This cache is placed at one of the many granite outcrops in the area that are worth visiting. Pronounced 'Char-cool-da', and depending on which sign you look at, it is spelt "Tcharkuldu" or "Tcharkulda". More importantly, it has both fantastic views and great rock formations.
One website describes the following:
"Tcharkulda Rock is a massive outcrop covered in the largest and most spectacular tafoni and boulders in the district. In winter the base of the tafoni are alive with the pink flowered rock crassula.
During the early settlement, Tcharkulda was a major supplier of the township of Minnipa's water via an extensive gutter network and 750 kilolitre dam, completed in 1914 at a cost of AUD8,946.00.
Today, the area is a well used picnic area and provides a beautiful setting for a family outing. On the grounds the local Kiwanis group have restored a Shepherd's Hut, as a reminder of the solitary existence of the early pastoralists in the area."
This was a place geomum and geodad visited growing up. Not only during recreational time with family, but also during school time, as this was the location of the interschool cross country for the local schools, hence the name. In fact, after placing this cache geodad was decluttering, and at the bottom of an old box was a record of one such run.
With parents living nearby we will ask them to keep an eye on it for us.
