GC3H242 Dog-gone...Ships of Bass Strait (Traditional Cache) in Victoria, Australia created by Dog-gone

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A cache by Dog-gone Message this owner

Hidden : 5/19/2013

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The cache, a very simple one, because I wanted to bring you out here . There is no physical container.

To log this cache, a photo is required that incorporates the shelter on the pier. The photo must be taken from a close perspective. No zoom shots from 400 metres away. Your photos will be incorporated with your name in the cache description. So try to be creative. Good luck.

Bass Strait is situated between the Australian States of Victoria and Tasmania. Average depth is about 50 metres. It is named after early explorer George Bass. Bass was a surgeon aboard HMS Reliance. He rowed in a whaleboat, with a few others, in January 1798, from Sydney and discovered a large bay which he named Westernport. Later that same year, he and Lieut. Matthew Flinders, both of the H.M.S. Reliance, sailed through Bass Strait.

This neck through Port Philip Bay is a great vantage point from which to watch the passing shipping traffic. Imagine if you can Matthew Flinders on the Reliance coming through these heads in 1801.