Beach Paddock Traditional Cache

You are looking for a cache a little bigger than a micro but a little smaller than a 'small'.  This is a great spot for picnics or just relaxing at a harbour beach.  Parking can be found on Wentworth Avenue or across the road at Vaucluse House

This harbour-side beach used to be private property, belonging to the Wentworth family.  In fact most harbour-side beaches in Sydney, particularly the Eastern Suburbs, were privately owned and inaccesible to the public.  In the 1890s the citizens of Sydney began agitating for access to the harbour foreshores.  After a few failed protests and attempts to free the land to the public, The Foreshores Vigilance Committee was still protesting, that there was ‘not a waterside foreshore park worthy of the name between the Domain and South Head and not one area in which a picnic party can light a fire to have a harmless billy of tea’. By this time the committee was focusing its demands on the foreshore at Vaucluse.  On 6 July 1910, the NSW Government resumed 22.9 acres (9.264 ha) of the Vaucluse estate that included Vaucluse House and its harbour frontage.  Vaucluse Park was eventally proclaimed on 21 August 1911 and opened to the public.