Fort Scratchley Newcastle East, New South Wales, Australia
By Geocaching Australia on 09-Oct-11. Waypoint TP6062

Continuing on our holiday from Tasmania through to the Gold Coast and back again to visit the family and see Outback Spectacular. We stopped off in Newcastle and visited Fort Scratchley to pick up a few caches.

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Discovered as part of a Virtual cache with many stages. Monty is in the photo.

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Found this on a trip through Newcastle. Started out as torrential rain but turned into a lovely day.
Came up to the fort for lunch and the gun firing. Decided to risk the drive as everyone was getting hot. Best parking spot in the whole area up here

found on a beautiful sunny Sunday morning

#GA5254 - 11:15; Day 2 in Newcastle with the geohoney and I set off early for a spot of caching around the CBD before we headed north to Nelson Bay for a bit of sightseeing. Picked up some Adventure Labs and other caches around the CBD before heading back to Fort Scratchley this morning for the two trigs located there, which were missing from my original PQ for the trip. Grabbed a couple of snaps soon after the other trig on site here. TFTT Geocaching Australia

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A quick stop and a little detour the n my way to Newcastle. nice area here.
TFTC Wilbert67

GCA 2,092. Found during a quick Newcastle visit with minniek and Albida33.

Attended an event nearby and stopped for this quick grab on the way out.

TFTC !!

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Headed up to the Morisset/Newcastle region with fitzy_1965 & albida33 to do some GC caching. Picked up a few GCA's along the way.

Such a fascinating place. Pity we didn't have more time to look around..

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July 2018 Weekend trip to Watagen National park for the Lake Macquarie History series with Fiztzy_1965 and MinnieK.

After finishing the series we went to Newcastle for an event and were able to visit bout outcrops and collect the trigs and virtual caches.

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Albida

While staying near Newcastle we went on a GCA cache finding tour around the area and this trig was one we found. The required photo has been added to the gallery. An interesting place to visit. A great view. TFTT

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Caching in the area we came across this trig and snapped the required pic which is added to the gallery..

Many thanks Geocaching Australia for publishing this cache for our enjoyment and adding to our geocaching experience.

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What an interesting place to visit. Pleasant views also. Found the trig. TFTC

14 years in Newcastle and I've never visited the fort until today, to find the trigs of course. Great spot, awesome views and a cannon firing to top it off.....

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had a great time here at the museum. sadly we missed out on the Canon firing sure to a fire ban so the lovely volunteer have us a tour in the buggy instead.

This morning we visited Fort Scratchley in Newcastle and located this trig point. The required photo has been added to the Gallery. Thanks Geocaching Australia for the cache,

Getting sweaty now on this run. Easy find without going in.

The gate were closed when we came by early this morning, so I had to zoom in on this one.

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Wow, another 12 month unloved trig right here in Newcastle! Tho I have tried two other times myself but been thwarted, a) at night - only open 10am to 4pm, and b) the Fort is closed on Tuesdays.
There was a school group being shown through, but I did get the chance to ask about the 'Fort Stockton' site and if there was tours there also, to be told it is actually called Fort Wallace, and there is no tours, so it seems that TS2093 will go unfound by the civilian cacher.
But got the photo of the flag pole here, and tried to get some info for some Waymarking.

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Great spot to watch the world go by

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Was planning to get up here for a look yesterday but ran out of time. A very interesting place to visit. Thanks.

Just got in before it closed-not that you would need to for this photo. A very interesting location and a trig with a difference.

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Out on a Trig raid in Newcastle this is Trig number #3 for the day.
last time I was there a few years ago Fort Scratchley was closed, I was very happy to see it reopened to the public again, great Passive Trig Station.

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Trig is the top of the flagpole next to the parade ground.

I arrived at the fort right on 11:30am so managed to join the tour, it was excellent . After the tour found this trig flagpole. Great views from here.

What a great historic site. Found on a late afternoon trip into the city for dinner.

Found on a walk around Newcastle. I like this fort, can recommend the tour the volunteers give you there.

Found this whilst out geocaching for the afternoon.
Parade is exactly right as it is the flag pole above the parade ground.

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