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Todd River Views Traditional Cache

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Balayang: I am regretfully archiving this cache since unfortunately there has been no action to restore the cache or communication from the cache owner redcenterdazza requesting additional time, within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note, and it appears that the cache has been abandoned.

Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

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Hidden : 8/11/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

You're looking for a typical decon type container hidden along the banks of the Todd River


   Since I have lived in Alice Springs, I have never ventured all the way down this road. Hiding caches takes me to places I've never been.  You're looking for a decon container hidden along the banks of the Mighty (dry) Todd River.  It would be fantastic to see the river flowing at this location, however if its flowing the road in might be quite boggy. The last couple hundred metres are a bit bumpy and could turn boggy after some rain.

     The Todd River is an ephemeral river in the southern Northern  Territory, central Australia. The origins of the Todd River begin in the MacDonnell Ranges,  where it flows past the Telegraph Station, almost through the center of Alice Springs through Heavitree Gap at the southern end of Alice Springs and continuing on for some distance, passing through the western part of the Simpson Desert, as it becomes a tributary of the Hale River, and eventually flowing into Lake Eyre in South Australia.[1]

The indigenous Arrernte people know this river as Lhere Mparntwe (pronounced ler-ra m-barn-twa).

The Todd is in a very arid part of Australia and has zero to very low flow during 95% of the year. When it does flow, it carries a heavy sediment load picked up from the grazing land around the Bond Springs homestead which lends its waters a milky chocolate colour and renders them completely opaque.

The river was named named by surveyor W. W. Mills after Lady Alice Todd (née Alice Gillam Bell), wife of Charles Todd, previously Postmaster General of South Australia.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

vg'f abg ba gur tebhaq

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)