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The Giant Rat of Sumatra Traditional Cache

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Dazmasterflash: I just dont have the time to maintain the caches I have anymore. As there are some new cachers in the area, I guess I should free up some space, so they to can have some fun making and hinding caches.
Thankyou to everyone that took the time to come out and find these caches.

Daz & Mel


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Hidden : 11/23/2012
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

Appropriate nano cache container

Please ensure the cache goes back well hidden as this is quite a popular area with children

Can be done on its own, but probably as part of a walk, taking in the following caches...

Rays Micro Music Exchange

Roland

Reggie

Message in a Bottle


In "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire", first published in the January 1924 issues of The Strand Magazine in London and Hearst's International Magazine in New York, Doyle has Sherlock Holmes declare, as an aside, to Dr. Watson:

Matilda Briggs was not the name of a young woman, Watson, ... It was a ship which is associated with the Giant Rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared.

How the ship, the mammal, and the Indonesian island are associated is not specified. There are a number of species of large rats on Sumatra, with one, Sundamys infraluteus, actually being referred to as the "giant rat of Sumatra",and another giant rat, of the Mallomys family and discovered in 2007 in the Foja Mountains of Papua, has also been compared to Holmes's animal.

So, you might not have solved the mystery of the Giant Rat of Sumatra, but you have certainly found it!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ybjre engure guna uvture. Fb znal cynprf gb chg lbhe unaqf, pnershy, gurer pbhyq or n fanxr va bar bs gurz, gura ntnva...

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)