Be The Rain is #3 in the series and is a song about environmental issues. This cache leads you to a nicely treed reserve with a stream. Locally known as Northam Drive Bushland it is an extremity of Hunts Creek Reserve, a Wildlife Sanctuary located in Carlingford with many different walking trails, up to a few km long that eventually connects up to Lake Parramatta. Material entering this little stream ends up in Parramatta River and the Southern Pacific !
The walk to the Waterfall is splendid, especially after rain! You can venture further down in the other direction past the back of the Kings School at North Parramatta and into Lake Parramatta bushland.
From the GZ to the Waterfall is an easy stroll of just over a kilometer one way.
There are some other interesting caches in this area. A mapping app may be handy as there are a few offshoots.
Of interest (and I learned of this as well while researching the area), a Nicholas Ski-Jump Gross Polutant Trap has been installed in this stream. This device uses expanded metal mesh to screen out rubbish from stormwater flows at the outlet headwall of stormwater drainage systems. Sediment is captured in a chamber located beneath the litter and debris separation screens. All material is retained in a dry state to reduce the opportunity for nutrients to be released into the water column as the organic material decays. The stored material is removed by accessing the rear separation chamber and raking the material into a wheelie bin, which requires the access to the unit to be suitable for dragging a full wheelie bin by hand. By-pass occurs when the head level upstream forces the side trap doors (wings) to open and the stormwater is surcharged around the stored material. The coarse sediment separation chamber is provided below the gross pollutant screens and the device can be modified to fit within open channels.
Cache Contents (bring your own pen please)
- Log
- and originally loaded with the following swappables - take what you need;
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- Shell
- Wooden Peg
- Rubber Bands for a braid
- Guitar Picks
- A Rust List Badge - the Neil Young Internet Community badge
Also contained on initial publication is a letter cube puzzle:
"One of these days, I'm gonna sit down and write a long letter to all the good friends I've known".
What 5 to 9 letter word can you make from the cubes EAMDCOLGS ?
There are some cool websites to help with words containing only certain letters (great for scrabble) !
Lyrics and hint for Be The Rain at Sugar Mountain http://www.sugarmtn.org/lyrics.php?song=52