This is one of a series of caches placed on the A9 Arthur Highway, in the south east of Tasmania. It is 69 km long and goes from Sorell to Port Arthur, one of Tasmania's most iconic historic areas. The Arthur Highway can be very busy and interesting (read: challenging), so please take care when driving and looking for caches. For this reason, all the caches in this series are placed in areas where there are safe pull off zones. Each cache is best accessed when going in the direction stated in the cache name. Please do not cross the road to look for any caches.
You have arrived in PORT ARTHUR. Hope you had a safe trip!
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Port Arthur is a small country town in the south east of Tasmania.
It is famous for a number of things, but most importantly being the location of the World Heritage-listed Port Arthur Historic Site. It is one of Tasmania's most visited tourist attractions.
Port Arthur has a high yearly rainfall and the vegetation in this area is thick and lush. During the days when the historic site was a penal colony in the 1800's there were probably many iconic Thylacine roaming this area ... it looks and feels like perfect habitat for them to live. The thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, were the worlds largest marsupial carnivore. Unfortunately they were hunted to extinction, with the last known tiger dying in the Hobart Zoo in 1936.
BYO pen. This is a high muggle area so please replace as found and put a bit of cover back over the cache.