Within Natures Plan We All Abide Traditional Cache

The Black Saturday bushfires were a series of as many as 400 individual bushfires that ignited or were burning across Victoria on and around Saturday, 7 February 2009, resulting in Australia's highest ever loss of life from a bushfire; 173 people died and 414 were injured as a result of the fires.

The name of this cache is taken from the memorial erected in the township of Clonbinane, where there were many losses.

120 of the 173 deaths resulting from the Black Saturday fires were caused by a single firestorm, known as the Kinglake Complex  or the Kilmore East Fire. This one fire alone covered more than 180,000 hectares. Many towns northeast of Melbourne were badly damaged, and Kinglake, Marysville, Narbethong, Strathewen, and Flowerdale were all but completely destroyed. Houses in the towns of Strath Creek, Tayaak, Steels Creek, Humevale, Clonbinane, Wandong, St Andrews, Callignee, Taggerty, and Koornalla were also destroyed or severely damaged, with fatalities recorded at each location.

The fires affected 78 townships and displaced an estimated 7,562 people, destroying over 2,030 houses and more than 3,500 structures, and damaged thousands more

We felt the tragic loss from the Black Saturday fires, and dedicate this cache to the memory of those who lost so much more than we did.