The Porters Road Grumpy® Power Trail
This is the eighth cache in the mostly arboreal power trail along the Porters Road Fire Trail. Most caches will typically require special equipment to access. Please take care. All containers are medium sized tubes.
Please let us know if any of the hides are inaccessible.
Porter Ridge Fire Trail to O'Hara's Creek
A large variety of local wildflowers, tall trees, valley and district views. This is a lovely walk along a sandstone ridge with significant sandstone ridgetop vegetation and down into a valley of tall trees. O’Hara’s Creek is named after James O’Hara, who is the first documented settler in the area. The creek rises near Round Corner in Dural and flows into Cattai Creek near Maraylya Bridge.
The walk starts at the end of Porter’s Road Kenthurst and proceeds along a level fire trail through stands of Bloodwoods (Corymbia eximia), Grey Gums (Eucalyptus punctata) and Casuarinas. This area was burnt by wildfires in 1992 and 2002. A little further on there is a track to the Pistol Club on the right. The vegetation opens out further along the track and depending on the season there will be Grevilleas, Banksias, Boronias, many species of pea flowers , Flannel Flowers and several species of Wattle flowering. There are also stands of Scaly Barks (Eucalyptus squamosa) which is a Eucalypt only found in Kenthurst on sandstone ridges. It is easily identified by its scaly bark and red stems.
More information can be found about the walk at: https://www.aussiebushwalking.com/nsw/sydney/the-hills/oharas-creek-walk-kenthust
Enjoy!
The Puzzle
There are many native and exotic varieties of trees. Some trees are known by their common names and others by their botanical names. This can make you Grumpy trying to remember an order let alone spell many of them. As a 'bunus' I've listed out a number that don't make me too grumpy for one reason or the other. I also managed a variety of Acacia Sig. Confusa interalia in the middle this time too. In conclusion they are there to be enjoyed like this cache. Military grade sights or equipment may be what is needed to assist with this in the end as opposed to basic training to start. Failure to do so will see you forever looking at Acacia Sig. Confusa Rurus again and again.
Midland Hawthorn, Yagrumo Macho, European Beech, Buxus sempervirens, Sweet Chestnut, Fraxinus excelsior, Pussy Williow, Tasmanian Myrtle, Wollemia nobilis, Acacia mearnsii, European Box, Castanospermum austral, Alloxylon pinnatum, Turpentine, Melaleuca irbyana, Wattle, Acacia melanoxylon, Casuarina cunninghamiana, Acacia Confusa, Populus nigra, Blueberry Ash, Dogwood, Castanospermum austral, Notelaea longifolia, Syzygium oleosum, Tilia cordata, Acer pseudoplatanus, Larix kaempferi, Jarrah, Castanospermum austral, Eucalyptus marginata, Uromyrtus metrosideros, Sorbus aucuparia.