Wandering Heroes ... Record Run 9 November 2011 Borrika, South Australia, Australia
By Freddo the Chocolate Frog on 18-Dec-11. Waypoint GC39AY4

Continuing along the WH series . You wonder how many kms were needed for this Tftc

Out with weredunn4 in the Karoonda area continuing our effort to collect the Wandering Heroes caches plus others we come across.Slowly but surely we are inching our way along this very long power trail.All logs signed or stamped, and maintenance where possible and if required.TFTC

Tackling the Wandering Heroes series again, and surrounding caches, with Cheezel1961. All caches found and stamped. Really enjoying this series and a massive thanks too all those who created and maintain this unique trail.

Day three of tackling this series. Nearly gave up yesterday as scrub very hard to negotiate and caches small and hard to locate. Today was so much better. Big black plastic tubs, ammo tins and buckets. Some are brittle but so much more fun if you can find them without tramping under, over thick matter. Thank you for the change. Hope it continues from now on. We enjoyed today. Found 70 and 6 dnf. Thank you everyone.

Bunnies are quite busy around here, watch your step. Quick drive by cache today to close some gaps in my wandering heroes trail. TFTC Freddo.

All your caches are very well done, thank you!

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.

A quick find on a lovely morning for caching. Thank you Freddo the Chocolate Frog for placing this cache.

A plan was hatched with Rapidlywild to attack some of the caching trails down in VIC/SA. With the boarders slowly staying open we thought Easter might be a safe time to try since the QLD boarder was still too fragile to attempt going to the MEGA and it also looked like it could be rather wet there.
Our team “The Mob” consisted of GoodLook, LíB, Rapidlywild, The Drovers, feathertop and ourselves. This team ended up being very productive and some new friendships were made. Always a bonus in my book. All logs were stamped with “The Mob” to save space and time.
After completing all the trails, we had set out to do and a couple more for good measure it was time for this mob to go its separate ways.
So today we headed out with Rapidlywild to try our hand at some of the wandering hero’s caches. A lot of these caches need some TLC they are in a pretty bad way.

Thanks for the hide in this Wandering Heroes series Freddo the Chocolate Frog

For the first time in a long time, it was road trip time. With COVID-19 keeping everyone at home for so long, the borders were finally opening and the feet were itchy for a decent caching trip. Plans were made with FurfacesLL to do a 10 day road trip across to Mildura and Loxton to do a heap of caching and we were excited. Across the 10 days we racked up over 4,300km in driving, multiple hotels/motels, brought home enough red dust to create our own sand pit in the back yard and collected over 1800 finds between us. It was a massive trip and lots of fun was had.

We teamed up with GoodLook, FeatherTop, The Drovers and LiB and signed most logs as "The Mob". There were a few caches which were signed as individual team names as some teams had already completed said caches, those will be noted individually.

Our target caches were the Turtle Series, the Paddle Steamer Series and the On Ya Bike wherigo Series, heaps of other caches were also collected along the way but our primary target caches were completed which made us all very happy and very tired geocachers.

With the Turtle done, the PS Series done, the On Ya Bike done, the TdU & TdF done as well as the Riddlers done, our targeted caches has been accomplished. Today the teams all split up and went our seperate ways for the remainder of our journeys. Today myself and FurfacesLL decided to do some Wandering Heroes caches, it was a long and at times frustrating day. A number of the caches have fallen victim to the environment and are very brittle, to the point they just fall apart when touched. The entire series could really do with a major maintenance run. We ended up pulling the pin on the series and chose something different to do for the following day.

Thanks for the hides Freddo And thanks to "The Mob" for a trip to remember [^].

Day 320 ( Tuesday 14th ) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Karoonda today. A total of 52 for the day and 6301 the trip. TFTC

Nice find

Generic log:
After doing a good section of the Wandering Heroes series yesterday I decided to come back today and complete more of it. All caches were found in good condition on an enjoyable day, despite the weather pushing 40 degrees.

TFTC

Out & about on this cold, wintery day with LiB...
We headed to Karoonda to check out the Silo Art by day & night...
Finding caches was a great way to fill in the day...
LiB had found pretty much all of the Wandering Hero cache so she drove my car while I jumped in & out collecting my smileys...
The logbook was getting a little full so I added another...
TFTC Freddo

Today we formed a small team to tackle a section of the Wandering Heroes series between Loxton and Karoonda. It was an early morning start today, and the four of us, FeatherWaite, GoodLook, gridge98, and I, agreed to stamp the caches with a 'thumbs up' emoji stamp to save room in logs and for our ease. It wasn't a bad day to tackle this series, with blue skies and the sun out allowing us to run in/out and look for caches. Some may argue it was too good of a day to be stuck inside a car for half the time. There was a bit of banter in order to take our minds off the significant number of cache finds for the day.

Several caches were replaced due to their various poor states. Some containers had barely survived the test of time, and there didn't seem to be too many damp logbooks. Several detours were also had off the main road, and the caches at these sights seemed more interesting than the randomly placed heroes caches. Some were in good shape and creative, but most seemed to be the standard Sistema container. Thanks to all who had placed and those who have helped to maintain the current containers.

One person for 215 caches is a pretty good record! The mental state for such a feat is pretty incredible. Thanks for this cache, and it didn't take long to find. Cache and contents were in good shape, cheers [@Freddo](http://coord.info/PR8C14) .

Today I was out with the boys to finish off what gridge98 and I had started many months ago; joining us was FeatherWaite and DavidWazza. All of the caches were stamped with an emoji thumbs up stamp to save room in logs and for our ease.

We spoke to CPWanderer before venturing out and took a supply of various sized containers with us to replace those that were cracked/broken/missing. The section from Karoonda to Loxton should be fine for some time now

It was a sunny and relatively warm day - a boost to our health and wellbeing. I packed healthy lunches and snacks for all to enjoy and caching we went. We had a great time and shared lots of laughter.

Thanks to Freddo! [^]

Out for the day with Davidwazza, GoodLook and featherwaite to complete the wandering heroes caches north of karoonda. All the caches are in good condition as we replaced the ones that were broken and needed replacing. All the caches were stamped with a thumbs up () stamp for convenience. Was great to chat about the different heroes along the trail as we went. Thanks to all the COs for their placements
TFTC

Thanks for the hide

Tftc

A quick find while staying in Karoonda for a few days.TFTC

This was our last day of being able to work on the Wandering Heroes trail with ilook4geo, but we were able to gather the smilies needed to complete this section. Again it was a mixture of conditions for the cache containers and logs. All found logs had two more lots of initials added before everything was put back. Our thanks go to Freddo the Chocolate Frog for placing this cache in the series that honours so many cachers.

The caching numbers continue to grow while out hunting with goingplaces2. The Wandering Heroes series was today's job, as well as some others and there were still plenty to find. Thank you to each CO for their contribution to the caching game. It's lots of fun.

Had a romantic day together caching with Purrfect Di
Found a few more of the WH series, and some others nearby.
Yours was one of them!

TFTC Freddo

We were 'stumped' and had no luck today finding this one

After a very uncomfortable night sleeping in the car, we made an early start today. With our next milestone in sight Mr Emily and son came up to grab some caches for numbers and to make it easier when we finally finish this trail. Its nice that every cache is different here. TFTC

After stopping at Karoonda for breakfast, we decided to push on as rain showers pass constantly. Thanks to the CO for the placement here, a nice easy find was made.

TFTC

Log full

Today we travelled from Karoonda to Alawoona and surrounds using Geocaching as a guide and picking up a few caches on the way with Roostaman and this was one of them. An easy find at GZ.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Found with Beaker on a long weekend caching run... 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 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

TFTC Freddo

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

Another few hours spent on the Wandering Hero trail today. We mainly concentrated on caches in the Borrika area today.

Quick find. Container and contents in good condition.

TFTC Freddo

Early wake up this morning and out the door by 7am to Loxton with Lord Rossatron. We had started the Loxton caches and trails a couple weeks ago and we are going to be making day trips here to try and get as many as we can, the first time we did it we got 100 caches in the day and today goal was 150, but running on 3 hours sleep we gave up mid afternoon to drive back home. We did find approx 75 caches today though so still good effort

Easy find! Thanks for the cache

Today was our second attempt at knocking off a few more caches off of the wandering heroes series. Our last attempt saw us getting 100 of them and this time we planned on getting more. Our goal was to try and get 150 in the day. Due to our bad time management skills we didn’t make it to be until 3am the night before. Our alarm went off at 6am and as a collective we decided to change the plan to leave at 6:30 to 7am and snooze for an extra half hour. That half hour felt more like 5 mins but be got ourselves up feeling sorry for ourselves and headed out the door to start driving to where we left off last time. We got our first cache at 9:30 and then proceeded from there. We gave up on the day after 74 finds and a couple of DNFs as we were both starting to snooze a little between finds and thought it would just be best to give up on the day and go back to bed before we get into an accident. Most caches were logged with just our initials to save time and occasionally a log was night signed either due to a spider keeping guard or commonly the cache having a soaked log.

If I can remember anything unique about your cache I will add it but otherwise my log will stay very generic. Thank you to all those who have placed caches into this series and thank you to those who these caches are dedicated too.

Ismartis and I decided on a day caching some of the Wandering Heroes and a few extras in her quest to reach 3000 finds and to put down a new cache for another Wandering Hero. [^]

We started off from Tailem Bend and headed to Karoonda and beyond and had a great day managing 77 finds for me and 4 DNF's.

Some of the caches were badly in need of repair and some were very well put together but all in all it was a fun day with most of the caches easy to find.

Thanks for the cache Freddo.

Came out to this cache dense neck of the woods with JJ52 today to get a few numbers to get me closer to my 3000th cache and place a new Wandering Heroes cache as well .

The weather was great for caching, cool with no rain, and we had a really good run on the Wandering Heroes with me getting 75 finds for the day & 4 DNF's and JJ52 picking up a couple of extras .

Then once darkness hit we headed in and enjoyed a really good meal at the Tailem Bend Riverside Hotel . What a nice way to finish off a great day and refresh ourselves for the trip home.

TFTC Freddo the Chocolate Frog

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

Time 11:12:00 AM
Cache # 147 of 221 for this long weekend.

The Parrot was on a roll to try and get closer to the 10, 000 mark as this last 500 seems to be taking forever.
Unfortunately the knee didn't hold out and I had to retire from the field.
If you have stitches in your knee you really should cover them over before pushing though bushes.

I had a fantastic time cashing down some trails that have been in GSAK for far to log,

I worked on the Oz Mega, OTD, Geopets and Wandering heroes series over 2 days.

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.

It was also interesting reading about all the different Heroes and their exploits.

Thanks for placing the series.

TFTC Freddo

Thanx for this nice Cache !!
Short stop on our way to Adelaide.
This one was good to find & log...

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.

Happy Halloween TheCatBandits out cache trick or treating. Found cache no worries TFTC

Quick find on a mission to find as many caches as we could in a day. We found 112. Thanks to everyone for hiding caches we found. Sorry for the copied logs.
TFTC

Project “Centroid” was on. After a bit of planning Fleabag and I decided to head towards Adelaide again for the long weekend to get 500 or so caches to move our centroid far enough away from home to complete a challenge cache in Melbourne. We managed to get 501 just for good measure.
At the same time we tried to get a few areas of Victoria done on the way there and back to start working on another challenge cache back in Melbourne.
Today was a wandering heroes day until we had to head into Murray Bridge to pickup some replacement caches from the CO to replace a number of the Oz Mega series that are missing which we will fix up tomorrow.
Thanks for the cache, the hunt and the fun.

Spiffy- and I were on a project to get 500 caches in 4 days that were over 100km from our home locations. I reallly enjoyed this series and the themed hides. Great idea and a nice tribute to all the cachers. With each cache we would recall if we had met them at events and what caches they owned. A long and tiring but very enjoyable day. Thanks for the cache.

Found at 16:50 with Southern Cross Caching.

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

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

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

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

TNLN, thanks Freddo.

Our third attempt at completing the WH series, and we still didn't manage to finish it... So I'm secretly excited to have to organise yet another caching expedition with mum and dad Sylken to run to the finish line (at least until someone publishes some more new ones .

We had a much cooler day for our outing this time, but the wind was pretty ferocious! Nevertheless, as always we had a ball.

Thanks to all the cache owners in the series. Your efforts at placing and maintaining the caches in the series are greatly appreciated.

Geodaughter KAROPI joined us here in Murray Bridge for our third assault on the WH series. We had cached as far as just north of Karoonda and felt we may be able to finish the rest of those published to date, as far as Loxton. We were very wrong...we left Murray Bridge at 07.30 and finished caching at about 17.45 and by then we had still only reached Alawoona. We still have over forty to find

We had a howling wind all day....a lot of the time spent bending into the wind to stay upright while searchng for caches. Let's not even discuss what it was like to open and close 4x4 doors with a gale blowing up our rear end, we all now have overextended arm muscles At least on the way there we had great fuel economy. We won't talk about the (non)economy we had on the way home

We found about a hundred caches and had no DNF's at all. We found some really nice caches, dedicated no doubt to some really nice cachers. We have found several more caches in one day in the past but are using the appalling wind as an excuse for not finishing the series today.

We saw very little wild life...some shinglebacks, one roo and two echidnas...oh and a bunny who took off like the proverbial...rabbit?? We actually saw a couple of his mates too, but they were many metres away instead of only about three metres with this little fellow. Thankfully we saw no snakes...they obviously don't like strong wind either

We stopped at the Karoonda pub for dinner....very basic ,but filling, and arrived back at base after dark and somewhat exhausted

Many thanks for the hide Freddo[^][^][^]

[red]Find #1610[/red]

A quick find for us today. 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, Freddo & to everyone for the series TNLN[/blue]

Found on way back from getting chrisval 7 a good trail to build up the numbers Thank for this new route

Another great cache in a wonderful series. And a lot of work maintaining them I am guessing! Tftc freddo

On the way to Loxton - enjoyed search, found and signed the log. Thanks to who organising the cache and hide...

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.

18:20
The journey continues, together with Suscoe we are trying to track down more of the Wandering Heroes. It seems to be an unachievable goal as the number of heroes keeps growing. We enjoyed reading the cache notes and predicting a hide which would match the characteristics of the hero. Some of the cache hides are very well matched to their hero - what a record!

Thanks to Freddo for the cache.
8741

Suscoe headed out today for a long day of caching in the company of Phetlern to both the south and north of Karoonda.
We had a great day caching, chatting and fun with Pheltern.
After a very quiet night out here in the Mallee area we were ready to take on this challenge.
All up today we were able to reach 150 finds, a very satisfying number.
Our logs were signed in our fast mode with "S and P".
We had decided to do these caches in safe mode with an outbound and an inbound order which ended up to work pretty well and mostly avoided the worry of crossing the road.

Thanks to Freddo for placing this cache.

Found this cache while In SA to attend Oz Mega. Travelled today from Tailem Bend to Sandalwood.. Enjoyed the variety of caches along the way and the many novel hides. Thanks for your cache Freddo

G'Day from WA
Thanks for your cache Freddo The Oz Mega Event has finished and we are just cleaning up a few caches before we head home.
Thanks Murray Bridge we had a blasst.

The Mega Event has come to an end Now it is the long drive home and back to work At least there are a few caches to be had on the way home Thank you for placing this one!

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

#5640 We had completed a portion of this ever expanding series back in Apr13 when we cut loose on the Mega, Signal, Arrow, Tour De France and Fruit Loop series'. Whilst at the Mega this Saturday, our caching companions were out on the Signal series we thought it an ideal time to head out and find some more caches along this diverse trail. The road was relatively quiet and the weather spectacular for our days caching. We are impressed with the selfless cachers who go to the time/effort/expense of recognising others along this trail. Also our thanks to CPwanderer who commenced this dedication series.

Caught up with some cachers from Toowoomba - unfortunately their PQ was drawn a week or so earlier so it didn't capture quite a few of the caches out this end of the trail. The cache was found to be in good condition on our visit. Cheers [^]

Off with Patdj for another day with the aim of completing the Wandering Hero trail. Generic posting - sorry.

Day 2 of the Mega and we have good intentions of doing all of the Wandering Hereos series. We struggle to get numbers living in an isolated location so this is an opportunity to good to miss, plus it's our chance to learn about the other cachers in Oz as we go. Tftc

Two missions for today: to log a Victorian cache and to grab my 1000th find. So off we drove from the Murray Bridge OZ MEGA and into the, errrr...sunrise. By the time we turned around at the border and cached back, this is more like sunset! Getting closer to the 1000....
Found this cache with Kestal and MissLill. TFTC

Visiting from Toowoomba, Queensland with Angloj and Kestal for the SA Oz Mega at Murray Bridge. We took a trip out for the day to the SA/Vic border so we could log our first Victorian cache. TFTC!

After making a quick dash to the Victorian/SA border from the Oz Mega at Murray bridge to grab a cache we decided to find a few caches on our return journey. Lots of great caches were found and stack of fun was had with Miss Lill and angloj. TFTC

Third day out from Oz Mega with M Robbo. TFTC. Sorry about generic posting

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

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.

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, 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.

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

I am over from New Zealand for Oz Mega 2014 and today joined forces with fellow kiwis Yorkshirekiwi83, Cats&Dragons, Funkymunkyzone, Slieschke and Alpenmilch80 for a 24 hour non stop caching run! The log books were signed under the team name of "NZ Fun"

We started near Murray Bridge and worked our way around the Oz Mega 2014 Signal trail, then on to the OZ Mega 2014 SA trail. Once those trails were finished, we headed over to Tailem Bend and worked through the Wandering Heroes series up to Loxton. From here we made our way across to the Tour De France power trail. Whilst the power trails were our main focus, we also picked up a few other caches along the way. At the end of the 24 hours we finished with 727 cache finds!!! It was an exhausting 24 hours and we still had to drive back to Murray Bridge afterwards! Sorry for the generic logs, but a big thank you to the cache owners for all of the cache placements!

Found as part of a 24hour cache run with 5 other kiwi's while at the OZMEGA2014 Murray Bridge (Alpenmilch80, Slieschke, funkymunkyzone, vistra & Yorkshirekiwi83, ) on Friday 18th April. All logs were signed as "NZ Fun"

We had a great time and throughly enjoyed the challenge that this presented to us all, thank you to the cache owners for being able to create such a range of caches for us to complete.

We started our run at Signal, through to OZ MEGA 2014, The Wandering Hero's, Tour de France with many other caches along the way. For all that we managed we only had 11 DNF's in the whole trip which for the numbers was pretty amazing in its own right.

So again thank you for the NZ FUN

Found with alpenmilch80, Cats&Dragons, funkymunkyzone, vistra and yorkshirekiwi83 on an epic 24 hour cache run of the Oz Mega trails, Wandering Heroes, Tour de France and a bunch of caches between these. Signed as NZ Fun (and also some instances of Fun NZ as the day continued on)! A total of 727 caches were found on this run!

Thanks to all the COs for their placements!

Sitting in a pub in Auckland before the SA MEGA we decided it would be a really fun idea to try and see how many caches we could find within 24hours. So it was decided, team NZ Fun was born (myself, Alpenmilch80, Cats and Dragons, slieschke, funkymonkeyzone and vistra). We met at the dedicated starting point just before midnight and we were ready to go on the stroke of 12, we completed Signal, OZ Mega trails, Wandering Heros and the Tour de France with many others in between.

Thank you to the many cache owners who put time and effort into placing and maintaining these trails, we really appreciate it, we managed 727 caches within our 24hours, which was exhillerating, exhausting and loads of fun. Apologies for the generic log.

Team "NZ Fun" - funkymunkyzone, slieschke, alpenmilch80, vistra, yorkshirekiwi83 and Cats&Dragons - found this on our rather loosely planned 24 hours of cache finding record run, from midnight to midnight on the 18th of April 2014. We started with the Signal geo-art trail, headed up through the other Oz Mega 2014 trails, the Wandering Heroes series and then across to the Tour de France trail for a total of 727 finds and 11 DNFs for the day. Apologies for the copy/paste logs, but with so many caches found in a single day it was impossible to remember specific caches, but that's not to say there weren't memorable caches along the way - there were indeed some great caches, particularly along the Wandering Heroes series. Special thanks to the cache hiders: OzFiresafe, Team Hurtle, and their helpers, for the Oz Mega 2014 trails; le equipe de cinq pour la piste "Tour de France"; and all the hiders of the Wandering Heroes caches and other caches along the way that we found along the way. We started at midnight on the Signal trail and ended at midnight after a few random caches in Eudunda before making the long drive back to Murray Bridge for some well earned sleep - for some of us, the first sleep for more than 45 hours. We stopped at every cache and it was a fun day but very tiring, and I don't think I'd do it again for a very long time (I'll stop short of saying never though, like organising another mega - ha!) TFTC!!!

Find 502 of 727 for the day.

Found with GoShaz on our way to the OZ Mega...Congrats on being in the 'heroes line up'...TFTC

Found with Cabbos on the way to the Mega. Apologies for the generic log.

Over from WA for the SA Mega. and trying for a few smileys along the way Having a second bite at the Wandering Heros series today along with KB for added stamina but still have another days caching left to complete it. We really enjoyed the drive through the countryside and having a great excuse to visit here. Apologies for the generic logs but rest assured we do appreciate the effort the varoius COs have put in for our enjoyment..
Thanks for the caches

Headed out this morning with the ever patient jacaro44. I was running on empty from the start and, although my mood fluctuated, generally I was average at best. Happy with almost 6 hours of caching. Great company and some great caches. Thanks for the hide.

Yeah, another one down in our quest for 100.
Congratulations to another Wandering Hero.
TFTC

Travelled from Wodonga to Loxton yesterday, now I'm heading from Loxton to Murray Bridge for the Oz Mega. Me and the GeoDog are having a great old time.

I'd love to know how far he travelled for that record. One would assume it an easier feat now with so many more caches.
Quick find at GZ.
TFTC

On our way to the OZ Mega event in Murray Bridge we decided to attempt a 24 hour challenge and see how many caches we could find on the wandering heroes trail. Our final count from midnight to midnight on the 13th of April 2014 was 247 caches (not too bad for a couple of grandparents).
After a bit of sleep in the car, we completed the trail the next day.
We discovered that all the preparation we put into this helped make the challenge go smoothly...
plenty of maps, batteries, lights etc. Our only pitfalls were lack of sleep and a lack of loo's along the way
The only caches we missed were those that were published whilst we were on the road.... DOH

Many thanks to all the cache owners for their creative endeavour to make this trail of honour to fellow cachers.

Sorry for the generic log.... over 247 logs for the day to do

Vacachin

Found with my friend Ckronos during our trip from Melbourne to Darwin!
Awesome geotrail ! Congratulations for the job !!
Thank you for the cache

Cache found with Beenasse when.
We had a lot of fun on Wandering heroes series!!

Thanks to Freddo to show me this with this cache.

Cheers from frenchies

Over from Perth to attend the SA Oz Mega. Decided to head out and tackle the Northern end of the Wandering Heroes trail.

After all the rain in the last few days there were some soft edges and we had to be careful where we pulled off the road.

Great day all up with no DNF's We tackled some of the other caches along the way but also were forced to leave some for another day.

Thanks to all those who have contributed. Look forward to attempting the rest soon.

TFTC

# 4820 Found and logged with Roostaman and Fred6603 at 4:06:00 PM
One of 45 caches for the afternoon, Caching on our way through to Oz Megga at Murray Bridge
Thanks for the cache Freddo
lgoody

Found during our second trip to find more of the Wandering Heroes caches. TFTC

[:(!] Came over from Perth to visit our geoson (RevolutioSolutio) and his family for a couple of weeks over the festive season. We have camped for the last three days at Avoca Dell Caravan Park at Murray Bridge and on our last day the geoson and I did a good part of the Tailem Bend to Loxton Power Trail while the geowives went back to Adelaide with the two geograndsons in tow, we parked the geocar as close as possible to GZ and we walked in from there as this was one of them, on arrival at GZ the cache was in hand in a matter of minutes.

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH Freddo [^]

Spent most of the day driving between Tailem Bend and Loxton hitting the Wandering Heroes trail with BettyBoo3747, and grabbing a few extras on the way as they popped up.
We had done a large chunk of the trail last year, so the first bit was just filling in the gaps and doing the Lost Wanderers' caches.
The forecast was for thunderstorms, but all we saw was a lot of wind swept drizzle, and even a bit of sunshine!
The road was very busy today, but most caches allowed us to park a little off the road - lots of short walks to GZ's! We found everything we were looking for which surprised us
Thanks to all the cache owners for placement, and the maintenance crew too.
Thanks, Robmc.

# 5081. Robmc and I are in SA to tackle a few of the many Series and today it was the Wandering Heroes and Lost Wanderers caches that we tackled with a few others along the way. We were travelling from Tailem Bend to Waikerie. We had done many of these last year so it was certainly quicker at the start of the series as we had only the new ones to catch up on.

We managed to find 114 caches for the day. I think we walked miles also - to and from the many caches that were way off to the side of the road.

Thanks Freddo

Well the only record I ever want to set finding a cache is ....
.... longest bike ride to reach GZ
Dunno if there is an official category yet, but damn I have given it me best [:o]

Today's effort was a mighty 17.2 kilometres from Karoonda to this cache
Of course I had to ride back the 17.2 kilometres to Karoonda, but that was not important right now

17.2 kilometres still falls a long way short of my efforts to claim a smilie for GCQQJZ, which took me on a 1200 plus kilometre bike ride, Brisbane to Canberra
Then I had to ride back

TFTC !!

Sneaky