Meat Adam Multi-Cache

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Hidden : 5/15/2011
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Think of his immortalised words ''life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone, kindness in another's trouble, and courage in your own" as you roam the grounds of Dingley Dell, the idyllic holiday hideaway he shared with wife Maggie and daughter Annie in happier times.

A 'flamboyant parliamentarian, a cavalier horseman and a bush poet', Adam Lindsay Gordon was once regarded as the nation's greatest poet. 'Shipped from England' to Adelaide by his parents for a fresh start after twice being expelled from school and aimlessly accumulating debt, he initially became a horse breaker with the South Australian Police, then a Trooper in Penola, later riding steeplechase races - including winning three in Flemington in just one day. His equestrian feats are immortalised at the Gordon's Leap monument where he took a death-defying leaf down the slopes of the Blue Lake; all in the name of a bet. He was elected a politician in the South Australian House of Assembly where he was renowned for colourful yet irrelevant speeches, and from which he resigned after three years. But tragedy ensued, when he moved to Ballarat, purchasing a livery stable which later burned down. When his eleven month old daughter died, he sunk into depression, worsened further when he began to drink heavily and later, his wife left him. When he was no longer able to ride in steeplechase races due to injuries in past falls, Lindsay spent time sports-reporting in Melbourne. He later faced financial ruin over a failed ancestral claim in Scotland and cut his own life short when he shot himself.

The co-ordinates will lead you to a sign at the entrance of the cottage. The clues to the cache location can be found by reading this sign, those in the cottage garden and that opposite the cottage.

The cache can be found at;

S38 02.ABC
E140 40.DEF

Adam purchased the property on 8th March 186A.
The house is open from Jan-June on Thursdays from 10am to Bpm.
The post from the Dingley Dell stockyard was erected here on Dec 28th 193C.
Adam and Maggie resided here from 1864 - 186D.
Adam left England in 18E3.
Phone 08 87F8 2221 for bookings.

The co-ords will lead you away from the cottage, where you will find a magnetic nano nearby!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

gur anzr fnlf vg nyy

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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