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Towers of the Past (Auckland) Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

PhilipA: The area has become too overgrown and also some of the places needed to work out the clues are not easily seen. So will do a new one sometime.

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Hidden : 10/6/2007
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

These towers are in 2 pleasant adjoining suburbs of Auckland. Find them and solve the clues to reach the first waypoint. Then solve the next clues to find the direction and angle to the final cache.The cache is in a 300 ml plastic container.

WP1: South 36º A.B East 174º C.D


A= Height of Picture 1+ ((street number of picture 3 - 7) /10)
B= {(Year Picture 1 was built – Year Picture 3's house was built) X (height of Picture 4 in metres/10)} - 48
C= Many people used to hang around in picture 5! What year did the last person do this. From that date minus the year of the death of a more notable Aucklander recorded near Picture 2. D= Date of an early sailing voyage in Picture 2 – (2 X street address of Picture 6) – (2X letters in the tower's name of Picture 4) –1


Once at WP1 then look for red tower (not so well known to adults). Travel E degrees for F metres to the final cache.

E= (Number of Planks on the 3 landings of the tower X 5 ) – (Bars on the tower/2)
F= Number of tiles(as if they were real) on the roof of this tower( think about the top tile and the ridge tiles!) +9

E= True degrees from WP1 to Final Cache
F= Metres from WP1 to Final Cache

picture 1 picture 2 picture 3
Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3
picture 4
Picture 4
picture 5 picture 6  
Picture 5 Picture 6  


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

1. BX, bar gbjre vf cebonoyl abg va Nhpxynaq- lbhe puvyqera znl xabj vg. 2. WEEG jbhyq or cebhq 3. Svany pnpur-tebhaq yriry

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)