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A Day for Earthcaches (Taranaki) Mystery Cache

Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Any resemblance to actual Earthcaches is merely coincidental.
It was a beautiful Autumn day so five geocachers decided to go looking for an Earthcache today. They were logged progressively through the day at 6am, 11am, 1pm, 3pm and 8pm
Sort who found what, and when, and the values on the cache page to work out where the final cache can be found.




Nakigirl logged the Dawson Falls earthcache but this was later in the day than Smoking Gun, who was out early with his smartphone and logged the first cache of the day.
Justmeg2 made sure she’d packed her Oregon GPSr before heading off on her motorbike, but she wasn’t going to Oaonui. The Sand & Surf earthcache was located at Opunake and was logged at 6am but not by RuruNZ, who visited Moturoa for her earthcache.
One cacher caught the bus up Mt Taranaki/Egmont, but this wasn’t the Magellan user, who drove his car to Oaonui and logged his earthcache just before the Mt Taranaki one was logged.
At 11am the Oregon user stopped to enjoy the scenery while logging Volcanic Cardiff, but Tea from Texas was logged later by a cacher using her Montana GPSr, and wasn’t the cyclist who found Sand & Surf.
The 4 wheel driver found her cache at 1pm
Use the values from the images above, together with the times the earthcaches were logged to complete the grid below.

Cache can be found at
S39 0D.BC(G-F-A) E174 0(F-D).B(E-C)B
Please bring a pen


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Vg'f ybtvpny Pnpur: Frr trbpurpxre

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)