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Zoo (#3) Field Trip: Along a River's Edge Traditional Geocache

This cache has been archived.

BlueBeadMan: It was fun while it lasted, but I am not in town often enough and for long enough to maintain this one in the way it needs maintained. I might as well archive the cache to free up the space so that someone else may place one here or near to this awesome location. Thanks to all of the finders of this cache! It was a great cache!

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Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is a nice easy cache at the Zoo. The cache should be fairly easy to find, but you will need to walk a bit to get to it, and usually there are TONS of muggles near the cache site.

When I announced that our next school field trip would be to the zoo, several of my students chimed in by saying “Now we can go GEOCACHING!” Coming from them that thought was a little surprising, but hey, they seemed sincere and there was a geocache already at the zoo, so I agreed to let them try to find that existing cache. As we prepared to go, someone suggested than the class should hide a couple of geocaches in honor of our trip. Now the field trip is over and we did just that--we hid two new 35mm film cannisters along two of the newer attractions at the zoo.

Now, there is NO funny business involved with either cache. Both caches are straight-forward “find the container, find the cache” type caches. The hint will be a B-I-G spoiler, so unless it is absolutely necessary, you might NOT want to look at it immediately. Both containers are hidden from view but very accessible to the massive amount of muggles visiting the zoo. Both containers are on well-worn paths. So take a look around you before trying to retrieve the film cannisters to make sure no one is looking at you, and possibly wait a minute or two if they are looking your way. That might help make sure that the caches remain in place for a while longer. Other than that, have FUN and let’s go GEOCACHING!

P.S. A couple of well respected cachers just posted some very good hints. Since their logs will eventually disappear from the most recent logs part of the screen, I thought I might add what they have to say here on the cache page:

From Mean Gene:
The place was mobbed and we made this one harder than we should given that it was in the obvious spot. I wonder what the mugglers thought we were doing while we sere searching the non-obvious spots. Just tie your shoes and reach for it.

From Roelsch:
After all that searching behind the log proved fruitless, Mean Gene found the cache in a spot that is easily accessible from the walkway while raising a minimum of suspicion -- like he says in his log.



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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Haqre gur onfr bs n ybt--nyzbfg ybbxf yvxr n ybt orapu--ohg vg grpuavpnyyl vf abg n orapu

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)