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Ash Wednesday Bushfires Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Bunjil: Unfortunately there does not seem to be any evidence to indicate that steps have been, or will be taken, to resolve the issue/s associated with this placement.

It would appear the cache has been abandoned.

As such the cache is being de-listed (Archived). If there are components or remnants of the cache, please recover them as we don't want to litter our environment with Georubbish.

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Hidden : 3/26/2015
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The Ash Wednesday fires on February 16, 1983, caused wide-spread destruction across Victoria and South Australia. Firestorm conditions resulted in the death of 75 people, including 17 volunteer firefighters. Hundreds of others were burnt or otherwise injured.


In Victoria, 180 fires burnt an area twice the size of metropolitan Melbourne, around 200,000 hectares. As many as 2,545 individuals and families lost their homes with more than 3,700 buildings burnt. Livestock losses were high with 340,000 sheep and 18,000 cattle burnt.

Commemoration sites have been set up in areas that were hit worst by the fires. This Cairn recognises the contribution of the Nation’s farmers, service clubs and other volunteers to rehabilitate the area after the disaster.

You are looking for a camouflaged cache close to the memorial cairn. Bring a pen. Log is waterproof and you can still sign it with a ball-pint pen when wet.

Micro Log Hint: Roll up the paper log and place into lid, then slide the body of the tube over the log and push onto lid. Then the log will come out with the lid when next opened.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Trg qbja ybj naq erzrzore gur zhfvp bs gur 60'f.

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)