WanAus 205 - River Murray - Merbein ICEM Merbein, Victoria, Australia
By WanderingAus on 15-Oct-11. Waypoint GA3479

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	Traditional
Container:	Small
Coordinates:	S34° 10.188' E142° 4.871' (WGS 84)
	54H 599648E 6218488N (UTM)
Elevation:	56 m
Local Government Area:	Mildura

Map

Whodunit State

Description

Due to the temporary nature of pens and pencils in my geocaches
PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN WRITING IMPLEMENT!!!

I've Cached Everywhere, Man is the largest cache series hidden in Australia. It is made up of the locations made famous by Lucky Star in the song "I've been everywhere" in 1962, lyrics by Geoff Mack. River Murray is the seventy-ninth place mentioned in the song, at line three in verse four. After eighteen weeks on the road, covering over 15,000 kilometres, I only cached in nine towns mentioned in the song or in the extra verses written for Geocaching Australia, but I cached at lots of places beside the mighty Murray River.

I've cached in Ettalong, Dandenong, Woodenbong, Ballarat,
Canberra, Milperra, Unanderra, Captain's Flat,
Cloncurry, River Murray, Kurri Kurri, Girraween,
Terrigal, Fingal, Stockinbingal, Collaroy and Narrabeen,
Bendigo, Dorrigo, Bangalow, Indooroopilly,
Kirribilli, Yeerongpilly, Wollondilly, don't be silly.

Merbein is a town beside the Murray River outside Mildura, Victoria, in the Sunraysia region of Australia. At the 2006 census, Merbein had a population of 2526.

The area was known as White Cliffs until 1909 when the township was established, the Post Office opening on 16 August 1909. The name was intended to be Merebin, which is the Aboriginal word for "white sandcliffs", but an error made when registering the name corrupted it to Merbein. It is on the Calder Highway between Mildura and the Murray River crossing on the Abbotsford Bridge to Curlwaa.

It is the home of Mildara Wines, which W B Chaffey founded in 1911. The Mildara Blass Winery still stands on the cliffs towering above the Murray River, and is open to visitors for a tour and wine tasting. The CSIRO Plant Research Division has a facility at Merbein focused on the grape and citrus growing industries.

The cache is a drab camo'd 450 ml round screwtop container. Initial contents are logbook, stash note, 2 pencils, pencil sharpener, and a bunch of swaps.

Congratulations to
deegees
on the First To Find.

Swaggies are not tradeable items. Please feel free to take them without making a trade, but please leave a note in the logbook and your online log, and do log them online. Groundspeak Trackables (geocoins and travel bugs) can NOT be logged into this cache, or any other GCA cache. Please don't drop any Groundspeak Trackables in this cache, and if you find any in this cache please remove them and log a "Grab it from somewhere else" log for the trackable.

Logs

06-Sep-17

Tassie Trekkers

A quick find in a lovely location thanks Wandering Aus

Rated: for Overall Experience

23-Aug-17

HansJJ

This is a nice place to visit – thanks for showing to us - TFTC / TFTH / SL Clan Griffin

Rated: for Overall Experience

29-Apr-17

whitewebbs

we are returning from the Red Centre Experience Event in Alice Springs and are currently caching around Merbein and this was one of the caches we found. A great view from the lookout. TFTC

03-Apr-17

LuckyL10n

#GA1420 - 16:45; Day two of the Alice Mega Road Trip with Sol de lune was now well underway heading from Balranald to Mildura via Wentworth and Pooncarie. We had now crossed into Victoria and were picking up a few caches as we made our way towards the accommodation for the evening. Popped in to grab this one and after a short search soon had the cache in hand and the log signed. TFTC WanderingAus Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

30-Jul-16

2y'stassies

We always try to find ICEM caches while we are travelling on the big island. We like the idea of a round Australia trail of related caches and owm 10 of the Tasmanian ICEMs. Loved the view from the lookout although the wind blowing up the valley was making an eery noise. Cache and contents were in very good condition.
Thanks for the cache WanAus

07-Jul-16

bucketeer

Came to admire the view and checked the GPS to discover the nearest cache was VERY near, so we could not look for it!
Cache and contents in good condition.
Thanks

10-Sep-15

beetles2

Yeah!!! A real GCA cache. An easy find between muggles. Great place to suss out a potential camp spot for tonight. Thanks.

09-Mar-15

sharnie's tribe

A quick find in an area where we found a cache last time we were in town. Love the views from this lookout, especially on a beautiful day like today. A lot of people enjoying themselves on the river. TFTC

13-Apr-13

albida33

South Australia 2013 with Sol de Lune. We headed off on 12/4 and arrived home on 28/4. The trip was to visit the SA series so more time could be spent at the Mega itself next year. We did a huge variety of caching around Murray Bridge, the Mid North, Yorke Peninsula and Whyalla Region. Apart from one wet night and two wet days we were able to spend heaps of time caching.

Thanks.
Albida

13-Apr-13

Sol de lune

Found with Albida while on our 2 week trip to, and around Sth Australia. Had a good look around the area and was glad for the chance to stop and grab another cache.

Thanks WanAus.....still a few to go.

Rated: for Overall Experience

09-Oct-12

The Morris

Found after grabbing it neighbour on a tour around Merbein. Our third ICEM cache I think - we have a long way to go. TFTC

01-Oct-12

WanderingAus

WanderingAus wandered by on day 125 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip, making our way from Darwin towards Perth via Mount Isa, Townsville, Emerald, Goondiwindi, Gunnedah, Young, Yass and Wentworth.

After meeting the WanderingMrs at the Wentworth Services Club for a sumptuous $5 lunch after yet another Line Dancing Workshop, we headed into Mildura for a bit of sightseeing.

On the way back to Wentworth the WanderingMrs noticed the 'Historic Marker' sign beside the road on the outskirts of Merbein. She decided to visit it, and I realised it was the signpost to the Cairn commemorating Captain Chas Sturt passing near the Merbein lookout, so I took the opportunity to check on my cache. All was well, everything nice and dry.

Still good to go,
Keith

19-Dec-11

skullracing

Found on our return journey to Albury from Barmera SA where we had spent the last 5 days for a friends 40th birthday celebrations. A lovely location and views from here, thanks for bringing us here Wandering Aus

Rated: for Overall Experience

24-Oct-11

Romax

Found by Roma and Max.
An unexpected family visit gave us the opportunity to find another of yours in this series. If we had known we could have also saved you some postage!
Thanks Steve and cheers,
from Romax.

Rated: for Overall Experience

17-Oct-11

deegees

After a short look, found quite easily. A FTF for deegees from Tassie. TNLNSL TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

15-Oct-11

WanderingAus

WanderingAus wandered by with the WanderingMrs (aka SWMBO) on day 136 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip. The WanderingMrs had determined through the wonders of the Information Superhighway that there was over a week of line dancing at the Wentworth Services Club, so after a couple of cold, wet and windy days in Horsham, and a night in Ouyen, we made our way to Curlwaa and booked in for five nights.

On the fourth and final day I dropped the WanderingMrs at the Wentworth Services Club so she could watch the line dancing competition and headed out for four hours of caching.

As I travelled through Merbein I hunted down GC1TYM0 River view by doheng and found a great spot I wouldn't otherwise have visited, with terrific views and a lot of interesting history. I decided to place a cache there as part of this series, so I returned to the geoPajero and made up a cache container for "WanAus 204 - River Murray - Merbein ICEM". I took the container with me, and went for a walk upstream, looking for a good spot to hide it, then tried going back downstream, still without success. I was despairing of finding a safe spot, and eventually found an acceptable place for it not far from River view. The container I had chosen wasn't suitable for my hiding spot, so I then transferred everything into a different container.

Ready to roll, enjoy.