Upper Blue Mountains Guesthouse Traditional Geocache
Upper Blue Mountains Guesthouse
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This is an upper mountains Trackables Guesthouse, a place for TB's and Coins to have a break on the fashionable Upper Blue Mountains.
The Blue Mountains has had an interesting history when it comes to guesthouses. Their popularity started around 1890 and increased to their hey day period of the 1920's with their decline in popularity around 1933-35. At their peak of popularity, there were nearly 100 guesthouses advertising their services in Katoomba alone!
Quite a few of the original guesthouses still stand in the various towns that line the Great Western Highway, especially in Katoomba. With even a few still being used as accommodation of some sort. A greater number of the old guesthouses eventually fell into disrepair and either burnt down, or were demolished to make way for new housing or other construction work.
When you stepped off the train at Katoomba, there was always a line up of horse and carriage waiting to take guests to their accommodation. With the coming of the motor car, the horse and carriage slowly disappeared from the streets of the mountain towns. A number of the bigger guesthouses had their own motor cars, this allowed them to take their guests to the various sights and lookouts, or, even on day trips to Jenolan Caves.
The majority of the guesthouses were ran by ladies, with some easy research, you can see that some of these ladies would run a guesthouse for a few years before moving to another guesthouse to run that and so on. Some of these ladies were very well known and were highly respected mountain personalities.
This was but a brief synopsis of the rise and fall of the once popular Blue Mountains Guesthouse, I hope you have found it of some interest.
This ammo box cache is an easy one to get to.
If you are heading WEST, turn just at the Explorers tree and park just near it on the left in the car park. To continue your journey, continue to follow the road till it re-joins the highway where you can turn left or right.
If you are heading EAST, you must turn right into Explorers Road well before the explorers tree, you CANNOT turn right at the explorers tree. If you are going to continue heading EAST, you must return and resume your journey the way you came in, you CANNOT turn right back onto the highway at the explorers tree.
Now that you have parked, walk down the paved path that leads to Katoomba for a few hundred mtrs, when the arrow points into the bush and you have about 22mtrs to go, head off into the bush then. The cache is very easy to find, but PLEASE, do not remove the big rock in front, take the smaller one from the LHS and pull the cache out from there. Re-hide as described above.
There are no swaps, just trackables only. Please use the front and backs of the logbook pages so the logbook lasts longer.
This path can be a popular path at times, so, please make sure nobody is coming before you plunge into the bush.
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