Fish Traps: Kaatboornup Multi-Cache

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Hidden : 2/21/2009
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This is a multi stage cache along the banks of Oyster Harbour. Visit at low tide to see the fish traps and to avoid getting wet feet.


Beside the Lower King Bridge is a shady picnic spot with gas barbecues, picnic tables, gazebo and toilets. If you have the time, throw in a line and catch the evening meal. Park at S 34° 56. 642 E 117° 56. 995 and follow the obvious foot path which starts between the waters edge and fence line. There are two waypoints before you arrive at the cache. At each waypoint take in the vistas over Oyster Harbour. However, you need to look closer at hand to locate the metal plates with the co ordinates engraved into them. The co ordinates at the second waypoint will lead you to the cache.

Fish traps were built on the northern shoreline of Oyster Harbour and used over the last 7,000 years. Rocks and wood were used to build low walled semi circular traps on the mud flats. The traps relied on the in coming tide to bring in fish which became trapped behind the wall as the tide receded. Noongar custodians call this area “Kaatboornup” which means wooded hill.

1791 Captain George Vanvouver was the first white man to record the fish traps, calling them “fish wears”.
1803 Nicolas Baudin observed two sets of fish “dikes” in the Kalgan River just south of the present day Wheeldon Road Bridge. Dumont D’Urville in 1826 and George Fletcher Moore,(the colony’s Civil Commissioner) in 1833 noticed the same fish traps.
1818 JS Roe noted “fish weirs” on the mud flats between the King and Kalgan River.

Piggot, R. (1992) Fish Traps and Floods Apples and Spuds A History of the Lower Kalgan District, pp 1-4, Albany Printers.

Take time to read the information boards. On your return to the car revisit the waypoints now that you know why they are there.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ng gur onfr bs n gerr nobir uvtu jngre znex

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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