CPT Mathoura Mathoura, New South Wales, Australia
By
WazzaAndWenches on 21-Apr-13. Waypoint GA6278
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Small |
| Coordinates: | S35° 48.242' E144° 54.012' (WGS 84) |
| 55H 310269E 6035752N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 112 m |
| Local Government Area: | Murray River |
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Description
Claytons Power Trail
The power trail you have when you're not having a power trail.
The CPT series was placed for a GC event to be held in Echuca on Anzac Day 2013. It started out with a plan for a power trail of GCA caches but ended up becoming a series of caches placed in various locations between Elmore and Mathoura.
CPT Mathoura
Mathoura is located in NSW, just 40km north of the Victorian border towns Echuca-Moama.
Mathoura is known as the gateway to one of the largest Red Gum forests in the world. This forest is some 70,000 hectares and includes wetlands of international significance and has arguably the best access in the region to the Murray River, with good dry weather roads and no high banks.
Mathoura began as a market garden and a pub on a drovers track in the mid 1800s, and built itself as a timber source for the developing young nation of Australia. Not surprisingly, timber still remains an economic mainstay of the area ever since the woodcutters first arrived in the 1850s. The Red Gum timber is used for railway sleepers, furniture, landscaping, firewood, fence posts, and much more.
In 2010 amid considerable local public outcry the Millewa, Gulpa and Moira State Forest was converted to a National Park, now known as the Murray Valley National Park.
The cache you seek is just north of the township. It consists of a log book and pen only.
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Logs
Caching in the area and stopped to find this one. Had to dig deep to unearth it. Cache and contents in excellent condition.
Many thanks WazzaAndWenches for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.
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Good spot for Mr Morris to turn around while I sought out the cache.
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Thanks WAW for the cache and the fun.
All good.
Thanks for the cache WazzaAndWenches and for showing us another interesting part of your area.
Parked just off the highway and took the short stroll to GZ. Cache was found easy enough and even after a while since the last find, the cache is in good condition....with plenty of natural cammo helping the concealment.
Thanks again W&W
Roma came up trumps again and it was not her turn!
Thanks again Warren and your team for initiating this trail and for choosing to do it in this flavour.
We look forward to its continuation.
Cheers,
from Roma and Max.
