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Puzzle Power #5 ~ Old Mother Hubbard Mystery Cache

Hidden : 3/10/2013
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Girl-Power is a group of enthusiastic female puzzle cachers who will hopefully get your brains working and your minds active whilst having some fun out caching and at home working out the puzzles.

This set of caches is a group of 16, 15 to solve and a bonus (Puzzle Power #1) for anyone who manages to find all 15, happy hunting.


**Well done The Frazzles and thejackrussells on your well earnt FTF**

The cache is not at the stated co-ordinates, you have to solve the puzzle to find the final co-ordinates

Old Mother Hubbard lived in a shoe she had so many children she didn't know what to do.

To solve this cache you must identify the Mum and answer how many children including adopted each Mum has and answer the sum.

Old Mother Hubbard

This cache is a nano so you'll need your own pen and be careful down the slope to the GZ.

This cache is within an SSSI - SCAAT CRAIG which features Silurian-Devonian Chordata. PLEASE DO NOT VENTURE NEAR THE RIVER BANK TO PROTECT THIS AREA.

Scaat Craig SSSI encompasses a 700m stretch of the Longmorn Burn. Exposures of loosely consolidated sediments of sandstone and conglomerate along the stream banks have yielded a rich and unusual fossil fauna of well preserved bone fragments, teeth and fish scales. The sediments were formed under the semi-arid conditions about 380 million years ago during the Devonian geological period when this site was probably part of lake and river systems inhabited by fauna typical of that time. Discovered in about 1826, Scaat Craig was one of the first fossil-fish sites to be found in the Moray Firth area.

Since several fish species were discovered first at Scaat Craig, it is known as the ‘type locality’ for those species, three of which are known only from this site. Recent work on some of the bones indicates that these are more akin to an amphibian than a fish and therefore the site is very valuable to understanding amphibian and therefore land animal evolution.

Scaat Craig is also historically important for the contribution the fossil discoveries have made to the history of geology, with items from the site appearing in the Elgin and British Museums.

Thanks to SNH for permission to place this cache

The final location is:
N57 AB.CDE W003 FG.HIJ

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Raq bs jrr zrgny oevqtr, evtug unaq fvqr (snpvat njnl sebz Rytva) pybfrfg gb ebnq

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)