Wandering Heroes ... The lost wanderers Wynarka, South Australia, Australia
By honeysucker on 15-Dec-11. Waypoint GC397XZ

Well, I was our last stop! Thanks for the fun!

GT37 and I are making our way to the February 29th Mega in South Australia. We had some extra time so were able to collect tome caches along the way. We had done a lot of this trail already so it was great to collect some new ones or maybe they are ones that we missed last time. Thanks for placing this cache for all to enjoy.

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.

A quick find, stamp and return here

TFTC

Found with tassie expat while out on a drive. CO put in a lot of time with this trail. Thanks

Last of this power trail for us. If we had the time, we love a numbers grab. Once well on our way, I realised that I may have left my expensive ($4) magnifier glasses at gz. A different type of swag for the next finder lol TFTC

Quick stop and find here today, cache is all good

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

Thanks honeysucker for placing this cache. Found on 24/7/2022 at 9:51 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 while travelling around the area. Cache in good condition. TFTC honeysuckle.

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 honeysucker.
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After specifically targeting the Team Astro Wandering Hero cache, Im collecting a few others nearby. Feels a bit snakey out here today, but none were seen. Not too hot, but I walked to several from a central parking spot, and had concerned citizens checking on me.

I don’t know many of the subjects in this section of the trail, but it’s interesting to read a bit of SA Geocaching history.

Thanks to all the COs, and thanks also to the Mystery Randoms and others who have maintained this series, it’s quite epic, and I’ll be back for more later.

Found out geocaching with friends as mystery randoms

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 nice easy find to finish off this section.

Thanks for the cache honeysucker.
Found on 5/3/21 at 10:52.
Find #12557.

Took off away from home with Jack to escape the rain.
Ended up at your cache!

Never lost - just connecting to the satelites

thanks for placing this cache honeysucker



2020 - the year of the flat caching curve!
Keep washing your hands. Exercise.
Support the regions by placing more caches ( esp around the Barossa please [:o)] )

One of 11 If of the Wandering hero's SeriesI found today. All were in work condition. TFTC.

Day 178 (Monday 24th) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Tailem bend today. A total of 33 for the day and 3403 for the trip. TFTC.

A great trail. TFTC

Had time today so signed log. 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

Thanks for the hide

Tftc

A quick find while staying in Murray Bridge.TFTC

Our wandering continued today, with ilook4geo, along the Wandering Heroes trail. This was a quite good section on the trail in that only a few containers were damaged and need to be replaced. The log books also were mostly in good condition and there were quite a lot that had been replaced. It was a pleasure to find the containers in this section of the trail. Each found log book had two lots of initials added.
Thanks go to honeysucker for adding to the fun of caching.

found with jacknor on the return from doing my own wandering hero's cache. A quick find before starting on the lost hero's and slowly heading home. Found container broken, replaced container.

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.

Found on the way to Karoonda - container is very broken, contents mushy. TFTC

Quick find

A quick find on a day out before Easter. Tftc

After mopping up a dozen or so caches I had missed on the road to Karoonda,
it was time to tackle one of the ever growing tentacles that sprout off the main WH trail

Hello to The Lost Wanderers
No use asking where they are at the moment is it ?? [:o)]

TFTC

Found whilst on the Fabulously Random caching trip [^] Feathertop and I have spent the last 10 days together from St Arnaud to the Yorke Peninsula, Balaklava and all the way to Murray Bridge and Karoonda.

Today it was sunny, windy, raining and we even got pelted with hail several time whilst we focussed on the GEOPETS series - LOVED IT!, the nearby fantastic OTD series, a number of Wandering Heroes and some random caches - I was exhausted by the time I rolled into bed, but what a fantastic day we had.

Please note: our combined team name today was "Fabulous Randoms" and that is how the 'millions' of log books have been stamped (bar a few with our actual caching names in them).

Thanks so much for the cache honeysucker!

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.

Tftc

Had a free half day and decided to notch up a few of the Wandering Heroes series. It was great to get some background on some of the familiar team names I have encountered while out and about. 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

Found on a very wet afternoon with Ismartis and my geopet, Mandy...the rain is not stopping & we are soaked...oh well can't get any wetter so keep going...crazy cachers

Out caching with Hevwalker, Mandy and CP today. We started with placing a very special GEOPET cache and then headed to the Wandering Heroes.

CP only did a few with us and turned for home and then the girls carried on until dark.

Had loads of fun in the wet and sticky weather, although we got soaked a few times and I was drenching wet when I got home.

TFTC honeysucker.

Great trail and a great way to reach our holiday goal of 100 per day. TFTC and trail. Log is very wet

interesting concepts these caches, love the thought

tftc

Spending a few days in Mannum and today I was heading out to do some Wandering Heroes on my way to my 4000th cache. [^]
Great reading about these Lost Wanderers.
Container all OK. [^]
Thanks for the cache honeysucker.

fixed container hope it holds

The container is broken and needs some TLC

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 honeysucker for placing this cache.

The cache container is broken and needs replacing soon.

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. With time to spare before the sun went down it made sense to include The lost wanderers series. 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 honeysucker

Another day out caching with CAD - getting closer to the next milestone T4TC:)
#2970

Another day of many, I hope TFTC 19th

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

Found it on a day out caching. The cache will need to be replaced soon as it is quite worn out. I didn't have a replacement sorry.

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 13 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.

23.07.15 tftc that could have gotten very prickly

Take 2 at what we started during OZ Mega Murray Bridge, took us a while to get back here but we made it. TFTC. Almost lost our phone in the rush to get to the next cache and beat the sunset.

We decided to add a few more caches to our day after coming back from Karoonda. We weren't sure of their names at the time, but will log them in found order.

Thanks so much for these caches honeysucker, you've done a great job for all cachers who visit here. Please excuse the generic logs, but the Motel internet isn't all that good.

Quick find, then off to the next one. TFTC

Ah the lost wanderers, but not forgotten ☺

On a mission to do 100 in a day, thanks for the series! TFTC

Found by the intrepid trio (Crane2, Messy61 & me). Cache #169

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

Found on a cold and wintry Easter Monday with messy61 and labchick. Cache #2136.

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 09:39 with Southern Cross Caching.
Almost stepped on a live hare

Found on our second day of caching out of Murray Bridge. Did some of the Wandering Heroes series and then tackled the Lost Wanderers series. Found them all except for one. TFTC and the series.

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

TNLN, thanks honeysucker.

Found with geokids StunkyPanda2006 and gnomeo2007. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Interesting tree TFTC

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. TFTC.

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

[red]Find #1634[/red]

We are now heading for Murray Bridge. Found this road to be a bit quieter. 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, honey sucker & to everyone for the series TNLN[/blue]

Owl needed to do some maintenance on a wandering hero, so she collected Andy Colombia and headed off for an adventure. The cache had already been maintained by someone else, so they had to fill in the time with caching. Lots of caching. No lost wandering here for Owl and Andy Colombia. This one was soon in the bag.

This day I'm on a Geo - adventure in the countryside with Dr. Owl, our mission: get all the happy smiles we could and discover the Wandering heroes !
We saw a classic:
"stonehenge style"
"home invasion cache" the ones in the middle of a tree hole of some possum home
"incredible camouflage" the ones with the natural wood on the top or some dry leaves
"Home sweet home" the ones who are now habitat by spiders,
Beetles, ants and some little creatures...
Well a totall adventure but the best of all I had a wonderfull day with Dr Owl !!

Found at 3:33:00 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.
Starting to get cold and on a roll, find nice and quick
SL, cache in good condition.
TFTC honeysucker

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 ya, Thanks for the hunt.

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.
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!

We don't know what you are talking about. We've never been lost, messed up a cache or been sent dashing in the wrong direction!

Ha. Of course we have, and love this idea for immortalizing all of us who have gone wandering when the cache was right in front of our noses. We are true Wandering Hero's.
TFTC

Thanks for your cache honeysucker, 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 honeysucker

Finds #1512

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)

Great Day Out caching with M-SEZ , Ma77hew & Kay , Sneaky Squeaky and Knightech JNR


Thanks For The Cache

Found while attending the OZ Mega, had a great time finding caches and meeting people from all over.

TFTC

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.

My thanks to all the hunters who have gone to the effort of recognising another cacher for one reason or another. It's great so see the tributes growing.

Cheers honeysucker.

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

I flew into Melbourne and rented a car to come to Oz Mega. This is my first geocaching trip to Australia and I am enjoying it so far. Of course I searched for and found a few caches between Melbourne and Murray Bridge.

After registering for Oz Mega I am doing some caching as part of Team Z (Grub Fred, JMCz, Team Tonka, and myself). Thursday we concentrated on the Oz Mega 2014 SA series and found almost two hundred (200) caches. Friday we concentrated on the Oz Mega 2014 Signal series and found almost one hundred (100) caches. Today we spent most of our time working on the Wandering Heroes series and found about two hundred (200) caches.

Thanks to all the volunteers for all the work in putting together the mega event and these series. If it were not for hiders, there would be no finders.

Found this one on our day out from the Oz Mega as we attempted the Wandering Heroes trail. logging this one as Team Z (Grub Fred, JMCz, Backwards Charlie, and myself) this one one of the many great Caches we found along the way Thanks for the great effort put into creating and maintaining these caches over this very busy period.
Sorry for the Generic Log but with 200+ caches to log today the mind is very Numb.
Happy Caching.

Here for the Mega Event. . Early start to do a loop before lunchtime. It's not often you can score a hundred finds before lunch! Many thanks for the enormous effort placing the series! TFTH

From Auckland via Sydney I arrived at Adelaide around 10pm on the 17th to be picked up by funkymunkyzone, slieschke and Cats&Dragons (thx!). The plan was a 24h geocaching run which included picking up as many caches possible involving the three trails of Oz Mega, Wandering Heroes and Tour de France. We made it just in time back to Murray Bridge to meet up with vistra and yorkshirekiwi83 at GZ of our first cache. With the whole Team "NZ Fun" assembled the run started exactly at midnight.
In total we managed 727 finds and 11 DNFs in 24 hours. Wow what a great team effort!!

After the "Oz Mega 2014 SA & Signal" Series we started to concentrate on the "Wandering Heroes series". Great trail with sooooooo many awesome and creative geocaches. Thanks to all the cache owners! TFTC

Found along with Granville86a and Kiwigeoswami (team CGK) on our Invercargill, New Zealand to Murray Bridge 2014 Mega Event, South Australia Road Trip, Thanks for the placement of this series, enjoyed getting out there and finding the caches in the series and seeing a bit more of Aussie.