Abandoned things and places have always fascinated me so I decided to start a little series about them around the Highlands after coming across this interesting bit of road recently.
The Hume Highway, also known in parts as the Hume Freeway and the Hume Motorway, is an 840km stretch of road between Sydney and Melbourne. Duplication and town bypasses began in 1962 and were finally completed in 2013 when the final town the Highway still went though, Holbrook, was bypassed.
The Mittagong and Berrima bypass was completed on August 17th 1992. The Old Hume Highway, as it's now known, still runs through Mittagong and through to Berrima and is a well used road. Before it reached Mittagong, the Old Hume Highway ran through Yerinbool, and its route can be traced on a map. It disappears for a little bit but can be made out again as it arrives in Aylmerton, just north of Mittagong.
This geocache is placed at the site of where it appears again. You can look up from the fence line at the old Highway as it disappears off in time the distance. Cattle now roam across it at times.