Excel [KCW] Deer Park, Victoria, Australia
By caughtatwork on 01-Jan-20. Waypoint GA14223
Cache Details
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Type: | Traditional |
Container: | Small |
Coordinates: | S37° 45.547' E144° 45.593' (WGS 84) |
55H 302669E 5818548N (UTM) | |
Elevation: | 63 m |
Local Government Area: | Brimbank |
Description
Kororoit Creek Walk - Excel
Take an afternoon and have a walk along Kororoit Creek in Deer Park 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.
Excel is one of those workplace tools that people use either very simply (lists) or hideously complex (macros and references and VLOOKUP’s that always require just that one more tweak to hand leading zeros in numerical columns). This version of excel is the simple kind where you are looking for one cell which contains the geocache. But which one? Hmmm, it's a 200ml Sistema if that's any help. Please return any stones you dislodge so the entire excel wall doesn't collapse.
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
Svefg (be ynfg qrcraqvat ba lbhe cbvag bs ivrj). Gbc. |
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Logs
Cache and contents are in good condition.
Many thanks caughtatwork, enjoyed our day exploring the area.
1 Yep.
That'll do me.
As LL says, we certainly need to come back to finish this series and head over Bacchus Marsh. One day next year I'm sure.
Thanks 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 not sure what this is.
Pumping station or something.
Anyway the sneaky hide soon showed itself.
TFTC
Thanks for another cache in this series caughtatwork. It is certainly a lovely walk that hopefully other geocachers will make soon.