Yagan Belhus, Western Australia, Australia
By
Iluvtrekking on 07-Jan-17. Waypoint GA9235
Cache Details
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| Type: | Multi-cache |
| Container: | Small |
| Coordinates: | S31° 46.819' E116° 1.102' (WGS 84) |
| 50J 407057E 6483494N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 21 m |
| Local Government Area: | Swan |
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Description
Yagan Memorial Park
Yagan, a nephew of Yellagongo and son of Midgigeroo, leader of the Aboriginal population on the south side of the Swan River, outlawed afer allegedly killing a whiteman. Yagan's story is recorded by many and, after years of controversy, a bronze statue of him was erected on a hill overlooking Perth city, on the southern side of Herrison Island on September 11, 1984.
Yagan was born circa 1795 and died sometime in July 1833. He was a Noongar leader and resistance fighter during the early years of the Swan River Colony. In the conflict that ensued, Yagan was both feared and admired by Europeans as a patriot fighting for his land. In today’s Noongar community, Yagan remains a significant and legendary figure, a symbol of resistance to European colonization of country and culture.
On the 1st of September 1997, a delegation of Elders brought Yagan’s head, or ‘kaat’, back to Noongar country, 177 years after his death, Yagan’s kaat was reburied in this Memorial Park in the Swan Valley. http://www.noongarculture.org.au/yagan/
The Cache:
You will not find the cache at the published coordinates, instead you will find a good place to park your car, please note that gates automatically close at 5pm. Please make your way to the nearby mud walls and story murals as you will need to gather some information from the murals in order to complete the following coordinates.
- The Geocache is hidden at S31 46.ABC E116 1.DEF
A. To find this number, you will have to count the red tiles that are on the front of the northern pillar to give you a two digit number, A= the second digit.
B. The value of B is equal to the number of flying pelicans.
C. In one picture you can see two sailing ships anchored in the bay, how many life boats do you see? The number of life boats equals the value of C
D. You will have to look very closely for this one, how many crocodiles are there in the murals? The number of crocodiles equals D
E. Another close look and you will spy a number of balga (grass trees). But how many are there? Take 2 away from this number and you will have the value of E
F. The number of named hunting tools gives you F
Now you have the information, go find the cache.
Hints
Fznyy fvfgrzn, tebhaq yriry
AO: Cnexvat nern tngrf nhgbzngvpnyyl pybfr ng 5cz |
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Logs
Like others I also initially found 2 more grass trees and had the final in the carpark.
After reading the prior logs I reduced my count by 2 and soon had the cache in hand.
TFTC. 
A good little stop for a quick find. Thanks for the cache!
Had trouble with the maths as there are two more balga trees found than what should be used in the maths.
Thanks for the cache.
That was a fun multi, I enjoyed looking at all the boards and counting the various other. I actually counted 2 more balga trees, but it didn't take me too long to track down the cache with a bit of cacher intuition.
Thanks for the cache iluvtrekking!
