Miner's View Ellerslie, Victoria, Australia
By piggysue on 01-Aug-05. Waypoint GCQ179

As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Seems all has changed here. Glad to hear there are new signs up. Will try to update everything soon.

the information boards have been replaced but no longer give the answer to "E" in the units as required. Tried using the number and also calculating to the units required but neither led us to the cache

As greynomads have said the information boards that this multicache relies on have been removed.
[This entry was edited by malikaal on Thursday, February 04, 2010 at 4:27:10 PM.]

[This entry was edited by malikaal on Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 5:21:01 PM.]

This cache can no long be done. It might as well be archived as the clues are no longer there.
The shelter is empty, no information boards, no seating, no tables, nothing.
greynomads

Pulled into this one today and having been to this cache on quite a few occasions, it appears to be missing - may need to be really checked out. I did a search of the usual location however it was getting too close to closing time to continue.

I thought i had hunted everywhere, uncovering numerous bits of rubbish amongst used syringes and bouncy balls. Didn't find it though.Just wondering if it still exists?

Wow! What an amazing view! Another great place for a cache, Thanks : ) TNLN

Found this on today, no 5 out of 6 for the day. Last time we called here the gates were shut - the day after protesters were arrested the day before. We quickly did the puzzle, found the cache and took a geocoin.

The cache will need replacing shortly - it's a bit worse for wear and I didn't have a spare with me.

TNLN TFTH

E!

Found at 15:55 by Peter & Marian after a discussion with the Security Patrol (brother in law) he thought he recognized my vehicle a did another circuit to check us out. Last time we were in the area it was closed due to a Security breach nearby. Had to wait until some Muggles had moved away, and had to be quick putting it back as more turned up. TNLN, THTC.

FlyingPigSquadron has landed!
"Holy hole Batman!"
What an incredible scene. TFbringing us here PiggySue.

We have dried out the cache container and thrown away the disintergrating paper items replacing them with two packets of 'fairy stones'.
We have also replaced the damaged outer plastic bag but didn't have a container of the right shape to replace the broken one which is suffering from moisture and insect seepage.

Left Geocoin in inner bag with log - suggest all items are put in here for extra protection

Great view of coal mining area. Did the maths,and found gz just before next car came. TFTC

Finally made it in and out before the gates shut. Great view of a very big black hole.
Other half found it before I could work out the co-ordinates.

I wasn't sure if noting the maintenance required in our Found It log was sufficient so here I am again.

Needs a new container or a better plastic bag.It was full of critters when we found it!!

Found the cache.TNLN.

Needs another container or a better bag though!!

Turned the place upside down.....may have been removed!!
Sure we were in the right spot so may be worth checking.

What an awesome view. The camera just had to come out at this one. [^] We took our time admiring the view from here. Love doing caches like this one.
TNLN Thanks piggysue for bringing us to this great spot.

Found by caughtatwork at 2:47
Another cache demonstrating what caching is all about. What a sensational view of the works around this area. Lots of photos were taken after we hit our 7th cache for the day. We spent much time admiring the equipment and the facilities in the distance. So surreal.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks piggysue for this cache experience today. It was a place well worth visiting for the view.
*Overall Experience: 5*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Easy find after the security guard left me alone
Left geo bug travel jeep

Forgot to add Jeep travel bug

been here before great spot

TN LN SL TFTC

Found at 1730hrs, on a caching day with Undies. This was the 21st of 22 finds for the day. Thats one big hole in the ground.
TNLN

1730h. Gates still open, even on a Total Fire Ban day. Great views. I believe the hole will only get bigger. Liberated a Geo Jelli, will have a look to see which way it will travel around Aus.

Dropped off GeoJellies Geocoin. Hope the earwigs don't take a fancy to this "jelly bean" as there were literally hundreds in the plastic bag! Cleaned out as best we could - lots of earwig dung and a new bag is required. The container is also getting a little tired.

Found today at 1430.

What a great spot for both the view and also the information.

Very informative.

Well worth the trip.

The cache was full of earwigs so we cleaned it out as best we could.

Took - NIL
Left - NIL

Thanks for the cache,

VKC1SR

Today I found my first cache. This was very exciting! I took the Knight and left a Pink Magno Miss!

Lots of muggles veiwing the scenery!!

Look forward to many more finds!

Found by the Lady bug - she passes here almost daily on her way to work, the location is familiar so it was an easy find.
T: blue car L: Knight in armour TFTF
Please note this cache IS accessible again after a security hiccup and gates being closed - as of Nov 18th.

[This entry was edited by KI bug on Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 1:20:11 AM.]

My son took the little red car from the cache and wanted to keep it so we made him give up one of his other toy cars. Good hiding spot. TFTC.

It was so hot out here today - no wonder we had the place to ourselves! The info was found easily and the cache was located quickly. It was only while carrying the cache bag back to shelter that we noticed that it was absolutely crawling with earwigs! It took us a while to extract all of them from the cache as they had gotten themselves into absolutely everything! TNLN & SL at 12pm. TFTC and a top view!

WOO HOO!!!!!! MY VERY FIRST FIND AND FOUND IN THE COMPANY OF BLATHERSKITE AFTER GETTING PLENTY OF ADVICE AND GUIDANCE.
The container may need some maintainance in the very near future.
Took Singapore keyring and left a red car.
Thanks piggysue for the cache and the history lesson.

Found this afternoon whilst in the nearby city where I once lived, and when it was a very small hole in the ground. Went to the "white pointers" and from the information gathered, GeoDonna had the cache in her hand.
The container may need some maintainance in the very near future.
Took Singapore keyring and left a red car.
Thanks piggysue for the cache and the history lesson.

752. What great views. We could have stayed for much longer if the wind hadn't been so biting.

TFTC and the stories.

[This entry was edited by McPhan on Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 2:31:53 AM.]

Rated: for Overall Experience

Dropped off TB Zoe. Zoe has come down from Darwin to look for Ernie.

Despite having worked at Loy Yang Power Station for the past six months I had not got around to doing this one. I guess I didn't need to see this view since there is a much better one from the top of the power station. It is an impressive view from the lookout just the same.
TFTC TNSL.

A slight sprinkle of rain added a rainbow into the open-cut, very colourful. Great view of what is required to provide us with energy.
Thanks, Robmc.

Found at 14:20. A clear sunny day so fabulous views. More muggles about but they soon left and cache was in hand. TNLN Thanks

Found today at 10:25am with the GEO family in tow.... Been up here numerous times in the past...

A few years ago, they held the "Rally in the Valley" at this venue... Awesome sight to see Rally cars come up out of the mine at 200km/h...

TNLN

0032 re-logging due to name change

Mousie nabbed this one. I did the maths at home and figured it couldn't be too hard to find, which it wasn't. The view today was clearer than last week, so we had a good look.

We found a few bugs in the container, so we tipped them out, signed and headed off.

TNLN, thanks.

Found by sbalogh53 on 9/4/07 at 1630.
Big Woops.... I got distracted by fellow passengers and forgot to sign the log. I took the TB called Search and Rescue to help it in its race.
TNLN.

Driving past and called in - wow what a view. Thanks for letting me know it was there.

Came and droped off a travel bug that has to get to Oxford in the UK via India and USA.
TB's name is Search and Rescue (SaR)
By the way the lid of the container is cracked and may need replacing.
Regards
Crisp Image

Found at 4:50pm. Almost got locked in! Qiuck find with some great clues. Some muggles around but waited for them to leave before approaching GZ. Good view of where my dad works. Replaced log book bag as it had a tear in it.
T- NECKLACE
L- 2x SUPER BALLS & A PARTY POPPER.

I vaguely remember being here about 40 years ago and I am sure that that hole wsn't as big then! Got the clues and then the cache without any problems. LNSL and took the geocoin as I am travelling soon and may be able to take it somewhere. Thanks piggysue for the cache.

grabbed all the info ... calced a position ... then waited for the car load of muggles to leave
no worries - saw the coin still in residence - but as I had no idea as to what its goal was - left it there for those who follow.
thanks for the cache
Dan

Nearly sprung by a "sneaking up" muggle here. He asked if I was taking photoes so I agreed to that one.
Left an Alien Geocoin which I brought over from Adelaide.
Thanks very much.

It was a very smoky and hazy day and the GPS was playing up finding sats. Gathered the information and procedded to cache which was quickly retrieved and logged. Thanks.

Thanks for a look at some really interesting facts about this part of Australia's infastructure. Would be a good place for some wind turbines given how blowy it was this day!.
TFTC Took Compass. Left Necklace. Signed Log.

A nice and quick find. No swaps made. Thanks for the history lesson and cache.

Joe Possum stopped off to deposit TB BMX Dude while showing visitors the power sites.

Dear Piggysue,

We found your cache today at 2:55pm as the eleventh of fifteen on our Gippsland Power Play Day. We had no idea of the expanse of the view until we topped the ridge. Just unbelievable. The last finder was the security team from the area who seemed ok with the cache being here as they had left a 20 Euro coin and a log. Thanks for the cache.

Kind Regards,

D,H & A B-A

Found at 1210pm. I worked there about 12 years ago. It has grown immensely since then. LNTN Thanks for the well hidden cache.

[This entry was edited by Ratbag14 on Thursday, August 03, 2006 at 2:38:46 AM.]

Didn't have time to look for this one in the morning and drove past to a great pub lunch in Yarram. Came back later in the day to an excellent view of a bloody big hole complete with rainbows. A bit of reading gave us the cache location which was straightforward enough but the clue gave a couple of choices (which are probably both valid at different times). The container lid was difficult to get off and seems to have suffered some cracking in one corner so might present a humidity problem in the future. This would be made worse by the split plastic log bag. Took Masked Man sheriff's badge; Left a Goosebumps disc.

Found it @10:20. I use to work here about 18 years ago. Interesting to see how it has changed.
Took poppy and left sherif star.
TFTC
Crisp Image

Done.

Did multi clues and treked to look-out.On arrival the look-out steps have been barricaded up at the base and you cant climb,so the counting was done from ground level.Hoping i was right i moved to the final cache location and there it was in full view from 10 metres away.Lucky no one ever comes here anyway ,so logged the book ,TNLN ,re-hid and made sure the cache was properly out of view .Thanks piggysue for the good multi and great view of an impressive area.

I've lived in the area for some time and this was my first visit to this spot. Made short work of the maths and quickly found the cache.
Took nothing, left a good impression.
Thanks Piggysue

A nice quite afternoon to process the find in peace. This was Joe Possum's first successful multicache. Took a band aid and left a balloon.

Found this after waiting some time for some muggles to finish their lunch. So close yet so far, we waited what seemed an eternity for people to leave so the cache wasn't "exposed". Replaced pen that wasn't working with a new one

Found at 2.10pm GAFF1. We have been past this area so many times but never ventured down to this viewing area. Thanks piggysue for making us come and visit this spot - we really enjoyed it. tn/ln

Found this after waiting 15-20 mins for some muggles to finish their lunch. Beautiful sunny day and awesome views. Cache was a bit damp. Took smiley face badge, left sticky hands. Thanks!

got it today after messing around with the formula. don't treat it as a maths formula but where each letter is a number and only do the maths where it says to (eg divide a by b)

otherwise a great spot with a fantastic view! and once worked out the cache was easy-ish to find. Still can't get over the view!
cheers!

Another find for The Rebel Alliance. Thanks

Cache nineteen of twenty for the day in the company of Dak Emu. The cache was found at 22:00. On arrival at the gates they were locked so we could not drive in so we took the 400m walk and gathered the required information, Dak came up with the cache. We had cracked the hint due to the lateness of the day but we did not find the cache in that position. The cache was replaced to match the hint. The stars looked great from here not to mention all those lights. Thanks.

Twentieth of 21 finds with acts2youthgroup on our "Big Day Out in Walhalla". As it states in the cache description, the gates close at 1700, and they were steadfastly shut when we arrived. We didn't want to leave one cache undone, so we scaled the gates and walked the 410m to WP1. We gathered the information and calculated the final coordinates. We had the cache in hand at 2200. We had wimped out and decrypted the hint, but the cache was not located where the hint indicated. It was partially exposed, but we replaced it where it was supposed to be. I made no exchange at this one. The views were largely invisible at this time of night, but the lights were good to look at anyway. Thanks to piggysue for the cache.

Hi new to caching, believe I found its location but further searching disturbed by muggles. will continue hunt next chance I get.

Really enjoyed this one, found the spot very interesting and even went to search out the second lookout nearby, thanks.

found the cache on the return trip,because too many muggles there first time round, the puzzle was good and after we worked the clues out it was easy to find.

took the highlighter pen and left a smiley badge.

thanks sue

This one took me a couple of attempts and around 40 minutes due to the muggles around. On my first attempt, there was a 4WD parked very close to GZ. So I left and did another cache nearby.

Upon my return, there was another car parked exactly where the 4WD used to be. And they didn't appear to be in a rush to leave. They just sat in the car. I grabbed my lunch and ate it slowly, but they still didn't move. I waited approx. 20 minutes in total, and they still didn't move.

At this point I gave up and decided to leave. However, I did a very slow driveby which I think made them a little uncomfortable and they left immediately. (In reality, they were probably ready to leave anyway). I circled the block and parked where they were, grabbed the cache and logged it. All in all, it was a lot harder than it should have been. This place is quite busy - I didn't mention any of the other muggles that came and left.

No swap was made. Thanks for the cache, and for showing me this panoramic view.

Slipped away in a quiet moment.
Took party popper, left coffee sachet.
Surprising number of muggles around.

Found with SquashedFrog. Had to pretend to be tourists for a while until the real tourists left. Nice easy one. Thanks Mum!
Took notepad Left fairy stickers

G'day from Team Cruiser,
well we finally found it our second time round, this time it lead us straight to it, great view from this site.
thanks for the cache Peggysue

After camping out last night we were able to arrive here nice and early this morning. Collected the required information and then tooki in the view before we headed off to GZ
Co-ords were spot on and the cache was located quickly
TNLNSL
Thanks Piggysue for bringing us back to an area we haven't visited in a long time

A pretty spectacular view from the lookout.
We initially had the same problem with the co-ordinates as a few others have before, but the answer was pretty simple and in no time we had the cache.
Took Big T TB, left MAD badge.
Thanks Piggysue

[It's very windy today, and we were almost blown off the hill.

We thought our brains were frozen when we did the math, but eventually figured how to make the clues work properly. Nevertheless the location is obvious.

]The dredge needs to be at least one hundred metres taller![

TN, left a yellow car, some glitter glue and a keyring notebook.

We also left our Big T travel bug.

Found this one on a trip home from the Valley for work.
This park provides a great view, and plenty of muggles, you need to wait until the coast is clear.

TNLN

Thanks PiggySue

Found by Mary & David at 1300. We felt rejuvenated after Rosedale Bakery lunch, including their 'Fat Bastard Pie' - steak, bacon, cheese, tomato and egg. Mary remembers trips here from Warragul High School many years ago. Doesn't seem to have used up very much coal since then. Had a small problem with the cache coordinates, but the answer was obvious. TNLN. Our thanks again to piggysue.

After a quick trip into the Gippsland district I stopped by this cache and after collecting all the clues headed to the GZ. the cache was found after a short search Yahoo another FTF
The views are awesome and I wonder how much longer it will keep going?.
Many thanks Piggysue for a cache worth visitng for the views.
TNLN.
Regards Shelby and Mr.Coffee and the "Miners had great views" Clan.

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