Oberon Dam 2 Oberon, New South Wales, Australia
By Geocaching Australia on 21-Apr-16. Waypoint TP7315

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	TrigPoint
Container:	Other
Coordinates:	S33° 43.455' E149° 52.030' (WGS 84)
	55H 765672E 6264725N (UTM)
Elevation:	1061 m
Local Government Area:	Oberon

Map

Whodunit Difficulty

Description

Oberon Dam 2 TS?

Official name of this Trig Station as per NSW Department of Lands is: Oberon Dam 2.

Serial number is: TS number not allocated.

Last inspected on: No Data.

Elevation is: 1069 meters.

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.

You are encouraged to leave a description of your journey in your log to help others in finding the trig point.

The original collection of trig points has been sourced from Geoscience Australia and may contain inaccuracies.

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Logs

06-Apr-24

geono.

Another trig I couldn't get close to. The best photo was taken from the other side of the bridge. This has #2 and #3 in it. TFTT GCA

29-Sep-22

thomo31

Found while visiting the Oberon area with rogerw3. TFTT

Rated: for Overall Experience

12-Jan-22

BigMatDozer

Stopped at the dam for a break on our drive between Kanangra Boyd and Abercrombie River National Parks. We actually found four of these here. The one near the carpark and three along the creek. The fourth one is up the hill a bit and behind the trees, so you can only see it from the pathway on top of the dam wall.

21-May-21

teamMerlin

A nice quick find whilst in the area

30-Jul-19

Tuena

On my way to Grafton so selected a range of caches to break the journey. I saw both of them across the creek. Will add a photo upon return.

06-Jun-18

HansJJ

Was continuing on my caching run in the greater caves area & today did the slight side tour to the dam - being a week day it was very quiet here today - thanks Clan Griffin

Rated: for Overall Experience

19-Jan-18

LuckyL10n

#GA2366 - 16:11; Day two of the summer sojourn in the Blue Mountains with the geohoney and today a trip to Jenolan Caves was the order of business. Made our way down to the caves from Leura after breakfast in Katoomba on the way through. I was surprised at the speed limits as we made our way along the Great Western Highway, but they were certainly appropriate given the nature of the roads. Ended up behind a tourist on the Jenolan Caves Road, which was quite interesting when they overtook two cars stopped at a traffic control stop before they saw the traffic controller Doh

Anyway, we managed to pass safely before the steep descent started Dancing

After an interesting tour of the Orient Cave, we headed towards Oberon and stopped by the dam to grab the three trigs here, including numer two. TFTT Geocaching Australia Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

09-Sep-17

albida33

The Road Less traveled weekend two around Oberon. Day 2. After a morning visiting the TRLT caches south of Oberon I sopped by for lunch and these fore GA caches. GZ is a bit off for this and number three.

Thanks
Albida

31-Aug-17

Sol de lune

Last of the trigs in the area and another one just over the creek. Photo's were snapped and all was good.

Rated: for Overall Experience

01-Apr-17

minniek

Headed out on a geocaching weekend through Bathurst and on to Orange with Fitzy_1965.

Fitzy enjoyed this stop - 3 trigs !

Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

01-Apr-17

fitzy_1965

Geocaching Australia (GCA) Cache Find Number 1321. Found during a run up to the Oberon, Bathurst and Orange regions with minniek.

A weekend run up through the Oberon, Bathurst and Orange regions to tackle a number of puzzle series, lots of trads, plus a number of trigs as well. Although there were a number of DNFs, in all the caches were nicely placed with good coords. Glorious weather certainly added to a very fun weekend. An early departure with a few quick stops along the way saw us soon at Oberon to start the campaign in ernest. A nice drive out to the Dam where it was a case of three-for-one really ! Pretty happy about that ! Once there of course it was a quick stop for the required photos, admired the views, then it was off to the next one. Photo of the trig attached.

Another nice trig to add to the collection. Really enjoy finding these in all sorts of odd places, including the new CORS type which seem to be popping up in every country town plus the big cities.

TFTC !!

Rated: for Overall Experience

04-Jul-16

alnic39

Found this at the end of a full day of finding and hiding.

Rated: for Overall Experience

21-Apr-16

whitemushroom

The trig gnome, rogerw3, was barely out of the GeoReindeer before 'discovering' this second (of three) dam monitoring trigs. The 'mushroom could but only concur, and log.