Wandering Heroes ... Jamescrafter Pata, South Australia, Australia
By Dazzatron on 08-Jul-13. Waypoint GC4FTJ4

The original plan was to head to the Argadells north of Port Augusta but the logistics simply didnt work out for us.So its Plan B, the Riverland So here we are, The 3 Stooges, WayneAPN (or as we call him That Numbers Guy), weredunn4 ( Mr Adventure) and myself are hitting the Riverland for some targeted high T caches, plus many many others along the way.Suffice to say, these are always great trips away with heaps of banter, dad jokes, tons of crap talk, but best of all, the camaraderieAll caches found and stamped. Any caches needing maintenance, we did our best to restore them to good health whether that be an additional log or new container.Thanks to all the COs for the caches we found this weekend, without you we dont have this game TFTC

The 3 Stooges are at it again. Out on the long weekend hunting caches. We wanted to head north for some high T caches that required a 4WD, but it didn't quite work out, so an alternative plan was hatched. The Riverland.Aimed for some High Terrain caches and caches that have been unloved for some time, years in fact, and with very few finders. Some were quite tricky to solve and took a bit of head scratching and a few other body parts.Plus, some others of interest along the way.Always great trips away with heaps of banter, dad jokes, tons of crap talk, but best of all, the camaraderie, and home made cake.All caches found and stamped. If some caches required maintenance, this was done.Thanks to all the COs for hiding and publishing these caches. Made for an adventurous weekendTFTC SL

Out and about caching with Cheezel and WayneAPN while on a trip to the Riverland.Cache found and log stamped

Find # 15763Been a while since I've been out solo for a long trip. But things change over time. And I'm living the past.So with some time off work, I've jumped the border wall to chase down some long trails in South Aussie... don't know how many I'll get. But I've got quite a few downloaded. I do have a short hit list ( of 2) caches to help with a challenge. All others are just for the Adventure and countryside views. Armed with all the necessary TOTT from tweezers and magnet grab to 6m ladder and 8m fishing pole. I believe I'm prepared for all that I'll come across. (Just had to leave the Kayak at home )Day 5. After a cold night at the Maggea Oval.. I was off on another days hunting.But decided to turn things around as I started in Loxton (after getting supplies) and tackle the trail backwards from original plan. TFTC Dazzatron

Wandering Heroes - Jamescrafter, quick find Tftc Dazzatron

Out for a weekend away Geocaching and stopping in at my caches in the area to see if they need fixing. All have been Replaced with new containers which will hopefully last another 10+ years.

Hollow is correct

We discovered this series before we left WA Perth. So planned trip around it. Hoping we can finish before we have to head back home. Great series thank you everyone. Varied caches and good sizes great for a bush run series.
Container cracked

Out to find a few more worthy wandering hero geocachers. Cache and log in a good state, no maintenance required. TFTC Dazzatron. Slowly turning all of the caches into smileys.

Macey is the best and we found it

Found by Mary and David at 13:20. Great to see a younger cacher getting his own account and staying keen. So often, teenagers get to the stage of thinking that Geocaching is Not Cool. Not much fun caching in the rain. Our thanks to Dazzatron.

Quick drive by after being in the area for work. Cheers!

Found it

Staying in Renmark for a short holiday, caching around where we travel. Today we targeted some powertrails just out of Loxton and any others along the route. 155 caches found today. This cache is one that was found today.

Find #4419 on 19 Jul 2022.
TFTC Dazzatron!

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 Dazzatron.
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quick find the tub was in the open some distance from GZ, believe we put the container where it should have been

TFTC Dazzatron. We had completed the On Your Bike Series yesterday. Another hot day was being predicted. So we left camp early. To head down the road to chase some Wandering Heros and any other caches nearby. A great couple of hours.
Cache count No 13333

Out geocaching with friends as mystery randoms

Out on another JAMS day with allister w, mogni, sir_spectre and tallbikestan targeting the rest of the Wandering Heroes that we didn't finish last time we were out this way. We started off in Murray Bridge then stopped off at the Happy Armpit series before heading to Sandalwood where we left off previously. [^] After finishing the Wandering Heroes and some others that we went past we zig zagged back to Tailem Bend finding some random caches in random locations which all added to the fun of the day. It was pretty hot and the car air conditioner got a good workout, but that didn't stop us even though I was quite tired by the end of the day.

Thanks for the cache Dazzatron.

Today the JAMS crew was out and about to complete the Wandering Heroes series. JJ52, mogni, Sir Spectre, tallbikestan and I met at the crack of dawn on a predicted hot day. We worked great as a team to find the remaining caches of the series as well as a few caches before it and a few after it. I was mainly the driver today and I filled up the car at Murray Bridge before the first find and from then on I didn't turn the car of until we had done finding and headed back to Tailem Bend, when we got to Tailem Bend and had 4kms of fuel left which added a adrenaline rush to the day. Thanks to all the CO's and the cachers that are a reason for another find. The JAMS crew hid a JAMS cache today to add to the series.

Out with the JAMS crew for our monthly caching run. This run was with JJ52, Allister w, Mogni and sir_spectre plus Tallbikestan but minus Michells&hound. All logs today where stamped as mystery randoms. Todays target was to do the armpit series then finish the Wandering Heroes trail where we left it uncompleted at sandal wood last time and then slowly cache the back roads back to Karoonda. The wandering heroes trail was in a poorer state then last time and that is saying some thing. This time out of 104 caches on the trail including a few stray trads beside the freeway we replaced 18 caches that where found broken/cracked but surprisingly almost al the logbooks where saved and less then a hand full of logbooks on this section were full and needed replacing. It was nice to see some of the caches still themed after all this years. Also good to see a few large caches out here. A good day out even if it was 35 degrees. Some time along the Wandering Heroes i got my 15,000 find as well.

Alice Spring to Adelaide Roadtrip
Day Six: Morgan to Adelaide.

There has been a development which means I now have less time than I originally thought, but still enough time to get six special Wandering Heroes - required for me to finish ProjectGC’s 360° From Home, with some spares for subsequent loops.

TFTC Dazzatron

Out on caching adventures with Wollaston and HoneySucker.

Thanks to the many hands and minds taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your special part of the world

Log signed with group stamp

TFTC Dazzatron

Find # 3659

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird & Honeysucker. Another great day for caching. TFTC Dazzatron
Find #6033 at 15:02.

Today I headed off on my camping trip to the Riverland, just the one night away. A lot of gear to load into the car but us old birds need their creature comforts.
The plan was to ‘finish’ the WH and then continue on to Kingston for the night. I don’t think the WH will ever be finished but gave it a good crack. Also found a few other caches along the way but as always still lots to come back for.
Found 80 for the day, didn’t leave home as early as I’d hoped and had to be at camp by 6, never mind.
It was perfect weather for caching, cool and cloudy. No scary wildlife spotted. Lots of dnf today.
Thanks to all the CO for placing and maintaining caches for me to find. At this end of the trail there were lots of cachers I haven’t come across before maybe one day our paths will cross.
TFTC

The gazanias are bright this time of year.

Mallee trip with the geo-pup. Day 9, Paruna, Allawoona and surrounds.

TFTC

Found it

10336 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1010. Time to head further south towards Langhorne Creek for the weekend and JWLE. In good condition. SL Tnx Dazzatron

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 series Dazzatron

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 Dazzatron And thanks to "The Mob" for a trip to remember [^].

The caravan was in for service today so we decided to find some "Fish" and " Heroes", most were quick finds while a few took some searching

TFTC

Leaving Berri and heading Siuth

On a road trip to South Australia now the border is open with Kittykatch, and barb2e calling ourselves Border Busters or BB. Forth day of our trip and loving the beautiful green fields and cool day. Awesome day to be out.
TFTC Dazzatron

On the 4th day of our trip to SA chasing Wandering Heroes today. Found with Joolay and Kittykatch and signed as Border Busters or BB. Tftc

On a road trip to South Australia with Joolay and barb2e - today is Day 4 (Berri to Taillem Bend). We signed all caches as Border Busters or BB.

Condition Report:. Ok
Log Book: lots of room

Thanks for hiding this cache Dazzatron

Day 377 ( Wednesday 9th ) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Paruna today. A total of 19 for the day and 6699 the trip. A grand total of 16,667 caches. TFTC

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Travelled up to NW Victoria with feathertop to spend the next 3 days caching in the area. She proved an excellent driver and companion while I was the passenger. We tackled as many of this series as we could before arriving in Loxton to prepare for our big day tackling the On Your Bike series. Then completed this end after a big morning.
All the caches were found successfully and in good condition.
Thanks to all the cache owners and congratulations to the heroes.

After a long morning on the bike caches and then the fish puzzles it was time to do a few wandering heroes. I was in the great company of 6Hinemoa2 and together we hoovered up over 200 caches on this trip without any dnf's.
This was one of about 9 caches found in the honouring of the wandering heroes trail and thanks to the CO's who have honoured their friends on this amazing trail.
Thanks for this one Dazzatron
Left 3 tbs in this one

Tftc

Summerbub1/8/19

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.

I found the cache, and the container lid was smashed up. Consequently, we performed maintenance on behalf of the CO and replaced the cache container. All the contents were transferred over. Thanks Dazzatron for the cache placement.

Congrats for being honoured on this trail.

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 Dazzatron! [^]

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

Missing it’s lid so I have put double sealed bag to try to protect from rain. Probably last a year seeings it doesn’t rain much
TFTC

Heading home from the Riverland after a weekend of caching adventures with LiB...
The cache needs some TLC...it is broken & stuck in the log...logbook ok but it will get wet when it rains...
TFTC Dazzatron

Apologies for the late log. This was my final day of an epic four day caching trip to South Australia and this was the toughest day of the lot. It was 40C in the Riverland and the hot, dry and dusty conditions made it tough going. My original target of caches to find had to be toned down and aim for a more realistic number for the conditions. I kept at it till mid-afternoon and called it a day after 107 finds. Main targets were Wandering Heroes caches and a few others along the way. Having done the Fishy Tales geo art I was back to the main highway heading south. A good variety of containers and hide styles and I was pleased to add to my list here. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for the cache and your contribution to this series Dazzaron.

Another day out finding caches while on a geocaching trip with tmann421
Really enjoying all the sites and the history we are seeing
Thanks for the placements

Another good Wandering Heroes cache found with woolwood9 today.
We really enjoyed the drive around and thanks for putting this cache out for us to find.
SL

Tftc

It's been awhile since we've looked at the Wandering Heroes Trail, but thought we'd find a few more today . On this leg, we covered Minarie to Loxton [^].
As usual, a great variety of caches out here .
TNLNSL.
Thanks for one more Dazzatron.

Gotcha !!! TFTC

Found on our mega trip. Lots of caches to get. Enjoying the area

A quick find while out caching with Moneydork and Locus Cacher. Thanks heaps!

Staying at Loxton we tackled the rest of the Wandering Heros with Roostaman and this was one of them. An easy find at GZ.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Back over in S A to clear some more of the wandering hero's caches. New ones keep popping up like mushrooms. We had another great days fun finding the variety of caches. Thanks for placing and maintaining these caches. We will return at some time to claim the others.

Tftc

Found with FerociousFlea on our 2017 June Long Weekend Wandering Heroes Caching Run. Totals included 155 on Saturday, 176 on Sunday and 6 early Monday, making for 337 caches in a little over 48 hours.

Thanks to all of the cache owners and caching teams that have this series named after them. Thanks also to those who make the effort to maintain other's caches so that people like us can do these caching runs. Apologies for the generic logs...

TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Found with Beaker on a long weekend caching 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

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Find No: 5633. On the way from Newcastle to Alice Springs, staying in Loxton, so far so good, thanks for the cache Dazzatron!!

Firstly apologies for my generic log but this is #50 of 63 attempted caches today. 60 and 3 DNFs . We are heading to Alice Springs for the Event over Easter using the back roads from Canberra in an attempt to get to my next milestone in time to achieve the great looking souvenir. Today helped a lot but there's still a long way to go.

Many thanks to all the COs for placing these caches which helped me build towards my goal.
It was an incredibly hot day so really enjoyed getting back to the caravan in Loxton.
Signed or stamped all logs, sometimes as SG as I often do in small caches to save space.

We are on an LGA adventure/surprise visit to Adelaide from Melbourne for my Aunty's 80th birthday... via Swan Hill and Loxton! We chose this route so that we could find caches in a few of the LGA areas we have missing in Victoria for the Vic Polygon LGA Challenge cache and then we could also do some of the Wandering Hero caches from Loxton to Adelaide.
We checked out of our beautiful accommodation at the Courthouse Apartments (Police Cell room) and found a few caches in the town of Loxton and then headed for the highway to Adelaide. We had found 9 of the 10 equipe de cinq caches the previous night so we headed for the next lot of WH caches
Amazed this hasn't been logged since Sept last year!
It is interesting reading about the cachers on the trail!!
TFTC Dazzatron - GJMMelb

Found on way home from RWG IN RENMARK TFTC TNLNSL

Found it with CherryRose on our way home from the Rural Women's Gathering in Renmark TFTC TNLNSL

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

Decided to take a Sunday afternoon drive to complete our assault on the Wandering Heroes. It has taken us quite some time, but we have finally found all the current caches in the series. I'm sure we won't be able to say this for long as there always seem to be new ones popping up.

Unless otherwise noted, we found your cache and contents to be in good condition.
We really enjoy our trips along the Wandering Heroes trail and find it interesting to read about each of the honoured cachers and their exploits.

TFTC Dazzatron

We decided to choose a selection of Wandering Heroes caches, while leaving some to came back for at another time. This cache had managed to slip a long way down into the depths and was very difficult to retrieve. However we did manage it, just, and have left it hopefully more accessible for the next cache.
Thank you to Dazzatron for another cache in the series.

Great quick cache. Tftc

Day 2 of our epic six week adventure to get out 4000 cache. These caches are just what we need. Thanks heaps for the effort in placing and maintaining. Tftc Picked up little cupcake TB

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

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. We made it all the way to Loxton in 2 days but were shagged by the end. At Alawoona we were so hungry we drove straight to Loxton and cached in the dark back to here.

Thanks to all you cachers in the MB area for the great work in putting this together, you guys rock!

Traveled to Loxton early in the morning for a random geocaching adventure with my partner Lord Rossatron. We had an extremely fun day, didnt realise the Mardi Gras was scheduled for that day though! We did the caches around Loxton that we could get too and then headed 20-30km out of Loxton and started grabbing those caches!! We found 100 caches in our one day of caching in Loxton, we were pretty proud Geocachers heading back to Mildura at Night.

Sorry for the somewhat generic log. After taking 8-9 months to find our first 200 caches, we planned to travel over from Mildura for a day trip and knock out 100 caches to take us up to our 300th. We left at 7am and got back again around 8:30, If I counted correctly, we achieved our goal.

Left a tb. TFTC

Easy

Decided to grab a few extra caches on our way home after a lovely break in the Riverland. Collected TB. Will move it on as soon as possible after we reach home. TFTC.

Found it

A day of caching with Larry Lambert to start the Wandering Heroes series from Loxton to Alawoona. Great day which finished up with the kids playing at the Loxton Pioneer Playground and Pizza from Loxton Pizza Bar. TFTC!

Having based our holiday around achieving 150 caches in a day, in the company of DAB, we set off early Sunday morning to fulfil a challenge sitting in our home town of Geelong. Camping in Loxton it was easy to start at the top end and work our way down the Wandering Heroes series and grabbing all others in our path. A fun day was had by both teams as we wandered down the hwy, appreciating all the well deserved dedication hides to our fellow cachers.
**Thanks very much Dazzatron for the hide that helped add to our numbers today.**

Today was the day that two caching teams joined up for a challenge,The_Tritonz and DAB. We had set ourselves the task of 150 finds in a day. Luckily we achieved that number and then some !! We started the day very early and concluded in the late afternoon. While a good percentage of the finds were from the "Wandering Heroes" series, there were other hides in the mix. We found mysteries, traditionals and multis. We were spoilt with the landscape and plenty of photos were snapped.
There was plenty of laughs throughout the day and the weather was perfect. Being from Victoria, we were very impressed with not only the number, but the quality of the hides. Thanks to all of the CO's for an enjoyable but tiring day !! We can't wait to return here. TFTC Dazzatron

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 Dazzatron

Decided to grab a few caches while in the area.
TFTC

Found it

Got it

I had a full day planned to wander down the trail today and it was well needed, so many new cache placement since my last visit nearly three years ago. Some very creative placements found and a very enjoyable day's caching. Cheers to all our heroes, and those that have honoured them.

Thanks for this one Dazzatron.

Found with help of hint! T4TC:)

13th for the day TFTC

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Doing the caches with Wandering Heroes.
Found it
Thanks Dazzatron

Fond it

First our apologies for the generic log.

This week our days off happen to be Wednesday and Thursday so we decided that it was time to finish off the Wandering Hero's trail for the third time. I had not realised it was such a long drive to Loxton from Kaniva but once on the road we were committed. With 60 odd new Hero caches and a few rogue ones along the way we had a good day. We had neglected to remember how much fun it was to start the car for the next cache and just as quickly saying "stop", how long will it be before we need to "finish off" the trail again. SL TFTC

Found it

Found it

To start the school holidays thought take the CatKids to find some local caches. Beautiful weather for our family day out. TFTC much appreciated

Out with Mr and Mrs Froghoppin to catch the Fishy Tales,
and caught a few more odd caches and heroes along the way.
105 finds and just one dnf.

Thanks to all for the efforts putting them out,
tftc Dazzatron

A day out with Mattycat a total of 99 caches for the day, picking up new wandering hero caches as its been a while since we were last up here and the fishy series near Loxton a fun day and finishing the trip of with a few being completed by torchlight, thanks to all that placed caches long the trail TFTC Dazzatron

Out today for some more Wandering Heroes, starting to regret not being out here for over three years.
When will I make and end ?
Many thanks to CP for this excellent series
and thanks for this contribution from Dazzatron.

Found the cache and contents strewn around the area, the lid was some metres away. All together again with our mark on it. TFTH

Found it with Labchick on a wet and windy Easter Monday. TFTC