Winter Scavenger at Well Station Harrison, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By Luckyl10n on 16-Dec-16. Waypoint GA8964

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Type: Multi-cache
Container: Small
Coordinates: S35° 12.555' E149° 9.078' (WGS 84)
  55H 695824E 6101631N (UTM)
Elevation: 599 m
Local Government Area: Australian Capital Territory

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Well, well, well, a hole in the ground.....!

This is a single offset multi which was going to be call Summer Scavenger at Well Station, that is, until winter returned yesterday!

The Well Station in the Gungahlin district of the ACT is one of the very early, but little known, rural properties to the north of the city.  Until recently, it was known as the Well Station, because it had only one well on it. In the early days, a spring had been opened up, stoned all round and at one stage fitted with pumps. It provided good permanent water and was the pioneers’ main source of water until dams and water tanks were introduced later. More recently, an ‘s’ [Wells] has been added to the name. However, no family by the name of Wells has ever owned or lived at Well Station.  This explains why road signs can be found in the area with both spellings of the name.

At the posted coords, you will find a large sign.  The information on that sign will help you to find GZ.

A = Number of letters, third word, top line.
B = Number of letters shared by three of the words.
C = Number of words on the sign.
D = Number of Canberra suburbs named on the sign.
E = Number of letters in the fourth word.
F = Number of letters in the sixth word.
G = Number of words in black lettering.

The cache can be found at S35 12.AB(C-D) E149 09.(F-E)(C+D)G

Now for a little walk!
 

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Ybbx pnershyyl be guvf bar pbhyq fghzc lbh.....
ROT 13: ABCDEFGHIJKLM
NOPQRSTUVWXYZ
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28-Jan-23
No luck for us here today
 
14-Jan-20
After much time trying to calculate the correct coordinates I discovered that I couldn't go for this multi as there were workmen very close to GZ. Thanks anyway Luckyl10n, another time.
 
08-May-19
Certainly winter today! Too cold to stand around, so took photo and returned to the car to do the calculations. Got a strange answer, but knew roughly where it should be, so a quick adjustment and the cache was found.

Thanks,
 
10-Nov-18
Whilst out on a morning caching caching I managed to stop by a few GA caches as well.

Thanks
Albida
 
27-Apr-18
An easy single stage multi and then a short walk to GZ. TFTC LuckyL10n.
 
03-Jan-18
I have been looking at this one for a week now hoping to get there and work it all out, was lucky today while waiting for bus that my daughter's friend saw me waiting and asked me if I wanted a liftt home of course I* said yes as it was another 20 mins b4 bus arrived. I asked did she mind doing a little detour so I can grab this cache Yes was the answer. We got to GZ worked out the answers and went for a little walk, got to what I thought was the next stage and looked around with no luck. Then I we r4ead the clue and back tracked to a place that fitted the clue, and got there and found very quick. Yippee last found in April 2017 - awesome! Container in good condition and placed back as found. tftc LUCKYL10N.
 
26-Apr-17
Finally!

During the SSS I went to get this, I ended up having the wrong co-ords. Poking around a very public area got the attention of a local who began to watch me.

Freaked me out enough to not try this again.

I had the photo.. so I tried again, hopefully matching it against the hint.

As it turns out, I had my easterlies, but a significant digit in the southerlies was causing all sorts of grief. A bit of guesswork as to where GZ may be.. arrived tonight, no paranoid muggles... found cache!

TFTC LL, been a while coming! Clan CerberusClan Cerberus
 
27-Mar-17
GCA 1313 = 14365. A quick Multi grabbed after work today.

A familiar area ! Gathered the required info then walked in to GZ - very nice !

TFTC !!
 
26-Dec-16
Found today on a Summer Scavenger Series cache run. I met GrimRaider here with the dogs and enjoyed a walk along the track before it got too hot. I love the history of this road and learned some more thru reading this cache description. Cache found in good condition. TFTC Smile
 
18-Dec-16
No takers in the last 24 hours so headed out this afternoon for one last cache this weekend. Had to think about one of the questions, but a bit of logic soon had that sorted and soon after that a GZ.

Took the short walk and looked in a couple of spots before the clear little container was spotted. Log book revealed no-one else had been here...which in a way is a bit of shame, but hopefully all the new caches around town will soon get the local GCA cachers out and about.

Thanks for this one LuckyL10n.
 
17-Dec-16
A cache for the dedicated scavenger..... Very HappyClan Cerberus
 
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