Journey's Start Traditional Cache
Hidden : 10/12/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This monument commemorates the centenary of the start of the journey of Hume and Hovell from Hume's station (near here) to Westernport Bay.


Hume and Hovell Monument

The inscription reads:

COLUMN TO RECORD
HUME HOVELL
EXPEDITION
TO PORT PHILLIP
SITE OF
HUME GRANT
EXPEDITION
FINALLY SET OUT
FROM HERE
17 - 10 - 1824
UNVEILED
17 - 10 - 1924


Their journal for the day reads:

Sunday, October 17.--Leave Mr. Hume's station (the last which is settled or occupied by the colonists) without a guide; travel twelve miles S. 60 W. (through a country affording good pasturage for cattle, thinly wooded and well watered) then rest for the night. The soil, near the spot where they halt, is composed principally of coarse schistus and granite.

More information on the journey can be found in "Journey of Discovery to Port Phillip" - Project Gutenberg ebook 0400371.

From GZ you can also see an old water tank used for refilling steam trains.

Please be careful climbing up the bank. It isnt as high if you walk away from the monument a bit.

Please cover again to avoid cacher trails. Thanks.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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