Well well well one Lake Tyers, Victoria, Australia
By GSA GeoEducation on 14-Feb-07. Waypoint GC10YGB

Thanks for a little bit of history. So interesting to know that oil was discovered here. 6 people in our group.

We found this one very interesting. Thanks for bringing us here. Amazing the history you learn geocaching.

We had a great visit with 6 of us on the back roads back to Lake Tyer where we are camping behind the pub.Answers have been sent.We are bdp, kiwisteve2, drobbonz and kimmy533. Tftc

Travelling around NSW and Victoria on a 5 day trip with my son who is practicing driving a camper trailer on his P's. I decided to give him some rest breaks by stopping to do a few Earthcaches along the way. This Earthcache was pleasure to visit as I havent travelled through the area for over 25 years. A nice detour on the way back to the highway, and a good lesson learnt.Thanks for the Earthcache

We are visiting Lake Entrance and while here grabbing some caching also.The area is lovely, except the weather has been a bit chilly and windyThis is a nice Earth cache.TFTEc

The planets aligned, the radar was clear and I had itchy feet. I left home base in the mountains to see the sea and seek a few caches and complete a few missions at Lakes - glad I ventured here as this EC was quite a surprise. TFTC, the info and the FUN. A FAVE for the lure!

I have sent the answers. A nice little picnic area. The water crossing apparently had been flooded, but today there was only a little shallow water to cross. I also picked up three moveable GA caches while here too. TFTC GeoGeckoEd.

We interestingly enough visited this site in November 2020, during COVID when we were lucky enough to do so.We have the photo to prove it to ourselves.We either found a cache here or did the earth cache and forgot to log it at the time.However, we enjoyed both visits.This is a lovely earth cache, which is actually down to earth, (Pardon the pun)! So, we could easily get a grasp on it.We have sent our answers to the CO and are still waiting for verification and as its Blue Switch Day we are are posting our log with the obligatory team photo at the earth cache location.We certainly did learn quite a bit about this topic.One thing we definitely will not forget is that this was the first site in Australia where oil was found!TFTC

#19758 - 3:26:00 PM; Day thirteen of a road trip with the geohoney, taking the long way inland to Adelaide from the National Capital and back again via the coast. Made it to Melbourne last night and got a great deal on a hotel near the MCG. Grabbed a nearby cache before heading east along the Princes Highway. Made it all the way to Lakes Entrance and decided I had to check out this interesting looking cache. I wasn't disappointed and learned a couple of things as well! Gathered the information needed and answers have been sent to the CO to get the OK. TFTC GeoGeckoEd

Cache # 11242 on 25 Apr 2024Decided to take advantage of the ANZAC day holiday and make a long weekend of it - added a road trip with Bobl27 to the mix and all is set for a fun few days. We are travelling from home in the ACT to Victoria via Cooma and then doing a relaxed loop to Melbourne picking up a few caches and counties along the way. And then straight up the Hume home! No tricky DTs or long walks this trip. This cache: a little detour to pick up an earthcache! Answers sent to the CO and photo attached! Interesting to know oil was a thing here! Thank you GeoGeckoEd for the cache and the fun!

Pretty amazing to think this was the dust spot they detected oil and so late in the game. Found on the Mega Capital Geobash coastal loop via Adelaide - Barrington - coast to Mexico City loop. A lot of caches and white line fever was sweated out. Thanks GeoGeckoEd and clear skies from TeamAstro. Cache the planet! Some logs signed as TAD as teamed up with Tenkae and Deanside for additional fun. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

What a beautiful spot to stopAnswers sent on behalf of deanside and TeamAstro Caching around on the road trip that encompasses Barrington Tops, Sydney, the Easter Geobash Mega in Canberra then the return via who knows where to homeThanks GeoGeckoEd for contributing to this great game for myself and others to enjoy.

Visited it during 28-days geotrip to Australia, N.Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Am.Samoa, Fr.Polynesia with Marci, Ch. Sometimes we logged as "MT" or "Jonea" or "MTCh". Thanks for showing nice caches and places. MT-Jonea from Brno city in Czechia EU. FP

On a road trip to attend Capital Geobash Mega and see many different sights along the way. Today we had a big day walking and taking in some lovely areas. A detour here found us at this unique spot. Thanks GSA GeoEducation for creating for us all to enjoy. Answers sent. ...................................................Are you ready to nominate in the **2023 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards**? Check out the 2023 geocaching lists [available here](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists/) to get a head start and find some of the great new caches. Nominations will open early 2024.

Na een bezoek aan Bunga Beach zijn we naar deze spot gereden. Bedankt voor het laten zien. Een foto in de bijlage en de antwoorden verstuurd via het berichten centrum.

TFTEC. Sone interesting information about drilling for oil in the area. Thanks for bringing me here and learning some more information of the Lakes Entrance area. Im visiting from the Hunter Valley in NSW.

Amazing that this was the site of the first oil find in Australia . We stopped here on the way up to Sydney after getting Melbourne's first cache. TFTC

Answers sent to CO. frmen1 and I were out driving when this EC caught our eye. What a fabulous spot to highlight. Learnt something which is one reason we geocache. TFTC

Stopped by here on our family vacation to Lakes Entrance. I had no idea that the oil/gas industries in Australia began here - and just 10 months short of its centenary of discovery!!I love learning new things and this was a cracker. Heymissjo and I tried to share this important part of Australian and Victorian history with our 4 Minis (Ge0Bug, Ge0_Ninja, Dallas and the Dark Minion), but they were rather nonplussed by it all. Still it was a nice shady spot for a bite of lunch.Thanks for bringing us here.

For the cache. Found it with Heymissjo,The Welder and Ge0_Ninja.Ps. Heymissjo submitted my answers

#1749What an interesting Earthcache! I certainly learnt something new coming here. Answers sent with group photo including The Welder, heymissjo, Ge0Bug, Ge0_Ninja, Dark minion and Dallas A great find whilst on a family holiday at Lakes Entrance ----------------------------------------------------------Voting is also now open for the 2022 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards. The shortlist is available [here](https://coord.info/BMC8QYR)[Make your vote count - Vote here!](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/events/Victorian-cache-of-the-year-awards/2022-Victorian-cache-of-the-year-awards)

Excited to be on a family holiday and caching with my family, my Mum heymissjo, plus The Welder, Ge0Bug, Dark minion and Dallas. Thanks for the cache, answer sent by Mum for family.

Quick detour and Pitstop before Lakes Entrance

One of many places visited on our way home from Gelantipy.
I will be back in this area again next week. Thanks for the cache.
*Answers submitted by n0w0rries*

An interesting site.
Visited with +Wife whist holidaying in the area.
Thanks for the Earthcache.

*Answers sent to CO. Oops. I forgot to send you photos. Attached to log instead.*

We were here quite some time ago but have only just got around to sending the answers, sorry about that. Thank you for bringing us here and for the lesson.

What an interesting place for a cache. Thank you for pointing out something that we might have otherwise driven past.

Short stop on our trip to red bluff surfing beach. Thx for showing us this "old" oil field, really quite interesting ¡
4. Juli 2023 16:15
MorsTua
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What a funny little out of the way spot I had no idea about! Thanks for the bit of history..doesn't sound like it was a terribly productive oil well but it was the first! Sent answers through and photo attached. Just me here today.

CaptainVimes and I are on a driving holiday from Melbourne to Canberra this week. I was surprised to arrive at a pretty little park here. It was interesting reading about the geology. Thanks for the earthcache GeoGeckoEd

Well, well, well chummy my lad… you’re nicked!

We have logged this in anticipation of approval, as we like to log our finds in order of find
We have added a photo which includes a small wombat, this is Grumbli - the wombat is our caching avatar. He is climbing the structure, When a Geo photo is required Grumbli steps up as he is not camera shy

Wow, who knew this was the site of first oil rig in Aus. Thanks so much for bringing us here and for the interesting lesson.

A short detour on the way to Lakes Entrance. An interesting location that not many peeps will see as it's well out of the way. Chance for a stretch before the final part of the drive.

Took a pic at the structure. Read about this feature and sent my responses to the CO.

TFTC GSA GeoEducation

#3623 Second of three early morning caches while travelling from Bairnsdale to Orbost. Really enjoyed the views while attempting this earth cache. Required answer sent and approved by CO.
TFTC

On the southcoast of Victoria, on the way to Melbourn.

A quick stop at this little "museum", fun to see and read.

Thanks for the cache

/herrFamaxe from Sweden

An awesome geocache.
A favourite point added.
TFTC

Been to this landmark tons of times but didn't know that this was apart of a earthcache TFTEC

A trip to check out all the awesome places in eastern Victoria. TFTC.
Nice interesting spot. Very good.

While heading from Eden to Paynesville today we decided to stop and visit your earthcache. I enjoy visiting ECs that have something different and yours was certainly that. Answers sent via Richmond Lad.

Travelling thru and decided to stop and do this Earth Cache. Gathered the answers and now have sent to CO. TFTEC GSA GeoEducation

Found it! We visited here after a very delicious lunch at a nearby winery. Answers sent to CO. Loved visiting and learning about this site. TFTC

Sent the answers to this one & also sent photo early this morning, so will log now. As per description request, I advise that there were 2 of us at location. Thanks for the informative Earthcache. I had no idea about this spot & history before.

Out in Lakes Entrance for a short vacay and using geocaching as a way of making sure we visit all the things we would have found otherwise!
Thank you for bringing us here and sharing this information!

Toddler friendly find

We found this cache while on a road trip to Tasmania and our route was taking in this part of the country. I love it how Geocaching takes you to out of the way interesting places and this was a good example of that. At GZ we gathered the information for the questions and have sent them to the CO.
We’re giving this a FP because we thought it was a cool spot to visit and a great bit of history.
TFTC

We came here after spending time at the beach nearby during our school holiday visit to Lakes Entrance.

Continuing our Victorian trip with the family after some time at the Wang mega. Leaving Sale this morning we spent a great day exploring parts of the coast. Having been to Lakes Entrance before only stopped here to grab this EC.
Answers sent to CO.
TFTEC

Found this one on the way back from Lake Tyers to Lake Bunga. Never knew this was Australia’s first oil find! As always, love that geocaching takes us to interesting places and provides new knowledge. TFTC

The work year has finished, so it’s time to head off on another road trip - to explore ‘The Pointy End’.
DAY THREE: Lakes Entrance, Bairnsdale.
Very interesting earthcache.
Answers submitted by RoamingHowie.
Thanks for bringing us here today by placing this cache, GeoGeckoEd

Day 3 of the Bring In The New Year (BITNY) road-trip. Today we packed up camp at Woods Point and headed back west towards Bairnsdale via Nowa Nowa and Lakes Entrance to name a few. Today I will hopefully travel through my last UBD map and tick off another LGA on my list.

This was an interesting earth cache of a different kind that I enjoyed and served as a good spot for lunch. The sign at GZ although in good shape, has lost most of the rivets holding it in place and is sure to fall down at any moment with a strong gust of wind.

Answers submitted to the CO.

Thanks GeoGeckoEd for placing this gamepiece in the wild for us to find.

Found together with Emandel. Thanks for bringing us to see a bit of history of this area.

Thank you for taking us to this fun spot!

Great little spot. TFTC

Enjoyed this nice little stop outside Lakes Entrance today.
Thanks for bringing us here and making us think a bit more about the geology of this holiday destination - beyond sand dunes and beautiful beaches!
TFTC

Great little spot tftc!

I drove Aquilus1 around Victoria, it was a great trip and some great sights were seen. It was actually very relaxing not being involved in where/what we were collecting....I should do it again sometime. Thanks for making me come, it cheered me up no end.

Sorry for the generic log.... all answers (if any) sent by Aquilus1

I had an early morning visit here today whilst holidaying in Lakes Entrance. Photo taken and answers to questions to be submitted upon return. Thanks for this cache as I would never have visited here otherwise.

Lovely spot too.

Trip log: I have had a trip in mind for a while now, a 'Victoria loop' which would see a number of counties travelled through but also visit the last active Web Cam left for me in Australia and a 2000 cache which would see my Ausmer complete! A trip would not be complete without some company so a little convincing and a suitable friend was talked into coming along... and for good measure they would drive and keep me from getting myself into too much trouble while at it!

Counties featured high on my list, but each one filled with quality... oldies, larges, and types that where sought. As is the way the list led to a varied and interesting trip with some very amazing locations discovered along the way.

Day one saw a lot of distance travelled but just four caches found for the day, all quality and after a trip up Mt Buller late in the day we settled into the finest lodgings Mansfield had left.

Day two started well and the highlight among many was GC7A with my Ausmer complete but a great cache location and the gate installed for easy access was a hit. Our journey took us onto a number of locations and through the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. It was here with the light drizzle that settled into solid rain that I was thankful of my driver who calmly followed my directions despite the conditions as I juggled caches on my list to replace the walks the rain and the 13 degrees weather had made too uncomfortable. Ending the day cold and wet in Dandenong the accommodation made up for the previous nights and the local pizza sure did hit the spot.

Day three saw a return to lovely weather with us driving the guard rail hwy... endless guardrails on all roads. Frankie the Gnome wasn't on the list but too hard to miss as we passed! Down to Mornington Peninsula and through some interesting locations towards Lakes entrance and stopped in Bairnsdale overnight.

Day four and after a little local caching around the 'lakes' area on another lovely day, it was the long haul up towards Eden. The 2020 fires devastation was enormous as we drove through the endless winding road with all the fluffy looking regrowth. Crazy to think back to that time and see how nuts it all was. Another full day but made it safe and sound back home again.

Many thanks to all the CO's for your caches that led us on an enjoyable journey through some interesting locations with great places visited along the way..

Taking a road trip to Lakes Entrance with GrimRaider. I stopped in to visit this interesting spot today. Great piece of history as well as geology lesson.

Answers have been sent to the CO

Thanks for hiding this cache GeoGeckoEd

We enjoyed our trip around the Lakes Entrance visiting lakes, inlets, beaches, old mines and lots of other wonders. We passed this old well as we were returning to Lakes Entrance after our wanderings. Who would have believed that such an innocuous looking old well was representative of such significant history in Victoria. I’m glad it hasn’t been removed, but given a place in history. Thanks for bringing us here and the lesson about the site.

Find number 8590 at 11:18:35 am
On holidays in Lakes Entrance for the week and decided to go for a drive to Lake Tyers for the day and check out the area, oh, and grab a few geocaches as well
A beautiful day to be on holidays.
**Thanks for placing this cache GeoGeckoEd**

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We visited this area today as part of an extended weekend of camping to break the working-from-home monotony. This was an interesting detour off the main road for our earthcache lesson in an unexpected location.
Many thanks to GSA GeoEducation for this Earthcache and your prompt reply to verify our answers.

Answers sent

Found it actually not a cache

Found on a drizzle day TFTC

Today we found Well well well one on our travels. We are visiting from Melbourne, during a work meeting junket we managed to find time to collect some local caches. Answers sent to CO.

Thanks GSA GeoEducation for being part of our geocaching fun.

A nice morning and off for a cache. I failed on 2 with DNFs so it was nice to get this one. Very interesting lesson and place.

Thanks to GSA GeoEducation for the placement and fun.

Round the world trip After a stormy night in Port Albert.... Next Stop: Lake Entrance. Found this Cache just fine.
Vielen Dank fürs legen und pflegen und beste Grüße aus Leipzig!
Thanks for hiding and many greetings from Leipzig/Germany!

What a beautiful area and an interesting Cache. Mr. Ward’s sister joined us today to make three of us. Four if you count the Bella the hound.

Our second Earthcache for today, our answers forwarded to CO as requested.

Would never have known this was here if not for geocaching.

Thanks GSA GeoEducation for the placement here.

Together with barbarine I found this Earthcache during our wonderful journey.
Thank you for the task and for showing this place. Greetings from finderus from Dresden.

I visited this Earthcache with finderus on our four-week journey through part of Australia. We had wonderful days full of great impressions and saw many beautiful places.
Thanks to the owners for showing, for working out the caches and the tasks.
Greetings from Dresden in Germany by barbarine.

JSando and I are often too lazy to do earthcaches, but this looked different from the usual pile of rocks, so we decided it was worth a visit. We weren’t disappointed and learned something new. A fave point from me.
Answers sent to CO

WELL the things ya learn while caching.
Found with carkisser. Thank you for bringing us here.

This is the first oil based earthcache ive completed.
A nice little detour to come out and learn about some history of the local region
Answers send before logging
Thanks for the EC

Hi there GeoGeckoEd. A day off from driving so what better to do than tour around Lakes Entrance and find a few Geocaches as well. Answers and photos have been sent in to the CO. Thanks to GeoGeckoEd for this cache - our find #6459.

After finding a few nearby caches we headed over to this very interesting EarthCache. We really wouldn’t have expected to find something like this out here, quite an interesting surprise for sure.

We have answered the questions required and have forwarded them on for approval by the CO

Thanks for showing us this interesting spot.

Partner's Robin & Michelle spent a lovely cold day exploring. Was nice to get out in the cool air after all the 40+c hot Summer days.

Just found this sneaky draft hiding in my notes, but I am sure I had logged all of these on our roadtrip back to Gippsland... hmmmm.

Convinced geohubby to do a side trip for this one. TFTC.

Interesting Earthcache on our way back to Buchan Caves. The geokids has lots of questions about oil! Thanks for bringing us here and TFTC

**This was 1 of 16 caches that was found by me on the 10th of 16 caching days here in Australia. Which also was the 47th of 75 days that my travels thru southeast Asia and Oceania would last.**

Well,since we started with number 2 it was natural to end with number 1.

The answers for us 4 did I send via Message Center directly on site.

*Together with Ingabo, jsson and Sivun I would spend 16 days in Australia. Our journey started in Melbourne and ended in Sydney. After that I continued to New Zealand while the others headed back towards Melbourne.*
*All in all I did manage to find 263 caches, 9 types, 3 new months and many more statistical fillers.*

Travelling from Fish creek to Wollongong we passed by here. We (jsson, peter-tvm, Sivun and myself) logged as IJPS. A day with rain showers now and then.
Peter-tvm sends the answers for all of us.
Thanks for placing a cache for me to enjoy and find.

Went from Fish Creek to Kianinny we stopped for caching along the road.
Rainy weather when we arrive here. Answer sent from Peter-tvm for all of us.
We wrote full name or IJPS stand for the first letter i our alias ( Jsson, Ingabo, Peter-tvm, Sivun)
TFTC!

Been coming to Lakes for years, but didn't know this was here.
Thanks

Permitted log by CO sent..
wow very interest about that...
thank you for bringing us here.. Great time day..

Permitted log by CO sent..
wow very interest with 63ROOS..
Thanks put fav

The first of 2 oil well related earthcaches on this trip east for work.
What an interesting place you have highlighted.
Will upload a couple of photos when I get back home
Answers submitted in anticipation
Thanks

18:34
A big part of the planning for this trip involved leafotwind getting his tally of logged Earthcaches to triple figures.

This was his second on our journey, and my first (having already visited its sibling on the other side of town on a previous foray), made all the more fun for collecting information by torchlight.

GSA GeoEducation, thanks for an informative stop. Now we need to press on... still quite a drive ahead of us.

#4177

You have to love geocaching don't you? This was definitely somewhere I would never have visited but for there being an EC placed here and an old EC at that. I gained further knowledge about the area and it's role in supplying energy. Thanks for the informative EC.

A road trip east instead of west! nirgalagrin and I had been planning a trip out over to Mt. Gambier but given the forecast of rain, rain and more rain all through the weekend we scrambled to replan the trip aiming for the other side of the state. As it happened we went a little further than just the border and explored the NSW south-eastern coast. Thanks to all the cache owners for placing and maintaining the caches found along the way.

Another interesting place Clematius and I visited on our way to the west. Thanks a lot for showing to GeoGeckoEd.

On our drive to the west ElizaBennet and I had a quick stopp and "found" this one. Thanks a lot for showing to GeoGeckoEd.

I had finished work in Lakes Entrance and had some time-in-lieu owed to me, so I decided to chip away at it by doing a little opportunistic geocaching. This was one of my chosen geocaches in the area and I happily let Google Maps talk me through the backroads to it. A pleasant little reserve to park in, a cool structure and a happy geocacher was I. The answers have been submitted and I'm logging in anticipation of the go-ahead from the CO. TFTC GSA GeoEducation!

We’ve had a great day in Lakes. Fantastic fish and chips, mini golf, a walk on the beach, chance catch up with the greynomads and now a second earthcache. Miss8 and Miss14 raced around the picnic area while the other four of us collected information. We’ve sent our answers to the CO along with some photos of our visit. TFTEC GSA GeoEducation

Have sent answers to CO. An interesting place for our family of five to visit. Thanks for bringing us here.

Found @09:39 #6492
One of a few found travelling along the coast towards Oz Muster this Easter. What an intresting spot and historic one too.

TFTC GSA GeoEducation

Heading on that dusty road for this cute little Earthcache . Once arrived at GZ it was an easy task to answer the questions. Mail has been sent . Thanks for bringing me to this historic site and of course

TFTEC

Trip for the day for LGA and Atlas challenge.
Weather is great
Few showers not all the time.
Email to CO
Interested to know about it.
Thanks GSA GeoEducation

Enjoyed the earthcache. Interesting about history worth to visited. Thanks for the earth cache and hunt