Nice N Easy #3: Welcome to Tsawwassen Traditional Cache
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Nice N Easy #3: Welcome to Tsawwassen
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Welcome to the third cache is my Nice N Easy series!
Tsawwassen (meaning "facing the sea") is a suburban, mostly residential community located on a peninsula in the southwestern corner of the Corporation of Delta, British Columbia, Canada. Tsawwassen provides the only road access to the community of Point Roberts, Washington via 56th Street. It is also the location of BC Ferries' Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal, built in 1959 to provide foot-passenger and motor vehicle access from the Lower Mainland to the southern part of Vancouver Island and the Southern Gulf Islands. Based upon its geographical location Tsawwassen touches a shallow bank, which made it the ideal location for a ferry terminal to be built at the southwestern end of a 3 km-long causeway that juts out into the Strait of Georgia. The ferry dock and causeway are part of Highway 17 and it is the largest ferry terminal in North America.
The southern boundary of Tsawwassen is the border with the United States, following the 49th parallel of north latitude. To the north, Tsawwassen's nearest neighbour is the town of Ladner, which is also part of the Corporation of Delta. Together, Ladner and Tsawwassen make up the area known as South Delta.
Tsawwassen is home to the Tsawwassen First Nation, a Coast Salish people, who may have lived in the area for over 4,200 years ago. This age is supported by the oldest archeological site found on English Bluff. Eight different prehistoric villages have been unearthed in and around Tsawwassen throughout the years.
The first group of Europeans to see Tsawwassen was the expedition of Spanish explorer Jose Maria Narvaez Gervete in 1791. Narvaez named the Point Roberts peninsula Isla de Zepeda and wrote that "there is an incredible quantity of rich salmon and numerous Indians... They speak an entirely different language." Narvaez would go on to meet up with Captain George Vancouver and together they worked together to map out the Gulf of Georgia waterways.
This cache is designed to be an easy drive up, grab and go. Otherwise please make sure you re-hide the cache well enough so it can't be seen by any muggles. There is also a $3 FTF prize for the first geocacher who finds it.
Happy Caching!
Additional Hints
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