Class Act Tomingley, New South Wales, Australia
By
president & 1st lady on 16-Jul-06. Waypoint GA0507
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Unknown or Mystery |
| Container: | Small |
| Coordinates: | S32° 30.054' E148° 13.054' (WGS 84) |
| 55H 614379E 6403388N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 281 m |
| Local Government Area: | Narromine |
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Description
This cache is a memorial to one of the many small one teacher public schools that once dotted the rural landscape. Unfortunately the powers that be have centralised schooling to mainly towns and abandoned the small rural settings. Fiddler's Creek Public School was located approximately halfway along the Narromine-Tomingley Road. Its first principal was Mr Lee who was appointed to the school from Mumbil. The school block consisted of one classroom, a verandah with a hat room, a teachers office, tennis court and a specially built yard for the horses that pupils rode to and from school. The school closed during the 1960s. The building was relocated to a paddock adjacent to the Rawsonville Bridge on the Mitchell Highway and was destroyed by fire in the 1980s.
The first lady's grandfather Keith Hayden attended the school in 1939. He has gone on to build a replica of the Wright Flyer which resides at the Narromine Aerodrome.
The listed coordinates will lead you to the location of the old building, now long gone. The cache is located approximately 50 metres on a south-east bearing from the school on the tennis court. The container is hidden somewhere on the infrastructure of the tennis court. The cache contains small items for school.
Please rehide the cache well.
Logs
We went to find this one, and REALLY wished we hadn't!!!!
First, we drove along a track. Sounds easy, but we had to stop and use a nice long stick to swish the enormous orb spiders off the road, several times.
Then, when we'd reached GZ, there were quite a lot of ant nests and mosquitoes. We managed to avoid most of those. Then we had to do the walking in the right direction part. Not too bad, with another long stick needed. Then, we couldn't find the cache. Anywhere.
Finally, we trudged back to the car, realising somewhere along the way that there are millions of grass seeds and many of them are VERY prickly. We discovered this by noticing that our two dogs, one which was long haired - until today - were suddenly wearing what looked like thigh high boots (and the Corgi doesn't HAVE thighs!!).
We grabbed the scissors, decided that we were fighting a losing battle with the ants and spiders and mosquitoes, and drove into town, where we luckily found a sports oval with good seating, suitable for putting dogs up on and hacking their hair off with scissors. We now have a Corgi and something large and moth-eaten-looking. Poor Teddy is going to be cold a for few weeks until his hair grows back in a bit.
And after all that, STILL no cache!
Thanks anyway, President and 1st lady.
First, we drove along a track. Sounds easy, but we had to stop and use a nice long stick to swish the enormous orb spiders off the road, several times.
Then, when we'd reached GZ, there were quite a lot of ant nests and mosquitoes. We managed to avoid most of those. Then we had to do the walking in the right direction part. Not too bad, with another long stick needed. Then, we couldn't find the cache. Anywhere.
Finally, we trudged back to the car, realising somewhere along the way that there are millions of grass seeds and many of them are VERY prickly. We discovered this by noticing that our two dogs, one which was long haired - until today - were suddenly wearing what looked like thigh high boots (and the Corgi doesn't HAVE thighs!!).
We grabbed the scissors, decided that we were fighting a losing battle with the ants and spiders and mosquitoes, and drove into town, where we luckily found a sports oval with good seating, suitable for putting dogs up on and hacking their hair off with scissors. We now have a Corgi and something large and moth-eaten-looking. Poor Teddy is going to be cold a for few weeks until his hair grows back in a bit.
And after all that, STILL no cache!
Thanks anyway, President and 1st lady.
Found with GrimRaider on the drive home from Dubbo. Cache found in the open so placed back at lastest GZ. I enjoyed the history lesson here. TFTC
Day five of our journey from Innes Park ( Home) to St Arnaud. Saturday night in Goondiwindi after driving 765 Klm. Sunday Night in Bourke after driving 654K. Monday Night in Dubbo 475Klm and Tuesday night still in Dubbo. Wednesday night we are in Hay after 564Klm.
We arrived and parked and followed the instructions and walked that distance in that direction. Been over 12 months since last found. Found bit of a mess so I have placed a micro container with log in a old tennis court popst that is now horizontal. the bush and termites have certainly changed this area. Look on the ground at S32 30.071 E148 13.081 where you will see a few remains of the old fence now all horizontal and the tennis court fence or what is left also horizontal. TFTC
We arrived and parked and followed the instructions and walked that distance in that direction. Been over 12 months since last found. Found bit of a mess so I have placed a micro container with log in a old tennis court popst that is now horizontal. the bush and termites have certainly changed this area. Look on the ground at S32 30.071 E148 13.081 where you will see a few remains of the old fence now all horizontal and the tennis court fence or what is left also horizontal. TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
Did not read the description properly and was looking for something at gz. Got back to the car and found out what I needed to do...and the did it! Tftc.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Geocaching Australia (GCA) Cache Find Number 1483. Found during Day 20 of my epic 21 day visit to Alice Springs for the Red Centre Experience Event and further travels after that.
Flew into Alice Springs and met up with my fellow intrepid team members Sol de Lune, Albida33 and LuckyL10n for the start of an amazing trip throughout the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and eventually back to Canberra. The Red Centre Experience is the main attraction of course, but also on our agenda are a lot of GC Caches, lots of trigs, as well as plenty of GCA Trads, History and Virtual Caches (and maybe the odd beer or two ??!! Smile. Go Clan Cerberus !
Another GCA Puzzle for the trip. We were now heading south and east again, and we managed to get into the forest and solve the puzzle. Quick find at GZ. Then it was back in the car and off to the next one !
TFTC !!
Flew into Alice Springs and met up with my fellow intrepid team members Sol de Lune, Albida33 and LuckyL10n for the start of an amazing trip throughout the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and eventually back to Canberra. The Red Centre Experience is the main attraction of course, but also on our agenda are a lot of GC Caches, lots of trigs, as well as plenty of GCA Trads, History and Virtual Caches (and maybe the odd beer or two ??!! Smile. Go Clan Cerberus !
Another GCA Puzzle for the trip. We were now heading south and east again, and we managed to get into the forest and solve the puzzle. Quick find at GZ. Then it was back in the car and off to the next one !
TFTC !!
Rated: for Overall Experience
First Geocache found for the June Challenge.
Great place. Thanks president & 1st lady for bringing me out here. I would love to learn a bit more of the history of this little spot. There must have been more than just a school. There were a few ruin spots and even a hole in the ground that had me wondering what was here before. Imagine the bounty of untold stories the ground here holds but cannot share.
TFTC. Took nothing. Left mini highlighter and a new plastic container.
Great place. Thanks president & 1st lady for bringing me out here. I would love to learn a bit more of the history of this little spot. There must have been more than just a school. There were a few ruin spots and even a hole in the ground that had me wondering what was here before. Imagine the bounty of untold stories the ground here holds but cannot share.
TFTC. Took nothing. Left mini highlighter and a new plastic container.
Rated: for Overall Experience
After spending a couple of days in Narromine we hitched up the van and travelled to Tullamore. This was the 1st cache of the day and a long time since it had been found.
Found cache easily but the container fell apart in our hands and the bag was brittle. We removed the container and replaced with new bag (no container sorry). Contents were suprisingly in good condition. Thanks for the history about this spot and for the cache/
Found cache easily but the container fell apart in our hands and the bag was brittle. We removed the container and replaced with new bag (no container sorry). Contents were suprisingly in good condition. Thanks for the history about this spot and for the cache/
Rated: for Overall Experience
South Australia 2013 with Sol de Lune. We headed off on 12/4 and arrived home on 28/4. The trip was to visit the SA series so more time could be spent at the Mega itself next year. We did a huge variety of caching around Murray Bridge, the Mid North, Yorke Peninsula and Whyalla Region. Apart from one wet night and two wet days we were able to spend heaps of time caching.
Thanks.
Albida
Thanks.
Albida
Stopped in to try this one on our way home from South Australia. Everything worked out ok and we had what was left of the cache in hand. Container is broken, but it's been there a while so you have to expect that.
We palaced everything into a new plastic bag and returned it to it's hiding spot ready for the next finder.......whenever that maybe.
A fun little cache and one I'm glad we just didn't drive past.
Thanks Pres and 1st Lady......
We palaced everything into a new plastic bag and returned it to it's hiding spot ready for the next finder.......whenever that maybe.
A fun little cache and one I'm glad we just didn't drive past.
Thanks Pres and 1st Lady......
Rated: for Overall Experience
WanderingAus wandered by on day 96 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip, and made a very quick and easy GAFF 1 find thanks to the dashboard on my Magellan Explorist GC gpsr. First time I've used the bearing field in over 300 finds, and it got me so close I could almost touch it.
My find No 2886, LCC, TNLNSL. The lid of the container has almost completely disintegrated, so I put the container into a ziplock bag to protect it.
*Recommended* *Overall Experience: 3*
T4TH president & 1st lady
Keith
My find No 2886, LCC, TNLNSL. The lid of the container has almost completely disintegrated, so I put the container into a ziplock bag to protect it.
*Recommended* *Overall Experience: 3*
T4TH president & 1st lady
Keith
Rated: for Overall Experience
after walking around the block of the old tennis courts and chasing the big hairs and foxes geowife found easily thanks for bringing us to small part of history
Rated: for Overall Experience
Thanks for this one. Enjoyed the history and also enjoyed finding who the 1st Lady's Grandfather is! By the way later in the day we visited the Aviation Museum and the replica of the Wright Flyer. Fantastic museum and the Wright Bros replica plane was amazing to finally see.Sad that Col is not around anymore to perhaps fly it again.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found this on a drive with my son for Father's Day.. who would have thought there had been a school there? . Took a sticker and left $1("Lunch Money") in keeping with Cache theme. Thanks for the little bit of history.
Great little piece of history. Once we determined where the tennis courts were it was a lot easier to find.
Thanx
Thanx
F T F
Nice spot to place a school
Took a while to find this one but thinking the way the pres and first lady does and remembering the description had us well on track
A little bit of history well worth a look
Good One
Nice spot to place a school
Took a while to find this one but thinking the way the pres and first lady does and remembering the description had us well on track
A little bit of history well worth a look
Good One
