B&W (T) Old Elmore Hotel Runnymede, Victoria, Australia
By
WazzaAndWenches on 20-Aug-10. Waypoint GA2455
Cache Details
Difficulty: | |
Terrain: | |
Type: | Burke and Wills |
Container: | Regular |
Coordinates: | S36° 31.992' E144° 37.467' (WGS 84) |
55H 287329E 5954283N (UTM) | |
Elevation: | 142 m |
Local Government Area: | Campaspe |
Description
Burke & Wills (Traditional) Old Elmore Hotel
The Victorian Exploring Expedition (Better known as the Burke & Wills Expedition)
Based on the Diaries of Ludwig Becker, official diarist and naturalist of the expedition.
En route from Camp VIII (Barnadown) to Camp IX (Patterson's)
About eight miles north of the Clare Inn, the explorers, according to local tradition, rested at the old Elmore Hotel, on the route established for the movement of stock and then also for coach travel, which had been in business since 1846. The old hotel gave its name both to the parish and to the present Elmore township some three miles to the north.
Although Burke had been assured at Barnadown that twelve miles travel would bring them to Patterson's, they reached this camping place over after twenty-four miles of toil across the plains. Becker attributed this to their having been given faulty information, but they had plainly lost their way, probably by following the coach track to the north-east after leaving the Clare Inn.
You are seeking a regular size cache container hidden in the vicinity of a large Morton Bay Fig which marks the location of the Old Elmore Hotel.
As always, please ensure the cache is well hidden when you depart.
Hints
Crccrepbea |
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Decode |
Logs
After recent rain the area was quite squelchy so we left the car on the side of the road and walked into the camp ground. There were several cars and a small tent but no campers were visible. The pepper tree foliage provided a good screen for us as we located the container and signed the log. We then splashed our way out to the road.
Thanks for this B&W cache WassaAndWenches and for showing us this pleasant spot.
TNLNSL. Thanks WazzaAndWenches.
Couldn't see anyone about, but the car was there, and I was easy to spot, so I grabbed the accompanying screen shot, and left.
No worries, I'll be back later on.
TFTC WazaAndWenches. Loving your work.
Thanks WAW for the cache and the fun and attached history.
We are currently touring Victoria with our geovan in tow, using geocaching as a guide. We have visited many amazing locations through geocaching and today our journey followed in the footsteps of Burke and Wills - bringing us to your cache B&W (T) Old Elmore Hotel.
Many thanks WazzaAndWenches for publishing this cache for our enjoyment and adding to our geocaching experience today.
Cache and contents were in good condition.
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On my way to Echuca for an event, I had the advantage of no passengers, no timeline, and the cover of darkness, so stopped for a few grabs.
Surprise, surprise, another Burke and Wills cache by torchlight...
A nice uncomplicated find, and all in good nick. Thanks, WazzaAndWenches.
GCA#197
The final cache of the day. It's getting very dark now and we didn't get a chance to look at the nearby multi. We will have to try for that one tomorrow. This was a great opportunity to get some B&W caches as I never seem to get to this side of Bendigo when I come up caching. All is great with this cache and no maintenance needed.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for placing this cache here for us to come, visit and find. With no-one to hide there would be no-one to find.
*Overall Experience: 5*
GAFF 1
Once we finally got to GZ a quick find was made of a cache that was in excellent condition considering it has not been found for so long. Thanks, always good to get a real GCA cache and not a trig.
There were plenty of trees to check for the cache but luckily the gps got a bit more accurate and the container was found first time.
Thanks for another interesting spot, I wish I could follow the whole route but work gets in the way.
I wandered over to GZ and noted the very out of place fig tree sitting in the next paddock.
Thirsty for a cache find I poked around a tree more suited to this environment and found me a cache
TFTC and history
Not much left to make the site.
Thanks, Robmc.
Thanks for the effort involved with this one......
Lovely peppertree
Thanks for the B&W cache
Another bit of the Burke & Will trek and some fascinating history is revealed.
Three kangaroos bounded away from the area as we approached.
Took Path tag, left cowboy figurine
Our thanks to WazzaAndWenches for the cache.
Cheers
Ian & Sandra
Team Ladava
Cache condition- fine
Found with Just a Cacher, Candy Cane 101 & Mr Roo.
Thanks for the cache WazzaAndWenches
Thanks for the cache
Found this one with Black Bunny, Candy Cane 101, and Mr_Roo.
Great to finally find some B&W caches that we didn't place!
I drop Gnome GA2812 there to keep company with conatiner.
The area has had a lot of rain recently and with a lot of standing water it was a longer walk round to try and keep the boots dry. Nice area around GZ and a cache hidden in such a way as to not get water logged any day soon.
Left KoT pathtag.
Thanks WazzaAndWenches for a great B&W cache
Found by Roma and Max.
Another interesting historical site which would have remained unknown to us without you bringing us here.
Thanks again Warren.
From Romax.