This cache is in a nature reserve that preserves some of the Epping Forest bushland. Please visit http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/file.aspx?id=7055 to learn more about the reserve and view the map showing where it meets private property. To access the cache, walk along the road through the reserve. You need to be on the road that starts at the gate and runs to the other side of the reserve – not the track that runs along the fence line. If you park at the suggested coordinates you can access the track and walk back to the road. The road does not show on Google maps, but does on the The List – www.thelist.tas.gov.au
Don’t be surprised if you encounter vehicles, as the road is the access road for the neighbours, who also lease part of the reserve to graze sheep and have a shearing shed on the reserve. This area is private, although within the reserve, so please respect tis. Watch out for snakes. We didn’t see any (maybe because we are heavy footed!) but this looks like ideal country for them.
Gibbo 2 takes you further into the reserve but through very similar bushland. The area was popular with kangaroos, dragonflies and cockatoos when we visited.
If you would like to see a piece of farm/bush sculpture it is worth walking about 250m further down the road to ‘Fencing Fred’ (at least, that’s what Flip termed him) on the right as you walk in!
Start of access road – S41 46.435 E147 19.432
Car park – S41 46.501 E147 19.314