Lookout - a Flasher Traditional Cache
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A little scratching around will be necessary to find this cache, which is a weatherproof dark green ammo box of about half the size of a metro telephone book. It will help to take a small shovel or trowel.
Despite the fact that a lighthouse was recommended for Point Lookout in 1825, it wasn't until 1932 and many shipwrecks later that construction actually began. Building construction materials and cylinders were landed onto a pontoon at Cylinder Beach. Actually Cylinder Beach was named after the acetylene cylinders used to run the lighthouse which were kept in a small storage hut in the corner of the beach. The first recorded contact between Stradbroke Aborigines and Europeans occurred at Cylinder Beach in 1803, when Matthew Flinders sent some men ashore to fill water barrels. The Aborigines filled their containers from a spring just above the beach. Travelling south along the coastline until we reach the North Gorge, there is a commemorative seat we call "Cook's Seat". It is to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Cook's sighting of Point Lookout. Point Lookout was named by Europeans when in 1770, Captain Cook recorded in his log the sighting and bearing of a rocky headland jutting out into the Pacific Ocean, which he named Point Look-out as a warning to other Mariners. This cache will lead you to the now automated lighthouse.
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