Lal Lal Water Tower Victoria, Australia
By The_Tritonz on 02-Jan-20. Waypoint GC927BP

Figuring I had plenty of time to get to Melbourne a route was picked involving a variety of cache types.Wow, what a fantastic structure? After checking numerous options the cache eventually popped out at me.Thanks for bringing me here The Tritonz.

Visiting the markets and had to grab the geo. Nice quick find thanks and great place

Quick find this afternoon. A nice container in an interesting location. We unrolled the log to see the cache's code and a blank scroll.. ahh must be a new log we thought. .and duly signed.. then realised we signed at the bottom .. ooops .. thanks The_Tritonz.

This one I did manage to locate and a worthy place for a cache too. Amazing piece of history. Thanks

Nice dry little cache. Beautiful spot TFTC

Having come down to Bacchus Marsh for a few nights, it was time to head back home to Adelaide. The plan was, however, to spend a few days making the drive back, finding caches along the way. Todays efforts mainly consisted of targeting more caches that would help me with challenges; were situated in LGAs I had not cached in; filled uncompleted Jasmer spots; and numerous caches in between. I meandered my way along either side of the freeway, finding the desired caches before eventually calling it a night once the sun had set and I needed to find a place to stay for the night. I will always appreciate caches like this that take you to interesting locations that you may not have otherwise visited. This was a lovely spot and one definitely worth the favourite point. Despite not making much distance back to Adelaide, it was a good day of caching as the desired caches were found in some quality locations. Apologies for the generic log as I have quite a few to write following this trip.Find #9778, at 02:00 pmTFTC

Took us a while to find it just had to get our hands dirty

TyFTC!!! Lovely hide. And yes. If I was a kid again I would be up that ladder! Awesome bluestone work. Good as the day it was built. Mid 1800s?

Lovely find beautiful old building so much history. Took a few minutes to find

Thanks for bringing us to this cool feature. Found cache. Now kids want to climb the ladder.

Found It.........With Mr H_3's holidays fast running out we decided to have a caching road trip. After pulling up we jumped out to admire the workmanship that had gone into the construction of the tank and tower. Once we waited out some muggles a quick search soon yielded the cache and with the log signed we moved onto the next one. Thanks The Tritonz for the cache

Nice hide but I was lucky enough to find it the first place I looked!! Getting it out from its hiding spot took a little longer!! TFTC!!

Found with dad on our day trip TFTC The_TritonZ

Find 4540 on January 10, 2024Found on a maintenance trip to some of my own caches near the blast furnace. Good to see yet another cache here at this tower. I love this piece of history. Well hidden cache in great condition. TFTC The_Tritonz

Cool little cache! First sign for 2024

TFTC

There is a solid piece of history right there. Great location. TFTC

On a cache maintenance run we checked this container to find it in the wrong position. The cache should be magnetised up in the top half of the down pipe.

Easy find. Interesting container: David

Intersting structure. Easy find.

I collected this cache today on the way home from an event in the bush. A very easy quick find on a interesting historical structure. Cache and log are in good condition. TFTC

Out this way for a brekkie event so a quick find here on the way home. Great piece of history. Thanks for the fun and adventure

Marshall’s Geelong found this cache today,
Quick easy find whilst on the way to work. Never been down this way before and never knew about the tower!
TFTC

Tftc. What a lovely spot for a stop

Out in the area for a look around and stopped off to check this one out. Didn't take too long and the cache was in hand. Log signed, cache replaced and it was off the railway station.

Thanks The_Tritonz....cache all good.

Checked on the cache today to find it still in place waiting to be found.

Quick trip, well not really, to Bendigo, yes you read that right Bendigo not Ballarat, Bendigo today. Wanted a different way to go and decided on going through Ballarat.

We've looked at this one when we first started caching and didn't mark it as anything. And now a few years a quick find (and is this ftf after it being re-enabled ).

Tftc.

Didn't find this one last time we were here, so stopped to try again. Cashe in good condition. TFTC.

Sorry for the late log! Found when visiting a friend. Lucky for me it was a quick find as it started to rain. Very neat cache. Many thanks

Finally we have been able to replace the cache.

Passing through today to replace the cache only to find workmen at the structure, not having any luck here

We came to replace the missing cache today to find the host has changed slightly, so the cache will now need a few modifications.

Although we didn't find the cache ( or log book as in previous logs), it was a great structure to stop and look at. Tfth

Seems the cache has gone walkabouts, will disable until we can replace.

Been meaning to get this cache for awhile now, but on the odd occasion I'm in Lal Lal I'm driving past this before I remember.
There doesn't seem to be a proper cache for this and it consisted of just the naked log book. Might need a maintenance check.

Found on the last day of the year - whilst staying nearby. Found logbook on the ground in the open - no container to be found. needs maintenance a
Bring on 2023z

Day out with my girls - quick stop in town after visiting the falls

TFTC

Out for the day to visit the Falls while they're flowing. Saw tge beautiful railway station, then realized there was a cache nearby. Woohoo..and what a beautiful tower. Thank you so much for bringing me here!

A creepy sort of place that would be good on halloween.

November 2022. Time for the second Victorian Mega of the year. This time in Whittlesea. What is it with W's? Time for another epic road trip. Who will join our merry crew? We traveled from South Australia and camped in the pig pen. It rained. It blew. It was sunny. It was not sunny. All four seasons. Beautiful location and some awesome caches.

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke für den Cache. Gracias por el caché. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos kätköstä. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Köszönöm a cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas.

A nice and quick find here today after having a look around the piece of history

After staying in Melbourne for the night I trained it to Ballarat to meet up with freddo to cache for the day back to Melbourne heading towards the Whittlesea mega.

Thanks for the cache

Visited this spot many years ago when there was another cache here. Today in the pouring rain we found this newer cache. The hint was excellent , but the magnetic grip was hard to break! Love this building and a favourite is given, thank you Tritonz.

After moving my daughter out of Res accommodation at Fed uni we called in to look at the Lal Lal falls after we have had so much rain. Then we called in here to find a quick cache. The mozzie's were out in force. Quickly signed the cache and jumped back in the car. TFTC

Awesome spot and a nice 3d printed container
Didn't have a pen on me, attached photo as proof

What a terrific old structure, just loved having a good look at it, thanks.

Super cool hide. Great day for a leisurely drive in the country

Quick stop on the way home from Kryal Castle

Nice and easy on our way through! Was brave enough to face the ladder!

First cache in a while, nice easy one for a start, TFTC great spot and history

Found by The Empire + H
After a nice walk along the creek, checking out the work geocachers have been doing, planting many of these trees over consecutive CITO events, we ventured south and then west toward Lal Lal. A place we'd been before but always enjoy coming back. A quick find here, I'm sure we'd already found a cache here back in the day - good to see it a destination for geocachers. My thanks to The_Tritonz for the cache!
- M

Arrived and with in seconds found it. First find for my sister which she was proud of herself.

Thanks

Tftc!!

Nice little bit of history. Lovely little town

This is a very impressive construction. Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks The_Tritonz for the cache.

A nice quick find on my way home from Ballarat!! Such a beautiful little spot. Thanks for the cache

Found as we headed out to enjoy the day, we have been in this are a few times TFTC and the fun

Cheers BUAHRATZ

The first cache of a trip up this way for a purpose. Easily found. Many thanks to The Tritonz.

Found on a nice hot morning walk.
We decided to explore this area before it got too hot to be comfortable this afternoon.
This spot is always nice to stop and take a look at.
Thanks for placing this cache for us to find.

Found with McAdies and jelly_bean14.
It was super hot finding this geocache today.
This is a really cool spot.
Thanks for the cache hide.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie.
I enjoyed finding this geocache in the hot weather.
A lot of butterflies are out in the bush today.
Thanks for the hide.

Out collecting smiles with AlexiKatty, and saw this one sitting there all green. Well I had to fix that, always good finding a new cache. TFTC

I never knew this was here! It’s awesome! Thank you for being us here. Found with ThaKraken today. Now back to town for a nice refreshing freezing drink!

Love this tower!

This one was a lot quicker to find than we anticipated! A nice quick one to finish our travels for the day.
Thanks for a great cache in a historic area that we never seem to make it to.

Today we were finally going to make it to 1000, we'd headed out this way to tick that landmark off and enjoy what the Golden Plains had to offer. We stopped here to take in the lovely quiet old town, can imagine it was much busier during the gold times. Anyway after a short search around this cool water tower we had the cache located and the logbook signing in hand. Thanks for the hide The_Tritonz

In the area today with Wozzle68 picking up a few caches here and there. I remember the previous incarnation many years ago. Good to see another cache placed here highlighting this historical feature.

This one turned out to be a lot easier to find than the old one that used to be here. Thanks for this hide.

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Off to a great start for 2022 - a day of finding interesting caches such as this and catching up with fellow cachers to "Kick Start" the New Year in Beaufort!

We couldn't resist a stop as we headed homeward, quite a magnificent structure.

Thanks The_Tritonz for placing caches in interesting locations for everyone's enjoyment.
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Found by Mary and David at 13:50. Had to detour by here to replace our cache "The Palindromic Alchemist" on our way to Beaufort this evening. We have cached here before. A magnificent structure, a great hide, and a FP for bringing us back. Our thanks to The_Tritonz.

A pleasant drive up here from Melton after the Intervening Days Event, to fill in some time before our Street Orienteering Event tonight.
A quick park and grab.
TFTC

This is a great tower. I can almost imagine someone doing a grand designs here and converting it into a house!
Second time here as there was an older cache here once.
Easy find with the hint.
All good.
Thanks Tritonz.

What a magnificent structure tftc

bit of deja vu coming here as i think i had found one here before.......a tricky hide but got the goods tftc

After a CITO this morning and a stroll around the Union Jack Reserve, I came out to Lal Lal for an earthcache, while here I collected a few caches in the area, this was one of them. I had a feeling of de ja vu at this location, I'm sure I've found a cache here previously.
Thanks Tritonz for the hide.

In the area today collecting milk and vegetables I diverted to grab this cache. What a great structure and an equally great, super strong cache. Thanks The Tritonz.

The sun was shining, and regional covid restrictions meant we could at least get out past our 5km zone, so we seized the day and headed out to Lal Lal to explore an area neither of us had been to before. What an amazing old historic structure, glad to see it is still here. Reading the cache description stopped Chunk from going where he shouldn't ... well sort of. TFTC The_Tritonz and for bringing us to this site.

A quick find at gz . All's good with the cache . Thanks The_Tritonz

We were on our way home after a run to Ballarat to grab a couple of smileys either side of midnight when AusFox; suggested a slight detour to grab this little one. I remember finding a cache at this very site with the family a few years ago. it was good to see a new cache being located at this iconic landmark.
As we were locating the cache AusFox went one way around and I the other to meet in the middle both heading for the same hidey hole. after a quick find we had our names in the I book and were able to continue homewood.

Thank you to the Tritons for placing a cache add such a historic Venue for us all to enjoy

After a midnight jaunt to Ballarat with SimsFamily and Dromaniax we made our way home, and as always there is time for just one more. So a quick detour was made to the familiar Lal Lal water tower.
With a quick search the cache was located, but retrieval took a little longer.
Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the Traditional Cache The Tritonz
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Received a message from Sims_family, asking if we were up to a midnight caching run with Ausfox;. Having never been on one, we were in. Then there was a conversation about where the caches were. Ahh, we had recently been in the area finding another cache, and it was decided that a 4x4 Geomobile would be the best option. So Ausfox was picked up on the way to Geelong and then Sims_family in Geelong, and we made our way up that delightful road to Ballarat. Fresh from picking up FTFs either side of midnight Ausfox; suggested a side trip on the way back home and we were soon checking out this great structure by torchlight. Ausfox; levered the cache from its hiding place and soon all our names were on the log. The cache is in excellent condition. Thank you for this cache The_Tritonz

Suscoe dropped by here this morning on the way to a family celebration at a delightful restaurant in Ballarat.
A quick find but a slow extraction as the fingers were semi frozen and the wind was blowing cold air from some gigantic freezers somewhere to the north of Ballarat.
Thanks to The_Tritonz for bringing the caching world back to this interesting and impressive structure.
Temperature on the car's dashboard 6 degrees, BOM says wind chill was around -0.6 degrees,

I did this a couple years ago, I swear

The hint helped

Been here before from previous CO.
Awesome
Thanks

This has been on the to do list for a while but time has always been short. This time it was decided a special trip out here was needed to turn the green box into a smiling face.
That was a surprise and a really different looking tower. Took a little walk around before I read the description and then all fell into place.
A clever hide as was expected from you two.
Thanks for this one The_Tritonz A FP coming.

The machinery doesn't seem to have moved since our last visit so we will enable this cache once more.

Disabled while roadwork machinery is stored nearby.

[^] {FTF} JOINT FIND WITH AU.FAIT [^]

Passed through this area on our drive to the first cache on our list this morning only to hear the phone ding telling me that there were new caches published and to discover that we were so close earlier.
Near dusk were were again in the area heading for Geelong so on checking we discovered that it was still unfound so decided to have a look.
As au.fail has stated it was my 600 hundredth FTF so thanks to The_Tritonz for placing and deserves a F.P.
The log is damp but the paper is easy to write on because of the type but I think some plumbers tape would keep the water out.

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Out with Bushfire for another day of caching on a day they was unusually warm for Ballarat. An early start and a slow journey with the never ending roadworks, and a formidable list of caches with some of the Geotour caches high on our target which also had multis, puzzles, an adventure lab as well as traditionals. After we stopped for a cache I’d found previously we got down to the serious business of crossing caches off that list while we were still busy on our list in Ballarat we saw this pop up but thought someone would soon find it. However on our homeward way made the detour to Lal Lal and were surprisingly rewarded with a blank log. A joint FTF with. Bushfire. A huge milestone for him as it is his 600th FTF. Congratulations to him. TFTC The Tritonz