Beeliar Woodlands Walks - Biyara
Series Information
The Beeliar Woodlands Walk series has seven multi caches and a bonus final mystery cache. Each of the seven multi caches has a clue inside the container that is required to calculate the coordinates for the bonus final mystery cache. The bonus final cache is located at the Hamilton Hill end of the series.
Cache Information
Instructions
This cache is not located at the posted coordinates. The posted coordinates will lead you to an information sign where you can locate the required information to answer the following questions. Substitute your answers into the coordinates below.
The cache can be located at SOUTH 32 05.ABC EAST 115 47.DEF.
Question 1) The nectar of biyara flowers can be used to make a _____ _____ drink? Calculate the digital root sum of the missing two words (combined). Consider this G.
Question 2) The tip of the stem bud "was ______ like". Calculate the digital root sum of the missing word. Consider this H.
Question 3) There are three indigenous names (on the sign in green) for trees that make up the tree layer of the bush many Western Australians recognise as home. Calculate the the digital root sum of the three indigenous names listed in green. Consider these J, K and L in the order they appear on the sign.
Question 4) The sign refers to a perennial shrub in italics. Calculate the digital root sum of this shrub name. Consider this M.
Question 5) The sign something that can be found here in spring. Calculate the digital root sum of the indigenous name for this flower. Consider this N.
- A = M
- B = K
- C = H
- D = G + N
- E = J
- F = L + H
Cache Information
This cache is a 200mL clip lock container. The cache included swaps at the time of placement and there is room for trackables to be dropped in this cache.
Please ensure that you replace the cache as found and bring your own pen to sign the log.
Trail Information
The Beeliar Woodlands Walks Trail is 4.5km in length. It is an east-west bush corridor which travels between Bibra Drive (Bibra Lake) in the east and Stock Road (Hamilton Hill) in the west along the alignment of the former Roe 8 road reservation corridor. Most of the trail has a limestone path meandering through the bush, with corten steel signs giving way finding and interpretive information. There are seven distinct ecological communities in the corridor, which means a very high diversity of flora and fauna can be viewed along the trail.
Please note that the eastern side of the trail between Bibra Drive and Hope Road (where the Bibool cache is located) is seasonally inundated and may not be trafficable for part of the year (roughly June to October).
Biyara Information
Biyara (Banksia attenuata) is one of four key banksia species that characterise the nationally protected ecological community ‘Banksia woodlands of the Swan Coastal Plain’. These woodlands can be found on deep sands, particularly Spearwood and Bassendean dune systems found here. On the transition zone from limestone ridge to Bassendean sand tuart, jarrah and marri are found along with the banksia species forming the tree canopy. With its tree layer of banksias, sheoaks, scattered eucalypts and balga, many Western Australians recognise this ‘bush’ as home. Unfortunately, the once widespread woodlands are being fragmented by urban development. At Biyara, both the tree layer and the understorey of perennial shrubs like Hibbertia and hairy yellow pea can still be found. Quenda are often sighted. In kambarang (second spring in the Nyungar six seasons) carousel spider orchids flower in this woodland. These, like other spider orchids, use a sexually deceptive system of pollination where flowers are mistaken for female insects by males. The presence of orchids requires high quality bushland that can support the insects required.
Information thanks to Beeliar Woodlands Walks
