Winston Wander: Plastic Houses Traditional Cache
Winston Wander: Plastic Houses
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We have recently spent many months in Tasmania, and during our time there were able to indulge in our love of geo-caching. Among the wide variety of caches we completed, we enjoyed one series so much we have decided to use it as inspiration for our own walking path cache series. Our aim is for our series to provide the variety of hides and challenges the Tasmanian “Ulverstone to Turner’s Beach Pathway” series created by 2y’stassies gave us.
The “Eel Hole Creek” walking path was developed in 1998. The project grew from a concept developed jointly by the Churchill Citizens Association, Monash University, Kurnai College and the Mathison Park Committee. It was funded by the Department of Infrastructure and managed by the Latrobe City Council. The pathway starts at Lake Hyland on Mackey’s Rd, winds its way past the lake, through Mathison Park, past a number of local features including Kurnai College, the lake at Green Inc, the Leisure Centre and the Community Hub before entering a section of local bushland. The walking path finishes at a park and playground in Glendonald Estate.
You should now be within viewing distance of a number of Monash University student residences. When these were first opened in the late 1980’s they were viewed as a novelty as they were made of a moulded plastic type compound – hence the local name “plastic houses”. The university was initially called Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education (or GIAE), but came under the umbrella of Monash University in 1988. It started life as a collection of different Technical School campuses offering a variety of post secondary school Diplomas, training students for work in the local industries. Gradually each separate area was brought together at the Churchill campus, with courses initially offered in areas such as Science & Engineering, Visual Arts, Teaching, Business and Psychology. Monash Churchill has widened the variety of courses available and continues to provide education to local and further afield students, as well as offering a range of International students the opportunity to study in rural Australia.
This cache is a small Sistema with room for small swaps only.
For bonus points, visit the history wall overlooking the Amphitheatre at the University and identify a very young SKI Pair in the photographs! (Try the science student’s photo).
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