Nelson's Cape Portland West, Victoria, Australia
By Na'wal on 03-Feb-16. Waypoint GC6AQPX

Cleaning up. Time to open the map to some new caches ??

Found on my trip around the country.

I visited this earthcache on a short visit to the Portland area from Adelaide for a few days of caching and camping.

I came out here first thing this morning.

Thanks Na'wal for another interesting earthcache.

In Portland for reunion.
Popped out to the Lighthouse for a look.
Did the Earthcache whilst here.
Thanks for the Earthcache

We visited this coastline briefly in August this year, but the weather wasn't ideal for exploring. As we were passing through on our way to Cape Bridgewater today, we stopped by to revisit a couple of special places along the coast, this being one of them. Today we had great weather. After a bit of an explore and collecting some information we enjoyed lunch at the nearby cafe that had reopened with the recent easing of COVID restrictions.
Thanks so much for the Earth cache information.

The plan was to spend a few days in Ballarat, Halls Gap and then Portland. We had no intention of chasing every cache we drove past. Only the ones that piqued our interest made the list.

One of many areas we visited whilst in Portland. So much to see and do.

Thanks Na'wal.

What a stunning day to enjoy a walk around the lighthouse! Thanks for bringing us here and drawing attention to the area.

What beautiful views here today, and it wasn't windy! Was windy on our wedding day, 6 months ago when we had photos here. Such a wonderful scenic area and walk along the cliff today. Answers sent to CO. TFTC

Tftc

#616! TFTC This was so cool and the view Is amazing! MrPaNic!

July 3, 2021 2:45 PM

Staying in Port Fairy for the weekend but it was too wet to sit in the caravan all day so took a drive to Portland. With a break in the weather we headed to the Cape Nelson lighthouse for a look around.
A great area to walk around today. Views from this lookout were amazing! Then took a short walk along the GSWW to check out the monuments. Thx Na'wal for your EC, answers sent.

Omegaman1971

In the area for work for a few days, actually going home sooner due to the 4th lockdown.
But had sometime for caching before hitting the road.

This was one the caches I did whilst here, cheers for the cache.

Find number 8619 on 27 May 2021

Great spot to discuss the questions and answers. It was a beautiful day today, clear and sunny with almost no wind.

Answers sent to CO. Thanks for bringing us here.

TFTC. We were out with muff1 for an afternoon of caching. We came down to Cape Nelson to have a look at the lighthouse. We managed to find the traditional there and then turned our mind to the nearby Earthcache. We have forwarded answers to the CO.

TFTC

Found with emandel. TFTC!

Thank you for the Earth cache! Enjoyed our visit to the area.

We came out to do cache maintenance and realised that we hadn't logged the earth cache and collected the information again only to find that the CO had already given us permission to log along with the Rocks of Lawrence last year so we are now logging on December 29th 2021.


We are in Portland visiting Dad for Xmas and had time to head out here again before the family festivities.

We have been here as we a traditional cache here, the last three have been for this earth cache, two of which we lost the information before we got around to sending our answers so we came back today determined to sort it out, we have a new system in place now and also because we love visiting here.
We enjoyed collecting the information on an extremely windy day which to us only makes the ocean look better.

Many thanks Na'wal for another fantastic earth cache in a favourite part of the world, a favourite point from us.

Not even the whale watchers ventured out here today although there was a group of bush walkers lying exhausted against the cafe and out of the wind. They didn't look too keen on moving on again. The sea was angry that day my friend - answers have ben sent in by Robmc.

The Morris and I spent today finishing off an Adventure Lab, and looking for some new placements.
A great section of coastline around Cape Nelson.

It is always great to visit the lighthouse on Cape Nelson.
There was a howling wind today, but quite safe to stand near the fence and read about rocks hereabouts.
Our answers are on their way.
Thanks, Robmc.

This is my favourite place on this rugged coast. Always windy up here hence the whitestone wall..
Fine though so at the viewpoint the geology was studied and photographed.
Answers submitted.
Fav point.
Thanks na'wal

We were up early and set off to explore Cape Nelson and Cape Bridgewater. It was just after 8am and was a beautiful crisp sunny morning here. Just spectacular. Thanks for the earth cache.

Thank you

The view from the lighthouse and surrounds is a lovely mix of ocean and bush

Stopped by here this morning to find the traditional near here as well as the multi-cache nearby. What?? There's an earth cache here? Let's DO IT!!

Mrs. iowaPete served as scribe for this one and took notes as we discussed each of the requirements for the cache. Once we came to a consensus, we took a few photos, called it good and headed off to find the multi-cache nearby.

Answers have already been sent to the CO. Photo attached of our visit. Enjoyed it all....

TFTC

iowaPete

It was cool to visit this Lighthouse along the great South West walk, a nice pitstop. I grabbed a coffee and poked around for the two geocaches. I had a great chance to observe all the cliff formations on three days walk.

Found this afternoon on visiting cape Nelson’s and doing the tour of the lighthouse. Really enjoyed our visit and listening to the guides history of the site. Very windy for us today but still able to observe the cliff. Answers sent to cache owner. tfTc.

Answers sent. Some big swells rolling in here today. TFTC

Answers sent. Lovely site.

Really great views from the top of the lighthouse. Wave action and scenes are worth the trip. Guide at the lighthouse well versed in volcanic area as well.

Fourth of six finds with Aussiewolves. We have messaged the CO with the answers to the questions. Really enjoyed the drive out to the cape. Great to walk along the cliff edge and collect the information for this earthcache. TFTC

#1870 Fourth of six finds with Rieka to celebrate the New Year. We have messaged the CO with the answers to the questions. Really enjoyed the drive out to the cape. Great to walk along the cliff edge and collect the information for this earthcache. This was a wonderful learning opportunity and we took lots of photos of the area. TFTC

Great spot for an earthcache, pitty the coffee shop is shut. windy as usual for this location, with a top of 19 for the day, welcome to summer in Portland. thanks again for your earth caches.

This cache was found today and brings our overall cache find tally to 10455.

Amazing views from this GZ of this one but very windy, which explains why there are so many wind towers in the local area. Answers have been sent via the message centre.

Thanks Na'wal for the cache.

Found the cache Thanks

This is an awesome earth geocache.
Was wonderful to visit to take in the views and the history.
TFTC
Na’wal

Another great spot to visit. Thanks for showing. TFTC

Another good day exploring Portland with the grogs. It was specifically good to return to this location of historical and geological significance. We had a ball and Whyt Knight grabbed the traditional cache while we were there. tftc - logged with permission.

A wonderful day at the Nelson peninsula! We visited the Cape and the lighthouse and answered all the questions. Amazing location!

Greetings from Germany and
TFTC El_Mue

And what a lovely Cape nelson has!

I originally marked this cache as ‘found’ FLTF – full log to follow. Here I am well over a month on and I haven’t’ added a full log yet! So her I am typing up a generic copy and paste log, I do apologise that it isn’t a unique log for your cache. Thank you for suppling me/us with a cache to do along the way. I got a few caches orders and finds muddled so I am sorry if I created confusion, I think I have corrected that error now.

Found this cache heading to in or around Port Fairy.
TFTC

Found with geowife kezza 1211 naturegirl and rogerz1956
TFTEC

Found with Geo Hubby TB142 and Geo friends Rogerz1956 and Nature Girl. TFTC

Tftc. Found with tb142, kezza1211 and naturegirl. Answers sent by tb142

We’ve packed up and headed south to escape the heat for a week. Aunty Marg graciously offered us her house in Portland.

The lighthouse was our first port of call after arriving last night. I’d ridden out to it this morning and thought I’d better bring the family up to see it as well. I gathered the information for this cache while Em was scaling the lighthouse steps. I had a laugh though as I didn’t come prepared for caching but when I opened the app I was standing at GZ for this cache, so of course I was going to have a go.

TFT EC!

Magnificent spot worth the drive

Me tour of the spectacular coast line continued here at the cape
So that red and white building over there must be Nelson's Column ?? [:o)]

Nearby I stood atop the neatly fenced cliff
And took in the more detailed views of the place needed to answer the Earthcache questions

OK !! 'Nuff standing around,
there's another cache to be found,
a couple of k's north of here

TFTEC and views to Antarctica [^]

Today we were being those pesky tourist types and picking up a few caches along the way to the sights..Fortunately most of the sights also have Caches! This was done while we waited for Muggles to vacate so we could do the trad. Answers sent to CO..TFTC

On a caching day with hevwalker, 3LG and Cabbos and visited this amazing coastal view. Checked out the view for quite a while. Waited to see if the boat coming in was going to collect the pots we could see before the seals frollicing nearby did first. Looks like the seals were having fun. Answers sent

Great day of caching to and around the Portland area with hevwalker.. scramping and 3LG .. Loved the area here it was a beautiful day .. no wind .. flat sea and so peaceful doing the caches and enjoying the view.. A group effort finding the answers to the earth cache and scramping sent them to the CO on behalf of all of us.. Could have spent more time here but still a long way from home and was thinking about our fish and chip tea at Cape Bridgewater

Found on a girls day out caching with hevwalker, scramping and cabbos.
Fabulous views of the coastline as we discuss our answers.
Spent some time here watching a seal, wondering if it was raiding the numerous cray pots dotted around below.

scramping submitted answers on behalf of our group and logging with CO approval.

Thanks for bringing me here.

TFTEC Na'wal

Headed to Portland and surrounding areas for a day caching with 3LG, scramping & cabbos...it was a great girls day out...
It was lovely visiting this area today...we answered the questions together and scramping is submitting for us all...
We spent a lot of time here just watching the ocean...there was a seal playing in the waves too...very cool...
Thanks for bringing us to explore this area Na'Wal

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Suscoe was travelling westward today and we took a short stop in the Portland area to take in some views and enjoy the warm sunshine too.
We stopped here and saw a few tourists getting a little too close to the cliff edge, happy to get this done and out of here in case they overstepped the edge.
Have sent the CO our answers, hope we took in what we needed to with the eyes.
Thanks to Na'wal for this Earth Cache, spectacular here today with a steady wave rolling in along the coast.

In taking a virtual tour of this beautiful area, this neat place caught our attention. ThanX for the fantastic description, just hope to make it here someday.

Visited here while exploring the area on holidays. It was a beautiful sunny day so the views from up here were pretty good. At GZ we answered the questions and found the earthy aspects very interesting. Answers to the questions have been forwarded to the CO.
As we were walking up to GZ from the café we saw a nice sized Tiger Snake cross our path in front of us. He stopped and looked at us… we definitely stopped. After eyeing each other off for a little the snake turned around and retreated back into the bushes. That little experience certainly made this cache memorable for us.
TFTC

As we are driving down the coast toward Waarnambool, we stopped at several earth caches. Each brought us to a unique spot on the coast with great views, and we learned a bit about the area. Enjoyed the views and the light house. This is the only light house I have seen that has a wall to protect the keepers from the wind while on their walks between the cottages and the lighthouse. TFTC

VikingNav and I had a great time driving around the coast and finding the answers to earthcache questions and learning so much in the process. What a beautiful coast! Thanks for putting this great earthcache together, I really appreciate your work in making my trip even more fun and educational! VikingNav has sent our answers for both of us.

Find 2869 on our family holiday to SE SA and SW VIC on the 18 January 2018

Day 4 saw us in the rageing heat so not much geocaching happened. We managed a few finds before 10:30am where we declared it too hot and retired to the beach for a cool swim.

By the time we got here it was really heating up. We gathered the required info before retreating to the shade of the lighthouse to forward our answers to the CO.

TFTC Na'wal

En routec to mount gambier while touring on holidays. Couldn’t resist a light house and a couple of caches.
Beautiful bit of coast line
TFTC
Cheers
Rocket

Found during our honeymoon but answr sended just now...
Thanks for showing me this place

I have been to Cape Nelson Lighthouse a few times over the years. The last time was looking for a Rufous Bristlebird. Headed up today to look for it again. While looking for the bird, I checked my geocaching app and realised there was an earthcache here, however it wouldnt upload what information was required. So I walked around and gathered as much information that I thought would be needed and took lots of photos. There were rain showers on an off and beautiful rainbows! Just before I left, I was lucky and saw a Rufous Bristlebird on the edge of the carpark! Once I had a better signal I checked what I needed to log the Earth Cache. Sent the information to the CO and have been given the green light. Thanks Na'wal for this cache, a fav from me.

Visited during a cool winters day, complete with passing showers.
It was interesting leadining about the volcanics in this area.

Great location. Interesting geology. What more could you want! Thanks Na'wal.

Dodged a few showers to visit the lighthouse and collect the information for this earthcache. Striking views. Information sent. Thanks for the earthcache Na'wal.

Nice view from here, the sea was sure angry below the cape.
It's always interesting to see lighthouses too, so neatly constructed and well painted (from a distance, at least)
Answers easily found from signs - except for one which I needed to read the cache description thoroughly, need to get better at that

Visited w Tazz&Co. beautiful spot. I love lighthouses. TFTC:)

Found and enjoyed w Almacs. TFTC

Beautiful spot. I love light houses. Found w Tazz&Co. TFTC

We have sent the answers for this earthcache to the owner.
We enjoyed this area immensely, the views are to die for, the kiosk is tops and there is a trad and an earthcache. Thanks for the effort you have placed in setting this earthcache. SL TFTC

Out for a drive with Aussie M & M. A lovely location to visit and stop and enjoy the coffee.
Aussie Mary will be sending in the answers.
Thanks

11:32 am #2999
Visited during a road trip to Portland and various areas in south-west Victoria with Papillon4506 & Geoturtle37.
Answers submitted to CO.
The marchflies here are lethal!
Thanks for the cache and bringing us here to this awesome location today, Na'wal.

Found on a long weekend geocaching road trip with Geoturtle37 and OzHockeyChic, as we head down to Portland for an event on Saturday. Earthcache answers submitted. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

Thanks Na'wal for bringing us, once again, to a picturesque part of our amazing shoreline. A beautiful view, made more spectacular by the presence of the lighthouse.
Even though the weather was just beginning to become slightly damp, it didn't dampen our enthusiasm, Muggle Hubby and I both enjoyed the visit, a favourite point from us.

Found along with The Empire amidst some mild drizzle this afternoon. We took some time to take in the awesome views whilst here. This place has been on my "to visit" list for a long long time. So glad we came, got the nearby trad as well, and thoroughly loved the geology and history surrounding Cape Nelson. Logging with permission from the CO, thanks Na'wal for the EC. Adding a fave.

Found by The Empire and Sully
In Portland for the 8 Months to the event in Alexandra event. Time to spend the afternoon caching, it was a little wet - but that didn't stop us much! I have the distinct feeling I've been here before, but there weren't many caches here like this one! A traditional and an earthcache from standing in one spot! Love it! Answers sent to cache owner for approval. Thanks for the earthcache Na'wal.
- M
Earthcache #185

Today we visited Cape Nelson and apart from the hordes of march flies, it was an enjoyable experience learning more about the geology of the area. Answers to the questions ahve been forwarded to the CO. Thanks Na'wal for another interesting Earthcache.

We found ourselves with a three day break to play with, so we seized the day and made our way to Portland for a couple of nights.

Cape Nelson Lighthouse and its little settlement is truly beautiful - a must see for down here. We enjoyed the earthcache too and we learn that little bit more each time we do one.

Thank you for this earthcache Na'wal, and for bringing us here. Answers have been sent.

Nice spot! A bit scary trying to get a look down to the beach but eventually I managed to get a peak. Message sent to CO and here comes a FP for an ec in a really Nice spot, thanks!

found while travelling from Portland on route to nelson. It was windy and raining while I was here for most of the time. Still took the time to grab the nearby waymark. I don't envy the lighthouse keepers back in the early days living out here. nice coastal views.

I love light houses, they are so close to the ocean and all that fish. The ocean was beautiful today, thanks for bringing us here.

Found it! Starting the new year off with a wonderful cache. Beautiful here today, thanks for bringing us here. Greetings from Maine.

Well another great spot you have brought us to Mr. Na'wal , what can we say , we loved the lighthouse and the view from the cape out towards the ocean and along the cliffs and I didnt have to walk down any stairs lol This coastline is brilliant , we are so glad we made this area part of our mini holiday and when we have more time we will be back to appreciate it a bit more.
Thanks Na'wal for taking the time to make this and your other 2 earthcaches here for us and other cachers to enjoy and learn a little of the geology of the area.

Came out here for a look. We love lighthouses.
Did some exploring and even ran into a former lighthouse keeper her who was showing some guests around.
Gathered the answers required whilst admiring the view in the gusty conditions.
Email on it's way.
Thanks

We had a week long trip to Portland and SA for the School Holidays.
Everything was pretty wet from the recent rain but the caching was enjoyable.
Very cool spot.
The lighthouse is grerat and we enjoyed looking down at the rocks.
Thanks for the cache hide.

Found with McAdies and jelly_bean14 during a holiday.
We got to see some really cool spots.
Thanks for placing the EarthCache we had a good time finding it.
Logging with permission, McAdies sent in the answers for me.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie during a holiday.
It was fantastic travelling around finding Geocaches.
Thanks for placing the cache for us to find.


Logging with permission, McAdies sent in the answers for me.

Visited the cape and lighthouse and then had a delicious lunch at the cafe. Love Earthcaches and this was no exception but was a bit scared at the edge. Answers submitted TFTC

Logged with CO permission. Often do the loop walks in the area. As a Traditional Owner it's great to be brought back to the cape by this global treasure hunt - geocaching - and continue to take on more knowledge and sit and ponder what once was.

Loved the walk out here! Started to walk along the coast to a nearby cache but had to turn back as it was starting to get dark. TFTC

i have always loved the light house and the view up here. Thanks for helping me really get out and explore the tracks and up off the couch.

Logged with permission from the cache owner. Another brilliant place for an Earth Cache. Thanks for bringing us to this location.

Logged with permission what a beautiful area. Thanks for the earth cache

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*Logged with Permission*...

A beautiful morning to be out and about grabbing a few smilies with Happy Feet as we headed to Portland to perform some maintenance on a friends cache...

A short stroll, a short search, found the information and took our photos... Great spot to take my drone for a fly and grab some great arial photo's...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for my enjoyment Na'wal...
- P

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In the area visiting family, so will take the opportunity to grab a cache or 2 while with Snap Happy. Enjoyed grabbing a nearby cache then found the necessary info for this cache. We had a beautiful day to take in these fabulous views and enjoy the area
Thanks Na'wal for brining us here and the geological & history lesson.
#2980

Dropped by on this beautiful sunny Sunday morning to visit this place I know fondly and have visited often since moving to Portland 12 years ago. The nearby cafe has friendly service and great coffee.
After gathered the required information, admiring the view and a taking few happy snaps, I then set off to Nippers at Cape Bridgewater with the 2 junior members of haynicmay and Geogrrl, and send a message to the CO.
Logged with the Owner's permission.
Thanks for a great reason to revisit this special piece of coastline

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