Australiana Series-Bush Walk Sheldon, Queensland, Australia
By Sambuccasam on 13-Dec-16. Waypoint GA8916

coordinates listed are not the location of the cache

Bush Walk ...I much prefer to find caches in the bush than Urban parks with assembled muggles hanging around GZ and neighbourhood barking dogs.
This hunt can be made very difficult in the wet season, you may need to get wet if the creeks and billabongs
have filled up. You may need to have someone agile with you to make these finds.

I am back into my local forest along my favourite trail to add a new cache. This one is my first Mystery Field Puzzle.
To find this mystery cache you need to first drive your car to these parking coordinates S27 36.249 E153 08.990.
You can ride mountain bikes in this forest. You can also find my previous games caches along the way.
Load them up in your GPS before leaving home, this will eventually be a great Geocaching Australia Trail.
Fire up the GPS and hike to Waypoint A....S27 36.658 E153 09.663.
When you arrive at Waypoint A, you will see the wooden Reserve sign and a map/trail list guide sign.
Using both these signs you will need to work out the answers to find the first cache which contains one half
of the coordinates needed to find the Mystery Cache.
S27 _ _ . _ _ _
Questions.
AA. Count the number of letters of the first 2 walks in the category - Multiple use Trails...(leave as 2 digit number)
B.  How many park attributes(icons) are on the reserve sign?
C.  How many NUMBERED TRACKS are listed on the guide sign?
D.  How many park attributes(icons) are not allowed?

E153 0_ . _ _ _
Questions.
E How many letters in the first Tree(only)  listed under Walking Trails?
F. Count how many times 'E' appears on the wooden sign.
G How many 'V's' are there on the wooden sign?
H. How many CIRCUITS are there on the guide sign?
I. Look at the scale on the guide sign map...What is the longest length(km's) on the scale? minus 1

S27 AA.BCD E153 0E.(f+G)HI  is the Answer.

checker South...2+7+_ +_+. _+_+_ = 34
             East.....1+5+3+_+_+. _+_+_ = 39

To Find the Second cache with the other half of the coordinates you will need to work this second Puzzle.
S 27 36. _ _ _
J. What Brand is this cache container? _ _ _ _ _ _ _? How many letters?
K. Looking at the cache container you just found, what picture is on the outside container? Work this word puzzle out.
 _ _ _ L _   _ N _   _ _ _ SS   _ _N_ _      How many 'O's' are there?
L. How many times does the letter 'S' occur?
E153 10. _ _ _
M. How many times does the letter 'E' occur?
N. What is the square root of 25?
O. How many letters in the first Word of the word puzzle?

S27 36 JKL E153 10 MNO
Checker South last 3 digits only =13
             East   last 3 digits only =11

onwards and upwards...happy hiking.

********Please note the coordinates in each cache or tear off a prepared tag when you reach this cache to find the Mystery Cache.

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