Mt Adrah Mount Adrah, New South Wales, Australia
By The Farmers 5 on 08-Jul-09. Waypoint GC1V9H3

Quick easy find tftc

Outnabout for some solo caching while travelling from The Great Leap Forward Mega event in Adelaide to the Capital GeoBash Mega in Canberra. Taking the long route today to collect another LGA. Its always a great day for caching. TFTC The Farmers 5

Cache and dash.

Thanks for the Traditional Cache The Farmers 5

Found it! This was a quick park n grab, spotted it straight away. Just had to find mobile reception first! Lol tftc

Found It!
The grass is a bit overgrown here but made a path through to the plaque and then soon found the cache nearby. Interesting bit of history.
TFTC

Quick grab on our way past to the Adelong Falls Gold Mill Ruins. Tftc

#16730 @1000
Down this way from Canberra to attend last night's event and this morning's event at Oura. Cached my way home via Adelong (somewhere I hadn't been before), Tumut and Wee Jasper. Cache easily found. TFTC.

18/01/2022 1:24:00 PM
An unusual monument that would otherwise surely be missed

Thank you The Farmers 5

Find recorded using GCDroid and logged using GSAK

Quick find on the way home from camping in the snowies thanks!

A beautiful view of Mt Adra, it was nice to see their descendants have made this here. TFTC

Nice quick find on our way home tftc

#5725.
This was a quick park and grab. Had to fend off a couple of spider webs on my way to gz. Thanks for the history on this one.

Found it

Found during a caching weekend away from Canberra. Thanks for bringing us here. TFTC.

A new style cache has been placed at GZ with fresh log sheet .
Good luck .

New fencing works may have displaces this one.

#6008 2nd for today

I was starting to get a bit stir crazy at home so I decided to head out and grab a few caches around the Adelong & Tumut area. It was a beautiful sunny day, not too hot and mostly muggle free, for obvious reasons. I was a bit late getting away due to ScoMo's broadcast this morning. But I still managed to make a good impact on the unfound caches in the region. I particularly enjoyed the wander around the old gold-mining works around Adelong. A bit of water flowing through here today and with the green, it was good to see. Also enjoyed the walk around the wetlands in Tumut. Some lovely views along the Tumut Plains road later in the day too.

Apologies for the smell of hand sanitizer on the log. I went through a lot today.

Thanks The Farmers 5

I was a little concerned as I approached GZ as there was what appears to be a relatively new fence. But luckily, the cache was there safe and sound.

Thanks for the cache The Farmers 5.
Found on 6/3/20 at 12:21 pm.
Find #10787.

Found during a caching run to Tumut with the Geofamily. Thanks for the cache.

Fitzy_1965, myself and 4 out of our 5 geokids are heading to Tumut for a Canberra (and Goulburn) invasion this weekend. Most logs where signed MK, LTR, G2K (& F65 when he actually hadn't found one)

On the road to Tumut now......all these caches were found quickly and in good condition.

We left ACT early for the Tumut Invasion so we could grab some extra caches along the way. Thank goodness for an easy find after some of ozpirate's nasty ones. Interesting to read the plaque which most people travelling this road wouldn't even know was here. TNLN SL TFTC Farmers 5

This cache has a bit of history to our family. The original manager James Dunn, he held this position for some 20 yrs, he is our 3rd ggrandfather. He was born in Monksilver, Somerset, England and like Thomas, Matilda & family travelled to Australia on a very long journey.

He married at Mt Adrah to a local Lady Elizabeth Jamison a daughter of a past convict. They had 11 children, 3 of which were born here at Mt Adrah. After his time here he moved up to the Lachlan area where he lived out his life and was killed in a horsing accident.

Thanks for this cache which means so much to our family The Farmers 5, Lil Donna

Nice quick find on our way back from Batlow. Thanks for the cache TF5

Headed back to Canberra after a lovely weekend break with Genghicat.
This was a quick find in good condition. Such an interesting story.
Thanks for sharing.

Would have driven past this a 100 times. TFTC

#7952 - 10:20; I was headed down to Melbourne to visit the geoaunt in hospital and catch up with the geostudent while I was there. Being in no hurry and seeking to avoid some of the boredom of the highway, I decided that today would be a good opportunity to take a detour and collect a few caches along the way. The route took me along the Snowy Mountains Highway through Adelong to Tumut, then south through Batlow and on to Tumbarumba before heading back for the Hume Highway and Melbourne. The plaque is behind a bit of cover, but spotted the rock wall and soon after the cache. TFTC The Farmers 5

A Geotrail led me to the GZ and a quick find after that. TFTC.

TFTC. Nice memorial

This is our fourth trip to the northern island this year. The first three were primarily for family events but with some opportunities to do some caching along the way. The fourth trip is different as caching is our focus. After getting off The Spirit of Tasmania we are heading north to cache at Wangaratta and then Yass before heading into the ACT and Queanbeyan for a week. After that we will travel to Jindabyne for a few days with summiting Mount Kosciuszko being our main target for this part of our trip. Then we will visit Cooma and Tumut before heading back down the track through Wangaratta and Mansfield as we make our way to Alexandra for the MEGA. After the weekend we will continue to make our way south and back onto the Spirit of Tasmania for the “drive” across Bass Strait. We are really looking forward to three weeks of intense caching in great areas and, hopefully, catching up with some geocachers in each of the areas we will visit.

Today we spent most of the day in the car travelling from Tumut to Tarcutta, Culcairn, Finley, Cobram and Corowa. The main purpose of such a route was to visit another waypoint for a multi which started in Canberra and to find GCA caches in four Local Government Areas as we work towards the CGA Trophy Challenge of finding at least one GCA cache in all Local Government Areas (LGA) within a 100km radius of our finding centroid. Our current centroid is in central Victoria meaning that the LGAs we need to visit are all in Victoria and we will have to visit them during trips outside Tasmania. If we could find a GCA cache in the four LGAs today, we would only need to find a cache in another seven LGA to complete the challenge. So we planned a long day driving. With such a long trip we took the opportunity to look for some GC caches in each of the areas visited and along the way. In fact we found many more GC caches than GCA caches but we managed to reach our GCA goals for the day.

There were a number of GC caches on the Snowy Mountains Highway between Tumut and the Hume Freeway and we stopped to look for, and found, most of them.

We were a little apprehensive as we approached this cache as there was very tall grass between where we parked the car and GZ. We took our usual snake deterrence precautions and made our way across. It was interesting to read the information on this memorial to the first settlers in the area. It took a few minutes of hunting to locate this cache. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks The Farmers 5 for the cache.

***** We are currently writing detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC. "The Author" Badge challenges geocachers to average one hundred words or more in each log. On 1 September 2017 our average was 86 which seems close to the 100 target. However given that we have found so many GC caches, we have to write many logs with well over 100 words for a long period of time to get our average to the target. Apologies to anyone who finds the logs tedious but it is the only way that we can strive to attain this challenge. After 408 caches (which includes all cache finds up and including yesterday), the average log length is just over 97.0. We are now entertaining the possibility that we might be able to achieve our gaol before this trip ends. Progress has been better than anticipated.*****

Out and about with Deep_99. TFTC

Parked & hunted for the cache & found it after a short search as the GPS wouldnt settle

Found with Geojill_11
Log 1094 Streak Day 308

Geofriend, Whitepaws9 and I drive around to NSW country and Vic country for 1-2 weeks.. Beautiful good weather....Thanks

Good to find a bit of history (and a cache) along the road.

Thanks

Heading to Tumut overnight so grabbing a few caches along the way. Stopped off and almost gave up before I started. After reading the last log, I decided I should atleast give it a go. So I stomped through the grass on this nice warm 36 degree day, and once near GZ, it didn't take long to scare off the large skink to retrieve the container. Then I hightailed it back to the geomobile. Nice plaque.
Thanks The Farmers 5 for placing & maintaining the cache for us to find.
#4531

You can barely see the sign the grass is that high! More like find the sign not find the cache!
Dad said "don't do it" but I did it anyway making sure I surveyed the ground with great caution looking for snakes. There was no easy path in, just straight through the long grass.

Got to GZ and eventually made the find after a few wrong looks. Thanks

An interesting plaque at this GZ.

Continuing our slight detour off the Hume Hwy as we made our way to Yass for Wangaratta, Victoria. Nice plaque with history and a view. SL at 10.42am TNLN #3857 TFTC The Farmers 5

Today was the first full day of our caching adventure with Rapidlywild in Tumut. I have never really been to Tumut before and was quite surprised by the size and the beauty of the place. Lovely water ways that were crystal clear. Just a lovely place to drive around and explore.

Headed out along another road then collected all the caches on the way back. This one was the 2nd and another quick find for me as RW had already collected this one a previous caching adventure. Quickly signed then on our way back towards Tumut.

TFTC The Farmers 5

Geo road trip with indianagleeson, red leader & fox 2
Indianagleeson nearly died but we got there in the end!
Tftc

TFTC!
I had a nice little encounter with an unhappy spider while walking through the grass...I may have jumped a little in delight...
Found with Shellumbus and RedLeader&Fox2.

On a trip to Tumut for a day of geocaching with Indianagleeson. This is number 3 for the day. Lol Indianagleeson got a big spider on his leg while walking through the long grass and freaked out! The cache itself was a quick find in an interesting little spot. Tftc.

14:49 HRS

A nice quick find as we passed on by heading to Tootool.
I wouldn't mind a nice land allotment around here.

Thanks.

The countryside here is quite nice at the moment, an easy find.

Great spot for the cache, enjoying this trip , thanks to you. TFTC

Nice history here. TFTC

Quickly found as coords spot on. Cache all good.

Find 126 + 2 DNF's on an overnight trip to Wagga Wagga. Found on our way back home via Tumut. A quick find, thanks Farmers 5.

Found it, TNLNSL, Pelusa

Out for a morning drive, to pick up a few caches.
Cache was found after a short search, signed and replaced.
TFTC & for showing this to us, The Farmers 5, another interesting piece of local history.

On our way to the Coast, stopped to look for the plaque, and the cache. Lots of long grass, but signs of previous movement. Cache collected and SL. TFTC the farmers 5.

Interesting story about the early settlers

Not the first place checked, as my GPS took me six metres away, but found fairly quickly. TFTC the farmers 5.

Found it

Found

Tftc

Followed geotrail and CiH SL put back and left. Tftc

Quick drive by and a nice hidden memorial.. TFTC

TFTC easy find

Once again some history TFTC farmers 5

A Cache with a bit of history, well done. TFTC.

Found at 2:24 PM GAFF1.
Wonder if the Crain family are still in the area With 7 children, there are sure to be some still around here! Quite an extreme move to get away from the IRA.
Thanks the farmers 5.

[:(!] Went for a weekend caching run, left Wagga about 5.30am and did a circuit through Adelong, Tumut and Gundagai arriving back at Wagga about 6.30pm the following day and breaking the journey by spending the night in Tumut, parked the geocar as close as possible to GZ and walked in from there, on arrival at GZ the cache was in hand in a matter of minutes.

"I like it"

LNTNSL TFTC/TFTH he Farmers 5 [^]

Found this one during our month long tour of SE Australia. It is our intention to find as many caches as possible during our stay and as a result logistics dictate that this generic log will have to suffice .Hope the cache owners, to whom we extend our gratitude for their efforts, will all understand the reasons for this.All good wishes from us both.
Valliant Knight and Damsel (UK)

The long weekend has arrived for us Canberrans, so what better way to spend it than to team up once again with Rapidlywild and set off for Wagga and surrounds for what was to be another epic geomission?

RW did the driving-so we just had to make sure she was topped up with water and “Mother” from the esky to keep her going safely, whilst I provided the entertainment lol [:O)] We had a great day’s caching on Saturday, and Sunday’s effort ended in an epic 22hr day at 7am Monday when we arrived back home with a swag of finds and big caching hangover lol. Craziness! [:O)]

Moving on down the highway back to the Can, and this one wad the next stop. After jumping out of the geomobile, it was on with the torches and off we went to start the search. What a hidden little piece of history this is! Would never know that this monument was here with out a cache to bring us here! TNLNSL before moving off for more

Thanks for the hide at this interesting little location, the farmers 5

A long weekend in the ACT, well that only means 1 thing..... GO CACHING !!! So it was specimenX and myself off again, target - Wagga Wagga, Junee and Gundagai. We headed off on Saturday morning and collected along our travels. We spent the Saturday and Sunday caching around Wagga Wagga and Junee then we moved over to Gundagai on Sunday night and didn't get home until 7:00am on Monday morning.

We visited the Monte Cristo Homestead which was awesome and also visited the Junee Chocolate Factory which was also an experience. On the Saturday, the Junee Chocolate Factory got their name into the Guinness Book Of Records with the longest string of liquorice attempt (well over 519m which is the current record) and we were advised they were successful. How cool is that? We brought some chocolate of course and continued our travels.

As we usually do on our adventures, we visited lots of cemeteries and we actually visited one that gave us the real creeps, which doesn't usually happen to us. All in all we had a brilliant weekend and we are definitely suffering a caching hangover today. Lots of laughs, lots of stupidness and an all round great weekend

Onto the cache:
So we had headed out of Wagga Wagga now and decided to detour and grab a couple along this road. This was the first collection and it was found nice and quickly. Log signed, returned and off we continued

Thanks for placing this cache for us to collect the farmers 5

Found it and never knew this monument existed :-/

Got that ole travel urge again and the need for some new uncharted places. So Victoria here I come. Travelling down the Hume Highway to Tumblong, Tumit, Batlow, Corryong then on to Albury. and all points South to the HCRT Series, and also find other caches on the way. Cold, Cold, Cold. Wet, Wet, Wet. But besides that Nice cache thanks for the History lesson, Nice cache.TFTC

This entry was edited by jfindit on Monday, 18 November 2013 at 20:39:10 UTC.

A bit cold and wet, so had to look a bit for this one. TFTC

Interesting piece of history, stopped on the way to Cooma.
TFTH

If it wasn't for geocaches we would miss these little gems of history. Amazingly I was reading an account of Strezlanki's exloration of the Australian Alps and how the party started their trip from the nearby Ellersie station. It is a lot easier today to drive this trip and wasy easier to navigate, the polish explorer was laden with heavy surveying equipment plus supllies while we get by with GPSr's, his adventure was totally awesome in difficulty and accuracy. The country side is certainly a lot easier to travels nowadays than in the time of the Crane settlers and the early explorers. Thanks farmers5 for the cache.

Today we drove from Wagga to Tumut picking up caches on the way.
The drive has been pleasant & the caches have been well maintained.
Even picked up a couple of FTF at Tumut.
Nice of the family to place this monument here in memory of their ancestors
TFTC the farmers 5

More interesting local facts tftc

tftc

The first for the day caching up in tumut. My phone always losses it around this cache, and tells me I'm far off from GZ, so i did this one completely blind and just pulled over at a likely spot and had a look around. Bingo. Got it. Now I don't need to worry about this one every time I go past it. TFTC Farmers!

The area went thru a burn off of long grass and the cache and hiding spot were both lost.
A new cache and fresh log sheet are now in place.

Good luck in the hunt.

I have been reliably informed that the gent who owns the land near this cache has done a burn off and although he knew about your cache he forgot about it until it was to late and it went up in smoke. He will place some hide material back so the container can be rehidden. I understand that the gent was most upset when he realised what had happened. Cheers 4 now.

We would never have found this place without Geocaching. Thanks Farmers.

Quick stop on the way passed. TFTC

Quick find with Justjessie as we checked out the area.. TFTC

Yet another quick find on our return to Tumut. Would not have seen the plaque without the cache.
TFTC

Cache found nice and easy. Log is very wet!

TFTC

Thanks for the history of this area. The early pioneers sure did it tough.

TFTC the farmers 5

The first one on our detour through Tumut! Great area here!
TFTC Wilbert67

Quick stop and find on way home with Emongs from the Albury Mega event. Tftc

This is certanly is a lovely area to settle in, nice indeed. TFTC

#429 it has been a little time since I have been at the computer to do some logging now it is well and truly time to catch up on the geocache logging and leave the waymarks alone for a little while although it has been fun adding a number of waymarks. Just to keep you all up to date I am on day 130 of continuous caching and have 23 days of caching to log before I am up to date.

This was just the way to end another day working at the paper mill on the road home I realised that the previous time through I missed this one needing to achieve one for the day it was a perfect opportunity to score another. Arriving at GZ I began to look at the plaque and then thought the cache is off to one side of this monument. So began to home in on GZ and what did I see but the cache on the ground this must be a little bit of an anoyance so picking it up singing the log I returned it to the obvious hiding spot and hoped that the animals will leave it alone.

Thanks the farmers 5 for bring me to this wonderful spot.

TFTC

Nice find on the way home

Found it!!!

A quick find after wading through the long grass. Thankfully no reptiles. TFTC SL

A nice quick find on a blast around the countryside with the geokids. Am trying to get my caching mojo back after too long in the wilderness. TFTC Farmers 5!

Cheers

Youdfindus


Visited: Oz Mega Odometer

Time to head from Canberra back towards Adelaide through the mountains - wow look at all the caches.

Picked up around 30 today. Found in the dark. TFTC.

I am starting to notice these little plaques arond the countryside. Thanks the farmers 5

Nice easy find. Cache in great condition. Nice history lesson, but not convinced about the Ira connection especially since nothing even resembling the Ira existed until about 1915, long after the family left Ireland. Tftc

Nice quick find. Thanks

I have met one or two of this family so it was interesting to find this location, thanks Farmers.

Love this area, thanks for the history and chance to stop over, on this blustery cold day. On to nab a few in Tumut.

4559. [font=Century Gothic][green]Luckily this was a very quick find as it is bitterly cold today. Didn't see the monument until the last second. Out find signed and back in to the warm car.

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Rated: for Overall Experience

quick find although the cache wasn't covered, when we put it back we covered it over. TNLNSL - TFTC