This is a first co-production from Zyva-Nuitsblanches. It is a Rubbermaid box and you will not have difficulty finding it even if you have a bad back...! Use your imagination and you will not go wrong. The contents are: a travel bug that really wants to continue towards a city with a ferry system, also a virgin travel bug tag waiting to be attached to your item of choice. Well, there is a compass- a glitter glue pen-a blue stone-two euro coins etc. etc. etc.
A strange find while strolling through the woods, considering that we are probably a couple hundred feet above the lake... Could this be a true leftover from biblical times? You be the judge :-)
The cache is located in one of the many "wilderness" areas available around Seattle. This one is Frink park -
http://www.frinkpark.org/. The park is named after John Melancthon Frink (1855-1914), owner of Washington Iron Works, the first manufacturing company in Seattle, who donated the land to the City "for park and parkway purposes." It was one of the many parks that the Olmsted brothers worked on, being "much pleased with the romantic and secluded ravine and steep wooded hillsides, which give a decidedly marked and interesting character to this little park."
(http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/parkspaces/olmsted.htm)
"Frink and Upper Leschi Parks have approximately 1.5 miles of trails, not including a scattering of little-used pathways or social trails that have been established as shortcuts."
"Frink Park still retains many elements that help tell its story. The most obvious of the man-made structures are the boulevard with its decorative concrete bridge, the numerous trails and the waterfall. There are still remnants of the caretaker's cottage and traces of the early tennis courts. If one searches it may be possible to find evidence of the cable car trestle bridge footings."
Please be careful: constant work is being done in the park. Respect the new planting and the cleanup efforts. You do not need to go bushwacking to find the cache (but it _is_ a bit away from the path.)
Estimated Position Error reported by 2 GPSr was around 30 feet when we averaged the coordinates. As usual, big trees do hinder reception, hence the extra 1/2 star in the rating. Nevertheless, the location should be fairly obvious when you get within viewing distance. Note: the cache is _not_ hidden in or about the feature that inspired the title for this cache, but in a rather obvious (to a Geocacher's eyes :-), but well-hidden, location 10 feet from it.
Do take a stroll up the hill, across the street, following the water, or down to Leshi for a refreshment. It is a nice and pleasant walk. We hope that you enjoy our first cache!