This cache was originally placed so that a geocoin owned by
Labrador Wild Man of
Goose Bay, Labrador,
Canada to be released in Australia under the World Release
Register initiative Groundspeak Forum - World Release Register.
The inspiration for this cache comes from the movie Fly Away
Home which is about Canada Geese and thier migration south for the
winter.
Like the geese this coin from Canada has travelled south to
escape the winter snow and ice of Labrador (a bit of artistic
licence here as it really was the Canadian summer when the cache
was placed).
Fly Away Home
Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed in an car
crash in New Zealand. She goes to Canada to live with her father,
an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in
her new life...that is until she discovers a nest of goose eggs
that were abandoned when developers began tearing up a local
forest. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes "Mother Goose". The young
birds must fly south for the winter, but who will lead them there?
With a pair of ultralight airplanes, Amy, her dad and their friends
must find a way to do it...
The film is loosely based on the real-life experiences of Bill
Lishman, a Canadian inventor, artist, and ultralight aircraft
hobbyist. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Lishman openly
wondered if geese and similar birds could be taught new migration
patterns by following ultralight aircraft onto which they had been
imprinted.
After several years of logistical and bureaucratic setbacks,
Lishman successfully led a flock of Canada Geese on a winter
migration from Ontario, Canada to Northern Virginia, U.S.A. A
number of the birds that participated in the migration returned the
following year entirely on their own.
The Cache
To find this cache get the family together, grab some snacks and
drinks, and settle down to watch what I consider to be a really
great 'feel good' movie.
The kids will really love this one.
There are two pieces of information you need to gather. These
are:
The registration number of Amy's father's truck
The registration number of Amy's father's biplane ultralight
The truck and ultralight rego numbers now need to be converted to
all numbers.
Where any letters are concerned then convert them to numbers using
your phone keypad.
You now have two numbers being
Truck = ABCDEF and
Ultralight = GHIJK
The cache location is: S34 4G.H(A+B)(E-F) E138
3J.A(B-D)(C-H)
