La Louve

La louve is placed near a “blaze tree”, that marks the NSW-ACT border. The chiselled survey mark characters in this gum tree are more than 100 years old. The survey marks are defined by a vertical arrow representing the government, modified with a horizontal bar beneath the arrow. The location is denoted by the characters below the survey mark, which correspond to notes in the surveyor’s field note book.

The ACT border is mostly defined by the water catchment boundaries. Hence, the main markers are found on the highpoints in the landscape. La louve was originally placed by some cub scouts from Les Explorateurs Scout Group at Ainslie. Les Explorateurs is a french-speaking scout group and it was the girls turn to name this one, hence la louve, which is “female wolf” in French. The cache was originally placed too close to the end of a multicache. Many thanks to mountainbikeroz for relocating it for us.

Some despicable person has stolen the blaze, leaving a gaping hole in the tree. I hope that I did not contribute to the theft of this piece of our history by describing it here. So sad!