Bastion Cascade Meander, Tasmania, Australia
By
sirius Tas on 07-Mar-08. Waypoint GA1029
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Regular |
| Coordinates: | S41° 42.940' E146° 32.019' (WGS 84) |
| 55G 461206E 5381687N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 817 m |
| Local Government Area: | Meander Valley |
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Description
Access is via Quarry Road which turns off the Meander Falls Road at approx. S41 42.352 E146 34.043
There is a logged coupe in this road and until burnt I'd advise parking in the Quarry. After burning it will be safe to travel further up the road and follow
the old logging trail until you see the first Stone Hut Track sign.
From here follow the old logging track until you see a second larger sign and the start of the Stone Hut track. Initially the track climbs gently then gets
quite steep for about 20 minutes before easing. This track passes the cache Gno Place Like Gnome by forthferalz but at the moment is unavailable.
Just past here you'll find a track junction at S41 42.509 E146 32.175 and marked as 'The Croft Track'.
From here the track is gently undulating where you'll come to the largest and most spectacular rock overhangs that I've ever seen. The track descends
from here into Bastion Creek...then follows downstream before diving down between a huge rock crevice, which is quite steep and even has a rope to
assist climbing back out.
The track then follows upstream for a short distance to the cache and Bastion Cascade.
The last 10m to the cache is a scramble and can be a quite slippery climb up some logs.....so please take care.
Most GPSr's will be almost useless here due to the narrow canyon like gully.
Cache is a black 500ml container with logbook, pencil and usual swaps.
Cache is placed under the base of the smaller of two myrtles growing on a pinnacle of rock approx. 3m high beside the stream and approx. 40m from
base of cascade.
Standing at the cache facing the cascade look up and to your right to the top of the cliff face and you'll see where the slab of rock you're standing on
has come from!!
Walk time is around 3.5 hrs. Refill your water container for the return trip.
Enjoy!
Hints
Haqre fznyyre zlegyr. |
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Decode |
Logs
Thankfully the excellent clue made for a quick find of the cache. Unfortunately the cache was full of water and the log book was very wet indeed. We dried out the cache as best we could and were still able to sign the log with a pen but the log book really does need replacing. If it isn't replaced by our next visit we'll make a point of taking up a new log book.
So it was a wonderful walk through lovely terrain with quite a number of fascinating geological features. The track, though a little rough in places and with it's fair share of tree roots is not that difficult and the tagging and tapes make it easy to follow. Top walk and an excellent cache location. Thanks sirius Tas.
This walk is truly a superb one and as hard as I tried to capture the incredible sites on camera none of the pictures came close to doing them justice. So this one just needs to be on everyones planned list of caches to do.
Well done Sirius! yet again you have placed another ripper of a cache.
The falls were fantastic, there was a really good amount of water coming over them after the recent rains. This is yet another walk that's just not publicised well enough.
Anyway, thanks for the cache Sirius. I'll head back for some of your other Meander caches soon!
TNLNSL.
Thanks so much sirius for one of the best caches ever - the FTF was a bonus - but it was the walk that was FANTASTIC!!!
Got back to the car and well on my way before the rain started!!!
