Oxley Reserve
This reserve is named in honour of the explorer John Oxley, Surveyor-General of Lands in NSW. On his second expedition of discovery in 1818 Oxley was thwarted by impassable swamps near Warren. He turned eastward, and came upon the Warrumbungle Mountains, the Castlereagh River, the Liverpool Plains and the Peel River. On descending the Great Dividing Range he followed the Hastings River to the sea and named the area at the mouth of the river Port Macquarie. On the next leg of his journey south en route to Sydney he came across the area now known as Harrington. For more details of the early history of Harrington visit Any Port in a Storm? Not this one!
The cache is a 200 ml plastic container.