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The Great Victorian Cache Crawl (2023) Bonus Cache Mystery Cache

Hidden : 8/2/2023
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


The Great Victorian Cache Crawl (2023) Bonus Cache

The cache is not hidden at the posted coordinates, but as per the geocaching guidelines the cache is within 3.2 kilometres from the posted coordinates.

 

The 2023 Great Victorian Cache Crawl was the second annual cache crawl held in Victoria in order to help celebrate International Geocaching Day. 

This year (2023) the cache crawl began in Ararat at Midnight and travelled east across the state ending in Upper Ferntree Gully at 21:30. The cache crawl travelled a total of 300+ Kms over 21 and half hours.

Two five stage Adventure Labs have been placed at locations near the 2023 cache crawl event locations. Complete all ten Adventure Lab stages across both of the Adventure Labs in order to obtain the coordinates for this Bonus cache.

The Southern Coordinates will be obtained by completing: Cache Crawl 2023 (Part 1)

and the Easter Coordinates will be obtained by completing: Cache Crawl 2023 (Part 2)

 

Logging Etiquette:

FTF Prize: This bonus cache has a FTF geocoin for the geocacher to whom makes the first find as a FTF prize. The FTF coin is a prize for the FTF geocacher, and is not considered to be swag.

SWAG: SWAG or "Stuff we all get," are meant to be trade items in geocaches. If you take a piece of SWAG, please leave something of equal or greater value behind. Due to the size of this geocache, only a few bits of SWAG will be able to fit, but I hope the few bits of SWAG items available will be enjoyed by others.

Logs: Geocache hiders sometimes go through a great deal of planning to place their geocaches. As a result, they'd like to hear your feedback on whether you liked or disliked any aspect of the hide, or if you feel that some cache maintenance is required. Single word, acronym, or emoticon logs may be easier when you have a lot of geocaches to log, but it doesn't tell the hider or other finders anything about your adventure (or lack thereof) in finding the geocache. Please keep this in mind when entering your log.

 

Retrieval of the Cache

The difficulty rating of this geocache was based on the difficulty of completing both adventure labs, including the distance required to travel to all of the stages, while the terrain rating is based on the geocache's location. The actual difficulty of this geocache hide would be rated a D1.5.

Please take care and use stealth when retrieving and replacing this cache. If there are muggles around please wait until the coast is clear before you make your approach.

Congrats to ahomburg and sonic___ on their FTF honors!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Lbh znl unir gb ebbg nebhaq sbe guvf bar.

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)