Bunting Tosser Mystery Cache
NavyAviator: Three containers have disappeared in the last couple of months. No more.
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The Cache site is flat and easy to explore, however you must NOT go outside the fence, not only is it dangerous it's also private property. You can get just as good a photo on the public side. Use stealth - the muggles nearby are 'curious'.
Ignore the above coordinates and solve the attached puzzle.
This is a relatively easy puzzle cache set up to pay tribute to ‘bunting tossers’ (communicators) who are an integral part of any at-sea team. This location provides a great seaview and a superb location to wish fair winds and following seas to those outgoing, or to greet and welcome home, all professional sailors including Naval, Merchant, and any others who earn their living from the sea.
Flag semaphore is a system for conveying information at a distance by means of visual signals with hand-held flags, rods, disks, paddles, or occasionally bare or gloved hands. Information is encoded by the position of the flags; it is read when the flag is in a fixed position. Semaphores were adopted and widely used (with hand-held flags replacing the mechanical arms of shutter semaphores) in the maritime world in the early 1800s. Semaphore signals were used, for example, at the Battle of Trafalgar. This was the period in which the modern naval semaphore system was invented. This system uses hand-held flags. It is still used during underway replenishment at sea and is acceptable for emergency communication in daylight or, using lighted wands instead of flags, at night.
Modern semaphore is the newer flag semaphore system uses two short poles with square flags, which a signalman holds in different positions to signal letters of the alphabet and numbers. The signalman holds one pole in each hand, and extends each arm in one of eight possible directions. Except for in the rest position, the flags cannot overlap. The flags are coloured differently based on whether the signals are sent by sea or by land. At sea, the flags are coloured red and yellow (the flag ‘Oscar’), while on land, they are white and blue (the flag Pa Pa). Flags are not required, they just make the characters more obvious.
Sorry folks but the cache is now a MICRO, Replace as found.
See the attached photo for the puzzle. Good luck and good hunting.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Frphevthneq vf ba gur wbo