Beach Art
THE CACHE IS NOT AT THE LISTED COORDINATES!
Please solve
the following puzzle to find the cache.
Enjoy a beautiful and fascinating
piece of art in downtown Cannon Beach and answer some easy questions about it to
solve this puzzle.
To start, visit the posted
coordinates and locate the artwork. If you rely on reading glasses, you
might find a use for them!
Note that the artwork is divided into
eight panels. Consider them Panel 1 through Panel 8, starting on the left.
It's easy to see the breaks between panels since they occur on the vertical wood
posts.
To solve the puzzle, answer the
following 10 questions to assign values for A through J:
A = The number of the panel in which
you see two woodpeckers.
B = The number of fish in Panel 8.
C = The number of cups on the table
below the cigar-smoking fish.
D = The last two digits of the
Merchant Code below "HIPPIES".
E = The number of letters in the city
name appearing above the reference to a Star Wars character.
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F = The number of horses in the group
on the beach.
G = The number of people in the group
that includes an "I ♥ OR"
lunch sack (not counting Red Shirt Kid to the left).
H = The
pink snake near the purple crocodile is wearing:
A sombrero (H = 22)
A green tube sock (H = 51)
An Uncle Sam hat (H = 40)
An orange backpack (H = 19)
I = The
number of birds perched on the power lines (not counting the big one sitting on
the pole).
J = The
number of the panel in which an owl (a real one, not a kite) can be easily
identified.
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OK!
Now, compute the cache coordinates:
XXX = A + B + C + D + E + 3
YY = F + G + H + I + J
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N 45 54.XXX
W 123 57.4YY
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A checksum to verify your work:
The total of the five digits that make up XXX and YY should be 15.
Please let me know if you encounter
any difficulties.
Thanks, and enjoy Cannon Beach and
its great artwork!