Back Blocks of South Australia McLaren Vale, South Australia, Australia
By
J_&_J on 28-Jan-17. Waypoint GA9514
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Unknown or Mystery |
| Container: | Small |
| Coordinates: | S35° 14.329' E138° 35.478' (WGS 84) |
| 54H 280820E 6097813N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 157 m |
| Local Government Area: | Onkaparinga |
/138.5913,-35.238817,14/400x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiY2F1Z2h0YXR3b3JrIiwiYSI6ImNqa2l4ZzNzMDE5bjgzdm1sZGpuODF1Mm0ifQ.q8YMzVyzDJJlJHHV8EMjwQ)
Description
J & J's sixty-first geocache hide. A nice drive on a less travelled road.
Another fun road to get you away from the hustle and bustle of the main bitumen roads.
The geocache is not at the listed coordinates, and there is no need to visit them.
To find this cache you will need to go to Jackass Ridge. GCN0K7.
From here you will need to travel a smidge over 387 yards* at a true bearing of 135.70425461627°
At the final location you will find a small square container painted in familiar cammo colours.
Hints
fzvqtr rdhnyf 0.0710291 |
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Decode |
Logs
Found It!
A nice little puzzle that didn't take me long to get out. GZ is an odd little place I've never been to before. Nice views to!
TFTC
A nice little puzzle that didn't take me long to get out. GZ is an odd little place I've never been to before. Nice views to!
TFTC
We had looked at this puzzle prior to our previous visit to South Australia in March. Although we calculated a solution, we could not get the coordinate checker to agree. When we visited the location, we found that our solution for GZ was firmly on private property. As we didn't have time on that occasions to take another look at the puzzle, we decided o leave it until we got home.
We were not as diligent as we should have been and it wasn't until we arrived back in SA this time that we took another look. We kept coming up with the same incorrect solution. Finally we relented and contacted the CO. We had not recognised the importance of one piece of the information in the puzzle and once this was clarified, the calculations were reworked and we got a set of coordinates which were approved by the coordinate checker.
Today we went to look for the cache. We quickly found the location consistent with the hint but no cache. We expanded the search area, looking for similar locations but alas, no joy. Then as we started to walk back to the car, we saw a container in a tree at about chest height. Investigation showed it to be the cache for this puzzle. As well as being in a location not consistent with the hint, there was an entry in the logbook for 8 July 2017 with a name we did not recognise. That person is still to log the find. We wondered if the entry in the logbook was by a muggle who happened to stumble across the cache in its original hide and looked for a more secure hide. However, it could be a legitimate find with the find still to be logged.
Thanks J_&_J for the puzzle, your help and for the cache.
We were not as diligent as we should have been and it wasn't until we arrived back in SA this time that we took another look. We kept coming up with the same incorrect solution. Finally we relented and contacted the CO. We had not recognised the importance of one piece of the information in the puzzle and once this was clarified, the calculations were reworked and we got a set of coordinates which were approved by the coordinate checker.
Today we went to look for the cache. We quickly found the location consistent with the hint but no cache. We expanded the search area, looking for similar locations but alas, no joy. Then as we started to walk back to the car, we saw a container in a tree at about chest height. Investigation showed it to be the cache for this puzzle. As well as being in a location not consistent with the hint, there was an entry in the logbook for 8 July 2017 with a name we did not recognise. That person is still to log the find. We wondered if the entry in the logbook was by a muggle who happened to stumble across the cache in its original hide and looked for a more secure hide. However, it could be a legitimate find with the find still to be logged.
Thanks J_&_J for the puzzle, your help and for the cache.
