Update 14th October 2024:Cache remains a Small, a black camo bottle and has a new location. WP7 details and the hint both changed to match.
Located at Margate is the Dru Point Bicentennial Park (also known as the Dru Point Reserve)
Unsubstantiated urban myth suggests that Dru stands for Dorothy Reynolds Undressing! Dorothy loved to go skinny-dipping apparently!
This popular park’s free facilities include playgrounds catering for toddlers thru to teenagers; tennis courts, various shelters with gas barbecues (some can be reserved), picnic tables with seating, open grassed areas as well as light bush, waterfront tracks for walking or cycling, toilets, kiosk (hours vary), a bicycle track complete with signage, traffic lights and a roundabout; for children to learn road rules. Just outside the park is a popular boat ramp.
There’s also an accessible (wheelchair) swing.
Sorry, you won’t be able to walk your dog to most of the required WayPoints; but you can exercise them later in the fully fenced off-leash dog area. They are allowed on-leash on the formed roads.
The park entrance vehicular gates are locked overnight, and the opening hours are displayed throughout the park, and at the entrance (at the posted coordinates). Check the times, and don’t get you vehicle locked in for the night. Pedestrian access is unlimited, and is also available at the end of Endeavour Avenue off Beach Road.
Note:The cache is available 24/7 via the paths, but vehicles can only enter the park during daylight hours
There are various points of interest in this park, including the local history of Tasmanian Aboriginals, and a memorial for missing persons. There are other boards providing information on local birdlife, and North West Bay water catchment.
If you walk it all (from the start/WayPoint 1) it’s about 1.5km return. If time is short, or mobility limited, you can complete WayPoints 1 and 2 at/near the posted coordinates, and then drive thru the park to the end of the road, and complete the other WayPoints from there. There’s also several designated parking areas throughout the reserve.
The bold lower case letters below represent numerals found on signs at the WayPoints. Identify those numerals to solve the relevant coordinates. eg: a = 5
This table may be useful
Let’s go:
WayPoint 1: (at the posted coordinates)
There’s a Park information board (to the right of the gate, looking toward the park).
Opening Hours
Non daylight saving – 8.30 - a.oo pm
Daylight saving – b.co – 8.30 pm
Kingborough Council deof BY LAND AND SEA
WayPoint 2: (at coordinates S 43 01.afd E 147 16.bcf)
The Aboriginal Reconciliation Garden.
On the morning of Feb ghth 2008 Prime Minister Rudd formally apologised to the Aboriginal stolen generations. This was the first action on the second day of the ijnd Parliament of Australia.
(Note: if you’re walking, leave the Aboriginal Garden to the right and follow the path…….)
WayPoint 3: (at coordinates S 43 01.igg E 147 16.iei)
French explorer Nicolas Baudin visited North West Bay 1kth Jan – 1lth Feb mnoq
WayPoint 4: (at coordinates S 43 01.iim E 147 16.iim)
Illustrations and poetry by Grade p/v students qoor
WayPoint 5: (at coordinates S 43 01.pqo E 147 16.ino)
The North West Bay River flows through the middle of the st square km catchment area. It begins on the slopes of Mt. Wellington, and drops d,quv m along 25km…………
(Note: use the track to head towards WP6 )
WayPoint 6: (at coordinates S 43 01.tos E 147 16.vvr)
DEDICATED TO ALL MISSING PERSONS
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WayPoint 7 (Final):
The cache can be found at coordinates S 43 01.[wxj][v+m][q-y] E 147 16.[v+z][r-d][b-x]