Cook North Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia
By
Geocaching Australia on 10-Dec-10. Waypoint TP5563
Cache Details
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| Type: | TrigPoint |
| Container: | Other |
| Coordinates: | S33° 41.970' E151° 7.586' (WGS 84) |
| 56H 326361E 6269586N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 200 m |
| Local Government Area: | Ku-ring-gai |
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Description
Cook TS1582
Official name of this Trig Station as per NSW Department of Lands is: Cook.
Serial number is: TS1582.
Last Inspected on: June, 2002.
Elevation is: 201 metres.
Located immediately adjacent to Cook Trig Place, off Highpoint Drive, off Grosvenors Road, in North Wahroonga. Unfenced with a new historical plaque attached. You can inspect it at close range. No black disk but top plate and side plaque (dated 1974) are in good shape.
A bit of history, at first it seemed that the Trig was moved to its new location when the new estate was created. However it probably still is in its original location and it happened that it could be saved as a monument. The last known inspection was in June 2002 when the top plate was replaced with a new plate lookout type plate with direction to some interesting features in the area. This was done by the Department of Land, one would assume in conjunction with the developer. It used to be a Cairn type Trig until June 26, 1974 when the concrete pillar type was built over the copper plug marking the trig position.
An interesting aspect of this trig is the placing of "Recovery Points". Cook Trig Station is associated with four nearby recovery points. Two of these are located adjacent to the station, and two others are located about thirty/forty metres away. The three recovery points located in the property are identified by plaques. The fourth recovery point is located on the adjacent Crown reserve.
Logs
Well this is certainly an interesting trig! After finding the nearby GC cache Ophidiophobia I checked GCA to see if there was anything interesting nearby. Cool, a trig! Although I almost kept on driving when I saw it was part of some estate. But someone else had mentioned parking so I went in. Indeed if you want to make this a quick park-and-trig, there's a sharp right into the first parking spot at the top, which is literally right next to the trig. I'm wondering if the recovery spots were made, so that the original trig could be removed whilst the estate was created, then put back in it's -exact- spot? My guess is that the developers were made to pay for the full suite of surveyors etc needed as part of their build 
. I'm glad this has been preserved, and indeed this trig has a nicer top that is often seen.
So, happy snap taken, then I left quickly! No other humans seen
TFTT! 
. I'm glad this has been preserved, and indeed this trig has a nicer top that is often seen.So, happy snap taken, then I left quickly! No other humans seen
TFTT! Last trig today and then into that traffic 
. How can people stand this everyday 
? TFTC.
. How can people stand this everyday ? TFTC.Rated: for Overall Experience
Ha, a park and grab trig! Nice to see how this has been retained and documented. Recovery marks? Must research that.
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On the way home from my daily GC find and I remembered this trig. Dropped in for a quick visit and the obligatory photos.
On the way home from my daily GC find and I remembered this trig. Dropped in for a quick visit and the obligatory photos.
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Next trig stop on day one of my run through parts of Sydney. Another interesting location...and the added info on the plaque was a bonus.....
Wow, what an interesting trig! Thanks to strike-a-light for wanting to come here. It was very damp this morning as we walked up to the trig. I read all the info and was puzzled about the 4 recovery points. Then we found one!!! After a bit of a search, we found the other nearby one but the other two are still a bit of a mystery. As it was getting a bit too damp, we left them for others to find.
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I had noticed this trig and had to go shopping at Hornsby so we took the chance to go and visit it. Without the co-ords loaded onto the gps, we simply walked to the highest spot and there it was! Very interesting one too
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A great restored trig in a quiet residential area with a very convenient parking spot. Nice plaque noting the history of the area surveying too.
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This is one of the first trigs that I found in the Wahroonga area back in the early 80's obviously before the housing development. Quite a few new roads/lanes in the area now. Well maintained, with intact name plate, but no pole/vanes, as detailed on the plaque.
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This was nice and close to home. After reading the other comments about coordinates I left the eTrex sitting on it for a while to grab a better set as the old ones were about 25 metres out according to it, but it was pretty easy to find.
Walked up the hill to make an easy find on this close to home one. Cheers.
Walked up the hill to make an easy find on this close to home one. Cheers.
I'm glad I checked the logs before searching for this! The co-ords are still a bit off (unfortunately I didn't take more accurate ones to share, but based on google I would aim for S33 41.973 E151 7.587, next to the visitor parking space). One of the more interesting trig-points I have visited. TFTT
last trig for the day number 11 with pjmpjm. Pitch black by the time we got to that one, but no problem, the flash will take care of that. It is nice to see that somebody thought it worth to preserve this trig.
Well done!
Well done!
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What a great little spot to live; a trig monument turned into a small park amongst the houses. Nice to see our history being turned into an asset
Was out here going for Cygnet3 cache and checked my gps. Saw this Trig nice an close. I first pulled into the complex, but it didn't look right. So I left it and went to Cygnet3. On the way back I read Yurt and pjmpjm's logs and realised I was in the right place. Drove back up and sure enough, a Trig without the trig is you know what I mean. took a pic and left.
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Finally got back here after two visits looking for it with the old coords. Funny thing is that I spotted "Cook Trig Place" on the map when I was first setting off and even drove into the estate to see if access was from there. If I'd parked in the spot I parked in today I would have seen it back then as it's right beside the first visitor's car parking spot!
Interesting to read the history on the plaque. "The station forms part of a group of thirty trig stations in the Ku-ring-gai 'area'" I wonder how many of those are left and unlogged. Also interesting is the information about "recovery points" - no idea what these are.
Note the top of the trig has a "direction finder" too.
Interesting to read the history on the plaque. "The station forms part of a group of thirty trig stations in the Ku-ring-gai 'area'" I wonder how many of those are left and unlogged. Also interesting is the information about "recovery points" - no idea what these are.
Note the top of the trig has a "direction finder" too.
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This was an amazing discovery, to say the least!
I drove out to North Wahroongah on my extended lunch hour to pick up an errant gnome deposited by Yurt and, at the same time, to check up on what we both thought was a non-existent/demolished trig.
I had a good look around the published coordinates for about 40-50 metres but found nothing. The elevation was also nearly 20 metres too low and all that was visible in the surrounding area of low bushes was a network of trail bike tracks and jumps, etc.
So I gave up after about 40 minutes, put the retrieved gnome under my arm, and headed back to the GeoBuru, parked on Grosvenor Rd. Once there, something made my reach for my UBD map book. It might be that Yurt had mentioned a significant street name to me, but I didn't remember that at the time. I found the correct map page and -- lo and behold! -- there was a 'Cook Trig Place' located just down the road from where I was sitting, off Highpoint Drive. (The name of this little thoroughfare doesn't seem to show up on the Google Maps, for some reason.) It seemed to be part of a new up-market housing development of some kind -- looking like a gated community.
Anyhow, there was in fact no gate and I drove into the Grosvenor Ridge development and instantly found the little 'street' (only a few metres long) and there sitting beside it was the old trig! It was minus any black disk, but had a new side plaque attached, outlining its history and past use. Both the top plate and the usual side plaque were still attached too.
What a find! I was so excited that I texted Yurt and we later had a talk about our searches. I'd say that the actual position of the trig is about 90 from the published coordinates. Will check later on Google Earth. Will now edit the trig description to reflect his change in coordinates.
I took a lot of photos -- lots and lots. Will pick a few good ones and upload them soon. Haven't got my iPhone camera lead with me just now.
Thanks to Yurt for encouraging me to have a look here. And thanks to whoever has befriended this old trig, fixed it up with a nice historical plaque, and named a street after it!
This was a 'Four Thumbs Up' adventure for sure!
I drove out to North Wahroongah on my extended lunch hour to pick up an errant gnome deposited by Yurt and, at the same time, to check up on what we both thought was a non-existent/demolished trig.
I had a good look around the published coordinates for about 40-50 metres but found nothing. The elevation was also nearly 20 metres too low and all that was visible in the surrounding area of low bushes was a network of trail bike tracks and jumps, etc.
So I gave up after about 40 minutes, put the retrieved gnome under my arm, and headed back to the GeoBuru, parked on Grosvenor Rd. Once there, something made my reach for my UBD map book. It might be that Yurt had mentioned a significant street name to me, but I didn't remember that at the time. I found the correct map page and -- lo and behold! -- there was a 'Cook Trig Place' located just down the road from where I was sitting, off Highpoint Drive. (The name of this little thoroughfare doesn't seem to show up on the Google Maps, for some reason.) It seemed to be part of a new up-market housing development of some kind -- looking like a gated community.
Anyhow, there was in fact no gate and I drove into the Grosvenor Ridge development and instantly found the little 'street' (only a few metres long) and there sitting beside it was the old trig! It was minus any black disk, but had a new side plaque attached, outlining its history and past use. Both the top plate and the usual side plaque were still attached too.
What a find! I was so excited that I texted Yurt and we later had a talk about our searches. I'd say that the actual position of the trig is about 90 from the published coordinates. Will check later on Google Earth. Will now edit the trig description to reflect his change in coordinates.
I took a lot of photos -- lots and lots. Will pick a few good ones and upload them soon. Haven't got my iPhone camera lead with me just now.
Thanks to Yurt for encouraging me to have a look here. And thanks to whoever has befriended this old trig, fixed it up with a nice historical plaque, and named a street after it!
This was a 'Four Thumbs Up' adventure for sure!
Rated: for Overall Experience
In light of Yurt's unsuccessful search, should this trig be deactivated? I'm not sure it's worth my drive over to Wahroonga to have another look for it. Any advice from rogerw3? Of course, if there's still any chance it exists, I'll certainly have a go!
I thought I'd take a look for this 'new' trig today as it's not far from home. Looked promising as there's a street in the nearby village called "Cook Trig Road". Headed into the bush towards GZ but at 0 metres there's just a bike jump. No sign there was ever a trig here except for the fact that there's a levelled area of ground with a great view to the north east - you can clearly see the bright white Bahai temple at Elanora Heights.
Scoured the area for a concrete plinth or anything trig like but in a 30-50 metre radius I found nothing.
Sad!
Scoured the area for a concrete plinth or anything trig like but in a 30-50 metre radius I found nothing.
Sad!
