Excel [KCW] Deer Park, Victoria, Australia
By caughtatwork on 01-Jan-20. Waypoint GA14223

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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

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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.

 

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16-Apr-23
Caching along the Koroit Creek Trail today, this was one of 14 finds.

Cache and contents are in good condition.

Many thanks caughtatwork, enjoyed our day exploring the area.

 
30-Oct-21
Took a binary approach here. Dancing
1 Yep. Clapping
That'll do me. Laughing
 
28-Jun-21
Quick easy find, cars gone in for a service today so I thought I would search some caches in the area to kill some time. Big thanks for the hide all looks to be in good working order. Now it's off to find the next one!
 
17-Dec-20
Last one for this trip and it wasn't long and the cache was in hand. From here we have a couple of stops in Seymour before heading for home.

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....
 
17-Dec-20
#GA4999 - 09:25; In Melbourne with Sol de lune for a flying visit to collect some items and get them delivered in time for Christmas. After another early start today to drop off yesterday's goods, we then headed west to collect some of the newer caches which have appeared since our last visit, while we waited for the next goods collection point to open for business. The lake circuit made for a very pleasant stroll in ideal caching conditions. After collecting the last in the lake loop series, plus a couple of others in the area, we headed over to make a start on this series. A very pleasant morning for caching, with all caches again found in good condition. This was the last stop along the trail today, but as Arnie would say "I'll be baaack"! Now to collect the beacon cache we passed earlier Very Happy TFTC caughtatwork Very HappyClan Cerberus
 
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.

Well not sure what this is.

Pumping station or something.

Anyway the sneaky hide soon showed itself.

TFTC Very Happy
 
09-Mar-20
Daylight had fully arrived by the time we reached this hide. Our cachers instinct kicked in and we were fortunate toelocate the cache container in the first spot we searched. No need to search all the cells in this excel spread sheet. Again the external surface of the container is coated with dirt and debris but the internal surface and the contents are in excellent condition. Another blank log book and another {FTF} at 6.40.

Thanks for another cache in this series caughtatwork. It is certainly a lovely walk that hopefully other geocachers will make soon.
 
01-Jan-20
Welcome to 2020. Come and find me.
 
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