Oxford Snark Hunt (Fit the 3rd) - Meadow Traditional Cache
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Oxford Snark Hunt (Fit the 3rd) - Meadow
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One of an occasional series of caches placed in and around Oxford, usually with a tenuous connection to Lewis Carroll.
The cache is a small tupperware box with space for small swaps and travel bugs.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pseudonymn of Lewis Carroll, spent the majority of his adult life in Oxford where he was a lecturer in Mathematics. However, it is as the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" that he is best known.
Amongst his other works is the nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits)" the plot of which has been described thus: "with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature".
This cache has been placed to celebrate the first Oxford Bioblitz being held on 23rd/24th June 2012 where scientists, naturalists and members of the public will work against the clock to spot and record as many types of wildlife species as they can. Let's hope if they find a Snark that it isn't a Boojum!
The cache is placed in the Angel and Greyhound meadow which is open during daylight hours. This is a water meadow with rivers flowing round it so be careful if you are bringing small children. There is a nice fenced in section with a children's playpark. It is also flooded from time to time and can be quite boggy so wellies may be in order (hence the higher terrain rating - when dry it would be a much lower rating.)
Opening times:
Monday to Saturday opens at 7:30am
Sunday and Bank Holidays opens at 10:00am
Closing times:
October (after clocks change), November, December, January 4:30pm
February 5:30pm
March, October (before clocks change) 6:00pm
April 8:00pm
May, June, July 9:00pm
August 8:30pm
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(Decrypt)
Va gur gehax bs n gerr arkg gb gur oevqtr. Cyrnfr znxr fher gung lbh pbire gur pnpur hc ntnva nsgre svaqvat vg.
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