Swampy Bridge - Caroline Springs Stroll Caroline Springs, Victoria, Australia
By caughtatwork on 07-Jun-15. Waypoint GA7258

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Type: Traditional
Container: Small
Coordinates: S37° 44.885' E144° 43.974' (WGS 84)
  55H 300262E 5819715N (UTM)
Elevation: 79 m
Local Government Area: Melton

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A stroll around the lakes of Caroline Springs

Caroline Springs, just 25km west of Melbourne is a thriving community with a great trail of paths and walkways between the artificial lakes, ponds and creeks. Set in 800 hectares of grazing land Caroline Springs was developed on greenfield land since starting in 1999. At the north of the suburb is the town square and main shopping center known as CS Square, and a man-made lake known as Lake Caroline. It is around the man made lakes that your meanderings will take you as you collect the various geocaches around the area.

The cache you seek is a 200ml sistema container painted to blend into the surroundings. Be aware of water and snakes in the summer time.

Winter is Coming is all about geocaching during the cold weather, the challenge of controlling dragonZones and your own obsession with completing goals and earning dZPoints. These challenges and points are in addition to your normal dragonZone points. Your normal dragonZone points will also be accrued towards your total in this game. There are a number of different challenges to choose from during this game. Some will be easy. Some will be tough. Some may be impossible. Challenges can be accomplished more than once. The game software will calculate your points as you log your geocaches at Geocaching Australia. Challenges are there to give your points a boost and you are not required to achieve any challenge in order to participate in the game. Simply being a dragonZone game member will allow you to participate. Once you have collected your first points in the game, you will appear on the ladder. All points collected from all dragonZone activities will count towards your position on the ladder. This includes standard finds, daily dZPoints, challenge bonus points, trophy points and any points awarded by the game administrators.

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Abegu rnfg fvqr, orgjrra ebpx naq pbapergr.
ROT 13: ABCDEFGHIJKLM
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Logs

15-Apr-23
Today we spent our day geocaching in and around the Caroline Springs area, This was one of 18 finds. Cache and contents are in good condition.

Many thanks caughtatwork, enjoyed our day exploring the area.

 
14-Sep-19
Quick find in a ripper area !
With SSRST AND GOOSE
 
14-Sep-19
ok back to finding again. phew!
 
quick find while out with goose and egg and Toolman
over from Tassie on a raiding mission
thanks for the cache
 
30-Mar-19
Found with thomo31. TFTC
 
29-Mar-19
Found with teamashy. Really windy now! Signed log and returned as found. TFTC
 
25-Feb-18
21:20
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The cooler weather this weekend made today perfect for a bike ride. With a stiff southerly blowing, I decided that I'd tackle the lower reaches of the Kororoit Creek with the wind at my tail, rather than the tougher option... then enjoy a non-stop jaunt alongside the Ring Road and Western Freeway to where I left off last week.

It was certainly quite different this time around: express rather than stopping all stations (caches), then, once I'd made it to the vicinity of the prison, a cool, and occasionally damp evening compared to the balmy weather of late.

By the time I reached the middle of Caroline Springs, there were nearly a dozen and a half more smileys, with only a few I couldn't locate, and finds on some caches that had been dormant for a year and a half. Oh, and both my phone and GPSr were running on fumes when I finally got on a train. All in all, a good evening expedition.

Many thanks, C@W.

GCA#348
 
12-Dec-16
Maintained today and cache replaced. Thanks for the DNF log.
 
10-Dec-16
no luck here either. Sad
 
17-Jun-16
17.6.16 1.31 am found it
 
26-Jan-16
Found 11.30am
Had a car parked right at GZ the first time round so we returned after finding all the others to search for this one.
Took nothing
Left Grandparents Again pathtag

Thanks caughtatwork
 
14-Oct-15
Found it! Guess that makes 2/4 finds.
 
26-Aug-15
This trail was in two parts. Bird life was plentiful for the first half and was replaced by few birds and more tranquil scenes in the second half. There was one water hen near this cache and a few very small birds. Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good order. Thanks for the cache caughatwork.
 
25-Aug-15
Today I dropped off the geokids and continued on north for a few smileys.

I completed a great little circuit of the lakes of Caroline Springs.

Some great caches that you can complete in just on an hour.

Nice spot here where I parked close by.

Quick find before moving on.

TFTC Very Happy
 
12-Jul-15
Next stop in this series. Parked the car at number 1 and decided to take the stroll around to all the caches....and on any other day that would probably be a good idea. As for today....who the hell was I kidding...that was just plain DUMB!! I guess the people driving past who beeped at me as I was walking back to the car along the main drag thought so as well. Evil or Very MadEvil or Very Mad

Anyways, this first one was found ok, and with the weather the way it was, I used the hint on every one....couldn't see the sense in trying to find something, while holding the umbrella up like a target for any lightning to aim for. Brick WallBrick Wall

Log/s was soon signed, cache replaced and I was getting wetter....if that was even possible! But, it was still a caching run, and I enjoyed the area. I can remember when they started to build the area....new suburb, new display homes, it was all the go. Mid 90's I think??

Thanks for the series caughtatwork....just hope you don't mind cut n paste logs!!! DohDohDoh
 
09-Jun-15
STF at 13:28
A few muggles walking all different directions here so I walked up to the roundabout and back to give them time to disperse. No trouble finding the cache once the coast was clear. I signed in second place yet again while admiring the bird life here.
Thanks caughtatwork for the pleasant lunchtime walk (and caches obviously)
 
09-Jun-15
Another quickie at 11:50 (alright, I had a squiz at the hint Embarassed) to mark our 7th GCA FTF and (70th overall). Dancing

TNLNSL. Thanks caughtatwork.
 
07-Jun-15
Winter has come. Please come and find me.
 
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