McIntyre Field - Engine Test Bays Tocumwal, New South Wales, Australia
By Blacklegend on 17-Sep-11. Waypoint GC34EWN

Cant get down for a while from the Gold Coast, so will archive. Cheers.

It certainly looks like the cache has been consumed by the "Red terror". That tree has been well and truly singed. Great series of caches explaining a lot of our WW2 happenings that are not well known.

Ill check this one out when I'm down in a few months. BL.

Seems theres been a scrubfire here and we were unalbe to find your cache. Think it's toast.

#1465 Pity you are unable to get closer to the test bays (maybe we need to add binoculars to the caching kit ) Another nice quick find here. Thanks again Blacklegend for drawing another historic site to our attention.

Park and grab at it's best. TFTC

Nice drive this area and scene - Signed the log. Thanks Blacklegend.

Pulled over and headed towards GZ and the cache was soon in hand. Another interesting spot on my tour around the airfield......

Thanks for the cache....

Day 2 camped at Finley, and we headed out to pick up a few caches in the area.
We found a variety of caches, and cache hides. This cache was located, after a short search.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Blacklegend, for us and others to find.

Wouldn't have known what these were its Amazing to see them still standing after sixty years

These structures sure stand out in the landscape !! [:o]
But I guessed what they were !!
I've seen similar bits of WWII concrete near Darwin, and at the olde Eagle Farm airport in Brisbane

It would be good to get closer, but this cache is a close as I'm going to get today.
TFTC and more McIntyre history

Found @ 2:24pm, find # 3096.
A quick caching run from Numurkah to Tocumwal and then back to Melbourne, this one was on the way.
I was now heading south from the Blowhole and stopping at these ones as I was going.
This was a great history lesson, which I knew nothing about.
It was a quick park'n'grab, signed log and off to the next.
Thanks to Blacklegend for placing this cache.

This entry was edited by stemicmitsar on Tuesday, 25 March 2014 at 21:25:37 UTC.

2891. I had to double back for this one, but it was worth it. A nice quick find and then a good check of the test bays.
Thanks BL for the cache and the history lesson. I really enjoyed this series.

Found with Justjessie, TFTC

Found with O319. TFTC

2 Days - 3 Family Members - 146 caches - 1 Power Trail - 1 Bull Ant Bite

Is there a better way to spend NRL Grand Final weekend when your team is not playing, than two days caching? We didn't think so!!! Saturday was spent caching around Tocumwal after picking Campbell up from his grandparents then heading back to Wangaratta for some night caching. Sunday we ventured up to the Buckland Valley and tackled the High Voltage Power Trail. We were blessed with fantastic weather on both days, which were filled with fun and merriment.

Katy and Campbell went out and looked for this cache, Katy making the find quickly. Amazing the buildings involved back in the days that are still around.

Thanks for the cache Blacklegend.

Heading north today to Leeton to see the family during the school holidays. It took the Chief a moment to decide which way had the shortes grass. Cache safe and sound with no surprises!

Found with bogonghazy on a days caching around Tocumwal, whilst up on the Murray for the weekend. Thanks to Blacklegend for keeping the caches coming today, we certainly filled the whole day in chasing your hides, and we didn't even get them all.

After a morning in and around the river trying to get access through all the mud, it was nice to get a few quickies later in the day. Quick find here for SUlly and I, thanks again Ads

Some quite incredible structures off in the distance.

Found at 6:26:00 PM with Roostaman. A quick stopover to grab a few caches on our way back home from the Central Victorian get together in Echuca.

Thanks Blacklegend

# 6010 Found with Fred6603 on a stopover in Toc after a week of Get Together events.
We went for a drive around the area after lunch to find a few more of the new caches since our last visit.
No muggles around here today and another quick find for the last one for today.
TN LN SL. Thanks again for all your caches Blacklegend,
Roostaman.

2381 Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1145 on our weekend in Tocumwal to find a couple of caches. Hope we can find the others.There is an Owl roost above this cache as can be seen on the ground. SL left Skaife HSV memento. Tnx Blacklegend.

It's been a while since we've had a day out caching, but with studies completed, today is the day. Making a trip to Tocumwal to clear a few caches off our list.
Greg recovering from a sprained ankle, so most finding left up to me, especially on the rough ground.

TFTC SL

We chose to do caching around Tocumwal today.
We found some very interesting sights, the blowhole, old airfield, creeks & of course the mighty Murray .
We hope to log our 1st Victorian cache today.
TFTC Blacklegend

TFTC Blacklegend. The air base definately had an understanding of BIG, even from a distance.

1806th cache found by WazzaAndWenches. Log signed at 14:41Hrs.

A few too many unfound caches in the Toc area meant a day trip was needed...

Like so many cachers, we didn't read the cache notes prior to arriving at GZ. Back at home I did read them and realised what the structures were. Quite an interesting story behind McIntyre Field and one worth reading further.

Cache found quickly before returning to the blow hole road.

Thank you Blacklegend.

We had company for a few yards with the knagaroos that jumped out in front of us. Little joey even got out of the pouch and ran away I mean hopped away. TFTC

Just about completed this fascinating historical series. TFTC

Geonan searched for the hide while I was looking and listening to the Cockatiels, first time I've seen them in the wild. Signed the log and moved on to the next hide.
TFTC

Being a petrol head I would have loved to see and hear those engines being run up here, not to mention hearing and seeing them in the planes also. One can now only imagine what it was like.

Spent today caching the North East with Bettyboo3747 and Chewinprickles.
Must have been a hell of a loud noise when they fired up those engines in these concrete bunkers.
I think I would have been very glad to be this far away.
Thanks, Robmc.

# 1951. Caching today with Robmc and chewinprickles. I have always loved the roar of jet engines. I lived on an Air Force Base for a while and have always loved the sounds of planes overhead. All quiet today except for a few light planes and the silent gliders making the most of perfect conditions. TFTC BL.

Seme of these side track can be bad but this one was pretty good. I was also thinking that to my untrained eye the crops were looking good. Let's hope for those concerned that they are.

So that is what those things were!

Been meaning to do this one for a while so while I was in the area I stopped for a quick find.
TFTC

Found at 1:38 PM GAFF1 found at a distance of 9 metres. A rebuilt engine would need a lot of testing as would a new one I suppose.
Thanks Blacklegend

An amazing set up indeed, and more history to be learnt.
Thanks again BL for your enlighting cache's of the air fields.
THLNSL.

Find number 31 of 37 for the day with Chaplain Mike around the Tocumwal/Barooga area. SL TNLN TFTC!

Find 32 of 38 with Smart Sassy Siren for the day, looking to complete a couple of milestones, including Tigersden's 25 in a day Challenge, Smart Sassy Siren's 200th and Chaplain Mike's 250th.

AGAIN ... WOW , am completely blown away by the size of these structures, even more so by the fact that they're cut off from the actual airport these days. Structures like this have been and were dismantled many many years ago.

TFTC SL

Did not have this one on the list for some reason,thank god for smart phones. TNLN TFTC

35th of the day was wondering what these were as i was driving by another couple of caches only to find out later that there was a cache near them so rerouting the trip again i was off over to see these awesome buildings . being an engine man i was in awe of the engines being built/rebuilt/tested here during the time of operation horsepower and me = very big smile haha this is definately my favourite of the series again thanks for bringing me here!!

Found it No. 4742 ... more dust more bumps oh the motor home ... TNLN ... TFTC Blacklegend

Thanks for showing us a lot of the local WWII history of this area, a great series of caches.
TFT

#2388 Another impressive cache page explaining the history of this site - pretty amazing set up. Dad located the cache in an area that was otherwise very quiet on a hot summers afternoon. Thanks once again BL

TN
Left: Pathtag

nice and quiet hear today, not like it would have been back in it's heyday.

Found and logged at 8:45, Spending a few days caching along the Murray
Another great cache and thanks for the history lesson
Thanks Blacklegend

Nice hide. Found with spring colours. TFTC.

My first field cache. The most remote of them. There seems to be plenty of old infrastructure to look at around here. Thanks.

5736.33 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2011 Navigation A#194

Albida

Me and my two boys headed up to Cobram to see Great Nanna (or grape nanna as my two year old calls her) as well as catch up with Marshy (AKA Blacklegend).
After spending a great fun day before having a bit of a road trip caching in Wagga with Marshy and a few of his kids it was time head home with my two boys today.
Great history of the airfield, very interesting. Once we made our way to GZ the cache was sson found and the log signed.
Thanks bro.

We've always wanted to visit this former RAAF site and didn't realise there was this much of it left standing. Would've seen some interesting things in its day. We found the coords around 12-13m off, putting us almost in the channel. These coords might work a little better. TFTC.

micheena - Gps wasn't sure where to go. She even got angry and jump off the window at hubby. Found without her help. Pity couldn,t get closer, but the camera done its best.

Found while in the area quickly.I had already got my cache for the 30 day challenge and didnt think that a couple more from this area would matter.This cache was the 2nd.It was stormy and very wet the road was muddy but the cache found quickly and easily.We could see the Test Bays on approach so had quite a good look from a couple of directions.
TFTC BL
TNLN
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Found by The Empire + R @ 4pm
Find number 24 of 30 for the day on my little trip to Mulwala for the night. A quick find as the weather was starting to turn... thanks again Blacklegend.
- M

# 12 / 24 on a Cob / Toc night assault with Haveanez.

Had the same problem as spyspy2, our torches were just that little too weak to see the POI.
The Gps's had wandering around a bit, almost walking us into the nearby canal only stopping when we were walking on mussel shells.
Had to refer to the clue to make the find which was a big help. No doubt will be back this way to pick up more caches in the future so look forward to seeing what it is I've missed this time round.


TN LN, TFTC, Cheers.

This entry was edited by DJ Rascal on Sunday, 25 September 2011 at 12:17:57 UTC.

Found on a good nights caching run with DJ Rascal.
We didnt get to see too much of the POI tonight, but did enjoy reading about the area on the cache page. Its pretty darn cold tonight, so a quick search and sign of the log and back to the car. Thanks for sharing this spot with us.
TFTC BL.

FTF ... Another nice hide from Blacklegend, thanks mate. Couldn't see the Test Bays as my little torch isn't that strong [;0] Easy to find, good little night run, thanks again.

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