I Like Traffic Lights 🚦 Broken Water Mystery Cache

#67 Sunshine Coast traffic signal box art trail

The unassertive traffic signal box is often overlooked as it sits at intersections and roadsides in metropolitan areas. Urban Smart Projects, a community art initiative, has made it their mission to bring colour and art to cities and help fight graffiti. (www.urbansmartprojects.com)

Follow this trail around the Sunshine Coast and admire the original designs reflecting the vibrancy, character and stories of the community. I have included a statement from each artist about their artwork. The geocaches on this trail should be fairly quick to find to prevent cachers being too conspicuous searching in these high muggle traffic zones.

You may also like to sing Monty Python’s song, “I like Traffic Lights” on your way to keep you in the mood. (www.montypython.net)

I like traffic lights, No matter where they’ve been.

Broken Water_1– painted by Rythmicolour Collective – June, 2018. An interpretive design based on broken river banks + water overflow. The flood effect.

Find the signal box at the listed co-ordinates, collect some information from your surroundings, and read some memories of Nambour in the late 1940’s.

“Another character I can remember is Billy Parsons. He was a big land holder Bill Parsons. He owned several farms, and he was the councillor for Nambour in those days. He lived up on the hill, just near where Mrs Dave Low lives now, on this corner of Mapleton Road and Image Flat Road and he owned most of the land in that area too. But he had a little moustache that come over his lips, droopy moustache, and he always rode an old horse. He had a car, but he very rarely ever rode in it. He used to ride into town on this horse, and when I first came here I told you I lived at Frogs Hollow - Bill Parsons was my first visitor. He came down and he spent a morning telling me tales. I lived with my chainman and his wife in those days - they had a caravan and I had a little tent alongside - and we had cups of tea in there and Bill Parsons came and sat in the caravan and told us all these various trials and problems, and his experiences here.
And the funniest one of all that he told me was the time the - those days the sale yards used to be about, just behind where the Civic Hall is, on the railway line. And to bring his cattle in, he had to bring them down Blackall Terrace, down through Blackall Terrace, yes, under the railway bridge and up Currie Street. And these darn cattle - he was bringing some up one day - and somehow a young steer got away and he got into Whalley's Store. So the steer went through Whalley 's Store front doorway, which was quite wide, then he got himself into a display window. (Laughs) Old Bill said it was like a bull in a china shop. Here was this darn steer in the front of Whalley's Store. But apparently they got him out without even breaking the window.”

Extract from: Interview with James Fred H. Murray (Chairman of Maroochy Shire Council 1985-1994), on 17th December, 1985 by Caroline Foxon on the history of the Nambour district (https://heritage.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/Stories/Oral-Histories/Fred-Murray)

A = number of letters in the street name that Lowe St intersects with at the signal box

B = number of stripes on the front of the signal box that do not have the water pattern across them

The cache is at South xA⁰ Bx.xxx East xxx⁰ xx.BxA

You are seeking a small container in a hollow. This park has plenty of seating and a one feature playground. It is a pleasant spot to take a short break from the hustle bustle all around. Replacement cache has no room for swaps.

You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.

Congratulations to kingfisherau for FTF!!!