Great Southern Road - Alpine.
The Main Roads Management Act of June 1858 declared the Great Southern Road, from near Sydney through Goulburn and Gundagai to Albury, as one of the three main roads in the colony. Today we know it as the Hume Highway, named after Hamilton Hume the travelling partner of William Hovell on there overland journey from Appin (near Campbelltown)to Port Phillip and return in 1824.
Over the years the road has had a few name changes and seen many realignments, some minor and some major with entire towns being bypassed and the section of the route north of Marulan being totally different to todays Hume Highway. So I thought that I would do a series of caches based on the old sections of the Hume Highway and the Great Sothern Road.
As you drive to this cache you will have been driving on one of the old deviations of the Great South Road. It is nothing like the current Hume Highway, especially if you have approached from Alpine down the windy bits. Just imagine meeting a semi tailer coming the other way! The "Old South Road" follows the original deviation of the road, bypassing Mittagong in favour of Bowral.
Cache is a 100ml Sistema container and should be an easy find.