Easy, eh? Multi-Cache
jacalathecroc: Archived due to muggles. Thanks for all the fish.
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An ideal family excursion taking in "Downtown Halfmoon Bay". Lots to do and lots to see apart from the cache itself. There's the Halfmoon Bay government wharf with its fantastic view, the historic general store and bakery, and Coopers Green Regional Park just down the road. Nearby geocaches: Anchor-GC272MK, St. Columba of Iona-GC3FGRV and Coopers cache-GC1FP6V can be found here, on the way to, and "at the Green" respectively.
This multicache can be done in about an hour and a half, hiking* distance being about 1.5 km. The circle is made up of good marked trail, paved and gravel public roads, and one short section of rougher trail. If you have a bike you'll probably have to push it for a bit at STAGE 6. You'll also be walking the Redrooffs Circle Trail and George Cormack Park, both Sunshine Coast Regional District parks. If you take a picnic basket along there are some really nice spots to enjoy it along the way.
Park at the store and walk to the listed coordinates for STAGE 1. There you will find coordinates for STAGE2, and so on. There are 7 stages in all, including the FINAL. All intermediate stages are "small" size and similar, low to the ground, fairly easy to find, and contain the coordinates to the next stage. Please leave each stage exactly as you found it, or at least as you'd imagine the cache owner had intended. After the FINAL, continue walking downstream to PARKING.
* 'strolling' or 'moseying' are better words for it
--A SMIDGIN OF HISTORY--
Logging has taken place on the Sechelt Peninsula for decades, as well as almost everywhere else for that matter. Now days, logs are trucked down Trout Lake Road and hauled on the highway to dryland sorts. Just a few decades ago they were hauled down past the old Halfmoon Bay School (remnants can still be seen of it) and along a shortcut road to Highway 101 just east of Redrooffs Road. This is now a walking trail on private property. The trucks would cross the highway, Halfmoon Creek, and Redrooffs Road to O’Brian Road, passing the general store/post office to a log dump just southwest of the store on the shore or Priestland Cove. The logs were dumped into the water and boomed, then towed by tugboat to the sawmills. The latter portion of this multicache covers the old logging truck shortcut... see if you can find it. And the old dump site has another geocache (Anchor) close to it. See if you can find it too.
Additional Hints
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