Wandering Heroes...theUMP Tailem Bend, South Australia, Australia
By Skippy. on 06-Nov-11. Waypoint GC377Y8

Quick little find,on a surprisingly quiet road this afternoon. Cache has an inner cache which is quite sound. TFTC Skippy.

Apologies for the late log, we have just come back from a 10 day holiday in SA and Western Vic and spent as much time with family as possible so no time for logging lolWe are on holidays in SA and have spent the past 4 days catching up with JMelbs family in Adelaide (and only found 2 caches during those 4 days!! Thats despite hunting for a few more lol) Today we checked out of our accommodation with the intention of finding some local caches then some of the Wandering Heroes caches on the way to Karoondah, our destination for the night. We had lunch at the Train Park at Tailem Bend and and then set off to do the Wandering Hero Caches now! This was the next and a nice easy find In our early days as cachers TheUmp was the Publisher for Victoria and if I called out to GMelb "TheUmp is publishing" he knew what that meant ... Get ready to be out the door in 2 minutes!!! Even to this day when Bunjil publishes we sometimes revert to TheUmp is publishing for old times sake lol!!! We enjoyed his humorous notes on other Cacher's and our own caches too! TFTC Skippy. - GJMMelb

Such an old container TFTC

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

Easy to find

Found with Bullash on 19 April

Found

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 # 14166I'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 Skippy.

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 Skippy. for placing and maintaining Wandering Heroes...theUMP for us to find today.

Hey side. Thanks for the fun.

Fairly quick find.Sadly water in outer container. Inner cache pristine.TFTC. Weve bin there now! Boom Boom

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.

Thankyou for the find. Lovely spots

Quick find with Beary Organised on this lovely sunny Spring day. TFTC Left some swaps. Tnsl

Container lid had broken clips and logs inside were saturated. We placed another container and log inside hoping that this keeps dry. Popped some swaps for the kids as well. 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.
Cache too wet to sign

Quick find TFTC log needs replacing

Waterlogged, paper needs to be replaced

On the wondering hero's trail with @sesall tftc
Soggy and water logged

To wet to sighn tftc

Shes a bit soggy

She's a bit soggy. TFTC

Water in the container, so tipped it out. Quick easy find however. 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. Cycling about 35km today in perfect weather

19 April 2022
8:22 am
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Hi Skippy., I found Wandering Heroes...theUMP 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 Skippy. for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

This logbook is soaking wet and the clips are broken from the container.

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.

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

Easy find with Northstar76 and giselle_12

Wandering through the heroes!
TFTC!

Quick find while visiting from Adelaide. This is certainly a good way to make up your caching numbers. Tftc

nice day for it,TFTC

Good cache thanks

Had to come out to Tailem Bend today, finished doing what I had to do early so thought I would do some geoing while I'm here TYFTC

Our fist of many finds along this route. It's in and out of the car - A LOT - not sure how many we can do in a row! We usually only do about half a dozen in a power trail. TFTC Skippy.

Found with a geo member now logging it under my own account

Cache is very wet. TFTC Skippy

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.

Day 174 (Thursday 20th) of our trip. Caching along the way. Left Millicent today. A total of 15 for the day and 3054 for the trip. TFTC

5ftc

Found on early start with MoSSau

Tftc

Found with Lonely Ra thanks gor cache inside a bit wet

Thanks Skippy for this cache, and your contribution to the whole WH series. I was on a mission today to grab as many of these as I could. Logging most from home after returning, satisfied and exhausted. I recall seeing theUmp as a reviewer, could be wrong.

I’ve certainly found a good share of caches that we’re published by theUMP over the years.

Thanks for the cache Skippy..
Found on 21 Sep 2019 at 1:05 pm.
Find #9347

Found on our way home from Mildura. The hiding spot spotted from the car. Cache was found in good condition. Thanks for placing this here.

Thanks for the hide Skippy..

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.

Find number 3 for today and all is good with this cache.

Tonight was a long drive from Adelaide to Mount Gambier for a weekend of cave diving, and hoping to catch a few of the Millicent mega committee's events scattered around the southeast. There were a few target/required stops on the way: I needed to make a stop at Tailem Bend's Wandering Heroes series to place a cache and find my hero cache that Michells&hound had put out, and there were a few tree/ladder climbing caches placed between Kingston and Millicent that were yet to have a FTF.

This geocache was the first for me this evening, and found quickly. A nice dedication to a geocacher who I had never met. Appears to be quite the vintage geocache. The logbook is overed with a money bag, which I could never understand what the point was with using these, since they always had a hole and defeated the purpose. Thanks Skippy for the cache.

Thanks for the journey and TFTC

Tftc

Nice quick find with a muggle in Training. TYFTC SL grabbed army man and pit in a few Easter stickers

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.

TFTC. We had detoured from our loop back in to town to attempt the first seven or so of this trail. Quick easy find as we made our way into †own.

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 Skippy 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 Skippy for this cache and to all COs for placing and maintaining this remarkable series. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Good to see reviewers included here as well.

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

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.

Good on u Mr
Reviewer
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.

I only caught the tail end of theUMP's reviewing, with him only publishing a single cache under my name, but his wit and helpfulness is not forgotten.

This was find number 15 of 72 for the day for me. TFTC Skippy.!

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

Quick find

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

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!!

At the request of the owner I checked on this. Cache seriously cracked and logbook a mess. Replaced with a black painted systema container with a new logbook in a ziplock bag, pencil and a few swaps.

Easy find

Cache out in the open. Replaced with a rock on top TNLNSL TFTC

Tftc

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

Tftc

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

A great little cache find on me bike ride today !!
Cheers to theUMP !!
With a bottle of Bundy ay !!

TFTC

Found with friend Stripling Warrior

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.

Great trail TFTC

have dealt with this person on a few occasions

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

Veni. Vidi. Vici. Scripsi.
Needed the cache for the day and was heading to Tailem Bend for work. Having cleared out most of the town this trail was next on the list. After finishing work and on the way home made the detour along the road to commence making the finds. And as always you just can't stop at one.
Made a quick find , signed log and replaced. Great to read the history of names you come to know so well.
Gratias Pro cache Skippy

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 (so does theUMP - that is a lot of caches published!)

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

TFTC

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

Heading back to Adelaide after working in the Riverland all week and doing a few caches on the way. Quick find & Last one for the day. TFTC.

Heading back to Murray Bridge after doing the GEO pets trail and decided to grab a few of this series.

After parking nearby the cache was soon in hand.

Thanks for placing the series and I look forward to grabbing some more soon.

TFTC Skippy.