#17 On the Road to Wollombi Traditional Cache

On the Road to Wollombi series

THE WOLLOMBI ROAD GOT FLOODED. #17

FLOOD AT WOLLOMBI.
I am sorry to report that we have been visited by another disastrous flood, more destructive than the one experienced a fortnight since, as the water has risen several feet higher, and covered more land. The height of this flood is, on the Wollombi Brook, within two feet of that of May last ; and a great quantity of grain, almost sown but yesterday, is now underwater. The damage to fencing ia very great ; and, as to the roads, it is impossible to say when these will be at all passable, washed, as they have been, by now three successive floods within the same number of months. It is a most severe and trying time for the residents of this district, aud the badness of the times but adds to their discomfiture. Our bridges are covered with water, and we cannot have any communication with the town of Wollombi. Large quantities of fencing and other wood have been swept away by the current ; and the labour that has been disposed upon the land within the district seems now destroyed by the quantity of water that will remain upon it when the brook recedes. 18th Aug 1861

This Cache belongs to a series heading around Maitland 

these are designed to give beginners some caches to find that are easy

hence the whole series is less than 1.5 both in  difficulty and terrain  

This Roads at Times can be busy so be careful especially with children