Brumby Travel Bug

The Brumby Travel Bug would like to visit Horse Country all over the world and have photos taken along the way. She is spreading awareness about Australia's Wild Brumbies and hopes to see an end to any cruelty these animals have to endure.

The Brumby Travel Bug is a bay filly with a desire to travel quickly between caches, pausing to visit places related to horses all over the world.  Please log her visit through each cache and if you have time, visit a few websites which can give you more information about these wild animals. 

The History Of Brumbies below comes from the Victorian Brumby Association Website at  www.victorianbrumbyassociation.org

The Brumbies that we see in Victoria and NSW today are thought to have originated
from some horses left behind when Sergeant James Brumby was transferred from
Botany Bay to Van Diemens land in 1806. The horses proved impossible to catch (in
the days before every property was fenced) and became known as Brumby’s horses
– eventually shortened to Brumbies.
During World War I, many of the remounts sent over for the Australian Light Horse
troops came from the Snowy Mountains region. After the war, with increasing
industrialisation, the remaining horses were valueless. The gates were left open and
they were allowed to ‘join the wild bush horses’......
Brumbies are truly wild horses, living in the way that all horses would, given the
choice. They are very social animals and live together in family groups called mobs
(or herds), which can vary in size from two horses, to the norm of about 10 or 11.
The lead mare is the most dominant female and she will lead the mob to food and
water. She also watches over the herd, attuned to any potential danger or attack and
will give the signal, and take the lead when the mob needs to flee.

Save the Brumbies is an animal welfare charity dedicated to protecting wild horses in Australia. Their website is at www.savethebrumbies.org