Twisting By The Pool Traditional Cache
Mattydred: Cache is missing again. It had a good run and I hate to archive my first hide but I'm tired of maintaining this cache every few weeks. Thanks for the finds.
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Micro placed next to a vernal pool, which are so common in New Hampshire during certain times of the year. If you find this in the late afternoon, or early evening-be prepared to be greeted by a chorus of frogs during the spring & summer. Use the parking coordinates for any of the caches surrounding this one. If there's one thing that bugs me, it's ten different waypoints in your handheld for the same parking lot. Therefore, I abstained.
From Wikipedia.com:
"Vernal pools, also called vernal ponds or ephemeral pools, are temporary pools of water. They are usually devoid of fish, and thus allow the safe development of natal amphibian and insect species.
Most pools are dry for at least part of the year and fill with the winter rains or snow melt. Some pools may remain at least partially filled with water over the course of a year or more, but all vernal pools dry up periodically.
They are called vernal pools because they are often, but not necessarily, at their peak depth in the spring ('vernal' meaning of, relating to, or occurring in the spring).
Despite being dry at times, once filled they teem with life. The most obvious inhabitants are various species of frogs and toads. Some salamanders also utilize vernal pools for reproduction, but the adults may visit the pool only briefly. Other notable inhabitants are daphnia and fairy shrimp, the latter often used as an indicator species to decisively define a vernal pool. Other indicator species, at least in New England, are the wood frog, the spadefoot toad, and some species of mole salamanders. There may be vegetative indicators of vernal pools but further study must be conducted to verify the relationships between vernal pools and their characteristic flora and fauna."
After you find the cache, please take a few moments to enjoy the uniqueness and beauty of this spot located within WM's top-notch Isinglas River Park.
The container is a camouflaged, usual standby cache. Although there's a golf pencil in the reset, bring your own pen / pencil. Congratulations to RFamfun4 for being FTF!
Happy Caching!
Additional Hints
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