Girl Scout Troop 609- A "Step" on our "Journey" Traditional Geocache
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Girl Scout Troop 609- A "Step" on our "Journey"
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Troop 609 was introduced to geocaching at a meeting in 2010. We hid a cache on the school grounds where we meet and I had groups of girls go out with handheld GPS's to try to find it. I promised I would hide this cache officially sometime and finally found a great place to put it with the help of Nanasbabygirl, BeastieBoy, JRandall1968, SteveLundyNJ and his wife and daughter.
The Heritage Park of Stafford Township stands as a reminder of yesteryear for the surrounding community. The park is on West Bay Ave, just west of Rt. 9 and across from the A. Paul King Park which is on Manahawkin Lake.
Within the park is the rebuilt Old Stone Store which stands today in the same place it did in the mid to late 1700s. Rt 9, formerly Broadway, used to curve from the traffic light at Rt. 9 and Bay Ave. and run straight in front of the store. When Rt. 72 was put through, the coarse of Rt. 9 was changed and the store no longer had a road but a 20 ft berm to open its doors up to.
Also in the park is the Manahawkin Train Station which has been moved from its original location at Letts and Stafford Ave. about where Larry's Barber shop now stands. The insides have been refinished and you can still see the many years of use scuffed into the floor. It will hopefully be soon turned into a museum for Stafford.
Girl Scout Brownies have two different "Journeys" or learning experiences that they must complete in order to get certain patches. That is where the name of the cache comes in.
Please place the cache safely back in its place so as not to be muggled.
This is our very first attempt to hide a cache! Our son loves trains, so we figured this would be great for other train lovers to explore. The cache is a small lock-n-lock box with the log, two pens, and a dino egg for FTF. It is big enough for small travel bugs, coins, and small trinkets!
DO NOT PARK ON ROUTE 72!! There is a small parking lot at the park to utilize.
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