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Traditional Cache Lane Cove
A  cache by Paul Edwards       Hidden: 5/18/2000  
Size: Size: Virtual (Virtual)      Difficulty: 1 out of 5      Terrain: 1 out of 5 (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)

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In New South Wales, Australia

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This GPS cache was located in the Lane Cove National Park, in the lower-north suburbs of Sydney, NSW, Australia. It was Australia's first cache, planted 18th May, 2000. It has now become a "virtual cache" because of its unfortunate position (please read below!!!).

If anyone wishes to create a cache in a national park in Sydney, could you please contact Bruce Dudley on 02 9411 5087 or 0419 753 807, or email brududley@hotmail.com. He is very friendly, and keen to help people enjoy the national parks and pursue this sport. However, it is a lot more complicated than you can imagine.

Some places in the park have been designated as remote places suitable for growing rare plants. I managed to place mine where they were growing Darwinia Biflora. Secondly, people normally stick to the walking tracks (as they are supposed to), rather than heading into the scrub. So placing the cache there provides unexpected attention to some normally undisturbed scrub. Thirdly, your shoes carry weeds from one place to another, and with cache hunters arriving from unexected directions, this causes unexpected problems. Fourthly, during bushfire season, backburning may be done, and the rangers need to know of unexpected people before they commit homicide! :-) They would also be able to temporarily move the cache.

So, if you know which park you would like to place the cache in, contact Bruce, so he can arrange for a good position. He is fully aware of what the sport is, and has his own GPS.

Old data...

I think there are a number of entrances to the National Park, but the one I used was at S33 47.5649 E151 09.3768. It costs $6 to enter the national park with your car. The booth was closed when I was there though, so maybe it doesn't apply on weekdays. Either way I suggest you go there with the intention of doing more than just finding the stash. There are toilets and BBQ facilities here.

The cache's position was averaged for about 30 minutes so has an estimated accuracy of 7m.


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 October 30 by SigShark (115 found)
Part 2 of the team (see Janski)

TFTC, dipping coin

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 October 30 by Janski (698 found)
Team SigShark,Janski and GoalieGuyJeff had just time for one more cache before heading back home to Canada.

Great park, enjoyed the walk from the NEW Hyde North train stop.

TFTC took a few pictures

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Janski

 October 14 by Queens Blessing (2223 found)
ORNITH and I enjoyed a great vacation together, traveling to New Zealand and Australia for fifteen days, and what a great time we had! As we normally do, we chose interesting caches and quite a few that involved hiking (aka "bushwacking" or "tramping") , rather than racking up a high number of caches. We found the oldest cache in Australia and the first Earthcache ever set! I was visited by a leach and we were both attacked by some black and white crows. We enjoyed rain, sunshine, empty roads, traffic jams, vegemite and meat pies. Our fancy lime-green rental car attracted quite a bit of attention, including a stop by a police officer who mistook ORNITH for another type of person........Oh, so many fun memories!

ORNITH and I were happy to be able to visit and "log" the oldest cache in Australia! I'm sure surprised that only about 100 people have logged it! That actually makes it even more rare and special for us. Thank you for keeping this old cache alive.

Noticed a neat carving or notch into the rock near the cache sight (probably the same rock so many of the logged photos are taken from, of the river). Is that a park benchmark? Later, when I get a chance to work thru all the photos I took on our trip, I'll try to upload a photo of the mark.

Thanks for the adventure,
QB from Canby, Oregon, USA

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QB visited the oldest cache in Australia!

 October 14 by ornith (3820 found)
Moving a few worthy travelers through the Oldest Cache in Australia! ORNITH

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 October 14 by ornith (3820 found)
I like to get a variety of Caches on each of our trips and this one was one of our top priorities on this trip -- so, we had to do it. Thanks. This was one of about 60 Caches that we Logged on our almost 2 week trip to New Zealand and Australia. We picked some of the more interesting and demanding Caches including Puzzles and Letterbox Hybrids plus 12 Earthcaches and enjoyed every cache that we tried. Especially important was this one -- The Oldest Cache in Australia -- and another, the Earthcache at Wasp Head down at Murramarang National Park because it is the First Earthcache!

The Fee to enter the Park is now $7 but this Cache certainly makes it worth it! Although the actual Cache Site is not accessible, there is a small trail (With maintained steps) that leads very close to the Cache location. We 'Found' a couple of chairs on top of the rocks and used them to 'pose' for a Photo looking toward the Cache Location! There is also a very interesting 'Mark' carved into the big rock -- some kind of Benchmark??

Thanks to all the Cachers that set the Caches that we found (And didn't 'Find'!!). Photos will be added to the Logs after everything gets accounted for, OK?

Moving a couple of Trackables through 'virtually'!

Cache On and CITO as you Cache,

ORNITH travelling with Queens Blessing (Wife) from Canby, Oregon, USA -- very near the home of the very 1st Cache ever set that is commemorated by GCGV0P and within 25 miles of 3 of the 4 Oldest Surviving Caches in the World (GC12, GC16 & GC17)!


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The Cache is back behind this sign a couple of
Using the "Chair" to contemplate the cache Site!
Queens Blessing at the "Mark" on the rock.
Close up of the 'Mark' with our GPSr's and
View down to the river from near the 'Mark'.
Our only Muggle when we went to the Cache location


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Current time: 11/21/2009 4:23:20 AM
Last Updated: 11/3/2009 4:12:52 AM
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