Noah's Ark Traditional Cache

Noah's Ark is the vessel in the Genesis flood narrative which the Patriarch Noah builds to save himself, his family, and a remnant of all the world's animals.  According to Judeo-Christian tradition, Mount Ararat is associated with the "Mountains of Ararat" where Noah's ark came to rest.

The biblical Mount Ararat is a snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone in Turkey. It has two peaks: Greater Ararat (the highest peak in Turkey, and the entire Armenian plateau with an elevation of 5,137 m or 16,854 ft) and Lesser Ararat (with an elevation of 3,896 m or 12,782 ft).  The Ararat massif is about 40 km in diameter.

Mount Ararat is located in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey between Doğubayazıt and Iğdır, near the border with Iran, Armenia and Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan, between the Aras and Murat Rivers. Its summit is located 16 km west of the Turkey-Iran border and 32 km south of the Turco-Armenian border. The Ararat plain runs along its northwest to western side.

The Mount Ararat where you'll find this cache is a slightly less spectacular, less biblically or geographically important hillock adjacent to the old Princess Highway between Pakenham and Nar Nar Goon.  The biblical ark was said to be 300 cubits long, 50 wide, and 30 high, the one here is closer to 300 mm long, 50 wide, and 30 high.

Take care when parking and crossing the road. The terrain difficulty level greatly depends on which direction is used to approach the cache, one side is about 1.5, the other is about 3.5. Please take care when opening the cache and then return it as appropriate.