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Davy Jones’ Locker Mystery Cache

Hidden : 9/27/2013
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A grand 'ole puzzle cache nay be at th' posted coordinates. Plunder by the evil pirates tuppArrrrrrrgurl an' crackArrrrrrrrrjackie in honor o' th' 2013 GC4KAJK - Cache Like a Pirate III (3rd Annual) event.  Arr, me heaties n'er be findin' th' loot!  


Note to Finders: You may want to bring a pair of gloves and some wet wipes or paper towels. This cache is always a bit (correction: A LOT) slimy. Note that the log is often damp and that is a hazard of the type of hide.

Davy Jones' Locker is an idiom for the bottom of the sea: the state of death among drowned sailors and shipwrecks.  It is used as a euphemism for drowning or shipwrecks which the sailor(s) and/or ship(s) remains are consigned to the bottom of the sea (to be sent to Davy Jones' Locker).

The origins of the name of Davy Jones, the sailor's devil, are unclear, with a 19th-century dictionary tracing Davy Jones to a "ghost of Jonah".  Other explanations of this nautical superstition have been put forth, including an incompetent sailor or a pub owner who kidnapped sailors.

The earliest known reference of the negative connotation of Davy Jones occurs in the Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts, by the author Daniel Defoe, published in 1726 in London:

Some of Loe's Company said, they would look out some things, and give me along with me when I was going away; but Ruffel told them, they should not, for he would toss them all into Davy Jones's Locker if they did.

—Daniel Defoe

An early description of Davy Jones occurs in Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, published in 1751:

This same Davy Jones, according to sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes, ship-wrecks, and other disasters to which sea-faring life is exposed, warning the devoted wretch of death and woe.

—Tobias Smollett

In the story Jones is described as having saucer eyes, three rows of teeth, horns, a tail, and blue smoke coming from his nostrils.

The cache is located at N 49 RR. LSC W 097 PH. KPE DavyJonesPuzzle

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)