Mysteries of Isle Haute Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 7/31/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Isle Haute it appears to ‘move’ or 'disappear' depending on the tide’s height and from where you are looking. Samuel de Champlain was the first European adventurer - from France - who claimed to discover and settle the area in 1604. This makes sense: Isle meaning "island" in French, Haute meaning “high”...tho' we locals tend say: "Isla Haute" for some reason...its basalt cliffs are about 320 ft high! The earliest, native predecessors of the Mi'Kmaq, going back as far as 9,000 years, used the island as a tool-making site, bringing their stone materials from both sides of the Bay, from Cape Split, Cap d'Or, and Economy Mountain. They left huge amounts of unfinished or broken axe and arrow heads and other essential remains of their labour. Their name for the island translates as 'where wild potatoes grow’. The site also has evidence of copper. The places where their wigwams were set up have also been found. As soon as Europeans began to land on the island however, all traces of native use are abandoned. As the Bay shore became settled by Europeans, and ship traffic increased dramatically before roads and railroads were built, ship safety demanded a lighthouse on Isle Haute. A 1777 engraving shows the island with many sailing boats and ships around, evidence that water travel was intense. The four-storey structure, with an attached house, was built in 1878, along with a shed for the storage of oil barrels to fuel the rotating light. All this was hauled up the steep road by horses that furnished the only transportation for the several families that lived on the island until the 1950s. They exported hay, sheep and cattle from the island farms, while pickled herring were also sold ashore. Aerial photos from the 1930s show much of the top of the island cleared for agricultural use. One early recorded ship that was lost was a 1786 excursion sloop from Port George that got wrecked when huge rip tides thrust a long into the ship and it was washed ashore. Luckily the eight people aboard were able to scramble ashore and they spent the next five days stranded. Finally they were rescued when people on the mainland saw their signal fires.. In those days a series of fires were used to send messages to the mainland. One fire meant 'all's well;' two meant someone was ill; three signaled a need for help; and four fires recorded a death. Like Oak Island, there are many stories about buried treasure and people digging holes and seeking it. In fact that preoccupation did a lot of damage to the remaining archeological sites. BYOP

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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