Battleship - Ocean #7 New South Wales, Australia
By No Tomorrow on 27-May-21. Waypoint GA21840

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Type: Unknown or Mystery
Container: Micro
Coordinates: S29° 0.000' E153° 40.000' (WGS 84)
  56J 564934E 6791831N (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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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.
 
I'll be fixing this very soon, hopefully this week. Till then, if you send me a photo of what's left I'll let you claim it as found.
 
10-Jul-21
Travelling onwards Moogiechew and I stopped near another boat ramp. There were a number of parked cars and boats on the river on a nice day. We found the cache which has unfortunately been destroyed. Someone decided to light a fire with only the cable tie and melted remains of the cache below. We had not read the previous log until later.
 
07-Jul-21
We arrived at GZ and noticed the ground had been burnt. Devastated we saw a cable tie and a melted mess on the ground below it. I contacted the CO who agrees that was most likely the cache.
She advised she would check on it when able.
Logged with permission by the wonderful CO.
Thanks No_Tomorrow
 
01-Jun-21
I was going to attempt this one today, but an old fisherman was very close to GZ, so I'll grab this one next time I'm close by.
 
Up periscope. Let's see what you can find. Clan Griffin
 
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