Why is the Blue Lake Blue??? Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia
By -Beaker- on 25-Jun-17. Waypoint GC77Y5G

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Hmmm owners attention may be needed here.

Hmmm not sure what limit there is to looking and scratching but it ain't there

Needs checking... will do so next time I'm there.

Not at location

Needs maintenance

Hard walk around the lake tftc

My first cache in SA! Here for a long weekend with my partner visiting family and decided to try and add some caches to my finds. After looking for quite awhile decided to look elsewhere and soon had cache in hand....TFTC

Looked for ages. Couldn't find

Did boy find

Couldn’t find it nice walk around the lake though.

Fun find to do tftc

Quick easy find

Lovely sunset tonight. Found between passing exercising muggles. Signed DL &GL to save space. Tftc

Charlotte found it!!!!

Oh my gosh this is true but until now I have not been able to talk about it.
Around 10 years ago I was working in Mt G and my local friends invited me to Harpic Day. But word got out and I was forced to sign a 10 page legal document that I would not reveal the truth....
Perhaps the statute of limitations is up now.....
I remember being told not to drink the local water for a month.
That still holds.
Not blue today.... of course... It is June

In town for a Radio Convention. What a great view. Thanks for placing the cache.

A quick find once a muggle moved on...how many times can you do up your shoelaces...Oh, no...what if it was a fellow geocacher, waiting for those two annoying muggles to move on? lol
Log book was wet. Signed and left a RITR log sheet. Great views. We are wondering if going anticlockwise was the easiest way.
Best story ever...might have to check Youtube for any video evidence. TFTC

Found with tassie expat while exploring this interesting area.
Great view, the log was slimy so we added a witr sheet. Tftc

TFTC on a visit from Tassie
Log very wet

Found with Pat5280 on a day trip from Millicent. Great view from the top, hint spot on. Tftc

Easy find while walking around the lake.

Good find

I loved this story. Thanks Beaker for sharing it.

Tftc!
We enjoyed the great lake Blue and found this cache.
Best regards from Switzerland
J&U

Visiting Mount Gambier for a conference so had to make time for some caching in the area. Stopped at this beautiful lookout to admire the view. Just brilliant any time of the year. The colour was just about to turn but it still was quite brilliant and well worth the stop. Thanks for the fabulous story as to why the lake is blue? I would love to get invited one day to this very special occasion. The cache is all in good condition.

TFTC! First find - thank you Mt Gambier

Got it

On our visit to Mount Gambier, a priority was to walk around the blue lake.
We had seen many beautiful photos of the lake over the years and were so looking forward to this adventure.
The lake, and all the views from the 360° we walked were different and spectacular.
Thank you for placing this cache here. Log signed.
A lovely 3D hide.
Domsky

Great cache. Brilliant

Nice hide for a rock

OCW PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa

A fabulous morning walk around this stunning natural feature.

The previous DNF’s had me a little worried but PDG spotted the cache.

Tftc

Ocw the Bebes on a walk around the Blue Lake. Looking at the images have a clue what to look for and with a bit of a search soon had CIH. Tftc

Attempted to find today with the geokids while on a daytrip of our holiday. However constant muggles kept us from reaching into any places that may hide the find.

No luck today!

Nice quick find, and some benches to rest our aching legs! Tftc

First Mt Gambler cache. Blue lake is very blue today

Quick and easy to find, but harder to put back as lots of muggles arrived. Took the trackable to see if we can find an interesting place for it to travel to.

Tftc

TYFC In the Mount for christmas

Down in the Mountains of Gambier for a bit of R&R (and much caching) before the lunacy of Christmas becends upon us.
Thanks for the cache!

Found while enjoying holidays in Mount Gambier. TFTC

Nice hide

Had a good laugh reading the description.

Now it all makes sense!

Found the cache just lying out, so tucked it away a bit better.

Thanks for the fun!

Took dinosaur
Left dog statue
Tftc

A morning to hunt for a cache or two before the expected storms arrive, with darkening skies and the vantage point view we would soon be getting wet, lucky we spotted this one quite quickly
TFTC -Beaker-

We loved the container….
Unfortunately the log is soaked. We tried to quickly dry it in the late afternoon sun, but it’s still almost too wet to sign. Maybe the container plug needs a seal. There was no plastic bag either. That would have prevented the water ingress.
We managed to just sign it with the super duper pen! However, it does really need replacing.
TFTC

Very glad to have a Teddie who braved the spiders and isn’t afraid to stick his hand in a bush

Nice little hide. Found with Rolly girls

Thank you.

Still rainy walk

TFTC. There was 2 containers here. IDK if they are both apart of the cache or not

Good Hide

Caching buddies: Muggle Anshi

Thank you -Beaker-, for creating, placing and maintaining this cache. I have enjoyed finding it and visiting this spot.

Long weekend caching!
Adding cache to FP for the view! It's the highest location at the lake!

I spotted the cache, but due to short people problems, my tall husband had to retrieve it. We waited for the muggles to shooooo, before reaching to grab the cache. All good here

Follow my story on Instagram @AlphaDeltaIndigo

Cool container!! Thanks for the find but paper is too wet to write on.

A quick find in between muggles, with the lake just begging him to turn blue it was a lovely sight. Log soaked, too wet to sign. Thanks for the cache Beaker

Found by Rebel Acts.

with it being School holidays in Victoria I had some time spare to head to Millicent where I teamed up with the Empire for a few days caching in the area, we had a fantastic time exploring the area. Today was a nice easy day around Mt Gambier as I awaited for The Empire to arrive, once he arrived we headed around the Blue lake to do some Earth caches.

This is one of the caches found today. Fantastic location.

Thanks -Beaker- for the cache.

Found by The Empire
On my way to Millicent for a couple of days of caching goodness... I don't think I've been through Mount Gambier since 2011 so a stop was necessary! Meeting up with Rebel Acts, we were able to check out the sights in and around the Blue Lake area. Coffees in hand, it was time to do a lap of the lake. Rebel was all over this one! Thanks for the cache -Beaker-.
- M

Up visiting SA with the family, and figured we would check out the views. TFTC!

found after GESA MTB ride. took the girls for a little stroll around the lake.
look book too wet to sign with my pencil

Found by Team GeoCoopers
Down here for the night to do the parkrun tomorrow morning, grabbing a few caches before it gets dark.
Thanks -Beaker-

Marvellous Mt Gambier. Staying here for the next week on our trip around Australia. Thanks heaps for placing this cache here. A great place to put one. Took a while to find it, made it hard for myself looking away from the platform

Great spot

South East trip with the geo-pup. Day 6, around Mt Gambier.

Found on our lap around the lake, nice container!

TFTC

Why is the Blue Lake blue?

Hmmm not even sure if the powers that be even know. Maybe the truck carrying the blu loo fell in there years ago and all the flushes are still to get rid of it.

Thanks Beaker.

Good find. Came midday and less muggles about.
My son says the blue lake is blue because the spirits wanted to make a mirror of the sky and so they made a mirror lake - blue sky today!

Tftc

Tftc

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Sky blue , lake blue , overcast today , not so blue

Hard to believe this once was a Volcano! That blue water is unbelievable

SL at 1:10pm. Hot warm day to be finding caches with DarthVader69. Such a lovely view of the lake from here. Our theory is that the sky is blue - the water is blue. When it's overcast - not so blue. Very scientific. TFTC!

On a little weekend escape with Purrfect Di and Jack after a long week at work.
Why not go caching to wind down and mostly stay away from people [:o)]

So many dog walkers! But just enough time between them to admire the view and grope for a cache!

The blood sweat and tears of my true blue Mt G ancestors... that'd be it

Thanks heaps to -Beaker- for hiding and looking after this cache on our SA geo game map


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Hunting around each and every day finding and signing using some or all of the resources of GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife), Whereyougo, Garmin Montana 750i, Montana 680t, Etrex 35, Samsung S21u, Samsung S9, with Geocaching App, c:Geo, or Geooh Go, and Android Auto and other maps... or often with just plain old dumb luck Plenty of that actually!!!
*Logs are composed and published using GSAK of course.*


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Please do stay as safe as possible when caching.
Keep a lookout for bogs, snakes, surprise cliffs, boxing roos, wombats, bulldust, and floods,
try not to get tetanus from rusty mint tins and don't fall out of trees...
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- but especially lookout for bugs from alpha to omega !!! . [xx(]

Try to keep Travel Bugs as the only bugs you share and pass on
Now everything's opening more - even more important to sanitise and safely distance!!!


Much appreciation of all those placing quality caches out and about around the countryside areas,
in sensible safe places especially! - it keeps our game safe, fun, and interesting

Thank you for reading all this addition to the log word count!




Into the second month of Twenty Twenty Too Enjoy!!!

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Nice hide! The father of our tribe found it.

We think the lake is not blue at all, but a collective hallucination of a swamp that's actually bright orange.

Too many joggers for a proper hunt!

Woohoo

Found

Found with the Kettles. TFTC

Found while enjoying a walk around the lake.

TFTC

TFTC. Nice hide.

Tricky one

Too dark to see tonight

Day Two of the delayed Millicent Mega, and with many attendees still yet to arrive, I made today the day for Mt. Gambier and Grant LGA caching. I did some study and then some work in Mt Gambier many years ago, and today was fun revisiting old haunts, now as a geocacher.

I did some basic obstetrics training at the old hospital which still stands on the north side of the crater rim. I would jog around the Blue Lake every day. This side of the crater would smell of onions, growing in the fields below. The lake isn’t very blue today, but great to be back.

TFTC -Beaker-

Nicely hidden away in a spot that shouldn't get muggled. Found thanks to the hint.

Quick find while doing a lap of the lake. We were lucky enough to get a break in muggle traffic. Had a bit of a feel around and quickly signed the log. TFTC.

Cache replaced. Good to go

container missing... will replace asap.

A fun find on the walk. Thanks!

Found 15/01/2021

On my circuit of this amazingly blue lake I stopped to find this cache Not sure if I subscribe to your blue theory, perhaps the sky falls in on a clear day staining the water blue and slowly evaporates over the following months. That is certainly more eco friendly than tossing in blue bags
TFTC and your 'theory' Beaker

Thankyou, another great view

nice area to take a break, TFTC

Great little find on holidays with Anniee Louise and geo granddaughter alb

Easy one!!!

Cornered it. Finally found one after so many DNFs in Mt Gambier.

Found it

Found on a weekend visit to the locale. A couple of false starts but the smiley appeared. TFTC.

Took a few more gropes in the end than anticipated. Dunno how I missed it first feel lol great story Ha ha I think it must be true!! Tftc

Easy one

TFTC -Beaker-

Cache on!

Found on 5 October 2020 at 11:31 am
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