The Sluice Weldborough, Tasmania, Australia
By
CraigRat on 01-Jun-15. Waypoint GA7241
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Regular |
| Coordinates: | S41° 11.910' E148° 0.216' (WGS 84) |
| 55G 584151E 5438721N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 746 m |
| Local Government Area: | Break O'Day |
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Description
An easy cache on an interesting walk, in an interesting spot!
Located close to the heart of the former Poimena township, this geocache is located on the easy 'Goblin Forest' walk, located near the Stockyard carpark.
Take your time to wander along the path and look at the relics and information.
The cache is close to the sluice heads used by miners to gauge water flows to their workings.
After finding the cache, have a wander back around to the clearings and try to imagine what life was like for the miners in such a cold, and windy place.
There is a picnic shelter at the start of the walk, a good place to have some eats before attempting some other nearby caches!
Hints
Haqre gur obneqjnyx, jrfgrea raq. Ernpu va! |
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Logs
Wasn’t sure I was game to check for this one. Needed to make sure it was there before I stuck my hand somewhere that I wasn’t getting it back from. So the trusty phone camera confirmed position and voila!! 
Very interesting area to explore. We headed to this area after making our way from the North West to the East Coast for the Easter weekend. I had plans to camp here but after looking around the area it probably isn’t recommended. Cache in hand, signed, returned and photos taken. Time to make our way back to the Ute and continue on to our destination. TFTC
Very interesting area to explore. We headed to this area after making our way from the North West to the East Coast for the Easter weekend. I had plans to camp here but after looking around the area it probably isn’t recommended. Cache in hand, signed, returned and photos taken. Time to make our way back to the Ute and continue on to our destination. TFTC
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 "Cachestamper" 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 parked the car to the sluice was easy walking . Albeit a short walk, the vegetation here is so different to that experienced those caches found morning. There was really only one place this cache could be hiding - no hint needed here. An easy find was had at GZ.
Subsequently, the log was signed and the cache Sainted 1104hrs. Replaced as found, the cache is in good condition and so is the log. Bugger, the jeans got a little wet getting the cache out; just the knee - did not happen when it was replaced. How ingenious were these early Tasmanian minors. Loved the structure.
Having found the cache and replaced it, back to the car searching for batteries for both GPS and camera. I was surprised at the lack of active fauna in this area . Few birds either.
I used 323 steps to cover 0.25 kilometres burning only 41 calories for the time walking to, looking for, finding the cache and return to the car. A very pleasant walk through what can only be described as magnificent forest. The history of this area fascinating.
From here, my next find, I hope will be "Mountain of Tin."
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 "Cachestamper" 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 parked the car to the sluice was easy walking . Albeit a short walk, the vegetation here is so different to that experienced those caches found morning. There was really only one place this cache could be hiding - no hint needed here. An easy find was had at GZ.
Subsequently, the log was signed and the cache Sainted 1104hrs. Replaced as found, the cache is in good condition and so is the log. Bugger, the jeans got a little wet getting the cache out; just the knee - did not happen when it was replaced. How ingenious were these early Tasmanian minors. Loved the structure.
Having found the cache and replaced it, back to the car searching for batteries for both GPS and camera. I was surprised at the lack of active fauna in this area . Few birds either.
I used 323 steps to cover 0.25 kilometres burning only 41 calories for the time walking to, looking for, finding the cache and return to the car. A very pleasant walk through what can only be described as magnificent forest. The history of this area fascinating.
From here, my next find, I hope will be "Mountain of Tin."
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
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 on the caches at both Australia Hill and the Summit mine.
Having just found these it was a short drive along the road and short walk to 'The Sluice'. Didn't take long for neribil to locate the cache which is in good order. Another top spot and enjoyed reading the history.
Many thanks Craigrat for anorher top cache...much appreciated...cheers ST.
Having just found these it was a short drive along the road and short walk to 'The Sluice'. Didn't take long for neribil to locate the cache which is in good order. Another top spot and enjoyed reading the history.
Many thanks Craigrat for anorher top cache...much appreciated...cheers ST.
Rated: for Overall Experience
An easy short stroll throudh the bush on a well formed track. After signing the log Sirius and I checked out the sluice before heading back to the car. tftc
I came for a little east coast getaway planning to come up this way and walk the Australia Hill circuit. It was only when I arrived that I wondered if there were any nearby caches. "You beauty", I thought when I saw that there was one only 80m away, followed by "I should have known" when I realised it was Craigrats. A most interesting location and good sized cache. Fantastic spot. Other than when I was reading about the Chinese miner who died after he fell into the fire because then I felt sick. What hard times. Thanks for a great cache, Craigrat.
One of several caches caches we found on our way to the East Coast.
After finding Wheely Big Drop and Australia Hill we followed the boardwalk circuit to this cache. Mr T made the find in another interesting location full of history. TFTC
After finding Wheely Big Drop and Australia Hill we followed the boardwalk circuit to this cache. Mr T made the find in another interesting location full of history. TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
Our intention today was to look for the four caches CraigRat placed in the area recently. Alas, we only found one.
We left the Tasman Highway and went along Lottah Road. Rather quickly we started to become a little apprehensive as there was a sign indicating that we should keep to the left as log trucks use the road. "Keep to the left" was ridiculous as the road was only marginally wider than our car with no chance of getting past a log truck in most parts. Again there was evidence of fallen trees but someone had been through and from the debris patter, it appears that a bull-bar got an extensive workout. After many, many large water-filled potholes, we were nearing Lottah when there was another large tree across the road, again too big for us. We got out to inspect and heard a chainsaw - there were some TasNetwork employees on the other side cutting their way through as they checked and repaired power lines in the area. We were very grateful when they cut a tunnel for us so that we could be on our way. The road from Lottah to GZ showed ample evidence of the storm - the road was carpeted with bark and sticks and at one point, the remains of a tree with a 60cm diameter trunk which has been cleared away in the last day or so.
Eventually we got to the car parking area and took a short walk to GZ where a quick find was made. the cache and contents were in good condition. There being no other entries in the logbook, we will claim FTF at 12:45.
After a short look around the immediate area we went back to the car. As we had to be back in Launceston by 4pm and the Australia Hill loop was estimated to take 2 hours, we decided to leave the remaining two caches for another day. In addition, we did not want to return by Lottah Road and came our through Goulds Country - much longer but far less demanding road.
Thanks CraigRat for placing the caches in the area. We will be back.
We left the Tasman Highway and went along Lottah Road. Rather quickly we started to become a little apprehensive as there was a sign indicating that we should keep to the left as log trucks use the road. "Keep to the left" was ridiculous as the road was only marginally wider than our car with no chance of getting past a log truck in most parts. Again there was evidence of fallen trees but someone had been through and from the debris patter, it appears that a bull-bar got an extensive workout. After many, many large water-filled potholes, we were nearing Lottah when there was another large tree across the road, again too big for us. We got out to inspect and heard a chainsaw - there were some TasNetwork employees on the other side cutting their way through as they checked and repaired power lines in the area. We were very grateful when they cut a tunnel for us so that we could be on our way. The road from Lottah to GZ showed ample evidence of the storm - the road was carpeted with bark and sticks and at one point, the remains of a tree with a 60cm diameter trunk which has been cleared away in the last day or so.
Eventually we got to the car parking area and took a short walk to GZ where a quick find was made. the cache and contents were in good condition. There being no other entries in the logbook, we will claim FTF at 12:45.
After a short look around the immediate area we went back to the car. As we had to be back in Launceston by 4pm and the Australia Hill loop was estimated to take 2 hours, we decided to leave the remaining two caches for another day. In addition, we did not want to return by Lottah Road and came our through Goulds Country - much longer but far less demanding road.
Thanks CraigRat for placing the caches in the area. We will be back.
