Chinese Pirate Treasure! Multi-Cache
Bismuth: Sometime I will try to create a new cache with the same sort of theme.
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Ahoy! Avast! We be geopirates from the HMS Seasnail. I’m Cap’n Bismuth. Are ye brave and clever enough to find our hidden treasure? Have ye too much time on yer hands?
We waylaid a treasure ship from the East, a CHINESE JUNK, and found all manner of… well… JUNK… from China. But it be proper PIRATE junk. Plastic money, plastic pirate eye-patches, plastic pirate earrings - good booty! Aye! And if ye find it, you’ll also find the secret keyword to the REAL pirate treasure we’ve hidden. (Capitán Pollo's Treasure GC3258A)
If ye want to find this Chinese treasure you’ll have to go in search of the clue we’ve hidden. Fix your sextant to the coordinates above and set sail in search of it. It looks like a big silver coin with cryptic markings on it. (You’ll find place to drop anchor on a nearby side street.)
Pay ye no mind to the letters and symbols but write down the NUMBERS, there be SEVEN of them. Hope yer good with your figure’n because here’s what ye must do.
1. Take the first number and send it off to Davy Jones locker – ye’ll not have need of it.
2. Take the remaining SIX numbers and slice them down the middle. Then ye’ll have THREE numbers and THREE more numbers.
3. Add the first three to 711 t’ give ye North Latitude 28° 32.xxx’
4. Add the second three to 321 t’ give ye West Longitude 81° 12.yyy’
This booty be hidden in one of Cap’n Bismuth’s empty peanut butter jars – Aye. And First Mate Parker, me trusty geodog, helped me find the secret hiding place.
But BEWARNED! If ye take too much fer yourself or fill it with landlubber McJunk – yer compass will be cursed forever to take you in circles, yer batteries will fail ye and ye’ll never again be first-to-find. Garr! Dead GPSr’s tell no tales!
Now shorten yer sheets and flush the poopdeck and be off with ye quick! We advise that ye drop your anchor in one of the access waterways and not in a private harbor! (e.i. Park on the access road behind the gas station not in a business parking lot.)
And don’t ferget the secret KEYWORD inscribed on the inside cover of the captain’s logbook and also on the inside lid. This'll point ye to REAL treasure, Capitán Pollo's Treasure, less than a league away.
UPDATE 2011-08-13 -- Yes, a second cache is now up and running, replacing the old "Treasure of the HMS Seasnail" which was twice muggled. Look for Capitán Pollo's Treasure (GC3258A).
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