Please Note
- The cache is not at the coordinates listed above.
- During wet weather Staceys Rd becomes soft in places. Please drive carefully, and attempt to minimise damage to the road and surrounds.
- Please put caches back the way you found them – don't move them or make them harder.
- Be mindful of traffic – park and approach caches safely!
- The cache is a 200ml Sistema. BYO implement of writing.
- The cache contains a clue for another puzzle in the series.
- There is a winner's medallion for the FTF.
The Series
This cache is one of a series offering a variety of "easy" puzzles. They are all (meant to be) puzzles that can be solved either using clues provided or online resources readily found using Google. The hides themselves are relatively easy – the key feature here is you are meant to use your energy on the puzzle, not the find.
In part, this series pays tribute to TR!'s "It's Puzzle Time" series, which is another great introduction to puzzle caches (thank you heaps, TR!).
Koala
The Koala is a small tree-dwelling marsupial that primarily eats eucalyptus leaves. It is the basis of two very important Australian businesses: soft toy exports and chocolate-covered confectionary.
Auslan
There are a wide variety of languages in the world – 6900+ actively spoken languages, 550+ known languages that have become extinct, plus numerous dialects and local variations. Many had both spoken and written components. Add to that "constructed" languages (such as Esperanto), "engineered" languages, fictional languages (such as Quenya and Klingon), and fictional alphabets, and the list of possibilities (for Geocaching purposes) is impressive.
However, there are a group of languages that don't technically have spoken or written components - sign languages. There are about 300 languages in the world that rely on hand or body gestures or movements, rather than speech or writing. Some are specifically constructed to be a word-for-word representation of a spoken language (eg. "Signed English"). Others developed in isolated cultural contexts, such as indigenous Australian languages used at times or places where speaking was taboo.
Auslan is the sign language of the Australian Deaf community. It evolved from British and Irish sign languages, but has developed independently. It is a natural, organic language distinct from spoken or written English – its grammar and vocabulary often do not have direct English equivalents and vice versa. According to the 2011 Census, there are approximately 9700 native Auslan speakers.
The Puzzle
[link to puzzle movie]