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Yarralumla Wander Multi-cache

Hidden : 2/11/2012
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This multi takes you over 5 waypoints to the final along a leisurely 2 kilometer walk or bike ride into Yarralumla along the bike path/green strip.

This is not quite a meander, it is shorter and more of a wander around some nice green space in Yarralumla. A good one for the kids as it will take you along the bike path and you will come past a playground along the way (the only thing might be to watch small kids regarding the rain water channel that curves along besides the bike path).

There are 5 waypoints taking you to the final GZ where a 1L Sistema container is waiting with room for swaps. At each of the 4 waypoint after the starting location you are looking for some sort of metal plaque on a man made object. They contain either the entire S/E coordinate or in most cases only the decimal minutes. The degrees and whole minutes stay the same for the entire cache with S35 18.xxx and E149 6.xxx. Ie. if you find .333 .555 on a plaque the next waypoint would be at S35 18.333 and E149 6.555.

At the starting coordinates (WP1) you will find a "new" (in 2011 -didn't last very long) sign explaining the Lake Burley Griffin circuit. Collect the needed info to get the coordinates for Way point 2 as S35 18.DGC E149 6.HF(I+J). There is picture of the Yarralumla Dairy farmhouse before the lake filling. The year the picture was taken ABCD. If you would want to do some caching in the commonwealth park you need to travel EF km from here which they recon will take you GH min on a bike or I.J hours on foot (I wonder how they come up with these numbers...?) Good hunting.

Please try and be stealthy at GZ and rehide the cache container back as you found it.

 

FTF: fitzy_1965

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Sbe nyy fgntrf: ybbx ybj. JC5: Vs lbh guvax vg vf tbar, gnxr n 2aq pybfre ybbx. TM: Nsgre JC5 (nsgre 4 cynprq JCf gntf) lbh ernpu TM

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)