4/14/2017: Stage 3 plaque has been replaced. The final location has been moved. If you have attempted this one before, you will have to start over, but it's *not* hard math...
Find the bronze plaque at each of the three art installations and gather information to determine the location of the geocache in the degree and decimal minutes format, N32 5A.BCD W96 4E.FGH.
Stage 1: N32° 50.469' W96° 42.917'
This piece is easy to overlook. (As of 4/14/2017, it has been repaired, so it is easier to see.) Find a number on the plaque. Use the third digit as F. Add the first and last digits together to get D.
Stage 2: N32° 50.459' W96° 42.904'
This piece is in The Bath House Butterfly Garden. Find a number on the plaque. Use the first digit of the year as E, the second digit as A, and the third digit as C.
Stage 3: N32° 50.417' W96° 42.911'
This piece is also easy to overlook. The "sculpture" looks like a small performance area with three rows of stone benches. Find the number at the bottom of the plaque. Use the third digit as G, the fourth digit as B, and the number after the decimal as H.
Fill in the numeric values in place of A through H and go find the cache! Be sure and bring a pen to sign the log.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.
Optional Stage 4:
Walk around to the back porch and you can look through a viewer to see a fourth and more controversial sculpture installation. The viewer on the back porch of the Bath House is to see "Wildlife Water Theatre" [Frances Bagley 2001]. Walk down to the shore and read on the kiosks the faded signs about the “actors.”
It’s called the White Rock Lake Water Theater. Forty-three metal poles and 20 light poles arc across the water near the shore. There are also stone pillars on land with metal plaques detailing the kinds of turtles, cormorants and gulls attracted to the little amphitheater. [The work cost $100,000.]
The light poles haven’t worked for years. Neither have the solar panels and batteries that were supposed to power them at night. Floating lily pads, designed for turtles to use, were lost early on. Currently, many poles are rusted, some are leaning over, and some plaques are badly scratched and faded.
- See more at:
http://artandseek.net/2014/03/25/should-white-rock-water-theater-close-its-doors/#sthash.RyXUmYyv.dpuf
http://artandseek.net/2014/10/22/white-rock-water-theater-put-on-national-list-of-at-risk-sites/
About the Bath House Cultural Center
In August of 1981, Dallas citizens celebrated the birth of the City's first neighborhood cultural center: the Bath House Cultural Center. Located on the shores of beautiful White Rock Lake, the Bath House houses a 116-seat theater, three gallery spaces, the White Rock Lake Museum, and a number of multipurpose spaces. Diversity flourishes as visual and performing artists from an array of backgrounds find a welcoming venue for their work.
Consistently rated as one of the Top Attractions in the DFW Metroplex, the Bath House's energetic atmosphere and diverse programming create a hotbed for the nurturing of new work and an exciting place where artists and audiences meet.
The Bath House Cultural Center is a division of the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs.
History of the Bath House Cultural Center
Built in 1930 on what were then the rural shores of White Rock Lake, the “old bath house” was one of the first uses of Art Deco architecture in the southwest. The building provided lockers, changing rooms, rentable swimsuits, and concessions for the thousands of people that drove from all over North Texas to swim in the lake.
The Bath House remained a social and recreational hotspot for over two decades, but was forced to close in 1953, when swimming in White Rock Lake was discontinued. The magnificent building sat vacant until 1978, when the City of Dallas announced plans to restore it after a group of dedicated neighborhood arts activists urged and supported its reopening. In August of 1981, the citizens of Dallas celebrated the birth of the City's first neighborhood cultural center.
The coordinates for the final were determined with a Garmin GPSMap 62st, averaged for five minutes to 100% sample confidence and 7 ft variance.
Dallas parks close between midnight and 5 a.m. by city ordinance.
Congratulations to amamatt823 for FTF.