SHORTCUT4US Chapman Bore, South Australia, Australia
By 2+2=us on 21-Aug-11. Waypoint GC33KXV

TFTC.Sad to see how people treat this area, there is so much rubbish around.Probably make a great candidate for a CITO.The cache lid is broken and the logbook itself is weathered and covered in black mould.Quickly signed it and went back to the car to clean our hands.

TFTC please be careful lots of rubbish around.

Now we are on the way to Canberra and pick up some more caches .Found the cache with TBU1BIKESU Tftc 2+2=us

We are on the way to Canberra for the MEGA Easter 2024 via Victoria. We stop for sightseeing and caches.We found this cache and signed the log.Tftc 2+2=us

Great spot. Thanks!

It is a shame that this is so far from town as it would benefit from a CITO. The cache was found without any problems. Thank you for placing this cache for all to find.

It’s a beautiful winters day and I have the day off work so I ventured down to the Murray Bridge & Tailem Bends areas for a day of caching.

Took ages to find

TFTC

Out early to find some caches before the weather changes. Finally came back to this one after pulling the pin due to understory growth during summer. Lids broke on this cache but log etc have been placed in plastic bags by previous finders. TFTC 2=2=us.

Seem better days here unfortunately

With my days numbered in SA I had a few targets that I have wanted to tick off put around Murray bridge and the surrounding areas to find. With the work finished in the early morning I set off for a nice day tackling the virtual at Monarto, ice cream series, lost wanders series and the Aussie Challenges plus a few others along the way, total of just over 100 finds for the day.

Thanks for the cache

Cruising down the road, picking up caches. It's a good day.

Thanks 2+2=us for placing this cache. Found on 24/7/2022 at 11:08 am.

Out for a day of caching in the mallee. Getting a few more smiley’s on the wandering heroes trail. Thanks to all the COs for the placement and ongoing maintenance.

Found on our way back to the Fleurieu. Container lid is cracked and damp inside, cache log is dry but begging to rust

It’s been one of those days where every stick makes me look twice. This cache had a resident guardian, but as long as they have legs, I don’t mind.

Only a 20m “hike” from where I parked the car!

Thanks for the cache 2+2=us.

Apologies for the generic log

On a fine Saturday I set out with Southern Cross Caching an Uni and Medusa for a day around Murray Bridge. There were a couple of new series published recently and it seemed like a good place for a day out.

We started at the Lonely Lookout Cache, and I think this is the third cache I've found in this location over the years. Then went on to Slow Mail, and a few others around Eastern Murray Bridge.

After an average coffee at OTR we started the Australian Mountain Peak series, with a short side hussle for some bush fishing and then to Sunnyside. Its been years since I found the other cache at Sunnyside, and glad to see its still there. As a kid we used to live nearby and my parents would go skiing and fishing here with friends. I also spent a lot of time hanging around footy ovals on Saturday afternoons while my dad umpired the local games.

Following on from the Mountain Peaks we ventured on to the SAR series. I was thinking South Australian Railways, but it turned out to be rivers. I am surprised that dry South Australia has so many rivers!.

Turning back towards Murray Bridge we caught up on some of the more recent Wandering Heroes, I have met and know a lot of the heroes, but some are still just names and I hope to meet you in future.

Then on to the Hairy Armpit Series, but I misread that and it seems its Happy Armpit Series. The former is funnier

Getting late in the afternoon we still had an hour or so of daylight, so started on the Oz Mega Signal series. This was interesting because I remember riding my bicycle along this stretch of road in the 1970's as a 9 year old participating in a cub camp. We had to ride from Murray Bridge to a farmhouse near where we spent the night in a shed in the farm that fronts number #66, then rode to Jervois Oval the following day. All roads being gravel and having skinny tyres it was a long and grueling ride for a 9 year old. And the night was freezing.

All caches were found except for one DNF, and on the last three caches the rainstorm had finally hit and we were drenched, and it was completely dark. Finding a cache by torch in the bush in the dark in a wind and rain storm, well it stopped being fun and we decided to leave the final cache for another day. Over 200 caches found and this helps with a challenge cache that I've found but not logged in Victoria.

Thanks 2+2=us for placing and maintaining the cache

Heading to Karoonda today with the Geo pup and thought I would stop for some caches on the way, and came across this one. nice area TYFTC

A quick find at GZ. Container missing its lid.

Thanks for the cache 2+2=us.
Found on 5/3/21 at 09:44.
Find #12516.

Day 178 (Monday 24th) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Tailem bend today. A total of 84 for the day and 3454 for the trip. TFTC.

Heading out for the afternoon to tackle more of the Wandering Heroes series this afternoon so this will be a generic log. All caches were found in good condition, unless otherwise noted, on an enjoyable sunny afternoon.

TFTC

Quick find with accurate coordinates. TFTC.

A day of many, many geocaches! The target series was SAGEO_5's *On Your Bike* Wherigo power trail series, and it was an early morning start meeting at Loxton with a group of keen Geocachers. Once that trail was completed, The_Tardis_Trio and I then did the Fishy Tales Wandering Heroes series, and it was pleasing that both series geocaches were all found with generally good coordinates. It was then a return trip home via some of the back roads via Pyap West and Caliph, to then be back on the main Karoonda Highway. A few miscellaneous Wandering Heroes caches and some of the Lost Wandering Heroes waypoints completed the day. It wasn't planned to be a day for a big finds number, but The_Tardis_Trio was keen on finding more than 150 for a Victorian challenge, so with the 100 and 35 caches from the two initial power trails, it became easy to achieve the target. A perfect day to be outside weatherwise, with many stumpy lizards found sunbaking on the roads and in the scrublands, with only one large brown snake seen slithering across a road.

A fair bit of hard rubbish around at this rest stop here. My coordinates wandered a little, but eventually narrowed down to GZ, where I made the find. The container lid appears to be starting to get affected by UV, so may need to consider some maintenance soon. Otherwise all good, thanks 2+2=us.

Staying in Murray Bridge for a little while, so came here first up today with ilook4geo. Found this cache easily as it was located in just the right place. Had to keep moving today as the weather was looking quite grey. Two more lots of initials were written hastily on the log, all was put back into place and we got moving on again. Thanks to 2+2=us for adding this cache to the game for us and others to find.

Out on a caching run this morning with goingplaces2. Found a reasonable amount, but had to stop before lunch time when it started pouring rain. The wind was also quite wild, so it was not a great day. Did get some smileys though, which was good. This is one of the caches we found. TFTC.

Thanks heaps

Tftc

Driving and caching with Sebastbat and Jack today.
Needed a few so I could go to Rio
A nice place to stop, might also be a good place for a CITO !
Thank you for placing and maintaining this cache 2+2=us

found with jacknor on the return from doing my own wandering hero's cache. A quick find starting on the lost hero's and slowly heading home. Some of the containers have been just replaced by the co's, a few others where found broken and containers replaced with still the original logs. All caches where found.

sir_spectre wanted to come down and find his wandering hero's cache.He invited me along for the trip. We stopped at the puzzles and did 1 multi before the dust storm got worse and made driving down to 60 km's for a while before making it to his cache. Then the thunderstorm hit and it bucketed down with rain till we drove back to the lost hero's trail and we completed that with almost no rainfall.

Was being taxi to and from The Bend for the V8s today so after dropping off, it was some GEOPETS, some Wandering Heroes, the May OTD series and lastly all thirteen of The Lost Wanderers series.
This was one of six stand alones found while travelling between the various series.
Container needs replacing as the lid is cracked.
Thanks for the cache 2+2=us

Found on the way to Karoonda in a pleasant road side stop. TFTC

Finding a few caches on our way to Karonda. TFTC

Found quickly on a day out before Easter. Tftc

Quick find

Not sure this is a shortcut unless you want to go to Murray Bridge from Loxton or Karoonda
Far better, and quicker to turn off to Tailem Bend it you are headed for Adelaide

Me ?? I'm in no hurry to reach anywhere today,
so satisfied meself with a relaxed search among the wubbish for a cache

Amazing !!
It is still here,
unmuggled by someone taking a dump behind the tree

TFTC

Today we did a loop from Murray Bridge and back again taking in the OTD, Wandering Heroes and The Lost Wanderers series. Some we found challenging and others easily and picking up a few caches on the way and this was one of them. An easy find at GZ.

Thanks for placing these cache for our enjoyment.

Tftc

Missed the shortcut but found the cache. TFTC

Found it

Found with FerociousFlea on our 2017 June Long Weekend Wandering Heroes Caching Run. Totals included 155 on Saturday, 176 on Sunday and 6 early Monday, making for 337 caches in a little over 48 hours.

Thanks to all of the cache owners and caching teams that have this series named after them. Thanks also to those who make the effort to maintain other's caches so that people like us can do these caching runs. Apologies for the generic logs...

TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Found with Beaker on a long weekend caching trip... 337 caches in 2.5 days! Broke some personal records, had very little sleep, lots of caffeine, a few minor injuries and a heap of fun! Some great caches found, well done to everyone involved. Thanks

Reaching for todays goal of 100 caches found, TFTC.

Out for a day of fun, laughs and caches with Doctor Owl.
A quick find for us today.
Doing caches here and there to Murray Bridge before we head over to Oakbank. TFTC

Out on a mission with SA Sewer Rats, which ended up with success in everything and some unexpected bonuses. (You have to be lucky sometimes!) Having left Gizmo's Gang in Karoonda, it was time to very slowly head to Oakbank. But not before finding a few more caches.

Went to visit my sister and asked if she would like to come get a few caches with me...she does like to go for a drive...she is on snake patrol [^] as it was a rather warm afternoon...
Very disappointed the path into this cache has been used for someones toilet break...
the cache is undisturbed...TFTC 2+2=us

Spending a few days in Mannum and today I was heading out to do some Wandering Heroes on my way to my 4000th cache. [^]
Was on a mission today so no time for a break here.
Thanks for the cache 2+2=us.

A nice quick find on our way through the area today.

I see just down the road is the start of a power trail, but we didn't bother with any of those. How would I ever remember one from the other?

Thanks 2+2=us.

Suscoe was on the way back to the east today from Nuriootpa to Keith via Murray Bridge and a little north of Tailem Bend.
We started caching at the Cub’s Trail just out of Murray Bridge, we moving into the streets of Murray Bridge and then ended with the Lost Wanderers’ Trail on the Karoonda Road.
We enjoyed the placements and appreciate the efforts of the Cache Owners in creating these caches for us to find.
It was a good day weather wise with a mild temperature and very little wind.
Thanks to 2+2=us for placing this cache.

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!

Thanks 2+2=us for putting this here, we did not have it in our pocket query but 3-Kings was able to get reception here and download it, Good to have a break from the main trail. TFTC

TheCatBandits on a mission today to finish off the Wandering Heroes Series. On the road at 6am as we had approx. 400km round trip ahead of us. Beautiful Autumn day only the one snake was seen ( only a foot long still scary lol ) The whole family has enjoyed the Wandering Herero's series. With time to spare before the sun went down it made sense to include The lost wanderers series. TFTC #950

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 2+2=us

Another day out caching with CAD - getting closer to the next milestone T4TC:)
#2985

Another day of many, I hope TFTC 30th

Out and about the back lots around Tailem Bend, on a mega caching safari with Debandy. Many interesting cache were found and much happiness was had by all.

Thanks to all the cache owners. Much appreciated.

Found while out caching with Cows with guns.
A good day of caching with many found.
Thanks to all the cache owners for putting them out

After a few months of planning, and trial runs I finally attempted and complete my goal of doing a 24 hour SOLO cache run!!!

One Man, One Day, 441 caches found!

I booked two nights at Murray bridge and arrived at 8:00 pm. Attempted without success to sleep until 11:30 pm then got up and went to the location of the first cache. As the clock turned to midnight I began.

Speed through the Oz Mega 2014 Trail with only a handful of DNFs, then picked a few up along the highway until I got to the GeoPets trail.

After this I cut through to Wandering Heroes and completed up to the "OTS: May" trail. Went along this and came back into Tailem Bend for lunch and fuel and few in town. Was beginning to get weary but proceeded back to where I left off in the Wandering Heroes.

From here on in I just completed as many of these as I could up through Karoonda in the hot hot mid 30's day until midnight stuck a few kms east of town.

441 finds was the total count and now I just had to drive back to Murray Bridge. Easier said then done after being awake for practically 40 hours. Hit the hotel pillow at 1:20 am and was out within seconds.

Thanks for all the wonderful caches around this area, and sorry for generic logs.

I found this cache today as number 28 of 161 in company of Cold Freeze on our Karoonda Road Run III. Our first run back in 2008 was well before Wandering Heroes and yielded just 14 caches along the entire road and our caching figures were in the 2,000's back then. Our second run in 2012 brought us 160 caches where we started at Loxton and continued caching all the way past Karoonda to just before the Murray Bridge - Tailem Bend Junction. From there, we headed into Tailem Bend for Dinner and continued back from there for a few extra caches before giving up about an hour before dark. Our caching numbers were in the 5,000s at that time. Today, with caching numbers now in the 8,000s, we picked up at the point we had left off last time near the Murray Bridge - Tailem Bend Junction and headed south with the aim of finishing off all of these caches then caching our way back towards Loxton. I had not counted the caches in this section before leaving home and I thought that there were probably about 80 caches there. Once we got them all done, we found that there were just over 140 left in that area so we didn't get much past Karoonda on the way back after all. A great day though nonetheless and there looks to be at least one more full caching day to come at some stage. Our last find along this section of road before returning back to the Tailem Bend junction. Thanks to all cache placers in this series today from D B-A.

We came here following the Wandering Heroes trail and Lost Wanderers. This was an easy find after passing the rubbish dumped by a radiator repairer on the track in.

Thanks for the cache 2+2=us

Trying to get 100 in a day, thanks for the series, TFTC

Should have more caches in parking bays, gives an excellent excuse to have a break

Found by the intrepid trio. Thankfully its stopped raining.

Found on a cold, wet and windy afternoon with Crane2 and Labchick. TFTC

After visiting my brother in Murray Bridge I am now actually heading for Queensland for the Mega and picking up the rest of the Wandering Heroes series that I haven't yet done with a few others along the way.

Had a very good day with only a couple of no finds and a couple near Karoonda where muggles were everywhere for the farm day so stopped me even looking.

No problems with finding any of the caches that I did find.

Thanks 2+2=us for the cache.

Found while out for the day with Uni on a Wandering Hero's assault 'It's not about the numbers is about the milestones'.
We had a great day finding many many great caches, I apologize about the generic logs however for efficiency this is the quickest way to do it for me when I'm time poor. I would like to aknowlege all the great work and innovation put into many of the hides along this route.

Thank you to all cache placers,
Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

Found at 10:16 with Southern Cross Caching.

Found on a fairly warm afternoon after doing some of the Wandering Heroes and Lost Heroes caches. TFTC

We headed out with us and harleyjohn to achieve some smileys on the wandering heroes caches. We aim to get to our namesake cache. Leaving home at 7 am we set off through the back road's heading to Karoonda. What did we see?
Thanks for placing this cache.
Tftc snln
Travellinbees

Out caching with the travellinbees to knock if a few if the wsndering heroes near karoonda we hit the road early heeding the weather uts going to be 40 happy caching.
Harleyjohn2569 tftc

Found on a nice warm day, tricky find

Found during an epic Australia Day long weekend of caching road trip through Victoria and South Australia.

TNLN, thanks 2+2=us.

Found with geokids StunkyPanda2006 and gnomeo2007. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Quick find on our way home from Loxton.TFTC

Quick pick up before starting lost Herod took TB TFTC

In TB

Tftc

Buckfast from France

The Parrots are on holidays and on a quest to find 8000 caches before returning to duty.
Had a fantastic day folling heroes.
Only saw one cache that had eclipse tins in it.
over 100 finds and mints on my last cache of the day.
This must be some sort of record for me.
Loved driving beside the track as I didnt like some of those roadside stops with the trucks thundering past.
A great day out and in the afternoon we headed to Loxton Hotel for the night.
Fiona O'Loughlin is performing here tonight but unfortunately it is sold out.
Tomorrow back down the road to find some more.

On a SA geocaching trip and today we are searching for some of the Wandering Heroes plus some of these along the Karoonda Road. Was a very hot day so only out till lunchtime. No luck for us today.

Out for yet another weekend of hanging out and caching with Sylken. The plan for this weekend was to take another crack at the Wandering Heroes power trail (when we made our first attempt in January 2012 we foolishly thought we might tackle the whole thing in one day!! Lol! The series was only abut 160 at that time...) When the temp is 35C, that seems rather unrealistic... It was 35C the first time we attempted this series, and 35C again today... it seems that we're starting to make a habit of hot caching expeditions. But now the powertrail has upwards of 300 in it, I think anyone would be hard pressed to bag that many in one day!

We still didn't manage to complete the trail, so we'll just have to see if we can find another 35C day to get the rest...

Thanks you to all the cache owners for their recognition of fellow cachers, and their efforts in hiding and maintaining the series. An honourable mention to CPWanderer who started this whole lark off in the first place

[red]Find #1648[/red]

This was a quick find for us today. Stamped and returned as found.

We had planned a family geo trip a few weeks ago and I left it up to the geo wife to decide where she wanted to go. Murray Bridge was one of three places to visit. Lucky she decided on this area, so we could try for 200+ in a day [^] Sometimes the parking was very difficult being double white lines and plenty of passing cars, having a companion to drive / swap with made this series that little bit easier. It was a very hot day & plenty of hours were spent in the car with much water needed. We found some great containers & loved the idea of this series. Now to rest the wheels....

[blue]Thanks for this cache, 2 + 2 = us TNLN[/blue]

On a trip to mildura with geokids:)
Great hide
TFTC

We are currently staying in Murray Bridge for a few weeks attempting some of the many caches available in the area. Geodaughter KAROPI joined us here for a second run at the Wandering Heroes series....our first was in January 2012. The series has expanded somewhat since then so we had endless opportunities

We finished the day with 114 finds and not a single DNF. Some caches are particularly inventive and a great tribute to the teams they are honouring. It is so nice to do a big power trail and have various types of hides....I guess the benefit of having lots of different CO's

As usual with power trails we too are writing a generic log, just adding a few extra words to caches that needed extra comments. That however doesn't detract from the gratitude we feel for all the CO's that have hidden caches along this trail....thank you one and all.

Nice to find this one sitting near the (current) end of the Lost Wanderers series

Thanks for the hide 2+2=us[^]

Found at 2:57:00 PM, GAFF1, I returned to Murray Bridge today after spending the weekend in Adelaide catching up on some caches I missed during the Mega earlier this year.
A nice quick find after taking the shortcut, did not take a break as I was fast running out of time and had to be in Adelaide for a meeting by 5pm
SL, cache in good condition.
TFTC 2+2=us

Dodging the rain showers and the cold winds on a very wet and windy Saturday afternoon. Determined to find just one more. You know the feeling.......TFTC.

So we’re now on day two. The bikes a firmly stowed as they required too much effort and resulted in too many tired bottoms and legs. Today is about conquering as many of this series as is possible and to have lots of fun. Still we had a few giggles upon discovering some of the hides and containers. Again all very inspirational. Thanks to you all for theses magnificent hides.

Day 2 of our Queens Birthday long weekend geocaching trip to Tailem Bend and we are off at 9.00am and we found a lot of caches and this was one of them! TFTC

Found It!
Quick find on my way home from the wandering heroes. Very wet here today...
TFTC

Found ya, Thanks for the hunt.

It was time for specimenX and myself to head back to Murray Bridge to do the Signal PT and some of the Wandering Hero's. It was a 2 hour drive there and we arrived and went straight into the Signal series. We were suprised at how they were scattered and doubted a few of our answers but it seems we had them all right and we found the whole lot. We then headed off for some lunch and collected a couple of Oz Mega 2014 caches that had gone astray on our last visit.

Murray Bridge was almost a ghost town compared to the Easter weekend. We were still looking for the Kookie magnets (habbit now lol) and we were kinda missing all the geomobiles with their flags flying high. Seems Murray Bridge was back to BAU and we were once again engaging stealth mode for our activities.

Once we had eaten, we decided to try our luck and do as many Wandering Hero's as our bodies would allow. specimenX was like a bull at a gate, just kept going and going and going. We evetually called it quits at a daily total of 204 finds (our highest yet) and started the 2 hour drive home at 1am in the morning. By the time we got home, we were well and truely exhausted, showered then crashed immediately.

In the Wandering Hero's, we managed to get from the Tailum Bend turnoff all the way to Karoonda Road/Kulde Road intersection. We then headed up Karoonda Road towards Bowhill Road (heading towards Murray Bridge) to collect The Lost Wanderers.

There are still SOOOOO many Wandering Hero's we need to collect so it looks like another SA trip will be in the planning

Thanks to all the CO's who have placed caches for us to collect and also bigh shout out to those who maintain these caches. Very enjoyable exhausting day.

Off we go again! This time Rapidlywild and I decided to tackle the Wandering Heroes caches after completing the Oz Mega Signal power trail-insane! [:O)]

Once again Rapidlywild was the driver and I was the runner [:O)] Most of the caches were nice, quick finds although several of them were a little bit elusive to us in the dark so RW joined in for the search

Swung by this one on the way home-nice easy find!

Thanks for the hide, 2+2=us

Found while attending the Oz Mega over the 2014 Easter weekend. TFTC.

Followed the ever handy geo trail to this one.
TFTC TNLN

Thanks for your cache 2+2=us, we found on our way to the OzMega Event in Murray Bridge to be held over Easter. Yoru cache helped to break up the long drive from Perth and give us an excuse to stop and stretch our legs.

Found this cache while attending Oz Mega. Had a great time and appreciated all the effort of the organisers and the owners of placed caches. Thank 2+2=us

This was a bit of a short cut back to the OZMEGA campgrounds for us today and we were rewarded with this smiley for the effort.

TFTC

Finds #1495 @1442

After attending My First MEGA event in Murray Bridge it was time to pack up the camp, say my farewells to old and new friends and hit the road (the long way home)

finally finishing the Fruit loop Track and I was back heading the right way for Victoria. Aiming for the Lost Wanderers run, but picking up a couple of roadside caches along the way.

TFTC

Signed log dropped TB

Found after getting bogged but managed to sign the log left TB
TFTC

This was the only cache I did on the way home from the Oz Mega. Even though it was on the other side of the road, I ducked in to nab it then set off on my merry way waving to others out grabbing a few more caches along this road. Cache #1,862.

Found during OzMega 2014 with Sneaky Squeaky and knightech

Hunting in the company of Kaisho53 this morning, we worked our way through just a few of the Wandering Heroes series on a pleasant, sunny, Saturday morning. This cache was found safe and sound and all in good order as we detoured through the Lost Wanderers series and made our way back to Murray Bridge.

The cache name was perfect as we took the opportunity to pause and have some lunch after the mornings hunting. A good break with food and water, we were back on the trails.

Cheers 2+2=us (or should that be =You?)

Visiting from Newcastle, travelling with JMCz from Texas, TFTC!!

Cached today with Team Tonka , Grub Fred and Backwards Charlie. Met many cachers along the way. The OZ Mega Flags were everywhere, what a great idea. Everyone waved to us or blew their horns, had a great time. Fun caches too!!! TFTC