Great Southern Road - Jugiong.

The Main Roads Management Act of June 1858 declared the Great Southern Road, from near Sydney through Goulburn and Gundagai to Albury, as one of the three main roads in the colony. Today we know it as the Hume Highway, named after Hamilton Hume the travelling partner of William Hovell on there overland journey from Appin (near Campbelltown)to Port Phillip and return in 1824.

Over the years the road has had a few name changes and seen many realignments, some minor and some major with entire towns being bypassed and the section of the route north of Marulan being totally different to todays Hume Highway. So I thought that I would do a series of caches based on the old sections of the Hume Highway and the Great Southern Road.

This cache is on an old part of the Hume Hwy that was left behind when the Jugiong Bypass was built. If you have the time take a look at the alignment on Google Earth and you will see how they had to curve the road around so as to cross the Jugiong Creek at a right angle. Many years later the bypass crossed the creek at the same angle, which makes you wonder why they didn't go for the straighter approach in the first place. The cache is accessible for both North and South bound traffic, but please be careful if South bound.

This is the second cache here, the first was a little further away from the river and was muggled a few times, so please rehide it carefully.