Pohliba island Traditional Cache
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Pohliba island
Not so easy to find geocache on an inhabited island called Pohliba.
Pohliba is a small inhabited island about five hundred meters from coast of Dugi otok. There are just few trees and a some rocks on the island. You won't find there any donkey or sheeps like on the other island, just bugs and cicadas.
In summer 1995, just after the war in Yugoslavia ended my father was sailing on a yacht with his friends and on his birthday, the captain of the yacht gifted him (of course virtually) this small island. After 23 years, I was sailing together with my father and we stopped there. I hid a cache there and then my father gave this island to me, so (virtually) I am now the owner of it.
How to get to the cache:
You have two options, swim or take a boat. If you swim, you can find the cache also without GPS, just remember hint and look at the spoiler picture. It can be really helpful. If you take a boat, be careful when getting out of the boat, the rocks can be dangerous. See refernce point, it is best place to leave your boat which I found.
This cache is T5 because of two things: First, you'll have to swim about five hundred meters (maybe more, depending on where you start) through open sea and ship traffic or take a boat there which is neither easy. Second, cache is on top of the island and the cliffs are very steep and rocks from them can fall. Be very careful when climbing up there, especialy when you don't have shoes with you. I recommend climbing from side oposite to nearest side to Dugi otok.
Searching for the cache is on your own responsibility!
When the sea is rough, I do not recommend searching for this cache. Waves can throw you onto the rocks and it is difficult to swim there.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Svaq na L funcrq gerr. Fgnaq arkg gb vg naq jura lbh ybbx gb gur frn, pnpur vf 1,5 z ba lbhe evtug fvqr ba gur tebhaq haqre n gevnatyr funcrq fgbar. Frr fcbvyre cvpgher!
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