Wandoo Series - Bridal Rainbow Ashendon, Western Australia, Australia
By AlliedOz on 17-Apr-12. Waypoint GC3KAAV

Great day to CITO on our way to Beverley. Cache in good condition.

Thanks

Out with Cirrus_WA and I C Nothing (plus a geokid) for a roadtrip exploring the hills. Love the variety of caches found throughout the day!

As the summer break neared its end and the impending return to work loomed, the allure of a geocaching escapade became irresistible. Embarking on the journey were I C Nothing, monkeywand, and myself, with our sights set on the Wandoo series along Brookton Hwy. Our ambitious route extended further, promising stops in the charming towns of Beverly and York.The day commenced with an early morning start, as we gathered supplies and eagerly ventured into the hills. A personal mission added an extra layer of excitementI aimed to achieve my 8000th geocaching find. The morning unfolded with a series of successful park and grab discoveries along the relatively quiet highway, contributing significantly to our tally.As the afternoon sun cast its warm glow across the picturesque Western Australian landscape, our focus shifted to acquiring needed attributes and exploring caches nestled within the towns we passed.With the sun setting on our caching odyssey, we triumphantly returned to Perth, having amassed a pleasing total of 55 cache finds, 6 adventure labs collected, and encountered the challenge of a single elusive DNF. Thanks AlliedOz for placing Wandoo Series - Bridal Rainbow for me and others to find.I added my name to the log at 09:44 on 28/1/2024.This is find number 7993 for me.

Monkeywand, I C Nothing,and. Cirrus_wa are on a road trip to Beverley collecting caches in the area that we are yet to attempt. Thanks to all the COs for the cache placements as it made an enjoyable day.

Awesome thanks for the cache

A days caching on my lonesome in WA, visitor from Victoria - TFTC

Continuing on from yesterday with sammiiej on the Wandoo series. Tftc

Spend the night camping out in the wandoo to find some more caches on new years day, easy find, TFTC

Found this cache along with ilook4geo. This was an interesting run, as some of the containers had been buried by nature after not having found for nearly 10 months. All logs were signed and replaced as they had been found. Thanks go to AlliedOz for placing this cache.

Doing some of the Wandoo series with goingplaces2. Found all we looked for, but some were quite hard to pick up. Enjoyed the hunt. TFTC.

Found, once the coordinates settled down.

Out and about enjoying the sunshine and wild flowers, so happy to be able to turn this into a smiley, I don’t know how I missed it last time TFTC

First clear day in a while so thought it was time to knock off more of the Wandoo series. I especially enjoy these as I love the bush. I found all but one that I set out to do today.
I think one more big day and I will finish this series.
Thanks for placing these caches. There was such a varied style of hide and cache types - which kept me on my toes.
( sorry for the generic logs - but I need to keep rolling! )

Ok so I will admit I went in a lil anxious after seeing the dnfs before me. Time was not on my side as I still had a heap to do before the sun went down. I walked up to GZ and Id like to say it was skill - but I think I better keep it real and say that l just got lucky with this as I spotted it straight away. Tinny bum me! Yayy! Thanks AlliedOz this could have been a real tricky one!

Couldn't find it

The GPS was a bit all over the place; had a look in some more obvious places but need to continue my journey

Very cleaver. Quick find.TFTC

I made a start on the Wandoo series this afternoon. Brookton Highway is a pleasure to cache along, so few cars and trucks compared to Albany and SWH. I found 17 caches with most caches in good nic. Great move putting them all on the north side of the road.

I took a few minutes looking around. I went to GZ straight away but then wandered off. Eventually I made it back to uncover the tricky hide.

TFTC Allied Oz, AP, Chwiliwr and KnC

Got this one too. Thanks

Finally got around to starting this part of the Wandoo series. Persuaded the part muggle, part "sort of interested in caching" parents to come for the drive (Dad drove while Mum & I yelled "stop!" every 500 mts or so).
Attempted 14 caches but because I'm a lazy geocacher and only search with an iPhone, I only found 9 and DNF'd 5.
All caches found were in great condition.
Thanks AlliedOz for your part in this great series.

Out for a maintenance run on my section of the Wandoo series today, A nice day for a drive and as we had time, plus a few empty caches we stopped in at all 30 of them if they were marked NM or not.

Log replaced now all dry and blank.

Nice sneaky hide. Hadn't been found for a while so didn't like my chances. Log in need of a bit of TLC. Otherwise all good! TFTC

See Wandoo Series - Common Cats Paw, for more information.

After a long search I had to give up.

A relatively quick find here. Quite clever. I thought to prod around something that could be a potential host and BAM!! TFTC #625

No luck today

Up and out about early with Neva2old to claim a few smileys, we headed out to make a start on the Wandoo Series and any that jumped out along the way. After a quick search this cache was soon in hand and a smiley claimed TFTF

Up and out about early with Parkacruz to claim a few smileys, we headed out to make a start on the Wandoo Series and any that jumped out along the way. After a quick search this clever cache was soon in hand and a smiley claimed. We managed 109 finds & 7 DNFS for the day TFTF

Quick find TFTH

**Found this while House Sitting in Bedfordale**

*Out and about letting my GPS be my guide*...

A fine sunny but cool day to be out and about. Parked nearby and strolled to GZ. Most of the series were **Park n' Grabs** but some gave me more issues. . Managed to grab 29 today with 2 DNF's . This one took a bit longer but then the *Do'oh* moment.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment AlliedOz. Appreciate your effort.
Greetings from Victoria.
-P

**Took**: *Nothing*
**Left**: *Nothing*

**#10948**

Cache-On!

Nice cache!! Found quicker than I thought. TFTC Allied Oz:)

A bit of history here ! Autumn Owl

Thinking to myself, "This is going to make it a slow trip home, maybe I should only log a few this time "
TFTC

Monts decided today was a good day for geocaching as he wanted uninterrupted napping, due to keeping me awake most of the night. TFTC AlliedOz

Had a bit of fun finding this one, just another example of AlliedOz putting a bit of thought into and variety to the caches. Thans so much for setting up the series. We look forward to our return visit. Shame we had to rush off home to an appointment early this afternoon.

Spent aus day caching with muskcat83 and janssej and kids. Thanks for the series. Will be back to finish

Met up with ctvanderlinden and muskcat83 for the day in search of my 1000th find. Needed 52 to achieve this goal - we ended up with 101 for the day! It was a warm Australia Day, but a great way to spend the day in the bush, seeing kangaroos, wallaby's and even a race horse goanna! Thanks heaps for the series - we'll be back at some point to finish it off i'm sure!

Met up with ctvanderlinden and janssej for the day chasing a ton! We ended up with 101 for the day! Thanks heaps for the series - we'll be back at some point to finish it off i'm sure! What a wonderful way to spend Australia Day in 40 degree heat in the country side.

Thank you! Out for a caching day with papillon367, Photo-play and Bindi01. After a warm-up with the Cascades series, we headed off to do a couple of sections of the Wandoo series. We ended up finding all of the trees (bar one that was disabled) and all of the animals, and a few of the birds too. Thanks again to all of the CO's for placing and maintaining these caches. I hope to be back to complete the series soon.

Found it. TFTC AlliedOz. Teamed up with Ullyssia, Papillon367 and Bindi01 to do part of the Wandoo series. Really great walk and drive through this area.

Teamed up with ullyssia, Photo-Play and Papillon367 again for a full day of caching.
Another quick find also. All ok
Thank you for the hide AlliedOz

Teamed up with ullyssia, Photo-Play and Bindi01 for a full day of caching, the biggest so far for all of us! We started by a walk to pick up the Cascades series, then we continued onto the Wandoo series. We found all the flowers (except one not in play), a few of the birds and all the animals, plus a few extras, ending up with 82 finds for the day. This was our 14th Wandoo cache and a quick find. Thank you for the hide AlliedOz and for the series – nice choice of themes and great concept to have multiple owners.

A call went out and a plan was hatched to tackle the Wandoo series. Very early this morning we joined forces with WebblyWA to see how we would fair and with the expectation that it would be good to complete at least half the series. We started and just cached, cached and cached finishing 11.5 hours later with 138 finds and the series completed apart from one that is temp disabled. Had a great day and a huge thanks to the CO's and those that maintain the series. Sorry for the mostly generic logs.

TFTC AlliedOz this is find # 1610 for us

January's challenge mission for me was to collect at least 300 caches. Knowing I could get almost half way there with one series, I put out a call to see who would like to join me on an epic WANDOO day and Team Fratra was up for it so plans were made. We met up early collecting the first cache at 6.45am. Completing the series 11 and a half hours later, with No DNFs and only one glitch left on the map of a cache that is currently disabled. My total for the day finished up with a few extras at 140 as darkness, wind and rain set in.

It was a wonderful day and we had great weather for the majority of the day. Massive thanks to the COs and everyone that has put work into maintaining the series.

Cache #14 for the day TNLN

TFTC AlliedOz

On a roadtrip out to Kalgoorlie and decided to collect a few caches along the way. Thanks for placing this series along the highway. All caches could be found with good coordinates and very quickly. tftc sl tnln

13th find of our public holiday power trail outing with the family

Easy accessible so previous log not applicable.

Another fun find with Just-Lookin while on a 3 week geocaching trip around the Perth area.
We really enjoyed the drive around finding some of the wandoo series of caches.
*Soon found.*
SL TFTC

**Cache was easy to access**

Enjoying a holiday in Perth with tmann421 and collecting a few caches along the way.
Another great find here. TFTC

Found Wandoo Series – Bridal Rainbow. Log damp, but writable. SL TFTH AlliedOz.

Can see it but can't reach it! A previous finder must-have dropped this one The CO might like to check on this and replace . TFTC

Cool cache.

Out on the road with Lazarus_68, Have decided it was time to complete the Wandoo series of caches, having found 16 in the series some time ago. So today we started at the beginning and continued on until time ran out. (other commitments).

We started fairly late in the morning and finished early in the afternoon, so will have to come back another day to finish off the series. Bridal Rainbow was found at 11:48 and was the 14th cache found out of 41 in total for the day. All caches were easy to find, Thanks for the cache AlliedOz.

Out on the road with hhheddy, making progress on this Wandoo series.
This was find #14 for the day. Thanks for the cache AlliedOz.

Out on an adventure with oshiel and jjjzellis today to start the Wandoo series working our way along the Brookton Highway. TFTC and the series!! obvious but clever hide.

Found it

Found it, log damp unfortunately we didnt have any spares to replace it.

At first I liked this cache and the I dropped part of it where I shouldn't have and spent 20 mins fishing it out with a coat-hanger. TFTC.

Found it

TFTC

Heading home to Albany from Perth thought we would take the scenic route and grab a few caches to get our numbers up a bit and fill the day in a bit this was our find #319 and #14 for the day.
(sorry for generic log)

Due to the +40 heat predicted today, The Wandoo series was highest on the geocaching list. This was due to being mostly park and grab, therefore it was 50/50 between air conditioning and searching.
Had a great day and really enjoyed it with over 100 finds and a couple of DNF's. Lots of variety in this leg, Thanks for your effort AlliedOz

Easy but sneaky cache

pug002 found it 30/1/2016 at 11.15am. TFTC AlliedOz Loved this one went straight to it while geo hubby was checking out a smashed car. In the meantime someone stopped to see if we were okay. Should have trusted gps as we moved away, then went back and bingo! Loved this one has to be a fav.

Found it! Nice Tuesday morning to be out caching

Found it safe and sound signed log

TFTC

With a week touring around Perth, some time obviously had to be made for caching out here on the west coast. I started the day off slowly today with some short hikes, and then by lunchtime had decided to attempt a solo 100-caches-in-day.

This took me a while, but I trusted the co-ords and soon found the cache.

This was #90 of 105 today (DNFs = 3 so far).
Thanks for placing this cache, AlliedOz, and thanks to all the COs who set out the Wandoo series.

On a bit of a mission to pick up some FTFs on GCA caches today, I decided to do some Wandoo caches as well as a couple of other ones along the Brookton Highway. Added another 18 to my previous tally of 24 Wandoo caches to crack the 40. Started at Drumsticks and finished at Wispy Spider Orchid ... the latter being one that was in my sights for today.

Once again, I enjoyed the variety of hides on this terrific series and am kind of glad that I am savouring it rather than doing them all in one hit.

Logs are generic with exception of Wispy Spider Orchid which has some additional comments.

Thanks for the hide AlliedOz

Found with Le Boof on a nice spring day. This was a quick and easy find.

TFTC, Great day out on this massive trek; with the AusWarrior

Originally found under family caching name "clan-wallace". Geohubby wants his own caching name, so I get to re log them for him!

Day 1....Well it was only half a day really as we set off from home at 1 p.m. after geohubby's morning on the golf course. Our aim was an all out assault of the Wandoo series. I had printed out all of the record sheets and these were a great help, although 2 are missing from the sheets 'Acetamide' & 'Gravel'. We achieved all 30 of the 'Trees' before running out of light & hightailed to our accommodation at a farm stay between Beverley & York, which would lead to a bit a back tracking over coming days.All of these caches are very well maintained and thoughtfully placed, allowing safe places to pull off the road. Thank you for your part of the series Allied Oz.

thanks..

Out with krabiboy today picking up as many of the series today it was a great start to the series and really enjoyed it can't wait to get out and finished it. TFTC

Caught up with Loudy16 to head out and attempt to finish off my Wandoo Series today. I messaged Allied Oz a few days before to see if he wanted any maintenance done, and he decided to join us for the adventure. Great day out on the trails with all remaining Wandoo caches found. A massive thanks to all of the COs involved in making this series happen. TFTC AlliedOz

12th find on this glorious spring day on the trail. The cache was easily found but I had to go back to the car to grab a tool and soon had the log in hand. TFTC AlliedOz

Out caching with geodaughter. A fight to find it first. Reckon the first few were a draw but she claims this one

I really want to finish off this series I started at the beginning of the year with my Aunty and Uncle, so I decided to go out with a Mate and finish off the last 35 caches or so in the series. Most were quite easy to find. TFTC

A big day had been in the planning fr sometime with Spatialriq and today it had finally arrived.
The goal was to complete the Wandoo series in a single day. An early start was arranged and we found our first cache at 6.01am. The last, the Bonus box. at 5.01pm Exactly 11 hours later.
A great day on the road and great company. All caches were found fairly quickly with spot on co-ords with the exception of one DNF.
A credit to the four cache owners on this series and the ongoing mantenance to keep it aliv. Well done.

This was cache number 3 out of 136 for today. Also our total find number 2875
Thanks AlliedOz for this hide.

For the past few months, Kyzabra and I have been trying to find a day to tackle this series. Fortuitously it ended up coinciding with the last blank day my geocaching calendar.

We met up at 6am at the Rock Inne Tavern and worked our way around the series. By the time we found the final puzzle cache it was 5pm ... for me it was 147 finds (and yes I found 3 more on the way home) ... I couldn't miss getting 150 in a day when I was that close . Oh, and only 1 DNF for the day. What's a day of geocaching without at least 1 DNF! [:o)]

Thanks to the 4 CO's who put this series together and keep it going. TFTC.

Found with jasenjanine... TFTC AlliedOz [^]

Out tackling the Wandoo series with the kids today & wondering just how many we will find before they are totally sick of it Oh my goodness, I must have been blind to not notice this one straight away lol!

TFTC AlliedOz [^] Cache was in good condition.

Got up early to get a start on this awesome series. A great range of different caches. I managed to find over 30 with only 1 dnf. I will have to make more time to finish off this series. Thanks for the effort in putting this series together.

Just a few Caches of this PT on our way from Perth to Hyden. Unfortunately too little time to do the whole trail, so only a few legstretcher before my Muggel-Girl
Friend gets bored. Thanks for all caches on our way. Was hard to leave most of them unfound.
TFTC

What an awesome day! Megawat60 and I, along with Me&B, had a great time making a start on Wandoo Series. First up was Allied Oz's botanical caches. Here we found a variety of caches, some easy, some more difficult, and some very clever.
Thanks for this cache and this set in the Series, we found 30 and had a 100% success rate.

A wonderful day with m4yb and Me&B, 67 Smiley's & zero DNF's. Some nice highlights on the way and great weather for it.

Another clever and varied hide.

Thanks AlliedOz.

Went along with Megawat60 and m4yb today for a pleasant 'little country drive' to find some of the Wandoo Series. Great weather and company for something like this and we had a 100% success rate.
Clever hide

Thanks for all the effort in putting this out guys!

Another cute spot.

Holidays are here and finally some time to work on the Wandoo Series... spent 5 hours with the geo son and two friends. Awesome day THANK YOU SO MUCH for setting up the series it must have taken you months of hard work. Will be back on the trail for more soon number 14

LOVED this one and the geokids jumped for joy at another micro find

A family day out to start the Wandoo series. Beautiful spring weather, with plenty of wildflowers, birds and small reptiles seen.
Managed 48 caches before the geokids wanted to call it a day. Thanks to the amazing Cache Owners for their efforts in placing this series. We will definitely be back again to finish them all off.
Apologies for the generic logs.

Went out for a day of caching with SVKR_WA, found a total of 48 caches.

All in all, a good fun day.
TFTC

A nice quick find this morning.
Great to see all the wild flowers out on this trip. TFTC

Took us awhile to find this one. Favourite from us. TFTC

I loved the hidey hole for this one. A little different from the rest of the hides so far. Not in the first place I looked but very close by.

Generic log - Set out today with lordhubby to find as many of the Wandoo series as we could. Today we found 71 of 72 caches that we searched for. A great series and much fun was had leap frogging from cache to cache down the highway. I'm very glad that there was 2 of us to tackle this as 1 could drive and sign the logs and the other played with the GPS. Great Day!! Thanks for the series

Came back to Wandoo today with geomum driving. And a nice easy find.
TFTC

Beautiful day out geocaching with Twinm. Thanks for putting this series together.

A perfect day to go after these! The rain didn't start until we were done for the day. TFTS

Found while doing another batch of the series

TFTC

We (BettyBoo3747 and I) have been travelling around the Perth suburbs for a couple of days, so we thought we would go east and have a look at the Wandoo Power Trail.
We started reasonably early (about 7:30) and finished about 3:30pm. We had completed about 80 caches in that time. (and morning tea, Elevenses. lunch. afternoon tea...)
Nice to see the variation in cache sizes (not too many of the dreaded nanos), hides (and some very cute containers), and walking distances (not just jumping in and out of the car).
Thanks to all the hiders (and maintenance people) for this great series.
We will return for the rest someday.
Thanks, Robmc.

# 6123. Robmc and I had an early start from Kensington this morning and I was surprised that it was only 15 degrees when we arrived to begin our run. We found the first cache at 7.35am and finished 8 hours later - having covered 140 km and searched for 80 caches. I say searched because we had 2 DNF's

I enjoyed the diverse scenery at each of the early stops we made. Had forgotten how bare the farmlands can get at this time of year once we progressed towards Beverley and York.

Enjoyed searching for the caches and of course had a few favourites - the cute ones and the scary one!! We have collected a lot of clues but don't know when we will be able to finish off the series.

Thanks AlliedOz

Starting the Wandoo series. Driving from cache to cache, most of them were easy to find. Thanks for the series!

Heading out Brookton way for work. Took the opportunity to log a few more of the series while I was at it.


Tftc

A lovely Sunday Afternoon for a power trail. TFTH