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Allow an hour for this multicache. It is set in a lovely wood, on a flat path that gets muddy in wet weather.
Mymble’s Mates, were looking for somewhere to stow their treasure. They parked their wagon at N51 03.510, W001 06.076 and noticed a Friendly Forest across the quiet country road. They knew that although the road looked deserted, cars came fast, so they crossed carefully onto a wide muddy track.
Being law abiding pirates, they always made sure that they did not stray onto private land and made sure that Mymble, the canine Captain, did not worry any of the resident deer and game.
They wandered along the track and shortly, at N51 03.539, W001 05.995 and packed tightly in amongst the trees, they noticed a tiny church made from furrowed iron. Intrigued they went to explore and noticed something by the gate bearing the date that the church was built. They named the numbers A,B,C and D and decided that these might be useful later on.
Mymbles Mates continued walking, staying on the wide and well worn track.
Further along at N51 03.776, W001 05.688 they found something sticking oddly out of a tree. They realised that this might also be useful and counted the number of O’s, which they named ‘E’ and counted the number of letters in the first complete word, which they named ‘F’.
Then they took 27 paces (which were small as they were children) in a nearly northerly direction, where they hid a small cache which contained the coordinates of the next find.
In that next location, they hid an identical small cache containing the coordinates of the final Pirate Treasure, using the secret code that they had cleverly devised. (They noted that their GPS was inaccurate in the trees. Perhaps if we told them that the little cache might be anything up to 60 feet further along the path, the coordinates might be right ?' - they thought !)
Then finally, Mymble’s Mates made their way to hide the treasure, which was tightly concealed in a largish millennium capsule. They hoped that anyone who found their treasure might leave a joke in their logbook for them to enjoy.
Having hidden their treasure, Mymble’s Mates carried on along the well trodden track, which swept around to the left to complete the circular walk. They noted that the walk was nearly 2km and that when the ground is dry most of it is suitable for bikes and off-road buggies, but there are some patches of welly stealing mud that rarely dries.
As they pulled away from the Friendly Forest, Mymble’s Mates reflected on their treasure – Some gemstone chip bracelets, a polished fossil, a huge glass diamond, a large glass pearl, wooden fretwork bookmarks from the east, some coins from foreign lands, pirate pop-ups and some pirate tattoos. They hoped that if anyone found the treasure they might take something and replace it with something interesting of similar value. How would the treasure have changed next time they visited ?
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
1 - Va gur ebbgf bs n ybj ebggvat fghzc.
2 - Uvqr vf pyrneyl ivfvoyr ba gur evtug. 12 srrg bss gur genpx ng gur raq bs gur oraq. Va gur ebbgf bs n fgenvtug gerr juvpu unf n gehax qvnzrgre bs 3 srrg.
3 - Uvqqra va gur urneg bs n ebggvat fghzc ba gur rqtr bs n pengre