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Travel Bug Dog Tag Son of Snappy

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Owner:
The Blorenges Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Monday, April 21, 2008
Origin:
South Wales, United Kingdom
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of dustyriver.

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Current Goal

To visit other real, live turtles and have his photograph taken with them.

This is Son of Snappy -  Snappy ressurected!

Snappy's original mission was to get back to his natural home in Florida, USA, and be photographed there with some real, full-sized relations. He got to Florida safely but there were no photos of real turtles... he then wandered all the way to Oregon where in March 2010 teamLOAR finally helped Snappy to see some real, American turtles! - Thanks to teamLOAR for helping him achieve his mission goal.

After travelling around US for 8000 miles Snappy was retrieved by the geocacher Venability in March 2010 and he stopped moving despite several emails asking for his journey to continue. Never mind. It's time to release Son of Snappy with the same mission - To visit other turtles and have his photo taken with them.

About This Item

Son of Snappy

In September 2007 a snapper turtle was happily minding his own business and trotting back to his home in the lake at Caldicot Castle, Wales, U.K. when he was unceremoniously hoisted upwards and dropped into a wheelbarrow. The Country Park's Head warden had decided that it was time for him to be "re-located" to restore the natural balance in the lake, where all the indigenous moorhens and ducks had been living in fear and trepidation of having their webbed feet snapped off, or worse... So Snappy the Turtle ended up in a Tortoise and Turtle sanctuary somewhere in West Wales. There endeth the story, more details can be read "here." Let's hope Snappy's happy in his new home, but his adventures continue in the tale of this little TB Son of Snappy who's trying to follow in his dad's flippersteps..

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Tracking History (40803.5mi) View Map

Retrieve It from a Cache 3/27/2010 Venablity retrieved it from Under Bush Oregon   Visit Log

Found this one with WesaHart and am taking it to Texas to see some big texas sized turtles!

Dropped Off 3/24/2010 neomia placed it in Under Bush Oregon - 10.4 miles  Visit Log
  • Snappy and Some Real Turtles!  I could not believe my luck with this!  I took a friend and her son geocaching in this park today.  I knew there was a pond, but honestly didn't think there were any turtles in it!  I have actually been researching online to try and find some spots where turtles are frequently sited, and here these fellows were just sunning as happy as can be.  Wish I could have got a better shot of all of them together but they were kindof far away.  And the cache is literally right next to the pond!  Perfect!
  • Closer Shot of Turtles Just so you can see they really are turtles!  :)
Retrieve It from a Cache 3/18/2010 neomia retrieved it from Library Needs Recycle Paper (Night Cache) Oregon   Visit Log

Cute little fella. I am going to get you some pics with real turtles, even if I have to go to a petstore to do it lol!

Dropped Off 3/16/2010 skycaptain_or placed it in Library Needs Recycle Paper (Night Cache) Oregon - 1.61 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 2/27/2010 skycaptain_or retrieved it from SALAD LOVING GEOSILLY Oregon   Visit Log

It is just so hard for my family to resist travel bugs. They are well put together and often come with great stories. This one will be dear to my heart as I had a turtle named Snapper when I was about 5 and lived in Nebraska. We got him at the North Loup Popcorn Days from a family that was letting him go after the turtle races. The Snappy in this cache is a bit smaller and seems to move much slower. I will try and find him a good home until another cacher can come along and take him. Thanks!

Dropped Off 2/25/2010 Flannel_Man placed it in SALAD LOVING GEOSILLY Oregon - .38 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 2/17/2010 Flannel_Man retrieved it from Arch with Oaks Oregon   Visit Log

Snappy wanted to get out for a walk, and followed me home.

Dropped Off 1/23/2010 JAShaws placed it in Arch with Oaks Oregon - 2,259.62 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/13/2010 JAShaws retrieved it from Johnson Creek Pond Oregon   Visit Log

Picked this guy up today. Will get him moving along again soon.

Dropped Off 1/7/2010 aStrongOne placed it in Johnson Creek Pond Oregon - 1.28 miles  Visit Log
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