What's the Area? Riverside, Tasmania, Australia
By
Tassie Trekkers on 20-Jan-17. Waypoint GA9569
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Unknown or Mystery |
| Container: | Large |
| Coordinates: | S41° 25.760' E147° 6.230' (WGS 84) |
| 55G 508675E 5413575N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 92 m |
| Local Government Area: | West Tamar |
/147.103833,-41.429333,14/400x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiY2F1Z2h0YXR3b3JrIiwiYSI6ImNqa2l4ZzNzMDE5bjgzdm1sZGpuODF1Mm0ifQ.q8YMzVyzDJJlJHHV8EMjwQ)
Description
A cache placed for the Summer Scavenger Series 2016/17
This cache is not at the listed coordinates.
You are required to solve the area of 2 shapes to give you the decimal minutes of the South and East co ordinates.
To find the decimal minutes of the South coordinate work out the area of a rectangle when given the length of the diagonal is 45.97782074000463 and the length of one side is 41.4
To find the decimal minutes of the East coordinate work out the area of a circle with a radius of 7.42075537326 (round up to whole number)
Cache can be found at S41 25.??? E147 06.???
Cache contains Log book, swaps and pencil
Hints
Chmmyr - Trbzrgel TM - orgjrra 2 ynetr ebpxf |
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Decode |
Logs
This morning we were in Launceston to collect our tiles for our house, as we were early we grabbed a few select caches that would help with the Geosportz challenges.
Had solved this some time ago but never time to find but today was the day, a quick find at GZ was made. TFTC
Had solved this some time ago but never time to find but today was the day, a quick find at GZ was made. TFTC
Finally got around to finding a few caches in Launceston that have been there for a while
TFTC and Happy New Year
Found this cache while out and about today
Journey or Destination
Game Period: 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST
It is sometimes said [citation needed] that the game of geocaching is not about the destination it is about the journey. This game is about the choices you make in the experience of the journey or the destination.
On your entry to the game you will be asked to create a playing field with a number of ground tiles. Your playing field is a grid 20 x 20 ground tiles making a total number of 400 possible steps you can take on your journey or destination. You choose whether you want to find and follow the path or whether you wanted to meander around. A playing field is unique to each player so there is no benefit in teaming up to beat the system through brute force.
For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath. There are a number of different ground tiles that will be revealed when you click on your playing field. It should be noted that there are no punishments for clicking a tile but there will not always be the reward you were hoping for as you reveal each tile.
Dirt. The ground beneath the ground tile is just plain old brown dirt.
Dirt with some points. The ground beneath the tile is brown dirt but it has some points associated with it.
Concrete. The ground beneath is part of the pathway that will lead you on your way to your destination but has no point value.
Start. A concrete ground tile that has a blue map marker.
Destination. A ground tile that has a green map marker.
Meandering around and avoiding the path will accumulate points that will be used to place on you the ladder of wanderers. The more you stay off the path the higher the number of points you will accumulate and it will be your journey that will be the determining factor in whether you place into a prize winning position. You are free to select any ground tile to click on; they do not need to be next to each other.
Trying to find the path may mean you strike out on the dirt until you eventually come across the path and as a geocacher who can't say that this isn't a tried and true method. Once you find the path however will you try and follow the path as it changes direction around your playing field? Do you go North, South, East or West to try and find the next concrete tile along the path? If you head one way are you heading towards the start or towards the destination? When you do happen upon the destination tile then you will automatically be in a winning position.
At any point you are free to change from the journey to the destination and vice versa but you won't be able to regenerate your playing field. You are also free to keep playing as long as you have qualifying geocaches, accumulating more and more dirt tile points and placing you higher and higher on the ladder.
Qualifying geocaches fall into two categories. Finds and Hides.
A qualifying find is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia
The geocache has a hidden date prior to the game commencing
The geocache was logged by you on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period
The geocache was physically found by you during the game period
The geocache is not owned by you unless it is a moveable geocache
The geocache has not previously been found by you during the game period
The geocache is one of the following types:
Burke and Wills
Moveable (you will qualify only once for a find on a moveable geocache)
Traditional
TrigPoint
Augmented Reality
Beacon
Gadget
Multi-cache
Night Cache
Podcache
Reverse
Unknown or Mystery
A qualifying hide is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia
The geocache has a hidden date after the game has commenced
The geocache was published on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period
The geocache has a container size of regular or larger (Note: A regular geocache has a volume of 1 litre or more)
The geocache is one of the following types:
Moveable
Traditional
Augmented Reality
Beacon
Gadget
Multi-cache
Night Cache
Podcache
Reverse
Unknown or Mystery
The game tracking mechanism relies upon your honesty when logging geocaches as found or hidden.
The games administrators will undertake verification of a statistically significant number of logs.
Players who continually log inaccurate information will be disqualified from the game. The game administrators decision is final.
The game administrators will subtract qualifying hide or find geocaches from your tally if they are found to be not genuine.
The game administrators reserve the right to provide clarifications to the rules at any point during the game.
Don't forget to claim your limited time game trophies, if your qualify, while the game is in progress. Once the game completes the ability to claim your trophies is lost for ever.
TFTC and Happy New Year
Found this cache while out and about today
Journey or Destination
Game Period: 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST
It is sometimes said [citation needed] that the game of geocaching is not about the destination it is about the journey. This game is about the choices you make in the experience of the journey or the destination.
On your entry to the game you will be asked to create a playing field with a number of ground tiles. Your playing field is a grid 20 x 20 ground tiles making a total number of 400 possible steps you can take on your journey or destination. You choose whether you want to find and follow the path or whether you wanted to meander around. A playing field is unique to each player so there is no benefit in teaming up to beat the system through brute force.
For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath. There are a number of different ground tiles that will be revealed when you click on your playing field. It should be noted that there are no punishments for clicking a tile but there will not always be the reward you were hoping for as you reveal each tile.
Dirt. The ground beneath the ground tile is just plain old brown dirt.
Dirt with some points. The ground beneath the tile is brown dirt but it has some points associated with it.
Concrete. The ground beneath is part of the pathway that will lead you on your way to your destination but has no point value.
Start. A concrete ground tile that has a blue map marker.
Destination. A ground tile that has a green map marker.
Meandering around and avoiding the path will accumulate points that will be used to place on you the ladder of wanderers. The more you stay off the path the higher the number of points you will accumulate and it will be your journey that will be the determining factor in whether you place into a prize winning position. You are free to select any ground tile to click on; they do not need to be next to each other.
Trying to find the path may mean you strike out on the dirt until you eventually come across the path and as a geocacher who can't say that this isn't a tried and true method. Once you find the path however will you try and follow the path as it changes direction around your playing field? Do you go North, South, East or West to try and find the next concrete tile along the path? If you head one way are you heading towards the start or towards the destination? When you do happen upon the destination tile then you will automatically be in a winning position.
At any point you are free to change from the journey to the destination and vice versa but you won't be able to regenerate your playing field. You are also free to keep playing as long as you have qualifying geocaches, accumulating more and more dirt tile points and placing you higher and higher on the ladder.
Qualifying geocaches fall into two categories. Finds and Hides.
A qualifying find is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia
The geocache has a hidden date prior to the game commencing
The geocache was logged by you on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period
The geocache was physically found by you during the game period
The geocache is not owned by you unless it is a moveable geocache
The geocache has not previously been found by you during the game period
The geocache is one of the following types:
Burke and Wills
Moveable (you will qualify only once for a find on a moveable geocache)
Traditional
TrigPoint
Augmented Reality
Beacon
Gadget
Multi-cache
Night Cache
Podcache
Reverse
Unknown or Mystery
A qualifying hide is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia
The geocache has a hidden date after the game has commenced
The geocache was published on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period
The geocache has a container size of regular or larger (Note: A regular geocache has a volume of 1 litre or more)
The geocache is one of the following types:
Moveable
Traditional
Augmented Reality
Beacon
Gadget
Multi-cache
Night Cache
Podcache
Reverse
Unknown or Mystery
The game tracking mechanism relies upon your honesty when logging geocaches as found or hidden.
The games administrators will undertake verification of a statistically significant number of logs.
Players who continually log inaccurate information will be disqualified from the game. The game administrators decision is final.
The game administrators will subtract qualifying hide or find geocaches from your tally if they are found to be not genuine.
The game administrators reserve the right to provide clarifications to the rules at any point during the game.
Don't forget to claim your limited time game trophies, if your qualify, while the game is in progress. Once the game completes the ability to claim your trophies is lost for ever.
For some reason I couldn't get the right co-ordinates but I knew that they had to be pretty close, so I thought I would go and have a look anyway. The track to the cache has a few fallen trees, so you probably won't be encountering any mountain-bikers. Cache found where my co-ordinates had it, so that was good. And it was all in great condition.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Decided to do a few geocaches today after a nearly 3 year hiatus. Enjoyed the puzzle. Had to outwait a few young BMX muggles but soon had the cache in hand despite tangling briefly with a couple of rogue prickle bushes. Thanks Tassie Trekkers. It's good to be back!
Rated: for Overall Experience
Fifty odd years ago we'd no doubt have breezed through this homework, & that's when all we had to help were log tables & such. None of those new fangled calculator gadgets! Nowadays thank goodness for online tools. Having figured out the area we stood dumbfounded at the actual area surrounding GZ. What, there? OK, it is a T3 so up we went. Folks who ride bikes on such tracks must harbour a death wish. Almost had a whoopsie once at the spot as we gingerly extracted the necessaries. Next finder may wish to include secateurs in their kit as scratchy things are growing. Thanks for another biggie Tassie Trekkers. You must have scooped the market in tubs.
Rated: for Overall Experience
The DDTs must be way out of practice at caching, given the number of problems they had with this one! Somehow managed to get the wrong coordinates for what should have been an easy puzzle, and went looking in the wrong place (although within sight of the cache itself - it would have been sitting there quietly laughing at us!!). After realising the error of our ways we revisited the area and managed to find the most difficult possible route by which to access the cache. Eventually order was restored to the caching world and we logged and replaced the cache. TFTC
the egg and I teamed up with stainless-steel-rat and TazScout to score some points for the current game. We enjoyed all 5 puzzle caches of yours this morning. Thanks Tassie Trekkers
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found today but this is my second attempt. The last time was just after it was published and as it was getting dark. I gave up but returned today several months later. I was in the right area and only a couple of metres from the cache last time but it is easier to find and in daylight. Blackberries are beginning to grow over the cache which made for a careful extraction of logbook so no scratches were to be had! Thanks for another puzzle and big cache Tassie Trekkers
Rated: for Overall Experience
Hi Trekkers
Nice easy puzzle that got the area covered to GZ easily
Had a slip at GZ and as I was getting up off the ground spotted the cache for an easy find
Sainted this one at 0846hrs
Thanks for this and the other interesting puzzle caches - enjoyed them all
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
Nice easy puzzle that got the area covered to GZ easily
Had a slip at GZ and as I was getting up off the ground spotted the cache for an easy find
Sainted this one at 0846hrs
Thanks for this and the other interesting puzzle caches - enjoyed them all
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
Rated: for Overall Experience
Took awhile for coords to settle...then bingo...cache in hand. TFTEC Tassie Trekkers...cheers.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Been a while since I have tapped the grey matter to do this type of math. Incredibly it was still there tucked away in a dusty corner.. Haven't visited these parts before, enjoyed the trek up the hill.. thanks..!!
Rated: for Overall Experience
Needed a few caches for the Scavenger Series and as we had solved the puzzle we stopped off to look for this one. We were soon in the vicinity of GZ but spent some time contemplating our approach as there were some fearsome looking blackberry canes guarding the large box. With some careful manoeuvres we extracted the container and soon had the log signed. Then repeated the extraction procedure to replaced the box.
Thanks for the cache Tassie Trekkers. We enjoyed the puzzle and it was nice to find a large well stocked box.
Thanks for the cache Tassie Trekkers. We enjoyed the puzzle and it was nice to find a large well stocked box.
Many thanks 2y'stassies for alerting us to an error in our wording - all fixed.
Oh no, in Launceston and a maths puzzle comes out that will stretch Mrs W.'s brain cells. Oh what to do? Phoned Mr W. to solve. Mr W. soon had the puzzle solved and the coordinate checker was happy, now to locate while still light enough to see. I wish Mr W. was here as a bit steep and prickly but I was rewarded with a FTF, so worth the scratches. A nicely stocked large cache. TFTP Another cache I can claim in the Summer Scavenger Series games.
Rated: for Overall Experience
fire up the calculator 