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Old Maca's Traditional Cache

Hidden : 10/10/2010
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Old Maca's cache.

Another Canberra hill, another Canberra hill Geocache

Over the years I have walked up this hill a dozen times or so and I always wanted to place a cache up here.

I'd dreamed up a few ideas for what type of cache it should have been, a puzzle, a multi but in the end I just decided on the plain old simple regular cache.

Its the hill and the view I'm really interested in so I did not want to make it to hard to get people up to enjoy it as I do.

And by the way if it was a puzzle cache I would have had to hide the numbers in 7 versus of "Old McDonald had a farm".
I'm not sure if the canberra caching community and my self could have coped.

Old McDonald has a farm eio eio oh
and on that farm he had a gps tree eio eio oh
with a beep beep here and a beep beep there
eio eio oh

Over the years I have also seen a few changes up at the top. Pre 2003 there was a fire spotting tower and loads of mature trees to shelter you on the walk up. Tree replanting and erosion control. The addition of a collimation tower for the near by Strolmlo laser ranging station. To the very recent addition of a large rock cain. Some very board and busy hill visitors I guess.

A quick note on the cache container. Its not your normal sistema. Its a part of an old radio receiver that I once worked on and it seemed ideal as a way of protecting the standard plastic container.
I have a few spare and if any finders would like one just let me know.

BTW on top of this hill is a Trig station. The white and black metal pole variety. My favourite.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

uvqqra haqre fbzr ebpxf arne fbzr fznyy gerrf.

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)