This Letterbox Cache is apart of the Letterbox Game that will be conducted during "The St.Arnaud Event"
But will live on for as long as it can.
In order to find the location of this Letterbox Cache you must find the required info in the fllowing transctipt from the ABC Bush Telegraph Program from Monday 3rd June 2013
Family preserves eucalyptus distillery
There's a perfumed, warm breeze coming towards me - a deep breath and my head clears.
This is unlike any farm or processing plant I've been to before.
"People are a bit envious of working here I think, " says Cliff Vernon.
"They come here in the winter time and there's a lovely smell and a warm fire."
"Summertime can get pretty hot but we don't do a lot in the summertime."
Cliff and Brian Vernon have a eucalyptus distillery, where they harvest eucalyptus leaves to capture a unique oil.
It's a dying art. Once there were eucalyptus distilleries dotted around the countryside, now there are only a few.
The Vernon family has produced oil at this site just out of St Arnaud, in western Victoria, since 1947.
"Everything that's here we've designed and made ourselves.
"Nobody caters for our job; the forage harvester we built ourselves, and the vats.
"But it's natural to us. We've been doing it that long, it just comes natural."
The process starts with the brothers harvesting leaves from eucalyptus shrubs, growing on crown land close to the distillery.
The leaves are harvested into a stainless steel container, a vat, that they pump steam into to bring out the oil.
To create steam there's a great big boiler.
Once the leaves have had their oils removed, they're dried out in big mulch piles, and used to fire the boiler.
"We've got to keep that steam sitting on 20 pounds of steam, it supplies the steam to our vat.
"That will take approximately two hours to distil, from when it's turned on in the morning."
The whole process is a lesson in sustainability.
The leaves, harvested for their oil, are later used as a fuel source to keep the boiler hot.
The water that drains off the distilling process, is reused in the boiler to create steam.
A by-product, black tannin filled water that comes out of the bottom of the vat, is used to keep the boiler from rusting.
"The tannin in the leaves builds up and drains to the bottom of the vat.
"You get this residue of black water, we usually gather that and put it through the boiler for rust prevention.
"Years ago they'd drain that off and sell it to steam shipping companies for their boilers."
The main product, is of course, the oil.
Most of the oil is sold in bulk to pharmaceutical companies, but increasingly the Vernons are bottling their oil to sell at markets.
Australia's peak production for Eucalyptus oil was back in the 1940s, but since then the market place has been dominated by suppliers, like China, that can produce oil more cheaply.
But Cliff believes the industry has a future in Australia, if they continue to tap into the top end of the market.
"You have to look at the bottling side of it.
"Selling it in bulk- we can't compete with the imported oil.
"We can really do well I think if we can bottle it and sell it in smaller lots."
Cliff and Brian Vernon, eucalyptus distillery operators, St Arnaud, western Victoria.
(Referance https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/bushtelegraph/eucalypt-distillery-st-arnaud/4729744)
Due to "St.Arnaud North State Forest" sign completely vanashing. and a new Post in place at the "Cross Roads"
This cache cannot be found by following the below instructions. But I will leave them on here for prosperity purposes.
GZ can still be found by doing the above puzzle.
Letterbox Instructions
From the Posted Coordinates
Travel East up Medlyn Rd for approx. 480m then turn right
Follow this road for approx. 800m and turn left.
Now travelling east again and go down to the T intersection and turn Left.
Follow this road around until you find the "St.Arnaud North State Forest" Sign
From this sign you need to find a crossroad 2200meters away at 61.96degrees
At this Cross Road you should find a post that as the names of the roads on it.
At the base of the post there is a tag. On this tag are the final instructions for GZ.
At GZ you are looking for a pile of large rocks on a hilltop approx. 40m, the shortest way, into the scrubby bush