Raha Traditional Cache
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Printmaker, Hester Cox has created a series of geo art caches that take the seeker on a journey through Hackfall Wood with each cache illustrating a story of one of the many creatures that live there and leaving the visitor with a book of impressions from their day.
Raha: Roe Deer
Tale:
Raha is the Old English name for the roe deer. This beautiful animal has a reputation for being shy and gentle. There is a French legend from medieval times that tells of a woman named Genevieve de Brabant who was a faithful and good wife but was wrongly accused of adultery and sentenced to death. She managed to escape with her small son and lived for six years in a cave tended to by a roe deer that brought them both food. Years later her husband was out hunting and followed the roe deer to Genevieve’s hiding place where he found her and his son alive and well. Having previously discovered her innocence, they were reunited and she returned to live with him.
Hackfall:
Roe deer have been spotted in Hackfall on a number of occasions and they will drink from the river and streams. You may well spot the white flash of the deer’s rump as it springs away through the trees. Roe deer are what is known as crepuscular animals. This means that they are neither nocturnal, active at night, or diurnal, active in the day, but can mainly be seen in the open or feeding at dawn and dusk.
Roe deer usually only give birth to one fawn (baby) or twins each year although very occasionally they will have three. If you find a fawn on its own in the undergrowth, don’t think that its mother has abandoned it; often the female roe deer will leave their babies somewhere safe whilst they go off to find food.
This geocache is part of a series of caches hidden in Hackfall as part of North Yorkshire Open Studios - http://www.nyos.org.uk
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Va gur ebbgf bs n ovepu gung unf snyyra npebff gur cngu.