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When Pirates Ruled the Earth! Mystery Cache

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SalemPirates: Yarrr, time to retire this dinosaur.

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Hidden : 3/17/2007
Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:


CACHE IS NOT AT THE ABOVE COORDS, ME HEARTIES!

Congratulations to Team HondaV for FTF!

steganography Avast, in the days of old, Pirates Ruled the Earth. Sailing the seven seas and protecting the planet from global warming. As anyone who has met the Pink Pirate knows, she would personally like to return the earth to this state of affairs under her leadership.

Yarr, we decided to place this cache in order to reclaim the title of Salem's hardest 5-star cache for pirates everywhere. (This cache isn't technically in Salem but it's close, pirates never have respected borders.) Capt. Bill spent many a night drinking grog and toiling in the pirate labs to come up with this diabolical puzzle. He used all his technomanical skills to come up with a challenge to all the treasure hunters in the area.

Arrgg, since this is a tough one, the SalemPirate crew decided to give everyone some incentive to find it. The best incentive to a pirate is something shiny. Booty! Treasure! Swag! This cache is filled with it. The FTF prize is a brand new, unopened Apple iPod Shuffle in Geocaching Green. The second to find prize is a copy of the "First to Find" Geocaching card game. The third to find prize is a magnetic Robo-Pirate. There are also some large rare earth magnets, a magnetically triggered light, pirate band-aids as well as other pirate booty.

You will need a computer. You don't need a boat.

Sanity Check:
Add the digits of the latitude and you will get 21
Add the digits of the longitude and you will get 21
For example: 44 55.666 = 36

All you technomancers, this cache is for you. Search well and dig deep, me hearties, for riches await you. YO HO!

In case the image doesn't show, here is the URL to the pix... http://home.comcast.net/~salempirates/cacheweb/stegosaurus.gif

SAGA Card

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

ENE, gur cvax cvengr fnvq "Qnqql, vg'f gbb uneq, crbcyr jvyy arrq n pyhr". Fb, qba'g ybbx n tvs ubefr va gur zbhgu, ryfr lbh'yy trg anqn, mvc, mvypu. Qba'g lbh jnag gb JVA?

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)