Princes Highway Puzzles #23 North Helensburgh, New South Wales, Australia
By
Team MavEtJu on 10-Jan-18. Waypoint GA11591
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Unknown or Mystery |
| Container: | Regular |
| Coordinates: | S34° 10.889' E150° 55.959' (WGS 84) |
| 56H 309476E 6215789N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 313 m |
| Local Government Area: | Wollongong City |
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Description
Princes Highway Puzzles #23
The Princes Highway is a major road in Australia, extending from Sydney to Port Augusta via the coast through the states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. It has a length of 1,941 kilometres (along Highway 1) or 1,898 kilometres via the former alignments of the highway, although these routes are slower and connections to the bypassed sections of the original route are poor in many cases.
The highway follows the coastline for most of its length, and thus takes quite an indirect and lengthy route. For example, it is 1,040 kilometres from Sydney to Melbourne on Highway 1 as opposed to 870 kilometres on the more direct Hume Highway (National Highway 31), and 915 kilometres from Melbourne to Adelaide compared to 730 kilometres on the Western and Dukes Highways (National Highway 8). Because of the rural nature and lower traffic volumes over much of its length, the Princes Highway is a more scenic and leisurely route than the main highways between these major cities.
The Princes Highway as a named route came into being when pre-existing roads were renamed ‘Prince's Highway’ after the visit to Australia in 1920 of the Prince of Wales (later to become King Edward VIII and, after abdicating, the Duke of Windsor). South of Waterfall the highway is paralleled by the 55-kilometre Princes Motorway (national route M1) to the top of Bulli Pass outside the city of Wollongong, which carries the majority of traffic.
The codeword for the cache is the day of the week:
Only one of the following statements is true, what is the day of the week?
- It is not Thursday, Friday or Saturday.
- Yesterday was Sunday.
- Tomorrow is Sunday.
- The day after tomorrow is Saturday.
- The day before yesterday was Thursday.
- Tomorrow is Saturday.
- The day after tomorrow is not Friday.
Hints
Pbagnvare: Va fgbzc |
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Decode |
Logs
Sunday driving lessons and this was a good target. Another 3 puzzles done, only three to go.
TFTC Wilbert67
TFTC Wilbert67
After clambering over or passed the pile of rubbish we headed a short distance along a little path until we spotted a possible hide. We soon had a well gnawed container in hand. Not only are there several large holes in the base of the container but the plastic log protection bag and the log sheet are all showing signs of a visiting rodent.
Thanks for this puzzle and cache Team MavEtJu
Thanks for this puzzle and cache Team MavEtJu
After landing on the mainland yesterday we were headed South to the Mega, well we never drive none stop so we had to look for all this series as we travelled down. One of the puzzles was still up for a FTF when the Goose solved it but as it turned out we were to late and had been beaten by a fellow Tassie team to that honour.
Myself and Goose had great fun finding this series, a couple of them took us a few minutes to find others we were right on the money to start with.
Thanks for a nice series to guide us to the Mega.
Myself and Goose had great fun finding this series, a couple of them took us a few minutes to find others we were right on the money to start with.
Thanks for a nice series to guide us to the Mega.
Rated: for Overall Experience
On our way to the OZGM19 Mega, stainless steel rat and I stopped and found the Princes Highway series of puzzle caches. During the week leading up I had solved all the puzzles and we were pleased to be able to search and log this GCA series on the way down with a good mix of D/Ts.
Thanks Team MavEtJu (great to catch up with you at the mega)
Thanks Team MavEtJu (great to catch up with you at the mega)
Staying at Cataract Park for the OzGeomuster we took the opportunity to find this series of caches. Spent some time solving these puzzles before we arrived and today we found them with whitewebbs.
Many thanks Team MavEtju for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.
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Day 82 Mainland trip - OZGM
Now based at Cataract Park we headed out today with Tassie Trekkers to target this GCA series. We enjoyed all the puzzles and finding the hides. TFTP
Now based at Cataract Park we headed out today with Tassie Trekkers to target this GCA series. We enjoyed all the puzzles and finding the hides. TFTP
Rated: for Overall Experience
Out with fitzy_1965 to take advantage of the bonus points on offer this week.
Having solved most of the Princes Highway Puzzles, they were our main target today. All were found quickly & easily unless otherwise mentioned.
Having solved most of the Princes Highway Puzzles, they were our main target today. All were found quickly & easily unless otherwise mentioned.
Rated: for Overall Experience
GCA 2,080. Found during a run down the Princes Highway with minniek today.
Having solved 21 out of 22 existing puzzles in the Princes Highway Puzzle Series we headed out for a run today to grab as many as we could for a last day grab of bonus dZ points. Next find of the day. All the finds were quick at GZ and the containers in good condition unless otherwise mentioned. This one has been nibbled a bit - the container, the plastic bag and the obviously tasty log...
TFTC Team MavEtJu !! Appreciate the interesting series !
Having solved 21 out of 22 existing puzzles in the Princes Highway Puzzle Series we headed out for a run today to grab as many as we could for a last day grab of bonus dZ points. Next find of the day. All the finds were quick at GZ and the containers in good condition unless otherwise mentioned. This one has been nibbled a bit - the container, the plastic bag and the obviously tasty log...
TFTC Team MavEtJu !! Appreciate the interesting series !
Rated: for Overall Experience
On a caching run with phlphotos, alnic39 and JJCC. This puzzle was solved several months ago, and on today's visit we made our way to GZ for a quick find. Thanks for the cache Team MavEtJu.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Out and about with phlphotos, TeamMaerlin and JJCC. Sir Phil had done all the mental work on these, so it was just a case of tagging along...again!
Rated: for Overall Experience
Went for a drive down to see what we coukd pick up along the way with the usual group we got 4 puzzles 5 trads & a trig. This was where we started picked the furthest cache in the Princes Highway Puzzle series then work our way back. The GPSr said there was a track but that seems to have gone a long time ago the is a track to the cache but it isn't in the same direction as the GPSr shows. Well it didn't take long to get to GZ. About the cache there is something hungry out there can't be the Hawkesbury Panther. Whatever it is it has got into the cache via a new hole in the bottom. It has eaten into the ziplock bag and had a chew on the log but it wasn't in the cache. Signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache Team MavEtJu
Rated: for Overall Experience
#GA2792 - 11:13; Day seven of the 2018 Oz GeoMuster mission with Sol de lune and after a night in Sydney we were heading closer to home as we cached south through to Wollongong and Shellharbour before heading up Macquarie Pass to the highway home. After a few stops on the way through the suburbs, we had finally reached the first cache in this series, which was our major target for today. The puzzles had been solved as part of a group effort before leaving home. A run along the highway today saw us with 21 from 23 caches found, one DNF and one remaining to be solved. After a detour into Helensburgh, we were now back on the trail, with this the last of our 21 finds in the series today. A convenient parking spot was found, but as usual, the way back out was much easier than the route taken to get to the cache. Thanks for an entertaining series and TFTC Team MavEtJu
Rated: for Overall Experience
Second to last day of the Sol de Lune / LuckyL10n NSW adventure. After attending the Morisset Mega, heading up to and back from Tweed Heads, we were now on the final leg.
This series was the main focus of the day, although we managed a couple of other GCA caches that we pasted en-route. We solved all but one, and DNF'd one...so a good result really.
No problems here and the cache was soon in hand and the log signed.
Thanks TMEJ....a neat little trail that kept us on our toes.
This series was the main focus of the day, although we managed a couple of other GCA caches that we pasted en-route. We solved all but one, and DNF'd one...so a good result really.
No problems here and the cache was soon in hand and the log signed.
Thanks TMEJ....a neat little trail that kept us on our toes.
Rated: for Overall Experience
After attempting to solve most of this series, today was the day to try and find them of 18 we found
Rated: for Overall Experience
