History of Boorowa Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia
By Joshwa27 on 29-Sep-15. Waypoint GC64929

After the huge day yesterday (200 caches) was hoping for a sleep in and then a few more caches before heading home. Didnt get the first but did get the second (another 51). Glorious weather again and some beautiful country traversed.I solved this puzzle this morning while having coffee. Like all this series there is one answer I struggled with and took a lot of guesses to get the checker to give me the green light (I was going too low). Thankfully the hide was a simple one and I grabbed quickly and then on to the next.TFTC Joshwa27

We are on a ten-day road trip from Sydney around the Central West. Travelling from Cowra to Goulburn today. We solved this puzzle about interesting Boorowa yesterday and visited old St Patricks this morning. A chilly, quiet place at HZ before a stop for morning tea at the Superb Cafe with the superb parrot on its awning. SL TFTC Cheers Gaztek

Reperio 19:54The youngest and I left Orange this afternoon to come and tackle some of the caches in and around the Yass area this weekend, and we managed to fit in a few finds before we made camp for the night. With the majority of finds being from power trails or shorter series, we had a great time picking them off one by one. This one was one of the extra caches found along the way. Gratias Joshwa27As a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

Had to make a couple of numerical adjustments before I got the green light but it was a quick find at GZ. TFTC and the history Joshwa27

Found on another typical Winter day.
Another of this series ticked off the list.
Thanks for the cache Joshwa27,
***Roostaman***

Spent some time gathering the required information on Google.
Cache spotted quickly, signed and replaced as found.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Joshwa27,
and for us and others to find.

Out caching north of Yass today. This puzzle has been on the solved list for quite some time, and it was quickly located at GZ. Regrettably the log is wet and tricky to sign, however we have a pic as proof of find if required.

Thanks.

Lovely weather, quick find. TFTC Joshwa27.

Loverly and warm in the car, so good to get a run of caches. TFTC

We enjoyed a caching tour of this lovely town. TFTC Joshwa27

Enjoyed the history of Boorowa! Thanks Joshwa

Tftc with drobbo

**Today:**

Myself and sebass19 decided to head out to the "Hilltops" LGA to find some Sausages, Turtles, Frogs and a sleuth of other caches! We did a maintenance run for DSD's caches whilst we were at it too, tying up a few loose ends and making sure they were in good nick!

Ended up with 50 finds for the day, rare to get that many for a 'local' day out, although we did rack up a fair distance from home!

**This Cache:**

Thanks to sebass19 for solving the majority of this puzzle in the car as we drove between Rye Park & Boorowa! A couple digits we needed to ammend / fix up, but they were either very significant or very insignificant, so we had the spot narrowed down to a very small radius. Upon arrival there was one large tree, and the cache was quickly located at the base of it! Still didn't get a green light on the checker, but that's ok!

TFTC Joshwa27

Find#3381
Nice hiding place
Found with loci612
Thanks for the cache

Out with GreyHams on a mostly nice sunny day. With the recent rain there was plenty of water lying about, the little car got, well... just a 'little' muddy! Thankfully though we stayed dry and clean enough! Wow, it was a long day that saw us cover a lot of distance, climb a few hills, and collect a lot of good quality caches along the way. Generally, most caches were found in good condition, all at the coordinates and dry although a few have not held up to the rain and were in poor or very wet condition.

Thanks for your cache that led to a good day out!

Another "History of..." found!

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Had a long day with Aquilus1 doing a few local virtuals & Earthcaches before a loop up to Goulburn, Boorowa and back through Hall today. Long day!

In someones yard?

What a lovely spot to be laid to rest, log wet. Thanks for the cache

We had solved this ne some time ago, so it was good to arrive in town and find the cache.

Today we decide to take another loop out from Harden via Galong to Boorowra. It was still bitterly cold with the wind adding to the chill factor, but thankfully only a few short but light rain showers.
We enjoyed the rolling hills and speculated as to what crops had been planted.
A mixture of traditional, a number of letterboxes and a couple of multis all finishing with a Lab in Boorowra..
A few DNFs but mostly straightforward finds.

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Joshwa27.
**SKI Pair****

Quick park and grab while staying out of sight of nearby muggles.

Had this worked out for a long long time. It's one of my favorite towns to visit when driving past this way. GZ has some spectacular views too. Thanks for another history lesson.

Adventure boys!
We found in peace.
Out hiding caches, came across this
#nosuchthingas~ftf~

Found by accident while hiding caches. Signed Dan

TFTC smile 13201 out and about with miss millie geo dog Hatzofff RoddyC and Snickersallan great caches, great day ,good weather, On our way home spending a few days finding caches in around Yass
signing as 4 for Qld
Thank you, Joshwa27, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Staying in Boorowa for a few days with hatzofff, grannysmith1947 and RoddyC collecting caches around the region. (Logs stamped 4 for QLD)
Special thanks to all the cache owners for the array of good quality containers and hides on offer.
Lovely cemetery here, all good with the cache.

TFTC Joshwa27

Day 40 of our southern trip.

Moving north. Heading towards Yass and Canberra for a few days. Now in Boorowa for a few nights and caching out from here. Picking up some snakes an lizards and challengers and what ever else is around.

Travelling & Caching with RoddyC snickersallan and grannysmith1947. Signing/stamping as 4 for QLD.

Had solved this one years ago for another trip. Had been here previously as another Cacher. Now signing as hatzofff.

Loved this series of caches across the country.

TFTCache Joshwa27

Working our way around the countryside seeking out solved ‘History of ….’ puzzles zig zagging to and fro from country town to country town.
Driving through Boorowa we couldn’t get over how large the town actually is.

Thanks Joshwa27 for the placement.

On our way to Yass from Grenfell caching along the way. Took the long way so we could get a couple more Joshwa27 caches. This was one we found. TFTC Joshwa27

Decided to make a quick stop to pick this up. The country is looking fabulous.

On a mini tour heading west with Kittykatch. Wonderful weather to be outside enjoying.

TFTC Joshwa27

Quick find. Log slightly damp. container damp. No swaps.
Thanks for the cache, Joshwa27!

Quick find with Black Bunny.
Thanks, Joshwa27!

Quick solve and find on the drive up to boorowa today. TFTC

Found with Sophiescout and Jemalong and Family. TFTC and the history lesson.

Quick find with Aussiepuschaks and Jemalong&family TFTC

I'm leaving the new Mrs Mister JD at home while I go to care for my aged Mum in Brisbane for a couple of weeks while my brother visits his grandkids in Sydney. I'm looking forward to seeing
mum but sad to be leaving my wife at home. I'm taking four days for the trip because
I want to find caches, and long trips are way in my past due to my crook back. Caching is ideal as I can stop and start practically as I like. Today's leg is home to Dubbo. I got off to a late start, and found the traffic out of Canberra was horrendous, so I took a back road just out of town, and finished up doing part of a power trail before I got to Yass. I really enjoyed that road, but took too long and found only a few more on the rest of the day. I did stop quite a few times for my back and to give Sophie GeoSchnauzer a bit of a run. Sophie is a bit sad, we have just lost her lifetime companion, Oscar GeoSchnauzer at the ripe old age of fifteen and a half.

I've solved quite a lot of your history series, and had lots of fun and a little frustration doing it. It will be harder to find them all, as I don't get out as often as I used to. However, a little astute route planning will get me there eventually. Four today is a record for me, I have only ever founf one in a day before.


I liked this location, and the detour to get here.

Find no 16 of 19 today. Thanks, Joshwa27

Quick find at GZ on a very windy day.
Tftc!

#14932 @0740
On the way to Eugowra from Canberra for the NSW orienteering champs. Dropped by here for a quick find. TFTC.

Found on a trip around central New South Wales with e.gregory1. Our original plans were to travel through Bourke, Cunamulla and Toowoomba to attend the Dayboro event in Queensland and return via Port Macquarie and central NSW, but a series of events that included road closures due to flooding in southern inland Queensland, a covid outbreak in Brisbane and widespread storm damage and road closures along the north coast of NSW resulted in multiple changes of plans during the trip. As it eventuated our travels took us to central New South Wales, on a route from Broken Hill to Cobar, Nyngan, and Gunnedah from where we meandered southwards through some great scenery and historic towns that included Dunedoo, Wellington, Cowra and Yass. We then headed in a roughly westerly direction through to Temora, Wagga Wagga, Deniliquin and Swan Hill before making a final dash for home. All up we found a good mix of Traditionals, Puzzle Caches, Multicaches, Adventure Labs, Wherigos, Earthcaches, Letterbox Hybrids and Virtual Caches on a very entertaining and enjoyable trip. Thanks for the cache Joshwa27!

Found on a trip around inland NSW with FeatherWaite.

Our original intention was to attend the Mega event at Dayboro in Queensland, travelling up via Broken Hill, Bourke, Cunamulla and Toowoomba, then home via the NSW coast to Port Macquarie then on to Adelaide via central NSW. However, the Covid outbreak in Brisbane forced us to reconsider, particularly given that the Mega and associated events were within the area of concern and we may have had difficulty re-entering NSW to get home and then would have had to quarantine back in SA for 14 days.

The floods in the north and east of NSW also hampered our travel plans. But we were able to develop a new plan that took us on a very pleasant tour around country NSW, picking up some interesting caches along the way.

I have quite enjoyed the opportunity to complete some of the caches in this history series and its nice to see a few mystery caches scattered around the countryside.

Thanks Joshwa27 for the puzzle and the cache.

Finalf29 and I decided to spend a few days getting off the main highway and grabbing a few of these backroad caches. Having a wonderful time with my bestest buddy.

All caches now downloaded offline!

Loving these “history of towns” puzzle series. Needed a bit of help from the CO on a couple of numbers. Thanks

9:52:00 AM: (1 of Find#12018
first stop and its always a good reason to stop and explore the towns you normally pass by.
a bit of a detour of the highway but well worth it to see some more of the area.
Good view from here..

Heading to Orange for a short stay, and learning a bit of history too

very easy find.

thanks Joshwa27

Floating around while the others use their amazing skills to find the cache, well, not much help was needed, *ThrosbyOC* had things well under control. Log signed and replaced and the scene evacuated OCW *Throsbyonchurch* and *DustyJasperJet*. TFTC Joshwa27! Your efforts in placing and maintaining this cache is much appreciated.

Found -- 2:16 pm -- Thanks for the hunt and bringing us to this location *Joshwa27*.

**Cache Condition:** Cache good.

**The Cache**
Woo hoo, tick, another excellent *History of ...* by *Joshwa* found and logged. Love , love, love your caches !! Log signed in either our names or our initials in some switcheroo form of LP, DJJ, ToC and then returned cache to its hide'y hole exactly as found.

**The Day**
OCW *Little Panther* and *DustyJapserJet*. Leaving *Binalong* for the backwaters of *Wyangala* today. Cruised down to Binalong to undertake some cache maintenance between here and Wyangala, plus a short few days camping. Want to stay longer but we have a three day Scout hike commitment.

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***Please don't be hasty - zip and wrap the bags - money, time and effort that has gone into them.***

Found along with another smiley ??? ??? too. Thanks for the placement of ***History of Boorowa***, *Joshwa27*.
DustyJaperJet

Enjoyed researching this one. Found very easily due to perfect coordinates and the cache visible from my car as I pulled up. Sitting half visible to your average muggle, I returned it to its location with some additional light cover.

I was not able to work out the History caches in Orange, so I was surprised to see the green tick from the checker for this one. Good spot for a cache.

After belatedly realising that today is a 'leap day', I decided to set out on a caching expedition.
Leaving Yass a bit after 3pm, I headed to Bookham, across to Galong and then to Boorrowa before arriving back home in Yass at 6:30. A nice drive with 15/15 caches found.
Final cache for the day. I had done the research on this mystery cache a few weeks ago. I had trouble with finding any information on one particular question, but answers to other questions narrowed down the missing value, reducing the search area to a tolerable level. Happily it was in the first location I checked (quite exposed actually, I re-hid with additional natural camouflage).
TFTC, Joshwa27

Found today on a roadtrip with GrimRaider. Interrsting history discovered doing this cache. Very Smokey today. Cache in good condition.

TFTC Joshwa27

9219 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1415. Lunch in Boorowa then off to see if our numbers were correct. A FP from us. SL Tnx Joshwa27

Really enjoyed the history lesson with this cache. Easy find. Thanks Joshwa27, looking forward to solving and finding more of this series on our travels.

Apologies for cut and paste log

Travelling west to complete SES training it was decided a few caches would help with driver fatigue. TFTC

Last minute opportunity arose for a trip to Parkes to assist with an SES course this weekend and being a five-hour journey, it was sensible to take a break from driving every so often. What a coincidence there also seems to be a cache at appropriate intervals and I had solves for a few more in the “History of” series I wouldn’t normally be heading past. So many headstones for a small town cemetery, it looked like a city skyline!

4183 29 July 2019
Staying in Cowra for a few days enjoying the sights and grabbing some local caches. Quick find.
TNLNSL
TFTC Joshwa27

n our preparation for this current trip to New South Wales, we enjoyed this series of caches as they gave us some insight into the history of the locations we visited.

Accurate coordinates, the hint and a familiar object led to a quick find. Apart from the plastic bag being torn, the cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Joshwa27 for the cache and the series.

Found ages ago as part of 4as1 (Scruffyblake, The S's, Charli_Bear, and Me) but i forgot to log.

Thanks for the cache, took nothing, left nothing and signed log

Day 3 of my trip to the Clear Waters Mega. Dubbo to Queanbeyan, in a round-about way, covering more local government areas. TFTC!

With a day off and time to spare before the next thing I have on, I decided on doing the caching trail that goes: Temora, Young, Murringo, Boorowa, Yass and back home through Harden. This trail and picking up some new thongs from ‘Rivers’ lead to a great day out. I started the day with the new tree climb in Young which has been on the list for quite some time and then picked up some trigpoints which has been on my to-do-list for quite some time. After this I went to ‘Rivers’ and then headed out to my next stop which was the mystery cache in Murringo. Next were the caches in Boorowa, Yass for lunch and then head home via Harden. TB visit on all found caches. I would like to thank all CO’s for placing the caches I found and for the enjoyment they brought me today.
Today’s totals:
13 GC Finds
3 GCA Finds
1 DNF
1 Not Attempted

Thank you for another one in your 'History of...' series because I am learning heaps. A quick find at GZ. TFTC

With GLISS! on a day trip that was supposed to be to Orange. Instead we had a bit of a bingle and stopped in Boorowa for a few hours before being towed back to Yass and then home to Canberra. Oh well - we'll get to Orange another time. TFTC

With Commando on a day trip that was supposed to be to Orange. Instead we had a bit of a bingle and stopped in Boorowa for a few hours before being towed back to Yass and then home to Canberra. Oh well - we'll get to Orange another time. I solved this a couple of weeks ago so made the detour from the highway to pick this up.

This was a monumental cache due to its grave location and deathly silence. We certainlt found a tree of life while looking fir this cache. Tftc

I had left Boorowa after finding the CORS and failing on the trig on the mountain. I pulled over to see what was next a realised that I had missed this one. luckily for me I was on the right side of town and only a bit more than two kilometres away.

Found this after answering the questions and learning the history of Boorowa. Had a great lunch at the Bakery in town.
Thanks Joshwa27 for the hide.

Found with my Dad and little brother on our rainy-day roadtrip day driving to Canberra.

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Find #2163
Day 2 of our Canberra roadtrip. We're driving from Orange into Canberra in the rain. Luckily it was never particularly heavy, so didn't dent our caching efforts too much, managing a dozen today over the 300 odd kilometre trip. In between fog bands we scored some great views across the plains too....
We could see what the GPS was pointing at as we approached, and as we got there it did read 0m. A quick scratch around and we had the cache. TFTC Joshwa27

Found on our way to Orange to pick up my new bunny rabbit, TFTC

Heading up to Orange to pick up JetFuselage's new rabbit and pick up as many from this series on our way. A quick find here & cache/log all good.

Did not realise we were so close to this one earlier so we had to drive back into town to get to the required spot, easy find.

Third find on Day 2 of a Father and Son Road Trip for his 18th.

A nice quick find at the obvious GZ.

TFTC.

A quick find then a wander around a very interesting cemetery.
TFTC

Quick trip back to Boorowa to visit the folks on Australia Day. Checked the local map and saw this mystery. Worked through the clues and confirmed with the checker. Found the cache with lid slightly ajar but otherwise dry and intact. Logged and replaced. TNLN TFTC

We came upon your cache, Joshwa27, while travelling from Canberra to Dubbo on our homeward journey to Brisbane

While staying in Canberra we enjoyed the history lesson in working out the coordinates,and are happy to find the cache in good condition.

Log signed and replaced at 10:23 am on 29 November 2017. TFTC.

Find #2523 19 November 2017 1:34 pm
Found with sesblocker.

Great fun working out coords. A quick find. Love these places. Gets a fav.
TNLNSL
TFTC Joshwa27

On my way from Canberra to Grenfell and had this puzzle solved last time I visited but didn't come to Boorowa though. Very quite at GZ when I arrived and a quick find as well. Wonderful views of the countryside before heading into the town and stopping for a break at the park near the clock tower. Thanks Joshwa27.

I really like these History puzzles. Of this series, first find. TFTC

One lap around Gz and cache soon in hand. Had to be discreet with the sad muggles nearby. Tftc found with minniek on our eskie dash to Boorawa.

With coords presolved, nibletricecakes and I came out for a drive to this lovely area. Mindful of muggles nearby, parked car to hide cache searching. Quickly came up with the find.

Found as part of 4as1 with Scruffyblake, Charli_Bear and Me_To

With a bit of deducing and searching, our group worked out the likely co-ords. The puzzle checker said we were incorrect, but we thought to try it anyway.

I must be honest, the dead ferret kept me at arms length. ACT Chill was the man whom found the hide, after the rest of us had given up to look elsewhere.

Thanks to the CO getting back to us, though we has already found it by then

Found with 4as1 team (Scruffyblake, The S's, Charli_bear & Me_to) with our friends, ACTChill & DarzeeDi.

found with DarzeeDi and 4as1 whilst in Boorowa. A great cache and glad we finally found it. we we rent sure of a couple of answers but took a punt and had cache in hand tftc Joshwa27

Found during a long weekend camping trip to the area with the family (4as1), DarzeeDi and ACTchil

DarzeeDi and I spent Sunday night checking and rechecking our answers to this one but it didn't matter how hard we tried we couldn't get the geochecker to give us the correct answer.

This morning we decided to just go to the coordinates that we had come up with on our way out of town and see if we could find anything...... Street Los of searching in the nearby areas and a walk around the site we found the cache!!!!

Thanks for the history lesson and the fun puzzle

ACTchil and I worked on this puzzle leading up to this little geocaching camping trip with 4 as 1 and the geohounds, the only thing was that the geocheck sum kept coming up as incorrect. On Sunday night Charlie_Bear and I decided to give it another go and we go some help from Susan, we double checked my answers from before and there were a couple different however still no luck with geocheck sum, so we emailed CO to see if we were close. We got up this morning and I couldn't check my messages so we decided just to go to the final coords that we worked out. We got to gz and yep we found the obvious hint, had a look, saw a dead ferret and walked away from the smell. I thought I would throw the ferret away from the tree anyway. There were a couple of men setting up for a funeral so we decided to go over and ask when the does the cemetery backdate to and they were from a funeral directors in Young but suggested to look at some older graves over the back to get some clues. We walked around and our answer for this clue fitted and then we looked up and there was ACTchil waving at us, he saw that ferret was gone and went back in and found it so yippee another puzzled solved and found. On our way home my internet came up and there was an email from CO with his response, thanks for getting back to us glad we gave it a go and thanks for bringing us to this little spot.

The cache and log are in good condition. A long line of funeral cars drove slowly through Boorowa. I am pleased we avoided getting mixed up in that. TFTC Joshwa27.

Found

On a quiet weekend I decided go for a drive in the country. I mostly spent the day driving from Goulburn to Blayney. I managed to see many great spots along the way before spending the night at Blayney. On Monday I headed home with only a few cache stops along the way.

Thanks.

22513.45 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Monopoly A#51

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In Boorowa for the CMCA motorhome rally, so I had done the research befire arriving. This was a lovely way to learn a little of the history of this pleasant but rather wet place. Today I had the chance to collect this one which was easily found Thanks Joshwa27

Found on a trip to Parkes. Absolutely freezing today so it was good that it was a quick find. TFTC

On a run with LuckyL10n up around these parts to grab a few of these neat History of caches. Had a lot of fun researching the info and learning a little about the area. Once at GZ, the cache was found after a short search.

Thanks Joshwa27……great little series.

#4629 - 08:00; This was the first of thirteen finds in the History of..... series today on a day run from Canberra to Carcoar with Sol de lune. Found ourselves in what would become familiar surroundings as the day progressed, and once we were at GZ and nice quick find was had. TFTC Joshwa27

As we were approaching GZ the batteries in our GPS went flat but we had enough information to be able to locate the cache anyway. It was a typical hide in a familiar sort of position, so no problems were presented. The log soon had our name on it and we were on our way. Thank you Joshwa27 for another cache in the History of ......... series which is taking us to places we have never been before.

Heading to Orange for a few days, I set my sights on solving a few of these history puzzles that lay along our route. This was an easy find on a convenient side road, and then we continued on our way on a lovely sunny winter day. Thanks Joshwa27.

10861. Found with AngelG27 and specimenX ("SAFi" in most of the logs) on a day run up Cowra way.

With the bad weather down the coast postponing a planned run that way, a quick rethink had us planning this run instead. A early start had the three of us hit the Highway before 7.30 and not too long after we started our caching spree. Awesome run, with quite a few of the "History of..." puzzles solved and (all but one) collected, as well as 5 First To Finds making a great caching day with my new [I'm not allowed to call them Caching Wenches ] invasion buddies.

This was the first find for the day, and in a sign of things to come specimenX made a quick find. Cache retrieved, signed, and returned, and it was off to the next one.

Thanks JOSHWA27 !! First of many for today !

TNLN - TFTC !!

Plans were set in place with fitzy_1965 and AngelG27 for an "invasion" of several country towns between Yass and Cowra. We managed to dodge the worst of the drizzly weather to collect a decent swag of caches on what was a fun day with great company! We signed with the acronym SAFi ("i" for invasion ).

This one was the first cab off the rank and it was an easy find for us at this spot. Great work on these "History Of..." puzzles-I love country towns so it's a great way to learn about their history

Thanks for the hide, *JOSHWA27*

Fitzy_1965, SpecimenX and I headed out on a geocaching mission to collect a few numbers for Fitzy_1965 as he has a mission to find 2000 caches this year. This mission was from Canberra to Borowa, onto Cowra, Young, Grenfell and back home. We travelled well over 700kms over 13.5 hours! I found 54 caches in total, my best ever daily total, and surprisingly 5 FTFs! Fitzy obligingly did all the driving and SpecimenX and I made most of the finds, although SpecimenX had her caching glasses on today and was quick to spot most of them. We had solved a few puzzles before leaving so we were well armed to collect both trads and puzzles. The rain/drizzle/mizzle did not slow us down and we had a great day of caching and laughs.

1st cache of the day and a quick find by SpecimenX. This was the warm up cache, and we found quite a few more like this one. We enjoyed working out these history caches - we felt like we knew something about the town before we arrived! TFTC Joshwa27!

Found with 0319. TFTC!
This log posted with CacheSense for Android!

Found with justjessie who solved the puzzle. TFTC.

I did some homework last night as we were travelling through Boorowa today. So after researching and coming up with the correct answer it was just a matter of locating the cache. As I carefully had a look on one side of the tree a rabbit broke cover on the other side giving me a fright, and geo-wife a laugh. I enjoyed reading the history of this town. We TNLN thanks.

found while out hunting with
MGROCKS
JWStorming and
KEL_MAR

Google helped

TFTC out with mgrocks & mcrunbecks & jwstorming we all predict it is 38 metres way past its coordinates

Lunch at the local pub to sort the cache out, travelled to the GZ and found this one by a wide search of the area a good 15 m away. TFTC *JOSHWA27*

Found with geo buddies who did most of the research. Very interesting cache. TFTC.