Field of Stone [KCW] Caroline Springs, Victoria, Australia
By caughtatwork on 01-Jun-19. Waypoint GA13800

Kororoit Creek Walk - Field of Stone

This field of stone, known as The Point Reserve has never been ploughed or tilled or landscaped (apart from the odd tree here there which surely cannot be called landscaping). It appears now as it probably did the last time the local volcanoes erupted over a million years ago. The volcanoes that dot the landscape between Melbourne and Mount Gambier are monogenetic volcanoes - once-off volcanoes that deliver relatively small eruptions. There are 40 alone between Melbourne and Bacchus Marsh, with the last volcano to erupt in Victoria being Mount Napier, south of Hamilton. Walk among the stones and rocks and contemplate that while you are looking for a 400ml sistema container, you might be the first person to move, look at or check a rock that has lain here, undisturbed for a thousand millennia. 

About Kororoit Creek
The Kororoit Creek rises below Mount Kororoit, northeast of Melton in the north western outer suburbs of Melbourne. The creek's headwaters are north of Sunbury at approximately 400 metres (1,300 ft) above sea level in Ordovician geology. The creek flows generally south by east and passes over the volcanic lava plain of western Melbourne to its mouth at sea level, north of Altona and emptying into Altona Bay within Port Phillip. The creek is joined by one minor tributary as it descends approximately 407 metres (1,335 ft) over its 52-kilometre (32 mi) course. At the outlet in Altona Bay, the creek winds its way through the Altona Coastal Park and then the Jawbone Marine Sanctuary Park, where it enters Port Phillip.
From east of Sunbury, the Kororoit Creek makes its way down through many suburbs towards its mouth, including the towns and suburbs of Rockbank, Caroline Springs, Burnside, Kings Park, Albanvale, Deer Park, Cairnlea, West Sunshine, Ardeer, Albion, Brooklyn and Altona North.
The creek is traversed by the Melton Highway, east of Melton; the Western Highway and the Western Ring Road, at Ardeer; and the West Gate Freeway and Federation Trail at Brooklyn. The Kororoit Creek Trail runs along the banks in the lower reaches of the creek.

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