I am a
child of the Saturday morning cartoon phenomenon. Getting up
at 06:00 and spending hours watching Godzilla, Spiderman &
His Amazing Friends, Blackstar, classic Spiderman, Rocket
Robin Hood, Battle of the Planets (G-Force), and yes, The
Mighty Hercules. Despite all its flaws, Hercules was one of my
favourites.
Sure, it’s
predictable, the animation is poor, and the villains are so
stupid they make Dr. Evil look like Einstein. The show has
some good qualities though, including the "good guys always
win" stories, a cool theme song that I can still sing all the
lyrics to this day, and best of all the cool magical gadgets.
Whether it's The Mask of Vulcan, The Invisibility Potion, The
Magnetic Stone, or even those cool Moon Stone Beams that
signaled for Hercules, there were always cool artifacts
“cached” around the kingdom and forest of Calydon.
Hercules himself kept a cache of items hidden in the forest,
that his faithful sidekick Newton always had the pleasure of
finding.
Both
Herc’s trusty bow and his overweight club were somehow always
a short gallop away for the little centaur, allowing Herc to
defeat many monsters and villains quickly. Even as a kid I
thought, “That forest must be really small for him to find the
bow so quickly” Yet despite its small size, the forest
contained an endless amount of magical “junk”.
Walking through a small forested area near my home, the memory
of that show popped into my head when I thought “There’s so much
junk in hear, I’ll probably stumble across Herc’s bow in one of
these trees”. I chuckled and dismissed it at first, but later
thought it would be an interesting, albeit silly cache idea.
You can park on the street at the posted coordinates.
To find Herc's bow and the cache,
you’ll need to read his native language:
Replace the decimals of the posted coordinates with the six
numbers contained in the message.
The cache is a 1 litre Lock 'N' Lock box covered in camo
tape.
Cache contents when placed:
- Skippy's Sack travel bug
- 2 x Mini DVDs of Hercules episodes.
- 2 x Kangaroo scrotums
- 2 x Skull rings
- 2 x Rubber spiders
- Pewter dragon figurine
- Log book, pencils & sharpener