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Daly Waters Air Disaster Traditional Cache

Hidden : 10/28/2022
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


At GZ you will find a memorial,  the memorial was erected by residents of the district, in memory of five sportsmen from Bunyip, who were killed in an air disaster at Daly Waters in the Northern Territory in December 1967.

The aircraft that crashed was a Cessna U206A, VH-RXF.  The pilot, Peter Limon, had just returned to Moorabbin Airport after an eight day trip to Alice Springs, Broome, Darwin.  While unloading his aircraft, Peter Limon was approached by the five people killed, who were looking into chartering an aircraft for a trip to the Northern Territory.

They engaged Peter Limon who hired the Cessna from Flinders Island Airways to fly them and the aircraft came down during a tropical thunderstorm just short of Daly Waters airstrip on 29 December 1967. It later emerged that Mike Breheny had survived the impact and had died from the effects of multiple minor fractures and exposure at some stage during the four days it took rescuers to locate the wreckage in the remote bushland. The pilot was also killed in the disaster. 

Erected By
  Citizens Of The District
   To The Memory Of
 Five Bunyip Sportsmen
Killed In An Air Disaster
   At Daly Waters N.T.
29th December 1967.

Michael Breheny   27 years
Noel Heatley         34 years
Peter Kay              27 years
Donald Smith         25 years
Barry Sullivan        23 years

 

The cache is a micro, you are not required to enter the memorial fencing to find the cache.  You will need a writing stick.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)