Captain's Crab Pot Traditional Cache
Ice and Wind: Based on the previous log I'm going to go ahead and archive this listing.
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This is an easy cache that you can park within 20 feet of. Daylight hours only please.
Just by day and not by night; so not to give the neighbors fright.
In order for you to be on course; you will have to find 264th.
There you’ll find right on the ground; a large old crab pot I once found.
Look there close and you should find; the ammo can I left behind.
Full of treasures or some travel bugs; be sure to watch for spies and muggs.
If you’re lucky you could be; the first to find and then you’d see.
Hand painted rocks I use for trade; each one of them is custom made.
But if you’re not, don’t be too sad; for I’ll place others to be had.
Why “The captain” some people ask: well for many years it was my task.
Since retired and with time to play; I placed this cache where we like to stay.
A lot of tourists come and go; most of them we don’t know.
So, when you post your visit found; please leave a note of your home town.
GeeRoy
Some questions have been asked about the crab pot. Perhaps this will help: That thing on the roof is an old lobster pot from the East coast. It is made of hardwood and they used bricks to weight them down. The crab pots that they use these days are made of heavy metal and covered with stainless netting that is hand woven over the frame. Bait, like ground fish, is placed inside the pot and once the crabs enter the trap, they can't escape. In stormy weather the pots can shift, become buried in the sand and get stuck on the ocean floor. When they attempt to pull them up the rope often breaks and they lose the pot and the floats. The pots remain on the bottom and are lost for good. There is portion of the netting that is held in place by twine that rots away releasing any crabs that might be trapped. The floats wash up on shore at some point in time and become finds for beach combers. This generally occurs in the winter when the storms come often and the crabbing is at it's peak. The most floats found by us in a single day after a huge storm 3 years ago was 32. GeeRoy
Note* This seems to be a popular cache for beginners and young people and the swag, chingle-lees, geegaws or what ever you want to call them are always abundant. However, trackables seem to escape once in a while never to be heard from again. We love to have them travel through here and it's sad to log them lost so please check items taken closely to see if they are trackables and need to be logged. Some have tags like dog tags and others look like coins or pendants with serial numbers on them. Thanks, The Captain
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