Lighthouses of NSW - Hornby Lighthouse Watsons Bay, New South Wales, Australia
By Team MavEtJu on 16-Oct-16. Waypoint GA8571

Cache Details

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Type:	Virtual
Container:	Virtual
Coordinates:	S33° 50.014' E151° 16.861' (WGS 84)
	56H 340937E 6254968N (UTM)
Elevation:	22 m
Local Government Area:	Woollahra Municipal

Map

Whodunit Geocache

Description

Lighthouses of NSW - Hornby Lighthouse

The Hornby Lighthouse at South Head was built by public demand after the tragic shipwrecks of the Dunbar and the Catherine Adamson.

The entrance to Jackson's Bay, four-fifths of a nautical mile wide, seemly a good broad entrance, however as the two ships mentioned had found, it was fraught with danger. After these disasters a small lighthouse was erected at a low elevation on the extreme point of Inner South Head in 1858 amidst gun pits dug out by hard labour.

Height: 9 metres
Elevation: 27 metres
Pattern: White light showing two seconds on, three seconds off
Range: 22 km

Photo: Annette Flotwell

Fun fact: There are probably only a few remaining relics of the brig Two Friends, wrecked in 1851, sitting immediately below the lighthouse.

For more information, see Hornby Lighthouse at lighthouses.org.au.

When logging this cache, please add a photo of yourself or your GPS with this lighthouse.

Logs

17-Aug-24

mtrax

A great day out, and a bonus trig or gca

19-Feb-22

Lis + Pete

On a walk around the point and a few caches

13-Nov-21

Flintstone's

I was up this way with Its Dozzie and got the virtual as well as these two GCAs.

13-Nov-21

LuckyL10n

#GA5498 - 11:55; In Sydney for a few days with the geohoney and decided today to head to Watson's Bay for lunch at the pub. Arrived early, so headed out to the lighthouse for a wander and a spot of caching as well. Not as far as I'd always though the walk would be and would have been really pleasant except for the wind which would have blown us over the cliff if we got too close! TFTC Team MavEtJu Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

07-Oct-20

tronador

Great day for a walk today, not a muggle in sight, beautiful views.

Rated: for Overall Experience

10-Aug-20

Outdoornut22

Sophoutloud and I met some friends over from New Zealand and took them for a bit of a walk around the coastline here

Rated: for Overall Experience

20-Jul-20

oldmorty

Found with frazeydaze during a wander around South Head.

20-Jul-20

frazeydaze

Found myself here after completing the Adventure Lab "Sydney Harbour Sailing & Sightseeing". Such a wonderful winter's day.

03-Nov-19

minniek

Headed to Sydney for weekend away with fitzy_1965.

We picked up both GC and GCA caches along the way.

Loved this lighthouse!

Rated: for Overall Experience

03-Nov-19

fitzy_1965

GCA 2,688. Found during a meander around the South Head region with minniek.

So many GCAs ! So little time ! Awesome to find so many today.

TFTC !!

Clan Cerberus

Rated: for Overall Experience

14-Feb-19

Gullivers Travels54

Found while leaving by ship

24-Jan-19

teamMerlin

Out grabbing a few nearby trigs this afternoon after collecting a D5/T5 earlier in the day. Nice walk to South Head where we could see this one.

08-Jan-19

Nessell

Found this virtual while out on a caching run through the Eastern Suburbs trying to progress my journey and get a few steps closer to the destination. Total haul for the day was 15 caches including 9 trigs, some GCA virtuals and a few GC caches.

This was my main target for the day - Hornby Lighthouse. A four in one find with a trig, GCA virtual, GC virtual and the starting point of a GC multi! The journey to the lighthouse was amazing with great views, lots of history to explore and pretty blue fairy wrens darting here and there across the path. The lighthouse itself has one of the best views in the city. Sign me up as a lighthouse keeper please!!!! Snapped the required photos before spending some more time exploring here.

Thanks for the cache Geocaching Australia Very Happy

GCA Find #186 Clan Cerberus

While this find does not qualify for the Summer Games it is a great journey to an amazing destination.
“It is sometimes said [citation needed] that the game of geocaching is not about the destination it is about the journey. This game is about the choices you make in the experience of the journey or the destination.“

Rated: for Overall Experience

26-Aug-18

redbackspider

Team MavEtJu I found your cache Lighthouses of NSW - Hornby Lighthouse on 26/08/2018 1:27pm. This is my find # 86 and find # 2 today. A nice long walk around HMAS Watson to the lighthouse. Thanks for the virtual cache! TNSLLN

11-Jun-18

Greenbeetle Nut

Great location with a lovely old Hornby Lighthouse and some old gun emplacements to have a look at as well. Was lucky enough to have a large ship go past while I was there this morning.

Rated: for Overall Experience