Fairhaven House on a Pole Fairhaven, Victoria, Australia
By ThePacman on 31-Mar-14. Waypoint GC4YG08

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Many years I have seen this house
Found it
Thanks ThePacman

Found during our holidays in Austalia
Nice box!
Greetings from Switzerland
TFTC

I'm archiving some of my micro-sized caches in favour of larger hides.
Thank you everyone who took the time to find this cache.

Primile and I found the cache during our day trip along the Great Ocean Road. Would like to have such a house in Austria TFTC and cheers from Austria.

Interesting house and nice hide, thanks!

Quick find. Thx

Thanks

On our way to Apollo Bay!
A stunning building
Thanks for showing us this place!

A sneaky hide, but I spotted it quickly. Stopped to take a pic of the crazy house on a pole. I remember watching an episode of the cooking show 'Boys Weekend' (Series 1, Episode 3) filmed in that house. TNLNSL TFTC

Wish I lived there! TFTC.

TFTC

Found at 0856. Found on a sight seeing tour to the 12 Apostles a quick P&G. TFTC.

Found while one of our group took lots of photos of the house. Pretty impressive. ThePacman TFTC

#5487

Hanging around travelling the Great Ocean and picking up a few caches after the Mega event.
I used to stay down here every summer as a kid and when this house popped up one year it was a big talking point. Interesting piece of architecture.
Nice quick find.
cheers.

### MEGA - The Surf Coast Event 2016 ###

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**DAY 5**

We left Anglesea and are driving towards the Great Ocean Road. We stopped along the way at all important sights and nice view points. We were happy about beautiful place in this region and have found many caches along the way.


Thank you and best regards from Germany
Team sissifalke

I remember the house on a pole while traveling through here as a kid with my parents so was a little surprised when i seen it this weekend and it bought back memories of some of those childhood trips.
TFTC.

Heading down the great ocean road today with Snoopy1976. This was out 6th find for the day. TFTC

On a 2 week mega trip in Victoria getting a few caches. We are from NZ. This cache we had eyed up before we left home

Found with our Kiwi group doing a bit of a road trip after the Surf Coast Mega enjoying doing lots of site seeing and caching along the way is signed the log "Team NZ" thanks for the placement after seeing all the earth quakes we have just had in New Zealand decided not to stay their last night plus the $$$$

A quick stop here as the egg was on the ball and spotted this hide quickly. Happy about that as the weather was a tad unfriendly, not to mention the distance we have to cover. Thanks for another clever cache hide

Heading back to SA with TT016 & spanner111 following the Mega weekend at Anglesea...
We picked which caches we would target on our way home as there were too many to do them all...
Stopped to admire the house up high...took some photos and found the cache...Thanks ThePacman

On our way home from Anglesea with hevwalker and spanner111.
geo wife had not heard of the house on a pole.
now she has seen it.
TFTC!!

Log to follow

13/11/2016 14:19 Having spotted the house on a pole we noted it was another cache so stopped here where Mark spotted the nicely camoed cache very quickly. TFTC ThePacman TNLN SL

15:23
In what will likely become an annual tradition next year at this rate, for the second Victorian Mega in a row, landau351 and I teamed up to attempt this year's batch of Lab caches. It worked out pretty well, as between us, we had in our possession all the toys, er, tools required to get the information we needed at each one.

Oh, and we picked up a passel of extra smileys in our travels. This was one.

It's been a while since I've ventured past this, one of the most memorable sights along the Great Ocean Road. I spent my childhood in Anglesea, staying in our caravan almost every school holidays from the age of five, and we watched this platform being constructed. It's still a spectacular sight, some 40 odd years later.

Oh, and I'll never forget seeing this still standing at Easter in '83 while almost all the other buildings around it were blackened ruins.

Today, we parked a little up the road from the coordinates, strolled back and I immediately spotted something unusual. Aha!

Thanks to ThePacman for the cache and the trip down memory lane.

#3332

Apart from the naked guys who just finished surfing. This was a quick find. Thanks for the cache.

Find #1328. We have long been fascinated by this house and we're excited to find a cache right out front. Thanks ThePacman for a fun hide.

A nice drive by as we continue our lab adventure

Nice easy find. tftc

Found this cache on Sunday the third day of my Surf Coast Mega Adventure. Todays goal was to team up with ikkibrady to go and find the remaining lab caches that have been put out for the Mega before they disappear (hooray we managed to get them all), so along the way we decided to pick up some geocaches when and where we can. Spending the morning caching with Ikkibrady and his family was fun and we all loved finding each cache to, therefore I would like to say thanks for the cache and the adventure down on the brilliant Surf Coast.

A sunday drive down the coast line with Skullracing picking up LAB caches and DazzPete didn't have a smiley for this one. Driven past the house a handful of times over the years but didn't realise it was built in the 70s.

A quick park & grab with no muggles around.

SL TNLN TFTC

Day two of the Mega Event, and my first day free to go looking for caches. Nice quick find, just as the rain came in again.

My thanks to ThePacman for the cache.

TFTC

Day three of our SCE weekend...

I first saw this house soon after in was built and have only been down this end of the state a couple of times since, the last visit being almost 20 years ago.

Today the cache was a very quick find as a group of surfers returned to their vehicles right at GZ. They were intrigued at what I was doing but, no doubt, thought I was just a little strange. Just like surfing in 15 deg weather and a howling wind is totally normal.

Thank you, ThePacman, for this cache.
#3813. Log signed at 1351Hrs.
(I often signed the log book as "W+W" to save paper/time/ink)

Heading down to the furthest on the Lab cache list, I was telling my boys about the house on a pole and out of curiousity thought I would see if there was a cache. WOW ... look there is. We would drive past this quite often as a child and it was nice to finally do the same with my children. On a side note. I must thank The Pacman for helping me out with the chirp at Anglesea. and I now have my device working to one day come and do your wonderful whereigos in Geelong. A very happy stop for us. Thank you.

I'm over from New Zealand for 4 days to do some geocaching and to attend the Surf Coast Mega Event in Anglesea. On my 2nd day I met up with yorkshirekiwi83 in Melbourne and we headed down to Anglesea together. This was a quick find while we made our way around the Surf Coast area looking for the Mega Event Lab caches. TFTC!

Parrots are heading over the border to attend the 2016 Surf Coast event.

A great cache and I am hitting that fav point as soon as I log.

I love a cache that teaches you something and I stopped and wondered about this house in the years before I was caching.

Now thanks to Geocaching I know.

Out grabbing some caches with Au Fait during the MEGA. Enjoying this beautiful part of Vic. TFTC The Pacman have never really stopped to appreciate this site. It is such an icon. Met the wife of the architect and original owner. She had some wonderful stories to tell about the place.

**Found whilst attending the Anglesea Mega**

*Out and about with Tomboy, TR!, travellinbees and SnappyTomCats.*...

A fantastic weekend of fun, friendship and some caching thrown in for good measure.
Signed as Hawaii 8.0 (team name for the weekend)...
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment ThePacman. Really appreciate your efforts...

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped log...

**#9029**

A quick and easy find in the company of mcsee&petal, while we were in the area for The Surf Coast Event 2016. This house must be one of the most iconic features of the entire GOR. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

Surf Coast Mega Anglesea 2016
We collected these caches either as part of a group assault during the Mega Hawaii 8.0 or just Mr & Mrs Bee whilst traveling around seeing the sights of your fine countryside.

Group assaults occured with the South Aussie invasion of Travellinbees, Snappy Tom Cats, Tomboy711, we joined forces with the local mexicans from Victoria TR!, and Snap Happy. This made the phenomeal team of Hawaii 8.0 we also had Team Sully & honey sucker join us on a number of caches.

We saw beaches, walked up hills, sat in local parks, walked through bushland, gardens and general beautiful countryside.

We have thoroughly enoyed our short caching trip over here on the Surf Coast, we based ourselves in Anglesea in a nice house sharing with four other teams. Being local helped us enjoy the weekend even more.

We climbed fences, crossed rivers, climbed tree's and hopped around like gooses, we collected many smilies while on this trip and we collected many new friends.

Geocaching has given us many pleasures and this cache was one of them. Thanks to each and every team for placing caches for us to find during our short visit.

TFTC
Travellinbees
Sth Australia

Had a great day out caching with the Roostaman attended three events and concentrated on getting several different types today including a few earth caches, we had a great time touring the area. Thanks ThePacman for the cache.

2:11:00 PM: (41 of 54) Find#10568
Day 3
wow is that the longest dunny hole ever...
finally at the Surf Coast Mega event with Tankengine and Strangetrousers , travelled from Canberra to enjoy this area, weather was perfect despite forcast and heaps of great caches to find and a few lab caches and some local caches while in the area.
thanks ThePacman

Another good find while geocaching in the area today, while attending the MEGA with Just-Lookin.
SL TFTC

Over for the Surf Coast Mega with tmann421 enjoying the area and collecting caches along the way.
Thanks to all the CO's for adding to the enjoyment of this fun trip and TFTC

Found with The Empire as we journeyed around the area today, collecting smileys in between our main mission of doing the Lab caches. Not quite sure if I could live in this, oft seen it featured on TV and been past here previously, but it's not my cup of tea for a retreat. The uninterrupted views would be breathtaking, but I'll stick with my house. Loved the area, the views, the colours of Autumn and the interesting spots we came across during the day, many worthy of photos. My thanks to The Pacman for the cache, the informative and interesting stats, and for highlighting this spot and bringing us here today.

The "Pole House" is certainly an iconic structure. Although we are infrequent travellers on this road, we always look for the house and comment on aspects of its unusual design. Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks ThePacman for the cache.

**# 15370** Found on another fine morning of caching with Rebel Acts.
We have been past this place a few times and finally stopped for a smiley.
Thanks for the cache ThePacman,
***Roostaman***

#6039 - 19:31; Day 3 of the Melbourne Mega Mission with Sol de lune had arrived and we were now in Anglesea with a host of assembled cachers taking part in the 2016 Surf Coast Mega. Our plan was to collect a couple of caches around town early, visit Mega HQ then hit a local trail and see how we ended up for the day. We finished most of the G2Anglesea trail, just finished the last of the resident lab caches and were headed back towards Anglesea. Noticed the namesake house on the way down and stopped for a happy snap on the way back. Grabbed this cache while we were stopped. TFTC The Pacman

Up and down the coast finding caches for the Mega. Last one of the day. Love this house. Cache was pretty cool too. Glad to have a reason to stop here. Tftc.

2604 14 of 74 for days 3 & 4 of the Mega weekend with Tankengine & mtrax.

Days 3 & 4 of the mega Mega trip to the Surfcoast event at Anglesea Vic. The event dodged a bullet as the forecast was for rain periods Saturday & Sunday. Saturday was shower free, so all good there. I wanted to do the Geelong parkrun in the morning, so I dropped mtrax & TE off at the start of a nearby power trail & they were quite happy to grab those on foot. In the mean time ducked up to Geelong & ran 5Km. They managed to walk 5km in the mean time so no problems there. Then we headed back to the mega event, checked in & met up with various cachers. We decided to focus on the lab caches which was very interesting for a notice mega-attendee like me. We managed to claim all 10 during the day as well as a bunch of others. There were other cachers at most of the sites we visited, so that was good too.

Sunday can be summed up in one word: wet. We headed off home to Canberra via our overnight at Albury via Bendigo. We got quite wet a number of times accessing caches, sometimes in long grass. Overall, an entertaining day's caching.

Amazing house above us.

TFTC ThePacman.

Having a wonderful day at the Mega with my good friend and driver for the day The Robbos3266 we decided to try and complete the Lab caches firsr, which we didi and then do any others along the way Loving all these varying caches

Out and about after The Mega Opening Ceremony with Papillon4506 and Geoturtle37 exploring some of the many local caches. This one was one we selected and found on our way south along the GOR.

Thanks for the placement here.

Have always admired this house. Now it has rewarded me with a smiley too. TFTC.

After checking in at the Mega and doing the usual catching up, it was time for LuckyL10n to hit up a few caches...

We grabbed this one as we headed around picking up the LAB caches. The trip to various area and with other caches in the area, well, we had to grab them as well. A great way to finish off the day.

Thanks for the fun and the cache.

Came down from Canberra with Mtrax and Strangetrousers (and half the other Canberra cachers it seems ) for the Anglesea mega event, and naturally did a whole lot of caches around here as well! This was a straightforward find. What a crazy house - would have cost a dollar or two! Thanks TP.

Decided I was going to head over to the Surf Coast Mega event for this weekend with Vistra, so in the days leading up to it we were working out what we wanted to achieve. this wasnt part of the plan, but we had teamed up with a couple of ozzie girls to work on the lab caches and this was on route. Also gave this a fav point as it was well constructed and in a beautiful spot. TFTC

Out for a bit of mega geocaching with Earthbound Chief and co. Quick find. TFTC

I've always loved this house, it's so cool & the view from the eyrie must be spectacular. Hide was pretty cool too, Lisette found what I overlooked. TFTC

Caching at the Mega!

Lovely view, beautiful houses... Did I miss anything? Oh yeah! Nice hide!

Hope it stays dry!

Caching during the 2016 mega on the surf coast at Anglesea.

Driven past this house so many times and never stopped to have a good look at it. Looks very impressive. The house beside it doesn't look so shabby either. TFTC

Over from SA for the Mega and out today with Tr!, Travellinbees, Snaphappy, Tomboy & sully1..Logging collectively as Hawaii 8.0. Really appreciate all the caches that the individual CO's have put out and maintained for our enjoyment. TFTC

Out with Grey Team gathering a few smilies on the Great Ocean Road.
I have seen this house many times when I lived in Lorne or visiting Lorne when I lived in Lara.
It was shown on the inside on a show on TV.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks ThePacman All good with this cache

Found at 6:29 AM GAFF1 in the company of xambo4u.
On an early morning caching run to get to 19,999 cache finds before attending the mega event.
We first saw this house in the early 70's and just marvelled at the structure and have since seen it many times - and on TV quite a few times as well.
Thanks ThePacman.

Our goal today was to enjoy a day of sight seeing while at the Surfcoast Mega Event. Thanks for another enjoyable cache to highlight the area.

Great camo....I actually found this one before the rest of my team which doesn't happen often.

Cacing at the mega. Quick and easy with a beautiful view and beautiful houses oohh and nice hide
With Zedaycee and Angelique Anja

Found on our way home from mega. TFTC

**Find #: 4916**
**Time: 2:16 pm**
**Date: Sat 12 Nov 2016**
After the Mega opening ceremony, Pam and I went caching, bumping into other cachers along the way, This was one of the caches we found along the way.
I've been aware of this house since it was quite new as we sometimes spent holidays at Aireys Inlet. A nicely located cache, hidden in a way synonymous with the subject.
**Thanks for placing this cache ThePacman**

Down in Anglesea for the Surfcoast Mega tomorrow, so we spent today cruising the coast and enjoying a small handful of nice locations and caches. We have seen all sorts of media presentations about this house so it was good to have a nice little stopover point (and cache) so we could see it in person. Not sure we can afford to stay the night though TFTC Pacman.

When the location of the Surf Coast Event was announced, we decided to book our accommodation from the Thurs- Monday so we could have an extended stay in this lovely area. About a month ago GMelb found out he had to attend a conference in Canberra including the Thursday!!! Consequently we didnt arrive until 11pm Thursday night after GMelb had flown home & we then drove down! So we had a nice sleep in this morning before setting off to explore west of the Event site.
Mid afternoon by now and JMelb has memories of seeing this house on family holidays when she was young. It really is very iconic. She also saw the renovated version not so long ago on Better Homes and Gardens. Wonderful that the house withstood so many fires! Would love to stay a night or 2 there but at $500+ per night..... lol
TFTC ThePacman - GJMMelb

I spotted chooknchunk as I drove along. I spotted the excellent cache camo, another favourite from me. The house on a pole has certainly been a beacon for many, many years. Thanks for highlighting it ThePacman.

Quick and easy. Lots of cars

Nice quick grab. Thank you.

Quick find while away for the weekend

on our great ocean road holiday along with my fiancé Lord Rossatron
Thanks for the cache !

Found on our way to Geelong. Was told to look out for this house as we were travelling by the sister of the current owner. made the find pretty quickly

Found together with Schlauchen during our 3 weeks vacation in Australia.

Log to follow in November when we're back home.

TFTC and greetings from Italy.

#3618 11:01
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Logged with my Samsung Galaxy S5 using c:geo

Found it together with ravestorm on vacation in Australia!

We had to search for some minutes but then ravestorm found it quite quickly, reading the description also helped.
What a pretty house!

Tftc
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Logged on my Huawei Ascend Mate 7 phone using c:geo
13. Oktober 2016 11:00

Yay! Found it

Nice easy find

Nice easy find, pretty stunning house

Nice quick find on our drive around the coast. Must have cost a lot to build the house. Tyftc

A weekend down the coast with Leetalicious had us grabbing a few caches while enjoying this Great part of the world. A quick find by LL here and a fitting hide supporting the theme here too. Everyone remembers this house, thanks for paying tribute to it Joe, adding a fave

Headed to this beautiful area with Bogonghazy for a couple of quick days away. Taking a lovely drive to the first part of the Great Ocean Road and stopped to get caches along the way. Found this one pretty quickly just as muggles stopped to admire the pole home. Thanks for giving me another one ticked off and sending me to this lovely part of the country.

The perfect cache! It sits in a nice location. It gives me an interesting story. The camo is great. It doesn't have me sift through garbage or vermin. +favo

Had a great hiking day on the distillery trail, then a swim. Not so warm today, my feet were aching, but warm enough to dry up in the wind. Then a few caches, this one being the crown. And also the southern most I have been, I believe.

Thanks for helping me build a gorgeous day! TFTC

Tftc quick in & out of the car

tftc

tftc

Now this one is getting a favourite. Pulled up right beside the cache, loved the hide, very cool. Had just finished signing the log, when a couple hove into view with devices in hand, obviously not muggles -- Grace and an initiate about to see a cache for the first time. Welcome aboard. TNLN, SL, TFTC!

#63. Sneaky hide. Easy to get distracted by the scenery! TFTC.

Sneaky Camo. Just passing through driving Sydney to Perth, great one to pick up quickly and that's one house on a pole!

Our current visit to Australia had been in the planning for over a year with the very significant help and advice from friends who live in Melbourne. The original plan was for a 2 month visit, but as things progressed we just couldn't help extending our trip to the full 90 days allowed on our visas - after all it's a big country and so much to see and do, especially with our favourite pastimes being birding, hiking and of course geocaching! We are currently on the first section of our journey, which started with our arrival at Perth airport followed by a day cycling around Rottnest Island before travelling on to Adelaide where we met up with our friends. We then continued on to spend some time on Kangaroo Island. We are currently on the last leg to Melbourne having driven via Goolwa, Strathalbyn, Coorong, Mount Gambier, Cape Bridgewater, the Grampians National Park, Port Campbell, Cape Otway and Lorne, cramming in as much as possible on route. From Melbourne we head to Tasmania for a few days, then back to Melbourne before setting off to Sydney via Wilson’s Promontory, Lakes Entrance, Mallacoota, Pambula Beach, Thredbo, Canberra and Fitzroy Falls. After a visit to Sydney we will travel on to the Gold Coast, then after spending a few days in the nearby mountainous birding hotspots, followed by an overnight trip to Fraser Island, we will fly from Brisbane to Cairns, visiting yet more good birding sites. We will then drive up to Cape Tribulation before heading back south again to Port Douglas and a day out on the Great Barrier Reef. We then return to Cairns for the flight to Alice Springs, where we will hire a 4x4 camper and set off for a week on the circuit to and from Kings Canyon and Ayers Rock. We then fly to Darwin from where we will spend the last two weeks of our holiday making our way to Broome via Kakadu, Cooinda, Katherine Gorge, Kununarra, Lake Argyle, Emma Gorge, the Bungle Bungle’s and Fitzroy Crossing. Our last two nights in Australia will be spent in Broome before we fly back to Perth, from where we will connect with the flight all the way back home to Zimbabwe via South Africa. We already know we can't wait to return!

We found this one after a brief search. What an interesting house. As it has survived three fires it's surprising that more home builders haven't followed their lead! Thanks so much for the cache.

Sure is a house on a pole Cool hide
TFTC

On our way from Apollo Bay to Torquay. We were looking forward to seeing the house on a pole and finding the cache due to the high number of favourite points. We were lucky to make a quick find as the camo on the cache had fallen off making it easy to spot. We signed the log and returned the cache and tried our best to replace the camo. A favourite point from us for the location and the excellent cache container. TFTC

On our way from from a great weekend with friends at Kennett river we decided to drive along the coast. This house has always amazed us. Nice easy find thanks for the cache

Quick find, what a building! Signed log, now to continue to Torquay! TFTC!

Nice Place.greetings from Germany.

TFTC

Taking on the great ocean road and the otways for the weekend. A very crafty hide, it kept us baffled for a bit. TFTC the pacman.

Quick drive by now down the road to the next hide TFTC tbs visited