Easter Holidays - Melbourne & Area

Thursday morning was spent seeking out a geocache large enough to hold a ten-pin bowling ball. A month or so ago we hosted a geocaching event and met a few Australian geocachers. One of them had the fun idea of taking a large ten-pin bowling ball and attaching a travel bug tag to it to provoke people to hide large caches in Victoria. It’s a good idea because we did a query and there are only 34 (out of thousands) geocaches rated as large. We thought we had finally found a home for the beast on the east side of Melbourne, but the lid wouldn’t fit with it in, but a day or two later we found a 20 L pail cache that just managed to hold it and all the swag that was already in there. Our car rides higher now.

We headed into Melbourne to check into the hotel Parks Victoria set up for us and have some lunch. In the afternoon, Sean presented some of the data collection tools and GIS modelling used in the Grampians for his project to some of the Melbourne staff who were interested. Aiden and I spent the afternoon at the Melbourne museum.

All the Parks Canada exchangees as well as the Parks Victoria exchangees gathered in Melbourne that evening for a meeting the next morning. We all had evening tea together at an Italian restaurant down from the hotel.

In the morning Sean headed off to the Park exchangee meeting with the Parks Victoria board, while Aiden and I headed off to the Queen Victoria market to buy some souvenirs for all his cousins. Sean picked us up around 11 am and we headed out of Melbourne.

The three hour trip soon became close to six with detours to a couple geocaches and a playground stop.

It was good to arrive back to our home away from home and sleep in our own beds.