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Hidden : 7/5/2008

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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Bushwalking Cache

Tall Timber.

From little things big things grow.

I passed this way back in 2006 whilst on my way to another cache in the area.
I was impressed with what I found at GZ back then and revisiting the area today I placed a cache here so I can share the experience.

Kaiserstuhl NFR is locally identified by Kaiserstuhl peak, which occurs on the western boundary of the reserve as the second highest point in the Barossa Valley, 600 m above sea level. The reserve is located approximately 13 kms north-east of Williamstown, adjacent the western boundary of Kaiserstuhl Conservation Park. The reserve comprises part Sections 578, 579 and Allotment 1 (closed Government road between Sections 578 and 579) in the Hundred of Moorooroo, in the District Council of Barossa.

The Reserve consists of 204.5 hectares of native vegetation that has been variously disturbed in the past by grazing, timber cutting and fire, and forms part of the Mount Crawford Forest Reserve in the Barossa Ranges, Southern Mount Lofty Ranges.

This reserve is a part of the land once used by the Peramangk Aboriginal people and is a remnant example of the flora and fauna that provided food and shelter. An alternative name for the Kaiserstuhl peak is “patpoori”, the Aboriginal word meaning “little grass tree” presumably Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata, the rock grass-tree, which is found in the reserve.