B&W (V) Bolinda Creek Bolinda, Victoria, Australia
By
Geocaching Australia on 20-Aug-10. Waypoint GA2325
Cache Details
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| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Burke and Wills |
| Container: | Virtual |
| Coordinates: | S37° 25.920' E144° 44.170' (WGS 84) |
| 55H 299704E 5854797N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 365 m |
| Local Government Area: | Macedon Ranges |
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Description
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.
Validating Your Log
Take a picture of your GPS receiver showing the same co-ordinates as the cache page (plus or minus 100 meters) 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
In the VEE party were six Irishmen, four Englishmen, three Germans, an American, a South African and four Indian sepoys skilled at handling the 27 camels. They had 23 horses and six wagons laden with nearly 21 tonnes of gear, including six tonnes of firewood, ostensibly enough food for two years, but it's been said they should have known from earlier outings that they were at least three tonnes short of supplies. And much of what they had, HistoryHouse.com sneers, was "absurdly new-fangled and ridiculously excessive. It included an oak table with cedar top, 12 dandruff brushes for camels, six pairs of tailor's scissors and, incredibly, 10 pack saddles and 10 pairs of hobbles for oxen, even though they weren't taking any oxen with them."
Add to this a bathtub, a Chinese gong and a specially made branding iron designed to burn the letters B/VE, for Burke/Victorian Expedition, into tree trunks at campsites, a task that could be accomplished with a few strokes of an axe. Inflatable cushions and enema syringes probably quickly found their way onto the second-hand market somewhere en route.
Burke had stubbornly rejected Captain Francis Cadell's offer to transport the supplies to Adelaide by ship up the Murray and Darling Rivers.
Additonal Information
Source: Paul Dorsey Used with Permission
Logs
Found this one with goose of gooseandegg as we made our way back to Hobart.
thanks for the cache
thanks for the cache
Rated: for Overall Experience
A trip to Geelong for the long weekend had us travel via Lancefield to get away from the mainstream traffic, it was wonderful. The scenery was fantastic, and we hardly encountered any other vehicles.
The water was flowing well beneath the little bridge and we were able to see it going over the little waterfall.
Thanks for bringing us here via this virtual. The history was well written also in the description.
The water was flowing well beneath the little bridge and we were able to see it going over the little waterfall.
Thanks for bringing us here via this virtual. The history was well written also in the description.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Got a bit lost today, and decided as I worked out a route home to check out the way ahead for guiding caches.
Bonus! This was the first for the day, though I started on the nearby multi, this was the first find.
it's such tame, flogged out country now, an especially desolate from lack of rainthzt it's quite sadthough the explorers would obviously appreciated less precipitation when they were hereabouts
TFTC GCA
Bonus! This was the first for the day, though I started on the nearby multi, this was the first find.
it's such tame, flogged out country now, an especially desolate from lack of rainthzt it's quite sadthough the explorers would obviously appreciated less precipitation when they were hereabouts
TFTC GCA
Heading to Bacchus Marsh then Geelong I thought I woukd look for this along the way. Arrived at GZ and the post at the Creek was where it was for me. Photographed our trip mascot and TB Bowra and our GPS on the wooden post at Bolinda Creek. Thanks
We are currently touring Victoria with our geovan in tow, using geocaching as a guide. We have visited many amazing locations through geocaching and your cache B&W (V) Bolinda Creek was one we visited along the way. Required picture has been added to the gallery.
Many thanks Geocaching Australia for publishing this cache for our enjoyment and adding to our geocaching experience today.
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Rated: for Overall Experience
19:24
A welcome diversion after dinner with the in-laws... must remember to come past another time to see what this looks like in daylight.
Thanks to Geocaching Australia.
GCA#165
A welcome diversion after dinner with the in-laws... must remember to come past another time to see what this looks like in daylight.
Thanks to Geocaching Australia.
GCA#165
Rated: for Overall Experience
After finding B & W Camp1V we headed to the Bolinda Creek site to take the required photo. It was very quiet this morning so we were able to have the place to ourselves and take the required photos.
Thanks for another cache in this series geocaching australia
Thanks for another cache in this series geocaching australia
#GA1013 - 09:15; I decided to make use of a spare day in Victoria with the geoteen to head north from Melbourne along the path taken by Burke and Wills (and others) to collect some more of the caches in this series. The plan was to reach Bendigo, then head on to Elmore before heading back to the big smoke. I'd collected my first for the day at Queens Park in Moonee Ponds, which had proved a bit of a nemesis cache for me until today. This was my third stop for the series and much easier than I had made the previous find. TFTC Geocaching Australia
Rated: for Overall Experience
I love these B&W caches although out makes me realise that I know very little about this historic trip.
Heading to Melbourne along one of the many alternative roads gave me a chance to visit this location.
Stopped by to grab this one while heading back to Melbourne and being in the area....
Thanks for another one in this series.
Thanks for another one in this series.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Logged on a long-distance caching trip tackling the Urban Volcano and B&W series (and a few Leapfrogs too). I realised too late that I'd take my camera out of the car after Christmas with the family, so I've had to use the in-built camera in my Garmin Oregon 550 for recording my find. The photo was taken at GZ (0m from it according to the GPS at the time) facing across the creek to my "cachingmobile" - the coordinates are recorded in the EXIF data if need to confirm. A hot day, but with the recent rains the creek was flowing quite strongly under the bridge and over the little weir (?) it incorporates. TFTC
Having completed this one's partner, we headed here on this glorious afternoon to take the required pickies. With so many serene spots along the creek, I guess that anywhere might have been their stopping point for Camp III 
.
Thanks for another intriguing instalment in this wonderful series Geocaching Australia.
.Thanks for another intriguing instalment in this wonderful series Geocaching Australia.
A lovely wet day to be cruising around the area.
On our way to Heathcote for a Rogaine, and loved this back way (for us).
Thanks for the B&W series.
On our way to Heathcote for a Rogaine, and loved this back way (for us).
Thanks for the B&W series.
Found by Team Ladava around 4.30 on a glorious spring day, the first day of daylight saving.
Took the required snap and was on our way to the next location
Driving down a sealed road with a modern automobile is a far cry from the trip these pioneers were enduring even at this early stage of the trip.
Our thanks to c@w for pulling the whole series together.
Cheers
Ian & Sandra
Team Ladava
Took the required snap and was on our way to the next location
Driving down a sealed road with a modern automobile is a far cry from the trip these pioneers were enduring even at this early stage of the trip.
Our thanks to c@w for pulling the whole series together.
Cheers
Ian & Sandra
Team Ladava
Rated: for Overall Experience
I found this cache with caughatwork today. It was a nice easy cache to find and I took daddy's picture while he took mine.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found by caughtatwork at 11:35 on 3/10/2010
The fiorst virtual of the day. We parked a little way from the posted GZ but decided to take this picture close enough but giving a great view across the lands that would likely have been viewed a little more hostile than the sheep in the fields today.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks to everyone involved in the Burke & Wills Project.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1
The fiorst virtual of the day. We parked a little way from the posted GZ but decided to take this picture close enough but giving a great view across the lands that would likely have been viewed a little more hostile than the sheep in the fields today.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks to everyone involved in the Burke & Wills Project.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1
Rated: for Overall Experience
Arrived at GZ at 9:40am and strolled to within a couple of metres of GZ for the requisite photo. A wonderful spring morning to be travelling north, what a brilliant couple of days following the B&W trail!
Rated: for Overall Experience
1.00pm
Found by Roma and Max.
Our first visit to this genearal area today!
Found by Roma and Max.
Our first visit to this genearal area today!
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found by The Empire + H @ 2:30pm
14th of 21 GCA/GC.com cache finds today! Top spot, not sure if it would have been so nice back in the day though.
- M
14th of 21 GCA/GC.com cache finds today! Top spot, not sure if it would have been so nice back in the day though.
- M
14:25
Continuing in our quest to follow B&W. We were taken by the amount of water flowing down this creek following recent rains, along with the natural process of filtering of rubbish.
TFTH
Continuing in our quest to follow B&W. We were taken by the amount of water flowing down this creek following recent rains, along with the natural process of filtering of rubbish.
TFTH
Rated: for Overall Experience
Have to find out how to take a screenshot of the iphone like riddell... but since I don't know how, I just took a photo with the iphone with my car, and another with me in it.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Out and about on our Bourke and Wills tour of the country.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Very wet and soggy out here today, managed to park close to GZ and grab the necessary picture.
*FTF* @ 11:25 am.
The second cache of my GCA B&W FTF run.
I headed down the wrong road at first but quickly doubled back only to be tail-gated to GZ by a speedy local. They were probably wondering what I was doing if they'd bothered to look in their rear view mirror.
The attached photo was taken to a chorus of frog song as they celebrated the full creek and many puddles.
Thanks for all the work that went into these well prepared caches and thanks for bringing me to this historic place.
The second cache of my GCA B&W FTF run.
I headed down the wrong road at first but quickly doubled back only to be tail-gated to GZ by a speedy local. They were probably wondering what I was doing if they'd bothered to look in their rear view mirror.
The attached photo was taken to a chorus of frog song as they celebrated the full creek and many puddles.
Thanks for all the work that went into these well prepared caches and thanks for bringing me to this historic place.
Rated: for Overall Experience
