KneeLEd i.e. TO BE KNIGHTED Ranelagh, Tasmania, Australia
By
OldSaint on 13-Oct-11. Waypoint GA3466
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Unknown or Mystery |
| Container: | Small |
| Coordinates: | S43° 1.990' E147° 2.863' (WGS 84) |
| 55G 503887E 5235500N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 4 m |
| Local Government Area: | Huon Valley |
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Description
THIS CACHE IS NOT AT THE LISTED CO-ORDINATES You can check your co-ordinates on the checker in the right hand column.
The cache will take you to a place where good views can be had of Sleeping Beauty, you can catch fish and go search for other caches in the area.
The container is a small Sistema containing log and some small swaps. Please take a writing implement.
For much of history tales of "knights of old" have been told verbally, read in books and depicted in movies or on television. Even today, this theme has been blasted into the annuls of space with films about the Jedi and so on.
Those nights of old were bold, heroic and lived by a code of chivalry after being dubbed a KNIGHT. The word "knight" arose from a word "cnight" meaning "boy or servant." But by the 1100s, the generic meaning had changed from "servant" to indicate a "military follower of a king or other superior." Probably, the most famous nights were those of the Round Table in the days of King Arthur. This code of chivalry continues to influence social behaviour long after the actual knighthood ceased to exist; e.g. the perception of how "gentlemen" ought behave and so on.
In more modern times, citizens of the British Empire have been dubbed KNIGHT or DAME OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Even when this happens now, the candidate kneels for the investiture and generally holds the honour of SIR or DAME for life:
The true co-ordinates for the cache can be found:
SOUTH EAST
Abdul-Bahr Frederick G Banting
James Galway Arthur Pinero
Carol Reed King William iv
Sir Walter Raleigh Rex Harrison
Garfield Sobers Don Bradman
Arthur Rubinstein Henry Morton Stanley
Hamid Kazai John Boyd Orr
Fred Hoyle
At ground zero, if you have small cacherettes with you, please keep an eye on them. It is not really dangerous but there is a lot of water nearby.
I hope you enjoy the puzzle and the scenery at ground zero. Cheers OldSaint.
Hints
CHMMYR: Va gur anzr.
PNPUR: Onfr bs Angvir Pureel Gerr. |
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Decode |
Logs
This is a cache that has been on my solved but un-found list for far too long.
I had been to GZ some time ago but my GPSr wanted me to go onto private property so I didn't go looking.
After a discussion with you and your new log I thought I would go and have another look. Today the GPSr was still off but this time I spotted a likely hide and quickly found your cache.
Found on Sunday 09 February 2020 at 1417
TFTC"
Alby was right, the area has had some work done but the cache is still getable
Thanks Alby
Cheers OldSaint
I went to find it today but the area has been cleaned up and private property signs erected so I didn't go looking.
I should have looked for it a long time ago.
Thanks for the puzzle and cache any way.
Didn't find on Sunday 23 June 2019.
Thanks for the cache and a simple puzzle for a change.
Thanks for the cache and puzzle, OldSaint !
Anyway while out this puzzle that I had solved came up as nearby - so we short off to find. The puzzle was a bit tricky for me - i don't think that way, but the cache was easy to find.
Cache outer bag is full of small spiders and water, but cache and inter bag was in perfect condition.
Thank you Old Saint for this cache, and for your information I have finally reached the 60 word log barrier and will be logging are you verbose shortly. Thanks for the cache
Oh well might leave that for another time - I thought. Later in the day I called into visit some friends who told me a story about a strange man wondering around in the front of their place, looking a bit suspicious, who planted something, might have been drugs. 
My friends being the curious kind found the planted item and had a bit of a laugh at themselves over their fantasy. 
Anyway I made a quick find after all and still have no idea about how to solve the puzzle. 
No need to worry if you are spotted by the friendly muggles in the house nearby. 
Took the TB, left a pencil to write with.
Thanks OldSaint
Oh no, I've just realised it's a GCA cache! Whoever collects the TB, can you grab it from me please?
I was a bit concerned what the occupants of the nearest house would think about me poking around with my torch - especially as I made it harder than it had to be by failing to recognise the natural hide when I first looked at it - the coords were spot on.
I'll check out the views when I come down on Thursday.
As mentioned in my earlier note log - thanks for the puzzle, and thanks for the cache, OldSaint!
Again thanks and cheers OldSaint.
Littlest Cyclist had a go at it on the way to school, and as it happens was on the right track, but gave up after 20 minutes or so.
I actually thought at one point that OldSaint had read my mind and used the puzzle from my latest (failed review and needing fixing) puzzle, but that idea didn't come out.
I tried a few other hunches before I decided to get systematic, and then the coords started to come out, and now the hint makes sense (actually, it started making sense half way through).
Am I mad enough to drive that far at lunchtime for an FTF?
Probably not - and I'm visiting friends in the Huon next Thursday, so it'll probably have to wait until then.
Cheers for the brain straining, Old Saint!
