Seafood, egg and chips Traditional Cache
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The listed coordinates will take you to the entrance of an easy find in the Bird Island hide. GPS reception in the hide is poor so head to the Skypointing sign on the ground floor.
Here you will be able to view thousands of Cape Gannets. Also omnipresent are the black and white Kelp Gulls. Kelp Gulls should live off seafood - starfish, limpets and small shellfish caught in the intertidal zone - supplemented by anything edible washed up on the shore. Where seals breed these determined scavengers feast on the after-birth and the tender flesh of newly-dead pups.
At Lambert's Bay, Kelp Gulls steal eggs or chicks from seabird's nests (usually when foolish humans scare the birds off their nests), and feed on offal from the potato and fish factories.
Notice the red spot on their yellow beak. When their chicks want a meal they peck this spot. This causes the parent to bring up the meal of the day.
Also pop into the visitor's centre to the west for a fascinating insight into the history of white gold otherwise known as guano.
Entrance to Bird Island is free if you have a Wild card, otherwise it is R40 per person. Theoretically open 7am to 7pm in the summer, and 8am to 5pm in winter.
The person behind the counter knows all about the container.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Oruvaq gur gur pbhagre.
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