Old Shanty Bridge Alfredtown, New South Wales, Australia
By HINCO on 10-Dec-11. Waypoint GC391EQ

My first solo caching trip. A long one down the entire length of the Sturt Highway. TFTC

Tftc bit of a walk long grass beware of snakes

Wow what a interesting bridge, lost in time. Once I overcame the parking issue and a walk thru tall grass I had the straightforward cache in hand. Log chewed on by snails but still ok. Tftc

What a great old bridge. Found a Geo Trail into the bridge from the Wagga side of the highway. Once there the hint says it all. Bright place to come. TFTC.

Very cool old bridge,found cache in the open so put it back together,good hide tooThanks for the cache

Great place for a cache, took a moment to work out the entry route (as I was wearing the wrong shoes). Camo was found away from cache but I replaced it as I thought it should go. Nice to see healthy fish in the creek below.

good cash i recigmend

pvc

Nice location, quick find when we reached the bridge. Be wary of traffic, long grass etc.
TFTC.

TFTF. Such a pretty place with the creek running underneath. Was a bit of an adventure getting to the bridge due to road and long grass but worth it

**Found whilst en route to Corowa from Wagga**

After saying ciao to The Empire, Happy Feet and Happy Pants *and* after grabbing a coffee, I headed out to grab a few caches as I make the long way back to Corowa.
It was great to be back in Wagga. First time I have visited since I served here in the late '80s in the Royal Australian Air Force. It certainly has changed A good time was had by all these couple of days with good memories made and many laughs had.
A nice quick find was made here. Thanks for the cache HINCO and for highlighting the area. Appreciate your efforts.
- P

*Took*: Nothing
*Left*: Nothing

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Cache on!
**#17434**

Found It!
Finding somewhere to park here was a bit of a challenge. Ended up walking back to the bridge and getting covered in spider webs along the way. A quick find once I got to GZ though. A nice bit of history worth a cache.
TFTC

Found.

Road Trip - Wagga Wagga
Joolay, barb2e and I took a drive south to Wagga to attend a couple of events. Signed caches as Capital Crunchers.

Thanks for your hide here HINCO

Quick find on an awesome bridge.
An adventure weekend to Wagga with Kittykatch and barb2e chasing old ones and DT. Signed as Capital Crunchers.
Thanks For getting me out and about HINCO

On the way to Wagga Wagga with Joolay and Kittykatch. Signed as Capital Crunchers. Tftc

A quick find today on my travels from Tocumwal to Canberra. TFTC

With a packed car and on our way down to our hotel for new year's, we got a call saying our trip had to be cancelled. We had two choices - go back to Sydney or find somewhere else. After some searching on Google maps BarberBlackSheep and I decided to head down to Wagga Wagga instead.

This was the 3rd find on our trip! We parked across the road and made our way through the long shrub to this cute old bridge. The obvious cache stood out so it was found in no time.

TFTC

Total finds today: 17
+ TBs that came along for the visit!

Quick stop and grab with adventure fox

Geo-Rabbit found the cache out in the open. Placed it back in intended device. TFTH TFTC SL
A quick Park n Grab. Cache is in good condition. Replaced nearly as found ready for the next Geo-adventurer.

Cache replaced

HINCO

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.


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tiddalik
Community Volunteer Reviewer

not to sure ... spent a while looking for it .. couldn’t find it anywhere

Yep defs not here.
Reccommend archive

Nowhere for it to be.

Spent a good hour searching. Either it’s no longer here or it needs to be labeled difficult

Searched top of bridge but no luck. Been a long time since anyone found, owner needs to check whether cache is still there

Not found.

When I was up at Ungarie a few weeks ago and I started the WWW trail I hatched a plan. I knew the rest of my family was going away for the school holidays and so I decided that I would head to Wagga for an overnight trip and try and find 100 caches in a day for the first time. At that point I had collected 50 (and then last weekend I got 54) in a single day, but triple figures was really only possible with a powertrail - and the one The Drovers had set up was worth the effort. So I took a day off work and headed up to make the attempt before everyone gets back tomorrow. Thankfully the weather was not as hot as yesterday so it was a pleasant day driving the blue road grader on the trails north of Wagga.

Up at 5:30 with the first cache at 6AM and by 4PM I had the 100 caches - in the end I got 117 (1 multi, 2 virtuals, 3 earthcaches and the rest Trads - the one solved puzzle was too busy even at 6:30AM). I saw one big Brown Snake, added a couple of birds to my annual list (including Crimson Chats near Gumly Gumly), and saw lots of Caper Whites. Also got plenty of grazes, banged both shins on logs, got a splinter under one fingernail, and suspect I will lose another after dropping a rock on an unlogged Roostaman hide. Climbed a few trees, founds some clever caches and generally had a fantastic time.

Crossed the river and headed east along the Sturt Highway where there were a few more caches to collect. This was the first - managed to drop the really good pen I found at the wetlands in the long grass and so yet another pen goes down in the name of caching. Walked to the old bridge and read the hint - very clever and log quickly found.
TFTC HINCO

Found while in town for Roostaman’s 60th, a nice hide and piece of history. Thanks Hinco for the cache.

The time has finally arrived for a massive Australian road trip with The Kiwi Chicks. We are GraciesGPSfun , thedbees , Ethness, Infoferret , Jude_E and me Nosynel. We might sometimes sign the geocaches as KCs or TKCs. TFTC

We are on a geocaching holiday from NZ following the Ozgeomuster in Wollongong. Six kiwi caching chicks (KCC) are having fun exploring NSW today. Collecting jewels! Thanks for the cache.
#4457

My first diamond. An interesting container.
Thanks HINCO for placing this geocaches 7341 find for me. We six are driving from Albury to Canberra. Our aim is to find caches in three States. The detective promo has started too. So we will be hunting down clues.

The time has finally arrived for a massive Australian road trip with The Kiwi Chicks. We are GraciesGPSfun , thedbees , Ethness, Infoferret , Jude_E and me Nosynel. We might sometimes sign the geocaches as KCs or TKCs.

Sadly there was no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland. 
======== NZ Mega 2020 ========
Planning for the NZ Mega 2020 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. Thanks for hiding this geocache.

A good cache.

Signed KCC or KC for Kiwi Caching Chicks (Infoferret, Jude_E, NosyNel, thedbees, Graciesgpsfun and me) who are Australia for the OzMuster. We are now on a road trip for 7 days. TFTC

I missed the obvious at first! Tftc from the kiwichicks

Nice night time stroll ️ TFTC

Good find

Cool spot

Beautiful little hidden gem! Lovely area to explore once you find it! Found with my daughter and son!

With another day free, I decided on heading out to collect more caches and hopefully receive another souvenir from the current promotion. I decided on doing the loop that goes: Wagga to Kyeamba to Tarcutta and back to Wagga via Borambola. Out a possible 26 finds, I found 24 of them. It was a nice drive along the country roads and I visited many places I wouldn’t have visited otherwise. The trip from Wagga to Kyeamba had a couple of GCA finds and the first half of the W2T/T2W trail created by Roostaman. The next bit of the trip (Kyeamba to Tarcutta) were a lot of park and grabs along the highway. After a nice lunch, at ‘Joes Café’ in Tarcutta, it was time for the final part of the trip was around the back roads of Borambola and finishing with WWBridge#6. This means I only have the final cache in the Wagga bridge series to go. TB visit on all found caches. I would like to thank all CO’s for placing and maintaining the caches I found and allowing them to bring enjoyment to me and others. TFTC’s
Today’s Totals:
20 GC Finds
4 GCA Finds
2 DNF

A great little and old bridge to visit and after my quick find, I was on my way again. TFTC and bringing me to this location.

A wander through the tall, roadside grass revealed a hidden bridge over Kyeamba Creek
The span has only seen pedestrian traffic and geocachers for years
As for the cache ...
... well the clue is sheer understatement

TFTC

Found with nissan 65 on a few days off work. We decided to head away for a few days caching. Thanku for the cache

Found with cullum 68 on our way to wagga wagga thanks for the cache

Found on the way to Tasmania, taking a less direct route on our second day. Bridge looks in good condion, cache found quickly. TFTC HINCO
# 1591 at 11:39:00 AM on 18Feb2019

found a big spider

Decided to stop by this one today as it had a few favourite points! I initially parked on the east side of the bridge, but the grass was SUPPEEER long, and in 34 degree heat there was no way I was walking through.

So got back in the car and drove to the opposite side, parked and found a slightly better access point! The grass was still a bit long however so I slowly made my way and was on watch for any slithery friends!

But it turns out that snakes weren't my problem. But SPIDERS!
The outer container had a huge spider lurking inside of it! Freaked me out for a second but I was super glad it wasn't resting on the container itself.

BEWARE next finder! I signed the log and replaced the camo, but the spider was still on it! SO be careful!

Thanks HINCO

Returning home to wodonga from Wagga area. Close on 100 caches for a 24 hr period I had no time to log every cache individually. I would like to thank all Cache owners for there effort in placement of caches. If there was any problem regarding a cache, I would certainly inform the CO via message or log depending on the issue if any. Cheers.

#3171 Parked just after the bridge and walked over to the other bridge to find what was out of place. Quick find. The river bed was as dry as. On my way to Wagga Wagga for a couple of days. Found a total of 77 with 3 DNFs. Cheers from Canberra. TFBMH HINCO.

We were in Wagga to do the fireworks for the Wagga show and with a bit of time to spare this morning we thought that we would head off to try and find a few more of our unfound caches in this area.
We have had many trips to Wagga since this cache was placed back in 201 but we just haven't seemed to get out this way but today it was on our list. We could see the old bridge from the road but not a clear way to it so a u-turn was required and we made our way to gz where the cache was located after a walk through the long grass and our name was added to the log.

Thanks for the cache and for bringing us here.

Oh no we had taken the wrong road, with [@AngusnmumyAdventures](http://coord.info/PRRD6GG) with goemobile leading us down the track, or as we thought. However we see that there is a cache down this track so what better to do than go find it.

We go on a walking adventure and see what we can find. Of to the historic bridge which once carried all the Traffic along the Sturt Hwy between Wagga & Gundagai, there it is. Wow what an adventure and an great views of a little creek that runs underneath this very sturdy old bridge. Some more of the areas amazing history here.

Thanks for another history lesson HINCO Lil Donna

T4TC - Another lovely spot to adventure in our local area with [@LilDonnasAdventure](http://coord.info/PRRDT3H)
Thanks HINCO

TFTC!
Nice old bridge and love the hide.
Found with Shellumbus and RedLeader&Fox2 whilst on our Hidden Creature Adventure.

Out to gather some mythical creatures with indianagleeson and shellumbus. This is a nice old bridge, glad there was a cache here to make us stop and explore a little. TFTC.

Another one to add to the mystery creatures tally!
Tftc with Indianagleeson red leader and fox 2

Tftc. A beautiful view from a lovely antique bridge. A clever little hide, actually.

Found with gracewf on a day out around Wagga.

Nice to see an old bridge that is also easily accessible via a short walk from the road. A good clue meant I spotted something slightly out of place and the cache was there. TFTC.

Wow! I’ve driven this road so many times and never looked out the window and saw this bridge! It’s got a beautiful view down the gully from the middle. Cache quickly found and signed. Thankyou!

The first find for today with Mrs Simpsonfamily15.Thats a lovely old bridge! Thank you ! Greetings from the german explorer turtle

Tftc! It does look a little out of place

Easy find very ery thou. Thanks

We stopped so the girls could take photos. I checked the phone and just had to do the cache that was only 20 meters away. Great hide in very good condition. Thanks HINCO

On driving into town we recognised the spot as we had a previous DNF many years ago as the container was missing so it was time to change the blue mark on the page. A quick find and sign. TFTC

That camo stands out, is it really camo?

I had to head to Wagga Wagga to make a presentation at a Scout meeting on Saturday morning. Of course, this gave me a great excuse to come down early and knock off a few caches along the way.

Juno and I spent a fantastic night sleeping on a 'secret' spot on the shores of the 'Bidgee, and then went and completed a little power trail in the early morning.

It was then straight back to Goulburn and home.

Thanks to all of the caches hiders, we will be back in the area soon!

Cheers

13:33
Our day started with a Canada Day Event, local cachers were keen to offer help for caches we had not found during the week. So we set out with renewed confidence and really enjoyed the last day of caching in the Riverina for this trip.
Shanty bridge certainly would not cope with today's traffic.

Thanks HINCO for placing caches for everyone's enjoyment.
19097

Suscoe was out and about this morning heading to the east of Wagga.
It was a clear morning with blue skies approaching and a delightful day emerging from the night.
The countryside changed from the city to the country and we enjoyed all the views as we headed around the roads.
Thanks to HINCO, this was the lovely hidden spot just off the road but couldn't be seen easily.
A good location.

#7935 @1450
Day 2 of the Australia 3-day orienteering champs. Today's event was in Murraguldrie forest, so I cached my way there and back from Wagga Wagga. Easily found. TFTC.

Lovely old bridge. Thanks for the information and of course the cache!!

A bit of history in this one. TFTC

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

Enjoy trip from Goulburn...
Good to stop here and visit these Old Shanty Bridge..
Thanks HINCO for the hunting and cache

I found this cache as a joint part of “Team” *Throsbyonchurch* and in which name the log book was signed. I now have my own account as I’m old enough to cache myself, so I am claiming a fair share of my earlier finds. As I had no caching name at the time there's no log in the book for me but I’m claiming the find under team ToC. Thank you for the hide.

Found it thank you for the hide. Just completed half the RGGT series and have to head four hours home. Found this on our way. Amazing bridge. It is flooded a lot around here after all the rain, and more to come we hear.

Found it . -- 4:30 PM -- SL TNLN TFTH. Thanks for bringing us here.
Travelled 4hrs to attend two events in Junee at the Monte Cristo and the Licorice Factory. Completed the first half of this series as we had to head home a day early due to a couple of factors, one being the threat of the Murrumbidgee flooding which caused us to lose our pre-booked accommodation for the weekend. We hoped for a good find of caches while down here and were not disappointed considering the factors. Impressed with the bridge.

*** NO trackables found in this cache ***

We were glad that we went to look for this cache in winter - would not like to walk through the area in summer when the grass would be longer and snakes possibly in the area. Accurate coordinates led to a quick find of an interesting cache - very bold hide. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks HINCO for the cache.

Found:)

Another lovely old bridge left in limbo. A clever hide. TFTC

Came to Wagga to attend an event, so making a weekend of it. Up early to grab a few caches. The grass was long but thankfullly there was some good tracks and a clue Made this easy enough find. The creek is so dry, the area desperately needs rain. I love these old bridges.
Thanks HINCO for placing & maintaining the cache for us to find.
#3151

Found on our road trip to Bright. Heading for our onite stop in Wagga. Amazing to think of the traffic that once used this bridge. Nice camo. SL TFTC HINCO

15:57, 10 March 2016. #356.

I've had to come to Wagga for work a few times over the last few years and since I started caching, I've made a point of finding a few each time I come up. I don't really have time for a lot of caching while I'm here so I have to satisfy myself with one or two each trip. It was Old Shanty Bridge's turn this time.

Quite a clever hide and worth the hunt.

TNLNSL. TFTC HINCO.

Found it!

Travelling Wagga with BAB - Catching up on a few quick caches - Log signed TN swaps left - TFTC

Found by edmil and maddie. First for the day. Grass very high and weather quite warm so was a little wary of Joe blakes. But never fear last nights storm must have sent them back into hibernation. Cache was a quick find, loved the camo though. Thanks for the cache, log was signed but no swaps were made.

A good hide but a little tricky getting through the long and overgrown grass and under growth - Thanks for taking us to this area - Log signed - TNLN -TFTC

#1402 3 of 27 today.

Today B737 & I made a return trip to Wagga Wagga as we notice the RGGT trail had been maintained. I was behind the wheel this time with B737 as navigator. Jetfusalage stayed at home manning the playstation. We'd missed about 9 of the series last time & were keen to complete it. Today it was quite a bit warmer than our last trip & it was interesting to see how the scene had changed.This time it was much drier and we had our first experience of grass seeds in the socks for the summer. We really like Wagga Wagga. It's clearly a prosperous country centre with heaps of caches. But it's quite hard to plan a route around an unfamiliar town. We had a knack of seeking all the most difficult or missing caches and spending way too much time looking for them. We'll just have to come back I guess.

It was a bit nerve-wracking wandering through the long grass, past the 'roo carcass to get to this one, but we like old bridges, so it was worth it.

Thanks for the cache HINCO.

Our third find on a day flight from Canberra with StrangeTrousers as pilot to pick up the rest of the RGGT trail and some others in the vicinity. Really loved this bridge, wouldn't have noticed were it not for the cache, so FP to you for bringing me here HINCO

What a random thing. If it wasn't for the cache here you would completely miss this on the way past. I almost didn't try for it due to the long grass (and I was wearing my territory workbooks - my thongs). However, I pushed through and the very ingenious hiding spot was soon discovered. Took the TB. TFTC

Loved this hidden spot! I finally found the perfect place (that's also big enough) to drop off the bear travel bug I've had for years! He's at least very well travelled!! Help him travel some more!

The long weekend had arrived! What better way than to make the most of it and jump in the car to go on a geo getaway?!

It was time for me to get going back for home so I decided to swing by this one on the way out. Pulled the car over nearby and then wandered down and along to GZ from there to make the nice easy find. Love the camo and this interesting little bridge. Lots of happy frogs nearby as well

Thanks for the hide, HINCO

15:52 HRS

It's quite easy to drive by and never notice this interesting old bridge.
A quick find once the bridge was spotted.

Thanks.

Did not notice the old bridge initially, easy find, great old bridge.

A quick easy find TFTC stopping in Wagga Wagga for caching whilst on our way to Tassie

Nice location. A nice location to stretch the legs on a country trip

On my way home: mid year break. TFTC

Lol vey out of place

Out for a Saturday drive with geo wife.... A beautiful day.. Tftc

Found by Mary & David, at 1603. An old bridge tucked away in the trees. Great camo that, happily, we noticed quickly. Our thanks to HINCO.

Find 119 + 2 DNF's on an overnight trip to Wagga Wagga. Found on our way out of Wagga heading to Tumut. A quick find on an old bridge still in very good nick. Thanks HINCO.

Tricky to access in the dark, with torch off so as to not arouse suspicion from passing traffic. TFTC