Gator Bait Traditional Cache
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Gator Bait
Oh God, if someone finds this tape get it to the proper authorities
fast. It may be too late for me but the rest of the community needs
to be warned. I have been in the brush now for three weeks and I am
the last of my crew. What started out simply looking to capture and
record the wild and crazy cachers known as Team Gator has turned
into a nightmare. They are so elusive and fast that when Tim
Tingle, our second camera man first disappeared we figured he had
enough of the rain and cold and went back to the land of Egg
McMuffins and Iced Coffee and free cable tv at the motel room. Soon
afterward our lackey and gopher Dan Diego disappeared. This is
getting interesting. Then when Sally Martinez, our sound girl,
ended up disappearing, we knew something was wrong. We staked out
at a new cache that just got approved and waited. Sure enough, it
looked like the gators were trying to get a FTF. We layed in
waiting as they circled the cache, finally homing in on it. After
opening it up and discovering an unsigned log book, they did there
high five gator chomp victory dance. This was down right spooky as
this has never been recorded on film before.
Wow, did you get it on tape Todd? Todd? I looked over and saw that
Todd was trying to sneak up on them for a closer shot as they were
going thru the trade items. I guess Todd snapped a branch he
stepped on because the next thing I knew, they looked up and saw
Todd and quickly pounced, with Todd going down in a fury of high
five gator chomps. OMG, I just can't described the carnage. As
quick as it happened, they were gone. I went over to the cache but
couldn't find Todd, just parts of his camera. The video tape was
there but it looked like all the copper wire was removed from the
camera. I looked in the cache and all the electrical devices was
stripped of all copper too. What is going on here? I looked over at
Kand and he finally freaked out and ran off in the direction we
came from, hands held high in the air shaking and quivering and
talking gibberish, hopefully an attempt to find help. I never saw
him afterwards and he had the map. What was I too do? Thinking fast
as my batteries were almost dead in the Garmin, I went thru the
remaining supplies and quickly put a cache together with some
special items that I knew would entice Team Gator. Using the last
ounce of energy in the batteries, I used the sat phone to send it
into the geocaching site before it finally quit and now I sit here
hiding, hoping it got thru and approved. What will be the outcome I
can't tell you, all I know is that I am afraid!
You are looking for a 30 caliber ammo can done up in a very special
Darkmoon Paintjob, in fact a paint job that should make any copper
thieves turn green with envy. And filled with swag to entice any
gator loving cacher. Oh yeah, for those that can push thru the
thorns and green briars, brave the poison ivy and sumac and avoid
the razor sharp teeth of the wild animals, you will be well
rewarded. So grab your GPS, have some fun and listen for the
chomping sound of the local Gators around the cache.
CHOMP CHOMP! No gators or actors
were harmed in the making of this cache and cache page. The
stunts were performed by professional cache stunters and
should not be tried at home...and if anyone sees Kand, tell
him I need my map back!
Darkmoon
Additional Hints
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