Near several hiking trails in Black Hill Conservation Park lies the ruins of Stephen Amber's Cottage, where you will find clues that will lead you to this cache. It is a relatively simple cache that you may use as a warm up on the way to any number of more challenging difficulty and terrain caches that can be found deeper within the park.
Stephen Amber with his wife Eliza and five children settled in this area in 1851, arriving in South Australia from Wiltshire, England. He established a market garden on the land nearby adjacent to the river Torrens, and raised cattle and felled timber near Amber's Gully.
He founded the Athelston Gorge Primitive Methodist Church in 1861 with his brother John Amber and William Hutchinson.
Start at the trail head near the parking waypoint and make your way to the listed coordinates where you will find Ambers Cottage. To find the cache you will need to take a closer look at the cottage and retrieve several pieces of information.
- w = the number of rooms that would have existed when the cottage was not in its present ruined state.
- x = the number of planks that cross the stream to Ambers Cottage.
- y = the number of internal doorways that would have existed when the cottage was not in its present ruined state.
- z = the height in red bricks of the southern side of what was likely a multi purpose fire place and stove (Count only the front facing bricks).
To find the cache location subtract
9x + 2y from the south decimal minutes and
(w * x) + z from the east decimal minutes of the 'The Cottage' coordinates in this listing.