Port Mandurah Canals Series
1990 saw the start of the construction of the canal development on the Western side of the Mandurah Estuary on what used to be farmland. In 6 stages over the following years the area was transformed from farmland to multimillion dollar home land. In between the mansions there are vestiges of times past.
This series of caches will take you on a circular route of about 3.5 km that visits these islands of history that have been preserved in amongst the canals.
Park near the bridge at S32 32.165' E115 42.977' and do the series then take a leisurely stroll over the bridge to one of the many coffee shops on the foreshore as a reward.
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OLD COAST NESTING
The major road to the east of this park is the Old Coast Road and was the major road between Bunbury & Perth for many years. At Easter, Christmas and other major long weekends there would be queues of traffic lined up both north and south of the old traffic bridge and it was not uncommon to be "stuck in traffic" at this location for a couple of hours.
This traffic jam was alleviated for a number of years with the opening of the Mandurah bypass and the new bridge but it was not long before that bridge too became a bottle neck for traffic going south on holiday weekends.
The new Forrest Highway has now taken most of the south bound traffic out of Mandurah which is great from a traffic perspective for residents but no so great for the many businesses that relied on the passing traffic and overnight tourists.
This Cache
17 Feb 2015 - cache relocated and co-ordinates updated.
This cache is a preformed tube with log only so bring your pencil.
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