Wandering Heroes Detour ... JJ52 Karoonda, South Australia, Australia
By Ismartis on 26-Mar-14. Waypoint GC513EF

Continuing along the WH series, have met JJ52 at a couple of events and yes she is very enthusiastic Tftc

Out with weredunn4 in the Karoonda area continuing our effort to collect the Wandering Heroes caches plus others we come across.Slowly but surely we are inching our way along this very long power trail.All logs signed or stamped, and maintenance where possible and if required.TFTC

Tackling the Wandering Heroes series again, and surrounding caches, with Cheezel1961. All caches found and stamped. Really enjoying this series and a massive thanks too all those who created and maintain this unique trail.

We enjoyed a few days away from home, enjoying the scenery, the people we met and, of course, finding cachesThanks to all who made this and enjoyable week.

Day three of tackling this series. Nearly gave up yesterday as scrub very hard to negotiate and caches small and hard to locate. Today was so much better. Big black plastic tubs, ammo tins and buckets. Some are brittle but so much more fun if you can find them without tramping under, over thick matter. Thank you for the change. Hope it continues from now on. We enjoyed today. Found 70 and 6 dnf. Thank you everyone.

Out for a quick cache session in this area of the Wandering Hero trail. TFTC Ismartis, really loved the 'guardian'.

On my way down to Murray Bridge getting more of the Wandering heroes trail that have appeared since I was here last. Staying in Karoonda tonight.

TFTC Ismartis.We are overnighting in Karoonda. After setting up and lunch we headed out, first around town with the Adventure Lab and some others in town,. The we headed out of town to attempt some of the Wandering Heroes Trail. We found 22 of them before calling it a day.
Cache count # 13436

The kids liked the handle

Borders are open (sorta) and Christmas is fast approaching so this can only mean one thing, WATBAC returns to SA to spend time with family and friends. This can also only mean one thing, that a caching day out with my geomum, Doctor Owl, was long overdue and very much needed (because apparently I am not great at finding time to go caching otherwise). So I sent a text to let Doctor Owl know that I was in town and Doctor Owl let me know that she had some maintenance to do on some of her Wandering Heroes caches. Perfect, there are a lot of them that I haven't done (in that I had previously only done about 10). So off we went...

Upon looking at my profile when we started today, I noticed that I was only 25 caches away from 700 finds. I mentioned this to Doctor Owl, as it seemed like a reasonable amount to get in the day (and definitely not an uncommon number of finds for the day when we go caching and especially with something like Wandering Heroes at our disposal). After doing a lot of the caches in Karoonda, I noted that the next one would be my 700th and Doctor Owl said that we really had to make sure it was a good cache for my 700th. It was at this point that we also decided that we were in desperate need of lunch and a cold drink. This also gave us the perfect time to sit down and work out a good cache to get. Being near the Wandering Heroes ones, it made sense to be one of them. The next question was 'well which one? who?'. It was quickly concluded that it should really be someone that I had met/knew - which admittedly made it quite a short list, quite quickly. Working my way along the direction that we were planning to travel in and this one was the first one that I came across of a cacher that I had met. I have met JJ52 a few times, but the main one was the 2013 Mega, where 14 year old me spent the day caching with Doctor Owl, Ismartis, and JJ52 (and CPWanderer for some time).
After having lunch at the Karoonda Bakery and Cafe (which was very nice) we soon arrived at GZ and I went to look while Doctor Owl prepared the cameras. "I see it," I say "but I need to get to the other side of the tree" (that was a trend for the day, to be honest). A very cute cache guardian - which I initially accidentally called a dinosaur (sorry) and Doctor Owl took photos for Facebook. The photo instructions were to 'look impressed and impressive'. TFTC.

Found during a circuit from home, through Murray Bridge to Karoonda and Sherlock and back along the backroads near Tailem Bend. Thanks for the cache Ismartis!

Cheers!

Found out geocaching with friends as mystery randoms

I have had many enjoyable caching adventures with JJ52 including today. Caching with the JAMS crew finding Wandering Heroes caches. We ended up finding over 300 and hiding 2 more. We replaced a lot of containers that were broken. We had a few showers of rain early which were getting us wet but they didn't last too long and it ended up being a nice day. Thanks to all the cache owners for placing the caches.

Thank you for this great trail. It's another lovely morning for caching. TFTC

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.
TFTC

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 320 ( Tuesday 14th ) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Karoonda today. A total of 20 for the day and 6269 the trip. TFTC

Generic log:
After doing a good section of the Wandering Heroes series yesterday I decided to come back today and complete more of it. All caches were found in good condition on an enjoyable day, despite the weather pushing 40 degrees.

TFTC

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Great day out having fun with Granny.

I love your dinosaur. TFTC

A quick find while staying in Karoonda for a few days.TFTC

Hi there Ismartis.

We found your cache **"WH Detour ... JJ52"** today. (This makes our find count 21723).

Today we headed out from Wellington to attempt the Wandering Heroes series caches we haven't yet done, as well as any others we came across on our travels.. We thoroughly enjoyed today's cache finds, but please excuse our boilerplate logs - we know it's not really a good excuse, but we find it difficult to craft individual logs when we attempt so many similar caches in a day. [:(!]

We found 49 caches today & DNF'd 0. Thanks for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found most caches within a few metres of where our GPS said we should be looking. [:(!] (We did have to look a little further afield for some though). [:(!]
**Cache Condition:** The containers and log books were mostly in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Smiley Badge in the majority of caches.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny

The caching numbers continue to grow while out hunting with goingplaces2. The Wandering Heroes series was today's job, as well as some others and there were still plenty to find. Thank you to each CO for their contribution to the caching game. It's lots of fun.

This was another day with ilook4geo and chasing those Wandering Heroes. It was a very assorted as far as containers and logs go. Some were in excellent condition and some containers had almost totally disintegrated. Most were somewhere between these extremes.
Each found log had two more lots of initials added somewhere on its pages before we headed off again. Thank you to Ismartis for adding this cache to the series.

found with jacknor. Came up today to find my newly published wandering hero's cache and stop at the puzzles and if time do the multi's as well. At least the dust storm has finally stopped now and the thunder storm has yet to start. quick find. I have cached with jj52 many times and even hiked around black hill with her. She also have helped me solve many a puzzle.

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. quick find.

A great day out with GoodLook collecting more of the wandering heroes that we didn’t collect 2 weeks ago. Overall we found majority of the caches in good quality and had to replaced 1 with the CO permission.
Signed all log books with the fabulous randoms stamp.
TFTC to all the CO for the placement of the caches

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 placement

Second full day on the Wandering Heroes trail with woolwood9 today.
Enjoyed getting some more of them found.

Soon located this one, thanks for putting this cache out.
SL

A lovely hero...thanks Ismartis for placing this cache in her honour.

Great drive along this quiet road, plenty of wildlife to keep us company. TFTC

After stopping at Karoonda for breakfast, we decided to push on as rain showers pass constantly. Thanks to the CO for the placement here, a nice easy find was made.

TFTC

Quick find

A quick find love the cache guardian tftc

Fount it.

Escaped for a caching afternoon with Purrfect Di.
We thought we'd have a nice drive, get away from home and clean up some further afield.
With a late start it wasn't big numbers, but quality instead
This was an odd one, as I found in my own writing both my name and Froghoppin from 5 Jun 2015 !!!!
Seems I'd been here before so this time I'll log it
Thanks Ismartis for placing this cache and for leading us here for another fun smiley

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one of the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH Ismartis [^]

Found it today

At the beginning of our annual geoholiday and glad to be back on the trail. Quick find. TFTC

Out for the day finding Wandering Heroes and any other caches nearby [8].
Another great theme cache . TNLNSL.
Thanks again Ismartis.

Today we explored Karoonda and surrounds using Geocaching as a guide and picking up a few caches on the way with Roostaman and this was one of them. An easy find at GZ.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

I have really enjoyed getting to spend time with Jude over the last nearly 2 years, such a lovely person.

Found whilst on the Fabulously Random caching trip [^] Feathertop and I have spent the last 10 days together from St Arnaud to the Yorke Peninsula, Balaklava and all the way to Murray Bridge and Karoonda.

Today it was sunny, windy, raining and we even got pelted with hail several time whilst we focussed on the GEOPETS series - LOVED IT!, the nearby fantastic OTD series, a number of Wandering Heroes and some random caches - I was exhausted by the time I rolled into bed, but what a fantastic day we had.

Please note: our combined team name today was "Fabulous Randoms" and that is how the 'millions' of log books have been stamped (bar a few with our actual caching names in them).

Thanks so much for the cache Ismartis!

What a difference a day makes!
Yesterday it was hot and windy, today cloudy skies rain and hail!
Goodlook and I made our way to do about 40 of the Wandering Heroes caches that have cropped up since my last visit up here about 3 years ago.
Some of the containers are showing their age others endure well.
Still mindful of widlife when I spotted an enourmous dead snake beside the road later on.
Thanks to all the cache owners who continue to populate this trail

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

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

I was in Adelaide for work and decided I needed to assist in the maintenance of the numerous caches along the trail. With the assistance and good company of brisal5 and Aussie Mary we wandered down the road. Of course there are still so many to find as well.
Thank you for placing this cache.

When I approached GZ to grab me the find I had to stop for a bit to see if the cache guardian was actually a real one lol . A nice sized cache loaded with lots of quality swag. There was one piece of swag within that made me laugh SL at 15:12 on Sat 11 Feb 2017. Cache and contents are all good and dry [^] TFTC Ismartis

The Mule and I came our to get our WH caches, and as we were in the area, decided to get some more . Have been caching a few times with JJ52 so this cache was a must find while we were in the area TFTC 1/02/2017 8:06 pm Find #1957

While KiwiOzzie and I were in the area getting the finds on the caches dedicated to us, there were a few other friendly caching names popping up on the map we needed to visit. This was one of them.

JJ53 is one of one our fellow Southern Suburbs catchers. She's always up for a bit of caching and a pleasure to cache with. So much so, we've planned a caching adventure with her this coming weekend.

Thanks for the cache Ismartis. Found on 1 Feb 2017 at 8:07 pm. Find #3817.

TFTC Ismartis

We found this cache today at 10:47am as number 2 of 65 on our Karoonda Road Run V.

Run I - 27/9/2008 - Well before Wandering Heroes and yielded just 11 caches.
Run II - 29/9/2008 - Final 6 caches taking out some friends to see geocaching
Run III - 28/12/2012 - 160 Caches Loxton to Karoonda, then back from from Tailem Bend end
Run IV - 28/12/2015 - 161 Caches completing the series as it was from Murray Bridge to Karoonda
Run V - 30/12/2016 - 65 Caches Karoonda to Veitch

Onto yonder dirt road. Thanks from D & H B-A.

Spending a couple of days in Karoonda grabbing a few more of the Wandering Heroes trail.
Cache all good.

Easy

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

Quick and easy find.
Found cache while riding home from the Border Track.
TFTC!

Another weekend and Mrs Gizmo was once again dragging the male team members out caching.
Having recently completed OTD May and the Oz Mega & Signal geo art, she now has her sights set on the Wandering Heroes.

Today we drove to Karoonda with the aim of filling in some gaps in our Wandering Heroes map and also finding some other nearby caches.

Mrs Gizmo was determined to tackle this Wandering Heroes Detour before the day's end, despite the vampire's protests after being awake for more than 24 hours.

We always enjoy finding caches in this series. The hides are all so unique in representing the honoured team.

TFTC Ismartis

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!

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

A quick trip to Adelaide provided another great opportunity to pick-up caches every chance we could all the way over and back . Many thanks to Ismartis for the cache TNLN TFTC SL.

A trip to Adelaide had Slink1 and I caching all the way every chance we had there and back . Many thanks to Ismartis for the cache TNLN TFTC SL.

Time 9:42:00 AM
Cache # 120 of 221 for this long weekend.

The Parrot was on a roll to try and get closer to the 10, 000 mark as this last 500 seems to be taking forever.
Unfortunately the knee didn't hold out and I had to retire from the field.
If you have stitches in your knee you really should cover them over before pushing though bushes.

I had a fantastic time cashing down some trails that have been in GSAK for far to log,

I worked on the Oz Mega, OTD, Geopets and Wandering heroes series over 2 days.

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 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 Ismartis

Was out doing cache maintenance with CP, Clare and brisal5. Thought I had logged all of these caches but I was mistaken. Sorry for late log Martina.

Time for a cache maintenance run along the wandering heroes trail in cahoots with Aussie M&M, CP Wanderer and Clare007. That also meant stopping for a few newer ones that had sprung up since I last cleared it out. [^]
Quick detour to grab this one whilst on other secret caching business! Thanks for adding to the series Ismartis.

Cache maintenance run with CPWanderer, Brisal5 & Aussie M&M.
A quick find on a little detour from the main road.
Thanks for the cache Ismartis

On a WH mission today to try to get to 100 caches for the day. Stupidly I forgot sunscreen so was getting scorched along the journey. Drank about 5 litres of water and found 103 caches. If I'd had a co-driver could have found alot more but alas not he was harvesting. Enjoyed listening to the cds I got for Christmas on the 5 hour return trip to get to/from Tailem Bend from Naracoorte. TFTC and apologies for the generic logs.

Happy Halloween TheCatBandits out cache trick or treating. Found cache no worries loved these character caches today so much fun to find TFTC and that's us done for today getting late found 73 in total time to head home Great day.

Quick find on a mission to find as many caches as we could in a day. We found 112. Thanks to everyone for hiding caches we found. Sorry for the copied logs.
TFTC

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 Ismartis

One of a few found today while out on a Wandering Heroes mission.
Great series, thanks CP, love reading about the teams honoured when doing the logging.
Thanks for this contribution from Ismartis

Cache is in good condition, snug and dry with the decoration looking fine! Quick find along the Stoney detour! #2176.

Tftc found with polkys quest

Found with auzzie convict tftc

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 Ismartis for the cache.

Project “Centroid” was on. 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.
Today was a wandering heroes day until we had to head into Murray Bridge to pickup some replacement caches from the CO to replace a number of the Oz Mega series that are missing which we will fix up tomorrow.
Thanks for the cache, the hunt and the fun.

Spiffy- and I were on a project to get 500 caches in 4 days that were over 100km from our home locations. I reallly enjoyed this series and the themed hides. Great idea and a nice tribute to all the cachers. With each cache we would recall if we had met them at events and what caches they owned. A long and tiring but very enjoyable day. Thanks 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 15:32 with Southern Cross Caching.

Great spot

Found the dinosaur!!

Found during an epic Australia Day long weekend of caching road trip through Victoria and South Australia.

TNLN, thanks Ismartis.

TFTC

Came to repair my cache and took the opportunity (as you would) to "mop up" some more of the WH caches (popping up like mushrooms after rain) and ended up in Loxton. That took best part of the day ... and then the drive home via the hills. Beautiful day for caching and enjoying the country side and, of course, stopping at the bakeries. Thanks Ismartis.

Mr M-SEZ & geo boy are out caching with ma77hew from ma77hew & kay. We cleaned up most of the back end of the Wandering Heroes series and the loose ones in between, but then it started belting down with rain when we had only 4 to go! Sounds like an excuse to come back another day.

Thanks to all the cache owners who took the time to hide these caches, and congratulations to those who were lucky enough to have a cache dedicated to them. TFTC

Found with M-SEZ while attacking the Wandering Heroes series. While the girls were at home having a Tupperware party, the boys hit the road for a Sistema party.

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

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.

Another nice hide thanks Ismartis and our geodaughter who had been caching with us all day was delighted to score a pathtag from this hide[^]

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 !!

out on a run to clean up the wandering heroes series before we move and have an enjoyable weekend


thanks to Ismartis for putting this cache out for us to find

A weekend of caching with Freddo, Astro and Four Fun.

A top weekend was had.

Thanks to all.

TFTC

Hi the JJ - thanks for your paff line the other night

Found with the WAFF group - teams [blue] Waldron & Astro, four-fun and Freddo [/blue] on a weekend full of fun, dust, plastic, and clear blue skies. The boys used their combined geo-skills to locate and carefully replace this cache and some of the others nearby.

Thanks to Ismartis and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Out for the weekend with Freddo, Astro & Team Waldron
This was one of the many fun caches we found over the two days of glorious sunshine and many kilometers [^]
Cheers & TFTH

Great work on solving some fun puzzles.
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This cache was found using a Garmin Montana 650t. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK 8.

Relogging this under individual account, previously a member of Gaz'n'Kab account.

Previously logged under a team account. Re-logging with my individual account.

We headed down to South Australia for a few days of caching, and the Wandering Heroes series was next up on our list, with a few other caches in between We started off nicely and early today before hitting the trails, and after a slow start, we soon picked up the pace, and were on a roll Many of the them were quite unique, and as most had good hints and obvious hides, we managed to get them knocked off quickly We enjoyed these caches, as they were all pretty straight forward, and it never took long to find each cache We managed to finish off the day with only a few dnf's too



TFTC Ismartis



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Coming back to the Wandering Heroes is now a permanent fixture on the itinerary for each of our visits to South Australia. The series is so dynamic with a significant number of caches being added between each of our visits. We have learnt so much about other cachers. Thanks CPwanderer for starting this series and for your ongoing oversight and support.

JJ52 is another geocacher we have yet to meet. Research shows that like many others, she is clearly addicted having found over 1300 caches since starting her journey in March 2013. She has found caches in all the eastern states of Australia and, with her enthusiasm, she should have many adventures and make many caching friends over the years to come. Our thanks to ISmartics for introducing your friend JJ52.

Accurate coordinates led to a quick find of this very good cache. We enjoyed meeting the cache guardian. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks for the cache Ismartis.