Trestle Bridge Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia
By The Farmers 5 on 15-Jun-09. Waypoint GC1TM9J

The bridge is collapsing and permanent barriers have been placed for hundreds of metres to stop people entering.
Therefore the cache is inaccessible.
Many thanks to all who found and logged it.

This cache is no longer accessible due to fencing

See photo

Cache is disabled until a check of exact fencing boundaries and access .
Many thanks for the heads up .
Updates in the near future .

Nice and easy cache

#7906 @0930
Caching my way to Wagga Wagga for the Australian 3 day orienteering champs. Foiled by the fence on my first approach. The grass was too wet to crawl under, so walked around and climbed over the gate (despite the signs saying no entry). Quickly found. TFTC.

It appears GZ is now fenced off by a barbed wire fence due to the danger of the bridge losing bits. Might be worth a check nad relocating it. Will log TB Centralised as it is near the old railway trestle bridge.

Cows were bemused as only they can do.
Watch out above although we survived.
TFTC

Access to this cache is questionable but it's probably a case of enter at your own risk. You wouldn't want be standing under the bits that have already fallen and the fence protects cattle and humans. Too bad if you're a duck. Thanks again The Farmers 5.

Another good find while driving / walking around the area today.
Had a great time going from cache to cache.
Thanks for the fun!
SL

No issues getting to the cache.
The fence is to keep the cattle out.
Gate installed to give easy access to the area.
Cache in good condition.

You cant find it anymore because the bridge is now fenced off

You cant get this one anymore as it is now fenced off

A week off work road trip Ballarat, Creswick, Bendigo, Echuca, Cobram, Yarrawonga, Wangaratta, Wodonga Gundagai, Yass, Canberra, Cooma, Cann river and Bemm river areas we put some kms on the car. Thanks for all the caches we done over the week with aqau.
Thanks

Easy find on our way south TFTC

A quick pick while exploring beautiful Gundagai TFTC

Stopped with Dumbo069 in Gundagai overnight on route to Ararat, and of course we had to do a cache or two, or three, or four along the way.

T4TC

Heading north for the Alice Springs Event at Easter we explored Gundagai and surrounds using geocaching as a guide and picking up a few caches on the way and this was one of them. An easy find. Thanks The Farmaer 5 for our tour of Gundagai, we enjoyed the locations we visited.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Found on our way to the Alice Springs mega

Thanks for placing this cache The Farmers 5. This is number 1452 for us now.

Suscoe was heading down the highway steadily subtracting the KMS to home.
We decided to pick up a few along the way as it was pretty hot and the car was cooler than outside.
We enjoyed getting off the highway in some places and exploring the country a little more.
It was in the high 30's while we were here.
No one much about in the streets and parks.

Thanks to The Farmers 5 for this cache.

What a brilliant old reminder from days gone by.
If only the timbers could speak.

I was going to post a DNF, but the story is more of an aborted trek around GZ, hindered by a frozen GPS map (only occurs 5 or 6 times per caching day, nice one Garmin) and the 2 tonnes of Forbes cherries I ate yesterday.... we had to retreat to MacDonalds for personal reasons.... given the damp squishy area, the 4,338 waterlooged cow pats between the car and where GZ seemed to be and the recent snakes log spooking my buddy - we decided to not come back.

Snakes snakes

Found it tonight with Snoopy1976 after having some dinner. TFTC

Log to follow

What an interesting spot. TFTC

TFTC again no trackable in this cache either we seem to be just missing them

Nice walk through the long grass. Tfyc

Found today on our way to Tassie. All is well with the cache. TFTC

found on our way to tassie TFTC

#472 Few funny looks from the cows gathered around GZ, no problem otherwise. TFTC

15. Parked and walked to this one. Bit muddy going. Easy find. TFTC

A quick grab, too muddy to park too close today though! TFTC.

Always a delight to see these trestle bridges still standing (just) - they make an impressive impact on the landscape and of course deserve a cache as well! SL at 12.47pm on our tour of Gundagai as we make our way along the Hume to Yass today. No sign of the GC placed here in January, so suspect it is in the bottom of someone's caching bag! #3683 TFTC The Farmers 5 and now we must check out the National School monument.

#1738 On my way from Canberra to Albury for a few days caching. Stopped in Gandagai where all the rivers and plains were overflowing. I also bumped into StrangeTrousers who was also caching for the day. This historic area was very green and muddy. Its amazing where geocaching can bring you. Signed log and replaced. TFTC The Farmers 5.

2234 8 of 17 today

I felt like getting out of town today, so I cast my eye over the geomap to spot a likely target & settled on Gundagai. After all the rain, the hills are a lovely shade of green & there was plenty of water in the rivers. It also wasn't cold, so apart from the occasional light shower, it was pretty much ideal conditions. Being Sunday, Gundagai was a bit on the sleepy side.

These old bridges are in poor shape & are due to be demolished. It will be a shame when it finally happens as they are so much a part of this town.

I caught up with The Skype at this one. I had met him earlier at Jugiong. An easy find. Grabbed a TB.

TFTC The Farmers 5.

Great bridge. Fred braved the walk in the field of cowes. No TBs in cache. Left one though. TFTC

Wow what an amazing place. It would be bizzarre to havr seen this area during the floods. Thanks for the cool hide

Camped in the wonderful camping area nearby. Got up to take photos of the bridges in the fog. I am in love with Gundagai. TFTC

Quick find now onto the next cache ...

What amazing bridges. A quick find. TFTC

What a great bridge! Guess its all going to fall down but it would make a great rail trail..... Took the only trackable here - the others are long gone..... TFTC

These bridges are amazing. Love how caching takes us to places like this. SL TFTC Farmers 5

My cars gps tried to take me over the bridge! Oops. GZ was nice and in the shade. I disturbed a heap of crickets on my approach. They were pinging off all over the place. Such fun!. Cache was found in good condition. Tftc

What a beautiful old bridge. I'm so glad to see it's still standing, even if only just. I suspect in the coming times the safety boffins will have their say and it will eventually be pulled down, removing a magnificent part of Australia's history - what a shame! Anyway, about the cache. I parked on the road and walked the short distance to GZ, paying attention to a few areas before locating the obvious hide. I left a Geocaching NSW geocoin behind which I had picked up in Victoria yesterday. Happy travels!

Great find in the dark. Very impressive old lady. Great history lesson. Tftc

Camped nearby, so when it cooled down a little set off on a bear - oops, cache hunt. I was sure I had told Little Red Riding Hood (aka my GPSr) about the caches in this area, but she feigned ignorance, so I relied on Sam(sung) who directed me to the GZ. Once there I scouted around and soon had cache in hand. T tb LN SL TFTC

Wow, it's getting pretty decrepit. TFTC

I don't travel far.

Found this cache with geo Mum while on the way back from Melbourne staying in Gundagai. Went for a walk and realised there must be a cache around here so didn't have pen. So took a picture of the log instead

TFTC Historic site of old Gundagai quick find.

Amazing bridges, complete with magpie sentinels...

We have been to Gundagai a few times now & always comment on this bridge, thank you for getting us up close & personal! Loved being in the paddock with the free roaming cows too!! No tb sighted, tnln tftc xo

Found 27/12. I remember driving across this bridge many years ago - I can still hear the rattle of the planks as you drove across and wondered how much more it could take with increased numbers of trucks. Thanks for the history The Farmers 5.

Tfc great story.

Nice bridge. Amazing that they built it that way just in case it floods. Doubt I'd drive across it in a flood! TFTC

Fantastic historical little town. TFTC.

Our Nuvi tried her damnedest to get us to drive on the bridge. We thought better than that.
Chris & Renate from Ontario, Canada

My second day on a caching road trip for the Mega Event next weekend. I was up bright and early to start caching again.
That's a long bridge! The longest I've seen before this was Macarthur Bridge, Camden NSW. It is approximately 1Km long.
Thanks for the cache.

A quick walk to find this one in the humidity and flies. Such a shame that they've let the bridge deteriorate so much, but I suppose there is no financial imperative to maintain it.

Thanks

Another one found with the CotE, a pleasant stroll - not too old to do it hand-in-hand!

Found very quickly, took TB (red Tag). TFTC

Paul M Tumul. Left trackable

pelusa found it.
TNLNSL
TFTC, pelusa

Easy find. That rhyme London Bridge is falling down came to mind here!!! TFTC

Found my parents Boeing737 and WhiteChocolateMocha, TFTC

Found with my geowife and geoson, TFTC

Love this spot! Thanks for the cache

Great swaps for kids. Awesome reading the story of a iconic bush ranger

Cache Maintenance carried out - all good.

Great hide had fun

TFTC

Nice to see a larger size cache. TFTC

Awesome spot

My grandad and I found this cache while on our way to Albury for a small caching trip. This was our last find for the day, because it was getting dark and we wanted to arrive at Albury - and it was great! We enjoyed looking at the old bridge and surrounding landscape. There were a herd of cows nearby as well. The search for the cache took some time but it was a good hide. We were wondering if this cache gets flooded easily!

Our thanks to The Farmers 5 for taking us to this historic structure!

4201. A wet day at work meant a trip down the Hume for some caching.
A little damp under foot and after checking out the bridges, a quick find followed. Only cow muggles out in the rain today!!!
Thanks The Farmers 5 for the cache and the history lesson.

3:00pm 6/6 - found by the young Frogs. Interesting structures, great place for a hide. No sign of the bug though

T4TC found with Spinkings

Easy find after a nice walk! TFTC!

Good coordinates enabled us to have this quickly in hand. 3rd find on our Gundagai day.

Staying at the beautiful caravan park under the railway bridge for a few days, found cache while on a bike ride. The locals at GZ (cows and ducks) are friendly. TNLN TFTC

Lovely spot. I remember (just) driving over this bridge on family trips back to Melbourne in the early 70s. TFTC

What a wonderful work in wood. TFTC

How amazing that this bridge so long managed to last for us to see TFTC

Found today during a weekend visit to Gundagai.

This wooden bridge has impressed me every time I have come to Gundagai, thanks for giving me an excuse to have a closer look

Find 11 on a trip down to Wagga Wagga. Stopping in Gundagai on the way to find as many caches here that I can. A wonderful example of wooden trestle bridge engineering. It is a real shame to see how delapidated the bridge has become. Another quick find, thanks Farmers 5.

What a fantastic old bridge this one is, it looks like it's just hanging in there, pitty there is no funding to restore it.
Thanks for showing us this historic structure and for the cache.

Nice area down here.Tftc

Awesome find today found with chuze joshwa and sir eldred

Sweeet. Tftc. Quick is good yes.

tftc and the site history.

Didn't like standing there to long.

Hi Found it, TFTC

Good find

I was on a day trip from Tumut to Gundagai this morning
There were a lot of caches with hiding dates way back in 2009/10.
Surely I had visited Gundagai sometime in the last five years !! [:o]
Hmm !! Obviously not

Today I enjoyed a tour of the towne finding these 'mature caches'
The trestle bridge looks as I remembered it last visit.
Rickety

And after a short stroll, the cache was an easy find

TFTC !!

Sun almost set so track to GZ was getting difficult to navigate, especially through the many grazing cows curious enough to check me out while I searched for the cache. Quick find before they got too close.

Gotcha! And to think they even considered demolishing the bridge is amazing. Thanks

We actually found both caches now at GZ! The last entry on one of the logs was March 14. Good luck to the next hunters and thanks

TFTC. Nice easy one and CIH very quickly. We are on our second trip to Gundagai and will try to find the caches we left unsearched a month ago.

We arrived at the new free camp in Gundagai and got ourselves set up, soon after our friends FelixII who also hale from WA pulled in. I had already discovered some there were some caches here we had left from our last brief visit so we decided to spend the rest of the afternoon seeking them out. I noted that this particular cache required maintenance and had a suitable sized box in the Landcrusier BUT it was flouro pink! Thank goodness for Dave who obviously is super prepared, in the blink of an eye he had our container camouflaged and stencilled. FelixII are real heroes

Travelling around Australia in our Caravan with our cat.

Moving on today from Wodonga we arrived in Gundagai to find Ian & Sue - Team Pathfinder already set up at the free camp we were goign to camp at. after a late lunch and chat we headed into town to grab some caches. Lovely town and great caches.

TFTC

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