KSCP - BURDETTS SCRUB Basket Range, South Australia, Australia
By four-fun on 10-Jul-17. Waypoint GA10470

Found It!
This puzzle seemed to be more difficult then it needed to be. The one website I found that did the conversion in the right direction gave me an answer that was near Karoonda. So I went back to the website that only does the conversion in the wrong direction. And after a lot of guessing, I got a match and the checker agreed with it! Then I went to GZ and after a lot of climbing up and down the slope, I found the cache. I drained a lot of water out of the cache, not really sure how it got in there though. Logbook was all ok in the bag. Interesting place!
TFTC

Planning for this trip began in June - we knew we would be heading to Adelaide but which way would we go? This depended on our targets. We looked at our list of unclaimed Dragon Zone trophies and picked out several that we could feasibly collect the required number of finds to qualify for the trophy. We then had to identify caches that would meet our targets and from here it was time to plan a route that would take us past the caches we had identified. Any caches too far off our route were discarded and replaced by suitable alternatives.

All was running smoothly until the Christmas in July game was announced. We would be travelling in the latter part of the game. It was difficult to include this in our target caches as we did not know what was required. Once the game began and we understood what we needed to do we could then add other caches to the target list.

We were just getting our heads, yes all four of them, around this when more Dragon Zone trophies were added. Which ones could we meet and which should we ignore? Do we need to add more GA caches and/or do we need to change our route and our targets? We decided on our target list and then our route and timeline. We had just drawn a line under everything and were about to begin printing our caching booklets, route maps and target lists when caught@work published 23 new caches on the Western Ring Path. Earlier we had decided on the caches in the Edgewater Walk series. If we added the new ones on the Western Ring Path and as many of the CCC series as possible, we could probably reach the required number of caches to qualify for the Dragon Zone trophies “Restraining Order Stalker” (Find 100 DZ caches hidden by the same cacher) and “Obsession!=Insanity” (find 50 DZ caches in a day). As the latter would give us our first Blaze Trophy, it was decided to alter everything to include the CCC series.Four Fun, in South Australia published five puzzle caches that would bring good points in the Christmas in July game. Can we solve the puzzles? A few more adjustments to the route and the caches to find list and we would be off.

Having successfully completed our Melbourne challenges and gained our first Blaize Dragon Zone trophy it was time to focus on the Christmas in July game and start on the Kenneth Stirling Conservation Park puzzle caches recently published by Four-Fun. Burdetts Scrub was the third one we tackled.

This was the most demanding puzzle to solve. Initially the hint didn't give a way forward and after trying a number of alternatives, we contacted the CO who generously nudged us in the right direction. With the required tool identified, it looked plain sailing. Well it wasn't. We needed to convert format A to format B but the tool kept giving an error message about an invalid input format. So after many trials, we took the published coordinates (B format) and the tool worked perfectly to convert them into format A. We then tried the output in format A as input to try to get format B - still invalid format error. It appeared that there was a problem with one half of the tool - format B to format A was fine but format A to format B was not working. So in desperation we tried a trial and error approach. We tried various values in format B with the aim of matching the values in format A in the cache description. After 15 trials we had a perfect match and the format B value was confirmed by the coordinate checker. It was a long winded approach, but the process of converting the given coordinates was achieved.

We had never been into this area before and marvelled at the beauty of the area as we headed to GZ. Arriving at the parking spot we found it occupied by two four wheel drives. Mr y'stassie dropped Mrs y'stassie and left to find somewhere to park. Mrs y'stassie checked her GPS and yes she did have to climb to reach GZ. Although it was only a short climb it was steep and she had to proceed with care as the ground beneath her feet was unstable. On reaching GZ, the hint was helpful she sat and enjoyed the view before locating the well hidden cache container. This one was easily opened and to her surprise the log was blank - a third {FTF} at 13:45. The cache and contents were in excellent condition.On reaching the road she took several photos of the area before Mr y'stassie returned to collect her.

Thanks for the puzzle and cache Four-Fun and for bringing us to this lovely area. We had not visited Burdetts Scrub before and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Thanks also for a cache that will give us good points for a Christmas in July claim.

Ready to go, Happy Caching