Victory at Trafalgar Mystery Cache
Long Man: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache, I'm archiving it.
Andy
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A multi-cache through Victory Wood, with fantastic views across the Seasalter levels to the Isle of Sheppey. Published coordinates are for the car park, not the final cache.
Victory Wood is a Woodland Trust site, and is the Flagship Wood for the Trafalgar Project, celebrating the bicentenary of the battle of Trafalgar in 1805. This project created 27 new woods across the UK, one for each of the English ships of the line at the battle of Trafalgar.
The site for Victory Wood was chosen to provide a physical and interpretive link between the two ancient woodlands of Ellenden in the east and Blean in the west.
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There is plenty of on-site parking at the published coordinates. The cache should take around an hour to complete, depending on whether you do as we always do and stop for tea to enjoy the view. Estimated length a little less than 2 miles. At the time of placing the fields were very boggy, and trail through the woods very muddy and slippery - tread with care. Dogs are allowed, but livestock graze in the fields so please keep them under control.
The final cache is a white screw-top container in a camo-bag. When placed it contained notebook and multicoloured pen, toy blood drop (to encourage you to give blood!), a step-counter, dragonfly hairclip, Guinness rugby ball toy, coloured rubbers, wooden toy and a travel bug.
To find the cache:
Follow the Discovery Trail from the car park to the the footprint of Trafalgar, along the information posts and up to The Link, and answer the following questions as you go.
1) How many guns did the Victory carry? (answer = ABC)
2) How many seconds would it take Victory to travel the 183m at the quoted speed? (answer = D6).
3) What was the maximum range for the cannonball at the stated elevation ( answer = E6F0 yards)
4) in what year did the attack on the harbour 'between' Canterbury and Blean Woods take place? (answer = GH0J)
5) In what year did the historic event at 'North Northwest by North' take place? (answer = K7L8).
The final co-ordinates are:
N51 A(G+H) . CKF
E001 (C-F)B . DF(E+J+K)
To get to the cache location head downhill from The Link, back across the bridge and into the main field, and then follow GPSr to your final coordinates. There is no need to climb any fences - there is access to Ellenden Wood via a stile. When we placed the cache there was a reasonable signal at the cache site, though it may be more difficult in summer with leaf cover - let us know if you have problems.
Additional Hints
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Gerr ebbg snpvat, naq sbhe cnprf sebz, fgernz. Arne M-funcrq zrnaqre.