Fee&me's 81 Tag

Fee&me's 81 Tag has been roaming around the countryside and stopped to visit visited the cache The Weeping Falls
Hello cache find 3000. I was enjoying a little rest on cache 2999 a good number to sit on for a time while out gathering other caches, but unfortunately I cannot progress with finding other caches such as the Adventure Labs while other caches sit waiting to be logged.
Went for a pleasant walk to Weeping Falls at Willow Vale to enjoy an Earth Cache. Weeping Falls is only little with only a 2 metre drop. Not the most picturesque location but still, pleasant enough.
The Earth Cache lesson is on knickpoints.

Fee&me's 81 Tag has been roaming around the countryside and stopped to visit visited the cache Collect - A - Fork
Collector is a tiny historic township, now by-passed, on the road from Goulburn to Canberra. Collector was, until recently, a stopover for travelers from Sydney. It was a tiny township which seemed to be little more than a pub and service station. Then the town was by-passed by the Federal Highway.
The area was first settled by Europeans when T.A. Murray was granted land in 1829. By 1837 Murray had built himself a substantial home and that same year a postal service began from Goulburn across the flat plains to Lake George and down to Yass. This inevitably meant the development of staging posts and the towns of Gundaroo and Collector sprang up. It is said that, in spite of its obviously 'English' name, the town takes its name from an Aboriginal word 'colegdar'.
Collector's history is the history of the roads which passed through it. When horse and bullock were the main means of transportation the town prospered as it was a day's journey from Goulburn. It was during this time that it had five inns and a number of stores. When Canberra was chosen as the national capital the town benefited as the Barton Highway, later to become the Federal Highway, passed through the town and consequently was kept in good condition. Today the Federal Highway by-passes the town but it is still worth visiting for the historic Bushranger Hotel and the memorabilia associated with Ben Hall's bushranger gang.

Fee&me's 81 Tag has been roaming around the countryside and stopped to visit visited the cache The Bushrangers
Bushranger Dunn associated with the two known bushrangers Ben Hall and John Gilbert. Dunn joined the Hall gang in October 1864, a welcomed new member after police captured gang members Dunleavy and Mount. In late 1864, during the robbery of a mail coach near Jugiong, Gilbert shot and killed Sergeant Parry. On 26 January 1865, Hall, Gilbert and Dunn were at Collector, near Lake George. While Hall and Gilbert were holding up the hotel, Dunn shot and killed the local police officer. Dunn twice fired, his first shot and hitting once in the face and the second that pieced the heart. Constable Samuel Nelson was the sole policeman in the township and the father of eight. Dunn also shot at Nelson's son but missed.
In May, Hall, Gilbert, and Dunn were proclaimed outlaws; the passing into law the Felons Apprehension Act 1865, which allowed known bushrangers to be shot and killed rather than taken to trial, this put them outside the law and liable to be killed by anyone.

Fee&me’s 81 Tag has been roaming around the countryside and stopped to visit visited the cache Constable Nelson
A monument commemorates Constable Samuel Nelson who was shot and killed by Ben Hall’s gang outside the Bushranger Hotel. Shortly before 6pm on 26 January, 1865 bushrangers Hall, Dunn and Gilbert attacked Kimberley’s Inn at Collector. The local Police at the time were out searching the area for the bushrangers, and the only man on duty in town was the Lockup keeper, Constable Nelson. One of the gang, John Dunn, had been left outside to guard the pub. When confronted by the constable he shot him dead with a shotgun and a pistol. The entire incident had been witnessed by one of the Constable’s nine children, young Frederick Nelson, who was also fired upon by Dunn. Dunn was finally captured on Christmas Day, 1865 and hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol on 19 March 1866.

Fee&me's 81 Tag came roaming with me around the countryside looking for locations to place caches. We found a nice little park to place a cache in the Side Tracked cache series and thus we are about to get the cache Side Tracked - Exeter published.