Convict Capers Yallambie, New South Wales, Australia
By Riptide on 26-Feb-05. Waypoint GCMY61

Gone

gone

Headed out with Jax0109 for an afternoon doing the Brush Creek, George Downes loop. Some magic history and spectacular views. Great day with a couple of the grandkids treasure hunting.
Guinness can is still in the most obvious hiding place. Cork filled cover and pencil located at the base of the rocks/wall looked very much like the remains of a geocache.
thanks for the cache

Headed out with Silver Eagle 88 (Dad) for an afternoon doing the Brush Creek, George Downes loop. Some magic history and spectacular views. Great day with the family treasure hunting.
remnants scattered around
thanks for the cache

Stopped on our way to the Wollombi Wood chopping competition. Couldn't find the cache but there was an unopened can of Guinness in the most likely spot. Could the have been taken...?

Set up camp at Wollombi, had a late lunch at the tavern, then headed out to grab a few caches.
We enjoy caches placed near historical sites, so we can learn about the history.

Looked in the obvious spot for this one, but came up empty handed.
So, no luck for us today in locating this one, hopefully it's not missing.
Many thanks for showing this area to us, Riptide.

Found with Akkatracker. TFTC

A quick stop on our way to the Hunter.

Found the one up the road and stopped here too. Quick find however caches camo's peeling off slowly. Still a good hide.

Cache was found and is in suprisingly good shape considering its age.

Thanks Riptide

Found it

Tftc. Found with jonsey65

Cool area to visit. founds with redwiggle3

Yep would have driven straight past, tftc with jetcat

Great history that could be easily missed. Found with Rummons tftc

tFTC

This is why we love geocaching. It makes you stop and look and something you would normally drive past. Quick find. TFTC

another great peace of history

TFTC. Field position log. Full log to follow.

Interesting history in this area. TFTC. SL

TFTC. Field position log. Full log to follow.

Thee was some nice workmanship on show here. After taking some time to check the place out I found the cache.

On a motorcycle ride from Melbourne, following the Aust Speedway champs, I picked up this cache. tftc.
Crusty.

Had planned to get this way back in 2007, but our hiking June long weekend expedition was called off due to the extreme storms and expected flooding that would be occurring in this area. Backk today to check out the nearby trig station. Did crawl through the culvert tunnel
Good coordinates, so left a Correct Site Marker - surgical marking pen. Oh yeah, dried out the log book, as it was rather damp. Left trackable: Travel Bug Racer 80s Corvette, no sign of the listed one
Brought through for mileage: 12-12-12 Event, 3 Bros NSW, Auckland NZ'13, B 2 B Travel ingot, Iconic Bridges 2012, cache critters Baa, Neigh Neddy, and Oink, NZ Mega 2013 GCookie Coin, and trackable shirts.

TFTC, Nice bit of history

Found with snorris on our way home from the Hunter Valley. Thanks.

Found with paulyman on our way back from visiting the Hunter Valley this weekend. These old convict built culverts are very interesting. Took the TB, TFTC.

Great spot. Hidden piece of history. TFTC.

Raced upto this one near sunset. Interesting little structure and culvert. Nice cache, swapped some bugs and was off to the next one.
[green] - Found It on Tuesday ... at 4:56 PM ...
TFTC! - Riptide ... [/green]
Total Finds now ... 742


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Ozvixen out of the car as soon as we pulled up excited to check out the culvert while I took a bit longer to read the hint. Suggested, while she was mid way back up the hill, that she exit the other side and get the cache that I could see it from my vantage point, at the same time.

Found on Day 2 of Central Coast road trip with mizmaz. TFTC!

This entry was edited by ozvixen on Wednesday, 17 July 2013 at 21:36:05 UTC.

found it.stepped out of the car less than 5 feet from it. had nothing to do on the saturday arvo so went for a drive.nice place. havent been caching for years. good fun

Quick find. Took crayons left key ring. TFTC

Today we joined up with Chippyroo to grab some loose caches around the area. After being out in the watagans all day it was time to head home through Laguna.

A nice quick find as will pulled up 3m from GZ.

TFTC.

This took longer than it should have but got there in the end

Hard working people those convicts. Great construction. TFTC

Nice blend of convict and 20th century engineering. Very picturesque location. TFTC Riptide. TNLNSL

Cache find #2970

Hides in areas like this one are the reason we love caching! We probably wouldn't have stopped here if there wasn't a cache here. There are a fasinating insight into our convict past. TFTC

This entry was edited by Chippyroo on Saturday, 09 March 2013 at 12:49:15 UTC.

another historic place along this road . quick find and sign TFTC

streak day73 #951

Easy find for the kids. Another interesting location not too far from home and a nice drive in the country to a place we didn't know about. Thanks riptide.

Tftc
17 January 2013 12:24pm

Quick find thanks for the find

Hot day today and trip to winsor via stop your cache , wow very interest history, easy to find as hide very well thanks

We found this cache during our vacation in Australia. Thanks for hiding in this beautiful area.
Greetings from Switzerland
Sanday

414 - Funnily enough I hadn't planned this one - I saw the spot and thought 'surely there would be a cache there!' and I wasn't disappointed! Thanks Riptide!

took a bit of looking to find but found it. TFTC

Nice for travels through to the Hunter Valley. TFTC

The third on geomum's escape from the kids! Kept playing tag team with cyclists on this stretch of road - they were probably wondering why I kept stopping! Tftc

Another good cache Riptide. Thanks for forcing us to get out of the car and have a closer look at these historic landmarks. Took a Snoopy toy, dropped a Neck Lanyard. TFTC.

Beautiful construction. It's amazing what was done without modern machines and equipment. TFTC

Found on our way to the Hunter. A very welcome break! tftc

Last find for the day on the way home, love the work in these culverts, thanks

The coordinates are great for this one. Right on. CJ and I found the cache quickly. TFTC

Quick and easy find!!
Had some spare time so I slammed a few quick caches!!
Tftc

Find #1224 - 3 for today. Found on 9/02/12 3:17 PM
Another quick and wasy pickup on the way through. Thanks. TNSLLN

Found it with ease, although the clue is not as accurate now due to some council mantaince

Great spot for some history. TFTC.

nice and quick. TFTC!!

Stopped here a few times before I was a geocacher. Lovely area
Quick find with Mrnoo17
TFTC

Nice Cache but unfortunatly somebody has poisoned the Bushy End

TFTC during our holidays from the Netherlands.

The second cache on our hot trip out west. After we walked all over, the GPS showed us things were easier than we thought. We were soon logged and back to the airconditioning. Thanks for the hide way out here.

This was the second of these structures we found caches at along this road today, reminding us of the history of the road upon which we were travelling. Thanks

Another lovely old culvert to view after finding the cache. Certainly glad we chose this road to drive home, it was a lot more scenic than the F3!

Thanks Riptide

A lot of convict history on this road! Interesting to see what was all build in those early years!
TFTC Wilbert67

Nice quick find at an interesting old structure.

Gotcha !!! TFTC

quick find left anemonie the clown fish and took sucking pig sl tftc

Rely enjoying doing theses caches and seeing the area, Thanks Riptide.

TFTC

TFTC SL

Found today at 4:00pm. Had plenty of hot water in our thermos, so washed out the container and some of the contents. We threw out the very sticky lollies, which had caused some of the goo!

number 3 for the day TFTC

Unfortunately it was raining so we didn’t clean the cache which needs it. A nice area visited but when I retrieved cache container it had a leach standing to attention, me & leaches don’t mix. TFTC / TFTH / SL

And it was raining! Again! Cache probably needs a good clean out as there is a green goo in it. Could not do it because it was pouring. TFTC

Great hide. Tunnel was a bit creepy. I got attacked by multiple leaches so be weary

Good spot, thanks

A quick and easy stop on the way towards the In Extremis cache up the road. Found the cache, checked out the site.
TNLNSL, thanks for the cache Riptide.
best wishes,
Wal

Another fantastic spot for a cache with some great history. In the darkness it was originally hard to see what was happening but then all became clear. TFTC!

Happy New Year.
Heading south after 5 days of orienteering, and caching, around Armidale

We love these sites! TFTC!

Quite an easy find, sent my fiancé to find it. Left a non-perishable sweet, took nothing but blew bubbles in the wind that another cacher left. Absolute magic.

This was another quick find along this fantastic historic road. I expect that on the weekend this road would be very busy; at least today it was quite. Exchanged swaps thanks.

Reperio at 1350. What a fantastic spot. Certainly wasn't expecting anything as historic as this, so took great pleasure in crawling into the culvert and reading up on the history of this area.

Gratias.

Did not attempt more than a DNF. Whilst Chip and I drove both up and back down this road there was a father and daughter sitting right on GZ eating lunch.

Damn! We did not even get out of the car either time!

3rd for the day on our way to Wollombi. Despite the weather it was a quick find.
Took nil
Left nil SL TFTC

Out geocaching with the spikeymikey and he pounced on this one before minichef with his new e-trex toy could get his bearings or for that matter, before I got anywhere near it. I think I was taking the scenic route down I was that far away!

Found quickly. There is great history all about this Convict Trail.
TNLNSL TFTC

Out geocaching with the spikeymikey and he pounced on this one before minichef with his new e-trex toy could get his bearings or for that matter, before I got anywhere near it. I think I wa staking the scenic route down I was that far away!

I enjoyed viewing the convict built walls along this road and elsewhere. Quickly found, log only, thanks for the hide.

Another interesting about history - too dark for me to see or took some photos... Took Trackable and SL. Thanks Riptide

Found this cache on way to 50th birthday bash in Wollombi. Loved the convict history lesson.
Cheers
dkmacca

found this one on our way to mangrove dam.purse 4 gillette 0

This entry was edited by purse on Tuesday, 10 August 2010 at 02:34:25.

dropped off a tb on my way through

Now IN the Hole would have been cool... but rather short lived after some rain hehehe. As it was it was slippery enough! Clever blokes those convicts Cheers!

Rated: for Overall Experience

found this one with the clue. An interesting drive over the watagans after a bit of rain. Came across a wombat on the road that stood there and let us take photos of it. Amazing wall with an amazing hole built into it.

Found it this time. Checked out the stonework on the bridge and that tunnel. Think of all the hours and blisters that went into making that. Took some stickers, left a finger toy.

What a great effort to build that all those years ago.
TNL Ship in a bottle. Thanks again.

My geohusband found it before me. I should listen to my gps. TNLNSL
Thanks Riptide for the cache.

Catching up on all old finds. Found with RTEC+

Found on the way home with Suey, thanks

What a moment for the GPS to have a moment! Got to the general vicinity then GPS froze. Tried to look based on the clue and previous logs, but no luck.
Will be back sometime in the future - such a cool drive from Wisemans Ferry.
Very damp while we were there. Little Red Shoes managed to pick up a few leeches in the search, no salt on hand but managed to find them before they attached, so no dramas.