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Plants, plants, plants, and more plants. What more can I say!
This series was given to the Mrs. as a gift. She absolutely loves all of her plants and succulents that fill our new home.
Feel free to post a photo of this trackable with a fun, interesting, or unique plant you find on your geocaching journey. Lets see which trackable can find the most plants!
Take a look at the other Trackables in this series here.
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Wombatwandering took it to March Meals & Mouthfuls
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Victoria, Australia
- 17.29 miles
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Into Melbourne Central Shopping Centre for the monthly geocaching meetup that is held there. Although the Melbourne Central Business District area is described as the centre, it is not actually the demographic centre of Melbourne due to urban sprawl to the southeast. The demographic centre being located at Camberwell. Despite this, Melbourne's CBD has become Australia's most densely populated area, with approximately 19,500 residents per square kilometre, and is home to more skyscrapers than any other Australian city. 🏙️
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Wombatwandering took it to Mordialloc Beach
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Victoria, Australia
- 33.18 miles
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Another lovely Autumn day in Melbourne so I headed to the beachside suburb of Mordialloc for some caching. Mordialloc’s swimming history centered on its historic sea baths built in 1886 but demolished following storm damage in 1934. Although Melbourne is situated on Port Phillip Bay with some great sheltered beaches, swimming was originally segregated by gender and limited to specific times. The flying of a red flag denoted the presence of men while a white flag warned people that women occupied the baths. Restrictions on mixed bathing began to ease around 1917, allowing men and women to swim together legally but strict codes for clothing remained enforced. 👙
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Wombatwandering took it to Yan Yean Cemetery
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Victoria, Australia
- 18.71 miles
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I need to return my mother-in-law’s car so I took it for a last spin and headed north to Yan Yean. It’s home to Yan Yean Reservoir which was commissioned in 1857 and was the world's largest artificial reservoir at the time. It remains a key water source for Melbourne’s northern and western suburbs. I also stopped by Yan Yean Cemetery which is home to some of my relatives that settled in the area including Great Aunty Ev and Great Uncle Boy. My mum said he was the funniest man she’s ever known. 🚿
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Wombatwandering took it to Crazyburn - Go 'round!
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Victoria, Australia
- 16.13 miles
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Out to the end of the Craigieburn train line for a Wherigo stage. Craigieburn is a satellite suburb located on the urban-rural fringe of northern Melbourne. Urban sprawl. I can’t add any more than that. 🤷🏼♀️
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Wombatwandering took it to Hello from the UK
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Victoria, Australia
- 16.38 miles
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Today was an event just across the road from the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground. It’s the largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere. Grandstand redevelopments and occupational health and safety legislation have limited the maximum seating capacity to approximately 95,000 with an additional 5,000 standing room capacity, bringing the total capacity to 100,024. I’ve met the event owner in East London - it’s a small geocaching world. 🏟️
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Wombatwandering took it to GOLD #15
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Victoria, Australia
- 15.17 miles
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We were off to the Jumping Creek part of Warrandyte State Park for some Pi Day puzzles today. Warrandyte was founded as a Victorian town, located in the once gold-rich rolling hills east of Melbourne, and is now on the north-eastern boundary of suburban Melbourne. The State Park is a haven for wildlife, including kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, platypus, echidnas, and koalas. Over 100 bird species have been recorded as well as many reptiles, frogs, fish and insects. There was a lot of fresh wombat activity to be seen today and we were lucky enough to spot three echidnas. 🦔
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Wombatwandering took it to SideTracked - Rushall
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Victoria, Australia
- 18.72 miles
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Staying close to home visiting the nearby suburb of Fitzroy. It’s a lively suburb with a bohemian reputation - lots of shops, bars, and restaurants. Fitzroy was actually planned as Melbourne's first suburb in 1839. Long associated with the working class, Fitzroy has undergone waves of urban renewal and gentrification since the 1980s and today is home to a wide variety of socio-economic groups, featuring both some of the most expensive rents in Melbourne and one of its largest public housing complexes. 🥐
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Wombatwandering took it to No Sneyde remarks here!
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Victoria, Australia
- 19.16 miles
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You took the train to Werribee, home of the notorious cache, “Eagle Rock”, that has never been found. Eleven years old now. Sorry to say that you didn’t find it either. Werribee was established as an agricultural settlement in the 1850s, originally named Wyndham and later renamed Werribee in 1904.its on the far western fringe of Melbourne about halfway toward Geelong. The name is derived from Wirribi-yaluk, the Wathawurrung and Boonwurrung Aboriginal name for the Werribee River and meaning "backbone" or "spine". 🩻
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Wombatwandering took it to Victoria Bridge – East Bank
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Victoria, Australia
- 4.73 miles
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I needed a trip to IKEA in Abbotsford so I took you to a cache on the other side of the Victoria Bridge. The bridge is of historical significance as a rare example of a joint facility initiated by four councils (Collingwood, Hawthorn, Kew and Richmond ) and reflects the importance of the bridge in facilitating travel and commerce between the industrial inner suburbs and the more affluent eastern suburbs. While living in London, Hammersmith Bridge across the River Thames was shut because my council, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Richmond Council on the other side of the river couldn’t agree on the £s needed to fix the bridge. 🌉
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Wombatwandering took it to Tally-ho, Trackers & Trail-Blazers
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Victoria, Australia
- 4.95 miles
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After six long months, I’ve been reunited with my belongings in my new house. Nothing was broken during the shipping from London and storage which makes a nice change. You’re now staying with me in Princes Hill, an inner city suburb of Melbourne which is just near the University of Melbourne. The suburb is named for Queen Victoria's consort, Prince Albert, and is known for its leafy streets, heritage homes, and strong sense of community, “residential serenity and urban convenience”.
Princes Hill has many single-fronted single-storey Victorian terrace houses of a type common in Melbourne’s inner suburbs. These houses reflect the ‘Marvelous Melbourne’ decades of the 1870s and 1880s with their exuberant ‘boom era’ features - ornate parapets, polychrome brickwork, cast iron ‘lace’ friezes, tiled and tessellated verandahs and paths, and cast-iron fences and gate ornaments. It’s fantastic to be home! 🏡
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