Views of Home Mystery Cache

GeoCaching is the key to adventure. You can always count on it to take you to places you didn't think of going to! This one is not at the posted coords, but I'm told this is a good spot for bream. The solution to the puzzle provides the location of a little known culinary paradise along Berowra Creek. Geochecker provides some useful traveling advice. The cache is best accessed by water, but a land based approach is also viable if you don't mind walking through thick scratchy bush.

This is our second cache in recognition of spirited local historical identity: George Collingridge. The first is a multi called Hermit of Berowra.

George Alphonse Collingridge de Tourcey (1847-1931), renowned artist and historian emigrated to Australia in 1879. In November 1882, Collingridge married Lucy Monica Makinson, and the two settled in a small cottage he named 'Capo di Monte' on what is now known as Collingridge Point above Berowra Creek.

Collingridge found that the Department of Lands had omitted a section of foreshore from its maps of Berowra Creek. It seems this tradition continues to this day as some of the map options used on this website also appear to have trouble correctly displaying the Hermit's home.

Collingridge's journeys to and from 'Capo di Monte' to Sydney are the stuff of legend. One such trek is recorded in his short book Berowra & the Unsolved Mystery of its Amazing Ridge. Based on that story it sounds like he would have numbered GeoCaching as one of his interests if it was around at the time!

Amongst his many talents Collingridge was an accomplished Xylographer for which he won numerous awards. Here's an example of one of his works from the National Gallery depicting 'Capo di Monte' and part of Berowra Creek. The view of home from the cache location not the same, but not that dissimilar.