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The Clangers Mystery Cache

Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Clangers films were first shown in 1969, the year man landed on the moon. The series concerns the life and times of the Clangers a race of highly civilised, small, bright pink, long-nosed mouse-shaped persons which stand upright on big flappy feet. They talk to each other by a kind of high pitched whistling and have large animated ears that they pull over their eyes when they are sad or distressed.

One for the children!!!

The Clangers live inside a small blue cratered planet which is covered in metal lids from which they hide from the cold and the numerous objects falling from space. They share their worldwith the Soup Dragon, who lives in the soup well and who provides the Clangers with green soup, the Glow Buzzers which provide light for the Clangers caves and tasty Glow Honey,and the conjuring froglets, inexplicable orange, oval stick-legged creatures which travel in a top hat and live in a vertical pond deep within the planet.

Their society is courteous and non-violent, nor is there any glorification of conflict. They enjoy the simple things in life, eating blue string pudding, watering various plants with the Cloud and radioing the Iron Chicken which lives in spiky nest somewhere in the Clangers’ planets sky. But a Clanger’s life is far from dull, theirs is a world where music grows on trees and were notes, when collected may be used to propel space borne craft. It is a place where the most unexpected things can happen and usually do.

The problems and situations that arise, or perhaps arrive, in their world are of course, much the same as ours but as their circumstances are so different the ways they have of dealing with them are different - original, unexpected and often profoundly sensible. For example in “The Seed” when the Clangers' planet is infested with a rogue vegetable, the Iron Chicken calls in a herd of space-borne Skymoos from a neighbouring planet to help. The Skymoos, large purple four legged creatures, make quick work of the plants and are rewarded with some soup.

The container is a one litre snaplock box covered in black tape. There is a pencil inside, a logbook and lots of swaps! Lots more room inside for travelbugs etc.
Solve this to get the coordinates:

N 54 31. [Visiting Friends] [Flying] [Fishing]

W 005 28. [The Top-Hat] [The Egg] [The Visitor]


The checksum is 33

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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)