The efforts...er... The Endeavours of Captain Cook Mystery Cache
Hidden : 5/19/2014
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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A little history lesson, an easy and enjoyable puzzle, topped off with a bushwalk to a cache with a view? Sounds good!

Captain Cook (born in 1728) sailed past this point in May 1770 on his first of three voyages. After departing New Zealand, Cook headed west, assuming that there had to be some sort of land mass that he would come across. His assumptions were proven correct on the 19th of April 1770 when Land was spotted. 10 days later, they arrived in Stingray Bay, later named Botany Bay. Some encounters with the local’s sadly didn’t begin on the best foot when one of Captain Cook’s men ‘accidentally’ shot an Aboriginal. After completing some mapping as well as the collection of botanic specimens (hence the renaming Botany Bay), they headed north, past GZ of this cache! This area he named cape Three Points. [More information about this can be found at Waypoint 1.] What I didn’t know was that the Endeavour ran onto a coral reef and nearly destroyed the boat. They threw overboard all the heavy things and limped to shore where they spent two months repairing the boat in northern Queensland. For more fascinating information about Cooks Journeys, have a look at: (visit link) as well as (visit link)

So where does the name Copacabana come from? Isn’t that in Brazil almost 13000km away? To be honest, I really do not know. If someone does, please inform me, so I can put it up on the cache page.

Now to the Puzzle:
At the listed coordinates is a Captain Cook Memorial which overlooks the Tasman Sea. On the plaque at the listed coordinates is a diary entry from Captain Cook’s diary. Underneath the heading “Extract from Captain Cooks log Monday 7th May 1770” is the entry which contains 23 different words (this does not count double ups of words; for example, the word “land” appears twice in the diary entry) made from 4 letters or more. 20 of these words can be found in the word search puzzle (in the image gallery on this cache page). After the words have been found, a special message will appear. The decimal part of the coordinates can be found by:

S 33 29.ABC E 151 26.DEF

A: Number of times the letter C appears in the message
B: Number of E’s
C: Number of consonants (non vowels)

D: Number of vowels
E: Number of letters in the message, minus 8
F: Number of letters in the second word in the message, minus 3

*It would be best to bring a print out of the puzzle with you*

The container itself is on top of a small drop off of about 2m before, the land falls all the way to the sea. The way to the cache may be a little overgrown, however is easy to follow. There is no need to do any precarious climbing to find the cache.

Please, feel free to post up photo’s of this wonderful location with your log.

Happy Caching!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Haqre gur ebpx yrqtr jura snpvat FR, Ab arrq gb pyvzo naljurer

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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