EcoHouse Mystery Cache
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NOTE.... You will have to plan a bit to grab this, as the grounds of EcoHouse are only open Monday to Saturday from 9am till 3pm......
On holidays or holiday weekends, you can call ahead (905-540-8787) to find opening hours.
EcoHouse !!
This cache is placed on a bit of 'undiscovered' real estate, the grounds of the former Veever's Estate, near the base of the escarpment, just east of the Red Hill Creek Valley.
Most recently owned by the Veevers family (though it was owned for 40 years by the locally well known Gage family), the estate was donated to the City of Hamilton in 1985. It is made up of an enlarged 1850s stone farmhouse and attractive 2 acre garden. The 1½ storey house, built of rough-hewn stone quarried from the escarpment, is a great example of a pre-Confederation stone farmhouse.
Today, the home and grounds, although owned by the City, are operated by a community-based non-profit organization and EcoHouse now serves as an environmental education demonstration building.
There is no charge for entry, to EcoHouse (either for the house or the grounds).
NOTE AGAIN !!.... The cache is only available when the grounds of EcoHouse are open...... Monday to Saturday from 9am till 4pm......
On holidays or holiday weekends, you can call ahead (905-540-8787) to find opening hours.
More info on EcoHouse
Onwards to the Cache !!!!
Basically, just find the first coordinates, then, looking at the pictures, follow the trail from top left to bottom right, kind of a Hansel and Gretel sort of deal.....
This cache doesn't claim to show the best of EcoHouse, so explore as you go.... hopefully we planned enough "redundancy" to stay on track if you miss a picture.
- Start
- Tour Booklets at Top!
- No water wasted
- Pause here if you have to
- Turn right
- Walk by the Native Garden on your left
- Wind power
- Solar Powered
- look for this to find...
- Stairs down nearby
- Compost!
- Rockery stairs up!
- That's a tree!
- Take a load off
- Look here!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
P'zba .... gurer'f n fcbvyre cvp !!