We suggest parking on the east side of the road. NOTE: The first step into the west ditch is quite a drop.
You’re looking for a camouflaged ammo can. No tools are required. Beware of the cache guardians. (This means you, Ralph.) A flashlight isn't required, but it might be useful.
There are small gift bags for the first 15 children who find it.
This cache was modeled after Klondike Mike’s Da da da da da da da.... (GC19K2Q).
Congratulations to CGY-FAM for their first-to-find.
Illustration by Ninovolador
There must be something in the water near Indus, a small town about 10 kilometers east of Calgary. If all the legends are true, then the place is crawling with witches, zombies, possessed souls, and headless geocachers.
The latest rumours concern blood-sucking creatures that fly at night. I suspect the hysteria is related to the recent wave of popular vampire novels, movies, and television shows.
These spooky stories often begin innocently enough. Perhaps an imaginative child walking home after dark was startled by a flock of pigeons or bats. After they tell a friend about the scary incident, stories soon spread about immortals feasting on hemoglobin.
Before we start slaughtering the local bat population, let’s pause for a moment and remember the many benefits that our furry friends provide:
- Some bats eat half their weight in insects (including mosquitoes) each night. Certain insects can hear bats from 30 metres away and avoid areas occupied by bats.
- Bats help to spread seeds and pollinate plants. Up to 95% of forest regrowth on cleared land can be the result of bats.
- By studying bats, scientists have made advances in navigational aids for the blind, produced vaccines, tested drugs, and learned more about low-temperature surgical procedures. One day, bat saliva might help people with heart problems.
- In some areas of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, bat meat is a normal source of food.
If you want to keep bats from living in your house or outbuildings and help control insects in your neighbourhood, consider building a bat house and placing it on your property.
Remember, there are no such things as vampire bats. Well, actually, there are. But they don’t feast on blood. Er…I guess they do feed entirely on blood, but they definitely don’t have sharp fangs and go around biting victims on the neck. Okay; maybe they do. But they attack animals like cows and horses – not humans. So, they occasionally attack people, but they’ve never killed anybody. Well, it turns out they have. But vampire bats don’t live in Canada.
Or do they?
Photo by -AZ-