Charley’s Garden is a small sea stack in Colywell Bay, Seaton
Sluice. Access to the beach is via the public steps at either end
of the small beach. It is not necessary to visit the stack to
complete the necessary questions below; this can be achieved from
the public beach or even the public road. Local folklore states
that the name ‘Charley’s Garden’ is because a Charlie Dockwray once
had an allotment on the top of the stack. Apparently, despite the
exposed location, it reputedly produced the earliest potatoes and
cabbages in the village.
Sea stacks are blocks of erosion-resistant rock isolated from
the land by sea. They begin as part of a headland or sea cliff.
Relentless pounding by waves and rain erodes the softer, weaker
parts of a rock along lines of weakness such as bedding planes and
vertical joints, leaving harder, more resistant rock behind.
In order to claim this Earth cache you need to:
1. add an original photograph to your cache log of yourself
and/or your GPS with the stack in the background. No copies or
internet images to be used.
2. email me with the answer tothe following question: What is the
angle of the rock dip from roughly north to south?
Please do not put your measurements in the log entry on the
webpage. Any logs that contain the answers will be deleted so that
following geocachers can complete the task unaided. Remember to
look at www.earthcache.org where you can see if you
will qualify for either a bronze, silver, or gold pin badge
depending on how many earthcaches you have visited and/or
developed.
Webpage update on 18.05.2007
Unfortunately, not everyone is playing the game fairly. The
webpage has been updated today to include the following warning: if
there is no photo attached to your cache log - then your log will
be deleted without any email reminders. This is because 1 cacher
has not submitted a photo to prove their visit despite email
reminders. Therefore, they have still not proved that they have
visited Charley's Garden Earthcache.