8m Jaws Traditional Cache
CreekyClanChris: No longer living in Vancouver. This one has had a gr8 run, but it's time to release the Kraken for someone else.
Cheers;
CCC
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This is a small cache located very near to one of Vancouver's coolest, and least well known attractions. Cache is a micro, so bring your own pen.
Want to have a whale of a time? Feeling like you've got the "blues"? Make no bones about it, this cache will lift your spirits.
In 1987, after being killed at sea, the body of a blue whal washed ashore in PEI. The islanders buried the whale shortly after they discovered it. Some 20 years later researchers dug up the whale and it had barely decomposed! It took 8 days to dig up the entire whale body. The whale was then loaded into a special refrigerated CN Railcar and made the trek to Vancouver. Researchers began the difficult (and likely rather aromatic) job of removing the skin and blubber to get the skeleton. And now...? Well - you can see what a mammal large as the blue whale looks like when fully stripped down.
Cache itself is about a one-inch square plastic container, containing only a log. It isn't right at the whale - its maybe 20m away (that's an estimate - don't rely on it). Please be careful to return the cache to the same location.
Enjoy the UBC Campus, and don't 'flipper' out.
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1993 Npr bs Onfr uvg!