Campbell Glenorie, New South Wales, Australia
By
Geocaching Australia on 13-Nov-10. Waypoint TP5492
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | TrigPoint |
| Container: | Other |
| Coordinates: | S33° 33.607' E151° 0.688' (WGS 84) |
| 56H 315407E 6284844N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 208 m |
| Local Government Area: | The Hornsby |
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Description
Campbell TS5635
Official name of this Trig Station as per NSW Department of Lands is: Campbell. Serial number is: TS5635. Last Inspected on: January 30, 1975. Elevation is: 208 metres.
This trig is behind a row of trees on the right hand side of Old Northern Road if you are heading north. It appears to be on what was once private property but the nearby house seems to have been burned to the ground some years ago. It's not fenced off so there shouldn't be any harm in getting right up close with this one. There's a State Survey Mark nearby.
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.
Logs
We took our Dad/Pop for a drive down the Convict Trail for a daytrip during his stay, grabbed some trigs on the way.... we parked a little further south and walked in, nice trig....
Rated: for Overall Experience
Drive by tagging. Nice day. Surprised it's taken me 17years of driving past before i stopped to look
Rated: for Overall Experience
Quick stop in for this one, yes indeed you are still able to drive in and right up to the trig without too much hassle which I was pretty happy about considering how foul the wet and windy weather was. The trig is in really great condition with name plate and all which is surprising considering the easy access to it
Rated: for Overall Experience
Driving past on the way up to Canoelands for a geocaching hike. A classic trig right here on the side of the road in a field. We drove right up to it to check over it to find it in pretty good condish actually with the nameplate still in place and vanes still in tact. See photos for some close up details. TFTC.
Rated: for Overall Experience
A nice drive by trig completed.
Also, today I wanted to find this trig for the Journey or Destination - Game Period: 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST
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.
On your entry to the game you will be asked to create a playing field with a number of ground tiles. Your playing field is a grid 20 x 20 ground tiles making a total number of 400 possible steps you can take on your journey or destination. You choose whether you want to find and follow the path or whether you wanted to meander around. A playing field is unique to each player so there is no benefit in teaming up to beat the system through brute force.
For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath. There are a number of different ground tiles that will be revealed when you click on your playing field. It should be noted that there are no punishments for clicking a tile but there will not always be the reward you were hoping for as you reveal each tile.
1.Dirt. The ground beneath the ground tile is just plain old brown dirt.
2.Dirt with some points. The ground beneath the tile is brown dirt but it has some points associated with it.
3.Concrete. The ground beneath is part of the pathway that will lead you on your way to your destination but has no point value.
4.Start. A concrete ground tile that has a blue map marker.
5.Destination. A ground tile that has a green map marker.
Meandering around and avoiding the path will accumulate points that will be used to place on you the ladder of wanderers. The more you stay off the path the higher the number of points you will accumulate and it will be your journey that will be the determining factor in whether you place into a prize winning position. You are free to select any ground tile to click on; they do not need to be next to each other.
Trying to find the path may mean you strike out on the dirt until you eventually come across the path and as a geocacher who can't say that this isn't a tried and true method. Once you find the path however will you try and follow the path as it changes direction around your playing field? Do you go North, South, East or West to try and find the next concrete tile along the path? If you head one way are you heading towards the start or towards the destination? When you do happen upon the destination tile then you will automatically be in a winning position.
At any point you are free to change from the journey to the destination and vice versa but you won't be able to regenerate your playing field. You are also free to keep playing as long as you have qualifying geocaches, accumulating more and more dirt tile points and placing you higher and higher on the ladder.
Qualifying geocaches fall into two categories. Finds and Hides.
A qualifying find is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia
The geocache has a hidden date prior to the game commencing
The geocache was logged by you on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period
The geocache was physically found by you during the game period
The geocache is not owned by you unless it is a moveable geocache
The geocache has not previously been found by you during the game period
The geocache is one of the following types:
Burke and Wills, Moveable (you will qualify only once for a find on a moveable geocache), Traditional, TrigPoint, Augmented Reality, Beacon, Gadget, Multi-cache, Night Cache, Podcache, Reverse, Unknown or Mystery
A qualifying hide is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia, The geocache has a hidden date after the game has commenced, The geocache was published on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period, The geocache has a container size of regular or larger (Note: A regular geocache has a volume of 1 litre or more), The geocache is one of the following types:, Moveable, Traditional, Augmented Reality, Beacon, Gadget, Multi-cache, Night Cache, Podcache, Reverse, Unknown or Mystery
The game tracking mechanism relies upon your honesty when logging geocaches as found or hidden.
The games administrators will undertake verification of a statistically significant number of logs.
Players who continually log inaccurate information will be disqualified from the game. The game administrators decision is final.
The game administrators will subtract qualifying hide or find geocaches from your tally if they are found to be not genuine.
The game administrators reserve the right to provide clarifications to the rules at any point during the game.
Don't forget to claim your limited time game trophies, if your qualify, while the game is in progress. Once the game completes the ability to claim your trophies is lost for ever.
So, A BIG thanks for the trig, I must say a very interesting one and the location of it.
Also, today I wanted to find this trig for the Journey or Destination - Game Period: 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST
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.
On your entry to the game you will be asked to create a playing field with a number of ground tiles. Your playing field is a grid 20 x 20 ground tiles making a total number of 400 possible steps you can take on your journey or destination. You choose whether you want to find and follow the path or whether you wanted to meander around. A playing field is unique to each player so there is no benefit in teaming up to beat the system through brute force.
For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath. There are a number of different ground tiles that will be revealed when you click on your playing field. It should be noted that there are no punishments for clicking a tile but there will not always be the reward you were hoping for as you reveal each tile.
1.Dirt. The ground beneath the ground tile is just plain old brown dirt.
2.Dirt with some points. The ground beneath the tile is brown dirt but it has some points associated with it.
3.Concrete. The ground beneath is part of the pathway that will lead you on your way to your destination but has no point value.
4.Start. A concrete ground tile that has a blue map marker.
5.Destination. A ground tile that has a green map marker.
Meandering around and avoiding the path will accumulate points that will be used to place on you the ladder of wanderers. The more you stay off the path the higher the number of points you will accumulate and it will be your journey that will be the determining factor in whether you place into a prize winning position. You are free to select any ground tile to click on; they do not need to be next to each other.
Trying to find the path may mean you strike out on the dirt until you eventually come across the path and as a geocacher who can't say that this isn't a tried and true method. Once you find the path however will you try and follow the path as it changes direction around your playing field? Do you go North, South, East or West to try and find the next concrete tile along the path? If you head one way are you heading towards the start or towards the destination? When you do happen upon the destination tile then you will automatically be in a winning position.
At any point you are free to change from the journey to the destination and vice versa but you won't be able to regenerate your playing field. You are also free to keep playing as long as you have qualifying geocaches, accumulating more and more dirt tile points and placing you higher and higher on the ladder.
Qualifying geocaches fall into two categories. Finds and Hides.
A qualifying find is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia
The geocache has a hidden date prior to the game commencing
The geocache was logged by you on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period
The geocache was physically found by you during the game period
The geocache is not owned by you unless it is a moveable geocache
The geocache has not previously been found by you during the game period
The geocache is one of the following types:
Burke and Wills, Moveable (you will qualify only once for a find on a moveable geocache), Traditional, TrigPoint, Augmented Reality, Beacon, Gadget, Multi-cache, Night Cache, Podcache, Reverse, Unknown or Mystery
A qualifying hide is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia, The geocache has a hidden date after the game has commenced, The geocache was published on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period, The geocache has a container size of regular or larger (Note: A regular geocache has a volume of 1 litre or more), The geocache is one of the following types:, Moveable, Traditional, Augmented Reality, Beacon, Gadget, Multi-cache, Night Cache, Podcache, Reverse, Unknown or Mystery
The game tracking mechanism relies upon your honesty when logging geocaches as found or hidden.
The games administrators will undertake verification of a statistically significant number of logs.
Players who continually log inaccurate information will be disqualified from the game. The game administrators decision is final.
The game administrators will subtract qualifying hide or find geocaches from your tally if they are found to be not genuine.
The game administrators reserve the right to provide clarifications to the rules at any point during the game.
Don't forget to claim your limited time game trophies, if your qualify, while the game is in progress. Once the game completes the ability to claim your trophies is lost for ever.
So, A BIG thanks for the trig, I must say a very interesting one and the location of it.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Two big caching days in a row to find some specific caches in the Hornsby and North Sydney area. Great weather and reasonable traffic made for an excellent day! This one of the trigs I found!
TFTC Wilbert67
TFTC Wilbert67
Reading the earlier logs, nothing much has changed here in the past 7 years. The front and back stairs of the missing building and its tank are still there, unusually close to this 1974 pedestal. The trig condition is better than most with shiny, intact vanes and mast and the nameplate still in place.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Taking the long way home today, with a good few trigs to be found on the way.
Rated: for Overall Experience
#65
On my way home from an afternoon caching around Blaxlands Ridge/Sackville and I finally remembered to see if there were any GCA caches along the way. Having just signed the log at "Blue-legged Rocket Frog Revived", this trig was only a couple of km up the road. Found a good parking spot on the opposite side of the road and then only had a short walk to trig which appears to be in good condition. This will have to be the last one for the day to make it home on time.
On my way home from an afternoon caching around Blaxlands Ridge/Sackville and I finally remembered to see if there were any GCA caches along the way. Having just signed the log at "Blue-legged Rocket Frog Revived", this trig was only a couple of km up the road. Found a good parking spot on the opposite side of the road and then only had a short walk to trig which appears to be in good condition. This will have to be the last one for the day to make it home on time.
Rated: for Overall Experience
On the way back home from the Coffee Cakes and Conundrums event today and stopped to grab a photo of Campbell. Everything is in good condition including an intact name plate, concrete pedestal, short pole, and black vanes.
Rated: for Overall Experience
I drove. I stopped. I took a photo. I drove away.
Found at 2:12 PM.
Found at 2:12 PM.
Rated: for Overall Experience
We were on the way back from a day of bushwalking - Finch's Line Circuit & Mill Creek (and Wisemans Trig) - when I looked at the map and saw a trig was very close. A quick stop on the side of the road, a very short walk, and the trig was found.
Rated: for Overall Experience
1743 You NEVER KNOW who may be watching you !!
I went down to the neighbouring property where a owner-builder was busy on the phone. He saw no problem of going up to take a photo - as I had done @ 1620, 31/10/1983 !!
BUT, on talking with a land owner near Gunderman later a friend he was talking to mentioned that he had seen my car pulled over near Campbell. Well, there you go! (He did 'point me' in the direction of another 'trig' that showed up as a circle on the Cowan map. But that may be another story (trig, or SSM, not quite sure yet).
Campbell is in good condition and intact with name plate. A concrete pedestal, short PVC pole, and black vanes.
I went down to the neighbouring property where a owner-builder was busy on the phone. He saw no problem of going up to take a photo - as I had done @ 1620, 31/10/1983 !!
BUT, on talking with a land owner near Gunderman later a friend he was talking to mentioned that he had seen my car pulled over near Campbell. Well, there you go! (He did 'point me' in the direction of another 'trig' that showed up as a circle on the Cowan map. But that may be another story (trig, or SSM, not quite sure yet).
Campbell is in good condition and intact with name plate. A concrete pedestal, short PVC pole, and black vanes.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Came out for a drive needing a find today and drove straight past this Trig. Pulled up and walk the 10 or so metres into the bush to find a Trig in fantastic condition. Good to see. Took the pic and left.
Rated: for Overall Experience
What a beautiful day for a ride - extended my early morning trip to get some fuel. Glad to see another of the old style trig points around after a series of water tower trigs.
Rated: for Overall Experience
I've decided I really like trig hunting. Stopped in at this one on a damp morning's cache hunting. Much prefer the nice big trig to a sneaky nano sequestered in a grubby spidery hole somewhere. Great views here too, and I could ride right up to the trig.
Third Trig for today's Trig hunt with pjmpjm. An easy find just off the road, interesting remnants of the old homestead in a very nice part of the world.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Heading north for a weekend away with the family. A quick stop on the side of the road, a short walk and there it was.
Thanks for the cache!
best wishes,
Wal
Thanks for the cache!
best wishes,
Wal
Rated: for Overall Experience
I drove up Old Northern Road to Glenorie on my lunch hour, following upon Yurt's discovery of this trig on what appears to be -- or to have been -- a residential property.
The trigpoint can actually be seen from the road, up a kind of dirt driveway, if you're driving north. It would be hard to spot driving the other way. I'd say it's about 20 metres off the road, and right next to the brick steps and water tank, which are all that's left of the building that once stood there.
Why was this building so close to the trigpoint? (There's also a state survey mark a few metres away.) It seems odd that a trig would be positioned next to someone's home. Maybe it wasn't a private residence.
A great mystery! 'Three Thumbs Up' for the adjacent state survey mark and the ruins.
And, BTW, this was my 100th GCA logging . . .
The trigpoint can actually be seen from the road, up a kind of dirt driveway, if you're driving north. It would be hard to spot driving the other way. I'd say it's about 20 metres off the road, and right next to the brick steps and water tank, which are all that's left of the building that once stood there.
Why was this building so close to the trigpoint? (There's also a state survey mark a few metres away.) It seems odd that a trig would be positioned next to someone's home. Maybe it wasn't a private residence.
A great mystery! 'Three Thumbs Up' for the adjacent state survey mark and the ruins.
And, BTW, this was my 100th GCA logging . . .
Rated: for Overall Experience
Spotted this one beside the road (and behind the trees) while heading along Old Northern Road. The plaque on it says "Campbell 1974" and it's close to the remains of a house - only the water tank and the front and back steps are left.
Trig is in excellent condition.
Trig is in excellent condition.
Rated: for Overall Experience
