Hattah View Hattah, Victoria, Australia
By reverb on 03-May-03. Waypoint GCG395

Thank you! Nice view

Thanks for my first find!

Been here before I think but memory is non-existent. Spotted a new fire from the spotting tower. Took a bearing & phoned it in. Ended up with 4-5 trucks on it to quell it with the warm windy conditions. TFTC

We came to Hattah View after a stroll up a hill and then climbed the lookout and took some pictures. Quick find Tftc

What an absolutely stunning view. Have driven up and down this highway 100 times over and never new this spot existed. Thanks for the walk and for bringing us to this stunning location.

Thanks beautiful walk to get here

Beautiful sunset views from here were had!

What a beautiful spot and such an old cache that had recently been replaced. A favourite for sure. Tftc tnln.

Found cache, first cache found!

I found this cache as I was heading back home to Adelaide after the Capital Geobash Mega event over Easter.I was travelling solo again and took somewhat of a zig-zag route, following caches of interest. My main focus was on the non-Traditional cache types, although I did find a few others opportunistically.After a bit of rain the first day after leaving Canberra, its been great weather the rest of the time.I hadnt intended to travel home via this cache, but I got sidetracked by a T5 FTF opportunity in the Murray-Sunset National Park and grabbed this older one on the way.The cache and contents were in good condition.Thanks reverb for the cache.

Nice spot

Nice find TNLN TFTC

Visited and replaced container and Log Book

Cache Maint - New Container , Log

Found this guy on a quiet day. It needs replacing and thr log book is too wet to sign.

Desperately needs a new log and container.

Nice little spot to see the surrounds

Cache box needs replacing

I had a few days leave so Mrs JTreeTrack2 and I decided to pack up the car and head off to where it is slightly warmer (than Ballarat). So North to the Murray River, Swan Hill and Mildura then home through the Wimmera. What is a trip without some caching, so some caching we did, not heaps but enough to leave some more smiley faces dotted on some new parts of the Map.
Heading back to Ballarat, so a few stops along the way. A short walk and a quick find. Cache signed and returned as found.
The Cache needs some TLC.
Thanks for the Cache reverb

Surprised to see another cacher signed today. Yes both container and log will need to be replaced, in this golden oldie... surreal feeling.. great view from the viewing tower even though the height thing was making me nervous.

Wandered up the hill and look out tower then found the cache. The container is broken and everthing is soaked but I was able to make my mark. I tried to make it as water proof as possible but the container needs replacing. Unfortunately I had no spare one left with me
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It's taken me a long time to get out here. Have always been so close, but never did the detour. Shame no tables or seating nearby. We improvised and sat on the ground under a Mallee tree. The views are amazing. The one contains the many and the many contains the one. A quick sign of the logbook before back to the car. Places to go. No one to see. Just taking in the magnificent Mallee.

Found with gridge98 on a roadtrip to Sydney!
Thanks for the cache

We made the detour off the highway out here to find this one, a lovely spot and a short walk, great views too. This oldie was an easy find and the cache is alright condition. Thanks for bringing us out here to this lovely spot.

Day 1 of our trip from Adelaide to Sydney with Courtneyrose_ , today we made our way from Adelaide to Mildura via the Mallee Highway and Pinnaroo. We explored some of the back roads and the towns we passed through.

Thanks for the cache

Found It!
After a DNF here many years ago I came back today and found the cache easily. Nice place and some great views from the lookout tower!
TFTC

2nd geocache ever found! Great find!

Took a bit... but got there!

Day 22 of our southern trip. Exploring around Red Cliffs and Mildura today. With a round trip into NSW. We areTeam 4 4 QLD - RoddyC, hatzofff, Snickersallan and Grannysmith1947.

There was not much choice as to whether or not we came here, once 2003 as a placed date popped up.

Just as well - look at the views!

Log signed and cache replaced as found on January 31, 2022. TFTC, reverb

Day 22 of our southern trip. Heading into blues area to pick up an LGA. Very hot here today. Don't need to run around in the sun. Caching around Mildura and Red Cliffs in readiness for doing the Paddle Steamer geoart.

Caching and travelling with RoddyC snickersallan and grannysmith1947. Signed as Team 44Qld.

Ahh will we go and get this one. Sure will. It is an oldie. Thank you.


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Spending a quiet day on the road today due to the high temperatures with RoddyC, hatzofff & grannysmith1947 (To save space on log sheets, we have signed as Team 44 QLD.
Nice views up top and all good with the hide.

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TFTC smile 11637 out and about with miss millie geo dog Hatzofff RoddyC and Snickersallan great caches, great day ,good weather, enjoying a trip to Mildura to cache the Paddle Steamer and picking up any other caches in the area, plenty mallee trees ,oldie for a oldie
signing as Team 44 Qld
Thank you, reverb, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Beautiful spot. Thanks.
Singed the log (glad you left a pen, forgot mine).
Left a trackable.

Great spot to have a slight detour off the main drag and stretch the legs. Cache located and log signed when suddenly people started arriving. Seemed 3 other car loads of people also thought it was a good place to stretch their legs.
Thanks for the distraction from white line fever.

Hi. Thanks

Good little walk

Enjoying the lakes in flood

Great bit of fun for the kids

Great search,have to keep your wits about you. Well done team

Took a drive to the country and what a great view from the tower. Last day in Vic so collecting a few old and interesting. Tftc

Awesome view from lookout. Left nicotine free doobie

Fabulous lookout and easy to find cache. Left a pathtag for next finder.

Simply amazing. Arrived at sunrise and was treated to a view. 360 degrees of simply stunning. A FAV point for this one!

Quick easy find. Enjoyed the walk on a windy day. TFTC

We enjoyed the walk to the lookout, it being a clear day the view was great. SL TFTC

Easy find. Thanks for walk. Beautiful view. All worth the short walk.

Fun find while on my day off . Tftc

Beautiful view, lovely walking tracks also

TFTC

Having just spent a fabulous couple of days with The Tritonz and micaparamedic doing the new PS geoart series, we headed down towards Hattah for some lunch, then into the park to find this cache. Great views from the top of the platform. Its always good to find an old geocache like this, so thank you reverb for keeping this one going.

After a lunch at Hattah we made our way along the Old Calder Hwy and climbed the hill to seek out the views and this old cache.
Thanks reverb for the maintaining this placement.

Great view.

Replaced container

Found with Tassydevil. Nice sunny day to visit this area. Thanks

First for the trip. TFTC

TFTC great view over the NP. A definite favourite. Put log book in plastic lock bag as container broken & needs to be replaced

Tftc nice drive from dunolly great view

Container cracked but still a functional cache with lots of swaps. Thanks for the cache!

Easy find, shame there’s no water in the lakes atm but camping along the Murray was great. Container is broken needs replacing

Container broken

Flies flies flies so many flies. Took the chance to blow a few bubbles

Day 2 of this years Christmas holiday trip. On our way to Adelaide (from Canberra) collecting answers to one of the windmill cache multi's. Took a detour to this park and drove several of the trails with caravan in tow. Took the road to the lookout on the way out and made the short trek to make the find. Thanks reverb.

Suscoe was heading to Mildura this morning from Ouyen and we had a number of caches to visit as we travelled northwards.
It was a delightful day, blues skies, a breeze from time to time and a top temperature in the high 20's.
We enjoyed this section of caches hides and saw some interesting country as we headed along the highway and the byways.

Thanks to reverb for this hide, how good are the views.
A favourite.

A bit hot to be walking up this surprising hill but a 2003 so worth it. Priorities and log signed I decided to walk up the platform and was quite shocked at the views from the top platform, quite good.

Trip log... GreyHams log says it best, in all its glorious detail... so it really is, 'What he said!'

With GreyHams we set out for another chapter of our caching challenge... To find all the counties in NSW. We flew into Adelaide early Friday morning with a return plane from Melbourne Monday night. Taking advantage of some super cheap car hire driving one way from Adelaide to Melbourne. Of course, as a four day road trip it leads into collecting as many counties as was possible as we pass through SA and Victoria as well, with a few side trips for those that were close enough.

The counties a high priority but many caches of interest, the oldies are always great, about 16 2001 caches found plus many others just as old. Web Cams, virtuals, great DT which would see us complete our fifth loop of the DT grid, large caches and lots of regular sizes too. The trip list also included a cache type of each we were missing for each state as well.

Simply, if we stopped for a cache that had made it onto the list, it was not just any random cache, it was selected for a quality of some type we were seeking.

One of the harder things about caching after flying somewhere is that all the TOTT are left behind...usually! So it just had to be done and we took an esky with us on the plane for all those fabulous cold drinks along the way.

The thing I love the most is that we also took a ladder with us on the plane too!

We had targeted the 'on your bike' wherigo series, so many puzzles, so many hours of them so the ladder was important if we wanted to find all the high DT, up the tree caches... which we did! Later in Ballarat we went 'above and beyond' with the ladder once again. A truly essential item to have, we may now need to invest in that inflatable Kayak for future adventures too!

Perhaps it must be said that our route was the least direct way we could have traveled via the Hay Plains and Griffith, but covered a lot of road, counties and locations leading to yet another great trip. Although a number of park and grabs, made closer by our reliable and tough SUV, we also managed a lot of walks, hills, bush, and just a great variety as we explored the different areas.

We crossed the Murray river many times, a lovely healthy looking river system. After our recent trip from Adelaide to Sydney, via Broken Hill and Bourke the dry rivers out there are a very sad sight compared with the Murray.

With so much achieved that we had set out for it was a very successful trip but also an enjoyable one with many memories made and a new batch of stories too! Thanks to all the CO's for there caches that lead us in our travels.

This country side is stunning....its not beautiful but eery.

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Aquilus1 and myself are on a mission.... to collect all of the counties in NSW! but how to get to those 'hard to reach' ones from where we are in Canberra? It would be an awfully long round trip. The answer was supplied in the super cheap car rental deals available if you drive one-way from Adelaide to either Sydney or Melbourne... I guess too many cars do it the other way and the cars need to get back somehow. Flying to ADL on points meant fuel was by far the biggest transport cost we paid for.

This trip is actually trip number two.... to drive from ADL to MEL, via Hay & Griffith! Yeah, thats logical! It was fun explaining where we were going to people, we got a lot of strange looks. The first trip was ADL to SYD, via Bourke. The bonus of course is we have also cleaned up a lot of SA & VIC counties as well.

OK, so primary goal is counties but we of course had 5 or 6 goals. Oldies was definitely a priority, I think we picked up 16 hides from 2001 on the trip along with lots of 2002-2006's. D/T of course is never overlooked and we did well there, I think we will almost complete our fifth loop from this trip. Webcams, Virtuals and Wherigo's were all targetted and finally getting all cache types in each state.

Day 1 was us arriving in ADL at sparrows, with a ladder and esky that we checked in and driving as far as Barmera. We cleaned up the 'On Your Bike' series where the ladder really fulfilled its purpose (I never want to see another online jigsaw again!) and even stopped to grab the LBH on the way out.... after 9:30pm, and after I attacked the dirt road with my body and left a lot of skin on it. Note to self: dont lunge at dirt roads! Luckily the hotel in town was open and we obtained fine lodgings. The floor creaked when I looked at it, or breathed, or changed my mind, but the bed was the finest.

Day 2 was driving to Hay, apparently on their biggest day of the year! No motel had rooms but luckily the new hotel that was supposed to open next week was forced into opening on the very day we arrived.... I like fresh sheets but how about a bed that has never been slept in! The crossed the Murray about 5 times and it was always impressive. We saw the country side change hugely from Rivers, Mallee and the Hay plain.

Day 3 was going from Hay, around Griffith and actually turning south towards Melbourne.... it felt like a long way! We cleaned up a bunch of the counties, in fact all of them, west of and including Naranderra. My map on Project-GC is going to look so green! We got as far as the outskirts of Bendigo, stopping at the first Motel we saw.... it was better than it looked!

Day 4 was getting to the airport, which we did with heaps of time to spare. Checkin closed a huge 18 minutes after our arrival. Damn, we could have grabbed another cache in that time. Ladder back in its box and checked in. I love the fact we took our own ladder!

Now safely back at home I am already suffering from caffeine withdrawal, but thats the price you pay for living on Coke for 4 days.

Sorry for the long generic log, but it was a fun trip and I wanted to share.

*40:4 | 7/10/19 13:53*

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Took us a little while, but GPS was surprisingly helpful out here. Stopped in here on our way home from camping at Lake Mournpall. Didn't notice this lookout out on the map until I saw this cache there. Enjoyed the view up on the lookout for a while before finding, the endless landscape in every direction really is magnificent and humbling. Since i'm a patch collector, I swapped out the ram head patch that was in there, thanks! I have no idea what it's for though...

TFTC!

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Quick find while waiting for the sun to set

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This cache marks our 700th find! We adventured out today with GeoKids 2 & 5. We parked at the car park and made our way on foot to the lookout. On approach we could hear voices, which was odd as there wasn't any cars at the car park. When we reached the lookout we were greeted by two older gents who were on a hiking adventure across the parkland using compasses. One had heard about Geocaching and both were keen to learn more so they joined us to GZ and one even made the find. With cache in hand the logbook was signed while we exchanged tales of our adventures and then we headed our separate ways to enjoy the sunshine on this lovely afternoon.

Solid view with a nice muggle. Also, that's technically not a mallee tree (even though there are plenty here!). Thank you for placing a cache in this location tftc

On my weekend away to attend the 3 x 3 events across three states and stopped to find a few more along the Calder as I went.
I wasn’t sure what the tracks would be like in here after all of the much needed rain they had in the past 24hrs.
A couple of little soft spots along the way as I did not want to churn up the track.
Parked the Geocruiser and headed off up to the lookout.
A great view from up here and with some low lying cloud around it looked great.
After taking a couple of pics it was time to locate this cache and keep heading north
Thanks reverb TFTC.

Nice view indeed. Love the hint NT, TFTC!

Great day for geocaching. Good views. Here for a week of r&r.
TFTC

Elledee found with

TFTC: found with Rogey

Great views, a nice walk to break up a long drive

This doesn't photograph all that well but it is an interesting view point (I wanted to see it as I'd seen some of this area from ground level). I thought I might be able to see some lakes here, but none were in sight.

Fun drive in - I felt like it was very easy to go into the corners far too fast and slide around them.

*Found en route from Renmark for family holidays*

With time constraints I only had time to grab a few along the way as I head for home.

A nice straightforward find here. A great location for a cache.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment reverb. Appreciate your efforts.
-P

Stamped and returned as found...

**Cache Condition**: The container and log book are in good nick.
**Took**: *Nothing*
**Left**: *Nothing*

Cache-On!

Heading to Swan Hill to do some geocaching over the long weekend. Taking detours to find caches. What an amazing view. I never knew this existed! Great to see some thick mallee bushland. TFTC

TFTC great view stayed in park for couple of days. Lots of trees to search under we didn’t leave a rock unturned.

Good grief

Cache found safe and secure, log book signed whilst out enjoying scenic drive of countryside around Robinvale through the almond orchards, olive groves and vineyards on the way. Many thanks for the cache at this wonderful view.

13:48
WOW - what a stayer 14 years out on the geo game board!
We were very happy to add it to our smiley collection, on a day with many DNF's. We travelled some back roads, upstream from Mildura to Robinvale, then returning with the flow via the busy Sturt Highway.

Found the cache sitting out in the open, so returned to obvious location and secured from animal interference. Blossom on box tree was prominent today.

Thanks reverb for placing caches for everyone's enjoyment.
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Lookout! Hill!
A great view of the flatness of the Mallee.
Quote: "The Mallee is, for all practical purposes, is completely flat and very low-lying: in fact for long geological periods the whole region has been inundated by the ocean. Most of the Mallee consists of sand dunes that have been deposited as a result of movement of sand from the interior of Australia during arid glacial periods of the Quaternary. The soils are generally very infertile and sandy: the better ones on more stabilised sand dunes in the east are slightly loamy and pink to light brown and have been able to support wheat and barley growing as a result of the development of superphosphate and other fertilisers. In the west the soils are unconsolidated sands, much less alkaline than in the east, and not generally able to support any grain cropping.

The Mallee has no surface drainage: the native vegetation has so high a rooting density that the rainfall of most years is easily absorbed and the porous sandy soils mean that any excess in an exceptionally wet year will recharge groundwater supplies which tend to be highly saline. Flow from the Wimmera River to the south supplies Lake Hindmarsh and, very occasionally (in 1918, 1956 and 1975), overflows to the north. The Murray River is, thus, the only source of fresh water for the region and is consequently overburdened by intensive irrigation.

The climate of the Mallee is the hottest and driest in Victoria owing to its inland location. Rainfall is usually only produced by the most vigorous frontal systems or by occasional penetration of tropical air in the summer. Average annual rainfall shows a well-defined north-south gradient: Mildura averages only 267.9 millimetres (10.55 in) per year but Hopetoun in the south receives around 370 mm (15 in). Variability, however, is quite high : in 1973 the Mallee averaged as much as 650 mm (26 in) but in 1982 only 115 mm (4.5 in). Temperatures in summer are generally very hot: during the Early 2009 southeastern Australia heat wave, Hopetoun reached 48.8 °C (119.8 °F) and the average maxima in January and February are 32.7 °C (90.9 °F). In July, maximum temperatures average 15.4 °C (59.7 °F), but minima average 4.4 °C (39.9 °F) and frosts are very common."

So there ya go. Something to ponder as you stand at the lookout.
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Lovely location. TFTC.

Found it after searching quite a few bushes. Thank you.

Short walk up the hill. Nice added extra to the lookout.

Out pottering around with muggle friends so left them admiring the gorgeous view while I ducked off for a quick find....well, nearly quick....using my phone and it seemed to struggle to get a clear signal - ah yes just over here, oops no just over there, nope off over there, muggles made rather rude comments about the attraction of walking in circles but success was soon at hand

Replaced container , contents and logbook

Nice spot but no cache was found...

We had a good hunt for it while waiting for sunset but couldn't locate it even with the hint.

We had a chance to pick up this cache during a camping holiday at lake mounpall. Enjoyed the walk to the lookout and the cache was an easy find. All sorts of interesting objects but took nothing. Well done to the cache owner for maintaining it for 13 years now!

great walk. interesting area. we camped at Lake Mournpall

Lovely view!

Great cache. A lot has changed from the original content

A great way to spend the afternoon with family. What a great view and a great find full of goodies. TFTC

07/07/2016 10:07:00 AM
Stopped off to admire the view on our way to Mildura.
A nice fresh well stocked cache was a pleasant surprise in this day & age.
Thanks for bringing to this spot we would have otherwise missed

The little gems you find while caching and this one brought us to a great area we would of never planned to visit. Nice views not far from the gz and Mrs Hp spotted this one after a short search, thanks so much reverb for bringing us into this terrific spot and the cache.

In Mildura for a few day of resting and relaxing. Today was a sight seeing and geocaching day. Out for a drive around the area, exploring and caching.
Sorry for the slow log.
Thanks

A nice little side trip. I slowed when I saw kangaroos. I recently had a run in with a kangaroo and my car is bearing the scar. I found the cache out in the open, about eight metres off GZ. I placed it back in a hide, but I suspect something lives there and the cache might be ejected again. TFTC reverb.

Great view. Cache was about 10 metres away from co-ords, still very findable TFTC

Thank you