Wandering Heroes ... embi Karoonda, South Australia, Australia
By maccamob on 22-Apr-12. Waypoint GC3HNKE

Found it

Continuing along the WH series. What an amazing story, thank you for all your in put . Picked up a TB Tftc

When I started caching I wondered why I couldn't call myself just embi. Some years later I happened to spot this cache while bored at work. Now the mystery is solved!Of course I had to include it on the itinerary of any trip. I'm with a non-caching friend so we're skipping the rest of the trail. I don't think they're converted yet, but a day of stop -starting would definitely not do it!Tftc, dropped tb to begin its adventures

Im the non-caching friend of Embi IOM

Find # 14304I'm in the Adelaide area for the Great Leap Forward event. Not just for the days event, but making it a week long trip of caching n catching up with mates.Flying solo......Day 8. Homeward-bound.Day started off with a tree climb and a big stretch off the ground. Then a bit of a look around Mt Barker. Then it was the trails. It's been a while since I've hit a long trail and being alone it was just me and the caches to fill the rest of the day in. Some power trails are tougher than others, ie parking locations and barriers can be annoying and chew up time. But happily I managed all hurdles. Even the odd orb spider that made some tracks mazes. Happily that what I'd pland out fell into place with only a couple of DNFs.End of day was a surprise with my biggest solo grab of over 300 in a day. But I have plenty more trails in SA to utilise if I want to better that score TFTC maccamob

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.

My second time wandering heroes series here to find themTFTC

Day four tackling this series. So glad the hides are getting better. Thank goodness for ammo, big painted black plastic and RED containers. Think we would have given up otherwise. But could not do a few because of that dreaded bridal creeper and snakes.Staying at Murray Bridge for the next few nights to hopefully finish.

Out on the WH trail to find a few more heroes, bit wet, too many trucks, however found embi's cache, TFTF maccamob.

Passing by, so stopped to carry out a maintenance check. All ok.

On way home from work

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 maccamob.
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Nice and rust-ic!

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.

Found it

So I found the container 26m from GZ with lid off and no log... I added a log and placed as best to where I thought it would have been. TFTC

I don’t seem to have a plan I just seem to wander and grab a few heroes at random. This hero was grabbed today. TFTC

Day 319 ( Monday 13th ) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Karoonda today. A total of 8 for the day and 6175 for the trip. TFTC

Thank you for the cache.

Enabled following rleaxation of the Covid-19 restrictions.

Disabled for the duration of the Covid-19 crisis. Although exercise is ok, beaches, parks etc are gradually being closed, and we are being asked to stay home. The virus can be transmitted by surface contact, so please don't take the chances. Geocaching is a game, and we are dealing with a serious Public Health issue, so we need to get our priorities in order. Please stay at home!
We believe the responsible thing is to disable all our caches, until this crisis passes.
Thanks.

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

Fun day

Thanks for the cache

T

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

The Wandering Heroes trail wanders on, so do we and so does ilook4geo. Some heroes we have never heard of, some we know as cache owners, some we know from their names being on logs and some we have met along the track. Some we even know well.
In this section of the series each log had both lots of initials added to note our visit and all was replaced as it had been found.
Thanks go to maccamob for placing this cache as part of the series.

More Wandering Heroes to follow today with goingplaces2. Found all except one and each log was signed before we moved on to continue the hunt. Mixed bag today as some caches were in good condition, but others were not. TFTC.

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 maccamob

A great day out with GoodLook collecting more of the wandering heroes that we didn’t collect 2 weeks ago. Overall we found majority of the caches in good quality and had to replaced 1 with the CO permission.
Signed all log books with the fabulous randoms stamp.
TFTC to all the CO for the placement of the caches

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

We came to the area back in 2014 for the Mega and started the Wandering Hero's Power trail.
Today is first time back since then so we thought lets spend the day out here and do a bit more of it.
TFTC

Quick find

A good find in the dark. Tftc

After picking up my sister in Murray Bridge for some company we headed out towards Karoonda with geopet, Mandy for the afternoon...it was very windy but the rain held off until the last cache of the day...
All the finds today were relatively easy...
TFTC Maccamob

Got it!

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 maccamob!

Today being a big day we continued on with the Wandering Heroes series. Some we found challenging and others easily, we replaced some cache containers and replaced new zip locked bags to keep the log protected as containers were damaged.

Thanks for placing these cache for our enjoyment.

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

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

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

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

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

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 maccamob.

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 maccamob

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

That was very hard !!

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 maccamob

Las time we visited this one a snake stopped this find so tonight on our long long drive home after doing the Geopet run and some of the WH at the other end we had to stop to turn this sad face into a smile TFTC we found it quite easily this time

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.

Couldn't search for this one today got out the car and a big snake came for us which is different normally a big group it would scare away but not this one so after checking our undies we left hehe

Quick find on a day out with Locus picking up some wandering heroes, and putting a few more out!

Congratulations on your WH cache honor.


Thank maccamob for the find.

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

***Took TTrogg Pathtag.

Today we started our second day of caching on our way to Karoonda, but have struck a snag with the sun coming up, making the parking on the road verge almost 'risky' at best. As we progressed along the road, we chose on several occasions to drive past the cache, rather than take the chance of being collected by a passing car which also has to drive into the sun. We took our time on the caches we found, often parking on the other side of the road if there was room.

Thank you for the cache placement here, we thank you for the time spent in their upkeep.

Apologies for the generic log, but we are hindered by a poor internet connection.

Just loved the simple disguise with this cache. Certainly deserves a favourite.

It's been over three years since I visited The Wandering Heroes series, was very close to having them all then but it's certainly grown quite a bit since.
Started today at Sandalwood and managed to find all outstanding back to Karoonda and a little beyond before the car door hinges cried enough, lets go home.
Loved the variety of hides and am now looking forward to reading about all the teams featured.
Love the concept, thanks CP, the execution and maintenance of this outstanding series.
Thanks for this contribution from maccamob

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

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

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

Thanks maccamob for the cache.

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 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 13:38 with Southern Cross Caching.

Found on day three of our attempt on the Wandering Heroes series. Again it was a fairly warm day so made an early start to try to avoid the warmest part of the day. We were going well until we encountered roadworks and had skip a chunk but hopefully will get another go at those ones. TFTC and the series.

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 it on a beautiful 27 degree day!!

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

TNLN, thanks maccamob.

This team seems to have done so much for geocaching, very worthy of Wandering Hero status.
This cache was a nice walk to GZ as there is a bit of a path developing from the road, found the cache and signed the log and tucked the cache away.

Thanks maccamob for the cache and history on embi. TNLN

TFTC

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The current roadworks have meant that this cache is hidden behind a large pile of road base with a couple of large trucks nearby...an easy find on a public holiday weekend but maybe not so easy when the workers are about[^]

This entry was edited by sylken on Monday, 06 October 2014 at 02:11:39 UTC.

[red]Find #1562[/red]

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, maccamob & to everyone for the series TNLN[/blue]

Quick find

Our aim was to get at least 80 today on the WH trail after visiting relies in ADE. We drove to Karoonda and worked our way back to TB. Exhausted now! Thank you to all the cache owners for placement. Our big 1000 milestone will now be next weekend. TFTC

Out for the weekend with Silverfoxed and on our way to Loxton. Thought we'd pick up more of this great series. Saw some other cachers honking us. TFTC

Day 1 of a 2 day caching feast on the Karoonda Highway. Can we make Karoonda by night fall team? With nose bag and water for the day we set off, head down bum up. What a fabulous series to keep us occupied and smiling.

05.09.14 tftc with niftybridge

On a geocache run with Grumpi68 TFTC

After finishing a job at Karoonda it was a good opportunity to tidy up the last few of the Wandering Heroes series. TFTC maccamob

03/08/2014, 3:30:00 PM, GAFF1, On a return trip catching up on some caches I missed during the Oz Mega earlier this year.
All good, no problems.
SL, Cache in good condition.
TFTC maccamob

good hide, was a great day for geocaching! found this Geocach with Braveheart 17 and some PemKids.

Tftc. Stop 2 on the way back from renmark. Crying kids so the caching adventures are on hold until they're sleeping again

Found It!
Somehow I just forgot to find this cache last time I was out here on the Wandering Heroes so today I made sure I stopped!
I've never meet embi but they were certainly important in getting Aussie caching to where it is today!
TFTC

This morning I was out and about on the push bike to see how many caches west of Karoonda I could ride in three hours
I made it to embi's cache with plenty of time to spare

Thanks for the cache, and the potted history of the embi clan [^]

Found ya, Thanks for the hunt.

A big day out with bananabros, greedy parrot and lozanger. We started this series exactly one year ago and picked a beautiful, sunny day to continue today. We had a great day with 55 finds and one DNF. We will be back another day to continue. Thanks to all the cache placements and the varied containers. Most enjoyable.

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.

07:59
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.

Thanks to maccamob for the cache.
8600

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".

Thanks to maccamob 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 maccamob

G'Day from WA
Thanks for your cache maccamob 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.

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.

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

Bogonghazy and I did a good many of the WH trail 2 years ago, and then a few more 12 months ago, but of course, it's grown again since our last visit. Today we set out to collect the latest additions. I have had the pleasure of meeting embi - now The Englands. When I first began caching embis name was synonomous around Ballarat, Vic. Since then, they've shifted towns and changed their GC name. Great to see them back in the game, and becoming more active again. Well done for all your contributions to caching. Congratulations on your inclusion in this wonderful series. My thanks also, to Maccamob for the cache.