Oatlands NETRT #56 Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia
By icybeetas on 30-Apr-22. Waypoint GA26825

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	Traditional
Container:	Micro
Coordinates:	S41° 12.015' E147° 40.143' (WGS 84)
	55G 556097E 5438797N (UTM)
Elevation:	346 m
Local Government Area:	Dorset

Map

Whodunit State

Description

Oatlands is an important historical village on the shores of Lake Dulverton in the centre of Tasmania. Oatlands is located 84 km north of Hobart and 115 km south of Launceston on the Midland Highway. At the 2016 census, Oatlands had a population of 683.

The Oatlands Railway was a short branch off the Main Line from Launceston to Hobart, which was built to give rail access to the town of Oatlands. The railway opened on 13 May 1885 and it closed on 10 June 1949. The line branched off of the Main Line in Parattah outside the Tudor style Parattah Hotel and followed parallel to the Main Line for approximately 700 metres before branching off in a north west direction towards Lake Dulverton. From there, the railway followed the lake's shoreline before turning in on Wellington Street and ending where it intersects with High Street. The original station building is now used as a child care centre. Much of the former route is now used as a bike trail.

Hints

Ghyyraqran Fgngvba Vasbezngvba Obneq (EUF)

ROT 13:	ABCDEFGHIJKLM
	NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Decode

Logs

07-Aug-24

DEZ055

Was at a customers nearby so I headed up the Billy cock hill to look for this one as it fitted the requirements for the geosportz games.
Quick find at gz. TFTC

17-Feb-23

beetles2

This one was the first one tackled on day 2 of this trip. We parked very close to it, and while Mr Beetle unloaded the bikes I grabbed it.
A very friendly spider moved from the cache container on to my arm. I think he wanted to come along for the ride but I wasn't having that!
22 caches to get on this ride to take us back to where we had to finish yesterday due to rain.
Thanks.

05-Jan-23

whitewebbs

Mr T from Tassie Trekkers and Mr W decided to tackle this well set up series of caches on the NETRTrail. It was a great day to be out riding. The better halves dropped them off at 10.15 at No. 56 and collected them at No. 01 five hours later. The effort in setting this series up is appreciated as well as the information added to each cache page. The well detailed hints were appreciated. TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

05-Jan-23

Tassie Trekkers

Today Mr T and Mr W (whitewebbs) tackled this trail and thoroughly enjoyed the journey. Loading up the trailer with their pushbikes, Mrs T & Mrs W dropped them off at #56 and collected them 5 hours later in Scottsdale.

Many thanks icybeetas, for placing this cache, the information and research on each cache page was interesting. We appreciate the time and effort gone into creating this trail.

Rated: for Overall Experience

01-Jul-22

2y'stassies

after a trip to Weldborough, a walk in the beautiful old myrtle forest and a FTF we were heading home when we remembered this series. We were not equipped to ride the Rail Trail and it was too late for an extended walk so we decided to cherry pick the almost drive by caches between the end point and Scottsdale. We started with this one.

Good coordinates and a handy hint enabled a quick find of a nicely placed cache. We soon had our name added to the log.

Thanks for this cache Icybeetas. Workers were very busy clearing the hill opposite but were oblivious to our presence.

23-May-22

sirius Tas

Well...after a constant 18km uphill the top of Billycock Hill has been reached.
What an amazing trek/ride it's been with the great company of the CO...icybeetas.

Without doubt the best geocaching trail I've ever done and highly reccommended for all.
The terrain and forest is awesome to say the least.

A massive thank you to icybeetas for his tremendous work in putting this trail together, a real feat when you either have to walk or ride to complete.

I just hope many cachers take up the challenge to enjoy this trail as much as I have.

It's now well after 3pm and still 18km back down.
Wowee...boy did it get cold quick with both of us chilled to the bone by the time we reached our cars.

What an epic adventure and still 7km of trail left for another day.

I can't thank icybeetas enough for the company and his effort in creating this series....simply awesome and a day I'll never forget....cheers ST.

Rated: for Overall Experience

30-Apr-22

icybeetas