Geocaches near light houses?

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Geocaches near light houses?

Post by jgc3 » 27 February 11 9:12 am

Hi all,

I'm doing a feature on light house caches in my magazine and would appreciate any feedback if you know of any locations etc..

Thanks

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James

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Re: Geocaches near light houses?

Post by Teirae » 27 February 11 9:33 am

im interested in them too, as i LOVE lighthouses!!!!

I know there are a few near my favourite place (I havent been there since i started geocaching, so even though i know the area like the back of my hand, i havent actually got any of the caches yet).

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... 34ac6babbd

(this lighthouse isn't in commision anymore...more so than the others around australia ;) )

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Re: Geocaches near light houses?

Post by Fuddley » 27 February 11 9:43 am

There are these 2
GCXJEJ
GC2AYHD

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Post by Laighside Legends » 27 February 11 10:43 am

The final location of this one, GCT7XP is near a Lighthouse
And I guess you could say this one, GC2KFRD is near a Lighthouse

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Re: Geocaches near light houses?

Post by J_&_J » 27 February 11 12:26 pm

Two more in SA that I can think of:

Yorke's First
Donny's Place

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Post by caughtatwork » 27 February 11 1:02 pm

http://geocaching.com.au/tags/search/au/
Enter lighthouse and click Search Tags.
It should return quite a few.

Or go directly to the tag family for lighthouse.
http://geocaching.com.au/tags/view/all/lighthouse/au/

You can also check out the locationless cache for lighthouses.
http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga1061

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Re: Geocaches near light houses?

Post by jgc3 » 27 February 11 2:39 pm

Thanks everyone. Lots of useful information. Much appreciated.

Regards
James

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Re: Geocaches near light houses?

Post by Yurt » 27 February 11 4:01 pm

Have been tempted to do this one at Palm Beach, Sydney.
Stewart’s Lights

Old maps indicate the top of the lighthouse is actually a trig station too while we're on the subject. There was also a trig at ground level just north as I recall from the map.

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Re: Geocaches near light houses?

Post by fluffyfish » 27 February 11 8:31 pm

There are two lighthouses in Wollongong and 1 GCA and 2 GC caches near them.

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Re: Geocaches near light houses?

Post by roundcircle » 27 February 11 10:38 pm

Tides Out is next to an inland light house at Cape Clear.

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Post by caughtatwork » 28 February 11 8:08 am

Hey peeps, if you happen to be finding caches that are lighthouses that aren't on the list of caches tagged with lighthouse, it would be most wonderful if you could add that tag.

The latest example.
Head to the cache page.
http://geocaching.com.au/cache/GC1P8W6
Right hand navigation bar under Actions, click on tag.
In the public tag box, enter lighthouse
Click the save tags button.
Tada. Another cache tagged with lighthouse.

The community can any tag to any cache and the more tags, the easier they become to find.

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Re: Geocaches near light houses?

Post by Dik: » 28 February 11 10:47 am

Albert & Alexandrina

Australias only inland lighthouse?

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Re: Geocaches near light houses?

Post by Skippy » 28 February 11 8:36 pm

Cape Banks http://coord.info/GC85A is not far from the Mount

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Re: Geocaches near light houses?

Post by gd___ » 28 February 11 11:20 pm

Dik: wrote:Albert & Alexandrina

Australias only inland lighthouse?
That one is near the coast, The one at Goulburn is inland and is not even near inland water.

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