Dead Dog Tree Traditional Cache

This may be an easy park and grab cache but it may not be that easy depending on your approach.  You may have to look harder that you expected to and you may even have to work harder than you expected to. 

You are looking for a well camouflaged PET.

Some of the tallest trees often grow just outside of the plantations and are never harvested.

This massive Eucalyptus grandis, Blue Gum is just one of those.  Why is it called a “dead dog tree”  Because it has lost it’s bark!!

Eucalyptus grandis
(Gum, blue-gum, grandis)
This fast growing tree is indigenous to Australia and is the most common (almost exclusively) planted eucalypt tree in the Lowveld  area.  The harvested tree stump will coppice (re-sprout) to form second and more crops (rotations).

Timer Usage:
Trees are generally harvested at 7 to 10 years and the timber is mainly used for pulp, mining timber and for telephone and transmission poles.  Timber from older trees (12 to 30 years) is used to produce fine furniture, as can be seen in most South African schools.