Carter's Demise Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 5/25/2008
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Blackhall Rocks, near Blackhall Colliery, is a pleasant (if windy) cliff top walk. Popular with dog walkers, it is easy enough for children, but would be difficult for wheelchair use. Buggies could be taken along the path although there are some quite steep steps to be climbed. Also, if you are terrified of heights (like me) then you might not find this the most enjoyable experience, as the cliff edge is not fenced off (safe enough however if you stick to the path).

The cache is placed overlooking the location where the climax of the 1971 film 'Get Carter' was filmed. In the film, Michael Caine played gangster Jack Carter who was shot on Blackhall Rocks beach. The location was chosen because the beach was black from colliery waste and framed by Blackhall Colliery's waste tipper.

The beach has now been returned to its natural glory by the Turning The Tide (TTT) partnership which has spent £10m and 5 years regenerating 18km of the Durham coastline and removed 1.3m tons of colliery spoil from the beaches where in places it was 30ft deep.

Blackhall mine machinery has been removed and the natural action of the sea is being left to finalise the cleaning of the beach. Such has been the scale of improvements that the beach is now unrecognisable from that featured in Get Carter - the volume of coal removed even altered the high water mark and shape of the beach.

The area is a natural exposure of reef-limestone. The 60 foot high cliff consists of 20 feet of glacial boulder clays, separated by a bed of gravel.

Below this, the cliffs and rocks exposed, form part of the reef-top faces of the middle Magnesian Limestone barrier reef. The caves at the southern end are the largest caves in Durham’s Magnesian Limestone region.

The associated Magnesian Limestone grassland includes species such as quaking grass, cowslip, and bloody cranesbill, the later of which is confined to the coast in Durham. The wet gullies contain many locally rare plants such as butterwort, so called because of its greasy-looking leaves, grass of parnassus, yellow flag and round leaved wintergreen. A rare fern, sea spleenwort, grows in several places on the cliffs.

CACHE CONTENTS

The cache is a Plastic Cylinder with a blue screw on lid. Included are a number of children's items (activity book, crayons).

There was a disposable camera - unfortunately someone has taken it Am a bit disappointed

Also two Travel Bugs:

Venture Board and Buggles - the site was chosen for them

There is a car park with picinic area at the following location:

N54 44.488
W001 16.155

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ybbx sbe gur tbyqra ebpx. Pnpur uvqqra haqre oevpxf. Pnershy - guvatf pna or n ovg cevpxyl

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)


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