Who guides the sleigh in Oz. Nanango, Queensland, Australia
By youngoldfella on 21-Dec-17. Waypoint GA11142

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type: Unknown or Mystery
Container: Regular
Coordinates: S26° 34.880' E152° 0.600' (WGS 84)
  56J 401412E 7059553N (UTM)
Elevation: 376 m
Local Government Area: South Burnett

Map

Whodunit Terrain
Cache Tracker
Mayor
QR Code
Log Count
Public Tags
Private Tags
Rating

Description

The cache is not at the posted Co ordinates.

This cache was placed for the 2017/2018 game.  Log only cache. Please bring your own writing stick.

You will need to calculate the final Co Ordinates by solving the puzle below.  No need to go anywhere near the posted Co Ordinates.

You seek the numbers for ABC  DEF.

S26 34.ABC  E152 00.DEF

ABCDEF are in the order that you discover them. 

Story: Christmas is a time for familes and friends to get together and celebrate the season in their own way.  At a recent gathering of my family we discussed Christmas and what it meant to each other and the Grand Children took centre stage. First we discussed what animals could be associated with this season.  With some research it was revealed by a google search that :- Camel, Dove, Reindeer, Donkey, Ox,  Ass, Sheep, Mouse, Yule Goat and last but not least the partridge. These have been used in songs and interpretations for many many years.

 

Next came the names of the reindeer.  No one could name them all. Dancer, Dasher, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph were the modern names used by most of us but the original names changed over the years from what was known a couple of hundred years ago to now. 

But being hot in Australia the poor old reindeer would not like the heat so arrangements were made for the reindeer to take a rest and 6 white boomers would replace them.

These being.  Jackaroo,  Curly,  Bluey,  Two-Up,  Desert-Head and snow.

Of course there were problems and one Christmas Eve there was a very big disagreement and all the animals and all the reindeer and the Six White Boomers were all extremely competitive.

Puzzle:-

Jackaroo  Yule Goat  and Rudolph

Together it was  decided that they would represent each of their own individual groups at any meetings or discussions that would take place as it was just to hard to change the  pattern of method, delivery and transport that has not been altered for many many years.

Now this did not sit well with some of the members of the groups so they formed a sub committee.

Dove, Partridge from the animal group raised  put them selves forward but they were from the same group so the reindeer decided that they would not participate in this group and  Bluey plus Snow

were the representatives from the Boomers.

End of Puzzle.

This is not hard to work out if you read the text carefully. 

Have fun and enjoy.        

 

 

 

Hints

Ng Tebhaq Yriry Onex
ROT 13: ABCDEFGHIJKLM
NOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Decode

Logs

19-Mar-19
Clan Minotaur
 
16-Mar-19
2nd day of a 5 day trip around south-east Queensland with LuckyL10n and today we were in Nanango to grab a few more of the local offerings. All up my 3rd trip to this area, but there are few cachers to grab. We encountered wild weather in Brisbane yesterday, however today started with very little rain and no wind...thankfully.

Needed help from the CO for this and once the help arrived it was the old slap you forehead moment. Had tried a few things...and it turns out everything except the obvious.
So, a bit of D'oh moment, but the cache was found and all was good.

Thanks for another cache and another *FTF* Youngoldfella.
 
16-Mar-19
#GA3510 - 11:05; Day 2 of the South East Queensland tour with Sol de lune. Made it to Nanango late yesterday after getting belted by a storm later in the afternoon/early evening. Much to our relief the heavy rain seems to be moving on and it is only overcast and occasional light drizzle this morning. Spending today caching around Nanango and Kingaroy and hoping to clear a swag of GCA puzzles from the 'solved but unfound' list we have been compiling for the past couple of years. We were now underway and enjoying a variety of cache types and hides, some taking longer than other to make the find amongst the long grasses and having to make the right choice from the variety of possibilities available. Also enjoyed solving the puzzles, even though there was plenty of head scratching and later on forehead slapping along the way! This one was certainly a head slapper and a d'oh when we got a hint from the CO on how to solve this one, after spending countless hours trying to figure it out! All good in the end though and we came up with both the find and a *FTF* as well Clapping TFTC youngoldfella Very HappyClan Cerberus
 
21-Dec-17
Published Clan MinotaurVery HappyClan Minotaur
 
South Burnett (R) - dragonZone
0.00 0.00
90.00 49.00
dragonZone Points
Downloads
GPX file
ZIP file
Other
Graph
Plot