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Finding Gold (Coromandel Town) Multi-Cache

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Hidden : 10/31/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is located at the Coromandel Gold Stamper Battery on Buffalo Road in the town of Coromandel in the gardens of the historic Gold Stamper Battery reserve - open to the public. It is a lovely little park with picnic tables, a creek and a bush walk to a lookout over the town. The initial coordinates are of the parking lot. You will need to solve a puzzle for the final coordinates.

The container is a plastic jar with a screw lid, containing a log book and: small compass, box of shells, coins, key ring sandal, wooden fish, two small balls, a crystal, a glass lug and a pig... Puzzle: To get the coordinates of the final location read the large white sign attached to the Stamper Battery building facing the parking lot.

The final coordinates are: 36 Deg 44.5AB South and 175 Deg 30.3CD East
A= number of words in the title of the sign
B= number of letters in the 6ths word of the sign title
C= total number of letters 'G' on the entire sign
D= number of letters 'C' in last paragraph

Additional Hints ()

Nf lbh pbzr vagb gur cnex ghea evtug. Haqre n ynetr dhnegm ebpx va n tebhc bs ebpxf pybfr gb terra cvpx avpx gnoyr.

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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