Hearts in the Hartz 9 Geeveston, Tasmania, Australia
By OldSaint on 24-May-21. Waypoint GA21726

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	GeoArt
Container:	Micro
Coordinates:	S43° 6.305' E146° 50.315' (WGS 84)
	55G 486865E 5227503N (UTM)
GeoArt Coordinates:	S43° 12.300' E146° 45.410' (WGS 84)
	31N 166021E 0N (UTM)
Elevation:	180 m
Local Government Area:	Huon Valley

Map

GeoArt Co-ordinates Map

Whodunit Geocache

Description

Created for the Battleships Game

Game Period: 01-Jun-2021 00:00:00 to 31-Jul-2021 23:59:59 AEST

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

A writing stick would be handy

Please replace as found for the longevity of the cache

Please enjoy the series

Hints

Rpyvcfr gva haqre onex - Ynetr oheag ybt

ROT 13:	ABCDEFGHIJKLM
	NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Decode

Logs

05-Dec-21

AlbyDangles

"Hello OldSaint thank you for the cache.

Gee I made this a lot harder than it needed to be but got there eventualy.

Found after a working that didn't happen

Found on Sunday 05 December 2021 at 1333

TFTC"

30-Jul-21

Tassie Trekkers

Hoping to collect some ammunition for the Battleships Game we headed out today to reload our cannon in preparation for firing.

Many thanks OldSaint for creating this Geoart series and adding to our geocaching experience today.

No log trucks today, a pleasant drive on a mild winters day with a dusting of snow on the Hartz.

Rated: for Overall Experience

07-Jul-21

2y'stassies

We got rather black looking for this cache as we had to be careful not to disturb the bright green mosses and tiny orange fungi growing close to the hide. It didn't take long to locate this well hidden micro container. The coordinates were good and the container and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for another cache in this series OldSaint. We were surprised that it had taken us just on an hour to find the first 9 caches.

16-Jun-21

sirius Tas

Hi OldSaint....after completing the remaining BS caches it was off to the Southern Forests to tackle your series of caches placed for the BS games.
Thoroughly enjoyed the variety of exc hides and a lot of different cache types.

Spot on coords for a quick find... with cache in top nick.

I left home at 0435 and drove 840km to finally get home at 2005...a full 15.5hrs.
Many thanks for placing this excellent series of caches...thoroughly enjoyed....cheers ST.

Rated: for Overall Experience

15-Jun-21

whitewebbs

We were in town early afternoon and thought we would head further south to find this cool Hearts in the Hartz geoart. Luckily it was fine and very calm conditions so we had a very enjoyable afternoon hunting down caches. The hints were used as in some cases the GPSr arrow wandered in the undergrowth and heavy cloud. All caches were found and signed. We enjoyed the variety of hides and the safe places to pull off the gravel road. We only saw 1 empty log truck and a few cars. Thanks OldSaint for placing in time for the Battleship games. TFTGA

Rated: for Overall Experience

14-Jun-21

Budgietas

Hi Oldsaint

Was out and about today collecting a few GCA caches while the weather was ok. Some blue sky was about - but not much. Didnt get rained on, so an advantage there.

Part of a series of clever, different and well organized caches including some great parking spots.

TFTC

12-Jun-21

stainless-steel-rat

I drove round to pick up the goose at 9 with no firm plan of where we were going, but with four GeoArts to pick from we had options, after a talk with goose and a weather update from our barista we picked Battleship to start our day, while a little damp it didn't rain too much to put us off and we made some great finds before finishing the 48 caches off and heading into NN for a feed.
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.

12-Jun-21

gooseandegg

After winning the battle of Glen Dhu, SSR had the bright idea of just nipping down the Plenty Road to the Huon to find Hearts in the Hartz (plus a couple of GCs). The weather had turn ordinary on the drive down but after a bit of slipping and sliding we made it.
Yeah ok, it helps to read the hint properly. Once I read it again we found the cache quickly. There was no mention of rocks Doh