A. What is the number of the month of dedication of the plaque (i.e., January = 1, February = 2, etc.)? ______ = A
B. How many total seals are engraved on the two benches to either side of the posted coordinates? _______ = B
C. Note the year of the dedication of the plaque. Now subtract the last digit from the third digit. ______ = C
D. What is the single day of the month the plaque was dedicated (i.e., if the plaque was dedicated on June 3, 1971, your answer would be 3)? ______ = D
E. Find the seal for Sweetwater. What is the sum of the last two numbers on that seal? _______ = E

Now, use these numbers to calculate the coordinates to the final resting place of the cache:
North coordinate:
Placing the answers for A and B next to each other gives you a four digit number. ______
Add this four digit number to the last 5 digits of the original North coordinate to get your final North coordinate:
N 25° __________

West coordinate:
Placing the answers for C, D, and E next to each other gives you a three digit number. ______
Subtract this three digit number from the last 5 digits of the original West coordinate to get your final West coordinate:
W 80° __________

Now, go find the actual cache!!!
Just a hint: the reason some people are finding their coords to be off by about 100 feet is that they are not obtaining the correct numbers for 'B'. The clue for 'B' states 'How many TOTAL seals are engraved on the TWO benches to EITHER side of the posted coordinates?' ... if you only count the seals on one side, you will end up being off by about 100 feet. Double check your math and the final coords are right on. Good Luck!

The original contents of the cache include:
Eight (yes, count 'em, 8) sea creature travel bugs:
1. Denny The Dolphin
2. Ollie The Orca
3. Otto The Octopus
4. Sally The Stingray
5. Sammy The Shark
6. Sandy The Seal
7. Terry The Turtle
8. Willy The Whale

Note: Placing bugs in and out of caches by a single geocacher in an attempt to increase caches visited and miles traveled is against the spirit of the competition!!!
The owner of this bug reserves the right to remove multiple logs entered by any single geocacher in accordance with the rules of the competition.

Additionally, the following treasures are located within the cache:
a red plastic slinky
a blue mini-football
a red slide puzzle
a yellow smiley face yo-yo
a blue kazoo
a black plastic airplane
a yellow squirt gun
a purple plastic harmonica
a yellow smiley face labyrinth maze puzzle
a green puzzle watch
a packet of Calvin Klein Escape bath and shower gel
a Where's George dollar bill
and a log-book and pen

And .. as if that's not enough stuff in one cache ... there's also a camera for each cacher to take his or her photo -- just please remember to return the camera to a plastic baggie within the cache (to keep it dry!!) I will post the photos here once all the film is used.

Don't forget to sign the log book, rehide the cache (please make sure it is well hidden!), and have a blast at both of these great parks!

Additional Hints Hints

11/26/2006 by diveduo
Good hide. Look right at it last night
and never saw it. tnln tftc

11/25/2006 by diveduo
Unable to find due to darkness, however I did find
something else. If someone will e-mail
me and tell me what it is I will get back to them.
Will try again this weekend.

9/7/2006 by TDMiami
Yeah, our first cache!!

Took three tries to find the second part:

1st: I had not brought the coords from this site but only the .loc and the GPSBabel translation to s&t, neither in the format to process the clues correctly. We were using the laptop with s&t because I don't have the ipaq working yet with the gps I bought for it. Luckily? we knew where the cache ended up so I knew that I was getting bad answers.

2nd: Went back with a Google Earth shot of the target (is that cheating? Didn't want to tote the laptop and gps dongle around the woods) but still did not find it.

3rd: Decrypted the clue and found it easily enough but I was probably misinterpreting the Google Earth pic and wasted time looking in the wrong spot before just searching for the clue which I found about 60-80 feet away from where I thought it would be. Probably my error; I will check it again once I have a better gps setup.

We took the gator and left a wiffle ball.

All in all, a lot of fun and we will do better next time!!

TDMiami

ps: the camera was full, no more shots in it.

[This entry was edited by TDMiami on Friday, September 08, 2006 at 8:39:07 AM.]

[This entry was edited by TDMiami on Friday, September 08, 2006 at 12:12:19 PM.]

8/30/2006 by livetohike
[Great park, great cache. I thought for sure I had the coords wrong since they kept taking us into] some dense brush. [But, it was spot on. Great spot. The park was closed for Tropical Storm Ernesto, but we went in anyway (what can I say). First time we ever cached w/ umbrellas! TSLS (Took Stuff Left Stuff) TFTC.]

5/10/2003 by eesti8
logging travel bug

Decoded Hints

Look underneath the east side of a large slab of concrete covered by fallen palm fronds.