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The summer solstice in the Forty Acres Event Cache

Hidden : Thursday, June 20, 2024
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

20 June 2024, 21:30 - 22:00

The summer solstice for the Northern Hemisphere occurs on Thursday 20th June IST at 9.50pm, so may I invite you to join me to observe it?  To celebrate this year, Geocaching HQ has decreed that attending an event or finding a cache or LabCache between the 19th and 21st of June will earn us a souvenir, so this event has goodies!

Herbert Park was once called the Forty Acres, and used as bleaching grounds for linen produced by the mills on the nearby Dodder. In 1907 it was the site of the Irish International Exhibition, with 2.75 million visitors between May and November of that year. None of the enormous pavilions remain now, but today's duckpond was the splashpool for the Canadian Water Chute (the water's quite chilly, or it was when I fell into it as a small child).

The park is open twenty four hours a day, so we won't have problems with access, and we'll still have daylight.  If the weather is inclement, the bandstand is there for shelter. So bring yourself, your caching stories and your trackables - it'll be great to see you, particularly newer cachers and visitors.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gurer'f furygre, ohg na hzoeryyn vf nyjnlf frafvoyr.

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)