The Lost Wanderers ... rosmar Wynarka, South Australia, Australia
By Freddo the Frog on 16-Jul-12. Waypoint GC3QME8

Quick easy find

Found with O319 on our way east

Quick find with SJG66 TFTC

I find hide. Thanks!

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.

A quick find by the Rats today. Tftc

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

TFTC. A short break to stretch the legs, picking up a few caches every time I do this trek.

Picked this up with tassie expat whilst out exploring. Thanks for placing it.

Out for a drive with frmen1. This cache gives us a new LGA. A quick find. 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

Quick wander in the bush to find a lost wanderer. TFTC Freddo.

Thanks Freddo for placing this cache. Found on 24/7/2022 at 10:39 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.

Heading back home to Adelaide via Karoonda so of course I stopped for a cache or two on the Wandering Heroes trail to break up the journey.

Thanks for the cache Freddo the Frog.
# # #11525 # #

Another great little cache ticked off in the Mallee. TFTC

Quickly spotted while walking towards GZ.

Thanks for the cache Freddo.
Found on 5/3/21 at 10:03.
Find #12547.

Good day for caching with geo pup, thought we would explore a bit further out from home base, TYFTC

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

Nice to hear stories of overseas caching... one day we might

thanks for placing this cache Freddo



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)] )

Quick find. TFTC

Day 178 (Monday 24th) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Tailem bend today. A total of 81 for the day and 3451 for the trip. TFTC.

Heading out for the afternoon to tackle more of the Wandering Heroes series this afternoon so this will be a generic log. All caches were found in good condition, unless otherwise noted, on an enjoyable sunny afternoon.

TFTC

A day of many, many geocaches! The target series was SAGEO_5's *On Your Bike* Wherigo power trail series, and it was an early morning start meeting at Loxton with a group of keen Geocachers. Once that trail was completed, The_Tardis_Trio and I then did the Fishy Tales Wandering Heroes series, and it was pleasing that both series geocaches were all found with generally good coordinates. It was then a return trip home via some of the back roads via Pyap West and Caliph, to then be back on the main Karoonda Highway. A few miscellaneous Wandering Heroes caches and some of the Lost Wandering Heroes waypoints completed the day. It wasn't planned to be a day for a big finds number, but The_Tardis_Trio was keen on finding more than 150 for a Victorian challenge, so with the 100 and 35 caches from the two initial power trails, it became easy to achieve the target. A perfect day to be outside weatherwise, with many stumpy lizards found sunbaking on the roads and in the scrublands, with only one large brown snake seen slithering across a road.

I was introduced to these Lost Wanderers a few months ago, but never got the chance to complete any. Today, I needed another 5-10 geocaches to get to my 150 target, so this set seemed good to clear out of the way. It sounds like rosmar were a real hero with true New Zealand hospitality, so hopefully they take the occassion of the 2020 Millicent mega to visit South Australia! I parked as close as I could get to GZ, and made the short walk to find this cache. The gecoache and logbook were in good shape, thanks [@Freddo](http://coord.info/PR8C14).

Thanks for the hide

Tftc

A quick find while staying in Murray Bridge.TFTC

The Lost Wanderers are not lost any more, because we have found them all! So did ilook4geo. This series was an absolute pleasure to find as every container was clean and well presented and every log was in really good condition. Thank you so much to Freddo the Frog for maintaining this series so well.
Initials were noted on each log and all was put back as it had been found before we moved on.

Today the caching hunt with goingplaces2 included many of the Wandering Heroes series as well as some Lost Wanderers series. Happy to add our initials to each log and replace everything before we moved on. TFTC.

found with jacknor on the return from doing my own wandering hero's cache. A quick find starting on the lost hero's and slowly heading home. Some of the containers have been just replaced by the co's, a few others where found broken and containers replaced with still the original logs. All caches where found.

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.

Was being taxi to and from The Bend for the V8s today so after dropping off, it was some GEOPETS, some Wandering Heroes, the May OTD series and lastly all thirteen of The Lost Wanderers series.
Log is full and needs replacing.
Thanks for the cache Freddo

Found on the way to Karoonda - TFTC

Found quickly tftc

Quick find

A quick find,
and tributes paid to one of our overseas buddies
Thanks for the Froggy tale

And TFTC of course !!

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

Found it

7973
Time for us to go back to home in Melbourne
Prefect weather for me to do with caching day
Found it
Thanks Freddo

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

Reaching for todays goal of 100 caches found, TFTC and Trail.

Went to visit my sister and asked if she would like to come get a few caches with me...she does like to go for a drive...she is on snake patrol [^] as it was a rather warm afternoon...
It's always nice to meet geocachers while visiting other countries, even better to go caching with them...
TFTC Freddo

nearly drove straight past this one, can you tell l need a break lol

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.
Thanks for the cache Freddo.

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 Freddo for placing this cache.

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!

Thanks for creating this side trail, it gave us a welcome break but added to our numbers. 3-Kings and I came from Sydney to do some serious caching and we found it here in spades. TFTC

Dropped off new cache container & logbook for firesafe
Nice spot, must get back & do some more nearby caches
TFTD
,

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 Freddo

Another day out caching with CAD - getting closer to the next milestone T4TC:)
#2980

Another day of many, I hope TFTC 25th

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

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 23 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.

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 Freddo, 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.

Ah the lost wanderers, but not forgotten

Trying to get 100 in a day, thanks for the series. TFTC

Found by the intrepid trio. OK finding the rhythm.

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 #2126.

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 Freddo 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 10:00 with Southern Cross Caching.

Found on our second day of caching out of Murray Bridge. Did some of the Wandering Heroes series and then tackled this series. Found them all except for one. 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 during an epic Australia Day long weekend of caching road trip through Victoria and South Australia.

TNLN, thanks Freddo.

Found with geokids StunkyPanda2006 and gnomeo2007. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Quick one here but missing all the wickets in the cricket! 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. A quick find and on our way to the next. TFTC.

On a 10 day geocaching holiday in SA from Brisbane with my sister JooJoo57. We attempted to do as many of The Lost Wanderers and 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

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

[red]Find #1644[/red]

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

A day in the Mallee to get a few numbers.

Did a couple of new series' and a few older cache that I've never got around to.

Thanks to all who placed caches.

TFTC

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.

Thanks again Freddo[^]

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. This one was another quick find.

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 3:08:00 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.
No problems locating this hide, watched on by the Sheep on the otherside of the fence
SL, cache in good condition.
TFTC Freddo

Have I mentioned how cold and wet it is today......Why am I doing this , I ask myself.

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 It!
Never meet these guys - if you ever get them he Freddo, I'll come and say hello!
TFTC

Found ya, Thanks for the hunt.

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 and Lost Wanderers 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!

Day 4 of the Oz Mega Event, and I was heading for an overnight stay in Bordertown. The day included a few caches around Murray Bridge, the Lost Wanderers series, and some of the Wandering Heroes caches that had arisen since I last cleaned it out. And then there were some more down to Coonalpyn. Sorry for the generic logs - there were just too many to log individually. My thanks to Freddo for the cache.

Out and about on this fine day with fellow cacher friends Liz and Bruce doing a lot of the Wandering heroes caches and close by ones. Many thanks to all that hide them and for there upkeep. Sorry for the late log and copy and paste.

Found while attending the Oz Mega over the 2014 Easter weekend. TFTC.

Congratulations to yet another international hero.
TFTC

With the main activities of the mega out of the way but also well into the day we headed out with Goblindust, our visitor from Seattle in the USA to find as many caches as we could before dark. We found a few caches before hitting the Wandering Heroes trail. Each time we came across a name we had some history with we reflected on the wonderful time we had shared with this geocaching team. When we stop geocaching (one day) I am sure it will be the people we remember rather than the geocaches [^][^]. Nice one. Thanks to Freddo for placing this cache.

Thanks for your cache Freddo, 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 Freddo

The only cachers we met while in the USA was at an event in West Virginia hosted by WV Tim (who also put us up in his house for a couple of nights).
We think cachers worldwide are just the friendliest group of people we have met.

It would be great to one day meet up with the teams immortalised in this series as well, who knows, perhaps it will happen.

TFTC

Finds #1502

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