The plan for today was to head out into the Mallee with a group of geocachers and tackle some more of the Wandering Heroes series.

An event was set up on Geocaching Australia – this is because Geocaching.com wont allow events that are set up to find caches (WTF) – I thought Geocaching.com was all about finding geocaches (I am obviously wrong).

After a flurry of interest on the event page and the Facebook page, the weather forecast came in and it looked like it was going to be in the high 30’s and all of a sudden the numbers interested dropped.

Well a bit of hot weather wasn’t going to stop a couple of hardy geocachers, and we headed up the freeway to Tailem Bend.

As it ended up we had a good breeze and the temperature remained in the low 30’s while those left in the City sweltered.

After 350 kilometres, 11 hours and about 10 litres of drinking water, we made 75 finds and hid 6 as well. Not a bad day out. 🙂

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It started out with a simple stop off on the way home to find a newly published cache in the South Parklands, The Poet of Greenbridge. It was a simple walk into the parklands but nothing is ever simple.

I was looking around an obvious spot but couldn’t find it. Then I heard someone yell out “What are you doing” and turned to find Team Waldron (Glenn) and White Dog Gang (Mike) approaching.

We were hunting around again in the obvious spot, this time using the iPhone to take a photo in the opening – ah, there it is. As I extracted another pair walked up, it was Sandalwood Cottage. Looks like we have a flash mob. 🙂

Glenn and Mike had a ladder and asked if I would like to tag along to do a couple of the up high caches around Adelaide. Little did I know that they were looking for someone to do the altitude work (they reckon I have work skills for the task – they are probably right :)).

We tackled a couple of the nearby tree caches in other parts of the Parklands, The Magic Far Away Tree and Classic Songs II: U and UR Hand – Pink. The Far Away Tree was fairly straight forward even with the large numbers of muggles arriving for the nearby Netball.

U and UR Hand – Pink was a little different. There were 2 large trees at GZ and we picked the southern one. Up went the ladder and up I went 6 metres and down came the blinding rain. After a few minutes of getting soaked we decided it must be the other tree.

After a few circles of looking up, I looked on the ground and said “what about this one”. The cache had fallen out of the tree and was on the ground. After signing the log we put it back in the tree but certainly not from where it came from.

After grabbing a few caches around Mile End we headed to Beverley to another newly published cache,  Remote 2 Elsema. This was to become cache find number 6000.

After circling the block trying to find an entrance into the area, it was a relatively easy find and the end of an easement. Finally Geocache #6000 was in hand. Thanks Glenn and Mike for joining me on this milestone.

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