Alexandra is located in Victoria, Australia – within the Murrindindi Shire. It is a town that proudly features a number of preserved historical buildings, dating back to 1850. Alexandra is located near the Goulburn River and is surrounded by rich pastoral land, breathtaking mountain ranges and majestic waterways.
Take your time to look around Lake Eildon. Relax and enjoy the view, or experience the thrill of water sports like waterskiing, kayaking and wakeboarding. You'll find some of the best trout fishing Victoria has to offer in the nearby waterways. For breathtaking views, the striking Cathedral Range State Park offers invigorating hikes to the furrowed pinnacles, or for that adrenaline rush, the mountain offers some great rock climbing. Explore the Lake Eildon National Park, enjoy the wineries of the region, or for that family adventure, visit the Alexandra Timber Tramway and Museum or have a picnic in one of the many parks or reserves.
Rainbow Trout is a GeoArt series of caches with a range of puzzles – some easy, some quite hard.
The Cache is a one litre poly pipe with room for swaps and trackables. BYO pen. Please return the cache as you found it.
Don’t go to the listed co-ordinates, as it may be on private property, up a mountain range, or at the bottom of the Goulburn River, and the cache is not located there anyhow. Use the puzzle below to find the actual cache location.
The Puzzle –
As soon as we saw a Puzzle Range on the map, we knew we had to use it!
Time for a little geography lesson.
You will need to identify 13 different "Mountain Ranges" around Alexandra.
Use these answers to solve the crossword.
Then use the yellow letters in the formula to obtain GZ's co-ordinates.
Across
2. grand church
3. popular Japanese tree
4. ..... and blue
5. ..... and Jones
7. type of moon
10. this happened in 1901
11. you are doing this right now
12. a pub in Richmond, a town in Qld
13. dog tails do this
Down
1. name of the shire including Euroa and Longwood
3. guardian to Hades
6. mighty rock + b + sunken ship
8. hard rock
9. home of watches and chocolate
Now use the yellow letters in the formula to obtain GZ's co-ordinates.
37 1 (K-O).(P-I)(D-L)(H-G) 145 4 (F-E).(M-N)(B-C)(A-J)
