Hidden Garden Cudgewa, Victoria, Australia
By
Tassie Trekkers on 08-Apr-19. Waypoint GA13738
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Unknown or Mystery |
| Container: | Large |
| Coordinates: | S36° 14.300' E147° 30.300' (WGS 84) |
| 55H 545377E 5989498N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 912 m |
| Local Government Area: | Towong |
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Description
A cache placed to compliment others in the area
Hidden Garden
Cache is not at the listed co ordinates
Once solved it will bring you to Avondale Gardens
Located 18 kilometres from Koetong and 12 kilometres down the Avondale Road, you will find Shelley’s ‘Avondale Gardens’. Situated on the old ‘Avondale’ homestead site, this garden was established by Peg Bird when she was resident at the homestead during the 1940s. While little remains of the homestead itself, apart from some remnant walls, Peg’s magnificent botanical garden containing exotic trees, shrubs, rock walls and a water tank remains today. The garden has lived on, thanks to the hard work of local volunteers and is now over 76 years old. The gardens are a peaceful place where everyone is welcome to enjoy a picnic at the adjoining picnic area or just to wander and admire the gardens and appreciate the vision of Peg and the hard work of the local volunteers. Dubbed ‘The Secret Garden’ due to its slightly hidden location, there have been many gatherings at Avondale Gardens. Please be aware that the Avondale Road is gravel and in wet weather is not suitable for two wheel drive vehicles.
Cache contains logbook, pen and swaps
Hints
Haqre ynetr snyyra ybt |
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Decode |
Logs
The puzzling started off quite well as we pulled an obvious set of co-ords out, and plugged them in the pointing box for a look....
Hang on, that doesn't look right.....
Check again....
Nope, still doesn't look right, and the checker didn't like it either....
Then it dawned on us....the old red herring trick!... nearly got us!..thankfully a bit of local knowledge saved us from that goose chase!
So it was back to the puzzle.....and no matter what we did, we came up with nothing except the red herring.....
One thing to do......we'll do it the old fashioned way....
So we jumped in the car for a day out, and rocked up to the very familiar POI, and starting looking, which fortunately didn't take very long and the cache was soon found, and we signed our names in the FTF spot.
So thanks Tassie Trekkers for bringing us back to one of our favourite spots, we usually come here on Mother's Day to photograph the autumn colours, but we came a bit earlier this year.
