GC1RBWT Sleeping With The Fishes (Traditional Cache) in New Jersey, United States created by bobnjersey

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A cache by bobnjersey Message this owner

Hidden : 5/14/2009

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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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This cache is located in Dorbrook Park off of Rt. 537 in Colts Neck, NJ. This is an easily missed park that's part of the Monmouth County park system. The park actually exists on both sides of 537, with the model airplane flying field, and playing fields on the south side of the road .... and the walking trails, basketball courts, children play areas, activity center and roller blading hockey rink on the north side of the road.

They have a couple of different paved path loops that are popular for the walkers and 'strolling' families. At least one of these crosses the street to the other side of the park. The cache is hidden just off of one of these paved paths in the northwest corner of the northern half of the park ... which borders the Swimming River Reservoir on its south end.

Pull into the park entrance on the north side of Rt. 537. You can either park in the lot next to the basketball courts (go straight in until you end up in this lot), or you can make your first left which will take you over to the Activity Center and park there (you'll be right in front of the kids play area).

You should head north from the activity center lot on the paved walking path, or northwest from the lot next to the basketball courts and make your way towards that northwest corner of the park at its border (where it meets the reservoir). There are a couple of options for getting to the cache. One is to take the dirt trail about a hundred yards east of the cache (40.18.300 N; 74.08.335 W) and make your way thru the wooded path ... which is not that well worn ... but it will get you there. Another is to keep walking past this wooded path (only if you're coming from the center lot next to the basketball courts), and just take a 'bushwhacking detour' once you're in line w/ the cache location on the GPS. The third option is to take the dirt road (40.18.200 N; 74.08.480 W) that heads north off of the paved trail (if you come from the activity center lot). There's a log cabin at the end of this dirt road (which is a couple hundred feet long) ... and the cache is a couple of hundred feet east of the cabin, and right near the water's edge.

Cache is well hidden under a fallen tree and in a typical plastic container. It's only about 15 or 20 feet from the water's edge, and it's not the really big tree lying on its side. It's about 100 feet or so away from this really large fallen tree.

[updated 10/17/09: look like another old growth tree has fallen near the cache location. so it's about 100 ft from the older fallen tree, and about 50 ft from the newer one ... sitting somewhat between the two]

At the initial placement ... the cache contained an mix of water related items (they're Sleeping w/ the Fishes) like lizards, a variety of fish species, frogs, marbles, glass beads, a wooden train whistle, a butterfly fan, a couple of key chains, and two Travel Bugs. There's an led flashlight for the FTF cacher.

Please rehide the cache in the same location and in a similar stealth fashion.

NOTE: I've heavily themed and stocked this cache w/ many nice items that might be found Sleeping w/ the Fishes ... or what might be found in the general vicinity. Please respect the experience for all future cachers by trading even or trading up from this container ... with items that might also like to 'sleep with the fishes' ... so that it's stocked nicely for all future cachers as well. See here for a picture taken of the open cache from July 3, 2010 by a visiting cacher for what has been known to 'sleep with the fishes' in the past.

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