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🇳🇱 Red Herring 🇳🇱 Multi-Cache

Hidden : 5/30/2025
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


This cache was published during the 🇳🇱🇳🇱 Flag Day - Dutch Herring Day! 🇳🇱🇳🇱, an event by The Flying Dutchmen | GCATMAK | in California.

As with every TFD hide, every word in the description counts, may be ambiguous, so read carefully and do not overthink.

  1. Solve for WP1 from anywhere in the world.
  2. Put the solutions for subsequent WP in the checker to get the next set of instructions.
  3. From posted coordinates, all distances are just as far driving as walking.
  4. Walking may be faster than driving and parking.
  5. Pay attention to traffic.
  6. You are in BELLFLOWER, California.

This catch of the delicious red salty herrings is worth twice what you think: because the vegan salty herrings are made from spicy soft liquorice. The taste of a Swedish fresh red herring cannot be compared to anything. Interestingly,there is no actual species of fish named red herring. A red herring is actually a type of herring that is smoked heavily, or brine cured, giving it a red color and a strongly pungent smell. They were used in hunting to train dogs to follow that fishy scent and not get distracted by other smells.It is soft, slightly salty, and above all it is fresh. Fresh red herring is a big thing but one loves it or hates it. So where do you find red herrings? Pretty much anywhere. A red herring is also a deliberate piece of misleading information. Red herrings can deceive geocachers on the cache page as well as during the geocaching hunt.

 

Now on to geocacheing.

1. Herring does have a scientific name, for example, Atlantic herring is called a Clupea harengus. That leads me to make up the scientific name for a Swedish red herring: Suecia rubra clupea harengus. While that is all fun, what is the latin family name that herring belongs to? Enter your single word solution in the checker.

Aenigma tuum solutionem certitudinaliter convalidandum potes.

Once you nail down the solution from WP1, enter certitude.
 
 

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Svany: xrra rlr, tragyr unaq. Abguvat svful.

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)