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Darling River Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

tiddalik: I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

tiddalik
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Hidden : 4/5/2016
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is the 2nd in a series I’m putting around Greystanes. The suburb is broken into sections where the street names all have something in common. Boys names, girl names, the flower streets NSW Country towns and rivers.

This cache is in the NSW River section. There is Bogan, Gwydir, Macleay, Nymboida.


The Darling River is the third longest river in Australia, measuring 1,472 kilometres (915 mi) from its source in northern New South Wales to its confluence with the Murray River at Wentworth, New South Wales. Including its longest contiguous tributaries it is 2,844 km (1,767 mi) long, making it the longest river system in Australia.

The whole Murray–Darling river system, one of the largest in the world, drains all of New South Wales west of the Great Dividing Range, much of northern Victoria and southern Queensland and parts of South Australia. Its meandering course is three times longer than the direct distance it traverses.

Officially the Darling begins between Brewarrina and Bourke at the confluence of the Culgoa and Barwon rivers The Darling River is the outback's most famous waterway.

In 1828 the explorer Charles Sturt and Hamilton Hume were sent by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Ralph Darling, to investigate the course of the Macquarie River. He discovered the Bogan River and then, early in 1829, the upper Darling, which he named after the Governor.

Australian poet Henry Lawson wrote a well-known ironic tribute to the Darling River. To quote another Henry Lawson poem:

The skies are brass and the plains are bare,
Death and ruin are everywhere;
And all that is left of the last year's flood
Is a sickly stream on the grey-black mud;
The salt-springs bubble and the quagmires quiver,
And this is the dirge of the Darling River.

— Henry Lawson

Some of the information above comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darling_River

You can be lucky and find this area totally muggle free, however at other times it can be muggle central. Pick your time carefully use extreme stealth as you are exposed when retrieving the cache. Please return as found

Happy Caching

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ybj naq oynpx

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)