Can't See the Wood for the Trees Denistone, New South Wales, Australia
By
blossom* on 31-Jan-17. Waypoint GA9788
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Unknown or Mystery |
| Container: | Large |
| Coordinates: | S33° 47.900' E151° 5.500' (WGS 84) |
| 56H 323341E 6258567N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 66 m |
| Local Government Area: | Ryde |
/151.091667,-33.798333,14/400x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiY2F1Z2h0YXR3b3JrIiwiYSI6ImNqa2l4ZzNzMDE5bjgzdm1sZGpuODF1Mm0ifQ.q8YMzVyzDJJlJHHV8EMjwQ)
Description
The cache is NOT at the listed co-ordinates but the below puzzle will reveal its location.
Sometimes it's very hard to see the wood for the trees:
- Maybe it's raining and your umbrella is sheltering you from the downpour as well as any views
- Maybe it's night time and there's not a lot of light in a forest at night
- Maye you have your eyes closed for some reason eg you're asleep
- Maybe someone is being a bit inconsiderate and standing in front of you
According to thefreedictionary, this saying means that you can't see the whole situation clearly because you're looking too closely at small details, or because you're too closely involved. I'm not sure if this will help you solve the puzzle or find the cache but it seemed a catchy sort of title for a cache!
It would be nice if you offered any other thoughts you have on why you might not see the wood for the trees in your log.
Hints
Ybgf bs gnyy gerrf urer ohg bar bs gurz vf qvssrerag gb gur bguref |
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Decode |
Logs
Saw the wood but didn't see the spider webs until it was too late. What a popular GCA; a visit every day (for the past 2 days, anyway). Thanks blossom*, a nice bit of handiwork.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Came down to this one today after working it out a couple of nights ago. I knew I had seen these symbols before but still had to google the image. Once at ground zero I quickly spotted the different tree. Then the cache was in hand not quite what I was expecting. Maybe the reason for not seeing things today could have been sweat running into the eyes, but it wasn't too bad as quite close to the car. Thanks blossom* - I will work out which scavenge to use it for nearer the end of the game as it meets a few and I am playing strategically to maximise points across the ones I find that can be used for more than one.
Rated: for Overall Experience
What a great puzzle. Any puzzle I can do is great. I was fearful of heading north into the land of puzzle kings that require mensa IQs to solve. I'm happy to say this was quite straight forward to me even though this was my first experience with those symbols. GZ was not hard to find and I spotted the clever camo immediately. The extraction of the cache took a little while as I think its been placed the wrong way so it was jammed in quite hard and......... ants have taken up residence by the thousands. With a bit of wiggling I managed to extract the cache. Thanks for this novel hide.
Rated: for Overall Experience
#29 *FTF* @ 2:30pm
With quality GC caches getting further and further away from home, I'm enjoying my dabble into GCA caches. Also, it looks like the FTF hounds are nowhere near as active here. Solving this puzzle, I kept thinking there has to be a trick so was surprised when my first answer on the checker was successful.
On the way home with geoWife after finding a few unloved GC puzzle caches, I couldn't resist the short detour to this one. With a slight drizzle, the goeWife stayed in the car while I took a short stroll to GZ, where of course I initially couldn't see the cache for the trees. But after taking a step back I spotted something worth exploring and was rewarded with a blank log book - woohoo! Nicely done.
I much prefer to find an ammo can in the bush than an urban nano. But I often get carried away exploring and scrambling around interesting rock formations. So perhaps for me a more appropriate saying might be that I can't see the wood for the rocks. The cause of lengthy searches if often due to expecting a certain type of hide or container - causing temporary cache blindness. My favourite cache type is a puzzle and I very quickly find myself going down obscure rabbit holes rather than eliminating some of the more obvious things first. An appropriate saying that I've often used on myself is "when you hear the sound of hooves, don't look for zebras".
Thanks for a top cache blossom*
With quality GC caches getting further and further away from home, I'm enjoying my dabble into GCA caches. Also, it looks like the FTF hounds are nowhere near as active here. Solving this puzzle, I kept thinking there has to be a trick so was surprised when my first answer on the checker was successful.
On the way home with geoWife after finding a few unloved GC puzzle caches, I couldn't resist the short detour to this one. With a slight drizzle, the goeWife stayed in the car while I took a short stroll to GZ, where of course I initially couldn't see the cache for the trees. But after taking a step back I spotted something worth exploring and was rewarded with a blank log book - woohoo! Nicely done.
I much prefer to find an ammo can in the bush than an urban nano. But I often get carried away exploring and scrambling around interesting rock formations. So perhaps for me a more appropriate saying might be that I can't see the wood for the rocks. The cause of lengthy searches if often due to expecting a certain type of hide or container - causing temporary cache blindness. My favourite cache type is a puzzle and I very quickly find myself going down obscure rabbit holes rather than eliminating some of the more obvious things first. An appropriate saying that I've often used on myself is "when you hear the sound of hooves, don't look for zebras".
Thanks for a top cache blossom*
Rated: for Overall Experience
