Firetowers Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By mr_roo on 24-Oct-10. Waypoint GA2654

On a day out and lunch at the mitta pub Loved the views over Dartmouth Dam from here.

Salt Caves Fire Tower in the Pillega, NSW
We were set up in the Campground near this Fire Tower recently.
There is a photo of the Fire Tower from our campertrailer, and a photo from the Fire Tower looking towards our campertrailer. TFTC

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after completing the badgers head trail a while a go we headed up to Dazzler FT (TP5199) to find the fire tower trig and the cache.
after scanning the locationless caches for one to qualify for cacheopoly i seen this one and remembered i had a photo of the fire tower.

QUEENSCLIFF VICTORIA

This fire tower is located behind the Queenscliff Fire Station.

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Coimadai near Bacchus marsh. We used this fire tower and rooms for our school concert. That small lookout tower was the kids change room. It was a great community effort.
Thanks for the memories mr_roo

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Mount Sam fire towers.
The original tower was built in 1961/62. There are now two towers - the newer one is much taller.
Thanks for the cache Mr _Roo.

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Mt Tennant, ACT
This photo was taken at the top after a hard climb up the hill, collecting caches all the way. I found it tough but am glad I got up to the Fire Tower at the top. TFTC

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The Gloucester Tree, Pemberton WA.

The Gloucester Tree is the tallest Fire Lookout tree in the world that you are still able to climb.

The views from the top are beautiful with the view stretching over the neighbouring town, farmland and forest all the way to the Yeagarup Dunes in the distance.

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Tallaganda Tower.

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On a boys camping trip, we headed down to Pemberton and on the way back we checked out the Diamond tree.
A number of trees around the area used as Fire lookouts
On this trip, I didnt climb it (3 young boys to watch over) but I subsequently returned and made my way to the 52 metre high platform.

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Hi Mr Roo
This fire tower is atop Mount Tooms (Moaners Tier) near Tooms Lake in North East Tasmania
A couple of caches are to be found in the area
Sainted at 1345 hours
TFTC and cheers
Happy New Year
OldSaint

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The DaFiChNi's came across this secluded firetower (see picture) when caching near Lobethal in South Australia. The park it was in (St John's Bushland Park) sure looks like it would be a bushfire hazard in summer. Thanks Mr_Roo for organising the locationless cache.

Made our way to the top of Mount Hollowback to try to claim a trig that hadn't been logged for almost eight years and found there was a fire tower there as well. Bonus! TFTC

The Bobby Dazzler Firetower in northern Tasmania. In the area, so a wee detour off Bowens Road had me soaking up the spectacular views on a bright winter's day. Would have enjoyed climbing the tower, however, spotter not about and all locked up, maybe another day.. thanks..!!

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This Fire Tower is in the Forest between Gympie and Maryborough on the Cooloola Coast Road bnut you can access it from the tin Can Bay Road and the Bruce highway. Of course there is a Trig Point (TP3146) here as well. The stairs hve been removed and I think it is now not used. TFTC MR ROO

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Found this one while driving around. It helped that there was a cache nearby to grab. Thanks for the locationless Mr_Roo

Sunny Corner Fire Tower
Back Creek Road
Sunny Corner, NSW

Still considerable snow remaining around these parts, three days after the snowstorm.

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Found this one last weekend (July 7th) while out trig hunting between Lithgow and Bathurst.

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Mount Cairncross Fire Tower
Near Wauchope NSW, the Mount Cairncross fire tower and trig have views all around. The perfect place for fire spotting but the steep road to get there is rough and slow going.
TFTC mr_roo.

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Just south of the 'Riamukka Area' trig (TP3012) aka Grundy TP, in the Ngulin Nature Reserve is the Riamukka Fire Tower. There are a couple of transmitter towers close by as well on that hill.

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Spion Kop fire tower is also a trig point. Found on a trig hunt in the Circular Head area.

With a new walking/riding track open along the ACT/NSW, it gave me the opportunity to head up and check out this Fire Tower. Up to now, the only to it was via private property, hence no previous logs for it.

Certainly looks like a more modern tower.

Thanks for the locationless mr_roo.

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Driving down to Jimna to grab 2 caches that I have put off attempting for far too long. This tower apparently is no longer in use and there is a big push to have it preserved for posterity instead of pulling it down.

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Grabbed while doing the Mount Tennent trail. Great views and well worth the walk.

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Took a while to find one in NZ but finally got this one near these coords in Blenheim.

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Mt Tooms Fire Tower with my furry companion. Also a Trig cache..TP2947
TFTC... steel_butterfly...Cheers.

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This fire tower is on the top of Mt King William.
A group of us cachers walked to the summit to log a trig.
We are not sure if it is in use anymore but we remember a story in the newspaper a few years back about how it was used to spot fires over the Western Ranges. The hight of 1357m above sea level gave a clear viewing of Mt Murchison to Cradle Mountain, to Mt Wellington, to Frenchman's Cap
Thanks for the cache

GCA 604 - 6381. Found Kowen Fire Tower while doing tankengine's GC caches Border Bash and Fire Finder !

TFTC !!

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No time for gps as security approached. The brand new Berrimah Fire Station tower not yet opened.

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An old fire tower on top of Hibriten Mountain in Lenoir North Carolina

Narrow Neck Fire Tower
Narrow Neck
Katoomba, NSW

Visited this amazing firetower while chasing trigs!

Took a bit of a walk, but it was worth it. Great views!

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This fire tower is on the Glenraphael Drive on Narrow Neck near Katoomba, NSW. It is also classed as a Passive Trig Point as it is visible from a very long way off.

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The fire Tower in Darwin.

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Spotted this fire tower while passing the Annerley Fire Station in Brisbane... good to have this one ticked off my list

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1230 on ANZAC Day, dropped by the Blue Knob Fire Lookout that is directly over Kaoaraoa trig station TP4604. Had been out getting some Opencaching caches in the Manning Valley.

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Found with rogerw3 while logging the remains of the old Crosslands TS off the end of Crosslands Road in Galston, NSW.

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Spotted this Firetower with pjmpjm as we were looking for the 'Crosslands' Trig Station.
This tower is on the side fire trail just off Crosslands Road in Galston, NSW.
Luckily with all the rain we have had this summer it has not been used for a while.

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This tower is on the top of Mount Benson in South Australia.

Tower Hill Fire Tower

TP 5243

We went to this trig point in the tarago which shall ever more be know as the mountain goat tarago. The road (I use that term more to describe that there was a path to follow, than a well maintenanced track.

We were lucky as a person was on duty and we were able to ascend the fire tower and get great photos of the surrounding area. Photo of Geo Kid A at the top. There are also photos of the view.

Certainly worth the visit, but a four wheel drive would be best

I was visiting nearby Burragorang Lookout with rogew3, looking for the local trig, when he reminded me about the 'Firetowers' GCA Locationless.

Well, this poor old tower is well and truly gone, and only the four concrete piers remain -- right next the last remains of the trig itself.

I took my iPhone camera and constructed a shot across two of the piers, with my GPSr in the photo, and hope this is OK for the log.

It's quite a spectacular lookout, so I wonder what kind of view was had from the top of the old firetower. Would have been incredible.

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Not sure if this is what the CO had in mind!
There used to be a fire tower here until the late 1990's it has now gone but the 4 concrete piers that used to support it are still there. Open Maps still show the fire tower symbol at this location on their maps!
The spot is now occupied by a water tank that supplies the toilet block and the numerous picnic spots and BBQs at the Burragorang Lookout. One of the old supports is now the base for the water pump to fill the reservoir.

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Located on the Old Pacific Hway near heading into Berowra from the Nth.
There was a highway patrol car parked just up the road so I made a quick dash for the photo and then calmly moved on.

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This fire tower is located in the Benarkin Qld State forest at the top of the Blackbutt range on the D'Aigular Highway. Access is via the fire trail road that comes off the Old Esk road about 5klm from Benarkin. No Public Access is allowed. The road in is well used an can be access by 2wd but in wet weather 4wd is probably the best.

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This fire tower is well maintained and is located at Sylvia Vale. Sylvia Vale district borders the south eastern corner of the Blackbutt State Forest. Access to this tower is off the New england Highway approximately 10klm South of Cooyar taking the Old Cooyar east road then turning off onto the track that follows the ridge line to the top of the hill where this fire towere is located.

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Mt Budawang Fire Tower.

A long continuous uphill slog in the Budawangs. Worth every step as the views are just unreal.

TFTC,
Michael (GPS).

Narrow Neck fire tower.

Would love to get up onto this fire tower for a look. Views would be great.

TFTC,
Michael (GPS).

Located on the top of Mt Tennent south of Canberra, this tower must have awesome views across Namadgi National Park and north to Canberra. Logged on a walk up here with McPhan on a nice winter day. Thanks Mr roo!

This is the Dazzler fire tower at Badger Head Tasmania and is listed as a trig point, there is also a cache at the base - Bobby Dazzler. We were lucky it was a clear day and had excellent views when we visited.

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This fire tower is at the top of "Peak Alone" a fairly isolated mountain out the back of Cobargo, NSW. Fantastic 360 degree views of the coast and mountains, it's nearly a kilometre above sea level. There's a nearby trig 'Wandella' and you can actually access the fire tower if you are so inclined to enjoy an even better view.

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Saw this fire tower whilst caching in Warwick. This lookout was erected by Rosenthal Shire Council in 1975

On our way home we dropped by this old Fire Tower which I had climbed to the top of some years ago. Great to see it's still there however it looks like no one has used it lately

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You can see this tower from the highway between Toowoomba and Crows Nest at the Pechy State Forest. It was good to get a closer look

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We found this tower while travelling through the hill in North Eastern Victoria. Mt Mittamatite summit - located on the highest
point in the park (1,003 m) are radio and aviation
communication facilities and a fire spotting tower.
Rock climbing and abseiling often occur nearby. Mount Mittamatite Regional Park (4,280 ha) is a striking feature in the landscape; its rocky slopes rise sharply from the surrounding plains and
provide shelter for numerous rare plants.

Unfortunately the area around the tower was locked so we couldn't get any closer than this. On the way down the mountain, we ran into Reg the keeper of the firetower. Next time we are up that way we will call in for a coffee with him.

This fire tower is located in the Fazackerley Range on McGregor Peak, Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania. It "guards" the surrounding areas and takes a little while to walk to on foot. There are two magnificant caches in the area, one basically at the tower base. TFTC and cheers; OldSaint.

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I can't believe I forgot to log this!! This is the tower on Mt Coree on the border of the ACT and NSW. During the Jan 03 fires the original tower here was literally blown off the top of the mountain.

Nothing like that today, the tower and Mt were shrouded in fog.

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This is the firetower at Southport Fire Station. Good design, good look. I wonder if they'd let me climb it? Hmm, probably not. This is my offering for this locationless. I'm slowing down a bit on these locationless caches, looking for some I haven't found yet.

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While up on Mt Duneed at the trig point I came across this fire tower that has 360 views including, Geelong, Bellarine Peninsula, Otway ranges and the You Yangs.

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Mitchell Road, Dural, NSW Fire Tower

Located about 500 metres down the fire trail off the end of Mitchell Road, this is a nice, tall one.

I'd have loved to climb up in it, but the site is not only fenced, but protected with substantial barbed wire! (I'll upload a photo of the tower and one of the warning signs within the next 2-3 hours.)

Having lived and worked in the Dural area for nearly 40 years, I have to confess that I didn't even know that this nearby tower exisited!

A bonus is the badly damaged trigpoint, less than 100 metres distant. From this evidence, you can imagine that -- many, many years ago -- there was a good view from this point even at ground level. Now all the bush is grown up, and the only remaining panoramas would be from the top of this spindly but imposing structure.

Fortunately, we've had a rather wet spring so we'll hope that no bush fire spotting is necessary this season!

'Three Thumbs Up' for an interesting structure and a nearby trigpoint.

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Winters Hill Observation Tower in Port Lincoln

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Went looking for the 'new' Tunks trig point at Dural and picked this one up nearby. The fire trail runs from the end of Mitchell Road for about 500m or so to the trig (hidden in the scrub) and this mysterious fire tower. I'm sure the view is great but the fence has signs on it saying it's Railcorp property. The nearest railway line is several crow flying kms away!

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Paid a visit to this Fire Tower (located on top of a War Memorial! in Kangaroo Ground) while on a FTF hunt today with the young daughter. The photo was a hurried one from the carpark as what you can't see behind me is an approaching storm front with a lot of lightning. I didn't want to hang around on top of this hill for the rain either.

The Kangaroo Ground War Memorial Park and its Tower of Remembrance is located on one of the highest locations in the Yarra Valley. The Tower of Remembrance is a unique war memorial constructed from local stone standing 14 metres high. It was built in the style of a Scottish watchtower reflecting the strong Scottish influence of the first European settlers of the district from the 1840s onward.

The park was opened in 1921 and the Tower of Remembrance was dedicated in 1926 recognising the local people who served in the First World War. Those who served in the Second World War were recognised by plaques dedicated in 1951 and more recently those who served in Korea, Borneo, Malaya and Vietnam by plaques unveiled in 2001.

Cheers mr_roo, thanks for bringing me back to this site.

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Henty Dune Fire Tower
This fire tower is unusual in that it is not on a tower but on a high hill and gives commanding views of the surrounding area. Unfortunately it has been badly vandalised and is now abandoned.

I was looking through my photos when I saw this fire tower. It is in the Pilliga Scrub above the Salt Caves. There was a GC cache there (GC1DKJB) which I found on the 366th day after publication to record a FTF. Unfortunately the cache was in the nature reserve & only a few metres away from the state forest. No GPSr in the photo but ample evidence of my being there. Just reread the description & edited to a note.

Found this one at Arlington Vic just south of Lavers Hill on the Great Ocean Rd. Misty rain this morning so had to be a bit careful on the road. Came around a corner and this tower was up ahead.

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"Lol Gray " fire lookout in Dryandra Forest 200kms south of Perth , constructed in 1930., (Lol Gray geocache is close by)

The fire tower in Pechey SF near Crowsnest QLD. A truly magnificent example of the subject. It is very high & the supports appear to be constructed out of 6 trees all told. Being a solo searcher I (luckily) took a photo of the base with my hand holding the GPSr. I was searching for a trig at the time. Thanks.

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This is the Dazzler Range Fire Tower located in the Asbestos Ranges in Northern Tasmania.

37 24.638 E149 32.839
This Fire watch tower is @ Maramingo Hill which is About 8Km's from Genoa
good Views for the top.
This one can be got to with a 2WD car but it is more fun in a 4WD as there is some 4WD Tracks nearby all are forestry/Logging tracks.
The Fire Wathcer was in attendance whils we were working on the tower.
I Found this one whilst working on the Telco tower Which is right next to the fence from this Survey Mark.

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