A Tip of the Cap to Our Son,
jr123, for Introducing Us to Geocaching
In Memory of Liz
Liz Lemieux was one of those special teachers a parent hopes
for in what is often a sea of educational mediocrity.
Liz
took our shy gentle giant and sprinkled in her sunshine and
confidence to harvest a beautiful melodic voice he had within. She
left this world much too young, but did see the early sprouting of
our special seed. We often wonder of the bountiful harvests she
would have sown for other parents, if given a few more seasons to
tend her fruitful garden.
Winnekenni Park Conservation Area is over 700 acres with a 10
mile
Trail System of carriageways and footpaths. It contains lakes,
wetlands, hills, new growth forest, ancient woods, meadows, and
lawn all providing ample protected habitat for its varied and
abundant upland animal population. The large municipal conservation
land, surprisingly on the fringe of an urban area, supports many
outdoor recreational activities. The grounds have a storied history
that includes Native American artifacts, remnants of a Victorian
country estate with restored Winnekenni Castle, a poetic dedication
by John Greenleaf Whittier, and telephone laboratory work by
Alexander Graham Bell.
After graduating with honors from music college at a distant
university, jr123 returned home to pay it forward as a music
educator on behalf of the efforts of his middle school music
mentor. His casual college jogging became a bit more serious once
back home in his favorite park, as he purchased a GPSr to track
Winnekenni Park's Tuesday evening Fun Run. He soon found out
the park was also a local hot spot for geocaching and started using
the GPSr for that, as well.
On returning home, jr123 was dismayed to find out his once
active Dad had taken on a couch potato existence. This state was
brought on after Dad was laid low from illness and relapse anxiety
had set in after the recovery stage causing an over stay of the
spud stage. Ever the concerned son, jr123 weaved a plan to entice
his once outdoorsy Dad off the couch. With the tease of gadgetry
for Dad and our passion for hiking, jr123 soon had us tagging along
on his geocaching runs. We started geocaching on our own using
Google Earth and our old orienteering skills until jr123 upgraded
his GPSr. He then gifted us the old GPSr on Fathers Day of 2007.
His master plan succeeded as our compulsive natures succumbed
easily to geocaching's addictiveness.
This tribute cache is hidden in the honoree's favorite running
park. We wrote a three bar amateur ditty for jr123, arranged for
his preferred two musical instruments over their low chromatic
range. It features the lowest note on a typical saxophone that a
much younger jr123 jokingly referred to as "the tugboat" during his
many hours of practise. Thanks jr123 for being you!
You can check
your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.
Nearby
Mothers Day and
Fathers Day geocaches placed by jr123
Christmas gift 2007
Diabetes Day Coin from jr123
NOTES:
1. This Mystery geocache is not hidden at the listed
coordinates, which actually mark the center of Winnekenni
Basin. Solve the puzzle tucked within this listing to obtain the
correct coordinates for the container hidden within Winnekenni Park
.
2. The Difficulty rating is for solving the puzzle. The hide
was placed to confound muggles (not cachers) and would have been
rated
Difficulty: 
without the puzzle. An adventurous
wheelchair jokey could negotiate the Terrain and find
the cache once the snow melts.
3. This hide's ready made cache container, with included Dunkin'
Dounuts gift card FTF award, was a door prize donated by
Clydebet37 at the
Cookie Crumbles 4 event.
4. Winnekenni Park hours are from 1/2 hour before sunrise to 1/2
hour after sunset.