A Tuppence Worth Traditional Geocache
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Tuppenny Lane
When the Port Macquarie surf life saving club formed at Flynns
Beach, there was just a dirt track from the main road leading down
to the beach. The surf club grew in numbers and they built their
first club house. As part of this they pushed in a vehicular
track.
The lane at this time was pretty steep and fairly slippery so the
Surf Life Saving Club approached Council to have the road upgraded
but to no avail.
An Idea
The committee of the Surf Life Saving Club had an idea. If they
charged everyone attending the beach entering down their road
tuppence (two Pennies) they might be able to seal the road with
their own money.
When they had collected enough money, Tuppenny Lane was finally
sealed and in later years upgraded by council and renamed Tuppenny Road.
The Cache
The cache is a small container.
It looks deceptively simple. Park at the location above, walk along the ridge line and find the cache. Unfortunately this is not the case.
The ridge line is full of thick undergrowth and thorny bushes. So there are two ways about it. The first is to climb down the slope to the little beach to the east of the parking area, dodge the waves (on the wrong tide) and scramble back up the cliff when you get far enough around the headland. The other way is from Flynns Beach itself, and climb around the rocks to the headland that way.
Which-ever way you choose please be careful. The rocks are slippery when wet, the grassy slope is also slippery with even a little bit of moisture on it and the smaller rocks and dirt give way at any time.
The History
This story was told to me by a very close friend Mr. Col Bailey. I can't find any other record of it's confirmation anywhere.
Col spent WWII in Dubbo and trained on Mosquitos there, but the war finished before he was sent off overseas. After the war he moved to Port Macquarie and owned and operated the boat shed which was near where the float plane now docks.
He was instrumental in setting up the Surf Life Saving club at Flynns Beach and was also a founding member of the Hastings District Flying Club.
Unfortunately Col died two years ago from prostate cancer. He is dearly missed.
History Update It appears that pprass has read a book on local hastory of Port Macquarie and Wauchope which is available in the libraries in Port Macquarie and Wauchope.
It appears now from written history that the surf life saving club at Flynns Beach sold raffle tickets to beachgoers for which they charged tuppence. It is fairly obvious that many of the people took this up at the time.
I have also just been speaking with my father about this as well. It was one of his cousins who bulldozed the road in. I can only imagine what he went through to cut it.
The treck to the cache will give you some idea of what is was like in the old days to get to this magnificent surfing beach.
Additional Hints
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