This is my first cache! hope you like it, i come to this location to do some running as its near my house. To run up Mount Steel is great exercise and if theres a cache at the top i figure thats a bonus! I wanted to place a cache here but had to wait for a previous cache to be removed. Please replace cache EXACTLY AS IT WAS FOUND
The area was named Moore Park in 1867 after Charles Moore, Mayor of Sydney City Council 1867-1869. Moore Park became the focus for major sporting events and entertainment facilities with the establishment of the Zoological Gardens in 1879 (Sydney’s first zoo and included a bear pit and elephant house), the Royal Agricultural Society Showground, and the first course of the Australian Golf Club in 1882.
Four of the sand hills were conspicuous enough to be named: Mount Steel, Mount Rennie, Constitution Hill and Mount Lang. However, in the process of transforming the common into parkland, these hills were modified greatly.
Today
Today Mount Steel is the least altered of the four. Mt. Rennie was reconfigured as a platform for Golf House in 1926 and Mt. Lang, across from the modern day Sydney Cricket Ground, was terraced and ramped for unknown reasons and disappeared after the 1940s.
The fate of Constitution Hill is not clear. The Moore Park Golf Course (established in 1926 and continuously modified) has taken advantage of and modified the gently rolling topography in establishing fairways.
Beware of the odd golf ball goimg astray from the driving range!
The cache is an easy magnetic grab. BYO pen. No swaps,gc or tb, Replace cache exactly as it was found please
congrats to AlphadeltaIndigo and Jendid for FTF and to Jendid for providing history about the area and its importance in the women suffrage group in sydney http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rennie_rape_case