End of the trail [KCW] Burnside, Victoria, Australia
By caughtatwork on 01-Jan-20. Waypoint GA14216
Cache Details
Difficulty: | |
Terrain: | |
Type: | Traditional |
Container: | Micro |
Coordinates: | S37° 44.876' E144° 45.409' (WGS 84) |
55H 302369E 5819782N (UTM) | |
Elevation: | 64 m |
Local Government Area: | Melton |
Description
Kororoit Creek Walk - End of the trail
Take an afternoon and have a walk along Kororoit Creek in Burnside and enjoy the wildlife including tiger snake, eastern blue-tongued lizard, common snakeneck turtle and eastern brown snake. Sighting are now rare with development driving most of the creatures away from the built-up areas.
You can consider this the start of the trail or the end of the trail or even the middle of the trail if you continue with the other section of the Kororoit Creek Walk, but any way you look at it you are looking for a geocache and it's a micro at that, being a small green bison style tube.
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.
Hints
7gu cbfg |
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Decode |
Logs
Cache and contents are in good condition.
Many thanks caughtatwork, enjoyed our day exploring the area.
Thanks for another one C@W...
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.
Well this one was tricky.
Cache was not what I expected so looked around a little too long.
But got there!
TFTC
After a little toing and froing and do we start from here or there or the third possible place. Our GPS wanted us on the wrong side of the path - no posts there. First possible place checked - nothing, second place checked and vola there was the cache container hidden by a nasty cutty beast and guarded by an army of fierce micro ants. Container and contents were in good condition.
Thanks for this hide caughtatwork. The view from the hide was beautiful this morning. Another {FTF} at 9.27.