Battleship - Ocean #9 New South Wales, Australia
By No Tomorrow on 27-May-21. Waypoint GA21838

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Type: Unknown or Mystery
Container: Micro
Coordinates: S29° 0.650' E153° 43.500' (WGS 84)
  56J 570608E 6790597N (UTM)
Elevation: 0 m

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Can you find and sink my battleships?

I have 4 battleships hidden off the North Coast of NSW.

 

1 Aircraft Carrier = 5 squares/images long = 5 geocaches
1 Submarine = 4 squares/images long = 4 geocaches
1 Patrol Boat = 3 squares/images long = 3 geocaches
1 Minehunter = 3 squares/images long = 3 geocaches

 

I have created a 10x10 square grid with images of Australian battleships, past and present, mostly past. My 4 battleships are hidden somewhere within that grid. Discover and sink my ships to discover and find 15 geocaches. Clicking the image below will take you to the playing field. Click any square/image on the grid to be redirected to a jigidi jigsaw. Don't worry, I made them easy. Take a moment to read the description before solving the puzzle - most of them have an interesting true story. Every one of the 100 images has a different Australian battleship image, description and message upon completion of the puzzle (not all the messages are different though). If you are lucky enough to hit one of my battleships, you will be given coordinates for one of the 15 geocaches hidden in the Northern Rivers. I recommend keeping a record of which square you have tried successfully or not so you don't accidenrtally repeat them. I believe if your internet connection is interupted whilst solving the puzzle the message upon completion may not show up, so keep an eye on that.

 

Each of my 15 battleship geocache listings has this same description and will direct you to the game. Geocaching Australia has a corrected coordinates section you can update when you have discovered them. Or you can just plug the coords into your GPS or whatever. Just keep track of which one is which to log them correctly.

Ready to play? Click the image below to be taken to the game in WordPress [or if I still haven't figured out how to fix it, CTRL Click and open link in new tab]. If you are using an app to read this, you may need to view it in a browser. If you have any issues working the game at any point, please let me know so I can see what might need fixing - this is the first time I have tried this kind of linking gameboard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ROT 13: ABCDEFGHIJKLM
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Flood victim.
This puzzle may resurface on GC with new locations one day.
 
I believe a couple of these might be damaged or missing. I am archiving the series for an unknown period of time. I have no problem with people logging as found whilst archived... if it is found.
 
11-Jul-21
We were in the right place but needed some help to spot this. I think we confused ourselves a little with what we were looking. It turns out I'd looked at it and ignored it a couple of times. How hopeless am I?
thanks for the puzzle and assistance No_Tomorrow
 
10-Jul-21
This is the first cache Moogiechew and I tried to find but a muggle camper van was parked close by and we were unable to search properly. The van was still there on our return but had moved away from GZ. They left soon afterwards possibly concerned about our reappearance. We looked for a while to find the cache and then I spotted the hide. Thanks No Tomorrow
 
10-Jul-21
This was the third find for the day, we had to come back an hour later as there was a campervan parked next to GZ. After much searching around the trees, Ravenclaw2480 spotted it! Nice hiding spot!
 
Checked on cache and discovered some little creature has had a nibble on the attachment bit so now it's just hidden in a hole behind a driftwood plug.
 
01-Jun-21
After a couple of nights of puzzle solving, I had all the battleships sunk, so I couldn’t resist but to run off and grab a few of the caches this morning. I thought I’d aim for a small cluster in a convenient location for todays work. This was number one - I’d been here a few times before and thought it would be a nice spot for a cache. After a few minutes on investigation I had the cleverly hidden container in my hands. Signed the log then moved on to the next. A great spot to bring people, loved this one! Thanks NT!
 
Up periscope. Let's see what you can find. Clan Griffin
 
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