Pilliga Cemetary Pilliga, New South Wales, Australia
By coongoola on 27-Aug-17. Waypoint GC7BEDF

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Nice easy one. TFC

Thank you for our very first geocache find. It was the perfect one to kick off with.

TFTC

A little trip from Narrabri to see this nice little town. After geocaching we enjoyed the nice and warm bath. TFTC!

After our travels it was time to sell our Matilda the campervan and settle down in Narrabri for few months. On our day off from work we drove here to do some geocaching and enjoy nice day. Thank you for the cache!

Thanks

Very interesting history of the area tftc

TFTC. Found it with Irondale.

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Cool catch the grandkids found this

An early morning visit to a well kept cemetery in red earth country. TFTC

Found it after about 5 minutes of looking on the wrong log hehe

Found it

Stayed nearby overnight and grabbing anything along the way.Most hides where found after a short search. Loved the different containers and hides.Thanks for placing the cache and doing the maintenance needed, so we can find this cache.

Quick little stop after the bore bath nice hide, didnt sign as had no pen but here a pic

Nice find

What a wonderful cemetery to visit. Thanks for bringing us here. Victorian geocachers have just celebrated Cachemas in July and we loved the decorations at the gate. The Indian section , fairly close to GZ, amazed me! Cache was found in good condition.

Found this yesterday but forgot to log til today. Tftc

Out and about checking out places in the middle of nowhere, Stopped by here for a quick visit and a cache find, Also found an old pathtag on the ground which was pretty cool. Another to add to my collection..

Thanks for the cache, all is in good condition with this one!

Did Park run in Narrabri and stopped in for Artesian bore and also to pay respects to Nabob Allam on our way back to Coona

Lovely well kept cemetery

This cache was found today and brings our overall cache find tally to 12124.

A nice little find on a very hot day after a swim! I was quite surprised how segregated the cemetery was.

Thanks coongoola for the cache.

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A quick find on a weekend road trip to Narrabri and back. TFTC

easy find

A quick find on my way to snow in Guyra today. This could have taken me a lot longer but the sun made it shine for me.

Tftc Coongoola, we have made a detour to our journey so we pass through this LGA to collect a cache here.
On a very cool morning we looked for your cache which we found without any problem.
Thanks for the information.

A nice quick find
TFTC

Day 3 of our adventure to Townsville Mega. Quick find, Stamped log and replaced added another log sheet. Thanks to coongoola.

TFTC,
Quick find here, log almost filled so added an extra log sheet.

An interesting walk around town and a long walk to the cemetery.
But we found the cache and enjoyed reading the history attached to this geocache.
TFTC

Needed a quick find today for the Fill the Calendar cache. This one fitted the bill nicely. TFTC

Very interesting history!! Thanks for bringing me here! I even found some people I knew! TFTC

NEF by the muggle partner, who incidentally runs ahead to be FTF out of both of us. TFTC coongoola

Nice quick find this afternoon. Tftc

Nice quick find on our week long road trip from Sydney TFTC

Thanks for nice easy cache

Strolled to gz l9cated cache then walked faster back to car as started to rain
Found with Earthlight. Co odds spot on
Tftc

On a damp morning The X-Trailers and I walked through the cemetery. A quick find and love learning about the history of the area
TFTC

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Had to Laugh (respectfully) that in the indian section they are all born in Pakistan ..
thanks for putting out these caches just migrating through for the one day we are heading to Narrabri than Coonamble than Gilgandra than Home,thanks for bring us up here and coords spot on thanks again just completed my 2000 cache at the bore nearby

Found with Sophiescout on our first ever trip to the Pilliga region. Good hide in a quiet part of town. TFTC

Found with Aussiepuschaks. TFTC

After a coffee at the local cafe Pa drove me to the GZ. What a fabulous neat cemetery. I especially like the nearby section- the only one of its kind that I have ever noticed.
The cache was found quickly, the log was signed and all returned to their hidey hole.
TFTC Coongoola.

Easy find,
Interesting cemetery

Gotcha - Found with a bit of searching. Tftc

Found this well done cache on our way to Coonamble from Bingara. Never been to Pilliga before so thank you for bringing us here.

We started early to bet the flys. Some kangaroo s where watching us find the cache.found it ,it's in good condition tftc

Thank you for showing this place where people buried in portions and tftc.

Caching in and around Pilliga and surrounds we picked up a few caches and this was one of them.

Cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

A quick stop on our way out of Pilliga.
Thanks for telling us a bit about the graves and thanks for the cache.

With GreyHams we set out on a new adventure, driving from Adelaide to Sydney via broken Hill and Bourke... with side trips in all directions as the caches lead us. Four days with a number of target caches along the way, although shires, oldies and virtuals were our priority with many others of interest too.

From the lush green of South Australia into the dry outback of NSW, contrast, scenic and interesting. With GreyHams trip planning we traveled along easily as he drove and navigated and chattered! Never a dull moment through the stark and barren land which was completely fascinating.

So many odd locations to be seen, as well as emus, kangaroos, birds, a desert horse and so many teeny tiny little goats! So many goats... I did love those goats! The dry and barren made way for more substantial lands as we drove closer towards the end of the trip, the trees returned, the hills and finally those little goats... Yay!

About 2500km, 29 shires, 4 virtuals, a number of oldies and some nice walks and places visited along the way. The locals and little towns memorable, the lands and rivers dry and sad but a great trip as we traveled along from cache to cache.

Thanks for your cache to help guide us through our travels, apologies for the generic log, If I had more to add its below this.

Loved the tall cactus over the fence, some are so tall and so skinny... a wonder they stand up! And the new road out this way, Thank you... noted and appreciated, a very fine road!

Aquilus1 and I have long been looking at our Project-GC maps and trying to 'finish' NSW, which is our closest real state (we both completed the ACT on our first ever finds). Of course we rarely have long term plans, the best trips just sort of happen without too much notice, but we had been thinking about this trip since halfway through the last one.

This plan was to go from Adelaide to Canberra, via the 'hard to reach' counties at the north/north-west of NSW that we had missed last time. Some research showed flights to Adelaide were cheap (well, using points) but also well timed. Arriving at the start point at 7.30am means you are away with a full days caching in front of you. What really sealed it was the one-way car hire deals from Adelaide to Sydney/Melbourne. Sure, this means we have to catch the bus from Sydney airport, but saving $800 sure has a sweet taste.

Day 1:
After landing in ADL airport we made a swift start grabbing the virtual there, I do so love an airport virtual. From there it was all about Oldies and Counties with a couple of Large caches thrown in for bonus value.... got to love a Large! Soooo many counties in Adelaide, and we grabbed as many as we could without detouring massively... we had a long way to go in 4 days after all. I did quite like the grid layout of Adelaide, it means if you encounter roads that are blocked it was easy to reroute. It was slow going in Adelaide (city caching is always slow) but we eventually made our way out and got to the highway. Almost missed Gawler as we were too busy chatting away, it would have left a large hole in our county maps The Clare valley has such an amount of caches and a bunch of oldies, so it took a bit of time to get through as well. So, so green up this way, it was a pleasant surprise for me. The original plan was to get all the way to Broken Hill today but with so many counties and oldies we only got as far as Peterborough, in the dark amid pouring rain.... and got the last 2 rooms in the last motel in town...close call. This was 'proper' small town and we had dinner at the hotel, as it was the only place open.

Day 2:
OK, we have some time to make up as we are 3 hours down the road from where we though we would be starting this day...luckily my alarm was gentle and right on time. Wow, the countryside looks so, so different to yesterday. Now is proper outback and by the time we got to Yunta it was almost desert, really dramatic stuff, but still populated with the odd random goat. We got to Broken Hill and prioritised the highlights: the mine shaft and the big chair.... the HJ's was a fine lunch as well. From there we left and continued across the scrub of western NSW, through Wilcannia, into Cobar with goats galore in between and finally to Bourke, once again in the dark and rain. Bourke was our original destination for Day 2 and we surprised ourselves at making it this far. Again we got the last 2 rooms in the last motel in town.... and we tried 4!! Really riding our luck.

Day 3:
OK, next services are in Brewarinna which is 180km away, we have fuel for 200... so off we drive into the desert without a second thought. Yep, smart thinking! We did make it of course but it was a close run thing. Rivers out here were very sad to see... mostly just sand with water here and there.... but not much. Bogan river was non-existant, the Barwon a set of pools with nothing in between. We went through Walgett, less said the better. Through Gilgandra on a private new road ending at Mudgee. Motel had heaps of rooms for once!

Day 4:
Last day and all about getting to the airport through the blue mountains grabbing counties on the way. After dropping off the car we ran to the bus where it was waiting and managed to convince the driver to let us on, while I was buying tickets over the phone... all worked out in the end, but yet another example of our fine luck on the trip.

2500 km's, 29 shires grabbed!

Heading south from Gundy geo-caching and camping. Took a detour to the Australian Telescope Compact Array, then another to the Pilliga hot artesian baths, and blow me down if there's not a whole series of caches here as well ! On way out of town now, and its early, so time to grab a few more to add to yesterday's tally. Another well placed, maintained and accurate hiding place. TFTC coongoola.

Thanks for placing very interesting Cheers

TFTC Quick find while traveling around Oz.

So peaceful here
Nice find

Once again enjoying the Pilliga and finding last cache. TFTC

Found
Thanks forbidding me to this cemetery.

Day 3 of our epic journey to Cape York and the third day of our streak. We continued the day with this easy little park and grab in the Pillaga cemetery. We were fascinated to discover that some friends of ours were responsible for the creation of a series of headstones in the “Indian” section of the cemetery, strange because the vast majority of the internees were in fact Pakistani. Amazing where caching will take you though. TFTC

Hi there coongoola. We're currently camped at Burren Junction Borebaths, so today was a touring day between Burren Junction and Pilliga - a pretty easy day. This cache was a quick find and the container and the log are dry and in good condition. SL. Thanks to coongoola for this cache - our find #6655.

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Found - huge cemetery, interesting place!

Found by Mary and David at 1500. A FP given here even before Mary climbed down from the GeoPrado. She loves cemeteries for the symbolism of the headstone designs, and the social history in the epitaphs. Have never come across denominational sections being called "Portions" before. Obvious that the descendants of Mr Allam are till in the district, as his grave was full of colourful flowers and the other graves near him we paid for by his family. He certainly provided a great service to the locals. Mary remembers back to the '50s having visits from the Rawleigh man, hand made wooden peg man and a truck of manchester in isolated country areas of Victoria. Our thanks to coongoola.

We found this cache on our way to Lightning ridges.
Thank you
Team sissifalke

Never been to Pilliga, my parents come up in winter for the baths, today was our turn to have a look around and try the baths out. Easy find on a very hot day.

I missed the main gate,
and hopped the fence from the side road here
And discovered something unusual about this cemetery !! [:o]

This cemetery has an "Indian section".
Never seen that before ... except in a cemetery in India !! [:o]

Nearby the cache was a quick find
"Thank you !! Please come again."

Pilliga
We have camped here by the bore baths, a great location. Free swim in the hot pool. Wild horses in the paddock beside us & a kangaroo that came to drink from the creek.
Bill took his bike & completed the trail. An added bonus cache agter his wetlands cycle.
We stopped where it was suitable with the caravan on to find caches.
It was good to find such a variety of caches & hides along the way.
Thanks for placing this cache coongoola

TFTC! a few scratches retrieving the log but what a great bit of history in Pilliga!

Forgot pen yet again!!!

Completed Pilliga group except for tractor inside locked gate. Tftc

TFTC quick find, got all the Pilliga series except for the Steam engine

TFTC. We had left Eumungerie this morning continuing our winter sojourn North. Today’s destination was Pilliga Bore. As GZ was on the way into town we stopped to stretch our legs. A pleasant walk through the cemetery and a quick found cache.

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Found this one on our way to the hot bore baths. Had a look at Nabob's resting place. Thanks for the fun coongoola.

Found the cache then had a good look around.
Thanks.

Interesting.

Bit of a wonder around on my way to GZ, lots of stories here. Cache OK thanks

I see someone has claimed a ftf but i did'nt see any thing on the log so i sigened the log ftf
Thanks

Snagged a first to find on our travels. Nice hide. TFTC

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