Mt Rouse (367m) consists of a maar crater, a tuff ring and the scoria cone. It also produced extensive lava flows which extended as far as the sea at Port Fairy, nearly 60km away. At its base, Mt Rouse has a deep circular crater and lake rimmed with blocky spattered basalt. The crater can be reached by a short walking track from the car park just inside the reserve entrance
This is the fourth in our Vulcan series of caches along the Volcanoes Discovery Trail, which we learned about while doing Derringer’s “What a Blast” cache. Brochures on the Trail can be obtained at the Colac, Hamilton, Port Fairy, Portland, Warrnambool, Tower Hill or Penshurst Visitor Information Centres in Victoria, and Millicent or Mt Gambier in South Australia.
Other maccamob caches on the Trail are:
Ready To Rock
A Leurid View
Puddle Jumper
Tumultuous
Peking market Place
Vol-Au-Vent
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Mahout
What A Blast (Derringer), Elemental Forces (Derringer), Centenary (Team Piggy) and Towering Inferno (Alex) are also on the Trail.
Access to this cache may be closed on days of high fire danger. As usual, please ensure the cache is well hidden from casual observation again before you leave.
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