B&W (V) The monument Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
By
Geocaching Australia on 20-Aug-10. Waypoint GA2423
Cache Details
Difficulty: | |
Terrain: | |
Type: | Burke and Wills |
Container: | Virtual |
Coordinates: | S37° 48.939' E144° 58.004' (WGS 84) |
55H 321029E 5812691N (UTM) | |
Elevation: | 11 m |
Local Government Area: | Melbourne |
Description
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.
Validating Your Log
Take a picture of your GPS receiver and if possible yourself in front of the monument 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
News of the expedition's tragic end was only days old in Melbourne when talk began of the need to erect a monument. The state government made its £4,000 grant conditional on public contributions of £2,000, but the absence of King and Gray from several proposed designs sparked arguments, and the German community threatened to boycott the fund-raising because of the poor treatment of Becker, Beckler and Brahe. The government finally funded the entire cost.
The design competition was won by ex-Londoner Charles Summers, who seated his bronze Wills poised over an open notebook behind a Burke gazing to the horizon.
The monument was originally installed at the intersection of Collins and Russell Streets, but by 1886 traffic was so busy there that it was moved to Spring Street opposite Parliament House, then again at least twice more before finding its present location at the corner of Swanston and Collins Streets.
Additonal Information
Source: Paul Dorsey Used with Permission
Logs
However the placard remains.
Cheers
Pity that the actual monument is not in place. Have taken an image of the image instead.
Thanks Geocaching Australia for the cache.
All that is there now is fencing and just sign showing where the statue used to be.
I'm disappointed. This was my third Burke and Wills virtual and I was looking forward to seeing the actual statue. I'll just have to visit it when it is repositioned.
That's all of these I can do today, as I'm travelling on foot, and it's getting awfully hot. I guess where they went though it got a lot hotter than this as they crossed the country, but they were only half my age
Was looking through some old photographs of past trips to Melbourne this morning and came across a picture of the monument of Bourke and Wills taken some time ago. Part of the team at the time is in the photograph. We were actually staying in the City Square Motel across the road as it happened.
Our trip included tours of the city and a trip to Sovereign Hill in Ballarat
The city lights were great of a night time and were photographed immensely on this trip
Bourke and Wills caches are as scarce as hens' teeth here in Tasmania
Only one exists and that is located on the Eastern Shore just outside Hobart and was placed by SG-3; as you can imagine, it gets quite a few finds as people try to capture as many of this series caches as is possible.
The only other memorial to Bourke and Wills I've seen in Hobart was a painting at Mona, The Museum of Old and New Art, but I can't describe here the theme of that painting as it was in the form of some rough language and their state of play just before they died.
Sainted this cache at 0945 hours
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
Thanks Geocaching Australia.
Guess the monument will pop up somewhere else in the city soon.
Thanks.
Enjoying the history tour around Melbourne.
My photo taking skills are not the best but I did get one view.
Two solid weeks of Pre-poll down, and one more to endure before the main event... with a six-day week behind me, I was desperate for a play outdoors!
I'd promised to check on the condition of a couple of caches for a nun, so it was only natural that I park on the northern fringe of the city and cache around the CBD and the river.
Second of three B&W virtuals added to the collection today.
GCA#122
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan
It is amazing how many time we walk past things like this and never take the time to stop and look at it.
I am enjoying this series of B&W caches, as it is making me stop and see parts of Melbourne I would normally walk past.
The pics I took didn't turn out so well due to it being to dark and no flash.
TFTV
A magnificent statue and the bronze plates around the bottom depicting scenes are stunning too.
Took a photo, but it was evening and I was using my phone so it is not the best, but I was here and enjoyed it.
Thanks for the B&W series.
tftc GCA
1,319km from home.
Down this way on business, the plan for this hunt was to get off the train at Flinders St and work my way through a few caches, somehow I got to the motel before I remembered the plan.
So hoofing along Collins St I set off. May as well left the phone turned off, ages to acquire satellites and I don’t think I found a cache all night that had the co-ords less than 50m out.
This was one of the easy ones, once I worked out how to hold the phone in one hand with the tablet in the other, get my face, phone and B&W in the frame and then press the button with my spare hand…
Didn’t leave our tag, took nothing but memories and left nothing but footprints (not that anyone will see them on the footpath).
Hide, log and container are all in good nick.
Thanks for the cache Geocaching Australia.
Roaring Ford
Discovering Australia and the World, one hidden treasure at a time.
Located the correct structure, photograph attached.
Construction work underway around statue has made this a little bit more difficult!
Third 'find' today in this interesting series - some construction work has the statue surrounded by fences at the moment.!!
TFTC !!
Will log as found when I get the photo
Grabbed this one on the way to the other nearby caches. It was dark and with poor lighting conditions, the photo isn't very clear. Hopefully its good and clear enough. TFTC
Stopped of for a quick photo, while Mrs bucketeer was busy shopping across the road.
Thanks for the reason to notice it all.
I was in the city today to do a basic photographers course, so I took the opportunity while I was here to find a few caches. This is the second one I have done in this Burke and Wills series today. Too much Traffic down swanston Street to get the photo of myself.
I will do some more of these virtual caches next time I am in the city.
Thanks Geocaching Australia for putting this series together.
nice quick find
love this monument
Anway, you get the idea, it is me in the photo with my GPSr and a silly look on my face
Thanks for making this series of listings, I did enjoy the ones I hae completed today.
Cheers
TFTV and the story board.
Great to cross this one off my list whilst in town today!
TFTV
Had to make the trip to Melb to see the dentist. An ideal opportunity to pick up a few caches. Does this indicate a degree of addiction? TFTC
From 2010-12-14 |
Luckily the wife wanted a quick bite to eat so I made her cross the road past this great monument.
Much better they moved it here than where it was many years ago.
This monument was only a 100 or so metres from my hotel and luckily I had just bumped into someone I knew and they offered to skoot across the road and take the required pic of me, GPS and monument (and suitcase)
Tricky getting a decent photo with the mobile phone that seems to resist focusing in a lot of conditions.
I wonder if B&W would have got such a great monument if they had been more successful?
Thanks again to the B&W organisers - Great concept.
T pickies, L. Thanks Geocaching Australia.
Funny I had not noticed this very large statue before. Guess that is what caching is about! Great series and wish I could find them all.
TFTC
#247
heaps of muggles as it was lunch time
iPad caching in the city, very easy to check up on all of the information and no need to worry about the buildings throwing the GPS signal out.
- M
After taking a happy snap at Princes Bridge, GabGab and I strolled on over to the monument to see what we could see.
There were lots of animals around at the exhibition for the Royal Melbourne Show, but alas, still no camels. A quick snapshot or two and we were on our way.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks to everyone involved in the B&W Project.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1
Thanks for a great series to all involved.
Photo of GPSr and hand, between trams.
Thanks for the cache.
On the day of the Federal Election, along with Robyn of The Morris and Princess Diala, we voted to follow the B & W Party.
At the location of this virtual cache we were able to blend in with the regular tourists and capture a photo of Alice – The Ship of the Desert (SW0228) along with the GPS’r.
It was interesting to contemplate the contrast in scenery and activity 150 years on.
TNLN TFTH
We had a great day wandering around the city completing the B&W caches, both traditional and virtual. Found in the company of Princess Diala, Phetlern and Alice.
A location I've passed many times since living in Melbourne. Its really amazing the things some people will miss as they walk right past...
Many thanks for the Pheltern and The Morris for the company shared throughout the day.