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EASY PUZZLE 21-Little Brown Church In The Wildwood Mystery Cache

Hidden : 2/21/2019
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:



  This cache is NOT located at the posted coordinates. You must solve an EASY puzzle to get the final coords.

  If you would like to find out more about this series, click GENERAL INFO and look in the red box.




THE PUZZLE - Where Am I?

  Note the name. I couldn't resist. One of my favorite songs way back when and I thought it would make an awesome title to this cache. LOL!

  So the actual puzzle is "Where Am I?" and when you are actually looking for the container you will be looking for "the little brown church in the wildwood". Hopefully you will not find anything too wild near the woods.


    bottom of tree (use this one for final coords)        top of tree



You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.




NUDGE - Where Am I?

  There are coords in the picture. Can you find them?

  Not all cameras/cellphones will give you the coords, but my IPhone does.

  a. Save the picture to your desktop.
             To do step a:
             Right click on the left picture in the description.
             Click on "Save image as.."
             Make sure it is saving to your desktop
                  and give it a name (example: church)
             Click "Save"
b. using right mouse button, click picture;
  c. go down to bottom of list and using left mouse button, click 'properties';
  d. at top with left mouse button, click 'details'; and
  e. scroll down until you see lattitude/longitude. That is the location where the picture was taken.

  Beyond A NUDGE

  EXAMPLE of how to convert the coords from the below random picture:

 

  Coords from picture = Latitude 35; 43; 8.11999 Longitude 79; 28; 9.91999

  So latitude is 35 degrees, 43 minutes, and 8.11999 seconds for North.
  Longitude is 79 degrees, 28 minutes, and 9.91999 seconds for the West.

  The degrees will remain the same and for this picture the minutes will stay the same.

   For the seconds, we need to change to minutes. 60 seconds in a minute.

  Latitude 8.11999 out of 60 minutes. 8.11999/60 = .13533317. Rounding to three numbers = 135.
  Longitude 9.91999 out of 60 minutes. 9.91999/60 = .16533167. Rounding to three numbers = 165.

  So the final coords for my example picture is N 35 43.135 W 79 28.165.


  *** THE TREE PICTURE IS NOT WHERE THE CACHE IS. THIS IS WHERE I WAS STANDING WHEN I TOOK THE PICTURE. The cache will be within 20 feet of your coords. You will know from the picture where to look.

       NOTE: Need more help? Contact me. I LOVE to help and give nudges. :-)



Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)