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CCA No.42 - Urban Terrarium (Marlborough) Mystery Cache

Hidden : 9/20/2025
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


This is the 38th cache in the Blenheim Chorus Cabinet Art (CCA) series started by Kiwimykl (aka Mr NZDi) and expanded upon by PaoloB72, ricardinho.nz and now myself. Since starting in Blenheim the CCA format has been franchised out and there are now CCA series expanding in Nelson, the West Coast (Greymouth and Westport), and more recently Christchurch.

New Zealand's regional geocaching guidelines do not allow for geocaches to be placed on telecommunications cabinets or electrical company power boxes, (although from time to time you may come across the odd one where the CO is not aware of, or ignores these guidelines), so in most cases, these tend to be offset multis or caches formatted in such a way where the coordinates need to calculated or solved, so you will not find the cache at the listed coordinates, so don't look there.

The artwork that inspires this cache is entitled 'Urban Terrarium' and was created by Vasu Sing. The artwork showcases endemic and introduced species living together and supporting the habitat they are part of. Lesser-known animals like the new Zealand frogs (pepketua), the sky blue mushroom of Aotearoa, some snail species and ferns. All living together with introduced mushrooms, dragonflies, and tropical plants that show cohabitation is possible.

The cache can be found by completing the Urban Terrarium Jigidi puzzle below to get the final coordinates.

Urban Terrarium

B.Y.O.P

Note: After a couple of recent DNFs a check was made of the cache and the final coordinates corrected. If you completed the puzzle before 28 Nov 2025 take 0.002 off the south coordinates and take 0.008 off the east coordinates.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur qverpgvbaf naq uvag ner va gur chmmyr

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)