The Climb Traditional Cache
Ngaambul: No response from the owner within the time requested and as per the original note this cache has been archived. If you wish to replace it please submit a new cache via this link.
Ministro - Matt
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This is the second of three caches hidden around suburban parks of Mount Annan.
This cache was originally going to be at S 34° 03.767 E 150° 44.935, but was unable to be as that is part of an area managed by DECC. If you are up for it, proceed to these coordinates after the cache and you too will experience The Climb!
You are looking for a 1 litre sistema container.
Hope you enjoy!
About Mount Annan
Mount Annan is the name given to a high point in the western part of the locality and is 190 metres above sea level. It only appears on published maps after 1834. This point was part of Glenlee which was owned by William Howe, who built a fine Georgian house (1824) on the property. Glenlee was acquired by James Fitzpatrick in the 1850s and his descendants ran it as a dairy farm until 1978 with associated cropping and grazing.
The first land release for housing at Mount Annan was in late 1980s for first home buyers and low income families.
Today Mount Annan is home to around 7000 people, and Mount Annan Botanic Garden, a 416 hectare botanical garden in a hilly area of Mount Annan. The Garden opened to the public in 1988, specializing in native plants, with a collection of over 4000 species. It is the largest botanical garden in Australia. The recently discovered Wollemi Pine was first cultivated there in 1995.
On the eastern side of the Mount Annan Botanic Gardens is a little piece of history which was constructed in 1880. It is a water canal (aqueduct) which is partly made of sandstone blocks thought to be quarried from Mount Annan. It is part of the Upper Nepean Scheme which supplies water by gravity from the dams on upper Nepean River to Prospect Reservoir along a course of 62 km. Until Warragamba Dam was finished in 1960 this canal supplied most of Sydney’s water.
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