Home #10 Bourke, New South Wales, Australia
By Bourkebornandbred on 06-Jul-15. Waypoint GC5YTKE

Quick find here. Removed archived cache trash.Freddo and Team Waldron are heading north for a long delayed trip to the caching fields of Cunnamulla. This cache was found on our journey. Caches were fixed where necessary. Fresh log books added. Containers refreshed.Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke fr den Cache. Gracias por el cach. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos ktkst. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Ksznm a cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas.I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I ISAs Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. Cant wait!!

Unfortunately there was no response (or regular update) from the owner within the time requested and as per the original note this cache has been archived. If you wish to replace it please submit a new cache via [this link](https://www.geocaching.com/play/hide).

Ngaambul - Matt

Found on the trip home after another awesome, annual QOGM event. On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird (aka Mrs Geo, Salty Chook, the Old Boiler, Old Chook, Dirty Bird, Angry Bird & occasionally even Love Bird). It’s a great day for caching.
TFTC Bourkebornandbred
Find #11533

Thanks Bourkebornandbred for taking time to set out and maintain this hide and for showing us this very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot

Find # 9160

#LockitupintheOutback

**THE**
**WHITTLESEA**
**EVENT 2022**
19th / 20th November 2022 – GC8EW40 – Whittlesea – Victoria

11164 Located by baby&Mrs gopher in company with wazza9 and Nana Nel at 1130. No sign of the original container so a bison tube was placed at GZ. Message has been sent to CO of our intervention SL Tnx Bourkebornandbred

Found with baby &Mrs Gopher and Wazza9 after replacing the container and advising the CO. Stamped log and returned. Thanks to CO for your series.

TFTC,
Out caching around the area with Baby & Mrs gopher and Nana nel this morning. We both had about the same number to do with 2 common caches.
Undertook some maintenance for the CO and waiting for feedback.
Visited trackables.

###Cache Maintenance Visit Required please.###
This geocache has been brought to my attention as being in need of an Owner Maintenance visit, as the logs indicate that it is most likely missing, or else some other problem exists with the cache. See the [GCHQ Health Score](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=713) process.
I agree that it certainly seems necessary to have it checked by the Cache Owner.

The cache owner needs to:

* Take action to restore the cache or address any issues such as correcting the D/T rating.
* Re-enable the cache by posting an Enable log
* Post an Owner Maintenance log to advise what has been done, and to clear any Needs Maintenance attribute which is present.

Otherwise :
* Post a Note Log to request more time if necessary, or provide other information..
**Do not use an Owner Maintenance log for this, that is for use only **when you actually do something to repair the cache**.

Alternatively:

* Archive the cache, and remove any remaining geo-litter from the site.

In the meantime, I've temporarily disabled the cache page to await owner action by Bourkebornandbred and to take it off the playing board to prevent further geocaching community inconvenience.
[Please see the maintenance section of the Geocache Hiding Guidelines.](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines?expand=1#cachemaintenance)
**I will check back in 30 days** to see that action has been by the CO.
If nothing has happened, I will assume that the cache has been abandoned and, unfortunately, I will need to Archive this cache.
*Caches archived because of lack of maintenance/abandonment will not be unarchived.*

The Geocaching Community needs to have a degree of certainty that a cache is there, and in good condition, waiting to be found, and the CO has a responsibility to maintain their caches.

Please see [my profile page](https://www.geocaching.com/p/default.aspx?u=Balayang) for additional information.
Thank you
Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

Revisiting Bourke for the third time from TAS, but this time its mostly to see the town from a geocacher's perspective. So far so good on these bornandbred caches, but this one took a bit of getting to 'cos the gates are locked. So went along the levee and climbed the locked gate cl;ose to GZ. gave it quite some time but like the last 3 players bar one we DNF. Thanks for giving us an incentive for a few laid back cruisey days Bourkebornandbred.

G

No luck for us here today. Maybe next time.

No find again after 7 years, and the access is very muddy and local show campers were nearby but respectful.

@1700
Day 2 of a 3 week holiday driving from Canberra to Townsville and back to attend the Mega. Today was Forbes to Bourke, via Euabalong, Mount Hope and Cobar. Approx 600km. Apart from a couple of DNF's all caches were found in good condition. No sign of this one.

This one was too good for me today...

Nice find and looks like hasn’t been used for long time. TFTC.

Found with SixFtDownNUnder

Going walkabout on day off with Hintanites...needs new log...tftc

Found 87/8/21 at 11 .19

Easy.

Cheers,Bulba's

Found with NutCacheBNE. Cold morning and no muggles.

Got ya, almost muggled

Good hiding

A very sneaky little devil indeed. Took quite a while to spot.

We arrived in Bourke yesterday after slowly making our way here from Victoria in around 4 weeks. This trip is our turn to take it slowly, explore the small country towns on our way, and generally take time to get to know the regions and places we may not have heard anything about. Bourke has turned out to be a surprise. We have found many lovely spots and surprising things to see. Many of them have been because a cache has taken us nearby. That is one of the things we love about caching. The local knowledge which gives us a glimpse of things we would otherwise miss.
Thanks to all the local cachers that have show us this great area,
TFTC

No luck for this old duck today.

This is a very sneaky little cache. It took quite a while to spot. Muggle husband had joined the search, and was grateful when I spied it.

Mrs Oz KEG and myself spent the day in Bourke. The town is a lot smaller than we expected, though it had splenty of caches. We found all but 4 (all have a string of DNFs so we didn't look for them). Thanks to all of the COs of the Bourke caches.

With Oz Keg

The Moose came up with the goods here. Signed the log while watching a big roo bounce up and down the fence line looking for a way out. Nice and green out here. Thanks for the hide and bringing us here.

Thanks not to hard

A tricky one to find

Tftc no luck

Found
Great find took us a while to find it

Found.took a little while but got it

Soon found by Mrs Blingg

TFTH

Set out to find a couple more geocachers today before ride out of town and was very to locate this one and I have to say thanks for placing these around town for us to enjoy.

Good find though a need log will be needed soon because they are nearly full

Found with sjg66 on our Bourke holiday. The log is full. TFTC

Found on our day visiting the sights of Bourke

Didn’t have a lot of time to search which I guess we needed cause we didn’t find today. We gave it a red hot go but no luck

TFTC found today with newly joined cachers FaithDestinyPeter
Very clever hide

Damn

TFTC cache in good condition

Found

Yep his there had to look hard

On our day trip to Bourke from Brewarrina. Enjoying our escape and feeling for those less fortune. Glad that all was quiet here today, finally spied the little fella. tc

Good spot!!

Packed up and left Cobar today, heading for Bourke. Again setup the caravan at the Mitchell caravan Park an drove around town getting a few more caches.

TFTC Bourkebornandbred
Total Cache Finds 9283

Got it all good thanks Bourke we on way to Cobar

Needed some assistance to get it out

With family

TFTC. We are camped at Mays Bend just outside Bourke. We decided to explore the area using geocaching as a guide. Took us to some interesting areas and there were some great hides. A lovely day of caching and exploring. 24 finds and Home #4 and #9 appear to have gone MIA.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.



Devilish



Brilliant and Clever



I like it



Another one of the list



TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH BourkeBornAndBred [^]

Arrived in Bourke today with time to explore the town and enjoy some caching This took me to a wide variety of places giving an excellent introduction to Bourke. Another very sneaky hide which I spotted quickly TFTC

We Routers havw been looking at a western run for some time [^]
Then the time cbecame availible [^] so a road trip was on
We found many caches , most from Bourkebornandbreed , ansd thanx to all other CO's for the placements we really had a good fun out and about
We found some reqular caches, some very well constructed we found mint tins (which really are not "small", a 250ml clip lock is a "small") [?] , we found most of what we looked for
Thanx again to all for our most enjoyable road trip

cheers from the Routers

Stopping in Bourke for a few days we headed out today to find a few caches and let Geocaching be our tour guide.

TFTC

Day 336 - Today with a little time to relax at our favorite Burke caravan park we went to get some milk and along the way we revisited some of our DNFs seen as they had been found since so it was try and turn frowns to smiles.

This was a nice quick find this time around and it was nice to signed that log.

Thanks Bourkebornandbread for replacing this cache for us to add to the collection today.

Found after reading previous logs. TFTC

Hi there Bourkebornandbred. Today was a bit of a mixed bag - we walked through town and bought a few things (a typical tourist day around with a smattering of local caches of course). This cache was a quick find and the container and the log are dry and useable. SL. Thanks to Bourkebornandbred for this cache - our find #6689.

Found it

Here in 2016 with out a find
Today with no one about we walked away with a smiley
Took 4 sets of eyes to locate the sneaky cache
Tftc

i was thrilled to find this one where more experienced caches had missed it. I admit I had almost given up and was walking back to the car. Great hide.

We've started travelling south again after a fabulous time around the Barcaldine area during the inaugural QOGM. Next year look out Blackall when we do it all over again.
I was out without a chauffeur today and oh how much longer it takes. After lots of research into which caches looked like possible finds I created a path to follow. Still managed 4 DNFs but 15 smilies were added to the map! Thanks to all the COs who have placed and maintained caches. All logs were signed, though some as SG if appropriate.

Bourke
Made our way back to NSW, after attending QOGM at Barcaldine
Staying in the caravan park for a couple of days so that hubby can watch the V8s & to look for the caches around town
Just a little bit of poking around & we found the nano's hide
It was good to find such a variety of caches & hides along the way.
Thanks for placing this cache Bourkebornandbred

We are now catching up on some very late logs.
Half the team had attended the Queensland Outback Geocaching Muster and now heading home with micaparamedic and of course picking up some caches along the way.
We pulled in here and thought what a great place to camp for a few days but this was not possible as our holiday was nearly over.
Happy there was nothing going on here today we were free to search and micaparamedic found the little blighter surprising quickly and the log now contains our names.
Thanks once more Bourkebornandbred for another good cache hide.

After a wonderful time in Barcaldine attending the QOGM 2018, it is now time for me to head back to Victoria. I travelled from Barcaldine to Parkes in the company of Team Crackers. Geoturtle37 and Papi4506 joined us for the trip down to Blackall. A vehicle issue caused me and Team Crackers to stay an extra day in Blackall to await the finish of the public holiday on Monday so that the required part could be purchased and fitted before the journey continued.

Quite a few stops were made to quench the thirst for another cache find and I thank all the CO's for their caches and the enjoyment they provided to the caching community.

Must be good however too good for us. Thanks anyway.

The Big Western Australia trip in 2018. Day 2. Today took me back on the main roads from Albert, Nyngen and Bourke to a favorite bush camp on the Mitchell Highway. See GA10096.

These Bourke caches seem to come and go, I was lucky to find this in place today.

Thanks.

25059.8 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Ghost Jeep #3 A#45

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I spent the day seeking out the caches around Bourke before making my way north to the Charleville area. This was a good little series that gave me a bit of an appreciation of dome of the area’s features and history. Thanks Bourkebornandbred for the cache.

More like a did not attempt as show people setting up.

Out and about but failed to unearth this one.

Our final day caching around Bourke before heading off tomorrow.

There were some workers on the roof of one of the nearby buildings but we were able to cache undiscovered amongst the animal stalls

A few minutes searchng and Geohubby spotted the little cache

Many thanks for bringing us here Bourkebornandbred[^]

DNF 1 of 3 on a day with 7 caches found for the day

Thanks Bourkebornandbred for this location however the treasure illuded us today.

The total count for the day was 7 consisting 7 Traditional with 3 DNFs

Grand Cache count = 308 total consisting of 291 Traditionals, 13 Multi and 4 Mystery

Stayed in Bourke for an extra day due to rain in the morning
Went to the Back of Bourke centre in the morning then spent the afternoon finding some caches
Went out to the racecourse and for a drive after a frustrating walk around in circles for a bit I soon spotted the cache
Thanks Bourkebornandbred TFTC

Great hide spot and coordinate is so spot. Thanks

Found at 0946. Had to search a bit for this one, after poking around a bit I found it. TFTC.

After a short search we found the cache.

Despite accurate coordinates, it took over 5 minutes of hunting before this little sucker was found. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Bourkebornandbred for this cache and the many caches you have placed in the area.

stayed overnight in caravan pk 5kms out of town
Noticed that campers were also staying here at show grounds
Sadly as we only had a few minutes to look for this one so we could not give the area a good search so no smiley for us today

Cache check all good

Cairns trip 2016. Day 2. As I head further west I traveled through Nyngen & Bourke to stop a bit north of the border at a creek side rest stop. The day was dry but I had mixed results from my caching in some remote areas of Australia. I had a fun afternoon in Bourke. Lots of DNFs but the ones I found were all good. This was a could not look as people were caming at GZ.

Thanks.

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Hard to fine

Nice

Great hide

Found it

Tricky hide, took a little while. TFTC

Just picking up some caches today on our way along the Mitchell Highway heading towards Bourke, as well as a selection of caches in and around town. This one took us a while to find as there seemed to be a lack of hiding places. After one good search and finding nothing it was then time to search in more careful detail. This was when the find was made. We were very pleased to sign the log of other 'unloved' cache and adding it to our list. Many thanks Bourkebornandbred for so many caches in this area.

We hunted around for 30 minutes to no avail. Not for us today.

Cache check all good

Searched for ages but no smiley

TFTH

Probably our quickest find in Bourke. It actually took longer to get the log out than to locate the cache. No horses today just a couple of kids on motorbikes. Thanks.

Ooh clever!

Horrible weather but still fun

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