Dooleys Heritage Trail #1 Kindred, Tasmania, Australia
By
sirius Tas on 06-Sep-07. Waypoint GA0851
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Regular |
| Coordinates: | S41° 16.706' E146° 14.256' (WGS 84) |
| 55G 436151E 5430053N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 50 m |
| Local Government Area: | Kentish |
/146.2376,-41.278433,14/400x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiY2F1Z2h0YXR3b3JrIiwiYSI6ImNqa2l4ZzNzMDE5bjgzdm1sZGpuODF1Mm0ifQ.q8YMzVyzDJJlJHHV8EMjwQ)
Description
Almost six year’s work by a dedicated band of volunteers came to fruition late last year with the official opening of the Dooley Heritage Trail.
Work on the trail, which winds through a rare and beautiful environment along the western bank of the
The Dooley Trail, named after James Dooley the original trail surveyor was built in the early 1850s to provide a supply route for pack horses servicing mining interests along the Lea, Iris and
The trail was also known as the “Gold Track”.
Facilities are still being built with shelter,toilet and picnic tables currently available.
Coordinates will lead you downstream along a beaut section of the Wilmot River.
Cache is a black 500ml container with usual swaps.
Please be careful not to leave a geotrail to cache.
Enjoy.
Hints
Svir zrgerf ba fbhgurea fvqr bs genpx. |
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Decode |
Logs
Hi sirius Tas, and thanks for the cache, found with AlbyDangles on a caching weekend based at Gowrie Park, after transporting some Venturer Scouts to their statewide 'Venture' at Arm River Camp last night.
I stayed on the main track so as to minimalise geotrail making, and sent in my colleague who made a quick find.
Thanks for the adventure.
Cheers, EPs.
I stayed on the main track so as to minimalise geotrail making, and sent in my colleague who made a quick find.
Thanks for the adventure.
Cheers, EPs.
Rated: for Overall Experience
"Hello sirius Tas thank you for the cache
It wasn't long before this on was found.
EeePees and I were on a weekend away finding caches.
This one of your was on of many that we found.
Found on Saturday 11 December 2021 at 1510
TFTC"
It wasn't long before this on was found.
EeePees and I were on a weekend away finding caches.
This one of your was on of many that we found.
Found on Saturday 11 December 2021 at 1510
TFTC"
Tackled the Dooley track today with DEZ055. What an amazing walk. We did this in two stages, starting at Spellmans bridge and walking as far as we could before turning back to the vehicle and driving to the end on River Rd off Swamp rd to continue the track from there to the north. We decided to head to Dooleys trail #1 to grab along with a couple of others whilst we were there. This being one of them.
Another quick find on the track. TFTC
Another quick find on the track. TFTC
Today after not wanting to be cooped up inside we drove to alma bridge where we braved the rain with our coats on and walked into paloona dam grabbing the caches along the trail.
This was the first one for the day after drawing level with our gps point directly up the hill the hint item was spotted.
Open the cache the contents was wet and the logbook was saturated only just able to sign our name. This one could do with a bit of tlc from the owner.
TFTC
This was the first one for the day after drawing level with our gps point directly up the hill the hint item was spotted.
Open the cache the contents was wet and the logbook was saturated only just able to sign our name. This one could do with a bit of tlc from the owner.
TFTC
A return visit after not quite finishing this area back in Jan, not a chance a our group of 5 could leave this series unfinished.
Final cache in the series for us, there are still a lot in the area to come back and visit but this trail was a bit special.
Our thanks again for all the work the volunteers both track and cache have put into this area, well worth the visit!
TFTC!!
Final cache in the series for us, there are still a lot in the area to come back and visit but this trail was a bit special.
Our thanks again for all the work the volunteers both track and cache have put into this area, well worth the visit!
TFTC!!
It is only fitting that Dooleys Heritage Trail #1 is our last cache on the trail as we started at number 20 nearly 3 months ago. Sadly we ran out of daylight to drive around and walk to the falls caches. That can be another adventure someday.
We were tired and sore again but felt a great sense of achievement at completing this walk, series, and journey. We know now that if we had have stayed on Dooleys and not followed Lucys we could have actually done all of Dooleys in the one trip. But I think I'm glad we did it the way we did.
Thanks so much sirius Tas and spreyton22 for all these caches. Without you two we would have never experienced this area.
Thanks also to Bill Shepherd and Max Richardson for the work they have done recently to rebuild and maintain the track.
until the next adventure......................
We were tired and sore again but felt a great sense of achievement at completing this walk, series, and journey. We know now that if we had have stayed on Dooleys and not followed Lucys we could have actually done all of Dooleys in the one trip. But I think I'm glad we did it the way we did.
Thanks so much sirius Tas and spreyton22 for all these caches. Without you two we would have never experienced this area.
Thanks also to Bill Shepherd and Max Richardson for the work they have done recently to rebuild and maintain the track.
until the next adventure......................
Rated: for Overall Experience
After missing out on these last few when we were all up this way in January today was the return trip so we could clean them up.
After finishing off the other part of the trail we drove down to the parking area and walked the 600m to ground zero, it took a bit of searching but myself and Paul both spotted the hide location at the same time and we were very pleased to find the cache since I had left the spares in the car
Cache was a little worse for ware but after a bit of a clean out it looks all the better now.
We walked past what's left of the picnic area, if the council cant even repair this area what chance does the rest of the trail have, our thanks goes out to all the volunteers that have made our last two walks in the area possible.
Found at 16:20
After finishing off the other part of the trail we drove down to the parking area and walked the 600m to ground zero, it took a bit of searching but myself and Paul both spotted the hide location at the same time and we were very pleased to find the cache since I had left the spares in the car
Cache was a little worse for ware but after a bit of a clean out it looks all the better now.
We walked past what's left of the picnic area, if the council cant even repair this area what chance does the rest of the trail have, our thanks goes out to all the volunteers that have made our last two walks in the area possible.
Found at 16:20
Rated: for Overall Experience
A massive thank you to Bill Shepherd and Max Richardson who have spent over 2 months in recent times to reopen and rebuild large parts of Dooly's Trail after extreme floods of 2016.
All geocachers and bush walkers alike should appreciate their enormous effort, otherwise these trails would still be closed.
While I have helped a little over recent yrs. ill health just hasn't enabled me to lend any help at all....so I can appreciate the enormous task that both Bill and Max have undertaken and I owe them bigtime as access to my geocaches simply would not be possible.
So please spare a thought when walking these trails as to the huge amount of work undertaken and if anyone can lend a hand at any time it would be most welcome.
All geocachers and bush walkers alike should appreciate their enormous effort, otherwise these trails would still be closed.
While I have helped a little over recent yrs. ill health just hasn't enabled me to lend any help at all....so I can appreciate the enormous task that both Bill and Max have undertaken and I owe them bigtime as access to my geocaches simply would not be possible.
So please spare a thought when walking these trails as to the huge amount of work undertaken and if anyone can lend a hand at any time it would be most welcome.
Looking at where Mr Dooley deposited the rest of his heritage, this may be the only one we'll ever get to. The walk in was pleasant; the final scramble was just that. Things started to drizzle here so we had to leave the rest of the caches along this track for next time. Thanks sirius.
Mr Felix in the area hunting FTF's. Well didnt this one perplex and frustrate the hunt.
All logical spots hunted but being with Mrs Beetles2 a hint was asked for
Ummm well its been a while but I thought it
was ..................... Hmmmm well the only spot I havent checked matches that. Nature had fallen.
So some gymnastics and whaddya know there was the cache completely covered over.
Log signed and onwards.
TFTC
All logical spots hunted but being with Mrs Beetles2 a hint was asked for
Ummm well its been a while but I thought itwas ..................... Hmmmm well the only spot I havent checked matches that. Nature had fallen.
So some gymnastics and whaddya know there was the cache completely covered over.
Log signed and onwards.
TFTC
An easy find. Mainly because the dog and I ran in to Sharnie's tribe and Mr Sharnie's Tribe did the scrambling around in the bush to make the find. Have started on this series at last [no excuse as it is so close to where we live]. Now we just need to get our act together and get the rest. Thanks.
Rated: for Overall Experience
We were initially put off by the sign on the gate saying no unauthorised access but decided it must mean unauthorised vehicle access so in we went. Made our way to GZ and mr sharnie's tribe went into the bush to look. Took a few minutes to find and by then mrs beetles2 and pup had come along the track. Had a chat, both signed the log and then made our way back out together. TFTC
Finally, thanks to Oldsaint found the entrance way to this great little series of caches. The path in was muddy due to the amount of recent rain.
Oldsaint said he was going to watch me find this one - no hints as it took him half an hour to find. He was rather annoyed that it only took me 3 minutes to zero in on the cache.
The outside bag is wet through, along with the entire cache
Found the cache at 1000 11.29
Oldsaint said he was going to watch me find this one - no hints as it took him half an hour to find. He was rather annoyed that it only took me 3 minutes to zero in on the cache.
The outside bag is wet through, along with the entire cache
Found the cache at 1000 11.29
Hi sirius
Car fixed, found "Flummoxing Fungi" and came on to look for this cache.
Struggled at first but got it in the end. My leg is hurting like hell!
Came across a wasps nest not far from GZ. Wasps everywhere!
Grasshoppers with goldish coloured wings everywhere too - the trout would be loving them.
River low, but good fishing level.
Logged the cache at 1410hrs.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.
Car fixed, found "Flummoxing Fungi" and came on to look for this cache.
Struggled at first but got it in the end. My leg is hurting like hell!
Came across a wasps nest not far from GZ. Wasps everywhere!
Grasshoppers with goldish coloured wings everywhere too - the trout would be loving them.
River low, but good fishing level.
Logged the cache at 1410hrs.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Nice stroll to GZ. Pity you can't easily access picnic tables due to gate being shut as would be a nice area for a pinic. TFTC.
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thought i had the co ords in gps for this one last weekend when walked to the other caches on this track,but didnt,so back along the track again this weekend,last weekend there was grasshoppers everywhere, this weekend it was butterflys, thanks for the hunt sirius
Beautiful walk and made all the more interesting by the remnants of the flood damage. All the trees washed over and the path blocked with debris in a couple of places although still easily passable.
Nice cache, thanks.
Nice cache, thanks.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Nice walk lots of flood debris laying around easy find TFTC
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A lovely walk - Huge damage to the track in parts with mounds of debris from the January floods.
Had worked the co-ords out some time ago, so took a walk to survey the recent flood damage. Luckily this cache is placed high and dry and has not moved. Plastic bags a bit damp but all contents dry. TFTC
Today was the perfect day to to this cache. Lovely walk, found cache quickly, signed log replaced and headed off to look for other caches along the trail. TFTC sirius 
Rated: for Overall Experience
great easy walk for this cache tnln tftc beautiful area 
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What a lovely walk!
I had perfect weather and the sounds of the birds singing and the river flowing made it such a sweet experience!
After finding all the caches along this walk, and checking out the dam at the end, I returned to the car along the easy track.
I stopped at the tables back near the car and set up my fishing rod but then couldnt find any decent access to the river so I just flicked a fly from the bank. The river was flowing very fast and i lost a few flies in quick succession so I gave it away for when the level subsides a little.
Thanks sirius Tas! Top cache
I had perfect weather and the sounds of the birds singing and the river flowing made it such a sweet experience!
After finding all the caches along this walk, and checking out the dam at the end, I returned to the car along the easy track.
I stopped at the tables back near the car and set up my fishing rod but then couldnt find any decent access to the river so I just flicked a fly from the bank. The river was flowing very fast and i lost a few flies in quick succession so I gave it away for when the level subsides a little.
Thanks sirius Tas! Top cache
Rated: for Overall Experience
A nice stroll along the river that was in full flood. Cache in sound dry condition. Thanks
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Cache has been changed from a multi to traditional due to some missing items. The walk is identical...so all good.
Today was our third visit to the area and, for the first time, there were no muggles. WP1 was quickly reached and WP2 was reached after a pleasant walk along the river bank. TFTC
We returned today after plotting the various coordinate possibilities in Google Earth. There was only one reasonable possibility, and the cache was there. I must have been suffering from a short-term case of cache-blindness, so one of my helpers had to find the cache for me.
Counted the tables today but found two possibilities for WP2 depending on how you count the tables. We didn't head to WP2 today as it looked like rain but now we're home and we've had the opportunity to look at other people's logs it looks like there may be another possibility for WP2 :S
We visited the picnic area and counted the tables. After a brief discussion of whether two adjoining tables is really one table we calculated two possible sets of coordinates for WP2, both being in the same direction and separated by a few hundred metres. As it was starting to rain we moved on to another cache and plan to return on a more pleasant walking day.
This was a lovely walk. Crossing the creek was fun and wet. It looked like a lovely place to stop and spend some time on the creek edge. Thanks
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Found on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. We parked on the northern side of the river and had to use the concrete stepping stones to cross the river, a route thoroughly recommended by adventure kids. We regrouped at the picnic tables, counted them, debated the numbers, justified answers and then strolled along the river to the cache site. We had lots of fun checking out the waterholes for fish and kids had fun collecting sticks etc. The cache search was effective, the swapping intense, just how tattoos and glitter pens did you buy Sirius?!! We signed logs and then were about to explore when suddenly the clouds dumped rain and we hurried back to the car in time to have blazing sun. We explored the route to Dooleys #2, got rained on again and decided to return in about a fortnight to find it. Thanks Sirius for finding another place for adventure.
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found after a pleasant stroll down stream from all the tables.
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Had worked out the table thing the previous day (very easy to get tricked at that picnic area!), so all that remained was to do the calculations and walk to the cache. All was correct so the cache was an easy find. Thanks!
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forgot to log the find in company with Strebor Wanderer.
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Determined not to be beaten, I headed back in company with forthferalz to find this cache. A good bit of daylight makes all the difference and we found it without too much trouble. It had a bit of water in which forthferalz fixed but it may need checking after the recent downpours.
Happy to have found this one, we headed off to number 2.
TNLN
Happy to have found this one, we headed off to number 2.
TNLN
oh help - batteries dying, there were no squares- only rectangles and a funny metal thing that wasn't a table. yes I was in the right picnic area - the one with the loo on the high side of the river with the very off putting "Authorised access only" sign on the gate! But such a nice trail - very inviting picnic area too much nicer than the other one so we'll be back! the 900m we searched looked eminently suitable for kids on pushbikes and even a large wheeled pram. Poor dog got tired of looking and refused to go on a branching side trail - insisted on returning to car so home we went!
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We looked and looked but did not find. That may have been to do with the fact that it was steadily getting darker, and hopefully not our arithmetic. We'll have to go back.
My Kind of cache!
A nice walk on a river, in a spot not many people know about, with a simple waypoint offset to work out!
Had to wait out a snake near GZ...eventually he decided we were not worth eating!
Found the cache without any (other) dramas!
Thanks Sirius for the top cache (and thanks for listing it on GCA!)!
It was too late in the day to do #2, but we enjoyed the area so much that we have committed ourselves to finishing off this set!
A nice walk on a river, in a spot not many people know about, with a simple waypoint offset to work out!
Had to wait out a snake near GZ...eventually he decided we were not worth eating!
Found the cache without any (other) dramas!
Thanks Sirius for the top cache (and thanks for listing it on GCA!)!
It was too late in the day to do #2, but we enjoyed the area so much that we have committed ourselves to finishing off this set!
Rated: for Overall Experience
Nipped in to pick up Lightening man TB which I had inadvertantly placed in there.
Brisk early morning walk. Lovely area. Many thanks Sirius Tas. Left lightening man TB.
picked the better part of the day to find this one. Usual sirius good cache and a pleasant walk to boot. When I got home found there was another cache in the series I could have found..grrrr. left TB.
Thanks Sirius get the other one another time.
Thanks Sirius get the other one another time.
Fantastic trail. Looking forward to further
installments. Found fairly easily once I trusted
that I counted the tables correctly and the coords that my GPS were pointing me to were right. TNLN Thanks sirius.
installments. Found fairly easily once I trusted
that I counted the tables correctly and the coords that my GPS were pointing me to were right. TNLN Thanks sirius.
I think that's a FTF! Took a few mins to decide which side of the river, and then towards finding the cache, if my adding up was correct. But we found it in a couple of minutes and enjoyed the stroll back too. Plenty of water in the river, a nice place for a picnic or some fishing. TFTC. You get around sirius, it's a nice spot.
