Wandering Heroes ... TheCatBandits Pata, South Australia, Australia
By CPwanderer on 09-Aug-17. Waypoint GC7AA9H

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 # 15777Been 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 CPwanderer

Wandering Heroes - TheCatBandits, love hearing about other cachers profiles and of course an aptly decorated CPwanderer cache Tftc

We stayed at Berri for a few days R&R and, of course, found some smileysTFTC

Too snakey. Saw two bobbies and one snake today.
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.

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

This was an interesting cache! Suddenly the road is busy when you are jumping from tree to tree, just like a cat. TFTC CPWanderer, this cache is in good condition!

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.

Southern Autumn adventure Day 16. Post Mega South East SA trip Day 10. Having mostly finished around Tailem Bend, we were traveling to Loxton today. Before we left we went out and did a bit of the Wandering Heroes trail, just so we did not get to Loxton too early. That was not really a problem, with plenty of single caches and a few interesting ones to be found along the way at Karoonda, Borrika and Alawoona. Today's group is Fitzy_195, MinnieK and albida33 and logs were signed F.A.M. or similar.

Thanks for the cache CPwanderer

41689.29 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & February 2017 Geocaching Love A#357

**Albida**

31,337. 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 CP !!

Found it

Slowly making our way home after a few days in the riverland. TFTC!

Found by Mary and David at 15:05. Finally the rain has stopped. Not much fun caching with umbrellas. Dropped off "Travel Racer Formula" TB. Our thanks to CPwanderer.

Another cache find on our 2022 South Australian Adventure. It is a wonderful day, just perfect for geocaching.

Today it's off to visit a few more Wandering Heroes with some outstanding cache containers. We are enjoying our time travelling SA. Fantastic towns, ruins, beaches and cliffs & wine. Thanks to all the COs for taking us on this geo-guided tour.

TheCatBandits - wow, good to see you are on the trail.

This was found on part of an 8 EVENT MADNESS in 3 state trip with four-fun. We cached, we kept hydrated, labbed, swagged and we paddled. Most of all we met lots of people an made new friends.

Thanks to CPwanderer and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^]

On the way to the riverland for a weekend of Event Madness
Had to stop and find a few caches along the way of course!
This was one of those fun finds [^]
Cheers and TFTC

cache found easily as it was in the open, some slight damage showed where it should have been so this is where we placed it

Back on the highway to update my "found" collection of the interesting wandering heroes series. Thanks CP.

TFTC CPwanderer. 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 13346

as we have a look around the area this was one of the caches we found

A good day was had while grabbing these caches
Thanks CPwanderer for placing them

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 CPwanderer.

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.

Out for a Sunday drive with the JAMS team plus one. JJ52, allisterW, mogni, sir_spectre and tallbike stan. We were targtting the last of the wandering heroes and then doing a few others along the way. Any caches that needed maintence were fixed along the way.
Thanks to CPwanderer from mogni

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 CPwanderer.

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.
Cute hide TFTC CP

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

TFTC

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 Wandering Heros series CPwanderer

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

Visiting Loxton, and picking up a few more of the Wandering Heroes series.

It's good to see some maintenance done, but still many containers are in need of maintenance or replacing. We signed the log, and replaced as found.

Many thanks for placing this cache, CPwanderer, for us and others to find.

Today our plan was to get the Adventure lab in Loxton and a few surroung caches before heading to the Wandering heroes Fishy trail. That plan soon changed once we met Locus cache as she said there is a few FTFs up for grabs so off we went.

A bunch of misfit geocachers decided to tackle the On your bike series and what ever other caches we passed, Today our team changed to the Knackered Rex for the fishy tail series or RSB for any other caches.

Left Adelaide at 4pm and arrived at our accommodation in Loxton where we are staying for 2 nights just after 7pm.

Tftc CPwanderer

Found while out on our last day of our weekend away in loxton with Rodney and Briana

It was fun

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.
TFTC

Really enjoying the variety to containers and the effort that have gone into them. 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 CPwanderer

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
Watch for the barbed wire in the grass

Thanks for hiding this cache CPwanderer

Day 375 ( Monday 7th ) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Paruna today. TFTC

TFTC

Tftc so cute

Now in Loxton sitting tight to ride out Covid-19 today we headed out to get some exercise. Self Isolation was fine as we didnt see a soul all day!

TFTC

Mini Greeno's and Mr Greeno were going stir crazy after being cooped up in the house and needed to get out for a drive. Mrs Greeno suggested we do some of the Wandering Heroes caches as we hadn't headed out that way for a long time - plus it meant we could still maintain social distancing by avoiding other people and townships!
This was a quick and easy find by Mr 8. Mr Greeno actually works with Mr TheCatBandits so it was a good cache to find! Thanks for placing and maintaining CPwanderer!

11:05
Based in Loxton for a few days, gave us the perfect opportunity for a maintenance check on our Wandering Heroes cache. Of course a number of little green icons kept popping up on our map calling out for us to stop and visit as we drove the Karoonda!
Very simple, very clever - A FP from us today.

Our thanks to 'CPwanderer' for placing this cache for us to find.
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*This log composed and published using Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK).**

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

Had been to Loxton for the first FTF of the month and decided that the long way home would be down the Wandering Heroes trail, trying to get the series up to date for only my second time.
One down, 9 to go.
My apology to the CO and cacher honoured for the template log, english expression was not my favourite subject.
Thanks CPwanderer for the cache and CPwanderer for the series

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.

This was one of about 25 finds that 6hinemoa2 and I found on this trail this afternoon. All caches in good order and thanks to all CO's for placing.

Catching up with very late logs.

We were coming back from Western Australia trying to again finish this series which we have now completed three times but it just keeps growing and growing.
There were two puzzles that we hadn't solved and one out of our terrain ability at the moment so we weren't to finish it this trip but we enjoyed visiting each of the wandering heroes.

We don't think that we have had the pleasure of meeting of meeting TheCatBandits nor have we found any of their caches

Many thanks CPwanderer for the cache and also for starting this trail.

After a very quiet night free camping on our own, our journey today continued with ilook4geo. Heading further north we picked up some caches along the way. Time to fill in a few names in the Wandering Heroes series that were not completed some time ago. Container and contents were in good nick. Thanks go to CPwanderer for placing this cache.

Travelling along with goingplaces2 and heading for more caches as we go. Picked out a few Wandering Heroes to look for. Time here for a break and a quick find as well. Log was signed, all was returned to place, job done! TFTC.

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. One of the creative hides that we found during this section, and grabbed the TB out of this one, thanks CPwanderer.

This is not a team I am familiar, but congrats on 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 CPwanderer! [^]

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 with Davidwazza, GoodLook and gridge98 on a mission to tackle the Wandering Heroes Trail with each of us in various stages of 'completion'. Started at Loxton and worked back towards Karoonda replacing a few soggy log books and damaged containers along the way. Also took the opportunity to detour off the series to locate other nearby caches, resulting in a very entertaining and rewarding day's caching. Thanks for the cache CPwanderer!

Family day out on this cold and wet day but beats being stuck inside stopped here to drop off a Trackable we've had for way to long to continue its travels thought why not drop it in our heroes cache

Out doing some maintenance and picked up a smiley on this well-sized cache along the way. Cache 2913.

What a cutey.
TFtC

We enjoyed the addition to the lid of this cache as Dennis wrote in the log the eyes appeared to be watching him. SL TFTC

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. I was back to the main highway heading south here so stopped off for this one. A good variety of containers and hide styles and I was pleased to make a quick find 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 CPwanderer.

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

Day 1 of the trek to Barcaldine Qld for the Queensland Outback Geocaching Muster, grabbing caches along the way. Weather started warm but dropped 10 degrees and started pouring from the border almost all the way to Mildura. Caught up with honeysucker for a couple of days. TFTC.

After a very uncomfortable night sleeping in the car, we made an early start today. With our next milestone in sight Mr Emily and son came up to grab some caches for numbers and to make it easier when we finally finish this trail. Its nice that every cache is different here. TFTC

Headed towards Berri for an evening event celebrating moneydork turning 15, so took this opportunity to find any Wandering Heroes caches and a bunch of others along the way.
The day started with hail, then rain, some sunshine, icy cold winds, more rain, clear skies and finally a chilly night.

TFTC

Found with 3LG as we cached the Karoonda rd today
. Cache was in good condition. TFTC

After staying in Pinnaroo overnight, we headed to Blanchetown via Alawoona. This was one of the caches along the way.

. Accurate coordinates led to a quick find of a novel and very appropriate cache, the detail of which only becoming apparent when the cache container was opened. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks CPWanderer for the cache.

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 CPwanderer.

Another quick find on this trail...
Removed the vegetable peeler to save a cacher's fingers!
Thanks

Gotcha !!! TFTC

Getting a few caches in the area. I realised on this trip I must be spoiled for scenery in nz. Have done caching in area before so cleaning up a few more. There were too many friendly flies about today. TFTC

TFTC

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one of the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH CPwanderer [^]

A weekend of caching with Freddo through the Mallee and Riverland.

Nice cache.

TFTC

Have not met this caching team. Nice cache.

I completely forgot that I beta tested this cache on one of many WH cache maintenance trips with the CO.
Quickly recognised the located & asked hevwalker to check the log book.
As I suspected, my name was at the back of the book.
An amusing critter, thanks for the cache CPWanderer

On my way to the Riverland for a big caching day with the CO & clare007...
CP was nice enough to stop allowing me to grab this cache...
clare007 was already in the logbook but she enjoyed the revisit...
A cute critter inside...
TFTC CPwanderer

A quick find. TFTC

A crazy one day road trip with Sebastbat , where we claimed three firsts on WH caches for the team,
visited a few other special caches along the way, showed incredible self control by driving past hundreds,
and "leaving them for later!", and even snuck our way into Mexico for a few in the bush!

We happened to stop for this one! Thanks for all the caching fun times CPwanderer

Gets a Fav for the Cat. Yes. I might be biased

As I'm now 3 months behind in my logging I am desperately trying to catch up and am mass logging to do so.

Staying with Mr and Mrs Moneydork for Christmas along with SEMIK and having a wonderfully relaxing time with awesome company [^][:X]
Today's outing led to 11 cache finds and 1 DNF on KiwiOzzie's cache which sucked as she is so much fun!
I met this team very recently, at The Jinker

TNLN. SL. TFTC CPwanderer

funny prop to personalise the cache. Sadly missed the opportunity to meet this clan of cachers, maybe some other time. Thanks heaps, CP!

Heading up to Berri for the xmas event and made the opportunity to pick up the new WH caches, another quick find and on to find a few of their caches this weekend as well
TFTC CPwanderer

Picking up a few along this trail while heading north. A nice easy find with a cute critter inside.

Thanks for the cache CPwanderer. Found on 22 Dec 2017 at 2:17 pm. Find #5556.

A nice easy find on our way to the Riverland
TFTC CPwanderer. Found on 22 Dec 2017 at 2:18 pm. Find # 2193

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.

**# 19777** Found on the SA leg of our 2017 escape trip.
A perfect Spring day for a drive around more Wandering Heroes near Loxton with Tassie Trekkers.
Not many muggles around here today, and mostly good quick finds.
Thanks for the cache CPwanderer,
***Roostaman***

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.

I love the eyes

Our first cache find for the day.

Parked in the suggested location and made our way to GZ. Easily located a nice sized cache.
Loved the decoration.

Congratulations on your Wandering Hero status!!

Took travel express tag to continue its journey.

TFTC CPwanderer

OMG what an honour to have our little family team immortalised with our very own Wandering Heroes. When the kids finish school we are on a mission to claim FTF I cant wait the kids are going to be so excited

FTF @4:15pm WooooHoooooo car fuelled up hubby finished work waited for the kids to finish school and off we went they where so excited to have their very own Wandering Hero cache. Thank you CP you made 4 kids very happy we are very honoured to be part of this series, we left 2 TB's to further there travels TFTC
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