CDAA CAT 3 Traditional Cache
-Beaker-: Seems like it may have gone again. Unable to check as based in Perth now, so will archive to free the place up should someone wish to hide there.
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- In memory of Agnes Milokwa 1981 - 2011 RIP -
Engelbrecht Cave has long been a part of Mount Gambier's interesting history.
In 1862 it was first described by Father Julian Tenison Woods in his book Geological Observations of the South East of South Australia. In 1864 four young men nearly lost their lives when their canoe carried them into the depths of the cave. Between 1860-1950 waste was dumped into the cave. Early in 1970 a cave "cleaning and beautification process" started. Finally, on the 15th of November 1986, the cave was opened for the public.
Most parts of Engelbrecht Cave are only accessible to cave divers. The horizontal, one level cave lies at the same level as the ground water table. It is located in the city of Mt. Gambier. It is a Cave Divers Association of Australia Category 3 cave - meaning penetration level caving ability is a prerequisite for any diver wishing to explore the water filled passages.
The cave was named after the German immigrant Carl Engelbrecht, who owned the area above the cave and ran a whisky distillery in a former flour mill. Carl Engelbrecht was born in 1833 in Germany and came to Australia in 1857. He died in 1914 in Mount Gambier, aged 80. He and his successors used the cave to dump waste from the distillery.
Later the cave was used to dump any kind of rubbish until the late 1950's. Fortunately the attitudes changed and in 1970 the cleaning of the cave started. Before the cave was opened for the public in 1986 several years of cleaning were necessary.
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Haqre ebpxf arne n gerr.
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