Beeliar Woodlands Walks - Yaakan
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 S32 04.ABC E115 49.DEF.
Question One) In Nyungar culture, the ________ made the river, hill and waterhole. Determine the digital root of the two words (combined). This will be a three digit number. Consider the whole number as A.
Question Two) There are two lakes listed on the sign. Determine the digit root of the Indigenous names for each of these. Both will be a three digit number. Consider the name for North Lake as B and Bibra Lake as C.
- X = A + 766
- Y = B + C + 199
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).
Yaakan Information
Beneath the soil surface, near the shores of Walliabup (Bibra Lake), are the artefacts of Nyungar people who first camped by the lake, using its rich resources for food and shelter. An archaeological investigation commissioned by Rehabilitating Roe 8 in 2020 discovered tools made from fossiliferous chert not available since the last ice age, demonstrating that the land between Walliabup and Coolbellup (North Lake) has been occupied for many thousands of years. Nyungar families continued to camp in the area until the 1960s and they still maintain a strong connection to this land. Much of the original vegetation at Yaakan (snake-necked turtle) corner has been cleared since European settlement, replaced with introduced species to create a parklike landscape for recreational activities. In places, bibool (paperbark) and yanget (club rush) still fringe the lake. There are complex hydrological connections between Walliabup and the wetlands immediately to the north which include Horse Paddock Swamp and Coolbellup Lake.
Information thanks to Beeliar Woodlands Walks
