***A short "offset" mystery cache. There is no riddle and no homework to be done - simply go to the mystery coordinates and then try to work out where the final could be. Good luck, be imaginative, and have fun!***
A thoughtful 6-year old geocacher had a big surprise recently when he encountered a dinosaur in the woods near Scheidgen. Here’s his story:
“I think that the riddle for my Daddy’s Roar! geocache is too difficult, so I wanted to put an easy-to-find cache in the forest nearby with a hint in it to help people. But as I was walking down the steep hill near the bus stop I heard a terrible ROAR! and a dinosaur appeared from behind the rocks! It looked straight at me with its terrible eyes. I dropped my cache, and ran back out of the forest again without looking back. I think the dinosaur ate my geocache!!!!”
A second sighting of the beast came the next day from a local resident:
“I was walking the dog near a beautiful house in the woods when I heard loud snoring behind me. I went back up the path towards Scheidgen for 60 or 70 metres to investigate – and couldn’t believe what I was seeing! A HUGE dinosaur! Asleep in the rocks!! Maybe only 20 metres in front of me! Then the beast yawned and I could see what looked like a small tupperware box in its mouth. I got out of there quickly before it woke up!”
Your task is to retrieve the small boy’s geocache. The dinosaur isn’t easily woken up, but the cache is too high for the boy to reach. As a reward, you can read the boy’s hint for the original “Roar!” cache (http://coord.info/GC2RRCT).
Please do NOT:
• Attempt this cache as a drive-in. There is nowhere to park and you will block the street for the residents of the beautiful house. Walking time from the recommended parking is about 5 minutes.
• Cross to the other side of the stream. It is private property.
Children will probably enjoy this little dinosaur hunt, but a grown-up will need to do the little climb to get to the cache itself. It is not hidden in an extremely dangerous place – don’t do anything silly. As always, you will attempt to retrieve the cache at your own risk.