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Wombatwandering took it to Plumage
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Victoria, Australia
- 143.53 miles
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You’ve only just arrived in Melbourne but now you have driven back up the Hume halfway toward Canberra. The aim of this trip was to show geoson the difficult the Tom Kneen track up the North West Spur to the Melbourne University Mountaineering Club (MUMC) hut on Mt Feathertop. That was my club and now it’s son’s but he’s never done the hike and I didn’t want him to underestimate it.
Mt Feathertop (1922m) is the second highest mountain in Victoria but is one of the only mountains in the Australian alps that looks like a classic mountain. It is also known for its often dangerously icy slopes on which skiers and walkers have lost their footing with fatal results. Tom Kneen was a friend of Geoson’s grandparents. He died in an avalanche on the mountain.
The hike up was fine but the expected bad weather hit us just after he made it to the hut. Luckily for us, no one else was at the hut so we pitched our tent inside. Seriously wet and wild weather all night. I was glad to be cosy in the hut. 🛖
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Wombatwandering took it to Bring Ya Rod - Altona Pier
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Victoria, Australia
- 40.04 miles
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Back in Melbourne and time for yum cha with my friend. She dropped us off in the western suburb of Altona so I could find a Wherigo for my calendar and I also took you for a walk out onto the pier. Bit of a grey day but it’s always nice to be by the sea. 🥟
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Wombatwandering took it to Clonbinane Park
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Victoria, Australia
- 166.34 miles
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Still driving down the Hume and back in my home state of Victoria. Stopped for a letterbox cache in a letterbox and a change of drivers. 📫
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Wombatwandering took it to A fish out of water
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New South Wales, Australia
- 109.82 miles
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You joined the Hume Highway, the major road that runs between Sydney at Melbourne, at Yass and turned to the south. It’s a long and not very exciting drive however there is a must-do stop at Holbrook. Here, hundreds of kilometres from the nearest ocean, is the decommissioned HMAS Otway, an Oberon-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy. Holbrook was originally called Germantown but was renamed during World War I in honour of the more patriotic British submariner and Victoria Cross recipient Norman Douglas Holbrook. The Otway’s fin was donated to the town in 1994 and the community decided to tender for the purchase of the rest of the submarine, but despite fundraising efforts and a large donation from Holbrook's widow, they failed. Cleverly, they then decided to use the money raised to buy the upper section of the casing - everything above the waterline when surfaced. It’s just one of those crazy Australian things that we love. 🤪
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Wombatwandering took it to Yass TB hotel
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New South Wales, Australia
- 40.67 miles
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The Mega is over and you have rolled out of Canberra and headed to Melbourne, now Australia’s largest city. Problem is that the Brindabella Mountains mean that the quickest way south is to start by driving an hour north to the New South Wales town of Yass. There are some awesome caches (and cachers) in Yass. One visit, I spent an hour getting rolling a rock up a hill for an award winning cache. Worth it. 🪨
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Wombatwandering took it to Deep Space Station 46
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Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- 10.93 miles
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Mega side trip for you today. You scored some golden tickets to a behind the scenes look at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) located at Tidbinbilla. It is a satellite communication station, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network and along with its two sister stations at Goldstone, California and Madrid, Spain is now used for tracking and communicating with NASA's spacecraft, particularly interplanetary missions. Its DSS-43 antenna is the only antenna on Earth that can send commands to Voyager 2. It is managed in Australia by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). A great experience. 🛰️
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Wombatwandering took it to Australian Citizenship - Virtual Reward 3.0
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Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- 5.14 miles
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Lunch and a market a Lake Burley Griffin. Didn’t mean to spend so long here but we were parked in because of bad traffic management. Then it was back to the Mega for the closing ceremony. Congratulations Greg and team for fantastic time! 🥳
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Wombatwandering took it to Capital GeoBash
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Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- 5.5 miles
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It’s officially Capital GeoBash Mega time. It’s actually a week long event over Easter with lots of optional side trips to things like Parliament House and the War Memorial. There were trivia nights (your team came second!), the most fantastic puzzle labs I’ve ever seen, car rallies, flag ceremonies, and even a real legal wedding! It really puts the one day Megas that I’m used to in Europe to shame. They did a crazy thing though of putting all the trackables on a table and no one can take any until the 31 March. You can only discover until then. There were 750 listed trackables but 300 of them have still not been logged when I write this 3 weeks later. I suspect that many will end up in a bag to be dumped at the next Australian Mega. 🐨
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Wombatwandering took it to CBR #16
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Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- 7.68 miles
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You are staying in Narrabundah while in Canberra so it was a quick drive over to some Wherigos near a shopping area. Lucky it was Good Friday and all the shops were shut. That made things much easier. None of these shops were here when I lived in Canberra. 🐣
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Wombatwandering took it to Gubur Dhaura - Red Ochre Ground
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Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- 52.41 miles
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Finally made it to Canberra, the capital city of Australia, and home to the GeoBash Mega. We registered at the Mega site and then hit the caches of northern Canberra. Great views from Gubur Dhaura, a fascinating, ancient area of Aboriginal habitation and a significant heritage site. Gubur Dhaura means ‘ochre ground’ in the Ngunnawal language. In the past, the Ngunnawal people invited other tribal groups here to acquire ochre for ceremonies, trade and other purposes. 🪃
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