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Winchelsea Heritage Trail No.2 Bonus Cache Mystery Cache

Hidden : 7/21/2022
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is not at the posted coordinates.

This is a BONUS CACHE for completing the Adventure Lab

WINCHELSEA HERITAGE TRAIL No.2.

The Winchelsea district is located on the Barwon River, 112 km south-west of Melbourne, between Geelong and Colac. The first Europeans to reside in the Winchelsea area were squatters who established grazing runs around 1837. One of these was Mount Hesse, established by William Harding and John Highett. It was subdivided in 1853. The name Winchelsea derived from an English seaport notorious for smugglers. The township of Winchelsea, by the Barwon River, dates from 1842, when Prosper Nicholas Trebeck and Charles Beal built the Barwon Inn by a river crossing, on the coaching route between Geelong and Warrnambool. A general store was also built in the vicinity, and in the same year Ingleby pastoral station near Winchelsea was established by pioneer, George Armytage. Local grazier, Thomas Austin, was a noted and wealthy sheep-breeder, and was the first to import Lincoln sheep. His wife, a great benefactor, founded the Austin Hospital in Melbourne. Austin loved shooting and, in 1859, he imported quails, pheasants, foxes and rabbits for that purpose. He was responsible, in the eyes of many, for Australia's substantial rabbit problems. The rabbits bred so quickly that the Duke of Edinburgh's 1867 hunting party shot between 400 and 1000 rabbits (depending on the report) in one afternoon.

 This Adventure Lab will take you to just a few of Winchelsea's historic buildings, highlighting the architecture and the local history.

Using the clues from the Adventure Lab No. 2, you will find the cache at: 

S 38º CA.EDF  E 143º DB.AEB

ADVENTURE LAB LINK:

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Unatvat

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)