An anagram of ROCK Multi-Cache
tiddalik: It's a long holiday...
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An interesting place, and time in Canberra's history.
The Glenloch ROCK Oak plantation is located at the northern end of Stromlo Forest, adjacent to Glenloch interchange. The plantation was part of Walter Burley Griffin's original concept for Canberra to be a self-sustaining city. It was established by Thomas Weston as a trial to evaluate the potential of growing ROCK for the Australian market.
In 1916 Walter Burley Griffin obtained the first acorns used for plantings from trees found at Duntroon. In 1917, during the First World War, he arranged for a larger supply of acorns to be shipped from Spain on the S.S. Boorara. However, this ship was torpedoed and sunk on the voyage to Australia. A second consignment was successfully shipped in 1918.
To find this cache all that is needed is to solve the simple anagram and then apply the swap to the southly co-ord. See below.
S 35 1R.OCK
E 149 04.766
As a hint you should access this place from the northern side of William Hovell Drive and cross the road using the underpass. S35 16.712 E149 04.863. This avoids the need to jump fences. Please also follow the paths in the plantaion and use the steps over the fence at S35 16.768 E149 04.897
BTW you may need to prepair yourself for this cache by consuming a little grape juice. You guessed it. The contents of the cache are ROCKs.
Enjoy.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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