Wandering Heroes - The Drovers Pata, South Australia, Australia
By Team Robins on 22-Mar-14. Waypoint GC50RW7

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

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

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

Find # 15768Been 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 Team Robins

Wandering Heroes - The Drovers , thanks Team Robbins for this cache

Nice container size.
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.

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

Day 15 of our loop through Vic and SA then home.

Today we are on the move from Tailem Bend to Loxton. fitzy_1965, albida33 & I headed out early to get some of the Wandering Heroes before we had to leave the caravan park.

Our aim was to collect anything of interest along the way before we set up camp at Loxton. We stopped at Karoonda, Borrika & Alawoona. Signed as MAF or FAM to save room.

All caches were found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned.

31,343. Found with minniek and albida33 (signing either as FAM or MAF to save room and just for fun) during another great day of caching in South Australia).

Rutherglen Mega and South Australia Trip Day 15. Today we headed out early to grab some more of the Wandering Heroes series before checking out of the camp ground and heading up to Loxton for the next part of our caching holiday. It was yet another great fun day of caching. This was the next find of the day, and a quick find once at GZ. Signed, replaced, and then we headed off to the next one on the list.

Thanks Team Robins !!

Nice

Found by Mary and David at 14:05. We know them well too. Not much fun caching with umbrellas in the rain. Our thanks to Team Robins.

Found

TFTC Team Robins. 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 13338

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 Team Robins.

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 Team Robins

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird & Honeysucker. Another great day for caching. TFTC Team Robins
Find #6037 at 15:33.

Out on caching adventures with Wollaston and HoneySucker.

First aid applied, some hungry wildlife had chewed off a corner of the container

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 Team Robins

Find # 3663

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

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

Cache contains an ant nest, eggs in the bag. Photo log attached.

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First day of our trip to QLD. Nice quick find but cache was covered with ants. Thank you Team Robins

Third day of our road trip. Today we are moving from Renmark south bound along the heroes series all the way to Tailem Bend. Lots of fun caches all day. The weather was a lot better then yesterday!
TFTC Wilbert67

Day 3 of our trip to SA with Wilbert67 . An early start to time day. Hoping the weather would stay at this temperature.
Good start to the day.
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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

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Had a wonderful stay in Berri but now heading South.

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 Team Robins

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 Team Robins

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

Day 377 ( Wednesday 9th ) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Paruna today. A total of 11 for the day and 6691 the trip. A grand total of 16,659 caches. TFTC

TFTC. Bit warm today

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A quick find on hot morning while camped nearby,T.F.T.C

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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 20 caches found in the honouring of the wandering heroes trail and thanks to the CO's who have acknowledged their friends on this amazing trail.
Thanks for this one Team Robins

Heading to the Rivereland with LiB to catch up with fellow Geo-buddies for a spot of caching...
Nearing my 10,000 find I had to get a few quick ones before reaching this significant milestone...
Thanks Team Robins for honouring this worthy caching team as Wandering Heroes

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.
All the caches were found successfully and in good condition.
Thanks to all the cache owners and congratulations to the heroes.

Doing more wandering trail with geodog tonka
TFTC

Summerbub 1/8/19

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.

Thanks for this cache, and it didn't take long to find. Cache and contents were in good shape, cheers Team Robins.

Jo and Brett are awesome. Jo is one of the loveliest women I have ever met. So thrilled that I've had the opportunity to spend some time with you (thanks Team Crackers and micaparamedic). 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 Team Robins! [^]

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

Found It!
I've seen that name around the place but I don't think I've meet them in person yet...
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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 Team Robins.

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.
Disappointing to find so many of the caches along this trail are now sun-baked broken containers with soaked logs.

We really enjoyed the drive around and thanks for putting this cache out for us to find today.
SL

Found today on our way home from holidays in Adelaide. 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 again Team Robins.

TFTC

Gotcha !!! TFTC

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

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one of the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH Team Robins [^]

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.

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

Out with mogni and Aussie M&M on a maintainance run along the Wandering Heroes Trail. Another Maintenance car with CPwanderer and Gizmo's Gang also out and about. Of course we had to pick up a few that we hadn't done also.
Another worthy team of heroes for the trail.
Thanks Team Robins for the cache.

Out with brisal5 and Aussie Mary collecting a few smilies and doing some much needed maintenance. I had a great day and enjoyed finding a few of the tributes that had been quite personalised as a tribute to fantastic geocaches in our community.
Thank you to all who have contributed to this great series.

TFTC

Found on Caching Road Trip Easter Saturday 2017. TFTC!

Find No: 5636. On the way from Newcastle to Alice Springs, staying in Loxton, so far so good, thanks for the cache Team Robins!!

Got it

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
It is interesting reading about the cachers on the trail!! Wow 9000 is a lot of finds!
TFTC Team Robins - 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.

We decided to choose a selection of Wandering Heroes caches, while leaving some to came back for at another time. This cache was another nice, easy find and after completing the duties, we were soon on our way. Thank you to Team Robins for this cache in the series.

Another weekend, another foray into Wandering Hero territory. We got of to a slower start than normal thanks to a flat battery. Luckily our local roadside assistance are nearby and were quick to respond and get us going. We then made a detour to purchase a new battery before we could head out in search of a cache or two for International Geocaching Day.

We ended up with a total of 26 finds, which included a couple of non-heroes.

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 Team Robins

I found the cache out in the open. Appears to have teeth marks, but minimal damage. However, you might want to inspect for waterproofness. TFTC Team Robins.

Tftc. Quick stop on the road side

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

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.

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Decided to grab a few extra caches on our way home after a lovely break in the Riverland. 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 Team Robins 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

Travelling from Loxton to Tailem Bend, picking up caches along the way.
We picked up 22 Wandering Heroes, that weren't there on our last visit.

Stopped here, to do some maintenance, and at remove one of the containers.
Not sure how or when, 1 turned onto 2, but it seems to have confused a few teams.

Put some black tape on the brown container, & made a cairn to protect it from the sun.
Added a few more horses.
All good to go - happy caching.

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 Team Robins

Decided to grab a few caches while in the area. We also found both the caches here, a grey one and a yellow one, we signed both a little confused though
TFTC

2x ???

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. Signed both log books here but only claiming one find

Thanks for this one (these two?) Team Robins

Signed the log referring to The Drovers Thanks 4TC:)

16th for the day TFTC

5620

On way to Murray Bridge to stay there for 3 nights
Found it
Thanks Team Robins

I think there are 2 in one spot.

There are two containers here complete with log book. One is a square fruit container and the other is a typical Robbins yellow tube painted black. We signed both just in case. We thought that we may find a cache down the line that was missing, but no. So am not at all sure why there are two here.

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

family day out Geocaching not one of the best days cold and windy but best keep the CatKids happy TFTC

we found two caches here in the same spot ? we only logged one of them probably should've logged both but a bit confused with this situation.

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 Team Robins

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 Team Robins

Out today for some more Wandering Heroes, starting to regret not being out here for over three years.
When will I make and end ?
Had just returned first cache to it's spot when spotted a second within a meter. So got to put my name in another log as well [?]
Many thanks to CP for this excellent series
and thanks for this contribution from Team Robins.

Thanks for a nice easy cache, love them!

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 didn't do yesterday and also a few others caches along the way.

Had another very good day and had no problems with finding any of the caches.

Thanks Team Robins for the cache.

Must have been a good wheat harvest here for the stubble to be left this long. Easy find TFTC

Enjoying travelling around the area finding places of interest and caches
TFTC

A little different from the previous cache but quickly found by the Sushilord, Doctor Owl and Aussie Mary team. TFTC.

Sneaky, very sneaky, but the gang still found it.