Take the opportunity to explore the Military Barracks, which holds significant historical importance as the oldest building in Kojonup. The outpost for the British Military is still in perfect condition and displays an intriguing range of historic artifacts. Read up on details of the town’s history and the many roles the barracks has played over the past 160 years.
The town of Kojonup was chosen by the British Military as the outpost for their 51st Regiment. Soldiers were enticed to the town with 15 British Pounds and ten acres of land. In return they guarded the convicts who were sent over from Britain.
Following the end of the convict era, the barracks were converted into a school, then a private home and finally the town’s museum.
The Military Barracks are only open on Sunday between 1.30pm and 3.30pm. However, there are two notices on the window. One says that there are several volunteers that are less than 20mins away to show you around and to phone 98310500. The other notice says "For guided tours ring Arnold Bilney 98310320". My thanks to Team Carnage for confirming these details - I thought I'd taken photos of the notices but I hadn't.
You are also welcome to wander around the peaceful gardens to examine the exterior of this historic landmark and see the Peppermint trees planted by students of the school over 100 years ago.
The cache is a drab camo'd small cliplock container containing a log book, Finders Cards , pencils and sharpener, hidden close to the museum building. It should be fairly easy for the wheelchair bound to retrieve.
If you find a metal biscuit tin you haven't found the cache, just the container left by location-challanged on 12 June 2010. The cache is not far away.
This cache is part of a series leading towards my GC29MXD WanAus 179 - Discover Western Australia cache. There is a DWA number in the back of the log book. You will need to record this number in the format 91? (from WanAus 91 and ? for the DWA number) for future reference.
This is just a suggestion, but it may help you to keep track of the DWA numbers.
Every cache page has "*Personal Cache Note" *Click to enter a note, just above Geocache Description:
You could either add the code to each individual cache, or add all numbers to GC29MXD WanAus 179 - Discover Western Australia.
If you are heading out to hunt down some of my more remote GC1QYV5 WanAus 89 - Roaming Western Australia or GC29MXD WanAus 179 - Discover Western Australia caches, where the cache density is very low, why not consider taking a few prepared containers with you, stocked with log book and swaps etc, and when you spot one of those places that make you think "that would be a good place for a cache", place one of your own. Just check that there isn't a cache within 160 metres, and please don't place a micro in the bush where you could easily conceal an ammo box or Milo tin.