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Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. Take a seat and relax for a journey of a lifetime, taking in an exotic range of destinations around the world.
Your flight attendants will be along shortly serving puzzles and caches. We will be flying at an altitude of up to... well, check your GPS!
Who knows what we will find on our travels?
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About this Series
I'm Beachie, Fly Me... is a series of 19 puzzle caches hidden in or near neighbouring towns and villages, themed around international air travel. Each cache represents a virtual flight to its destination, no actual travel is involved other than to the physical cache for each puzzle, all of which are located within two miles of their published coordinates.
Your ultimate task to complete the series is to obtain access to the First Class Lounge, where you can luxuriate and sip virtual champagne with your fellow passengers. (or to put it another way, find the final bonus cache) information needed to locate the 'lounge' is found in each of the nineteen puzzle caches - more information on this is on the appropriate cache page.
The series has been designed such that you can complete the puzzle elements at home, before heading out to find the physical caches, the First Class Lounge excepted (as the required elements are in the other caches)
The puzzles are not meant to bemuse and are deliberately pitched with variety in mind, both in terms of the difficulty range and the puzzles themselves, this is to hopefully allow as many cachers as possible to enjoy at least some of the series. Even if you don't consider yourself a puzzle solver, we'd urge you to have a go. For your information, the order the caches are listed on the departure board below represents, in our opinion, the approximate difficulty level, with the easiest first.
Each puzzle has a checker to verify your coordinates (although in some cases you'll know when you have it), and each checker contains a clue to one of the other puzzles (hopefully one you haven't already solved) although all can be solved using only what's on the cache page.
With the exception of the bonus, we have not designed for the caches to be done in any specific order. Dip in and do one or a few at a time or all in one go as you wish, although that will take some route planning! Parking is available near most caches and suggested waypoints are in the checkers.
The caches themselves are various shapes and sizes. Some are our signature brand of custom container, others are more standard for purely practical hiding reasons. We'd politely ask you not to post spoilers of any kind, so as not to spoil the experience for the next cacher. Thank you.
Good luck and Bon Voyage!
Destination: Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro (translated as "January's River"), or simply Rio, is the second largest city in Brazil. It is one of the most visited cities in the Southern Hemisphere and is known for its natural settings, carnival celebrations, samba, bossa nova, balneario beaches such as Barra da Tijuca, Copacabana, Ipanema, and Leblon. Some of the most famous landmarks in addition to the beaches include Sugarloaf mountain with its cable car; the Sambódromo, a permanent grandstand-lined parade avenue which is used during Carnival; and Maracanã Stadium, one of the world's largest football stadiums.
The city hosted the 2014 World Cup final and will host the 2016 Olympics.
The Puzzle
From the favelas to Copacabana beach, it seems almost everyone plays the beautiful game in Rio. Although they don't seem to turn out the players they used to, there was a time when Brazilian footballers were celebrated as the best in the world. Just look at the names below...
Landing Instructions
The cache can be found at:
N 52° (C-B)H.(G-C-A)(D-H)(C-E-F)
W 000° (C-E)B.F(G-D-H)(H/A)
Tourist Tips
Parking is available a few minutes' walk from GZ, suggested waypoints are in the geochecker. Above all, please park considerately, safely and legally.
The container is one of our brand of "unique" specials - no spoilers please.
Check-in Desk
(see what we did there?)
