Postman's Camp Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
By
Whheels on 28-Mar-19. Waypoint GA13713
Cache Details
Difficulty: | |
Terrain: | |
Type: | Traditional |
Container: | Small |
Coordinates: | S36° 21.012' E146° 19.766' (WGS 84) |
55H 439831E 5976999N (UTM) | |
Elevation: | 148 m |
Local Government Area: | Wangaratta |
Description
Close to GZ you'll find a plaque recording that mailmen making the early 1800s mail run from Sydney to Melbourne, starting in November 1837, camped near this spot.
Today, if you're overnighting in Wangaratta, you'll find more services than they could have dreamed of at the adjacent caravan park, and if you're just passing through, the nearby Apex Park has toilets, BBQs, picnic benches, a great playground which has been well tested and approved by the younger generation of my familly, and opportunities to stretch your legs on walking paths in either direction along the banks of the Ovens River. There's lots of parking nearby too, and it's very close to the Murray to Mountains Railtrail if you're cycling by.
The cache is a black bison containing only a log sheet, so bring your own writing stick.
Hints
Abg orlbaq gur oynpx fghzc! Haqre onex naq yrnirf. |
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Decode |
Logs
Thanks for the cache Whheels. A nice little cache highlighting an interesting piece a Australian history.
This was one of a couple of GCA we found in our travels.
Interesting read on the plaque.
Fortnightly services in the early 1800's is pretty good going.
TFTC
Interesting reading. Thanks for bringing me here. Made a quick detour here whilst the others in my crew (not interested in GCA's) kept going.
Thanks for highlighting this and for the cache Whheels
Thanks for the cache Whheels
Albida
tftc
A quick find made here and then wandered over to read the nearby plaque.
Thanks.
Staying at the nearby caravan park we made our way here for a quick find.
Many thanks Whheels for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.
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Thanks for hiding it here for us to find Whheels, after attending the nearby GC event today.
I’m just disappointed that it wasn’t April already, I could have used it for a P cache in April
Which brings us to today, and throughout the event, I mentioned about the new GCA cache nearby and how I was going to pick it up after the event...thinking the whole time one of the attendees would have surely beaten me to the FTF......well...after said event, and lots of chatting, I fired up the flash new Garmin, and set off...
A short search ensued and I came up with the treasure, then I opened it up to.....a blank log book ..Woo-Hoo!..I got them, Ha!
So as I was strolling back to the car, all the second to finders came tearing up the road...I chatted and waved with a smile