The cache is not located at the above listed coordinates.
They take you to the San Clemente City Hall.
You must first figure out the puzzle to Historic San Clemente to find the REAL coordinates.
Safe parking is within walking distance.
The original container had been muggled three times,
so on September 5, 2013 I changed the puzzle
and moved the container to a nearby spot.
I come to San Clemente periodically to visit family, and notice that the area has very few non-traditional caches. As non-trads are my favorites, I decided to do my part to bring them to San Clemente.
The area on which San Clemente sits today was not inhabited until approximately 1776 when the Mission at San Juan Capistrano was founded by Father Junipero Serra, at which time both Indians and Spanish settlers began to build and inhabit villages in the locale. Though the property of this area exchanged hands on a number of occasions, not much building was done until after Ole Hanson, a previous mayor of Seattle, WA, bought the property in the area.
Ole Hanson came to California from Mexico City, where he had arbitrated a large land dispute. While there he envisioned Southern California in a new perspective. Hanson had first discovered the San Clemente area on a train trip between Los Angeles and San Diego, so when his friend, Hamilton Cotton, approached him with the proposition from a syndicate he headed that was purchasing what later became San Clemente, Ole Hanson knew this was the "dream site" for his Spanish Village by the Sea.
Here is what Ole Hanson had to say about what he imagined:
"I vision a place where people can live together more pleasantly than any other place in America.... the whole picture is very clear before me.... I can see hundreds of white-walled homes bonneted with red tile, with trees, shrubs, hedges of hibiscus, palms and geraniums lining the drives, and a profusion of flowers framing the patios and gardens... I want plazas, playgrounds, schools, clubs, swimming pools, a golf course, a fishing pier and a beach enlivened by people getting a healthy joy out of their life... I do not want people repulsed and sent away by ugliness in other communities... I have a clean canvas and I am determined to paint a clean picture."
Hanson had all the buildings in the area use a classic Spanish style utilizing the red tile roof which was characteristic of the Spanish influence. He promoted the city, which he called "San Clemente by the Sea". San Clemente continues to be the great place to live and raise a family. It is a stable, balanced community that exhibits much local pride. The residents love to claim they have the "world's finest climate."
N 33° A.BCD
A = The year Ole Hanson, with the financial help of a syndicate headed by Hamilton Cotton, purchased and designed the community, minus 1900.
B = The number of letters in the name of the official city tree.
C = The population of San Clemente in 1940 was C79 people.
D = Ole named this community after nearby San Clemente Island, which was named by its discoverer, Vizcaino. The namesake was Saint Clement, who was the patron saint of the date Vizcaino had arrived on the island. D=the last digit of this saint's day.
W 117° E.FGH
E = In 1968 a prominent national figure bought part of the H. H. Cotton estate, and called it "La Casa Pacifica". He owned it until 1980. X = the rank in order that this figure served in his highest national office. Y = the number of terms in that office to which this figure was elected. E=X-Y
F = San Clemente’s Fiesta de la Cristianita celebration began in 1954 when Jennie Belle Bartlett wrote “La Cristianita”, a pageant that commemorated the first baptism in Alta California. In 1769 two critically ill Indian girls were found by a party of Spanish explorers and missionaries, and shortly afterward the mother of the two girls was finally convinced to allow the missionaries to baptize them. F=the month the girls were baptized.
G = The number of words in San Clemente’s Argentine sister city.
H = San Clemente was incorporated on February 27, 192H.
The final takes you to a beautiful vista from which you can see some of the sites mentioned in the puzzle
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