Realm of the Giants (New Plymouth) Multi-Cache
Realm of the Giants (New Plymouth)
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Situated in Brooklands Park and an easy walk. Access for this cache is best from the southern end of the park, either at Kaimata Street, or the car park beside the zoo and playground.
This is a two part cache, the coordinates lead you to the place where you can answer the questions to discover the cache location. The cache is a 1 litre sistema container.
Original cache contents.
Miniature Tape measure
Various NZ bank notes (magnets, not the real ones).
A rugby playing kiwi magnet
Cache coordinates
S 39 0A.BCA
E 174 0D.EFG
BC = Height of object in 1977 to nearest metre
A = Sum of the digits in the year the estimate was made of the object’s age, less 10
EF = The century that Mr S W Borstall was commissioned to record the facts, less 2
G = The sum of the digits EF
D = G – A
*** Please Note ***
The final location for this cache is within Brooklands Park. If you have an answer that puts you outside the bounds of the park the you may need to check your answers or your calculations.
The final location is definitely within easy walking distance of where you answer the questions.
FTF honours goes to *** YuGeo4 ***
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[Stand on track] jurer chatn yvarf hc jvgu gur zvqqyr bs gur gjb yrsgzbfg qbezre jvaqbjf, [look over your left shoulder], fgrc hc, ybbx va.