This series follows the Captains Flat Rd from Queanbeyan down to Captains flat. Each cache features a captain, real or fictitious. Keep an eye out for mystery clues.
Please note: while this is not a busy road, country traffic will not be anticipating your unexpected stops. Please take all care when pulling over and exiting/reentering your vehicle.
Frederick Wordsworth Ward (aka Captain Thunderbolt) (1835–25 May 1870) was an Australian bushranger renowned for escaping from Cockatoo Island, and also for his reputation as the "gentleman bushranger" and his lengthy survival, being the longest roaming bushranger in Australian history.
Over the following six-and-a-half years, Ward robbed mailmen, travellers, inns, stores and stations across much of northern New South Wales - from the Hunter Region north to Queensland and from Tamworth nearly as far west as Bourke. Ward was shot and killed by Constable Alexander Binney Walker at Kentucky Creek near Uralla. The bushranger had spent his last few hours in and about the Royal Oak Inn, close by Split Rock, at Church Gully. There is much to suggest his judgement at that time was impaired by alcohol.
Boeing737 qc'd this trail and will log her find after FTF.