Emu Plains Werrimull, Victoria, Australia
By honeysucker on 04-Dec-18. Waypoint GC8118W

My first solo caching trip. A long one down the entire length of the Sturt Highway. TFTC

A quick stop on our way from Renmark to Mildura, didn't see any emus near here but did see some closer to Renmark. TFTC

We didn't get to stop as there was nowhere suitable to park with the van, but we loved the concept of this cache and our looking meant we got to see a group of 13 emus a couple of k's toward Renmark from here. We also sadly noticed one had perished on the road.Thank you so much for this cache, our whole family loved it.

Been past this one too often.Decided today it needed to be found. TFTC SL

Not a Emu in sight but our name is in the log TFTC

TFTC

Great hiding place No Emus today

FoundThank you for the cache

Found

Quick stop and a easy find

TFTC a nice easy fint, we parked about 70m past the cache in a very good little spot and jogged back to log it. A fun excuse to give our legs a big stretch.

Found with O319 on our way west

Quick find with SJG66 TFTC

Found on our way back from the Flinders Ranges to Melbourne. Of course we had to do this cache - sadly no real emus at GC, so we only took a pic of our travel companion Emu. TFTC

Travelling from Renmark to Mildura today and caching along the highway and roads. Found the cache and signed the log. TFTC

Today saw us firstly finding a few caches around Renmark before we headed east to Mildura - our next port of call as we make our way from Adelaide to Canberra. Also collected most of the caches along the Sturt Highway. Thanks to the COs for the placement of the caches - it is much appreciated.

TFTC honeysucker your cache Emu Plains that we found today. Moving day from Paringa to Euston, via Mildura to pick up the AL point for the Lab between Adelaide and Canberra. Stopped to pick up a cache in several spots. This was one of them.Find Count: 19088

Day 14 of my Leap Year Mega trip. Today the 2 day return journey begins. Found with Nibletricecakes. TFTC.

We saw a number of emus on our travels today. So cool!! .Day 14 of our Great Leap Forward leap year Mega trip of 2024. Caching today with GLISS! Always wonderful to be travelling across the country enjoying the amazing scenery and caching along the way. Main focus for this trip has been to tidy up the last couple of counties needed in Victoria and make a serious dent in the South Australian ones. Plus a few days in Adelaide enjoying the mega fun. A hot dry trip this time around. Thanks to all the COs for placing and maintaining these caches so we can enjoy the game.

I was starting to get quite sad by the time I arrived at this geocache. Which doesn't make sense because my plan was going very well! Let me explain.My plan today was bold and exciting but seemingly simple. On my first trip to South Australia, I wanted to visit MacCabe Corner. But then to be clever I pondered if I could also do a lap around and visit all three states more broadly in the same day. A "Corner and a Loop" I called it. So this morning, I left Renmark and had successfully hiked to the corner and was a very happy boy.But during my planning, I noticed the first crossing of the Murray to the east is almost at Mildura. Well, fine then, we're going almost to Mildura before heading through Wentworth and west to eventually drop back down into Renmark.Happy in my morning, I now needed to put some kilometres behind me and enjoy the very fast and flat bitumen to Mildura, in what feels really quite outback. And that means I can go emu hunting.. with my eyes, that is! It is so rare I see them and this felt like a prime piece of country to see them.Though, I'm almost halfway across and haven't seen a hint of them. Not close, nor far from the road. And worse, I was getting real close to needing a "comfort break". I consulted the map and noticed this geocache. That sounds like it could help my mission. Or more realistically, I thought, it'd be a good place to write about my growing sadness at the disappointment of not seeing emus.Just like most everywhere else along this road, it's easy to pull well off the highway safely. The geocache wason the other side of the highway, but I took a few steps to the north behind a bush to "water the flowers'. I looked up and out there, all across the paddock was a flock of moving dots.Emus. Probably fifty of them! I don't care that they're all the way over there, this counts. I stood and watched them for a while - especially enjoying a couple that took off at top speed to meet back up with the body of the flock.Very happy and Victoria having redeemed itself, I crossed over the road for the geocache. Nothing at all difficult here, and all in good condition. I signed my name and claimed the find at 14:20. Geocache and promised emus. I'm gonna smile my way to Mildura now! Thanks for this geocache, honeysucker

Another nice find with woolwood9 today. ????We are over in Adelaide for the MEGA Event*Thanks for putting this cache out for us to visit.* ????SL *tm/ww NZ*Soon located - along a very long pretty boring road. ????

Found while over for the Mega Event with tmann421Heading inland to get some more of the trails, picking up whatever gets in the way.Enjoyed the hides.Thanks to the cache owners for their efforts

T4T$

On our way to Sydney to await the birth of our 4th grandchild.Set out early,stopped for one in SA, this one in Victoria.Next stop NSWThanks Honeysucker for breaking our drive.

Found by my little boy on way back to Renmark

Back in Victoria after an epic adventure with the Puzzld crew and making my way to Mildura, stopping at various caches on the way. Thanks for your many caches along the way honeysucker. PS too wet for emu spotting today

Nice cache rftc

Heaps of rubbish. Why do people do that? Thank you for the cache.

Quick find by muggle husband before I had even got out of the car. All good and everything dry. TFTC Honeysucker TNLNSL

Not an emu in sight. TFTC

Accompanying All7 crank1 deafphathom everlasting and TFTC

Accompanying ALL7 63ROOS crank1 Deafphathom everlasting and TFTC

Accompany with 63Roo, ALL7, Crank1, DeafPhantom, and Everlasting .
Signed the log as "6ACDE"

Enjoyed myself wandering the country and caches. Thank you for the cache and hunt.
Sorry, copy and paste

Found it
Thank u
Great drive along Sturt Highway

Day 1 of trip to Melbourne for my niece wedding on Saturday. Return home next week via Great Ocean Road. Tftc

A quick sidetrip seeing as it was dry enough to take this track. Dropped a TB off to continue the journey, TFTC

Travelling from Perth to Canberra with lots of side tracks.TFTC.
Very apt to have bits of rubber protecting the cache.

Quick find due to excellent co-ords. Three emus spotted 3 k’s westt of cache. TNLN SL TFTC

Find number 11107 at 12:41:24 pm on Tuesday the 6 September 2022
Continuing our trip from Melbourne to Darwin and back, we are now on our way back home and today we are on our way to Mildura to visit my niece on our last leg of our trip. We are doing a little sightseeing and geocaching along the way.
No emus today but one cache found quickly.
**Thanks for placing this cache honeysucker**

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A lovely sunny day so BettyBoo3747, the geodoggies and I traveled from Lake Boga to Renmark to start our holiday. Collected a few caches on the way when the mood took us, and a couple of AdLabs.
Emus? Not a one did we see!
Nice view across the plains though from here.
A nice break on this road too.
Thanks, Robmc.

#19703. Day 2 of our holiday travelling between Lake Boga and Renmark. Gathered up 16 caches and 2 AdLabs along the journey. A lovely sunny day that got warmer every hour.

No emus seen today unfortunately. The last time we saw one, was our last trip a month ago as we left Patchewollock and a lone emu dashed across the road.

Thanks honeysucker

Another cache find on our 2022 South Australian Adventure, yes I know we have wandered over the border. Never mind, It is a wonderful day and we have joined forces with FelixII so we are off to see what we can find. Thanks to all the COs for taking us on this geo-guided tour.

TB Visited

James0116

Found on our way home from the Tri-State weekend. TFTC

Great hide

Thanks honeysucker for the cache

James0116

Day 3 of my 5 day Geocaching long weekend away. This would be Find Number 6 of 18 for the day.

Only had a few caches to find between Renmark and Mildura so made made sure to stop for this one.

TFTC honeysucker

Day two of the riverland Event Madness trip and naturally we had to stop and find a few caches along the way again!
This was one of those fun finds [^]
Cheers and TFTC honeysucker

Respect. And we did see some emus.

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 honeysucker and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^]

Always nice to stretch your legs as we made the early morning start to reach acommunity event in Wentworth, quick find for us today
TFTC honeysucker

Found It!
A quick find here while on the way to Wentworth for another event.
TFTC

With Mrs one eyed we stopped to find. Some Emus but all we found was a cache no kangas also tftc cheers from one- eyef

Good find to do on a road trip

Staying at nearby caravan park on our maiden voyage with our brand new caravan.
Today we hoped to journey out to McCabes corner, but due to novice issues with the van, Ned's corner is probably as far as we will get after an eary afternoon start on the geotrail.

TFTC honeysucker SL

TFTC! Good find

Tftc

#17968 @0715
Day 4 of a 4 day trip from Canberra to Adelaide and back, chasing windmills, counties, DTs, etc. Today was Renmark to Canberra with just 4 cache finds, each in a different state! Cache easily found. Took TB. TFTC.

Found whilst on a long weekend road trip with heymissjo.

#1306
Heading to the border for three caches in three states whilst on a road trip with The Welder. This was a quick find, but sadly no emus! The views are amazing with the vast landscape and scrub. Thanks for the cache!

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Well despite the driver being anxious about stopping with the Van in tow mission accomplished! No emus today. TFTC AND THE FUN

A nice easy find today.

How cool is this spot!!! I felt like David Attenborough….. oooo in the wild…. And a cache to match. Tftc

I love this part of the road with all the emus out there. I'm pretty happy tat they were all asleep last night when we came through. tftc

Until today Jenno3 had never seen emus in the wild. We saw a couple further back the track, then a few more, then we stopped in here! Hooley Dooley there’s a heap!! Tftc

A quick find here, signed and replaced.

Saw about 6 emus in the paddocks while driving to this cache.

Thank you!

#3837

Day 5 was Port Augusta to Mildura. An early start had me watching the sunrise over The Remarkables. Another amazing day on the road. Thank you!

Tftc!

Cool little place for the cache! Quick find.
TFTC

Yesterday Fitzy_63, Albida33, Minniek, Sol de Lune and I found about 350 of the On Your Bike Series so today we wanted to get back out and find to the end of the series. It was forecast to be even hotter today than yesterday so we decided to head out early. Of course the plan didn't work. We finished early and attacked another group of caches rather than go back to camp early

It was another great day of caching thanks to all the COs and nearly all caches were found to be in good order. Those that weren't will have individual notes added later. Logs were signed FAMSS

Day 6: SA/Vic Christmas holiday trip

Last Christmas holidays, fitzy_1965 and I (along with two geo-kids, Death Killer & my_name_jeff_1) headed to SA to visit family whilst we could, and to collect as many counties and caches as possible along the way. We decided even before getting home that we needed to go back. The added incentive of more On You Bike series sealed the deal. Fast forward through 2021 (because who wants to remember that), and here we are again. This time with extra company in the form of Sol de lune, Smittengranny and albida33.

After an exhausting 5 days in the SA heat, we made the decision to pack up a day early and head back across the border to do the Paddle Steamer series…..and to air conditioned accommodation instead of continuing to camp in tents! We said goodbye to Albida33 who was staying a few more days in SA. Caching along the way, we headed for the series straight up before continuing to our hotel…. Ah luxury!

All caches were signed as FMSS and were found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned.

26,228. Found with minniek, Sol de Lune and Smittengranny during our post Christmas / New Year trip over to South Australia and Victoria to tackle the On Your Bike and Paddle Steamer series among many other caches.

Today we started by heading to the Mildura region to start the Paddle Steamer, and grabbed several others along the way. Signed as FMSS. This was another long hot day.

When minniek and I were in South Australia in January this year (2021) doing the On Your Bike series of (then) 100 Wherigo caches, we were talking to the CO who mentioned that a whole lot more were soon to be published, and they were - 512 more ! So once back home we set about solving all those new ones which was at least something to do during 'stay at home' orders effecting us. Then once they were all solved we planned a trip over to grab them. Then just to add to the fun the latest 152 were published just in time for us to spend time solving them all so we could get the whole set. With our caching friends Sol de Lune, Smittengranny and albida33 this series was our main aim, but with the 'Around the World in 81 caches' series, various solved puzzles and the Paddle Steamer as standby if we got the time.

We managed some BIG days caching and finished off the On Your Bike series in three days, then attempted the mammoth 'Around the World in 81 caches' series and some lovely high/rare D/T caches - all in searing summer heat peaking at over 40 degrees ! Once they were finally completed we headed over to the Mildura region for another two blistering hot days doing the Paddle Steamer series. After camping for five nights we finally relented and got hotel rooms for the last two nights and worked the air conditioning to the bone.

All in all an amazingly fun time was had, and we have all made room in our calendars for when the next part of the On Your Bike series is published - no pressure ! Highlights included many of the fun tree climbs, the pole caches which increased our skills at the recovery and replacements of those styled caches, and the relaxed times and banter around the camp site at the end of each tiring day - including New Years Eve !

Thanks to all the COs for contributing their caches to our fun times, and I must apologise for the generic logs as we did find well over one thousand caches which now require logging !

Found with fitzy_1965, Minniek and Smittengranny while heading towards Mildura after a few hot days around the Loxton area on the On Ya Bike series. No issues with this one and our initials were soon in the log book....as FMSS.

Thanks for another one honeysucker....

We didn’t spot any emus today but we had already seen our fair share in Wyperfeld NP while enjoying an adventurous camping trip over the last 3 days.
Thanks honeysucker for the placement.

I was cruising the unusually empty highway,
eastbound to Mildura this morning
Nothing but trucks to be seen coming the other way !! [:o]
So it was a peaceful search for the Emu's cache

And yes !!
There are emus out here on the plains
Watch out for them on the roadsides as you drive along


TFTC.

We are in our way to Alice Springs to walk the Larapinta Trail and geocaching along the way. Found this one easily. Not emus to be seen.

Found this one with tassie expat while exploring this nice area. Saw the emus, 6 of them feeding within 100 mtrs of the road, but they were certainly camera shy and took off running for their lives. You don't often see emus in the wild. Thanks for the cache.

frmen1 and doing a circuit drive west of Mildura when we saw the emus, grazing in the paddock. Pulled over and then realised that the cache was nearby. A quick find. Alas, those emus can run, thus avoiding any photos. Still great to see emus in the wild. TFTC

Stopping here for a find, adding the LGA to my numbers
Thank you for hiding this geocache honeysucker
Find number 22673
R

TFTC

Emus out here today. We see them all the time when visiting Mark's family in Merbein, as this road leads us always to Merbein. Family visit this last weekend, so this is the only cache visited as we head home for the work week for Mr M. And CFS training for Mrs M.
A pathtag left for another visitor. And a favourite point as we love the Emu Paddock as we refer to it.
Thanks Garry.

With wthcatie

Quick find tyfc.

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.

It was now time to head home after doing numerous trails while in the area a great caching adventure. We picked up numerous on our way home to break up the journey.

Quick find at this one, spotted emus along the journey but not in here.

Thanks for the hide honeysucker and for the fun Rapidlywild

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. With the teams now split and it was back to FurfacesLL and myself, we had heaps to choose from. Today was cleaning up around Loxton and making our way over to Mildura for the night, before making our way back towards Wagga tomorrow.

No issues with the find here, now onto the next find for the day.

Thanks for the hides honeysucker And thanks FurfacesLL for a trip to remember [^].

Away on a week long geo holiday, travelling with GoodLook. Joined forces with other teams to grab the Paddle Steamer Series and Turtle Series and any other caches we had time for.
Many logs were stamped "The Mob" while we cached as a group and at times we stamped individually.
This was one of the caches found while touring around.

TFTC honeysucker

No emus seen today.

Most of the caches are stamped as The Mob (consisting of The Drovers, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, and myself), however a handful contain our own caching names or initials.

2020 was not a great year, and the beginnings of 2021 have also been tricky - so when it looked like the various borders would be open again (without quarantine restrictions), a trip was spontaneously planned and I was able to pull together a number of my caching friends who hadn't cached together before to form "The Mob".

LíB and I started in SA, drove to Victoria and ended our trip in SA; FurfacesLL and Rapidlywild came from Canberra and The Drovers began their journey from NSW; and then a few days later, feathertop from Victoria, joined us to complete the On Your Bike Series and other caches in SA.

We filled our days with piling in cars, hard core caching, Adventure Labs, crazy funny CB radio chatter, some laughter, some tense moments (OMG some of the ladder and tree climbs on this trip were crazy!), lots of lovely meals and even live music from a band called "Kung Fu Jesus" - nope, that is no joke.

We had hot weather each day (well into 30s), so I am thrilled that I now own a car fridge to keep the drinks icy cold (loving them at about 1 degree celcius).

A sincere thanks to honeysucker for placing this cache.

Day 1 in the area, with the main target being the bike series.
This cache was on our way, and we found it hard to resist the stop.
We stamped the log as 'The Mob' to save space and time.
'The Mob' this time included:- GoodLook, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, feathertop
and ourselves.

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

Accurate coordinates led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks honeysucker for the cache. PS No emus seen today.

Traveling back to SA from Mildura, found this cache yesterday. TFTC

Found on a fine warm Autumn day for a country drive.
Not so many muggles around here today.
More good accurate co-ordinates again too.
** NO Emu's today !! **
Thanks for the cache honeysucker,
***Roostaman ***

On 4116km drive across the country we paused by here grab this cache - we love this stretch of road for all the emu spotting that can be done, so this cache made the most appropriate one to mark our travels off on the geomap, thanks honeysucker

A nice easy roadside park and on the way home.

Thanks for the cache honeysucker.
Found on 8/3/21 at 21:51.
Find #13058.

Over from SA for 4 days of caching with Egregory1, Featherwaite and Brisal5.

We came primarily to do the Paddlesteamer series but picked up orthers as we drove around.

Apologies for the generis logs.

All caches we found were in good order.

Thanks to all cache owners whose caches we found.

TFTC

Found during a trip from Adelaide to the Mildura area for a few days of caching with Brisal5, e.gregory1 and Team Waldron with the main aim to complete the Paddle Steamer and Turtle GeoArt series but also to find other caches along the way. We camped out on the banks of the Murray River near Mildura on the first night, at Rocket Lake campground in the Murray-Sunset National Park on the second night, then back to the banks of the Murray River near Merbein on the last night. We signed the logs as B.E.F.W. Thanks to all the cache owners for placing the cache!

***Generic Log unless something special above this line.***

I have seen a T shirt with Sleep Eat Cache Repeat [^] Well a four day trip to Mildura with caching friends Team Waldron, E.gregory and FeatherWaite certainly fit that bill. Logs were signed with initials only for the teams - BEFW

Up at daybreak, quick breakfast and cache all day stopping only to have a snack whilst out on the trails, rush to set up camp near dusk for a meal, then perhaps some night caching, early night and REPEAT!

Strategic camping at Kings Billabong, Rocket lake and The Common meant we were close by the Geoart and target night caches. Two previous trips in 2013 and 2016 by me and some by E.gregory meant we visited some (well quite a few actually) previous finds but that made it quick for the people that hadn't found them previously.

I can't thank the CO's of these caches enough as some were really very inventive. Even having solved most puzzles before we came we were confronted with field puzzles and gadgets that were just mind boggling. [:X][:X][:X]

***Thanks honeysucker for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Hi there honeysucker.

We found your cache **"Emu Plains"** at 10:53:00 AM today.

Our plan today was to head out from Mildura to the SA Border to attempt [I found a Hole](https://coord.info/GC87KKZ), until we discovered that the final was on the other side of the prohibited border crossing. Plan "B" was to log the caches on the left on the way out , and then pick up the rest on the way back.

Thanks for placing this cache here. Over the years, Geocaching has taken us on many adventures and to lots of wonderful destinations all over Australia. Without 'caching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our nomadic wanderings. 'Caching has also introduced us to a diverse group of like-minded people, many of whom we now call friends.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache roughly where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Smiley Badge
**Grabbed Trackable:** "Deni Ute Muster Traveller".

Thank you honeysucker for adding to our adventure.

Regards

Ian & Penny

We actually haven't seen a single emu yet but there is still time, although not a lot. Thanks for the cache.

10:40 am #10031
On a camping road trip to the Mildura region with Papi4506, Geoturtle37 & RoamingHowie, the main target - the new Paddle Steamer series.
Another quick stop. Trackable discovered.
Zero emus spotted today.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache, honeysucker

10:41 am #1987
Continuing my first caching adventure with OzHockeyChick, Papi4506 & GeoTurtle37 and a mega adventure it is! Today we are off hopefully on a milestone run to reach my 2000.
No emus spotted so far. We’ll keep our eyes peeled!
Thanks honeysucker for placing the hide!

Found on route home
Dropped off TB
TFTC

Found on route home , easy fine

Nice little cache, no emus tho

Tftc