A little side tracked Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia
By Smittengranny on 05-Jun-21. Waypoint GA22010

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	Traditional
Container:	Regular
Coordinates:	S29° 40.039' E147° 48.519' (WGS 84)
	55J 578252E 6717804N (UTM)
Elevation:	0 m
Local Government Area:	Walgett

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Description

Today Pa and I went out to explore the opal fields south west of Lightning Ridge. There are three main areas. The Grawin was established in 1908 with the discovery of opal at “Hammond Hill” Further discoveries in 1920 at “Richard’s Hill” put the unofficial village on the map. It is believed that a field was discovered at Glengarry in 1905 but, it wasn't until the 1970’s that Glengarry became a major field in its own right. The newest of the three fields the Sheepyard was opened in 1984. We thoroughly enjoyed touring the area and finding some GC caches there, so why not expand the loot and plant some GCA caches as well. This is one of them so I hope you enjoy your travels. You don't have to travel very far off the main track, or for that matter the side track, to find this cache. BYOP

Hints

OBG

ROT 13:	ABCDEFGHIJKLM
	NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Decode

Logs

09-Oct-24

BigMatDozer

It's amazing how different this area is to the opal fields despite being relatively close. I guess a lot of the soil at the opal fields was actually from underground, which would explain the drastic change in colour from the reds you get here.

Found the container in good order, but the log book crumbled when we pulled it out. One pages was left, so we rewrote the previous entries and then added our name to the end.

Thanks for the cache!

20-Apr-23

Gullivers Travels54

we are on our way to the Opal Fields stopped to find this cache the log sheet was missing replace the log sheet thanks for the case

18-Jul-22

Team737

FTF!
After a morning of more touristy stuff, Samuel and I did the customary "we'll be back when we run out of light" caching afternoon, heading right out of town for some lonely FTFs and even a few GC caches too...
We weren't sure if we'd have the time to get out to these more remote spots, but today we made the time, and enjoyed the drive out towards Cumborah. There weren't many other cars on the road, but still more than we thought.... Cache found quite exposed after a short search, we added a bit of natural cover... TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience