Wandering Heroes ... Richary Wynarka, South Australia, Australia
By SA_ParrotHead on 26-Nov-11. Waypoint GC38AVM

Continuing along the WH series Sounds like a top bloke Tftc

Out gathering some more wandering heroes on remembrance day. TFTC CPwanderer.

Out with weredunn4 picking up a few caches in the Tailem Bend / Karoonda area.A quick find stamp and return here todayTFTC

Out today with Cheezel doing more of the WH series. Cache found and log signed.

Heading to Karoonda and surrounds for some geocaching. My first visit to this area so huge amounts of unfound caches waiting for me.

A large assortment of AMP, Wandering Heros and independent caches tackled. The caches found were selectively chosen either to fill missing cells in my 360 degrees from home grid (5 times around) or due to favourite points.

Lots of different cache owners meant lots of different cache containers many with unique themes which made the day very enjoyable.

Thanks for the cache SA_ParrotHead.
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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 visit out here since 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 SA_ParrotHead.

Went out this morning to tidy my finds on this trail getting the one's I missed previously usually by not stoping in time and ending up some 200m past it up the road somewhere and with few opportunities to turn around it was onto the next one and come back another day, and also hopefully find some DNF's from previous trips. this cache and log in good condition.TYFTC

Walked over a fallen barbed wire fence to get to cache. Thanks SAParrothead for the hide.

I was hoping to collect quite a few of this series but was deterred by the possibility of snakes. I collected a few in Tailem and then headed east along the wandering heroes, starting at where I had left off on my last trip.

Thanks SA_ParrotHead for placing this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment.

Out grabbing a few caches in the area. Cache and contents are all good TFTC

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Cool

A nice quick find. TFTC

Parked along side the main road, crossed over the barbed wire fence and made a quick find. Container and contents in good condition.

Thanks for the cache CPwanderer.
Found on 3/3/20 at 3:37 pm.
Find #10682.

Day 178 (Monday 24th) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Tailem bend today. A total of 26 for the day and 3396 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

Nice find to end the day
TFTC

Thanks for the journey and TFTC

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Mr Tardis was out on a caching afternoon, targeting a few Wandering Heroes caches.

I found this oneafter a short search.

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache SA_ParrotHead.

Driving and caching with Sebastbat and Jack today.
Needed a few so I could go to Rio
Found a couple of Richary caches, and I'm sure there's more...
Thanks for maintaining these caches CP

A quick find while staying in Murray Bridge.TFTC

Cache replaced … new logbook and container!

Will drop out in the next ten days and replace.

Tackling another section of the Wandering Heroes series today with goingplaces2. Had a lot of fun and found all caches that were on the list. Logs signed, all replaced as found. TFTC.

Uh oh. Badly broken. Needs to be replaced.

The Wandering Heroes trail keeps on wandering and so do we, along with ilook4geo. Most of the caches we did today were in acceptable condition, although there were still a couple where containers need to be replaced and a few logs that also need to be renewed. As is normal, each log had our visit noted by the addition of two lots of initials, being GP2 and ilg.

Sadly, this cache has been totally smashed. Container, contents and decorations were scattered. Gathered these together and tried to cover all to keep them in place. Sorry, but we did not have anything suitable to use for a replacement.

This one urgently need some maintenance.
Our thanks go to SA_ParrotHead for adding to this trail and to the fun of the game.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

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 SA_PArrotHead for this cache and to all COs for placing and maintaining this remarkable series. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables.

Luckily the main road was not at all like the one in the picture
So a quick drive by today in recognition of Richary [^]

TFTC

Tuesday 8 November 2018.

Congrats on being honoured on this trail.

Yet another fabulous day out with gridge98...so fabulous that we stamped all of the logs as "Fabulous Randoms" (the ink in a few was becoming a little light).

We stopped at about 150 caches today as we were on a mission for Connor to reach his 4,000th caching milestone, and for me to get closer to my 10,000th. I'd found a few before today so my find count was a little lower, but anything over the 100 mark is a great day caching! We even began our day by attending a coffee event at 7:30am and then finished it with dinner and movies...haha, yep, the GIFF event was on tonight at the German Club.

Thanks so much for the cache CPwanderer! [^]

A day out with GoodLook on a mission to do as much of the wandering heroes series.
We found 150 along the way till we had to pull the pin and head home. Happy to find my 4000th at the last one. TFTC for all the CO for placing the caches. Some of the caches are in poor condition others are fantastic hides. We stamped all the caches with the fabulous randoms stamp

Came back again to catch up more Wandering Heroes from yesterday before heading to Adelaide from Melbourne for 10 days holidays. Found it. TFTC !!

Wandering Heroes ... Richary was transferred from SA_ParrotHead to user CPwanderer

Quick find

TFTC!

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!!

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.

Thanks for placing these cache for our enjoyment.

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

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

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 SA_ParrotHead.

SA_ParrotHead, I found your cache Wandering Heroes ... Richary on 28/4/17.
This is my find #4529 and find #92 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 SA_ParrotHead for placing this cache here and for tempting us to venture over to this area. Cheers!

jinta29 found your cache Wandering Heroes ... Richary today. This is my find #7681 and find #92 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 SA_ParrotHead for placing this and bringing us to this part of the world!

Out caching with Hevwalker today to make a dent on some more of the Wandering Heros caches.

We had a fun time but didn't hit the 100 we had initially hoped for. For me it was 63 finds for the day. I was happy with that.

TFTC SA_ParrotHead.

We had a fun time!

Found 26 March 2017

Out on the Wandering Heroes Series with Ismartis...we enjoyed our day though it could have been a bit cooler...crazy cachers out in the heat & humidity...
This looks like it would have been a great little cache hide when it was first placed as I can see what it would have looked like Old & faded now...perhaps an antique look
TFTC SA_Parrothead

There was an escapee but we caught it and put it back. Love these caches thanks for the trail, heading down towards Tailem Bend to meet up with the ones we have done in the past. TFTC and trail

Found with friend Stripling Warrior, TFTC

What a great series of nearby caches. TFTC

nearly at the end of of the road for the legends for me today

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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

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. This series is a real credit to all cachers and cache owners. Sorry for the generic log. TFTC Toot Toot

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 SA_ParrotHead

Another day out caching with CAD - getting closer to the next milestone T4TC:)
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Another day of many, I hope TFTC 13th

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 34 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. Thanks to all cache placers in this series today from D B-A.

On a WH mission today to try to get to 100 caches for the day. Stupidly I forgot sunscreen so was getting scorched along the journey. Drank about 5 litres of water and found 103 caches. If I'd had a co-driver could have found alot more but alas not he was harvesting. Enjoyed listening to the cds I got for Christmas on the 5 hour return trip to get to/from Tailem Bend from Naracoorte. TFTC and apologies for the generic logs.
Needs a maintenance check the lid has disintegrated.

Geocaching journey to the riverland!

Found while at the offroad racing at Wynarka today.
Nice to visit Thomas and friends.TFTC

First day of holidays so I thought I might knock a few more of this series on the head. TFTC

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Take 2 at what we started during OZ Mega Murray Bridge, took us a while to get back here but we made it. TFTC.

TFTC...

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 SA Parrothead for your effort here.

Choo choo. TFTC

Tftc. This is my second time on this trail, still so many to find.

On a mission to find 100 caches in a day, thanks for the series. TFTC

Day two of our attack on the Wandering Heroes series. A warm weather forecast meant an early start as the weather is proving a bit of a challenge for cachers from Tassie. Enjoying the series and the chance to get in amongst some numbers. TFTC and the series

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

TNLN, thanks SA_ParrotHead.

Tftc

Buckfast from France

On a 10 day geocaching holiday in SA from Brisbane with my sister JooJoo57. We attempted to do as many of the Wandering Heroes caches, however we were competing of temperatures in the 35-38 degrees range. Thank you for the caches , it was a most enjoyable day. TFTC

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. TFTC.

[red]Find #1481[/red]

A very quick and easy find today for us. The container was a little broken. 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, SA Parrot Head & to everyone for the series TNLN[/blue]

Out on this beautiful day to continue our quest to complete this great series of geocaches. Found and signed as Pem kids who consist of Braveheart17, Lozanger and Puppytail6. Left a PEG if convenient which equates to Pembroke Elite Geocachers!! Thanks to all those who make the effort to put these geos out here. Much appreciated.

So many Wandering Heroes!

Found at 3:53:00 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 hide and well constructed, worthy of a Fav Point. Protective cover has seen better days though.
SL, cache in good condition.
TFTC SA_ParrotHead

TFTC
TNLN

The Geo family was out for the Queens Birthday weekend and remained in the area overnight. What a brilliant series and a real credit to South Australia – very inspirational. We will have to come back again to complete this wonderful series.

We were out with the geofamily staying overnight at a motel in Tailem Bend. We were out for a total of two days nonstop geocaching. We used the geomobile and our bikes cycling 10km up the freeway! I know we are crazy! TFTC

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One of my challenges I set myself for my trip to the SA MEGA was to see how many caches I could find in 24 hours.
Today was the day. I parked the car the night before out at the furtherest point of the caches of the OZ MEGA 2014 and slept the night there with the alarm set for just before midnight.
My aim was to complete the OZ MEGA 2014 caches then start along the Wandering Heros series and see how far I got.
At midnight I started. With no one else on the roads I moved quickly along each of the roads looking for those little 'suspicious piles of stones'. By 6 am I had just the arrow head to go. I stopped the car and changed clothes as I was getting hot in the thermals. ... and the car would not start. 2 hours later the RAA turned up and said I had a flat battery. [?] [?] [?]
Found the remaining caches (except the couple that are now missing) and headed south for the Wandering Heros series finding the odd one along the road.[^]
The Wandering Hero series are different containers at different distances from the road so they were a little trickier to find at times and my find rate slowed down a little. Slowly the day continued and my count continued to grow, passing 200 and 300. Just after 7:30pm I passed 400 caches and I eventually stopped at 8pm exhausted just before Mindarie.
20 hours and just over 400 caches.

Apologies for the cut and paste logs.

Found with Tassiegirl13.
We'd attended the SA Oz Mega Event and this was our last day caching in the area.
With everything done around the event we headed up along the Wandering Hero's Power Trail to add a few more to our tally.
Loved the container.
TFTC

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

I enjoyed the variety of the hides along the way; several were quite creative! All up for the day we totalled 204 finds and ended with a 1am finish Absolutely geobuggered after that! lol!

Thanks to all the CO’s for placing their caches in this fantastic series!

Here in the area for the Oz Mega from Wodonga, spending the day with Bushfire. Our goal today was to grab 150 caches along the Wandering Heros Trail. It is wonderful to see these people who have been recognised along the way. We had a great day in the area making the finds.There was some great hides and our thanks to all the hiders for the effort in hiding and maintaining the various caches. Thanks.SA_ParrotHead.
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What a week this has been at the Oz Mega Event in Murray Bridge SA. I have so many caches to log so it will have to be a cut and paste log because of the numbers but this does not mean that that I don't appreciate the effort that all the cache owners have put in to hide these caches because without the hiders we would not have the pleasure of finding the vast number of caches that have been placed in this area and also the owners of caches along the roads that we have to travel to arrive in M.B and return back to our homes.
I left Geelong on Wednesday 16th April 2014 and arrived home a week later with close to 500 caches found and now the mammoth task of logging all of these caches.
Thanks to all the cache owners who placed caches for everybody to find.
Early Monday 21st April I ventured out to this group with fellow cacher Happy Feet 1 (Robin and Josh) signing the logs as B & HF1 and finding all along the way until we decided to return to Murray Bridge with our aim today was to log at least 150.
This is not the order we found these but for ease of logging I will log in order.

Suscoe headed out this afternoon after relocating to Karoonda for a bit of caching fun in the company of Phetlern.
Logs were signed in a combination of ways with Suscoe, Phetlern where we had overlapped on previous visits and S and P where we were both logging for the first time.
Another delightful day even if it was a little windy.
This cache was one of 61 finds for the afternoon.
Thanks to SA ParrotHead for placing this cache.

Another oz mega find TFTC

Whislt on holidays in Murray Bridge for the Oz Mega we headed out with TR and Frog Lady to do the geoart around the town would like to thank all the Co'S for putting these together and showing us around the town as we have never been here before TFTC

Thanks for your cache SA_ParrotHead, 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 SA_ParrotHead

Finds #1519

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 and some of the Wandering Heroes, but picking up a couple of roadside caches along the way.

Now that I'm down here my plan was to get 100 for the day before the big 4 hour drive home.


TFTC to all that have placed the caches along this series. (sorry for the generic log)

On our OzMega Holiday to Murray Bridge we decided to get a few of this great series thanks to the co for this cache

This entry was edited by TR! on Tuesday, 22 April 2014 at 11:13:11 UTC.

Went out caching during the OZ Mega with M-SEZ, Ma77hew & Kay, SneakySqueaky and Knightech JNR.

3 cars 12 people and hit the road. We got around some of the Wandering Heroes and the OZ Mega arrow and the Lost Wanderers.

A nice quick find. TFTC