I Can See For Miles and Miles!! Traditional Cache
dmac99: Checked on this one recently and the spot where I had placed the cache was destroyed by a hurricane last fall.
I Can See For Miles and Miles!!
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Camoed spice bottle. Contains log and a few small things. Should be a fairly easy park and grab. Enjoy the most spectacular view in Nova Scotia! Park is closed during winter, but it is a short hike from the gate.
Camoed small jar. Contains log and a few small things. Should be a fairly easy park and grab. Enjoy the most spectacular view in Nova Scotia! Park is closed during winter, but it is a short hike from the gate. Green Hill is a favorite spot for me - my ancestors came over on the Hector from Scotland and settled in the area. I remember in the 1980's there was a fire tower on this site. the base still remains. From the tower you could see 5 counties of NS as well as PEI. My dad used to tell me that there was once an amusement place here with a Ferris Wheel. Sometime in the late 50's. More info below: Greenhill Lookoff (1800s. 1920s ? - 1959) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This was a tourist site on a high hill overlooking parts of five counties near Middle River. Mi'kmaq natives named it "Espokumegek", meaning "a high land". European settlers had arrived there in the 1790s and over the next century established churches, schools and a post office. Likely due to the influx of visitors wanting to see the view, a tall tower was constructed to enhance that purpose, but no date has surfaced for its construction. Sometime around this, a museum was built that was run for a couple of decades from the 1930s through 1959 by Clifford (Clifton ?) Rose. One of its doors featured a relief carving of a bathing-suited girl of the era. The venture proved popular enough that amusement rides were provided by a carnival company (Bill Lynch Shows?) in the summer months. If it was Lynch Shows, this likely could not have happened before the early 1920s because Bill did not start providing rides to Nova Scotia events before then and did not leave Findlay's Pleasure Grounds to go on the road as a traveling carnival until 1925. In 1959, the Province of Nova Scotia bought the operation and made it into a public park with a picnic area, as it remains today.
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Zbhagnva Nfu gerrf- frireny gehaxf.
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