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Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. Take a seat and relax for a journey of a lifetime, taking in an exotic range of destinations around the world.
Your flight attendants will be along shortly serving puzzles and caches. We will be flying at an altitude of up to... well, check your GPS!
Who knows what we will find on our travels?
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About this Series
I'm Beachie, Fly Me... is a series of 19 puzzle caches hidden in or near neighbouring towns and villages, themed around international air travel. Each cache represents a virtual flight to its destination, no actual travel is involved other than to the physical cache for each puzzle, all of which are located within two miles of their published coordinates.
Your ultimate task to complete the series is to obtain access to the First Class Lounge, where you can luxuriate and sip virtual champagne with your fellow passengers. (or to put it another way, find the final bonus cache) information needed to locate the 'lounge' is found in each of the nineteen puzzle caches - more information on this is on the appropriate cache page.
The series has been designed such that you can complete the puzzle elements at home, before heading out to find the physical caches, the First Class Lounge excepted (as the required elements are in the other caches)
The puzzles are not meant to bemuse and are deliberately pitched with variety in mind, both in terms of the difficulty range and the puzzles themselves, this is to hopefully allow as many cachers as possible to enjoy at least some of the series. Even if you don't consider yourself a puzzle solver, we'd urge you to have a go. For your information, the order the caches are listed on the departure board below represents, in our opinion, the approximate difficulty level, with the easiest first.
Each puzzle has a checker to verify your coordinates (although in some cases you'll know when you have it), and each checker contains a clue to one of the other puzzles (hopefully one you haven't already solved) although all can be solved using only what's on the cache page.
With the exception of the bonus, we have not designed for the caches to be done in any specific order. Dip in and do one or a few at a time or all in one go as you wish, although that will take some route planning! Parking is available near most caches and suggested waypoints are in the checkers.
The caches themselves are various shapes and sizes. Some are our signature brand of custom container, others are more standard for purely practical hiding reasons. We'd politely ask you not to post spoilers of any kind, so as not to spoil the experience for the next cacher. Thank you.
Good luck and Bon Voyage!
Destination: Auckland
Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country. It lies between the Hauraki Gulf of the Pacific Ocean to the east, the low Hunua Ranges to the south-east, the Manukau Harbour to the south-west, and the Waitakere Ranges and smaller ranges to the west and north-west. The central part of the urban area occupies a narrow isthmus between the Manukau Harbour on the Tasman Sea and the Waitemata Harbour on the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the few cities in the world to have two harbours on two separate major bodies of water.
One of Auckland's nicknames, the "City of Sails", is derived from the popularity of sailing in the region. 135,000 yachts and launches are registered in Auckland.
The Puzzle
In New Zealand, one of the staple meats is the lamb, by far the most popular meat in a Sunday roast. But how well do you know your cuts of lamb?
Pictured below are the seven main sections of a lamb used for meat, and listed after that are a number of popular cuts. Your task is to identify which section each cut comes from.
- A Rack of lamb
- B Chump
- C Cushion
- D Blade
- E Knuckle
- F Barnsley Chop
- G Noisette
- H Crown
- J Shank
- K Saddle
- L Cannon
- M Valentine steak
- N Guard of honour
- P Scrag end
NB it's come to light that there are differing values in differing sources for E and M. You need the highest value of two possibilities for E and the lowest for M.
Landing Instructions
Once you have identified all of the cuts, simply match the letter for each cut with the numbered section the cut is traditionally taken from on the animal. Then substitute the number for each pairing for the letter in the equation below to get the coordinates.
N 52° (P-N)(E+F).(A+H)(B+C)(D+K)
W 000° (G-J)(L-M).(C-B)(E+J)(L+N)
Tourist Tips
Parking is available around 5-10 minutes walk from the suggested co-ordinates, details of which are in the geochecker. Be warned, the path can be very muddy after rain, so you may wish to take wellies!
You may be able to park closer, however in any case please park sensibly, legally, safely and considerately.
The cache is one of our "unusual" containers. No spoilers please - save the surprise for the next cacher.
Check-in Desk
(see what we did there?)
Dedication
This series is dedicated with love to Mr Beach_hut's much-missed Grandpa, who sadly passed away whilst this series was being put together. Grandpa Beach_hut travelled internationally a considerable amount in his professional life, (not to mention for pleasure too), and regaled his grandson with many tales of trips abroad, and showed him slides of some of these voyages on the projector when Mr BH was a small child. It was this enthusiasm for travelling that was instilled in Mr Beach_hut at a young age, and in part inspired this series. He will be sorely missed.