Welcome to the Lake Illawarra Power Trail. This cache is part of a series of caches that don the foreshore of Lake Illawarra. These caches highlight the picturesque and unique locations around the lake. This large mass of water is used by industrial, recreational and professional people for sailing, skiing, rowing, kayaking, swimming, fishing, boating, diving and is the home to a variety of flora and fauna. It has a number of islands and reefs within. It’s tidal to the Tasman Sea via a narrow channel at Windang.
The Trail (a loop around the lake) is approx 30km with most caches accessible by bike or by “car n walk”. The LIPT is a work in progress and as further foreshore locations become available additional caches will be placed.
This cache is number 2 on the trail and brings you to Hooka Point Park. One of my first few caches finds was in this very park, less than 100m away (now archived).
Once near GZ, why not have a seat and admire the view of the two islands in this part of the lake - Gooseberry Island (left) and Hooka Island (right). They are now nature reserves with delicate, unique and protected ecosystems. But during the roaring 1920s/30s there existed a dancehall on Gooseberry Island which hosted dances a few times a year. Up to 300-400 dance-goers from all over the Illawarra would dress up and go over in boats to the dancehall on Gooseberry Island. The hall was dismantled after the war. The cache itself is a fairly easy hide in an obvious spot.