Governors Hill seems to be the neglected little brother to Mount Gray. Nothing seems to happen here, there are no formed roads in, it houses no antenna arrays and it has stayed unchanged for years. On its southern boundary is the Sydney Road, formerly the Hume Highway before Goulburn was bypassed in December 1992. The southwest corner includes the Goulburn General & Lawn Cemetery. The northern & eastern boundaries are private property, and to the west it is bounded by Gorman Rd. What it does have is quite a few trail bike & 4WD tracks, pastimes that are probably considered illegal in this reserve, and is utilised by the local mountain bike fraternity. In years past I too enjoyed trail bike riding around its many tracks. I thought it was time other bush lovers got to see this area, so have commenced the Governors Hill Series to bring fellow geocachers into the area. How you get around the series is up to you, but it should be achievable in less than 3 hours. There is plenty of room left for placement of other caches, if anyone feels the need. It would be nice to build on the Governors theme. Enjoy the series
Captain (Admiral) Arthur Phillip, RN 26/1/1788 to 10/12/1792
Captain Arthur Phillip was a Royal Navy officer, the first Governor of New South Wales and led the colonisation of what is now Australia and founded the British penal colony that later became the city of Sydney, Australia
Phillip joined the Royal Navy when he was 15, but made his living by combining navy life with being a farmer.
As a naval officer, he had many battle successes, including when he was seconded to the Portuguese Navy in its war with Spain. It was for the Portuguese that he first saw service as a commander of a colony.
Phillip was appointed Governor-designate to the proposed British penal colony in NSW in 1786, and sailed with the First Fleet from Portsmouth, England, on 13th May 1787. The fleet arrived in Botany Bay 18th January 1788, but Governor Phillip immediately determined there was insufficient fresh water, usable timber, and poor soil for the colony. As Botany Bay was also considered an unsafe harbour, the whole shebang was moved to nearby Port Jackson, arriving 26th January 1788.
“He famously wrote, when preparing for the expedition of the First Fleet, that 'there shall be no slavery in a free land'.That was the first law for what later became called Australia, a country that only he believed would ever become a nation.So Australia had abolished slavery in Governor Phillip's first law 20 years before Britain and of course long before the rest of the world, that was how ahead of his time Phillip was.” Geoffrey Robertson QC
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