Sutherland Shire Cycleways – Eastern Trail for Beginners along the southern side of Botany Bay
Cache #22 – Quibray Bay Viewing Platform
This cycle trail is set up to introduce you to the diverse and yet intertwined natural and social landscape .
They often say life is about the journey, not the destination; but with geocaching, we say it’s both! With over 3 million geocaches around the world. The adventure begins with navigating to the geocache location, then there’s the big “ah-ha!” moment when you find the geocache! The journey doesn’t end there though, so we’re listing out five steps we recommend once you’ve made a find. Are you completing all five?
- Sign the logbook in the geocache. You should always carry a pen/pencil. Every Physical geocache has got a log and it’s just as important to sign the physical log as it is to post your log in the Geocaching® app. Signing the geocache log validates your visit! If you don't sign, then post a note till you return.
- Scenic view? Fun trail? Group shot? Take a photo to include with your log! Photos can be uploaded to your log right from the app. However NEVER add a spoiler. The next person should have the same experience.
- Log your find in the Geocaching® app! If you’re not logging your find in the field, save it as a draft and include a few notes about your journey to the geocache that you can use to jog your memory later. Remember to NOT include spoiler comments in your log!
- Give it a Favorite point! Premium members can award Favorite points to w-o-w geocaches to let other cachers know it’s something special.
- Place the geocache back where you found it so the next cacher can experience the same finders-joy! Remember to respect your surroundings, whether that’s flora, fauna, or others around enjoying the outdoors.
The waters surrounding Towra Point peninsula were gazetted an aquatic reserve on 24 December 1987 and included Quibray Bay, Weeney Bay, Stinkpot Bay and Woolooware Bay.
Kurnell Peninsula was first logged by the European landowner James Connell in 1835. By 1868 the forests of blackbutt and ironbark were cut down for houses and bridge construction and the remaining vegetation was cleared for grazing. This caused the sand dunes to move at a rate of approximately nine metres a year from 1885 to 1913. By 1923 sand was spilling into Quibray Bay from the large sand dunes of the ocean front of Cronulla Beach.
The mudflats of Towra Point first came under notice as an industry base after an attempt by pioneer Thomas Holt to cultivate oysters on the seabed of Gawley Bay (now Sylvania Waters) failed in 1870. Pioneer oyster farmers experimented successfully around 1870 with rectangular slabs of sandstone, placing them in rows in the intertidal mudflats in Quibray Bay, Woolooware Bay and Towra Point. By 1920 there were 450,000 stone slabs distributed around Towra. The Georges River-Botany Bay oyster industry was born.
Please visit the following site for a full report by NSW National Parks on the Ramsar Wetlands of which this platform is a part.
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/NationalParks/parkRamsar.aspx?id=N0551
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