The cache is not at the posted coordinates. Please read the instructions carefully so you will collect all the information needed.
To find this cache, you must complete "The Wonnie" Adventure Lab, which takes you on a tour through the suburb of Woronora in the Sutherland Shire. The AL takes you on a journey along the Woronora River, visiting some historical landmarks, people, parks and places of recreation, interest and nature along the way. The complete AL travel distance is about 5km, and involves a walk, cycle or drive along streets, bushland and across bridges around the Woronora River. You can do it by kayak if you feel up to it. It should be able to be completed in under 2 hours. If walking it will could take longer. A bicycle can be used, but there are some sections that are not "bike friendly" due to rough and steep trails. The short bush walk section is medium grade.
Wear your best walking shoes! There is a cafe near the posted coordinates if you need food or drinks. There are parking coordinates for each WP of the AL. It is recommended you leave your car, bike or kayak at WP3 or 4, as WP5 requires an uphill hike to the Woronora Bridge walkway platform. Follow the trail from Burnum Burnum Reserve or the stairs near Prince Edward Rd to the path that runs alongside River Rd. Take care crossing any roads.
And there are plenty of caches to collect around the area if you plan your day. However, it will take you much more than the 2 hours to complete the AL.
Once you have completed the Adventure Lab, you will need to SOLVE the easy puzzle in order to work out GZ coordinates. Read the description and journal of the AL carefully at each stage as you will need to collect bits of information on the way. Keep a record of your answers.
To complete an Adventure Lab, you need to download the app for your smartphone. Login using your regular geocaching name and password, then search for the nearest Adventure Labs in your area.
Go to the following link to open this Adventure Lab.
The Wonnie Adventure Lab
WORONORA
The suburb of Woronora is situated in the narrow valley of the Woronora River, to the east of Sutherland in Sydney's south. Homes line the waterfront, and plenty of others are built on the hillsides with views up and down the river, all less than an hour from the CBD. No wonder those lucky enough to call Woronora home think they are living in paradise!
The suburb, which lines both sides of the Woronora River, is completely ringed by bushland, with only a single road providing access. Many think that this adds to the charm of the suburb, and to the sense of community in Woronora, which has curiously escaped the development that its surrounding suburbs have experienced. The Woronora bridge is the northern limit to residential housing. A footbridge crosses the river at the southernmost limit of housing on the western bank at Prince Edward Park. The housing on the eastern bank continues beyond the end of Prince Edward Park Rd, and some houses can only be reached by a walking track or by boat.
Woronora is an Aboriginal placename. Records show the spelling of the name has varied since it first appeared in the 19th century, the earliest being Wooloonora (Surveyor Dixon, 1827), followed by Wolonora (Dixon, 1837), and Woronora (Mitchell, 1835). The name was first applied to the Woronora River, a tributary of the Georges River, before being given to an electoral district, a local road east of the river, and finally the suburb itself. A few meanings have been suggested for Woronora, the main ones being 'black rocks' and 'river-of-no-sharks'. Guesses regarding the original form of the placename depend largely upon the degree of mishearing assumed to have taken place between the Aboriginal informant and the European recorder.
The Woronora River flows through the deeply dissected plateau to the Georges River from near the sources of the Port Hacking, within the Sutherland Shire. The River is tidal at this point. River levels and water quality at Woronora can be affected by the release of water from the Woronora Dam upstream upstream from the suburb. Woronora Plateau, is a geographical region adjacent to the Sydney Plain. Slightly higher in altitude, it is capped with Hawkesbury Sandstone.
The present Woronora Bridge was built to eliminate the steep decents and ascents for traffic between Sutherland and Menai. The bridge was constructed to take through traffic between the southern Sydney suburbs of Menai and Sutherland quickly across the Woronora River, by bypassing the original road which wound down the hillside into the Woronora River valley, crossed the river over a low level bridge, before winding back up to the top again. This 521m long concrete road bridge stands elegantly on a curving row of 30m piers with its roadway 38m above the water. A pedestrian bridge with cycle way has been slung across under the northern cantilever of the box girder, with a viewing platform looking out over the bushland valley of Woronora River. The path can be accessed from Menai Road on the Bangor side and Prince Edward Park Road or River Road on the Sutherland side.
[Source: https://www.visitsydneyaustralia.com.au/woronora.html]
I hope you enjoy the experience travelling around THE WONNIE. Lookout for walking or cycling muggles near GZ.
You are looking for a small cylindrical container.
NOW FOR THE PUZZLE TO GET GZ COORDINATES
Have a rest, take a few photos, and work out the coordinates for the nearby bonus cache using the information collected during the AL.
THIS IS A SIMPLE FIELD PUZZLE.
Each answer to the AL should be recorded for solving the GZ coordinates. For each WP answer count the TOTAL NUMBER of letters in the words or use the NUMBER you entered. For example: If an answer was Woronora River it would be 13.
WP1 = A, WP2 = B, WP3 = C, WP4 = D, WP5 = E
Use these values to do some simple arithmetic to find GZ which is about 700m away. It is an easy walk from WP5 of the AL.
S 34° 01.(C - A)(C - D + A - B)(E - D)
E 151° 03.(D - B)(E - C + D - B)(E - C + A - D)
Checksum: S = 18, E = 21
I hope you enjoyed you Wonnie adventure.
CONGRATULATIONS: FTF GOES TO zde723, closely followed by Aries44duo
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