Light My Way - Western Ring Path Sunshine West, Victoria, Australia
By
caughtatwork on 06-May-17. Waypoint GA9982
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Small |
| Coordinates: | S37° 47.099' E144° 47.383' (WGS 84) |
| 55H 305365E 5815740N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 47 m |
| Local Government Area: | Brimbank |
/144.789717,-37.784983,14/400x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiY2F1Z2h0YXR3b3JrIiwiYSI6ImNqa2l4ZzNzMDE5bjgzdm1sZGpuODF1Mm0ifQ.q8YMzVyzDJJlJHHV8EMjwQ)
Description
Light My Way - Western Ring Path
The Western Ring Path is the continuation of the Western Freeway Path along the Western Ring Road and provide more opportunity for some walking or cycling along a nicely made asphalt path way.
The light poles here are designed to break away should you run into them, minimising collision damage. I tell you what; if you have hit this pole and it has broken away then you've also gone through an Armco road barrier and a concrete wall. There is some collision damage here but the breakaway light pole will not be the cause of any of it. As you walk along the Western Ring Path you will need to head up the small rise as you approach. The geocache is a small 200ml Sistema container which is quite flat and that might help you to locate it. There is no risk of electrical injury here as you do not need to search under the light pole itself. Keep your hands away from there and you should be able to spot the obvious hiding place.
Hints
Haqre gur jnyy oruvaq gur yvtug cbyr uvqqra ol n ebpx be gjb. |
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Decode |
Logs
Today we started with the Western Ring Path series of caches then headed over to Cairnlea to find some more in that area. We had selected 36 caches to find and this was one on our list. Unfortunately, we could only manage 24 finds, the rest were DNF"S.
Cache and contents were dry and in good order.
Thanks caughtatwork.
Cache and contents were dry and in good order.
Thanks caughtatwork.
Rated: for Overall Experience
20:40
Perfect timing... the twinkling of light through the small holes as the cars passed in the sunset was something to behold.
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Well.
This wasn't the day I'd planned, but family matters had turned the weekend on its head. Between sleeping in after the fun of caching in the dark until so late it was almost early, and staying at home to referee while the better half ran some errands, it wasn't until mid afternoon that I rolled out the gate.
Finally logging my first cache for the day after crossing the Whitten Bridge, I continued anticlockwise around the Ring Road, bagging 42 finds, and a handful of DNFs.
Thanks, C@W... today's haul has gone a long way toward my ambition of getting my GA logs over 10% of the GC total.
GCA#290
Perfect timing... the twinkling of light through the small holes as the cars passed in the sunset was something to behold.
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Well.
This wasn't the day I'd planned, but family matters had turned the weekend on its head. Between sleeping in after the fun of caching in the dark until so late it was almost early, and staying at home to referee while the better half ran some errands, it wasn't until mid afternoon that I rolled out the gate.
Finally logging my first cache for the day after crossing the Whitten Bridge, I continued anticlockwise around the Ring Road, bagging 42 finds, and a handful of DNFs.
Thanks, C@W... today's haul has gone a long way toward my ambition of getting my GA logs over 10% of the GC total.
GCA#290
Rated: for Overall Experience
#GA1877 - 11:25; Day two of a caching mission to Victoria with Sol de lune. Our major goal for the week is to complete the SSS and other series along the Western Freeway/Ring Road and to then collect enough GCA caches around Docklands to bring our total finds for the day to 100+ which would build our trophy cabinets a bit more as we complete a few more 'missions'. This was one of 82 finds in just under 6 hours along the various series, where we only had the one DNF! We finished the freeway section and had now turned north to take on the 'ring path'. Apologies for the mostly generic logs. TFTC caughtatwork 
Rated: for Overall Experience
Back at the next section of series and again it was just a matter of following the GPSr, dropping the bike and grabbing the cache. In most cases it was that simple and we just plodded along cache after cache. I think we were starting to slow as the wind picked up...nothing kills a ride like riding into the wind.
All was good though and unless stated, all caches were found in good condition.
Thanks for this one C@W.....
All was good though and unless stated, all caches were found in good condition.
Thanks for this one C@W.....
I enjoyed my walk along the Western Ring Rd path, south of the Western Freeway, a few weeks ago with my niece, so today I planned to cycle the northern section. I have not cycled very often in the recent past but I knew that the path was mostly flat so I should not get into too much difficulty. I ended up finding 25 caches in 4 hours, with a short stop to discuss geocaching with two police officers and another stop to chat with a VicRoads worker.
Thank you caughtatwork for this series.
A quick walk up to the wall, via the evident geo-trail, and the cache was in hand. I was back on my bicycle before the students from the nearby college came out into their playgrounds.
Thank you caughtatwork for this series.
A quick walk up to the wall, via the evident geo-trail, and the cache was in hand. I was back on my bicycle before the students from the nearby college came out into their playgrounds.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Today was the perfect day to pick up some GCA smileys.
Xmas in July points need to be scored.
I threw the bike in the car and parked in a supermarket car park close by.
Another easy pick up on the ride today.
TFTC
Xmas in July points need to be scored.
I threw the bike in the car and parked in a supermarket car park close by.
Another easy pick up on the ride today.
TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
We had arrived in Melbourne early to catch the Spirit of Tasmania back to Tassie tonight. That gave us the opportunity to look for more caches along the Western Ring Path, ones that we didn't find in April because we ran out of time. We were pleased that the rain of yesterday had gone and, apart from a cold breeze, the walking conditions were very pleasant. Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks caughtatwork for the cache and the series.
What else do you do while waiting to board the ferry home? Park at a service centre and walk 10 kms getting 21 GCA caches, 13 of which were FTF. We had a lovely walk either side of the Big M. Thanks caughtatwork for placing,(now we get triple dragon zone points), for the great cache containers, good clues and spot on coords. FTF @ 2.45 pm. 
TFTC
TFTCRated: for Overall Experience
