AGONY OF DEFEET SERIES #8- CROCODILE DANDEES Traditional Cache
AGONY OF DEFEET SERIES #8- CROCODILE DANDEES
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This is the third placement in the Hang Ten level of the Agony of Defeet series. Generally, this level is characterized by footwear hanging next to the sports "venue" that is associated with the footwear. In this case, the cache departs from the norm in two ways. First, some people would argue that crocodile wrestling is not a sport. Secondly, there is not a sports venue nearby that corresponds to the footwear hanging there.
Crocodile Dundee, the 1986 Australian film which called attention to crocodile wrestling, had a main character, Mike Dundee, who subdued a water buffalo, killed snakes with his hands, and wrestled a crocodile away from his lady friend, Sue Charlton.
In the United States, crocodile wrestling is thought to have started at the beginning of the 20th century, by Southeastern Native Americans, who showed off crocodiles as road show attractions to generate revenue. Earlier in our history, tribes like the Seminoles were wrestling crocodiles before the first European explores came through the Everglades.
If you would like to see crocodile wrestling, there are ten venues listed in the Florida Vacation Guide. If you would like to go to homeland of Rodney Ansell, whose life, the movie Crocodile Dundee was based on, you can see croc wrestler Steve Irwin, do his thing.
However, if you prefer to stay closer to home and do some croc wrestling yourself, just drive out to Grand River Park in Georgetown Township. There is no need to worry about crocs coming out of the Grand River to greet you for a dinner date. The only worry you have is wrestling these crocs out of the tree that is ten feet off the path, without being seen by muggles who frequent this park. PLEASE replace the "front door" to the "croc cage", since you can see these babies at least 50 yards away-- and that's no croc.
Unlike my other caches in this park that you have to walk over half a mile for, this one is less than 100 yards from the boat launching parking lot.
FTF gets the usual "gold" coin, or, if you want, you can take the coin and then trade it for one of the new Dutchgrandpa trading discs, that are in production right now.( Sorry, I'd like to give you both,but I am the DUTCH grandpa after all!!)
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