Alexandra is located in Victoria, Australia – within the Murrindindi Shire. It is a town that proudly features a number of preserved historical buildings, dating back to 1850. Alexandra is located near the Goulburn River and is surrounded by rich pastoral land, breathtaking mountain ranges and majestic waterways.
Take your time to look around Lake Eildon. Relax and enjoy the view, or experience the thrill of water sports like waterskiing, kayaking and wakeboarding. You'll find some of the best trout fishing Victoria has to offer in the nearby waterways. For breathtaking views, the striking Cathedral Range State Park offers invigorating hikes to the furrowed pinnacles, or for that adrenaline rush, the mountain offers some great rock climbing. Explore the Lake Eildon National Park, enjoy the wineries of the region, or for that family adventure, visit the Alexandra Timber Tramway and Museum or have a picnic in one of the many parks or reserves.
Rainbow Trout is a GeoArt series of caches with a range of puzzles – some easy, some quite hard.
The Cache is a one litre poly pipe with room for swaps and trackables. BYO pen. Please return the cache as you found it.
Don’t go to the listed co-ordinates, as it may be on private property, up a mountain range, or at the bottom of the Goulburn River, and the cache is not located there anyhow. Use the puzzle below to find the actual cache location.
The Puzzle –
Welcome to our harsh Australian Landscape.
Named deserts of Australia cover 1,371,000 square kilometres, or 18% of the Australian mainland. However, approximately 35% of the Australian continent receives so little rain it is effectively desert. The deserts in Australia are primarily distributed throughout the western plateau and interior lowlands of the continent.
There are large deserts in Australia's inland, areas of rolling sand dunes and gibber plains, but not all deserts consist of sand and stones. Actually, a desert is not defined by its appearance but by the amount of rain it receives. Additionally, evaporation is usually higher than precipitation (rain).
Australian deserts are amongst the youngest in the world, being only 1.5 million years old.
Approximately 3% of Australia's population lives in the desert.
The name Simpson Desert was coined by Cecil Madigan, after Alfred Allen Simpson, an Australian industrialist, philanthropist, geographer, and president of the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. Mr Simpson was the owner of the Simpson washing machine company.
The Gibson Desert was named by explorer Ernest Giles after a member of his party, Alfred Gibson, who became lost and presumably died in this desert during an expedition in 1874.
The Strzelecki Desert was named after the Polish explorer Pawel Edmund Strzelecki by Charles Sturt. He was the first non-indigenous explorer in the area.
To find your own patch of sand, take your bucket and spade, and head this way:
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