Straight To The Sea. (North Otago) Mystery Cache
Straight To The Sea. (North Otago)
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Solve the puzzle and pick up a drive by cache.
The published coordinates will take you to end of a very straight road. From this point, the road will take you directly due south straight to the sea except for a small kink as it crosses SH1. On the journey of approx 13.4 km to the seaward end, the road changes its identity a number of times.
The cache is a 200 ml sistema container. BYOP
The final cache is located at S 45 0A.BCD E 170 5E.FGH
A = Number of vowels in the name of the shortest section.
B = Number of letters in the 'coloured' name less 1.
C = Number of letters in the highland section name less 1.
D = Total number of "O" in all names.
E = Whole number of kilometers from SH1 to the S end.
F = Combines number of letters in the two shortest names less the longest.
G = The total of the last 3 digits of the pole number that is approx 40m south of published coordinates.
H = Total digits of the 4 street/road names along the 13.4 km section divided by 17.
Checksum A+B+C+D=20 E+F+G+H=14
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Chmmyr: Tbbtyr.
Pnpur: Ng gur Onfr.
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