National Parks Pass Required as this cache is situated in Mt William National Park.
Eddystone Point, located inside the Mt William National Park, has a lovely picnic spot as well as beautiful quiet beaches. The huge crystal lenses of the 35-metre-tall granite lighthouse cast a beam 26 nautical miles out to sea. The lighthouse protects the entrance to Banks Strait and directs ships around the offshore hazards of Victoria and Georges Rocks. Unfortunately visitors are unable to go inside the lighthouse, but can still get close outside and enjoy the site of the lighthouse, the beautiful scenery and the water views.
Eddystone Point is known as Larapuna and in 2006 the Tasmanian Government issued a 40-year lease for the Larapuna lands surrounding the magnificent lighthouse.
This cache is situated close to the GPS Marker EDY1
MAST has provided GPS validation marks for boat users across Tasmania.
This places visible markers at a number of public boat ramps and associated jetties, at which mariners or owners of portable GPS units can use to validate their position and map datum settings.
One aim is to ensure that boat users have set up their GPS units in the correct map datum.
How to use the markers:
- Manoeuvre your GPS unit as close to the yellow cat’s eye marker as possible. These markers will be placed either on the bitumen or concrete road surface
- Ensure that your GPS unit is tracking at least five satellites and is set to the correct coordinate type (LAT/LONG or UTM) AND DATUM (WGS84/GDA94)
- Make sure your GPS unit display coordinates match the surveyed coordinates of the marker. Agreement with the coordinates shown on the MAST website should be possible to within 15 metres or 0.008 min.
As the phone coverage is very poor use the marker to locate this cache or your own GPS unit of course.