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Sleeping with Mermaids Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 4/12/2013
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

With this cache you are ultimately looking for a year ABCD, however you can work out the clues below which will take you to a place displaying the year ABCD and find final coords that way. The cache can be picked up during the Kent Views walk.

So the cache can be found as a two part process or by working out the year straight away. The answers to the following questions will take you to the coords which display the year (ABCD) you are looking for:

1. Lighthouse of Alexandria built abc BC (Before Christ)

2. Number of Eddystone steam locomotive: 34def

3. How high in Metres is "eddies rock" near Falkland islands? gh

4. The corporation that looks after lighthouses in the UK came into being in jkmn by Royal Charter.


The year you are looking for (ABCD) can be found at:

N51 a (j+m). e (f/b) (g-h)


E000 m n. (k-j) (k+h) (f-j-c-d)
 


Stage 2:


Using year ABCD

final coords are at:

N51 22. (C-D-A)  (B-A) (A+B)


E000 14. C ((C-B)+A)) (A+D)


Cache is a magnetic test tube.

To make it interesting there is no Geochecker

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

TM Zntargvp obyg

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)