Cretaceous Cache Traditional Cache
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This cache is in Tambark Creek Park. There is parking for cars at N47 50.384 W122 11.133. After parking, I recommend going to N47 50.365 W122 11.027 first!
I would not recommend this cache for small children, expecting moms, or people who are deceased. Right now it is wet and boots are a must. You may or may not encounter thorns, depending on the "path" you choose. There is an easy way - I found it once. There are a plethora of more difficult ways, but no impassable ones. The cache is bigger than an ammo can, but smaller than a 5 gallon bucket. I wrapped it in a large black plastic bag till I figure out how water-tight it is. The FTF "prize" is a fused and slumped glass angel with some slight blemishes (that I assume are the result of a skirmish with a dinosaur). Don't ask! You can give it to someone! Please don't take the pen, it is part of the cache theme:)
In a place called the Hell Creek Formation in Montana, Jack Horner surveys the vista where he has worked for thirty years. At 6 feet, 4 inches, he is a big man with big news! He and his team have discovered the largest T Rex, the oldest T Rex, and the smallest T Rex. The team has recovered the complete skeleton of a dinosaur never found before. But the truly amazing thing that this multi-disciplinary group has found within the fossil record is that the dinosaurs were dying off long before the cataclysmic impact of the asteroid blamed for their demise. At the boundary of the Cretaceous Period and the Tertiary Period, environmental stresses - mainly the dying off of whole species of plants - made life in the Lost World a very dicey proposition! As the plants disappeared, herbivore populations became much smaller. With fewer herbivores to munch, the carnivores, like the T Rex, went on an involuntary hunger strike. The asteroid just finished the job that the Earth had already started.
Many scientists believe that we are approaching another boundary where we are both the element making unhealthy changes and the asteroid that will once again bring the planet to its knees and usher in the dark ages!
It seems, I'm afraid, that my link won't link. I read the article while bathing at my brother-in-laws. It made such an impression on me, and I remembered so much of it, because about page 4 some ladies from a well known men's magazine, fell out of the science periodical and into the tub. I was unable to save them and they all drowned. Really I tried to save them, but two dimensional artificial respiration is very difficult. Anyway, the link don't link! (visit link)
What do dinosaurs have to do with the cache, you might ask? Everything! This is a Dinosaur Cache, and I, like my esteemed colleagues, have a collection of some of the largest, smallest, and weirdest dinosaurs. They were excavated from sites at Goodwill, Value Village, and other more obscure thrift stores. A number of them were also plundered from other caches, in trades.
Whether you are a Creationist, Evolutionist, Intelligent Design proponent, or you really don’t care, this is a cache for you. What are my qualifications to make these lofty assessments and predictions? Well, I attended a religious academy, where I was called on the carpet for writing Shakespearean sonnets for guys who only knew Shakespeare as a company that made fishing equipment.
I moved on to a religious college, where my paper explaining how Darwin came up with Evolution in a pub, after having more than one too many alcoholic beverages, was taken before a Rules Committee, which downgraded the “A” that I got from the student reader to a more acceptable, “D” minus.
This was a prelude to being called before the Ethics Committee for a research paper I did for Animal Behavior, where I tested the ability of subjects to put plastic shapes in corresponding holes on a multi-sided Tupperware ball, while on LSD. After I assured them that I did not provide the drugs, nor encourage there use, the Science Department put in a good word for me and I didn't get expelled. My science professors also maintained that my conclusions were valid because I did not confine my subjects in an unnatural manner. Instead, I followed them around as they “tripped”, and asked them at intervals to play the game. I wrote an excellent paper outlining my experiment, and I did get to keep the “A” … which led me to receive a useless BA in Psychology, with accompanying minors in Biology and Religion.
What do I think about dinosaurs? Well, I’ve seen a UFO and once had a migraine cured by a Sasquatch … so my opinion is, at this point: “No comment!” or more precisely, "Not worthy of comment!"
CONGRATULATIONS TO FunnyNose FOR FTF!!!
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2) Gur hfhny fhfcrpg
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