Dooleys Heritage Trail #20 Tasmania, Australia
By
sirius Tas on 13-Sep-13. Waypoint GA6444
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Small |
| Coordinates: | S41° 21.019' E146° 9.836' (WGS 84) |
| 55G 430058E 5422016N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 123 m |
| Local Government Area: | Central Coast |
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Description
Access can be via the caches along the trail from the north or starting from Spellmans Bridge and heading north along the eastern bank of the Wilmot.
If coming from previous caches to the north the river will need to be crossed and may not be possible in winter flows.
With almost all the caches now placed along the whole trail, a longish day walk can be had starting at either end and utilising a car shuffle.
This section north from Spellmans Bridge involves quite a lot of rock hopping and climbing over some difficult sections.
Please be extremely careful on the rocks if they are wet. If it looks WET and SLIPPERY then iIT IS. A fall here could result in broken limbs.
As a general rule, stay off any flat surfaces if wet and stick to crevices and sharper surfaces.
If caching here alone, PLEASE follow normal bush walking protocols and if possible carry a PLB(personal locator beacon) which has been properly registered with AMSA.
The cache is a small black sistema container with logbook, biro and small swaps.
Please take care, but above all, enjoy the walk!
Hints
Ng gbc bs fgrcf, oruvaq ynetr iregvpny ebpx fyno, jvguva nezf ernpu bs genvy pbirerq jvgu fznyy ebpxf. |
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Logs
Tackled the Dooley track today with DEZ055. What an amazing walk. We did this in two stages, starting at Spellmans bridge and walking as far as we could before turning back to the vehicle and driving to the end on River Rd off Swamp rd to continue the track from there to the north.
First find on the track today. Looking like we could be doing a fair bit of rock hopping. Found in good condition. TFTC
First find on the track today. Looking like we could be doing a fair bit of rock hopping. Found in good condition. TFTC
Checked coords again today....updated, but gps is erratic at this spot.
Coords are different near every day.
River level was just down enough to continue to the crossing.
Coords are different near every day.
River level was just down enough to continue to the crossing.
We needed to find some caches to get us on the board for the October games so we sat down and worked out a plan of caches that we would target.
After finding a few caches on the way to wilmot we ventured down spellmans road to go over to secluded falls lookout cache. While stopped at the bridge we decided to do a little bit of research on the track for the event with a short walk to this cache. The gps was useless as it was saying the cache was in the middle of the river but with a great hint the cache was quickly found. TFTC
After finding a few caches on the way to wilmot we ventured down spellmans road to go over to secluded falls lookout cache. While stopped at the bridge we decided to do a little bit of research on the track for the event with a short walk to this cache. The gps was useless as it was saying the cache was in the middle of the river but with a great hint the cache was quickly found. TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
Checked cache today...all in top nick.
Due to high river levels couldn't get to the other caches.
Due to high river levels couldn't get to the other caches.
A massive thank you to Bill Shepherd and Max Richardson who have spent over 2 months in recent times to reopen and rebuild large parts of Dooly's Trail after extreme floods of 2016.
All geocachers and bush walkers alike should appreciate their enormous effort, otherwise these trails would still be closed.
While I have helped a little over recent yrs. ill health just hasn't enabled me to lend any help at all....so I can appreciate the enormous task that both Bill and Max have undertaken and I owe them bigtime as access to my geocaches simply would not be possible.
So please spare a thought when walking these trails as to the huge amount of work undertaken and if anyone can lend a hand at any time it would be most welcome.
A huge thank you to stainless-steel-rat, TazScout and gooseandegg for all their hard work in replacing the many missing caches due to massive flooding...hope you all had a fantastic day...even though quite hard. Congrats to all for finishing an amazing trek....kindest regards sirius.
All geocachers and bush walkers alike should appreciate their enormous effort, otherwise these trails would still be closed.
While I have helped a little over recent yrs. ill health just hasn't enabled me to lend any help at all....so I can appreciate the enormous task that both Bill and Max have undertaken and I owe them bigtime as access to my geocaches simply would not be possible.
So please spare a thought when walking these trails as to the huge amount of work undertaken and if anyone can lend a hand at any time it would be most welcome.
A huge thank you to stainless-steel-rat, TazScout and gooseandegg for all their hard work in replacing the many missing caches due to massive flooding...hope you all had a fantastic day...even though quite hard. Congrats to all for finishing an amazing trek....kindest regards sirius.
Set out to do Dooleys Trail with Goose&Egg and Stainless steel rat, a beautiful area and worth a visit but not for the faint hearted if you do the entire trail at once I left a scout behind in all the caches that were big enough.
First cache of the day and a quick find, tftc
First cache of the day and a quick find, tftc
First of all sorry about the very late logs on this series of great caches, life, work and far less worthy caches have got in my way of getting round to logging these.
Second sorry about the long first log.
This walk has been long in the planning with Goose first bringing it up in a simple message "do you remember discussing doing Dooleys Trail" I had no idea where he was talking about but he soon filled me in on this idea TazScout had talked to him about of doing all the caches along the river Wilmot, this was last October and from this little seed large plans did grow, with many hours spent looking at maps, reading logs, talking to CO's and in the end the final realisation was the spending of money on hotel rooms along with sorting out the logistics of what you need for a 24km walk.
GooseandEgg picked me up on Friday night after work and we set off to the Northwest getting to Sheffield at 8pm, we meet up with TazScout and catch up over a few beers before turning in for the night, the next morning I'm up at 5.30 watching the sunrise, by the time we are all up, washed, feed and COFFEE'd we are all ready for a great day ahead of us.
After dropping of TazScouts car we all cram ourselves and gear into Eggs AWD and head off to spellmans bridge, we start the walk proper just after 8am
After all that we walk to the 1st cache of the day and discover that the CO has replaced it even with them not being in top form, even with us only being a short distance from the start we can see what wonders this walk is going to show us and we are all smiles as we add our names to the log and make some wise ass comments about how easy this walk is going to be....
Found at 08:15
Second sorry about the long first log.
This walk has been long in the planning with Goose first bringing it up in a simple message "do you remember discussing doing Dooleys Trail" I had no idea where he was talking about but he soon filled me in on this idea TazScout had talked to him about of doing all the caches along the river Wilmot, this was last October and from this little seed large plans did grow, with many hours spent looking at maps, reading logs, talking to CO's and in the end the final realisation was the spending of money on hotel rooms along with sorting out the logistics of what you need for a 24km walk.
GooseandEgg picked me up on Friday night after work and we set off to the Northwest getting to Sheffield at 8pm, we meet up with TazScout and catch up over a few beers before turning in for the night, the next morning I'm up at 5.30 watching the sunrise, by the time we are all up, washed, feed and COFFEE'd we are all ready for a great day ahead of us.
After dropping of TazScouts car we all cram ourselves and gear into Eggs AWD and head off to spellmans bridge, we start the walk proper just after 8am
After all that we walk to the 1st cache of the day and discover that the CO has replaced it even with them not being in top form, even with us only being a short distance from the start we can see what wonders this walk is going to show us and we are all smiles as we add our names to the log and make some wise ass comments about how easy this walk is going to be....
Found at 08:15
Rated: for Overall Experience
A rough plan was hatched sometime late last year to Dooleys Trail. Rough in the fact that we said we'd do it early next year. On New Years day we confirmed we would make the trek on 21 Jan.
Stainless-steel-rat, the egg and I drove up Friday night from the South and met TazScout and hubby at Sheffield for an overnight stay before out big adventure. We cleaned up the available caches in town, had a couple of drinks and crawled into bed with plans for a 7am departure.
We dropped off TazScouts car at the northern end and squeezed into 'the egg crate' for the short but somewhat nautious drive to Spellmans Bridge.
Now we did a lot of panning for this trip with timing, equipment, food and water. SSR also touched base with sirius Tas and Spreyton22 and gained some valuable information. This walk is not for the faint hearted and really should be done in sections. We had to skip parts and take a shortcut through a hippy camp yet still our GPS told us we had covered 24.3km and it took us just over 11 hours so it was slow going.
I have to say it was a beautiful area and I am so glad we did the walk. We couldn't have asked for a better day and the company was just fantastic. We stuck together and helped each other in some of the tough bits and finished the walk having achieved a couple of river crossings, conquering a land slide and navigating some steep narrow paths.
Dooleys Heritage Trail #20 was the first find on our walk from south to north. We all agreed we were glad we did it in this direction getting the harder sections out of the way earlier in the day.
A quick find of this nice new dry container tucked away safely
Stainless-steel-rat, the egg and I drove up Friday night from the South and met TazScout and hubby at Sheffield for an overnight stay before out big adventure. We cleaned up the available caches in town, had a couple of drinks and crawled into bed with plans for a 7am departure.
We dropped off TazScouts car at the northern end and squeezed into 'the egg crate' for the short but somewhat nautious drive to Spellmans Bridge.
Now we did a lot of panning for this trip with timing, equipment, food and water. SSR also touched base with sirius Tas and Spreyton22 and gained some valuable information. This walk is not for the faint hearted and really should be done in sections. We had to skip parts and take a shortcut through a hippy camp yet still our GPS told us we had covered 24.3km and it took us just over 11 hours so it was slow going.
I have to say it was a beautiful area and I am so glad we did the walk. We couldn't have asked for a better day and the company was just fantastic. We stuck together and helped each other in some of the tough bits and finished the walk having achieved a couple of river crossings, conquering a land slide and navigating some steep narrow paths.
Dooleys Heritage Trail #20 was the first find on our walk from south to north. We all agreed we were glad we did it in this direction getting the harder sections out of the way earlier in the day.
A quick find of this nice new dry container tucked away safely
Rated: for Overall Experience
Back in Tassie, our first trip was to finish off the caches along the southern end of Dooley's Track. We parked at Spellman's Bridge and did twelve caches in reverse order. The first cache was no problem to find. Great day for a walk, not too hot, and wonderful to be back in the Tassie bush again!
Rated: for Overall Experience
What to do on a beautiful Saturday - work in the vegie garden or finally go and get some of the caches on the Dooley Trail? Caching won and we headed off to Spellmans Bridge with the dog, who much preferred this option. After a short walk cache no 20 was soon found. Thanks.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Had a lovely walk along one side of the river collecting 5 of this great series with Geo Kid A.
Quick walk to first of the series in reverse
Quick walk to first of the series in reverse
Hi Sirius
Started the track with the notion to do as many caches in this group as I could.
The water was running rather quickly in the Wilmot and when I started the sun was shining with little cloud.
Climbed the stairs and made a quick find.
Sainted the cache at 0956hrs.
The river and its scenery had me mesmerised so I lingered a while to take it all in.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.
Started the track with the notion to do as many caches in this group as I could.
The water was running rather quickly in the Wilmot and when I started the sun was shining with little cloud.
Climbed the stairs and made a quick find.
Sainted the cache at 0956hrs.
The river and its scenery had me mesmerised so I lingered a while to take it all in.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Congrats to 2y'stassies for FTF and for completing the series so far along with Tassie Trekkers....great effort by both geocachers.
Found on our caravan and caching holiday to the North West coast, finding caches that had been published since our last vist and this was one of them.
After finding caches #8 - #15 on Dooleys Heritage Trail we drove to Spellmans Bridge to check out the caches from this end. Made a quick find. TFTC
After finding caches #8 - #15 on Dooleys Heritage Trail we drove to Spellmans Bridge to check out the caches from this end. Made a quick find. TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
We were feeling a little house bound this afternoon and so decided to head off to do some reconnaissance on Dooleys Heritage Trail #16-#20. The first surprise was when we turned onto Spellmans Road. There was a sign which stated "Road Closed - Local Traffic Only". We assumed that the storm in the middle of last week had caused some damage which still wasn't repaired. We drove on and managed to get to the western side of Spellmans Bridge. There the road was blocked by a locked gate. The signs in the area suggested that the road eastwards from Spellmans Bridge was blocked. That did not cause us any problems as we parked on the western side and walked across the bridge to the very clearly marked start of the track.
As we walked across the bridge we noticed that there was quite a strong water flow in the river. We set off down river with the track coming very close to the river on one occasion. This section of the Wilmot River certainly has a different character to the lower sections. The variety in this river valley is remarkable. After a short rock scramble we were able to get to GZ where accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and it's contents were in good condition. We were a little surprised that we could claim FTF at 16:00.
We then continued on down river to see if we could get to #19. However we only gone about 50m from #20 until the rough concrete pads on the river bank became submerged. Not knowing the area, we decided that further exploration of the southern end of Dooleys Trail would have to wait until the river levels dropped significantly.
Thanks Sirius Tas for another very enjoyable cache in this excellent series. We are really looking forward to searching for #16 to #19 after the river level drops sufficiently.
As we walked across the bridge we noticed that there was quite a strong water flow in the river. We set off down river with the track coming very close to the river on one occasion. This section of the Wilmot River certainly has a different character to the lower sections. The variety in this river valley is remarkable. After a short rock scramble we were able to get to GZ where accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and it's contents were in good condition. We were a little surprised that we could claim FTF at 16:00.
We then continued on down river to see if we could get to #19. However we only gone about 50m from #20 until the rough concrete pads on the river bank became submerged. Not knowing the area, we decided that further exploration of the southern end of Dooleys Trail would have to wait until the river levels dropped significantly.
Thanks Sirius Tas for another very enjoyable cache in this excellent series. We are really looking forward to searching for #16 to #19 after the river level drops sufficiently.
