Complete waste of mine in the Dial Range Penguin, Tasmania, Australia
By Tassyexplorer on 05-Feb-12. Waypoint GA4289

Find cache first then venture onto old mine adit carefully.

Drive and park car at S41 10 289 E146 03 173, which will be besides the walking track to Cradle Mountain. Take track through the bush not the steep road downhill. Follow this walking track to find a the cache. If you wish contuine on walking track to the Leven River for a look (gander). It is what the outdoors is about. You will cross the Dial Creek further on just before the river. The mine adit is S41 10 506 E146 03 283. You can make a way through the bush if eager from this track. Not too thick but chest height in places. From Cache spot mine adit is about 363 meters with a decent of 45 meters. Mine adit found on cliff face just above creek water line at co-ords you should be in the creek. Tall timber could make readings drop out keep GPS turned on or signal could be lost. Do not try finding adit from the road leading to Leven River on southern side of Dial Creek, as a drop of 11 meters from this track will be encounted on a cliff face. With slippery green growth including moss. Remember while walking up creek the country rocks in the creek are very slippery. Even for four paws. My dog has been to all my  hidden caches as he loves the bush too. So many manferns here it is like fairy land. The creek can be crossed over in many places but very slippery surface out of water and in the creek water on rocks. ------- Update again, after being in the bush on that extra rainy day friday 30th March I walked back and forth to the car four times to take a waypoint at the cache. Each time it was a few meters out from the last reading. Tall timber will give driffrent readings as we all must know. I took the average to put in the coords section. Behind a stump on the north of the track. Me and the dog went to the mine adit also and put a cache there also. As there was not one there to be found before this date. I thought people would like to find the old mine adit. Well a cache at S41 10 463 E146 03 257 is only small but oposite the adit on the other side of the creek the northern side the side you should walk up. Walking up the creek bank from the walking track is much easier. Now from the adit , the beauty of the area is upstream by just around a small bend is a rock pool and a small water fall over some slanting rocks, very nice. Enjoy the outdoors here as it was wet this friday afternoon, and I enjoyed it.

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