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Zwavelpoort:04 BouldersGate Mystery Cache

Hidden : 11/5/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

A huge pile of boulders at a gate. Riding schools, plots and even an indigenous looking forest are things you can see from atop of this pile!

Zwavelpoort Series:

Back in 2007, Team Cabey mounted their bicycles and went on a planting spree in the hidden gem that is the Zwavelpoort (Swallow's Portal) valley. There are beautiful homes on gracious plots, riding schools, a vineyard, a variety of buck and livestock and incredible views. There were six caches but three are now behind a security gate and had to be archived...

Getting there... Drive out on Lynwood Rd to S25 49.665 E28 23.433 and turn onto the Zwavelpoort rd. There will be some dirt-road driving in what another cacher called the "Zwavelpoort Maze" but a sedan with decent clearance should be ok. Don't bring your sportscar with low-profile tyres etc.

We suggest the following sequence:

  1. Fishtank WayPoint
  2. Boulders Gate Clue
  3. Fishtank
  4. Boulders Gate
  5. Protea Perch

Boulders Gate

This cache is a regular size
To Solve the Puzzle:

  1. Drive to the published co-ordinates. Note the name of the farm on your right.
  2. Work out the following values:
    A=the number of letters in the first word of the farm name.
    B=the number of letters in the second word of the farm name.
    vvv=A*B*27
    hhh=B*193
    Cache=S25 50.vvv E28 21.hhh
  3. Go past the cache location and park at S25 50.823 E28 21.976
  4. Walk to your calculated co-ords and find the cache!

FTF Honours: Nish4 and Warthog

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Tb oruvaq gur obhyqref - bhg bs fvtug sebz gur ebnq. Ghpxrq qrrc va n pbeare...

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)