St Josephs Spire ST672 Fingal, Tasmania, Australia
By Geocaching Australia on 04-Oct-13. Waypoint TP6789

Heading home to the north west from St helen through ffffffreeeeeezing, ffffrosty Ffffffingal. Frost on barbed wire fences looks like snow, and there is frost to the tops of the eucalypts here ! Got the obligatory photo together with an identifying item. A good Trig. point, but be sure you havre the correct church ............ NOT the one on the main road !

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Yesterday I had a job at Royal George to complete then head to Scottsdale. Decided to go via mathinna and Ringarooma to get there. On the way through Fingal I stopped to grab the 2 trigs to tick them off my to do list.
This was quickly spotted as I drove up the road, grabbed the obligatory photo then headed for Scottsdale. TFTTP

Driving through town and decided to stretch the legs with a couple of quick Trig finds, this one the first. Thanks for the cache

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Being a nice day I decided to do a cache seeking run via Mathinna and Fingal and this was on my list. A nice old church I have have never visited before.

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An interesting old church that we visited whilst passing through Fingal this afternoon. TFTTP!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

Have cached at this church before. Pity it wasn't open as we would have liked a look inside.
A lovely stone church in sleepy Fingal.
Thanks.

On the way down to the east coast and made a slight detour to pick up this trig

Today we headed to Launceston for a quick family catch up but we detoured via Avoca, Fingal, Storeys Creek and Stanhope Mine area to grab a few caches and this was one we found on the way. A beautiful old church and a trig as well. TFTT

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A double! A trig point and an earthcache. I took a quick snap for the trig cache then went to answer the questions foe the history cache. A nice quick one.

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#GA2875 - 16:00; After arriving in Tasmania last Saturday and heading down to Hobart for a few days, the geohoney and I were now headed north for a few days in Launceston. We decided to take the scenic route up the east coast, to avoid the roadworks on the Midlands Highway and to enjoy some nice views and collect a cache or two on the way. After stopping off in Richmond and Swansea, we reached St Marys after a trip up the Elephant Pass, then on to Fingal. Made a quick detour to grab a snap of this lovely old church and the spire. TFTT Geocaching Australia

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Another found by Climbing Son today on his trip to Tassy. It is 2 years since we were here visiting him, and with him living back in the Blue Mountains now he decided to head back to Tassy for a few weeks to revisit climbing places. His first stop was to do this trig.

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A beautiful old sandstone church, thoroughly inspired by the history of the place. Took a couple of photos to claim this and the associated historic building cache.. thanks..!!

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Lovely old church, photo to be added when downloaded from camera

Another trig on the way past.

another quick trig point while heading East

With the recent ratty weather here in NW Tassie it was nice to see a sunny day forecast for the east coast at St Marys where St Patricks Head was waiting to be climbed.

St Patricks Head is 683m high and is Australias first Irish named location. Named by Captain Tobias Furneaux on 17th March 1773.

My last visit here was to find the cache...Paddy's Ropes and Ladders by craigrat.

Back then I had my trusty canine companion with me...aka sirius....but sadly his age now precludes him from doing any more bushwalks and mountain climbs, but as soon as I had put my hat and boots on, Murder(the younger of the two canine family....4 yo) started to get pretty excited as he just loves both bush walking and travelling around in the geo fourby. My eldest canine...Sirius...is now too old(16.9 y.o.) to leave the comfort of his bed in front of the wood heater...which has an electric blanket of course(which he just loves and is great for his arthritis). Having walked 100's of km's with me geocaching over the years up numerous mountains, bush walking along many trails plus along vast stretches of beaches etc while geocaching, he has certainly earned his rest..an amazing companion who never gave up no matter how hard it got for him...a truly remarkeable and treasured companion.

So now Murder has the opportunity to retrace the footsteps of his elder canine mate...sirius.

After deviating at Avoca to find geocaches around the Stanhope mine workings then up through Story's Creek for more caching, we eventually arrived at the car park at the foot of St Patricks Head...a very inspiring pinnacle with the survey beacon on top.

The first part up around the paddocks and through the lower slopes was quite easy but approaching the middle section things soon got quite steep. Murder hopped up the steep sections with ease giving me a helping hand as he was still on the lead. The last section was easier walking until reaching the rocky pinnacle where upon reaching the last leg up to the trig the going got quite a bit harder and the ladder was soon reached. I haven't taught Murder to climb a ladder yet....and just as well...so he had to remain on guard at the bottom of the ladder.After climbing the ladder the boulders were quite daunting...especially when on your own...darn pleased I put the EPIRB in my pocket.... as you could easily break a leg up here...or much worse. Finally made it to stand under the Trig where spectacular views were to be had.Views north past St Helens...north west to South Sister....south to Elephant Mt and beyond and back east looking along the expanse of farmland back towards Fingal. A very impressive walk indeed....all up time of 95 min from car park and return...not too bad for an old codger who just had a kidney transplant only 10 mths ago.

Tftc GCA and an awesome day...now its off to grab 3 driveby trigs on the way home...the next being St Josephs Spire at Fingal.

Arrived at St Josephs Spire to take the obligatory photo of this grand ol church...tftc...cheers ST.

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first of the ny

I think this is my fourth church tower trig; the others being in Carcoar, Camden and another in Tasmania.

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found it

Found it 29/10/2016

A nice easy find with EeePees



Found at 7:59:02 PM
TFTC

A quick drive-by find with AlbyDangles.
Found at 7:55pm en route from Mathinna back to Hobart.

Our 1st Church spire trig and a drive by too.

Almost the end of my day, but always time for one more....

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Travelling around Australia and spending a few months in Tasmania.

Here we go, here we go. Moving day! Today we moved from Forth to Fingal.

Beautiful sunny day albeit a bit windy.

Arrived in town and did some shopping at the IGA and the cafe before moving on to this Trig.


TFTC

Our peak bagging days are sadly past us but when a drive-by trig is on offer, well it would be rude to refuse. Plus we have already "bagged" one of the other two church spire trigs in Tas (St Mary's at Hagley) so we can now target Battery Pt to complete the set. A quiet Sunday afternoon meant our photo shoot could be organised from a choice of vantage points. Another aborted attempt at landing the Tardis ensued.

Hmmm. Sunday morning. Church. Trig point. I don't have to go in. OK.
Got the obligatory photo and just to make sure, I got another photo with a second trig point in the background.
Thanks

Zal and I spent 10 days touring Tasmania and it was the most amazing trip ever! We got engaged at Cradle Mountain and saw so many wonderful things. Even the weather played nice most of the time Thanks for the hunt, it is always tricky logging lots of holiday finds so apologies for the cut'n'paste log, Zal included more details

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Heading home and just enough time to grab a couple of quick caches and trigs on route. Nice little church.

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Quick drive by trigs, dont you love them

Found on a wet day heading from Coles Bay to Devonport to head back home after a great holiday in Tassie. As it was persisting down FFP took the shot from the car.

TFTT and the ass.

Cannonised by OldSaint at 1230hrs.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint

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Found on our way back home from St Helens. We've previously done a church spire trig in Orange NSW in March, very easy to spot. Gotta love a driveby trig.

Whilst touring on the mainland we came across a Trig Point oddity (well, at least for us) - a church spire in Lithgow (TP5645 Church Pres). We have come to understand that church spires were sometimes used as Trig Points because, at the time, they were the most prominent structure in a locality. It started us wondering if any church spires in Tasmania were designated Trig Points. A search of the SurCom database revealed only three of which St Joseph's Catholic Church in Fingal is one.

Yesterday we enjoyed the company of Dippy as the three of us tackled some long planned caches on St Patricks Head. On the way back we called into St Josephs Church (built 1877) in Fingal to visit this interesting church and to record the Trig Point. It would appear that the defining point on this spire has broken off but it's listing as a trig point remains. Thanks Dippy for initiating the listing of this one.

It's listed, so now I can log it - Yay! Thanks 2y'stassies for giving so much help in the finding and publishing of this trigpoint cache.

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