My Final Jabberwocky Series Cache

Great News! The final cache in my Jabberwocky cache has been found again - the first time this year!  It's only been found five times since I placed it at Easter in 2009.  I've been meaning to do maintenance checks on all the other caches that lead to this final puzzle cache location but had not got round to it yet. I'd almost given up hope that anyone would ever find it again.

Here's what Gordianus (the finder) had to say about it in his log:

"FTF this year- incredible. I'd got most of the caches more than a year ago, and then lost the strips of paper. I found them last week after clearing out my car (I know I should do it more often). The only one I was short of was the Frumious Bandersnatch. However I discovered that I had enough info to make an informed guess as to the missing number. I put the coords in and the spot looked more than likely. Managed to call late in the afternoon. Parked up, a short 300+ft walk and voila!!. There it was. Happy days.

The cache is in very good condition. Photo to follow. By the way the pencil needs sharpening, and I had nothing with me to do it. Signed with my pen. Many thanks for an interesting series. It was great to re read the poem again."

 Well done Gordianus, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Here's a link to another cache in the series for anyone who may be interested in doing it.  You'll need to find out how many others there are by investigating the Tyldesley area yourself.

Easter Jabberwocky Trail

Good Luck to all those doing my Easter Jabberwocky Trail which went live around midnight last night.

Look for all the posts tagged with Jabberwocky under Post Categories in the right hand menus for extra help. Or simply click on this link.

Happy Hunting!

Easter Jabberwocky Trail - An Egg Hunt Around Tyldesley

I've been working quite hard over the last few days to get my new set of caches ready for release on www.geocaching.com/

I've called it the Easter Jabberwocky Trail and it follows a circular route around where I live in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester.

The idea first came from my daughter Catherine's Drama homework in which she had to learn the Jabberwocky poem by Lewis Carrol off by heart. This proves without doubt that schools do teach our children a load of old nonsense!

From this grew the idea to make a series of caches all based on a verse from the poem, with the aim of finding the Jabberwocky at the end. With Easter coming up I decided to make the series a Jabberwocky Egg hunt to give it a seasonal slant. Each cache is hidden in a brightly coloured egg-shaped container although there are one or two 'bad eggs' thrown in just to make it all a bit more interesting.

I planned the cache route and hiding places with sarahjones65 today, and spent the rest of the day filling the contents of each container with the relevant stuff and creating the web pages on www.geocaching.com. Tomorrow I'll be setting the caches in place and when I've done that I'll be sending the details to a reviewer to activate just before we go to our caravan in Anglesey at about 10am.

So, with a bit of luck the Easter Jabberwocky Trail series will go live in the next couple of days, just in time for Easter - I hope at least a couple of cachers see it and decide to try it over the Easter Weekend.

Watch this space for more details and some additional help in solving the puzzles.

Jabberwocky Additional Help

Here are a few extra hints to help solve my Easter Jabberwocky Trail on www.geocaching.com.

I've encoded them in the usual way so that you don't see all the answers at once. You can use Speedfreak's Online Geocaching Hint Decoder to decode them all in one go or just one hint at a time - simply copy them from here and paste them into the decoder window on the above website. Or you can decode them manually using this:

1. Hfr Tbbtyr Zncf gb frnepu sbe nyy gur pnpurf ol TrrxGrnpure va Glyqrfyrl
2. Trg n pbcl bs gur Wnoorejbpxl cbrz - gurer ner frira irefrf
3. Fgneg ng gur Fyvgul Gbirf Pnpur
4. Vg jnf jevggra ol Yrjvf Pneebyy jub jnf obea va rvtugrra guvegl-gjb naq jub qvrq va rvtugrra avargl-rvtug
5. Hfr guvf jrofvgr gb qrpbqr gur ahzoref - uggc://zvfghcvq.pbz/pbzchgref/ovanelpbai.ugz
6. Frnpu zl Syvpxe cvpgherf gnttrq jvgu Wnoorejbpxl sbe ybpngvba cvpgherf
   
7. Gung'f nyy gur uryc lbh'er tbvat gb trg!

If you need any further help such as suggested route, please leave your questions in the comments underneath this post. Happy Hunting!