Pulp or Paper Upper Morwell, Victoria, Australia
By wam78 on 19-Sep-07. Waypoint GC161WP

With some reasonably fresh air today I had the opportunity to go and check on this one but unfortunately it has not survived.

The road is now open, but alas the fire came right to the edge of the mill fence.
The trees have been obliterated and I dare say the cache also.
I could not find any evidence of the cache, and the trees at gz are either gone, or what's left of them are cut up.
Definitely need an owner visit here.

With fire in this area and the road still closed disabled until I am able to check on it.

Out on a cache run with my mate Sheppythekid, on a nice summer's day, that took us to the Latrobe Valley and up into the Strezlecki Ranges.
Learnt something new today, i thought the smell in the Latrobe Valley was from the power generation! it's not. it comes from here, the pulp mill. What a fantastic piece of industry! Want to see this one at night. TFTC, Cheers, BWBandit.

I had forgot how bad the smell was tftc

Our first New Year cache, in the rain. But we managed to find and log this cache without being hassled by muggles. TFTC

Watching out for wriggly sticks!!

Very easy cache, thanks for a quick stop!

Kids very excited to check this one's contents out as they hadnt got to see one yet, so I smuggled to car under jumper and back again. Took a little snake and left a dragonfly pendant. Thanks

A guy & a girl - 13 Towns - 500 kms - 60 caches

September Stroll was born earlier in the week with an idea hatched to head in a loop towards Sale starting from Moe. Heading north up to Heyfield, across to Stratford then down to Sale before arriving home late, it was a magnificent spring day to enjoy East Gippsland.

Parking the GeoRanger on the other side of the road, Trent was out quickly checking an obvious cache hiding spot, to come up empty handed. Katy made her way over spotted the likely geotrail, followed her nose and came up with the find.

Thanks for the cache wam78!!!

Got close then Brain used geoeyes to find. Brain stuck in spiderwebs, maybe the next cacher will set him free.
TFTC TNLN

Wow the traffic is terrific along here. The mill is as smelly as it ever was, too . Found cache, signed and returned. TNLN TFTC.

Yay a nice east find for day 12 of cache month tfth

In the trees lies a small wooden where inside lies what you desire

Took Trackable will move on today TFTC

Nice easy find after missing the road to another cache THFC wam

Logging the find again to add the trackable.

Had some help

Nice and quick drive by.

Quick one!

Found late at night, and we have to say.. the lights made the APM quite spectacular to see at night! Such a huge place, the steady hums and rumbles were almost hypnotic too. We found the cache quickly. Took purple elephant, left fishing glowstick and animal dice. SL TFTC wam78

An easy find on a busy road, although you are well hidden from the traffic. TFTC

Found today at 12.40p interesting spot and it was a bit smelly 2day TFTC
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A nice quick drive by with Younglings. TFTC

LNSL

No smell to day but the road was busy. TFTC.

Nice cache, found the smashed pikachu.... had a laugh about that.
TFTC

Great cache! Has that classic paper mill smell to it lol. Saw a crushed pickachu toy on the walk from the car. Took nothing, left a hefalump. TFTC!!

Stamped cache for the first time with new stamp nice little find

Found it on an early cache run before the heat sets in. Nearly walked into a spider and web across the track. So many logs.... SL TFTC

Took us while to find this one, trying to dodge cars and trucks. Not a lot going on at the paper mill today, still a great view though. Found with WyldMan92. TFTC.

TFTC

Was just about to give up on this one, when I said to myself, hey why not just have another little look around, and bingo, right under my nose the whole time.

Found with PhoebeIrene

Visiting over xmas weekend so we diverted for some caching on the trip back home. Do we really use all that much paper? Nice quick find on way past. Thanks wam78

nice and easy. TFTC

11.55 log to follow

quick little find on way home from training

Easy pick up.

TB "Scrat" visiting cache.

Did it at 9pm with a torch it was unreal with amazing swapsies!

Found by TZL and others, had to pretend to be trees when muggles drove past. It was a fun find, TFTC!

Found at 1622h with Poiter.H
SL, TNLN. Good spot with interesting things happening over the fence.
Covered it up well and moved on.
TFTC

10th of 11
Found at 16:22 with Driftwoodsound
Covered it up well and moved on.
SL, TN L Purple pebble
TFTC

Found it!

interesting watching the going on's here. It may have looked a bit weird for everyone driving past though, lol. TFTC!

Mosquitos! *argh* Quickly signed the log and then got out of there! TFTC

On way to camping at Erica with friend
Found it with Laker63, Alchemy2
TFTC

we go out in the afternoon doing caches then go back camp at erica.....with friend and crank1 and alchemy2

Interesting view from here...
Piles of timbers there.
TFTC

After finding somewhere to park, I made my way to GZ and soon found the cache. The scale of the activity at the site was amazing. Thanks for the cache.

Quick find on my way to cape conron for a weeks holiday. Sl tftc

Found with the squalids - love the smell of wood, and there's certainly enough of it here!

TNLN TFTC

We were awestruck by the number of logs here waiting to be milled - and the mill itself is an impressive undertaking. We could smell fresh timber - not an unpleasant smell at all, better than the chicken farm! TFTC.

Quick, easy find on a road we haven't travelled for many years, despite living in the area.
TFTC TNLN

Found on way back from another find,signed log, left collectable erasers... (was no lucky gold coin in it

This entry was edited by Nautilass Soni+Dayns on Tuesday, 01 February 2011 at 15:16:43.

I had to dodge cyclist Muggles for this find, however once inside it was well protected from passing vehicles. I didnt see travel ingot, (although I didn't have a good look either) I recently bought one of these from Iamapom store so I hope yours is safe.. TFTC Wam78 TNLN Find #849

TB Visit. Thanks

Found on the way to the event with Spladem. Had to wait for some pushbikes to pass before retrieving the cache. The bikes seem to love this road. TFTC

Lots of big spiders in their webs here today. I seemed to manage to walk into all of them! Still managed to find the cache though. TFTC

This entry was edited by Earthbound Chief on Sunday, 23 January 2011 at 03:20:53.

Found by the Tumblingweeds. at 1050 hrs TFTC Roadway fairly busy.

A nice easy driveby find with a very clear Geoclue.
TFTC
TNLNSL

Team Titanic braved the smell to collect this one!

What a wonderful sight from the Gz. There is a lot of trees that are planned to get turned into paper. Rip Rip wood chip turn it into paper, thanks JW. Thank Yoo wam78 for a great cache in a great location. TFTH...SL...TNLN

New log book placed in cache.

Find # 1507 @ 14:02
Nice to visit an old haunt. I have seen this mill from many angles, including the rail siding where I drove many a train in and out on the regular run from Melbourne Yard.
TNLNSL Thanks wam78!

Great view of the mill - very interesting. This cache needs a new log book.
Took: stickers
Left: emergency poncho
TFTC

Interesting view of the mill. Thanks for the cache.

Quick find with Just a cacher. What a lot of wood there is, just waiting....

Found this one at 16:25 while on the way down to Sale for a couple of days of R&R. A nice easy one and I didn't even have to take the GPSr out of the car . You've gotta love that .

TNLNSL. Thanks wam78.

PS: There was no sign of the Travel Ingot Geocoin in the cache.

Found @ 13:10 after getting caught in a deluge of rain getting out of the car. Took foam cow, left Cooper's bottle cap. TFTC.

found @ 18:30 with mum and dad (ross47)

#6 of 12 for the day.

We took a few wrong turns on the way, confusing me as to where we were trying to go. Eventually it seemed as though we were on the right road. Finally!
Soon enough we were getting out of the car to look for the cache. After a few minutes of searching, with pauses as cars went past in both directions, we spotted it.
A nice hide with the plant looking kind of mesmerising with all the lights.

TNLN TFTC

A fairly quick find @ 18:30 in the company of the geowife and emeraldflame whilst trying not to raise the interest of any of the passing parade of muggles. As we had come from the other side of the mill we made a couple of false approaches on wrong roads - but got there in the end! The mill is certainly quite an impressive site - I hadn't seen it from this close before.

Thanks to wam78 for bringing us here. TNLNSL TFTC

Thanks for the cache. A nice easy find, except no Geocoin like it says .
SL TNLN TFTC.

TNLN. SL.
TFTC Regards.

great hide. tftc. tnln.

Picked a bad day for an "upwind" cache...[xx(]

Geokid was most intrigued y all the bits of wood and machinery, so thanks for the interesting detour with a view.

And a smell.

Left GC, SL.

a quick drive-by find
TFTC

Fairly easy drive by in an open stretch of road. There was no movement at the mill but plenty of passing traffic heading into town. TNLNSL. TFTC. KeMs.

A fairly easy drive by, but phew what a stink today
TNLN SL TFTC
greynomads

nice quick find TFTC TNLN SL

Found in quick time. Must have been knock off time as the road was very busy, then suddenly nothing for quite a while. Left a blue matchbox car, took nothing. Thanks for the hide.

Took a while at this one, due to fear of snakes and nasty's hidden in unforseen places.

Thanks for the GC

09-01 3rd find of the day at 10:09 and 781st find in total.
Nice and easy find on a day that was made to spend quality time with an air conditioner.
(''\(OoO)/'') TNLNSL, thanks wam78 for the caching fun!

717. Found today easily - this ones not about the cache its the location, alot of stock sitting waiting to be processed Boy is there enough of our Earth ground space to keep up with the rate this place must process their stock ??? TFTC-wam78

Found at 1440 hours, lots of wood here.
TNLN SL
TFTC

FlyingPigSquadron has landed!
Horrified at number of trees being chopped down to make bog paper!
Quick find Took 2 keyrings left bear & animal farm TFTC&H wam78

I always wondered where those logging trucks that constantly pass through my home town end up, and now I now. Huge operation – pretty amazing. The hide had me puzzled at first, although I knew I was close, and then suddenly there it was. Resorted to the clue – very helpful. On weekdays, this road seems to be quite busy with trucks and other traffic, and I barely had enough room to park my limo on the side of the road, safely open the door, and get out. If you’ve got kids, I’d suggest doing this cache on a weekend. Nevertheless, well worth while – thanks wam78 for revealing an industrial part of Morwell previously unknown to me. Left nothing, took nothing (except a few photos), signed logbook.

[This entry was edited by ruralslicker on Friday, August 28, 2009 at 8:33:15 AM.]

A quick drive-by on our way past. No traffic so also a safe grab - TNLNSL
TFTH - Elmer!

Just what I needed. A nice easy ride by on my Valley run.
Dropped in a toy motorbike.
Thanks wam78 for the search.

Found nice and easily. TNLN. Thanks for the cache.

cool cache very easy to find

I revisted this one to make sure my GPS was doing what it was ment to, Let the kids find it this time and they loved the assortment of treasure!
It was also kinda different seeing it during the day!

Found with Morwell SES... Now I'm hooked!

Volunteer Members of the Morwell SES found this cache while on a map reading and GPS Navigation exercise. Thanks for helping us train these members.

Found at 9.40am GAFF1. An interesting aroma around here on such a still day. This place is gigantic and so much timber lying around ready to be processed. Nice first cache - thanks wam78

Found on Easter Saturday. The aroma of recently sawn timber, or is that chipped, was quite pleasant compared to the smells that can eminate from the mill at times. No swaps but took the Queen of the Skies TB. TFTC.

worked here a lot of times and now I am back caching
Thanks

Nice interesting spot for a cache TFTC.

Our last cache before dinner, while on a caching weekend with caughtatwork. This was a most indubitably interesting place. Glad we were upwind, as we've had more than our fair share of stinky cache sites this weekend.
Thank you wam78 for the cache, site and history.

Found by caughtatwork at 4:30
A quick drive by for the 12th and last cache of the afternoon before heading back for dinner and shower (not in that order).
We were reminded of the loony tunes cartoon with the two chipmunks in the furniture factory. "I do believe I have found our tree".
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks wam78 for this cache today. A sensational amount of wood being pulped for paper. Go paperless
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found 7.05pm wih Ywurry

TOO MUCH WOOD! Way too much, i didnt realise. RECYCLE!!!
Thanks for cache and this insight.

Raainjoy