AR - Caringbah Mines Caringbah South, New South Wales, Australia
By Team MavEtJu on 02-Jul-18. Waypoint GA12490

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Type: Augmented Reality
Container: Small
Coordinates: S34° 2.911' E151° 7.502' (WGS 84)
  56H 326937E 6230878N (UTM)
Elevation: 44 m
Local Government Area: Sutherland

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AR - Caringbah Mines

Before Robin Reserve became a reserve, it was a clay pit. The clay pit was filled in with dirt once it had run out and it is now a sports field surrounded by a playground and a scouts hall.

According to stories, a monitoring system was put in place to monitor the status of the compressed dirt at the bottom. It was protected by a distortion field not much different from the one used by Torchwood in Cardiff. Because mobile phone cameras are not affected by this distortion field, it will be possible to visit the area and go down the monitoring building.

To obtain the codeword for this cache, you'll need an iPhone or iPad (iPhone 6S and higher or iPad Pro and higher) and the ARGeocaching app available from the App Store.

  1. Go to a rather large area like a sports field or park. You will need about 20 meters ahead of you and 30 meters to your left.
  2. Start the app, select the "GA12490 - Caringbah Mines" and find the entrance.
  3. Get the escalator up, enter the escalator and go down. Make sure you are inside and keep your hands away from the wall!
  4. At the bottom, find the chest.
  5. From the chest, obtain the codeword and the final coordinates.

Once the codeword has been obtained and the coordinates have been revaled, the phsyical cache can be found and this cache can be logged once the logbook has been signed.

Note! If you don't have access to a compatible iPhone, feel free to knock on my door and you can use mine.

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Frr tnyyrel.
ROT 13: ABCDEFGHIJKLM
NOPQRSTUVWXYZ
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29-Aug-18
Woo hoo, I finally got to do some mining on site today and found my treasure. As my previous note mentions, I did all the walking around a big park to get the coords previously, but of course I didn't have the coords with me so had to do the AR exercise again. No problem as it's an easy activity. Only issue was the glare on the phone screen making it difficult to discern what was what. But I made it to the end again, got the required info and headed off to the final location. Phone battery was just about to die so I went in for the find quickly. Yay, FTF! Thanks Team MavEtJu for the enjoyable experience.
 
09-Jul-18
I do not have the hardware (nor the skills) to develop an Android version of it. But that doesn't stop anybody from using the textures and the JSON files to implement their own Android version for it.

If you are close by or see me in real life, let me know and you can use my phone to do it. That is also stated in the cache description.
 
07-Jul-18
Is there an android version?
 
06-Jul-18
Success! I found myself a nice big park after an initial abortive attempt in a space that just wasn't big enough. Only a guy with a kite at one end and another person walking a dog at the other, so I wasn't going to wander into anything. App worked fine, got the cache loaded and it was easy enough to follow. Sun glare was a bit annoying at this time of the afternoon, but I worked around it. Reached the goal, got the coords. I didn't really have a good stab at PokemonGo in the day as my tech was a too low spec to manage, so I've jumped straight from that to this (via the odd Whereigo every now and then). Next time I'm actually near the mines I'll be able get the fine physical element.
 
06-Jul-18
Published! Good luck with your adventure.
 
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