Peppercorn Point [KCW] Deer Park, Victoria, Australia
By caughtatwork on 01-Jan-20. Waypoint GA14231
Cache Details
Difficulty: | |
Terrain: | |
Type: | Traditional |
Container: | Small |
Coordinates: | S37° 46.045' E144° 46.462' (WGS 84) |
55H 303967E 5817657N (UTM) | |
Elevation: | 56 m |
Local Government Area: | Brimbank |
Description
Kororoit Creek Walk - Peppercorn Point
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.
You have reached the start (or the end depending on which way you are tracking this series of geocaches) of this trail. This geocache is hidden in a most logical location but getting into it may mean a stick or two in the head and one or two scratches along your arm. Just be patient and you will work your way in a be a finder of the geocache.
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
Prager gehax |
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Decode |
Logs
Cache and contents are in good condition.
Many thanks caughtatwork, enjoyed our day exploring the area.
Thanks [email protected] all good.
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.
Rather large trees here.
This was buried nice and deep.
But it was safe.
TFTC
After carefully picking our way into the centre of the area we located another well hidden cache container. Like previous finds in this series the container was coated with material from the immediate area that blended well with the hide environment. The contents were safe and dry and the log was blank.
Thanks for this cache caughtatwork. Another {FTF} at 7.45.