Dural Res Dural, New South Wales, Australia
By Geocaching Australia on 01-Sep-09. Waypoint TP1440

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	TrigPoint
Container:	Other
Coordinates:	S33° 40.612' E151° 1.881' (WGS 84)
	56H 317500E 6271932N (UTM)
Elevation:	223 m
Local Government Area:	The Hornsby

Map

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Description

Dural Res TS1912R

Official name of this Trig Station as per NSW Department of Lands is: Dural Res.

Serial number is: TS1912R.

Last Inspected on: April 28, 1976.

Elevation is: 248 metres.

A trig point (also known as a Trigonometric Station) typically consists of a black disc on top of four metal legs or concrete pillar, resembling a navigation beacon. It is also accompanied by a metal disc, which is located directly below the center point of the tripod or on top of the pillar itself.

Trig points are generally located at the top of hills or points of prominence in the landscape. Many provide unique views and challenges, with some being difficult to get to.

These points were regarded as valuable to surveyors, providing reference points for measuring distance and direction, and assisting in the creation of maps.

To log a find on the Geocaching Australia website, you will need to include a picture of the trig point, along with your GPS receiver and (preferably) yourself. Long distance / telephoto type pictures are against the spirit of this cache. You are encouraged to leave a description of your journey in your log to help others in finding the trig point.

The original collection of trig points has been sourced from Geoscience Australia and may contain inaccuracies.

Please respect local laws and regulations when searching for trig points. If you believe that a trig point is located on private property or in a dangerous location, you may archive the cache, by clicking on Log this Cache and place an "Archived" log on the Geocaching Australia website.

If you feel that you can add to the description of this trig point or adjust the difficulty / terrain ratings, please feel free to edit this cache and amend the information suitably. Vandalism of the cache description or other information will result in your account being terminated.

Addtional Information
Source: Geoscience Australia
Type: Horizontal Control Point
Elevation: 247.84
PID: 2950532
Other Information: Geoscience Australia

Logs

10-Nov-24

After an epic day out yesterday paddling the Colo River we’re heading home across Sydney, stopping for interesting caches as we go. We were with Mighty Minions, chasing reasonable D:T caches and of course trigs... We ended up towing the trailer through Galston Gorge - we won't forget that soon....
Another nicely preserved reservoir trig...

Rated: for Overall Experience

29-Aug-20

Tough trig to nab Very Happy

Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

29-Aug-20

Went the extra mile and actually got out of the car to take the photo. Phewwww.

Rated: for Overall Experience

15-Aug-20

quick drive by
Wilbert67

06-Jun-20

Found today as we were heading up to Canoelands for some geocaching. This trig looks to be in good condition, tucked away up there away from vandals. TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

28-Jan-19

Found on our way to an event in Galston

02-Dec-18

Found on the way to the GCNSW Christmas party

02-Dec-18

Another trig on the way with WaywardWoman to the GC Christmas event. TFTT

15-Aug-17

#110
On my way home and finally stopped at a water tower on which I had spied a trig on numerous occasions.

Rated: for Overall Experience

01-Feb-17

#GA1277 - 15:05; Day 2 of a Sydney caching mission with Sol de lune. This seems to have been a pretty popular stop in recent times and I am happy to add my name to the list of recent finders. TFTC Geocaching Australia Very Happy

Very Happy

Clan Cerberus

Rated: for Overall Experience

23-Jan-17

Splitty Miller JJCC

Found this trig with Team Merlin heading to an Geocaching event at Galston.
Got this photo as a drive by

Rated: for Overall Experience

23-Jan-17

Found this trig with JJCC on our way out to the two events held at Galston...JJCC snapping a photo from the passengers seat on the way passed.

Rated: for Overall Experience

23-Jan-17

Found on the way to the coffee, cakes & connundrums event.

Rated: for Overall Experience

16-Jan-16

Nice to see a vane sitting proudly up there.

Rated: for Overall Experience

02-Jan-16

found this while caching around Dural thanks for the trig

Rated: for Overall Experience

25-Jul-15

You can see this one from a good distance, but I drove up the road a little way to get a good shot....I hope.

Rated: for Overall Experience

08-Oct-13

1540 As I was heading out to Fiddletown to find a trig or two I stopped for this obvious one, that I had EARLIER found (like, Tuesday, 22/11/1983, @ 1724) and previously taken a photo with the old Mamiya on something called 'FILM'. Do you remember those days?!?

Rated: for Overall Experience

24-Jan-13

Walw

Heading up to Galston today, a quick stop for the pic.

Rated: for Overall Experience

03-Aug-12

Safest pic place due to heavy traffic Smile

Smile

Rated: for Overall Experience

18-Jul-12

Last Cache(s) for the Day. Love a 2 for 1 Trig (or anything really) so wrapped up a BIG GeoSportz day here before returning to Zhaoy who gave up the caching opportunity for an afternoon of shopping Razz

Razz

Grabbed my photos and headed off home. Nice spot, if a bit busy.

Rated: for Overall Experience

02-Apr-12

I was driving past and quickly took a photo ...

06-Jan-12

Out on a Dural frog drop run and took the opportunity to photograph the local trigs.

Rated: for Overall Experience

22-Aug-11

easy find when coming out of 1316ths

04-Jul-11

Fourth trig for the trip on the way to a job at Galston today. Ended up with 7 GC caches, 4 trigs and 2 GCA traditionals, so not bad for a day when I had planned to get only a couple for the trip.

07-May-11

Big Matt and Shell

Found this trig on a tour through the Hills area. A simple spot to pull up and take a photo

01-May-11

Riding home from a few other trig finds, noticed this as I went past. Pulled up the DR quick smart and took a shot...

22-Apr-11

Purplepeopleater

I have ridden past this trig point countless times.
Finally photographed it this afternoon whilst out with the Geoteen. Smile

Smile

Rated: for Overall Experience

15-Mar-11

Found it on a short afternoon trip with pjmpjm doing the taxi work. Nice Trig on a very busy reservoir! Still well worth the trip in a very nice part of the world. Note that the telecom tower in the background is also a Passive Trig Point named 'Dural".

Rated: for Overall Experience

05-Feb-11

Well we had a busy morning finding gnomes this morning, then after recovering in the air conditioning for a while we had to go up to Galston to pick up a door. Who cares if its 42 degrees, I'm still going to go caching on the way.

Stopped for a happy snap here which just happened to be find 3100. I guess 3000 was a gnome, 3100 might as well be a trig!

16-Jan-11

Driving by on the way to Swanes Nursery. I've driven past this trig so many times.
I've found some interesting information and history about this:
Dural Reservoir (Elevated) (WS 39) is an elevated concrete reservoir on a concrete tower. It is similar in construction to Prospect Hill Reservoir (Elevated) (WS 95) (1934) and Berowra Reservoir (Elevated) (WS 13) (1939). The concrete reservoir has stepped or tapered sides. The doorways at the base and top of the tower have unusual "Egyptian" style door frames. The platform at the top of the tower for the steps to the top of the reservoir is constructed using reinforced concrete, as at Berowra Reservoir (Elevated) (WS 13). Standard features include: davit, depth gauge board, access stairway, handrails and inlet and outlet valve chambers. Plantings include: brush box, turpentine, oleander. Full Service Level: 248 m. Capacity: 1.4 ML.
Dural Reservoir (Elevated) (WS 39) was constructed in 1938 and is one of a group of three reservoirs, built in the same style.

07-Jan-11

drive past this trig many times and finally took a photo today. Dancing

Dancing

Dancing

Thanks

Rated: for Overall Experience

02-Jan-11

On the way to another caches... spotted the trig. Used my Garmin Oregon 550 camera. Thanks. Dancing

Dancing

Dancing

Rated: for Overall Experience

23-Dec-10

Out this way going for some Fagon Park caches I drove by this one. I'm now always looking out for Trigs, Post offices and the many other Virtual Caches out there. Stopped on the way back and sure enough, it was on my gps. *SNAP* Got a couple of shots, and off I got to find pjmpjm's latest Laughing

Laughing

Nice drive around the parts.

Rated: for Overall Experience

08-Dec-10

While hunting gnomes I drove past her. Had seen the trig on top of here before so thought this might be a GCA.

Rated: for Overall Experience

30-Oct-10

This one is a long way off the ground and massive!

18-Oct-10

Drove up alongside this one on Galston Road on a mild spring afternoon and took a photo from fairly close. iPhone camera isn't the best option in such cases because I couldn't zoom very well.

Rated: for Overall Experience

18-Sep-10

Found this one today on the way home from putt putt with a buch of 10 year old girls - I thought the stop for a quick snap would be a respite from the girls but it reved them up. I also thought we might be logging a new trig - wrong.

26-Jul-10

Yurt

Been past this one a hundred times, finally stopped for a pic. Plenty more around the north on water towers that aren't logged as caches too.
Keep going up the road for the best strawberries in Sydney from September to April or so.

20-Feb-10

A quick find but a challenge to get the TP in the photo. T

Rated: for Overall Experience

20-Feb-10

A trig point that is very high up. TFTH

Rated: for Overall Experience

31-Jan-10

Located this on the way to get some manure for the garden.
Photo is not the best as all I had was my phone camera and had to zoom in due to locality of trig point.
2nd trig cache found.
Hunter/finder

01-Nov-09

As the pictures show we did get quite close to the cache horizontally however vertically was not allowed.

Rated: for Overall Experience

01-Sep-09

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