Chief Cham Traditional Cache
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Lake Charm has strong links to the indigenous community and the Lake
takes its name from a former local indigenous tribal Chief, Chief Cham.
It was thought that the “r” was left out and it became known as Lake Charm.
There is some conjecture over the naming of Lake Charm and there are a number of theories.
It went on to become a thriving community with a hotel called the Kangaroo Inn (Scantleton’s Hotel) built as a changing station for Cobb and Co.
Lake Charm also boasted a railway station which in its heyday in 1942-43 dispatched more cases of citrus fruit than any other station in Victoria.
Labour intensive salt harvesting began in 1880 and has been modernised and continued on by the fourth generation of the same family.
Since the late 1880s Lake Charm has been used as an irrigation carrier
as an appendage to the system.
In 1969 a regulator was placed across the inlet to control inflows.
In later years a pump station and outlet channel were constructed to pump saline waters from Lake Charm.
The off river storage project originally began as the Lake Boga Storage Project and it quickly became apparent that this was not going to provide enough storage.
Further studies then included Kangaroo Lake and then Lake Charm and it became the Mid Murray Storage Project.
It then enlarged to become the Victorian Mid Murray Storages (VMMS),
which also included Kow Swamp.
Lake Charm attracts many visitors who enjoy boating, water skiing, swimming and fishing.
It has a high regional aesthetic and cultural value.
THE CACHE
You are looking for an eclipse container
Has log sheet only so BYO PEN
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