Creswick Regional Park Creswick, Victoria, Australia
By
Sol de Lune on 04-Dec-23. Waypoint GA27485
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Small |
| Coordinates: | S37° 26.781' E143° 53.240' (WGS 84) |
| 54H 755422E 5851695N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 512 m |
| Local Government Area: | Hepburn |
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Description
Crewick Regional Park...from Wikipedia
The Creswick Regional Park, also known as the Creswick State Forest, is a large forest near the town of Creswick, in Victoria, Australia. It covers an area of 930 hectares. Much of the forest was heavily logged to supply timber to the gold mines in Ballarat and Creswick during the 1850s and 1860s. Many gold mining sites can be found in the forest.
St.Georges Lake is a man-made lake built to supply water for hydraulic sluicing. Eaton's Dam is another gold water supply. In 1942, students from the Creswick Forestry School fenced a small area of forest to create a breeding area for koalas. However the koalas were able to climb the fence, and the Koala Park was not successful.
A section of the Great Dividing Trail, the Wallaby Track, passes through the Creswick Regional Park. Some of it follows the water races built by the gold miners to supply water for their activities.
This cache is located at one of the entry points to the park This one from the Midland Highway and is adjacent (across the dirt road) to one of the fairways on the RACV Gold Course.
Cache is placed as part of the 2023 Summer Cacheopoly Game.
Hints
Haqre ybj fghzc, oruvaq ebpx. |
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Decode |
Logs
Thanks for another GCA cache Sol De Lune. We enjoyed the wild flowers, particularly the Happy Wanderer, flowering close to the hide.
There was a bit of water in the container [which we drained] but the log was fine.
Thanks for an easy way to start our caching day Sol De Lune.
It took a couple attempts to find the right track in here but once I got to GZ it was a quick find!
TFTC
Found as a requirement of the 2023 cacheopoly challenge.
Thanks for the convenient placement sol de lune
