My first cache is dedicated to my two young daughters. At time of hiding, they are aged under 10 and I'm over fifty with less than 10 finds to my name [Ed.: am well on my way now], it's a newbies' hide. Take a seat and wait until the muggles pass by before looking below.
While you are waiting, consider that this cache is named after Augustus Fritsch who with the Holzer brothers formed the Upper Hawthorn Brick Company in 1883. Many government offices in Melbourne and as far away as Bendigo and Adelaide were constructed with bricks made at this clay pit and others in the local area. Houses and terraces decorated with Hawthorn Brick are common across Melbourne. Auguste was also the founder of the nearby Auburn Bowls Club, set up for the recreation of his employees.
Former Hawthorn Council purchased the site in 1972 and used it as a landfill site until 1986, then a temporary waste transfer station until 1989. In 1995 a project was launched to reconstruct this area into the park it is today.
