GC3XA99 Armadillos (Traditional Cache) in North West England, United Kingdom created by westyrf & greeny30378

This cache has been archived.

westyrf: I don't have time to maintain these anymore, so I'm archiving to allow someone else the opportunity to place some new ones. Thanks to all who found them.

GC3XA99 ▼

A cache by westyrf & greeny30378 Message this owner

Hidden : 9/22/2012

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Armadillos

Part of a series of caches around Wybunbury and covering part of the Crewe and Nantwich Circular Walk set for the A Roaring Get Together Event. The caches are a variety of sizes and containers. Some contain pencils, but some do not. Also standard caching equipment maybe required to obtain the log from some caches.

The walk can be done in either direction and is about 5.5km in length. There are two hostelries in Wybunbury which are en route.

There is plenty of parking on street in Wybunbury or alternatively there is a car park at N53 02.728 W002 27.228 which closes at 8pm Apr-Oct and 4pm Nov-Mar.

Please stick to the public footpaths. Some parts are across fields, so decent footwear is recommended. Also, at the time of placing there was livestock in some fields, so please keep geodogs on their leads.

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You are now walking past Wybunbury Moss. Like other Mosses in the area, the origins of Wybunbury lie in the last Ice Age when ice movement and erosion created depressions which over time filled with peat. At Wybunbury subsequent subsidence of the underlying rocks has left a raft of peat floating on an underground lake, one of only three such examples in the UK.

The peat raft is carpeted in Sphagnum (bog) moss, along with cotton sedge, cranberry, bog rosemary and the insect-eating sundew. The Moss is also important for its insect populations which includes two rare spiders and a beetle which is found nowhere else in England.

As well as the peat raft, the reserve area includes reedswamp, woodland and meadows where marsh violet and heath-spotted orchid can be found.

(Natural England)

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Qba'g trg fghzcrq

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)