might be able to complete it on a future visit to Australia - maybe we might even get to meet some of the COs and the geocachers mentioned at the Clearwaters and St Arnaud 2019 Mega Events that we will be attending. This one was a nice quick find once at Ground Zero. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

We were heading out of Palmer today and just picked out a couple of caches on our way to our next destination with ilook4geo.
Then we started on a trail of caches placed in honour of Wandering Heroes of the geocaching game. Although some of the cache containers and logs were on good condition, there were also quite a few where the containers were badly damaged and no longer are weather or vermin proof. Some logs also need to be replaced as they are either full, wet or mouldy.
However, each found log had two more names added and all was put back as it had been found. Thanks go to the CO for their part in this trail of caches.

On a spur of the moment trip to Tailem Bend to have a bit of caching fun.
Spent the day picking up caches in the area and surrounds and starting this great series which I will return one day to finish.
A great variety of cache containers were found in all sorts of ways.
Thanks CPwanderer TFTC.

I had planned a big few days of caching in SA so I left work on a Tuesday evening and hit the road from Melbourne. This was my third full day of caching and the Wandering Heroes caches (and assorted others nearby) were on my target list. It was a blisteringly hot day (felt hotter than the 39C recorded on my car!) and the dry and dusty conditions made it hard going at times. My first task having left where I was staying overnight in Murray Bridge was to head to the Geopets series. Once I was done there I headed on to the Wandering Heroes and others along that route. Many took me longer than expected with different containers, hide styles and some further off the road. In the end I had to adjust my expectation of finds for the day before I headed north to where I was staying overnight. Thanks to CPwanderer for this cache and to all COs for placing and maintaining this remarkable series. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables.

Having started the oz mega signal yester, I headed back down south with the intention of finishing it and making a start on the wandering heroes’ caches. It was perfect weather for a long day of caching, after a few caches the mojo was back and good progress was made. Stopping in Wellington for lunch (and more caches) it was off to Tailem Bend and a steady slog was made into the wandering heroes. Eventually, as the sun was setting it was time to call it a day and head home after an enjoyable day.

TFTC

Found during a drive from Adelaine to Mount Gambier
Nice trail with plenty of tricky hides.

We wrote IJ stand for the first letter i our alias ( Jsson, Ingabo)
Greetings from Sweden
TFTC!

Together with jsson and Sivun on a country road drive. We logged as IJS.
Today we have 40 degrees C and a light breeze.
Thanks for placing a cache here for me to enjoy and find.

Great to.have these cachers alongside..we appreciate their effort. Thanks

Tftc

TFTC

Stay at Murray Bridge for few days before heading to Adelaide from Melbourne to see my family and also a week break from work. Came here to do the Wandering Heroes caches for the day. Nice and found. TFTC!!

With the magical creatures souvenirs coming to an end soon, I decided I needed to grab a few more caches this weekend to knock most of them out. With a couple of events on not too far from some mostly untouched power trails, I made my way down to Murray Bridge, then spent the afternoon evening attacking the start of Wandering Heroes, as well as the start of the Popes series, along with a few others in between.

This was find number 23 of 72 for the day for me. TFTC CPwanderer!

Having a break in Mt Barker for a few days. Spent the day caching with my Daughter crash1970. SL TFTC

Thanks to Gizmo's Gang for replacing the container!!!!

Container damaged

Yesterday I was making my way from Mansfield to Adelaide. I was racing over there and on my way back I dropped in to tailem bend set up my tent on the footy field and woke up at 2 to some sprinkles and thought crap better pack up my tent as it almost got soaked! After an interesting experience at the tailed bend football oval I was awake and thought I’d do some quick caching before I made my way home. Easy find TFTC

Took Tb

I was on my way to Barmera, with a bit of time on my hands as planned lol, so I was going to find some interesting caches along the way and a few of the power trail caches. The rain stopped, which was a bonus. At some point I decided to stop only for the large ones, otherwise I would never make it to my destination for the night! TFTC!!

Quick find

Quick stop and grab. TFTC.

Tftc dropped Tb

Lovely day mission to do the Trail on MrPancakes birthday. Thank you for the cache

Found on a one month road trip around Australia. Sorry for the generic log. TNLNSL TFTC

jinta29 and I are in town this week after many months of planning for a week to remember. We are heading to the Yorke Peninsula, Murray Bridge and as many places in between as we can get to. This was one we found along the way.

TFTC CPwanderer.

CPwanderer, I found your cache Wandering Heroes... Flipper&Co on 28/4/17.
This is my find #4479 and find #42 today.

Day 5 of our SA jaunt had us targeting the Wandering Heroes series and anything else that took our fancy [^]. We camped last night at Tailem Bend and we are unsure how far todays travels will take us

I had been eyeing off an interstate trip for some time now and made plans to head to SA to power through the geoart trails over here . I roped in my geo buddy Krabiboy to join me and we set about solving [?] caches and highlighting Jasmer caches that aren't available over in WA. Our adventure took us from the CBD over to the Yorke Peninsula and then back across to the Murray Bridge area . We were relentless in chasing down the finds and picked up as many as we could in the week that we had available. Due to the park and grab nature of our visit, the log books which weren't able to accommodate the ink stamp we had made were signed with the initials 'jk'! Fave points will be awarded for those caches which are considered awesome

A massive thanks here to CPwanderer for placing this cache here and for tempting us to venture over to this area. Cheers!

jinta29 found your cache Wandering Heroes... Flipper&Co today. This is my find #7631 and find #42 today. I was able to get my name in the log book here and we replaced the cache as we found it. Thanks once again CPwanderer for placing this and bringing us to this part of the world!

Drat !!
Back to riding on the highway again
The side track ends at the railway crossing

I was still finding these memorable caches though
Cache found after jumping through some hoops

TFTC

Had to meet my Mum, unexpectedly, in Tailem Bend...so loaded geopet, Mandy, into the car & headed down...after our farewell I went out to do a few Wandering Heroes...
I knew Mark many, many years ago before geocaching existed...then after a long break...we met at one of the first geocaching events I went to...isn't it funny how the universe works...
Thanks CPwanderer for placing this cache and starting this trail...I still have many to do

Found with friend Stripling Warrior, TFTC

What a great series of nearby caches. TFTC

We decided to tackle some of this series while staying in Murray Bridge. Most of the ones we attempted were quick finds and we were able to SL without any issues. Thanks for this series.

Thanks for a great trail and cache

great view from here

tftc

A quick and easy drive by as we cache our way through this series. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

TFTC

Oh wow, what a trail ! The WEEO and I flew down from Canberra to cache this trail and around MB and my wonderful Auntie put us up (future cacher there too ). We made it all the way to Loxton in 2 days but were shagged by the end. The caches were mostly fab and gave us a laugh along the way.

Thanks to all you cachers in the MB area for the great work in putting this together, you guys rock!

What a great trail, the weather is fine, the birds are singing and we are "in the groove". Thanks to all the cachers who put this trail together, we are having a ball and have not missed a beat, so far. 3-Kings and I have come all the way from NSW to experience this trail and it was well worth it. TFTC Favourite for you

Entire cache replaced.

TFTC, but needs replacing, cracked and water logged.

Container broken and log is wet. Tftc

On our drive to Victoria and our first night stop. Decided to do some caching whilst we were here. Tftc

Heading north to QLD and doing the Wandering Heroes along the way and today I managed picked up a lot of interesting hides along the way and this was one of them.

Thanks for placing the series.

TFTC CPwanderer

Set off really early to do the Geo Pet run and then get some of these Wandering heroes done from this end and any others along the way. Big long family day out TFTC Log book was wet logged the best we could

Off for some caching time with Purrfect Di to start the year together [8)]
Mattycat has done a few random Heroes caches, but needed to make a real start on the trail.
All we looked for were found quickly, most in fine condition.
Done a few Flipper caches around the traps!
TNLN TFTC CPwanderer

Tftc! On the road today trying to get as many as I can on this trail and catches in the area of tailem bend. Weather is perfect today. Merry Xmas.

Found by The Boofs TFTC ☺

On a quick two to three day get away by myself. Heading over to Tailem Bend and Murray Bridge to pick up a few smiley face along the way collecting mostly Earthcaches, Letterbox Hybrids, Wherigos and 'Finds by hidden month' I need to fill - Plus any others that are nearby any of the rarer types I'm after in boosting my numbers a little.

Day 1: After leaving on Home on Sunday I was fortunate to have excellent weather on my side and a great run also traffic wise, which was great as it enabled me to get quite a lot of KM's done and caches done too while on my way to Tailem Bend for the night and get an early start on the trail in Murray Bridge.

Day 2: After spending the night in Tailem Bend I made an early start at first light to cram as many caches in today as I can. After completing the Geopets series in Tailem Bend I headed over to Murray Bridge to grab a coffee and then do and complete the OZmega series and a few in between before returning back to Tailem Bend for the night.
Was an epic day with 218 caches found and logged!

Day 3: Made this my last day in SA before calling it "time-out" and head back across the border to VIC.
Did a few more this morning including making a start on the Wandering Heroes series before 10:30 before calling it quits.

Thanks CPwanderer for the cache.
Log signed and cache replaced as found. TFTC & smiley face
#2086

We had arrived in Tailem Bend last night, met up with Geodad as he has been working in Adelaide for almost 3 weeks. We surely do miss him. Our Geoboys had no football this w/end, we had nothing planned so this treck was in mind not being sure what the weather was going to be like we thought we would give it a start anyway. We had just had breakfast, a few cachers around Tailem Bend. Filled the car with fuel, said our goodbyes to Geodad & away we went on this incredible experience. Starting at approx 11am. Had a quick glance of the Honour Roll to see who & how many of these awesome geocachers we knew or had met on our travels during our Geocaching Experience. We haven't had the pleasure to meet Flipper&Co as of yet. Quick & easy find. TFTS

We arrived in Tailem Bend about 7.30 a.m. to make a start on the Wandering Heroes trail in the hope of getting 100 per day for two days. Our first day was tiring with a fair bit of bush bashing to do to get caches.
We got caught in quite a few showers of rain and spent a long time on the road, but managed a comfortable tally for the day.

Thanks to all who placed and maintained caches here for this great 'adventure trail'. Excuse my generic logs, but with so many to do, individual logs are a bit past me tonight.

Thanks CPwanderer for your effort here.