Anna van Saldanha Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 10/22/2005
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

You can drive to within 5 metres of this cache.

Saldanha Bay started as a small fishing village. It is situated on the Saldanha/Langebaan lagoon approximetly 120km North of Cape Town. About 30 years ago it was transformed into a deep water port and became one of the worlds leading ports in the export of Iron ore. Large Cape Size bulk carriers can been seen entering and leaving the port on a regular basis. During this transformation it remained a popular fishing harbour. As the harbour was situated on the end of the Saldanha Sishen railway line, a modern Steel Mill was erected in Saldanha about 10 years ago. Marcus Island which is situated on the Northern side of the harbour entrace did not pose a problem to shipping, but the space between the Island and the northern main land allowed the Westerly swells into the bay resulting in the large vessels on the Iron Ore jetty surging and breaking mooring lines. A land reclaiming project was done and a breakwater was established between the Island and the mainland. This in turn presented other ecological problems. Cats from the mainland crossed onto the Island and killed the bird life and beach errosion in Langebaan began. The cat problem was solved by a wall which was erected across the reclaimed breakwater. A project was started in 2003 to stop the erosion of the beaches in Langebaan and is presently still under construction.

When visiting the cache, bring a picnic basket and your fishing rod. Access to the area costs R2.00 per vehicle. This is payable on the road next to the military academy. If you proceed along the road past the well known fish processing plant(Keep it on your left), you will come to a security gate manned by National Port Authority security. If you have a fishing rod they will check your permit(Obtainable by any post office)and allow you in. Non fisher persons will be asked to sign a entry book. Further instructions will be in hints section as follows:

A) Vehicle directions to start of road to cache
B) Vehicle instructions to cache area
C) Hints for finding cache.

Original Contents:

1) Logbook and 2 pens
2) 2 x New blank computer CD-R's
3) 5 x Stainless Steel fishing hooks size 2/0
4) A lead sinker
5) A new golf ball
6) Spar lanyard
7) West Coast marathon medal
8) Car mountable Cell Phone/GPS holder
9) New camera battery (CR2)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

A) Nsgre cnffvat guebhtu frphevgl tngr, sbyybj fvtaf gb Cbeg Pbageby ohvyqvat. Hcba gur uvyy gb gur evtug. Whfg orsber gur ohvyqvat ghea evtug vagb teniry cnexvat nern naq gnxr ebnq ba yrsg. B) Sbyybj ebnq va Fbhgu Jrfgreyl qverpgvba gvyy lbh trg gb gur jnyy nf zrnagvbarq rneyvre. Qb n "H" oraq gb gur evtug ng gur jnyy naq geniry cnenyyry jvgu gur ebnq lbh whfg pnzr ba sbe nobhg 100 zrgerf. C) Gur pnpur vf uvqqra haqre 2 ebpxf jvgu n ahzore bs fznyyre ebpxf pbirevat gur ragenapr. Vg vf yrff guna n zrger sebz gur fnaql fhesnpr. Vg vf n 2yge vprpernz pbagnvare jenccrq va n oynpx tneontr ont.

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)


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