Australia Hill Weldborough, Tasmania, Australia
By
CraigRat on 01-Jun-15. Waypoint GA7238
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Regular |
| Coordinates: | S41° 12.296' E147° 59.871' (WGS 84) |
| 55G 583660E 5438013N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 777 m |
| Local Government Area: | Break O'Day |
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Description
A moderate walk to some great views!
Located on the 4km Australia Hill walk, this cache will find you leaving the Poimena Township where you will need to park, and heading the track to Australia Hill. I reccomend parking at the Stockmans carpark. There are toilets and a shelter nearby to have a picnic (no open fires allowed!)
There's a few relics and things to see on the walk, and it is quite slippery in the wetter months, take care!
A (brief) history lesson:
Near GZ is the Summit Mine, opened in 1912 after the Anchor Mine and the Australia Company came to a commercial agreement.
The tin ore was winched down to the anchor Mine (where you can still find the stampers, look for the track off Anchor Road) .
The mines fortunes did not ever amount to much and after only a year in operation the Summit mine closed in 1913
The views from near GZ are spectacular on a fine day, however be aware you are at almost 800m altitude and the weather can change VERY quickly.
Hints
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Logs
Very interesting area to explore. We headed to this area after making our way from the North West to the East Coaat for the Easter weekend. I had plans to camp here but after looking around the area it probably isn’t recommended. After taking a direct route to the cache, we finally found the track we were MEANT to be on. 
It’s amazing how many wallaby tracks lead to where you need to be. Also, happened to stumble across an old mine or two 
So caution was had trying to find the proper track. Once we were back on the right track.We followed this religiously until we found GZ. Cache I’m hand, signed, returned and photos taken. Time to make our way back to the Ute and continue on to our destination. TFTC 
It’s amazing how many wallaby tracks lead to where you need to be. Also, happened to stumble across an old mine or two So caution was had trying to find the proper track. Once we were back on the right track.We followed this religiously until we found GZ. Cache I’m hand, signed, returned and photos taken. Time to make our way back to the Ute and continue on to our destination. TFTC Rated: for Overall Experience
Hi CraigRat
After arriving in St Helens yesterday and spending the night at Killraine Units the plan today was to find caches in the Weldborough, Blue Tier and Moorina areas. The round trip consisted of driving 160 kilometres and finding a total of 12 caches which required walking some 13.25km using a total of 17842 steps and burning a total of 1859 calories.
WEATHER: After the rain and hail in St Helens last night, I was totally surprised to have a bright, sunny day for the entire day's caching. Temperature got to about 16 or 18 degrees. Great day!
From "The Mountain of Tin" to look for this cache. Enjoying driving through this forest - first time here for me - never knew it existed prior to this caching experience. Even the camping and day use area here is well kept. What a brilliant area!!
From where I found the last cache to this one was not hard walking. However, the track was wet and slippery due to heavy rains last night. Again, the vegetation here is so different to that experienced those caches found this morning and even on the other side of the valley. Managed to disturb a wallaroo on this track. Still no birds singing, none sighted either. This walk, required using 2841 steps to cover a distance of 2.05 kilometres burning only 160 calories.
An easy find was had at GZ.
Subsequently, the log was signed and the cache Sainted 1210hrs. Replaced as found, the cache is in good condition and so is the log. Some of the surrounding bushes were not comfortable to touch but they did not draw blood so all is good.
From here, my next find, I hope will be "Wheely Big Drop." Only a short jaunt to GZ from here.
At days end back in St Helens a most welcome shower was had, dinner taken at the Ex-Servicemen's Club and back to the unit for rest.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.
After arriving in St Helens yesterday and spending the night at Killraine Units the plan today was to find caches in the Weldborough, Blue Tier and Moorina areas. The round trip consisted of driving 160 kilometres and finding a total of 12 caches which required walking some 13.25km using a total of 17842 steps and burning a total of 1859 calories.
WEATHER: After the rain and hail in St Helens last night, I was totally surprised to have a bright, sunny day for the entire day's caching. Temperature got to about 16 or 18 degrees. Great day!
From "The Mountain of Tin" to look for this cache. Enjoying driving through this forest - first time here for me - never knew it existed prior to this caching experience. Even the camping and day use area here is well kept. What a brilliant area!!
From where I found the last cache to this one was not hard walking. However, the track was wet and slippery due to heavy rains last night. Again, the vegetation here is so different to that experienced those caches found this morning and even on the other side of the valley. Managed to disturb a wallaroo on this track. Still no birds singing, none sighted either. This walk, required using 2841 steps to cover a distance of 2.05 kilometres burning only 160 calories.
An easy find was had at GZ.
Subsequently, the log was signed and the cache Sainted 1210hrs. Replaced as found, the cache is in good condition and so is the log. Some of the surrounding bushes were not comfortable to touch but they did not draw blood so all is good.
From here, my next find, I hope will be "Wheely Big Drop." Only a short jaunt to GZ from here.
At days end back in St Helens a most welcome shower was had, dinner taken at the Ex-Servicemen's Club and back to the unit for rest.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Both Sirius and self enjoyed this area. Track was firm but a bit slippery in places but easy to follow with plenty of indicators. We nearly walked straight past gz but stopped to check our position and we were dam near on it . Easy find tftc. With the other nearby cache in hand the round trip took 45 miniutes at a brisk gallop . tftc
Have had these caches down the far NE of Tassie ear marked for some time, but have generally not been able to get here due to ill health and for other. reasons.I have been also looking for GA caches for extra dragon zone points and also extra points in the current winter in July games.Being so far from home required an early start, but reluctant to start too early because of the frosty conditions likely to be encountered going through the sidling section.So headed off at 8 am in time to pick up the 'old war horse' Neribil who has climbed more mountains around Tassie than the majority of mountain goats.After gathering Neribil we set off in a 3 hour drive in anticipation of a great days caching with our firm sights set on the Craigrat caches on Australia Hill particularly as we both love the mining history in the area plus as many others in the surrounding area as possible. Having worked out the best plan of attack the first cache on our list was the Hilberts cache ...'Little Plains Lookout'.
After finding this cache it was off to grab the main prize on Australia Hill. Arrived at 1140am and we set off at a brisk pace. Nearing the top of the hill we thought it best to check how far to go, low and behold the cache was just 35m away. Took a side track and soon had gz in sight. Very accurate coords soon had the cache in hand. Cache and contents are all good. Top views from up here on a lovely winters day. The traces of old mining here was very visual...such a great area. Many thanks for a top cache Craigrat, very much appreciated by both myself and neribil....cheers ST. Now off to Wheely Big Drop.
After finding this cache it was off to grab the main prize on Australia Hill. Arrived at 1140am and we set off at a brisk pace. Nearing the top of the hill we thought it best to check how far to go, low and behold the cache was just 35m away. Took a side track and soon had gz in sight. Very accurate coords soon had the cache in hand. Cache and contents are all good. Top views from up here on a lovely winters day. The traces of old mining here was very visual...such a great area. Many thanks for a top cache Craigrat, very much appreciated by both myself and neribil....cheers ST. Now off to Wheely Big Drop.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Another amazing view, well worth the walk if you are only after the cache.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Loved this walk circuit, what a spot to come and explore. Some interesting rock formations at the top of Australia Hill and I loved the mossy paths that led down. Cache was in a nice neat hide, and in perfect condition. Thanks CraigRat.
One of several caches caches we found on our way to the East Coast.
Enjoyed the walk to this one on a beautiful Autumn day. Accurate co ordinates led to a quick find.
Great location for a cache thanks for bringing us here.
Enjoyed the walk to this one on a beautiful Autumn day. Accurate co ordinates led to a quick find.
Great location for a cache thanks for bringing us here.
Rated: for Overall Experience
After running out of time last Wednesday, we returned today to look for the two caches on Australia Hill and to have a look at some of the mining history. Although the weather was fine but cool, sections of the track were extremely slippery due to the layers of moss on the dirt and rocks. We slipped a number of times but no damage resulted.
This was an excellent area to explore. There was little evidence of mining at this location - a couple of large bolts fixed into the rocks appears to be all that remains. We wondered if they were associated with the cable way from the mine a little further to the south.
Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. There being no other entries in the logbook, we will claim FTF at 12:25. Thanks for the cache CraigRat and for bringing us to such an interesting area.
This was an excellent area to explore. There was little evidence of mining at this location - a couple of large bolts fixed into the rocks appears to be all that remains. We wondered if they were associated with the cable way from the mine a little further to the south.
Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. There being no other entries in the logbook, we will claim FTF at 12:25. Thanks for the cache CraigRat and for bringing us to such an interesting area.
