Looking for something to do on a St
Patrick's Day arvo, we told some friends of the Aboriginal Rock Art
at Yankee Hat. They were very interested to go. So away we went to
show them this interesting, and VERY RARE for the ACT, display of
Aboriginal rock art. Just as we approached Tharwa, we belatedly
thought of putting together a cache, so ducked into the Tharwa
store and found no containers, only a semi-antique type of tin.
Well it would have to do. The only odds and ends they had were a
packet of various old matchbooks, and some swizzel sticks and jars
of buttons, so threw them in as well. Then dropped by the
Tidbinbilla Visitor's Centre to grab something to make a log book,
and grabbed a pen from there too. The ad-hoc mishmash of items is
now the cache. This area is a Stunningly beautiful very flat
bushwalk, of about 3km each way, and would make a great bike ride.
It has abundant, and I mean ABUNDANT wildlife, especially the few
hundred thousand roos that will only move on just as you are about
to walk over the top of them. At the end of the walk, the cache is
halfway between the rock art area, and an interesting Aboriginal
Stick Hut, which is also well worth having a look at. NOTE: DO NOT,
I really mean it, DO NOT, I'm not kidding *DO NOT* (so have you got
that part - DO NOT !!!!) Go crow flies to the cache. Despite it
being over 1km closer, you'll find yourself knee deep in a Marshy
Bog that separates the carpark from the cache. The only way is to
follow the prepared walk the Ranger's have put in with signposts,
wooden boardwalks and bridges over the Marsh Areas.
UPDATE: Old tins don't weather the elements too well, and so the
original tin ended up being replaced with a much more weather
tolerant black (I think) snap lock container. The original tin can
be seen by viewing the photos, but is no longer what you need to
look for when doing this cache. But I'll leave the name and notes
the same for the cache because that was once it's origin. And if
you decide to ride this track, I can now assure you there is much
more of an incline to this walk than it appears to have when
walking. You soon find the incline when you ride it. Nice for the
return leg though .... "Cooo-eee" as another famous caching bike
rider would say.
Arne n fvqr genpx vf n gerr jvgu n ubyybj onfr. Gur pnpur vf vafvqr gur ybt arkg gb vg.