Fairy Houses Traditional Cache
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Parking at N42 44.237/W073 48.954. Cache is located in Anne Lee
Pond Park and is meant to be family-friendly. For easiest access,
walk along the tree line until you come to a bird house with half a
license plate on top. Walk straight back.
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU BUILT A HOUSE FOR THE FAIRIES? WOULD THEY
COME TO VISIT? For the last 80 years, residents of Monhegan Island,
Maine have been building fairy houses in the woods. Fairy Houses -
Small dwellings made out of natural materials built in hollow logs,
nooks and crannies in trees, holes in the ground, between branches
of bushes. THE REQUIREMENTS FOR LOGGING THIS CACHE ARE VERY
SPECIFIC: 1. Sign the log. The log is in a small container in a
split of a tree. It is quite visible. You do not have to search a
fairy house to find it. 2. Build a Fairy House. You must build a
fairy house to log this cache. 3. Describe your fairy house in your
on-line log. Where you put it, what materials you used, etc. If you
have a digital camera, please take a picture. You do not have to
take a picture to log the cache. Give enough detail about your
house so that I can find it and take a picture if you can't. 4.
MOST IMPORTANT: You must use only materials "offered" by nature -
pieces of bark, dry grass, berries lying on the ground, pine cones,
acorns, stones, seeds, shells, feathers, dry pods, sticks, dried
thistles, milk weed pods, etc. PLEASE NOTE: Fairies will not live
in a house made with living materials that have been picked or
killed. Please respect the living plant material. Do not pick or
remove mosses, flowers or any living thing. Please do not remove
material from other houses to make your own. Come back and check on
your house from time to time. You are welcome to make improvements
or changes as you like. Houses not meeting the guidelines will be
removed and logs deleted. Attached are photos of the houses LFNY
and I built. Except for the shells, polished/colored stones, all
materials were found in the park. I will take and post pictures of
the area every couple of weeks. You might think about making this
your last cache of the day and gathering material as you go.
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