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!).
Eagle
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Missing Word
This type of puzzle involves identifying a missing word from a phrase or sentence. The missing word may be discovered in one of three ways:
- it can be deduced by context ("the sun rises in the ___");
- it is part of an easily recognisable phrase ("Four score and ___ years ago"); or
- there is enough of the sentence to do an Internet search.
The Puzzle
Below is a collection of poem fragments, each with a word missing. To help, the author is also given.
(Leon Gellert)
There are lines of buried bones
There's an unpaid waiting debt
There's a sound of gentle sobbing in the ___.
(Henry Lawson)
And to the creek we ne'er could pass
___ boys on bare-back riding;
(Robert Adamson)
___ days with nothing to do but live
no wife to please or love
(Adam Lindsay Gordon)
___ miles we used to call it from our homestead to the place
Where the big tree spans the roadway like an arch;
(C.J. Dennis)
As they put their shoulders to it, lifted her, and pulled her through it:
"That's the way we useter do it in the days o' sixty-___!"
(A.B. "Banjo" Paterson)
"Surrender now, Jack Doolan, you see there's ___ to one.
Surrender now, Jack Doolan, you daring highwayman."
(Henry Kendall)
___ there were, but two were taken; and this darling we deplore,
She was sweetest of the circle – she was dearest of the ___!
(Henry Lawson)
There are hurrying feet of fools to repeat
The follies of Nineteen ___,
(Thomas E. Spencer)
I can make for the ___, where the grass is high
I'm at home when the sun goes down.
(John Sandes) see the cloud-forms seeking, peeping
For the loved ___s that are lost.
(A.B. "Banjo" Paterson)
The folk just did pour on to lay six to ___ on,
And several bookies were killed in the crush.
(C.J. Dennis)
Mummy's left ___ kids at home
And gone electioneering.
(George Essex Evans)
I hear ___ more the plovers "peet:"
The grey hawk wheels in dizzy height,
(Henry Kendall)
___ years ago! you cannot choose
But know the face of change,
(David Rowbotham)
High on the runnelled cliffs, beyond
Flood-level, above this river, lie
The ___ drowned drovers. Each hard mound,
(John O'Brien)
"The crops are done; ye'll have your work
To save ___ bag of grain;
(William Henry Ogilvie)
And ___ who saw him scale the height
Behind his reeking bayonet blade