Introducing the natives Multi-Cache
KowaiBaz: Time to free up this beautiful and diverse park for something fresh. Container removed. Thanks to everyone who visited!
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Johnstown Park is a well maintained, spacious (12.75 hectares) public park in the Glasnevin/Finglas area of the city. It has a mixture of grassy areas and mature planting providing seasonal interest.
For some of you geocachers, this might be your first visit to this quiet park, so please allow me to introduce you to a few of the natives.
"Fruit tree, fruit tree
Open your eyes to another year
They’ll all know
That you were here when you’re gone.*"
In this park you will find an excellent Native Tree Trail which will introduce you to a selection of 15 of Ireland's native trees. There are information plates at each tree, showing the name of the tree in English, with its Latin and Irish equivalents, a sample image of the tree's fruit, a leaf and the tree shape itself. They are designed in such a way to allow children (or adults) to take a crayon rubbing of the information.
The cache
The start coordinates will bring you to the first of our native trees to which I will introduce you: the Apple (fia-úll, wild or crab-apple in Irish) . From this point you should follow the path initially in an easterly direction, noting how many native tree signposts you pass along the way. Your destination is Willow (sailleach, from which derives "sally rods", used for basket weaving and formerly as disciplinary implements) (N53 23.176 W006 16.745). Take a seat nearby and perform the following calculation:
If the number of tree signs you passed (not counting Apple and Willow) was N, then the final container is hidden at:
N53 23.[(125*N)-220] W006 16.000+(246*N)
You are looking for a woodland camouflaged large micro container.
*from the song Fruit Tree by Nick Drake, which appears on the album Five Leaves Left
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Haqre gur ynetr fybcvat gehax
Treasures
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