Going for Gold South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
By
caughtatwork on 01-Dec-16. Waypoint GA8770
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Micro |
| Coordinates: | S37° 50.712' E144° 59.597' (WGS 84) |
| 55H 323436E 5809462N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 13 m |
| Local Government Area: | Stonnington |
/144.993283,-37.8452,14/400x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiY2F1Z2h0YXR3b3JrIiwiYSI6ImNqa2l4ZzNzMDE5bjgzdm1sZGpuODF1Mm0ifQ.q8YMzVyzDJJlJHHV8EMjwQ)
Description
Going for Gold
Going for Gold is a sculpture in South Yarra.
There is no plaque or other information around the sculpture but it is surrounded by the Australia and Greek flags and is directly opposite the Greek Orthodox Church. Given the Olympics were founded in ancient Greece it is likley that this sculpture dates back to the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games and was placed here to be in proximity to the Melbourne Greek community. I can find nothing else about it. Even Stonnington council know nothing of this sculpture (or if they do I can't find the right person to ask). If you know more or can find anything else out about this sculpture, please log a note about it.
Geocaching is similar to going for gold (especially as a Griffin Gold Clan Member), so I found it only appropriate that this gold sculpture had a gold geocache located nearby and that control of this geocache remained in Griffin Gold hands.
So come and try to find the geocache and if you're Griffin, give it some Griffin Lovin'. If you're from one of those stinkier clans, then I suppose you're welcome to try and find it as well.
Hints
N trbpnpur va gur ohfu vf jbegu unys n trbpnpur va gur unaq. |
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Logs
Our travels have bought us to Melbourne and we found this cache whilst in the area.
Many thanks Caughtatwork for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience. Great hiding spot
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Gold - Griffin, 
Green - Phoenix, 
Blue - Cerberus or Orange - Minotaur. Earn trophies and rise through the ranks from Dragon Fodder to Ruler of the Universe. Arrived at GZ and noted that a bush was gone, however we still managed to search for the cache and soon had it hand. We signed the log, replaced the cache...and then joined the line of traffic heading back towards the city and to our motel.
A successful run around this area gave us the 4 we were looking...so all good.
Thanks for the cache/s caughtatwork.
Was nearby for a work meeting so thought I’d check out. And I struck gold.
Great spot for a cache and managed to add my name to the second spot.
*Overall Experience: 4*
{FTF} 3/12/16 @ 8:50 pm
Thanks for the cache caughtatwork.
