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Tihi kanal Traditional Geocache

Hidden : 7/23/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

CRO: Ovaj zaklad sakrit je na rtu Ertak na početku Tihog kanala (Mala vrata) koji povezuje Vinodolski kanal i Riječki zaljev u duljini od 6 km.

ENG: The cache is hidden on cape Ertak on the start of Tihi kanal (Silent channel) passage which connect Vinodolski kanal passage and bay of Rijeka. 

SLO: Zaklad je skrit na rtu Ertak, začetku 6 km dolgega Tihega kanala, ki povezuje Vinodolski kanal in Reški zaliv.

The cache is situated in the middle of rt Ertak. It is not accesable by car. The best way is to park your car at provided coordinates an folow pathway to arheological site Lokvisce which is situated on the other side of bay just some 100m away from cache. The cache is also accsesible by boat.
There is a light house with code name E2896 and his brother on rt Bejavec E2895 which mark the entrance to the Tihi kanal.


Near the cache there is arheological site Lokvišće.
The favourable climate of Jadranovo has already attracted early settlers. The oldest finds at the archaeological ruins of Lokvišće date back to the Stone Age (6500 BC - 4000 BC). In the Bay of Lokvišće, there were found a large number of broken amphorae. This indicates that Lokvišće was a small port with warehouses for the production and storage of wine and olive oil.


You can seat on the rocks and let your imagination travel to distant year 49 BC. At that time the battle of army of Iulius Cesarus under Dollabella comand of fotry ships and Gaius Antonius with his two legions were defeated by Pompeius army under command of Marcus Octavius and Lucius Scribonius. At this places it is belived that two fo three barrel rafts with escaping soldiers on board made safe crossing near cache place.
Some of sources say:
Caesar's Fleet and Army in Illyricum Destroyed But the expected attack was long in coming. It was not till the height of summer that the conflict began in Illyria. There Caesar's lieutenant Gaius Antonius with his two legions lay in the island of Curicta (Veglia in the gulf of Quarnero), and Caesar's admiral Publius Dolabella with forty ships lay in the narrow arm of the sea between this island and the mainland. The admirals of Pompeius in the Adriatic, Marcus Octavius with the Greek, Lucius Scribonius Libo with the Illyrian division of the fleet, attacked the squadron of Dolabella, destroyed all his ships, and cut off Antonius on his island. To rescue him, a corps under Basilus and Sallustius came from Italy and the squadron of Hortensius from the Tyrrhene Sea; but neither the former nor the latter were able to effect anything in presence of the far superior fleet of the enemy. The legions of Antonius had to be abandoned to their fate. Provisions came to an end, the troops became troublesome and mutinous; with the exception of a few divisions, which succeeded in reaching the mainland on rafts, the corps, still fifteen cohorts strong, laid down their arms and were conveyed in the vessels of Libo to Macedonia to be there incorporated with the Pompeian army, while Octavius was left to complete the subjugation of the Illyrian coast now denuded of troops. The Dalmatae, now far the most powerful tribe in these regions,(22) the important insular town of Issa (Lissa), and other townships, embraced the party of Pompeius; but the adherents of Caesar maintained themselves in Salonae (Spalato) and Lissus (Alessio), and in the former town not merely sustained with courage a siege, but when they were reduced to extremities, made a sally with such effect that Octavius raised the siege and sailed off to Dyrrhachium to pass the winter there.


Lokvisce bay

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)