George Chamberlain - Australian Bushranger Bannister, Western Australia, Australia
By Keego_and_Chil on 13-Sep-13. Waypoint GC486CA

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No go with this one as previous has mentioned before has gone through a cashe not there 8/1/20 Mitchell and Shannon

Bush fire gone through area recently please check

Awesome thanks

Found it. TFTC keego _and_chil. Travelling south so another chance to do a few more Bushranger series.

Found on way to work. Tftc sl tnln

Came back today to complete a bit more of the Bush Ranger series and a few others along the way. I replaced the missing caches as I went to keep this series alive, I hope the CO doesn't mind. The weather gods were on my side and not a drop of rain, once I started caching. TFTH

Fun fun

Found with Crouchey and LynPatandNathan

A nice one. Well spotted from a distance. Safe under its cover.

Found with artemis93

Back again to finish this series. TFTH

A quick park and grab on the way back home. Thanks

Quick stretch of the legs

We spend a few weeks in WA and were travelling along the coast. During that, we did some geocaches, and also this one. It's always a great way to see something from the country beside touristic attractions So thank you for showing us a new place, we would't have visit without the Cache!

During a few weeks of vacation, this cache could be found. Greetings from Germany

On our trip from Albany back to Perth we took a break from time to time to stretch our legs and to cache a bit. TFTC PePPer812

#12861. Day 17 of our WA holiday and today was moving day. Robmc and I headed across to the Albany Highway and did some more of the Bushranger Series before starting the LGA Series at the top of South Crossman Road. We picked up 17 Bushrangers and noted that there is much burning off happening along the roadside. I fear that many caches may end up getting burnt once more.



Thanks Keego_and_Chil

Day Seventeen of our holiday in Western Oz.
Bettyboo3747 and I departed Rockingham on our way to Quindanning. We did a few more Australian Bushrangers and some of the LGA series.

We started where we left off a couple of days ago at George Melville, and worked our way down to Martin Cash where we started the LGA series.
A lot of the first half dozen caches had current burning off (it was still smoking today), but luckily on the opposite side of the road. By the time we reached a cache on the eastern side of the road, the burning had finished (about 50 meters before!)
A nice collection of caches, hides, and information.
Thanks, Robmc.

Quick park and grab, TFTH.

Quick find while passing for work

Tftc keego and chil

15:01
In Victoria there is a roadside slogan STOP – REVIVE – SURVIVE. We followed this advice today on the drive from Albany to Perth. This is one of the forty stops we made, learning and laughing along the way and adding our name to the log and collecting a smiley token! We survived!

Thanks Keego_and_Chil for placing caches for everyone's enjoyment.
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Quick find on way back from a meeting in boddington. Love the bush. Tftc!

On a mission to try and find 300 caches for the month so a nice drive to Williams via Albany Highway picking up a gang of Bush Rangers and a few others was the order of the day. A great day with 58 finds, 2 dnf's and one drive by as it was too tricky to pull off the road. A big thanks to the CO's involved and sorry for the mostly generic logs.

TFTC Keego_and_Chil this is find # 1906 for us

Hi there Keego_and_Chil.

We found your cache **"George Chamberlain - Australian Bushranger"** at 10:19:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 15603).

We started the day off from Williams, our intention was to head north along the highway to reach "Civilisation" before turning back. We thoroughly enjoyed our trip and learned a lot about early Australian criminal heroes along the way.

We found a wide variety of container types amongst our 37 caches (& 2 DNF's) today. Thanks for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** A Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Well, I never knew that Neville's Dad was born in Australia. NEF. TFTC

My Challenge cache for December was 'Hidden Dates' tracking the last one down on the 23/12. For January I am Hunting down numbers to complete a 300 finds in a month challenge cache. Yesterdays came mostly from the periodic table. But with the hot forecast today and plans this morning was unsure what today would bring.
I was chatting to PommieParkin2 this morning and said ' Where shall I cache to today in this heat?' The reply 'Park n grabs, I'll come'. So we decided to tackle the Australian Bushrangers series.

Starting just after Lunch from Jarrahdale, PommieParkin2 drove while I navigated the trip to Williams and back. We ended up finishing our afternoon adventure at around 7pm. The temperature made it into the 40s and so did our cache numbers most of them bushrangers with the odd extra thrown in now and again. Luckily for us though, most were nice and quick park and grabs before retreating back to the coolness of the air conditioned car. The bonus was no DNFs which we were proud of and a huge thank you to the COs and others for maintaining all the caches.
Find #36 on the return journey. Glad these are quick finds with the temperatures still soaring. It means I spend more time in the drivers car navigating then I do in the heat searching.
TFTC and series Keego and Chil

Easy find even though phone having trouble

Cache found and in good condition.
TFTC TNLN

Found George Chamberlain - Australian Bushranger. The 3rd favourite point goes to this cache because it is the half-way point of the series. TNLN SL TFTH Keego_and_Chil.

Set out on our mission today to complete this series, 26th one down TFTC

Today was my trip from Albany back to Perth, marking the beginning of the end of my WA Goes Big 2016 Geocaching trip. A long drive made interesting (but also made much longer) by all of your cache hides.
Thanks for filling in the trip with this wonderful Bushranger series. TFTC.

Found and logged

I've heard of naughty George !!
And enjoyed finding his cache today
A quick highway side stop.
Yes !! Another hold up [:o]

TFTC.

Out today with xPertCach3r caching our way to Williams and back. The plan was to finish off the Bushrangers and grab anything else close to the highway.

We had a great day with 54 finds and 1 DNF. Most caches were found quite quickly, and the weather was perfect.

Thanks to all the COs for their caches.

At this rate we may get 600+ caches in WA before we leave.
Chris & Renate from Ontario, Canada

Having had 3 great days camping at Lake Towerrinning, we were on our way home today and collected a few more bushrangers on the way home. TFTC K&C!

After a great 3 day break with m4yb at Lake Towerrinning we head home in some pretty hot conditions, so the enthusiasm is not all that high.

This was one we grabbed on the return trip.

Thanks K&C

Cached my way down to Williams and back this morning to rack up the numbers on some Australian Bushrangers plus a few others. 46 finds and 1 DNF not a bad mornings 'work' I reckon.

A large truck was parked here when I was on the way down so left it for the return journey. No one about this time and had a quick find once at GZ.

Keego_and_Chil I found your cache at 12:26pm, this was the 44th of 46 finds for me today and brings my total find count to 2835. The cache was in good order and I replaced it as found.

SLTFTC

Still going

Have been meaning to do part of this series for some time now, so today was the day. Had an early start to the day and it was a relatively quiet day for traffic on the highway. Most were easy to locate, a few caused a bit of head scratching and a couple were spoilt by the rubbish left lying around close by to the caches. A bonus today was the most caches found in one day since I commenced caching in 2008.

Easy find

TFTC

Tftc out doing the bushranger series with geo granny . Great drive down a road I've never been. Another nice find

A nice quick find with blaze169 and geo granny. Tftc

TFTC. Quick find while stopped for lunch

Another one down in the series!

Gotcha. With thanks for the cache from Angus the great GeoWestie and his Carer wo are grey (and white) nomads currently travelling in, and enjoying, WA.

Another one in the series done lovin it TFTC

Tftc

No 5 on the way home

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We are approaching our 1000th find, and have been wanting to attack the Bushranger Series. So as a joke (hint) I suggested to Hubby that we pull the seats out of the back of the Kia, pop in an air mattress and cache our way to Albany. Well Hubby accepted the challenge - we also put solar fairy lights in the back so we had light while camping. It was a fun, laugh a minute, challenging little three day trip. I am copying and pasting most of my logs, with a little special mention here and there.

Thankyou all for placing these caches, we had a ball and were taken to places we would never have gone.

TFTC's guys
xxx

Quick park and grab in the way back to Perth from Dryandra. TFTC

TFTC out to cleanup the bushrangers trail along Albany highway. Thanks

Out on another run with barnzy12 really trying to get more notches on the stats board. TFTH TFTC

Out for a bit of adventuring in the bush with my family (jasenjanine) this was one of the caches we found along the way

Thanks Keego_and_Chil

Headed out today with the kids for some more bush adventures and picking up a few caches along the way... With a few bushrangers in our sights we took it in turns hunting the villians down This one I found with no problems & was in good condition.

TFTC Keego_and_Chil [^]

Off to Denmark with Skippy46, Luna Maya and Mns13 for a geocaching weekend seeking the famous Roymerc

On our way down south to Denmark for a caching weekend, we stopped in to pick up a few of these bushranger caches. I loved reading the stories of each and every one.
Thanks for the cache keego and chil

TFTC, the break was much needed! Swapped parachuter with an ear tag.

Taking the opportunity of a quick trip along Albany Hwy to tackle some of the caches in this series. Thank you for the hides Keego_and_Chil

Thanks for the work in placing this series and the history lesson.

TFTC

On a fine and clear winters day what would anyone want to do rather than Geocache. We decided to attack the Bushranger series on Albany Highway and this was one of the caches found. TFTC

Quick find. TFTC.

Oh these spiders suck

Heading down to Manjimup for a housewarming party, so decided to take three days to get there and back and grab some country smilies. Want to get as many of the remaining bushrangers as I can, this was a quick find. Saw a baby emu on the roadside between the last cache and here. TFTC.

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Quick find, thanks for the cache, it made our journey to Perth more fun

Found it !
Out on the bush rangers hunt and to make it to 200 caches,
TFTC

While walking to gz saw this beautiful flowers shimmering in the sun just had to share

Breaking up the monotony on the way home after Jeff Dunham at the arena!

Breaking up the monotony on the way home after Jeff Dunham at the arena!

Did a big run today. I think about 20 or so from this series. Tftcls.

Another of the bushranger series off my list. Am enjoying the history lessons. TFTC

Took my mum down to Boddington for my grandsons 2nd Birthday and decided to stay overnight.
This meant that I could take my time driving back home, which meant that there was time to grab some caches along the way.
With my mother navigating (she is 73 and has never held a GPS) I tried reeeeeeaaaallllllyyyyy hard to be patient, and I managed to find 25, 0 DNFs and one we drove past too far to make a safe turn around.
Most caches were found quickly with just 2 that took me a few minutes more to find.
I thoroughly enjoyed all the caches and the information on the bushrangers.
Can't wait until I get around to finding the rest.

TFTH TFTC Keego and Chil

Found a few more of the bushranger series today on our way up to Perth. We are slowly working our way through the series, and enjoying them along the way. TFTC

I missed looking for some of these caches on my last trip - mainly because my passengers were in a hurry to get back home. Today there were no passengers and there was a bit more time for fun. SL. Thanks for the cache.

We are camped at Boddington for 3 nights and headed out today to tackle the Australian Bushranger series north from Crossman to Armadale.

Our Geocaching Adventure quote of the day goes to Mr Felix who knew we were doing the Bushranger series but had not read any of the cache pages came out with the quote of the day ' alot of crims' we had here hey!

TFTC

TFTC

Woohoo!! Another find. Thanks Keego and Chil.

After camping in Williams last night with iluvtrekking, we were up bright and early to head towards Perth nabbing the assortment of bushrangers along the way. We were fortunate to catch all the culprits and a few others during the course of the day although hindered slightly by drizzle later in the afternoon. Thanks K & C for the excellent series and the effort put into the research behind each villain, we enjoyed reading their stories.

We camped overnight in Williams with richlink and took off early to tackle the bushrangers. We really enjoyed this fantastic series of caches and the intriguing tales of their exploits. Well done Keego & Chil, we had a great day.

Today, we took a drive to Williams to do some more of the Australian Bushrangers, and other in the area.
We did the caches on our left driving to & from Williams, (most of the time) to save running across the road.
Geo-wife read the history of each bushranger, which we enjoyed as we drove to each one.
Many thanks , Keego_and_Chil, for all the effort that has gone into putting this series together.

Good series with good aussie history.
I had known of a fair few of these bush rangers but I didn't realize there were so many.
TFTC

Getting everything logged from my recent trip to Western Australia. The first two weeks were slammed while I was on assignment but I managed to get out every day for a find or two. Got to visit some really remote places like Meekathara and Wiluna and got down to the beaches near Marybrooke and Naturaliste. For the few days I had to myself I hit the Wandoo, the Albany Hwy and the Southwest Hwy Series. So I covered a lot of ground and saw a lot of Western Australia. I had to get used to a lot of things, like driving on the left side of the road, give rather than yield, take away rather than take out and yes with a question mark is asking for conformation. Just goes to show we may speak the same language but words don't always mean the same thing. Sorry for the cut and paste nature of the logs but I have a lot to log and my sanity is important. Thanks to all the locals for the hospitality I was shown while there and thanks to the CO's for the hides, the fun and another smiley on the map. See you on the trail, and cache on!

I was travelling south on my way to Narrogin to collect a caravan and decided to grab a few caches along the way. All of the caches were easy to find due to the spot on coordinates. I only found a few of this series due to time constraints (I hate it when life interrupts my caching) but will surely be back to complete the series. TFTC Keego and Chil

Well today was my big caching day to collect all the Australian Bushranger caches and whatever others I could grab as well along the way .
And what a warm day it has become

Muggle partner and I left home at 7.30am this morning so didn't arrive in Williams until around 9am and got straight into it there before the drive continued north [^].

We decided to do north and southbound caches in one hit and an easy find here thankfully .
By now it's getting a bit 'unfun' in this heat.

Find 34/72 and no dnf for today. TFTC

Kyzabra, Rudi63 and I set out on what turned out to be a 12 hour caching run ... departed Kyzabra's residence shortly after 5am and arrived back sometime after 5pm. 75+ logs were signed along the way. Had a few laughs along the way and swapped a few caching stories ... all up an epic and most enjoyable day's caching.

Our aim was to grab all of the 'Australian Bushranger' caches and as many others as we could along the way.

Outsmarted by a pack horse - what a dumb ass.

Kyzabra found this one. Signed the log. Thanks for the cache Keego & Chil. And thanks for a great series .

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Out for a day of caching with Kyzabra and Firnsy, the decision was made to cache down the Albany Highway. History lessons a plenty as we found the dedications to those Bushrangers that have dotted our relatively short history. We also managed to grab a few other caches along the way. Over 12 Hours on the road, but lots for smiley faces achieved.

Another BushRanger that failed to live in infamy


Thanks for the cache Keego and Chil [^]
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This is my find number 2718

Headed out on a day of caching today with Rudi63 and Firnsy. The bushranger series was our primary target and any nearby caches were on the way as well. 12 hours on the road returned 79 logs for me with only 1 DNF. All in all, a great days caching with great company.
Rudi kept us abreast with our history by reading the cache page before arriving at each GZ.
A great series Keego & Chill.

another one down

Tftc loving the series thanks for the hard work putting this out

[:(!] After church we went for a Sunday drive to Williams with geogranddaughter, after a bite to eat we were on our way back home, we picked up some caches along the way, especially the Australian Bushranger Series and a few on the side and this was one of them, parked the geocar as close as possible to GZ and we walked in from there, on arrival at GZ the cache was in hand in a matter of minutes especially when there are three sets eyes searching.

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH Keego and Chil. [^]

Quick find here poor George Chamberlain what a lot of hangings in those days seems to be the fate for most of these bushrangers. Thanks Keego and Chil

Shocking weather forecast for today, but we were hoping that most of it would be closer to the coast, so we headed inland instead. I was the driver, whilst Luna Maya was in the navigator's seat. Quick find here. Dropped off a travel bug to continue its journey. Am leaving Luna to write more descriptive logs for this series, but I appreciate the effort that went into their placement. Thanks Keego and Chil

On the morning of our caching day out the weather forecast was gloomy - severe weather warning actually - wind, rain and storms Mistraluna and myself decided to go anyway and "see what happens" The plan was to make a start on the Australian Bushranger Series and "see how we go ". I now recall some talk about also caching in Boddington, but maybe I wasn't listening Well talk about plans going astray, this plan certainly did So the " Two Luna's" had a very big day out indeed. The weather was actually great, just a few showers here and there. I thought I was actually with Mary Poppins for a while - funny to see a pink umbrella in the bush We managed to find 49 of 50 caches in the series ( one DNF) plus some others in between !!! We loved the different locations and the good sized and sometimes humorous containers. So "see how we go" became - " We only have ten more rangers to find" - what should we do So we continued on, our caching venture turning into a ten hour marathon. What a great day, we had some memorable moments along the way ! Thanks so much for your company Mistraluna Keego and Chil, thanks so much for the caches and for a well done series - loved it. Logs signed of course. *Sorry for the generic log, will add more to different caches* Will also add some photos

I started this series yesterday and found out along the way that I haven't got the whole series ...So I went home and logged the rest into the GPS and made plans to leave early to get to Williams and work my way back to Armadale ...I left the Geowife in bed at 4am and grabbed the jeep keys ...I got as far as the Jarrahdale turn off on the Albany Hwy when things went wrong ... I had to wake the geowife up to come and get me as the jeep had broke down and getting her to get motivated at that time without coffee is a worry ...When she arrived I managed to get the jeep started but it wasn't looking good ,So it was a call for the tow truck ...Got back home at 8am and the Geowife said now that you got me out at that time you can get into the truck and go and complete the rest of the bushranger series.......TFTC Keego and Chil...... Started to rain here but it was great to have a quick find...

Despite the gloomy forecast (rain, thunderstorms and hail ) I decided to try to get all in the series today, I started at North Bannister and cached down to Williams leaving the closer one for the home run. All in all a great day with only two DNF's
Thanks K&C for the series

Another find and another blank log so *FTF* with chwiliwr.

Published

Another quick find at this one. Really had only trouble at two caches today with the rest right where the GPS took us.

Thanks Keego and Chil for the cache.