New Zealand Gully Traditional Cache
FelixII: Looks like the ammo box has been stolen.
Time to Archive I think.
FelixII
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This is a wonderful 7 km walk linking Greenbushes townsite with North Greenbushes. The gully was named after the New Zealand born miners. They look up mining tenement in he late 1900's. To collect water for their tin sluicing operations they constructed a dam with a 4 m wall by hand using horses. The lakes are the remnants of historic alluvial tin dredging. There were many small operators mining this area. Puddling, panning and sluicing methods were used to mine tin.
Tin was first discovered in 1886 making the fields the longest continuously mined operations in WA.The trail leads to the old North Greenbushes railway station, built in 1898, seen here in the picture to the left.
If you enjoy this cache, why not visit our other cache nearby Two Tin Smiths, maybe even stop in for a wine tasting!
We visit this area several times a year usually to go camping at Wattle Ridge winery nearby. Thanks to Team Carnage who have offered to help maintain the cache should there be a problem that we can't tend to quickly enough.
Congratulations to R0gue on FTF
With effect 23rd August 2014
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Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Oruvaq n ybt.