Bopp-A-Roo
Boxing Bopp-A-Roo (voiced by Mark Wright) - A robotic kangaroo monster that liked to box and speak in made up words.
#79 Puzzle
Most geocaches have a hint that the player can use if they are having trouble finding the cache. This hint is encrypted using ROT13. Most apps now, including geocaching.com just use a click to decrypt it.
Back in the old days of geocaching, when you would print out the cache page and take it with you into the wild, you would also have to decrypt the hint by hand. Now you can have a go at this one.
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Kowen Roo
Kowen Roo is a large series of 94 caches spanning 24km. The series is more than just a pretty picture, the caches are in many different and interesting locations. You will be surprised of the diversity of the landscape throughout Kowen Forest.
The Kowen Pine Forest area is restricted for vehicle access, so you will find locked gates all the way around. There is a sign at each gate: (authorised vehicles only - surveillance cameras are used in the area to detect illegal activity).
Check if the area is closed for an event before you go. It can be closed for car rallies and other events. Watch for rally cars, 4WDs, logging trucks, bull-dozers and dirt bikes.
There is access from the west side and also from the north.
Feel free to take a push bike, though the series does not stick to the tracks.
The entire length of Kowen Roo is 24km so you may want to split it into sections.
Most of the off-track is easy and pleasant to walk with hardly any blackberries.
I didn't come across many spiders but I did see plenty of roos, rabbits, a fox and a great range of birds.
Plan ahead and take:
- at least 2 litres of water per person (more when it's hot)
- food
- pens
- bike(optional)
Kowen Pine Forest
Kowen is perhaps best known for its large pine plantations, known as Kowen Forest. A combined softwood plantation and firewood forest was established at Kowen in about 1926, on land described as otherwise useless. An additional 100 acres of pinus insignis were planted at Kowen in 1928 as part of a 1,000 acre expansion of pine plantations across the new Federal Territory district. When most of Canberra's forest estate was destroyed in the January 2003 bushfire, the Kowen plantation was the only forest that remained undamaged.
Parking, Access and Closures
Refer to Kowen Roo #01 for information about Kowen Pine Forest Parking, Access and Closures