Come to my Slide Night Don, Tasmania, Australia
By Spreyton22 on 15-Oct-12. Waypoint GA4646

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Type: Unknown or Mystery
Container: Regular
Coordinates: S41° 10.641' E146° 19.346' (WGS 84)
  55G 443168E 5441333N (UTM)
Elevation: 3 m
Local Government Area: Devonport

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An "Old School" Slide Night

The cache is not at the published location

Well this may take a little explaining!

I have "recovered" (a few years ago) my old slides from about 1975. They were taken with my 110 Kodak camera (see here for how small the film was and here for my camera).

I spent a lot of time at Eaglehawk Neck, as our family had a shack there.

So enjoy the old pictures - Be warned I have many more!

 

 

 

Bicheno Beach

 

Pirates Bay from the hill behind

 Eaglehawk Neck and Pirates Bay

 

 Wineglass Bay - Is the grafiti still there?

 

 A view of the coastline at Pirates Bay

 

 A view of Great Lake, from a hill above Todds Corner

 

 Lake Pedder

 

 

 

The creek at Pirates Bay. I have no idea who dug the creek out (te he he)

Tarraleah pipe lines

Pirates Bay

Looking back on Eaglehawk Neck

Remarkable Caves


The Little Hippolyte Rocks

Tungatinah Hydroelectric Power Station

Tasman Island

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Hints

Fghzc
ROT 13: ABCDEFGHIJKLM
NOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Decode

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As we drove to the parking near the solved coords I remembered being here before as in before we solved this one, looking at the map we couldn't see a path that was perfect so we followed our instincts following what looked very good but after a few hundred meters we discovered we were going the wrong way and were in fact being distracted from our goal, Goose and I stopped our forward motion and looked at our options, as much as using the route to out left looked good we set off down the right track which in the end took us very near the cache.

It was a short search and we were soon adding our names to the log.

thanks for yet another great cache Spreyton22
 
23-Sep-17
It was coming to the end of our day but w still had a couple left on our list for the afternoon. After 2y'stassies coastal walk series this area was a stark contrast. Stainless-steel-rat and I parked and chose a path we thought might work. It was a vague selection as we were very much distracted Wink as we enjoyed the scenery that eventually led us in the wrong direction. We were soon 'on track' (shh) to GZ, assuming by this time we would be safe but kept an ear out just the same. Roughly half a kilometre later we were close to GZ. A read of the hint led us straight to GZ. A nice size container and a couple of happy geocachers! Thanks Spreyton22, great to pick up a couple of puzzles solved quite a while back now.
 
01-Apr-16
Yikes, I think I'm now verging on the legally blind! The photos certainly reminded us of happy bygone days. Once we managed to navigate our way to GZ (with a fair amount of zigging & zagging) the find almost leapt into our hands for a little love & attention. Once again, all good at GZ. Thanks for the challenge Spreyton22. You have many more you say?
 
15-Feb-15
It took the eagle eyes of the youngest red tag to finally tease out all of those darned coordinates - this was certainly a challenge ! Wink
An opportunity today to make the find after a nice little walk Cool
Thanks for the cache, Spreyton22 ! Very Happy
 
15-Sep-13
Found this cache as part of my and Geo Son E's caching and soccer trip to Burnie. Geo Kid E was playing in a regional cup in Burnie, so we left early and had a great time caching across to Marrawah and back through Burnie and Ulverstone areas.

Thank you for the cache
 
11-Mar-13
Clapping Very pleased to find this cache. It was a sight for sore eyes ( two pairs of them)Left a coin in appreciation.
 
11-Feb-13
Luckily for us the only numbers we couldn't come up with were ones that didn't matter anyway [perhaps that's why we didn't concentrate so hard on those particular ones!] A pleasant walk to find this one. Thanks
 
05-Dec-12
Hi Spreyton22
Had trouble trying to get the right viewer to see the pictures properly for this cache. A good friend told me what programme to use and that certainly made it easier to work out the puzzle.
Enjoyed the walk to the cache today.
Found and replaced it at about 1530hrs.
Enjoyed the cache thoroughly.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.
 
30-Nov-12
Took quite awhile before I realised what the heck I was looking for...but then it all started to gel...some hefty magnification in PSP helped heaps. One of the best puzzles I've done...thoroughly enjoyed. Cache easily to hand..all ok...TFTEC Spreyton22...Cheers.
 
15-Nov-12
OMG the things this puzzle did to my eyes!!!

It took a very long time but eventually the coordinates were retrieved and the puzzle solved.

Today I enjoyed a lovely morning walk to retrieve the cache. Thank you Spreyton22
 
28-Oct-12
Found with whitewebbs on a puzzle caching weekend. Lovely area lots of muggles out and about enjoying the fine weather. TFTC
 
28-Oct-12
Wow this took some time to come up with the coords but got there in the end. I think I might need stronger lenses in the glasses. Nice walk to GZ. Found with Tassie Trekkers on a beautiful day. TFTC.
 
21-Oct-12
Great puzzle....took awhile to get the right focus...but it did come.
Hardest pic by far for me was "Lake Pedder". At one stage I almost gave it away, but the perseverance paid off...thoroughly enjoyed.
 
20-Oct-12
Ok - UncleTom3 may have helped me with the last cache (ok, he did all the work) but this time I'm legit! UncleTom3 couldn't work this one out - but after reading a few other comments I got the idea and was off!
Well - at least until a few of the slides completely stumped me.
Working through some logic and a bit of guessing later, I was able to work out what the missing co-ords were.
So with a couple of new cachers in tow (they hadn't chosen a name yet) we went and found the cache. Co-ords seemed slightly off, but the clue made it easy.
TFTC!
 
18-Oct-12
Only pic 13 was too hard?? lol so far I've found some, assumed some but can't find 14 at all. Do I need to go see my optometrist? Very Happy
 
18-Oct-12
Well, we poked and prodded this cache from almost every possible direction. We looking at themes common to all photos and significant features but no joy. We knew (assumed?) that there would be one digit per photo but we couldn't locate anything. Even an equine related comment from the cache owner eluded us (at least until the method of solution became clear). We then went back through other picture based puzzles we had solved and a couple of new strategies emerged. We resorted to using enlargements of each photo and, after some adjustments to our monitor, something intelligle started to appear from one of the photos. Over the next hour we looked more closely at each of the photos and gradually things started to piece together. Once we had a full set of possible coordinates, we tried them in Evince - Eureka!!!!!! Today we went to look for the cache at the confirmed coordinates and we were able to make a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks for another quality puzzle Spreyton22 - it certainly took us a while this time. Now we will rest until our eye balls return to their normal locations within our eye sockets (or until another cache is published).
 
17-Oct-12
Managed to solve this with help of geodaughter last night. As we were planning a bike ride in the area tonight we took the GPS and were lucky enough to get FTF.
Tricky little puzzle....had to wear the strong specs!
Accurate coords.
Many thanks Spreyton22.
 
16-Oct-12
I've just re-done pic 13 - It was too hard.
(07:25pm)
And I've just re- re done that pic.
 
15-Oct-12
Finally done with the slides !
 
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