Crookhaven Lighthouse Culburra Beach, New South Wales, Australia
By
Geocaching Australia on 23-Dec-13. Waypoint TP6826
Cache Details
Difficulty: | |
Terrain: | |
Type: | TrigPoint |
Container: | Other |
Coordinates: | S34° 53.945' E150° 46.216' (WGS 84) |
56H 296265E 6135879N (UTM) | |
Elevation: | 18 m |
Local Government Area: | Shoalhaven City |
Description
Crookhaven Lighthouse Trig Station TS5260R
The Lighthouse is derelict but there are plans to restore it.
History:
A Pilot station was commissioned here on 1 February 1872. From 1882 a light consisting of a red lantern from a ship's mast-head and supported on 2 poles was erected. Later this was replaced with a brass lantern in a wooden lighthouse. The existing light was lit in 1904 and the replaced building demolished the next day. The lantern from the Cape St George Lighthouse, which was de-commissioned on the completion of the Pt Perpendicular lighthouse in 1898, was utilised.
To log a find on the Geocaching Australia website, you will need to include a picture of the Lighthouse, along with your GPS receiver and (preferably) yourself. Long distance / telephoto type pictures are against the spirit of this cache. You are encouraged to leave a description of your journey in your log to help others in finding the trig point.
Logs
Thanks Geocaching Australia for this trig. Love the trigs
Cheers
MajuraHathi
Cheers!
As for the photo of the railing - nope, not me !!
Thanks.
Found while on a caching run with specimenX down the coast - 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'. Really nice area to visit.
Thanks Geocaching Australia !
Thanks
Albida
TFTC Wilbert67