Picturesque Glenrock Lagoon has been a recreational area for the people of Newcastle and Lake Macquarie for over a century.
The area has dramatic headlands, attractive beaches, and pockets of littoral rainforest. Its rock-strewn creeks flow over waterfalls, past surrounding cliffs into rock pools. The lagoon is a small, shallow body of water approx 900 metres long and approx 100 metres wide covering approximately 8 hectares and is located within the Glenrock State Recreation Area. Two main tributaries, Flaggy and Little Flaggy Creeks, construct a dramatic creek and gully formation, which flows into the lagoon from the west.
Glenrock Reserve houses many recorded historic sites.
These include:
- Australia's first commissioned copper smelter
- a unique coastal railway on Burwood Beach
- the Burwood Colliery (one of the oldest and best preserved remains of a 19th century coal mine in the Hunter)
- winding engine foundations at Leichhardt's Lookout
- brick-lined air shafts, a dry stone rock wall,
- railway relics
- the 'ziggy track' (a cutting through solid rock created by miners).
The area is home to a diverse variety of natural flora and fauna species, with significant bird species diversity in the area, all of which is provided by the combination of marine, wetland, heath and forest habitats.
- https://history.lakemac.com.au/
To find the location of the cache:
Review the information boards at WP1/published coordinates (Leichhardt's Lookout). Calculate some offsets to adjust the published coordinates - these offsets are only applied to the decimal portion of the minutes of the coordinates.
Latitude (Southing):
In ABCD, Mary and William Bryant, their two children and nine others, boldly stole the Governor's boat in Sydney and rowed to Timor.
Subtract D from the latitude.
Longitude (Easting):
Many small mines worked on the northern side of Glenrock Lagoon between EFGH and IJKL.
Add (F+H+I+J+K+L) to the longitude.
Please do not leave the formed track whilst searching for the cache, if your feet aren't on the Yuelarbah Track you won't find it anyway! Muggles can be in plague numbers here especially on fine, sunny winter Sunday afternoons - keep an eye out, they will descend down onto GZ like ninjas! Also, as always, make sure the cache is rehidden exactly as you found it - thanks.
Coordinate checksums: S 31, E 30
This cache is located within a State Conservation Area, with permission by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. Please ensure that NSW NPWS regulations are followed during your visit. Completion of this cache does not require you to leave the formed pathway at any time.
Further information, including park safety messages, can be found at the following link:
http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/Glenrock-State-Conservation-Area
