Dusty Rhodes #14 Spanish Moss Traditional Cache
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Dusty Rhodes #14 Spanish Moss
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Georgia is known for its sandy, dusty roads. While easy for the county to maintain, they tend to get a little sloppy during the wet seasons. When dry, they clog up your air filter. You can't win either way...
When I came to Georgia a couple of years ago, I saw Spanish Moss everywhere... Looking it up I found this bit of folklore:
In the southeastern United States, the following tale is told:
As the story goes; there was once a traveler who came with his Spanish fiancée in the 1700s to start a plantation near the city of Charleston SC. She was a beautiful bride-to-be with long flowing raven hair. As the couple was walking over the plantation sight near the forest, and making plans for their future, they were suddenly attacked by a band of Cherokee who were not happy to share the land of their forefathers with strangers. As a final warning to stay away from the Cherokee nation, they cut off the long dark hair of the bride-to-be and threw it up in an old live oak tree. As the people came back day after day and week after week, they began to notice the hair had shriveled and turned grey and had begun spreading from tree to tree. Over the years the moss spread from South Carolina to Georgia and Florida. To this day, if one stands under a live oak tree, one will see the moss jump from tree to tree and defend itself with a large army of beetles.
The bonus cache's location is no longer available due to another cache moving in nearby. Thanks to all who have searched for this one!
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