Baden-Powell's Butterflies Mystery Cache
Baden-Powell's Butterflies
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The cache is not at the listed coordinates, but this is one possible place to start your walk.
Robert Baden Powell, the founder of the Scouting movement, was a lieutenant-general with the British army. He was posted to Malta for three years, working as intelligence officer for the Mediterranean. During this time he frequently travelled disguised as a butterfly collector, and incorporated plans of military installations into his drawings of butterfly wings.
Baden Powell said that “the exceedingly stupid Englishmen who wandered about foreign countries sketching cathedrals, or catching butterflies, or fishing for trout, were merely laughed at as harmless lunatics. These have even invited officials to look at their sketch-books, which, had they had any suspicion or any eyes in their heads, would have revealed plans and armaments of their own fortresses interpolated among the veins of the botanist’s drawings of leaves or on the butterflies’ wings of the entomologist.”
Baden-Powell’s skills in codes and symbols were incorporated into the teachings of the Scouting Movement and are still apparent today. Cub Scouts, for example, can achieve their “Codes and Signals” badge which incorporates elements of morse code, Braille, semaphore and invisible ink.
Scouting recently celebrated 100 years since the first Scout camp held by Baden-Powell on Brownsea Island, on August 1st 1907. Today scouting exists in all but 6 countries with over 28 million members. Australia has over 90,000 members, consisting of males and females at all ages. Geocaching has become a popular activity with many scouts and together with their cryptography skills we may well see many budding puzzle cache hiders.
The cache is just off of the Yurebilla trail. You can access the trail from the listed coordinates or from Montacute Road. Please keep to the trail until you are close to the cache.
WARNING!
There are some very steep, high cliffs in the vicinity of the cache. Be aware of this. If you leave the trail in the wrong spot you will quickly find yourself at the top of a cliff. The cache is near the bottom of the cliff, so this is not the best approach!
The best place to leave the Yurebilla trail is approximately 70 metres SOUTH EAST of GZ.
Here you will find two indistinct tracks. The low road will lead you safely to the cache.
We didn't see any butterflies here, but it seems a likely spot in butterfly season. There may be a good view at GZ, we don't know. When we placed the cache it looked like this:
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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