Stage 1
So, how much do you know about our Canadian friends and their
great country? Well let’s find out. You need to answer these
questions to find the coordinates to Stage 1 of this cache:
Question A
Victoria, British Columbia, boasts the narrowest street in North
America. Its name is:
1) Queen Victoria Way
3) Fan Tan Alley
5) West Coast Trail
7) Cobble Hill Lane
Question B
During the gold rush days, half the population of Victoria
was:
0) Chinese
2) English
4) American
6) Mexican
Question C
This person designed Victoria's Legislature Buildings and the
famous Empress Hotel. He was murdered by his wife's jealous
lover.
3) Frank Lloyd Wright
5) Francis Rattenbury
7) Alexander Thompson
9) William Gray Purcell
Question D
This is the name of the vehicle ferry that for 45 years has
transported over 20 million passengers from Victoria to Port
Angeles, Washington, without losing a single sailing to bad
weather.
3) VPA Express
5) Coho
7) Empress
9) Spirit of Columbia
Question E
This artist was born in Victoria, wrote the theme for the
Calgary Winter Olympics, co-wrote the song "Tears are Not Enough"
for the African famine relief effort,t and has won 14 Grammy
awards.
2) Bryan Adams
4) Celine Dion
6) David Foster
8) Anne Murray
Use the numbers next to the correct answers to the questions and
you will find Stage 1 at: N 21.22.DBA W 157 46.EC1
The Stage 1 cache is magnetic and contains the longitude and
latitude of Stage 2. Just one problem: while the longitude is for
the Hawaiian Stage 2, the latitude is for the British Columbian
Stage 2. (Reception is notoriously spotty near Stage 1, so use the
clue.)
Stage 2
All right, now it's time to team up with a fellow geocacher in
British Columbia, because you have to trade latitudes to find Stage
2. Here's how you do it:
1. Look below for notes that any British Columbian geocacher may
have posted requesting a partner to exchange latitudes with. If you
find someone, click on their user name to get to their profile
page, then email them via geocaching.com and arrange the trade
between yourselves.
2. If you fail to find any such notes, you can post one yourself
on the counterpart Canadian cache page,
GCV1HZ - Aloha Eh (Canada), requesting a partner to
exchange latitudes with. Hopefully, someone in British Columbia who
needs a partner in Hawaii will read your note and contact you via
geocaching.com. (You may have to wait a bit for this to
happen.)
3. If you've waited more than three weeks without finding a
partner, please contact the British Columbian cache owner, and she
will give you the Stage 2 latitude. (Of course, I could give you
the latitude myself, but that wouldn't be in keeping with the
international spirit of this geocache!)
Stage 2 is stocked with terrific Canadian items sent by
GroundClutter, the owner of the Canadian cache. I have sent
Hawaiian items over to stock the Canadian cache. When you make a
trade here, please try to exchange Hawaiian theme items that we can
use to restock the Canadian cache when needed.
Important Notes
Please do not post premature "found it!" logs. If you post a
"found it!" log before completing Stage 2, your log will be deleted
(after fair warning, of course).
Also, please remove any partner-seeking notes you post on the
Canadian cache page after you've found a partner. Otherwise, you'll
keep getting contacted, and folks there will be frustrated by the
clutter of old notes. Whenever we find outdated notes on these two
cache pages, we will remove them.
Finally, please don't post any coordinates on either of these
cache pages. Posts that include coordinates will be deleted as soon
as they are discovered.