Welcome to the ‘Australian Coat of Arms’ Geo-Art. This will be released in stages. This stage is the Shield. Each puzzle is different and is ‘hopefully’ designed to help you learn a little about different types of puzzles. Some will obviously be a little harder than others but should be doable with a little patience. You will find plenty of puzzle solving tools in your toolbox.
The cache is NOT at the published co-ordinates.
Brisbane Valley Rail Trail.
The Brisbane Valley Rail Trail, when completed, will be a 160+km recreation trail from Wulkuraka to Yarraman. (two small sections are currently not complete, funding has been made available to complete these sections.) It will follow the old Brisbane Valley railway line and provide walkers, mountain bikers, touring cyclists and horse riders with an opportunity to experience the history and landscape of the Brisbane Valley.
The trail is for walking, cycling and horse riding only. The trail surface is gravel and unsuitable for road bicycles or personal mobility vehicles. NO motorised vehicles of any type are allowed.
Allow 1 hour plus if you are doing just the shield caches and a full day if doing the complete series on a MTB, longer if walking.
As with any outdoor walk, take plenty of water as there is NO water along the BVRT, (only in the towns nearby, ESK) and sun protection as it can be very hot along the BVRT with some sections having very few trees to hide under.
MAGPIE ALERT
Also note that MAGPIE season is September through to November and magpies do nest along parts of the route. So take care.
The Puzzle.
You will need to solve the below puzzle to work out the location of the cache itself.
To work out the co-ordinates use the following. L=Left face, R=Right Face and T=Top Face. Then search the columns and rows
T(C3 R1 )L(C3 R5 )R(C4 R1 )R(C2 R1 )T(C2 R6 )L(C4 R6 )L(C2 R5 )R(C6 R2 )R(C5 R3 )L(C1 R2 )T(C3 R2 )T(C6 R2 )L(C5 R2 )R(C5 R6 )L(C1 R6 )
The grid of this Sudoku is in a shape of a cube, each row and column stretch on two faces of the cube. To follow a row or column, without losing your way, you must start on an edge and go until the second parallel edge on the other side of the cube. You have to use the numbers from 1 to 12 for a 6x6x6 cube. Each number, as in the Sudoku, must appear once in each row, column and region. The regions are in irregular shape for this puzzle.
