Thorpie [10 Year Anniversary] Diggers Rest, Victoria, Australia
By
caughtatwork on 18-May-10. Waypoint GA1924
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Multi-cache |
| Container: | Regular |
| Coordinates: | S37° 37.147' E144° 44.857' (WGS 84) |
| 55H 301215E 5834057N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 192 m |
| Local Government Area: | Hume |
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Description
A tribute to the Sunbury Pop Festival and Billy "Thorpie" Thorpe.
The Sunbury Pop Festival, which ran from 1972 to 1975, is often regarded as a milestone in Australian music for many reasons. Although it wasn’t the first major music festival that Australia saw, it was the first successful music event which actually turned a profit, enough for it to run consecutively for four years.
The site was owned by George Duncan, who generously offered the use of his property at no cost to the organisers, even going so far as allowing toilet facilities and rubbish bins to be installed on the property in later years of the festival. With the Duncans’ farmland providing a natural amphitheatre, the scene of the Sunbury festivals has since become an isolated area, far from the bustling hub it was during one of music history’s most famed events. Residential subdivision in the area has since limited public access to the site and redeveloped the landscape. A plaque honouring music great Billy Thorpe was installed late 2007 at the end of Duncans Lane in the Holden Flaura Reserve.
Access to the cache can be made along Duncans Road and the first waypoint is only some 50 metres from where you can park your car. From the first waypoint you get a breathteaking view across the natural amphitheatre and down into the gully where Jacksons Creek runs and the music festival was held.
At waypoint 1 you will see a seat and a plaque erected to the memory of Australian Rock Legend, William Richard Thorpe A.M., also known as Billy Thorpe or "Thorpie". On this plaque are two dates. You will need these two dates as the clues to find the cache.
The first date is AB "March" CDEF
The second date is GH "February" IJKL
The final waypoint can be found by simple letter substitution:
S37 37.CIC
E144 44.HAG
Once you have collected the clues, the cache is located only around 70 or so metres away and the stroll across to GZ means you are not puffing up and down the hill as it's pretty much at the same elevation as the clue at the first waypoint. If you have young children with you it would be worth holding their hands, but there should be no real problems in anyone of any age accessing the final waypoint. Please be aware that the grasslands may be the home to snakes and you should always look ahead tp see where you are stepping and at GZ ensure the cache is snake free bore diving straight in.
The cache you seek is the typical caughtatwork type container of a 2 litre sistema container hidden inside an old 30 calibre ammo can. The sistema container is, of course, stuffed with goodies.
I hope you enjoy the visit to this park and maybe you can hear the sounds of Billy Thorpe still echoing in the hills.
Hints
Na haangheny cvyr bs ebpxf. |
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Logs
It's been a while since I've found a GCA multi cache. A nice park with some interesting history. Collected the numbers then walked over to GZ which is a bit overgrown at the moment but after some wandering around I spotted the cache!
TFTC
Well stocked and the area redolent in music history.
Tnln
Thanks c@w
Out and about, lovin' life, coffees and caches, waymarks and photos, taking the roads less travelled.
Does it get any better than travelling this great land of ours?
Thanks for the cache caughtatwork.
Still listen to his music 
An amazing place to visit for music fans There was a little water in the cache container. I gave the log book a new zippy bag.
Thanks CAUGHTATWORK
TFTC.
A maintenance check on a much beloved (and sadly, muggled to the point of archival) cache near Woodlands was the incentive to bring out the tool necessary to get a couple of higher terrain caches. Once that was achieved, this was only a short drive away, so I thought, "why not?"
Geocaching was the cause of my first visit to the Festival site, and this, I think, is my third. The plaque had gone walkabout just before that initial pilgrimage, so this cache has been on the radar since then. It's lovely to be able to tick it off at last.
Thanks, Thorpie, for the music, and C@W for continuing the entertainment with this tribute.
GCA#207
When the cache is ready to be activated again the owner can place a 'published' log and it will go live
Water sneaking off the slopes across the cycle way and onto my tyres thus cooling my feet, legs and back in the humidity; then coursing turgidly down the normally dry ditches between cycle way and 4 laner. Further on it was meekly or boldly this way and that across the roads. And when I took the 'short cut' across the top of the reserve between Watsons Rd & Duncans Lane, Jackson's Creek was foaming through the gorge below me while its soon to be rivulets squished through my shoes and socks. Last August I could ride this short cut - chin high grass forced me to walk today.As a once non-Aussie I now know scads more about Billy Thorpe thank you C@W
Looking at the cache contents was like browsing in the local $2 shop 
But I resisted and TNLN. Thanks.4th of 21 GCA/GC.com cache finds today! Great spot, I have been here for the GC.com cache, H had a look where I had to walk last time and was glad we didn't have to do it today! I was too! Thanks to caughtatwork for the cache!
- M
We are a tad familiar with this iconic location and plaque so had no trouble navigating to the spot.
The information was soon gathered and gz we pretty much where I imagined it would be.
Likewise the well stocked container was the usual magnificent piece of cache engineering we have come to expect from c@w.
TNLN
Our thanks to caughtatwork for this very worthy sister cache to its GC neighbour.
Cheers
Ian & Sandra
Team Ladava
As I parked and approached WP1 the wind was threatening to take my hat away but as I completed the easy calculations and walked to GZ I began to have trouble standing against the wind. Then I lost my hat and had to chase it UP the hill.
After all that was the cache worth it?
Of course it was!! A typical c@w stuffed-to-the brim with goodies ammo box in a great place I'd never visited and an excellent view to top it all off.
Took: tag. Left: tag.
Cheers caughtatwork, don't you love that feeling when you get back in the car and for a moment the lack of wind makes you think that you've lost your hearing because it's now so silent?
Last time we were here we had to huff and puff down and back up that hill. So we were very glad that this time after we grabbed the numbers it was but a short stroll over to GZ. The cache was quick to find and the by now expected C@W ammo can was retrieved.
Now that is one full cache .....
Signed the log and stopped to admire the view ..... just great ..... just then a kangaroo bounced by. Caches do not get much better than this, thanks C@W for keeping the standards nice and high for GCA caches.
Took Nothing
Left A Keeper of Time pathtag
Thanks Peter, we voted this one easily the best of the day.
Seems I've been here before.
Nice that I did not need to climb the hill.
TFTC
The Riddeller.
OK - I got to work late today, and left early, but boy I worked hard while I was there. I made it to this one just before sunset, and what a spectacular view from GZ. At first I was expecting a big climb down and back up again (as I have done once before for a GC cache here), but I was pleasantly surprised. TNLN. I'm tired, going home to bed now!
