Like a Lighthouse on a Hill with no View Lower Longley, Tasmania, Australia
By OldSaint on 02-Jan-18. Waypoint GA11385

Hello OldSaint
Thinking the puzzle was too hard for me I kept avoiding this one. But it was easy for my 25yo science nerd. When we got to GZ we thought we’d find it quickly but we were wrong. After rescanning the location we had another attempt a bit further away and voila! Nice cache, thank you OldSaint
PS It was difficult to retrieve log, slightly damp and in a number of pieces. Signed it but difficult to read so signed fresh log and rolled up under micro.
Cheers
Newy71

Rated: for Overall Experience

Hello OldSaint Thank you for the cache.

After eventually working out the puzzle for this cache with some help.

I had parked near GZ a few time now and wasn't too sure if I had the corrected cords in my GPS so didn't look.

But today I made sure the numbers were the right ones before I left home.

I parked at the usual spot and made my way up Lighthouse Hill and after a search that took a lot longer than it should have I found the lighthouse.

Unfortunately the log was wet so I didn't sign it.


Found on Sunday 19 May 2019 at 1353.

TFTC

Arrived in Huonville after a scenic journey via Plenty Valley Road. Several unfound caches with solved co ordinates to find and this was one of them. Quick find once Mr T made the climb to GZ. Not so quick to extract the log. Had a chuckle at the container.

Many thanks OldSaint for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.

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Rated: for Overall Experience

Approached this cache not from the obvious coordiantes to start with after reading the logs I thought I mught be better to approach from the top side

After this approach failed I came from the obvious location and quickly found the cache

TFTC and Merry Christmas

Found this cache while out and about today

Journey or Destination

Game Period: 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST

It is sometimes said [citation needed] that the game of geocaching is not about the destination it is about the journey. This game is about the choices you make in the experience of the journey or the destination.

On your entry to the game you will be asked to create a playing field with a number of ground tiles. Your playing field is a grid 20 x 20 ground tiles making a total number of 400 possible steps you can take on your journey or destination. You choose whether you want to find and follow the path or whether you wanted to meander around. A playing field is unique to each player so there is no benefit in teaming up to beat the system through brute force.

For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath. There are a number of different ground tiles that will be revealed when you click on your playing field. It should be noted that there are no punishments for clicking a tile but there will not always be the reward you were hoping for as you reveal each tile.


Dirt. The ground beneath the ground tile is just plain old brown dirt.

Dirt with some points. The ground beneath the tile is brown dirt but it has some points associated with it.

Concrete. The ground beneath is part of the pathway that will lead you on your way to your destination but has no point value.

Start. A concrete ground tile that has a blue map marker.

Destination. A ground tile that has a green map marker.


Meandering around and avoiding the path will accumulate points that will be used to place on you the ladder of wanderers. The more you stay off the path the higher the number of points you will accumulate and it will be your journey that will be the determining factor in whether you place into a prize winning position. You are free to select any ground tile to click on; they do not need to be next to each other.

Trying to find the path may mean you strike out on the dirt until you eventually come across the path and as a geocacher who can't say that this isn't a tried and true method. Once you find the path however will you try and follow the path as it changes direction around your playing field? Do you go North, South, East or West to try and find the next concrete tile along the path? If you head one way are you heading towards the start or towards the destination? When you do happen upon the destination tile then you will automatically be in a winning position.

At any point you are free to change from the journey to the destination and vice versa but you won't be able to regenerate your playing field. You are also free to keep playing as long as you have qualifying geocaches, accumulating more and more dirt tile points and placing you higher and higher on the ladder.

Qualifying geocaches fall into two categories. Finds and Hides.

A qualifying find is a geocache that meets the following criteria:

The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia

The geocache has a hidden date prior to the game commencing

The geocache was logged by you on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period

The geocache was physically found by you during the game period

The geocache is not owned by you unless it is a moveable geocache

The geocache has not previously been found by you during the game period

The geocache is one of the following types:


Burke and Wills

Moveable (you will qualify only once for a find on a moveable geocache)

Traditional

TrigPoint

Augmented Reality

Beacon

Gadget

Multi-cache

Night Cache

Podcache

Reverse

Unknown or Mystery



A qualifying hide is a geocache that meets the following criteria:

The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia

The geocache has a hidden date after the game has commenced

The geocache was published on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period

The geocache has a container size of regular or larger (Note: A regular geocache has a volume of 1 litre or more)

The geocache is one of the following types:


Moveable

Traditional

Augmented Reality

Beacon

Gadget

Multi-cache

Night Cache

Podcache

Reverse

Unknown or Mystery



The game tracking mechanism relies upon your honesty when logging geocaches as found or hidden.

The games administrators will undertake verification of a statistically significant number of logs.

Players who continually log inaccurate information will be disqualified from the game. The game administrators decision is final.

The game administrators will subtract qualifying hide or find geocaches from your tally if they are found to be not genuine.

The game administrators reserve the right to provide clarifications to the rules at any point during the game.

Don't forget to claim your limited time game trophies, if your qualify, while the game is in progress. Once the game completes the ability to claim your trophies is lost for ever.

Boy, what a day to be out caching. Thanks for the cache. Aus solved the puzzle.

Decided to go back down to the Huon today with ABear71. Bad decision – it seemed to teem at every site we visited. So the ‘caching trip’ was cut short. In pouring rain the Bear volunteered to tackle the very slippery terrain bringing the cache back to the car to sign the log as it was just too wet to do so at GZ. Good container. Thanks for the cache, Old Saint.

Hi OldSaint,
Normally I have trouble sorting your devious..but clever puzzles...but I think all the training with puzzle caches the past few months must have been in good stead. Solved way quicker than normal for me, so being on the way home for the last cache on a brilliant but tiring trip.
Once near gz...did the normal scout around to no avail, when a beam of light hit me...darn there is a lighthouse here after all. It might be small but was illuminating quite brilliantly...loved this cache too...very clever.
A fitting end to a fantastic days caching....a huge thank you for all the great caches....time to set sail...but sad at the same time...cheers ST.

Rated: for Overall Experience

This was our quickest solve of a d4 puzzle - the method jumped out at both of us as soon as we looked at it and with in a very short time the geochecker agreed with us -an unusual occurence for us as we usually start from very different angles.

We pulled off the road and headed into the scrub. Up there said one, yes said the other. We could see what were possibly goose skid marks on a bank in front of us. Up went one of the team and began the search where the GPS indicated. Having had no luck here she looked up and spotted something very odd. Up she went and found a familiar container. She dismantled the construction and got out a tool to extract the log. There was a lot of condensation in the outer container and the log sheet had become damp. Care was needed with the extraction so that the log did not tear. After log signing the componants were reassembled and the outer case replaced as found. An interesting piece of work. Now it was time to return to ground level.

Thanks for the puzzle and the cache Old Saint

While out on a trip to do a bit of a clean up with Gosoeandegg, we stopped off at this one and after looking in acouple of places I spotted the cache and it made me laugh, very clever.
The puzzle was another one of those hard slogs think i'm loosing my touch

Thanks for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

After a quick trip up the mountain, we came down the old Huon Road en route to this cache.The weather was quite squally. We stopped briefly at the Longley International Hotel for a picture of the axe for a locationless but noticed I had been beaten to it so moved on. We parked at GZ and our compasses both pointed in different directions so we both wandered off separately. Mine eventually got itself together and swung his way. Bugger!
Oh that looks awkward but still, it has to be done. We had a good laugh when we eventually found the container. As SSR finalized the logging I started back toward the car, I lost my footing but had a good hand hold (with my left hand) so was left hanging for a few moments as I composed myself I swear my left arm is longer than my right now. Thanks for another fun challenge OldSaint

Rated: for Overall Experience

This was another interesting puzzle that Mr W solved as soon as it was published, he must have been on the same wave length. So today was the day to finally sign the log. We parked near GZ and pulled well into the parking bay as the traffic just zooms up the hill. Mr W climbed up the bank and stopped at where GPSr said to look for GZ and there was a likely hiding spot that would have been great if the cache was a large, so I said keep looking uphill as RC had done the same. Mr W spied the "beacon" further up the hill. He thought about leaving a sample in the cleverly placed hide but decided against it! While retrieving the log he lost it in the bushes. Luckily he found it after a short search. Thanks OldSaint for the puzzle and the fun hide.

Sorry about the lengthy logs. We are currently aiming for a dragon zone virtual verbosity trophy. We have just received the 100 word trophy, so now aiming for the 150 word trophy. For all new GCA cachers, a warning, write a decent log to start with in case you want to get these virtual trophies down the track. Having now passed 2000 GCA finds with a lot of one word logs (on many moveables) makes for a lot of typing now!

We are participating in the States of the Nation games which are currently running from 16 December 2017 until 21 January 2018 and will claim this find against one of the scavenges.

States of the Nation is a real and virtual geocaching scavenger hunt where your home state will compete against other Australian states to find and hide geocaches. Over the 5 week course of the game there will be hundreds of scavenges that you can track down, find and convert into points for your state. Some scavenges will be easy. Some scavenges will be tough. Some scavenges may be impossible. Don't despair. You are not competing just for yourself; you are competing as a state.

There will be a number of scavenges released on a weekly basis but each scavenge will remain until the end of the game. This means even if you decide to join the game part way through, the early scavenges are still available for you to claim. Scavenges will require you to find a geocache, hide a geocache, attend an event or do something else completely different. The game focuses on all aspects of geocaching and so all cache types, sizes, terrain and difficulty will be up for scavenging. TrigPoints, Events, History, Virtual, Webcam, Podcache and Locationless geocaches are all scavengable, so you're not just looking for a box under a bush. Each week there will be a mix of physical, non-physical and locationless geocaches so even if you are not in a geocache rich area, use the locationless component of scavenger series to get out, find something to log and gain points for your state. If you watch the scavenges as they are released you might also spot the 'not so hidden' patterns and plan for future weeks of the series.

Hiding geocaches will also be a large part of the scavenger series, but please remember this is a game of geocaching and geocaches that you hide should be long lasting, be of good quality and you should be proud of what you hide. Please avoid hiding a geocache just for the day so your state can find it before you archive it. Geocaches that exist for a short period of time may result in any claims on that geocache being disqualified. Play creatively, but also play fairly. More geocachers hiding more geocaches makes for more geocaching fun.

Go Tassie, Go Tassie, Go Tassie, Go Tassie Go Tassie Go Tassie Go Tassie

The States of the Nation games have helped boost our dragon zone points and we have achieved a few milestone trophies as well.

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whitewebbs are now a geocache themselves as we have published a 'Geocacher cache' GA10805 - Where's whitewebbs? - so if you spot us out and about in the field sign our log book and receive a code word to earn yourself a smiley.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Despite the difficulty 4 rating, the answer to this jumped out at me.
At GZ today, I was standing where my GPSr zeroed out, and spotted the cache about 10m up the hill.
Interesting container!
Thanks for the puzzle, the hide and the *FTF*

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