This cache was inspired by a made-in-Canada educational innovation,
the French immersion class. To complete this hunt, you will need to
fill in the missing word in some French quotes and find a couple of
waypoints before calculating the cache coordinates. All the
waypoints are in Greater Victoria.
Early Immersion
The following quotes were not chosen for the views they express,
but only because they are readily identifiable and contain certain
letters. No statement, political or otherwise, is intended on our
part!
Fill in the blanks:
1. “L’Etat, c’est __________.” Louis
XIV
2. “Je n’ai point de réponse à faire à votre général
que par la bouche de mes __________ et à coups de fusil.”
Frontenac
3. “Si __________ n’existait pas, il faudrait
l’inventer.” Voltaire
4. “Rira bien qui rira le __________.” Claris de
Florian
5. “Du sublime au ___________, il n’y a qu’un
pas.” Napoléon
6. “Quand le vin est tiré, il faut le ___________, surtout
s’il est bon.” Marcel Pagnol
7 “On ne __________ bien qu’avec le coeur.”
Saint-Exupéry
8. “L’enfer, c’est les ___________.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
9. “Gens du __________, c’est votre tour /De vous
laisser parler d’amour” Gilles Vigneault
Late Immersion
Now you are ready to go hunting!
Find City of Victoria parking meter # 32025. If you are in the
right place fire hydrant # 380 should be nearby, just northeast of
your position. July 2010 note: Recent finder ArnieBarney reports
that the parking meter number he successfully used has been changed
by the city to #2708. From the parking meter go 5615 meters on
a bearing of 39.8 degrees true. Look around you. You should be able
to see a sign written in French and English with a four-digit
number on it. The sign is not on private property and the four
numbers when added together should total 12. Write down the
four-digit number from the sign.
Graduation
To the four-digit number you wrote down from the second waypoint
add 473777 in order to obtain the UTM Easting for the cache.
Now count the number of times the letters you need to fill in
the following formula appear in the words you added to the quotes
and obtain your UTM Northing:
5 3 (e+v) q (r+t) (a-y) (i+p)
Use caution and watch out for the safety of your children if you
bring them to the cache site. It's a lovely spot but there are
cliffs nearby, so this would be a dangerous place to experience
total immersion!
The cache container had a special camo job, so please handle it
gently. The best way to find it may be gentle probing with a
stick.
The cache contains congratulations certificates for the first
three finders, as well as French-themed trade items and our French
Connection travel bug, which we are launching from this cache as
part of the First Annual Vancouver Island Hide-and-Go-Cache
day.
There is a small piece of green flagging above the cache.
Bonne chance et bonne chasse! (Good luck and happy hunting!)