Murray River Floods 2010 Mystery Cache
Blacklegend: Will not have time to fix this one on an upcoming trip. Has to go.
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The above coordinates are false. Please do not go there. The final
coordinates were an average of 100's and also taken with the
assistance of Purpledreamer's GPS'r, which is better than mine. +/-
7 to 9 meters would be accurate. Difficulty reflects the hide at GZ
more so than the puzzle, which is pretty easy.
Murray River
Floods 2010
Welcome to my 31st cache... My third mystery cache, and this
time I chose a topic close to home, the Murray River Floods in
2010. The floods affected a large area (length) of the river from
further east than Yarrawonga to west of Tocumwal. Although the
floods only reached what was called a moderate flood level, many of
the Murray River flood plains along this part of the river were
affected.
The river never breached the levy bank in Tocumwal, but did peak at
a height around 6.5m causing enormous amounts of water to be
distributed around normally dry areas. The last time this happened
according to locals was in 2001 or 2002 depending on who you talk
to, and before this in the early 1990's.
I have uploaded some images of the floods in the Tocumwal and
Cobram areas. They tell the story.
For some history on floods of the Murray River and for general info
on the Murray river see the below sites...
1956
Murray River Flood
Murray
River Information
The Puzzle....
This is a really simple puzzle. Visit these two links:
Climate
Averages For Tocumwal
River
Height Data For Murray River At Tocumwal
Under the river height page, take the station number and subtract
573760. These are the final 3 digits of the south coordinates
Under the climate statistics page for Australian locations, in this
case, Tocumwal, take the site number and subtract 73413. These are
the final 3 digits of the east coordinates.
Its pretty simple really.
The cache is a custom container, well part of it anyway. Please
beware of snakes in this area. At the time of hiding the cache,
only several meters away, there was a brown snake, quite a large
one (about 5 foot long). The snake was not in the immediate area
where the caches is hidden, but was coming from that general
direction...
Please have fun with the cache and enjoy the area. The goal of the
cache is to show how serious the floods were, as well as giving you
some useful links to what sort of info the Bureau of Meteorology
can provide.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Jbbq vg or n ovg qvssrerag??
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