Point Lookout New South Wales, Australia
By Geocaching Australia on 04-Nov-14. Waypoint TP7048

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	TrigPoint
Container:	Other
Coordinates:	S30° 29.311' E152° 24.563' (WGS 84)
	56J 443316E 6626932N (UTM)
Elevation:	1546 m
Local Government Area:	Bellingen

Map

Whodunit Terrain

Description

Point Lookout TS 6454

The official name of the Trig Point is: Point Lookout.

Serial number: TS6454.

Last inspected: June 26, 1979.

Elevation: 1549m.

Concrete pedestal only, the mast and vanes are stored with the New England National Park ranger.

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.

To log a find on the Geocaching Australia website, you will need to include a picture of the trig point, along with your GPS receiver and (preferably) yourself. You are encouraged to leave a description of your journey in your log to help others in finding the trig point.

Logs

30-Mar-24

BigMatDozer

This is an amazing bit of forest, and the loop walk was well worth the effort, even if the views were too cloud covered to be much to write home about. We had our eye on the location of the trig, first from the top path, the n from the bottom path, with both options looking less than ideal for the kids. We finally followed the sign to the historic cairn, hoping that it might be referring to the trig, but alas a wall of wet plants and thorny vines was all we found. Two of us headed in and managed managed make the find, feeling like Indiana Jones traipsing through the Amazon.

I wonder why NPWS didn't extend the top picnic area an extra 20m to include the trig with the direction marker and cairn.

Anyway, it made for a fun adventure.

thanks for the trig listing

03-May-21

C○3 ♀ Ɛ○<<○3

I came here for the views today. The sky above around Ebor was beautiful and clear. However arriving here I ended up in cloud. But the Views would have been a distraction from the beauty I found all around walking the short loop. I even got to listen to a lyrebird going off with all sorts of noises and calls. it was awesome. I've missed this kind of forest.

Now the trig... it's not on any easy path, just a scratchy catchy lyrebird track in the bush. But I want going away without at least one geo-reward.

I'll be back for the view, virtual and other trig another day.

Rated: for Overall Experience

16-May-15

geono.

Well that wasn't easy! We were sure Geocaching Australia had got it wrong with the co-ordinates but we bush bashed our way through the wet bushes anyway...and it was there. If it was a few metres east it would be getting views all the way to the coast but it was too bushy here. As it was today no one was getting any views, it was wet and foggy.

Rated: for Overall Experience

13-Nov-14

blossom*

We drove up here this morning to see nothing but dense cloud below us - what a sight! The trig pillar seems to gave a plate on top these days so not sure if the NP ranger would be making a lot of use of the vanes now.