ICEM Verse 6 - Lilydale Lilydale, Tasmania, Australia
By
2y'stassies on 25-Mar-12. Waypoint GA4235
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Regular |
| Coordinates: | S41° 15.616' E147° 12.401' (WGS 84) |
| 55G 517313E 5432329N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 217 m |
| Local Government Area: | Launceston |
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Description
This is another opportunity to hunt down a cache as you drive through another scenic part of Tasmania.
The cache is part of the I've Cached Everywhere, Man (ICEM) project, the largest cache series 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.
Tassie gets its own verse thanks to Hookline:
GCA Verse 6 by hookline
I've cached in Ulverstone, Dulverton, Smithton, Burnie,
Queenstown, George Town, Campbell Town, Swansea
Lilydale, Scottsdale, Berriedale, Bicheno
Rosebury, Fentonbury, Dodges Ferry, Jericho
Cockle Creek, Lake Leake, Sisters Creek, Winnaleah
Wayatinah, Poatina, Tulendeena... yeah, I've cached there!
This ICEM cache is at Lilydale
Lilydale, originally known as Germantown, is a small town in northern Tasmania. The town is 28 kilometres north-east of Launceston and is now part of the Launceston municipality. It is located near Mount Arthur. Lilydale was once the service centre for a rich agricultral and timber area with community facilities, Bardenhagen's General Store and the District High School. The North-East branch line of the Tasmanian Railway wound its way through Lilydale as it went to Scottsdale and further on the Herrick. The railway carried agricultural produce, freight, passengers and bulk items such as timber. The hilly nature of the terrain provided challenges and a number of tunnels were built. The photo above is one view of a tunnel (built in 1888) just north-east of Lilydale (and the focus of a multicache GCP98W "Just Missed It!"). In the 1950's and 1960's, as communications and roads were improved, the importance of the railway declined and eventually the railway closed. Improved roads also meant that Lilydale became more easily accesible from Launceston (and vice versa) and many of the local services and facilities ceased and were provided from Launceston. An example was the amalgamation of the Lilydale Municipal Council into the Launceston City Council. The town is still a service centre for residents and those living on surrounding farms. Tourism is now a very important component of the local economy with Lilydale on the tourist routes which include attractions such as wineries, lavendar farms and aspects of local history (such as mining) within a very memorable and diverse landscape. The town's notable attractions include the Lilydale Falls , two small waterfalls, Mount Arthur, and, along the main street, a series of telegraph poles painted with murals.
This cache is located near an entrance to Lilydale.
The cache is a 1L camo Sistema container with swaps. ICEM - Lilydale cards are provide for each finder. Happy Hunting!
Hints
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Logs
Quick stop and grab, but it was a bit difficult to get under the item for me, especially with all the black berry
Thank you 2y'stassies my first ICEM cache.
as we pulled up the GPS was pointing at the hiding place, i headed around the other side where after initially coming in from the side the cache was spotted.
we signed the log and placed the cache back into its hiding place.
This ticks another off the ICEM series.
TFTC
After climbing both St Patricks Head and South Sister over the past 10 days it was off to tackle Mt Arthur for the 3rd time.
The weather forecast was for a fairly hot day, just hope its a bit cooler on top.
My last visit here was to find a gc cache...King of Camelot which was so hard to find it took two visits up the Mt and around 90 min in total to find it.
Unfortunately trig points weren't listed as gca caches back, hence anorher trip up was required to both the fire cabin and the Trig cairn.
Back then I had my trusty canine companion with me...aka sirius....but sadly his age now precludes him from doing any more bushwalks and mountain climbs, but as soon as I had put my hat and boots on, Murder(the younger of the two canine family....4 yo) started to get pretty excited as he just loves both bush walking and travelling around in the geo fourby.
My eldest canine...Sirius...is now too old(16.9 y.o.) to leave the comfort of his bed in front of the wood heater...which has an electric blanket of course(which he just loves and is great for his arthritis). Having walked 100's of km's with me geocaching over the years up numerous mountains, bush walking along many trails plus along vast stretches of beaches etc while geocaching, he has certainly earned his rest..an amazing companion who never gave up no matter how hard it got for him...a truly remarkeable and treasured companion.
So now Murder has the opportunity to retrace the footsteps of his elder canine mate...sirius.
After 2 hrs or so of driving we finally arrived at the parking area next to the shed at the end of a well gravelled spur road. The last time here a locked gate was encountered about half way up, so this time a considerable amount of walking time was saved.
From here it's a steady climb up through beautiful but stunted myrtle forest and climbing up and over many boulder sections.
Murder with his long legs bounded up with ease, though one climb up a boulder took a couple of attempts.
After 31min from the shed we both arrived at the old fire cabin which has seen better days.The views from up here today are absolutely awesome though a little hazy on the horizon.
After Murder stood in for his photo opp, it was then off across the plateau to visit the Mt Arthur Trig cairn.
The trip across the plateau to the cairn only took a further 20min, where along the way Murder was able to get a good drink from running water, but exoect that will soon dry up over the summer.
A good rock scramble soon had Murder at the base of the cairn, right under the visitors log book container. There was a lovely cooling breeze here as Murder obligingly stood in for his 2nd photo op for the day.Extensive views out to Bass Strait and far inland. An excellent walk and highly reccommended to all....cheers ST.Its now back down to find some more GA caches before heading home.
The next cache....Between trees and a hard place...in the Hollybank Reserve was soon found in a good hide. The cache is in top nick..many thanks for the cache...Hammer-Oz....cheers.
Hi 2y'stassies....as you can see....quite a journey to get to your cache...ICEM Verse 6 - Lilydale. Near gz the hiding spot was soon clear, but entered just slightly on the wrong side, with cache just within arms reach. Cache and contents are all good. Top hiding spot..many thanks for the cache 2y'stassies...cheers ST.
Thanks guys.....onward for a few more (made Campbell Town tonight).....
Now we've seen the photo we'll have to include a visit to the tunnel on our next trip. Lacking a certain item of equipment this time! Thanks 2y's.
After a family coffee session I was told to go caching while Anne and her cousin had a retail therapy session.
Not needing much coersion; I was gone before minds could be changed.
This was the second cache on the agenda today.
I went clickety-clack; went in from the back and was right on track!
Signed the log at 1314hrs.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.
Thanks for the cache, and thanks for adding to the ICEM series!
