Tangara Trail - Tara Track Acton Park, Tasmania, Australia
By
whitewebbs on 01-Jul-17. Waypoint GA10298
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Micro |
| Coordinates: | S42° 53.200' E147° 28.801' (WGS 84) |
| 55G 539197E 5251658N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 31 m |
| Local Government Area: | Clarence |
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Description
The word Tangara is an Aboriginal word meaning, "Let's get away together" and is the name given to the main recreational trail network in the Clarence Municipality from Cambridge and Five Mile Beach, near the Hobart Airport, to South Arm.
It comprises a main corridor intersected by many other tracks and offers over 80 connected kilometres of recreational trails through scenic coastal reserves and undulating semi-rural countryside.
The trail is constantly growing, with new sections added each year. It is becoming recognised as one of the best horseriding, walking and mountain bike trail systems in Australia and is being used as a model in areas where trails are being established.
A Tangara Trail brochure is available in a handy pocket size format for horse riders, walkers and mountain bike riders from the Clarence Council. Maps are also available on the City of Clarence website or Tangara Trail website. NB a map will not be required to do the cache as it is a short walk from the car parking coordinates, but may be handy if you wish to explore the area further.
The following Code of Conduct has been taken from the Tangara Trail website.
The Code of Conduct provides an etiquette guide to assist the various Tangara Trail users to share the tracks responsibly and minimise potential conflict.
The following etiquette guide is taken from the Tasmanian Mountain Bike Plan 2009 and has been modified to suit the Tangara Trail.
1. Respect other users
- Use your voice to alert other Tangara Trail users of your presence
- Horse riders have priority, then walkers; MTB riders give way to both.
As a courtesy, walkers may step aside on narrow sections of track to allow bikes to pass
- When passing slow to the speed of other users, prepare to stop if necessary
- When walking with your dog, keep it under effective control and restrain the dog on a lead or by the collar if you encounter a horse, bike or other walkers.
2. Be safe
- Slow down for corners and blind spots
- Ride your horse or bike at a controlled speed
- Wear an approved equestrian or bike helmet
- Carry a mobile phone with you in case of emergency
3. Stay on the Tangara Trail
- Do not trespass on private land
- Obey signs prohibiting access to beaches during bird nesting season, or other sensitive areas
4. Minimise impacts on the environment
- Avoid muddy tracks – seek an alternative after rain
- Take out your litter ‘leave no trace’
- Respect local flora and fauna
- Keep your boots, bike or horse hooves clean to avoid the spread of weeds and plant diseases
5. Get involved
- Report trail hazards, incidents and maintenance issues to Clarence City Council
- Take part in trail maintenance days
Let's all get out and find a cache. Please BYO pen.
Watch out for muggles!
Suggested parking S42 53.106 E147 28.733 as Mrs GPS may take you to a road that is nearby that is not necessarily the entrance to the trail.
Hints
Genpx fvqr va ynetr terra gerr, unatvat nebhaq rlr urvtug vs fubeg! |
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Decode |
Logs
Found with Newy07 on our last chance of scoring any fire shots for battle ships game. Hope we’re not a sinking ship! A huge thanks to everyone in Tassie for their amazing efforts to give players a chance to win. It has been so much fun! 
TFTC Whitewebbs!
Cheers
Newy71
TFTC Whitewebbs!
Cheers
Newy71
Found on a caching trip to Hobart - accurate co ordinates led to a quick find - cache and contents in good condition.
Many thanks whitewebbs for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.
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Thanks for this cache whitewebbs - this series of Tangara Trail caches has been on my radar for ages. I have walked passed this one before, but was totally offput by the size of the item I was going to have to search at GZ. Today I brought RLD4963 and the GeoGSP along with me so there were some extra pairs of eyes searching. Still took a few minutes, but eventually I stood in the right place and the cache was spotted. All is good with the cache. cheers.
Rated: for Overall Experience
out and about with the Rafas caching, this cache was is sight, lovely area with wildlife everywhere, easy find with clues. TFTC TNLN log dry.
A quick find when we reached GZ. Managed a quick hour just before dark to grab the four caches out this way. Have had them on the target list for a while but haven't had the opportunity. The dogs on the nearby property announced our presence to the neighbourhood but didn't stop us making the find. TFTC and the exercise
Quick walk along the trail to the cache. Took a couple of minutes to find as none of us were looking quite at the right height
Number 8 for the afternoon.Thanks for putting this series of caches out so we can explore the tangara trail. PS I hate those camo caches they can be very hard to spot. TFTC
Daylight was running out, so we made a quick dash for this cache whilst we still had some hope of seeing it! DD breathed a sigh of relief when T and the gps led her past the big bushy tree, as she has had trouble locating micros hanging in bushes many times before! However, her joy was short lived when T and the gps stopped short and did a 180 degree about face! Naturally it took us some time to locate this cache, even though we read the hint and the cache was exactly where it said it would be! TFTC
We had planned one caching trip to Hobart and the Eastern Shore during The Christmas in July game. The ground kept shifting as new Trophy challenges were added so we needed to add more GA caches to out to find list. Not only did we need cache finds for Christmas in July, we needed a cache for a Frigid Solstice, 10 GA Dragon Zone caches for the 12th for the find 25 caches on each day of the month as well as 13 moveables that we need to move between 250 and 500km and a cache in the Sorell council area, we had found caches in Sorell before Dragon Zone but needed one after April 2014. Of course there were also unfound GC caches in the areas we were going to visit. All this meant our to find list was quite long and we were unlikely to manage to knock them all off today. We also needed a day that the weather Bureau forecast predicted would be mainly fine. July 12 looked like it.
We usually leave home quite early however with the threat of ice on sections of the Bass and Midlands highways we decided to head off just before 7:00. We did have the added complication of dosing our daughters cat with its anti biotic pill. It only took one person to administer a pill to our last cat however daughter's cat, that is smaller definitely needs two people one to make sure the pill goes in and is swallowed and the second to firmly hold cat particularly her paws. After leaving our place we headed to daughter's abode where we were greeted by a nature strip strewn with her household garbage - today was bin day in her street. There was no bin in sight. It appeared that someone had tipped her bin out and stolen the bin. After dosing the cat we found a large bin bag, collected the scattered garbage and took it back to our place so that it could go out with ours tomorrow.
Off we headed again an hour later than we had intended. There was little likelihood of ice on the roads at this time even though there was quite thick frost on the road edges at Latrobe, Deloraine and Westbury. We turned off the Midlands Highway on to the Mud Walls Road and headed through Colebrook and Campania then on to Sorell and Midway Point. This was the seventh cache on our list.
As we pulled up at the parking spot a bike rider was making his way up the trail. We waited for him to go by before heading down. As we walked we passed a pair of ducks swimming on a little pond - very pretty in the sun. We really liked the big hollow stump beside the track. Again the cache eluded us for a while. When one of us spotted it she took her eyes of it and it took a few seconds for her to relocate it. It is had to imagine something so close to your face can be so hard to see - a matter of the right angle in the right light. Container and contents were in good condition.
Thanks for this cache Whitewebbs and for the series which took us to four very different sections of the Tangara Trail and that tested our caching skills. We appreciated the provision of parking coordinates for each cache - very helpful for those cachers who are not familiar with this area.
We usually leave home quite early however with the threat of ice on sections of the Bass and Midlands highways we decided to head off just before 7:00. We did have the added complication of dosing our daughters cat with its anti biotic pill. It only took one person to administer a pill to our last cat however daughter's cat, that is smaller definitely needs two people one to make sure the pill goes in and is swallowed and the second to firmly hold cat particularly her paws. After leaving our place we headed to daughter's abode where we were greeted by a nature strip strewn with her household garbage - today was bin day in her street. There was no bin in sight. It appeared that someone had tipped her bin out and stolen the bin. After dosing the cat we found a large bin bag, collected the scattered garbage and took it back to our place so that it could go out with ours tomorrow.
Off we headed again an hour later than we had intended. There was little likelihood of ice on the roads at this time even though there was quite thick frost on the road edges at Latrobe, Deloraine and Westbury. We turned off the Midlands Highway on to the Mud Walls Road and headed through Colebrook and Campania then on to Sorell and Midway Point. This was the seventh cache on our list.
As we pulled up at the parking spot a bike rider was making his way up the trail. We waited for him to go by before heading down. As we walked we passed a pair of ducks swimming on a little pond - very pretty in the sun. We really liked the big hollow stump beside the track. Again the cache eluded us for a while. When one of us spotted it she took her eyes of it and it took a few seconds for her to relocate it. It is had to imagine something so close to your face can be so hard to see - a matter of the right angle in the right light. Container and contents were in good condition.
Thanks for this cache Whitewebbs and for the series which took us to four very different sections of the Tangara Trail and that tested our caching skills. We appreciated the provision of parking coordinates for each cache - very helpful for those cachers who are not familiar with this area.
Hello whitewebbs thanks for the cache.
I parked in a likely spot and strolled dawn to GZ with a pie in one hand and a coffee in the other It was a nice day but a cool breeze made it a little chilly. By the time I got to GZ I only had the coffee to finish so I set it down and started searching with no luck so had a look at the hint and thought this is going to be easy as the hint was written for me as I’m short. After a lengthy search I sat and finished the coffee while reading the logs from previous finders, well that upset me as they all said how easy it was to find. After another search I phoned a friend who didn’t answer so I phoned another who said I’ll ring back with some help, then the first friend rang back and gave me some information and a word of advice ‘keep looking don’t give up”. I then got a call back from the other friend who was in the throughs of telling me where to go as I said “I found it”.
Inset silly how you can’t see what’s staring your faces.
Found at 1409
TFTC
I parked in a likely spot and strolled dawn to GZ with a pie in one hand and a coffee in the other It was a nice day but a cool breeze made it a little chilly. By the time I got to GZ I only had the coffee to finish so I set it down and started searching with no luck so had a look at the hint and thought this is going to be easy as the hint was written for me as I’m short. After a lengthy search I sat and finished the coffee while reading the logs from previous finders, well that upset me as they all said how easy it was to find. After another search I phoned a friend who didn’t answer so I phoned another who said I’ll ring back with some help, then the first friend rang back and gave me some information and a word of advice ‘keep looking don’t give up”. I then got a call back from the other friend who was in the throughs of telling me where to go
as I said “I found it”.Inset silly how you can’t see what’s staring your faces.
Found at 1409
TFTC
When we drove down to Acton today I wasn’t sure if we would get a walk in as the sky was grey and overcast and rain had been forecast but we did and it was a pleasant, easy walk along this Tangara Trail. We usually have trouble finding these caches but today it didn’t take long at all. Looking forward to doing some more of these trail caches some other time. Thanks whitewebbs
Rated: for Overall Experience
Hi whitewebbs
After finding two caches in Hobart and two others in this series; got in geo vehicle and came straight to the car park for this cache
At the trail head; had a small group of muggles greet me
The hanger was found quickly.
Sainted the cache at 1417hrs
A pleasant walk to and from the cache was enjoyed. Now in the car and head for two more caches in the Ridgeway area.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
After finding two caches in Hobart and two others in this series; got in geo vehicle and came straight to the car park for this cache
At the trail head; had a small group of muggles greet me
The hanger was found quickly.
Sainted the cache at 1417hrs
A pleasant walk to and from the cache was enjoyed. Now in the car and head for two more caches in the Ridgeway area.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
Rated: for Overall Experience
Popped out with stainless-steel-rat to do these new ones. So many bits of this trail to explore...and hide more caches. I look forward to finding more
thanks whitewebbs
thanks whitewebbs
Rated: for Overall Experience
Popped out with Goose of GooseandEgg to grab a few caches since the weather was good and we cant turn down new WhiteWebbs caches!
Rated: for Overall Experience
We saw four new caches come up while we were out caching at Midway Point. We ummed and arrhed about whether to go for FTF's or not, given that we had limited time before work. We almost decided against it but we thought about who our likely rivals for FTF would be - Whitewebbs or Membsec. We eliminated Whitewebbs because they owned the caches and we eliminated Membsec because we assumed they were likely to be orienteering at Rosny. Thinking that the competition for FTF was low we decided to go for it. The walks to each of the caches were very pleasant on this sunny but cold day. We found blank log books at each of the caches. This is a very nice area which we don't spend enough time exploring so thanks for bringing us back here. Thanks for the caches.
