Letters and numbers

Geocache: Battlefields (GC14XJ)

This was a tricky one. We were given a list of place names and numbers:

Suez, Senussi, 1

Sangro, Enfidaville, 5 6 1

North Sea, Arctic, 7 6

Flers, Messine Ridge, 8 9 1

Bapaume, Trescault Ridge, 8 9 10 11 1

Korea, Malaya, 7 2 6 11 9

Crevecoeur, Beaudignies, 5 6

Minqar Qaim, Sidi Rezegh, 6 7 13 1

Senio, Faenza, 1 5

Gallipoli, Gravenstafel, 6 5

Palestine, Favreuil, 3 5 1

Polderhoek Spur, La Signy Farm, 1 5

And those names and numbers had us stumped for a while. We did find the place names along the Auckland Museum walls but it didn't really make sense. Luckily we had one very clever mum with us who came up with the solution. And then it was just a matter of walking around the museum.

Once we had found all the place names and figured out the letters we were able to put together the final coordinates which led us to the final cache.

(Found it!)

Onepoto Basin

Geocache: Onepoto Observations (GCJ2FB)

It was a cold but sunny afternoon when we got to Onepoto Basin, and we were all ready to go treasure hunting.

The geocache we chose for today was a bit different from our usual geocache. It was puzzle geocache and we were given 5 pictures of objects we needed to locate and get the coordinates from.

The objects took us from the playgrounds all the way to the other end of the park, past duck ponds and over bridges.

But with so many keen geocachers, it took us just under an hour to spot all the locations. Then back to the playground for some serious maths. Amazing to see some of those kids doing long divisions in their heads. Luckily for us others, one mum brought a calculator!

Then following our two leaders with the gps, it was a short walk to the final location. From there 15 m due east to a schizophrenic tree. The spot gave us two trees with split personalities, but it didn't take us long to locate the container.

After swapping trinkets and placing our ducky travel bug inside it, we took a very muddy 'short cut' back to the playground. Sorry about that guys!

After some yummy treats and afternoon tea, and a run around on the playground, we all went home one treasure richer!

TFTC (Thanks for the cache!)