They probably didn't own bathtubs, used the
slough for an outhouse, drank whisky straight, one after another,
drank plenty of beer too, smoked, chewed, spat, added to the aroma
of the place, had karosene lanterns, Coleman heaters, fifty-five
gallon barrels as stoves, maybe some portable TV's that ran on
generators, had herring scattered about the floor, up to their
armpits, used Aqua Velva to take the edge off, slept on iron army
cots, and drempt of loose women while doing so, claimed to have
known more than they every really did, claimed to like whisky more
than they really did, claimed to have eaten lutefisk once and liked
it, loved blasting their shotguns at anything that moved or didn't
move, snowgeese, ducks, seagulls, marshhawks, muskrats, rats,
floating beer cans, whiskey bottles, read Playboy and Field and
Stream with equal enthusiasm, ate asprin vitamin B and an egg yolk
in orange juice for breakfast, and herring or smoked sausage for
lunch and dinner, in short, they were a happy lot during hunting
season. They probably came from the bayou country, at least in
their own mind, and most certainly fashioned their stilted marsh
shacks after that fact.
A cold wintertime wind blew. There was no
warmth to the sun. And in the far distance a blizzard of Snow Geese
swirled to the waters below.
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This cache is a simple offset cache to make sure you start at
the right point. At the above coordinates you will find parking and
, a GATE and a TURNSTILE.
T= number of bars in the Turnstile
G= number of horizontal bars in the large Gate
The cache is at:
N 48 1[Tx2]. [G-3][G-1][T+3]
W 122 2[T-G]. G[Gx3][T+1]
You will find a Lock-n-Lock box hidden just off the path. There,
on the side of the path, the dead and gnarled prophet lies low. The
cache is under his lowest part. Please cover the cache again when
you are finished.
Update 2/25/04.I
have replaced the ammo can with a Lock-N-Lock. You may come across
resident dogs here that will bark at you but I have found them all
to be quite friendly. The gnarled prophet is now covered with
grass, but if you walk on the river side of the path you may step
on him. The cache is now beneath him. Here are more tips. The cache
box is on the river side of the path. WAAS will help. 2 very tall
trees are 355 degrees and 360 degrees 'true' from the cache site.
The raft is 96 degrees true, and the distant red barn is 200
degrees true from the cache site.