Voyage of HMS BEAGLE Traditional Cache
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Easily accessible at all times. Parking available with care at the adjacent roadside.
This is the first of a planned series of caches celebrating famous voyages from history or literature.
Several finders have asked about the title:
My name refers to the fact that I have recently completed nearly a quarter of a century in the Royal Navy, visiting every continent and ocean and most seas during that time.
Hence I decided to start a series of 'voyages' on land.
The locations themselves may bear little or no connection with the titles - although check the last line below!
The Voyage of the Beagle is a title commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin published in 1839 as his 'Journal and Remarks', which brought him considerable fame and respect. The title refers to the second survey expedition of the ship HMS BEAGLE, which set sail from Plymouth Sound on 27 December 1831 under the command of captain Robert FitzRoy.
While the expedition was originally planned to last two years, it lasted almost five – the BEAGLE did not return until 2 October 1836. Darwin spent most of this time exploring on land (three years and three months on land; 18 months at sea).
The book, also known as 'Darwin's Journal of Researches', is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal covering biology, geology, and anthropology that demonstrates Darwin's keen powers of observation, written at a time when Western Europeans were still discovering and exploring much of the rest of the world. Although Darwin revisited some areas during the expedition, for clarity the chapters of the book are ordered by reference to places and locations rather than chronologically. With hindsight, ideas which Darwin would later develop into his theory of evolution by natural selection are hinted at in his notes and in the book.
Thanks to Wikipedia for the above information.
The cache is a small tupperware-type container with a logbook and pen and space for small swap items.
If you listen carefully you may even hear beagles barking!
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Vs lbh unir gb pebff bire gur srapr lbh pnzr gur jebat jnl!