Ginger Meggs in western Sydney Regional Parklands Horsley Park, New South Wales, Australia
By HansJJ on 24-Dec-17. Waypoint GA11220

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	Traditional
Container:	Small
Coordinates:	S33° 51.411' E150° 51.784' (WGS 84)
	56H 302310E 6251661N (UTM)
Elevation:	113 m
Local Government Area:	Fairfield City

Map

Whodunit Geocache

Description

A nice place to sit & reflect, a plaque with information on Ginger Meggs – the Kelpie dog.

Parking: Moonrise Lookout Car park has roughly 20 spaces available. Access is from Wallgrove road past the Equestrain Centre.

Entrance Access is from Saxony Road, Abbotsbury, off Wallgrove road threw an entrance gate.

Gate opening times 8.00 am to 6.00 pm (non-daylight saving)

Gate opening times 8.00 am to 8.00 pm (daylight saving)

Ginger Meggs cache area:

A nice pleasant walk to this area. A well sign posted grass track to this area.

Once you arrive to ginger meggs cache area you will find a plague about ginger meggs – the kelpie dog. A very interesting story.

Also, stone blocks to have a sit on, you should find this a peaceful area in the middle of suburbia.

Below is the web story found -

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=uciDAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&dq=ginger+meggs+kelpie+dog&source=bl&ots=xrbeyrXCiM&sig=ioQ4B4hQrGROZbFE-cvViTmRXBc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiB2PfX96HYAhUMTLwKHd70AKYQ6AEIVTAM#v=onepage&q=ginger%20meggs%20kelpie%20dog&f=false

Cache – cache is a little off trail - no need to climb fence, there is a section that is flattened. Walk down to the obvious cache location. You will be out of site of ginger meggs rest area.

Hints

ybt – gur hfhny uvqvat ubyr

ROT 13:	ABCDEFGHIJKLM
	NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Decode

Logs

18-Dec-22

whos_roth_

big fat log

19-Sep-22

HansJJ

Was in the area & came to replace cache - Done – had a sit at this site to contemplate my new employment future Think

17-Apr-22

Crux224

Found the cache unfortunately i found some water in the cache and was unable to sign the log. TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

09-Apr-20

HansJJ

with COVID-19 & government sending messages not to travel Rolling Eyes

it was time to do my exercises - mental health cache checks Very Happy

. also with my work hours changed due to COVID-19 I'm able to complete cache checks on my way home Wink

cache was checked all is well - like new - keep Smile

ing & enjoy

15-Mar-19

thomo31

Found while caching in the area with rogerW3. I love amazing animal stories! Thanks for placing the cache near here

Rated: for Overall Experience

15-Mar-19

rogerw3

An easy find once the right track was found, lovely memorial to an amazing dog. Tha cache was soon in hand, all OK.
Thanks for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

17-Feb-18

LuckyL10n

#GA2531 - 16:15; Day two of a caching run to the Blue Mountains with Sol de lune. After making our way through to Katoomba yesterday, the plan for today is to head a bit further west as far as Mount Victoria before heading east again through Medlow Bath, Katoomba (again), Leura, Wentworth Falls, Hazelbrook and Woodford, before heading on to the Sydney International Equestrian Centre (SIEC) at Horsley Park for some new caches, then hit the road for home. After plenty of wandering in the bush up in the mountains, with a bit of urban caching thrown in too, along with a prearranged meeting with alnic39, we were now back closer to sea level and had reached SIEC. After collecting a couple of trads, we grabbed our water bottles and headed along the trail for a few more. An interesting read and a great story behind this one. Hope there are more cachers headed this way as it is worth the visit. After signing another blank log for another *FTF* we continued along the trail. TFTC HansJJ Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

17-Feb-18

Sol de lune

What a great story. You can just see the look on the face of the saleyards manager when Ginger turned up with the sheep, but no humans. Had never heard of the story before so thanks for placing the cache here.

As for the cache, we found it on the ground under the middle of the log, and with a bit of nook/shelf just above that area, we replaced in there. Shouldn't be a problem for the next visitors.

Another well stock cache that was good to find. Thanks again HansJJ. Recommended.

26-Dec-17

HansJJ

ready to go