The Kidman Way Traditional Cache
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Welcome to the Kidman Way!
Travelling and working in drought-ravaged western NSW in the 1870s, with little more to his name than a one-eyed horse and five shillings in his pocket, young *Sidney Kidman* dreamt of building an all-weather beef road. This ‘road’ would be a chain of cattle stations stretching from the flood plains of western Queensland and South Australia to the rich cattle markets of Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. This chain of stations would allow Kidman to move stock from one property to another during drought, and so ensure that his cattle survived the dry times and got to market fat and rested. Sixty-odd years later, Sir Sidney Kidman, the Cattle King, was Australia’s greatest land owner, and his longed for chain of more than 100 stations stretched as far north as the Gulf of Carpentaria and covered an area of more than 125,000 square miles — more than the total land area of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
We travel this road regularly, and will maintain this cache ourselves, despite the distance from home.
This is a quick drive-by. The cache is a gold, magnetic micro container. No room for swaps, BYO writing device too.
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(Decrypt)
Uv-Ub Fvyire!