Lookout Tower - 1985 - Koo Wee Rup, Victoria, Australia
S 38° 12.782 E 145° 27.560
55H E 365121 N 5769426
Before South Gippsland Highway became a dual carriageway in 1991, the local shire built this wooden platform tower, in 1985.
Waymark Code: WMX33R
Location: Victoria, Australia
Date Posted: 11/19/2017
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The commemorative bronze plaque for the Opening of the Tower is attached to a hardwood post, at the base of the Lookout Tower. While the tower is in the Col Utber Swamp Tower Reserve, there isn't much of a swamp left, as going back to the late 1800's works had been done to provide drainage of the swamps, so that the area could be habitable. [Witness - the German Dredge plaque and axle nearby in the park]
Picture Commemorative Plaque - May 26, 1985
On phoning the current local Council office, the secretary wasn't sure when this park would have shifted from the jurisdiction of the Cranbourne Shire, to the Shire of Cardinia. Tho 'Wiki' has the following 'to say': "The [Cardinia] Shire came into being on 15 December 1994 as the result of statewide local government reform, by merging the Shire of Pakenham with rural sections of the Shire of Sherbrooke and City of Cranbourne." Shire of Cardinia
Koo Wee Rup Lookout Tower
To me, the Lookout Tower almost looks like a wooden transformer action figure as a marionette.
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