Harwich International Travel Bug Hotel Mystery Cache
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Harwich International Travel Bug Hotel
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Sailing via Harwich, stop by and stretch your legs on this easy
Puzzle Cache or do the longer scenic Multicache. De afvaart naar
Harwich, einde door en strech uw benen op deze gemakkelijke Raadsel
Opslagplaats of doe de lange landschapmulticache. Afsejling hen til
Harwich , stop lidt efter lidt strøm jeres ben herpå nemme Opgave
Cache eller lave den længe landskabelig Multicache. Segelnd zu
Harwich, vorbei stoppen und strech deine Beine auf diesem einfachen
Puzzlecache.
This cache is a Travel Bug
Hotel placed very close to Harwich International Ferry Terminal to
help Travel Bugs, which have become stuck in East Anglia, to get on
with their mission. There is
no room for
swaps but there is a Hotel
Register for TB's to log into and state their mission.
Please check the Hotel Register before adding or removing a TB so
that you can help it on its mission.
If you find any objects hiding
in the Hotel attempting to indulge in swapping please remove them
immediately. Thank you, the Hotel Management.
There are two ways into this cache:
EASY + Short -
stop by the DFDS Offices, solve the very simple substitution puzzle and then walk 500m to
the cache. Car drivers and pedestrians can then enter the Ferry
Terminal by the gate 200m east of the parking area. GPSr
reception is very poor close to the cache so make us of the hint
to guide you in.
SCENIC + Long -
want more of a challenge (2.75/3) then take the long way (c 7km) in
by Multicache. Park in the village of Ramsey then follow the trail
of clues along a circular walk which, apart from the final approach
to the cache, goes through quiet countryside and along the
Essex Way, part of the
3050 mile E2 Long Distance
Footpath from Galway to Nice.
The village of Ramsey (Wild Garlic Island) would have been one of a
number of islands in the River Stour estuary. The cache itself is
on Ramsey Ray, a second island where the villagers of Ramsey grew
rye as a crop. Ramsey was quite a large parish and the village,
which was originally on the south side of the A120 by Michaelstow
Hall, was served by a water mill on Ramsey Creek just south of the
main road. Chapman and Andre's 1777 county map shows a broad tidal
creek with the mill pond at the tidal limit, however by the time of
the first Ordnance Survey map in 1801 Ramsey Creek was much reduced
in size. In 1842 a post mill was brought to Ramsey by barge from
Woodbridge in Suffolk where it had been working since 1819 (the
buck of a post mill was designed to be moved). Indeed Ramsey Mill
was one of the last two working post mills in Essex when it ceased
production in 1948. By 1973 Ramsey Mill was in danger of collapsing
when a small team from the Suffolk Mills Group, led by C Holkoop,
saved the structure by inserting an internal steel frame and
replacing the rotten external cladding. The mill is now a Grade II
listed building.
To find the cache you must first visit two historical buildings in
Ramsey to answer some questions. Park close to the Castle Pub as
your return journey will lead you past this point:
- At the former Wesleyan Chapel you will need to find the
prominent inscription which tells you in which year work on the
present chapel started =
WXYZ
- At the given
coordinates for Ramsey Mill you should have a view of two sides of
the post mill. Count the number of panes in each window in the
Roundhouse (brick part of
the mill) = S, the
number of millstones you can see by the side of the mill
=T.
| A = T |
B = X - W |
C = S - T |
D = Y |
| E = T + W |
F = W + X |
G = Z |
H = T +
Y |
- Leave the windmill and head north along the Essex Way to 51º
56.AHB' North, 001º 13.0FG East where you will find your directions
to the nest stage uvqqra ol abegurnfg pbeare bs byq onea qbbe.
- Ybj qbja ol jbbqra srapr.
- Ybbx ba sraprcbfg va gur urqtr. GPS reception can be poor
around here. Take 0.010
from latitude and
add 0.009 to
longitude of final cache
location.
- Always remember that GPS does not work under tree cover so pace
your way in using a compass bearing to the final cache
location.
- Return to Ramsey along Ray Lane but at
White Cottage take the
right of way south-southwest directly across the field towards
Ramsey village.
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Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Sbyybj gur boivbhf srngher 16 cnprf hc gur uvyy gura 3 cnprf gb gur evtug. Gur pnpur vf ol gur fghzc va n cvcr haqre n ybt.