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My Dog Fish's Shell Game Mystery Cache

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GrooveMinion: After losing several containers here, and no immediate alternative coming to mind, I am archiving this cache.

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Hidden : 6/19/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

magnetic nano-cache

Magnetic nano hiding in a park where I take my dog, "Fish", walking.

Welcome to Fish's Shell Game!

One night while out walking Fish said to me
"What a good park for a geocache."

I agreed and we started to set one up. The coordinates are for a concrete circle in the park, (the spot in the picture). Facing West from the coordinates there are 3 benches (A,B,C in the picture, 10 meters away).

Being a conventional dog that reads left to right, Fish decided to letter the benches A,B,C from his left to right.

We started by hiding the cache on bench B,
Then fish dug up the benches and decided to switch them up (like shells in the shell game).

First he switched B and C.
Then A and C.
Then B and C.

Then he got tired and rested on Bench C.

Feeling refreshed Fish went back to switching benches,
He switched B with A, then switched them back.
Then he switched C with B.
Next, A with C.
and C with B.

Thinking he was done I turned away and the clever dog had replaced the benches, but only after switching A and B one last time.

After all that switching it may be difficult to follow which bench the cache ended up on,

Each of the benches is ~10m away from the initial coordinates.

If the cache ended on bench:
A: N 50° 54.502 W 114° 07.243
B: N 50° 54.507 W 114° 07.245
C: N 50° 54.511 W 114° 07.243

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fvg snpvat ~50 qrterrf gehr.

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)