There's the spot Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 4/26/2004
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: large (large)

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Geocache Description:

You are looking for a 5 ltr grey plastic container with a white lid, it contains all the necessary things and an assortment of new and old goodies to trade.
It should not be too hard to find but it is in a very interesting area.




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This cache has been placed very near to the begining of the Mason and Bird timber station.
The first European settler in the area was a carpenter named Benjamin Mason who was granted a licence to fell timber (mostly jarrah) near Kalamunda in 1864. By 1866 Mason had constructed his own timber station and 100 men and their families were living in the area. In 1870 Mason formed a partnership with Francis Bird and it was this partnership which effectively opened up the Kalamunda area. By 1872 Mason and Bird had built their own horse drawn wooden railway line and timber was being transported from the mill the 15 km to the Canning River at Masons Landing for shipment down to the port of Fremantle. It is still possible to see the site of the original timber station.



In their excellent history of the area, Cala Munnda: A Home in the Forest, John Slee and Bill Shaw offer a graphic description of the problems the early timber cutters faced: 'A pair of sawyers would select a suitable tree and then cut a scarf in one side with their axes and fell it be cutting through from the opposite side with a cross-cut saw. They would then dock the trunk of the tree into suitable lengths with the saw. The next step was to dig a saw pit in the ground. This could be 6 metres to 9 metres long, 1.2 metres wide and 1.2 metres or more deep. A team of horses would drag a section of the docked log up on to skids which were placed across the saw pit, so that the log lay lengthwise along the pit. One man then stood in the pit and the other on top of the log, and with a pit saw they would proceed to cut the log into planks of various thickness, cutting to a chalk line, or a line made from the sooty bark of a jarrah tree rubbed into the string. This unbelievably laborious task was carried out every day in dozens of saw pits around Perth'. Some of these pits can be found near the cache site.
For a link to the walks in the area including waypoints click HERE.
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