Welcome to the All Roads Leave Ballarat series. This is part of a series of multi caches placed on 20 of the roads that lead from Ballarat.
Remembrance Drive, also known as The Avenue of Honour, is the longest commemorative avenue of honour in Australia. Every memorial tree along The Avenue is accompanied by a gunmetal plaque with the name of one of the 3,801 service men and women from the City of Ballaarat who enlisted for World War I.
Remembrance Drive starts at the Arch of Victory at the roundabout intersection with Learmonth Road. It continues for 22km, passing underneath the Western Freeway overpass, and finishing at the intersection of Weatherboard Road, where there is a memorial cairn built in 1936 by the Ballarat and District Soldiers' Fathers Association.
The Cache
This is a simple offset multi.
At the posted co-ordinates you will find an information board which is one of a series along Remembrance Drive about the Avenue of Honour.
From the structure supporting the information board, you will need to obtain the single word that is carved out of the base.
Using this word, apply the following calculations:
- A = Fourth letter value MINUS Sixth letter value =
- B = Total number of letters in the word MINUS 1 =
- C = Number of 'I's in the word =
- D = First letter value DIVIDED BY 2 =
- E = Total number of vowels in the word =
- F = Sixth letter value =
The cache can be found at
S37 29.ABC
E143 40.DEF
Checksum: A+B+C+D+E+F = 24
You are looking for a 30ml EDC container.