The cache can be found on part of Mt Tarrengower and this particular location has some of the best views of Central Victoria and at night you see the glow of the lights from Melbourne, Geelong and surrounding townships 100's of km's away. Stargazing on a clear night is remarkable. It also provides views towards Mt Alexander, Mt Franklin and Mt Macedon. You will see below also a remarkable story of this place and what this and a nearby mountain means to the Aboriginals of the Dja Dja Wurrung.
The cache is not difficult to find as it is a pink bin. I say no more. It is more difficult to find when you cannot take your eyes away from the breathtaking view. If getting to the cache from ANZAC track you should be aware of old mine diggings in between the track and cache and some do have a large drop. Alternatively access can be gained by walking between property fence lines on land that can be accessed by the public from Gray Street up a fairly steep incline for about 400 metres.
The location of this cache is not only a significant meeting place of young students of the Victorian Blue Light Youth Camp on their night walk who stop and meet in this place. The story below is retold by our guide and local historian Ray Stevenson to the young students.
That same view is close to the meeting place of the Traditional People and the Dja Dja Wurrung for thousands of years.
We will pass on a significant story from the Traditional People that has been re-told of this place by Justice B Nelson – Dja Dja Wurrung, Jaara.
A long, long time ago, long before anyone but the Traditional People walked our Country, our lands, rivers, mountains and animals alike, all had magical life. They had personalities, purpose, speech and they could think for themselves.
This is a story of two volcanoes named Tarrengower and Lalgambook (now also known as Mt Franklin and to find this on the horizon look towards Daylesford).
Tarrengower in the Dja Dja Wurrung means to be big and heavy and indeed he was just that; big, bold, wise and a very proud old volcano who had become very tired throwing out rocks and lava and preferred to sit humbly watching over the plains.
Another volcano called Lalgambook was a young, loud and cheeky volcano that started to challenge old Tarrengower’s wisdom and authority, and began grumbling and building up anger towards the old volcano. But Tarrengower, being the wise old volcano that he was, decided he should just try to ignore this cheeky little volcano.
Lalgambook grew even angrier that Tarrengower wasn’t acknowledging his threats and started to put on a display of smoke, ash and brimstone to impress the land and animals who were also watching, but this didn’t intimidate the wise old Tarrengower. Instead he just laughed at Lalgambook.
Lalgambook became so frustrated that he began to throw large rocks at Tarrengower who grumbled with annoyance at this cheeky volcano and Tarrengower now began to taunt young Lalgambook by telling him he wasn’t very strong at all because the rocks couldn’t reach him.
Lalgambook exploded with great fury, spurting out lava and smoke high into the sky and hurled gart gart in Tarrengower’s direction, but still could not reach him. This caused Lalgambook to completely blow his core!
Tarrengower’s anger eased and he just grumbled at this cheeky little volcano who was now just coughing and spluttering with no energy left at all.
All the rocks thrown by Lalgambook at Tarrengower can still be seen today and have formed what is known in the present day as the Guilford Plateau where the Jaara people would perform ceremonies on the Bora grounds also known as Yapene.