Beeliar Woodlands Walks - Karak
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 48.DEF.
Question One) What day and year did the bushcarer observe the family of tawny frogmouths? (GH & JKLM)
Question Two) How many people were estimated at the mass protest? (N,000)
Question Three) What year was the bushcarers launched? PQRS
- A = S
- B = N
- C = P + R + S
- D = P + R
- E = M - L
- F = G + H + J
Cache Information
This cache is a 1L 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).
Karak Information
Bounded by Coolbellup Avenue, North Lake Road and the rear of suburban homes, in recent times this high-quality woodland was little-known and visited primarily by local people who appreciated its value. As part of the Roe Highway section 8 reserve, it did not have the status of a bush reserve with formal paths and regular maintenance. Yet it provided ecosystem services to humans and habitat to variety of woodland flora and fauna. Both karak (Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoo) and ngoorlak (Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo) are known to forage in this woodland. Along with jarrah, marri and banksia trees, an unusual grove of djanjin (Woody Pear) trees is found in the western section. Moving down slope the banksia/woody pear woodland gives way to banksia/jarrah. The soil is visibly lumpy due to the activities of quenda who can turn over ten kilograms of soil a night. In makuru, (winter in the Nyungar Six Seasons) multiple species of the carnivorous genus Drosera, glisten with sticky droplets to trap unwary insects. In djilba (early spring) a diverse array of wildflowers appear: donkey and cow slip orchids, bitter peas, pixie mops, milk maids, and fringe lilies, to name only a few.
Information thanks to Beeliar Woodlands Walks
