The Cache Owner has recently moved to Feilding to live and work. Already I have been asked, “What’s there to do in Feilding?”
My standard response until now has been, “I have no idea as I haven’t explored Feilding yet.”
Now I have an idea, well, six ideas actually. This is a multi-cache you can do in any order.
Each waypoint is a specific Thing you can do in Feilding at any time, although some of the places are only open at specific times, and one or two will require a modest entrance fee if you want to investigate fully, but entry is not necessary to collect the waypoints.
The Final geocache can be found at S 40° 13.ABC E 175° 34.XYZ
You will need to work out the digits, where...
A) The given coordinates is the i-Site building at the old Feilding Railway Station. There’s a large sign on the road-side end of building. The bottom half of the signage advertises a something Free to do in Feilding. How many letters in the large word above the text, 'and live well!'? = A.
(The sign comes and goes, but this "thing to do" happens every Friday.)
B) Drover & dog sculpture; On the plaque is a date (year): add the digits together to derive B
C) Manchester Square Farmers Market; There’s an in-ground flagstone containing a date and the text, ‘Road formed around perimeter’: What is the last digit of the date? = C
X) Coach House Museum; There’s a restored John Deere 1934 plough beside the entrance. How many furrows could it plough at once? = X
Y) Old Tote building (adjacent to Manfield Circuit); On the info sign there’s the text, ‘Frank... carves a racecourse’: What is the third digit of the year this happened? = Y
Z) Feilding Saleyards; On the info sign there’s the text, ‘In earlier times these saleyards were considered to be one of the largest in the southern hemisphere... selling... Z00,000 sheep annually.’
The full route is a 40 minute walk of about 3km. The actual cache at the Final is between 800m and 1.2km away, depending whether you walk or drive there.
Have you got the numbers? Checksum is 29.
Of course there’s a seventh Thing to do in Feilding, Geocaching! Have fun.