Williamstown Steam Car Ferry Williamstown Central, Victoria, Australia
By tackle_head on 18-Jul-09. Waypoint GC1W21Q

Having an explore around the Spotswood are picking some geos along the way. Spotted the cache straight away having picked up one of these containers only a week ago.

TFTC:). A quick and fun find. Enjoyed the views by the water.C.C

A very interesting read regarding the Steam Car Ferry. The area certainly looks different today, as we wander over to GZ. Thanks to the hint, it was a nice quick find.Thank you tackle_head for highlighting the history of this area for us.

Hello from NZ. A nice easy find. All good here. TFTC

Avenging a dnf from ages ago, if it was in this spot last time I was here, no clue how I missed it! Tftc

Charged out to where I expected it to be without looking at where it should be before realising there wasn't far to walk after all. Tftc.

Thanks.

My s9n had a curriculum day so I thought we'd take advantage of the lovely sunny day to do a bit of caching. This one was the third location of the afternoon but our first find. TFTC

Nice, easy find. Found the cache on the ground, so put it back where the hint said. TFTC

Sweet. Tftc

Great little fast easy catch of the day. Forgot my pen so took a photo of log for proof. TFTC

Forgot to log this one yesterday Arrived at the GZ and found this cache very quickly. Love these containers TFTC

Quick and easy. TFTC

One of the challenges that I am working on is finding 20 geocaches in every Victorian LGA. Over 3 different visits to the Hobson Bay LGA, I am now up to 16 finds. Today was the day to finish off this LGA and I seemed to have done it in style. 19 finds and no DNFs in this LGA. Most of them by Rob MC, so big thanks to this CO. Lots of fishermen in the area, but all too busy to notice what I was doing.Thanks for the cache, tackle head.Hunter

Well, it has certainly been a very busy weekend of driving all over the place as I ran some errands and went geocaching at the same time. My geocaching partner and I had previously come down to this cute little spot and attempted to find the geocache however we were unsuccessful after seeing that tackle head has recently replaced this geocache. I decided to pop on by and attempt to find it. Thank you very much tackle head for coming down and replacing this geocache, and while it does not count as an FTF it was a pleasure to be the first to sign a new log

Checked and replaced as required with a new hint

Couldnt see where it could be

Couldn't find it.

Not there. CO might wanna check it out.

Checked all the obvious posts and couldnt see a bolt anywhere - unless the cooridinates are wrong

Had a good hunt for the cache, but no luck today. The pickerly bush has no leaves currently, so it should have been easy to spot.

Not sure how this all works. Should I be jumping fences ?

Grabbed this one while in town. Sl thanks for the cache.

Found with icw. I think some CO intervention is need here. We found the cache on the ground, not as the hint suggested. Tftc.

Found with another easy well flukey, TFTC

Lots of posts but no bolts to be seen...

ferry number 2 so prior to 1931."Williamstown Advertiser 25th November 1933.PRICE OF OLD AGE AND DECAY.THE OLD STEAM FERRY FOR SALE.A 20 OFFER.The old steam ferry which in its day rendered very valuable service, which cost many thousands of pounds, and which transported hundreds of thousands of vehicles and persons safely across the river at the Short Road, is up for sale, and the price offered is 20.The Engineer ( Mr. Rose ) reported to the Public Works Committee meeting on Tuesday night that he had received a verbal offer from Mr. Blunt, of Nelson Place, of 20 for the old ferry as it stood, but without chains"It later sold for 35 to another party.

tftc! Cache is kinda fenced off atm but there is a small gap in the fence you may have to enter in order to find it, personally i would disable it for the time because it is off limits

Cache is unaccessable due to road works

Tricky one because I came after dark. Eventually found what I was looking for and signed the log. TFTC

Out around the area and came to grab this , was worried at first with area roped off but found it safe
Thanks

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I'm on my bike, winding my way up to spotswood. This one was an easy win, in total contrast to the first cache of the evening.
Thanks heaps for the cache!

Found in on a sunny winters day. Thanks For The Cache

Quick easy find.

Tftc

Found with lozzie88

Quick and easy find. Found with premedbeast

So much history here, both past and present. Thanks for explaining about the Steam Car Ferry and the reason it is no longer in service tackle_head. SL at 12.40pm after replacing the full log sheet. #9983 TFTC and now to head back home in the north east of the State after a great long weekend in Williamstown.

Dropped off a primary school at the near by science works so found a parking spot and came for a stroll took a few minutes to find right post once that done an easy find was made LOG Full TFTC

After a weekend away taking my niece on her first camping trip, I packed up my base in Anglesea and set off for home. Via Geelong, Williamstown and a few other stops of course.

After a stop in Geelong to have lunch with DonutHoles I set off to Williamstown… or so I thought. Just as I was leaving I heard an announcement on the radio that the Princes Freeway had been closed due a truck rollover and sand being spilled across the entire road.

I quickly got off the freeway before getting stuck and so began a long alternative journey to Williamstown, via a cache or two.

This was quite a prickly find which I had to dodge some muggles to get.

Thanks tackle_head for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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#Wolfies at fishing had a spare minute

Found it whilst fishing
Wolfied

We were up for a post-dinner digestive walk after grazing at Grazeland. Parked at the dog park and worked out which gate would open to get us on the bike path. A bit of a shoelace tie at GZ and then on our way. TFTC.

Out running some errands - took a slight detour

Didn’t have a pen so photo of visit for proof

Waiting for cars to bugger off first . Seriously it’s pouring down rain and people are hanging around here?!

A nice find, thanks.

This cache took us on a stroll past the ship memorial. Nice

Interesting story thanks so much tackle_head for the cache was an easy find.. the activity log helps too. On a roll today...bring it on!

Nice easy find - don’t go too deep into the bushes.

Out on Sunday morning at Newport Athletics track and had scoped out this cache. Quite busy and, apart from an industry feel due to the power plant, a lovely spot. TFTC

TFTC tackle_head for placing this. Such a great location with such wonderful history, not hard to imagine with the help of your pics. Lucky all the fisher muggles were busy watching the container ships pass & kids were busy playing sport, so a quick grab was not too hard.
Eloise at The Plaza

Nice one

Foubd quickly. Thanks for placing!

The clue helped the youngest hunter find it once we worked out which post

Good spot

Loved the history on this one!! Clue a little deceiving given we didn’t actually find a bolt per-say. Still, great cache. Thanks for another one tackle_head

Thx

The hint really gave us a clue

Nice cache!

Muggles averted. Battery low. Might be the last cache of the day. Jonah out.

A nice quick find today as we took the scenic route home through Williamstown. Thanks for placing.

Thanks, long walk, fun with the seals patrol of 4th Williamstown scouts, great night

TFTC

More power

Very clever hiding spot!

great hide!

Had to dodge a bunch of prickles, but otherwise a quick find at GZ. TFTC!

TFTC! Quick and easy find

I Found It

Another easy micro, tftc.

Found it TFTC

TFTC

A nice quick find on a beautiful day. Not too many people around which made it a bit easier, but the Border Force smiled as they drove past!

Few fishermen about taking advantage of the beautiful holiday weather.

Continuing our tour of Williamstown we came down to check out the ferry landing. Thanks for the hide.

Tftc. This was a fun find on a Tuesday night after dinner in Williamstown

Nice one! TFTC!

Spiffy- and I planned a cache day Sunday but the target area was a little undecided. Mainly because rain was coming. Finally we settled on Altona and the large trad trail. So we loaded the stealth bikes in and headed off. Driving there rain was falling, but it was only 10am and it was due at 3pm. Parked at the skate park and still a few spots of rain but so warm so we headed off. A few caches in I went back to my for rain jackets which I wore for only a few minutes then carried. Ironically arrived home sunburnt.

After the ride with Spiffy- I had a 8km run and freestyled to get a few extra to make an even 50 for the day. Found with the hint.

Thanks to tackle_head for the placement and fun.

I can't imagine a time without the Westgate Bridge, as a Millennial it just seems impossible. It seems especially impossible when I drive over the Westgate in peak hour. The ferry would have been a bit of fun, something I can see my Grandfather bringing the family over from Mount Waverly just to experience, and for an excuse to get fish and chips and ice cream in Williamstown. A great little spot. This was only the second week after lockdowns were lifted, so the area was very busy. Luckily, all the car parks up here were taken, so no one really appearing. Grabbed quickly, signed, and out. I loved the old guard house down the road. Thanks Robmc!

Grub62 had this cache in hand while I was still catching up. Nice hide tackle_head TFTC & NTNL.

After Fish and Chips near the water Bunadoorian and I went for a walk in the sunshine. This was our second find today. I love the Car Carrier ships - I use to enjoy watching them on the Port Authority Webcam unloading the cars off the ships when I couldn't sleep. I find it fascinating to watch them unload cars and on other docks moving the Shipping Containers around with the straddle carriers! I found this nicely hidden cache today. TFTC tackle_head.

Quick easy find thanks to hint. Nice day for a walk along the river!

Late log, thanks for the hide !

Came back today and was back in position. Unfortunately no pen on me to sign

Good find!

Not in spot expected it to be

Still here

Easy find thanks !!

Quick find

Found

Ripping winters day find

Good little hide

Found by Haz today

Great hide. TFTC.

Found by arya

Thanks Steve!!!!!

Checked and replaced as required

Found the cache location but no love from the cache

CO may need to check cache still on site

No sign of cache even with clue

Item mentioned in clue missing No sigh of cache

Not found. Looks all around including all posts. Can someone confirm it’s still here?