ICEM - Wollondilly – Warragamba - Wollondilly Shire Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
By HansJJ on 31-Dec-18. Waypoint GA13383

I've Cached Everywhere, Man is the largest cache series hidden in Australia. It is made up of the locations made famous by Lucky Star in the song "I've been everywhere" in 1962, lyrics by Geoff Mack

https://www.ivebeeneverywhere.com.au/the-song/australian-version/

On the ICEM map Wollondilly comes up as Picton which is part of the Wollondilly shire.

Using info from Wikipedia

Wollondilly Shire is a peri urban local government area adjacent to the south-western fringe of Sydney, parts of which fall into the Macarthur, Blue Mountains and Central Tablelands regions in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Wollondilly Shire is named after the Wollondilly River. The area is traversed by the Hume Highway and the Southern Highlands railway line. Wollondilly Shire contains several small towns and villages broken up by farms and sandstone gorges. To its west is wilderness and includes the Nattai Wilderness and the Burragorang Valley. The majority of the Shire is either national park or forms part of the water catchment for Sydney's water supply. The Shire provides 97% of Sydney's water supply.

Towns, villages and localities in the Wollondilly Shire are:

Appin              Bargo              Bingara Gorge            Belimbla Park             Brownlow Hill                  Buxton

Camden Park  Cawdor           Couridjah                    Douglas Park              Glenmore                                    Lakesland

Maldon           Menangle        Mount Hunter             Mowbray Park            Oakdale                                    Orangeville

Pheasants Nest                        Picton                          Razorback                   Silverdale                                    Tahmoor

Theresa Park                           The Oaks                     Thirlmere                    Warragamba                                    Werombi

Wilton                                     Yanderra                     Yerranderie

The Local government areas of this shire are – Blue mountains, Penrith, Camden, Oberon, Campbelltown, Upper Lachlan, Wingecarribee & The City of Wollongong.

So, to give the justice Wollondilly deserves, I will be doing a series of caches & Virtual caches in this greater shire area.

Warragamba NSW 2752 Australia

 History of Warragamba from Wikipedia

Population1,241 (2016 census)          Local government areas - Wollondilly Shire

State electorate – Wollondilly                        Federal Division        Hume

Warragamba is a town in New South Wales, Australia, in Wollondilly Shire. Located on the eastern edge of the Blue Mountains, Warragamba is one and a half hour's drive west of Sydney. The name Warragamba comes from the aboriginal words Warra and Gamba meaning water running over rocks.

History of the area

In 1804, George William Evans discovered the Warragamba River, penetrating upstream to the present site of Warragamba Dam.

Originally constructed as a workers' settlement during the construction of Warragamba Dam, Sydney's primary water source, in the 1940s the modern town of Warragamba remains on the same site adjacent the dam. The town was built from scratch, including homes, shops, schools and other facilities. On completion of the dam being built many workers bought their homes from the Water Board and stayed on in the township. Warragamba Public School celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in September 1998 despite the fact it was to be demolished after the completion of Warragamba Dam in the 1960s. Warragamba is unusual for an Australian town, as the streets do not have typical names, but are numbered (such as First Street and Eighteenth Street).

Ongoing dam works (including recent safety improvements) have severely reduced weekend visitors. The town also lost 30 homes and businesses in the Warragamba Bushfire of 2001. It was home to African Lion Safari until 1991.

A new Warragamba Dam Visitor Centre and Haviland Park are becoming a popular tourist attractions thanks in part to the excellent picnic facilities.

Heritage listings

Lake Burragorang Warragamba Dam has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

• Coxs River Arms: Coxs River track[6]

• Warragamba Dam: Megarritys Bridge[7]

• Warragamba Dam: Warragamba Dam - Haviland Park[8]

• Warragamba Dam: Warragamba Dam Emergency Scheme

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