Clogs & Thongs Mystery Cache
Hidden : 10/7/2014
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:


The posted coordinates for this cache are in a typical Dutch landscape.
They even reclaim water here! Also the Dutch club is only a few 100m down the road in Greenfield.

Australia and the Netherlands have always had a close relationship. After all it was Dutchman, Willem Janszoon, who was the first European to set foot in Australia as early as 1606.
The Dutch influence on Australia can be seen everywhere in the naming of towns and landmarks, like Gulf of Carpenteria, Cape Leeuwin, Rottnest Island, Tasmania and Arnhem Land.



Although the Dutch were the first to have discovered Australia, including parts of WA, Tasmania and South Australia, they have never made a great impact as a group of settlers. As there was never any real religious persecution or high unemployment in Holland, there never was the kind of mass immigration by the Dutch similar to that of the Irish, Germans, Cornish or Italians.

There also have never been large Dutch community groups in urban or rural areas as the majority of them have integrated readily with the host community and most speak the English language fluently after a relatively short time.



Still the Dutch were also the first to transport their convicts to the Australian mainland. In 1629 Wouter Loos and Jan Pellegrimsz de Beye were put ashore in Western Australia for their part in the murders of the passengers of the wrecked Batavia.

Worldwide the Dutch are known for their ingenuity and for their trading. In order to find this cache you will need to call upon both these ‘properties’.

At the posted coordinates you will find a list of sorts. This list contains a number of names that more than likely will mean nothing to you. Cachers in the Netherlands attempting to find Op Klompen en Slippers will also stumble across a list of names. It is your task to ‘team up’ with one of those Dutch caching teams and trade your experiences. With both lists in hand, together, you should be able to work out the final coordinates of the cache in The Netherlands and here in Adelaide.

Please use the notes on this page or the page in the Netherlands to forge a collaboration (please make mention of your Dutch partner in your log as each partnership is required to be unique).

GZ is in the same general area and the cache can be found by locating a typically Dutch artefact.

Finally a big thanks to Hans Peters of the Oopies for suggesting to do a collaboration cache. Amazing what a chance meeting in St Petersburg can lead to!




Important update 20 Oct 2014:
There have been quite a few questions whether a find here will make you eligible for a find in the Netherlands.

The OOpies and I have decided that we WILL allow 'cross logging'.

Even though you have not physically found the Dutch cache, your partner will be allowed to sign the Dutch log on your behalf. This is accepted protocol on these type of international collaboration caches. After all you will have made the journey to the cache area twice, so it’s only fair to be awarded with two finds.

Naturally this cross logging is completely optional as lots of cachers believe that only a physical find qualifies them for a 'found log'.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[WP1] FCBE [Cache] Ubyynaq = Jbbq ynaqf; Argureynaqf = Ybj ynaqf

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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