Ok... So we have all sorts of puzzle caches. Good at ciphers? No
problem! Enjoy sudoku? Plenty for you! I could go on. But there are
very few (I have only found one other series) of caches where to
find the cache, you have to identify plants and animals. And since
geocaching is an outdoor activity and takes place amongst nature, I
thought that it was time that I added some caches where a bit of
botanical knowledge is required. What you have to do is to identify
the plants from the photos below and to obtain their Latin names-
geocaching is an international activity and the Linnean binomial
system is the system in use internationally.
So each photo gives you two words and you need the number of
letters in each word, to insert into the final equation to find out
the cache location. Simple, isn't it? If you think that the Linnean
name for the plant in picture A is Homo sapiens, then A=4 and a=7,
because the generic (first) word always starts with an uppercase
letter and the specific (second) word always starts with a
lowercase letter. I can only emphasize that these are very common
Welsh plants- if you identify one and it's description says it only
occurs at one site in the UK, you have mis-identified the plant in
the photo!
In this case, all the plants are spring flowering (all the
photos were taken in April) and some occur very, very close to the
cache site.
The cache is not at the published coordinates but is at:
N 52 (b-a)(d-D).(A-1)(D-E)(C-A) W 003 (c-5)(e-3).C(B-2)(d-b)
Picture A
Picture B
Picture C
Picture D
Picture E
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.