Brown Castle [KCW] Caroline Springs, Victoria, Australia
By caughtatwork on 01-Jun-19. Waypoint GA13810

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Type: Traditional
Container: Small
Coordinates: S37° 44.266' E144° 44.362' (WGS 84)
  55H 300804E 5820873N (UTM)
Elevation: 77 m
Local Government Area: Melton

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Kororoit Creek Walk - Brown Castle

The brown castle behind you is home to a bunch of electrical equipment that makes a low hum and has non-trivial air conditioners placed strategically around the rear. But that's of no consequence to you who as you seek a 200ml container in a terrain 1 location which should make this wheelchair accessible. Long monkey arms make the retrieve a little easier as a lot of school kids come past this location every day, so please try and replace the container so it can't be seen from either side of the hide location.

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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ROT 13: ABCDEFGHIJKLM
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05-Nov-23
damn that was hidden well. detail is in the clue. don't give up on the road
 
13-Apr-23
Today we started caching in the area and this was one of 21 caches we found.

Cache and contents are in good condition.

Many thanks caughtatwork for placing this series of caches, we enjoyed our wander around the area.
 
28-Jun-21
Thanks for the hide, all looks to be in good condition. Car has gone in for its service today so I thought I'd tackle some of the caches in the area
 
03-Nov-20
I decided to get out and about today.

Threw the bike in the car and headed out to find a few caches in the area here.

Only 3 dnf's of the 20+ that I managed to put my name on.

A couple of FTF's too.

Another quite quick drive by.

Managed to retreive quickly.

TFTC Very Happy
 
18-Sep-19
We dodged the traffic as we made our way from The Rock Before the Fall to this cache. There were no walkers on this section of the path today which made retrieval of the cache easy. The container and contents were in good condition. We were so busy enjoying the beautiful old gums along the creek in this area that we didn't notice the brown castle.

Thanks for another good cache in this series. After finding some T1 caches that required climbing sandy banks, 3m railway embankments and making our way down river banks into river beds it was nice to find a genuine T1 where a cacher in a wheel chair could negotiate the path and reach the cache.
 
06-Jul-19
Quick find here as I continued a walk around area. No passing foot traffic so no problem making the grab. The group of 8 had been here as well.

Thanks again C@W....
 
01-Jun-19
Come and find me.
 
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