Build-A-Bridge Murray Bridge East, South Australia, Australia
By Freddo on 17-Jan-14. Waypoint GC4XA7Y

Woohoo! My first whereigo, after a 45 min failed walk and 15 minute hint with a 6 yo in Tauranga. Great spot and a nice easy find close to sunset. Thank you!Edited to add: part of my successful personal challenge today: logged 9 different cache types in a single day. Woohoo!

Find number 13602 at 12:29:38PM on Sunday the 18 August 2024We're on our way to WA Goes Big, travelling from Croydon (Melbourne, Victoria) with a caravan in tow and making a leasurely caching holiday across the Nullarbor and back.Today we're travelling from Bordertown to Adelaide sightseeing and grabbing a few caches as we go Wherigo solved quickly after an immense amount of prep-work and wandered off to find the final location quickly **Thanks for placing this cache Freddo**---*WOW, so much happening here in Victoria*The Great Victorian Cache Crawl is coming on 17-18 August 2024, this year starting near Melbourne heading up around Echuca and back over the weekend. More details to follow.And dont forget to log your will attend for Victorias first ever Block Party in March 2025, the [**The Sunbury Event**](https://coord.info/GCAP417).Theres also all those lists of amazing geocaches at [Geocaching Victorias List webpage]( https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists), go check them out.

Today ttrogg picked up the Rat from her nest.We then headed to the Starfish's pond to pick up the Starfish.Then headed over to Murray Bridge for a days caching.We came and took a walk along the bridge.Found the cache and stamped the logbook. Tftc

Time for some more Tuesday Trekking so went and picked up the Rat from her nest and then the Starfish from his pond. Then we headed to today's playing arena, Murray Bridge and the surrounding area. A great day of caching was had, with a nice number of caches found and no DNFs. Most were traditionals but five different cache types were found and this was one of the ones that I wanted.Wandered out to where the co-ords had us and started looking. For some reason the Starfish couldn't remember where he'd found it, something about over 10 years ago. But it still wasn't too long before I had cache in hand and the original log had another 2 stamps added to it. Now to walk a little bit further away from the car to find an almost 15 year old traditional.Thanks to Freddo for adding to the playing field with this cache.Smilie #15198.*This log composed and published using GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife).*

. and were walking here. and were getting close. but on checking the image, doh light poles are on the other side. and were walking back . and were crossing the road. and were walking here. and that looks more promising. and theres the cache

Another day of caching in SA after attending the mega in Adelaide. What a whirlwind of a week for us as we attack trails with mates, DT, specific types for personal challenges, old caches and just damn good ones. With so much on offer we barely knew where to start but as we headed slowly home we picked up a few more.Another cool Wherigo in a scenic location, an easy find thanks to the spoiler pic.Thanks Freddo for the Wherigo placement.

TFTC. Setting up camp for a week before the MEGA for 29th Feb!Happy caching and safe travels!

I've had this one solved for some time.I've had a previous DNF.I've come back to find the bridge having work done on it.I've now finally found the cache. (Strange no other names in the log book.)TFTC

found with [@James0116](http://coord.info/PRBVA9T)

Great HideFound it on a trip driving to Lucindale for a rover campFound with @ROVERS4LYFEThanks Freddo for the cacheJames0116Friday, 29 Sep 202312:57:29 pm ACST3841

Cache replaced

still behind a temp fence.

Still no access due to ongoing bridge works delayed by river flooding. Location is monitored regularly.

No access to gz due to works

Still no access here.

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Half as long weekend away to Murray Bridge. Anzac Day, first find after a to hearty breakfast nearby. Got the cartridge working on Geooh Go on second attempt. All good here

TFTC

finding your cache Freddo, thank you so much for placing it.

Looked everywhere but no luck. Must be blind.

Out with geopup Douglas this morning and thought I would finaly stop to get this one after watching it for so long and also figured out how to seek out the wherigoes, , very nice hide, sneaky, blends in well. cache and log in great condition. TYFTC

Cache blindness is a terrible affliction.

Another Wherigo down, I love them. Thanks for the stroll, Freddo.

Decided to do a caching circuit around the hills to clear up the local area on a coolish day, ending up at Murray Bridge at the end of the day. Got back home only to discover I'd completely overlooked the Lab Cache, so I guess I'll get out this way again some time soon. Thanks for the wherigo cache Freddo!

Quick find while muggle husband filled up the car, mini cacher and I went to find this one. TFTC.

A bit cooler today for another round of Murray Bridge caching Celebrated my 6,000 logged geocaches with a manicure and then hit up the local trails. Lots of interesting things to see around this region

Fun and short Wherigo which I enjoyed. Have a FAVE point for the cool pics I took here

TFTC Freddo

On the way to Adelaide. Thank you for the Cache.

short... but it is a wherigo.

The shortest wherigo I have done in a while. It is balanced by the really long wherigo starting right beside it. Quick find.

After a weekend at The Bend it was time to go home but not before grabbing some caches towards the new souvenirs TFTC

We always enjoy a Wherigo and so we downloaded the cartridge so that we could undertake this one today. We enjoyed the stroll to Ground Zero where the cache was quickly located. Thanks so much for the Wherigo Cache - our first in Southern Australia . Greetings from Zimbabwe

Today we visited Murray Bridge. This WIG at the old bridge was very nice. Thanks of the picture I could find the box very fast and write into the logbook.

Greetings from Germany and
TFTC El_Mue

On the way back from Meningie and Tailem Bend a stop was made to attempt two adjacent wherigos.

This was not the silly one.

TFTW yet again Freddo

*6 Jan 2019, Found @ 5:44 pm, Find # 8711.*

Out and about on a road trip to Adelaide, I was particularly targeting Wherigo and letterbox caches but there are a lot of other interesting caches to be found, this being one of them.
This was a very simple one, cache found and log signed.

**Thanks to Freddo for placing this cache.**

Saturday 24 November 2018

This is my 30th wherigo find....woo frickin hoo! It also signifies that I can finally log a challenge cache in Victoria (ahomburg's) that I signed nearly 12 months ago, now that really is a woo hoo moment.

Today I was out and about with gridge98 finding more Wandering Heroes and a few others on our journey. We stamped most logs "fabulous randoms", but I think I wrote GoodLook in this one.

Thanks so much for the cache Freddo! [^]

While we are on our travels we like to stop and absorb some local ambience and a bit of history as well. There are so many caches available to do and sometimes we just have to make a choice, for whatever reason. So this day held a variety of types as well as different size caches.
This sounded like a wherigo cache that would not be too difficult or take a long time. It was actually easy to find GZ and get the prize. Thanks go to Freddo for creating this cache, which we enjoyed doing. Giving it a favourite point.

Travelling along this road as we were heading west, we stopped to look for this cache and found it. Good wherigo. TFTC.

I headed down to the south-east with gridge98 on a quick, two-day trip to find a few caches.

We had some rather mixed weather, with sunshine, rain, hail and wind at different stages, but most of the time it was good weather for caching.

We also had rather mixed results in terms of caches. There were some interesting hides in some terrific places; some along the beaches, some in the pine forests and others at various scenic or interesting locations. We managed a few lucky FTFs, but also a few disappointing DNFs. But all in all, it was a great trip.

This was a nice, quick wherigo and a quick find, although we started looking on the wrong side of the structure!!

Thanks Freddo for the cache.

On a trip to the South east region with e.gregory1 to collect a few caches.

Build a Bridge? I couldnt find any lego to build one with so I just used a mint tin

8150. Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1420. The Bridge was a little different for us. We had expected a bit of a stroll but enjoyed just the same.SL Tnx Freddo

Now I have managed a few Wherigos thought I would add this one to my list of caches to collect. Having just been scared off by a snake down below was happier up here and made the easy find here TFTC Freddo

We're currently on a road trip from Hobart to Adelaide, spending a few nights staying in Murray Bridge before moving on to Adelaide.

Our first night in Murray Bridge, we found ourselves with an hour to spare in the evening, so we figured it would be a good opportunity to go looking for a few local caches.

One of our goals on our road trip was to try a few different cache types that we hadn't tried before, so this cache (and the other nearby Wherigo GC532XV) were our first two Wherigos ever.

This was a nice easy introduction to Wherigos, and it successfully led us straight to the hide with little fuss.

TFTC!

After the afternoon event I jumped in the backseat of SnappyTomCats car and did some caching around Murray Bridge...skuzzybear followed in her car and walked the bridge with us...
A cool beginners wherigo...
Nice views from the bridge...
TFTC Freddo

Out today to do a bit of caching and attend an event after which we headed off with Hevwalker to grab a couple of local caches. We have been joined by Scuzzybear and Jethro, and once we had found the right side of the bridge and Hevwarker had gotten a clue from the CO while he was PAFing, we made the find.TFTC

It was a day of the CITO this morning at Mount Barker, some back streets driving towards Murray Bridge, and then some caches around the area. We had a secondary objective today to find all cache types. This was a key Wherigo for the day.

It was a nice easy Wherigo and helpful to our cache types in the one day challenge. A nice walk across the famous bridge. Many thanks Freddo!

Completed with Davidwazza, fun little Wheri-go! Beautiful views of the river

"Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind.."
Well the only easing of mind was after a blessing of cache and bridge parted.... TYFTC SLTNLN and thank you to Snappy Tom Cats, HevWalker for the extra laughs I needed this afternoon and for letting me tag along! And for a tiny spartan 300 adventure... Not taken at bridge but close by!

...and get over it.

Grabbed the cache easily enough. Then there were muggles... and a beautiful view... and then an aircraft and the discovery of a nearby airstrip on the map... so it took 10 mins to sign the log.

Geez... does the bridge shake enough as vehicles go over it?

TFTC Freddo
25/2/18, 4:47 pm, Find #1151

A really nice and short WIG and it could have been much shorter if I just had taken the right side of the bridge . After returning and crossing over it was a quick find at least .

TFTC

Today we did a loop from the Murray Bridge area to Jervois, Wellington and Tailem Bend. Whilst in these areas using Geocaching as a guide we picking up a few caches on the way and this was one of them. A straight forward Wherigo and an easy find at GZ. Took TB.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Our first Wherigo!! Enjoyed a quick walk on a windy day
TFTC

Found fairly quickly once I had some yummy breakfast in me.

Stopover on my way to the North whilst visiting friends from Melbourne.

Thanks for the smiley.

Tftc

Found it with TICE [Hiltsu, J&T, kapeka & laalaa]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in Australia ( South Australia and Northern Territory ). Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and huge country!

Greetings from Finland!

Tice (Team Ice: laalaa, J&T., Hiltsu and kapeka) in Australia. Second day we drove to Murray Bridge.
Thanks for the wherigo.
Greetings from Finland.

Team ICE on a two week geocaching trip in Australia. Our main target was the Red Centre Experience at Alice Springs but of course we did some caching in other places too. We drove from Adelaide to Alice Springs and then back. We saw lots of interesting and beutiful places like opal mines at Coober Pedy, Ayers Rock and Kata Tjuta. Our rental travelled almost 6500km on gravel and tarmac roads. The weather was great, only on last day we got some rain.

All the caches logged as Team Ice, T-ice or Tice with kapeka, laalaa and Hiltsu. We had a great trip!

Today we drove back to Adelaide from Murray Bridge. Main target for today was Oz Mega 2014 puzzle trails.

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Finland!

Our Spring Geocaching trip go this year to Australia...yes you read right, in Finland is spring now.
We visit in Australia (Adelaide, Murray Bridge, Port Augusta, Whyalla, Coober Pedy, Uluru, Alice Springs, Port Vincent and other place which are on the way those places) on April 05.-20.

We see many beautiful place where we visit and enjoy every cache what we found, so humble thanks every cache owner that you hiding this cache!

We (kapeka, laalaa, J&T. and Hiltsu) use common nickname Team ICE, T-ICE or TICE that we saves space in the logbook.

Thanks For To Cache Freddo!
Greetings from Finland.

#5000

On the last day of the year we were on a mission to get our 5000th cache find. We were visiting Mrs C's brothers house in Murray Bridge for New Years celebrations, so we took his kids out for the big find. We still had to find a few around before the milestone, and with them out of the way, this one would be our milestone. A good stroll from the start of the bridge had the cache in hand.

TFTC Freddo

It was a few days ago that Locus Cache suggested a caching trip to Murray Bridge so I could make a start on the Oz Mega Series. A late start meant that it was un likely that I would finish the series, but we could make a start anyway. After spending a few hours cleaning up some specific caches in Murray Bridge central we headed of and made a start on the geo art. Slowely and steadily we made inroads and the find count was going up. How ever it was getting quite late and the decision was made to call it a night. An enjoyable day was had and hopefully I will be back soon.
tftc

Went on a Cache tour of Murray Bridge with CPwanderer.
Was a beautiful sunny day to get and about and cache.

TFTC

Our second where I go! Lovely little walk. Faced fears
Tftc

Working towards our 900th find today, decided to grab a few caches around Murray Bridge, there certainly are lots to choose from
We recently got our hands on a secondhand Garmin Oregon 450 and have been itching to try it out a wherigo on it. Cartridge worked well, no problems, took longer than it should have to find the cache but we got there in the end
Thanks for another fun wherigo

Worked out the cartridge and found by The Boofs TFTC ☺.

A great little quick where I go to work through with the kids while holidaying at Murray Bridge. A fabulous bridge too. Thanks Freddo.

Number 1 of 173 in our 16-hour Murray Bridge caching tour. Found at 08:22am.

On 2015 Christmas Day, we spent the whole day caching in the town of Murray Bridge. We did not get to go to the mega event last year, so we came now to pick up some of the many caches here. We left home before 7am and arrived home after half past 2am! What a memorable Christmas Day! Surely nothing like this can happen once we have kids...

This is the first one we did. Cache was easy to find, especially with the spoiler image from the cartridge. Signed logbook and placed it back.

Thank you for introducing us to Murray Bridge in the town of Murray Bridge, Freddo, And thanks for the Whereigo cache.

TFTC. Found on our great Aussie Road Trip heading East

After a day wandering around the surrounds of Murray Bridge, what better way to end the trip than a find on the bridge itself. And to double it up as a Milestone find (Yay - 900 finds!) added to the joy. TFTC Freddo. 3/10/2015, 18:20 Find #900!

Found with AnyMules for his #900

On a quick two to three day get away by myself. Heading over to Tailem Bend and Murray Bridge to pick up a few smiley face along the way collecting mostly Earthcaches, Letterbox Hybrids, Wherigos and 'Finds by hidden month' I need to fill - Plus any others that are nearby any of the rarer types I'm after in boosting my numbers a little.
After leaving on Home on Sunday I was fortunate to have excellent weather on my side and a great run also traffic wise, which was great as it enabled me to get quite a lot of KM's done and caches done too while on my way to Tailem Bend for the night and get an early start on the trail in Murray Bridge.

After spending the night in Tailem Bend I made an early start at first light to cram as many caches in today as I can. After completing the Geopets series in Tailem Bend I headed over to Murray Bridge to grab a coffee and then do and complete the OZmega series and a few in between before returning back to Tailem Bend for the night.
Was an epic day with 218 caches found and logged!

Thanks Freddo for the cache & Wherigo
Log signed and cache replaced as found. TFTC & smiley face
#2063

Tb visit, cache found in June

This was my first wherigo. We weren't entirely sure what to do at first but the cartridge made it a lot easier and a quick find was made.
TFTC Freddo

Our second whereigo! We are trying to get used to them so we can place one once we go back home. Whereigo cache have so much potential! You can create a tour in a historical place, tell a story or create a puzzle, the only limit is your fantasy...and spare time thanks to Freddo for this cache, the mega event 2014 left murray bridge with so many cache to find.

Stiamo cercando ti trovare alcune semplici whereigo per poo poter ricrearne una una volta tornati a casa. Ci piace questo tipo di cache, si possono creare tour in luoghi storici, raccontare storie o metterr alla prova con dei quiz. Insomma l'unico limite è la fantasia. Grazie a freddo per questa cache. Il mega event 2014 ha lasciato murray bridge con un sacco di nuove cache da trovare

Jacopo e Lisa

[green]Congratulations to the cache owner for winning an award in the 2014 SAGA
Please find attached the graphic for the award win, we would love for this to be displayed on the cache page.

Project “Centroid” road trip continued today...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.
After finishing the Oz Mega 2014 geo-art today, we did a few caches in town and then headed to Adelaide.
This was a nice quick Whereigo, the longest time was spent waiting for walking muggles to leave the area of the bridge we needed to look at.
Thanks for the cache, the puzzles, the hunt and the fun.

The three of us were in Murray Bridge to do some adventure caching. We stopped by this iconic bridge to grab this one. Don't you just love caches that include a photo of where the cache is hiding at GZ?

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache Freddo.

Spiffy- and I were on a project to get 500 caches in 4 days that were over 100km from our home locations. We found a parking spot nearby and the cache became active. A short stroll and some muggles to negotiate and the cache was in hand. Thanks to Freddo for the cache.

Up at Murray Bridge for some caching and grabbed this one, loved the location.

Thank Freddo for the find.

It has been a while since we have attempted a WherIGo cache and it took a few minutes to recall how to use our smart phone app. Once that was under constrol, it was a straightforward process to get to GZ where, after a short serach, the cache was located. The cache and contents were in good condition. When looking at these older constructions, we still marvel at the rivet construction techniques - hard work but very strong. The views up the river from the bridge were good this morning. Thanks for the cache Freddo.

[blue]Congratulations this cache has reached the voting level for the SAGA Awards 2014. Please find attached graphic for reaching the final voting stage of the Awards.

Stopped, walked, and signed while staying nearby with the Frogs
tftc

As we head from town to town as part of our "Purposeful Meander around Oz" the Rats and the Mini Rats found this cache.

Disappointingly we missed the mega but now that we were passing through town we grabbed a few of the unusual type of caches. Took a few starts on the cartridge but eventually got to GZ.
Thanks for being part of our great adventure.
TFTC

[Teal] As we head from town to town as part of our "Purposeful Meander around Oz" the Rats and the Mini Rats found this cache. Dad did most of the hard work here and the detail of our find can be found in the Rats log. Sorry for the duplicate log but it takes nothing away from the find.

Another one of these caches that dad has to do the tricky stuff.... We did find the cache though.
Thanks for showing us this spot on our trip.
TFTC [/Teal]

We have been staying in Murray Bridge for a couple of months finding many of the hundreds of caches available in the area.

Today after enjoying a pub lunch we thought it was about time we gave the two whereigo caches a shot. Geohbby had downloaded the cartridges this morning. We positioned ourselves at the first waypoint and were soon on our way to a quick, easy find.

Many thanks for the hide Freddo[^]

Roma2 out soloing with JJ52 on some work business at Murray Bridge, the first Wherigo Cache for us, so proud of Roma2 for finding it.
Thanks for the experience Freddo.

Came for a drive to Murray Bridge with Roma123 (#2) and while she completed some business close by I downloaded the Wherigo cartridge and when she had finished we headed for a little walk to GZ.
The spoiler pic certainly helped as the Wherigo only gave me half the coordinates. [?]
As this is a Freddo cache I knew exactly what we were looking for and it was soon found by Roma2.
Thanks for the cache Freddo.

Doing a numbers count before a milestone. Log to follow.

02.10.14 tftc with help of niftybridge

We thought that it'd be fun to do a Wherigo cache .. that's until we found that neither our Garmin GPSr or Mrs. NiftyBridge's Samsung phone support that handy function. Great!

We then tried to download and get the Wherigo thing to run on our PC but that doesn't work either. Grr!

There must be another way I thought, so we spent some time reading through previous log entries to find some hints. It was pretty easy to work out what structure it was probably on, in or under, but narrowing it down proved a little more difficult. What we lacked in technology, we supplanted with good ol' caching mania. As it turned out, it was only after searching almost all of one side of the thing that we realised that the cache was on the other. At least we got a nice close look at the thing.

Another day and another search (on the other side). This time I skipped a section and concentrated on another part, so as to be less noticeable to passing muggles. I tried to act as though I was checking things, you know, like a you-know-what inspector. Still no luck. When you spend a lot of time looking really close, one side looks much like the other actually.

I re-read the logs, scrutinised the photos, scratched my head and then had another brainwave as to where it might be. Good thing we didn't go on that hunch because we would have been around 100 mtrs out. Instead, I decided to add a little geo-cheating and decrypted the Wherigo package just to see if I could. I'm really not very good at that either but I was able to find the final coordinates after a bit of rummaging through all that squiggly code and whatnot that's in those things. I don't suggest that anyone else do that because that's cheating and I'm ashamed of myself.

Finally, back to the you-know-what and a short walk led us to the correct area. We soon had the cache in hand and signed the log. I hope that's OK. Once I've done the same thing for the 'Oz Mega 2014 geotour' Wherigo I promise never to cheat again (unless we get stuck).

Thanks Freddo. We now know what that thing looks like, like the back of our hands!

Nice day , tftc

Found It!
I swear you could not make a cache any easier... The hardest part was the 100m walk from the carpark and that was easy!
Not that it was needed, but the Garmin Monterra with the Wherigo app performed seamlessly.
TFTC

After being camped at Murray Bridge showgrounds for 2 weeks,
it was time to pack up the caravan and move on.
But not before an early drive to pick up a few caches, which we had been saving.

Downloaded the cartridge, and found our way to GZ.
Cache was found quickly, and in good condition.
Many thanks for the hunt, Freddo.

Thanks so much for placing a where-I-go to give cachers the chance for a different type of cache find. We had a quick, easy find once the cache location had been reached.

On our way home from OzMega
TFTC

Found with kellydrinkstea TFTC

Found this while at the Mega event with mudbuzzie. This is our second whereigo cache and this time I had the controls... For a very short time before handing the gadget back to mudbuzzie I'm much better at following along and then joining in the hunt at the end TFTC

Reperio at 0840 with Big Matt and Shell and Farmer Frentzen.

After meeting up with FF and Big Matt during the Oz Mega Event this weekend, we packed up this morning and headed out to do a few local caches before making our way towards Adelaide. We couldn't resist doing this wherigo, and so after finding a good place to park, we wandered along the bridge until we reached the right spot. A short later soon revealed the cache! This was a nice simple wherigo, and highlighted some great history. Enjoyed seeing the photo on the cache page.

Gratias Freddo.

Our 8305th overall find.

Found with FarmerFrentzen and Marcus Vitruvius on our trip to the OZ Mega 2014. This was a very impromptu trip with my manager only approving my leave a week or two out. We managed to snag some cheap flights and met up with MV in SA to have a roaring 3 day tour.

I like this for an idea of a Wherigo, quite simple. I'm glad you included the photo.

Thanks Freddo for the cache.

Don't know about building a bridge but I did walk the bridge to this cache.
The sun has gone down and 3LG and myself are just about to head back home.
TFTC

TeamInc~~~~~>
Rik666!

Our first wherigo woohoo