Plough and Harrow West - A short walk on the wild side 2 - In western Sydney Regional Parklands Abbotsbury, New South Wales, Australia
By HansJJ on 04-Dec-18. Waypoint GA13300

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	Traditional
Container:	Regular
Coordinates:	S33° 52.685' E150° 50.962' (WGS 84)
	56H 301092E 6249280N (UTM)
Elevation:	89 m
Local Government Area:	Fairfield City

Map

Whodunit Container

Description

Plough and Harrow is a popular picnic area surrounded by beautiful native bushland and split into two areas: East and West. West is better suited to large groups wanting more open space.

Yarraman Park - Cecil Hills NSW 2171

Entrance corner of Elizabeth Drive and Windsor Road, Abbotsbury, NSW.

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)

What's at Plough and Harrow West?

Plough and Harrow West is a short bushland walk from Plough and Harrow East, and is perfect for picnicking and open space play with large shelters suitable for bigger groups. The area is accessible for visitors with limited mobility. Plough and Harrow West have its own parking area.

Picnic Shelters: Choose from 12 shelters. Eight are available for hire, the rest are left open for people to use free of charge on a first-come first-served basis. Hire a Shelter.

Barbecues: 16 electric barbecues are available for use, free of charge. Please clean up after yourself. BYO portable gas barbecues are allowed, but heat bead or coal barbecues are not permitted here.

Toilets: Toilets, including accessible facilities, are available at this location.

Cache – with all caches it’s a walk on the wild side – well maybe not in this area. Basically, a short walk in the bush which has many walking tracks / cycle tracks from the main grass area & from the formed walking track. So, it’s up to you how you tackle this 1, the short way or the easy way – its up to you. Cache is a regular– a 4 litre container with swaps.

Hints

arkg gb ubevmbagny jbbq furys

ROT 13:	ABCDEFGHIJKLM
	NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Decode

Logs

16-Dec-23

phlphotos

A quick find here spotted the blue but took longer to extract

Rated: for Overall Experience

16-Dec-22

whos_roth_

he found another one!!!

15-May-22

tronador

This was the cache find of the day. A beautiful area, very boggy in parts and so many roo tracks everywhere. The cache is safe and sound and had developed its own camo. Perfectly dry in side and everything in its place. I was surprised to find a blank logbook but then read this is a replacement cache. All good here. I then got to 150m of no. 3 and turned back, just too many very boggy creeks to cross. It was getting late and no one knew where I was, so back cross country and found a lovely track and followed it all the way back to Tree tops. Thanks for an adventure.

Rated: for Overall Experience

08-May-20

HansJJ

cache replaced - enjoy the walk on the wild side Wink

08-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 Cool

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

so cache was checked & well i spent a bit of time searching for it Evil or Very Mad

. it looked like a fire came through here some areas were not burnt & some areas were. as i hid this under a big dead horizontal log - this log no longer exists so will replace cache in the near future.

15-Mar-19

thomo31

We had a lot of trouble finding a way to this one. Maybe the cloud cover was playing havoc with the GPSs! We wandered back and forth on the muddy slippery ground, and with a barbed wire fence between us and GZ we eventually backtracked again and found a new track that led us towards GZ. Lots of big sticky spiderwebs one of which stuck to my hair and required peeling off before continuing to GZ. rogerW3 showed me a few of the spiders in webs I didn't walk through. They are amazing constructions
TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

15-Mar-19

rogerw3

Thomo31 and I almost gave that one away after looking vainly for a way to it and back tracking out of the wood we decided we had not gone quite far enough and yes the track did go right to it!
Lots of spiders web kindly removed by thomo31 for me, so an easy walk in.
Again nothing to make this part of the reserve attractive, perhaps it was the sticky red mud making the track generally unpleasant.
Thanks for the cache.

11-Mar-19

LuckyL10n

#GA3461 - 12:05; In Sydney for the day with Sol de lune on a caching run which included the four caches in this series. Sdl had #1-3, so I was again solo on this one. After short stroll from #1, I managed another quick find and sign on this large, well stocked cache. TFTC HansJJ Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

01-Jan-19

Sol de lune

Heading to Western Sydney to attend the Meet Moveables event and after grabbing a load of jigsaw puzzle caches down in the Southern Highlands, this was my next stop. Was a little surprised that I was the only car in the car park for a public holiday, however the 39 degree temperature may have had something to do with that little fact.

Haven't been out this way before....and I must admit I didn't know there was Tree Top park in Sydney. Will have to come back....in cooler weather to check that out.

So, after finding number 1 it was time to plot a course for number 2. Took a direct approach again to start with and not too long after crossing the gully another track was spotted and I followed that to a fence line where a left turn was required and then it was short distance to GZ. Once there, an even bigger.....and again well stock....cache was soon found. Had a flick through a couple of books/mags before signing the log and replacing the cache. And once again, it was then time to sit and have a drink....and look at number 3...which thankfully wasn't that far away. Yep, it's still hot out here.

Thanks for the cache and another FTF HansJJ….

Rated: for Overall Experience

04-Dec-18

HansJJ