B&W (V) Botoja Claypans Mootwingee, New South Wales, Australia
By Geocaching Australia on 20-Aug-10. Waypoint GA2343

This is a special Burke & Wills cache listed on Geocaching Australia.

This cache requires you to visit a Burke & Wills historical location and take a photo as described along with your GPS receiver and if possible yourself in the picture. Once you have logged this cache as a find, you are required to load your picture to your log to validate your find.

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Validating Your Log
Take a picture of your GPS receiver showing the same co-ordinates as the cache page (plus or minus 100 meters) and attach it to your online log.

Important Information
The Burke Wills Historical Society notes: "The actual route Burke and Wills followed once they left Camp 78 is unknown and one of the most intensely debated issues. Wills' map and some of his journals containing astronomical observations have been lost. Because the journals have never been transcribed, it means the expedition's track north of the Diamantina, through the gibber rises, confused sand dunes and extensive claypans, is a matter for conjecture."
Travel in Outback Australia can be extremely hazardous. Plan your trip with care and seek and follow local advice on what precautions to take. Be aware of private property restrictions. Do not risk your life to log this geocache.

About This Location
Actual location. Alexander McPherson signed on as blacksmith, and also new was Englishman William Oswald Hodgkinson, 25, a former sailor who'd come to Australia in '51, serving the government on the goldfields, then in the year before the expedition reporting for the Melbourne newspaper The Age. He later moved to the Etheridge and Palmer goldfields, and in 1888 was elected to the Queensland parliament. He died of influenza in 1900 in Western Australia.

Additonal Information
Source: Paul Dorsey Used with Permission