Black Bunny's Bushrangers (T) - Charles (Black Douglas) Russell. Lade Vale, New South Wales, Australia
By Black Bunny on 23-Apr-19. Waypoint GA6025

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Type:	Traditional
Container:	Regular
Coordinates:	S34° 49.403' E149° 5.774' (WGS 84)
	55H 691709E 6144539N (UTM)
Elevation:	606 m
Local Government Area:	Upper Lachlan

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Black Bunny's Bushrangers - Charles (Black Douglas) Russell.

Charles (Black Douglas) Russell.

The legendary 'Black Douglas' Charles Russell was an English-born bushranger who held Melbourne and its surrounding areas to ransom during the 1850s. Russell preyed on those diggers travelling to and from the goldfields between Bendigo and Melbourne.

There are several accounts of victims being tied naked to a tree or fallen log with their boots full of bull ants, left to die a slow and excruciating death. He reportedly led a gang of 16 bushrangers who worked together in their marauding. Their camp was strategically located a few kilometres away from the Alma minefields in Maryborough, Vic.

Eventually, a frustrated group of nearly 200 diggers burnt their camp to the ground and overpowered Russell in May 1855. He was 75-years-old when he died in Bendigo gaol in 1892.

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2014/10/australias-most-notorious-bushrangers

Bushrangers.

Over 2,000 bushrangers are estimated to have roamed the Australian countryside, beginning with the convict bolters and drawing to a close after Ned Kelly's last stand at Glenrowan.

Bushrangers were originally escaped convicts who had the survival skills necessary to use the Australian bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities. By the 1820s, the term "bushranger" had evolved to refer to those who abandoned social rights and privileges to take up "robbery under arms" as a way of life, using the bush as their base.

Bushranging thrived during the gold rush years of the 1850s and 1860s when the likes of Ben Hall, Frank Gardiner and John Gilbert led notorious gangs in the country districts of New South Wales. These Wild Colonial Boys typically robbed small-town banks and coach services.

In other infamous cases, such as that of Dan Morgan, the Clarke brothers, and Australia's best-known bushranger, Ned Kelly, numerous policemen were murdered.

The number of bushrangers declined due to better policing and improvements in rail transport and communication technology, such as telegraphy. Kelly's capture and execution in 1880 effectively represented the end of the bushranging era.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushranger

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Logs

18-Feb-24

Lucy & Roo

No trouble here today; the sheltering apple tree was full of fruit, but I wasn't brave enough to try them. Thanks for the cache Black Bunny

Rated: for Overall Experience

12-Jul-21

LuckyL10n

#GA5330 - 13:25; I missed out on the last mission to collect more caches in this series, so after a meeting in Goulburn, I took the long way home to make up for my previous absence and to pick up some ammo for the current Battleships game. I was accompanied by Sol de lune, who had skippered the previous mission, but who had some of the more recently placed caches in the series to find. Unless otherwise indicated, all caches were found in good order. TFTC Black Bunny Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

26-Jun-21

alnic39

Some of the big gaps in this series had me worried I was missing things, but all is good now. Tftc.

Rated: for Overall Experience

05-Jun-21

Just a cacher

Found when with owner, placing caches and doing a maintenance run.

18-Apr-21

Sol de lune

Have been looking at this series since it was published but never got around to driving out for it. Made today the day and headed off with Smittengranny, who offered to drive me around while I grabbed them. No problems at any of them and all were found in good condition. Would be great if more cachers would find them, but hopefully that will happen.

Thanks to both Just a Cacher and Black Bunny for a few more caches in the every growing Bushranger series. Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

07-Feb-21

HansJJ

Hit the road HARD & travelled over 700km today to move movables 250km + from last location. So, on the way home completed some trigs & caches – all your Bushrangers series. These caches were very enjoyable – this was the 3rd of completed – – enjoyed this cache – nicely found – thanks for the history of these interesting people - TFTC / TFTH / SL

Rated: for Overall Experience

11-Mar-20

JohnoMawbs

With a day off and the eagerness to get out for a cache or two, Wink

I headed out for a run along the back-roads and Hume-HWY between Yass and Gunning. I chose this route to collect caches that has popped up, to avenge DNF’s and to collect caches I missed last time, I did this run (back in 2016). I found a good mixture of caches both in sizes and types of hides. Most were quick finds and all caches were signed and replaced except for three DNF’s and one NA. Out of 45 attempted caches, which is a mixture of both GC and GCA, I ended up finding 41 of them. I would like to thank all CO’s of the caches I found and for allowing them to bring enjoyment to me and the rest of the caching community. Big Grin

TFTC’s and TFTTP’s Big Grin

05-Jul-19

2y'stassies

In our school Australian history we did cover the gold rush and Black Douglas did rate a mention. We couldn't remember him being Charles Russell. He was one bushranger who had a long life.

We had no trouble locating his stash and admired the very nice hand made log book.

Thanks for another cache in the Bushranger series and for helping us fill in the link between Black Douglas. The cache was in very good condition

18-May-19

Smittengranny

Today I decided to take advantage of the fabulous weather and the May Madness and go caching with the GCA caches in my sight. There were plenty to be had so I planned a circuit up to Gunnong and then across through Sutton and home again. Thanks for this series Black Bunny and Just a Cacher. Learned lots and it is great to see a series placed carefully so there's room to park up and not in sight of a gate or homestead. All logs have been signed and caches returned to their hidey holes. Clapping

Rated: for Overall Experience

12-May-19

minniek

After breakfast (and lunch in bed) and some lovely Mother's Day presents, fitzy_1965 and I decided to do a bit of GCA caching for May Madness.

Quick find on all these once we realised they were on the Old Hume. Thanks for the history lessons too.

Rated: for Overall Experience

12-May-19

fitzy_1965

GCA 2,351. Found during a Mother's Day GCA run along the Hume with minniek.

With all these nice new GCA Trads in the area plus May Madness bonus points up for grabs we headed out for a mostly GCA run. It was a easy run along the old Hume picking these up one by one. Some interesting stories about the Bushrangers - most of which I never knew before. All were quick finds once at GZ.

Thanks Just a Cacher and Black Bunny !!

Clan Cerberus

Rated: for Overall Experience

11-May-19

Kittykatch

Found with Joolay on a day trip to Crookwell to attend an event and then picked up a bunch of caches on the way home. I love the BBB series ! Thanks for the cache

11-May-19

Joolay

Found with Kittykatch out and about after travelling to Crookwell for a GC event by Gliss. Decided to pick these up on the way back.
Cache in good condition. And great caches. Love the effort gone into this series.

What a nasty nasty man. Shame he died in jail. Too good for him

Rated: for Overall Experience

02-May-19

Pacmania

Always good to do BB caches, nice size and well stocked.

Called in here to do this series before I headed up the mountain.

All found OK. Thanks,

Rated: for Overall Experience

25-Apr-19

Gullivers Travels54

A pleasant drive through the country side. We have done a few of your caches, and was pleasantly surprised by another FTF in this current series. TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

23-Apr-19

Black Bunny

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