Park your car at the listed co-ords and walk into the hide on the Salt Marsh Walking Track. The beginning of the track often has a shallow puddle to cross, so wear suitable footwear (Note 19/1/2024: a pair of rubber boots may be handy to be able to cross the track with dry feet as it's often under water these days.) Don't forget to bring insect repellent as the mossies have insatiable appetites.
The Nyerimilang Homestead is nearby and well worth a visit if it is open.
The hide is situated right on the edge of the tidal waters of Maringa Creek, with the path to the hide sign posted and defined, with no need to go through the bush. When we set the cache there was a variety of seabirds and waders to be seen enjoying the waters of the inlet.
PLEASE replace cache exactly where you found it.
This cache is now part of a series, so remember to collect the clue for the final hide: GC4X8QD: Nyerimilang Park Final Mystery.
The clues are written within the log books (NOT on the cache containers)
For those that are interested, the Nyerimilang Homestead is nearby but there is no need to visit the homestead to do the cache. The homestead is open every day between 9am and 4.30pm. There is no charge but a small donation is welcome. There are picnic facilities near the homestead with wood-fired barbecues, toilets and a car park. Inside the homestead, a display features the history of Nyerimilang and the natural resources and history of the Gippsland Lakes.
Details sourced from (visit link)
The History of Nyerimilang Park and Homestead.
According to the lore of the Indigenous people of East Gippsland, the name Nyerimilang means chain of lakes. Overlooking the Gippsland Lakes near Lakes Entrance, Nyerimilang was accessible only from the water until the 1920s. It had been the exclusive haunt of the Gunai, or Kurnai, people for thousands of years until 1884.
The land that is now Nyerimilang Heritage Park was first owned by Mr A. Murray in 1884. He later transferred it to Frank Stuart of Melbourne who built a home as a base for fishing and shooting holidays at the Gippsland Lakes. During the early 1930s, his son Frank Jnr extended the house, developed the surrounding gardens and lived in style at Nyerimilang complete with housemaids and a gardener. When Frank Stuart Jnr died in 1936 his widow gave the property to the Anglican Diocese of Gippsland for use as a Boys' Training Farm.
William Buckland, the "quiet millionaire", purchased Nyerimilang in the 1940s and occasionally used it as a holiday home. After he died in 1964 the property changed hands again before being purchased by the Victorian Government in 1976.