~ 🌧️ Be The Rain 🌧️~
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My caches are named after songs by a singer/songwriter/musician I really admire ~ Neil Young.
With over 95 albums since the late 60's he remains significant today in music, renewable energies, environmental issues, supporting those less fortunate and other charitable causes.
He has a fantastic website where all his music is available.
Be The Rain 🌧️ is #23 in the series and is the second replacement of archived cache in this area. The council did some clean-up and cache gone so I've replaced (note coordinate change by a few meters 26th September, 2020).
We need rain so I'm back again.
This song deals with environmental issues that are becoming more and more relevant to our place on earth.
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"Save the planet for another day
Attention shoppers, buy with a conscience and save
save the planet for another day
Be the rain
Be the rain"
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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 Ocean!
The walk to Balaka Waterfall is splendid, especially after rain and is just over a kilometer one way !
You can venture further down in the other direction past the back of the Kings School at North Parramatta and into Lake Parramatta bushland.
There are other interesting caches in this Reserve.
A mapping app is handy as there are offshoots to get lost on !
Of interest (and I learned of this as well while researching the area), if you wander back towards McDonald Street along the creek you will see a Nicholas Ski-Jump Gross Polutant Trap that has been installed in this creek.
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.
Be stealthy ! I hope that yappy dog doesn't cause too much attention !
Cache Contents:
~ a few golf tees
~ 6 marbels
~ a bag of letter beads
~ a faciall recognition device 
~ and old 1971 20 cent piece - scarce & worth $50 in mint condition but this one is only fair & only good for flipping - Heads or Tails ?
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Lyrics for "Be The Rain" at Sugar Mountain