Bunarong Park is named after the aboriginal tribe who originally lived in the Frankston area. Aboriginal stone implements found in the 1940s suggest that it was used as a campsite. At 90 metres above sea level, it would have been an excellent vantage point for the tribe to view the surrounding area.
Saved from becoming a site for sand extraction in the 1960s, it was later declared a reserve in 1978. To protect it from the housing developments and preserve it for future generations it was made a park in 1983.
Here is a link to the City of Frankston website with information about the park. There is a link to a brochure which you can print out if you wish, and it includes a trail map of the park.
At the time of placement of the cache in late May there were still some wonderful wildflowers about, as well as many varied types of fungi in the forest. Apparently the flowers are spectacular from September to November.
The Bunarong (also spelt Bunurong, Bunwurrung, Boonwerung, Bunurowrung, Boonoorong and Bururong) are Indigenous Australians of the Kulin nation, who occupy South-Central Victoria, Australia. Prior to European settlement, they lived as all people of the Kulin nation lived, sustainably on the land, predominantly as hunters and gatherers, for tens of thousands of years. They were referred to by Europeans as the Western Port or Port Philip tribe and were in alliance with other tribes in the Kulin nation, having particularly strong ties to the Wurundjeri people. The Bunurong territory extended along the northern, eastern and southern shorelines of Port Phillip, the Mornington Peninsula, Western Port and its two main islands, and land to the south-east down to Wilsons Promontory. (Wikipedia Reference)
Initial Coordinates
At the given coordinates you have a commanding view of the surrounding area.
Waypoint Two
Identify the pair of significant Casuarina trees found here:
Go to them (approximately 75 metres from the initial coordinates) and stand next to them.
Project 183 metres on a bearing of 27 degrees
Waypoint Three
Identify the significant structure here.
A = n(longer planks) minus n(shorter planks)
A simple numerology rule allows you to obtain a single digit by continually summing all the digits until you are left with only one. Apply this rule to obtain B using n(all the visible components of the structure)
C is nothing really
D = n(shorter wooden planks) divided by n(metal straps) plus n(ground supports)
E = length to the nearest decimetre of the longer planks minus 10
F = n(countersunk fasteners) minus n(proud fasteners)
where n = "the number of"
GZ
S 38° 09.ABC
E 145° 09.DEF
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