Carbon Retention [KCW] Deer Park, Victoria, Australia
By caughtatwork on 01-Jan-20. Waypoint GA14229

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Type: Traditional
Container: Small
Coordinates: S37° 45.960' E144° 46.148' (WGS 84)
  55H 303502E 5817803N (UTM)
Elevation: 58 m
Local Government Area: Brimbank

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Kororoit Creek Walk - Carbon Retention

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.
Another stroll. Another geocache. Another log. This one is also another 200ml Sistema container.
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.

 
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.

Always my luck a little yappy dog close by.

He soon stopped and I found the well hidden cache.

TFTC Very Happy
 
09-Mar-20
The walk from the previous cache to this one was interesting. Firstly we encountered 2 one man tents, obviously occupied, on the bank above the path. They were surrounded by disguarded packaging and several shopping trolleys containing personal belongings. Fortunately the cache hide was round the corner out of sight. After returning to the track to avoid the campers we met several muggle walkers. After a chat they moved off and we headed bush to look for the cache. Our GPS took us to the fence but the hint took us to the hide 5m below.

Thanks for another cache in this series caughtatwork. The container and contents were in good condition and the log blank. {FTF} at 8.05.
 
01-Jan-20
Welcome to 2020. Come and find me.
 
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