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Whale Tail Me Something Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 9/9/2013
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Whale Tail Me Something is a cache with help from a feature along the National Cycle Network - Route 1. A small puzzle will get you to the physical cache. At the published coords is a feature that has the info you need to solve the puzzle.


This is a small portion of the vast network of 14000 miles of cycle routes across the country. The location of the cache is along the NCN Route 1.

Along from the cache location and around the coastline is the Saxon Shore Way which is a route of 160 miles of historic coastline. Some of which is now miles inland. The path you are on is part of both the NCN and Saxon Shore way, and travels around the Swale and the Marina.

The Marina is actually two marinas and along the creek side up until recently was a centre of traditional barge and boat building. Barges were used by the brickworks for transporting bricks up from the factories just around from the marina, up the Thames and into London.

Conyer, the hamlet you are in, also was the ancient centre of fruit growing where King Henry VIII's fruitier Richard Harris planted many sweet cherry, apple and pear orchards. Apple orchards still exist all around Conyer and Teynham, although the cherry and pear orchards are now rare due to cheaper imports.

The cache contains only a log and pencil, and has no room for much else. Please bring a writing implement just in case the pencil gets lost.

The puzzle will take you further around the Cycle Network, and towards some other caches that I have placed.

So the puzzle, to get to cache you need to work out the following...

N51 --.---
E000 --.---

All numbers you need are at the location the above coords take you. You most likely to need a calculator.

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North =
(Inverness - Dover - Dover + Inverness - Dover - Dover - Faversham - Sittingbourne)
x (Sittingbourne + Sittingbourne)
+ Sittingbourne + (Dover / Sittingbourne),
your answer should be a 5 digit number to place in the north coords.

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East =
(Dover x Dover)
+ (Dover +Inverness - Faversham)
x (Sittingbounre + Sittingbourne + Sittingbourne)
- Sittingbourne - Sittingbourne,
your answer should be a 5 digit number to place in the east coords

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You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Zntarg

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)