The Arboretum (Canterbury) Multi-Cache
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The Arboretum (Canterbury)
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The listed coordinates will take you to a commemorative plaque celebrating 100 years of the Rotary movement. The local celebratory project was the development of the arboretum and the accompanying barbecue shelter.
While the plantings are still relatively young at present, it’s not hard to see what a fabulous asset this facility will be in years to come. It is also quite interesting in the way it has been laid out with the various tree species of the same genus planted out in fans from each side of the six sided shelter.
With this cache I thought it would be fun for cachers to try and find a few trees within the arboretum. Each tree has a name plate on the ground adjacent with an alternate (in some cases more common) name. Once all the names have been collected and written down carefully, I would recommend sitting down within the shelter to complete the puzzle.
The final cache is an appropriately marked film canister (log only – no pencil) at-:
S 43 5a.bcd E 171 4w.xyz
Instructions-:
At Sequoia sempervirens-:
a = total number of letters in 1st word – total number of letters in 2nd word + 1.
w = total number of “n”s in the alternate name.
At Robinia pseudoacaia
b = total number of letters in 1st name, then sum the two digits
x = total number of words in both alternates names ÷ 2
At Ginkgo biloba
c = total number of letters in 1st word – total number of letters in 2nd word
y = total number of “e”s + 1
At Plaque
d = total number of letters in month
z = first two digits of the year of celebration ÷ by last digit of any year
Good Luck and Happy Caching
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[Initially] orfg nqivpr fhttrfgf rknpgvat be svar crehfny bire fhvgnoyr greenva