Totally Findable Tourist Caches
Welcome to Sydney
This series of geocaches is designed primarily with visitors to Sydney in mind who may have limited time and transport options and want a quick and easy find while out enjoying some sightseeing around this beautiful city.
All cache containers will be one of three types; a flat magnetic key case (MKC), a round film canister (FC or MFC for magnetic) or a fake rock (FR).
As always with city caching, the surrounding structures can affect GPS accuracy. If in doubt, use the hint however be mindful that the hint will indicate the type of container used and will be very specific to help you find the cache easily. If you want a challenge to find this cache and don't wish to know exactly where it's hidden, do not look at the hint.
At each location you’ll be given some information about the site you are visiting. I hope you find this information enlightening.
Enjoy!
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Indian Pacific
Transcontinental
Train Journey
The Indian Pacific is a weekly tourism passenger train service that runs in Australia's east–west rail corridor between Sydney, on the shore of the Pacific Ocean, and Perth, on the shore of the Indian Ocean (or vice-versa). It is one of the few truly transcontinental train journeys in the world. It first ran in 1970 after the completion of gauge conversion projects in South Australia and Western Australia enabling, for the first time, a cross-continental rail journey that did not have a break of track gauge, (the distance between the two rails of a railway track).
Grand Concourse, Central Station, Sydney
The train leaves from Platform 1 here at Central Station every Wednesday afternoon and has been rated as one of the great rail journeys of the world. Its route includes the world's longest straight stretch of railway track, a 478km (297 mile) stretch of the Trans-Australian Railway across the Nullarbor Plain. (Nullabor is latin for "no trees".)
A stop at Rawlinna, in the middle of nowhere!!! There's an ammo can cache here too!
A one-way trip takes between 70.5 and 75 hours, depending on scheduling and daylight saving periods. The route leaves Sydney and travels via the Western and Broken Hill lines to Broken Hill. It then crosses into South Australia on the Broken Hill to Crystal Brook line before heading south to Adelaide. Before the conversion of the Crystal Brook to Adelaide line to standard gauge, passengers for Adelaide had to change at Port Pirie. However, from August 1986, the Indian Pacific was diverted to make an out-and-back trip to Adelaide adding 390 kilometres (240 mi) to the journey. From Crystal Brook, it heads north to Port Augusta and then via the Trans-Australian Railway to Kalgoorlie including travelling over the world's longest straight stretch of railway track on the Nullarbor Plain. It then heads via the Eastern Goldfields and Eastern lines to its terminus at East Perth.
The highest point on the line is at Bell, NSW in the Blue Mountains, at 1100 metres. The most northern point on the line is at the western tip of the Yellabinna Regional Park, South Australia. The most southern point on the line is at the Adelaide Parklands Terminal in Keswick, South Australia.
One of the great transcontinental train journeys