Jacomb North Turramurra, New South Wales, Australia
By Geocaching Australia on 31-May-11. Waypoint TP5847

I was out for a lockdown-compliant jog around the local trails, and this was near my turnaround point. I'm glad I had prior photos to go on, as I doubt I would have recognised it as a trig otherwise! TFTT

Not the most compelling trig station... probablly better by mountain bike than on foot! Cairn mostly depiled and not the niceest scenery nearby.
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A nice easy mountain bike ride to both trigs on these trails. This one was a short bush bash from the clearing and just the hollow cairn to see.

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After visiting the nearby virtual "A Little Bit of Egypt", I still had time for a trig. Having ridden through Bobbin Head many times, I never thought about checking out these trails. Followed the side trail to within 40m of the trig and then followed faint trails towards the rest of the way. As others have said, not one of the best specimens around but a trig none the less.

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Not my first night hike to find a trig, but thought I would get couple more on 'the way home' to Taree, from the Lake Lyell geocaching Event of the long weekend. The weather had been really blustery, but with a full heavens of stars to go by I headed off on a track that I had last been on back in 1983.
Headed east onto a power pylon maintenance track, and then into the bush for the last 50 metres. Soon found the decrepit stone cairn @ 2233 hrs

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I continued here from Bobbin trig and after stopping at the aborignal rock carvings started to get bored with the straight open firetrail. I followed an openibg near the powerlines and ended up on a small overgrown track. I saw some interesting insects, some swamp plants and a weird wide open clearing in the middle of the bush so it was worth the extra time and spider webs to the face. Even better it lead right to the trig.

Found this Trig while strolling from St Ives to Bobbin Head on the Warrimoo Track and back via the Bobbin Head Track.
The Trig is just a circle of the bottom couple of courses of stones of the original pile. I little bit of bush bashing is required from the Jacob Track.

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Not much has changed since previous logged visits. It's still there and still looking a bit sorry for itself.

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After finding Bobbin TS I continued along Bobbin Trail. There is a wonderful set of aboriginal carvings just to the west of the trail about 700m south of Bobbin TS. then on to Jacomb via the side track. Jacomb is looking a little the worse for wear but there is still plenty of remnants of the original cairn (c 1882). Found at 8.37am.

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Nice day for a walk - went from Bobbin Head cafe to St Ives, taking in as many caches and trigs as I could.

Almost a year since this has been found, and the lack of any sort of path to it corroborates that. It took some effort to find a way through dense prickly shrubs and cobwebs. But the coords are spot on.

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A short scratchy bush bash to this one - but it is all a bit fallen apart!

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Another one we'd searched for months back based on parish maps but couldn't find. Armed with coords it was easier and we weren't far away the first time but it was no wonder we didn't find it.
Today we got through the thick scratchy bush and got the photos of the decaying cairn. Then we pushed on to Bobbin - had to back track to the main trail though, no short cuts from here.

Found with blossom* on a lovely spring day

On a lovely spring morning, we walked a loop from Bobbin Head and visited this trig along the way. Great spot for a picnic with plenty of stones for each person to sit on!

One of the high points of today's trig hunting expedition with rogerw3.

We had a nice walk on a good fire trail and it didn't rain! In fact, the weather held out for most of the afternoon.

rogerw3 has already described what we found -- the unmistakable remains of a 'de-piled' rock cairn trig . . .

Not too hard to find in the bush, because rogerw3's calculated coordinates were spot-on.

Lots of fun! Rates 'Three Thumbs Up' for the FTF and the adventure.

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Found the remains of the Cairn with pjmpjm during today's Trig hunt. This Trig was unpiled and the locating pin removed or lost, I guess we will never know. This is only a short walk along the wide track, well road (closed to traffic) and only needs a very short bush bash to get to GZ. The remains are still quite impressive and the area well worth a good look. Neither the post or vanes are to be found most likely fuel for a bush fire!

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If it's an old 'cairn-type' trig, my guess is that the remains are still in place! We'll have to go and investigate . . .

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