The cache is a small peanut butter jar wraped in duct tape. It
contains a log book, the usual geocaching note and a few mementoes,
sea glass, coints, etc. Take your bathing suit.
1. Take your GPS to the Wyannie Malone Museum, Hope Town, Abaco
and find the position of the plaque dedicated to the Schooner
Roberts & Russell outside the museum. Note the degrees and
whole minutes. They are the same as the cache location.
2. Divide the year the Schooner Roberts & Russell left Hope
Town by 8000 and 'round' the result to three decimals. This is
A.
3. Find the range of the Elbow Cay Light in nautical miles on the
sign over the lighthouse door, divide by 303, round to three
decimals, and subtract from A. This gives you the decimal minutes
of the latitude of the cache location.
4. Find the year the loyalists landed on Elbow Cay, divide by 6000
and round to three decimals. This is B.
5. Find the number of steps to the top of the Elbow Cay Light,
divide by 962, round to three decimals and add to B.
This gives the decimal minutes of the longitude of the cache
location.
Small note on cache maintenance: We live onboard
our boat on a mooring in Hope Town harbout 4 to 6 months a year. We
have arranged for some other cruisers to keep an eye on the cache
when we aren't there.