Whispering Angel Falls Traditional Cache
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In 1820, when colonial settlers first reach what is now Walnut Creek it was inhabited by wandering groups of hunter-gatherers, primarily the Tonkawas. These first Americans benefitted greatly from the lush area and especially the spring-fed waters of the creek.
Early landowners such as the Clearly families tell stories of a particular group of Tonkawas that were maintained by the Army during the early 1850's on the south side of Walnut Creek near where the high power lines now cross the creek. While no archeological or archival evidence has yet been found to confirm the story, legends of this particular group of Tonkawas are shrouded with mystery.
Legend states that the Chief of this small tribe was less than pleased with the servitudinal nature of the tribe’s existence, and put together a plan to once again free his people from dependence on the foreign Army. He reasoned that if not for the natural spring, the settlers would have no need for the lands his people inhabit, and so he called upon mystical forces of the woods to forever change the creek. One night in 1861, after a ritual of unrecorded detail, a thundering wind swept low over the water. Over the next months the natural spring dried up, and the walls of the river canyon changed from hard stone, to crumbling rock.
After the last of the Clearly family passed, a notebook was found describing the transformation. The story tells that the once natural spring is now sealed by the spirit of a Tonkawa angel. Scribbled stereographic coordinates translate roughly to the location posted for this cache.
Your objective is to quiet the angel, retrieve the cache, and revive the sacred spring waters now known as Whispering Angel Falls. Good Luck.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Gur fbhepr bs n jngre snyy vf hfhnyyl hc uvtu, naq arne gur rqtr. Nyfb, qhevat gur ubg zbaguf, oevat cyragl bs ulqengvba.