The original series this cache belonged to was been brought to you by the Admin group of a local caching page on social media.
It was enjoyed by many over the couple of years it was active prior to being archived in mid-2018
It had a mixture of Trads, Multis, Mysteries and Letterboxes.
The original series was brought to you to highlight local country towns in the South of Victoria and was placed leading up to the Surf Coast Mega event in 2016. Whilst it had served it's purpose and there were valid reasons for it being archived, I wanted to keep one of the original caches for the sake of Posterity as much as anything else. Out of the 100 odd caches in the original trail I chose to adopt this cache as it highlights the suburb we have called home for over a decade, and the only suburb our GeoKids have ever lived in
WAURN PONDS
The town was named after the Waurn chain of ponds, a watercourse that flows from Mount Moriac over 30 km into the Barwon River. Two early hotels - the Victoria Inn (1845–60) and the Waurn Ponds Inn (1856) were located on the Princes Highway serving travellers on the road. The Albert and Victoria vineyards, owned by David Pettavel, began growing grapes in 1848 and the area was better known as Pettavel in the 1860s. The Pettavel Post Office opened on 12 January 1865 and remained open until 1952. The Waurn Ponds Post Office opened on 1 December 1871 and closed in 1968.
A quarry for limestone was opened in the 1840s, with quarrying continuing from 1964 to today at the nearby Blue Circle Southern cement works. Kilns for making mortar lime operated until the 1970s. Waurn Ponds started to become part of the outer suburbs of Geelong from the 1970s, with the opening of the Deakin University campus and the Waurn Ponds Hotel on the highway. Major development did not begin until the early 1990s, based around Ghazeepore Road. The intervening years have seen housing developments spread across the hillside towards Grovedale.
Source: Wikipedia