Blowering Wereboldera, New South Wales, Australia
By
Geocaching Australia on 18-Feb-13. Waypoint TP6635
Cache Details
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| Terrain: | |
| Type: | TrigPoint |
| Container: | Other |
| Coordinates: | S35° 23.849' E148° 14.834' (WGS 84) |
| 55H 613261E 6082161N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 301 m |
| Local Government Area: | Snowy Valleys |
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Description
Blowering Trigpoint
Blowering Trigpoint placed during the construction of the facilities at Blowering. Easy access and quite prominent from the road.
A trig point (also known as a Trigonometric Station) typically consists of a black disc on top of four metal legs or concrete pillar, resembling a navigation beacon. It is also accompanied by a metal disc, which is located directly below the center point of the tripod or on top of the pillar itself.
Trig points are generally located at the top of hills or points of prominence in the landscape. Many provide unique views and challenges, with some being difficult to get to.
These points were regarded as valuable to surveyors, providing reference points for measuring distance and direction, and assisting in the creation of maps.
Logs
Towing the campertrailer, we decided it wasn't a good pull off point on the road. Headed down to the picnic ground and walked across to the water below the powerstation. Took the photo from there. TFTT
Rated: for Overall Experience
Second TP on a 12 day trip along the Murray River and a few other places in between.
Rated: for Overall Experience
awesome town, be interesting to watch the wall come falling down though!!.. thanks for the location.
This one almost had me fooled. More like a traditional TP than a CORS, but photographed and claimed it anyway.
Found on our 2 week trip around the hills and valleys with Roostaman.
Thanks for the cache,
MrsRoosta
Thanks for the cache,
MrsRoosta
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found while in the area looking for GC caches.
TFTC GCA
Roosta
TFTC GCA
Roosta
Rated: for Overall Experience
Today we travelled from Jindabyne to Tumut along the Snowy Highway. We enjoyed looking at parts of Australia that we have not visited before, especially parts of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme. We went in to see the Blowering Dam - very impressive rock structure. Near the base of the dam we found the Blowering Trig beacon. The required photo has been added to the Gallery. Thanks Geocaching Australia for the cache.
Geocaching Australia (GCA) Cache Find Number 1198 - 12219 overall cache finds.
Found while on a caching run throughout the Tumut region with Sol de Lune - a really fun trip with lots of cache finds. While I mainly looked for GC caches, when an easy GCA cache comes along we go for that as well. Trigs are particularly nice to track down and find. I was very happy when they became part of the GCA cache family. Its especially satisfying if you have made a big climb up for one ! I have also now joined dragonZone in Clan Cerberus, so there are more reasons to find those GCA caches. Its interesting to find the many different types of trigs. From the traditional metal legs and vanes, to the concrete base with vanes, to the ones on top of water tanks (especially the red ones !), as well the new CORS type. When you look on a GCA map and see all those hundreds and hundreds of blue 'Z's it shows just how many there are out there. Shame so many are on private property and cannot be accessed at all. So as far as I'm concerned every trig that can be found and photographed is a real bonus !
The trig was quickly 'found'. Piccie taken and posted.
Thanks Geocaching Australia !
Found while on a caching run throughout the Tumut region with Sol de Lune - a really fun trip with lots of cache finds. While I mainly looked for GC caches, when an easy GCA cache comes along we go for that as well. Trigs are particularly nice to track down and find. I was very happy when they became part of the GCA cache family. Its especially satisfying if you have made a big climb up for one ! I have also now joined dragonZone in Clan Cerberus, so there are more reasons to find those GCA caches. Its interesting to find the many different types of trigs. From the traditional metal legs and vanes, to the concrete base with vanes, to the ones on top of water tanks (especially the red ones !), as well the new CORS type. When you look on a GCA map and see all those hundreds and hundreds of blue 'Z's it shows just how many there are out there. Shame so many are on private property and cannot be accessed at all. So as far as I'm concerned every trig that can be found and photographed is a real bonus !
The trig was quickly 'found'. Piccie taken and posted.
Thanks Geocaching Australia !
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found while caching around the area. Look like an odd/home made sort of trig.
Rated: for Overall Experience
I was walking past and spotted this 
. I photographed it to log here. Easy to get to.
. I photographed it to log here. Easy to get to.Rated: for Overall Experience
Found on our Tumut trip. While at the dam getting a few caches, we quickly pulled up next to this trig, to grab a quick photo. A cool looking trig in a stunning part of the Tumut area. TFTC GCA!
Rated: for Overall Experience
Ah, this was the cache I did 2 after my 1000th find. A great view from the top and the area down below was nice for some lunch.
Found on a wet day when we had to visit the cache across the river from the trig point. The park across the river was supposed to closed to the public from the 1st of March but it has been given a reprieve. Anyway this trig is easily seen from both the road and then Hume and Hovell track. This trig point was obviously erected to build the dam wall and it is hard to imagine just how busy this place would have been during the late 1960's during the construction. Easy cache, thanks GCA.
