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A Walk on the Pier Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 6/4/2009
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A pleasant stroll along the Adderley Street Pier


Start at the fountains at the given coordinates and consider that, had you come a few centuries earlier, you would be standing on the beach now. Look around for a monument to the first recorded visitors to this spot.

Johan liked it so much that he decided to build a house here, while Maria was likely busy with the kids- she had eight when she died aged 35. Dirk Wolbers shaped her this way in X9Y4.

Your next target is another early navigator, and like him you will have to make some complicated calculations to get there: subtract .100 from your current South coordinates and set East to 18° 25. (X+Y) (Y+X) X

The pier was built a hundred years ago and until the late 1940s, this walk would have been over the ocean! Over the decades so many geocachers fell from the pier into the icy waters below that the City decided to landfill the greater area around the pier and put the harbour in front. Thus the Foreshore was born.

At the calculated coordinates you will find a plaque in honour of the man who named this place the "Cape of Storms". Look around for a statue of him, which was donated by another country.

Take your clue to the cachesite from this famous explorer. He is looking to the direction of the cache!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

oruvaq ebhaq, ol gur lryybj

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)