Cudgen Trig Kingscliff, New South Wales, Australia
By Geocaching Australia on 16-Nov-18. Waypoint TP7883

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	TrigPoint
Container:	Other
Coordinates:	S28° 15.777' E153° 34.400' (WGS 84)
	56J 556233E 6873535N (UTM)
Elevation:	45 m
Local Government Area:	Tweed

Map

Whodunit Difficulty

Description

A Trig Point is a virtual cache which requires a cacher to locate the Trigonometric Station at GZ and photograph it.

This cache is located on top of one of the two big water tanks that supply Kingscliff and Cudgen. Access to the trig itself is on Tweed Shire Council land, but you can get close enough for a photo.

Official name of this Trig Station: CUDGEN
Serial number is: TS7174

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.

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. 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.

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

Please respect local laws and regulations when searching for trig points. If you believe that a trig point is located on private property, and you are unable to gain permission for access, or in a dangerous location, you may Archive the cache, by clicking on Log this Cache and place an "Archived" log on the Geocaching Australia website.

If you feel that you can add to the description of this trig point or adjust the difficulty / terrain ratings, please feel free to edit this cache and amend the information suitably.

Logs

21-Nov-24

dogblower

The workmen have gone home for the day, so I can sneak in a bit closer and get a couple of photos.

10-Sep-24

BigMatDozer

This was quite a prominent trig point up on top of the water tower. We managed to get very close to it in the end, although we did get an odd look from the people across the road.

Thanks for the trig point listing!

07-Jul-23

Outdoornut22

Soph out loud and I are on a bit of a road trip on our way to Lennox Head for a conference, it gave us an excuse to have a mini holiday and take a few days to get there. So for us that always means finding caches and trigs on our travels. This trip so far has been great as we have had the chance to visit a bunch of beautiful Northern New South Wales Beach towns. Being the off season they have been pretty quiet and even though it is June, much warmer than at home in the Hawkesbury. We have been spending a time travelling slowly between a bunch of beach towns we have not spent time in along the New South Wales North Coast and it has been quite a treat. we stopped in Kings cliff for some lunch and saw a couple of trigs were near by and ventured out to grab them, they were nice and easy to get to in very urban areas

Rated: for Overall Experience

28-Sep-22

Team737

On our caching afternoon from Pottsville to Kingscliff. It soon became obvious we weren't going to get everything done, so we scrapped the GC trads, and stuck to ALs, trigs and GCA trads, which turned into a great afternoon. We'll be back - the trig testline didn't get into the GPSr for some reason!
We shot this from afar, worried we wouldn't get a good shot up close, then up close got a cracker - such a nicely presented trig.

Rated: for Overall Experience

27-Jul-22

wayn0

Look at you sitting up there on your own looking good Smile

Second Trig find of the day. I forgot to bring my GPS so I’ve added my geocaching name to the image. I figured the internet and you guys don’t need another nine selfies of me added to the online world today, you’re welcome haha.
Thanks for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

23-Apr-21

G3oCurious

I have been driving up to Brisbane and finding a few caches along the way. It is now dark and the sun has long set but I wanted to find this Cudgen trig the last find for me today. It's too dark to take a photo of the trig but I will add one of the last light looking the opposite direction. Thanks for the trig.

02-Apr-21

Smittengranny

found this trig on my way north from Casino. Another dragonzone down. TFTT Geocaching Australia Clan Cerberus

Rated: for Overall Experience

29-Sep-20

alnic39

Another trig found on a big day of trigging from Casino to Tweed Heads and return.

27-Aug-19

beetles2

23rd cache for the day and the best thing about that was that they were all GCA.
This one was spotted as we drove up the road to GZ. We even drove up on to the grass meaning we only had to get out of the van and take the required photo.
Thanks.

29-Jul-19

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just going for a drive

Note: Photo didn't load with log through app. Photo lost.

10-Jun-19

Tassie Trekkers

Caching in the area with whitewebbs and snapped this trig.

Many thanks Geocaching Australia for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.

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Rated: for Overall Experience

10-Jun-19

whitewebbs

Day 60 Mainland trip
Out and about caching in the area with Tassie Trekkers and we stopped to take a photo of the trig. TFTT

Rated: for Overall Experience

03-Jan-19

petan

Am I at Kingscliff, or Cudgen, or Sutherland Point? Cudgen is the gazetted locality name, which is why this is the name of the trig, Kingscliff was the name of the sub-division where blocks were offered for sale at Cudgen Heads in 1918. Newspaper accounts of the sale indicate it was well attended and many many blocks were sold. No doubt current land purchasers would love the 21 pound sale price for some of these blocks.

Surveyor Robert Dixon named this area Sutherland Point during his 1840 survey of the area. It was named after the Duke of Sutherland, one of Britain’s wealthiest and most influential noblemen. Dixon named several localities after influencial British nobelmen as a way of currying favour. So what does it have to do with the trig... probably nothing except for the intellectual exercise and explaining why the three names - Cudgen, Kingscliff, Sutherland Point are sometimes used interchangably.

Thanks for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

03-Jan-19

SambooBear

I reckon trig points have the best views and when its up high on a water tower like this one the views must be amazing. The view from the ground was pretty impressive.

Thanks for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

16-Dec-18

Gullivers Travels54

Out and about in the area. stopped by to locate the trig. TFTC

11-Dec-18

geono.

No wonder we had trouble seeing the trig from the nearby road - there's two tanks here and the one it's on keeps disappearing. Did a loop around the tanks on the dead end street and the trig was there in plain view.

Rated: for Overall Experience

16-Nov-18

MattyRx

Found this one quite by accident. Was driving along Cudgen Rd, and thought I saw a trig on one of the towns water tanks. I've never noticed it before! We did a blocker, and sure enough, it looks like a trig. Got home and had a look at the NSW_Survey_Mark (MapServer) maps from six.nsw.gov.au, and yep...it a trig. Bet this trig has an amazing view up there!

Rated: for Overall Experience