Patent Septaria Cement Co Osborne, Victoria, Australia
By gruffpuppy on 25-Feb-10. Waypoint GC24AGP

letting this one go

Hoping to get to this one soon for a look

Cache is well hidden and has most likely been overlooked. Due to current lock down situation in Melbourne it will be at least end of September/Early October before I can check on it.

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Bunjil

Looked everywhere, hint was confusing

Very elusive

Not many rocks under the bush they were everywhere else. Think it may be muggled...

Is this still here?

Spent ages looking but no luck

Beautiful spot.

Jumping GPS and so many low shrubs, hint didn't help me much today .. couple of muggles walking dogs I will try again another time love the location though

#3997 Enjoying a walk along the beach on sunset we popped up to collect this cache. A nice quick find. Loved reading about the history on the cache page and viewing the old remnants around gz. Nice one gruffpuppy, TFTC!

We have placed a little jewel of the sea in to be found...

With still a bit of time on my hand, and driving past, this cache caught my eye. Certainly glad that it did as it is a lovely location that would have been perfect if not for the couple of the beach and rocks that keep looking in my direction.

Got to the GZ and after 5 minutes searching actually kicked the cache before I actually saw it. Not sure how I missed it, but lovely location, and big thanks for bringing me here

Thanks for the cache Gruff Puppy
Hunter

Short hike, stunning day gorgeous views

We had a few minutes to spare and decided it's time to play grab one or two caches in the area. This was a special one. Thank you.

Found the cache, logbook soaked, tried to seal it up again. Great spot!

First time I went looking for this I couldn’t figure it out and then this time we GOT IT!! Thank you so much for putting the cache here it is absolutely beautiful

A good little pondering spot as you watch the incoming stormy weather :3
Been needing to find this one since i first started, quick find if you use your geoscence

What a view! Thanks

Thanks for bringing me down here. Great place. TFTC

Beautiful spot

Used to come down here as a kid. Now I bring my daughter. Bonus I am into geocaching. Love this spot.

Found @08:45 while in the area to pick up a set of wheels for the new geomobile. A lovely little secluded area to drop of a coin and take in the view. TFTC - left a pencil pack and a new zip lock bag for the log book which was a little damp.

Excellent hide! Tftc

Thanks for the cache

I was working over most of the Easter long weekend but had today off. We decided to head down to Mornington to check out an Escape room. Have never tried one before. As we were running about 90 mins early for our booking we decided to detour to the beach and try and knock over a cache or two in the process. I left the other two check out the beach whilst I got to GZ. A fairly quick find and went further up the slope to the left to check out the wall fragments and sign the log more out of sight. TNLN TFTC gruffpuppy, quite a bit of interesting history here. BTW we did the Escape room in 47 mins. I think our many years of caching helped us to find and solve the many missing clues.

The fourth of nine caches found this morning with Geoson the Younger.

The three caches prior to this today were all pretty much park-n-grabs, so it was nice for us to take a bit of a stroll to GZ on this one.

We passed a few muggles of the dog-walking and morning constitutional walk variety on the way, however once at our destination we had the pleasant little beach to ourselves and quickly had the container in hand.

Signed the log, thanks for the cache, and for bringing us to this unexpected but lovely spot, gruffpuppy.

Tftc

Nice. was up against it for a while TFTC

Out with Caches_High & MataHariCirca74 for a few caches whilst on a day drive to Mornington Peninsula. Beautiful spot down by the water. Wouldn’t know this beach was here, which is one reason I LOVE Geocaching TFTC

Gotcha

Out for an evening stroll, nice to have a purpose. I have been here lots off times, came here last year with U 3A for a really interesting historical walk /talk. A beautiful spot.

Great hiding spot but needed the hint in the end for the kids to find.

After having attended the lead up to Parkville event in Mordialloc I decided to head down towards the Peninsula and pick up a few caches as well as have an extensive walk. I’d just walked and walked and walked to not have a found the multi cache at the end of my efforts and was on the way back to the car. I consoled myself with a couple of trads before heading for home. This was one of them and after having actually found the cache I turned around and was greeted with the view depicted in the attached photo.
Sometimes, just sometimes I regret not having a regular caching partner to share something like this with. This was one such moment. The view was just so sublime and utterly peaceful.
Thanks so much for bringing me here gruffpuppy. I think the cache deserves a favourite point both for the view and the extensive historical information on the cache page which brings what you are looking at to life at least to some extent.

Caching day with kangas11
Found it
Thanks gruffpuppy

Came to Mornington for caching day on my day off with crank1. Very cold and windy day. Found it. Thanks gruffpuppy for the cache.

Great little spot! Thanks for placing this cache! : )

Found by my geocache buddy. Sunny winter day. A bit slippery. Thanks for cache.

After a disappointing DNF nearby, I thought I'd head to this one in the hopes of making today a success. Anyway, I parked at the pub, since I thought that was closer to the cache than the parking the CO had nominated. But noooo, once I crossed the road, I realised I had to walk all the way back to the nominated parking area before I could head down the path. Sigh. Pride before a fall, and all that!!!
Anyway, really interesting to see how this has changed from a thriving industrial site to a wind-swept overgrown foreshore, with this brickwork being the only hint that there used to be something else here! But a quick cache find, then stumbled back up to the car in the dark (didn't expect to be night caching!). Thanks for the cache.

Awesome, thanks!

Nice quick easy find after work. TFTC

A nice walk to this location and an interesting history. TFTC JenneG and Budgy Nth Nowra NSW

great find in the rocks

Found after stopping at a nearby cafe and walking around a bit. TNLNSL.

Nice quick find. I'll take the bug a bit closer to his end destination.

Made my way to this cache along the beach from the Stairway cache .. love this beach ..so much history... the cache find was reasonably straight forward .. not so sure about the swaps .. took nothing .. left nothing .. TFTC

Easy find. Left travel bug picked up in Tassie. TFTC

jaya

Lovely spot! Thanks!

Not so hard to find. Tftc

Wow... beautiful spot. Free und by geokid!

Tnln. Thanks for the cache. Took my muggle friend for her first cache and she found it and loved it. Now she could see what I do with my life. Tftc

*After a rare breakfast of delicious pancakes and a rather wet wander through the Mornington Midweek Market, it was time for some Peninsula caching.*

What a fascinating story, something we would not learnt about were it not for playing the geo-game.

Thanks gruffpuppy for placing caches for everyone's enjoyment.
19406

Since I started work in Frankston a couple of years back I have been ticking off caches close enough to get out and back to during my lunch break. I'm getting to the limit of that radius but I did notice a little cluster just south of Mornington that were still within reach. I didn't choose the ideal spot to park for this one and ended up walking the long way around and passing a spot where I was earlier in the week. It was a very pleasant stroll though and with the area around GZ free of any muggles I was able to make a quick find. A very interesting story about the history here and a shame in my opinion that the council didn't choose to make more of the archaeology of the plant. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for the cache gruffpuppy.

Lovely walk

Nice walk on winters day

Blustery windy day had to negotiate some steep terrain. Amazing view, cache was well concealed from the elements. We left a treasure to swap thank you

TFTC

A beautiful tucked away cache littered with rich historic background information - what more could a cache have? Upon arrival of gz, it was fairly easy to grab the cache due to the detailed hint. What an outstanding cache!

TFTC, Brainiac03

Great spot. Took nothing, left a pink pony

10/04/2017 2:28:00 PM
I had a quick look near where I found the cache but failed to find it and followed eh arrow on my GPS which was taking me a rather unexpected area after persisting for while I consulted the hint and returned to the first place I searched and a suggested by the hint which soon revealed the cache just as promised. I then wandered around through the undergrowth trying to find as much of the remains as I could.
interesting spot and thanks for the background story.

4th of the day

8 April 2017 3:16 pm
Find # 412
After two nearby DNFs hopes were high to break a streak.
Thanks to the hint a find was made.
Visited some TB's
TFTC

Thoroughly enjoyed the hike down from the top carpark. A bit of scratching about with the aid of the hint soon had the cache to hand. Nicely done, took TB.. thanks..!!

out bike riding today and was looking forward to doing this one due to the history that I didn't know about. Looks like it was a big operation for a short time. Cache was discovered after a short search once GPS settled down. Log signed and all back safe. I dropped off a trackable.
Thanks for bringing me here, it was great.

Took us way to long even after looking at the hint.. Tftc

Glorious afternoon visiting one of my best friends and decided to introduce him to the world of geocache get, and he made the find. What a view!

Have to come back for this one it outsmarted me!

No idea with this one!

found it! Pretty spot for a geocache!

Great place

Defs needed hint, forgot to read it till 10 mins searching found nothing. Kids were no help, they nicked off to the water.

Frustrated

Found with tassie expat. Interesting story and history. Thanks

What a great bit of history! We hunted around a bit to find the pits etc that were mentioned. This bided time whilst a muggle and his dog went by. Cache found quickly and in good condition. TFTC and the wonderful history lesson.

Tftc

This was the fifth of nine that I found today in this little cluster of caches just south of Mornington. Today started like any other Saturday for me in recovery mode from the big week at uni haha, either way I had to go out and to some chores in Frankston (a.k.a buy dad his fathers day gift) but I knew that there would be some spare hours in the day to make the final push to 200 find whoop whoop (spoilers I made it haha). I gotta say this was a nice rock wall haha I really enjoyed being taken to this historical wall . Anyways thank you for the cache and the neat spot
-Buhfuhguh

Thanks for giving us the opportunity to take such a nice stroll down to the edge of the bay. TFTC

Not sure why I didn't wander down to this one in my previous hunts along here, but I'm glad I did. This could almost be an earth cache perhaps... although there was no information about the significance of these walls that I could see nearby. Such a nice spot with a great view. Thanks for bringing me here. A favourite point for me.

Thanks gruffpuppy.

Thankyou for the local history

Easy enough to get to and find

Nice walk down

A nice stroll down the path to GZ.
The beach would be great in summer.

Once we knew where to look, found rather swiftly. Tftc!

Raemoz found it and left red bus.

Frankie York found it.

Dand B

With Solving4X.

Easy find under rocks

Took a lot longer than anticipated. Great spot.

Nailed it. M

Third find on Valentines Day. A great walk listening to the ocean breeze. Funny how gruffpuppy found our cache this morning and now we have found theirs. Thanks Gruffpuppy for a great cache in a great spot.

Found tonight with Grumpy gramps trying to get a few numbers tonight as I close in on 3000 finds. Lovely evening tonight. TFTC

Fascinating site, all the more so having belatedly read the description properly. Somewhat surprised it's completely unprotected and un-signposted. As for the cache, I managed to turn over the correct rock quite early in the search, but skilfully kept the container obscured in the process, and moved on. It took it a second pass, god knows how many minute later, before I laid eyes on it! Thanks gruffpuppy!

Great hide, forgot pen, I hope digital log is enough. TFTC

Team effect, jazz enjoyed the beach

Great little spot, geomutt liked this one too, lot more interesting to fossick around, thanks for the excuse to go to such a nice area Oops, almost forgot to add (actually, had to work out how to do it!) found my first geocoin!! Was even more exciting as it's emblem was a rockhopper penguin and one of my major interests is doing volunteer research...yep, you guessed it....on penguins!! This little guy wants to visit his relatives down south, so off to Phillip Island he will go on my next trip

This entry was edited by doddlingalong on Tuesday, 26 May 2015 at 05:04:36 UTC.

A lovely, quiet little beach. Thank you

We were down this way for a visit and ended up with about an hour spare so I took off to here to see if I could find a few caches. After finally working out the correct way in, I arrived at GZ for the find after a short search (and a squiz at the hint ) at 15:35.

A fascinating spot and an interesting history of the area.

TNLNSL, although our BYO pen geocoin had a visit to mark the occasion. Thanks gruffpuppy.