B&W (V) Moonee Ponds Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia
By Geocaching Australia on 20-Aug-10. Waypoint GA2324

This is a special Burke & Wills cache listed on Geocaching Australia.

This cache requires you to visit a Burke & Wills historical location and take a photo as described along with your GPS receiver and if possible yourself in the picture. Once you have logged this cache as a find, you are required to load your picture to your log to validate your find.

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Validating Your Log
Take a picture of your GPS receiver and if possible yourself in front of the lake and attach it to your online log.

Important Information
The Burke Wills Historical Society notes: "The actual route Burke and Wills followed once they left Camp 78 is unknown and one of the most intensely debated issues. Wills' map and some of his journals containing astronomical observations have been lost. Because the journals have never been transcribed, it means the expedition's track north of the Diamantina, through the gibber rises, confused sand dunes and extensive claypans, is a matter for conjecture."
Travel in Outback Australia can be extremely hazardous. Plan your trip with care and seek and follow local advice on what precautions to take. Be aware of private property restrictions. Do not risk your life to log this geocache.

About This Location
By midnight of the first cold, wet day of the expedition, August 20, 1860, the half-kilometre caravan had only covered a few times its own length, reaching Essendon on the edge of Melbourne. Here two more wagons broke down, so the party set up camp at the town of Moonee Ponds, in what is now Queen's Park.
Moonee Ponds and the municipality of Moonee Valley tend to be more famous today because the comedian Barry Humphries claims his alter ego, Dame Edna Everage, hails from here, but the locals shrug off his derision and take pride in their hometown's cosmopolitanism - more than a third of the population of 110,000 were born overseas - its Maribyrnong Riverside park and, of course, its historic Queen's Park.



Additonal Information
Source: Paul Dorsey Used with Permission