Red Mystery Cache
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This is part of a series of caches relating to primary and secondary colours. In this case I have taken the three primary colours to be red, blue and yellow. Then the three secondary colours, made up from pairs of primary colours are orange, green and purple. A mixture of all three of the primary (or all three of the secondary) colours leads to white and an absence of any colour is black.
The three primary colour caches are straightforward caches for which I have given you the actual coordinates of the cache (or a simple multi-stage). For each of the secondary colour caches you need to have visited both of the primary colour caches that you would need to mix together to get that colour to gain the requisite clues for that colour cache. i.e. to find the orange cache you need to have found both the red and yellow caches etc.
The bonus caches, the white and black ones require you to have found all the primary colour caches and then all the secondary colour caches because the sum of all these colours leads to white………….and the Black one was just an after-thought and I like it’s location!
Please try and bring requisite colour swaps.
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Parking N55° 50.263’ W4° 50.284’
This, the red cache is placed just off the Brisbane Glen road which leads from Largs over the moors to Greenock. I like this route, which has some rugged scenery to offer. I have occasionally wandered about this location so I stopped for a look and decided to bring you here too.
The coordinates at the top are for the parking place just below the water works. As the distance to the cache is not great there are some clues to gather I’m afraid. They are in the order from the car towards the cache so it’s best if you follow the order given.
About 20 m up from the parking space on the opposite side of the road there’s a green sign with some writing on it. It states ‘Water, 6”, SV, xxFT’. Make the sum of the two numbers represented by xx to be equal to E below.
Go back down the road towards the gateway about 100 m on the same side as the parking space. On the opposite side as you go down there’s a large tree with a blue tag attached with 5 white digits on it. Take the second number and make this C. There were a couple of tits bobbing around this tree when I was there!
From the gate, dead ahead, up high you will see a transformer supported by three telegraph poles, head on up there. OK, it’s pretty steep, you can skirt round if you really must. The pole without the silver cladding around the bottom has letters and numbers carved/stamped on it. The bottom row has a pair of letters. Take the numerical value of the position of either of these letters in the alphabet then divide by 2. Take this to be equivalent to F below.
From here go 80 m SSW (towards the hill keeping left of the wall) and find a low concrete sign with black writing on a white background. There are three words, take the third letter of the third word and make the numerical value of the position of this letter in the alphabet equal to B.
From here go about 50 m WSW and find a concrete pad with a drain cover on it. The drain cover was made by the Bo’ness Iron Co Ltd but also has two other letters on it. Take the numerical value of the position in the alphabet of the first of this pair of letters and call this A. There’s also a sticker here saying “Confined space category D” where D is a number.
Now you’ve got lots of lovely numbers to substitute in the following to find the cache.
N55° 50.ABC’ W4° 50.DEF
You might also find a touching site on the side of the hill that looks like the final resting place for a dog called “Patch”. Don’t dig here for the cache!
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There seems to be a lot of pontificating in the text I found on the web about what the ‘real’ primary colours are and what the correct names for the subsequent secondary, tertiary and even quaternary colours are. Subsequently the methods chosen by some to teach about the subject are severely lampooned by those that think they know best. I think it’s a personal thing; surely any given person probably perceives any given colour slightly differently from the next. I am typical of many males and am ‘colour blind’ for certain colour combinations but that doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate colour in the same way as anyone else.
It’s a fascinating subject with influences from biology, physics, chemistry and the world of art. Apparently it was Isaac Newton that named the colours of the rainbow; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Q rdhnyf guerr