All The Rivers Run 7 Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By RBirtles on 21-Dec-11. Waypoint GA4115

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	Traditional
Container:	Small
Coordinates:	S35° 17.559' E149° 7.606' (WGS 84)
	55H 693392E 6092428N (UTM)
Elevation:	564 m
Local Government Area:	Australian Capital Territory

Map

Description

A continuance of my All The Rivers Run Series but this time cache placement being done via GCA.

Lake Burley Griffin came into being in 1963 after the Molonglo River — which ran between the city centre and the Parliamentary — was dammed. The length of the lake is about 11 kilometres and at its widest approximately 1.2 kilometres. It has an average depth of 4 metres and a maximum depth of about 18 metres near Scrivener Dam.

The first Commonwealth Avenue Bridge was constructed in 1928 and the current bridge was opened on 10 March 1962, with a motorcade led by Prime Minister Menzies.

Work commenced on the bridge in March 1961. At the peak of building, up to 500 men would gather on the flood plain to work—uprooting trees, removing soil, cottages and dismantling the timber truss bridge at Commonwealth Avenue. The Bridge is a twin structure, with separate parallel carriageways. The bridge structures are of 5 spans totalling 310 metres, of fully continuous prestressed design. It has a higher camber than Kings Avenue Bridge, a design feature to allow for yachts to sail beneath. The end pylons give added importance to the bridge as the main route to Parliament House. To provide an exit and entry clover leaf layout, separate structures are built on the main bridge’s south approaches, totalling 49 metres each, in 4 approximately equal spans. Between the spans on the southern side are two granite stones from the 1817 Waterloo Bridge across the River Thames in London. These were presented to Australia after the 1817 bridge was demolished

This cache has been given a 5 star terrain rating unless you are prepared to swim and tread water while signing the log. If you do so then you probably deserve 5 stars anyhow Please ensure when closing the cache that the seal is completely unobstructed - you will understand why when finding the cache. While boating on the Lake please wear a personal flotation device for safety reasons.

Bring your own pen please.

Hints

Jung yvrf orarngu...

ROT 13:	ABCDEFGHIJKLM
	NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Decode

Logs

22-Sep-15

Geocaching Australia

This cache appears to be MIA so we'll archive it to stop it turning up in the listings. If the cache owner can confirm it's in place, they can reactivate the listing by placing an unarchived log against it.

08-Sep-15

Sol de lune

Think it's time for this one to be archived. 3 years since found, 2 x DNF's and a needs maintenance.....

Sorry Rob...

31-May-15

Sol de lune

Any updates Rob? Would like to see this one back. If that's not possible though...maybe it needs to archived.

18-Jan-15

Sol de lune

With the last (recorded) attempt at this one being a DNF, I checked with previous finders as to what to expect at GZ, but certainly nothing matching that anywhere around the co-ords. Paddled around and checked all the other possible (i.e. similar) hiding spots, but no, nothing on them either.

I think the gig is up on this one rbirtles...

22-Feb-14

Boot65

Called here while boating around the lake. Circumnavigated around the structure that the GPSr was pointing to, pushed and prodded at a few things, but found nothing that resulted in a cache. We only found some graffiti.

19-Feb-12

dorrigo codgers

found while having a ride in a paddle wheel boat with geo wife.puf,puf, needed spell.something unusual?.geocachers instinct kicks in.what a cache .wat a spot to place it,well done.sl. tftc. Razz

Rated: for Overall Experience

19-Feb-12

wink. inc

for my(50) birthday after a hard night of drinking and special entertainment my daughters decided we needed to go paddle boating with there grand parents (dorrigo codgers ) so a quick look at GCA befor led us here

TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

28-Jan-12

noikmeister

By this point I realised I didn't have a pen, but have pictorial evidence of the find. Something wrong with your numbering system rob!

01-Jan-12

MC KENNA

Found after the event like the others in the company of 0319 in the little Zephyr (my very old canoe)
TFTC
MC KENNA

31-Dec-11

M_Family

Found with MtnLioness at canoeing event. TFTC!

31-Dec-11

MtnLioness

Found and signed as part of todays event. As i pulled up the chain, 5 other crafts all came and held onto ours so we had to also hold onto GZ else we were going to drift away from it! logbook was passed around and everyone touched the chain too, lol. GREAT GCA cache!!

Rated: for Overall Experience

31-Dec-11

Tankengine

Found on the way back from the Island Event cache! - Certainly my arms have had a good workout today!

This was an excellent cache!

Rated: for Overall Experience

31-Dec-11

mr_roo

Found acouple of times today but the first time was before the event. jusojara had done this cache yesterday but took me out to it to sign it. Was fun doing a different type of cache TFTC

31-Dec-11

McPhan

483. A little bit cooler, softer and less spikey than the others in this series. Also no hidden plant plots on the way to this one. (That really would be extreme hydroponics.)GPS was stowed in the foredeck so we went in fro the recollection from Google maps and made the find. Bronnie did the fishing honours and we headed back once she threw it back in (under legal size apparently).

TFTC and the mascara.

Rated: for Overall Experience

31-Dec-11

mtbikeroz

I was on Granddad duties most of the morning while MtnLioness joined the canoe expedition up and down the lake. I watched the mass signing from the shore then caught a lift from the power boat (Thanks jusojara & Mr Roo), and went over and physically signed the log and lowered the container into the water. Thanks rbirtles for the (short) bit of fun and thanks for the drop off back to the grand-kiddies Jusojara.

31-Dec-11

SamWalkers

We were part of the mass signing.
Matt slipped ahead of us all (in the slowest boat) by catching a lift with Jusojara and co on the power boat. By the time I got there it was done and dusted.

Rated: for Overall Experience

31-Dec-11

O319

Another find on the Canoe Caching event. Great location!

31-Dec-11

winglen

By this time the paddling efficiency was suffering a bit due to fatigue, and as others have already said, we were glad to float around in the shade a bit while the container was opened. This was a lot of fun as Winglen tried to gently ram the McPhan craft to nudge them close enough to the gz to make an easy grab. Thanks rbirtles for the fun and exercise.

31-Dec-11

corvettepete

Did this on the Canoe caching event with Batgirl and my Geowife. As mentioned by Batgirl, the shade provided by the bridge was welcome by the time we got to this point. A great end to a great morning. TFTC

31-Dec-11

BatGirlandCo

Last stop of the day after the long haul out for Fish'n'Chirps this one looked close enough to the home run to collect on the way through. It was nice to find a shady spot on the lake! Just what we needed after all that paddling! I am amazed to say I appear to be the same shade of pink as before we started.... a condition that rarely alters. Wink

31-Dec-11

mtrax

We zoomed ahead with the extra power on board this was no problems and as we arrive found Tankengine just finished signing the log so a quick hand off and back to shore we go..
A great day out thanks Rbirtles

31-Dec-11

Bronnie_1990

Huzzah! After paddling for what felt like AGES!!!! (In reality..might of not been ages. not sure), we got here.
Ah, McPhan didnt have his GPS on him. Oh dear.
Winglen also didnt have their GPS's on them. Hmmm.
BatGirl and CorvettePete were...behind us somewhere. With presumably a GPS or so we hoped.

What do we do? Lets do it without a gps!
After finally getting to the spot, i got the opening/signing cache honours..either my arms were REALLY tired, or it's bronnie proof, as i almost couldnt open it! but then i managed to, signed all of our names, and it was back to shore we go.

Woohoo!

Oh yeah, and thanks to the winglens for ramming us to get us close enough to the cache! Very Happy

Also, we must of missed the mass group signing...which i'm kinda thankful for..i had enough trouble with writing 5 names!

31-Dec-11

Toy Hunters

9th and final this morning at the LBG event. A very nice hide to finish the day off. All signed and ready to go back. Thanks rbirtles for the cache and the event! Clapping

Rated: for Overall Experience

31-Dec-11

jaralah3

Found whilst at canoeing event
This is the point where there were 6 canoes and all crashing into each other.
R got wet Brick Wall

Rated: for Overall Experience

30-Dec-11

jusojara

Out on the lake today for the Pacer Nationals so Ju and I detoured over for a quick find. TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

29-Dec-11

blue_mars

Little Blue and I hired a kayak for a bit of summer holiday fun. TO give a bit of objective we set off to clear the caches on the lake. Little Blue was very impressed to score the FTF, and we took two pathtags - which on prepating to log I've discovered was not the intent - very sorry Sad

Thanks for the fun of 5 stars, and the FTF.

Rated: for Overall Experience

21-Dec-11

rbirtles

Published - I have left a few pathtags of 2 designs in this cache. If you already have the pathtag please leave for someone else and of course only take 1 at the most.