HISTORIC CAMMERAY

Cammeray is named after the Cammeraygal, the Aboriginal tribe who once resided in the North Sydney area.

A number of small dairy farms operated here until the 1880s when Cammeray became one of the first parts of the Lower North Shore to be developed as a residential area.

The cache is not at the listed co-ordinates. You will find it at

S 33 49.ABC E 151 12.FGH

The posted co-ordinates will take you to the middle of the Long Gully Bridge, the border between Cammeray and Northbridge. You are on the left hand side of Strathallen Avenue (facing towards Cammeray).

The bridge has an interesting history. You can read a more detailed account in the description of the traditional cache nearby (Long Gully Bridge - GC75GBP - by Rodney1210).

Please note: This is a busy traffic area and there is no safe crossing point on the bridge.

Look right. At the time of the bridge’s construction the waterway was navigable up Long Bay and Flat Rock Creek to Sydney's first quarry, with sandstone blocks from the quarry making many of the first buildings in Sydney town. The stone for the bridge was sourced from here.

At the posted co-ordinates you will find a plaque.
The bridge was opened by the NSW Premier in 19A9

C is the number of words in the sixth line of text.

Continue along the bridge path into Miller Street.
Just before the first bus stop there is a North Sydney Council sign about Sir Thomas Mitchell, explorer and surveyor.

B is the number of letters of the word written inside the Boomerang minus the third digit in the first date on the sign.

Continue up the hill and cross Palmer Street, named after Joseph Palmer Abbott, Australian politician and solicitor who lived for some time in Cammeray and built the historic home, Tarella.

Stop at the Lane Way where you can have a coffee and enjoy the series of fine sculptured glass panels. There's an explanatory sign, which will help you find F.

According to the sign, the black cockatoo was significant because
i - it symbolised death in the Dreamtime F=3
ii - it was a useful food source F=6
iii - its tail feathers were used for headdresses F=5
iv - all of the above F=7

Message Sticks was commissioned by North Sydney Council in celebration of the Guringai festival in XXXX. H is the last digit of the date minus the first digit.

Continue along Miller Street, then turn right into Amherst street - named after William Pitt Amherst, who was Governor-General of India 1823-28.

After the shopping centre, you come to heritage-listed Tarella, a two-storey Italianate mansion built by Joseph Palmer Abbott c. 1886, on land he had acquired in 1881. Tarella includes a coachhouse at the rear, with a distinctive clock tower.

Not without initial controversy, Tarella has now found new life as a Childhood Early Learning Centre, with a street library and some Christmas decorations at the main gate.

Tarella's Amherst street number gives you G. If you can't find this on the building, G for Google might help you with the mystery.

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