CAUTION. This is a recommended Off-Road Vehicles Cache - ie., a 4WD track. Although it is possible for a conventional vehicle to drive the track, it is not recommended. Especially if there has been rain in the past four weeks! Parts of the track are soft and very deeply muddy when wet. It is very easy to become bogged, and there is very limited phone service. The trail is one-way, so just follow the arrows where indicated. Reserve may be closed after rain. Please ask at the Charleville Visitor Information Centre, situated in the Charleville Railway Station, for directions and road conditions and pick up a brochure.
When entering this area for geocaching, there are THREE caches which you may consider doing concurrently:
Mystery Cache - Charleville Botanical Reserve - GC9X15D
Wherigo Cache - Ugo has gone Botanical - GC9Y2V1
Multi Cache - Charleville Botanic Reserve Drive - GC9Y2TK (This cache)
So what is the Charleville Botanic Reserve?
The Charleville Botanical Reserve showcases major vegetation types of the eastern mulga lands, and is accessable via a track which passes through the diverse plant communities. Travel from spinifex to heath and mulga forest, through a gidgee swamp, over a sand ridge to the mixed floodplain with poplar box, and alongside the cypress pine communities fringing the Warrego River. Spectacular in spring when desert myrtle surrounds the first part of your drive in a sea of deep pink. Good for bird watching.
Camping not permitted.
Pets only on a leash.
The posted coordinates will take you to a large sign board which outlines the major areas through which you will travel while collecting information for this multi. In particular, check out the map of the one-way cross-over track. It is 31K long, and you will be visiting an number of flora signs to gather information for calculating the cache coordinates. Once you have read the board, return to the section on the Warrogo River (Stock Route). The fifth word on the fifth line will tell you where to look for the final cache. It is also your first clue
It is time now to move through the remaining waypoints gathering the information needed to calculate the cache coordinates.
WP01 - S26° 31.905 E146° 12.418 - fifth word on the fifth line. ________________ N = @ ____
WP02 - S26° 31.898 E146° 12.352 - note the colour of the sand sage. ________________ B = # ____
WP03 - S26° 31.964 E146° 12.345 - ? grevillea. ________________ O = @ ____
WP04 - S26° 32.146 E146° 12.214 - ? apple. ________________ G = @ ____
WP05 - S26° 32.227 E146° 12.198 - type of bush. ________________ C = # ____
WP06 - S26° 32.915 E146° 10.421 - broom ?. ________________ A = @ ____
WP07 - S26° 32.857 E146° 10.243 - gobble gobble. ________________ D = @ ____
WP08 - S26° 33.133 E146° 09.967 - common name. ________________ F = @ ____
WP09 - S26° 32.659 E146° 08.183 - common name. ________________ E = @ ____
WP10 - S26° 31.807 E146° 07.788 - first part of scientific name. ________________ K = $ ____
WP11 - S26° 31.623 E146° 07.116 genus name. ________________ H = @ ____
WP12 - S26° 32.864 E146° 08.091 - common name. ________________ L = @ ____
WP13 - S26° 33.322 E146° 08.848 - common name. ________________ I = # less one ____
WP14 - S26° 33.234 E146° 11.558 - genus name. ________________ M = @ ____
WP15 - S26° 33.208 E146° 11.595 - desert ? myrtle. ________________ J = # ____
KEY:
@ = number value (summed) of first letter
# = length of word
$ = word value
You are looking for South AB CD.EFG East HIJ KL.MNO
Checksum South 22 East 25
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