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Convict Bathe Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Ngaambul: As there's been either no response from the cache owner, no cache to find or log to sign, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the near future (next 30 days), just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

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Hidden : 4/8/2006
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

I don't recommend trying to swim while wearing leg-irons..

This cache container and its contents were originally prepared by my caching partner Charl, before she moved overseas. She planned to place a cache called "Convict Cave" in the Barrenjoey/Hawkesbury area. I had to be awful and make a cache called "Convict Bathe"...

If you walk down the path and to the end of the road from where the cache is located, you will soon find the "Bogey Hole", a convict-built bathing pool cut from the rock in 1820 for Commandant Morisset, the administrator of the penal colony at Newcastle from 1819 to 1822. Given that he ordered this built for his own personal use, I would doubt the convicts had the privilege to use it themselves ... so no bathing please, convicts. The Bogey Hole is one of the largest publicly accessible convict-era artefacts in the Newcastle area.

I recommend bringing a towel! And your bag of caching swaps --there's a lot of prizes in this largish 4 litre cache (but remember about equivalent exchange!) The area is frequently trafficked by *sneer* Fit People , particularly in the mornings before work, so be careful with that.

Historical notes for the Bogey Hole are available online at (visit link)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ebpx naq Ebyy!

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)