BattleShip 6 Tasmania, Australia
By
The Admiral of the Fleet on 19-May-21. Waypoint GA21476
Cache Details
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Terrain: | |
Type: | GeoArt |
Container: | Micro |
Coordinates: | S42° 49.019' E147° 3.679' (WGS 84) |
55G 505012E 5259506N (UTM) | |
GeoArt Coordinates: | S43° 6.000' E147° 30.150' (WGS 84) |
31N 166021E 0N (UTM) | |
Elevation: | 103 m |
Local Government Area: | Derwent Valley |
Description
Battleship Game
Play Battleships. Sink the enemy ships before they sink you!
On your entry to the game you will be asked to create a playing area with a number of sea tiles. Your playing field is a grid 20 x 20 sea tiles making a total number of 400 possible areas you can target in your game of Battleships. 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 sea tile and see whether you have make a hit. There are a number of different sea tiles that will be revealed when you take a shot at your playing area . 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.
You only receive points for a hit on a ship. Alas, shots that miss a target offer no reward.
Hints
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Decode |
Logs
We enjoyed the journey through the rural countryside and travelling on roads not driven before.
Many thanks Budgietas for taking the time to place this Geoart Series.
Onward to the next series. Thanks Budgie for the series. TFTGAS
We did a maintenance check of my caches along the way and they were all in great order still.
Arriving in Hamilton we snapped a photo of the trig then headed for New Norfolk where we took a short walk to the trig there, it was then onto the Battleship GeoArt series.
while completing the Battleship caches we were stopped by 4 different property owners concerned with what we were doing. we explained to them what were doing but they still seemed concerned. there was a few caches where we couldnt get off the road and cars came up behind us while we were signing the logs, so we had to try and move the ute out of the way.
After completing the battleship series we made our way through Molesworth and into Berridale where we crossed the Derwent River and headed for Natone Hill.
We got the information for WPT 1 of the Multi and set off in a clockwise direction of the reserve to complete the Smile and Blockage GeoArts, we got as far round as the trigpoint when it started to pour down with rain we got drenched as we bunkered under a tree to wait out the rain, as the rain eased we grabbed the photo of the trig then off to complete the rest of the caches. we got the rest of the info required for the Multi cache but as it was back where we came from we decide to leave it for next time. We really enjoyed completing the Blockage and Smile Geoarts. Thank you SSR and Goose&Egg.
After getting back to the ute and trying to dry out we decide to go check out where the Circle Geoart starts, once there we decided that we would complete it next time as it was getting dark.
A quick drive around to Government hill where we walked up to grab the trigs where we were met by another concerned owner, explained we were there to get a photo of the trig and he was happy to see us on our way.
We then headed for food at Bridgewater before our long journey home.
we stopped to complete several caches along the way and arrived home at 9.30pm. A great day was had with nearly 100 caches attempted for the day. TFTC
After intensive searching we failed to find BS42 and BS31 .
There were two blokes fencing at the exact location of BS48 which prevented us searching for that one . Then a little further up the same road, at the exact location of BS38, there were two blokes cutting wood!
But a great day was had nonetheless.
TFTC and this GeoArt series Budgietas, “Admiral of the Fleet”!
Cheers
Newy71
Thanks for this cache and your GeoArt series Budgietas. It took us on roads we had not travelled before and enabled us to discover some interesting rural environments. Loved the hide here. The mossy cover on one side was particularly pretty.
As we enjoyed pizza I talked goose into the fact that we could 'nip' down to Judbury if we used the back road and finish the day doing Hearts in the Hartz series along with a few other caches on the way.
After the easy battleships we were not loving these hearts at all with some of the hides being right stinkers and more than once I expressed my feeling on the matter "I say Goose I do believe that Old Saint may have out done himself this time, as pleasant as it is to stand in inches of water with twigs in my ear I do feel that I may have to have polite chat with old saint about this very matter"
This is clearly not what I said at all but is the GCA approved translation of what I actually said 2 or 3 times.
I had a great time today so would like to thank OS and Budge for putting these GeoArt out for me to find.
We traversed the high seas, ok high hills really, and by lunchtime had overcome the mighty ship to win this epic battle .. so grabbed some lunch at the New Norfolk market before heading south to win Old Saints heart.
Thanks Budgietas for this geoart series.
A short trip out finding some caches.
All of them were easily found.
Found on Saturday 12 June 2021 at 1445
TFTC"
The weather was quite cool but noticably warmer back down here off the ridge lines.
The micro containers are holding up well to the weather with all of them bone dry inside.
We had a lovely lunch break mid afternoon in the picturesque Lachlan bbq area.
I had an awesome day caching with a good mate and travelling over many backroads that I've never been to.
The views from the various vantage pts were awesome.
Many thanks for a great series of caches for us all to enjoy and to participate in the BS games...very much appreciated.
Cheers ST.
The first day of the games BATTLESHIPS - very cold out this way today
The further we went up the hill, the colder it got!
So your BS series was the main objective for the day
This cache was Sainted at 1155 hours
A JOINT *FTF* was enjoyed with the experienced one
To date, the co-ords have been really good
All three of us enjoyed the day together, lunching at the Lachlan BBQ area
It was great to cache with Sirius
About 40 or 41 caches were found today
And thank you for hiding and publishing these caches for our enjoyment and enjoy them we did
TFTC, TFTS and the fun
Cheers OldSaint