Kingscliff Baseline PM90207 Kingscliff, New South Wales, Australia
By
Geocaching Australia on 24-Dec-15. Waypoint TP7259
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | TrigPoint |
| Container: | Other |
| Coordinates: | S28° 14.499' E153° 34.095' (WGS 84) |
| 56J 555747E 6875897N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 7 m |
| Local Government Area: | Tweed |
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Description
A Trig Point is a virtual cache which requires a cacher to locate the Trigonometric Station and photograph the GZ.
Official Code: PM90207
Official Name: Kingscliff Baseline PM90207
A trig point (also known as a Trigonometric Station) typically consists of a black disc on top of four metal legs or concrete pillar, resembling a navigation beacon. It is also accompanied by a metal disc, which is located directly below the center point of the tripod or on top of the pillar itself.
Trig points are generally located at the top of hills or points of prominence in the landscape. Many provide unique views and challenges, with some being difficult to get to.
Trig points were regarded as valuable to surveyors, providing reference points for measuring distance, elevation, and direction, and assisting in the creation of maps. The series of "Kingscliff Baseline PM" 'trigs' is for the training of surveyors, and calibration (if need be) of their 'equipments'. This series seems unique, in that the trig pillars are not a regular distance apart, with some hundreds of metres apart, with another very close. These work in the exactly the same manner as any other NSW concrete trig pillar (where the measurement device is mounted with the three screws, on top of the pillar).
To log a find on the Geocaching Australia website, you will need to include a picture of the trig point, along with your GPS receiver and (preferably) yourself. Long distance / telephoto type pictures are against the spirit of this cache. You are encouraged to leave a description of your journey in your log to help others in finding the trig point.
Please respect local laws and regulations when searching for trig points. If you believe that a trig point is located on private property, and permission to photograph it is not forthcoming, or in a dangerous location, you may archive the cache, by clicking on Log this Cache and place an "Archived" log on the Geocaching Australia website.
If you feel that you can add to the description of this trig point or adjust the difficulty / terrain ratings, please feel free to edit this cache and amend the information suitably.
Access: Just a nice beach-side walk is required to find the SEVEN (x 7) similar trigs - NO VEHICLES allowed beside the trigs
Hints
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Logs
Bit too easy. One more and then I think I will stick to the challenging ones only
On a trip north to visit some family and friends with Just a cacher and we stopped in to grab this as we passed by.
A quick find today.
Thanks for the cache.
A quick find today.
Thanks for the cache.
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On a trip north to visit some friends and some of Black Bunny's family and we stopped in to grab this as we passed by.
A quick find today.
Thanks for the cache.
A quick find today.
Thanks for the cache.
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Kingscliff was a nice point in the middle of our drive up to Brissie for Iron Maiden, and the baseline set of trigs points cemented it as our town of choice for a lunch stop.
Left the car and went for a quick wander up and down the line, collecting photos as we went.
Left the car and went for a quick wander up and down the line, collecting photos as we went.
Soph out loud and I are on a bit of a road trip on our way to Lennox Head for a conference, it gave us an excuse to have a mini holiday and take a few days to get there. So for us that always means finding caches and trigs on our travels. This trip so far has been great as we have had the chance to visit a bunch of beautiful Northern New South Wales Beach towns. Being the off season they have been pretty quiet and even though it is June, much warmer than at home in the Hawkesbury. We have been spending a time travelling slowly between a bunch of beach towns we have not spent time in along the New South Wales North Coast and it has been quite a treat. we stopped in Kings cliff for some lunch and saw this base line was close by and who can resist getting 7 trigs in such a small area. it was really great to see these were all so well cared for and still had all their relevant name plates etc
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We were shattered when we discovered our GPS query fell short of these trigs when visiting on Wednesday, we probably could have followed our noses to them, but were short on time anyway, a query adjustment and we were good-to-go for today. Today we grabbed them north to south on our way back from Fingal Head.... testlines are always fun...
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I was visiting the area today. I went for a pleasant afternoon walk to log the Kingscliff Baseline trig points. Thank you GA
Thanks for the cache 
The seven Baseline Trigs all look the same. TP7253 Kingscliff Baseline PM90201 shows I’m at this location. I’ve added the remaining six Trig images in a collage with the log for TP7254 Kingscliff Baseline PM90202. This is my seventh Baseline Trig find of the day out of seven. They are all close together. No interesting story with these finds so here’s some random information about 7, shamelessly copy/pasted from my log at TP13399 CHANNEL 7..
Blanche’s Dissection refers to the simplest dissection of a square into rectangles that all have the same area but are of different sizes. There are 7 rectangles in Blanche’s Dissection - the square is 210 units in each side - so its area is 210 x 210 = 44100 square units. This means that each rectangle has an area of 44100 / 7 = 6300 square units.
The seven Baseline Trigs all look the same. TP7253 Kingscliff Baseline PM90201 shows I’m at this location. I’ve added the remaining six Trig images in a collage with the log for TP7254 Kingscliff Baseline PM90202. This is my seventh Baseline Trig find of the day out of seven. They are all close together. No interesting story with these finds so here’s some random information about 7, shamelessly copy/pasted from my log at TP13399 CHANNEL 7..
Blanche’s Dissection refers to the simplest dissection of a square into rectangles that all have the same area but are of different sizes. There are 7 rectangles in Blanche’s Dissection - the square is 210 units in each side - so its area is 210 x 210 = 44100 square units. This means that each rectangle has an area of 44100 / 7 = 6300 square units.
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went out to a few garage sales and remembered I still had the last 2 of these too get so here we are
Decided to go visit these trig pillars as part of the daily exercise while following the Stay at Home directive. Visited four of them this afternoon and will probably do the remainder next week.
Interest history about why they are here. Thanks for the TrigPoint cache.
Interest history about why they are here. Thanks for the TrigPoint cache.
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Started from the north and went south...towards home.
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Only since I have been doing LC's during Covid have I learnt how to do some background research and how to log the pics I have taken. These beacons have always amused me as a child while living in Kingscliff and nobody bothered to tell me about them, now as an adult and through caching I know what I have pondered for a lot of years. TFTC - sorry if some pics are out of order.
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Stopped by here to grab 7 easy GCA finds.
This is probably the easiest baseline trig series that we have ever done. Did one on the way up north and it involved bush bashing and up and down steep hills and across a busy road.
Compared to that this one was a walk in the park!!!!
Did have to remember to do something slightly different with each photo so I could tell them apart later.
Quite often they have graffiti which helps you distinguish them but not this lot!!!
Thanks.
This is probably the easiest baseline trig series that we have ever done. Did one on the way up north and it involved bush bashing and up and down steep hills and across a busy road.
Compared to that this one was a walk in the park!!!!
Did have to remember to do something slightly different with each photo so I could tell them apart later.
Quite often they have graffiti which helps you distinguish them but not this lot!!!
Thanks.
just going for a walk
Note: Photo didn't load with log through app. Photo lost.
Note: Photo didn't load with log through app. Photo lost.
Caching in the area with whitewebbs and snapped this trig.
Many thanks Geocaching Australia for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.
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Day 60 Mainland trip
Out and about caching in the area with Tassie Trekkers and we stopped to take a photo of the trig. TFTT
Out and about caching in the area with Tassie Trekkers and we stopped to take a photo of the trig. TFTT
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The Kingscliff Baseline trigs are a geocachers gift for the Journey or Destination game - seven smilies, all in plain view from one end to the other. No long grass, bushbashing or long hikes. Aren't we glad we hadn't found these previously! We started at the end we arrived at which was No7.
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Lucky last! What a nice easy run of trigpoints! Never has it been so easy to score so many trigs in so little time!
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On the many occasions that I have driven to Kingscliff I have wondered what these sentinels were. Now I know that they are trig points, but what is baseline. I have never seen so many trig points like this and with 6 of them in a straight row. Today, it would appears that surveying work is being carried out as the top hat cylinders were all removed and surveyors reflectors were on top of most of them.
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#GA2715 - 09:30; Day five of the 2018 Oz GeoMuster mission with Sol de lune. After a night in Ballina, the plan for today was to cache northward through Ballina to Byron Bay and then on to Kingscliff before turning south for home through Bangalow, Evans Head, New Italy, Yamba, Maclean and on to Kempsey for another overnight stay. After an early start, we hadn't gone far up the road when we saw evidence of a heavy shower not too long before we got there, so we seem to have dodged a bullet and got packed up with fairly dry gear. Following a successful run through to Cape Byron, we continued our journey along some interesting and at times rather rough roads before getting to the highway and on to Brunswick Heads. After our visit there, it was back down to the highway and on to Kingscliff so I could grab this testline (yes, another one!), which Sdl had picked up on a previous visit. This was the first of seven trigs along this testline today. TFTT Geocaching Australia
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Another test line and another 7 trigs all in a line. No problems at all and had all 7 completed in just over 10 minutes.
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Earlier this morning we were in Kingscliffe and we visited all the trig points in the Kingscliff Baseline. Two photos have been added to the Gallery for this cache: the identification plate; and Mrs y'stassie standing next to the trig point. Thanks Geocaching Australia for the cache.
I used to have a great-aunt who lived first at Cabarita then later in Kingscliff so we'd travel down this road fairly frequently. I always wondered what the white pillars were for. Several years ago we saw a surveyor 'playing' with the pillars and he explained that they were used for calibrating their equipment. Had always thought that they were worthy of a cache but hadn't figured out the how or why or where. Probably in the last 12 or so I've been aware that these are now trigpoints so with today being a 'we haven't got much on today and we are in the area', we've decided to give them some love err officially find them. We didn't have our dedicated GPS device with us, only camera phone and Samboo so steps in for those caches we need to take a selfie for. Sorry we do not publish our selfies but Samboo seems to be keen.
In effect the last PM90207 was our first, found while one half of the team was 'using' the nearby facilities.
Thanks for the trig.
In effect the last PM90207 was our first, found while one half of the team was 'using' the nearby facilities.
Thanks for the trig.
Saw PM90205 trig first of all, and then realised there was a 'Testline' / Baseline series of trigs, so went 'to work' and took photos of each one, from #7 to #1.
*FTF* @ 1005, and a Merry Christmas (I had just returned from 3 weeks in Thailand)
*FTF* @ 1005, and a Merry Christmas (I had just returned from 3 weeks in Thailand)
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