Is it just me, or does the urban area of Saltdean look like the head of a big fish leaping out of the sea... OK... just me then. In order to cement this image in everyone else’s mind, I have devised a series of puzzle caches to outline the rest of this fictional fish and called it, “Big Fish”. The Art work is by my son, thanks Ev.
This series links up to the Saltdean Border caches to draw the whole big fish on the Geocache map, so they are numbered as a single sequence. These are all puzzle caches based on HIDATO puzzles. HIDATO means “Find the path” and solving them all will reveal a path which you can follow to collect all the caches. I have started with nice easy puzzles at #16 working up through moderate ones to wickedly hard by #32. Even if you have never done a HIDATO before, you can learn by starting at the easy ones and working your way up from there. See the #16 cache page for some extra instructions.
If you collect them in numerical order you will do a walk from Rottingdean, through Ovingdean to Roedean and back to Rottingdean again.
HIDATO Puzzle No17
Cache location = N 50 4A.BCD, W 000 0E.ABB
Personally I found that the red letters needed for mapping the solution to the co-ords got in the way when I was solving the puzzles. I have therefore provided a version of the puzzle image minus those letters on the cache page gallery
Please don't detach the cache. Remove the log, sign and replace it. Also My GPS may have marked a tad too far East on this one, but the puzzle is set now. If the co-ords seem a bit off, go west a few yards.
