Rusty Relics in Yalgoo Yalgoo, Western Australia, Australia
By pood on 29-Sep-20. Waypoint GA18419

A Night Cache in Yalgoo, you will need your torch and suitable enclosed bushwalking shoes/boots for the Outback Bush.

When arriving at the GZ, you will notice a WHITE reflector in a northern direction, when you have reached your first reflector, you will then see your next WHITE reflector in a north-north easterly direction, from this second reflector you will see the third reflector - RED in colour. In this tree, you will find the cache.  This area has some interesting concrete footings from the old town houses and local buildings. At the final GZ you will come across two Rusty Old Relics from a by gone era.  We think the first one may be a T-Model Ford Truck.  

It is the Outback.

It is the Bush.

Please be aware of your surroundings as you walk through this area.

You will walk under 100metres from where you park your car, to all the reflectors and the final gz cache.

Yalgoo is a quaint country town on the edge of the Wildfower area of WesternAustralia.

Yalgoo is a town in the Murchison region, 499 kilometres (310 mi) north-north-east of Perth.Yalgoo is in the local government area of the Shire of Yalgoo. Before it was settled as a town the Yalgoo area was used as grazing land for European settlers including the Morrissey and Broad families. Flocks of sheep were herded onto the rich pastures during the wet growing season and driven back to coastal properties for shearing before summer. Over time the graziers saw the value in the Yalgoo land and began to establish the first sheep stations.

Gold was discovered in the area in the early 1890s, and by 1895 there were 120 men working the diggings and buildings being erected. The goldfield warden asked for a townsite to be surveyed and gazetted, and following survey the townsite of Yalgu was gazetted in January 1896. It was once the location of an important railway station (opened in 1896) on the Northern Railway. Yalgoo's importance declined in the years after World War II after the forging of an all-weather road between Wubin and Paynes Find, across Lake Moore.

In 1921-22 the priest-architect and parish priest of Yalgoo (as well as of Mullewa), Monsignor John Hawes, designed and built the Dominican convent school and chapel of St Hyacinth: Yalgoo children attended the school until it was closed for lack of pupils in 1950. The timber framed school building was dismantled and removed. The derelict chapel was restored and re-opened in 1981.

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