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TTAI 42 (Tasmania The Apple Isle) Mystery Cache

Hidden : 8/21/2013
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Tasmania: The Apple Isle

 

TTAI – Tasmania: The Apple Isle is a series of puzzle caches situated east of the historic township of Oatlands.  There are 60 puzzle caches in total involved in making a shape of an apple.  The puzzles are fairly easy, and the containers are a collection of mainly eclipse tins and bison tubes, although a number of other hides exist as well.

 

Tasmania was known as the apple isle.  There were two schools of thought regarding the reason.  The first is that Tasmania is basically shaped as an apple.  The second is Tasmania was one of world’s largest apple producers.  Apple’s are still grown in large numbers, but agriculture has diversified over the past 20 years (http://tourtasmania.com/tasfaq/economy/apple.html)

 

Tasmania’s apple industry has been reduced to 50 – 60 apple growing families, with the industry worth $40-$50 million dollars per annum.  Tasmania still produces over 55,000 Tonnes of apples each year.  Further information can be found at http://www.aussieapples.com.au/growing-regions/tasmania.aspx

 

The pattern of the TTAI puzzles is simple.  Refer to the Cache Map that is attached to cache 60 for the sequence for solving caches and how to find the coordinates for the final cache TTAI 60.  This cache is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Final coordinates are now in as a waypoint.  Puzzle may not give the same answer but left for historical purposes

Puzzle : She’ll be Apples

 

Apple were a British psychedelic rock band. The band was founded in Cardiff in 1968.  They released a single LP in 1969, titled “An Apple a Day”.

The album was a commercial failure, and the band ceased to exist shortly after its release. However, during the subsequent years several tracks from the LP, most notably "The Otherside" by Harrad, were dubbed classics of British psychedelic rock by critics, making An Apple a Day one of the most sought-after British psychedelic rarities.

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_(band))

 

The album “An Apple a Day” is a fine mixture of piano based psych pop / psychedelic and heavier R&B / garage songs.

(Source: https://www.discogs.com/Apple-An-Apple-A-Day/master/238209)

 

The cache can be found by determining the coordinates from the list below.

 

Mr. Jones

Doctor Rock

Let’s Take A Trip Down The Rhine

Buffalo Billycan

Rock Me Baby

The Otherside

Doctor Rock

 

Let’s Take A Trip Down The Rhine

Mr. Jones

Rock Me Baby

Doctor Rock

Photograph

The Otherside

The Mayville Line

Photograph

 

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr : Ybbx ng gur fbatf Pnpur : Qvegl Eng haqre Ebpx Terngre Chmmyr : TT = 19

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)