Wheeler Cromer, New South Wales, Australia
By
Geocaching Australia on 28-Apr-11. Waypoint TP5761
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | TrigPoint |
| Container: | Other |
| Coordinates: | S33° 43.914' E151° 15.420' (WGS 84) |
| 56H 338524E 6266205N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 149 m |
| Local Government Area: | Northern Beaches |
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Description
Wheeler TS4735
Official name of this Trig Station as per NSW Department of Lands is: Wheeler.
Serial number is: TS4735.
Last inspected on: July 28, 1976.
Elevation is: 139 meters.
The Trig Proper has disappeared but evidence of it still remains. See Yurt's FTF log for a great explanation of the area. You are looking for a concrete square about 15cm x 15cm which was possibly an old anchor point and very close to the GZ co-ords. If you look carefully there is also evidence of an old cairn too.
Not a too hard walk but tricky at times. There is a good track up from the intersection of Maybrook Ave and Pinduro Pl next to a big bus turning circle. It goes down past a retirement home then turns into a fire trail visible on google satellite images. Follow this and keep on it up the hill after the big dog leg right it will bring you to within 20m of the Trig.
Logs
As previously logged, there is not much to see here. Just the scattered remains of the cairn.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Not much to see. There was the charred remains of a survey peg and the possible remains of a depiled cairn but that's about it.
Found at 11:48 am.
Found at 11:48 am.
Rated: for Overall Experience
I have had this and the Cromer trig on my radar some quite some time, so early rise, 3 hour train trip to Central, another train to Town Hall to catch the 1h 20 mn bus trip to Cromer heights.
Spend 15 mn at the end of Maybrook Av looking for a track and after some head scratching decided that the little run off bit was in fact the start of the track, which it was instead of the long way around I headed under the power line and found the service track.
This is better attacked from the west as there is a well define bike trail that will take you to within 20 meters of the Trig, or at least the remains of it.
Only a vague but unmistakable ring of stones remain with a guy wire attachment point. It was well worth the trip and a great part of the world.
Spend 15 mn at the end of Maybrook Av looking for a track and after some head scratching decided that the little run off bit was in fact the start of the track, which it was instead of the long way around I headed under the power line and found the service track.
This is better attacked from the west as there is a well define bike trail that will take you to within 20 meters of the Trig, or at least the remains of it.
Only a vague but unmistakable ring of stones remain with a guy wire attachment point. It was well worth the trip and a great part of the world.
Rated: for Overall Experience
I found my way up pretty well and while it is a steep walk at times you can get close to the Trig on trails. I have edited the description to reflect the current state of the Trig and to add directional details.
About 100m below the summit I bumped into 2 people looking for survey marks! No they were not cachers, they have just bought the property!
Jenny and Dave were very friendly and showed me the track indeed circles around to right near the Trig. They were impressed someone would come hunting for a Trig and it lies just outside their land but they were happy for Geocachers to cross it as there are plenty of people who do and well worn trails. They will be building a house nearby soon though!
We found the anchor point and stones then I headed off to the next hill for a BIG cache
On a Side Note.... THIS IS MY 500TH GCA CACHE!!!!!!
About 100m below the summit I bumped into 2 people looking for survey marks! No they were not cachers, they have just bought the property!
Jenny and Dave were very friendly and showed me the track indeed circles around to right near the Trig. They were impressed someone would come hunting for a Trig and it lies just outside their land but they were happy for Geocachers to cross it as there are plenty of people who do and well worn trails. They will be building a house nearby soon though!
We found the anchor point and stones then I headed off to the next hill for a BIG cache
On a Side Note.... THIS IS MY 500TH GCA CACHE!!!!!!
Rated: for Overall Experience
Finally we got a chance to explore this area again after finding the nearby Cromer Hts trig a year ago. Was surprised when Wheeler was published as it was not that far from Cromer Heights so I thought maybe that was the replacement of this trig.
Anyway today we came in from Maybrook St near the intersection with Pinduro Place. Found a faint track but knew the fire trail wasn't far away so pushed on. Well were we wrong! We'd come in above the fire trail and ended up bushbashing to the top of the hill where we spotted a walking track. Not too bad but not the way we'd planned to attack this. Took the right branch a couple of times and the track took us to within 30 metres of the trig site where we bushbashed to GZ. No pedestal, no obvious cairn but we found evidence of an 'unpiled' cairn. Scratching under the leaves we found a square of concrete about 15 by 15 cm with two rusted metal bits sticking out of the middle. Found a couple of broken off pieces nearby which suggested this could have been an anchor point for a guy on the old mast. At first we thought it was the base of a pedestal but we are pretty sure that the actual cairn centre was about 3 metres away.
Looked all around at the various stones and in the same positions to see if we could find other guy anchors or the brass locating pin. A metal detector would have been handy. There was a burnt wooden surveyor's peg about 5m away but I think that was more to do with a proposed subdivision of the area.
Finally we gave up - happy to find something and enjoyed the 'dig' but would have liked a bit more. Still it's better than a smear of glue on a rock!
This was a good one for our 200th trig find - a FTF nearly a year after it was published.
Trigs rule!
Edit - also found an amazing collection of Aboriginal carvings on the way back. Not far off one of the tracks, if you see a metal fence it's nearby. Fish, sharks, stingrays, men, glider possums and a mysterious looking caterpillar thing.
Anyway today we came in from Maybrook St near the intersection with Pinduro Place. Found a faint track but knew the fire trail wasn't far away so pushed on. Well were we wrong! We'd come in above the fire trail and ended up bushbashing to the top of the hill where we spotted a walking track. Not too bad but not the way we'd planned to attack this. Took the right branch a couple of times and the track took us to within 30 metres of the trig site where we bushbashed to GZ. No pedestal, no obvious cairn but we found evidence of an 'unpiled' cairn. Scratching under the leaves we found a square of concrete about 15 by 15 cm with two rusted metal bits sticking out of the middle. Found a couple of broken off pieces nearby which suggested this could have been an anchor point for a guy on the old mast. At first we thought it was the base of a pedestal but we are pretty sure that the actual cairn centre was about 3 metres away.
Looked all around at the various stones and in the same positions to see if we could find other guy anchors or the brass locating pin. A metal detector would have been handy. There was a burnt wooden surveyor's peg about 5m away but I think that was more to do with a proposed subdivision of the area.
Finally we gave up - happy to find something and enjoyed the 'dig' but would have liked a bit more. Still it's better than a smear of glue on a rock!
This was a good one for our 200th trig find - a FTF nearly a year after it was published.
Trigs rule!
Edit - also found an amazing collection of Aboriginal carvings on the way back. Not far off one of the tracks, if you see a metal fence it's nearby. Fish, sharks, stingrays, men, glider possums and a mysterious looking caterpillar thing.
Rated: for Overall Experience
